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talk-refined · 6 years ago

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5 0 s asks All of them

This isnt all of them but h e r e

billie jean: what do you notice more in a song - the drums or bassline?

Hmm really depends on the song.Usually the bassline though, especially in my favourite songs.

africa: favourite 80s music video?

Probably Take On Me cause I saw ita lot on rage as a kid and I thought the mixed style was really cool.

every breath you take: who’s the first person your mind goes to whenyou hear a love song?

Whoever I’m too far gone on at thetime when I hear it akbsfkd

should i stay or should i go: how many languages do you speak?

Just the one fluently. I’ve learntItalian in the past, and still have a semi working knowledge of Indonesian forbasic conversations. I hope to get better in Indonesian at some point in thefuture.

don’t stop believin’: what’s the longest journey you’ve been on?

The car trip from my home town towhere I live currently. It takes roughly 10 hours to drive, depending onroadworks, and I travelled it often when we were in the process of moving. Thatwas staying in the same state, but it’s the longest time wise. I travelled through(over?) two states for another trip but it was only about a two-hour plane journey.

i wanna dance with somebody (who loves me): who was the last person youdanced with?

A friend of mine at a bush dance Iwent to with a small group of friends! It was very good fun.

maneater: where did you spend your last friday night?

At home working on an essay andthen cooking myself dinner to celebrate submitting it

jessie’s girl: what would you do if you found out your best friend wasseeing your ex?

That wouldn’t happen so I’m goinghypothetical, I would be fine with it unless there were specific circumstances.

born in the u.s.a.: what’s your home town like?

Hot weather, familiar, bigass riverin the middle of it. I haven’t been back in a while now so a lot of myperceptions of it are the thoughts of a child distorted from time. I identifymore with my current town sometimes, as I’ve been here since I was eleven. Butwhere I was born & spent my first eleven years is still an importantelement of my life to me.

wake me up before you go-go: how did your last date go?

Ask me on one and I’ll let you knowin real time lmao. I’ve never been on an official date.

never gonna give you up: how old were you when you joined the internet?

Uhh… I know I was thirteen when Ijoined Tumblr, but I was on the internet via other platforms long before that.Maybe eleven? That’s as far back as I can remember being on the internet butidk.

faith: when was your first kiss?

Bye I haven’t had it yet

i’m so excited: where was your first kiss?

See above lmaoooooo

take on me: could you reach the high note?

I have bad singing habits when notpaying attention, so I often sing from my head and let it get too high. When Itry I can get my voice up but it cracks all over the place on high notes.

footloose: favourite musical?

Ooooo maybe Rocky Horror? Or LittleShop of Horrors. I’m a softie for Grease too though.

9 to 5: do you like country music?

See I’d normally say no to this,and I don’t really actively seek it out in my listening habits. But my sister likesit and played it a bit when I was growing up so there’s a nostalgic elementbehind country music. I do genuinely enjoy a lot of country songs. There I saidit.

material girl: are you sentimental?

Extremely, yes

you shook me all night long: are you seeing anyone at the moment?

Nope. I’m crushing pretty heavily though(please ask me about him if you want before I talk my friends to death sdsbgdbf)

i want candy: chocolate or sweets?

Chocolate. I don’t eat sugar orprocessed stuff very much but I do love chocolate (then again… those fruit chewthings could sway it to sweets dsgdfb)

the power of love: does true love exist?

I think, through respect andcommunication, true love can be built. I don’t hold fantasy concepts of truelove because I don’t think people only have One Person and One Chance at it.But I believe in that deep & true love can exist in relationships. I’m rightinto forming meaningful human relationships of all kinds cause we’re socialbeings and it’s crucial to our wellbeing.

hungry like the wolf: what’s your crush’s favourite music genre?

My last crush (who I’m good friendswith) likes sorta indie folk music. I haven’t gotten to know my current crushwell enough yet to know his though.

walk like an egyptian: favourite song currently in the charts?

I don’t know what’s happening inthe charts rn but as for new music, I really enjoy Humanz. Strobelite is one ofmy favourites off it, brings me back to the heavily creative space I was in atthe end of 2017 :D. (and ofc if I’m speaking of new music I gotta mention how much I love Cool Patrol)

i’m gonna be (500 miles): how far apart do you and your best friendlive?

15,235 km

you spin me round (like a record): favourite modern cover of an oldersong?

Both Under the Covers albums gottatake this one. If I had to pick one song from them I’d probably go with WishYou Were Here cause Pink Floyd is damb hard to cover but they sure did that.More Than A Feeling and Rocket Man deserve mention bc of childhood reasons, andhell just. All of both albums. Thanks for tuning in I love NSP. Oh also though!I forget their name but I found a band who did a very very clean cover of OneOf These Nights that I appreciated so much cause I fucking adore the intro onthat.

how will i know: do you believe everyone is deserving of love?

Coming from my social work studentperspective, yes. Everybody is inherently worthy of respect and love. However.....my angry little protective heart would sometimes argue that a lot of people inthe world don’t deserve love.

come on eileen: have you ever written a song? if so, what was thegenre?

Well I wrote several songs withlyrics & sheet music when I was learning piano. I was only young so theyweren’t super long but they were sweet and very nature focused. I preferwriting poetry now.

living on a prayer: which was the song of your childhood?

God there were so many. Music is asuper integral part of my life, the stuff I grew up on and what I listen to(pretty much 24/7) now is something I could go on about for paragraphs. HorrorMovie was one of my favourites when I was little, the Skyhooks are one of me& my mums favourite bands.

eye of the tiger: favourite 80s movie?

I have a lot but lets go with Backto the Future

in the air tonight: do you enjoy flying?

I don’t love it but I’m not scaredof it or anything. I enjoy the excitement of new destinations it’s associatedwith, and I haven’t had bad flight experiences. I do love looking out thewindows! I think I’ll always be a bit of a kid pointing at shit I can see.

tainted love: thoughts on synthesisers/electronic drum kits/technologybased music?

I like it! Not my favourite genre,but I don’t have the strong stance against it some people take. It can producesome really cool sounds.

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i-let-the-wine-go-to-my-head · 7 years ago

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I was tagged by @rinielle

Answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs I’d like to get to know.

• Gender: Female-ish

• Star sign: Sagittarius

• Height: 5′1 and 3/4. Yes the 3/4 is important

• Time: 11:28am. It’s early and it’s a day off.

• Birthday: December 20

• Favorite bands: I go through phases, but normally I listen to older stuff - like 60’s folk and rock in English but 80’s and 90’s pop in Spanish. Currently, I’m on a Magneto kick.

• Favorite solo artist: Similar to above. Last solo artist on my playlist is John Barrowman.

• Song stuck in my head: On My Own

• Last movie I watched: Rogue One. The husband and I are doing a rewatch of all the Star Wars movies before we watch TLJ

• When did I create this blog: this one? About a year ago. There is a forgotten one from 2011 that friends irl found so I don’t use it anymore.

• What do I post: A lot of Les Mis (the original purpose of this blog) and anything that makes me laugh

• Last thing I googled: eliza coupe - I’m a little gay for her at the moment.

• Do I have other blogs: The one I never use anymore on Tumblr. I got my old live journal as well. And I’m pretty sure there might also be a Blogger??

• Do I get asks: not as often as I’d like!

• Why did I choose my url: None if the other ones I wanted were available and I used to RP Tonks so...

• Following blogs: 309. Not sure all of them are active.

• Followers: 375.

• Avg hours of sleep: I normally get at least 8. But I need 9 to feel fully rested.

• Lucky Number: Favorite number instead? 2 and 22.

• How many blankets do I sleep with: just a comforter because the husband is a nice human space heater.

• Dream job: Something where I get to help people grow and achieve their goals.

• Dream trip: Showing my husband the country I was bornin. And him showing me the country he was born in.

• Favorite food: Pupusas. So much.

• Nationality: Salvadorean... but living in the US.

• Favorite song now: Waving Through A Window. I relate to it a lot right now.

I’m terrible at tagging and I don’t want people to feel like I’m pressuring them so feel free to do it and tag me if you do!!!

#get to know me #💚❤️

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han-pan · 7 years ago

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Getting to know Han~

Rules: Answer these 90 statements and tag 20 people. ;w; I rarely get tagged in things like this, so it makes me happy that you guys want to get to know me! :D <3 @cavern-of-bells @dear-mrs-otome @itty-bitty-space-kitty why won’t it let me tag u ;___;

LAST:

1. Drink: Coffee. It’s been a rough couple nights of sleep... 2. Phone call: My mother. I was at a wine/beer festival and needed my father’s hat size for a christmas gift, and to ask if she wanted a bottle of wine. As ya do. 3. Text message: To my boo. “Woo!” 4. Song you listened to: THIS IS ACTUALLY HARD because I don’t listen to music as much as I used to? So whatever was on the radio yesterday morning on our drive home. 5. Time you cried: About a month ago when we drank 2 bottles of wine on a Thursday night and had a serious relationship heart-to-heart and there were a lot of Feelings (TM).

HAVE YOU:

6. Dated someone twice?: In a complicated roundabout way, yes. 7. Kissed someone and regretted it?: Nope. Kisses are lovely :D 8. Been cheated on?: Yep. I have a lot of Thoughts on this thing if anyone ever wonders, because it’s not always as cut-and-dry as we make it out to be before it happens. 9. Lost someone special?: Yep. 10. Been depressed?: Oh yeah, lol. 11. Gotten drunk and thrown up?: Yes but it has been quite some time! I am much more careful these days.

LIST 3 FAVORITE COLORS:

12. Pink! 13. Black. Can we call black a color? Let’s call black a color. 14. Pale melon green. Like the color of melon bubble tea.

