DarkSpirit2019
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What to say about myself... My screen name is kinda weird, I know lol It reflects my interest in the supernatural/occult stuff, and in horror movies, especially slashers.
I am from Richmond, British Columbia, in Canada. Been here since Christmas of 2002, since Grade 8, went to high school and college here.
Before that, grew up in Moscow, in Russia. My mom is Russian and Moscow native. Dad is originally from Ukraine (ethnic Ukrainian from Crimea, to be exact). After 2014, and all the brouhaha with Crimea and such, I have relatives on both sides of my family who are bitterly split on it all... You may be surprised, but it is actually my father's family (many of them ex-Soviet military, mostly Navy) who SUPPORT Crimea returning to Russia. Mom's relations, mostly Russian liberals and opposition supporters, who hate Putin, do NOT, at all
I myself don't really know where I stand on the issue. I've never even been there, Crimea, except once, when I was 4 years old, we went down to Yalta to visit my paternal grandparents (grandpa is dead now, grandma is still around and still lives over there). I was almost a baby, barely remember any of it...
What else... I am not exactly sure what I am, politically. Labels like "liberal" or "conservative" don't really describe me. I do support the right of all people to marry those they love and whatnot, regardless of gender or orientation (which makes me somewhat a pariah among my Russian relatives... lol); and also the right of women to abortion services when they need it. I don't know if I like undocumented immigration, as I feel such immigrants jump unfairly ahead of those like my family, who go through the proper channels. I remember the hoops we had to jump through, to come to Canada.
It's wrong that some can just walk across the border from US and be put up in hotels for free, as happens now... But, then again, I suppose some people are in situations in their life where they don't have time to properly file paperwork and wait for approval. I don't think it's a question of money, those who can afford to pay thousands of dollars to traffickers and smugglers to covertly get them across a border can also afford a plane ticket, no?
But, again, not sure...
Anyway, what else? I like hockey (more watching on TV than playing myself haha), all kinds of loud music (again, more listening than performing myself, though I am not so bad with the guitar, actually, even, for a time, joined a band in high school), and I collect exotic blade weapons (I have a Japanese katana sword; a cane from China which has a hidden blade in it; and lots of cool knives, most of them collected by my dad before me).
Anything else you want to know about me, ask.
Thanks for having me.
I am from Richmond, British Columbia, in Canada. Been here since Christmas of 2002, since Grade 8, went to high school and college here.
Before that, grew up in Moscow, in Russia. My mom is Russian and Moscow native. Dad is originally from Ukraine (ethnic Ukrainian from Crimea, to be exact). After 2014, and all the brouhaha with Crimea and such, I have relatives on both sides of my family who are bitterly split on it all... You may be surprised, but it is actually my father's family (many of them ex-Soviet military, mostly Navy) who SUPPORT Crimea returning to Russia. Mom's relations, mostly Russian liberals and opposition supporters, who hate Putin, do NOT, at all
I myself don't really know where I stand on the issue. I've never even been there, Crimea, except once, when I was 4 years old, we went down to Yalta to visit my paternal grandparents (grandpa is dead now, grandma is still around and still lives over there). I was almost a baby, barely remember any of it...
What else... I am not exactly sure what I am, politically. Labels like "liberal" or "conservative" don't really describe me. I do support the right of all people to marry those they love and whatnot, regardless of gender or orientation (which makes me somewhat a pariah among my Russian relatives... lol); and also the right of women to abortion services when they need it. I don't know if I like undocumented immigration, as I feel such immigrants jump unfairly ahead of those like my family, who go through the proper channels. I remember the hoops we had to jump through, to come to Canada.
It's wrong that some can just walk across the border from US and be put up in hotels for free, as happens now... But, then again, I suppose some people are in situations in their life where they don't have time to properly file paperwork and wait for approval. I don't think it's a question of money, those who can afford to pay thousands of dollars to traffickers and smugglers to covertly get them across a border can also afford a plane ticket, no?
But, again, not sure...
Anyway, what else? I like hockey (more watching on TV than playing myself haha), all kinds of loud music (again, more listening than performing myself, though I am not so bad with the guitar, actually, even, for a time, joined a band in high school
), and I collect exotic blade weapons (I have a Japanese katana sword; a cane from China which has a hidden blade in it; and lots of cool knives, most of them collected by my dad before me). Anything else you want to know about me, ask.
Thanks for having me.
