feel me in the corner...

[pprfaith]

The Avengers kinkmeme fill post is my new best friend forever. Or until my caffeine high fades and I crash and burn. No, seriously. I wanna light a fire, dance around it and praise that post.

In other news, I would like it known that, sixteen days from now, the nightmare that is my never-ending state exam will finally be over. Final oral on the

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[lazaria91]

Yes, we have personifications.
I think it depends on what you're doing with the country. Is it like Hetalia?

0_0 T-T Avengeeeeeeeeers. I swear to god, I'm living in your LJ after I see this damn movie.

[pprfaith]

So go see it already. What's keeping you anyway?

Kind of like Hetalia, although I only know the very, very, very basics of it, which is: people run around as countries. Or countries run around as people. Something like that.

Don't read the story I'll post later. It's about countries. and Avengers spoilers.

[lazaria91]

I'm in Italy. Try finding a theater that plays Avengers in english. I tried but I keep missing the 'original language' days.

It's more of the second one I think.

Okay. I will after.

[pprfaith]

Oh dear. Poor you. On the other hand, Italy. I've been living next door to it all my life and still haven't been there.

Original language days are shitty anyway. They're usually the no-one-goes-anyway days, like Mondays when I don't have the time.

[lazaria91]

Italy's great. It's really lovely. You should come when you get the chance, really. Where are you anyway, England?

I hear that. We had a flyer with OL days and it was always Monday or Tuesday -_-;;

[pprfaith]

Germany.

I know Italy's awesome, but I can't find anyone to take a city trip with me and I have zero interest in burning on a beach with the rest of my fellow Germans that storm Italian beaches like locusts every summer.

But hey, Vienna for the weekend. I love Vienna. And hey, the place I go to uni at is a world heritage site. Culture galore!

[lazaria91]

Oo, nice. I love Berlin. Went there for Spring Break.

Ah, that's rough. I hate going places alone, it's no fun if you have no one to snark about things with.

Vienna~ I have never been and I keep kicking myself for not finding a reason to go before I fly home.

[pprfaith]

Reason: It's awesome. Get on a train and go. Period.

[lazaria91]

XD Don't I know it. Unfortunately, I'm out of cash and I have obligations to my internship right up until the day before I fly out. Color me banging my head against the table. What's it like? Like, what do you like about it?

[pprfaith]

Don't you have weekends off?

I like about Vienna that... it's where half of my family is from, so there's that connection. I love Schönbrunn, the Stephansdom, from which you can see everything everywhere ever, the Pestsäule, the Kärnterstraße (great shopping). I love just wandering around because there are so many little things to see. Like how ugly the opera is and the Café Sacher, where the Sacher Torte was invented. The Hofburg and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, which has exactly one part of the Ishtar gate from Babylon. The rest is in Berlin and it looks amazing and that one part landed in Vienna, go figure. The Naturhistorisches Museum. The food. The street performers.

The whole damn thing, basically.

I'm not sure what an American would like about all these things, because a lot of what you call 'foreign', in cultural terms, is pretty much every day for me, but that's what I love.

[lazaria91]

Not this past weekend and I'm leaving Thursday. I did the previous ones but leaving the town I'm in is agonizingly hard. It's all rolling hills and beautiful countryside and no movie theaters or trains.

;.; That sounds amazing… GOD, I am friggin coming back as soon as humanely possible.

I know the feeling, I'm from New York and I want to slaughter the tourists all the time for staring at buildings that I see everyday. But for me it's the fact that that stuff IS everyday and a lot of it is older than my country. Plus I'm an art student: this stuff is my crack.

[pprfaith]

That's the biggest difference, I think. Everything this side of the pond is old. I regularly pass a church that was built in the 12th century and walk on cobblestones almost as old.

The only time I really notice is when I twist my ankle because those things a hell on my heels.

The town I live in is a thousand years old and there are a dozen older things within an hour's drive. It's what makes Europe so complicated and fascinating for outsiders. We're all tangled up in our past and way too entrenched in everything that came before us.

America doesn't have that.

...Can you tell I'm writing purple prose fic at the moment?

[lazaria91]

Lol, your prose is lovely.

That's what I like about Europe. All the history, that it's everywhere and everything is connected like that. We don't have that, which is a shame, I think, because a lot of people here don't really get why it's important because what we do have is boring.

[pprfaith]

It's not boring. It's just not old enough to have developed sufficiently freaky myths and legends.

[lazaria91]

We have legends, they just suck. The Jersey Devil, Mothman, Bloody Mary and the Hookman of Lover's Lane.

[pprfaith]

Okay. Point. We have a lot less mass murdering serial killer legends. Although... wouldn't you classify those a urban legends anyway?

I sort of meant stuff like 'this is the tower where Lord B walled up his youngest daughter because she got her freak on with someone he didn't approve of' and, 'this is the crossing where a redheaded man once made a deal with the devil' and 'if you want a levy to hold, you need to bury something living in it'.