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU:

15. Made new friends?: Absolutely! So many beautiful beebs on tumblr, and a few IRL! Made one this weekend actually. c: 16. Fallen out of love?: Nope. 17. Laughed until you cried?: I don’t think so. This has so rarely actually happened to me. 18. Found out someone was talking about you?: Nope. 20. Found out who your friends are?: I don’t have time for that crap. 21. Kissed someone on your Facebook list?: Absolutely. :D

GENERAL:

22. How many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life?: All on one, half on the other. 23. Do you have any pets?: There is Potato-Doggo, and Empurress Kitty. 24. Do you want to change your name?: Nah, I like it a lot. 25. What did you do for your last birthday?: Went to a super fun tapas restaurant that I love but is too expensive to go to regularly with a group of like 8 super awesome frands. 26. What time do you wake up?: I wake around 6:30, and get out of bed between 6:45 and 7. 27. What were you doing at midnight last night?: Having a really screwy dream. 28. Name something you can’t wait for?: Japan 2018. <3 I want to be able to have a conversation at that time. I WILL DO IT. 29. When was the last time you saw your mom?: In June, for the retirement party I planned for her. Mees her. 30. What is one thing you wish you could change in your life?: I wish I had taken a gap year between high school and college, and again between college and grad school. I needed a little more time and made a few rush decisions that I would have changed. 31. What are you listening to right now?: 80/20 Japanese chapter 5. 32. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom?: Yes. 33. Something that is getting on your nerves?: Job applications. 34. Most visited website?: Probably my emails, or Facebook. 35. Mole/s?: Uh. More than I can count. At least one cancerous. Pay attention to your body, folks! 36. Mark/s?: Of the birth-variety? Yes, 2. One is shaped like the state of New Jersey. XD 37. Childhood dream?: To be a veterinarian animal rescue pilot opera singer actress. Clearly I had commitment issues even then. 38. Hair color?: Brown. Very dark brown. It gets darker every year. 39. Long or short hair?: Shawty~ 40. Do you have a crush on someone?: Most likely, I usually do. 41. What do you like about yourself?: I’m guessing this is physically? My waist. 42. Piercings?: Just m’earlobes. 43. Blood type?: Not a clue. 44. Nicknames?: None, really. 45. Relationship status?: 13 and a half years taken? 46. Zodiac sign?: Pices. 47. Pronouns?: “Yo, bitch” 48. Favorite TV Show?: I don’t really watch TV. 50. Right or left handed?: Righty tighty 51. Surgery?: When I was born to correct a collapsed lung. I was apparently purple. 52. Hair dyed in different color?: Not currently, but did all kinds of fun things as a youngster. 53. Sport?: Golf, karate. 54. Vacation?: JAPAN 2018. Also maybe Belize 2017? 55. Pair of trainers?: Isn’t that a sweatshirt? Oh, only in Japanese? Oops. Sneakers? :P I have a pair of Nike and a pair of Saucony. I am not sneaker obsessed, but the right pair of sneakers makes ALL the difference when you walk many miles without breaking them in....worth it to me C:

MORE GENERAL:

56. Eating: Blackberries. 57. Drinking: Coffee. Didn’t you ask this earlier? 58. I’m about to: ....get back to work like a good person. 69. Want: a new job. 70. Get married?: I’d like that someday. 64. Career?: Attorney. 65. Hugs or kisses?: Yes! 66. Lips or eyes?: Yes! 67. Shorter or taller?: Taller please 68. Older or younger?: Oh god in men? Older. I am not your mother. 69 Nice arms or nice stomach?: On me, stomach. On partner, arms. *o* 70. Sensitive or loud?: Sensitive. 71. Hook up or relationship?: Both are cool if both parties are in agreeance! 72. Troublemaker or hesitant?: Me? Troublemaker. Partner? Hesitant.

HAVE YOU EVER:

73. Kissed a stranger?: Yep. 74. Drank hard liquor?: Yep. 75. Lost glasses/contact lenses?: Yep. Lost a pair of glasses for like 3 months once whoops. 76. Turned someone down?: Yep. 77. Had sex on the first date?: Nope. 78. Broken someone’s heart?: I don’t think so. 79. Had your heart broken?: Yeah. 80. Been arrested?: Nope. 81. Cried when someone died?: Of course. 82. Fallen for a friend?: I’ll count it, sure.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:

83: Yourself?: Most of the time. 84. Miracles?: Not of the religious nature, but sure. 85. Love at first sight?: Mutual crotch desires? Sure. Deeply emotional attachment? No ma’am. 86. Santa Claus?: You betcha 87. Kiss on the first date?: Why not? :)

OTHER:

88. Current best friend’s name?: James. 89. Eye color?: Hazel 90. Favorite movie?: THE PRINCESS BRIDE

lovelies that I want to do this.... @sengokugenkigirl @janeshobbies @yoolee @hanaxchan @mysticdaddies @jessrine @hajeema @letting-them-take-liberties @otome--gokoro and if you’ve already done it let me see it C:

#personal #get to know me #questions #yay

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thysurveys · 7 years ago

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730.

1: How tall or short do you wish you were? I’m fine. 2: What’s your dream pet? I don’t really have one.

3: Do you have a favorite clothing style? This may sound lame, but I really enjoy a chic “smart casual” look. 4: What was your favorite video game growing up? Sims. Always has been, always will be. 5: What three things/people do you think of most each day: Kevin, my future and . . . I don’t know.

6: If you had a warning label, what would yours say? "May freak out unexpectedly.” 7: What is your Greek personality type (Sanguine, Phlegmatic, Choleric, or Melancholic)? I don’t know. 8: Are you ticklish? I am. 9: Are you allergic to anything? I am not. 10: What’s your sexuality? Heterosexual. 11: Do you prefer tea, coffee, or cocoa? Cocoa more than any of the other two. Tea before coffee. 12: Are you a cat or dog person? I’ll say cats. 13: Would you rather be a vampire, elf, or merperson? Merperson, if I had to choose? I don’t know. 14: Do you have a favorite Youtuber? I have plenty of. 15: How tall are you? 5′2″. 16: If you had to change your name, what would you change it to? I don’t know if I would. 17: How much do you weigh? Next question. 18: Do you believe in ghosts/spirits? I do. 19: Do you like space or the ocean more? They’re both fascinating. 20: Are you religious? No. 21: Pet peeves? I have misophonia, so. There you go. 22: Would you rather be nocturnal or diurnal (opposite of nocturnal)? Diurnal. My anxiety is at its worse at night. 23: Favorite constellation? Aries, only because it’s my star sign? 24: Favorite star? The sun? I don’t really have a favourite star though it would be interesting to have one other than the “sun” lol. 25: Do you like ball-jointed dolls? I don’t really care for them? 26: Any phobias or fears? The unknown. I also have Trypophobia, feeling out of control of my own body and death. 27: Do you think global warming is real? Yeah. 28: Do you believe in reincarnation? I don’t know if I do or if I don’t, though I have watched interesting documentaries on reincarnation. Story time: my dad once told me when he was younger, my Pop and Nan were in the car with my dad, and they were driving to a place they hadn’t been to before and they were lost. My dad said to my Pop (who was driving) to turn at the end of the street and there’d be a bridge. They did, and there was a bridge. My dad knew the place, but he had never been there before in his entire life, so. I don’t know. It’s kind of crazy. 29: Favorite movie? I never know. I have way too many. 30: Do you get scared easily? Yeah, definitely. 31: How many pets have you own in your lifetime? I have had plenty of “family” pets growing up, but myself and Kevin have had two. A dog and a cat. 32: What is a color that calms you? Blue. 33: Where would you like to travel and/or live? America (which I am in March) and the UK. I mean, I would happily travel just about anywhere and everywhere given the opportunity. 34: Where were you born? Australia. 35: What is your eye color? Green. 36: Introvert or extrovert? Introvert, one-hundred percent. 37: Do you believe in horoscopes and zodiacs? No. 38: Hugs or kisses? Both. 39: Who is someone you would like to see/visit right now? I am with him right now, so no one. 40: Who is someone you love deeply? Kevin. 41: Any piercings you want? I’m okay for now. 42: Do you like tattoos and piercings? Yes, I do. 43: Do you smoke or have you ever done so? I was, once upon a time, a smoker. 44: Talk about your crush, if you have one! More than a crush. He’s my boyfriend. 45: What is a sound you really hate? I am not great with very “loud” sounds. 46: A sound you really love? Rain! I was actually talking about this the other night with Kevin. 47: Can you do a backflip? Nope. 48: Can you do the splits? Nope. 49: Favorite actor and/or actress? I really fancy Drew Barrymore. I don’t know why. I think she’s pretty badass. 50: Favorite book? Too many to choose from. 51: How are you feeling right now? Anxious. 52: What color would you like your hair to be right now? I need to recolour it again (I had a blonde balayage, but it’s quickly fading) 53: When did you feel happiest? I don’t know. I haven’t felt too “happy” recently. 54: Something that calms you down? Rain. 55: Have any mental disorders? Clinical depression, Depersonalisation Disorder, PTSD (though, this has subsided a lot), Social Anxiety, GAD. These are all diagnosed. I also think I have BPD (undiagnosied). 56: What does your URL mean? My survey Tumblr is self-explanatory, my main Tumblr is solefulness. And I don’t know. It’s inspired by the word “soulful” 57: What three words describe you the most? Creative, anxious and . . . I asked Kevin for help and he said “beautiful”, but you know. Lol. 58: Do you believe in evolution? I guess I do, yes. 59: What makes you unfollow a blog? They haven’t updated in forever or they say some stupid offensive bullshit (e.g. racism, classism, homophobia, etc.). < What they said. 60: What makes you follow a blog? Aesthetics? Lol 61: Favorite kind of person: An INFJ lol or similar. Basically, someone who has an advanced bout of empathy, understanding. 62: Favorite animal(s): Pandas and cats. 63: Name three of your favorite blogs. No, I can’t be bothered and I don’t even know if I do have a favourite right now. 64: Favorite emoticon: The “hang loose” emoticon was the first that came to mind, though I can’t say it’s my fave. Maybe a leaf (I am so lame) 65: Favorite meme: I use a lot of Full House memes. 66: What is your MBTI personality type? INFJ. < me too! 67: What is your star sign? Aries. 68: Can your dog roll over on command, if you have a dog? My dog’s dead and she never obeyed commands. She was way too hyper. < Literally my same answer. 69: What outfit out of all your clothes do you like to wear the most? A cardigan as of late. 70: Post a selfie or two? I ain’t ready for a face reveal. 71: Do you have platform shoes? Nope. 72: What is one random but interesting fact about yourself? I would say I am an INFJ considering they take up only one percent of the population, but you already know that. Let me ask Kevin. He said: “you were the first to graduate in your family. I think. I don’t know. Is that a good one?”

