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Name: Jasmin
Age: 18
Birthday: Febuary 12
Gender: Female
Location:Richmond Va
Enjoys: Books, movies, vampires, anything involvine ghosts and spirits.
Frequents: coffee houses, vintage clothing stores, and the entertainment and movie sections on gaia.
What I do: I'm currently attending college in Virginia. I tend to magicaly aquire offbeat movies and old comic books. I love to draw, paint and generally create weird yet beautiful images wherever possible.

thank you, I'm sure I will.

Oh dear, I seem to have run on a bit. To find out more about me, check the link to my LJ below. That is, if I haven't told you enough about me already. biggrin

Name: Samantha (The moniker "Xillania" is old and I have grown away from it, so I'm thinking about changing it. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to PM me.)
Age: 19
Birthday: September 30, 1987 (I am a Libra and a Fire Rabbit born on the hour of the Ox, according to this website.)
Gender: Androgynous Female
Religion: None, really. I like learning about them, though, so I'll hang around with a lot of religious people and listen to them talk. One of my secret desires is to get in a debate with a Christian and have them never suspect that I am not.
Location: Missouri, USA
Origin: Chicago, Illinois (I'm going to go back ASAP.)
Enjoys: Learning (number one interest of all time: if an activity can't teach me something, it bores me to the extreme, and every activity I participate in teaches me at least a little bit*,) music (I like and dislike at least a little bit of every genre,) reading, watching thought-provoking or story-rich movies and TV shows (preferably thought-provoking or story-rich movies and TV shows with some amount of action, such as V for Vendetta, Sin City, Lord of the Rings, Se7en, anything else with Morgan Freeman, Heroes** and so forth,) writing, designing stuff, art (I enjoy making art, but have no artistic skills,) figuring stuff out myself, doing stuff myself (unless it happens to be excessively physical in nature, such as construction work,) psychology, drama (the genre, not people's petty bitching,) some musicals (stuff like R.E.N.T. and Fame and the Phantom of the Opera and Rocky Horror Picture Show,) theatre (I prefer to be in plays or crewing them to just watching.)***
Frequents: Extended Discussion, a few guilds, LiveJournal, RoleplayOnline and some IRC channels.
What I Do: I'm a student. I am currently getting an Associate's (working degree) in criminal justice, and then I will go to the University of Chicago, where I will study God-only-knows-what. (Suggestions for that are also welcome, especially if anyone here knows the school. I have competency in many things, and am at least a little interested in each of them. What I do know is that I don't want to do the same thing for forty years and then retire, so I am considering law school, since law degrees can be applied to many different careers, some of which don't involve actually being a lawyer. Also, if I'm a lawyer and get bored with my practise, I could go off and join some organization or run for political office teach an undergrad law class or get a higher degree and teach at a law school.)
What I Want to Do: Aside from all sorts of things for possible careers, I want to visit major cities around the world (top of the list: London, Athens, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Seattle, New York, Boston, Toronto, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Moscow and St. Petersberg, in no particular order, but I'll take any decently-sized metropolitan area.)

To find out more about me, you can read my LiveJournal. I don't have anything to hide and if I do post something I don't want random people to read, I'll post it as private. Add me as a friend if you want.

*This fixation on learning can also be beneficial, since if I can figure out what a boring activity teaches me, I can find it to be incredibly interesting.
**To my shame, I have only ever seen one episode of Heroes. I keep missing them, so don't spoil anything.
***Interest list is in no particular order, except for my interest in learning being first.

Thanks. I think I'd not mind doing retail for a little while, but only if it's in a store that caters to interesting people, like pagans or artists, or sells interesting stuff, like occult stuff or art supplies or books. Otherwise, I'll likely get bored. Fortunately for me, I'm pretty good at getting out of the boringness by retreating within my brain whenever conscious thought isn't needed. But then, that can cause all of its own problems, such as not coming back to the here and now fast enough, or missing clues that presence of mind is needed at the moment.

By way of explanation (since no two people conceive of stuff in the same way, and I've heard so many things described a multitude of ways and I just remembered some incidents of my past which indicate that confusion could arise): I'm definitely female, but I do about as many male things as female things. (By specifically-gendered things, I mean those things that the biological differences between the sexes have prepared each one to do. For instance, men are designed to hunt and to be active and explore and whatnot, while women are designed to stay still so that they can bear children. Now, this is an obsolete system in this day and age, but that's how I gender certain activities. Not that people shouldn't do differently-gendered activities; just look at myself.) I've heard it described as androgynous, genderqueer, tomboyish and abomination (I do so dislike Paul, and those few people who still adhere to his writings.) "Androgynous female" seems to be the term that best describes me. I wear whatever clothes I want; I highly dislike skirts most of the time, but sometimes feel like wearing one. I like girls, which is of course a normatively male trait for the sake of the preservation of the species. I love participating in some physical activities, and I also love cooking. I hang out with people of either gender (about 50/50, since I don't get along well with either extreme of behaviour. Yes, it's a bit stereotypical, but nearly every stereotype has a basis in reality, especially when society tells people to conform to those stereotypes or be shunned.)

No, you don't have to read everything I write. I rant a lot and then I have to explain the more vague terminology in my rant and then I get onto another rant. I skim read a lot and won't fault anybody for doing it to me unless I am extremely serious. It's just that I find it very hard to delete a rant after I write it. As I've said, I don't like oblivion. I much prefer to just leave my rants up online and let people read them or not read them as they see fit.

Well, the fact that we have multiple sexes kind of makes things interesting. If everybody was both male and female, it'd be more reproductively efficient (since any given person could impregnate any other person.) It'd be a little bit more boring, though, but I'm sure I'd never know that it was more boring, because I'd never have conceived of more than one sex. The binary gender system descends from the binary sexes, because it makes more sense for women to stay at home. That way they can get pregnant more. But now we have a nearly one hundred percent child survival rate, so we don't need so many babies. So yes, it has become slightly counterproductive in recent days. But only slightly. Case in point: most people identify as the same as their genitalia would make them. Guys like their parts and girls like theirs (even though they might complain about periods, if you told them that their periods had stopped but that they could never give birth, most of them would want the periods back.) Therefore, most people mesh well with the binary gender system and the counterproductivity that has arisen in the past several hundred years isn't a big enough problem to worry the macrocosm of society. Before the worldwide series of revolutions and the nearly universal acknowledgement of human rights, only small microcosms were progressive in the way that nearly the entire world is now. Democratically-representative government arose in this way. Slavery was abolished in this way. Perhaps in the next few hundred years, the binary gender system will be done away with, too, just like it has been in some small areas. I'm like some people before the American Civil War who didn't own slaves, but who held no grudge against slaveowners (one of the most famous was General Robert E. Lee, one of my favourite figures in the Civil War.)

If humanity survives long enough, the binary gender system will die, just like every previously-efficient system that has become obsolete. I can think of a couple similar systems that I would prefer to see dead more than genders, and which would be easier to kill, though, such as the electoral college, so doing away with genders is not a priority. They're convenient labels, even now.

It's not necessary that anyone identify as anything. I just find that I fit nicely within my conceptions of several labels, so I have those to give to someone who wants to know me in a nutshell, like a business card of conceptualization.

Name: CrimsonThanatos/Twitch
Age: 13
Birthday: April... (that's all your getting. Taurus though)
Gender: Male
Location: I live in the US
Enjoys: Manga, reading, writing, Gaia, ReignofBlood(.net), Conquer Online (a game), VampireCrusades(.com)
Frequents: ReignofBlood, GAIA, ED, my guilds
What I do: 8th grade...