User:GallifreyanWitch

Sorry if I'm not really meant to do a Bio - don't know what else to put for the time being and despite searching can't find any guidelines.

Please forgive spelling errors - my keyboard plays up at times and is a nightmare

I would also like to appologise in advance or overly long posts - I sort-of follow Ridcully's philosophy that anything worth taking a long time to explain is quite an interesting or worthwhile topic to explore

The Basics

AKA: Layla Wolf/Verity/[The] Gallifreyan Witch

Female

Age: Early Twenty's

The mind, heart and soul wanders other worlds, but the physical form is based in Wales.

Member of the Discworld MUD - user: VerityWolf (don't play it as much as I'd like to sadly)

First Pratchett book I read was THUD! - A friend of my mum had recommended it and while my mum didn't get it (she doesn't really get that sort of humor based on metaphors etc) I loved it and have been hooked ever since.

Huge fan of Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes, though I have a sneaking suspicion the Discworld is becoming a permanent fixture in my mind, more so even than the two universes mentioned above. When my mind wanders, it wanders the streets of Ankh-Morpork, the Ramtop mountains and the slopes of Cori Celesti, rather than through time and space or the streets of Victorian London as it so often has. I justify this mentally in someways by recognising the Disc is a world and mirror of worlds - and so both my other fandoms will have their parallels on the Disc somewhere. Also a fan of Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Farseer Trilogy, The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness and His Dark Materials - but none have touched my heart and taken over my mind to the extent of the Whoniverse, Holmsiverse or Discworld.

Currently studying Herbal Medicine BSc (Hons). Have a long standing interest in 'alternative' (but lets face it - truly traditional) medicine and 'energy' work. Consequently I find the activities of the Witches fascinating and often all to close to the truth.

Previous studies have included History (focusing on the medieval period), Archaeology, Psychology and Astronomy.

Hobbies (other than dreaming and reading) include Medieval Re-enactment (which includes Archery, Quarterstaff and one day Sword fighting, Fingerloop braiding), Lord of the Rings Online and Music (the violin - but not at all good at it due to muscle pains it causes - , plucked psaltery and tabor pipe and drum).

Currently writing up the adventures on the Disc that I dream about. Got about 4 main stories on the go, 3ish on the edge of my mind and 2 short story all in the same (new) thread. With just their bare bones (the central story lines that are even then yet to be fleshed out) the first and second ones word counts are over 14,000 words already! Now if only I could harness that writing magic and use it to get so real work done for my degree. Working hard not to make them Mary-Sueish, but it's hard when you place a sort of mirror of yourself on another world and see it through their eyes and feel it with their heart. At present I'm writing to record them and get them to move beyond simply my mind. Perhaps one day, I may improve and publish them online if I ever feel they may have some worth to others and can get over my lack of confidence.

Also working on a timeline both in general and specifically for Vetinari - see talk page (it's a shame there isn't a page attached to the character pages enabling a suggested timeline for the character to be displayed and edited - hint hint)

I'm also learning to draw - though I'm not very good - and will hopefully one day be able to contribute fan art and illustrate the stories I dream up.

Happy Yule 2013

I do feel sorry for my family. They've got me A Blink of the Screen and Dodger which I'm absolutely delighted with and are putting up with me wittering on about the Disc - which they don't always 'get'. And a friend has got me Raising Steam (which my parents had said not to get on the basis it would distract me from my studies) and The Complete Ankh-Morpork - which I am absolutely engrossed in. Consequently my mind is back on the Disc, rather than in much needed revision.