There you have it, folks. 73: Can you do a front flip? No. 74: Do you like birds? No. I do not like birds. They freak me out. 75: Do you like to swim? I am not crazy about it. 76: Is swimming or ice skating more fun to you? Swimming > ice skating any time. 77: Something you wish didn’t exist: Homophobia. 78: Some thing you wish did exist: Fifty large sacks of money right in front of me. > ngl. Me too. 79: Piercings you have? My ears. 80: Something you really enjoy doing: I like to watch a lot of YouTube and a lot of Netflix (or any film, really). 81: Favorite person to talk to: Kev. 82: What was your first impression of Tumblr? I don’t know. 83: How many followers do you have? Enough. 84: Can you run a mile within ten minutes? I asked Kevin and he laughed. So, I guess not. 85: Do your socks always match? I barely wear socks. 86: Can you touch your toes and keep your legs straight completely? I can do. 87: What are your birthstones? Aquamarine. 88: If you were an animal, which one would you be? I don’t know tbh. A panda or a cat. Maybe a cat. 89: If a flower could aesthetically represent you, what kind would it be? Good question. Um, a baby breath bc they’re small and simple. 90: A store you hate? I don’t know nor care. Maybe Gloria Jeans bc I once found out they don’t support gay marriage. 91: How many cups of coffee can you drink in one day? None. I can’t drink it without freaking out. 92: Would you rather be able to fly or read minds? Both scare me. Can I choose to read minds? 93: Do you like to wear camo? Not my style. 94: Winter or summer? I do love winter, but lately I’ve needed summer. 95: How long can you hold your breath for? I don’t know. 96: Least favorite person? Any evil dictator. < True. 97: Someone you look up to: Kevin at the moment. 98: A store you love? Kmart if I had to choose. Any homeware shop too. 99: Favorite type of shoes My Nike runners are my fave right now. 100: Where do you live? Aus. 101: Are you a vegetarian or vegan? If so, why? No, just because I’m not. 102: What is your favorite mineral or gem? Never really thought about it. 103: Do you drink milk? I do sometimes. 104: Do you like bugs? I don’t hate them, but I don’t go out collecting them either. 105: Do you like spiders? I am not a great fan but again, I don’t collect them. 106: Something you get paranoid about? Every thing. 107: Can you draw?: No. Unfortunately not. 108: Nosiest question you have ever been asked? I don’t know. It’s funny because via a survey, I am open to any question. But if it’s someone face to face, or away from Tumblr, I freak out and think anything is a nosy question. 109: A question you hate being asked? "Why are you quiet?” Like, I don’t know? Maybe because I am. 110: Ever been bitten by a spider? No. 111: Do you like the sound of waves at the beach? My favourtie. 112: Do you prefer cloudy or sunny days? Sunny. 113: Someone you’d like to kiss or cuddle right now: Kevin. 114: Favorite cloud type: A cumulonimbus cloud because they’re big and they look fluffy. 115: What color do you wish the sky was? Pink. You know, like when the sun sets? Or blue. Blue is calming to me. 116: Do you have freckles? I wish! 117: Favorite thing about a person: I think people in general are interesting so. 118: Fruits or vegetables? Fruits. 119: Something you want to do right now: Eat. 120: Is the ocean or sky prettier? The ocean. 121: Sweet or sour foods? Sweet. 122: Bright or dim lights? In between. 123: Do you believe in a certain magical creature? No. I don’t know. 124: Something you hate about Tumblr: I don’t really think about that to be honest. 125: Something you love about Tumblr: I find it relaxing. 126: What do you think about the least? I don’t know. 127: What would you want written on your tombstone? No idea. 128: Who would you like to punch in the face right now? No one. 129: What is something you love but also hate about yourself? Hm… Maybe how much I care about certain people/things. < Truth. 130: Do you smile with your teeth showing for pictures? Rarely. 131: Computer or TV? Computer. 132: Do you like roller coasters? They’re alright. 133: Do you get motion sickness or seasickness? Yeah, a bit. 134: Are your ears free or attached? I think they’re attached? What. 135: Do you believe in karma? Yes. 136: On a scale of 1-10, how attractive would you say you are? Mm, 3. 137: What nicknames do you have/have had? Many. 138: Did you have any pretend or imaginary friends? I did. 139: Have you ever seen a therapist/shrink? Yeah. 140: Would you say you are a good or bad influence to others? Good. 141: Do you prefer giving or receiving gifts/help? Giving. 142: What makes you angry?: People can make me angry. 143: How many languages do you speak fluently? Just English. 144: Do you prefer boys, girls, and/or non-binaries? Boys. 145: Are you androgynous? No. I don’t think I am, anyway. 146: Favorite physical thing about yourself: I don’t know. I don’t really have a lot to like about myself. 147: Favorite thing about your personality: My willingness to understand, respect and empathise. 148: Name three people you would like to talk to right now in person. No one in particular. My family, if anyone. 149: If you could go back into time and live in one era, which would you choose? I don’t know. The 50s or 60s, maybe. 150: Do you like BuzzFeed? Yeah, I do. 151: How did you meet your spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend/partner? Through friends, at a “gathering”. 152: Do you like to kiss others’ foreheads or hands for platonic reasons? No. I don’t. 153: Do you like to play with others’ hair? Not really. 154: What embarrasses you? Because I empathise a lot, I get secondhand embarrassment a lot too. So, there you go. 155: Something that makes you nervous/anxious: Every fucking thing. 156: Biggest lie you have ever told: I can’t think of anything right now. 157: How many people are you following? Not many. 158: How many posts do you have on your blog(s)? This blog? 730 when I post this one. 159: How many drafts do you have on your blog(s)? None. 160: How many likes do you have on your blog(s)? I don’t know. 161: Last time you cried and why: A few days ago. I don’t want to go into it. 162: Do you have long or short hair? Long-ish. 163: Longest your hair has ever been: Up to my bottom. 164: Why do you like, dislike, or have neutral feelings about religion? I don’t really have an opinion at all, I guess. Um. I don’t know. I just don’t care nor think about it. 165: Do you really care how the universe and world was created? I mean. It would be interesting to know, but... I don’t care. 166: Do you like to wear makeup? Yes, I do. 167: Can you stand on your hands or head for more than thirty seconds? No. 168: Did you answer the questions you were asked truthfully? Yes, sir.

#surveys #survey #question #questions #quiz #personal #bored #misc

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bitchfromtheseventhhell · 8 years ago

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tagged in some memes

Tagging anyone who wants to do any of these memes!

I - tagged by @gendryxaryatrash

-> What made you sign up to Tumblr? I used to get into gif wars with my college roommates so I needed to be able to gather.

-> What did your blog start off as being? My old blog used to be a hodgepodge of stuff I liked. When I rebuilt I put all ASOIAF content on this sideblog and my main is still a hodgepodge of stuff I like minus ASOIAF.

-> Have you ever received any creepy asks, and if so, what did they say? Not really.

-> Have you ever had a bad experience on tumblr? Yes, several, but I try not to dwell on it because at this point it was years ago and letting it still take up a lot of my thoughts is not worth it.

-> If you had to pick a favourite English monarch, who would you pick? ...I’m not sure I care enough. I guess Elizabeth I because she is one I kinda know things about?

-> Do you prefer hot or cold? Cold

-> Do you have a special skill or talent? Writing. I’m a decent singer. I can whistle through my teeth in a nonstandard whistly way.

-> Do you have a phobia of anything? Heights.

-> If you had to pick a favourite real life villain from history, who would you pick? Honestly most of the evils I see in the world are usually perpetrated by more than one person/not a person at all, so I’m not sure I know how to answer this. Like individuals who do bad is less fascinating than societal ills and how they are enabled if that makes sense.

-> Do you have any dark traits? Probably. Don’t we all?

-> If you could do anything, literally anything, like fly on a unicorn or something, what would it be? Apparating.

-> What is the scale of the worst argument you’ve ever had? IDK. I like debating, so I wouldn’t call arguments a bad thing. Fights can be brutal but fights and arguments aren’t the same in my brain.

-> What is your favourite slush flavour? I don’t think I’ve eaten enough of this to know.

-> If you could bring back any food or drink from your childhood that has been discontinued, what would it be? IDK what they’re called, but there was a strawberry candy I ate a lot that came in a tin and I can’t find it anywhere now D:

-> What is your favourite and most vivid childhood memory? When my dad was driving me and my brother in the rain and we rolled the windows down and stuck our heads out the window and my dad would drive into puddles to splash us.

-> If you could bring anyone back from the dead who would it be? Max or Rachel.

-> If you could go back to any time period and live there for a week, which period would it be and why? Nah. I have no desire to live in the past. I’d rather think about a future in which things are better than they’ve been in the past.

-> If you could visit any abandoned place to take pictures, where would it be? Not really sure. I hope it’s mountainous though.

-> Do you have any particular, peculiar interests? Bulgarian folk music counts probably

-> Do you have a creepy/scary experience that has happened to you, and what was it? Not really

-> Do you like/read creepypasta stories? If so, what’s your favourite story? Not really sure what defines creepypasta tbh.

