#thank u for the truth neil gaiman

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brb adjusting to the new reality where crowley says "you don't dance" to aziraphale and not "we don't dance"

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I’m on a reading kick. Do you have any novels or short story collections you’d recommend?

!!!!!! omg yes i deffo do, ty for asking!

my major problem is that i give basically all my books away haha so im sure ive forgotten a lot of what i liked but anyhoooo!!!

short stories

daphne du maurier: ive read several of her short story collections & they were all great! don’t think you can go wrong whatever you pick

kelly link - pretty monsters

philip k dick: i read a 5 volume set of all (or most? idk) his short stories in chronological order & no regrets! don’t think you can go wrong whatever you pick

alice munro - runaway

nadine gordimer - the soft voice of the serpent

neil gaiman - smoke and mirrors (i find his short story collections to be a bit of a mixed bag cos im not into like sestinas or lovecraft ff, but there’s also always some gems!)

angela carter - the bloody chamber

roald dahl: ive read a few of his short story collections (for adults, though tbf i remember revolting rhymes being a lot of fun too) and they were great! assume you can’t go wrong whatever you pick

novels

dh lawrence - st mawr (i think this is technically a novella, you might only be able to find it in a collection...? it’s really fucking good though)

william morris - news from nowhere (or, an epoch of rest: being some chapters from a utopian romance...yes this is essentially socialist propaganda, and wot?)

aldous huxley - the island (60s huxley!!)

david mitchell - ghostwritten (first novel, structurally pretty similar to cloud atlas but i think this is probs both better AND a better intro, especially cos it’s kinda worth reading his bks in chronological order bc they’re loosely connected & that pays off later)

sarah waters - fingersmith (the novel the handmaiden is based on; set in victorian britain)

cs lewis - the screwtape letters (epistolary demon pov)

jane austen - lady susan (epistolary novel, extremely fun villain)

jasper fforde - the eyre affair (first in a series, super meta, welcome to literary crime!)

kurt vonnegut - cat’s cradle

jd salinger - franny and zooey (probably a novella? the sequel novellas & short stories are also excellent)

daniel defoe (?) - moll flanders (published 1722 but it feeeeels way more modern than, say, dickens)

lev grossman - the magicians (first in a series, sort of a realistic hogwartsy universe, with in-universe narnia-esque books but with clocks....im not explaining this well but it’s sooo good)

franz kafka - the castle (unfinished but still)

richard matheson - I am legend (will make you hate the film though, if you don’t already)

umberto eco - foucault's pendulum

robin sloane - mr penumbra's 24-hour bookstore

g willow wilson - alif the unseen

xiaolu guo - a concise chinese-english dictionary for lovers

milan kundera - the joke

diana wynne jones - howl's moving castle (an american made me read this, so i assume the joke lands with a non-british audience, haha)

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22?? maybe??

time heist

circa nowhen

me being like u can have a little 12, as a treat, as a break from 10

i really love this episode idk why

is it all the familiar faces? is it my childhood love of ocean’s eleven? is it clara’s fucking suit? is it the doctor calling himself out in yet another scene so brilliantly delivered by capaldi? is it the line “not the last of its species, the last two” and its subtle parallel to two time lord disasters? 

whatever it is i do genuinely love this episode

the runaway bride

circa 2007

i just really really really love donna 

like yes she’s so mad and spends the first twenty minutes yelling at the doctor

oh god i missed that he called her unimportant too that kills ME

but then by the time we get to her finding out that her fiance was just using her? like the doctor’s realization of that moments before her? my heart is aching

her protectiveness immediately after of the doc? 

and then he takes her to the creation of the earth???

and she stops him??? from taking vengeful time lord thing too far???

and then the end scene is so tender and Soft and i’m crying because i want them to be best emotionally supportive buds travelling the universe together forever

blink

circa 2007

i was trying so hard to figure out why this was 2007 and not 2008 like the rest of season 3 and finally i think it was bc at the end we have a year later and then she meets 10 and martha, but it hasn’t happened yet for them, but i still don’t know exactly how we got that time 

anyway time is one big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff

both doc and companion lite episodes are interesting to me and i’ll have to keep an eye out moving out of rtd era bc i can’t really recall many?

