Rule one: Always post the rules.
Rule two: Answer the questions the person who tagged you asked, and write 11 new ones.
Rule three: Tag 11 people and link them to the post.
Rule four: Actually tell them you tagged them.
(why 11? because we like to go one step beyond.)
I was tagged by illyth. Thanks, buddy. Alright, let's do this thing!
1. What's your theme song?
"When Will My Life Begin" from Tangled. Because I can never get enough of Disney, and the song SOUNDS upbeat... but I still feel like I'm waiting for things to get better, cooler even.
2. What's your favorite animal?
Bunnies, man. Have I ever told you about that time my sister nearly crashed the car because I freaked out over a bunny hopping into a bush? Seriously, if it were up to me, I'd sleep with a huge pile of bunnies, with their little bunny ears, and their little bunny tails, ooh and their little bunny noses....
3. What's your favorite book/movie series?
Either Inkheart or Inheritance. Inheritance definitely wins Best Ending Award, but Inkheart has a way of bringing me back to my childhood that even Harry Potter can't live up to.
4. What book/movie is your guilty pleasure?
(wow figures illyth would have so many questions about books and movies) I can't think of anything I've read or watched that I feel guilty about.... Pokemon 2000 is the best I can come up with. I used to own it on VHS (I know, 90s kid), so I watched it all the time (my older sister was always like, "How old are you?"). I don't watch it anymore.
5. Favorite color?
Dark blue. None of that sky blue crap. Go navy or go home. My favorite color has been very consistently blue throughout my life, although I did have a purple scare for a while.
6. Which element do you feel most connected to (take this however you will: periodic elements, natural elements, etc.)?
~*~carbon~*~ the building block of all organic material. No, that's such a cop-out. Um, I don't know, does light count as an element? I believe (I may be wrong here) if you split the world between yin and yang, change and dark are on one side, while stability and light are on the other. My chosen American name means "lighthouse of the sea", which I do strive to live up to. A constant, even in the most tumultuous of times.
7. What element would you most like to bend, and what element would you most realistically bend?
Water, because I can't swim. I've seen too many movies to not fear for my life in case I happen to fall overboard or see a drowning kid. But in all seriousness, waterbending would be SICK. I never have to detest the rain because I could be dry in a heartbeat. Plus, I could feel free to mess around with it without worrying about accidentally killing somebody. I have no idea what you mean by "realistically" bend. Nobody can bend elements in real life. I'm sorry to break it to you like this.
8. What's your favorite language?
Sign language. I learned a few words from my to-be roommate, but not nearly enough to hold a conversation. It's succinct and intuitive, plus it requires expression and body language. Like, raising your eyebrows can distinguish a question from a statement. How much you exaggerate your gestures can replace exclamation points and a number of "very"s.
9. What is your relationship to the most influential person to you?
I'd hate to talk about family, because that is way obvious, but I'd be doing a disservice to not talk about my mother. Stepmother, actually. I was literally the only person in the household who liked her, so she took it upon herself to impart every piece of advice she could to me. It was only when our dorm decided to write nice things about each other and nearly everyone wrote the same thing about me, that I realized that I had taken at least one of her lessons to heart: never speak ill of someone behind their back.
10. Fantasy, Science Fiction, or neither?
How can you ask me to choose? How dare you? Fine, I choose fantasy, just because dragons. And magic.
11. Favorite and least favorite words?
Oh man, helter-skelter is a wonderful word, because I cannot hear/read it without imagining a person on rollerskates for the first time, pinwheeling their arms and rolling into every tree and dog leash. As for least favorite, Calories, with a capital C. Because food and drink companies use it to mean KILOcalories, but call it Calories because "kilo" makes things seem fattening or something?? Like seriously, just use the correct term. Stop misinforming the public about how much a calorie is. Just stop.
Alright alright alright time for my questions!
1. What's your guilty pleasure?
2. What's the one thing you wish you could learn to do instantaneously?
3. What's a memory that you're suddenly brought back to when you smell, hear, read, or watch something?
4. What's the most imaginative name you've ever given something/someone?
5. What's your favorite euphemism?
6. What's one thing you always seem to forget you need to bring with you?
7. You're outside, you're starving, but you're having dinner with your family in an hour. What do you buy to stave off the hunger in the meantime? (Assuming you have the money and are within walking distance to wherever they sell it)
8. What's the one thing you never get tired of doing every summer?
9. Who is your most influential person?
10. If you were in a cartoon, what outfit would you always be drawn in?
11. What's the one song that if it comes up on shuffle, you will never skip over?
I am tagging lot4d, krorys, heavymetalthunderfart, timeladies-dragonlords, mistark, ureumoeno, and cauthons. Technically that leaves room for five more people, ... but I don't actually know... more... people.
/SOBS/
Anyway, if other people want to do this, please feel free! It's fun! And an excuse to ramble about yourself, because heaven knows, that's what a blog is for.