Let's try and start out on the right kind of footing, shall we? I am very good at making blogs. I am very good at designing a layout and making headers and thinking of witty blog urls and trying to make myself seem much cleverer than I am via the medium of "about me" boxes. My adventures in blogging have consisted of fashion blogs, book review blogs, personal blogs, poetry blogs - everything you can think of, I have tried at one time or another.
My problem is staying devoted to a blog. Wanting to continue to make outfit posts, or continuing to write book reviews, or even having the motivation to write about my day. I am not going to come straight out and say "this will not happen on this blog". If I am being honest with you, it probably will happen on this blog - if only because I am an incredibly lazy person. I am going to try my best not to let it happen - let's see how that goes, shall we?
An introduction post. I can do that. I am very good at that kind of thing.
My name is Nat. It is short for something; most of you will hopefully never know what. I don't like going by my birthname, partly because it is awful and partly because I feel as though "Nat" is far more gender neutral in the grand scheme of things. I am a human being, and I identify as genderfluid - I might often refer to being trans*. I may also refer to myself as "queer" - again, I identify as a panromantic asexual. I can't speak for all people who ID in this way, but the best explanation I can offer is that I have romantic attractions towards people (I've certainly harboured crushes for years upon years) but don't particularly want to engage in any manner of sexual activity with them. I'm a teenager; I shan't specify exactly how old. That way I won't have to go back and change it regularly. You can probably guess anyway.
I live in Hull. It is not a very interesting place to live. I leave school this year - there goes the age thing already - and hopefully when I get to college I'll be studying musical theatre. Sometimes teachers talk to me about my ambitions and a faint cloud of disappointment falls over their face as soon as I say this; I get fairly good grades. I'm also quiet and shy and hard-working, and it's probably not a stretch to say that they wonder how I could be any good at something like that. I'm currently involved in a production of Sweeney Todd, in which I will be playing Mrs Lovett. Sondheim. Eeep.
I am a vampires elitist. Don't get me talking about Twilight. On that note, don't get me talking about True Blood or The Vampire Diaries either. If you're a fan, you won't enjoy it. If you get me talking about The Vampire Chronicles and you are a fan you may find yourself pleased, though - especially if you're willing to engage in conversation about the musical, which is my baby.
Fictional characters book-wise whom I am overly attached to include: Jonathan Teatime, Nicolas de Lenfent, Susan Sto Helit, Dorian Gray, Montparnasse, Jehan Prouvaire, Howell Jenkins and Hermione Granger. Some of these are more obvious than others; if you can correctly place them all, we should probably be friends.
I am: a feminist, a person, a survivor, a manic-depressive, a poet, an obsessive compulsive, a recovering self-harmer, a member of many fandoms, a performer, an artist and most importantly I am a Nat. This is a separate species. My preferred pronouns are: ze, zir.
My favourite film of all time is The Breakfast Club. That is a suitable factoid to end this introduction post on.
