Who am I?

I’m Tom, I’m 21 and I’m from the West Midlands in the UK.

I’m currently fumbling around trying to figure out what it is I want to do with myself. I’ve spent most of my life so far as a student and, in the past, have studied too many different things including music, theatre, English language, English literature, psychology, sociology, astrophysics and biology. Theatre and music are the two things I wish I’d never given up on. 

I absolutely adore the English language in every way, shape and form; I think our mother tongue is the most beautiful, versatile and powerful thing we have. I love the way it looks when written, the way it sounds when spoken. I wish I could learn each and every one of the other languages on Earth as well.

I find myself eternally drawn into fictional universes and doubt I shall ever really leave any of them. This is especially true of video games and books. There is something entirely irresistible about a beautifully crafted, fantastical yet strangely plausible world. Hell, I even find myself thinking about them when I’m not playing the game or reading the book. One day, I fear, I shall become lost beyond all help as the lines between my world and the worlds I love become steadily less rigid. But would that really be the worst fate that could befall me in life?

I find language in these worlds no less beautiful than in ours. Keelah, I even catch myself using snippets of fictional languages (I can only hope I never become a Trekkie; those kinds of HolQeD are a whole other kettle of bIQDep). Geh, nust kos brit ahrk morokei, nid? 

And, gaming, oh, all of the gaming. There is very little I can say about the topic of video games other than I just adore them. They are stunning, they are entirely enthralling. I don’t play a specific genre; for me games are about the story. I tend to gravitate towards a beautifully crafted storyline and a well-established, intricate universe. If gaming could be my life it most definitely would be.

I respect everyone’s right to their opinions and beliefs but will rarely tolerate having it crammed down my throat. I believe that people are generally decent but think that one of life’s greatest tragedies is the propensity for the most ignorant and vile people to be the loudest.

So, hello.

Things that I like.

The written word:
Dorothy Parker, H. P. Lovecraft, Ayn Rand, Stephen King, Susan Hill, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe.

The world of television:
Supernatural, Modern Family, 30 Rock, The IT Crowd, Friends, Frasier, Merlin, Doctor Who.

The world of gaming:
Mass Effect, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Assassin’s Creed, Fable, Dragon Age, Portal, Bioshock, Dead Space.
XBL Gamertag: PreventHorizon.

The world of audio:
Rammstein, Lady Gaga, Blue Oyster Cult, Jefferson Airplane, Kansas, Rob Zombie, Lordi, Fall Out Boy, The Eagles, Adele, Tori Amos, Within Temptation, and other random stuff.

The miscellaneous stuff:
Misha Collins, food, many varieties of tea, vintage things, arty-crafty stuff, the occult, theatre and acting, speaking in random accents, and awful, awful singing.