#kicking myself repeatedly to 'read a book' or 'watch a movie' or 'watch a tv show'
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one of my more frustrating traits for myself is that I have spent so much of my life deeply immersing myself in One Piece Of Media For Years that I really don't have anything that can be called "taste", just a collection of facts and opinions about like one thing at a time. I have no variety and it is a significant effort to get me to experience something new instead of the same thing I like for the twentieth time. and I am very aware that this is one of the worst things you can do to yourself as a writer.
#:PHOENIXHEADINHANDS:#you know when you read things and it's like. huh! this person is smart and well read! yeah.#feel like I'm constantly playing catch up because most other people have experienced more things than me in like pretty much every category#especially this past year where it feels like I haven't had any Life Experiences and barely any Media Experiences#kicking myself repeatedly to 'read a book' or 'watch a movie' or 'watch a tv show'#or like. 'talk to someone'. 'go outside'. 'touch grass'#can barely give opinions on things bc I have so few things to compare it to#another thing to add to the list of 'I know this isn't good for me but I just can't get myself to change!'#but I am reading a new book. and it is fun. and I should do that more often. but I know I won't.#ramblings#sorry about all this I just feel so frustrated!! I can and should be better!!
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The Joker x Reader - “6 Feet”
With the scary events unfolding lately all over the world, Gotham is under lockdown also. The Joker and his girlfriend are self-quarantining at the Penthouse: needless to say entertaining him it’s no easy chore but thankfully Y/N can handle any type of situation. Probably…
Batsy
You almost drop your coffee mug when you see The Joker dangling outside the railing from the second floor of The Penthouse.
“What are you doing, J??!!!”
“Pumpkin, wanna bet I can land on the couch from here?” he flares one arm in the air.
“It’s too far off, you’ll never make it!” you mentally calculate the trajectory.
“Pfft, bullshit! If Batsy can do crap like this, so can I!”
“You don’t have the gear and training, J!”
“Gear??!! Training??!! I don’t need that; I’m not a wimp!”
“Fine, go ahead and break your neck!” Y/N gives up on the already lost cause. “How much are we betting?”
“50,000 dollars.”
“You got yourself a deal Mister Joker,” you take a sip of coffee, annoyed his desire for chaos is already surging to unspeakable heights after being trapped inside for the last 3 weeks.
The King of Gotham flexes his knees a few times for equilibrium and… here he goes: barely misses the couch, one leg gets caught on the night stand and BAM! Lands on the floor with a loud thud.
“Uugghhhh,” he groans in pain flat on his back. “Y/N… I think I fractured my limbs.”
You slowly approach and ignore his complains, pointing out the truth:
“You owe me 50,000 dollars. And if you fractured your bones, I’m going to strangle you on the spot because there is no way I’m taking care of a stubborn patient!”
The Joker makes an extra effort to react at your ultimatum:
“Excellent news, Princess. I can move my toes!”
You roll your eyes and extend one of your arms to help him up.
“Lucky indeed, J. Are you doing this for attention?”
“Gotta keep the flame going, Pumpkin,” The Clown whizzes up a storm, trying to catch his breath following the glorious bungee jumping without a rope.
Baldy
Supposedly J is in convalescence, thus he wanted a haircut. You are both watching TV in the living room, your boyfriend sitting on a chair while you shape the locks behind him.
You start laughing at the funny movie so your hand slips: the trimmer shaves a patch of The Joker’s fabulous green hair, leaving him with a beautiful quarter sized bald spot.
Oh, shit!
He has no idea his perfect groomed style it’s butchered; better to ride this crazy train until he notices. You comb what you can from the longer strands on top of the mess you created, lying without blinking at his question:
“How did it turn out?”
“Impeccable, baby! My flair and precision regarding detail is through the roof,” you boast full of confidence.
The Heinlein Maneuver
You’re tossing bullets at J, attempting to make them land in his mouth.
