Answers for crypticgirl...
hahahaahahaha bedtime!
1. How do you define someone 'being there' for you as a friend?
Sharing their love with me - ultimately the basis for my love is friendship is that I want to know that the person I love, knows it. I also want to know I'm loved in return. Everything else stems from that :)
2. What's your favourite taste and why?
In this moment, dark chocolate and rose... because the flavours compliment one another so amazingly well - the rose brings out such nuances in chocolate that I'd never experienced before. Similarly, chocolate adds an earthy richness, a realness to the experience of something that even in taste can be perceived as a scent... I truly feel that the flavour of 'rose' is as the scent is. That's how I experience it in any case.
3. Did you have a favourite teacher or class at school? Why was that person or class your favourite?
Year 9 Drama: Miss Millar. It was the first time I wasn't afraid of being noticed. I found out that I was actually really good at drama... which to know me now doesn't sound like a stretch. But then, you could hear me babble and I'd be saying nothing, and it would all be to avoid notice. My experience of that time was being 'anathema' - the worst thing I could imagine was drawing attention to myself, and I was terrified of doing the class. Miss Millar was amazing though and as she was such a good teacher - firm yet fun and joyful, I liked her. At that point given the person I was then... I wanted to please her. So I did. And discovered more about me in the process :)
4. How did you come to define yourself as a fan for the first time?
I got to be around other people that noticed and appreciated strange little things like I did, who were all a little different, did or said things differently. I just felt like it was a sort of 'home' I'd never had before... my experience of identifying being a fan, has nothing to do with being a fan of anything save fans themselves. It was callistra who introduced me to fandom however (see one of the other set of answers for expansion on that).
5. Name one phrase you wish you were able to say more often, and why.
'Whatever cranks your cheese wheel' - A friend said it once and I was, and continue to be, totally charmed by it. Otherwise translated as 'whatever makes you happy' or 'whatever floats your boat'.
1. How do you define someone 'being there' for you as a friend?
Sharing their love with me - ultimately the basis for my love is friendship is that I want to know that the person I love, knows it. I also want to know I'm loved in return. Everything else stems from that :)
2. What's your favourite taste and why?
In this moment, dark chocolate and rose... because the flavours compliment one another so amazingly well - the rose brings out such nuances in chocolate that I'd never experienced before. Similarly, chocolate adds an earthy richness, a realness to the experience of something that even in taste can be perceived as a scent... I truly feel that the flavour of 'rose' is as the scent is. That's how I experience it in any case.
3. Did you have a favourite teacher or class at school? Why was that person or class your favourite?
Year 9 Drama: Miss Millar. It was the first time I wasn't afraid of being noticed. I found out that I was actually really good at drama... which to know me now doesn't sound like a stretch. But then, you could hear me babble and I'd be saying nothing, and it would all be to avoid notice. My experience of that time was being 'anathema' - the worst thing I could imagine was drawing attention to myself, and I was terrified of doing the class. Miss Millar was amazing though and as she was such a good teacher - firm yet fun and joyful, I liked her. At that point given the person I was then... I wanted to please her. So I did. And discovered more about me in the process :)
4. How did you come to define yourself as a fan for the first time?
I got to be around other people that noticed and appreciated strange little things like I did, who were all a little different, did or said things differently. I just felt like it was a sort of 'home' I'd never had before... my experience of identifying being a fan, has nothing to do with being a fan of anything save fans themselves. It was callistra who introduced me to fandom however (see one of the other set of answers for expansion on that).
5. Name one phrase you wish you were able to say more often, and why.
'Whatever cranks your cheese wheel' - A friend said it once and I was, and continue to be, totally charmed by it. Otherwise translated as 'whatever makes you happy' or 'whatever floats your boat'.