11 Questions
Rule 1 - Post the rules. Rule 2 - Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post and make 11 new ones. Rule 3 - Tag 11 people and link them to your post. Rule 4 - Let them know you’ve tagged them.
1. What’s your favorite story to tell someone when getting to know them?
Oh, I don't know. Probably something to do with theatre. lol. I'd probably just try for something relevant to whatever we were actually discussing at the time, I suppose.
2. What’s your favorite memory?
Dancing on tables at our annual Rent-watching Christmas party and the giant group hugs that follow.
3. How many times have you read/watched your favorite book/tv show/movie?
More than I can count. Or more than I remember. Something along those lines. I'm an obsessive personality type, although it's more apparent with some things than others. Fandoms bring out my true obsessive tendencies. :P
4. Speaking of, what is your favorite movie/tv show/book, and why?
Book: Oh gosh, I have no idea. I read so much, and I love so many books. Um. Maybe A Mango Shaped Space? It's also sad, but it has a relatively happy ending, and it is utterly fascinating at the same time. I still cry every time I read it, though.
TV show: I don't know if I can choose one. Can I just say all things BBC? Doctor Who and Sherlock and Merlin are the three that I'm the most involved with at the moment. I do love American crime shows, too, though. Castle, Bones, NCIS, Criminal Minds. I find them really interesting, especially Criminal Minds. Psychology is endlessly interesting to me, and the thought that you could use it to find a serial killer is completely amazing.
Movie: At the moment, Third Star. It was just so heart wrenching, and I'm not going to lie, it HURT to watch. It hurt so much. I sobbed. But I really really loved it, too. It was so well scripted and filmed, and wonderfully written, and the cast was incredible. Not just Benedict Cumberbatch, though I have to mention him, because he was most certainly amazing, and his performance was breathtaking, but the whole thing was just so good. It is a beautifully crafted work of art.
5. Who is the biggest inspiration in your life? Why?
This is a hard one. There have been so many. I'll narrow it down to two. In real life, I think I'd have to say Amelia Earhart. She's always been sort of a personal hero of mine. I find her story inspiring, tragic, and fascinating at the same time. Her attempts to dispel the idea that woman can't fly were very admirable. A fictional inspiration would be Captain Kathryn Janeway from the show Star Trek Voyager. Sounds a bit silly, I suppose, but I grew up watching Voyager, and I always wanted to be her when I grew up. She was so smart, so brave, and so incredibly confident. I know she had her flaws, but she was still always one of my inspirations. I looked up to her as a role model.
6. What do you aspire to do with your life? In a realistic “I want to be a doctor!” sense, or in a mystical “I’d like to bring enlightenment to the world.” sense.
Oh, so many things. Let's start with the impossible. I used to dream of Broadway. I'd still love to be able to make a career out of theatre. I want to be a criminal psychologist. I want to be able to make a living as an artist, both musically and with my balloons. Now for the more likely option. I think I'm going to try to be a clinical psychologist, and a freelance musician and actress or a voice teacher in my spare time, if I have any of that.
7. If you could go back in time and talk to younger!you, what would you say? Would you say anything?
I'd tell the younger me to stop procrastinating, because it's making things harder now. :D On a slightly more serious note, I'd like to go back to middle school me and tell me that I have to tough it out for 7 years, but it'll be okay once I make it to college. Middle school and high school were not happy places for me. I had a few friends, but in general, I was miserable and bullied a lot. I'm not going for the sympathy vote here, because it's okay now. I'm happy here, and although some things frustrate me with classes and school and all of that, it really doesn't matter as much as it used to, because I know the entire school doesn't hate me here. I think I've finally found a group of people that I can fit with for real, that have common interests and really love me for me. I had a few of those friends in high school, don't get me wrong, and I loved them, but here, we're a really close group, and we live together, and I can really be me with them, and not be afraid of it. I can cry when I need to. I just have to go to my roommate or walk down the hall, and they'll be ready to hold me up when I just can't do it anymore, and I'll do the same for them. That feeling is so amazing, and it was totally worth enduring the complete HELL that was middle school and high school for me. So I'd like to let my younger self know that it'll be okay. I just have to hang in there.
8. Would you rather go into the future? or into the past?
I think I'd rather go into the past. I'd love to be a flower child, or a flapper, or a lady pirate. I could negotiate on the time period and position that I would occupy, I suppose. I don't think I'd want to go to the future. Too many spoilers. I don't think I want to know how my life will turn out.
9. What’s your favorite thing to think about?
I love to think through the plots for all of the stories I want to write someday. I don't have nearly enough time (or motivation, for that matter) to get all of them written, but it's really fun to plan it out and imagine it all happening.
10. What’s your favorite color?
Green. It's just so lively, and it's never really sad. It comes in so many different shades, and almost all of them are really fun.
11. Do you believe in love?
I suppose it depends on what kind of love you're talking about. Platonic and familial love, yes. I have no doubts about that. I know I love all of my friends, I love my parents, I love my pets, and I love God. Romantic love...I think I do. Goodness knows, watching my parents has given me hope. They've been together for thirty years and it's still going strong. They must love each other, to work that hard at staying together. It's not like it's easy and they don't fight, because they do. They just never considered ending things to be an option. If that isn't love, I don't know what is. At the same time, I don't think I've ever fallen in love romantically. I say I don't think so. It's not like I've got much experience in this area. It's never quite worked out well, and I'm not sure if it was really LOVE or what it was. Crushes, heck yes, but love? I don't honestly know. I don't know if I'd recognize it when/if I do find it. I hope I do, because I don't want to let it slip away if it is real. But I honestly don't know.
My questions:
1. If you had to keep a physical representation of your fondest memory, what would it be, and why?
2. What are the top three stories that have influenced your life? Why/how?
3. If you had to choose one art form and ONLY one art form as a creative outlet for the rest of your life what would it be, and why?
4. What is the first thing you notice about people when you meet them for the first time?
5. Summer or winter?
6. Do you prefer fluff, romance, and happy endings, or dystopia, angst, and sad endings?
7. For a vacation, would you choose a secluded mountain location, a bright sunny beach and boardwalk, or Disney World?
8. What is your favorite smell?
9. What super power would you want?
10. What fictional character do you find it easiest to relate to?
11. What do you usually think about before falling asleep?