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The Basics

Name

Marybeth

Location

Chicago/Halifax

About Me

About Me

I am a Classicist-in-training, which means I spend a lot of my time tearing my hair out trying to learn Attic Greek active voice participles. And Latin too.

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Lesbian, Queer

Looking For

Queer Friends in my Area, Queer Friends on the Internet, A Girlfriend

Relationship Status

Single

Are You Out To Your….

Close Friends, It's Complicated

What I Like

Favorite Books

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Good Omens, Gods Behaving Badly, This Side of Paradise, historical fiction, historical non-fiction

Favorite Queer Books

does Sappho count?

Favorite Movies

Fantasia, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Master and Commander

Favorite Documentaries

Planet Earth, South Pacific, Fry’s Planet Word,

Favorite TV Shows

Rome, Black Books, The IT Crowd, Miranda, Horrible Histories, MST3K, Arrested Development,

Favorite Music

I am into that indie, folky, acoustic-y stuff. Also Classical music (and Baroque music, and Renaissance music, and Medieval music, and polyphony, yeah), and also Les Miserables, that surely must count (I have like at least 4 different cast recordings?.

Favorite Writers

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sappho, Dianna Wynne Jones, and Lord Byron come to mind.