Since this is a profile page I 'spose I should tell you about myself.
Name: Drake Van is the one I use here on fiction press - it means 'Dragon Friend' in Swedish (don't ask :P)
Age, Sex, Location: I turn 16 in 17 days! Yay! Female and have lived in Newcastle, Australia all my life.
Hobbies: I'm a passionate horse rider who rides whenever I can (which is pretty much every fortnight, though I have dropped off somewhat recently due to the demands of being in year 10); I also love to cook, read, write (obviously) and generally spend time being an adolescent teenager.
Favourite Genre: I like high fantasy, romances and mysteries the most.
Favourite Authors: Katherine Kerr, Anne McCaffery, Robin Hobb, Jennifer LeBreque, Alison Kent, Raymond E. Feist, David Eddings, Jane Lindskold and many more (believe me).
Favourite Things (in general): ice cream, chocolate, shopping, my friends (one of them has an account on fiction press actually ;-) luv ya Nat!!), movies, writing, animals (especially horses, dogs, big cats and wolves), good music, holidays and reviews :P.
That's it from me, for now. Hope you enjoy the stories I post on here (I've had posting spree recently by rewriting old and writing new stories). Please read and review!
Also, if you like vampires click this link (I promise nothing bad will happen :D): http://s2.bitefight.org/c.php?uid=78429
PLEASE READ WHAT'S UNDER THIS!!!
I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.
I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.
I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.
We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.
I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.
I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.
I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.
We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.
I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.
I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.
I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I did not have to always deal with society hating me.
I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.
I am the person who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male.
I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most: love.
Re-post this if you believe homophobia is wrong! Please do your part to end it!
Luv: Drake Van
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