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andwhatdostarsdobest · 5 years

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28 Question Tag Game:

I was tagged by @tomhollanders2013 , @uglypastels and @sleepwalkingdragon . thank you my loves 💕

1. How tall are you?

5′7

2. What color and style is your hair?

it’s technically all blonde but i wouldn’t blame you for thinking the top is light brown. i have the bottom half dyed like a honey blonde and it comes to about midway down my back (this is short for me). it’s kinda wavy naturally but i always plait it overnight so it’s curly most of the time

3. What color are your eyes?

hazel, more green than brown and i have a dark ring around the outside of my iris, sometimes it looks green, sometimes brown. probably those and my hair are what i get complimented on the most (unless you’re my mum who won’t shut up about my smile)

4. Do you wear glasses? i do, im supposed to wear them all the time cause im blind as hell but whoops

i got new ones in like the summer, so i’ll bless you with a photo

5. Do you wear braces?

no but i did for 2 years at school

6. What is your fashion style?

see my fashion sense is not the same as what i wear, mainly because im self-conscious and ive always thought certain clothes were only made for skinny girls (NOT TRUE). but this year one of the things i want to change is wearing a bigger variety of clothes. but i guess at the moment i wear shirts tucked into skirts and dresses mostly

7. Full name?

Alice (y’all don’t want to know my middle names they’re embarrassing)

8. When were you born?

so long ago lmao (31.01.97)

9. Where are you from and where do you live now?

so i was born in london but i now live in norfolk (english countryside). but i desperately want to move (and hopefully i will soon)

10. What school do you go to?

i graduated uni last year

11. What kind of student are you?

teacher’s pet bro. my worst fear was being shouted at by my teachers. i was always early to every lesson and generally did all my homework (not necessarily the night i got it but ya know). i had to try super hard at school because although im smart ive never been good at exams.i was that kid who started revising for june exams in february. i also didn’t realise i was dyslexic at school so that was a massive struggle for me. i’ve always liked to learn but yeah school was a bit of a struggle. i peaked in primary school (no seriously i was listed as gifted in ps and predicated a* in everything and then when i went to hs and sixth form i underperformed in all my exams- lmao yikes) but i graduated uni with a 2:1 so fuck the education system

12. Do you like school?

hahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahah nah

13. What are your favorite school subjects?

probs english, history, business studies and psychology (not surprising those are the four i took for a-levels)

14. Favorite 📺 Shows?

b99, parks and rec, the office, the good place, luther, jane the virgin, greys anatomy, killing eve, definitely more im forgetting

15. Favorite Movies?

stardust, kingsman, LOTR, about time, indiana jones, crazy rich asians, stand by me, tatbilb, dumplin’, wonder woman (loads more im forgetting)

16: Favorite 📚?

chaos walking trilogy (which is like the only book i had to read for school that i can still tolerate), the night circus, tatbilb, ready player one, the martian, hp series, the selection series, idk again more i cant think of off the top of my head

18: Do you have any regrets?

mainly not being braver and believing in myself more. like its hard to come to terms with the fact that you didn’t truly start living until about 20/21

19: Dream Job?

god pls dont ask me this idk something to do with publishing and editing maybe (i love editing writing so ya know if you need a beta reader just hit me up lmao) also a fantasy job would be a wedding planner lmao, i have a scrapbook where i plan them in my spare time lmao

20: Would you like to get married some day?

either or, im good with getting married or not. tbh what i want is the connection and commitment, for me marriage doesnt have to be an integral part of it but im not closed to the possibility either

21: Would you like to have kids some day?

yes

22: How many?

3 i think

23: Do you like shopping?

nah really a fan ngl, clothes shopping makes me feel uncomfortable

24: What countries have you visited?

not that many tbh, i live in england and ive been to all the other countries in the uk, ive been to france, belgium, majorca and finland (i think that’s it)

25: What is the scariest nightmare you’ve ever had?

well i had this reoccurring nightmare as a kid where i was in a house that got invaded and i was murdered. but this is a whole thing okay, like i think it was a past life. i looked it up and there was an actual murder where every detail is the same as my dream and there are other similarities to my actual life and i used to see this man in my room who looks like the killer. anyway its a whole thing and for sure the reason home invasion is one of my all time biggest fears

26: Do you have any enemies?

no that i know of, i try to be nice to everybody and give them no reason to dislike me. if i have an enemy its definitely a one sided thing

27: Do you have any s/o?

i dont but i had a realisation the other day about one of my friends so like dont know what it means yet but ....

28: Do you believe in miracles?

