Describe yourself a little.

I am short and thin and bespectacled. I am also bisexual as fuck. I live in rural Victoria, Australia, in a town that always smells like dead cows because there's an abattoir nearby. I am 18, but look like I'm 14, and I shave my head a lot, because I hate having enough hair that I have to brush it. I was originally a redhead, but my hair's going a mousy brown colour now.

I wrote my first "novel" when I was 7 years old. It was a murder mystery, 200 words in total and done in 34pt text. I use to take my sister Jacqui's dolls, tie them to the handles of my drawers, and have her Bratz Boyz save them from elaborate hostage situations. When I was 8 and my brother Kevan was 14 he convinced me that because the corners of the ceiling in our house weren't perfect right angles, it meant the house could cave in on us at any point. I cried for nearly an hour. I have 9 siblings, and I always feel the need to name which one I'm talking about to avoid confusion.

Today I lost the 'C' key of my computer.

My family's pretty interesting. My sister Emily works part time as an usher at a theatre, and says ushers need regular first aid training because the theatre is, and I quote her exact words here, "full of old people who always trip down the stairs". My maternal grandfather was apparently a fully-fledged Nazi and nobody bothered telling me until this year, so I just thought he was this really cool guy who skied a lot that I never got to meet; now I feel disgusted and ashamed of myself. My biological mother died of a drug overdose when I was 9, which really fucked with my head for a long time.

I used to really like those fancy strawberry Fruche yogurts you got in the supermarkets, but I stopped eating them when I was 14 because someone said they were for girls. I regret that decision. Sure, they might be marketed at women, but they're really fucking tasty, and besides, Real Men Eat Fancy Pink Yogurt.

My favourite colour is orange. Orange is also my favourite artificial flavouring.

I feel very close to my family, even though it's big and weird and convoluted. I'm especially close to my oldest brother Jamie, who is 42 now and my cousin Nathan, who is Autistic like me, and is very similar to me in a lot of other ways. My sister Cally is the closest to me in age after Kevan, and we have a similar sense of humour, so we're usually hanging out.

I hate hanging out with only men or only women, I prefer a mixed bag of friends, it makes life more interesting.

Dylan Moran is currently my favourite person.

edited 5th Oct '15 3:46:01 AM by trashconverters

Half Dwarf, half Hobbit.

By which I mean- apart from being short for my part of the world at 5' 7" and having big, hairy feet- I like my food, I like my ale, I like my books and I like to sit in my garden and smoke my pipe in the evening.

I also like to go to dark, dingy bars with my friends and get roaring drunk and dance on tables. I like dangerous occupations, I enjoy a good fight now and again and I own a number of axes.

edited 8th Oct '15 9:10:32 AM by InverurieJones

Sixteen year old male, Asian (specifically Indonesian), currently a college freshman taking a major in computer science.

I'm 185 cm tall - that's about 6 feet and 0.8 inches in imperial units. I'm also slightly overweight (95 kg/209 lbs.). My skin is brown, a bit tanned...well, those are the only physical things of note about me. Got no birthmarks, tattoos, or anything like that.

I'm fluent in my mother tongue, Bahasa Indonesia, and English; currently, I'm also studying German and Arabic. I'm a Muslim, though not a highly devout one. My hobbies and interests include music (mostly game soundtracks and classical music), video games, programming, and science in general. Yup, typical geek things, I suppose.

I have rather unpleasant memories of my past - specifically, I was a victim of bullying in school. And honestly, I do not feel I am a better man for having survived through years of it as some may proclaim. The details of it, though, is another story - one I'd rather not recall and retell.

A sarcastic and cynical bastard who doesn't come here as often as I used to. Think that's about it.

I'm a magical princess from another dimension <3

edited 14th Oct '15 12:20:39 PM by ElectricNova

I'm a guy born in the early 90s, living in Sweden. Currently studying to become a VFX artist.

I have a normal/slender build.

Hobbies/Interests? Video games - Many different games, but I can spend ages discussing the Bio Shock series.

Tabletop - Both games and RPG.

Drawing/Writing - even though I'm terrible at both.

SCA - I'm new at it, but I love it.

Archery - I have my own longbow!

...Almost anything medieval, really.

Feel free to talk to me about anything of the above.

As a person I'm usually silent and introverted, but I can speak up when I feel comfortable enough or when it is a topic I'm really interested in.

There's also more about me on my troper page.

Oh, and pleasure meeting you all!

Brown hair

What can I say? I'm a 19-year-old caucasian American male computer nerd studying for an Associate's Degree in Computer Science. Hope to become a programmer, but I'm still not sure for what yet. 5'7" with a build that's not quite average. Not horribly overweight, but I'm not thin nor scrawny either. Kind of a mix of muscle and a bit of fat. Definitely not attractive by conventional or even unconventional means, but not grotesque. I know how to blend into the environment and get noticed by almost nobody in empty spaces with nowhere to hide without even trying very hard, and I pretend to not understand concepts like attraction or affection.

Even though I don't follow organized religion, I'm not an atheist and am open to the concept of a brilliant entity capable of directly and indirectly creating the natural phenomena of the universe...and in all honesty this is probably as open as I'm going to be, so there you have it.

I'm a 23 year old American Caucasian male who decided to take a break from an expensive and unfulfilling stint at College to make it easier on my parents. Now I'm doing half-hearted job searching at home. I still watch a LOT of cartoons. I have no smartphone or tablet, only my 4 year old laptop with a broken battery.

eh, just some fuckin' guy

A girl.

With glasses.

And red hair.

And a hyperactive imagination.

I'm a 23-year-old redheaded guy who lives alone in a comfy house somewhere in California, and works full-time as well. I'm leaner than I would like to be, and one of my notable features is my blue eyes. Call it creepy or ghost-like, and I wouldn't care. I get that remark often.

I'm an agnostic who is willing to engage in philosophical conversation from time to time, and I'm cool with religious people.

I tend to be introverted, and I usually stay in my house and will only attend parties when it involves a very close friend of mine, and I usually have a moment wherein I will close myself off from others around me so I can have some alone time.

My main hobbies are writing stories and playing video games, which I unfortunately cannot do often thanks to being busy with work... although I still have enough time to poke my head into the Internet.

I have a lot of outlines and character sheets when it comes to my story writing, although I am too lazy to begin writing the actual thing.

I do not become attached to my characters often, and I have the horrific tendency to kill them off and torture them. The adorable ones tend to suffer the most in my stories.

I suppose that's all for now.

And, yes, I'm an asshole and I'm proud of it.

edited 20th Oct '15 6:23:51 AM by SymeSynth

Inadequate.

I don't think a whole autobiography counts as "a little", guys.

An 18-pushing-19-year-old bloke with way too much time on his hands.

Now that's describing yourself a little.

You wouldn't happen to be Australian would you? If so, are you approaching the approaching summer in your hemisphere? I'm bracing for winter already.

@Stolen_Moment: you're forgetting that Most Writers Are Writers.

edited 20th Oct '15 6:00:23 PM by trashconverters

Moot is British, Strat.

Should have read the troper page, sorry.

'Tis fine. Trashconverters and I are Aussies though.

Well, Southampton doesn't really sound like a place in Australia. :P

I am the Australian-est preson you've ever met, to be honest...except when I'm not.

What I am, is cute.

I'm actually a convergence of contradictions conforming a creepy caricature of coherence