User:Beatrice Monty

About me
Hi, I'm Rebecca. I'm 21 years old and originally from Leicestershire (UK), and I still live in my home county, although not my home town. I'm currently studying for my undergraduate degree in English Studies at the University of Nottingham. I am an active member of my university's Science Fiction & Fantasy Society. I love collecting and reading books; I'm into most genres but my favourites are SF&F, horror, mystery and classics. I like superhero movies, low-budget horror and big-budget sci-fi, and although I don't watch much TV any more I'm a madly devoted fan of a few great shows right now. And I am a huge Sims fan, of course. ^_^

I've been playing Sims since the original game was released in the UK when I was 10 years old. I've played both The Sims and The Sims 2 with all their expansion packs/stuff packs. To my great embarrassment my younger cousin got The Sims 3 before I did and now I'm the one asking her for gaming advice. ;) I also play The Sims 2: Castaway on Wii (although not so much any more because it still lives at my parents' house) and The Sims Medieval, which I love because I'm studying Medieval English language, literature and history as part of my degree, and hope to carry on with the subject at postgraduate level next year.

I chose my username because "Much Ado About Nothing" is my favourite Shakespeare play. Beatrice and Benedick are such an interesting couple, I've never really understood why the Sims writers chose to make their namesakes siblings... but maybe that's just me, I'm kind of a purist when it comes to my favourite writers. :p

My contributions

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My favorite pages

 * SimNation - I love how rich and complex a fictional nation can be. I'm also a big fan of the Land of Oz and the Discworld.
 * Simlish - I was fluent in Simlish by the age of 11. Unsurprisingly I'm now studying linguistics.
 * Timeline of The Sims series - Trying to establish the continuity and canon events of the series is fun. Tricky, but fun.
 * Same-sex relationships - I like to have about 10%-20% of my Sims in same-sex relationships (mirroring the real-life statistics) and I did a lot of work on this page when it was new.