About Me!
Howdy! My friends call me Angel, and I'm totally at a loss for how to write about myself! I'm a 20-something year old girl livin' in the good ol' southwestern United States. I spend my days working as a teacher, and I find I'm pretty passionate about my job! Working with kids has given me a genuine appreciation for all things fun, silly, and creative, and I hope you see that reflected here on my website a little ^_^ This site is intended to serve as a personal diary/journal/archive for myself and things I'd like to share with my friends. I'll be writing about all my own little life events, passions, and adventures!
I am a girl of a great many interests, such as:
-Fantasy fiction in all its shapes and forms. Worlds constructed around the magical and the medieval are so much fun for me to delve into and explore, for as long as I could remember I was captivated by mystical wizards, warlocks, and warriors. I am known in certain circles for my obsession with Myles Pinkney's beautiful and iconic art, whose work represents my own platonic ideal of the classic genre. My love of fantasy extends through virtually every artistic medium imaginable and it's taken me through so many different adventures and experiences, it is truly a genre of limitless potential and imagination!
-Taking photos! It's a hobby I don't have a great wealth of experience in but theres something so magical about capturing a moment and holding on to it's memory forever. I like to capture plants, animals, and really anything striking to me that I wanted to hold on to. I really hope to compile some of my personal photo albums here very soon! I quite like taking my camera on my own little adventures!
-When I was younger, I was a competetive fencer! I feel such a deep longing to return to the sport but unfortunately the community for the sport just isn't active where I live these days. Nonetheless, fencing is near and dear to my heart and sitll influences my thoughts and tastes to this day. I took up the sport, in part, because of my childhood fascination with knights and fantasy, but it quickly evolved beyond that. It truly fostered a competetive spirit in me and I ended up taking on the position of coach and referee for a time. I simply cannot stress enough just how exhilarating a genuine sword fight can be!!! Even if I'm not actively fencing these days, I feel as though I'll never let go of the fire it gave me all those years ago when I first took up my saber.
-I make goofy-looking doodles in mspaint. All of my friends are super duper talented artists and I felt so miserable for a long time unable to even comprehend their skills. But! I've grown since those days and have learned to appreciate the joy of creating simple and silly drawings of my own!
-I'm a long-time Dungeon Master! Years ago, me and my beloved friends felt compelled to begin playing our own game of Dungeons & Dragons, years later our homebrew custom-tooled super crazy dark fantasy mystery game is still on-going. I can't take all the credit for the writing as my players have all made huge contributions to our amazing custom setting: Luvenia. I'm sure I'll talk more about it on my site but for now you ought to know I'm a walking, talking, 5th Edition Encyclopedia with a passion for the table-top gameplay experience and creating engaging encounters for my players and their characters!
-I'm a big fan of all sorts of cartoons, anime, and manga. But nothing comes close to my life-long adoration of Dragon Ball Z. As of writing this, I just finished watching through the entirety of the series with my beloved boyfriend. The series is such a rich distillation of everything I love in fiction. The action, the adventure, and the emotion. Goku is a world famous cultural icon for very good reason. I have some considerably mixed feelings about Both of it's sequel series, but nonetheless, my love for the original holds true forever. Watching the series as a kid no doubt had tremendous affects on my own brain chemistry, and I feel in my heart that I would never have taken up fencing if not for Future Trunk's iconic defeat of Frieza in my absolute most favorite episode of the show.
-Another franchise that became a life-long obsession: Sonic The Hedgehog. Sonic Adventure 2 was another extremely foundational game for my childhood, and my love of that game became a sickening infection as I grew to love the entire franchise and it's iconic characters. The adventure series of games, the IDW run of the comics, and even in the various animated adaptations have become so near-and-dear to my heart. I met some of my most beloved friends bonding over and sharing in experiences surrounding the famous blue blur. I raised my all-time favorite virtual pet, Lovebug, during my time playing SA2 to completetion. No doubt I'll be enjoying Sonic and his adventures for many years to come ^_^
-AND TO COMPLETE OUR "BIG 3" OF CHILDHOOD OBSESSIONS. Words cannot describe my relationship with Pokemon. I have been playing the main series of Pokemon games for, essentially, as long as I can remember. My experiences began sharing a Pokemon Ruby cartirdge with my siblings, and I wouldn't have a game of my own until the release of Heart Gold and Soul Silver. My Heart Gold cartridge would become my eternal companion, and although the save data has been reset countless time to faciliate my never-ending adventures, the original hardware is still tight in my hands. I would go onto play every single generation to precede and proceed it. I've taken up every side-game I can get my hands on, watched the anime, and even spent my time testing my skill at competitive singles and official VGC doubles. I have too many favorite and beloved Pokemon to even begin listing here. If you couldn't tell by now, I have an undying love of mystical adventures and magical creatures!!!!!
That just about sums up most things you should know about me and my passions! This website of mine is nothing more than a beloved personal project all for myself, so I hope you're not poking around looking for anything useful :p I love to chat and meet new people so if you've found my site by happenstance, feel free to come find me and say hi, I really and truly don't mind. Anyways! Feel free to keep looking around as I expand this place with more and more pages and posts!!!