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queermailName: Saara
Age: 21
Location: Currently I'm getting my fingers strawberry-stained in Finland (where I was born), but in September I return to my bookpiles in Scotland (where I study).
How do you identify? (sexuality / gender) Lesbian. Gender-wise, mostly female, though at times I feel more, um, genderless.
Interests / hobbies: Fiction, life-as-fiction, chance encounters with strangers (like smoking your first-ever cigarette with an elderly man from the north, talking about snow & what a lovely evening it was), languages (French is my current love, but I may have taught myself the Greek alphabet because I couldn't resist -- being a polyglot would be the most awesome thing ever), crying in the theatre, philosophy, escapades, forests, reading, writing, staying up too late, baking, tea houses, elsewheres, burning people, going to the movies alone, being foolish, the incomprehensible art of translation, trains, running away, oheverything.
Favourite books: I am obsessed with books to the extent that my librarian mother thinks I read too much. Some bookloves are: The Secret History, The History of Love, Neverwhere, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Kit's Wilderness, Mercury Fur, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, The World Without Us, Ronia the Robber's Daughter, The Theban Plays, L'heure de la sortie (School's Out), The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Favourite films: As a film student, I find it sinfully delightful that I'm actually required to spend an evening in the cinema every week. I like movies that are mindfucks or stick to you like ghosts or make you cry or brim over with restless life. Jeux d'enfants, Last Night, Like Minds, Mulholland Dr., The Bubble, Velvet Goldmine, Sunshine, Moulin Rouge, Billy Elliot, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset, Das Leben der Anderen, Grave of the Fireflies, Les amants réguliers, Donnie Darko, My Life Without Me, The Hours, 3-Iron.
Favourite music: I like classical, I like musicals, I like music with stories, haunting lyrics or no words at all. I like old theatre songs I heard as a child about the importance of learning how to read (& how that's not enough) and sparse piano notes we listened to in a Philosophy class on a light afternoon. (Best I like it when the right song plays at the right moment.) Some examples: Vienna Teng, Phillip Glass, Stars, Iron & Wine, Erik Satie, Yoko Kanno, The Decemberists, CocoRosie, Angelo Badalamenti, Au Revoir Simone, Bright Eyes, Antony & The Johnsons, Philippe Rombi, Kings of Convenience, Scandinavian Music Group, Neutral Milk Hotel, Kaj Chydenius.
What would you like to send / receive? I would absolutely adore snailmail of any kind, anything from postcards or little notes to parcels. I wouldn't mind emails, either, but I have to admit I'm quite hopeless with longterm email exchange.
Who would you like to send and receive mail from? Any kind stranger who might feel like writing.
What countries would you like to receive mail from and send to? Anywhere, oh anywhere at all. Preferably in English, but I have to admit that my French could use some practice as well...
Anything that you would particularly not like to receive? Can't really think of anything.
What would be in your dream letter or package? Something that made you ache or tingle with life. (Be it words or pictures or anything.)
Anything else you'd like to add? My dream of becoming a crazy cat lady in a house filled with books (with a loveable mutt since my girlfriend's a dog person) is complicated by the wanderlust that causes me to be incapable of even imagining a permanent home country for quite some time now. The world is so amazing and I just long for more of everything. There is so much about queer culture that is still so new to me, and I really want to learn more and get to know more people in these circles.
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Age: 21
Location: Currently I'm getting my fingers strawberry-stained in Finland (where I was born), but in September I return to my bookpiles in Scotland (where I study).
How do you identify? (sexuality / gender) Lesbian. Gender-wise, mostly female, though at times I feel more, um, genderless.
Interests / hobbies: Fiction, life-as-fiction, chance encounters with strangers (like smoking your first-ever cigarette with an elderly man from the north, talking about snow & what a lovely evening it was), languages (French is my current love, but I may have taught myself the Greek alphabet because I couldn't resist -- being a polyglot would be the most awesome thing ever), crying in the theatre, philosophy, escapades, forests, reading, writing, staying up too late, baking, tea houses, elsewheres, burning people, going to the movies alone, being foolish, the incomprehensible art of translation, trains, running away, oheverything.
Favourite books: I am obsessed with books to the extent that my librarian mother thinks I read too much. Some bookloves are: The Secret History, The History of Love, Neverwhere, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Kit's Wilderness, Mercury Fur, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, The World Without Us, Ronia the Robber's Daughter, The Theban Plays, L'heure de la sortie (School's Out), The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Favourite films: As a film student, I find it sinfully delightful that I'm actually required to spend an evening in the cinema every week. I like movies that are mindfucks or stick to you like ghosts or make you cry or brim over with restless life. Jeux d'enfants, Last Night, Like Minds, Mulholland Dr., The Bubble, Velvet Goldmine, Sunshine, Moulin Rouge, Billy Elliot, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset, Das Leben der Anderen, Grave of the Fireflies, Les amants réguliers, Donnie Darko, My Life Without Me, The Hours, 3-Iron.
