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[friedectoplasm]

RP folk: I really miss you. <3

[zipper-teeth]

Slowpoke

Rule 1 - Post the rules. Rule 2 - Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post and then make 11 new ones. Rule 3 - Tag 11 people and link them to your post. (skipping this one, except for friedectoplasm). Rule 4 - Let them know you’ve tagged them. ---- PART ONE. because I am slow 1. Is there any action, or choice, or piece of dialogue, from your childhood that remains iconic or demonstrative of the person you have become now? Ahhh, there's a few to choose from. One specifically, is the occurrence when my mother comes into my habitually messy room, finding her eleven year old reading, drawing, sleeping, what have you. She tells me to stop what I'm doing and clean up, sure, expected; of course, she'd probably already told me to do it the day before. "What's wrong with you?", she asks, totally warranted. In a super matter-of-fact, clarifying tone, I tell her straight, "nothing. I just don't like being told what to do, and that's how it is." Thus! My assertive obstinacy, avec an odium for people assuming that I am aaanything, including my Momma. She tells everyone that story, it apparently shocked her that I'd said it so formally. 2. Name one accomplishment that is imperative for your life. Oooone. Well, since it's sort'of a package ambition, I want to create, distribute and inspire others with my work, art and writing. 3. Dream career, dream city, dream spouse? My dream career would be that of a professional artist, you know, one of those fabled artists who literally can live off the selling their artwork. My dream city could be anywhere with decent weather and with Internet, preferably with nice peeps ... Nashville, we'll say, or any city like it. And dream spouse. I'll say someone named Chris, who's clever, artistic, taller than me, who'd be my rock and wingman and love it. 4. Three music albums that mean a lot to you. (Feel free to substitute any other art form for the album. Could be books, or films, or sculptures.) Why these particular items? I choose paintings! The Gleaners, by Jean-François Millet, first, but less because of the actual work itself, but rather the experience I had whilst learning about it. My best friend and I affectionately dubbed it "zsa gleenahs!", and the term was then applied to every conversation we felt deserved a little bit more awesome. It reminds me of her. For my birthday one year, she took me to Cracker Barrel for dinner. She'd chosen the table long beforehand, a print of the realist masterpiece hanging on the wall right above it. And she gifted me with a framed copy, except there had been some photomanipulation done to it, her face and mine applied (hysterically, but lovingly, too). The second is Kandinsky's Several Circles. His theories on art, shape and color and sound, pretty much astounded me in school, and thinking about his compositions, his "melodies" makes the world swell, somehow. It's like figuring out the conceit in a John Donne poem, it's a rewarding experience. And I love circles and diagonals, I love them muchly, so Several Circles appeals, in a way, to my artistic musings. For the last, I'll pick a digital painting I saw on DeviantArt way back in the day that I've never forgotten. It's an illustration titled comiket2 by rans. It's melodramatic, but lethally lovely, really, at least in my opinion. A scenic tragedy, a little love story's end. It's one of the handful of emotive, narrative illustrations that I've found online that continues to inspire me and what I like to write, depicted with gorgeous and unique command of color and compelling composition.

[friedectoplasm]

done been tagged.

Rule 1 - Post the rules. Rule 2 - Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post and then make 11 new ones. Rule 3 - Tag 11 people and link them to your post. Rule 4 - Let them know you’ve tagged them.

[QUESTIONS BY SIGNATURESCARF]

Spring, summer, autumn, or winter? Why? Winter. Because it's the most stark, the most striking -- think of frost on the windowpane, and your breath fogging, and everything sparkling fresh after a snowfall. I love the outdoors, and indoors; I love going out and messing around with my dog in a big snow drift, and I love coming in and curling up in a blanket with four layers and reading something.

