If you ever walk into a room and I happen to be there, then please, for the love of humanity, ignore me. Honestly, you should trust me on this one - if, for some unfathomable reason, you choose to do otherwise, the situation promises to become ultimately unbearable - not for me, not for you, but for the both of us.

That being said, I suppose I should give you a long description of myself. I ashamedly admit that, well, I love to talk about myself. It's the only topic that never exhausts my supply of big words.

I am pretty close to the human embodiment of the literary stereotype commonly known as "the quiet, dark girl with glasses who sits in a corner reading and doesn't disturb anyone". Besides reading, my hobbies include sketching, cooking, stamp-collecting, music, criticising films, criticising everything in general, and writing, mostly poetry and short stories. I have already published a bilingual volume of short stories (title: Young Stories/Povesti tinere)and my other works have been published in various literary anthologies and magazines.

Now imagine me saying all this in a quiet, mezzosoprano-ish voice, with a pathetic, frightened smile on my face, and your mental image of me should be complete.

Age: 14 years old

Physical appearance: Small, skinny, dark-skinned, long, straight black hair, glasses

Preferred clothes: oversized T-shirts, soft knitted sweaters, leggings

Nationality: Romanian

Favorite color: Black (it sure as heck is a color, and I'll fight anyone who says it isn't)

D&D Alignment: True Neutral

Songs I most closely identify with: Waving Through a Window from 'Dear Evan Hansen', Grave Filled With Books by Giles Corey

Favorite school subjects: Grammar, History

Favorite authors: Charles Dickens, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nicolae Dabija

Favorite poet: Dimitrie Anghel

Favorite books: LOTR trilogy (JRR Tolkien), Passionate Minds (David Bodanis), David Copperfield (Charles Dickens), No and Me (Delphine Viquan), The Book Thief (Markus Zusak), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn), Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn), An American Patrician (Alfred Henry Lewis), Don't Fall in Love in Spring (Nicolae Dabija), To Be Young, Gifted and Black (Lorraine Hansberry), Little Brother (Cory Doctorow), The Princess Diaries (Meg Cabot), Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte), A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier (Joseph Plumb Martin), A Walk in the Woods (Bill Bryson), At Home (also Bill Bryson), Maus (Art Spiegelman)

Favorite films: Bruce Almighty (2003), LOTR trilogy (duh), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Duck Soup (1933), Moana (2017)(yup, I can be pretty immature when I want to), (2009), The Distinguished Gentleman (1992), What Women Want (2000), Amadeus (1984), Coraline (2009)

Favorite quotes:

"What is a Legacy?

It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see."

"My dog speaks more eloquently than thee!"

-Hamilton: An American Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda

"I am considerably younger than 67. I am 64 and a half. That's a lot. I mean, when you were 2 and a half, that was a lot."

-Tim Keller

"How can a man who is warm understand one who is cold?"

- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Poetry is in the soul of man. If a driver sees that, overnight, a flower has sprung up in the middle of the road and he avoids it with his car in the morning, this man is a poet!"

-Igor Vieru

"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."

-Woody Allen

"Thou enteredst the world weeping while all around you smiled; continue so to live, that you may depart in smiles while [all] around you weep.”

-Eliza Hamilton

"It is easy to judge in hindsight."

-Shinjeki no Kyojin, by Hajime Isayama

"If you only love me in my dreams, then let me sleep forever."

-Unknown