Board Thread:Season 12 - All-Stars/@comment-2228839-20140216050054/@comment-11497002-20140216082250

Hi Gerard, you’re right that I didn’t have a lot of interaction with you, and there are a few other people I didn’t get a chance to communicate with much either. Part of that was strategy: not wanting to over-complicate things from an alliance standpoint and not wanting to make unnecessary deals or promises I knew weren’t in my best interests and wouldn’t be able to keep. Part of that was the logistics of the game: in a cast of 24 with 4 tribes it’s just not possible to talk to everybody; had we been on a tribe earlier together I feel we would have been able to get to know one another a lot better. But part of our lack of communication was also my personality: I’m quite outgoing and chatty amongst my close friends but fairly shy and reserved when it comes to people I’m not so familiar with. I’ve tried to rectify that a little by going into as much detail as possible with my speech so you could all get an idea of the game I played. But there’s more to me than what I showed in this game.

As to who I am as a person, rather than a player, I see myself as this somewhat strange combination of things. Like I said, I’m fairly reserved around people but once I’m comfortable with them I’m a lot more open and outgoing. I worry about embarrassing myself or others judging me but put me on a dance floor and I’ll just shake it like nobody’s business. I like to think I’m mildly hilarious but my humour only makes sense to those who know me well. My brother and I will just riff off one another with about fifteen years of in-jokes and no one will have a clue what we’re going on about, but that might also be because of the British chav accents and slang we tend to use, innit tho? (I wish I was a Catherine Tate character or on Geordie Shore because I just love their bizarre little language.)

Sadly I’m just that little bit too cool to be nerdy but way too nerdy to be cool. I still play Pokémon because those little things are adorable. And I actually enjoy academic study (what….). I studied sociology and love to debate all sorts of issues on gender, race and sexuality with my friend. (I swear I have more than one friend, the others just aren’t interested.)

My biggest obsession next to Survivor (perhaps even bigger?) is Agatha Christie. I’m not sure if you’re familiar with her but she was a detective fiction writer famous for creating Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. And when I say obsessed I mean I created a Facebook account for her so I could friend her. I’m writing a massive fan fiction crossover of Miss Marple in the Harry Potter universe. It’s sad but I love her. More generally, I love reading and writing. You’ll probably be able to tell by the length of my speech and my responses that I just write and write and find it hard to stop. I also write Survivor fan fiction but uhh…. not the type you find on the fanon wiki. I write short horror stories and I’m also writing a full-length detective fiction novel of my own. Writing is basically what I want to do with my life. If someone were to ever read my work and in any way compare it to Agatha Christie’s (hopefully positively) I would just break down in tears and die happily.

Sorry if I got a bit carried away but thank you for wanting to take the time to know me a little better. Hopefully I'll get a chance to get to know you as well. And if you're ever looking for something to read I can lend you one of my too too many Agatha Christie books.