anyway this whole ep is gold and baby mulligan sells it here

thanks for making us afraid of statues doctor who

turn left

circa alternate 2007 (and 2008 and 2009)

i put this one here bc the turning point is in 2007 and i was trying to mix up 10 as much as i could...but it does lean heavily on the events of seasons 3 and 4 so idkkkk

anyway i love donna noble just gotta repeat that

rose!!!! i forgot that every time rose comes back on the show she just glows up more and more

also it really strikes me how much she is playing the doctor’s role here (she even points it out herself) which makes me have a lot of 13 feels thx

‘i shan’t it’s christmas’ 

ICONIC

‘the most important woman in the whole of creation’ 

it’s so wild bc that line stuck with me when i first watched it in high school and it still makes me emotional

but you know what resonates now?

the ‘i’m tired. i’m so tired.’

she doesn’t want any of that responsibility and weight and doesn’t think she’s important and doesn’t want to keep fighting

and that’s me crying

i forgot how hard this episode goes with the alt timeline stuff like it is not even remotely in the vicinity of fucking around

and honestly the risky choices they make could potentially not land at all and could feel like they’re there for shock value but everyone onscreen (and behind it too i imagine) is pouring as much truth as they can into it and is committed to the actual horror that is this alternate timeline and it absolutely lands

god what an episode

nightmare in silver

circa nowhen

so that may have been a lie i think this one actually goes vaguely in the future

anyway here it helped breakup 10 eps so that’s good

i was like why an abandoned amusement park that’s cool but odd

and then i realized neil gaiman that’s why

anyway cybermen are more interesting when there’s more than just a painfully slow build to a reveal of a cybermen army ready to take over oh noes

and so HOLY SHIT SMITH

11 vs the cyber-planner is actually unbelievable???

his acting my god 

it’s interesting bc there are a lot of similarities to the end of season 12 plot wise 

but tonally this episode is so wildly different and serves a completely different purpose in the narrative and season that i have no motivation to draw parallels bc they’re both just doing interesting but separate things

smith and jones

circa 2008

who’s ready for some martha jones????

martha just deserves better. like. all the time.

i mean this is martha ‘you’re a doctor? yeah well i’ll call you that when you earn it’ jones

judoon platoon upon the moon 

that’s all

haha dr. stoker i see what u did there

there are so many moments where you just have to be like what the fuck am i watching and the vampire lady drinking out of the doc’s neck with a straw is definitely up there

i level up every time martha calls herself a doctor or says that she’s going to be one

the lazarus experiment

circa 2008

we r rolling folks

how many doctor who episodes has gatiss been in my god????

black tie episode niiiiiiice

we’ve been name dropping harold saxon in literally every single episode present day this season and last my goodness

i can’t imagine what that’s about lol

maybe we’ll find out tomorrow

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A to Z Book Rec Tag

Thank you to the lovely @that-quirky-girl for tagging me, she recognises the book weakness in me. These books are all linked on goodreads, where I have an account, linked HERE.

# - #Junkie and #Rev by Cambria Hebert 

A - Adorkable by Sarra Manning

Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andersen 

Adulting 101 by Lisa Henry 

Alan Partridge: Nomad by Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) 

