Metalhead Snail Mail Penpals

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It seems I've lost about a third of my pen pals during this past year or so and because of that I am looking for a few new pen pals.

-Name: Lene
-Age: 28 (but I'll turn 29 this month. *yay*)
-Location: Odense, Denmark
-Occupation: Student at the university of Southern Denmark. Religion (religion history) is my major and history is my minor. I am currently working on my M. A. thesis which is a mix between folklore, religion, history and social science, i guess.

-Main interests: penpalling, gardening, living a low-impact life (though i don't want to go extreme with this), learning (about) languages, history, religion, reading books, crafting (knitting, crocheting, polymer clay, collages, decorating notebooks/boxes/other items.... etc), stamp collecting and a lot of other things... :)

-What genres of music are you into? My fav genres are black metal, death metal, folk/viking metal but my fav bands are the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Deep Purple... I also listen to some punk, pop, electronic music and rock.

-Favorite books: I love all i've ever read from the Danish author Kenneth Bøgh Andersen (he writes fantasy and horror stories), but I also really like the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (some day after i've graduated from the uni, i will finally find the time to read the complete series!) and the Spook's Books by Joseph Delaney. Besides fantasy i prefer to read
non-fiction books. I am currently reading a book about fossil finds in Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire but have also just recently read books about mindfullness, living green, slavery, horror comedy movies and... i guess this indicates that when it comes to non-fiction I am open to almost all themes. LOL.
I am currently really really interested in pre-Christian Scandinavia, Scandinavian folklore and green living

-Favorite movies: The two all-time fav movies are "Nosferatu" and "Freaks". I do like b/w movies a lot (especially the horror-ones) but i like a lot of genres. I like horror movies a lot (though I've had this accidental ability to avoid some of the VERY famous ones like "nightmare on elm street" and "friday the 13th"), i also love a good (well... bad. LOL) action movie, comedies (in the "genre" where "Ace Ventura" and "Kung Pow" belong), some fantasy movies, lots of thrillers and... recently i've found a liking of old war-movies.

-Describe your ideal penpal: My ideal penpal should be willing to write long letters (i personally write letters that usually are 10-25 pages long), he/she must write handwritten letters (i always write by hand), he/she must be ok with the fact that i sometimes am a bit late (though never more than about 4 months) with my letters as sometimes other things in my life are more important than writing letters (this of course also means that i am perfectly fine with my pals being a little late with letters from time to time, too), we must share at least some interests ( i find it really hard to write with people i have nothing in common with) and he/she must be ok with the fact that i can sometimes be very direct and honest in my letters (i've had some bad experinces with this before so i need to make this clear. I never ask about something or make a comment just to hurt my pal.... i do it because i am interested in the answer and i am interested in getting to know my pal better). Oh, and I need my new pen pal to be ok with the fact that i rarely write questions in my letters, so just comment on whatever you want to in my letters :D
I think this is the main things in an ideal pen pal for me. This also hopefully give my new pen pals an idea about what "kind" of pen pal I am. :)

-What age do you want them to be? I'd prefer them to be about 27-32. If you're older/younger than this and think that we could really get a good friendship still, please convince me to be your new pen pal ;)
-What sex do you want them to be? Either
-What country do you want them to be from? Anywhere, really. :)

ok... this might sound weird but in a dream i had last night i had an italian pen pal and when i woke up this morning i was all like "why the hell have i got no italian pen pal?" and that's why i'm looking for one now :D

i am not really looking for new pen pals besides one from Italy. who shares at least a few of my interests (look at my profile, please), of course. and who are willing to write long letters (a minimum of about 10 a5-pages per letter).

interested? write me a message then :)

(i'm not sure that it's allowed to do this kind of post in this community but if it's not then i hope the moderator will delete it)

I made a new community that is about pen palling and snail mail and stuff like that. it's not a community about finding new pen pals or sell something snail mail-related. among other things we talk about problems we have with penpalling and we post pictures of things we want to swap (not sell) or newly received letters/packages that we are really excited about.

this far the community has only been up for about 12 hours so we only have very few entries and members still.

If you're interested in joining here's the link: penpalrelated

so... the last few times i posted about wanting to swap envelopes for stationery sheets and stickers there hasn't been too much of a response... but i still got lots of envies and i'm still optimistic about (hopefully) not having to throw them out in the garbage. :)
As mentioned i'd like to get stationery sheets and/or stickers in return. i only have a minimum of what i want in return and that's 1 sheet of paper per 2 envelopes... if you want to send me more than that it's really really really cool, but it's not an absolute must. :)

i have made a few themed "collections" and you can see some of the envies from each "collection" behind ( this cutCollapse )

Name: Brit
Sexuality: Bisexual
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Relationship status: In an open relationship
Location: Wisconsin. Moving to Washington within the next month or two
Occupation: Self-employed
Languages: English
Interests: Sport bikes, cars, gaming, reading, writing, computers, movies, TV
TV: House, Burn Notice, Law and Order: SVU, CSI, Scrubs
Music: Techno, Rock, Metal. Hollywood Undead, Dave Matthews Band, Whitechaple, Slipknot, Three Days Grace, Aesthetic Perfection, And One, Brokencyde, Ed Gein, Eminem, Green Day, Hot Hot Heat, Imperative Reaction, Linkin Park, Maroon 5, Marilyn Manson, Necessary Response, Nirvana, Theory of a Deadman, Weezer, DJ Splash, HexRx, Syntax, Basshunter, LFO, Nightcore
Movies: Thirteen, Hard Candy, Enduring Love, Tideland, Hide and Seek, Martyrs, Pathology, Fear and Loathing, The Boondock Saints, Shoot 'Em Up, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, Mr. Brooks, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Pen Pal Info-
How many pen pals do you have? Zero
How many pen pals do you want? A whole bunch of 'em!
Do you want email pals? Doesn't matter
How long are your letters? Varies but usually long
Do you hand write or type? Both
Estimated reply time? Within a week
Would you like a male or female pen pal? Doesn't matter
Where would you like your pen pal to be from? USA
Age Preference? Doesn't matter
Gender? Doesn't matter

Anything else-
I suffer from depression. I may come out as strange but I'm actually very nice and interested in many things! I express myself in writing and my journal entries can get very weird so don't mind that. :) People describe me as one of the most interesting people in the world.

This is me-