OT: Introducing myself

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "severelysigune"
<severelysigune at y...> wrote:
> 
> THE OLD CROWD – INTRO
> 
> ***Name:
> Eva

Welcome, Eva/Sigune!

> 
> ***Home
> Ghent, Belgium.

Does that mean you're not a native speaker of English? I never would
have guessed!
 
> Favourite character(s): Snape. I also have a soft spot for Dumbledore.

> ***Extent of Potter obsession:
> Worrying. I'm afraid I'm really obsessed with Snape. It's not a 
> strange thing: I am always obsessed with someone of something (the 
> Celts, the ancient Egytians, Sir Gawain, Oscar Wilde, now Snape). It 
> began with Snape drawings (I think he's visually interesting – I've 
> never before tried to draw anyone looking so much like a cliché 
> baddie :-) ), then came fan fiction, then HpfGU, then a Snape comic. 
> The whole thing really does take up a lot of time; I need therapy, I 
> think <g>

> 
> ***Other interests/activities:
> Comics, manga, drawing, literature (mainly French and English, and I 
> haven't entered the 20th century yet), everything Victorian, Oscar 
> Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, decadence, Hellenistic sculpture, painting 
> in general, cinema, baking, fencing.
> 
Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, decadence, Snape ... is this a pattern?
 After many years, I have yet to forget a particularly sick line in
UNDER THE HILL, where the girls of Venus's realm are described as
having drawings on their legs which looks, through their white silk
stockings, like 'the most delicious bruises'.