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Name: Summer
How did you find out about the community? If it's through an LJ user, please tell us who it is: Oh, I don't know. I'm sure it couldn't be from anyone commenting on my journal with a 'would you hurry up and post so we can see whose house you'd be terrorizing'. Would it, cyshobbitlass?
Age: 24 (omg how did that happen???)
Location: Nowheresville, Midwestern USA, the world.
Occupation: Student. Waitress. Spoiled brat.




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!.
A palace by the sea. A warm sea. Lots of beach. Because the beach totally suits my hair. And a cabana, filled with gorgeous cabana boys who know how to mix amazing, astounding, wonderful margaritas/martinis/daiquiris/etc. The palace itself will look suspiciously like Rivendell and Cair Paravel had a baby, with some flowing sheer draperies and a few spare ballrooms. There is a constant flow of people, all friends, all fun, all amazingly smart, witty, kind and awesome.

2. Name three things you are afraid of. Explain.
Isolation. I am all for alone time, and I can entertain myself very well but being cut off without any possibility of contact freaks me out like you wouldn't believe. I don't need people exactly, but I need the possibility of people.

Dependence. I can't depend utterly on someone. I find it very upsetting.

Pain. It's not that I have a low pain tolerance- I can muscle through pain just fine (thank you, 13 years of dance). I'm talking the really bad pain, the bend-over-and-throw up pain, the lay there and scream agony pain. The something's-broken-and-Vicodin-may-not-fix-it pain. I totally would have forgotten this if I hadn't just opened a surprisingly deep gash on my finger a week or so back. Nope, I am definitely not a fan of pain.

3. What is your favorite aspect of your physical appearance and why?
I love my eyes. They're this awesomely greenish-blue color. People always comment on them and I'm like yeah, they rock don't they? Just kidding. There are days where I love my hair but that's usually right after I've blown a lot of money on it. I do love being short except those moments when I can't find someone taller than me to get stuff off tall shelves.

4. If you could change one thing about your physical appearance, what would you change and why?
My hair today. Also I've got this 'blemish' right on my cheek today. I would change that in a heartbeat. ... oh you mean change permanent things. My abs. Oh my god, I would kill for awesome abs. You would never ever get me to wear a full shirt again. I would be running around going 'hey have you seen my abs? yes! yes you have! and they're amaaaaazing!' Losing about 10 lbs would be good too. As long as I didn't have to give up chocolate.

5. 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!
1. Awesome abs!
2. A palace by the sea tax-free and mine to keep and have and love and be filled with my friends.
3. Money to maintain said abs and palace (as well as a killer wardrobe). Also tax-free and to be invested at a profitabe interest rate.

... you know, it occurs to me I could ask for world peace, but the genie would probably be one of those with a sense of humor and he'd wipe out mankind. Anyway, stuff that big should probably be something we do for ourselves otherwise we won't learn.

6. In your life so far, what accomplishment are you the most proud of? You can list more than one if you have trouble deciding. ;)
Um. I don't accomplish much. I just seem to have amazing unbelievable luck. Except when it comes to self-injury and not wrecking my car. Okay, I kid. Sort of.
I am proud of myself that I could arrange a trip from the us to central europe and fly by myself and not screw up. Both ways! Omg! I rock! I am proud of how I can ditch negative people even when they're boyfriends (okay so there was a really long recuperation period afterward but hey, I did it.)
Seriously, though, I'm one of those awful people who have basically all their needs met, no major catastrophe looming (aside from graduation), and are generally content with life as it stands. So maybe I'm proud with coming to peace with myself and stuff around me (mostly, except the abs).

7. Which of the following is most important to you: Love, Money, Knowledge, Family, Friendship, Adventure, or Pleasure? Which is the least important to you?
Oh that's rough. For me my friends tend to be family and love is all tied up in that. I can't stand not knowing stuff (unless it's math stuff and then that's fine I don't need it). I find pleasure in adventure and adventure is pleasure. But it's all so difficult without money.

Friendship/Family/Love. Pleasure. Money. In that order.

8. What's one quote (or passage, song lyric, etc.) that effectively describes you and your values? ... you have no idea how badly I want to quote Natural's Not In It here. Or Glamorous. Or possibly Hello, Mr Zebra.

"So we take up the initiative
And stroll over to Mr. Muscles in that predatory waltz
Saying “hey there, lets see what you've got boy
”And don't mind our amusement or preliminary insults”
- Edge of My Seat by Thea Gilmore

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
-- Mark Twain

"Life's a banquet and most poor sons of b*tches are starving to death." - Auntie Maim

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania." - Dorothy Parker

... I couldn't pick just one!!


9. How do you manage your money? On that note, how important is money/financial security to you?
Um, I have a financial advisor and people who do that for me longterm? Financial security is actually very important to me, but I'm a shiftless college student still so I'm sort of mess on that score. On the other hand, I'm never broke because I won't let that happen. "Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair" as Dorothy Parker said.

