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I was so ridiculously flattered when the girls invited me to join! It's something so different from anything I've been in before - in quite a lot of senses! - and I pormise I'll do all my best! <333 (Isn't

andreanna's banner just so beautiful? I posted this practically because of it. :3)

ALSO ALSO ALSO. A little rec-time! The lovely lovely

nuriwan did two pics for me that are just so adorable. I mean, honestly. LOOK AT THAT JACK. (And if I were you, I'd spare a glance at the Ianto above. ;D) Plus, there's really this cute Owen you just can't miss. ♥

iridania tagged me, and I obey! With, er. A little delay. She kind of tagged me a long while ago.

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever wants to do it.

Ok, so the first quirk of mine I can think of is... I guess I've kind of got a tendency to, well, fold in myself a bit. I mean - don't look at me like that, I can stand straight all right (:P), but as soon as I get vaguely unselfconscious - when I'm reading, for instance, when I'm falling asleep, or when I'm relaxing on the couch - I automatically curl in. Like a spring. (Well, a slow moving one.) In fact, my computer chair is kind of ruined because of that. I guess that's what happens when you put feet on it day after day after day after day... and I don't want it replaced at all. Imagine if I were to force myself to sit properly on a new chair! Oh, no way. I'm not sure I could do that anymore.

I never know when to let go. Or rather, I don't know how to let go at all. Seriously, had I been on the Titanic, I would have kept running and looking around everywhere until the last second, telling myself "there's got to be something large enough to close the hole!" Granted, that's proven to be useful sometimes, like when it comes to not giving up on things I should not, in fact, be giving up on. Got me in a spot of trouble otherwise. Otherwise happens often enough.

I save everything I read. From fanfictions, to any tl;dr entry. To my credit, this is a habit born of necessity - when I first started fandom-ing and lj-ing, my online time was severely limited, not to mention that my English was still pretty bad. :P Reading fics on an online pc felt a LOT like a waste of time, so I saved them to bring them home and read them with more ease. I've kept that habit. If you couple that with my inability to delete/throw away anything, you'll realize that that leaves me with quite a huge fanfiction archive. Last time I checked, I had about 3000 files. Five years worth of fandom!

(And, well. I don't really trust the internets. ;P Pages can get deleted! That way, I still have links to the stories - and the stories itself, if the authors decide to take them down. *g*)

I categorize. A lot. People laugh at me because of it. This tendency reveals inself for the most part in two ways:
1. Tags. My official excuse is that, in the days were HBP had just been released and I hadn't got the book yet, trying to avoid any spoiler left me a lot of online time to kill.
2. Folders. You know the archive I was talking about before? How could I find anything, if I didn't create folders? Lots and lots of them? Every archive (ff.net, the old Howl Kingdom, Skyehawke) has its own, plus stories I've saved off people's personal webpages. The LJ folder has two sub folders - one for comms, and one for user journals. The latter, in particular, is subsequently divided into Stories, Personal, Essays (this one contains, like, five pages. I'm really not much of one for essays), and Other (memes and the like). Just, you know, to give you an idea.
  
  (Also, every file's name contains the author. So, if I feel like reading all the stories from a certain writer? I just have to type their name in Window's search tool. *g*)
You understand what I mean now? And why people make fun of me? ;P

I mock because I love. I mock because I don't love. Let's say that I mock and leave it at that. I swear, there's hardly ever any heat or malice behind it - I just love to push and provoke. Honestly, I don't think about it, I just... open my mouth, and stuff like that comes out. And when I see people recognize it as the game it is, and start pushing back - you ever seen a toddler on Christmas morning?

(That's probably mostly true IRL, though. The internets are just so... delicate. What with being unable to see a person or hear their voice, there's just so much that gets missing. You have to be ten times more careful. If I don't really feel comfortable, I don't really let myself go like that.)

You know what that means, too? That the vast majority of my best friends have got a pretty strong sense of self-irony. It's not, like, a requirement for being friends with me - but it does make dealing with the Bruni a lot easier, at least at the beginning. :P

I'm protective of my friends. And I guess I'm a little prone to obsession. ~~(And shameless squeefacing.)~~ This does not, to my great relief, translate to me being protective of my obsessions. I mean - I don't care about wanks. (Aside from the amusing aspects of them.) If I see someone trashing a favorite character or pairing of mine, I hardly feel hurt or angry or anything; if you pull a good joke, it's not unlikely that I might laugh with you. I just. You know, it's just fandom. You like it ~~(and if you like shameless squeefacing)~~, that's great; if you don't, I'm hardly going to care... and do anything more than shrug. ;P

Oookay. I guess it's time for... something of an apology, really. I have possibly the world's worst reaction to compliments. It's not that I don't like them - I'm a fanartist, you bet I do - they just... make me uncomfortable. (And VERY VERY PLEASED. You know. Before people start getting ideas.) The more they touch me, the less I know how to react to them. Plus, I suppose there's also the nagging knowledge, at the back of my head, that the other shoe is going to drop sometime - so I prefer to take it off myself, figuratively speaking. :P If I feel someone's being too good to me, I really can't help saying it. Now, with my friends, who know me, how I get and to give me a slap under the head if I need it (which happens more often than you'd think), this isn't much of an issue - but I realize I might come off as rude, to those who don't know me that well. In real life it's easier to tell when it happens, so I can apologize/explain straight away, but here... it's not always the same. So, you know. It's not that I don't believe you mean what you say, or that I don't value your judgement, because I do. I really do. It's just hard to shake off the feeling you're not seeing the whole picture. ^^; I have to learn to say "thank you", and stop right at the "but". ♥

You want to do it, you're tagged. ;P

ETA: Now with the seventh quirk as well. *sheepish* Sorry, I can't even do copy&paste.

I have also just finished the Light Fantastic and am more than a little in love with the Discworld.