“Wow, you’re getting pretty good at this!” Y/N praises and he suddenly chokes. “Oh my God!” you panic. “Spit it out! Spit it out!”
You run behind him and start The Heinlein Maneuver which you had to learn in order to repeatedly save The Joker as a result of this being one the couple’s favorite games to play.
One, two, three… Pfuuu, there it goes: the bullet flies out of him!
The King is taking a few moments to recover whilst you impatiently want to find out what he saw this time: whenever he has these near death experiences he sees weird stuff.
“What was it this time?” you curiously inquire.
“I saw Batsy naked,” he exhales full of spite. “That asshole is totally invading my privacy!”
“Naked?” your entitled smirk makes him lose it. “Was he circumcised?”
“Excuse me??!!”
“A girl can be curious,” Y/N defends her inquiry.
“Listen here, woman! The dilemma you should be quizzing me about is if I saw his face so we can identify him!”
“Well, did you?”
“Nope.”
“Then it’s irrelevant.”
“I nearly died Princess! All I need right now is mindless fornication to aid with my rehabilitation,” the strategist in J blurs out.
“You did this to get laid?”
“Gotta keep the flame going, Pumpkin!”
6 Feet
You sneezed twice in a row and The Joker has suspiciously watched you like a hawk since.
“Do you feel sick, Pumpkin?...”
“No, it’s my allergies,” you blow your nose in a tissue and cough due to a scratchy throat.
“Are you sure?...”
“Yes, you know I get like this at spring time.”
“Hm…” J huffs. “I don’t think we should risk infection, I’m too important for this town. I say you take the south part of The Penthouse and I’ll reside in the west. Don’t come any closer, stay at least 6 feet apart just like the regulations stipulate. You can move in the room across from the master bedroom.”
“Huh?!” the baffled Y/N pretends she didn’t comprehend the words. “I have allergies, J!!! ALLERGIES!!!!”
“6 feet Pumpkin! Don’t make me repeat myself!!”
Booty Call
You got mad and moved into the other bedroom; I guess The King wants to be safe from your allergies because that’s what you have and nothing more. Does he ever listen to reason? Nah, that would be a first.
You’re reading a book when your cell phone goes off: an invitation to chat from your man. Across the hallway…Yup…
“Pumpkin!” his face pops on the screen. “I wanna have phone sex!!!!”
“No,” you immediately cut him off, annoyed.
“What do you mean no?! I’m about to blow a gasket over here!!!!!!!!!”
“I don’t care what happens to your gasket Mister Joker, as long as you keep it 6 feet away from me!!” and you hang up.
“How dare you, Princess?!” he shouts at your defiance. “I’ll open an account on PinchMyButt and I’ll pick another partner to tend to my overloaded system!”
“Be my guest!” you snort at his rudeness since you can actually hear him to start with.
PinchMyButt.com
One of the most popular online dating/hook up websites. Period.
The Joker uploaded his profile one hour ago and instead of being flocked with pinches like he thought, there’s no activity besides users flagging the account for “inappropriate content”. Members reckon it’s distasteful to have someone pretending to be The Clown Prince of Crime searching for a match; they have no clue it’s genuine.
Another hour passes by… zero pinches.
J is getting pissed.
30 more minutes… Ding! The app announces.
“Ha!” he triumphantly yells. “Somebody pinched my butt, Pumpkin! Oh, she said I have nice nipples and a cute bald spot! I don’t have a bald spot! Who is this?!” he investigates the blog name: iHaveAllergies69.
Rings a bell: you kept on telling him this plus his girl preferred sex position…
“Pumpkin, is that you?!” The Joker shrieks.
“Yeah!” you admit from the other bedroom. “I felt sorry for you!”
“I don’t want your pity! Unpinch me! Wait, my account just got suspended: due to a large number of objections, you’re account has been terminated. What the hell?! What am I supposed to do now, Princess?“
“Dunno, you’re the one that wanted us to be apart and it’s an excellent rule! I’m enjoying my isolation; you should do the same.”