10. Name (and elaborate on) some of your hobbies. What are your favorite things to do outside of school/the office?
Hang out with my friends. Go to parties. Go to clubs. Go shopping. Go on trips. Read. Write. Communicate in general. Watch movies. Laugh.
Oh, elaboration?
- I love my friends. They make me laugh. We go out and meet up for dinner, and generally we grab some booze cause we're fierce boozehounds like that. We have hella adventures and look cute during them. And I do mean all my friends- whether it's in a foreign country or the local restaurant, there's always an adventure.
-Shopping. I love that new stuff feeling. I love new clothes and new shoes. omg. I'm shallow. I don't care. If shallowness makes me happy, then I embrace it. There's always time for depth later, like, when there aren't any sales to be found. Right?
- I love to write, and read. It's an escape for when I can't actually be out having my own adventures. Writing lets me tell my own stories and create new ones and live out ones that I couldn't (cause you know, no one has made real vampires and elves yet). I enjoy reading stories by other people too- lets me get away without having the bother of writing it myself.
- Laughing. The best medicine, the best revenge, the best times. All involve laughing.

11. Name (and elaborate on) your top three BEST and top three WORST qualities (personality-related, not physical).
My best qualities?
-I'm "sweet and bubbly." Or that's what people always tell me anyway.
-I'm creative. Well, that might be 'crazy' but I am good at coming up with unexpected stuff, and hey, my art projects didn't usually suck concept-wise.
-I am intelligent. Despite all evidence to the contrary. My brains keep me out of more trouble than I care to admit. Plus? People do listen when I talk. I don't get it either.

My worst qualities?
-I'm mercurial. Up one moment, down the next. Pissed off, calm, happy, whatever. It can be a bit unsettling for those around me.
- I'm easily distracted. I will forget about something the minute something more sparkly comes along. TV shows, fandoms, books, dates... it's so trying. le sigh. ... Wait does that fit more with the mercurial? Well, just in case I'll give you a bonus: I can be manipulative. Purely in a self-preservation sort of way, I don't go around brainwashing people into jumping off buildings; I just tend to campaign to get my own way and can do it subtly when need be.
- I'm a rampant procrastinator. I will never do something early. Ever. I can't. It's just not in me.





A Song of Ice and Fire Related
1.Which is your favorite book of the series so far? What about your least favorite?
Probably a Storm of Swords because it ripped my heart out and I respect things that can do that to me since I'm sort of heartless and jaded (finally a book series that makes me look naive!). Least fave has to be... I don't know actually. A Clash of Kings maybe? Parts of it? How about we just agree I love all the books but don't actually care about the whole Brienne plotline? There we go. Better.
2.Who are your favorite three characters in the series? Only three? Lalala can't count.
- Arianne Martell. What can I say? I can identify. Plus she's generally awesome in my book. Oh, and I'm putting her cousin Tyene as a tie here too. Because I envy Tyene's needlepoints...
- Sansa. She's girly, she's bitchy, she's sweet, she's imaginative, she's smart, she's got serious issues. What's not to love?
- Dany. Ditto, plus serious ass-kicking war skillz.
- Littlefinger. Look, I know he's totally a founding member of the gospel according to St Bastard but... you gotta admire the dedication.

3.Who are your least favorite three characters in the series?
Um surprisingly Brienne isn't my least fave even though she bores me.
- Jorah Mormont. Couldn't he at least be awesomely creepy like Littlefinger?
- Loras Tyrell. Omfg shut up Ser Emo McEmoBritches. I don't care. I just really, really don't care. I'm with Cersei, would you please hurry and get Phantom of the Opera-ed so you can at least have a good reason for emo-ing it up?
- Joffrey. Die. Again. Slowly. Now, once more, WITH FEELING!
- Wildlings. Omfg srsly? We want south of the wall but we won't obey your laws! Wtf, are you speshul snowflakes? stfu and go get zombified.

4.#1 Favorite moment in all of ASOIAF so far?
Possibly when Dany pwned the city by looking all wide-eyed and girly and then attacked them. She rocks so hard. ... Okay and the Moon Door sequence. That was mindblowing. Oh, and meeting Oberyn Martell. How did he pack that much cool into such a few scenes? Someday I want to write a character so cool he gets fangirls with one line. Or less.

5. In your dream-world, how would you like to see the series end?
Dany, Sansa, Arianne and maybe Margaery if she gets more cool points later form a girl-power council and kick the hell out of everyone, especially the Freys, and lots of zombie butts get flambeed. Quentyn can join in if he's as cool as his sister. Jaime, Brienne and the reinstated Barristan turn the KG into a super-elite force that would make Rangers, SEALs, and the SAS weep for mercy. Jon shags Melisandre and kills her. Walder Frey is eaten by his nephews who are then eaten by Lady Stoneheart. Lady Stoneheart kills Littlefinger with a kiss. Qyburn is eaten by a tree. No one asks any questions.
... and somewhere in there is an allusion of Lady Stoneheart/Gregor as the only OTP.

Oh, and of course, Myrcella and Trystane live happily ever after in Dorne. Loras sings Think of Me. Podrick Payne becomes the Master of Whispers. Sansa and Sandor embark on a life-long affair. Tyrion finds love with a cute Braavosi courtesan and he and Varys settle down to being weird unbestfriends forever and ever and ever. The Nights Watch is manned by a force of Dolorous Edd clones- the Others flee before their eeyore-like powers.

Links to at least 3 applications you voted on:
well there were only two open... I promise I'll vote on a 3rd as soon as I can?

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Dorothy Parker said the most hilarious things. Why is there not more Dorothy Parker love in the world??