Irmelin

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Gender

female

Age

19

Location

Norway

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Biography

I am an artist: born, raised, and currently living in Norway, though I spent eight years of my life surviving in the US. My shelves stretch from Anne Rice to George Orwell; my m4a's from Black Sabbath to Tori Amos; and my decorations from Victoria Frances paintings to calico crayon notes scribbled by my ten-year-old sister. When I am not engaged in activism, I can usually be found in Azeroth, leveling my Night Elf hunter.

My sheroes

Most of the women whom I look up to are not self-identified feminists. They are women with powerful spirits, keen minds, and the sort of sordid twists that I believe essential to any civilization. ;) My mother, who managed to complete High School, a bachelors, and later a masters, all WHILST raising me. ALONE. She currently lives more than comfortably and is president of the local BDSM club. My grandmother, who has struggled with everything from raising three girls to anorexia to having a hysterectomy. She collects beautiful little Buddha figurines that she sets on gleaming display in her apartment. My friend Ajna, from Scotland, who is raising a rambunctious little boy, also alone. She has such a capacity for the appreciation of beauty; such a passion for the virtue of liberty; and happens to be one of the sexiest women on my Earth.

Personal goals

I wish to better myself. Fueled by ambition, passion, and an inquisitive mind, I will improve my art, my writing, my mind, my health, my heart, my judgment, and my wardrobe. As I gain these things, I will become more competent in my human duty to carry the world into progression, into enlightenment, and, well, generally into something other than extinction.

On my less ambitious days, I narrow down my goals to reaching level 70 on World of Warcraft.

Bragging Rights

Bragging rights. Sure, I have won an award here and there. Two “Best Actress” awards, one “Excellence in Journalism” award, plus one local and one state award for my historical research paper on the Scope trial. But I have got to say that the things I am most proud of are: moving to a brand new country with barely five sentences learned of the language and making school honor roll within the first semester; being openly lesbian and alternative in the public education system; saving someone's life; doodling on every piece of paperwork I have ever filled out; and making a hell of a good thing out of my life after surviving an abusive relationship and a suicidal episode.

Favorite books

14+: Jane Eyre, White Oleander, The Phantom of the Opera, 1984, The Kushiel Legacy, The Vampire Chronicles, Equus (a play), the Beauty Trilogy, Harry Potter, Bram Stoker's Dracula, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ramses the Damned, Everything You Know is Wrong, Goethe's Faust, The Picture of Dorian Gray

13-: Mio min Mio, Dealing With Dragons, I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly, Heidi, Ronja Roverdatter, and Alle Tidens Beste Heksefest ;)

Favorite music

Everything from opera to heavy metal, techno to cabaret, and classical 19th century to classical 1980'ies. Cradle of Filth, Depeche Mode, Tori Amos, Garbage, Bella Morte, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Disturbed, Marilyn Manson, Melissa Kaplan, Metallica, Beethoven, Dimmu Borgir, Nine Inch Nails, Pantera, Rufus Wainwright, Sarah Brightman, System of a Down, Tenacious D, The Beatles, The Dresden Dolls, Enya, Eurythmics, Theatre of Tragedy, Group X, Jewel, Deep Purple, K.M.F.D.M., Kaizers Orchestra, Trans-Siberian Orchestra...

Favorite Films

Farinelli, Mr. Stitch, The 9th Gate, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Heavenly Creatures, Immortal Beloved, The Crow, Hannibal, Silence of the Lambs, What Dreams May Come, Cradle of Fear, Dee Snider's Strangeland, Legend, Edward Scissorhands, The Ring, The Wisdom of Crocodiles, Nightmare Before Christmas, City of Angels, Interview With the Vampire, and of course Secretary. Favorite directors include Tim Burton, Po-Chih Leong, Steven Spielberg, Gore Verbinski and Francis Ford Coppola.

Hobbies

Attack of the Verbs... Drawing, painting, photograph...ing, writing, reading, ROLEPLAYING, dressing up, researching, walking leisurely, jogging masochistically, playing DDR, philosophizing, corseting, chewing gum in a spastic manner, psychoanalyzing, uncovering conspiracies, pondering on the mystery of Dark Matter/Energy, and so forth...