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Name: Emily

Age: 18

Location: TN, USA- but I'll be starting school in Washington DC this fall.

How do you identify?: I'm bisexual, but I've never really dated anyone seriously. Looking forward to the opportunities in college. Gender-wise I am female, but sometimes I feel kind of fluid. There's more to gender than biology and what society says there should be.

Interests/hobbies: I love to read, write, and watch television. This summer I'm doing a lot of traveling (Seattle, Vancouver, London, and DC), which is pretty awesome, I think. I am into some fandoms, though not very actively. I really love to write. Specifically, I write original slash fiction and it takes up a lot of my free time, because it's something that I'm very passionate about. I don't roleplay or cosplay, but I am sort of into steampunk. like music, baking and xkcd comics.

Favourite books: Right now I'm on a Neil Gaiman stretch. Everyone in the world should read American Gods, I think. I love Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, too. Mercedes Lackey and Lynn Flewelling have great fantasy with queer themes. Young adult books are my guilty pleasure- The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Boy meets Boy, Far from Xanadu. I liked Harry Potter pretty well, read the first couple of Twilight books before I lost interest and the hype started, but I've yet to read The Lord of The Rings- I know, I know. It's a travesty.

Favourite films: The Prestige and Fight Club are classics, and I adore the X-Men films, Serenity, and The Princess Bride. I also love musicals- like RENT, West Side Story, and Newsies.

Favourite music: My musical tastes are kind of eclectic. I like a lot of different genres, but don't really keep up with what the charts say is popular. OK-Go, Motion City Soundtrack, Streetlight Manifesto, Jack's Mannequin, Rise Against- plus bits and pieces of whatever else comes into my collection. I'm open minded.

What would you like to send/receive?:  I'd like to email/im for a while and then once I get to know you/am in DC permanently I would adore to getting real snail mail. Receiving an actual letter is an awesome feeling, I think. I'll send cards, letters, examples of my terrible artistry, cds, whatever you like. I can send you an origami crane made out of a gum wrapper!

Who would you like to send and receive mail from?: Some friendly individual like myself who will write in English and doesn't use a lot of chatspeak. Aside from that, the possibilities are endless.

What countries would you like to receive mail from and send to?: Anywhere that I can understand. I took two years of German, but I still can't speak it worth anything, so English is the best bet.

What would be in your dream letter or package?: Inside jokes that no one else would understand, plus a bit of fangirl/boying about something mundane, and intelligent debate over some issue or another. Also, lots of love.

Anything else you'd like to add?: I am a sci-fi geek and may want to talk about Doctor Who, Merlin, Stargate, Firefly, or any number of other shows with you. It'd be nice if you at least had heard of them, but you need not follow them as passionately as I do.

Picture: I'll send you one when I get to know you better.