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Amortentia: Talk about 3 things you love. / Babbling Beverage: what kind of person are you when you’re drunk/hyped up on caffeine? / Cure for Boils: Write about three pet peeves. / Invigoration Draught: how do you wake up in the mornings? / Wolfsbane: What’s the biggest change you’ve experienced in the past year?

aww, thank you friend! and thank you particularly for copy/pasting the questions – clearly you understand what “brain going fzzt” means!

Amortentia: Talk about 3 things you love: I just – really love Tolkien’s works, you know? I remember seeing and reading The Hobbit when I was about 12 or so and just falling in love completely and that never went away. There’s just something about that world that feels right and good and that I just understand better on some level than the one I live in. idk – I think 12-year-old me heard the dwarves’ song and went “welp, guess I’m ruined then.”

I also love music. For someone who gets overstimmed from noise as easily as I do, that’s kind of odd, but it’s true – I’m an absolute snob about harpsichord vs the wrong kind of piano music (Schubert, I’m looking at you, pal). Generally I’m really just all about instruments from before the mid-18th century or so – which of course makes my love for Black Sails all the more fierce because hurdy. fucking. GURDY.

A year ago I probably would have said that I love books and to some degree it’s still true, but honestly I’m starting to wonder if I love books or if I was just a spectacularly lonely child looking for something to cling to and landed on it in the form of books and their worlds full of people I could pretend to be who weren’t lonely or ignored, so… yeah, there’s that. Um – I love pizza? Kind of a lot. Kind of probably too much but man – cheese on bread with delicious tomato sauce in between. With mushrooms. That. Delicious.

Babbling Beverage: what kind of person are you when you’re drunk/hyped up on caffeine? Well, I’ve never actually been drunk. I’ve most definitely been hyped up on caffeine though and I can say categorically that the more caffeine I have, the less friendly I become, probably because that much caffeine tends to go with lack of sleep. I also develop a nice eyelid twitch. I genuinely have no idea what I’m like under normal circumstances having chosen actively to consume too much alcohol or caffeine – although the one time I did get possibly a little tipsy while on vacation recently, it was kind of a gigglefest

Cure for Boils: Write about three pet peeves – oh woof. Um – I live in the US, so there’s… so much opportunity for people to be annoying in little, stupid ways here. Particularly though, I really hate being asked “why are you so quiet? Are you ok?” Yes, I’m ok. No, I don’t feel the need to talk all the time. It’s an irritating question for any introvert. For some reason I hate people leaving the dishwasher door open, and I get kind of peeved when people pile laundry up outside the hamper instead of putting it in, but only if it’s going to block a path to another room. 

Invigoration Draught: how do you wake up in the mornings? – I used to answer this with “badly, with a great deal of grumbling.” I’m getting a lot more sleep these days though, so now the answer is “in stages, with a great deal of rolling over and going back to sleep involved.” Really, though, I usually turn my lamp on, get my chromebook, and scroll tumblr until I’m ready to face leaving my bed.

Wolfsbane: What’s the biggest change you’ve experienced in the past year? This has been a year full of nothing but change for me. In the past year, I’ve changed jobs, I’ve changed towns I work in, I’ve met someone I now consider nothing less than a sister, and I’ve plucked up the courage to go on international travels on my own. it’s funny what happens when you get to the age of 29 and realize that you’ve been miserable for ages and things need to change.

Identity ask: 3, 15, 25

3.
list your fandoms and one character from each that you identify with. 

Tolkien – As mentioned in a different ask for someone, Eowyn is my girl. She spends most of her younger life caring for her people, tending to her duty. She’s a fighter, and she gets to be at peace with someone who loves her for who she is at the end of her character arc.

Black Sails – Miranda, so much. She likes books. So do I. She loves music. Same. And, like her, I feel like I’ve spent too much of my life stuck in one place, coming behind someone willful and stubborn, picking up the pieces when they get into trouble and giving advice they don’t always listen to even when they possibly should.

15.
five most influential books over your lifetime. – oooh, a tough one!

1. Lord of the Rings. I know, I know, but it really was incredibly important to me growing up, movies and books both.

2. Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint. Have I mentioned that I love fairy tales – the old ones, I mean, that were terrifying and fascinating by equal measure? This book has all of that.

3. Harry Potter: every one of them except for 5 and 7, because honestly I just wasn’t fond of those two. Special mentions go to three and four, though. Some of those characters got me through a really rough patch in my life and I’m grateful for that even if I wish I hadn’t had to learn what they taught me.

4. A Haunting in Williamsburg. Ok, look, I know this is dumb, but I’m reasonably certain this book got tiny me into history and colonial American history in particular, and two history degrees later, I’d say it was probably fairly important.

5. The Odyssey. I have no idea why I loved it so much as a kid but it’s the reason I did a minor in classical studies in college and given that it’s one of the few Greek epics that has a semi-happy ending, I suppose I’m really not surprised at myself. 

25.
could you live as a hermit?

That absolutely depends on in what respect. In the respect of never seeing people in person and having probably a great deal of silence? Oh hon, that’s my life now when I get a choice. Also, it would depend on how long I’d be expected to do it, because while I may be the introvertest introvert ever, even I need contact sometimes.