#fuck ME it took 3 hours to complete the forbidden oasis

[solasfenheral]

"wah the hinterlands" i've been lost in the spiral mine for three thousand years

[piracytheorist]

OUAT Con Questions, Fan edition!

“Tagged” by @killianmesmalls

Childhood celebrity crush: I’m torn between this Cypriot singer and this Greek TV host. I had posters of both hung in my room, though I think I’d lean towards the latter, because I had a paper stuck on my bedside table (on its side so I would see it while lying down on the bed) with his name written on it and hearts instead of intonation marks (like the dot above the i and j).

If you could steal anything from any museum, where would you go and what would you steal?: The Moon model from the NYC Museum of Natural History.

Celebrity you would get starstruck by: Colin O’Donoghue. I fully expect to lose my shit when I’ll meet him up close and personal for my photo op in 9 FUCKIN DAYS

If you could play any character on OUAT, who would it be?: Hades, so I could’ve done dat hair grab.

Favorite/funniest memory: Oh man, lots. One that comes to mind was from the previous school year, when I was in a friend’s choir project. We were rehearsing Demon Irrepit Callidus, a song talking about how the devil creeps into your soul and blah blah (sorry Lucifer!) and the conductor had a pretty solid idea of how to make us express this piece. So after a few rehearsals into it he started preparing us emotionally for it every time before we started singing, by having us act like we’re trying to lure someone to sin. He was doing a pretty good job. One time, he’d done the preparation, we were all looking at him to give us the preparation beat to start singing, I was full-on feeling the emotion... and right before the beat, the girl behind me blew her nose, making an extremely loud noise. I doubled over laughing. It was so irrelevant I couldn’t help it, took me completely off the emotion, and from this change I started laughing so loud, almost nervously. It took me a bit to go back to the feeling but the memory was worth it.

What do you think your life would have been like if you had grown up on the Jolly Roger?: I’d be much less lazier, I would be better at swimming, have stronger arms... and I think I’d have learnt to appreciate that life. I actually want to take a trip on a tall ship once in my life, and I guess if I was less prone on motion sickness I would have enjoyed life on her.

If you could steal any prop from the OUAT set, what would it be?: Hook’s necklace, so that I could proudly wear it anytime :P I mean, the hook would just sit somewhere in my house doing nothing but give me feels (which is something for a silly prop, but still)

Is there anyone on the OUAT cast you’d like to be close friends with?: Colin and Rose, probably also Meghan Ory.

What theme song would describe your life?: You know, for a musician, I’m very bad at choosing songs based on the meaning of the lyrics. I also forget very easily, so I’m sure I’ve found a song or two to describe me perfectly once and then forgot about it. However, there’s a song called Ενός Λεπτού Σιγή (A Moment of Silence) which would describe me perfectly for the time before I accepted my asexuality. The first time I heard it, tears literally started flowing, because the meaning and emotion was so intence and I felt it so much, and I haven’t cried before or since for the lyrics themselves. Here is a translation of the lyrics:

All of you, that you’ve found your person That you have a hand to hold you tenderly A shoulder to rest your sorrows on A body to welcome your warmth

Have you ever blushed for your happiness, even once? Have you ever thought of keeping a moment of silence For the desperate ones?

I don’t consider myself a “desperate” one, not anymore since discovering that asexuality is a thing, but this song was an oasis between a clustefuck of romantic songs either worshipping love, or talking about missing loves or how love betrayed them and hurt them... there came this song about someone who hasn’t found love and feels desperate, and cries out to all those who “have found it”, if they ever stopped to think how the former feels. And at the time, when I thought there was something wrong with me for not having found love, the meaning hit even harder. But even now it’s a very important song to me.

What do you miss most about OUAT?: Its very existence. Love it or hate it, its presence there was something that comforted me. Even though it was always in “forbidden hours” for me, at 3 fuckin AM on a school/job night, it was something meaningful for me. My college years started with it and ended with it. I met new friends whom I love. I even had my first in person meeting of an internet friend I made through OUAT, and in a few days I’ll meet even more. It introduced me to Colin O’Donoghue, an actor I’ve loved and adored like no other (not even the aforementioned childhood celebrity crushes). I started writing and posting fanfiction for it. I accepted parts of my personality thanks to the people I’ve met through it. Despite its problems and the plethora of things I hated about it, it meant a lot to me, it’ll probably go down as the show that impacted my life the most.

Though lbr, I’ll miss that fucking pirate the most. You mighty stoopid pirate <3