#yaaay ask

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I was tagged by @cruisingheightswithdragons and @bakedsweetroll ! I have a good internet connection this week-end so I can finally do it xD

Rules: Answer the questions then tag 20 people

Name: Alexandra

Nickname: Kuu, Saku (not a lot of people called me like that but it how I called myself for years and I still do by habit)

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Girl

Sexuality: I’m bi but I don’t really care about sex and stuff, can’t tell I’m ace neither, more like, meh

Favorite color: Dark red, black, and every colors depending of the context

Time right now: 23:52 pm

Average hours of sleep: Between 8 and 10 when I feel normal and between 3 and 5 when I’m obsessed with something or if I’m too stressed

The last thing I googled: SCP numbers to find a number for the character of my fanfic

Number of blankets: Now it’s insanely hot, 1/2

Favorite fictional character: It changes every months, now it’s Hancock and Deacon from Fallout 4, it’s because I daydream a lot about Fallout 4 lately so I think about Fallout characters way too much 

What are you wearing right now: A bathrobe

Favorite book: I love Dan Brown’s books

Favorite musician: Ghost, Toby Fox and Nightwish

Dream Job: Being able to draw and live from it

Number of followers: 356

When did you create your account: When my previous get suspended .... When was that ? Last summer ? My very first blog was this one : https://kyuuuuuuuuu.tumblr.com/ that I made in 2012 or something but then the email I used to register get erased because I never used it an I couldn’t connect myself on it anymore, I used it a little after that because I was still able to enter my blog with my phone but it was not fun so I created my blog Kuukikyu that I loved a lot but then it the tragedy happened ...

What do you post about: My drawings and I reblog things I find cool or pretty, funny sometimes

What made you get an account: I always loved blogs and tumblr sound nice and easy to use

When did your blog reach its peak: I had something like 400 followers on my previous account so I’m not there yet :’> Also I’m only noticed when I post fanarts, especially TES ones

Do you get asks on a daily basis: What ? Do some people really get asks on daily basis ???

Why did you choose your url: Kuukikyu is my artist pseudo and now I can’t use it anymore I just replaced the ki by berry because I like red berries on dark green leaves, that’s cute I tag @piscescharlotte @murkkui @charco-de-lluvia @virmaris @happi-iris @grimreaperblog oh I don’t know, every ones who want to do it, do it !

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A headcanon for u:

Talking about robotic harley, I think he might be sensitive to electric shocks, like: if any machine he's connected to, or his robotic body directly, receives an electric shock, he'd probably feel quite intense tickling all over his body. It would probably be one of his biggest secrets (something the prototype would probably tell everyone if he found out, so the doctor would be totally embarrassed XD)

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List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the inbox of the last 10 people who reblogged something from you. Spread positivity. 🌈 💜 🍀

Awn thanks for the ask 💕

Let's see

The fact that I no longer have boobs hehe.

Go skating with my friends. My city is surrounded by mountains and beaches so the view is amazing and the path ends up in an airport so we just hang around there and watch the airplanes (described a whole weekend, sorry for that)

My mom's cooking.

Open the door-window (idk how to call it) in my apartment that faces a chestnut tree and just sit there enjoying the sun while watching the birds and the monkeys.

When somebody gives me something that they put there effort into it, like a drawing or a letter (I always hang these on my wall, no exceptions).

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Yaaay, thank you! I love talking about myself and books. Mostly myself, but also books, and how I feel about books. Thank you for sending me the ask!!

Also - I rambled. Sorry.

1. book you’ve reread the most times?

Off the top of my head, probably Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. It’s my favorite of the series and I was in third grade when I started the series, so that was like... what, 2001? I blew through the four that were out at the time, but I have super fond memories of PoA so I tend to reread it when I need some comfort reading. 

More recently, as an adult, I’ve been rereading Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses pretty often, every few months starting a couple years ago. 

7. is there a series/book that got you into reading?

So, fun fact about me, I was a remarkably advanced reader. I was reading “chapter books” when I started kindergarten, and then when they tested me again in second grade, I was “reading at a college level,” meaning that I could understand the vocabulary and comprehend the material, but not necessarily the context (because I was, you know, 7). At the time, the reading system at my school was pretty strict about reading at the level you tested at - which meant they had no idea what to do with me, because our elementary library didn’t actually have books at my tested level, nor were they actually appropriate for my age.

All this to say: I really didn’t like reading by myself until the end of second grade, because my teachers consistently tried to force me into books that I didn’t enjoy thanks to my tested reading level. They were handing me Little Women and Wuthering Heights, my mom was attempting to keep my interest with books I actually liked at home, but due to the grading system and point value, I was basically forced to suffer through a bunch of classics I could technically read but didn’t interest me.

And then the school district shifted, they reluctantly dropped my reading level from a 12 to a compromise of level 5 or 6, and I discovered The Hardy Boys. I devoured the 1957 revisions, all 58 of them, and then went onto the newer ones and the Nancy Drew crossovers. I tried the original Nancy Drews, but she didn’t get as many explosions and kidnappings and action scenes until the series in the 80s, so that’s my main area of interest there. So it’s pretty much thanks to the Hardy Boys that I enjoy reading at all, because that stupid school on the military base was totally ready to stomp it out of me because it looked good to have me read what the high school seniors were reading.

8. what is the first book you remember reading yourself?

It probably wasn’t actually my first book read, but it was my favorite book as a toddler - Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hatches the Egg. My mom bought it, and then later it became my favorite when I made the connection between Horton and the egg and my situation being adopted by my dad. I remember sitting on my mom’s lap and reading it to her for once. 

Today, 20+ years later, I can ask her, and she can recite the whole damn book from memory. Complete with the voices still.

18. do you like historical books? which time period?

Honestly, it depends. I don’t tend to gravitate toward the official “historical fiction” section of the bookstore, as I’m not usually interested in the history itself, but rather a time period as a setting. I love things based in the late 1800s and early 1900s, before the Great Depression - my favorites in this time period are The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz (a marvelous Sherlock Holmes novel) and the Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King (also a Sherlock Holmes series, maybe I just like Holmes...). 

The 1940s are great too, though I don’t care for WWII novels usually - I like to read about the people but not necessarily the horrors of the war. Instead, I prefer quieter, atmospheric reads. One fantastic book in this time period is At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen, about a woman discovering herself when her not-great husband set off to try and prove that the Loch Ness Monster exists. It’s a great exploration of becoming an adult, dealing with domestic violence, and finding a healthy love - set against a misty Scotland backdrop. 

Last but not least, I love westerns - both historical and modern. True Grit is a popular one, of course, though I’ve also been known to pick up a Zane Grey or Max Brand and spend an afternoon with it. I’m not a Louis L’amour fan, much to my grandfather’s chagrin. My favorite “western style” is the Longmire mystery series by Craig Johnson, but I do love a good cowboy romance - Sarah McCarty’s Hell’s 8 series sits pretty on my bookshelf. (This does bleed heavily over into my movie preferences as well - I have, lined up in a row, True Grit, Young Guns, The Magnificent Seven, 3:10 to Yuma, and The Alamo. Yes, I know The Alamo wasn’t a good movie - I still like it.)

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are you a potato ?

Yes ! Yes, i am. Thank you for asking.