My name is Ryan, I'm 17 and haven't played comp in [url=https://etf2l.org/forum/user/134493/]two years[/url] but today I epiphanically remembered how much fun I had with my team back then -- dicking around in open, heal-hogging on roamer, just lost in the joy of human accompaniment -- and I felt a burning desire to do it all over again; not necessarily the comp stuff, but the friendship!!! I knew that if I were to try for that, I would better look here first :) Because although I don't play it at all any more, TF2 holds a special place in my heart and is the home to many of my best memories

My interests:
Literature: Italo Calvino, David Foster Wallace, Walt Whitman/adjacent transcendentalist writers e.g. Edward Carpenter, Jack Kerouac, WWI war poetry, Rumi, Kuzhali Manickavel, Arundathi Roy, Jang Eun-Jin, Oscar Wilde
(normie) Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers, TWICE, ILLIT, Beabadoobee, Japanese Breakfast, Coldplay, Faye Wong
(slightly weirder) Music: Animal Collective/Panda Bear, Spacemen 3, Beach House, Pavement, Bark Psychosis, Lightning Bolt, Hella, Gang Gang Dance, John Frusciante, Battles, Dot Hacker, The Durutti Column, Tortoise, Built to Spill, The Flaming Lips, Interpol, Colin Stetson, Dinosaur Jr, The Velvet Underground
Computer science: I LOVE competitive programming! I've done hundreds of LeetCode problems in C++ before, it's a favourite hobby of mine :D I also use Debian Linux and was on Gentoo for over a year

add me on [b]Discord[/b] (my username is [b]ifonawintersnightatraveler[/b]) if you want to talk! much love, thank you for reading this <3