Hello, Steemit!

First off, thanks to @kennyskitchen for introducing me to Steemit.*

My name is Mountain (hippy parents), and I'm a geology student at Portland State University. You'd be shocked at how few people get the humor in the combination of my name and choice in studies.

I'm a natural speed reader (~150 pages per hour for most fiction, a bit slower for non-fiction), and I read voraciously. I'm interested in (deep breath, giant list ahead): history (theory of history, history of the spice trade and the medieval trade routes, history of globalization stretching back to the Bronze age, environmental history, culinary history, religious history, history of ideas, etc), philosophy, science (volcanology, stratigraphy, paleontology, planetary geology, oceanography, ecology, zoology, evolutionary biology, climatology, meteorology, archaeology, and physics) history and philosophy of science, the organization of society, the balance between human civilization and nature, mythology, environmentalism, conservation, religion, maps, economics, urban and civilization planning, world-building, and politics. Fiction-wise I read a lot of science fiction, fantasy, and graphic novels, along with a smattering of mystery, classics, and Russian lit.

In my free time, other than reading and doing homework, I write (less than I'd like), play videogames (more than I'd like), play D&D hike, camp, argue on the internet, and read more. I write quite a bit of creative nonfiction and essays, as well as short stories and comic scripts. I'm currently most of the way done with a graphic novel script- it's a fantasy revenge story based in fairy tale plot structures set on a Möbius world in a universe without stars.

I'm pretty excited to start blogging here. I maintained a blog of my own at https://mountainwashere.com/ for a while, but gradually stopped posting due to the lack of audience interaction I was getting. (Plenty of views, very few comments.) I blog about most of the topics I'm interested in- I've never been great at limiting myself to a single topic. You'll definitely be seeing posts about most of the stuff on the list. I'll be posting lots of essays on history and environmental/ Earth science topics, especially. I'll definitely post a few of the worlds I've created for D&D, as well.

I'm super excited to be joining the Steemit community, and you'll all be seeing lots more of me in the future!

*This is actually my second intro post- I didn't really get all the cultural aspects of the intro on Steemit. @kennyskitchen suggested I do a better fleshed out one, as well as tagging it correctly. Thanks again, bud!