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if someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to? This is going to be a fairly long list, I think. If you really want to understand me, try watching The Hobbit – not the newer live action movies, the old Rankin Bass ones. There’s a line in there – “To go and see the great mountains, and hear the the pine trees and waterfalls – to wear a sword instead of a walking stick – just once.” I remember hearing that line when I was in eighth grade and I haven’t spent a spring or autumn since without getting the overwhelming urge to just get up and go. I still love that version of the dwarves’ song best. Try watching Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, too. One of Eowyn’s lines says everything when she’s asked what she fears: “A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them, and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire.” I won’t get into it much but suffice to say the older I get the more I understand her. Also watch the intro song/narration from The Sword in the Stone and Beauty and the Beast, as those were both favorites of mine. As for reading material, the Harry Potter books with particular emphasis on the third one, which I loved so much I literally wore the color off of the cover of my first copy. Also the Belgariad – go read that. To listen to: honestly, I love music so very much that we’d be here forever if I told you every song I’ve ever cried about/put on repeat over and over again, but go listen to Heather Dale’s music, Loreena McKennitt, and Seanan McGuire for starters.
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do you like your name? is there another name you think would fit you better? Honestly, I’ve never been terribly fond of my name, if only because the full version perpetually sounds like it belongs to a little girl and I really don’t know many adult women with the same name who don’t shorten it to Meg for that reason. That, and it seemed like every third girl was named the same thing all through school.
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do you care about your ethnicity? Only insofar as I understand that it grants me a lot of privilege that I need to be aware of.
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