“How can you enjoy confinement?”
“I’m having fun!”
“Without me?! Impossible! I put the fun in dysfunctional!”
Boinky
The elevator’s doors slide and Frost strolls inside carrying a box.
“Not a step further!” J mumbles taking the safely off his pistol.
He misses threatening people thus when the guys bring food and supplies to The Penthouse he tries to shoot them.
“What’s in there?” he gestures towards the cardboard container.
“Not sure, sir. Y/N ordered it online.”
“Open it!” the stern order leaves no room for hesitation.
Jonny rips the scotch tape and removes the pink, fluffy toy.
“What the heck is this?!” The Joker frowns at its shape.
Frost analyzes the plush item and it clicks.
“Boss, I think it’s a…”
“PUMPKIN!!!!” The Clown interrupts. “Why does this atrocity resemble my crown jewelry???!!” he screams you as you show up in the living room.
A super excited squeal:
“Boinky arrived!!!” and Y/N rushes to get her package. “Toss it! Toss it!!” you wave your arms and Jonny does as required. “I need something to cuddle with since you kicked me to the curve,” you finally address him.
“And you couldn’t find a teddy bear?!”
Flame
The Joker barges in your bedroom while spraying around with disinfectant mist:
“Pumpkin, this is the biggest emergency Gotham has ever faced!!!!” he frantically takes his clothes off and you jump because you just fell asleep 5 minutes ago.
“What is it?” you snuggle with your fuzzy trinket.
“Goddamn Boinky!” your boyfriend snatches the toy and flings it out the opened window.
“What are you doing?!”
“I’m about to explode, woman! That’s what!!! My online dating was abruptly halted by unforeseen factors so I have no choice,” he viciously starts yanking at you tank top. “I either risk contamination or I blow a gasket and that means kaput!”
“I have allergies,” you frown and J tugs at your shorts in a hurry, irritated.
“Exposing myself like this!” he continues bickering and Y/N can’t help it:
“Just like Batsy did?”
The King gasps, appalled you twisted his near death experience vision in such a hasty manner.
“Unacceptable!” he pulls you under him and your eerie grin prompts doubt: “Hold on! Did you purchase Boinky to intrigue me and made sure I can’t blow my gasket anywhere else with the sole purpose of having me crawl back to you?!”
Y/N innocently kisses the tip of his nose, whispering:
“Gotta keep the flame going, baby.”
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Do you live with your parents?
Yup. Will probably continue to do so for a while, but that’s the norm here. We don’t really move out by the time we turn 18.
Are there any embarrassing school pictures of you anywhere in your house?
Not necessarily here in the house, but I have embarrassing middle school photos floating around the internet for sure. And maybe from high school, too.
Can you do a backflip, or anything else of that sort?
Not at all. I liked to try doing handstands as a child but nearly broke an arm at one point, so I wouldn’t fare well with a backflip.
What moment in your life have you been most scared?
A few men have lunged at me while I was simply walking in public at night. I always have this grand vision of me slapping a guy or kicking his balls or spitting on his face if one decides to act stupid or harass-y around me, but... you’re never really prepared for when it actually happens. I’ve frozen up in terror every time, unable to defend myself.
Do you have any exes you can't stand anymore?
I can’t stand how she handled things, but I’m not capable of hating her.
What happened to cause you to feel that way about them?
I don’t feel like getting into the details, sorry. Everything still sucks.
Do you ever make your own surveys, or just take them?
I take them. The few questions I manage to come up with have usually already been thought of, so I just like subscribing to survey-makers who are able to come up with new and interesting questions.
What would your parents do if you told them you were pregnant right now?
They’d be sorely disappointed and I’m expecting to be heavily interrogated as well. Suffice it to say I’d be unwelcome at home in an instant.
Have you ever actually thought you were pregnant?
No.
