Dinky-Mew

Someone once told me that people are just like sharks. Sharks will live happily alongside each other until they smell blood, and the minute they do they will rip each other apart in a frenzy.

I don't bleed in public. It gives people too much opportunity to tear me apart, and this, my friends has been why I have had such a long, silent absence from DeviantART.

I come back, and no doubt everything has moved on, everything has changed and it will take me some time to find my feet, my style and what I want to write about (maybe some DragonAge Inquisition fanfictions to begin with!)

So where have I been?

I have been awash in the black pit of grief, loss and then through the arid desert of writing a dissertation for my final year.

In all truthfulness writing has been painful. I lost my best friend in the summer, but she was more than that, she was a guiding light and unwavering support for my writing, my imagination and more so my soul.

She died, from cancer, and I could not be there.

So writing has not been the same since, I've found it hard to put words together, hard to even think like I used to because writing was what brought me and my friend together, held us together and that connection goes beyond even death. I have our work, I will continue it and one day get it published like I promised.

But the silence, the absence from this community is not doing me any good and so I would like to announce my return to DeviantART.

I'm going to spend a good few weeks mosying around, seeing what people are writing about nowadays and then might try my hand at a few things. Key interests for me lately include: The Walking Dead - I'm keen to start some kind of fanfiction for this. DragonAge Inquisition - because Cullen just has to be brough to life in fanfiction! The Order, which was a very short game but had legs for potential fanfics (although will require another playthrough to get the story 100% straight in my head!).

I'm looking forward to getting caught up with what people have been writing! Looking forward to some gooooood reading!

Keep smiling people - when it gets dark enough, you can see the stars!

So, I have been absent for some time now - and coming back has been at the back of my mind for a long while. 

Journal design by Simmemann

So last time I updated you all I mentioned I was waiting for exam rsults, well the lecturer then went off sick so I only just got my results today.

I was feeling pretty crap, because for those of you who don't know I've been out of the 'game' for almost a year having a baby so writing this essay was a huge huge fear for me and I ended up leaving it to last minute - as you do - and writing the whole thing the night before.

On top of that they kept changing the parameters on me - one minute I had an 1800 word count, then it was 2500 - the question changed twice - bleh it was just a disaster from start to finish and once I had written it, submitting it in a half-comatose state after pulling pretty much an all-nighter with a two hour break I realised I forgot to edit line spacing and add page numbers... instantly points off my grade.

So yeah not a great start.

Despite all of that though I found out today I was awarded a B1 grade - not an A - but I can suffice because of all the mistakes I made.

So wait is over. University here I come!

Journal design by Simmemann

So I emailed the lecturer for my course today to see if I could find out whether or not I passed my essay that I had to do in order to get back into University - apparently they are still being graded but she will know by tomorrow.

Thanks for that.

Now I won't sleep! AAARAARARAARARRGGGH!

Journal design by Simmemann

So I was tagged, and here we go!

RULES:
1. You must post these rules.
2. Each person must post 11 things about themselves.
3. You must choose 11 people to tag. Put their icon on your journal!
4. Go to their page and tell him/her that you tagged them :3
5. No tag backs!

So let's start!!!

1. I hail fae Scotland and have Irish and Canadian descent in me - all the crazies in one and loving it!

2. I have dyed my hair so many times I have almost forgotten my natural colour - this week I am intense red!

3. I was the Gala Queen when I was 5 and Kirkcudbright Princess when I was 13 - CRINGE!

4. I can give a wicked lap-dance. *nods*

5. I am possibly one of the biggest Resident Evil fans out there - cannot get enough of Chris Redfield and Leon Kennedy

6. I've only ever been with one guy in my life and we've been together for 11 years this year - we were highschool sweethearts

7. I have always wanted to be an actress - still do!

8. I love cheese. My dad used to call me mouse when I was little because I would eat grated cheese by the bowlful!

9. My favourite animal is the desert gerboa. Nothing will ever be cuter.

10: I talk to myself - usually conversations between characters I write, which is fun but not so much when you get caught doing it.

11. I cry when I am actually raging angry. I don't know why.



And here comes the fun part!!! I'm tagging the following people....