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anagraves · 5 years

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I was tagged by @brenli , thank you so much! I don’t think I’ve ever done anything so long on this page :D So, here we go! It will be a little messy, ‘cause I’m constantly overtired and feel slightly rusty with my English, and also withholding some facts, ‘cause I’m paranoid. Sorry.

1. how tall are you? 158 cm, which means I’m usually the tiniest person around. I don’t mind, though.

2. what color and style is your hair? Natural color is pretty mousy and I hate it, so I’ve been dying my hair since junior highschool, I guess. Till last year I always dyed them claret, but last holiday I changed it to something that starts as black and finishes as plum. I used to have them shoulder-length, but four years ago I cut them really short and since then I am a proud owner of very little hair on my head. I do envy people with long hair, but well, I know what I have now fits me better.

3. what color are your eyes? Green.

4. do you wear glasses? Yup, constantly since the end of elementary school. With myopia that goes to - 6 I really do not see much without my glasses. I’ve never used contacts nor do I intend to, I can’t imagine having to touch my eyeballs or anything.

5. do you wear braces? Not anymore, thankfully! But I did, for 7 years!!! I still have to wear some stuff at nights and I have one element left on my lower teeth, but that’s all.

6. what is your fashion style? I don’t think I have one. I mean I don’t like fashion, so I just wear whatever I feel like wearing. My clothes are diverse, but they are usually dark and with something interesting on them (imprints/spikes/other metal things). I have a lot of T-shirts/sweaters with skulls and animals (especially cats and owls). I love warm sweaters, hoodies, jeans and leather jackets. I am obsessed with high heels, my favorite shoes are a black leather ones that reach well above my ankles and have like an 8-cm-long heel. I don’t own a single skirt (like... no) and I have only a few dresses which I wear only if I’m forced to (big dislike for these ones as well). I’m an all-trousers girl. I definitely prefer my style casual; when it comes to elegance I like to wear black in general - black smooth trousers and black suit.

7. full name? Sorry, I don’t feel comfortable disclosing it online.

8. when were you born? July 12, 1994.

9. where are you from and where do you live now? I was born in a small-ish town in southern Poland and now I still live in southern Poland, but in a much bigger town. So not much of a change, just a few hours of travel by car.

10. what school do you go to? One Polish university, four months to go and it will be the end of any school for me!

11. what kind of student are you? Up till university, I was an excellent student, always the best at everything. I was definitely a geek who learned too much. And I always wanted to be at the top. University changed it completely; even when I’m trying hard I’m just average. If I like a subject it shows and I’m having good grades, but generally, I’m all for passing, not excelling. I’m learning a lot and it still isn’t enough right now, which is frustrating at times, especially when I compare myself to my colleagues. On other occasions... I simply don’t care. I just want to pass.

12. do you like school? Well... It depends on the period of my life. I think I didn’t mind elementary school, I hated junior high school and liked actual high school. About university... every year is different, so there were good ones and there were bad ones. I’m not a fan of it in general, though.

13. what are your favorite school subjects? Pre-uni: Maths and Chemistry, mostly, but Chemistry was my biggest and most unexpected love during my time at school. When it first started I had no idea what it was and I was terrified with it, plus I was behind the whole class because of some disease and I was honestly so nervous about it. Then, a month later, I kinda... fell for it and stayed infatuated with it till the end of junior high. And that’s mostly how I found myself on medical studies a few years later. My teacher from junior high was so amazing she made me love Chemistry more than anything, but sadly, my teacher from high school ruined it all. I had a great Biology teacher then, though it didn’t make me love Biology. It just enabled me to get into the uni I wanted to get to. I almost always liked my English classes as well, because I had some really amazing teachers and I loved English. I still do, languages are amazing.

Uni: Histology, Pharmacology, Surgery. The first two are the only ones I excelled at. Surgery - not so much, but I still did well on the final exam.

14. favorite TV shows? It is both an easy and difficult question. Easy because I do have one TV series I consider my ultimate favorite, and it’s Angel from Buffyverse. The best thing about it is the most amazing character development I’ve ever seen, and trust me, I’m a sucker when it comes to character development. My favorite character from there is one of my ultimate faves (if not THE one) and his path is one of the most epic ever. Plus it has an amazing material for shipping and some great acting, it’s dark, depressing and hopeless, and that’s what I love. It’s also one of the few examples of TV series when I actually LIKE the main character; he’s actually one of the people I like the most. It almost never happens; usually, I’m very anti-main characters (e.g. LotR, HP).

