Seeing as over on Fanfiction.Net, I am the Unrequited Lover, it seems only fitting that I should be an unfortunate faerie mistress here. I'm so tragic. ::gothic swoon::
Mmmkay...not really. Actually, I'm very normal for my age: that is to say, I'm very abnormal. What else is the norm in this generation? For lack of any better thing to do, I'm going to make a profile like I said I'd never, ever do.
Teja Anneliese
Age: 16 since 2 November
Hand: Left
Dressed in: Black
Wish you could be dressed in: corsets, petticoats, silk stocking, brocade, and lace
Why not: We're on a budget, where can I buy it, and we haven't re-set up the sewing machine yet
Anything else?: Yes.
Writes about: horror, vampires, faeries, Celtic myth, Norse myth (LOKI!), historical (in one of the other genres), 19th century French decadence, 21st century decadence, 20th century decadence, 19th century romanticism, 19th century aestheticism, glam-rock, glitter, elaborate costumes
Aspirations?: See a couple of movies (see MOVIES), buy a top hat, several DVDs and CDs, and get my lower lip and eyebrow pierced. I always wanted to get my eyebrow done, but I actually like them. I got my nose pierced because I hated it, and now I love it. Piercings can do that to a person, and so I think I shall make myself love my mouth, which I don't like. (And I have to make some money writing first before I can do any of this.)
Okay then, anything intended to publish?: Not here.
What do you write to publish?: A novel, Croixenlierre, still in progress, and not up here. After that I shall write Tourbier's Academy for Girls and Boys of Unique Dispositions, a pretty boy in drag as its main character.
Affiliates: Certainly! Linwe Ringeril and Cassandra Leigh-sama (who really ought to change her name on here to something more SEARCHABLE...!). They're both poets, but Linwe puts up just poetry and Cassandra, so far, no poetry.
What will you put up?: Well, I'm more a songwriter than a poet, but might have some songs up. Also, short stories.
No Croixenlierre?: Maybe teasers.
Anything else?: Why not?
Who are your favourite writers?: Oscar Wilde is my top favourite. I also like Mervyn Peake greatly. Gormenghast is such an inspiration, and Wilde...is just...Lord of Language. Also I like Jean Genet--but I wish that there was an aesthetically-minded female writer who would write books like Wilde and Genet always have. I can' t help it. I'm totally lipstick.
Okay, so, any living writers?: Holly Black is my favourite living writer, even if her work is a little juvenile. She writes with great visuals. I just like urban fantasy. I also like Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket)--I can't help it--and Neil Gaiman--but then, who can help it with him?
Ooh, you got wordy there.: Don't you go there.
No?: Bite me.
Okay, so, what music do you like?: Placebo is my favourite band. I like also Evanescence, though it can get so repetitive, Rasputina (they rock!), The Dresden Dolls (they too rock), Marilyn Manson (sometimes), Panic! At The Disco (but they're the only emo group I like, and like Evanescence can get repetitive), Garbage, Steve Harley, Queen, Vanessa Carlton, and The Mediaeval Baebes. I like classical and Celtic also.
Movies: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Velvet Goldmine, Gormenghast, Amadeus, A Clockwork Orange, The Silence of the Lambs, Immortal Beloved, Labyrinth, Stigmata, The Ninth Gate, The Dark Crystal, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Wilde, The Fifth Element, V for Vendetta, Sleepy Hollow, The Lost Boys, From Hell, The Matrix (only the first one), Batman Begins, My Girl, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, LA Confidential, Chinatown, Se7en, The Shawshank Redemption, The Crying Game, and I actually sort of liked Queen of the Damned. Also do I really want to see Breakfast on Pluto; the Scarecrow in drag, glam-rock, and Neil Jordan, sounds good to me, and Il Fantasma dell'Opera by Dario Argento. When it's on video I should also see Marie Antoinette. I share her birthday, you know, and I'm terribly worried that they ruined it, just as I'm terribly excited that they might have made a fabulous fantasy that really gives her depth.
Possible disorders?: Oh, that's just hilarious. Well, my aunt is schizophrenic, and these things run in the family. I would say that I've only had eating disorder problems a couple times, and those are all past, but I do agonize over eating and have a distorted body image like anorectics do, so anorexia nervosa could be possible in future. I have a few extremely compulsive tendencies (I'm not so sure about obsessive-compulsive, but I've had issues there before on many occasions--not of the cleanliness-freak variety, though).
Addictions: If role-playing counts, there's one; occasionally chai tea is definitely up there. Beauty, yes, if it counts; and I have to admit that even though I know it's an awful habit, I'm very likely to eventually go in for smoking, because cigarettes just look so gorgeous to me, and they have for years. Am I buying into media pressure? If so, it's very glamourous. Go me.
Religion: Pagan; but I am not technically Wiccan and I do pray to Jesus, Mary (as a mother Goddess), Mary Magdalene, and many other assorted figures. Loki, of course, is my number one, along with some other Norse figures, and a few Celtic ones, mostly godesses there. And my Wee Guides.
Sexuality: Pansexual. It's like bisexual with benefits. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansexuality Broaden your mind.
Makeup necessities?: We all know glitter is there, also black eyeliner, and violet eyeshadow, and black eyeshadow. Lipstick of glittery plush plum, candyapple red, shimmery blue, muted black, deep burgundy, and cocoa sugar are there. Mascara. Glittery orchid nail varnish and polish in black. On my to-buy list is glitter mascara, dark, shimmery blue nail varnish with glitter, silver glitter, pink glitter, white glitter, rouge that lives up to its name in scarlet factor, iridescent blue eyeliner, cream purple eyeshadow, and my life-long desire--which I can find nowhere--emerauld eyeshadow. Like, the colour of the Oscar Wilde pin in VG.
Des autres langues?: Un peu de français.
Any random stuff?: I like dolls. And fancy clothes. And shoes. And my seven-year-old brother, Liam. My cats, Mab and Loki. Music. My viola, my guitar. 13-year-old brother Jess, brilliant bass player. Notebooks.
Wish to credit the muses?: Yes. Loki, you sonofabitch, now I have to buy a new nose stud because we ALL know it's your fault mine's lost!
Any...other muses?: Yes. I would like to thank my Wee Guides because they're all so lovely, even if they're the reason my shoe got torn this past week and now I must spend cash on a new pair.
You need nice muses.: Thank you for noticing.
Edit: I now have a sparkly nose ring, which was truly not my type but is actually quite pretty, and aquired a fancy pair of Victorian-esque boots. Loki loves me.
I also want to make note of my knowledge of faeries; that being, glamour, the Gentry, etc. I didn't get my knowledge from Holly Black, and so I don't write glamour like she does. I remember, about a year before I read Tithe, or indeed had even heard of it, I was in a role playing group for vampires, and I played a Leanan Sidhe (vampiric faery mistress). She glamoured herself like crazy, being a drama queen and a show-off, and it was written nothing like Miss Black's stuff; and I proposed, for the plot, that we have Dracula, the piece's villain, join up with Ireland's Unseelie Court. Holly Black isn't making up original stuff most of the time, it's culled from folklore that I've read and known all my life. I just wanted to make that clear. My faery bible is Faeries, by Brian Froud and Alan Lee--not Tithe.
In progress: Queen of Clotted Hearts, a macabre and horror story. Two people attempt to stop a Coven, led by aristocrat Fleur des Ambres, that decapitates the bodies of those believed to be vampires and drinks their blood in the hopes of obtaining immortality. Includes; a creepy child, a beautiful redhead, a madwoman, a REAL vampire, and pre-Revolutionary France.
Anyway. Sit back, and enjoy the show!
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