About Me
"I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." - Oscar Wilde

Vitals?
Screenname: Silent Bystander, a.k.a. ukekenshin
Real Name: Talyn (called Irvy)
Email: ukekenshin @ livejournal . com
LJ: ukekenshin
Hay, Sexy, A/S/L? legal/girly-girl/Idaho, U.S.A. Oh, and by the way, [sic].

Loves: writing (obviously!), reading, pink, Hello Kitty and cute things, her pet cat, Final Fantasy, anything Clamp, Harry Potter and Amy Tan novels, David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs, well-written fanfiction, music (currently most in love with the Goo Goo Dolls and Hamasaki Ayumi, though) and singing, going shopping, gothic Lolita/EGL, fancy pencils, excessive time spent online
Hates: cigarette smokers and slow walkers, loud kids in public, uncomfortable silences, watermelon flavoring, Mary Sues and angstbunny characters, gangsta rap, Internet disconnection, art styles like One Piece (I apologize in advance for having my own taste), writer's block

Currents!
Shade of Pink: fuschia
Song of the Moment: Bury My Lovely by October Project
Currently Reading: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
Last Fanfic Fangirled: "And Tell Me Who is Victor" by switchknife (HP)
Fandom for Play: Harry Potter, Naruto (yeah, I know), Gundam Wing, and my constant companions, FFVIII and FFX
Jump His Bones? Discounting capricious celebrity crushes (Johnny Rzeznik and Klaha, oh, yes) and jumping straight to the fictional characters, y'know, I really want Wakka's body. Hey, stop kicking me...!
Tabs Open in Firefox: I'm on Noire Sensus, AP Central, Livejournal, Oblivion, and that's it!

Brief (!!!) Bio...
I'm an, er, "eccentric" and "...interesting" (generally read: majorly moronic, half-her-leg-in-her-mouth, oft-annoying) girl who's been lurking silently in the fanfiction world since I was ten years old, and into yaoi and yuri for the same amount of time. I talk too much, write too much that I never share, make perverted jokes and perverted stories but won't walk the perverted walk, and I'm in turns fiercely dedicated to spending time with my friends and fiercely asocial. When I'm at home and in my best element, though, I'm writing, have my headphones on, and ignoring everything in the world except the occasional parental/sibling/platonic interruption.

Let's see, I'm a Japanese student, history dork, obsessive Creative Writing loser - I say all of this with a twinge of pride - and on top of all that, I'm prone to fits of melancholy blotting out my typically sunny outlook, which means that I'll regret getting my nose buried in something one minute and rejoice the next. I'm a girl and I have mood swings! Go figure! Um, apart from that (I'm trying to keep this short, since as I said up yonder, I adore yakking, often about my best subject, i.e., myself), I'm hyper, paranoid, bluntly honest, silly, and introverted, yet friendly. I don't bite; I just snap and simper immediately afterwards.

And for one last thing, no, my prose is not purple. It's positively, radioactively ultraviolet; get it right! ^_~