The question gets difficult because there are also such shows as Chuck, Firefly or Code Black, amazing and mostly flawless (apart from the ending of Chuck), but are they my favorites? At times, maybe. In general... I just don’t know. Bones and Castle fought for my undivided attention for years (most of the times Bones was on the winning side) and they’re both in my top 10, though probably not top 3. Plus, there are some gems that had such amazing potential, but were cut short and had too little time to develop; apart from Firefly, it would be, e.g. Monday Mornings, Perception, Black Box.

There were also a lot of amazing TV shows I loved dearly during some of their seasons, but almost always something happened and they got ruined. PLL, TVD, Grey’s Anatomy (I feel like I’m watching it now for one pairing only), OUaT and so on. House was my first American TV series and I’ll always have a place for it in my heart. I love GoT in its very early and very late seasons, but what comes in between? Nope.

(I watch way too much TV.)

The honorary mentions should go to some non-American shows (honestly speaking, I’m kinda tired with the general trends of American TV at the moment). I’ve started my adventures with TV with Polish soap operas that I completely adored; when I discovered American TV I stopped watching them entirely and don’t intend to come back. I love some good English dramas, but BBC tends to get a little bit overdramatic or too dark even for me (Ripper Street ripped my heart from my chest). Speaking of ripping hearts, let’s not forget about the Japanese ones, as @brenli mentioned! They are something completely different, they have amazing plotlines and characters, and - sometimes - Hiroyuki Sanada who is just everything (and I get to analyze the shows with @brenli, which makes them even better). Koukou Kyoushi will stay with me for years to come, probably Konna Koi No Hanashi as well. Considering my current Asian phase I expect to see much more of Japanese (or maybe Korean) dramas in the future.

15. favorite movies? There are a few movies I could watch on constant repeat and they mean so much to me. Let’s categorize them in genres, shall we? Animation: How to Train Your Dragon (especially the first part, the second one breaks my heart too much), Ice Age 3; plus the tales of my childhood I could watch five times a day - Pocahontas, Mulan, Spirit: Stallion of Cimarron. Period: Pride & Prejudice 2005. Rom-com: Holiday; Love, Actually. Adventure: Pirates of the Caribbean 1-3. Sci-fi: Matrix 1 & 3. Plus a few honorary mentions that are equally important, but I just wouldn’t have them on constant rewatch: LotR, SW, HP, Indiana Jones (not every part for every one of these series), National Treasure. There are also a few amazing anime movies (Spirited Away, Kimi No Na Wa, Wolf Children) and among them some masterpieces I think were wonderful, but too heartbreaking to ever watch them again (Grave of the Fireflies, Princess Kaguya).

16. favorite books? Most of my favorite books are cycles that I grew up with - LotR, HP, Inkheart Trilogy, the Vampirates series, Artemis Fowl, Jeżycjada (a Polish series about a multi-generational Polish family), Felix, Net i Nika (kinda Polish version of HP with science and technology in place of magic), some books by Ewa Nowak. Also, Pride & Prejudice. I’ve loved a lot of books since, but does any of them deserve to be called a “favorite”? I’m not so sure about it.

17. favorite pastime? Writing, from the moment I’ve learned to write (4 years old, I believe). Second best would be watching TV series; when I was younger I’d much rather like to read a book, but that kinda changed. Though, if I’m being honest, at the time being it would be watching ski jumping competitions or anything BTS-related. These past two weeks (yup, I’ve been writing this post for two weeks) has been an interesting journey of interchanging obsessions, some revisited (sj) and some I’ve never expected to develop (BTS).

18. do you have any regrets? Sure, who doesn’t? I’m trying to live by the rule “regret doing something rather than not doing it”, but well, it can’t always work.

19. dream job? A writer, for sure, always and forever. That is the one thing that has been with me my whole life. Apart from that? Well... Some time after I started my studies I developed a strong dream of becoming a neurosurgeon one day, but this dream faltered this year and now I’m not so sure anymore. Now I feel like I made a completely wrong career choice those few years ago.

