Is this a knife I see before me?
Name: Erin
Age: 17
Location: Philadelphia
Birthday: 10/19/89
Zodiac: Libra. Snake if it's the Chinese Zodiac.
Gender: Female
Orientation: Straight, though right now I have no interest in romantic relationships. Unless it's books.
Lineage: Mostly Irish, but I have Canadian, Hungarian, and a pinch of German roots. Also, the place in Hungary my ancestors are from is now Serbia, but I don't think that makes me Serbian.
•Behind the Mask•
Decribe yourself in 5 words: Introspective, strange, childish (in a good, love of the world kind of way), paranoid, and uh... verbose.
Likes: reading, writing, playing video games, the occasional RP, listening to music, hanging out with my friends and doing the aforementioned, trying to understand classic literature, admiring nature, staring at clouds while in a backseat and imagining epic things.
Dislikes:large groups of people, ignorance, general asshattery, war, abortion, Republicans, Democrats, thinking about the future
Talents: Music, writing, reading
Hobbies: see above. Also hanging out with friends, video games, and manga.
Favorite color: Purple
Favorite Food: Mozzarella Sticks
Favorite Movies: Fight Club, Say Anything, Casino Royale, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Beetlejuice, X-Men Trilogy, and V For Vendetta. Duh.
Music: Everything. Absolutely everything, and that INCLUDES rap and country. Old country, though, the gritty stuff. Anyway, one minute I'll be listening to Morrissey, the next it'll be Mussorgsky. From Sonic Youth to Saint-Saens, from Kraftwerk to Kanye West, The Arcade Fire to AC/DC, Bauhaus to Billie Holiday, and so on. I have songs in German, Italian, French, Spanish, and Japanese besides English. Some Gaelic, too.
Phobias: Unfulfilled life, painful death if the aformentioned is involved, depression, tornadoes, planes crashing, open places in the dark.
Goals: To write a universally respected novel, but if not that, any novel that will change the life of at least one person. To truly live, to be really free, to love, and to just generally feel fulfilled.
Give song lyrics that describe you:
I'd like to drop my trousers to the world
I am a man of means (of slender means)
Each household appliance
Is like a new science in my town
And if the day came when I felt a
Natural emotion
I'd get such a shock I'd probably jump
In the ocean
And when a train goes by
It's such a sad sound
No ...
It's such a sad thing
I'd like to drop my trousers to the Queen
Every sensible child will know what this means
The poor and the needy
Are selfish and greedy on her terms
And if the day came when I felt a
Natural emotion
I'd get such a shock I'd probably jump
In the ocean
And when a train goes by
It's such a sad sound
No ...
It's such a sad thing
And when I'm lying in my bed
I think about life
And I think about death
And neither one particularly appeals to me
And if the day came when I felt a
Natural emotion
I'd get such a shock I'd probably lie
In the middle of the street and die
I'd lie down and die ...
Oh, oh
The Smiths - Nowhere Fast
•This or That•
Hero or villain? I prefer anti-heroes. Heroes usually fit this now long-phony archetype of something bordering on sexism, that or they just have a flat character that's not nearly as interesting as someone conflicted by theirs beliefs and things around them. Same goes for villians. Besides, every villian believes that they are the hero.
Past or future? Everyone should live in the present, actually. I tend to dwell on the past, however, and that, sadly, affects my future.
Water or fire? At least one can swim through water, and I don't like getting burnt.
Wisdom or knowledge? Wisdom far outscores knowledge in depth and longevity. However, most people in this world have neither.
Reality or fiction? You know, in my reality, fiction tends to blend in with it. The value of living in a shell is immeasurable.
Simplicity or complexity? Simplicity. If the world was simple, there would be no horrendous conflict.
Cautious or brave? Well, the old cliche is that discretion is the better part of valor.
•Ideas are bullet-proof•
A paragraph on something political you feel strongly about:
I don't know if it's political, per se, but it certainly filters into politics. As stated in my dislikes, I am far from fond of ignorance. I despise it. I watch it fall from the mouths of my country's youth on a daily basis, and not rarely does it breach the lips of adults. No one bothers to learn any longer. They take everything for face value, putting trust in foolish people or things, with the moronic belief that their freedom will never be taken from them. Democracy is far from a stone, in fact, it is more like a thatched roof cottage. The denizens of the village, however, poorly maintain this cottage, and it would easily blow over in a storm. They know nothing of international affairs or plights, until the media reports on them, usually erroneuosly. The white trash mentality has spread from the backwaters into the urban areas, and the minorities tend to do nothing to defeat the stereotypes holding them down. America is in a catatonic state from the fat of its land, drunk on its own prosperity. The status quo is God. Innocence is shunned like a slovenly Amish woman. Anyone who deviates from it will be shot, burned, and their ashes spat upon and put in a landfill. We complain about extremism, when it exists in our own culture! Left wing, right wing, it's all the same. They hunger for dollars, and the plebian majority suffers, though they are too sedated on the rich man's scraps to bother rebelling. As George Orwell said, "If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles. ... Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
Uh... sorry. Got a bit carried away.
•V for Vendetta•
Favorite character: V. I like his ambiguity in the graphic novel more than his clear protaganism in the movie, though.
Least favorite character: Lewis Prothero, aka the Voice of London. I hate blowhards.
If you were given a chance to look behind V's mask, would you? Hm... no, that kind of ruins the mystery of it all, now doesn't it?
Would you have joined V's revolution? Of course. In a culture like that, the only thing you have to lose is your life, anyway.
One or two pictures of yourself please. If you have none, you can describe how you look:
These are from a New York trip I went on with my friend over the summer, and my hair's a bit shorter now, but I look basically the same. Without, you know, red eyes.
