My name is Vanessa and I am an Australian girl with a passion for reading books, listening to music and watching The Creatures.

Find me on Ao3 and tumblr as jalexic. I don't post my fics on tumblr though.

"If you like, sometime I'll show you how to make one of those things that flies."

Her eyes widened with excitement. "Really?"

"Sure," he said. "Your very own bird of paper and string."

Sylas and Simia in The Mirror Chronicles book 1: The Bell between Worlds.

Light a fire, a fire, a spark. Light a fire, a flame in my heart.

Daughter of Apollo

Follower of Bast

Recruit to the Diplomatic Service

Resident of the city of Spoke

Muddlemorph

Dragonkeeper

Bich

Supporter of Team Lads

Danosoar

Phillion

Sapling

Nob

Vampette

Lovely

Hopeful

As we run under the stars through cemetery backyards, we'll celebrate the way the night hides scars.

Just so you know, I am a fan of many things, and here are some of my favourites:

Books: Percy Jackson and the Olympians/Heroes of Olympus, The Ranger's Apprentice series, The Keepers series, The Outsiders, The Egypt Game, The Kane Chronicles, The Dragonkeeper series, The Mirror Chronicles, Maximum Ride, Chaos Walking Trilogy, The Undomestic Goddess, Shiver series, Too Small to Fail, Northwood, Once trilogy, Knock Three Times, Parvana, And Then There were None, The Clocks, After the Funeral, and absolutely anything written by Cathy Cassidy, particularly Lucky Star and Angel Cake

TV shows: Murdoch Mysteries, Monk, The Big Bang Theory, Bones, Two and a Half Men, Come Dine with Me, Rupaul's Drag Race, and Project Runway.

Youtubers: Danisnotonfire, AmazingPhil, Game Grumps, Inthelittlewood, OfficialNerdCubed, GassyMexican, SeaNanners, ChilledChaos, ZeRoyalViking, BajanCanadian, JeromeASF, SSundee, PrestonPlayz, Bodil40, Bashur, Rooster Teeth, Achievement Hunters, dlive22891, TheRPGMinx, CaptainSparklez, Cryaotic, Pewdiepie, ImmortalHD, GoldenBlackHawk, VanossGaming, Lui Calibre, IAMWILDCAT, H20 Delirious, Cinemasins, Screen Junkies, BLR, Jacksfilms, Tomska, Smosh, ItsWayPastMyBedTime, TheFineBros, VSauce, Lush, and Damon Fizzy.

Singers/bands: Death Cab For Cutie, Imagine Dragons, Train, McFly, We The Kings, Birds of Tokyo, Coldplay, 30 Seconds to Mars, Sleeping With Sirens, Pierce The Veil, Of Mice and Men, Panic! At The Disco, You Me At Six, A Day To Remember, Never Shout Never, All Time Low, Miss May I, A Skylit Drive, Tonight Alive, The Academy Is..., Blessthefall, Woe, is Me, Attack Attack!, Dayshell, I See Stars, Bayside, Static Lullaby, We Came As Romans, Asking Alexandria, Memphis May Fire, Breathe Carolina, Sleeping At Last, The Amity Affliction, Oasis, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Parachute, Jimmy Eat World, The Killers, Blink 182, The Vamps, 5 Seconds of Summer, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, American Authors, My Body Sings Electric, Ed Sheeran, The Fray, The Script, Gym Class Heroes, Jason Walker, Mayday Parade, MKTO, One Republic, Plain White T's, Secondhand Serenade, Snow Patrol, Goo Goo Dolls, Simple Plan, The All American Rejects, Stuck in Your Radio and Timomatic.

Caked in stale beer and sweat, under half-lit fluorescents.

Books: Right now I am reading The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards and the Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness.

Music: My favourite song at the moment is The Kids Aren't Alright by Fall Out Boy, but Pittsburgh by The Amity Affliction isn't too far behind. Right now I have my songs on shuffle and I'm listening to Bulls in the Bronx by Pierce the Veil.

Youtube: I can proudly say I am in love with The Creatures and I would honestly give anything to see them in real life. I also love Jack Douglass as he always manages to make me smile no matter what.

TV: I am thoroughly enjoying Murdoch Mysteries and the new series is really great so far, I also love the Big Bang Theory.

Writing: I'm writing about 6 fanfictions right now, two of them are multi-chaptered, three are drabbles and one is a really long one-shot. Two are almost finished, one is about halfway done and the other three have barely started. I also have an idea for an original novel that I'm working on, but I haven't made too much progress.

And thousands upon thousands made an ocean, making islands where no island should go.

If you're curious, the lyrics that I have put between line breaks are from these songs (in order of appearance):

Charlie Brown - Coldplay

Props and Mayhem - Pierce the Veil

Came Out Swinging - The Wonder Years

Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie

I highly recommend you give them all a listen, they're great :)

I think that's enough about me. Now you can hopefully enjoy my stories.