About Me
Before I commence to write of myself in this page in which I am designated to write about myself, I must inform to you the reader of a worry that, in all honesty, ails my mind and pricks at my side as I write this introduction to this otherwise unrequiring-of-an-introduction page. Though it is all in good nature that I convey to you, the reader, of this trouble which plagues me so, my keystrokes may find difficulty in rushing to the point of this introduction. In heartgrinding terseness, I announce my sole worry: About Me pages are a recipe for tl;dr.
You should have skipped the last part
Hi, my name is Tiffany. My teacher told me I shouldn't start a paper out that way, but I don't believe in formalities. Hey, at least you know my name now, right?
I don't believe in long paragraphs either, but sometimes I get carried away in writing and forget to make new paragraphs. Sometimes I feel that longer paragraphs look better designwise, especially when justified.
If ever on this site of mine I do write a paragraph which is perhaps too long for your tastes, then I implore your forgiveness. However, I imagine the sort of person which may find him or herself reading the About Me page of this site might not mind so much that a certain paragraph was slightly too long.
The sort which would mind, the sort which finds The Pokemon Desert Shadow through a Google search of "What attacks can Mew learn?", would probably read the list of attacks Mew can learn then leave.
Nonetheless, I grow self-conscious of my length and formatting, like an insecure writer who announces to the world that he is about to write of a certain topic. Accordingly, I skip.
Oh! Did you actually want to learn about me?
A list of things I call myself
Shadow Files. An artist. Tiffany. Teenager. Shy. Tiff. Wannabe writer. Pokemon battler. Shadow. Procrastinator. Colored pencil artist. Hardworking. Distracted. Confused. Reserved. Afraid. Absentminded. Searching. Focused. Everything I want to be. Myself.
Paragraphs are limiting
As I wrote the above list, I longed for greater freedom of placement. I contemplated changing font sizes and colors for the impact I wanted, but realized that I would never achieve the perfection I desired unless I made an image instead. Words are powerful, but it is the even more powerful combination of meaning in type and visual connections that has lately drawn me to the world of graphical design.
As a young'n, I first called myself an artist; I drew Pokemon pictures and gave them away to people at school. This is the sort of thing I imagined an artist did; taking a blank piece of paper and creating from some marks upon it a visual work.
One day I grew older and developed that sweet thing we call taste; I learned to interpret and evaluate my own works. And I realized that any artform existed beyond the arbitrary boundaries of skill I set myself. This day, metaphorically, was the time when I learned to be more expressive about my work.
Today is a gift, and tomorrow is the promise of more todays. I do not believe in certainty, but I do quote myself here for remarking that "Randomness is a blessing!"
In its original form, this quote of mine took on multiple exclamation marks, random symbols, mixed typography, and flashing colors of font, but I thought such a thing perhaps tacky for a web page.
There was also once a poet named Lord Byron who wrote "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods." Taken out of context, I interpret this line to mean also that "Randomness is a blessing!"
And so are you, dear reader. I beg that you may enjoy your stay here at the Pokemon Desert Shadow, whether you find it to be an internet home of sorts or a temporary stopover.
