The Basics
| Name | Melissa |
| Location | Sint Maarten |
About Me
| About Me | I’m originally from St. Maarten, Dutch Caribbean, but now live in The Hague/Den Haag. I’ve filled out so many of these, I’m pretty much forgetting about me, so I’ll just say that I’ll let the rest of the profile fields tell the story hehe Oooo except, I do game (XBox Live) and am always looking for new targets, er sorry, game companions, so get at me on Live. Gamer tag is MelChan. |
| Check All That Apply | Lesbian, Butch |
| Religion/Spirituality/Philosophy | Raised Roman Catholic but I follow my own drum. |
| Website/Blog/Tumblr | |
| Relationship Status | In a Relationship |
What I Like
| Favorite Books | The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Harry Potter series, LOTR series, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, The Help, The Hunger Games trilogy, The Handmaid’s Tale, Lord of the Flies, 100 Years of Solitude, and this list also just goes on…put it bluntly, I will read anything once and stick with it if I love it. |
| Favorite Queer Books | Is it a valid answer if I say all of them? |
| Favorite Movies | The Usual Suspects, The Godfather, Imagine Me & You, V for Vendetta, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, LOTR series, Easy A, Goodfellas, Milk, A Bronx Tale, Desert Flower, District 9, and yes, Finding Nemo. |
| Favorite Documentaries | For The Bible Tells Me So, Mugabe and the White African, Religulous, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work |
| Favorite TV Shows | The L Word, Queer As Folk, Glee, Dexter, Nurse Jackie, Law and Order: SVU & CI, The Good Wife, Pretty Little Liars (guilty pleasure), The Sopranos, OZ, United States of Tara, True Blood, The Real L Word (guilty pleasure #2) |
| Favorite Music | Dancehall, reggae, rap, hip hop, R&B, classical, actually…anything |
| Favorite Sandwich | Anything from Quizno's and whatever I make myself. I make awesome sandwiches. |
| Favorite Thing to Autostraddle | What's the rating on this answer? |
| Favorite Quotes | Education is learning what you didn’t know you didn’t know. The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust. – Aesop’s Fables, The Wolf & The Lamb I’m no meteorologist, but I’m pretty sure it’s rainin’ bitches. – Cleveland, Family Guy |
| Favorite Thing on Autostraddle.com | Recaps. Without a doubt, they make my life and can turn any frown upside down. |
| Favorite Writers | Stephen King, Jane Austen, J.K. Rowling, Khaled Hosseini, Margaret Atwood, and the list just goes on |