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[celandineb]

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So ask me something you want to know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

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[accioslash]

You have three wishes ala Aladdin. Standard Disney Aladdin exclusions/provisos/disclaimers (no world peace, no bringing people back from the dead, no killing anyone else - completely selfish wishes) apply. How would you use them?

[celandineb]

Completely selfish? Okay then.

I'd wish for a trust fund big enough that neither I nor my SO would ever have to work again if we didn't want to, enough so that we could also choose wherever in the world we wanted to live.

I'd wish for a daughter.

I'd wish to write a novel that would make me remembered for a thousand years - that's my idea of immortality.

[a_d_medievalist]

What color is your hair without the henna?

[celandineb]

Basically brown, although it does have red highlights naturally and gets redder if I'm in the sun a lot (rare). I was a strawberry blonde as a little kid.

[magnetic_pole]

Returning the favor: what would your original fiction be about, do you know? M.

[celandineb]

I have had three substantial ideas: one, a contemporary M/M love story (based loosely on one of my H/D fics); two, a pair of YA fantasy novels, the first about a girl who's sort of an anti-heroine for whom life just doesn't work out well, the second about her children; three, a quasi-mystery about a teenage boy who's died, whether murder or suicide is unclear, his story told through multiple media including the diary of his stepmother.

Have gotten a bit further with the first, i.e. some actual notes and a few thousand words; the other two, just ideas in my head.

[magnetic_pole]

Aha! I *knew* you'd have some ideas already. Hmmm...very interesting! I'm not sure what I expected, but I like these, especially the anti-heroine of the second. M.

[celandineb]

That one developed backward; I was originally thinking about the three children, whose mother was rather cold and harsh, and wondering how they got that way, and how SHE got that way.

But I haven't really thought about any of these ideas much in a while... not enough time, sadly.

[juniperus]

Past, present, future - where would you travel, when, and who would you like to meet?

[celandineb]

Oh goodness. You mean possibly time travel? I'd love to glimpse the future, a thousand or more years from now, anywhere (space!). If the past, I think it would be really interesting to speak with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (who introduced inoculation into Europe). Present... I'd travel to the Oregon coast or possibly northern England and just stay there, and wouldn't need to meet anyone!

[celandineb]

Quite honestly, I don't remember. I always knew I'd go to college at the very least, but I don't remember ever having my heart set on some particular career.