hard working, intelligent, book smart, zany, independent, creative, assertive, honest, private, aloof, blunt, reclusive, spacey, kind, self-hateful, insecure
FAMILY. father ; arnold robinson ; & mother ; geanine nicks ; & ellie robinson ; half-sister (father’s side)
more about jules.
(( TW: intimate partner violence ))
Jules was born in New York, NY when her mother was in high school. Her mother quickly moved her back to her hometown of Toronto right after she graduated to raise Jules. It was just Jules and her mom for quite sometime, her estranged father only making appearances once every few years. Jules was a bit of a latch key kid. Her mom worked two jobs while she was in middle school and high school to be able to provide for her and Jules. This left Jules to fend for herself when it came to staying on top of her school work and her extracurriculars. And she was vigilant. She went to a small, all girl’s private school where Jules became a star on the debate team and the editor of the school’s literary magazine. She maintained excellent grades in her classes, as well as a couple of advanced placement classes. While Jules wasn’t exactly popular, she was well liked by most of her peers and was even elected student council treasurer her junior year. She had a small group of friends from lit mag and the debate team that she still sees every year at Christmas.
It’s safe to say that Jules didn’t have a lot of free time in high school. But with the little free time she had, she posted stories and One Direction fan fiction on Wattpad. She wrote under the pen name “JL Robins”, a pen name that she still uses to this day. One of her fan fictions became so famous on Tumblr and Wattpad, that the fic was actually published. This was how she paid for her undergrad at the Berlin University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany completely out of pocket. There, she studied Journalism and Creative Writing and obtained her BA.
It was in Berlin were she found herself in an emotionally abusive on-and-off relationship. She doesn’t consider herself of a victim of intimate partner violence, but knows that that experience has changed the way she views herself and relationships. Jules also most certainly grew to resent her father for leaving her and her mother high and dry. She even grew to have a deep resentment and distrust towards men in general, which she knows it problematic and as slowly started working on address her biases. Not every man is her father, though, and some of her best friend ended up being men. Since the relationship, Jules has struggled with social anxiety, depression, and even some minor PTSD. Her abuser filled her with ideas that no one will ever love her again, which was one of the reasons that she stayed in the relationship for so long. After university, Jules fled to Kingsboro and moved in with her estranged half-sister. Not long after her move to New York, she started working on her MFA at NYU. She currently works at Pen & Paper Press as a writer and as a journalist for the Kingsboro News.
wanted connections.
writing friends
exes (just women sry)
hook ups (also just women sry)
friends from berlin (college friends)
1-2 roommates
fans of her fan fic
childhood friends from toronto
family on mother’s side
smth where they meet in vegas on vacation or something and accidentally get married then get the marriage annulled within 24 hours
Jules was born in Kingsboro, NY when her mother was in high school. Her mother quickly moved her back to her hometown of Toronto right after she graduated to raise Jules. It was just Jules and her mom for quite sometime, her estranged father only making appearances once every few years. Jules was a bit of a latch key kid. Her mom worked two jobs while she was in middle school and high school to be able to provide for her and Jules. This left Jules to fend for herself when it came to staying on top of her school work and her extracurriculars. And she was vigilant. She went to a small, all girl’s private school where Jules became a star on the debate team and the editor of the school’s literary magazine. She maintained excellent grades in her classes, as well as a couple of advanced placement classes. While Jules wasn’t exactly popular, she was well liked by most of her peers and was even elected student council treasurer her junior year. She had a small group of friends from lit mag and the debate team that she still sees every year at Christmas.
It’s safe to say that Jules didn’t have a lot of free time in high school. But with the little free time she had, she posted stories and One Direction fan fiction on Wattpad. She wrote under the pen name “JL Robins”, a pen name that she still uses to this day. One of her fan fictions became so famous on Tumblr and Wattpad, that the fic was actually published. This was how she paid for her undergrad at the Berlin University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany completely out of pocket. There, she studied Journalism and Creative Writing and obtained her BA.
Jules most certainly grew to resent her father for leaving her and her mother high and dry. She even grew to have a deep resentment and distrust towards men in general, which she knows it problematic and as slowly started working on address her biases. Not every man is her father. Keeping this in mind, she entered a serious and long term relationship during college. Unfortunately, that relationship came with a lot of emotional, verbal and, at one point, physical abuse. Since the relationship, Jules has struggled with social anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Her abuser filled her with ideas that no one will ever love her again, which was one of the reasons that she stayed in the relationship for so long. After university, Jules fled to Kingsboro and moved in with her estranged half-sister. Not long after her move to New York, she started working on her MFA at NYU. She currently works at Pen & Paper Press