Age: 17
Location: Philadelphia
Birthday: 10/19/89
Zodiac: Libra. Snake if it's the Chinese Zodiac.
Gender: Female
Orientation: Straight, though right now I have no interest in romantic relationships. Unless it's books.
Lineage: Mostly Irish, but I have Canadian, Hungarian, and a pinch of German roots. Also, the place in Hungary my ancestors are from is now Serbia, but I don't think that makes me Serbian.
•Behind the Mask•
Decribe yourself in 5 words: Introspective, strange, childish (in a good, love of the world kind of way), paranoid, and uh... verbose.
Likes: reading, writing, playing video games, the occasional RP, listening to music, hanging out with my friends and doing the aforementioned, trying to understand classic literature, admiring nature, staring at clouds while in a backseat and imagining epic things.
Dislikes:large groups of people, ignorance, general asshattery, war, abortion, Republicans, Democrats, thinking about the future
Talents: Music, writing, reading
Hobbies: see above. Also hanging out with friends, video games, and manga.
Favorite color: Purple
Favorite Food: Mozzarella Sticks
Favorite Movies: Fight Club, Say Anything, Casino Royale, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Beetlejuice, X-Men Trilogy, and V For Vendetta. Duh.
Music: Everything. Absolutely everything, and that INCLUDES rap and country. Old country, though, the gritty stuff. Anyway, one minute I'll be listening to Morrissey, the next it'll be Mussorgsky. From Sonic Youth to Saint-Saens, from Kraftwerk to Kanye West, The Arcade Fire to AC/DC, Bauhaus to Billie Holiday, and so on. I have songs in German, Italian, French, Spanish, and Japanese besides English. Some Gaelic, too.
Phobias: Unfulfilled life, painful death if the aformentioned is involved, depression, tornadoes, planes crashing, open places in the dark.
Goals: To write a universally respected novel, but if not that, any novel that will change the life of at least one person. To truly live, to be really free, to love, and to just generally feel fulfilled.
Give song lyrics that describe you:
I'd like to drop my trousers to the world
I am a man of means (of slender means)
Each household appliance
Is like a new science in my town
And if the day came when I felt a
Natural emotion
I'd get such a shock I'd probably jump
In the ocean
And when a train goes by
It's such a sad sound
No ...
It's such a sad thing
I'd like to drop my trousers to the Queen
Every sensible child will know what this means
The poor and the needy
Are selfish and greedy on her terms
And if the day came when I felt a
Natural emotion
I'd get such a shock I'd probably jump
In the ocean
And when a train goes by
It's such a sad sound
No ...
It's such a sad thing
And when I'm lying in my bed
I think about life
And I think about death
And neither one particularly appeals to me
And if the day came when I felt a
Natural emotion
I'd get such a shock I'd probably lie
In the middle of the street and die
I'd lie down and die ...
Oh, oh
The Smiths - Nowhere Fast
•This or That•
Hero or villain? I prefer anti-heroes. Heroes usually fit this now long-phony archetype of something bordering on sexism, that or they just have a flat character that's not nearly as interesting as someone conflicted by theirs beliefs and things around them. Same goes for villians. Besides, every villian believes that they are the hero.
Past or future? Everyone should live in the present, actually. I tend to dwell on the past, however, and that, sadly, affects my future.
Water or fire? At least one can swim through water, and I don't like getting burnt.
Wisdom or knowledge? Wisdom far outscores knowledge in depth and longevity. However, most people in this world have neither.
Reality or fiction? You know, in my reality, fiction tends to blend in with it. The value of living in a shell is immeasurable.
Simplicity or complexity? Simplicity. If the world was simple, there would be no horrendous conflict.
Cautious or brave? Well, the old cliche is that discretion is the better part of valor.
•Ideas are bullet-proof•
A paragraph on something political you feel strongly about:
I don't know if it's political, per se, but it certainly filters into politics. As stated in my dislikes, I am far from fond of ignorance. I despise it. I watch it fall from the mouths of my country's youth on a daily basis, and not rarely does it breach the lips of adults. No one bothers to learn any longer. They take everything for face value, putting trust in foolish people or things, with the moronic belief that their freedom will never be taken from them. Democracy is far from a stone, in fact, it is more like a thatched roof cottage. The denizens of the village, however, poorly maintain this cottage, and it would easily blow over in a storm. They know nothing of international affairs or plights, until the media reports on them, usually erroneuosly. The white trash mentality has spread from the backwaters into the urban areas, and the minorities tend to do nothing to defeat the stereotypes holding them down. America is in a catatonic state from the fat of its land, drunk on its own prosperity. The status quo is God. Innocence is shunned like a slovenly Amish woman. Anyone who deviates from it will be shot, burned, and their ashes spat upon and put in a landfill. We complain about extremism, when it exists in our own culture! Left wing, right wing, it's all the same. They hunger for dollars, and the plebian majority suffers, though they are too sedated on the rich man's scraps to bother rebelling. As George Orwell said, "If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles. ... Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
Uh... sorry. Got a bit carried away.
•V for Vendetta•
Favorite character: V. I like his ambiguity in the graphic novel more than his clear protaganism in the movie, though.
Least favorite character: Lewis Prothero, aka the Voice of London. I hate blowhards.
If you were given a chance to look behind V's mask, would you? Hm... no, that kind of ruins the mystery of it all, now doesn't it?
Would you have joined V's revolution? Of course. In a culture like that, the only thing you have to lose is your life, anyway.
One or two pictures of yourself please. If you have none, you can describe how you look:
These are from a New York trip I went on with my friend over the summer, and my hair's a bit shorter now, but I look basically the same. Without, you know, red eyes.