Were you?
I’ve never been pregnant.
Are you more of a phone or a computer person?
I’m on my phone for entertainment purposes, and my laptop is for work. I’d say I’m able to strike a good balance with both.
Do you like to cook, or do you prefer when other people cook for you?
Well I haven’t learned how to cook well yet, so I don’t really have a choice.
How old do you think you'll be when you move out on your own?
Mid- to late 20s, I hope.
Do you have a job? If so, where do you work? If not, do you want one?
Currently, I’m an intern at a public relations agency but yes, I’m actively looking for full-time gigs too. I love my work though.
Have you ever ripped your pants in public?
I don’t think so.
Do movies such as 'Saw' and 'The Grudge' scare you easily?
Sure, but not as much as other horror flicks. It’s the psychological, slow burn ones that really get to me, like Midsommar.
Who do you talk to the most on MSN?
I don’t have that.
How many best friends do you have? What are their names?
I know I have at least one best friend, Angela. I’m too scared to ask if Gab still considers me as one. How sad is that?
What's the craziest thing you've ever been dared to do?
I don’t like dares.
Did you do it?
Do you know anybody who has a birthday today?
Hmm November 1...I don’t think so. The only birthday coming to mind is my cousin’s, but that’s not until the 3rd.
When is your birthday? How old will you be?
April 21. On my next one, I’ll be 23.
Do you change the radio stations repeatedly in the car?
If all the stations seem to be have meh playlists going on, then yes I change it around a lot.
Can you drive?
Sure.
Have you ever thought someone was talking to you, but it turned out they were on the phone? Did you play it off?
I can’t remember any specific instance at the moment but I’m not ruling it out. What I’ve definitely done is to wave at someone who wasn’t even waving at me.
Do you feel bad for homeless people?
Yes, unless they got in that position by being an asshole. But I generally don’t come across that type of situation; and for the overwhelming majority of the time I do feel bad and helpless seeing homeless people, especially homeless kids.
What do you consider to be a good grade?
95 and above (for grade/high school) or 1.00/1.25 (for college).
What do you consider to be a bad grade?
85 and below or 2.00 and above.
Have you ever had a teacher who hated you?
So many from my old school did. They were grown adults being pissy with a 12 year old; I will never understand that. They got away with it before but times have changed now, and I’m glad it’s for the better.
Can you remember who your grade 5 teacher was? Did you like them?
Yeah. She was just fine, but I remember her having a bit of a temper. She’s mostly forgettable though and doesn’t rank in my favorites.
What's your favourite TV show?
Breaking Bad.
In your opinion, who is the best looking celebrity out there at the moment?
I’m incredibly out of the loop these days, so I’ll just go with my own biases: Kristen Stewart and Kate Winslet.
Do you like peanut butter cookies?
Sure do. I do think there are better snacks that peanut butter can be incorporated in, but I wouldn’t turn down peanut butter cookies.
Do you know anybody that has severe allergies?
Yeah, Angela with alcohol and Kate with eggs, fried chicken, and seafood. We feel particularly bad for Kate; those three things are all awesome :’(
Do you have an iPod? How many songs are on it?
At the peak of my usage I probably had around 200-300 songs in it.
Who was the last person you slow danced with?
I didn’t really do it with Gab a lot but I know she was the last. Kaye’s debut in 2017 if I remember correctly. There was a segment in her debut where couples were given the chance to slow-dance, but Gab and I decided against it because we were for sure going to get some looks, and we didn’t want to steal Kaye’s thunder. But she was so sweet to encourage us herself to go to the dance floor and have our moment amid all the straight couples that were there.
What was the last song you listened to on repeat?
It was probably Why We Ever, as always. The lyrics are my entire thought process, so it’s a source of comfort knowing a song that understands me and my current situation so well.
What's your favourite song at the moment?
I don’t have one.
Do you prefer headphones or earbuds?
