iDENTITY ASKS !!!! omg i want to ask all of them ummm 1, 2, and 15
ahhhhh you’re always so good to me :’D
1. if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to?
ok ok so I’d say the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, and Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett because even though I don’t read them all that often I feel like these were really influential in shaping my writing and my sense of humor? Like I read Percy Jackson when I was in middle school and in a new country and everything and the other two in high school when I was starting to write and I think I can still see them in me if that makes sense
2. have you ever found a writer who thinks just like you? if so, who?
I don’t think I ever have? Okay one of the biggest reasons I ever started writing is because I was reading books (and later fanfic) and was like ‘you know what? no. I want this done my way’ and then I would try to write it myself (still failing the majority of times but I’m getting there) (hopefully :’D)
15. five most influential books over your lifetime.
Oh man I should’ve, like, read all the questions before I started answering dammit ok here goes (in no particular order)
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (at this point I’m just. obligated to list this first)
The Aeneid by Vergil because like. I don’t know. I took Latin for four years. It was kind of important, I guess. (I would say Metamorphoses by Ovid except I haven’t read the whole thing, and also Ovid’s a dick.)
The Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan (we’ll just claim it as one book for the sake of this list) because man. oh man. this was my introduction to fandom. That sure was a wild time.
Othello by William Shakespeare (possibly not technically a book but it gave birth to the first short story that I shared with other people and also my first fanfic, which was of course Gay)
There was that book I was obsessed with in elementary school, it was about neuroscience and it was thick and green and written by two American scientists but translated into Chinese and I don’t know what it’s called??? But like I feel like that book was such a huge part of my life when I was younger, even today I’m bursting with random brain trivia, if anyone could figure out what this is in English it would be great
