Hi, I'm Rebecca. I'm 23 years old and originally from Leicestershire (UK), and I now live in Nottinghamshire, an incredible twenty miles away from the town where I grew up and where my family still live. I have been a student at the University of Nottingham since 2009, and have studied there both as an undergraduate and a postgraduate. I currently hold a BA in English and an MA in Medieval English, and in September 2013 I began a PhD in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance English Literature, which I am due to complete in late 2016. 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. I am a pescetarian and I love travelling, both in the UK and abroad, and although frequently I find a place I like and keep returning to it, I try to work in something new every now and then as well. 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. I'm a little way behind on my collection of The Sims 3 since my old laptop wasn't quite up to spec to run it, but I'm almost caught up now, and hope to do so by the time The Sims 4 is released next year. I also own all three of The Sims Stories games, both The Sims Medieval games (some of my favourites, for obvious reasons), and a few console spin-offs for PS2 and Wii. I own quite a few other games too but, let's be honest, with a Sims collection that huge I'm only very occasionally going to dip in and out of them. They include a bunch of Tomb Raider and Silent Hill games, some Marvel Avengers and DC Superheroes adaptations, and quite a bit of stuff centred around either Lego or Sherlock Holmes. The day they make that crossover I may well be in geeky heaven. :P
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.
