#i often prefer film bc it gives this sort of. i dunno. it looks less real so it feels more real

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that thing about how autistic people are super sensitive to changes in recipes of ready-made food but its about me and unannounced camera switches

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@hellokibby tagged me and I’m in the mood so LESGO

Directions: Answer 11 questions, tag 11 people, and then come up with 11 questions for your people to answer. 

1. What is your ultimate pizza, you know topping, crust, sauce, and anything else that describes it. I grew up on Long Island and while I suspect the 22 years (jesus) since I moved to the west coast has both changed my tastes somewhat and also added some rose-flavoured glasses to my recollection, meatball pizza (with red/tomato sauce and the typical NY crust) was suuuuuper good.  There’s a place here in Bend that’s pretty good too, with a white/alfredo sauce, chicken, and pineapple and it makes me very happy every time I taste it, so I’m not sure at this point which I’d prefer.  Combination of both, probably—not a huge fan of tomato sauce these days, but meatball and white seems as awkward to me as pineapple and red, so idk.  Then again, 10 Barrel’s white with chicken, pineapple, and ground beef was pretty good and the only reason I don’t do that combo with Raganelli’s is bc they don’t have the ground beef (iirc), so SHRUG

2. What if your favorite board game, and why? I... am not entirely sure I have one?  Monopoly is the board game I’ve played most, but I don’t often have opportunities for board games, especially less “classic” ones, haha.

3. Is there any fictional character you particularly related to growing up? Um.  After moving to California but just before my weeb stage, I was really into Sailor Moon.  Like, really into it.  Sailor Jupiter in particular was like, my thing—she was taller than everyone else and that was occasionally a problem for her, and she had to switch schools and she was dealing with people being not-nice to her and she had brown hair like I did, and so on.  There was a couple years there where I convinced myself (and to some extent, everybody else) that “Lita” was one of my middle names; looking back I’m pretty sure I bought into that more than anybody else did, but that lasted a long-ass time so y’know :x

4. What is your first Halloween costume that you can remember wearing? What is your most recent and most importantly what is your favorite? Remember wearing?  Tails from the Sonic franchise, age 6-7ish.  First one I know I wore was Elmo, but I was like three at the time so I don’t personally remember it, but I definitely remember my mother “helping” me make a Tails costume a few years before we moved; it was made out of that kind of generic plain linen/cotton cloth that’s a little bit itchy until you run it through like twelve gallons of fabric softener, and the tails were very heavy and bogged the whole thing down.  My most recent is harder, because I think the most recent was seventh or eighth grade (which would have been like, 98-99) when I went to school dressed up as Vegeta from DBZ.  I got a lot of shit from my classmates for that one, but whatever I got a lot of shit from them constantly so fuck ‘em in retrospect.

Somewhere between Tails and Vegeta was a Sailor Jupiter costume, which I also got a lot of crap about (large fat girl in a short skirt walkin’ around your neighborhood, ooooh lock the doors she’ll jiggle you to death >:\) but at the time I’m pretty sure that one was my favourite; I remember wearing the skirt itself around the house afterwards and enjoying the way the pleats moved.  It wasn’t very comfortable (Halloween was cold out that year, and also it was made of that same type of fabric as Tails) but y’know.

5. If you could live in any film genre which one would you choose? What would be your role in this reality? Romanticized/utopian high fantasy, definitely.  Gotta be the romanticized kind tho, cos “realistic/gritty” high fantasy is like, woo I’m in exactly the same boat as now but without toilets and even less access to healthcare.  Granted, I’m super unimaginative so I suspect that would be my role regardless of genre, background serf doing exactly what I do now but with a wardrobe change.  Fantasy’s got the best wardrobes though so that’s fine.

6. Do you collect anything? if so what is your favorite thing in that collection? I don’t collect much IRL anymore except art and craft supplies, which get hoarded forever and rarely used.  It’s not a case of “they’re too expensive to use” or anything either, it’s just I never really see a good opportunity to whip out, for example, the giant matte acetate sheets I inherited from my mother when she stopped doing old school freelance graphic design stuff or the remnant of neon animal-print quilting cotton that would make a fantastic T-shirt if it was of an appropriate stretchiness and not, you know, quilting cotton.