-> If you were in the Wars of the Roses, would you be a Lancastrian, or a Yorkist? I....am not enough of an Anglophile when it comes to history to care. It’s all fun to watch on TV but I can’t think about it without my historian cap on my head and I just don’t really have enough knowledge to pick a side here.

-> What is your recurring nightmare? I don’t have recurring dreams.

-> Have you ever had a lucid dream? I think so? I’ve at least had a dream where I keep trying to wake up and then wake up but it’s still a dream and then I realize it’s a dream and try to wake up. It was really jarring.

-> If you could go to another planet, which would it be? Mars would be cool. I feel like Venus would be too warm for me.

->What is your religion, if any? I’m Jewish.

-> Have you ever got so drunk, that you did something really embarrassing, and if so, what did you do? I once vomited in one of the main auditoriums at my college during a drunken halloween concert. I became that which I scorned my freshman year.

-> Mike, Dustin, Lucas, or Will? Who??

-> Do you like Marina and the Diamonds? I’ve not aware of who/what this is.

-> Charli XCX? Ditto

-> Tag a blog that you’ve seen, and you love their posts, but have never told them, and would like to talk to them. Oof I’m not sure. I’m slow to follow people, so usually when I do it’s because I feel comfortable talking to them already--or would feel comfortable just being like “Hi I wanna talk to you.”

-> Pick one thing you like/love from the 80s. Hopscotch

-> What year were you born, and name something cool from that year. 1991 - The Fall of the Soviet Union

-> What was your blog name originally? (If you had another blog name) I went by @crossingwinter for a long time because that’s my ao3 handle (I now use it as a fic archive and reblog all my fics over there) on my old main blog. This sideblog used to be @thegoldofwinterfell after I did my rebuild.

-> Do you follow any blogs that you know the user in real life? Yes. Quite a few, actually. Thank fuck I moved most of my fandom participation over here because they don’t see it haha.

-> If you are in the ST fandom, which is your favourite song off the ST soundtrack? No.

-> Finally, give your opinion on the person who tagged you! ✨ @gendryxaryatrash is always so supportive and honestly sometimes I feel like I am spitting things into a void so I’m really grateful to have you as someone who’s always enjoying the things I make since that’s why I make it :D

II - tagged by @savannsahstark

Nickname: Some folks have called me Ceels, but it’s not that frequent.

Zodiac sign: Cancer

Height: 5'5″

Gender: female

Time right now: 11:35 a.m.

Last thing I googled: Double checking that the Soviet Union did in fact dissolve in 1991 (I get it confused with 1989 and the Berlin wall sometimes) (I’m an embarrasment to all historians who’ve studied communism :shame:)

Favourite music artist(s): the Bulgarian State Women’s Vocal Ensemble, Kitka, Jamila Woods, Chance the Rapper, undoubtedly more i can’t think of right now.

Song stuck in my head: This god help me

Last movie I watched: Sense and Sensibility

What are you wearing right now: an old Red Sox t-shirt that definitely is my brother’s and not mine but was in my drawer of clothes in NY so

Last TV show I watched: ....I can’t remember. The Good Place maybe?

What do you post: ASOIAF over here. GOT but more...curatedly.

Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff/Gryffindor

Pokémon team: Valor

Why did you choose your URL: "Not me," the Lady of Barrowton confessed, "but the rest, yes. Old Whoresbane is only here because the Freys hold the Greatjon captive. And do you imagine the Hornwood men have forgotten the Bastard's last marriage, and how his lady wife was left to starve, chewing her own fingers? What do you think passes through their heads when they hear the new bride weeping? Valiant Ned's precious little girl."

When you created this blog: 2015

Do you get asks regularly: I find that it’s either floodgates or nothing. probably because a lot of anons pile on about my responses to other anons. I think also not necessarily taking anon fic prompts slows stuff down too.

Do you have any other blogs: this question is a fucking callout is what it is.

Religious or Spiritual: Oh boy I won’t bore you all with my Thoughts about my relationship with music and Judiasm and constantly interrogating what both mean to my life.

Favourite colour: Purple

Average hours of sleep: I aim for 8. My fitbit shows that it’s more flexible than that.

Lucky number: Not sure.

Favourite character(s): Donna Moss, Leia Organa, Sansa Stark, Arya Stark (lol Sav I’m just keeping yours because Accurate)

Following: 419. Most of those are inactive.

How many blankets do you sleep with: My comforter

Dream job: Writer. I’m feeling pretty fulfilled doing some inclusion stuff at my current job though so that’s nice.

III - tagged by @baratheons

Relationship Status: Single and hunting

Lipstick or Chapstick: Chapstick

Last Song I Listened to: “Go” by the Civil Wars

Last Movie I Watched: Sense & Sensibility

Top Three Characters: Arya, Sansa, Bran. It varies from day to day what the order is.

Top Three Ships: Arya x Gendry, SanSan, and lately Jon x Dany, but I’d say that third slot revolves a lot based on my mood. The first two have been pretty solidly there for years and are unlikely to change any time soon.

#about me meme

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yuli-ban · 8 years ago

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Anarchy in Prague/Belle Grand-Mär Megapost

See, now this is a megapost. The goth one was only about two unique pictures. This one has three.

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Current theme song for Anarchy in Prague. Harkens back to the days when it was described as a “Stoner Rock Scott Pilgrim”.

Drawn by @dalf

She’s 27 at the time the story starts. She is literally on the edge of being a Millennial (I’m one of those who thinks the cut-off between Millennials/Generation Y and iGeneration/Generation Z should be 2001, but some say it’s actually 1996).

Drawn by @alouissever

If two people share a 1-Up, how would that work? Also, you can tell they’re getting close to 30 just by how stoned they look when, in fact, they’re trying to stay awake for New Year’s. I love this aspect of Anarchie, rambling about how Millennials are growing old and are no longer the dominant youth generation. In 2024 (which is 7 years away), there will be 40-something Millennials. I’ll be 30, holy fucking mother of fathers.

Drawn by @dalf

Muriel and Malfiore. Pan’s goth “girls”. Muriel’s, like, 28. However, Malfiore/Marie is 37. She’s still a Millennial, yo. 2024-37=1987. She’s a fucking ‘90s kid and she’s already growing some grays and finding the protoforms of what will one day become wrinkles.

Drawn by @alouissever

Arthur and his sister, Daria (yes, I know it was Darya; deal with it). Daria’s nonplussed about how childish Venus remains.

Drawn by @alouissever

I actually couldn’t find the bottom image for the longest time, so I think this is the first time I’ve posted it to Tumblr. See? It’s not all reposts. I kinda like how Venus looks like a ghost in the second picture, but Dalf forgot about the Saint Vitus logo! And yes, that’s a Pepper robot. I imagined that they might gain a bit more utility between now and 2024. Also, funny thing about Venus being a “hipster”. She’s actually not. She’s more of a moddie than a hipster. But since Arthur’s a hipster, she sometimes tries to be one ironically.

Drawn by @dalf

Arthur Tartakovsky, Venus’s ultra-hipster boyfriend. This was before he gained his ironic mustache. He used to be in an indie pop band in an earlier draft, but nowadays he’s still in an indie pop band. The actual change was his other hobby: before, he was a comic artist. Now he’s an indie game dev specializing in retro games and VR cyberpunk. The world of indie game devs can get hectic, especially in a tight job market. He has to deal with rival devs sabotaging each other and himself sometimes, which is why he developed electrokinetic powers.

Early sketches of the original trio. Only Venus has really changed visually. She was much less notable.

Drawn by @dalf

I already did the posts where @pan-pizza gets his nuts crushed. I see no reason why I should post them again other than to goad Pan into reblogging this megapost. Pan, do not reblog this.

Drawn by @alouissever

Drawn/animated by @spookyfishcakes

Drawn by @nicolas-px-art

Early form of Malfiore. She always wears Ed’s clothes (a la Ed Edd n Eddy), but it was much more faithful in the earliest sketches. Just ask Alouisse-Ver. Also, she used to have Daria’s hairstyle.

Muriel’s first sketch, back before she had her top hat. I created her as a loveletter to Pan Pizza and his gothosexual tendencies; Malfiore was always going to be a part of the story.

Drawn by @alouissever

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Anarchie’s still got a lotta stoner rock in it (Venus’s band and their scene mates are all either stoner rock or heavy rock), but even back in 2014 when I first created the story, I left some room for indie rock. Nowadays, they both take up an equal amount of space. If it ever becomes a movie or a cartoon, it’ll probably be the only one in history where the OST consists of Nebula, Kyuss, Radio Moscow, and Orange Goblin right alongside The Pillows, Kodaline, Arctic Monkeys, and Porno Mags. Radiohead one second, Pentagram the next.

And, for now, that’s all for Anarchie. I’ve yet to commission pictures of Kalo, Syd, Adamski, or Azura Meco, but those are coming. I’m just actually working on the story. Shocker, I know. Even I’m surprised. I just did a 30,000 word outline in about 10 days; the real rough draft should be finished by April.

And now for BGM, which is basically “Anarchie + Cyberdelic Pharmaceuticals”. The early posts here don’t show that off well, but the world will know...

Title card still pending.... I made that 3 yea— holy fuck, I made that three years ago?! How is it 2017 already?

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Pure stardream. It sounds like dreamrock, honestly. The moment I heard this, I knew I had found BGM’s BGM. No pun intended. It was either this or Stand Up.

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Belle. Belle Grand-Mär. British moddie, real name “Indira Elizabeth Jones”, elective mute, severe and antisocial, freeskating and freerunning traceause, yadayadayada. If Venus was a female Scott Pilgrim fused with Murdoc Niccals, Belle is Ramona Flowers + Haruko Haruhara + Ryuko Matoi + Garnet + a mime + Neku Sakuraba + a silent cartoon character. I’m glad I’m a writer. Try creating a silent character! You’d better have mastered visual emotion.