20. would you like to get married someday? Marriage has never been one of my dreams or something I HAVE to do in the future, but I definitely want to have someone by my side, and if they want to get married, then sure, we can do that. Not necessarily though.

21. would you like to have kids someday? No, no and once again no, and there are so many reasons! First, I do know my body would not be physiologically okay with pregnancy (and after studying Gynaecology I do believe pregnancy is one of the worst things - if not THE worst - that could ever happen to one’s body) and I have no intention of doing such a thing to myself. Second, children scare me; my whole life I’ve been doing my best to keep my distance and avoid contact at any cost (which kinda worked as far, I’ve never even held a baby). Third, I have no maternal instinct and I do know I would be a terrible mother, so what’s the point?

23. do you like shopping? No. Since I was a child, when my parents took me shopping I always had a book with me and just followed them around while reading (somehow I managed not to collide with anything throughout all these years :P). I still do the same thing if someone makes me go with them to the mall, only now it’s more often my phone, not a book. I love buying books, though. I used to go to the bookshops and buy five books at a time. I don’t do that right now, because a) money b) I have tons of unread books already, but I could still go there and spend hours just looking at the books and reading their covers.

24. what countries have you visited? Only one, and I’m not even sure it should count. I’ve been to Slovakia twice, but both times only like 50km from the border, and I’ve spent there max few hours. So... it definitely wasn’t even remotely close to this “going abroad” I’ve been always dreaming about...

25. what’s the scariest nightmare you’ve ever had? Hmm... There was one in my adult life that left me absolutely terrified; I remember waking up and feeling paralyzed with fear. I had a feeling someone was standing in the doorway, but I was too scared to turn around and see, so I was just lying there with my eyes wide open, waiting until the fear passes or something else happens... What was the dream about? I only remember it took place in some fancy mansion near the beach that was either mine or one of my friends’. I think it wasn’t actually a nightmare until the very end when something bad was about to happen to someone who was standing in the living room. The other person was creeping in the dark or something like that, and the character in the dream had the same kind of fear I woke up with. I didn’t actually want to remember more details.

26. do you have any enemies? I did have some, on every stage of my education, but they are no longer in my life. Nowadays I think I’m too irrelevant to be anyone’s enemy. There are some people with whom I share a mutual dislike, but “enemies” is probably too strong of a word in these cases.

27. do you have an s/o? Nope. Never had.

28. do you believe in miracles? Well... not really. I believe in luck and destiny, but miracles? I definitely don’t believe in them in any religious context (I’m completely anti-religion). When it comes to some other kinds of miracles, like medical ones - I know things happen, wonderful things that have no logical explanation, but I do believe that deep down, even though we don’t know it, they have some logical explanation. We just can’t see it.

Finished! Finally! :D Hopefully it isn’t too chaotic, I don’t really have time to reread it and check for mistakes, Family Medicine is waiting to devour me...

I’m tagging: @frombothofmyhearts @thesilverrqueen @mis4nthropy and anyone who wants to do it! Just be warned - it takes a lot of time to answer all of the questions :P

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the-lupine-sojourner · 4 years

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I’m rewatching the 2005 Pride and Prejudice movie and may or may not be conjuring a LotR AU for Eomer and my OC Rowena O’Niell.

Basically, my OC is Elizabeth Bennet and Eomer is Mr. Darcy.

I haven’t figured all of it out yet, but the basics is this:

Faramir: Mr. Bingley

Eowyn: a combination of Georgiana and Jane Bennet, really, since she becomes close friends with Rowena after meeting her when Elizabeth met Georgiana in the movie, but is in fact still Eomer’s sister.

Grima (maybe): Mr. Wickam, cus that would explain why Eomer hates him. And Grima seems like the scheming, gold-digging type. Plus, he was trying to seduce Eowyn in LotR, so...

Kinda Lady Katherine: Theoden, but at Edoras/Meduseld instead of his own estate like Lady Katherine. His health is starting to fail him, though, and he relies more heavily on his heir, Theodred, who’s seen injured in the line of duty as a soldier and has never fully, recovered, leaving his health on a knife’s edge.

(A less annoying version of) Mrs. Bennet: Meredith O’Neill, my OC’s mom.

