A Real Entry

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Rules in YE OLDE MEDIEVEALE STYLE:
1. Thou must reiterate these Rules in thy journal.
2. Thou must respond to the Queries posed by the Tagger, and pose ten new Queries for thy Victims Tagees.
3. Thou must choose, with great care, ten Victims Comrades whom thou shalt Tag.
4. Thou must harass and pursue thy Victims Tagees so that they may be sure that they have been tagged.
5. Thou mayest not Tag the one who Tagged thee.
6. Thou mayest not skive, sneak or elude these Rules by Tagging whomsoever might passeth their eyes across this fine scroll; thou must Tag ten of thy Comrades, no more and no less.

1. Why are you on dA? What was the reason you made your account, and what made you stay?

I was aware of dA long before I joined – like, five years before. I used to love browsing the fan art sections. I don’t actually remember why I made an account, but it was probably to keep track of all the cool stuff I found.

I went through long periods where I would focus on either dA or FFN, but now that I’m more or less out of fandom (long story short – I miss you Phaldus, and your Discworld collection) I stay pretty much solely on dA.

2. What element (fire, earth, water, air – or any others if you feel like it) do you see yourself as and why?

My official element is Metal I believe. Metal Horse in the Zodiac. Personally though, I’ve always been drawn to water, though I believe I have earthy components as well given my sensualist tendencies. So, a swamp I guess?

3. If there is a version of you in a parallel universe, what do you think they would be like? (different-coloured hair/eyes, different parents, went down a different path in life, etc.)

Somewhere there’s a parallel me that never apologized for an incident in October 2008 and is probably pretty miserable about it.

4. You are in a trolley dash in a supermarket. You only have one minute to grab as much stuff as you like; which aisle do you head for first?

CHEESE. Or chocolate. Or both.

5. What is the most magical experience you have ever had? I mean something extraordinary, that you couldn't quite believe was true or seemed a bit surreal or just amazing in some way.

There used to be this coffee shop down the road from my first college, ten minutes walk from the dorms. Phaldus and I walked down there one night for hot chocolate; a local Celtic band played every other Friday and we sat down for a while to read and listen. I don’t remember how long we stayed now. But I remember even at the time thinking it was such a perfect cliché;­­ two college freshmen reading at the local caffeine-fix joint listening to live music on a Friday night. I’ve always felt like it’s this incongruity in my memory, as though I had simply imagined myself into an indie flick. I remember walking back to campus – you had to cross two streets, three depending on what side of the road you were waking from. We both liked to crunch the leaves; I liked to step on them one by one and Phaldus liked to shuffle them with his feet and kick them everywhere. I remember there was this bush planted beside the road that really needed to be trimmed and blocked half the sidewalk and the lanyard of my keys got caught on it that night. I don’t remember why, but I considered pushing Phaldus into the road for something.

One day I’m going to have to ask Bill his interpretation of events so I’ll know it was in fact a real thing

I actually have another memory I could have used for this, but I already wrote about it: here.

6. If you could travel to any period in history (but not the future) and spend a day there when/where would you go?

I’d like to go spend some more time in Clarksville.

7. What do you think your greatest strength is?

Writing.

8. If there were no internet, how do you think the world would be changed? What would you be doing?

Don’t ask me to imagine such horrible things.

9. If you read news, which website/source (BBC, Huffington Post, etc.) do you follow and why? Or do you look at a mixture of different ones?

I get all my news from Facebook.

10. What is one thing that you hope will NOT happen in the next 50 years?

I hope I don’t die before Kingdom Hearts 3 is released.

I tag:

to answer the following:

1. Would you, could you, on a boat?

2. Favorite book?

3. The best thing in your gallery is...

4. You have been given the capacity to solve one world problem; what is it?

5. How would you like to die?

6. What fantasy world would you visit if given the opportunity? (If you say Hogwarts, I will de-friend you )

7. Tea or coffee?

8. How many things are in your inbox right now?

9. What is your favorite road sign?

10. The best thing you ever ate was...