Hey, this still going? It's 3am and I should be asleep but my mind isn't clear enough for that so I'll post about who I am instead.
I'm JD, I'll be 15 four days after writing this (June 28 is my birthday), and I live in the middle of nowhere in Oklahoma. I actually have somewhat varied interests; I like all forms of writing, music, and learning shit in general. I play a lot of Smash Bros, Civ 5, and Paradox games.
Because I'm really bad at structuring long posts, I guess I'll just start off by detailing my primary interest, which is music. My main instrument is guitar (played for ~4 years), although I also play euphonium (also ~4 years), bass (~2 and a half years), and piano (I've
kinda been able to play it for probably at least 5 or 6 years, but I didn't start taking it seriously until a year or two ago). I write a lot of music, most of which is either calm ambient stuff or metal, on the other end of the spectrum. My ultimate goal in life is to make a living as some sort of musician; I'm considering majoring in TV/Film/Video Game scoring. Jeremy Soule (who wrote the music for Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind, Guild Wars 2, etc.) is my primary inspiration in that regard. I'd also like to tour as part of a metal band bc I like performing and being on the road for obscenely long periods of time.
I wrote a lot of stories in the past; I had a Skyrim fanfiction I worked on for a few months back when I started sixth grade and got it to a little over 70000 words, but I just kinda stopped working on it? I actually have terrible commitment issues, which many of you have undoubtedly noticed. But I digress (temporarily; I'm absolutely coming back to this in a paragraph or two). Now I mostly write poetry (which I have a collection of saved, if anyone is interested
) because I'm a stereotypical angsty teen and that's my thing. I want to get back into writing actual stories and stuff, I just haven't been able to find inspiration for that in a few years. Mostly because I'm a perfectionist who has to have the entire thing planned out intricately before I can ever start on it.
I'm trying to learn German at the moment, and I'm trying to teach myself precalc before the school year starts back so I can skip ahead of class, but my desire to learn is at constant war with my terminal laziness and I have no idea what the end result will be.
My dad is in the military so we move every four years. I've lived in Oklahoma (two or three times in different locations), Washington (Spokane), and Kansas (Wichita). It's kinda weird moving around so much, but I can't complain too much, bc there are plenty of people who move around a lot more than me.
I'm gonna hit on my commitment issues again, because that's the most evident product (to people on NS) of my annoyingly anxious disposition. I served as Cultural Governor in the PRL a couple of years ago, and my activity dropped off almost entirely soon thereafter. I've disappeared from Wintreath two or three times for extended periods, once after winning a spot in the Underhusen in a fiercely contested election (which I probably shouldn't have won in the first place tbh). And I pretty much just abruptly stopped writing articles for The Rejected Times a couple of years ago and subsequently left NationStates until recently. I really do apologize for all the times I've done it in the past, it's one of those things I'm trying to get better about. I just have
atrocious priorities and time management skills, so I stress myself out over minute things to the point where I can't deal with them and disappear, then I get scared to come back and stay away. So there's my explanation for that.
Instead of dwelling too much on that, though, I'm gonna end this on the topic of something I really do love, and that's animals. I have a pet cat named Sage;
here's an album of pictures of her. She's probably my best friend, and she sleeps next to me a lot. I actually have a lot more pictures of her, too. I also have a chihuahua named YahYah (my dad's ex named her), and I love her too but she's not nearly as photogenic. She's cute, just bad with pictures. I have two rats; one belongs to my sister is named Bella, and I have an albino one named Poland. They're both great, Poland is the more energetic of the two and runs around a lot, while Bella just sits in her cage and nibbles at my finger.
So that's me. Well, the gist of it at least.