Thought I'd stop by and introduce myself. I'm a relatively new reader of SSSS, from around page 680 or so. I read the entire rest of the story one snowy afternoon in a comfortable armchair with a cat trying to rub her cheeks against my ear (cats are weird), and promptly fell in love with the plot, characters, and especially Minna's beautiful art style. Never looked back. I found out about the forum after I started reading the comments on my second time through, decided to check it out, lurked for a bit, and realized I might have some stuff to contribute. So here I am.
I'm an 18 year old American guy from Maryland whose interests include history, military history, historical arms and armor, creating historical arms and armor (mostly just mail right now, both riveted and butted, though I've just started a scale cuirass), historical martial arts (German longsword, rapier and dagger, traditional longbow), competitive epee fencing (unranked as of yet, but getting better), writing poetry (with lots and lots of very nice meter
), reading fantasy/scifi stories (Arthur C. Clarke is a particular favorite, though I have started some stuff by David Weber and Lois McMaster Bjould and quite liked it), playing the piano (occasionally), wasting entire afternoons on TVTropes and FF.net, and generally lazing about doing nothing of practical value to anyone whatsoever.
I'm probably going to study computer science with a business management minor in college, but, as my family is quite large and roughly 1/2 engineers and 1/2 artists, I'm trying to multiclass between engineering and more artistic pursuits - with mixed, but fun, results.
Due to my general incompetence at languages, I'm only fluent in English, though I still know a (very) small amount of classical Latin from 3 years in high school. I'd love to learn Icelandic at some point, as it's similar to old Norse and I'm particularly interested in Viking Age Icelandic history (bless you Hurstwic, bless you).
Well, that's me. It's a pleasure to be here.