Aurora. Real name “Farideh Moradi”, Persian-Briton moddie, freerunning traceuse, Belle’s closest friend and whatnot. She literally got her name from the reference to the Aurora Borealis in A Flock of Seagull’s uber-80′s hit “I Ran (So Far Away)”. The 2020′s are basically the ‘80s with more cyberdelia, after all.

Bomb. Real name “Madeleine Violetta Dumont”, French moddie, actually dead and works as a psychokinetic grim reaper whenever she feels like it. Also Belle’s rival and foil. Freeskating traceuse. She was created in 2009 as the lead character in a story that was literally “JSRF: Jet Set Radio Future + The World Ends With You”. This is why she seems like someone badly took a character from each of those games and fused them together.

Drawn by @alouissever

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Parov Stelar’s beautiful little electroswing track. It’s so 2020′s. BGM has much more of a stardream atmosphere than the down-to-earth feel of Anarchie. There’s a lot more chiptune, dreamier rock, electrofunk, and whatnot. If you took the soundtrack to Super Mario Galaxy and Steven Universe, mixed it with the soundtrack to Jet Set Radio Future, and made it thrice as eclectic, you’d get something like BGM’s presumed BGM.

You may have noticed that all the characters for BGM thus far are moddies. That’s no mistake or coincidence— it’s a moddie story. It has a stronger character than Anarchie, to the point I can even call it when aspects of Anarchie “seem like something out of BGM”. Moddies are already getting started, though no one’s yet calling them moddies. But you see how vaporwave’s gotten so big? How neon and pixel art is dominating Tumblr? Seapunk and dyed hair are everywhere, everyone loves hallucinogenics, and everyone loves the ‘80s once more. Major Lazer, for the fucking win. Right now, we say that these are signs of hipsterdom. But in the 2020s, we’re going to look back and realize what it really was— the birth of the moddies. We’ve not yet reached the moddies— we still need a Transhuman Be-In, cheaper OLEDs, and a Sgt. Pepper moment for electronic music (where people stop seeing it as purely dance music). And I don’t see anyone who owns a robot like Pepper or ASIMO yet either. And while luminescent hair is definitely a thing, it’s not yet become a common thing. Nor has leaving up Christmas lights all year, or being obsessed with bright primary colors.

But we’re getting there. And the thing that will trigger the final separation between post-hipsters and moddies isn’t a Transhuman Be-In, but simply time: us Millennials are indeed growing older. I was born in ‘94, and I’m 22 going on 23. Millennials brought back hipsterdom, but ‘10s hipsters suffered a brutal blow due to the loss of Bernie Sanders and the rise of Donald Trump. Our whole zeitgeist became fragile. Hence why people are looking for harder music instead of the previously comfortably twee indie pop and nu-folk. Being vintage and authentic hasn’t helped us one bit, and the kids— those younger than ourselves— don’t believe in our ideals. They just see a blizzard. Some may mock the hair colors, but they secretly love it. They want something more than what Millennials are offering. They are loving several aspects of what’s big— aforementioned things like vaporwave, electronic music, dyed hair, cyberpunk revivalism, ‘80s and ‘90s love, etc.— but other aspects, they are eager to discard. There’s a strain of neo-futurism in the iGeneration, which isn’t surprising considering they were raised as something of a proto-cyborg generation.

And that’s the moddies in a nutshell. Kids who recognize they live in “The Future™” and wish to own it. They don’t just listen to electronic music because it’s cool; it also aids that whole sense of living in years that previous generations thought were purely sci-fi. They don’t see electronic music as just dance club/background music. They want electronic versions of prog rock and conscious hip hop. They’re more than happy to drop acid and fuck robots. They don’t love the obsession with a minimalist future with sterile colors— they want neon. Neon lights, neon paint, and a cyberdelic attitude. If that means making cities look like one giant rave, so be it. Because ha ha, they live in the Future.

You can forgive them for their incredible optimism; they’re just kids. And they want you to know it.

#Anarchy in Prague #moddie #indie #goth time #Scott Pilgrim #post-hipster #Belle Grand-Mär #hipster #2020s #neon rock #dreamrock #pixel art

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mmeaninglessnamee · 5 years ago

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Best Things 2019 list

Welcome to my best of the year list, where you get ambushed by Anime at every turn because I refuse to make a separate anime-related category because all movies are films. [Pronounce this line very snobbily]

If you’ve never read one of my best-of-the-year lists, I don’t blame you, they are usually full of garbage except for this one which you should care deeply about. Anyway, this is the best things I first experienced on the past year, which often has a lot of things that didn’t come out this year, because I inevitably miss some things and there was a lot of good media from before I was born.

Anyway, on to the list! The one thing a year I actually use Tumblr to post!

Best Movies:

There’s only two movies that make this list entirely on their own merits this year. Last year I had a top ten, but I watched significantly more movies in 2018 than this year.

Angel’s Egg

Angel’s Egg is art-house anime at its peak. There’s not so much a story here as an uneasy feeling, symbolism, and probably 30 lines of dialogue total and an extremely limited color palette. You could interpret it as about becoming disillusioned with religion, or the complete opposite and see it as a lost, obsessed soul being redeemed. Or something completely different. It’s art for art’s sake.

I inevitably have anime on my best-of lists each year, and I try to not have it over-represent the scope of things I watched each year. But I’ve seen a lot less anime than other genres I like, so there’s a huge amount of really good anime I’ve never seen. I can watch 10 anime movies in a year and they can all be pretty good because there’s just a lot of good ones from a 50-year period that I haven’t seen, while I’ve seen most good sci-fi movies and a lot of the “classics” films and pretty much left with just watching new ones that have come out recently. And it’s not like I’m not watching western animated movies, there’s just not a lot that I would put on a best-of list. While last year had Isle of Dogs and Spiderverse, this year had some forgettable sequels. Anyway, that was a long aside to start this list, but I would love to get more good entries in my favorites every year. I can only hope Star Trek directed by Tarintino actually happens.

Synechdoche, New York

– ultimately will probably never make an all-time favorites list from me, but still a very good piece of filmmaking. It’s extremely dense with layered symbolism and tons of rewatchability. Yet, I don’t really feel the need to rewatch it. It’s very good, but not the kind of good that I feel the need to sing the praises of. If you like extremely well-planned, detailed filmmaking, there are many more-glowing reviews out there for it. This is a huge favorite among film critics, and I can respect why, but I am not a film critic. I don’t get burnt out watching bad movies because I don’t watch movies I don’t think I’ll like, unless they are into “so bad it’s good” territory.

Speaking of the act of watching movies: Best theater experience: Promare

Surprise, it’s Anime again! This movie wasn’t an all-time great, but it was big and stupid and exciting, and I got to see it in a packed theater with tons of Studio Trigger fans who cheered for every reference and visual nod. And the references were great, although they sometimes were a reminder that other similar plots were done better than they were in Promare. But Promare was definitely done gayer than any of the previous shows it took its style from.

That’s all for movies. I did not watch nearly as many that I loves as last year

Best short film:

There were no short films I loved this year. I saw some decent ones, and there’s always some interesting animation from short films, but there weren’t any that stuck out as much as anything last year.

A special mention goes to Age of Sail from John Kahrs with Chromosphere and Evil Eye pictures.( This was distributed by Google Spotlight Stories, so you can easily find it online.) This story had good enough characters that at the end I was left wanting more to their stories, and the visual style was memorable as well.

Best Shows:

The Good Place

I have a lot of things to say about The Good Place, but I really don’t want to spoil the show if you haven’t seen it, so I’ll try to be brief because most of the longwinded things I could say about it have to do with its reveals and plot progression.

What I will say is that one of the great things about The Good Place is that anything could happen, and suddenly, not just in a finale at the end of a season. But what initially got me to watch the show is its strong premise. Elenore wakes up to find out she is dead, but is in The Good Place. The only problem is that she was an awful person who doesn’t deserve to be there. So, she tries to learn to be a good person before she is found out so that she can stay. The show has a lot to say about ethics, morals, and what it means to be “good”, but it’s also primarily a comedy so it’s usually not very heavy-handed about anything.

The final season of The Good Place aired in 2019, but I’m not actually caught up on it yet so I don’t know what the ending is, just that it ended.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumia

I like shows that are constantly surprising and unpredictable. I just said the same thing about The Good Place. Haruhi has a lot of faults, but makes up for them by being not just unpredictable but also very novel or sometimes just bizarre in its presentation. It has the same sense that anything could happen to suddenly change the story that The Good Place has, but in intentionally confusing ways. The two most interesting attributes of the show aren’t even its characters or premise, but two series of episodes: the first season episode order and the Endless Eight. The first 13 episodes of the show were initially broadcast completely out of order, and they are better that way. The first episode is entirely a bad student film that doesn’t even properly introduce any characters, and its backstory isn’t covered until the second season. But it’s an amazing introduction to the series. The series overall doesn’t have amazing visuals beyond some strange framing choices, but this episode also has lots of little details to sell that it’s a bad film, like camera shake and shots that aren’t entirely in focus.

The Endless Eight is the same episode eight times in a row. It’s was actually one of my favorite parts of the series, although I can see why people would loath it, especially if you were watching the show when it aired and had to wait a whole week to see the same thing happen again and again.

There’s also a silly dance with the ending theme. Every fad needs a stupid dance to go with it.

And then there’s the movie, the Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumia, which caps off the series, or at least the anime’s run, and is nearly 3 hours long. It’s actually the second-longest animated film ever made, trailing the extended cut of Final Yamato, a space opera from the 80’s, by one minute. The movie caps off the whole series, reincorporating many events that already happened in the series and showing some characters in a new light. Before the movie, I had no idea why there was an alternate-universe spinoff series about a normal version of one of the main characters, but now I completely understand it. Although the erratic pacing of the whole series may turn people off, and it is far from perfect and filled with enough cliché moments to fill a uh, something large, the moments where the story hits hard are extremely memorable.

Best web original programming:

“4K cab view - Geibi Line Hiroshima Station to Fukuen Line Fuchū Station, Japan”

Let me try to explain why a 4-hour video of railroad tracks is amazing.

