#but like i've been doing midterms since halfway through february

[bookwyrminspiration]

everblaze, foxfire, linh?

Ed! Hello! I hope you are doing well!

everblaze: Your proudest achievement

oof that is a difficult one. I've done a lot of things that could probably categorized as a really cool achievement but I just expect exellency of myself so I downplay it. So I'll just list a few things I've done instead, maybe figure something else out along the way!

I finished all high school credits of math before I entered 10th grade (meaning I was done with all four years before the second year started), I'm ranked #1 in my class if we're going off weighted GPA, I got and am on track to get multiple associates degrees (2 year degrees) before graduating high school, and I tested into the gifted program in 1st grade (a year before testing usually starts) and was in the 99th percentile in all categories. Those are all school achievements hmm. Oh! the wings au!! I am very proud of that story and how far it's come, so that's definitely up there.

I don't really celebrate achievements (you know that thing where you set your expectations so unrealistically high that you loose sense of what is actually something to be proud of?) so I don't know what I'm proud of, but I think these are things that are generally pretty cool!!

foxfire: Your favorite school subject

I think it comes as no surprise that I was and am an avid English enjoyer. English classes just made sense, you know? Stories and writing and characters feel natural, and the way English classes encourage you to think critically is super fun for me. It does help that it's a subject I'm good at and that I've been actively exposed to literature my entire life. And that that exposure gave me a good understanding of grammar and how to write, so essays are pretty easy. But because I perform well in the classes and liked the subject, my English teachers have always liked me. My favorite class this year was my english class last fall, and I'm thrilled that I'll get to have that teacher again next year (though not for English). And I'll get to have this other teacher for English a second time next year!!! I love the teachers and the subject, so it's very high on my list

Though I will say that history was always fun as well, though I don't know why. Maybe because it was an easier class, as it's as the general education level compared to the all the other harder classes I was taking. I think history classes are more relaxed I guess, and that was nice. Another good one is foreign languages though, and those aren't always easy. Something about communication is fascinating. That's more than one though so I'll stop there.

Linh Song: The element you vibe with

If we're going with the traditional four elements, I think fire? I'm just thinking about this in terms of avatar so unsure how accurate that is. Something about the steady, reckless abandon of fire and how consuming it is. It's both comforting and provides warmth and brings people together (like campfires and hearths), and destructive and uncontrollable and furious. The determination associated with it alongside the risk of going to far and getting consumed matches my experiences with how I push myself and am reckless with myself, but how much I'm capable of when I do so. It's a delicate and sometimes unwise balance, but it's hard to let go of.

If we're going with kotlc elements, perhaps shadowflux. How it's unknown and rough and difficult to control, how it changes things. The way it's neither good nor bad kinda reminds me of my tendency to approach things motivated almost entirely by logic, trying to figure out how they work without acknowledging the good or bad of it. The potential for impartiality. I do also just like darkness though, and find comfort in it which makes it more appealing.

unsurprisingly, my responses are very long...oops?