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alondradina · 1 year

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Getting to Know You Meme

I'm actually going to do this one. 🤣 Thanks @luthien-under-bough

Favorite time of year: Autumn! I love the cooling weather, the tasty food, and how beautiful the trees become.

Comfort food: I'm a sucker for sweet foods. 🤷 Kinda changes depending on my mood.

Do you collect anything?: Introverts? 🤣 I used to collect music boxes. Haven't gotten any new ones in a few years, been moving around a lot, but since I'm in an actual house now it should be ok to get more, right?

Favorite drinks: I primarily drink room temp water, 0 sugar purple Gatorade, and seasonal drinks at Starbucks. Currently I really like the eggnog one.

Favorite music artists: Uuugghhhh… Too many… At the moment I have been listening to a lot of Doja Cat, The Neighborhood, Now Now, Grimes, The Weeknd, and Emarosa.

Current favorite songs: Afraid and Sweater Weather by The Neighborhood, Cut My Fingers Off by Ethan Bortnick, Wolf by Now Now, Player of Games and Kill V. Maim by Grimes, too many songs by Emarosa (Cautious, Ready to Love, Attention, Helpless, Comfortable, Hell of It) and I could go on and on. 😩 I'm terrible at picking favorites.

Favorite fics: 😭 So many… Ummm… I'll just dump them here and you can feel free to ignore my enthusiasm.

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11554857/1/Slow-Arrow

This fic is what started me on Solavallen. An antisocial, semi feral Lavellan forced to be the Herald. Game rewrite done well. I reread what's written at least once a year.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/11319069/chapters/25334535

I read this whole damn thing in a day, then immediately turned around to read it again and commented on each chapter. Also Solavallen. Modern day Daddy Long Legs college AU.

https://m.fanfiction.net/u/1035027/

Pretty much everything by Forthright. I read a lot of Inuyasha pairings I'm not normally into because of her. She mostly does drabble stories. I started reading because of her Sess/Kag ones, though.

https://raindrops-doujin.tumblr.com/

It's a Sess/Kag comic/manga, and super well done. I've been following this since she started up on DeviantArt. Slow progression of their friendship over a series of chance encounters.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/4153884/chapters/9371985

This is FUCKING AMAZING. My all time favorite AVP fic. Humans have joined the intergalactic community. Nasira is the first major human ambassador, and takes her job very seriously. Enter the AVP part of the story. 🤣 Bad times ensue.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/5201648/chapters/11988044

Best gen Star Wars fic I've read. It's a very long and involved series, but so good! I reread the damn thing constantly. The whole series. Obi-Wan is killed by Darth Vader and wakes up decades in the past, before Anakin was even born. Now two Obi-Wan's have to work together to figure out how to save the universe.

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/7622024/1/House-at-Row-s-Edge

My favorite Snape/Hermione fic. Deliciously depressing. In his will, Snape leaves Hermione his house. No one knows why, but makes a lot of assumptions about their relationship. Hermione also doesn't know why he left her the place, but she's about to find out.

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11562871/1/Addendum-He-Is-Also-A-Liar

Really good Tom Riddle/Hermione time travel fic, where Tom travels forward. Starts pre Hogwarts and works its way up from there.

https://m.fanfiction.net/u/1580678/

Everything by Cocoartist. I mostly read the Tom Riddle/Hermione ones. They've migrated some stuff to AO3, but not all of it. Hence the ff.net shortcut.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24407335

Is one of my favorites and is on AO3, though. Tom Riddle/Hermione. Hermione goes back in time, and discovers that some things can't be changed no matter how hard you try.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2045742

This is a very satisfying story. 🤷 Hermione as a Slytherin, being a boss. A prophecy distinguishes her from being a Muggleborn into being a New Blood. What's a New Blood? She's going to find out.

Favorite Video Games: Pretty much all series here. Dragon Age, Dragon Quest, Dragon Warriors, Dragon Warriors Monsters, Pokemon, and Mass Effect has recently joined the list. Individual games I like are Jade Empire, Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance 2, Champions of Norrath 1, and I love watching people play The Last of Us and Alien Isolation. I'm too much of a wuss to play them myself.

I'm glad this thing doesn't ask for my favorite books. 😱

Tagging @somekndofnature @whimsicalmeerkat @voylitscope

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groundtoairofficial-blog · 5 years

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Evening all. So now that Olivia has introduced herself, thought I'd do my introduction! My name is Keiran and I'm the other admin. You can find me on Instagram West Midlands Aviation.

Q: How old are you?:

A: 21

Q: Are you male or female?

A: Male

Q: Where are you from?

A: Birmingham, UK

Q: Do you have pets?

A: Yes! My cat is named Jensen (after the sports car company!)

Q: Which sports do you like?

A: Classic Car racing gets my heart buzzing!

Q: Do you have tattoos?

A: No

Q: What kind of music do you listen to?

A: 1960's to 1990's. The Beatles are a favourite.

Q: Do you travel a lot?

A: I try to get around as much as I can. Flying and driving!

