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Name: Lina
How did you find out about the community? If it's through an LJ user, please tell us who it is: I was recommended by the incomparable minviendha
Location: Washington; the state Washington.
Occupation: student




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 difficult. I think that I may end up moving a lot throughout my life because there are so many places where I want to live. However, I'd like to live in a somewhat remote place - remote enough to be surrounded by nature, and to have a mysterious, long, foresty sort of driveway. However, I'd like to be able to reach a city fairly quickly and without too much trouble. Where I live right now is ideal in terms of location: I can get to the city in about an hour. The house itself? I like pretty things, probably too much to be practical. So I'd want a nice house, nicely-designed with modern, dramatic sort of architecture and modern furniture. However, I'd want most of the living spaces to be fairly small. I like being cozy. I also care more about reading and music than I do about cleaning and preparing food and other necessary things, so I'd need lots of shelf space and room for my piano. I'd also like an extra room or two for friends, because I'd love to have them visit and feed them.
2. Name three things you are afraid of. Explain.
A lot of my fears are broad and maybe a bit silly.
Firstly, I am afraid of people close to me disappearing. Not dying, for some reason, but disappearing as if they had never existed, so that we had no mutual impact upon each others' lives (I don't like to forget anything).
Secondly: I am afraid of disappointment. I can put personal disappointments in perspective, but disappointing those who are close to me is scary. I can't avoid my family, so I work hard not to disappoint them, but I often avoid social situations for this reason.
Finally, I like the idea that hard work translates into success. The idea of reaching a certain point in any part of life, where both ability and hard work just aren't enough for me to succeed, is something that often bothers me.
3. Imagine you’re given the classic opportunity: a genie granting you three wishes. What would you wish for? Please be as elaborate as you can. Wishing for more wishes is not permitted!
Ouch. This question. Okay.
First: I would wish for happiness for my friends and family, whatever form that may take for each of them.
Second: I would wish for myself the time, abilities, and resources to be able to pursue all of my interests. I'm worried that I'll be forced to choose just one interest and, if some of my family members have a say, the most lucrative one!
Third: I would wish for clearheadedness in all people, if that makes sense. I want everyone to care about things, because I think that disinterest is dangerous to everyone, and I want people to be free of superstition.
4. In your life so far, what accomplishment are you the most proud of? Why? You can list more than one if you have trouble deciding. ;)
To be honest, I haven't lived very long, so that's a hard question. I think I am proud of my music. I've played the piano for most of my life, but I started playing jazz several years ago. It terrified me because I'm a very un-spontaneous, introverted sort of person. Playing piano was formerly a source of comfort for me, and at that point it required more spontaneity and emotion than I was willing to give. I've improved a lot and I'm playing in a combo now.
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? Please explain why for each choice.
I feel guilty for this choice, but knowledge. I mean all kinds of knowledge: I want to be a better musician. I want to be an informed citizen. I love to read, and I especially love to know any sort of fact. Education is one of the most influential things in our lives (for better or for worse). Last reason: I love to know why. I'm fascinated by unexplained phenomena, the more grotesque or inexplicable the better!
6. What's one quote (or passage, song lyric, etc.) that effectively describes you and your values? Explain.
"I confess I cannot guess/Meaning into loveliness/Feel, but cannot tell you why/Something of wonder in the sky/I confess no speech nor act/Of mine explains the mystic fact/Which enigma, having struck/a victim will not give him up/So I press into my brain/Cross of wonder, star of pain/Monstrous flower of confusion/Myriad petals of delusion/'Till at last I seem to stand/With my strengthless Atlas hand/Supporting Heaven quite alone/Stone by dark and lustrous stone." - Tennessee Williams. This poem is not my favorite, but it does express how I sometimes feel about the world. There are so many things I would like to say or to describe, but I often lack the words to express them.
7. How do you manage your money? On that note, how important is money/financial security to you? Go into as much detail as you can.
I'm pretty careful with money. However, I feel that it is my duty to purchase books whenever I enter a bookstore, so the result is periods of little spending varying with book-buying binges. Financial security is important to me, but I think that it will be hard for me to reconcile my interests and my expenditures in the future.
8. Name (and elaborate on) some of your hobbies. What are your favorite things to do outside of school/the office?
I read. No, really. If I have nothing new to read, I re-read. For me it is a complicated activity, involving blankets, tea, and snacks, and I read a little bit of everything.
Secondly, I play the piano. It occupies a great deal of my time, and I have giant stacks of music lying around. I also listen a little bit of everything.
Also, I read the news: I spend a good bit of time fuming over this political issue or that when I'm focused, or just browsing for pointless news when I'm not.
I'm a homey sort of person, so I will ramble in a notebook, doodle, or play pointless online games within a fixed radius. I'm a bit dull, actually. I also watch a lot of detective shows; I find crime and punishment strangely fascinating.
9. Name (and elaborate on) your top three BEST and top three WORST qualities (personality-related, not physical). Please answer as fully as you can, as this is an important question.
My best qualities:
Firstly, I have a very strong sense of right and wrong, and of fairness. Though I don't do anything earthshaking with my beliefs, I do think that they guide my life.
Secondly, I am fairly hard-working. I like to do my best whenever possible, and I find it satisfying.
Finally, I'd like to think that I'm a pretty compassionate person, sometimes too much so. I want to make some sort of positive difference in the world.
My worst qualities:
First: My sense of right and wrong is also a bad quality, because I tend to overreact, and I have trouble with compromise. I tend to be close-minded about politics: I take a government class and I'm the "bitchy one."
Next, I am insecure. The approval of friends and family members is important to me, because they are the very most important people in my life. I tend to brood over their actions and opinions, and to dissect conversations.
Third: I'm a bit of an elitist. I'm often frustrated by my generation, especially my classmates, because they don't seem to care about anything. I sometimes make snap judgments about people who abuse punctuation!