Earbuds. Headphones’ quality is great, but wearing them for too long ends up hurting my ears.
Do you ever ride the city bus? How much does it cost you?
I don’t ride our buses. Bus drivers here drive like madmen and don’t maintain their vehicles, meaning there’s no AC, it’s super cramped, and the seats are probably nasty as crap; and while I would be willing to ride the more premium bus services that we also have, I never really had a reason to considering I have a car and driving on my own has always been more convenient.
How do you get to school?
I rode a school bus from grade school to high school. I drove myself in college.
Speaking of school, do you like it or hate it?
Loved it for the most part.
Are you a social person?
I mean I don’t think ‘social’ defines me as a person, but I definitely can be it. I like being around people.
Are you reliable?
Yes. I don’t like being unable to meet tasks or deadlines or expectations so I always find a way to get a job done.
What person/people of the opposite sex do you trust the most?
Not sure if there’s such a guy at the moment.
What person/people of the same sex do you trust the most?
My best friend.
Do you say 'like' a lot?
Haha yeah, especially verbally.
What is the last book you read? Did you enjoy it?
Midnight Sun. It’s great so far but it’s literally just like reading Twilight (because it is literally Twilight except told in Edward’s POV), which I’ve reread a handful of times, so my progress has been painfully slow.
Do you buy CDs anymore, or just download the songs?
I stream on Spotify then watch the music video on YouTube, if it has one.
What is your favourite beverage to have in the morning?
Coffee. Slowly turning into a morning coffee person, y’all.
Do you scream out the answers will watching game shows on TV?
If I know the answer, yeah. I just blurt it out though, not scream.
Who in your life do you care about more than yourself?
I can think of one such person but apparently that sentiment is no longer reciprocated, and I’m now also thinking if it ever even was reciprocated to begin with.
Would you ever consider adopting a child with a severe mental illness?
At this point, no. That entails so much patience, a lot of commitment, a suitable living situation, and honestly in most cases a lot of money as well...it’s important to acknowledge that not everyone will be capable of having those things and it takes a certain kind of love and home for kids like them to be raised in the best way they could possibly be raised.
Do you have a brother or a sister? If so, are you close with them?
Yeah. I’m close with my sister but not in a she’s-my-rock kind of way. We just get along super well.
If you are an only child, do you ever wish you had siblings?
When was the last time you were with all of your best friends?
February.
Do you ever go into photobooths?
Sure.
Do you waste money on unneccesary things?
Hahahahahahaha please don’t remind me
Which wild animal would you most like to have as a pet?
No thanks. They can stay in the wild, where they can thrive.
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Hey Arnold!, and why it’s still important today
Less than a year ago my fiancee and I took to rewatching Hey Arnold! for the first time in YEARS to prep for The Jungle Movie. Having been obsessed with it when I was a kid, I knew the show like the back of my hand, so I went through and made a “best of” list of episodes, and we watched those.
Aaaand immediately went back to the beginning and watched ALL of them.
AAAAND went back AGAIN because revisiting this show has been so fun for me, and it just puts me in a good, good place. Since this (eternal) marathon began, I’ve wanted to do a big ol’ overview of the show itself, and why it’s important. It’s very diverse, and from a time when that really wasn’t what kids’ shows were striving for like they are today. There are tons of characters of color, different religions, sexualities, social classes, etc, and I kind of need this show to get the love and attention it so deserves. It’s really kinda gone unloved for a long while now (which is understandable, it’s been off the air since 2002), and I just know it’d be a huge deal if more people knew/remembered how inclusive it was. I’m kicking myself for not writing this sooner, but I’m holding out hope for Nick to greenlight a new series, and my dearest wish is that I can remind people of this wonderful, thoughtful show, and get it the attention it deserves.
