The final version of "Mou Hitotsu no Chijou" was so, so epic.
- Personal Info -
Name: Dana, Arc ...and I'll have ya know, it's short for Arcanine because I'm a total geek
Age: 19 but I'll be turning 20 in less than two weeks, oh god whyyy
Gender: Female
Likes: Anime and manga are kind of a given here, right? And video games, and wasting hours of my life online? Fantasy and sci-fi. RPGs (online and tabletop). Yaoi. Sentai shows. (...Yaoi sentai shows? 8D;; I wish. There was this BL game...) Laughing and making people laugh. Writing in second-person POV (weird guilty pleasure). Parenthesis. The strikeout tag. Overusing emoticons. Tea! :D
Dislikes: Your mom. Being 4'10" and not 5'. Stereotypes. People with no imagination. People who somehow fuck up the HTML in rating communities when the text is clearly, clearly given to you with the proper formatting. Unintentional bad grammar. (So, so many of my pet peeves are grammar-related.) Having to pick my brain for things I dislike. XD;;
Strong points: You can count on me, period. I don't always know what to do or say, but I'll always try to be there for someone who needs me.
I'd like to think I'm funny, creative, and don't suck at writing. But I'd also like to think that I'm going to be a superhero "when I grow up," so that's the end of that. (Just because writing is my chosen profession, I'm gonna consider "overactive imagination" to be a positive quality here...)
Weak points: I'm a hell of a perfectionist, but also also prone to procrastinating. I'm completely disorganized, and hoard things like a packrat. I don't care too much about my appearance. I tend to think that "if I ignore it, it will go away," though I've been getting better about that recently. I also compensate for a submissive attitude in relationships by being overly aggressive whenever possible, because I am way too insecure about the former.
And? I can criticize myself for hours. This is not made better by the fact that I realized quite early on that self-deprecating humor often gets the most laughs. And I care about cheering people up quite a bit.
- Positions -
Leader, follower or loner: It depends entirely on the situation, really, so I filled out two of 'em. I tend to ramble -- sorry 'bout that. ^^;;
For leader:
- How do you treat your subordinates/those you're in charge of? If I'm with my friends, they're not those I'm in charge of, they're my friends. If I don't know 'em, I'm entirely too polite and self-conscious. Because I'm afraid of how others will perceive my decisions, I always try to get input from everyone, always word things like questions, always try to make sure everyone's happy. I need to learn to put my foot down.
- How do you deal with the loners/rebels/people who prefer working alone? To some extent, I'd like to try to make sure that the loners are comfortable with the situation and feel like they've got people to depend on, but I would never push to the point of making someone uncomfortable. I've been shy and I'm always awkward in group situations, so I'd be able to empathize - and know when to stop so it doesn't seem like I'm pressuring them.
For loner:
- Why do you choose to be that way? Usually it's because I'm uncomfortable working with certain people, or because I have an idea for the project/situation that others wouldn't have an interest in because it's geeky and stupid, so I don't bother trying to get help. When I like an idea and want to see it through, for all my bitching about hating to do work, I'll often want to do things that are complicated and involve even more work than people in groups are doing because I'm a huge idiot. >>;
- If you are cast as group leader, how will you act? Please see 'leader' section.
- If you are cast as a member, how will you act? As long as the leader's not a jerk, I'll go with the flow and do what's asked, speaking up if I'm comfortable enough with the people. I tend to get nervous though and will either babble on about nonsense while trying to convey some wacky idea, or I'll keep quiet and not give my input out of fear of rejection. Mood swings much, self?
- Choose one -
Group or alone: I'd only choose a group if I didn't like the project, I think, and would prefer help doing it - or if I had friends around, of course. Working alone's easier, and sometimes more efficient.
Choose your team or random selection: Random selection's fun in a social experimentation sort of way, but I'd prefer to choose a team. When you know the people you're working with, you can really function in a more equal environment -- knowing everyone's specialties makes it easier to divide work, for example, whereas you've got all sorts of uncomfortable "well, if- if you don't want to do this, I'll, I guess... are you sure? do you want to do that?" to deal with, and then nobody wants to agree on tasks and nobody ends up doing what they're suited for. (Oops, a little long-winded there...)
Teamwork or each to his own: Depends on what you're doing. Some things require more collaboration than others. It's always good to have some sense of unity, though, so... teamwork's the best way to go?
- School -
Have you gone to school? Yeah.
What year are you in? (if you still are in school) I'm going to be a junior in college. Woah.
Do you meet deadlines? Most of the time. (I was horrible with deadlines in high school, but college assignments are much easier to get in on time, somehow. Maybe because there are so few of them in comparison?)
Do you get along with your classmates? There are definitely some people I'd like to punch in the face from high school, but nobody in college is really that bad.
Any bad habits? Jeez, if the mods had a quarter for every time someone wrote "procrastination," they'd be making a fortune, wouldn't they? Please, take this quarter and enjoy it. At least to some extent, my procrastination is due to perfectionism; when it comes to writing, I can't pen/type a sentence if I'm afraid it doesn't sound right. I can't do the "write first, edit later" because I'm too worried about things sounding terrible and not being correct the first time. (This was fun when I had 25 pages of a screenplay to finish in two days.)
How do you keep yourself motivated? Magic? I love my classes, I love my school, I love the friends I have there, and failure does not make me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
- Work -
Name at least one job you've had, and how long you've done it: I had a rather boring job at school, so I'll talk about my cool one instead, haha... I was the script supervisor for a web series for a few weeks this summer ♥
Describe it (if you liked it, if you hate it, if your boss is a jerk, etc): Basically, I got up and took a bus into the city, sat around while they took forever to set up, and then took notes about continuity and the details of each take for the editor. Hated the commute, loved everything else.
Do you meet deadlines? There were no deadlines. I got there on time as often as the bus would let me, if that's what y'mean. (Please don't get me started on how much I hate that bus, haha.)
Do you get along with your officemates? Everyone was friendly and amazing, and it made not getting paid a little less disappointing. Though, honestly, I felt like I was a little distant from them because they were all classmates (it was done for a college's acting program), and I should have made more of an effort to be friendlier. :\
Any bad habits? Staying up too late the night before and just barely making the bus, haha, and then maybe sorta half-starting to fall asleep in the middle of takes. >>;; Okay, that was only once or twice, but...
How do you keep yourself motivated? "Hey, it'll look awesome on my resume! And it's just awesome!"
If you've quit a job, why? Didn't quit this job, only not continuing the job I had at school last year because I'm not living on campus and the job sorta required that. ._.;
- Misc -
Anything else? Again, I'm sorry for rambling so much! @__@;;
Name the three applications you've voted on: one! two! three!
Post the link to your character stamp: Kaien