A Song of Ice and Fire Related

1.Who are your favorite three characters in the series? Why?
I would be lazy and say all of the Starks, but I'm going force myself to think harder than that.
For some reason, Ned is one of my favorites. I found endearing - and, in a way, respected - his foolish and uncompromising nobility. Also, he just seemed like a good daddy. I wanted him to be my daddy.
Arya, of course. When I was little I was a tomboy like Arya, minus her infinitely higher badass level. I wanted to give her a hug and ruffle her hair, but she would bite me.
I have a tie here between Oberyn Martell and the Hound. They were both intriguing bastards, but for different reasons. Oberyn was a sexy bastard. Sandor was satisfying complicated, just enough of a bastard not to be an object of pity. His interaction with Arya was interesting.
2.Who are your least favorite three characters in the series? Why?
I lost interest in Daenerys after the birth of her dragons, because she seemed to have such a sense of self-entitlement.
I don't know quite how I feel about Jon Snow. I found him self-pitying and far too noble, but he improved a bit.
I disliked Tywin Lannister far more than any of his screwed-up children. Parents who mess up their children make me angry.
3.#1 Favorite moment in all of ASOIAF so far? Why?
I loved the whole series, so I'm not sure. I'll choose the end of A Storm of Swords, when Littlefinger pushes Lysa to her death, because it's just so epic. What a great way to end a book - it was like a good piece of music.
4. In your dream-world, how would you like to see the series end, and why?
I want the remaining Starks to survive! I'm worried about Arya. I want Sansa to beat Littlefinger somehow, because he deserves to be outwitted. I hope that Sandor is alive, and I want Samwell to be happy because he's adorable. So really, I'm just going to cross my fingers and see what happens.

Comments

Tyrell

[aikodestiny.livejournal.com]

Clearly a Stark. What kind of person gets split votes for Stark and Martell anyway? To me they are like... polar opposites. Amazing!

[misstopia.livejournal.com]

I've got at least two Startells I can think of off the top of my head :) And I think me and etrangere swapped houses for the re-sorting game ... stranger things have been known to happen?

[aikodestiny.livejournal.com]

Strange things, indeed. The re-sorting game I can understand, it's a different form and people can give out a different impression. I can't recall anyone else who got split votes for Stark and Martell at the moment, but then again I'm terribly forgetful XD

[misstopia.livejournal.com]

shelled_avenger, along a Meera/Sarella split, and recently scarletfall. I think it's definitely the quieter Martells that factor in there, though really if I had to re-sort Arya somewhere I think it'd be Martell.