Eyes - About Me

The Hard Facts

• Name: Danielle (nicknamed Dani)
• Aliases and Screennames:
  • Therianthropy/Otherkin: Meirya, Meir, Turkey (nickname)
  • Redwall: Snowspine, Snowy, Snow, Riala
  • Pagan: Makhsihed, Kyanti, Meirya, Dani
  • RPGs: Dani, Tyrona, Nightfyre, Sounasha (Sasha)
  • Writing: Makhsihed, TexanPhoenix, Sounasha, Snowspine, Dani
• Email: meirya@dreamofhorn.com (if you contact me here, put something distinctive in the subject line so I know it isn't spam. This is my public email and thus gets a lot of spam)
• Instant Messaging:
  • AIM: MeiryaBurd
  • MSN: snowspine@redwall.net
  • Y!M: snowyspine
• Birthday: November 23, 1985
• Sign: Sagittarius / Scorpio cusp. Technically Sagittarius.
• Sex: Female
• Gender: Nongendered
• Residency: Northeast Ohio
• Birthplace: Texas
• Family: Nuclear family. A mom who works at the college, a dad who's a southern baptist pastor, and a younger sister.
• Hair: Varies. Natural color is a mousey brown; I tend to dye it red-brown. It's growing out; at the time of this writing it's down to the middle of my back.
• Eyes: Blue. Sometimes with contacts, sometimes with glasses.
• Skin: Way too pale, except in the summer, when it's a slightly darker shade of pale.
• Handedness: I'm a lefty.
• Heritage: Uh... 1/4th Hungarian. Other portions are as follows, in rough order from highest to lowest... sort of: Dutch, German, English, French, Irish. I might be missing something, but that's it as near as I can tell. And one of my ancestors was Jewish... probably in the Germanic line.

Psyche

• Likes: Reading (fantasy, nonfiction, sci-fi), writing (essays, stories, poetry, journaling), roleplaying (White Wolf, D&D, LARPing), video games (World of Warcraft, among others), sparring (foam swords, bamboo wrapped in duct tape), researching (whatever interests me), horseback riding (english, western, and especially bareback), kayaking (mostly ocean/lake kayaking), sharp things (swords, knives, blades), soft things (animals, fur, silken material), boots, long coats, chai, the smell of vanilla, Egypt, Texas, cider, mead, honey, BPAL, sushi, long hair, spiders...
• Dislikes: Swans, june bugs, people who don't think, fanatics, politics, poor writing mechanics, most organized sports, bad knees, fluffiness, overly spicy foods, rice, mathematics, too much melodrama, animal cruelty, most hard sciences, extremists, willful ignorance...
• Meyers-Brigg: INTP
• Favorite Color: Blue
• Favorite Stone/Mineral: Ooh, hard one. Agate tears, smoky quartz, and opals, I suppose.
• Favorite BPAL Scent: At the moment, anyway: Coyote

Social

• Relationship Status: Engaged.
• Occupation: College student, majoring in psychology. I also work on campus.
• Organizations: Sometimes I contribute to the student pagan group on campus; occasionally I join in on sparring sessions with the local Dagohir group on campus. I also take part in the street cast of the local renfaire.
• Gaming: I play Living Greyhawk. I play in various other RPG chronicles and campaigns with my semiregular gaming group. I occasionally LARP (Live Action RolePlay) NERO and Mind's Eye Theatre (Vampire: the Masquerade and Mage: the Ascension LARPs). I also play World of Warcraft.
• WoW characters and servers:
  • Feathermoon: Gracklenackl (Gnome Rogue)
  • Icecrown: Riala (Dwarf Hunter)
  • Shadow Council: Alondara (Draenei Priest), Bledalun (Orc Shaman)
• Hobbies: Gaming, renfaires, horseback riding, writing, sparring, random researching, origami...

Spiritual

• Religion: Paganism
• Theism: Monolatrist/Monist
• Tradition: Primarily Kemetic; I'm a Remetj with the House of Netjer. I'm also a member of ADF.
• Deities: I am a daughter of Wepwawet-Yinepu (called Anubis by the Greeks) and beloved of Bast-Mut (Bast-as-Queen, Bast-as-Mother)
• Animalself: Hawk; possibly red-tail.
• Otherkin: I'm a therianthrope, an otherkin who identifies as a nonmythological nonhuman. I do have a strong connection to the phoenix mythos, though I consider it to be mostly archetypal.