Mr. Bennet: Gandalf, but as the uncle/grandfather that took over caring for the family after Rowena’s father ran off to hide from his gambling debts.

And that’s as far as I’ve got with the characters.

Let’s say Edoras is a large estate renowned for its horses, and Meduseld is the hall in which the Lord of the estate resides.

That would make Pellenor (which, as I understand it, is just the acres of land around Minas Tirith, right?) Faramir’s estate with either Osgiliath or Minas Tirith as that estate’s main residence. I kinda like Osgiliath as the estate since that means London can be Minas Tirith.

Alright, as far as plot goes, I don’t have much more than this: Rowena’s family, after being deserted by Rowena’s father (let’s call him Thomas, but I just now realize I’ve never named him lol) relocated to Gandalf’s estate near Edoras, and the family becomes quite close with the neighboring village, the Shire.

There, Rowena and her siblings meet Merry, Pippin, Sam and Frodo, though they’ve known the family too long for anyone to think of marrying (till Merry falls for Rowena’s sister, Willow, and they marry properly, not through eloping) each other.

Then, all of a sudden, there’s a ball at Meduseld Hall, and it’s the first time there’s been any outsiders in Meduseld since Theoden’s wife died and Theodred returned so battered from his service.

Not only that, but Eomer and Eowyn are there, and no one’s seen them since Meduseld closed to outsiders, either.

No one can seem to pry any information out of Eowyn or Eomer, they as they might.

Rowena simply engages Eomer in normal conversation and Eomer assumes she’s buttering him up to get information out of him so he’s curt and only as polite as he has to be since Theodred persuaded him to hold this ball the man can’t even attend with his health.

Then, after reluctantly dancing with Eomer (getting nowhere in renewed conversation with him), Rowena overhears Eomer talking to Faramir, a more outgoing Lord of Osgiliath estate, recently come into his inheritance after his father ‘tragically’ died in a fire in an inn he was staying at on his way to some meeting or something. Eomer can’t get past his assumption about Rowena and confesses this assumption to Faramir, who unsuccessfully tries to convince his friend otherwise.

That incenses Rowena and she begins to dislike Eomer. But then she meets Grima, who convinces her he’s the victim of some inheritance withholding and weaves a tragic tale that only enflames Rowena’s distaste for Eomer.

It’s only when Eomer, after another ball (where Rowena is as curt and polite as he is, and barely holds back sarcasm and derision in her words) and several months where he barely talks to her, proposes to Rowena and she explodes at him about everything she thinks she knows about him.

Eomer is like ‘hold on. Maybe I do need to change some things here’ and explains himself in a letter as best he can.

Rowena, usually a good judge of character, is mortally embarrassed that she could have gotten him so wrong and allowed herself to be deceived by Grima. So she avoids Eomer until she can figure out just how she feels about him now. Then her aunt and uncle are passing by Meduseld taking Rowena to see Minas Tirith and they of course want to see what the hall is like inside, and Rowena has an awkward conversation with Eomer after he sees her in Meduseld.

She excuses herself and Eomer doesn’t pursue her, instead staying where he was, assuming she still hates him.

Then he invites her, her aunt, and her uncle to Meduseld and is further entranced by watching Rowena interact with Eowyn during and after dinner. Rowena is now further confused as to what she feels for Eomer, though it’s swaying toward love.

Then Merry and Willow attempt to elope and Eomer catches them and convinces them to return home and be married properly.

Willow accidentally lets it slip to Rowena that Eomer had caught them and urges Rowena not to say anything, as Willow was sworn to secrecy.

Rowena is summoned to Theoden’s bedside (his health has deteriorated drastically and it’s likely he won’t last much longer) and he asks her point-blank if she still refuses Eomer’s proposal. Rowena talks with him and discovers that Eomer and Eowyn have been running the estate all on their own for years now and she can finally admit she may indeed have fallen into at least the beginnings of love with Eomer.

He blesses their marriage and she finally sees Eomer again after he comes back to her parents’ house.

Did I mention that the Faramir/Mr. Bingley and Eowyn/Georgiana/Jane love story is also happening? Cus Eomer, after initially trying to keep them apart (something adding to Rowena’s disdain for Eomer until he explains himself) reunites them and helps them get married.

Anyway, everyone lives happily ever after, the end! XD

Sorry that was a lot to throw at you guys!

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