Just finished reading (Nov. 29): "The Poppy War" by R.F. Kuang

Age: I was almost four when I watched the New Millennium ball drop in Times Square.

Gender: Female

Hogwarts House: Slytherin

Languages: English, French, German, and a bit of Russian

Where I live: The foothills of the Appalachians. It's very nice here. Lots of toads.

Favorite colors: Blue, green, grey, silver, and really dark purple

Favorite foods: Olives, tea, shrimp, rice, mushrooms, blueberries, jelly beans, boiled carrots, apples, popcorn, almonds, chocolate

Favorite rocks: Opal, moonstone, turquoise, amber, aquamarine, topaz, emerald, basically anything sparkly that is not a diamond (I very much dislike diamonds)

Favorite films: The Railway Man, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Sarah's Key, Titanic, Letters from Iwo Jima, Othello (Laurence Fishburn version), The King's Speech, Gladiator, Pride and Prejudice (BBC series), World War Z, Le Hérisson, The Last Emperor, 12 Years a Slave, The Impossible, Searching for Bobby Fischer, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Finding Forrester, I Am Sam, The Blind Side, Room, Forrest Gump, Good Will Hunting, Patch Adams, Logan, Frailty, Rogue One, Spotlight, A Quiet Place, First Man, Thor: Ragnarok

Favorite artists: Thomas Cole, Ivanenko Mikhail Alexandrovich, CaptBexx on Deviantart, Ekaterina “Katya” Borodulkina

Disclaimer: Your base is not belong to us.

Just a thought: What is with Star Wars fans and their obsession with time travel fics?! The sheer number is astounding. (Update Feb. 26 2016: Ditto Harry Potter.)

Note concerning my profile picture: That is a self-portrait of myself as a pirate that I did with charcoal and pastels. I'm kind of proud of it.

Good quotes:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us." - Marianne Williamson

"Reality is that which, when we stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick

"Nothing is so common-place as the wish to be remarkable." - Shakespeare

"You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view." - Obi-Wan Kenobi

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius

"I think Hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go." - Neil Gaiman

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ― Edmund Burke

"Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions." - Primo Levi

"We are dominated by Journalism. The tyranny that it proposes to exercise over people’s private lives seems to me to be quite extraordinary. The fact is that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing." - Oscar Wilde

"You [humans] find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, but how little room there seems to be in yours." - Spock

"'Someday' is always going to be trundling off into the distance, and you have to recognize that and not fall into complacency. If you want something to happen, make it happen now." - one of my professors

"It all just builds and builds and builds until the clouds simply can't hold it in any more and then the storm breaks and explodes with all the fury of God himself." - John Clement-Davis

"And crossed the dark defile at last, and found / At Roncevaux upon the darkening plain / The dead against the dead and on the silent ground / The silent slain--" - Archibald MacLeish

"Of all the things in life, I will cherish your feet the most. For they have traveled through the desert heat and ocean winds, the summer blues and rainy days until they finally brought you to me." - Rahul

"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by." - J.M. Barrie