1: I like trains 2: It’s really relaxing to just look at the scenery going by

3: I think that this specific video is good rather than just the large amount of transport cab-view videos in general because it’s long enough to be an experience, not just a video. That might sound corny, but you really go on a journey with this video, from city to countryside, and perhaps more strikingly from pre-dawn early morning to full daylight. I did not sit and watch this all at once, but I certainly could.

Best Music Videos:

OK Go Music Videos

Do you like cool ideas for music videos? OK Go has cool ideas for music videos, to the point that the videos are better than the music. You may remember their original hit which was a dance on treadmills. They have only got more elaborate since, with a rube Goldberg machine, a super-slow-mo video, hundreds of choreographed dancers, a car used as an instrument, and my favorite: a video shot in zero-g. To make things even better, most of their videos are in a single take which just makes them all the more impressive.

BEASTARS Opening

Opening themes to anime are basically just short music videos. Usually they aren’t too special, but I also think the vast majority of anime shows themselves are nothing special either, so that’s not saying much. However, sometime you get something really good like the Beastars OP, which in addition to having a jazzy song uses stop-motion animation for its visuals. Stop motion animation is always cool. I think it’s also thematically appropriate for a 3-D animated show to have an intro using the oldest form of 3-D animation.

And since we’re on Music Videos, let’s just go right into the next main section: Music.

Music:

Gregory and the Hawk

Gregory and the Hawk is an indie folk artist with a weird name. She sings sweet-sounding songs about troubled lives, and I like how her music sounds. It definitely won’t strike a chord with everyone though.

Not much to say about her, I just like it. Her best song is “Oats We Sow”.

Mariko Goto / Midori

This isn’t anime music. Mariko Goto didn’t appeal to me because she made music for some anime that I liked. I just feel like my best-of lists get heavy with anime-related things a lot for reasons I already discussed that back in the movies section. Anyway, Mariko Goto’s music is weird. This also includes the work of the band Midori, which she was a part of.

Midori was a jazz-punk-fusion band. That probably doesn’t bring any particular sound to your mind, but I can’t describe it well either. Mariko as a solo artist is also kind of the same genre, except sometimes. Many songs never quite find themselves coming to rest, either on a major key or sometimes even all on the same beat, while Mariko does a kind of overly-cutesy screech over the instrumentals. I would describe some of their music as sounding like a waking dream you would have while trying to rest with a fever.

I would say her best songs are “Swing”(with Midori), “Drone”, and “@HφU☆少女。。”(however you pronounce this mess) and best overall album is “299792458”

Angelique Kidjo – Remain in Light (Album cover)

A.K. is a Beninese music artist. She did a full cover album of Remain in Light, one of my favorite albums by one of my favorite bands. Talking Heads were one of the first mainstream rock bands to use (or depending on who you ask, steal) African polyrhythms extensively, and now Kidjo has taken them back. I have heard a lot of good covers from this album, most notably another entire-album cover by Phish, but this is the best one by far.

Her other, original work is okay too, but wouldn’t get on my best-of lists by themselves. Remain in Light was released in 2018, but I didn’t hear it until this year. Here��s some more music from 2018 that I didn’t hear until this year:

Revue Starlight soundtrack

Revue Starlight was a pretty good anime that aired last year. But wait, aren’t we past the audiovisual media section? Yeah, we are, because Starlight had some problems in my opinion. The soundtrack, both the original songs and the background score, were not one of the problems. The soundtrack was the best part of the show, which is why I’m putting it on my best music list. The genre is best described as modern classical. Most of the orchestration is a traditional string orchestra, but with different songs having distinct accents, like mechanical distortion, a heavy electric bass line, more traditional Japanese strings and woodwinds, or a screaming guitar solo. I think some of the songs are actually better absent of the show, because especially some of the revue songs were not used particularly well. My favorite song from the show, A Song or the Blooming of Flowers, especially got shafted in the anime by having characters talking over most of it and having a rather lackluster fight. The best pieces from the score however, Rondo Rondo Rondo and the transformation theme, were used well. But it baffles me that someone decided that songs with thematic lyrics should be spoken over with dialogue saying basically the same thing thematically as the lyrics.

The Protomen

The Protomen have a lot of musical talent and I really like how they sound… on their second album. Their first album blows. Also all of their original music is based on made-up backstory to the MegaMan video game franchise. You gotta write about something I guess. Like I said, I really like some of their tracks, but I’m really not sure if I recommend they entirely.

Of Monsters and Men – all the tracks that didn’t get radio play

Of Monsters and Men is a pretty good band. I had already heard all their songs that were widely popular (so pretty much just Little Talks) so those don’t count for being something new I heard this year. But I also don’t really care for Wars, their new song that has got radio play this year. But I really like most of the rest of their tracks, and I also love the aesthetic of the visualizers for My Head is an Animal.

And here’s some individual songs where I didn’t like the artist’s whole catalogue but I liked certain songs.

God Knows – Aya Hirano

This is a rock song from The Meloncholy of Haruhi Suzumia. (oh no we’re back to anime) Haruhi is not a music show, but it nevertheless has a music episode out of nowhere. As in two of the characters perform this song in the show with no build up to it and with one of them never having shown any musical skill, so of course she can absolutely shred on guitar. This song basically got me to actually watch the show now on my favorites list even though I knew it was just a one-off in a single episode, so I think that’s a pretty solid statement for being one of the best songs I heard this year. Aya Hirano produced some other music as well, but I don’t like anything that I’ve heard as much, which might just be God Knows having the benefit of context. Since Haruhi, she’s performed with the stage theater company that inspired the anime Revue Starlight, the music from which was also just on this list. Everything’s connected!

Girls Dead Monster

Speaking of anime music, GirlDeMo is also anime-related music. GirlDeMo is the band in the anime Angel Beats, but they also produced some real albums with additional music, not just the songs used in Angel Beats. Unlike the Revue Starlight soundtrack, this isn’t a bright spot of an okay show, it’s on this list as a stand-alone because I really like female-lead rock music. Not every song is a masterpiece, but I like some of them enough to put them on this list. Best tracks: Crow Song (this was in the first ep. of Angel Beats) and Little Braver (was not in the show, but is coincidentally the only GirlDeMo song I’ve found a Clone Hero beatmap for, so someone else has good taste as well.) Also an honorable mention to the rock cover of the Angel Beats opening theme which is performed in-universe at the start of an episode.

I think that’s all the things related to anime on this list now. There’s a lot of anime with some very good high points, but yet very few that overall come all together to make a full package that’s good all the way through. Just having one aspect of something that people like a lot is better than nothing though, but that’s why it got spread all across this list instead of being confined to movies and shows, it spreads like a sickness across the land, creeping up and night and stifling life.

Speaking of creeping up at night and stifling life:

LEATHER TEETH – Carpenter Brut

This song is a piece of heavy horror electronica, and it slaps hard. Slashes hard? The music video is about a slasher-movie serial killer, but the track has plenty of atmosphere on its own. The rest of the album is also good, but does not reach the peak of the title track. They all have very high amount of violence and sex in their videos though, so beware who you watch them around. One of them has a YouTube-friendly version where all the gore is left intact but the nudity is censored with lots of guns.

Curses – The Crane Wives

This is a good song, but I don’t like most of The Crane Wives’ catalogue as much as this one song. That’s all I have to say about this one.

The chorus is really catchy, or maybe just the singer’s smoky delivery is inherently memorable.

I Am The Antichrist To You – Kishi Bashi

This is a surprisingly slow, melancholy song, from the title you would probably expect some heavy metal. This song is carried by the vocals.

Borodin – Polovstian Dances from Prince Igor (Choral version)

Here’s something not even remotely contemporary. Did you know that this piece was originally written to have lyrics? I didn’t. Did you know that this piece is AMAZING with vocals added to it? Now you do.

Arriving Somewhere But Not Here by Porcupine Tree

This was probably the best prog-rock song I heard all year. Yeah, that’s all for this one.

Dream Sweet in Sea Major

Joe Hawley, Allison Hanna and Bora Karaca are three people I have never heard of who make very strange alternative music that sounds like it belongs playing on a phonograph, except when it abruptly shifts to some other various genre. This song got the YouTube algorithm blessing, but the band the artists are a part of, Tally Hall, apparently has some amount of online following. I’d never heard of them. The side project that produced the album “Hawaii Part II” that this song is from has an entirely Japanese name for some reason. (None of the members are Japanese) I guess if you’re making a weird side project, make it as weird as you want.

Did you know Rob Cantor (who wrote Running for your life from Shia LeBeouf) is part of Tally Hall? Now you do. He didn’t work on this song, but looking up stuff about this song was a huge rabbit hole.

25 Color Twilight from City Connection from Voez

The rhythm game Voez has some good music. I put Night Keepers, the most-featured artist, on my list last year. This particular song is a reimagining of the main theme of City Connection, a NES game where you run away from the cops with a bunch of paint dripping out the back of your car. Why? Because. I’ve played it and didn’t think it was very fun, but anyway this song is great.

HM: Aqualung – Pressure Suit

HM: Heart of Glass - Blondie

HM: Locomotive Breath – Jethro Tull

These songs aren’t Honorable Mentions because I only kind-of like them, they are HMs because I had heard them before but only really listened to them a lot this year.

Locomotive Breath is just a good song that always leaves me wanting more at the end of it. So I listen to it again and again.

Heart of Glass is just really really catchy and I love how it draws attention to its own skipped beat in the chorus. There are lots of songs that skip a beat to smooth over a song transition, but this song skips a beat to become rougher.

Pressure Suit has a story to it. I first saw the song’s music video on an MTV-style channel on a TV at a college campus cafeteria. I was in middle school at the time. The video was very memorable to me, and the TV had subtitles on it so I remembered the chorus lyrics, but there was no audio. Amazingly, I remembered this and found the song much later, and even more surprisingly actually liked it.