Hey Arnold! is FULL of amazing characters and stories, so BUCKLE UP BUTTERCUP, THIS GON’ BE A LONG ONE.
| City life, poverty, & crime |
At it’s core, Hey Arnold! is a show about inner city kids, their school, and how they go about their daily lives. I did some research for this (believe it or not lmao), and besides Sesame Street, there is no other media geared toward kids that touch on this. That’s insane to me. And while Sesame Street is fantastic, it tends to steer on the positive side of city life. Which is great!! However, Hey Arnold!, being written for an older audience, isn’t afraid to show the not-so-pretty side of things as well. Violence, crime, theft, pollution, and poverty are ALL covered in more than just a few episodes. We saw a lot of this right off the bat in the first episode, “Downtown as Fruits”.
As for violence, in the episode “Mugged”, Arnold is jumped on his way home one evening, and takes self defense lessons from his Grandma.
And it’s not the last time Arnold, or other characters are mugged. It’s just something they deal with, something they have to learn to protect themselves from. And sometimes, they can’t.
They don’t shy away from poverty within the city, either. Multiple characters are shown to be very poor, and with the exception of two episodes in the whole series (Lila in her debut episode, “Ms. Perfect”, and Sid when he wants to impress a rich classmate and is too embarrassed to have him over at his own home, “Arnold’s Room”), it’s never really shown as a bad thing, or even as a defining character trait. It just is.
Even our title character lives in a boarding house run by his grandparents, inhabited by tenants of very little means. The building itself is always needing repairs, the tenants almost never have their rent on time, and they really don’t shy away from how dingy some of the rooms are there (pictured above, bottom left).
But again, all of this just is. It’s never portrayed as a bad thing, and none of the kids care much about it. Of course there’s Rhonda, the snooty, rich girl stereotype, but even she has a handful of episodes where she grows as a character and is repeatedly called out for having a classist attitude. In the end, all of these kids care about each other and never give a second’s thought to each others’ social class.
| Diversity & inclusiveness |
I’m putting the rest under a read more cut so no one murders me for clogging up their dashboards :’)
One of the most wonderful things about this show is how diverse the cast of characters is. Especially being that in the 90′s, it wasn’t something shows were expected to have, but they did it here anyway.
Our primary character of color is, of course, Gerald Johanssen, Arnold’s best friend and all-around cool dude. He’s the star of a good amount of episodes, and even when one focuses on Arnold, he’s almost always right there next to him. With Gerald comes his family as well, consisting of a little sister, older brother, his mom who cashiers at a corner store, and his father who’s a businessman and Vietnam veteran, ALL OF WHOM have distinct personalities and stories, and the lot of them are portrayed just like any other family on tv.
Next would be Phoebe Heyerdahl, the soft-spoken smartest girl in class, and Helga’s best friend. She’s half Japanese on her father’s side, and if you pay attention, her and Gerald have a thing going on, which is sO freaking cute.
Phoebe is also super important because she’s the only person in the show who really knows and understands Helga. She’s always there to support her, listen to her, and guide her when she can. However, Phoebe does have a handful of episodes to herself, and we even touch on how being the over-achiever in class isn’t always a good thing, and can be damaging to children if they feel like they need to be the best. It’s a super important lesson for kids to learn.
If I gave a paragraph to EVERY single character of color in this show we’d literally be here all day, so I’m gonna finish off with my personal favorite, Mr. Hyunh. A middle-aged Vietnamese man who resides in Arnold’s boarding house, Mr. Hyunh is one of the best adult characters in the show. In fact, one of the. single. best. episodes of the entire show, “Arnold’s Christmas” revolves entirely around him, and how he was separated from his only daughter during the Vietnam War. Holy shit, right? I could go on and on about that episode on its own (there’s a reason why it’s one of the most well known episodes), but I’ll put a cap on it there. Mr. Hyunh has the starring role in a number of other episodes, and he’s always great. He’s funny, cares deeply about Arnold and the other boarders, and is genuinely happy where he is.
But do we stop at diversity where race is concerned? NOPE. This is a show for literally everyone. Gosh, it’s hard just to even figure out where to start.
