Win or Die
Name:
Liza
How did you find out about the community? If it's through an LJ user, please tell us who it is (individual user if possible, not just a community name!):
I searched LJ for "Game of Thrones" interests. I'm looking for some new icons and stumbled upon this community
Age:
27
Location:
DC area, Maryland.
Occupation:
Archivist
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!.
I am not too picky. I love old houses with a lot of history. Something from the Victorian era would be GRAND, however, I don't really require a grand mansion. What's more important are the surroundings. I would love a big back yard so I can have a dog or two run around out there. I also love quiet neighborhoods. The hustle and the bustle of the city is fun, but I like coming home to a quiet neighborhood where I can relax. Geographic location ... some place where it snows and is near the ocean is ideal. Northern West or East Coast, US is what I like. Liberal areas, both colder and near the ocean. I moved to the DC area about a year ago and love it here. Not only are the winters fairly mild, but it does snow, and summers are nice and hot and plenty of chances to go to the beach!
2. 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!
1. Happiness. If there is one wish over all the others. If the genie is able to permanently alter my state of being so that I am happy all the time, that is the best. Too many people live their lives in sadness, ignoring what they have. Over any thing, I think happiness and fulfillment is the best life-goal.
2. Good family. I guess that is supposed to be a Tully trait? I want my family to be happy. If they're doing well, I'm generally content. I don't know if I want kids some day, but the last thing I want is for them to grow up to be drug addicts or self-destructive, or terribly emo or something.
3. A PUPPY. I'm having difficulties with this one, but it's either that, or the ability to have extra time with dead/missing family members. I can't really have pets right now, but some day I want a doggie :). I generally prefer dogs to cats, but I love kitties too.
3. 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. ;)
Got a Masters and moved across the country for a full time job in my small, kind of obscure field. I'm not terribly happy with my work right now, but just that I've stuck with it and am willing to stick it out to further my career should give me brownie points.
4. 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.
Most important- It's a toss up between love and family. My family is very small, but I love them lots, and you should love your family and friends! I suppose as J.K. Rowling said, love is the most important thing. This is why Voldemort couldn't win, he was incapable of comprehending love! I don't hand out my love like a lollipop, I am careful who I give it to. I love my friends and family lots and am very loyal to them.
Least important is tough because all are important to me! I would possibly have to say money. Money is important for survival, but just that. Money does not make you happy. My field doesn't pay a lot, but I'm plenty happy just paying my bills and having good friends, health, and family. I'm still in my 20s, so maybe that could change if I have kids, but right now, I don't make a whole lot and I'm still happy. I don't require a lot of money to be happy. I'm fairly simple. I like going to the park and hanging out with friends, playing board games. None of these require a bunch of money. I put too much value on the rest of the traits. Money can be sacrificed for family, love, adventure, etc. Also, I'm very adventurous without needing to spend lots of money traveling overseas. My sense of adventure is as simple as just trespassing into forests and exploring them : ).
5. What's one quote (or passage, song lyric, etc.) that effectively describes you and your values? Explain.
Lesse, there's For all it's worth, it was worth all the while. It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right, I hope you had the time of your life.
I guess I agree to the idea that time heals all wounds, although maybe some aren't completely healed. For about a year now, I've been dealing with this ex friend of mine who I loved and meant a lot to me. I go back and forth wondering if it was worth it and if I can forgive him in time. I think I can, it just takes extra time for me because I'm not by default a forgiving person. I hold grudges, I'm kind of spiteful. I just need extra time, and sometimes life is unpredictable.
A second one is There is nothing to fear, but fear itself
Spoken by a true champ, my favorite President of the United States. I tend to fear very, very little other than things popping out at me. Too many people I know succumb to their fears. I hate that. Fears are meant to be faced, not to cower in front of. If they aren't faced, they will either consume you, or you will not grow.
6. 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 don't really manage it... this is an interesting question. I don't have a credit card. Hah, I'm kind of unusual in that. My job pays me enough to live on and every now and then I check on my savings. I tend not to really worry about that. I've never worried too much about finances because I don't really make too many frivolous purchases or blow my money on dumb things. Financial security is important to me in that I want to make enough not to rely on my parents to help support me. I've kind of gotten to that age a while back...
7. Name (and elaborate on) some of your hobbies. What are your favorite things to do outside of school/the office?
Read- I tend to read less these days, but I still try to every night. Mostly historical fiction or sci fi/dystopian. My favorite genres. I actually don't like fantasy that much. I consider ASoIaF to be Historical Fiction rather than fantasy... LOL. I know it's not, but to me, it's way more historical fiction than traditional fantasy.
Go to boards games meetup groups. I go to these twice a week. They're fun, I love board games. Eurogames mostly, but my favorite ones are always ones that involve some element of deception. I tend to perform a lot better in them for some reason or another XD;;.
I love hiking! When I was unemployed and suffered from high anxiety, the only thing that would cheer me up was going to the park every day. At least then, I could walk around in the sun and listen to my audio novels, forgetting about my problems. I try going to the park at least once a week (usually Sundays). I always feel very happy while I'm there.
8. Name three things you are afraid of. Explain.
1. Things popping out. I can't watch horror movies. I don't like sudden noises and get squeaky/surprised easily.
2. Not having mom/dad/boyfriend in my life. Boyfriend has been a long-distance boyfriend for 9 years now. I can't really fathom the idea of any of them leaving my life, and thinking about it is scary. Especially considering how accident-prone my dad is :/.
