While I joined this board some time ago, I'm yet to make a formal introduction.
I'm Russian, currently living in our cultural capital St. Petersburg, but my hometown Khabarovsk is all the way across the vast expanse of Russia (7 hours flight, a week by train, therefor I don't visit it often).
Possibly out of this comes my innate "feeling for distances" and and love for geography.
Love for geography got me into SSSS - a friend sent me a Map of the Known World and I was hooked.
I've read whole comic (around 600 of 700 pages at that time?) in one evening...
Over the months since that fateful evening, my life experienced a generous influx of excitement all thanks to SSSS:
I've met a bunch of like-minded fans and now we are marching to Winter Fandom Battle together - I'm bound to have new friends and comrades-in-arms after it.
Slow and delightful torture of waiting for updates caused a surge of inspiration rarely seen before and prompted me to start several fan-themed projects, which I'm excited to be able to share here, when time comes.
Life is good and winter months are to be packed with creative fun and for this I'll be forever grateful.