Games:

The Beatles Rock Band

Since we’re coming off music, it only makes sense to start with a music game. Remember Guitar Hero? The series is still going with Guitar Hero Live, but it really died out years ago. Despite that, it’s still great fun, and the popularity of Clone Hero shows that people still love the idea. Most of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games really emphasized the aesthetic of grunge and heavy metal, and had some face-melting solos and heavily technical songs. The Beatles Rock Band has neither of those things, which is a lot of why I like it. I mean, I also like The Beatles, but that’s kind of assumed since I liked a game that’s entirely their music. Even on expert mode, this game is laid back and relaxed, with some of the songs have videos that travel from the studio to psychedelic landscapes. I never owned this game when it came out, but now I bought it for $3.

Celeste

The last section to write. I have so much to say about how good Celeste is.

Celeste is by far the best game I played this year. I have a hard time loving 2-D platformers because they so often feel slippery and imprecise but demand perfection from the player. Old Mario games are icons of the genre. Mario slides off everything and needs momentum to get anywhere off a jump. Meat Boy is a game with death everywhere for the slightest mistake, but by design you slide up walls while having to be very deliberate with your jumps to get the correct arc and height. Celeste improved the controls and feel of the game to the point that it feels perfectly precise, and mistakes you make are your own, not Madeline sliding a little bit too far or a jump having to have too exact an angle. Just a single linear dash in the air opens up so many possibilities for design, but the biggest aspect is wall climbing. You can just hold on a wall for a second or climb up over the top of a ledge instead of having to be constantly jumping, and this makes long sections without ground or with difficult timing feel much more manageable.

Also the game has a strong emotional story, which is now commonplace in well-received indie games but is still a rarity in platformers. Go rescue the damsel, the end. In Celeste, you’re only fighting against nature and yourself.

Also the soundtrack is beautiful, ranging from apprehensive to reflective and tense to triumphant. First Steps is a great, memorable introductory theme. Capping things off, Reach for the Summit drives you to have to finish the game. And the b-sides remixes are nice reinterpretations of the tracks to match the reinterpretations of the levels they accompany.

Also, I’m using “Also” to start another point too much, so let’s also talk about some other games.

Quiplash

It’s a great party game that you can play with people who aren’t gamers!

The Jackbox Party Packs overall are great party games, and Quiplash is the best for people for whom the hardest part of the game will be correctly operating their phone to connect to the Jackbox server. Take this to holiday gatherings and play with family.

Ultra Fight da! Kyanta 2

The only fighting game that came out this year that I actually like. It’s extreme kusoge. Technically it came out last year on itch.io and I did play it back then, but it came to Steam and got more popular and people ran tournaments for it starting this year.

You have teams of up to three characters, groove selection per character, parries, walk-through crossups, normals with free air movement , extremely high damage and ridiculous supers, roman cancels, and all sorts of other character-specific degeneracy like jumping lows or unblockable projectiles that hit both players, and that all adds up to a very fun game.

Oh yeah, and it looks like it was made in Microsoft Paint.

Tetris

Tetris has been around for decades, but there’s always new ways to reinvent the game and I want to talk about 3 different ones I got into this year.

First, Puyo Puyo Tetris. It’s three games in one, and pretty much the standard for competitive modern tetris. Or modern Puyo. Or Swap Mode, which forces you to play both games alternating every 30 seconds, which is where the game really shines.

Then, there’s tetris effect, which is the best single-player tetris game around, at least the best available to buy normally. The Tetris the Grandmaster series is also great but only on arcade boards. Tetris Effect is the only tetris game where the graphics and soundtrack actually matter, because it’s a visual masterpiece and great game experience. However, it has no direct multiplayer at all.

Finally, if you really want multiplayer tetris but beating up to three other people at once in Puyo Puyo Tetris isn’t enough, there’s Tetris 99, the tetris battle-royale game. Because there’s basically no downtime in matches and you can start a new match almost immediately, it’s easy to play one more match for hours in this game.

These three games together are just many facets of one great game: Tetris

I also played a Tetris The Grandmaster arcade board for the first time this year. That’s another good tetris game, but even better was its full name: Tetris The Grandmaster 3: Terror Instinct. And VideoGameDunkey did a video on Tetris this year, that was great too. Tetris.

HM: Defunct

This game is great. However, it’s an HM because it’s only about an hour long with not a huge amount of extra stuff to do. But the replay value is still very high, because mastering time attacks or just moving with style is very fun. I’ve considered doing speedruns of this game, but only actually did a full (20-minute) run once.

HM: Catherine Classic

This is an HM because I have played the game before on PS3. I’ve entered tournaments for Catherine. But I never played the story mode or actually owned the game until it came to PC. This is a very unique puzzle game that is worth your time, and a type of story about actual long-term relationships that games don’t tell often. Yes, the story has character portrayals that are problematic, but most of the time that’s the point; most of the characters are kind-of awful and are unable to move beyond their past relationship issues.

Books and other writing:

The Hero with 1000 Faces (1949)

This book is all about heroic myth around the world, and more specifically about how many myths worldwide have significant similarities. If you want a really in-depth look at the Hero’s Journey, this is your book.

This book is very well-known among writers and very easy to use to compare different works. George Lucas said it influenced Star Wars, so that’s something.

Mimusubi (Blog)

This is a blog by and Englishman who lives in Japan and works for a national Shinto organization. It is all about Shinto as a religion and its place in modern Japanese society. It’s an interesting read, although it ended up being entirely useless related to the research I was doing when I found it initially. I don’t frequently read blogs, so this is a weird entry on my best-of-the-year list.

Best Theater:

‘Romeos and Juliets’ by the machine lifeforms in the amusement park from Nier Automata So, I didn’t actually go to any plays and only one concert this year so I don’t have much to say about live performances, but this bizarre identity crisis misinterpretation of Romeo and Juliet is certainly entertaining (although quite short). And like all good stories within stories, it just maybe has a lot more to do with the overall plot than you would think.

This is really just another alternate way of putting in an Honorable Mention for Nier Automata, which is a good game, but I just have a lot of problems with the gameplay part of it that keeps it off my best games list. The ending is extremely strong, but it took me 30 hours to get there and its hard to ignore that significant portion of the game, especially when the actual gameplay part was often the least-interesting aspect.

Sorry if anyone was actually watching this for theater recommendations. Since I like things that are about theater so much (see Revue Starlight also being on my best-of list), you think I would actually get to more live theater like I have previous years. The one thing I went to was a performance of Dvorak’s New World Symphony, but again, I have nothing to say about that, I’d heard the piece before so it can’t even go in “best music” since it wasn’t a mind-blowing performance. I don’t know, maybe I should have just removed this section. If you want recommendations, watch Avenue Q I guess.

Best Credits Sequence:

Here, I found an award to give Nier: Automata.

Best Memes:

SA2 Realtime Fandub by SnapCube

I’ve come to make an announcement: Here’s one final thing from this list that was from 2018 but I didn’t find until a year later, but this one didn’t really blow up until then. Eggman pissing on the moon is the single biggest highlight of this hour-long epic, but it’s hilarious the whole way through and endlessly rewatchable. Sonic Adventure 2 is a perfect source for parody for so many reasons, but the improvised character dynamics here really highlight how absurd so much of the story is. Why is NASA there? Why is the camera zooming in? This is a must-watch if you loved SA2’s corniness, as long as you don’t mind some characters swearing like wounded sailors.

Places I discovered I want to visit:

Museum Meiji-mura

Here’s a new section for this year’s list that I probably won’t repeat!

A long time ago, in a country far, far away, Frank Lloyd Wright designed a hotel. Unfortunately, the hotel was in Tokyo, Japan. It survived the 1923 Tokyo Earthquake and World War Two, but did not survive the economic realities of being a low-rise structure in downtown Tokyo, one of the densest cities on the planet. It was replaced by a much larger hotel in the 70’s.

But, the entrance building was saved and rebuilt in Museum Meiji-mura, near Nagoya, and I absolutely want to visit there if I ever go to Japan, because it’s a large collection of architecturally historic buildings from Japan, and as a student of Architecture, that would be really cool to go see.

That’s all for my list this year. I’m planning on making a video version of the list this year, but that won’t be done for a while.

#best of 2019

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ALL THE QUESTIONS!!!! :D!

We’re so annoying

1: How tall or short do you wish you were?

I wish I was a bit taller, I guess? 5′7″? 5′8″?

2: What’s your dream pet? (Real or not)

I would like a snake but I don’t know if I would be able to care for it properly. Otherwise I would love a wolfdog or a husky!!!!!

3: Do you have a favorite clothing style?

I dunno about style, but my fav outfit is my Frank shirt and a red and black plaid button down and skinny jeans. It makes me feel punk :)

4: What was your favorite video game growing up?

I’m not sure, there were a lot. Maybe Sonic Adventure Battle 2 or LoZ: Wind Waker. I loved watching my mom and brother play Resident Evil 4 but wasn’t good enough to play it myself haha.

5: What three things/people do you think of most each day:

@timelordinvalinor and food and the void that is my future

6: If you had a warning label, what would yours say?

Approach only with good reason, she doesn’t want to talk to you

7: What is your opinion on [insert person/thing here]?

I feel like the asker was supposed to insert their topic of choice so I guess I won’t answer this one haha.

8: What is your Greek personality type? [Sanguine, Phlegmatic, Choleric, or Melancholic]

I think I’m choleric if I remember correctly? Or maybe phlegmatic I don’t know.

9: Are you ticklish?

Just a little.

10: Are you allergic to anything?

Not that I know of, thankfully.

11: What’s your sexuality?

Bisexualllll

12: Do you prefer tea, coffee, or cocoa?

I like all of them but coffee, tea and cocoa in that order.

13: Are you a cat or dog person?

Both!!! I like cats a tiny bit more because of their independence.

14: Would you rather be a vampire, elf, or merperson?

Oh an elf definitely.