3. Hard, very hard to think of a third thing. I suppose... being fired? I tend to often not be the best employee. I dislike authority and don't like listening to orders when I don't agree with them.
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.
1. Sense of Adventure
I just like "risky" business I guess. I kind of have slight exhibitionism. Not like flashing myself openly, but stuff like doing it in public in secluded areas. I like breaking set rules and boundaries. I like trespassing, I love climbing on trees and seeing new places. I love climbing in general. I'm somewhat childish. Climbing is fun! I wish I had the strength/stamina for rock climbing. I guess for now I'll stick to other high places.
2. Self-confidence
I think everyone should like me, and if they don't, it's their problem! Well, that's how I feel a lot of the time. I just don't really care if others don't like me or don't care for me. I feel confident in myself, my abilities, and my judgments. I tend to be more self-confident than many females I know, and males too for that matter. I feel like everyone could use some extra self-confidence. It would make them happier at least, to some extent.
3. Honesty
I really dislike games females like to play. I don't understand them very well, and I like honest and open discussions. I hates lies and manipulation, especially fakeness. I want someone to honestly tell me that they don't like me, and I'll respect that a lot more than gossiping and pretending to like me for the sake of just having to deal with me.
For Worst, that would be:
1. Insensitive. I can be somewhat empathetic, but not very sympathetic. I don't really like whiners, and I don't cry very often. I kind of view it as a positive thing too, because I really don't like it when people are too sensitive. I tend not to take a whole lot personally and I think I can be found as standoffish sometimes because I don't understand why some people react sensitively/negatively to things that never phase me.
2. Judgmental. I have about 5 friends who I consider to be losers. They aren't really interested in doing anything with their lives. I don't particularly like it that I think other people are "above" them, but it's hard to change that. I'm also judgmental on a few other things. I tend to have no empathy for criminals or prostitutes (also criminals I guess??) among some other things.
3. I hold grudges. Also along that, I'm somewhat spiteful, but this is mostly against my boyfriend. I tend not to act spitefully against others. I don't forgive and forget easily at all. If someone has slighted me somehow, I won't like them, and I'll remember the slight and hold it against them. If I'm friends with the person, or if they're family, I'll forgive eventually, but I'll still hold the grudge against them. I don't bring it up, it's just something that is in the back of my mind, that this person slighted me in some way that I didn't like a while back.
A Song of Ice and Fire Related
1.How many books from the series have you completed?
4.3. I'm somewhere in the middle of the 5th book right now.
2.Who are your favorite three characters in the series? Why?
1. Brienne of Tarth
She never conformed to society's expectations. I love that. I kind of hate that word, but I'm kind of a nonconformist too. I don't really act like most females, and I'm accepted by society, she is not, yet she still held on so hard to her morals and convictions. She is the quintessential knight. Bold, chivalrous, and a damn baddass XD. She may be SLIGHTLY one-dimensional, but I think she learned and grew from her ordeal with Jamie.
2. Sandor Clegane
A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he’ll look you straight in the face
I just love Sandor. Complete anti-hero. If he hadn't have had his face burned by his evil brother, I think he would have been a different man. I guess I just kind of... understood the way he interacted with the Stark sisters. He kept Arya safe, and all he wanted was a song from Sansa. She was terrified of him, but all he wanted was a song. He was always honest, I valued that.
3. Tywin Lannister
I like his portrayal in the show better, but basically... he revived the Lannister name from disgrace. His name was everything, all he really cared about was how much power the Lannisters had over Westros. He didn't love his children, especially Tyrion, but I think some of that was because how upset he was after his wife died. I just thought of him as another badass. He wasn't senselessly cruel, but he basically took a "no prisoners" kind of stand.
3.Who are your least favorite three characters in the series? Why?
1. Joffrey. Kind of hard not to despise him. He was a coward and an idiot. I'm glad Martin killed him off when he did. The way he had Sandor beat Sansa for no reason , just everything about him was terrible. No likeable quality whatsoever. If he wasn't such a coward, maybe he'd have some merit?
2. Cersei. I hope Martin kills her off in the next book, but I think we won't be so lucky. Petty, jealous and stupid. She thinks she's incredibly smart when all she has is penis envy. She relied on her sluttiness to get her whatever she wanted, but then it came back to bite her and now she's stuck in prison! Please George, don't wait any longer to kill her off!
3. The Tickler
Well at least Arya killed him! Absolutely detestable character. I hate him even more than Gregor Clegane. Seemed to really love torturing and maiming innocents.
4.#1 Favorite moment in all of ASOIAF so far? Why?
Oh too many, too many! Probably when Dany freed the slaves of Astapor. Dany has grown the most out of all the characters. She started off as a meek little girl, but look at her now! She's always been one of my favorite female character in general, but she is a QUEEN and deserves to be the queen of Westros, not just Khaleesi, not just Queen of Meereen.
5. In your dream-world, how would you like to see the series end, and why?
Dany as Queen of Westros. She deserves it, plain and simple. She has faults, she's a Targaryean after all, she has some viciousness and she has the blood of dragons in her, but of out all the kings and queens, she deserves it the most. I hope George will not disappoint. I hope that George will give his favorite child, Tyrion the happy ending he deserves, and I hope that Arya will be reunited with Sansa and they'll be friends. I also hope Sansa will take Winterfell and also be happy. I used to not like Sansa , but mainly realized she was naive and stupid as a kid. She's really coming into her own and I love her chapters now.