In World of Warcraft I collect all the things you can collect in the collections nowadays—pets, mounts, toys, transmog appearances.  Even prior to any of the collections though, I collected shirts, and I own every shirt and shirt appearance available to players in the game (there’s one that Wowhead lists as having been in the game that I don’t own, but I’m reasonably certain that was a TBC beta-only shirt that never made it to live servers and have never seen any evidence to the contrary—it certainly wasn’t equipped on freshly-created blood elves who were supposed to have it, anyway).  My favourite shirt that I never get to use in transmog is the Trapper’s Shirt, previously called the Thug Shirt, which was the shirt that troll rogues were created wearing prior to... I think it was Cataclysm that all those shirts turned into chest pieces instead.  It’s not the most useful of the shirts available atm (that would probably be the Floot-Tooter’s Tunic, which is as close as we can currently get to a black turtleneck), but it’s aesthetically pleasing and I like it a lot.

7. What is your DnD alignment? Do you have any evidence to support this claim? Oof I’m bad at alignments.  I’d say probably Neutral Good-ish, leaning towards Lawful?  Breaking the rules mostly makes me anxious as hell, unless I’m really angry or the particular rule in question is exceptionally stupid.

8. When you were 10 what career did you think you would pursue? I dunno about when I was ten (I was still recovering from moving cross-country and losing all my friends and not having made any new ones yet), but I really only remember ever wanting to be an animator and artist.  Got on the path to do that at some point too, though it ended up not working out for a variety of reasons. Ten may have been the year I wanted to go into theater instead, but I have this very vivid memory of my mother watching a movie about auditions (I’m hesitant to say it was A Chorus Line but it may have been) and the lady I was rooting for got like, completely fucked over in some way that I can’t recall.  Whatever it was, it scared me away from anything bigger than community, lol :x

9. Do you have any fictional ship you really wish would happen even if it doesn’t make sense in canon? What is it, I wanna know. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm see one of my things about ships is that they have to make sense, unless we’re talking total crackships like Loken/Mal’Ganis.  I had an elaborate theory for how Chin Isou and Dokugakuji (from Gensomaden Saiyuki) could know each other and I sort-of shipped it, but I don’t remember exactly what all my reasoning was, and I’m no longer in a place in my life where I feel like I have to ship things.

10. Which Ninja Turtle or Power Ranger were you? Unless you were a person on a different team, then what team? Donatello was my turtle, and the Yellow Ranger was my jam (until she was replaced, then I think my affections went more pinkish).

11. If you could pick any Muppet to be roommates with who would you choose? Bonus points again why? Rowlf, probably.  I dunno, Kermit seems like the logical roommate but I think he and I would drive each other crazy (we both make that scrunched-up hand-face all the time, y’know? :P).  Rowlf just seems like he’d get along without fuss, and also he’s a chill talking piano-playing dog-thing so?

Optional tagging for @damantru​, @dundee998​, @angryfuturerobot​, @baronberserker​, @unlimitedgoats​, @amongthegentlymad​, @delphina2k​, @astrakiseki​, @bellamop​, @celestialmayhem​, and @grimmhooke​—I know y’all’ve got more important and/or interesting things you could be doing with your time so let’s try and give you more procrastination tools eh? :P  good plan xella A+ can’t go wrong

Anyway feel free to answer or not at your own discretion and/or whim!

1. Do you speak more than one language semi-fluently?  Are you interested in (or working on) learning more languages than you currently know?

2. When you’re having a down/blah day, what’s something that’s likely to make you feel slightly less shitty?

3. Are you an egg drop, hot & sour, or won ton soup kinda person?

4. If you wanted to order mixed vegetables, some sort of optional meat, and soft noodles at a chinese restaurant, what would that be called in your region? (this:)

5. What are your top five most-used spices/condiments?

6. If you’re cooking just for yourself, are you more likely to eat something quick or prepare a “full” meal?

7. What did “Exit Only” mean when seen on a road sign in the area you grew up?  Is it different where you live now?

8. Is there a word that, no matter how many times you try, you can never spell correctly on the first attempt?

9. How would you characterize your online “voice”?  Do you have different ways of typing for different situations, or do you “talk” the same way on Tumblr that you do on Twitter or Skype/Discord?

10. What was your least favourite fashion trend of the last few* years?  What do you want to come back in style? (*few = probably from like 2000 to now bc I have no sense of time lol)

11. If you had to choose only one, who would be your favourite character of yours (original or fan, idc)?  What are they like?  Describe them, I want them, give them to me!