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Name: I’m going to be honest here and say I don’t really have a name, but you can call me Rice.
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Age: 25
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Occupation: Nothing Important




All About You

1. Describe your ideal house/home. Please go into as much detail as possible, and be sure to include your ideal geographical location in the description!.

This is a hard question…as I’m sure they’ll all be for me. I love where I live right now. I couldn’t live in just *any* city though. I like this one. I’d like to live in an apartment that I own though, because moving every few years gets annoying. Preferably on 9th Avenue and 25th Street (in Manhatten). But I could also live in Berlin, because Germany is the one place in the world where I feel like actually makes sense to me. As far as fantasy goes. I’ve always wished I could live in Alaska, like not in a town, surrounded by the mountains and woods and snow. But in a house with everything I needed, not in some broke ass cabin or something. I love the cold, I thrive on the cold. If it would snow as much in the city as it did up in Alaska…and it was also more uninhabited than it is…it would be the perfect place in the world. And then my other fantasy would be to live in an adobe house in the Arizona desert…again not in a town…and it would also have everything I needed…including air conditioning. I would have a very high electric bill. But it would be worth it to live out in a desert, as deserts are the most beautiful places on Earth.

2. Name three things you are afraid of. Explain.

Okay. First. I’m not afraid of the dark…but you know that spot where you can’t see past when it’s dark? It’s like…the room is dim or maybe even well lit…but the next room or the corner, that isn’t…you just can’t see into it. In like horror movies, that’s always where something jumps out at you. So that area always scares me. If the whole room is as black as that I’m not scared of it…but just that one area that you can’t see into, that scares me.

Second. I have Teratophobia. Which is a fear of deformed people. But I’m working on that one. Last summer I shook the hand of someone with Electrodactyly. I got a little turned on by it. But I still want to cross the street when someone in a wheelchair approaches. It’s a lengthy process.

And lastly. I’m terrified that one day I’m going to go completely insane. I know that sounds like I’m fishing to be a Targaryen, but it’s true. It takes a surprising amount of effort to not go around kicking random people…so I’m afraid of what will happen the day I let go of that control…which could only be if I went completely insane. It would probably be kind of like Falling Down. Isn’t that scary?

3. Imagine you’re given the classic opportunity: a genie granting you three wishes. What would you wish for? Wishing for more wishes is not permitted!

Okay…wish #1 is just pertinent to how I feel right now. I would wish that they would put out a cheap (relatively) new version of the complete series of Farscape out on DVD…I just wish that right now. NO! You know what…I wish they would instead just renew the series…because if that happened I bet the other would happen too. And then there would be new episodes of Farscape and the DVDs and everyone would be happy. At least I would. So that’s wish #1. Really only relevant to today, but whatever.

I wish with my 2nd wish that the rule about wishing for more wishes would be overturned so that wishing for more wishes was possible. You never said we couldn’t wish for that. Then wish my 3rd wish I would wish for 104 more wishes. With my first wish of those I would wish for a chart of what other people said in answer to this question just so I can see the number of people who wished for book 5 to come out soon…and then smack them. After that I’d probably just wish for the regular stuff; the ability to time travel, 20/20 vision so I can be a sniper, France to go away, Paul Rudd, Pyrokinesis, Blaire Waldorf as my best friend (forever), a faster internet connection…I’d come up with more eventually, but that would be the bid ones.

4. In your life so far, what accomplishment are you the most proud of? You can list more than one if you have trouble deciding. ;)

I convinced my university to give me a diploma even though I didn’t meet the graduation requirements. That’s at the top of my list for sure. I only really went to school because you need to but never much cared about it and then left knowing full well that I didn’t meet the requirements (by just kind of blowing off my last semester of classes and guaranteeing failing them). Then I waited a few years and when I needed the diploma for a job I called them up and was like “Hey, what gives?” and they were like “Oh, yeah, you didn’t actually graduate.” And I was like “I’m sure that’s a mistake.” And after convincing several people there’s no way that was right I got my diploma in the mail. My mom has it now, somewhere.

5. Which of the following is most important to you: Love, Money, Knowledge, Family, Friendship, Adventure, or Pleasure? Which is the least important to you?

Just to clarify. I wouldn’t put Knowledge last. I know I said I only went to school because I had to. I love learning. Love it. I just hate busywork and having to learn things for the sake of learning them when they’re not important to you. So yes…that wouldn’t be last. Nor would it be first.

Most important to me would be Friendship. I fiercely hold on to friends and would do anything for them as long as they deserved it. The least important to me is absolutely pleasure. Only because it isn’t clear to me what you want that to mean. Like, happiness? I guess it’s important if you mean happiness…but if you just mean like…I don’t know…PLEASURE then yeah…not that important. In the event that pleasure is just supposed to mean happiness then I would say the least important is love. Just read that as I’d rather be happy on my own than unhappy and with someone else who ‘loves’ me.