15: Do you have a favorite Youtuber?

I dunno if Griffin McElroy counts as a youtuber but I’m going to go with him.

16: How tall are you?

5′5″

17: If you had to change your name, what would you change it to?

Hmm. I don’t know. Maybe Aurelia? Yeah, I’m Roman trash.

18: How much do you weigh? [Only ask this if you know the user doesn’t mind!]

125?? Last time I went to the doctor haha.

19: Do you believe in ghosts/spirits?

Yah

20: Do you like space or the ocean more?

Space!!

21: Are you religious?

Just barely…

22: Pet peeves?

When people refuse to listen to the other side of the argument or when people play devil’s advocate just to get someone riled up

23: Would you rather be nocturnal or diurnal [opposite of nocturnal]?

As much as I wish I could be nocturnal, I think I would need to be diurnal.

24: Favorite constellation?

Ursa Minor?? I dunno. I am not adept at constellations.

25: Favorite star?

Polaris, I’m boring.

26: Do you like ball-jointed dolls?

No…..???

27: Any phobias or fears?

Emetophobia :///// When someone throws up I freak the fuck out. I think it’s because I watched The Sixth Sense when I was really little and there’s that one scene…. I actually very much dislike most bodily functions.

28: Do you think global warming is real?

It is quite real.

29: Do you believe in reincarnation?

I like the idea of it. But I honestly don’t think I’ll ever really know until I get there.

30: Favorite movie?

The Fifth Element!!!

31: Do you get scared easily?

I would say average. Not super easily but I do get scared sometimes.

32: How many pets have you own in your lifetime?

33: Blog rate? [You’ll rate the blog of the one who’s asking.]

999999/10

34: What is a color that calms you?

Pale green for some reason

35: Where would you like to travel and/or live?

Ireland and I would love to go back to Rome.

36: Where were you born?

Texas

37: What is your eye color?

Dark brown

38: Introvert or extrovert?

Introvert all the way

39: Do you believe in horoscopes and zodiacs?

Not really but they’re fun to read!

40: Hugs or kisses?

Both are great but kisses are very very good

41: Who is someone you would like to see/visit right now?

@timelordinvalinor ??

42: Who is someone you love deeply?

My mom. I would probably be dead without her.

43: Any piercings you want?

I don’t really care about piercings.

44: Do you like tattoos and piercings?

Tattoos yes!!!!! Piercings, I don’t have an opinion one way or another.

45: Do you smoke or have you eiver done so?

I assume this means cigarettes and nope.

46: Talk about your crush, if you have one!

*furious blushing*

47: What is a sound you really hate?

I can’t think of any right now.

48: A sound you really love?

Guitar!

49: Can you do a backflip?

Nope

50: Can you do the splits?

Nope

51: Favorite actor and/or actress?

Don’t have one

52: Favorite movie?

The Fifth Element

53: How are you feeling right now?

Tired

54: What color would you like your hair to be right now?

I like my hair the color it is

55: When did you feel happiest?

It used to be at concerts but I don’t know any more

56: Something that calms you down?

Listening to music

57: Have any mental disorders? [Only ask this if you know the user doesn’t mind!]

Gotta love that social anxiety

58: What does your URL mean?

Title of a Frank Turner song

59: What three words describe you the most?

Quiet, funny, caring

60: Do you believe in evolution?

Yes

61: What makes you unfollow a blog?

Not interested in the content anymore

62: What makes you follow a blog?

Good content

63: Favorite kind of person:

Someone who is kind and understanding and tries to make the world around them a better place

64: Favorite animal(s):

Cats, wolves

65: Name three of your favorite blogs.

@timelordinvalinor @awkwardlytimednosebleed @littlerogueprincess

66: Favorite emoticon:

Don’t have one

67: Favorite meme:

Don’t have one. My favorite vine though is that one with the guy stuck in his kayak and he’s like “Saruhhhh help meeeee” cracks me up EVERY TIME

68: What is your MBTI personality type?

ISTJ

69: What is your star sign?

Taurus

70: Can your dog roll over on command, if you have a dog?

No, they’re both idiots haha

71: What outfit out of all your clothes do you like to wear the most?

Oh I answered this earlier. See #3

72: Post a selfie or two?

Mmmmmm I don’t look great right now haha

73: Do you have platform shoes?

74: What is one random but interesting fact about yourself?

I can play bass guitar??

75: Can you do a front flip?

Nope

76: Do you like birds?

They’re okay.

77: Do you like to swim?

Sure

78: Is swimming or ice skating more fun to you?

Ice skating!

79: Something you wish didn’t exist:

Racists

80: Some thing you wish did exist:

Dragons

81: Piercings you have?

None

82: Something you really enjoy doing:

Playing video games

83: Favorite person to talk to:

@timelordinvalinor

84: What was your first impression of Tumblr?

I joined like two days before Mishapocalypse. I was like “what the fuck is this”

85: How many followers do you have?

102

86: Can you run a mile within ten minutes?

Doubtful, maybe around 10 minutes

87: Do your socks always match?

Yes

88: Can you touch your toes and keep your legs straight completely?

Yes

89: What are your birthstones?

Diamond

90: If you were an animal, which one would you be?

A wolf maybe

91: If a flower could aesthetically represent you, what kind would it be?

Daisy?

92: A store you hate?

Not a big walmart fan

93: How many cups of coffee can you drink in one day?

I’m sure I could drink a lot but I don’t think I’ve ever had more than 2

94: Would you rather be able to fly or read minds?

Fly

95: Do you like to wear camo?

96: Winter or summer?

Winter

97: How long can you hold your breath for?

Not very long

98: Least favorite person?

Donald Trump?

99: Someone you look up to:

Meg White

100: A store you love?

I like Whole Foods

101: Favorite type of shoes

Converse?

102: Where do you live?

Texas

103: Are you a vegetarian or vegan? If so, why?

I’ve considered it in order to be more healthy, but no

104: What is your favorite mineral or gem?

Fire opal or black opal is pretty damn cool

105: Do you drink milk?

Not regularly

106: Do you like bugs?

Not really

107: Do you like spiders?

I appreciate them from afar

108: Something you get paranoid about?

My future

109: Can you draw:

Nope

110: Nosiest question you have ever been asked?

I don’t know

111: A question you hate being asked?

Why are you so quiet?

112: Ever been bitten by a spider?

Don’t think so

113: Do you like the sound of waves at the beach?

Yeah!

114: Do you prefer cloudy or sunny days?

Depends on my mood

115: Someone you’d like to kiss or cuddle right now:

116: Favorite cloud type:

There was this one time in middle school where the clouds literally looked like mountains. I don’t know what kind of cloud that was but totally that

117: What color do you wish the sky was?

Gray skies are cool?

118: Do you have freckles?

They aren’t super dark but yes so many all over lol

119: Favorite thing about a person:

Their smile or laugh

120: Fruits or vegetables?

Fruit

121: Something you want to do right now:

Be at home

122: Is the ocean or sky prettier?

Ocean

123: Sweet or sour foods?

Sweet

124: Bright or dim lights?

Dim

125: Do you believe in a certain magical creature?

The fair folk? I guess?

126: Something you hate about Tumblr:

Nazis and terfs

127: Something you love about Tumblr:

All the cool artists

128: What do you think about the least?

How the heck should I know

129: What would you want written on your tombstone?

No idea

130: Who would you like to punch in the face right now?

A nazi or Donald Trump or both. I have two hands.

131: What is something you love but also hate about yourself?

I am a very naive person by nature. I think that makes me more optimistic about people but then I get taken advantage of :))))

132: Do you smile with your teeth showing for pictures?

Sometimes

133: Computer or TV?

Computer

134: Do you like roller coasters?

Not really

135: Do you get motion sickness or seasickness?

Yes :(

136: Are your ears lobed or attached?

Attached

137: Do you believe in karma?

138: On a scale of 1-10, how attractive would you say you are?

4? 5?

139: What nicknames do you have/have had?

Rach, Rachie, my parents call me “petey” sometimes like sweet pea

140: Did you have any pretend or imaginary friends?

One named Ditto when I was like 4. I think I watched too much Pokemon.

141: Have you ever seen a therapist/shrink?

Once

142: Would you say you are a good or bad influence to others?

Good

143: Do you prefer giving or receiving gifts/help?

Both

144: What makes you angry

Ignorant people, rude people, people

145: How many languages do you speak fluently?

146: Do you prefer boys, girls, and/or non-binaries?

I don’t think I have a preference really

147: Are you androgynous?

I try to be, but I’m not very good at it

148: Favorite physical thing about yourself:

My hair color

149: Favorite thing about your personality:

I try to be really caring

150: Name three people you would like to talk to right now in person.

These are repeating

151: If you could go back into time and live in one era, which would you choose?

Early 1920s would be interesting. Or ancient Rome!

152: Do you like BuzzFeed?

Sometimes

153: How did you meet your spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend/partner? [If you have one.]

Don’t have one

154: Do you like to kiss others’ foreheads or hands for platonic reasons?

155: Do you like to play with others’ hair?

Yeah!

156: What embarrasses you?

Everything

157: Something that makes you nervous/anxious:

Also everything

158: Biggest lie you have ever told:

Dunno

159: How many people are you following?

254

160: How many posts do you have on your blog(s)?

4,059

161: How many drafts do you have on your blog(s)?

162: How many likes do you have on your blog(s)?

2,406

163: Last time you cried and why:

a few weeks ago when I learned my old orchestra teacher died

164: Do you have long or short hair?

Short

165: Longest your hair has ever been:

To the middle of my back

166: Why do you like, dislike, or have neutral feelings about religon?

I sort of like it because it makes people feel grounded and loved in ways they might not be able to get otherwise

167: Do you really care how the universe and world was created?

Not really

168: Do you like to wear makeup?

169: Can you stand on your hands or head for more than thirty seconds?

170: Did you answer the questions you were asked truthfully?

I tried to

#campfire talks

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