#n-o-buses

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answer and ask

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Rule two: Answer the questions the person who tagged you asked and write 10 new ones


Rule three: Tag 11 people and link them to the post


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answers:

1. What would you do with a million dollars? (besides giving it to charity or putting it away for college, because that’s the realistic thing to do)

Get a horse. A million would probably cover the buying price, vet/farrier fees, tack, grooming supplies, and boarding fees for about a year, so I'd get my own horse <3

2. Who is one celebrity you can’t stand?

Well, I can't stand most celebrities (*pretentious Holden Caulfield voice* "They're all phonies") but I would probably slap a Kardashian across the face if I ever saw one of them.

3. Worst (best) pick up line?

hey bby do u wanna find the exponential growth of my natural log

4. Tell us your most embarrassing story.

"Most" embarrassing denotes that there have been some events in my life that were relatively less cringe-worthy than others, so I cannot answer this question, because all of my embarrassing moments are equally mortifying. (but when i first saw frozen i screamed 'son of a bitch' when hans revealed his contempt for ana in a public theater with children around also when i was seven i really had to go pee in the middle of a public production of junie b jones first grader at last but i couldnt just run off stage so i just peed right there during the show and that was exceptionally horrifying)

5. What was your weirdest dream?

One time I had this weird ass crack dream where I climbed a fortress-y book mountain made of Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf and upon reaching the top, fell backwards dramatically into a pit of blackness and landed in a swingset thing built over the barn I ride at. After I jumped off the swingset, a mass amount of unruly teenagers proceeded to bombard me with yells and house music and the barn turned into a party thing and I couldn't find my friend's horse and I was looking for some other person idk who and then I woke up and yeah

6. What celebrity do you want to be platonic best friends with?

Morgan Freeman

7. Oreo cookies: the cookie or the cream?

Making me choose is borderline treason against the International Consensus on the Ethics of the Edible (aka ICEE), but cookies. I'm (not) sorry

8. Are you one of those people who immediately pick all of their hair out of the brush, or do you not care? (weird question I know, but hopefully your answers will solve an argument I’m having)

I don't brush my hair, it's super curly. (but in the past when i had straighter hair I did, so there you go)

9. What’s the worst/best birthday gift you’ve ever gotten?

I'm going to interpret this question as the gift that was simultaneously the best and worst birthday gift, and that'd be the talking paper Buddha my sister gave me this year. No words. (she also gave me chocolate so)

10. Most recently read book?

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra. Probably one of the most heavy, raw, beautifully written masterpieces of all time. Go read it, I recommend it to anyone who wants bare truth, no matter how heartbreaking and horrible, with a good sense of maturity (I will definitely reread it when I'm older).

asks:

What flavor of Bertie Bott's would you love to try?

What is the oddest name you've ever encountered?

Do you read the paper?

How often do you think about the stars, ie space, galaxies, astrophysics, time/time travel, existentialist Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman questions?

Why do you love you favorite animal?

Do you like the color of your eyes?

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

What cartoon did you absolutely hate as a kid?

Country or city?

Name a classical music piece that moves you.

tagging:

whyismyonlyquestion

rebelliouskitten

n-o-buses

hellabalooclotpole

whoever else wants to do it really idk

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tagged by moriartifying

Rules: In a text post, list 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard—they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you.

Tag 10 friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them!

(I'm doing more than 10 because I just can't help it)

Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling

Wonder by RJ Palacio

Ostrich by Matt Greene

Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (literally all his books though)

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M Valente

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

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tagged by cas-ablanca

Rule 1: Always post the rules.



Rule 2: Answer the questions the person who tagged you asked, and come up with 11 new ones



Rule 3: Tag 12 people and link them to the post



Rule 4: Actually tell them you tagged them

1. What is a guilty pleasure of yours?

That Amanda Bynes TV show What I Like About You. It’s hilarious and spastic and I watch when I’m sick on weekend mornings.

2. What’s a lesson you have learned when you were older that you wish you could’ve learned when you were younger?

Idk if this is a lesson, but the fact that it’s okay to try and fail. When I was little, I was so self-conscious of everything I did and I was afraid of what people thought of me. Now, I don’t give a fuck and life is so much more fun. I love it! I try so many new things and I swallow my fears and I conquer. I’m the motherfucking badass knight my younger self wished to be.

3. What’s one song you wish never existed and why?

Call Me Maybe. It is absolute shit and makes me angry because it’s not music at all. *blows dragon steam out of flared nostrils*

4. What is one place you’ve been to before and will never forget?

Santa Cruz Island off the coast of Southern California. I was there on a club camping trip, and I made so many memories with my friends that I’ll never forget. At night, while the hike leader told us the tale of Orion (which I can recite in my sleep by now because it’s my favorite constellation), I lied down in the grass and stared up at the clearest, most beautiful night sky I’d ever seen. It was brilliantly luminescent, like there were a million twinkling lanterns hung up in the black. The moon had this reddish-green halo, and it’s my most spectacular memory.

