1, 3, 15, 16, 17, 24 (purely because of the wording of the question), 30. good to see you're studying hard :P
1. if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to?
Read: A Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyWatch: Star Trek TOSListen to: āEven if it kills meā by Motion City Soundtrack
3. list your fandoms and one character from each that you identify with.
I feel like there arenāt many tv characters all that much like me because then nothing would ever happen (probably why I always have a soft spot for the pointless character who hangs around contributing nothing, like the third guy in the riley-forrest-āno one fucking knowsā triumvirate), but:
Buffy - Oz if you removed his ācool and talentedā-ness and replaced it with Angelās āweird dorky pretentious lonerā-ness. And some of Spikeās āIām too cool jk please love meā as wellStar Trek TOS- Spock. Just Spock. Awkward, sassy, deliberately annoying, āI love you but I need to go spend 3 years on my own pretending I donāt have emotions nowā Spock.Next Gen - weirdly kinda Data?DS9 - Odo, maybeā¦Ā Firefly - Probably SimonTorchwood - kinda Owen? + Iantoās sass
15.Ā five most influential books over your lifetime.
Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang (short story collection). āStory of your Lifeā in particular just weirdly gave me something to believe in when I really needed itA Brave New World - Aldous HuxleyHamlet - you should fucking know. I only read it this year and yes it is a play but itās just inexpressibly beautiful and complexHarry Potter - you should also know. Iām not such a big fan anymore but it meant a lot to me as a kidArtemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer. See above. Also below.
16.Ā if youād grown up in a different environment, do you think youād have turned out the same?
I donāt think anything major would have changed. I think if I hadnāt been bullied in primary school I wouldnāt be quite so socially inept. I kind of got used to the whole āstories are my only friendsā concept. Especially since in books it was always the outsider kid who got magical powers or saved the world or was special in some way, while everyone else was an undeveloped generic bully, so I got this whole idea that being a loner made me better in some way. I kind of cast everyone else as the generic bully because it made me feel better, and sometimes I still have to remind myself that popular =/= bad person.
Also I can never just accept the idea that someone might want to be my friend which is probably annoying as hell
17. would you say your tumblr is a fair representation of the āreal youā?
Buffy, Star Trek and unproductive anger about social issues. Yeah, thatās pretty much me.
24. have you ever felt like you had a āmind-meldā with someone?
As has become even more apparent since I started trying to answer these questions, I donāt even really know me very well, so not really. Iām not a very good communicator, but sometimes I feel like I get my point across and make people think about something, which is nice
30. pick one of your favorite quotes.
Can I have all of Hamlet?
As I mentioned to you earlier, Iām kinda obsessed with this at the moment:
I have seen things you people wouldnāt believe⦠Attack ships on fire off the shoulder ofĀ Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the TannhƤuser Gate. All those⦠moments⦠will be lost in time, like Ā tears in rain. Time⦠to dieā¦