Sharks give me lots of emoceans.

My name's Bay Phillips, and in case the title of this post didn't make it too obvious, I really like sharks. Aquatic puns are pretty coral, too. I'm 16 years old, and I'll be 17 on February 18th. My favorite kind of cake is red velvet, only partly because it stains everything it touches and makes you look as though you've just participated in some sort of horrible bakery massacre.

My academic goals are the same as everybody else's - get good grades, pass my AP tests (preferably with 5's, but I won't hold my breath), etc. In terms of personal goals for this year, I would really like to start forming a concrete outline for at least one of the books I plan on writing, seeing as how I've been procrastinating heavily on that front. I would kill to become a published author one day, hopefully a popular one, but, like with getting 5's on my AP tests, I'm not going to hold my breath.

The most meaningful moment of my summer vacation would probably be when I made a piece of digital art that I was proud of. Funnily enough, it was a picture of the main character of one of my books. (If you'll pardon the selfish plug - fans of psychology, particularly developmental psychology, please buy this book. Even if you don't like psychology, please buy it. I really don't want to be poor when I get older.)

If I could have any superpower, it would be super speed, all in the name of laziness. Instant teleportation could serve the same purpose, but it seems a bit finicky, so I'll just go with super speed. Homework wouldn't take nearly as long, for one thing.

What geeks me out (which I'm assuming just means 'gets me passionate') would be animals, especially sharks, psychology, psychological horror, emotions (feelings give me lots of feelings), and, if you'll pardon the pretentiousness, cosmicism.

Holy jeepers, does cosmicism give me a lot of feelings.

It makes me drown in a sea of very passionate emoceans.

If you haven't heard of cosmicism, I very highly suggest looking it up. If it piques your interest, read its creator H.P. Lovecraft's works as well as (shameless plug alert) one of the books I plan on writing, which is actually going to be part of a SERIES! WOW!

Instead of a picture of me or anyone I know, have a picture of a gummy shark and a gummy crocodile fighting.

Just look at 'em go.

On another note of pretentiousness, here's one of my favorite sites. http://www.beksinski.pl/ The layout's kinda wonky and confusing, but it's got a fairly expansive gallery of one of my favorite artist's works as well as some pretty awesome and atmospheric music that plays while you browse. His name's Zdzisław Beksiński, and his work just inspires me bunches. 

I'm gonna go ahead and shut up now, and if you're not my friend and read through all this junk, you deserve a medal.