Tagging @thelazypangolin @tomhollandthirst @mysteryavengers @dtftomholland @hey-its-grey

#al talks #tag game

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violetemerald · 6 years

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Or watch the version with all sorts of potentially distracting, potentially just explanatory, text on top of the screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htd9luUsMe8

I had to delete the first copy of the no-text version and re-render/re-upload because I forgot to list Shameless as a fandom in the end credits. And I wanted to fix a small 1 frame black gap. But yeah there are actually 33 fandoms, not 32, I had missed one when counting them up, whoops!! XD For the original posting with the text all over, the original text version, I’m not deleting and re-posting because it’s an entry in a contest, but the mistakes are still present in there. But yeah this is my entry for the 3rd and Final round of the Who You Are contest GlowingAprilSky has been hosting, season 2. The round was called "Journey Backwards" and the rules stated here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVJHoaJ-cDE explain: "Start from where you are now, and go back to the beginning of your story. Show me all about you and your story."

Ask if you want me to type up the voiceovers.

Starting off with where I'm at currently in my life, I just turned 28 years old and I'm:

1. starting to do real Asexual Activism including last weekend I presented at one workshop and at one caucus at the Creating Change (an LGBTQ) conference in my city, I'm

2. employed and doing well at my administrative assistant type contractor job in a government building, I'm

3. learning to face my grief over my friend perpetrating a murder-suicide. See this video for more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGPFGnZ3XEE

4. I live with my wonderful dad as an adult with no intention of moving out anytime soon, and my dad has been having a few health diagnosis things lately and needs heart surgery to put in a defibrillator very soon

(Now those 4 are all kinda overlapping and at once. I'm trying to do this whole vid in reverse-chronological order, but my dad specifically found out in December he'd need to get a defibrillator ASAP so that a fairly likely sudden heart event will, instead of almost certainly killing him, much more likely him surviving it, surgery has now been scheduled for February, whereas it was still the end of November when my suicidal podcasting partner murdered his wife before ending his own life. But my grief over that friend of mine I did a podcast with, the part of this that is “my story”, is an ongoing thing (as grief often is)-that spans both before and after me finding out about my dad's recent news with his health. Similarly ongoing is me living with him as it's a “for many years” situation that's still important to capture SOMEWHERE for an autobiographical vid. Etc. So I was trying my best and picking when and how to capture a lot of this.

The car crash happened when I was distracted and near-tears over my breakup because of the music I was listening to too intensely and I think that's one of the "life events in my story" that I won't be forgetting any time soon.

So much of this vid is more personal than I can explain, little choices of scenes that ring truer than you could even know.

I think blogging helped me a lot with processing my asexuality and my mother's abuse, and I did it for years and still do it. I started about my mom on tumblr in 2010 even maybe but my real WordPress blog I started in 2014.

Around 1:43-1:48 in the video is me having started attending Asexual Meetups in mid-2014! Which is a HUGE deal, all my closest friends since then were pretty much from that group plus I organize the meetups a lot of the time now, host in my house etc!

Right after that, 1:48-1:52 I kinda "gloss over" my uncle's suicide which really was a pretty huge traumatic deal, and I still am grieving him in some ways, of course I am, he was such a great guy. I went on a suicide prevention walk last summer (2016) with him in mind but that didn't make it into the video, eventually I'll finish a full vid themed just around loved ones of suicidal people, I already started such a vid around then...

I really stressed before I knew about asexuality about being a 22 year old person who had never been kissed, being a 23 year old virgin, about being a social failure. I believed the amatonormative idea's like what John says to Sherlock ( https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/04/amatonormativity-expectations/ ) and I tried online dating and finally went on a date and had a first kiss, as soon as I healed from my foot surgery. I had this final foot surgery right after I graduated college. I spent a lot of my life on crutches, in casts, if you add up all 3 surgeries, the chronic foot pain after I first broke it is an important part of "my story" so I wanted to jam it in there. Go OTH for having a realistic recovery time and elevating Haley's foot a lot. ;) Not the 5 pillow high like me since it was so painful and needed to be so elevated but... STILL. XD

Blake on Criminal Minds is maybe the only Linguist I've ever seen on TV? Not realistic at all and I think a lot of what they call Forensic Linguistics is just myth and Criminal Minds is a pretty imperfect show but whatever. :P

I also "glossed over" just how important and involved I was in atheist circles, although the fact that I later volunteered for a hotline where people might call in and say "I think I'm an atheist" for 2.5 years maybe gives you some idea. My podcast was about atheism, and I also occasionally organize atheist meetups and regularly attend some atheist and freethinker meetup groups since around mid-2015. I'd like to probably make a full length atheism vid at some point. :P Which is a weird topic but I'd like to try. There's... There's NO good representation that goes far enough at all on TV, but I appreciate Grey's Anatomy a lot for doing what they've done with Jackson, and I'm glad Kurt on Glee was an atheist while being a beloved person who isn't even known for being too scientific or anything. Appreciate less that Grey's Anatomy, in season 14's premiere, seemingly erased Amelia's atheism that was first present on Private Practice (see this vid above)... :P