The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith 

All the Single Ladies by Jane Costello 

And Call me in the Morning by Willa Okati 

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins 

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake 

Austenland by Shannon Hale 

B - The Backup Boyfriend by River Jaymes

Beauty by Robin McKinley 

The Best Corpse for the Job by Charlie Cochrane

Between Ghosts by Garrett Leigh 

Big Mouth, Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates

Blame it on the Mistletoe by Eli Easton 

Blood Magic by Tessa Gratton 

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby 

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne 

Breakfast at Tiffanys by Truman Capote 

Breathe by Sloane Parker 

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 

Bridesmaids by Jane Costello 

Brighton Rock by Graham Green 

C - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell 

Carry the Ocean by Heidi Cullinan 

The Catastrophic History of You and Me by Jessica Rothenburg 

Caught! by JL Merrow 

Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles 

Chance to be King by Sue Brown 

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 

The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher 

The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

Cinder by Marissa Meyer 

Clear Water by Amy Lane  

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein 

Cold War by Keira Andrews 

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black 

Collide by Riley Hart 

The Color Purple by Alice Walker 

Corkscrewed by MJ O’Shea 

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo 

Crossroads by Riley Hart 

The Crucible by Arthur Miller 

Crush by Richard Siken 

D - The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black 

Dash & Lily’s book of Dares by Rachel Cohn 

Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney 

Devoted by Sierra Riley 

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness 

Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy 

E - Eclipsed by Dominic Holland 

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine 

Emma - Jane Austen 

Epic Fail - Claire LaZebnik 

The Epic Love Story of Doug and Stephen by Valerie Z Lewis 

Every Move he Makes by Barbara Elsborg 

Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande 

F - Fairest by Gail Carson Levine 

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell 

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by JK Rowling 

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 

The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien 

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 

Filthy Little Secret by Devon McCormack 

Fish Out Of Water by Amy Lane

Fish Stick Fridays by Rhys Ford 

Flash Burnout by LK Madigan

Flawless by Lara Chapman 

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman 

From What I Remember by Stacy Kramer 

The Future of Us by Jay Asher 

G - Gangsta Rap by Benjamin Zephaniah : 

Girl on the Run by Jane Costello

Glass Tidings by Amy Jo Cousins

Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner

Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

H - Harry Potter by JK Rowling

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey

The Heart of Texas by RJ Scott

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Helping Hand by Jay Northcote

A Hero at the End of the World by Erin Claiborne

Him by Sarina Bowen

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien 

Holly Lane by Toni Blake

Hostile Ground by LA Witt

Hot Head by Damon Suede 

Hottie Scotty and Mr Porter by R Cooper

How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by JC Lillis

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

A Hunted Man by Jaime Reese

Hunting Lila by Sarah Alderson

Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

I - I Love the 80s by Megan Crane

If Only in My Dreams by Keira Andrews

Illegal Contact by Santino Hassell

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Inseparable by Chris Scully

An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley

J - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

 Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

K - A Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn

Know Not Why by Hannah Johnson

L - Law of Attraction by Jay Northcote

Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles

Liam Davis & The Raven by Anyta Sunday

Light from the Dark by Mercy Celeste

Lima Oscar Victor Echo and the Truth about Everything by Suki Fleet

The Little Book of Vegan Poems by Benjamin Zephaniah 

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

M - Mark Cooper versus America by Lisa Henry

Mark of Cain by Kate Sherwood

Me and Mr Darcy by Alexandra Potter

Merry Christmas Mr Miggles by Eli Easton

Midwinter Night’s Dream by Eli Easton

More than This by Patrick Ness

Motel. Pool. by Kim Fielding 

Mrs Warren’s Profession by Bernard George Shaw

My Love Lies Bleeding by Alyxandra Harvey 

My Single Friend by Jane Costello

N - The Nearly-weds by Jane Costello 

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman 

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn 

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

North of Beautiful by Justina Chen

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Nothingness of Ben by Brad Boney

Noticed Me Yet? by Anyta Sunday

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

Off Base by Annabeth Albert

Open Tackle by LC Chase

Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron

P - Passing Through by Jay Northcote

Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Peter Pan by JM Barrie

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Pressure Head by JL Merrow

Pride and Modern Prejudice by AJ Michaels 

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Private Eye by SE Culpepper

Promised Land by Adam Reynolds

Promises by Marie Sexton

Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry

Q - The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

R - Rattlesnake by Kim Fielding

Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

Rock Solid by Riley Hart

Roughing the Passer by Alison Hendricks

S - The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Shiny by Amy Lane

Shrinking Violet by Danielle Joseph

Shut your Face, Anthony Pace by Claire Davis

Silent by Sara Alva

Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Skellig by David Almond

Skin Deep by Laura Jarratt

Slam! by JL Merrow

The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

Sock it to me, Santa! by Madison Parker

Someday by Sierra Riley

Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake

Spencer Cohen by NR Walker

Splintered by SJD Peterson

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Starter for Ten by David Nicholls

