Hi @theviolentheart Natasha welcome to Steem Community. Thank you for this introduction post. We are glad that you made your way through here and decide to be part of our community.

I have always been a very curious reader ever since I was able to read, so I will be looking forward to what this community has to offer as a reader as well.

We have a system reward for a post here where writers and readers will get reward 50/50 from the post payout. We call the readers reward as curation reward, when you upvote/like the post you get curation reward(in the form of Steem Power) 50% from the post payout at the end of 7 days after posting the content.
To have more weight/impact on your curation rewards, you have to hold at least 500 Steem Power or more by power up your Steem token that you can buy from the exchange like Poloniex, or etc. You can convert this Steem Power back to Steem token by power down and this will take 4 weeks to finish.

My other hobbies include singing and dancing though I'm not sure if I'm good at any of them..

Nice! We have a weekly contest for singers here organize by @musicforsteem check out their post about the contest guideline. We looking forward to you sing for us #musicforsteem 😊

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See you soon.