6. What's one quote (or passage, song lyric, etc.) that effectively describes you and your values?

I want to be honest and say that I actually can’t answer this question honestly without completely invalidating the quote itself. That being said, here’s another quote (lyric) that I would choose to answer this question, even though it isn’t entirely accurate.

“With all the luck you've had, why are your songs so sad?
Sing from a book you were reading in bed
And took to heart
All of your lives on lend, reading in bed”
~Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton “Reading In Bed”

I debate whether the lyric is “life’s” or “lives” I found it written as “lives” on the internets…but those lyric websites are frequently majorly wrong in really obvious and hilarious ways so I don’t take that as gospel. However I like it both ways but I chose to go with “lives” because after listening to it a few times I think it is “lives” now…and that’s just fine to me. Even though I think it might be more accurate to me with “life’s”.

7. How do you manage your money? On that note, how important is money/financial security to you?

I don’t really manage my money. It’s not that important to me as long as I know I have enough for what is necessary to live on. I would like to manage it better though, even though I don’t really have money problems…YET. But financial security is important…only because it actually IS important. If you could live comfortably with very little money in the world I would only want/need very little…but that’s not really the case is it? If I somehow got 2 million dollars tomorrow I wouldn’t really change the way I live very much, but I would be really happy knowing that it’s there.

8. Name (and elaborate on) some of your hobbies. What are your favorite things to do outside of school/the office?

Writing – I would say it’s a profession but since I don’t make any money on it it’s obviously a hobby. I write kind of everything. But the thing I focus on the most is writing, like, comics.

TV – I watch TV all day at the office though so does that count? It’s very important to me though…hence the lyric that I chose. I guess that was about reading but to me reading, and watching TV could all pretty much be the same thing when it comes to that lyric.

Reading – I go back and forth on it. I read a lot of comics, like, all the time. But I like reading books more. However I’m a slow reader, I don’t have trouble reading fast…I just can’t…‘hear’ the book as well if I go fast. So it gets frustrating sometimes and then I stop for a while and then get back into it again.

I guess those are pretty lame and solitary things that everyone would say but that’s what takes up almost all my time. The only other thing that really makes me incredibly happy is exploring places I’ve never been. I like to find really weird looking places…usually industrial…where no one else is and just go around and imagine what it would be like if there was no one else around and that was the world…and also there were monsters…I don’t really know what you’d call that unless you consider “quietly going insane” a hobby.

9. Name (and elaborate on) your top three BEST and top three WORST qualities (personality-related, not physical).

Best
Loyal – I’m very loyal to my friends and family. I’m trying to change that because it can get out of hand…and it used to at least cause complete dependence on them…but I learned my lesson there several times, you can’t really ever count on anyone to be loyal to you so why should you be loyal to them? I still am though, I guess it’s admirable but I would change it if I could.
Control – I think that a healthy dose of unbridled anger is something everyone needs to survive. I really do. But you can’t let it get out of hand…and for the most part I don’t. So far all the beatings I’ve unleashed on people has just been in my head and I aim to keep it that way.
Creative – I’m pretty creative, my mind always goes a mile a minute and I think that’s mostly a good thing. Of course being surrealist at heart sometimes my brain goes a bit too far with most things that I try to accomplish…but I’m always trying to create things in my head and it makes me happy so I would say it’s a good quality. Even if it means my head is in the clouds, so to speak, almost all the time.

Worst
Arrogant – I think arrogance is a stupid thing, unless you actually are as good as I am.
Selfish – I know what I want and I want it. I try to be as accommodating as possible when it comes to people that I care about…unless what they want is in direct contention with what I want.
Stubborn – When I get an idea in my head there’s pretty much no changing it. Or at least it’s VERY difficult and it more or less requires me to find a loophole in my original stance.

Funny side note. It was a lot easier to think of bad qualities in myself than good ones, I settled on those three. But I was able to say a lot more about the 3 good things that I thought of. I don’t really know, I just thought that was interesting.




A Song of Ice and Fire Related

1.Who are your favorite three characters in the series?