Describe your style. Affordable, haha. More specifically: solid print dresses, and liberal arts scarves, and cardigans, and ballet flats, and skirts. I look very much like the white middle-class college-educated girl that, in fact, I am. Mostly in primary colors. (I used to chant "SWEATPANTS ARE FOR QUITTERS" to myself to make myself dress fine, but. Dude. I quit. Sweat pants can be so good.)

How tall are you and how tall do you want to be?  I'm 5'4", which makes me officially average as ladies go, I think. I think I've always wanted to be 5'7 or 5'2", something not so terribly middle of the road. Taller might be better? Essentially, I have the body type of a blueberry muffin, and some height could help.

If you could start a company, what would it be of and what would you name it? Something mythical, maybe? Like all the supervillains have. Like FIREBIRD INCORPORATED.

Do you have a pet? What is it? If not, what would you get? (Any kind of creature allowed!) I have had a horse, and dogs galore, and cats, and a tarantula, and a python, and fish, and very briefly a crab. My current pet? Cosmo, the welsh corgi.

How do(did) you take notes in school? I'm on my way back to school for round two in the fall, but I would go through notebook upon notebook at school. I didn't make interesting notes. I would start with a sort of summarizing or initial point, - Like so -- then more detailed notes preceded by a longer line, like this -- and this. -- and also this. I used to get really frustrated when the lecture got progressively layered, and so I would have to keep adding larger and larger bars before the notes, and guess where they were going. Or if a note took a little over a line, but only a little, I'd get ansty and add prepositional phrases to make it more aesthetically pleasing. /crazytown

Your all-time favorite scene/quote of a book/film/show/anything. (Bonus points if you can give a link.) "Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand." - Baruch de Spinoza And also this: "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool." - Almost Famous

What’s the worst illness you’ve had? Measles and mumps, I think. I can't actually get inoculations, I'm allergic to something used in the process. So keep your smallpox away from me, plz.

Favorite/most visited website. Gosh. Hard to pick. I'm a big fan of a bunch of webcomics, and blogs. Despite actively shooting for the other gender, Art of Manliness always has interesting things, and Gunnerkrigg Court and Girl Genius are webcomics that I look forward to every MWF. But probably the king of the castle is Fluxblog, which I have read religiously for five years.

Describe a science project you made in elementary or high school. Rofl. Well, in fifth grade, Kelsey Boyd and I made a labyrinth for her blind kitten, and attempted to race it against a seeing kitten. Fun fact: cats and cardboard labyrinths are not a match made in heaven.

Favorite reaction gif, viral video, and/or meme it's a tie.

[TAGGING]

Zipper_Teeth

OhEye

Erase-Her-Head

Vile-Watersprite

GloriousDefeat

CeleryAnEffigy

CacophonousMeep

Skeletanz

Kimmism

CombatAMort

Katharienne

[QUESTIONS FOR THE NEWLY TAGGED]

Is there any action, or choice, or piece of dialogue, from your childhood that remains iconic or demonstrative of the person you have become now?

Name one accomplishment that is imperative for your life.

Dream career, dream city, dream spouse?

Three music albums that mean a lot to you. (Feel free to substitute any other art form for the album. Could be books, or films, or sculptures.) Why these particular items?

Three real people that you admire, historical or familiar. Why?

Three fictional characters that you admire. Why?

Guilty pleasure?

Let's say that you become oddly specifically colorblind, and one color is eliminated from your vision (because that's how it works #what-is-science#we-just-don't-know), so that you'll never see it again. Which one? 

(Totally ganking this from signaturescarf.) Your all-time favorite scene/quote of a book/film/show/anything. (Bonus points if you can give a link.)

If given the choice, which superpower would you want for yourself?

What are your four best traits? Alternatively: which four 'specialties' do you associate with your own identity? E.G., I'm-the-one-that-likes-science-fiction, and so forth.

Nobody feel badly about not responding, also. I'm interested in your answers, though, if you'd like to share! <3 And signaturescarf, I know you've been tagged a bajillion times, but if you'd feel like answering the questions, too, I'd love to know your thoughts.