5. Which character (TV, book, movie, etc) do you relate to the most?

Igraine from Cornelia Funke’s Igraine the Brave or Alex from Matt Greene’s Ostrich. Or a mix of both. 

6. What do you think happens to people when they die?

We vanish. Disappear. We cease to exist. It’s a terrifying thought—to be completely gone. 

7. Would you ever want any tattoos or piercings? What and where?

Actually, I don’t have my ears pierced yet, so I guess that. I dunno; I don’t think I’d really wear earrings, unless it was near the top of my ear (not the lobe). I’d feel pretty badass with a nez perce, but with my fucked up nose it wouldn’t work. Eventually, I’d love a tattoo either on the sides of my stomach or back of a string instrument’s f-holes. Or tiny stars all across my shoulders or upper back, like stardust.

8. What is the nearest book to you?

War and Peace by Tolstoy. (Good book, by the by)

9. Who do you think about the most?

Myself. Like every other human.

10. If you could travel to any time period, what would it be?

I’d go to 1968 and watch Yes perform live.

11. What do you love doing, but are terrible at?

Playing chess.

MY QUESTIONS

1. Would you prefer a single rose or a bouquet of roses?

2. If you were given a plane ticket to anywhere on Earth, where would you go?

3. What is your favorite smell?

4. What do you think about when you’re trying to fall asleep?

5. Name one thing you’ve always wanted to do but are too afraid to try.

6. What is one thing you wish you had never done?

7. If you had to teach your English class for a day, what would you make the students do?

8. What song gives you goosebumps?

9. Who do you hate talking to and why?

10. How many times do you let the phone ring before answering?

11. How much sugar do you take in your tea?

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tagged by cas-ablanca

Rule 1: Always post the rules.



Rule 2: Answer the questions the person who tagged you asked, and come up with 11 new ones



Rule 3: Tag 12 people and link them to the post



Rule 4: Actually tell them you tagged them

1. What is a guilty pleasure of yours?

DANCE MOMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've seen every episode and even though I'm tired of it, and Abby is awful, and I kind of hate it now, I still plan on watching the new ones. It's a terrible show, but...... (watch it)

2. What’s a lesson that you learned when you were older that you wish

you could’ve been taught when you were little?

I wish I could've learned that I don't need to "pity help" people. I used to like, run next to the people who were slower on my soccer team and encourage them to go faster, and I did other stuff like that, but I realize now that I wasn't helping. I was probably just embarrassing them and making them uncomfortable, which I shouldn't have been doing.

3. What’s one song you wish never existed and why?

Blurred Lines (obviously). 

4. What is one place that you’ve been to that you’ll never forget?

Well, I've been lucky enough to travel a lot. I've been to places such as Peru, the Galapagos Islands, all over Europe, and other trips within the US. However, I guess I like the sightseeing trips as much as the next person, but I really like the trips where I get to see my cousins who I don't usually see because they live really far from me. 

5. Which character (Tv, Book, Movie, etc.) do you relate to the most?

I guess I relate to Hermione Granger, because I'm a real try-hard when I go to school, and sometimes I get ridiculed for it, but only like light teasing from friends.

6. What do you think happens to people when they die?

Well, I believe in heaven and hell, but I don't have a specific interpretation of those. I mean, hell could be oblivion. Heaven could be oblivion. The only thing I definitely believe is that there is a cosmic entity (one I call God, but others could have a different name for it) and it controls what happens after death.

7. Would you ever want any tattoos or piercings? What and where?

To be honest, I don't. (I'm super boring)

8. What is the nearest book to you?

The Help. I just started reading it - its a must read.

9. Who do you think about the most?

Well, when I get a crush on someone, I think about them basically all the time, so I guess, its whoever I like at the time.

10. If you could travel to any time period, what would it be?

I always wanted to be a small child in like the Andy Griffith time period, when kids could go to movies and ride their bikes and do whatever they wanted without their parents. 

11. What do you love doing but are terrible at?

I'm on a Comedy Sportz team at my school. I suck at improv, but it is literally so much fun just to be there. 

My Questions 1. What's the scariest thing you've ever done?

2. When you were a kid what did you want to be when you grew up?

3. What's the stupidest joke you've ever heard?

4. What's your "spirit animal?"

5. What's your earliest memory? 6. Tell your most embarrassing story.

7. What's the biggest lie you've ever told? 8. If someone was to make a movie about your life, who should play you?

9. What's the best prank you've ever pulled?

10. If you could learn one random skill, what would it be?

11. If you could have any job, what job would you chose?