I figured that I've been hanging around the comments and the forums long enough that it would be remiss of me not to introduce myself so: hi everyone!
I'm Quark, and I'm a university student in New Zealand trying to finish my medical degree. I am a year older than Tuuri and currently live in Dunedin. I got into SSSS because I used to be (and kind of still am) a huge Tolkien nerd who followed the Silmarillion fandom on Tumblr, and I eventually got curious about the webcomic that Elleth mentioned in her sidebar. I caught up near the end of chapter 10 and then went back and read aRTD when I got frustrated by one of the chapter breaks.
Sadly, the only language I speak fluently is English, but I took 6 years of German in high school and still remember some of it, and I can recognise scattered words in Russian and Maori.
In my spare time, I really love music and singing, and am currently taking classical singing lessons. I also knit and spend probably more time than I ought to screwing around on the internet, mostly on Tumblr, where my URL is ninethousandbees (long story). Other fictional things I have been into recently include Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy (and I just got her new novel a few days ago aahhhhhhhh), Nodame Cantabile, Brooklyn 99 and this series of books and short stories about teenagers going to superhero school called The Posterchildren. Character and plot analysis are some of my favourite things and I love to ramble.
Nice to meet all of you!
