Introductions

My name is Timmy Snow. No, that is not a pen-name. I live in Alaska. Yes, I'm telling the truth, yes, I realize how ironic my name is, no, we don't have pet polar bears or live in igloos. I'm the kind of guy who laughs at funerals (yes, I did just steal that line from the Barenaked Ladies!) and pretty much any inappropriate social situation. I like indie flicks and mainstream comic books, and at this moment in time Christopher Nolan is my favorite director, but I'm a very fickle person, so that's subject to change. I dress like a hipster and talk about obscure things, and I'm pretty sure the fact that I do it to be ironic makes me an actual hipster, but I'm okay with that. I'm an English major who loves writing, and one day I hope to publish a book. Probably something science fiction-y or urban fantasy. Because those are the kinds of books I like.

I'm a vegetarian, for moral reasons. But I'm not a preachy vegetarian- as long as you respect my decision not to eat meat, I'll respect your decision to eat mutilated animal carcasses. I have a tumblr account, but I mostly use it for pictures and stuff, not writing. The reblog feature is just too tantalizing, so I decided to make this blog for all my writing purposes. I also have a seperate blogger account that I used to blog on, but I totally forgot the password... Oops. I'm gay, been out since I was 14, and I'm 21 now (but turning 22 in a week). I've never had a boyfriend, because the dating pool in Fairbanks is small and there are a lot of undesirables. I'm a hopeless romantic, which doesn't fare well in the gay world, as most gay men are just looking for sex. I did have a girlfriend in 4th grade, though.

I use humor as a defense mechanism, but I also use it for everything else in my life. It's pretty much one of my defining personality traits, which is why I chose Cheshire as my pen-name. Well, that and I frickin' love Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Some of my favorite actors are: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Neil Patrick Harris, Zooey Deschanel, Anne Hathaway, and Jake Gyllenhaal. I can be pretty shallow. I spend a lot more time in my head than I probably should. I'm a daydreamer and an independent spirit. I really hate it when someone uses the wrong "your/you're" (myself included). I can quickly switch between being completely logical to ridiculously illogical. It's quite the talent. I'm fantastic at arguing, because I'm good with words and a master at twisting them, or pulling random points out of my ass.

The point of this blog was so you, my readers, the people who may wish to start and hopefully continue reading this blog, can get a sense of who I am. A writer has to make a connection with his or her readers- I'm going to assume that most of the people who will end up reading this blog are people I already know. But, perhaps, I'll pick up a few people who just like my writing style, or the things I post, and this introduction is for them. So I'm not some faceless, nameless entity talking about whatever it is I'll be talking about, but somebody you can understand and connect with on a more personal level. And hopefully you like what you read, and if you don't, I hope you really, really hate it, because then I'll still have done what a good writer, or a good artist, is supposed to accomplish. I've caused an emotional reaction through my medium. And what more could a struggling, unemployed writer ask for?