Q: Do you have a favorite City?

A: New York. Travelled there this year and missing it already!

Q: Do you have favorite movies?

A: The Italian Job (1969) and Sully.

Q: Do you work? If so, as what?

A: I work as a classic car parts sales advisor.

Now onto the questions about cars!

Q: What car(s) do you own?

A: I own a 2006 Toyota Corolla and a 1971 MGB GT (pictured!)

Q: What is your dream car?

A: Now that I own the MG, it's the Jaguar E-Type Series 1

Q: Where is your passion from?

A: My Dad works for a company manufacturing knock off hubs and spinners for classic cars. I've grown up around classic cars, attending as many shows and Autojumbles as I can. So growing up around classic cars and seeing the amazing manufacturing that goes on to keep them on the road is where my passion came from. The MGB has always been my favourite and dream car, so when I finally bought one it was a dream come true. Fellow petrol heads will agree when I say a car is more than just a car.

I'm committee for the MG Car Club Young Members Branch. We are an official branch of the MG Car Club are are open to any young owner of an MG. It can be classic or modern, we don't mind! It's up to us younger generation to keep the classic car industry going, or it will unfortunately be a dying trade.

Lets head to the plane themed Q&A....

Q: Where is your passion from?

A: My Auntie was cabin crew for British Airways some years ago and managed to allow us access onto G-BOAC, the British Airways Concorde at Manchester Airport. My parents took me to RAF Cosford Airshow and spotting at my local airport, Birmingham Airport, a lot. I then joined up to the RAF's Air Training Corps where I worked my way up to the rank of Flight Sergeant. I flew two types of aircraft with them, the Grob G109B and Grob G115E. Overall I spent 9 years in the Air Training Corps, and sometimes occasionally help out as an aviation instructor.

Q: Do you have a favorite plane and Airline?

A: It's such a hard decision between the Boeing 747-400 and Lockheed L-1011 TriStar for me! My favourite airline used to be Monarch, but now they've sadly ceased trading it has to be British Airways.

If you're interested, this is my Flightdiary account: https://my.flightradar24.com/keiranreid98

Q: Talk about your travel memories.

A: When I was very young, we took a few trips to the Spanish Island Tenerife. I have memories of the two hotels we stopped in. We then had a Static Holiday Caravan in North Devon where we would spend a few weeks in the gorgeous Devon Countryside; that was also right next to the coast so had some lovely beaches too! My next holiday was to the Greek Island of Crete. Landing at Heraklion Airport was such an experience as the runway is right next to the Ocean! We loved Crete that much that a few years later, we spent a week on the much smaller Greek Island of Kos.

I then took a trip over to Stockholm Arlanda Airport in Sweden, where I spent the night in the famous 'Jumbostay' hotel. This is a retired Boeing 747-200 that has had hotel rooms put in the interior. I stayed in the cockpit! The cockpit has been left as it was when the aircraft was in service, but has a bed and bathroom in there! Even all 4 engines and the landing gear housings are also rooms! (Highly recommend this to any fellow aviation enthusiast!) Flying with SAS was also such a great experience?

I also flew to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport for a day spotting trip. It's such a huge airport with amazing spotting locations. This was my first time flying with FlyBe and their Dash 8 Q400. I've never been pushed back in my seat as much as I have been in the Dash 8! Those turboprops are very powerful!

My next trip was on a 2 week cruise around the Caribbean. This also was my first ever time on a long haul wide body aircraft. We flew TUI's Boeing 787-8 there and back, and boy what a beauty!! Our first island stop off was St Marteen, where I got to visit somewhere I've been dreaming of.. Maho Beach! I'm 6ft 4in so when the Air France A330 came over the beach I thought I'd have to duck!

My most recent travel was to the amazing city of New York. We flew with British Airways on their amazing Boeing 747-400 (G-CIVF) to JFK. I was so glad to finally fly on my dream aircraft before they retire them all. On the way back, I flew aboard a very rare Boeing 777-200 (Non ER model, G-ZZZB) from EWR. New York is seriously the most incredible city I've ever been to. The locals are so friendly and they love us British!

I also did a lot of travelling during my time in the Air Cadets. We visited and toured many RAF and USAF bases. I also travelled to Nijmegen in Holland, where I completed the 100 Mile Nijmegen Military Marches as part of the British Military Contingent. I later flew to RAF Troodos in Cyprus, where we also visited the famous RAF Akrotiri a lot. This also happened to be my last ever time flying with Monarch Airlines before they unfortunately ceased trading..

The last question: Are you a pilot? If so, what do you fly?

A: I'm currently a Student Pilot flying a Cessna 152. It's such a great little aircraft to fly and handles very well to the pilots controls! I'm also hoping to gain more hours on the Piper PA-28 Warrior that my flight school also operates.

If you've reached the end, then thanks for taking time to read about my experiences. Hoping to grow this page with Olivia into a platform that enables like minded individuals the opportunity to share their passion with just about anything with wheels!

~ Keiran

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