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

Stay With Me by SE Harmon

Strong Side by Alison Hendricks

Sugar Creek by Toni Blake

Superhero by Eli Easton

T - The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab

The Time of Our Lives by Jane Costello

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Tonight by Karen Stivali

Turkey in the Snow by Amy Lane

The Two Gentlemen of Altona by Lisa Henry

U - Unwrapping Hank by Eli Easton

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

V - The Vintners Luck by Elizabeth Knox

W - Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

The Walls of Troy by LA Witt

The Waste Land and Other Poems by TS Eliot

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

We were Feminists Once by Andi Zeisler

A Weekend With Mr Darcy by Victoria Connelly

Where he ends and I Begin by C Cardeno

Where the Lovelight Gleams by Kiera Andrews

Whiskey Business by Avon Gale

The Wish List by Jane Costello

Wonder by RJ Palacio

X - X-It by Jane George

Y - Y: The Last Man by Brian K Vaughan

You Against Me by Jenny Downham

Z - Zero at the Bone by Jane Seville

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Uriel & Lucifer Meta post 2x05 - Weaponizer

So I was rewatching 2x05 - Weaponizer and I couldn’t help but start thinking a few things that just stuck with me... 

First, let me remind you that Lucifer advised Uriel to lose the coat and he actually did it after his confrontation with Amenadiel... But let’s move on...

Please listen to this song while I go a bit crazy. It’s part of the episode’s OST.  

It’s the We Don't Eat by James Vincent McMorrow. 

So in this episode, a strange humanisation of Lucifer begins... He refuses to believe there is no other solution as there is always another way...

First, let me tell you that I believe that Uriel on some level cared about his big brother’s opinion so he lost the coat but as the ending of the episode was coming to a close before the fight and then during it, I started to have this crazy meta forming in my head. My stomach bubbled and so I had to share it. Why? Because I believe that it might be of great consequence for the third season. 

Now there will be a duality in this post. Lucifer’s wavering emotions between hate and love for Dad and what I call Uriel’s meta post. 

Let’s visit the first scene at the church... I firmly believe that if you want to know the real Lucifer you should watch 2x05 and particularly the scene before the church fight up to the very end. Anyway, in the church, we are greeted by an obviously abandoned place where there are dozens of lightened candles. That’s not just for the decor of that scene...

This the first heartbreaking scene of the episode although I doubt many realise why. 

A) Lucifer took the time to light all these candles. 

According to my fate lighting, the candles are supposed to show how we should ‘melt’ for the sake of the rest of the people around us while quietly lightening the path for them without showing off our generous actions no matter whether they are small or big. 

In a sense, I believe this is a preparation of what Lucifer will be willing to sacrifice for Chloe and Mum. On the other hand, lightening a candle is an act of prayer itself which brings us to my second point.  B) Lucifer not only lightened the candles but he chooses a church. 

In that moment he begs Dad to help. He tries to get back home and I believe that Lucifer was praying for more than just Uriel that night. Perhaps in a sense, Lucifer needed Dad to watch what was happening in his ‘house’ and within his family. It was the cry of a son screaming at his father to finally look and actually see. Brothers had just turned against each other and an innocent soul was at stake. Perhaps that was what broke Lucifer more. Dad’s absence while he let Uriel meet his end. 

C) Until the very end, Lucifer believed there was another solution and indeed there was an unexpected one. Death. 

Now moving on to Uriel. As I have said before I’ve never got why Uriel comes to L.A. to get Mum back to Hell or even extinguish her for good, fights Lucifer, threatens him with Chloe only at the end to tell him that the piece was on Earth thus starting a whole chain reaction which laid us to 2x18... With that in mind, I watched 2x05 under a completely different light.  

Uriel’s quotes near the end were: 

1) 'Cause for once in my life, I'd like to be surprised, but no. 

Does that mean he was gifted with omniscience? Perhaps but we saw that Lucifer could follow a pattern but still Uriel could not figure out how the blow would come. In my perception, it meant that Uriel could see the colour green but he didn’t know if it was a leaf or a whole tree.

2) In my version, you refuse to give Mom up and your human friend dies.

But didn’t that happen? Didn’t Chloe reach death in 2x13? So perhaps Uriel was right after all but that’s not all...

3) L: Maybe you're not as good at this as you thought.     U: Maybe I'm building up to a big finale.