I withdrew from Chemistry, Semantics 2, and Infectious Human Disease in college. Those left W's on my transcript, which are better than failing. I had to make up the credits by taking summer classes at a different college in order to graduate on time (took French and Biological Athropology classes as my credits instead over two summers). I also "dropped", penalty free, Russian, and Medieval Spanish History. Senior year of high school I was living with my grandmother and lonely and became truly unhealthily addicted to vidding, which I still clearly am now a decade later but I think vidding is a part of my story that didn't make it into the vid (perhaps that would have been too meta?) lol... but I started then, senior year of high school, to get worse grades. My straight-A, I'm naturally smart and will succeed and am a little bit of a perfectionist tendencies were suddenly just flipped and not true really?? XD

Hopefully most of this is fairly self-explanatory. The court stuff could be pretty traumatic so I tried to capture those feelings... I've vidded stuff about my abusive mom before and about Beverly/Scarlett in general, and about Maggie/Abby in both a collab and my first ever personal vid about my mom... I was trying to vid mainly stuff I haven't before in those vids. :) I appreciate for my own sake the variety. And I rushed the ending to squeeze in some of me as a little kid.

I think I still belong with my dad, my whole life is tied together by my great dad. :) But also I just liked that Molly is a young girl and happy and that smile would be a fun way to end the video... :P I wasn't sure when I was editing it that that scene was really about my dad, until I was adding the text on top of the screen.

There is plenty left out but I'm pretty happy with this current result in terms of most of the really significant parts of my life story.

I think this song is about wanting "To let go of the pain I've held so long", to get from the bad to somewhere better. I think I'm pretty close to finding somewhere I belong in my life. I think this summarizes my past pretty well though, it's a little too angsty of a song but the lyrics are honestly HOPEFUL in some ways. It's about, as the bridge says, knowing yourself now that you do this on your own, it's about wounds healing, finding yourself!

Anyway... if you've read the whole description, WOW thank you for being so invested in learning more about my life. :P

#multi-fandom #actually asexual #abusive mother #fanvideo #atheism

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rosevilles · 5 years

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for the ask game: 1 through 10 and 22!

Oh man!! Thank you!! Here we go:

1. if you could reboot one TV show, which one would it be?

It took me so long to answer this question because so many shows that I like there are over now, I either really like how they ended or I just can’t deal with them anymore. Maybe a limited series reboot of The West Wing.

2. if you could have saved one TV show from cancellation, which one would it be?

Well you know, right now it would be One Day at a Time. #SaveODAAT

3. have you ever quit a show before it finished? why?

Literally so many times. I have a whole list on my blog. This happens for three main reasons: because I just lost interest in the content (ex. The Flash, Once Upon a Time), the show did something to piss me off (ex. Orange is the New Black, How to Get Away With Murder), or the show just keeps going and won’t stop (ex. Shameless, Supernatural)

4. are there any shows you wish could just be cancelled already?

asjkdflsj i kind of just answered this. Shameless, Supernatural, Grey’s Anatomy, and Criminal Minds are always on the top of my list.

5. what’s your comfort show?

It varies a lot. Right now it’s Schitt’s Creek, but it has also been Parks and Recreation, B99, The Good Place, and Will & Grace. I’ve watched all these the whole way through more times than I can count.

6. which shows do you think are underrated and need more love?

Schitt’s Creek for sure, but it has been getting so popular recently!! Also The Good Place, because while it does have a cult following I think it needs more general audience viewers.

7. have you ever been inspired to start a new show based on gifs or memes it has produced?

All the time! Most of the shows I started watching because of the responses to them on my dash. Mostly Parks & Rec and B99 tho.

8. do you prefer week-to-week content, or just binging all in one go?

Oh it totally depends on the type of show. With things like all the sitcoms I mentioned, I prefer to watch week-to-week. It’s so fun to be in the middle of a season and be connected with other fans of the show. But then with dramatic shows, like Jane the Virgin for example, I need to just wait for the full season.

9. what’s one show you thought you’d hate but turned out to really enjoy?

okay literally this is gonna sound unbelievable but Schitt’s Creek. Like when I read the description on Netflix I was like… no that sounds so dumb. But look at me now lmfao

10. what’s one show you thought you’d love but turned out to really hate?

Uhhhh I can’t really think of a show that I completely hated. I’m sure there have been some but I must be blocking them out lol. But I can say that I always thought I would love the show Madam Secretary because I’m a little bitch for political dramas but I ended up not really liking it.

22. if you could write your own TV show, what would it be like?

wow!!! this is really really hard. I honestly think like, if I blatantly steal from my favorite tv shows, that I would want it to be like The Good Place. A heartwarming show about people coming together as a family, it’s politically aware but it doesn’t shove it down your throat, it’s diverse just because and not because it thinks it has to be diverse. If that show just came out and said Eleanor was bi/pan/wlw instead of just teetering on the line about it I think that show would be perfect tbh. So just… unique people, unique experiences, different world views, and all those people coming together in a way that is uplifting and also offers commentary on the political/social world around us. Oh, and it’s funny.

#softjakeperalta #wow this was so fun im sorry it took me so long lol!!#answered #asks #long post

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