1. Sansa Stark – She fills me with joy, and her chapters are pretty consistently the best in whatever book they’re in. Though all this Joffrey hate that's going on in the last few applications that I read just make me want to put Joffrey as number one. I love all the Baratheons...Joffrey the most (even if he only thinks he's a Baratheon). How can you hate someone so perfect? No...really though he'd be my number 6th favorite...not in the top 3...he's just honestly not good enough for the top 3...but I do wish that he made Sansa kiss Robb's decapitated head at his wedding...oh well.
2. Arya Stark – I fluctuate back and forth between Arya and Stansa for number 1. Really Sansa only became number 1 to me when I realized that I enjoyed her chapters more than anyone else’s during book 2. Arya is by FAR the most interesting character in the series, I don’t think anyone surpasses her in that department. But Sansa fills me with joy all the time, where Arya only fills me with joy most of the time. I was told apparently you're not allowed to love both Arya and Sansa. I do though...pretty much equally. I feel bad putting one above the other but I HAVE to...there's no ties in the game of thrones.
3. Theon Greyjoy – You know, I just wrote a list of my favorite characters yesterday (when I finished the series to date) and I had Dany as my number 3. But really…I think she would have to move down to number 4 or even 5. I love her, don’t get me wrong. She was 100% the best thing about the first book and I so craved more Dany…but I don’t think she’s lived up to my thoughts of her since then…maybe a bit in book 3, the first time she turned her dragons against the slavers…but even after that conquering cities became boring…how the hell do you make that boring? Theon however always makes me happy to read about. I admire his cruelty. And I admire his…everything, I don’t have a bad thing to say about him…even if he was bested by Ramsay. I see a lot of myself in him…and Cersei…she would probably be fourth and Dany fifth. That will probably change in book 5 though, when the only good thing to read about will be Dany.

2.Who are your least favorite three characters in the series?

1…I’m not even going to say this is my “least favorite” because it implies it’s a favorite in ANY way. I despise Bran Stark and I wish he would…no…you know what…I don’t wish he was dead, I’d like him to suffer a lot more than that.
2. The Winged Knight – I just wanted to punch that queer sounding ‘hero’ whenever Sweetrobin would talk about him…even though it was just one chapter…it just sounded like the most stupid generic fantasy story ever told and it made me sick. What the fuck is with this winged knight shit...I hate him. He’s no Clarence Crabb, that’s for sure. Clarence Crabb = Number 1 FAVORITE "Historical" Westeros character!!!!! Does anyone even remember who I'm talking about? I bet not.
3. Rhaegar Targaryen – He just sounds (and looks) like a bad (and uninteresting) anime villain. I find his story to also be one of the least interesting of the "Westeros Historical Figures" stories. I know it should be really interesting to me...but it isn't. Go back to Inuyasha Rhaegar!!!!

3.#1 Favorite moment in all of ASOIAF so far?

This is the hardest question. There are so many obvious answers to this to me…but choosing just one is SO hard. Most of the ones I’m thinking of have to do with either Dany or Arya. Asha’s introduction with Theon was of course amazing. As is everything to do with Theon. But…you know what…I’m going to say my absolute favorite moment in the entire of ASOIAF so far is Arya vs. The Tickler. She leaps on him and just stabbing him with Needle over and over again “WHERE IS THE GOLD!” and whatnot…it took my breath away. I feel like it’s a very simple thing and people are probably used to reading “Dany hatching her dragons” or “The Red Wedding” or some other major moments. But I think that was certainly a major moment for Arya and really she’s one of the only characters that the series could be just about her and I’d be happy.

4. In your dream-world, how would you like to see the series end?

You know what…I have two answers to this. One is really what I wish would happen but it’s not really how it would end I guess. And the other is just me being stupid. The real one though (which may not be an ending) is just…Littlefinger wants to make my dreams come true. In Sansa’s last chapter when he describes Sansa coming out on her wedding day and all that shit…I just…I couldn’t breathe…that’s exactly what I want to. I want that, I want him to succeed in this game of thrones and claim it using Sansa and just have her life be ‘perfect’. Also inexplicably Arys Oakheart will be alive (as in never dead, not as in Lord Stoneheart) and I'll be there too, and we'll get married and live with Sansa...until Arya comes to give us all the gift at Cersei's behest (they made up). Okay...not that last sentence I guess...but the Sansa parts are really what I would like. Maybe I should just go and rewrite that one of my wishes is for Arys Oakheart to be alive, and also gay, and also mine. I'm too lazy to do that though...OOOH, ANOTHER BAD QUALITY, DING!!!! By that I meant "unfocused and rambling" not "lazy".

And the other one is I would just like for the final book to just be about Dany…she’s still across the sea. But she actually comes to Westeros with her army and she gets there and it’s just completely overrun by Nymeria’s fucking wolf army. Everyone’s dead with Nymeria sitting the iron thone. And Dany remarks “Wow…let’s get out of here…this place has gone to the dogs.”

I know…I’m ridiculous.


Congratulations to whoever read all that...you deserve a treat of some kind.

Comments

Tully

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If I could have my way, I'd say you're a Baelish because this reminded me SO much of Littlefinger. The thing about the Winged Knight nearly made me choke with laughter. But I can't, so we're at Lannister or Targaryen, and it's rather a tough call. I think I'll lean towards Lannister.

Re: Tully

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Aw! I wish you could get your wish. Petyr wants to make all my dreams come true!