Now Uriel’s reply here made sense for me. In Hell, we saw that Mum remembered Uriel as the son who was always attached to her. He said ‘Don’t leave me not again’ indeed Mum remembers him as the boy he once was which makes me believe that perhaps Uriel loved her as well so he knew of the big finale in 2x18, something that is supported by the next lines.

4) L: No Heaven, no Hell, just just gone.     U: Finally, a moment of clarity between us.

Call me an overthinker but what if Uriel was giving Lucifer a hint of what he could do and that is why he told him before dying about the piece? Or perhaps the piece part belongs to the better understanding of the patters. Still, Mum did end up in a place which was not Heaven nor Hell so Uriel was right and by bringing the blade and notifying Lucifer of the piece, Uriel did help sent Mum to her own dimension.  

5) A sequence will begin, and two days from now your cute little human will finally die.

Here we recognise that Uriel could control a sequence further ahead in time so what if that sequence lasted months or even years? Aka Chloe’s poisoning because if she wasn’t with Lucifer that night in 2x10, he would have had sex with Gina and Chloe might never have had the case of the smuggling poison which led them to the professor at some point... She did almost die and a new pattern began which as Uriel explains:

6) Patterns are tricky like that. Takes time to get a real sense of them.

I’m not sure whether Uriel was talking about the fight (doubtful in my speculation belief), or how at the last moments he realised that he had to die in order for a new pattern to start its sequence in which, he was the key that had to be pressed in order for everything to literally unravel as we saw in 2x18. Or three what if Uriel was telling to Lucifer that you Lucifer will need time to see the pattern, make a real sense of it and not feel threatened by it...? 

Chloe’s love & miracle status, Mum, his wings, in my opinion, might have been part of a pattern which started once Uriel died... If Lucifer never had the sword he never would have perhaps gone to Vegas after Chloe was poisoned, Linda would have never learned the truth and would not have helped for Chloe to be saved... So many things would have gone differently if Uriel had not died and so the pattern is still in motion but Lucifer needs to actually make sense of it...

Finally, at the end of the episode, Chloe reads the book Coraline by Neil Gaiman and although that part is important from the book I would like for this post to rethink the lines... 

As the first stars (Morningstar) came out, "Coraline finally allowed herself to drift into sleep (Chloe?). "While the gentle upstairs (Heaven/Dad?) music of the mouse circus "spilled out onto the warm evening air, telling the world that the summer was almost done (see the last 2 songs in 2x18 where a storm is coming and that the world is unravelling also the spoiler of Sinnerman as the darkest force Lucifer has faced so far).

I might be overthinking things but they make sense for me... If you have made it to the very end thank you, as you know that I tend to have this crazy scattered thoughts which are bubbling violently to get out once they are formed sometimes. 

Last note... Just notice the lyrics of the song I gave you earlier... The one it is heard as Lucifer gets to the church to meet Uriel...

Two thousand years, I've been in that water Two thousand years, sunk like a stone Desperately reaching for nets That the fishermen have thrown Trying to find, a little bit of hope

okay but I like the beginning of the song a lot more...

If this is redemption, why do I bother at all There's nothing to mention, and nothing has changed Still I'd rather be working at something, than praying for the rain So I wander on, till someone else is saved Do search for the rest of the lyrics... They are beautiful.

[jadetiggy]

Random Deliria

Thank you @witterprompts for saying anyone can do this! LOL! I was getting bored. But I don’t think I can tag 50 people. I am going to say that, ANYBODY can do this if you want. 

Rules: Answer all the questions, add one of your own and tag as many people as there are questions

1. coke or pepsi? Neither. 

2. disney or dreamworks? Disney

3. coffee or tea? Tea.

4. books or movies? Both :) 

5. windows or mac? Mac. It’s been 7 years since I’ve converted to be a Mac user and it does really well with editing stuff. XD

6. dc or marvel? Marvel for the mainstream heroes. DC for the lessen known characters :)

7. xbox or playstation? Playstation, definitely. 

8. dragon age or mass effect? Neither

9. night owl or early riser? A somewhat exhausted pigeon. HEH. 

10. cards or chess? Cards. Anybody wants to play Blackjack or Cho Dai Di with me? :D

11. chocolate or vanilla? Chocolate, definitely. 

