Me

I was born twenty-six years ago, and I kicked ass as soon as I got into the world. My mother's ass, that is.
I've moved permanently six times, lived in four countries, and spent my school years in nine different schools. I also have at least elementary skills in twelve languages - a fact that tends to invoke astonishment in most people, but I don't see the point, 'cause, you know, I don't really remember anything of the Classical Greek ...
All this has caused a permanent feeling of alienation and rootlessness, which actually is quite nice.

After a few years of confusion I've come to realise that drawing comics is what I really should be doing in my life. But since my comics can't feed me or house me yet, I work as a gun for hire for various publishing companies, mainly in lettering and graphic design.

Some more facts about Tinet:

Name	Tinet Elmgren (used-to-be Bavautdin)
Gender	Sometimes I think I'm female. When I dye my hair, for example. But then I look at other females, and realise that I definitely don't have anything in common with most of them. Then I look at males, and realise that I don't have much in common with most of them, either. So ... I don't know ...
Birth	3 a.m. on April 19th 1981.
Height	1.70 m
Languages	(Fluent:) Finnish, Swedish, German, English (Not bad at all:) Russian (Not extremely bad:) Spanish, French, Latin, Romanian. (A bit ...:) Arabic, Hebrew and Classical Greek.
Blood	Type 0 Negative. 1/4 Tatar, 1/8 Gypsy, the rest Finnish.
Religion	Technically I'm muslim (my father hadn't made himself officially un-muslim yet when I was born), but I tend to practice atheism. Not that I don't respect other people's beliefs, but religions are all too often used to mislead and distract people from their true call - revolution!
Scars	A few: barbed wire, horse trampling, knives, pincers, tusks, screwdrivers, paper, being dragged off bicycles by large dogs, mosquito bites, chickenpox, blisters, burn marks from frying pans and ropes unsuccessfully holding ruttish ponies, those god-damnated pieces of claypots that my mother keeps putting in the bottom of flower pots.

My tattoos
Two of them so far.

Family members
Sister, mother, dead dog, dead pig.

A Heathen in the Holy Land
Tinet in Israel.

A Revolutionary in Rus
Tinet in Moscow.

An (aspiring) Taxidermist in Texas
Tinet in Houston.

A Traveller on the Trans-Sib
Tinet in Siberia.

A 1/8 Rom in Romania
Tinet in Bucharest.

Bankhar mä!
Tinet cuddling with fuzzy
doggies in Mongolia.