Favourite music: I like classical, I like musicals, I like music with stories, haunting lyrics or no words at all. I like old theatre songs I heard as a child about the importance of learning how to read (& how that's not enough) and sparse piano notes we listened to in a Philosophy class on a light afternoon. (Best I like it when the right song plays at the right moment.) Some examples: Vienna Teng, Phillip Glass, Stars, Iron & Wine, Erik Satie, Yoko Kanno, The Decemberists, CocoRosie, Angelo Badalamenti, Au Revoir Simone, Bright Eyes, Antony & The Johnsons, Philippe Rombi, Kings of Convenience, Scandinavian Music Group, Neutral Milk Hotel, Kaj Chydenius.
What would you like to send / receive? I would absolutely adore snailmail of any kind, anything from postcards or little notes to parcels. I wouldn't mind emails, either, but I have to admit I'm quite hopeless with longterm email exchange.
Who would you like to send and receive mail from? Any kind stranger who might feel like writing.
What countries would you like to receive mail from and send to? Anywhere, oh anywhere at all. Preferably in English, but I have to admit that my French could use some practice as well...
Anything that you would particularly not like to receive? Can't really think of anything.
What would be in your dream letter or package? Something that made you ache or tingle with life. (Be it words or pictures or anything.)
Anything else you'd like to add? My dream of becoming a crazy cat lady in a house filled with books (with a loveable mutt since my girlfriend's a dog person) is complicated by the wanderlust that causes me to be incapable of even imagining a permanent home country for quite some time now. The world is so amazing and I just long for more of everything. There is so much about queer culture that is still so new to me, and I really want to learn more and get to know more people in these circles.
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Date: 2010-06-28 12:05 am (UTC)That's pretty beautiful, actually.
And your librarian mother saying that you read to much made me lol XD
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Date: 2010-06-28 03:01 am (UTC)"wanderlust that causes me to be incapable of even imagining a permanent home country"...I feel the same way, I never want to settle down, I want to travel everywhere but can't imagine actually living anywhere permanently.
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Date: 2010-06-28 03:12 am (UTC)How you write is very lovely as well. I'd admit I am quite charmed. XD
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Date: 2010-06-28 09:53 am (UTC)It makes me quite happy that often the problem is just that there is so much to see and do and live that you simply cannot do it all at once.
Haha, it's sort of sad. :D I try to use, "but you're a librarian! you should be happy!" as an excuse when she grumbles about my reading, but it very rarely works. :D
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Date: 2010-06-28 10:37 am (UTC)there are just so many incredible places and while travelling is lovely, you always remain a stranger that way. I love the freedom of moving across seas, rather than town borders. where are you residing at the moment? and would you perhaps be interested in exchanging letters or cards or something of the sort?
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Date: 2010-06-28 10:49 am (UTC)Thank you! You seem pretty rad! I've identified as an asexual for most of my life, too (and still do to an extent). Your likes are lovely.
So would you perhaps like to be penpals? I might try and find a Finnish Rapunzel for you. :3
My email is: sairen (at) gmail (dot) com
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Date: 2010-06-28 06:24 pm (UTC)my e-mail is meiko_akizuki_ai_shinichi_nachan [at] yahoo [dot] com.
I'll e-mail you later today if you do not e-mail me first. :)
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Date: 2010-06-28 08:47 pm (UTC)Ah, there's not such thing as reading too much imo ;) I've added you, I hope that's ok!
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Date: 2010-06-29 01:48 am (UTC)Right now I'm in Pittsburgh. I've never really travelled outside of USA although in August I'm going to Toronto for an Axe Capoeira event but that doesn't really count because it's not across the sea...I'm hoping to go to Greece or Australia next summer though. I'd love to exchange letters, but I'm going to be moving in the beginning of August so we could just exchange emails until I know what my address is going to be
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Date: 2010-06-29 07:57 pm (UTC)I don't think so either! I mostly wish I had more time for it, haha. :D
That's lovely! I added you back.
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Date: 2010-06-29 08:19 pm (UTC)(lol, just realised that this comment isn't funny unless you know this clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwUPT0Ad_0A). And that the smiley face is supposed to giving you two thumbs up, not listening to headphones ^__^')
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Date: 2010-06-30 09:14 am (UTC)I think it does count! It's so different with North America and Europe -- Europe is so tiny and there are so many countries that travelling between them is terribly easy. (Even from Finland, which isn't located very conveniently for travelling, you can do things like catch a boat to Estonia, be there in an hour and a half and pay 20€ for a return ticket. And from Scotland, I've once taken a bus first to London and then to Paris.) US, on the other hand, is so huge and diverse. And continent-wise, we're the same -- I haven't been outside of Europe, either. I'd love to, though.
I have been to Greece once and it was such a lovely experience. And oh, Australia would be amazing. Why do those two countries interest you?
Oh, yes, that would be quite fine. I'll be moving back to Scotland in September and - thanks to the uni - I won't find out my new address until I'm there. So we can exchange addresses closer to then. For now, my email is sairen (at) gmail (dot) com
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Date: 2010-06-30 09:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-30 07:01 pm (UTC)Alright, cool. my email address is ces62@pitt.edu