12. vans or converse? Vans. 

13. Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash or Adaar? Neither, I don’t play Dragon Age

14. fluff or angst? I’d do both :) 

15. beach or forest? Both, although I prefer to be by the beach. 

16. dogs or cats? Cats

17. clear skies or rain? I like the rain when I am at home and comfortably in my bed. 

18. cooking or eating out? Honestly, it depends on how I feel like eating. 

19. spicy food or mild food? Spicy food :) 

20. halloween/samhain or solstice/yule/christmas? Christmas. 

21. would you rather forever be a little too cold or a little too hot? I’d rather be a little too cold. Give me a blanket and I am happy. 

22. if you could have a superpower, what would it be? To be able to time travel. Don’t ask why. 

23. animation or live action? Animation. You can do just about anything. 

24. paragon or renegade? I don’t play Mass Effects. 

25. baths or showers? Showers. 

26. team cap or team ironman? Ironman. 

27. fantasy or sci-fi? Both, please. 

28. do you have three or four favourite quotes, if so, what are they?

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible" - T.E Lawrence

"Sometimes, God; Breaks our spirit to save our soul. Breaks our heart to make us whole. Allows pain so we can be stronger. Sends failure so we can be humble. Allows illness so we can take better care of ourselves. Takes everything away from us so we can learn the value of everything he gave us...” 

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King Jr. 

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.” - Neil Gaiman

29. youtube or netflix? YouTube.

30. harry potter or percy jackson? Harry Potter. 

31. when do you feel accomplished? When I’ve done whatever I was tasked to do. To top it, when the feedback satisfies me and the person I was working with. 

32. star wars or star trek? Star Trek. 

33. paperback or hardback books? Paperback. 

34. horror or rom-com? I’d go for rom-com. 

35. tv shows or movies? Both :) 

36. favourite animal? Anything feline. Generally, I love all animals but I am more of a cat person than anything. 

37. favourite genres of music? Rock :) 

38. least favourite book? Some people may hate me for saying this; Twilight. 

39. favourite season? Winter. 

40. song that’s currently stuck in your head? “Cinta Takkan Berakhir” by Anuar Zain. (Translation: Love Will Never Die)

41. what kind of pyjama’s do you wear?  My beloved lounge pants from Primark or M&S and a sleeveless top. 

42. how many existential crises do you have on an average day? It varies. So, cannot say for sure. 

43. if you can only choose one song to be played at your funeral, what would it be? Hahaha! Highway to Hell by AC/DC

44. favourite theme song to a TV show? Sherlock, weirdly. 

45. harry potter movies or books? Both! 

46. you can make your OTP become canon but you’ll forget that tumblr exists. will you do it? Probably. I have a nutcase BFF who would blab about Tumblr anyway and she is off Tumblr -_-  

47. do you play an instrument and if so, what is it? I used to play a lot of instruments. I studied music when I was in school. I played the gamelan, the caklempong, the keyboard, guitar (self-learnt) and more. 

48. what is the worst way to die? Old. Frail. Lonely. 

49. if you could be entirely invisible for a day, what would you do? Knowing me, I would do bad things. So, I shall not continue saying. Hahaha! 

50. What are you planning on doing with your life? I honestly don’t know. Anywhere the wind blows, I guess. 

51. Favorite Disney movie? Has to be Zootopia, Lilo and Stitch. Oh, and Mulan. 

52. Do you believe in aliens? Maybe. 

53. Are u an unstoppable force or an immovable object? Definitely an unstoppable force. I think it was in 2014, my Mum got worried with how much of a workaholic I got for ONE event. I left the house at 7 am and get home by around midnight or at 1 am. 

54. If you were in front of a nondescript door that’s only property was to surprise you when you open it, would you open it? (remember, a “surprise” can be good or bad) Maybe but with caution. :P 

55. (Witter’s addition) What kind of house would you get if you had the funds to get literally anything you could ever dream of? I’ve always loved Victorian houses. Oh! And English cottages. I don’t know. It could be just me, you know. 

56. (Jajersz’s) Do you have any regrets? (My answer: Yes. The scar on my arm. But all those things I’ve done in the past, it taught me something. It taught me to be stronger than I was then.)