I'm UK-based. If this doesn't work, time-zone wise or location-wise, I might not be the one for you. I'm happy to talk to anyone from anywhere, but I understand if that's not reciprocated.

I've come to a simple conclusion. I'm really fucking lonely.

I've been single longer than I'd like to admit- and I'm sick of it. I don't want it any more. I want to share stuff with someone. I want to share life with someone. I want a girl, a woman, a whatever, who I can fucking lavish love upon. I want someone I can kiss and hold and make laugh with terrible jokes and ridiculous stories and my stupid fake Irish accent I slip into whenever I'm really pissed off because it makes me laugh and I know I can stop myself being pissed off. I want someone I can associate with places and feelings and songs. I want someone who I can be all 'I listened to romantic song and it made me think of you', or someone who I can read bits of my favourite books to, or someone I can recite poems for. Fucking write poems for, too. I want someone I can cook for, someone I can make memories with. I'm not looking for fucking marriage or whatever, I'm just looking for someone I love, and laugh with, and just fucking live with. I want someone I can hand my heart to, and say 'here, you take this, it belongs to you now'.

I don't expect much to come of this. I don't really think I expect anything to come of this. I haven't told you any cold hard facts about myself, so how the fuck would you even know if you'd like me or not? Here, see if these help you decide; my favourite colour is purple, my favourites animals are the okapi, the red panda, and my favourite birds are herons and hoopoes because they're fun as fuck to say. I'm scared of the dark but I can't sleep unless there's no light around anywhere. I love old musicals and romantic comedies. I am a huge fucking romantic at heart. I love cats, but I'm terrified of dogs. I'm scared of spiders but I'm trying to get over it. I took six years to finish a three year university course and I'm the first person in my family to get a degree, which I have done fuck all with. I'm a murder mystery actor. I love jazz, and classical music, and classic pop and rock and swing and soul and music you can really just...sink your soul into. I am an eternally optimistic person even though I probably have no reason to be. If you ever want to laugh, ask me about the best scream, or the bouncy castle, or the Irish accent story; but make me tell you them, with my actual voice, because then I can show off my fancy accent (English, and more English than you'd expect), and actually fucking entertain you.

If you want to voice chat, we can do that, though not until later at night. If we do, I'm happy to show off accents, tell jokes, tell stories.

Someone once told me, a long time ago, that a man must be many things, if he is to love, and be someone who can be loved.

He must be patient, and calm, and forever kind. He must be willing to fight his own battles, to stand his own ground, to defend his own corner. He must be polite, and warm, and friendly, and always set out to make friends, never enemies. He must find someone with whom he can share the burdens of life, for even Atlas, who carried the world upon his shoulders, needed to take a break once in a while. He must find someone with whom he can lay himself bare, set himself wide open, and be prepared to be completely vulnerable with; for, as hard as it may seem to contemplate doing it once, let alone more, he must not hide himself away, nor harden his heart to the love in his life. He must, above all, always be true to himself, no matter the cost, no matter how hard or impossible it may seem.

Maybe he was right. I haven't found out yet.

I'd really, really like to, though.