Thanks so much for the tag, @curiouselleth!!
Are you named after anyone?
Yes, both my grandmothers.
Do you use sarcasm a lot?
Not really. Only with a couple of people, but not often.
When was the last time you cried?
I have no more tears left to cry. I very often want to, but there are no tears left, so my eyes are just burning. Last time i did actually manage to shed tears was about a month ago, because my dog almost died.
What's the first thing you notice about people?
Their hair, then the eyes. But hair means a lot to me.
What sports do you/have played?
Right now (and for a few years) nothing, as I'm concentrating on my studies. When i was 5 until 7 i used to dance (ballet and latin), when i was 8-11 i did swimming, 9-10 i did Tae Kwon Do and 11-14 i did Kung Fu. Then from 13 to 16 i did archery, which i absolutely loved, but i had to stop at that age to concentrate on the exams to get into uni. I really want to start archery again, but that teacher retired and the new teacher is awful.
Of course I've tried many mainstream sports at school, but I didn't like them enough to do them outside of school.
After all these I came to the conclusion that sports aren't really my thing, save archery.
Oh I also intend to try horse riding this year, but we'll see how that'll go.
I'm not sure what's considered special?...
I can pick up languages relatively easily, but I don't think that's uncommon.
Uhm.. I have excellent memory, when i want to. But when i want to forget something, i can completely erase it from my memory to the point where, say, if someone refers to that event/dialogue/whatever i cannot recollect at all that it happened and that i was present.
(Then there are some more weird abilities that i have, which i don't think most of you would believe... But if you want, and you're very open-minded, dm about it! I'd be thrilled to be able to talk about those to someone.)
Scary movies or happy endings?
Neither? I don't like scary movies at all, but i also think happy endings are so rare in real life that it seems fake to me, when a movie or a book has a happy ending. How can anyone live "happily ever after" after enduring so much pain, after going through so many challenges?Even if he lives, he'll never be the same.
Like the end of lotr, for example. Yes, they win. Yes, they live. But are they happy? I don't think so. And that's a far more optimistic ending than in the Silm.
I went to see the new Indiana Jones film with my uncles and little cousins, a couple of months ago. The ending was a happy ending. And it seemed to me so damn wrong. The good guys had this big adventure, they went through so much challenges, and they just lived happily ever ever?? Like, how?? I don't get it.
That said, if i were in a group of people and we had to choose a film, I'd vote happy ending just because i dislike scary movies more.
Yes, a dog! Before him i used to have a cat.
Reading, writing (but hesitating to post it), painting, traveling, trying to translate rock operas. Probably more that I can't think of rn.
Favourite subject in school?
It really depends on the school year.
In primary school it was music and art class.
In middle school it was the ancient greek classics (Odyssey in first grade, Iliad in second grade, Helen by Euripides in third grade).
In high school... in first grade we had a theater class, wish was interesting. In second and third grade we were just preparing for the Panhellenic exams, to pass to university. I was studying language, history, ancient greek and sociology. I didn't like any of those, but sociology was by far the easiest, so i preferred it.
In uni, the best i had so far was British poetry, just because i managed to convince my teacher to let me write a paper on Finrod's part in the Lay of Leithian
Ummm... Realistically speaking? If it weren't for my inability to talk to a group of grown ups, maybe an academic. I don't really want to be a teacher in a school, because I don't have the mental ability right now to pretend that everything is okay, put on a smile and teach kids... Although that's probably what I'll end up doing.
I also really want to be a writer, i have thought of a few original stories... But I don't think that being a full time writer is enough to live comfortably. So that'll have to be a side job...
Unrealistically speaking, i would love to be an astronomer or an astronaut, but I can't math. I tried following that career path, but I'm just so bad at math i had to change to literature.
Also unrealistically speaking I'd love to be a singer/actor in musicals and rock operas, but my voice is truly awful
But it's not like I'm dying about having any of these jobs. And that's because they are all real jobs, in the real world. I don't want to be in the real world. I want to be in Middle Earth. Gosh I'd die to live in the First Age... What would my job there be? I don't know, I'd probably follow Maglor and do whatever he wants which might include kinslaying but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. Then I'd probably die fighting, but that's fine by me.
I'm bored to search who has done this already and who hasn't, so if any of you I'll tag have done it pls let me know!
@caenith, @general-illyrin, @totally-not-one-of-the-fae, @bloodandsteelwolf, @spiced-wine-fic, @quixoticanarchy, @samarqqand, @solarcola
and anyone else who wants to!!