How about Harold? He’s not only Jewish, but there’s an entire episode it, (”Harold’s Bar Mitzvah”), and he’s shown to be very close with his mentor, Rabbi Goldberg.
We have three characters with dwarfism. Ernie Potts, a boarder at the Sunset Arms, and Big Patty’s mother and father. How freaking cool, right? Patty’s parents are scarce in the show, unfortunately, but are extremely caring and supportive of their daughter. And yet again, it’s never brought up, it’s not a defining trait, it’s not a big deal. They’re just regular people.
As far as LGBTQ representation, a little while after the show was cancelled, show creator Craig Bartlett revealed that the kids’ school teacher, Mr. Simmons, is gay. In “Arnold’s Thanksgiving”, we see his partner, Peter, and we see the two of them together in “The Jungle Movie” as well. And, though not explicitly shown onscreen, Craig has said that Eugene Horowitz, an overly optimistic classmate of Arnold’s, is gay as well.
| Helga Pataki, abusive households & mental health |
You may have noticed that I’ve gone this entire thing without breaking down sobbing about Helga. Ohh, don’t you worry, we’re almost there!
I could be wrong, but I think one of the most well remembered aspects of this show, even by people who haven’t seen it in years, is that Helga’s family is really messed up. Her mother, Miriam, is always passed out drunk on the kitchen counter or behind the sofa, and her father, Big Bob, is always calling her by the wrong name and forgets she even exists most of the time. Then of course there’s Olga, her “perfect” older sister who means well, and cares about Helga more than their parents do, but ultimately cares more about her self image.
Sure, each of them get a few episodes where they get called out on their behavior and they (kinda) redeem themselves, but at the end of the day, they’re always right back at it. If I had a talent for it, I could SERIOUSLY write an entire thesis on Helga’s family’s dynamic in this show, but I’m going to (try to) keep it brief.
The Pataki household is a very real, very poignant depiction of emotional and mental abuse that we just do not see in cartoons, or anything geared towards a younger audience. Like I said, we have the odd episode or two where Helga will bond with one or both of her parents or her sister, but things never truly “get better”. Given the significant age gap between her and Olga (who’s in college while Helga is in the 4th grade), it’s suggested that Helga was probably an accident, and the catalyst of her parents’ unhappiness. In “Magic Show”, Helga goes through an “It’s A Wonderful Life”-type dream sequence, but backwards. Arnold makes her disappear forever in a magic trick, and the entire world is better off without her, including her parents, who are happy, fulfilled, and affectionate with each other. IT’S REALLY MESSED UP, GUYS.
And this, ALL of this, is one of two reasons why her crush on Arnold works. In a lesser show, Helga’s obsession with Arnold would be creepy, and her dependence on him would be a weakness to her character. However, we eventually find out that where her family failed her at every turn, Arnold was the first one to not only notice her, but show her kindness.
And in the end, no matter how much she teases him and bugs the shit out of him (which are just defense mechanisms to begin with), she always, always puts him first. Every single chance she gets, she does the right thing for him. Helga’s feelings for Arnold work so well because she truly cares for him. Of course her closet shrine and dozens of books of poetry are over the top, but so is Helga. She’s loud, abrasive, crude, but above all else, she’s fiercely loyal, passionate, and intelligent. And, more than anything, she just wants Arnold to be happy. That’s real love, folks.
My personal favorite episode of the entire show is “Helga On the Couch”, where Helga goes to see a psychologist due to her abrasive behavior. This episode is so so so important, you guys. It was really the first piece of media I saw as a kid that not only explained what therapy even was, but painted it in an extremely positive light. At first, Helga is mortified to have to go, and her parents don’t help the situation at all. Not only do they disapprove, but Big Bob is angry with her for being selected for therapy. He says that it’s embarrassing, and actually warns Helga not to tell the psychologist anything that might out them as abusive.
However, Phoebe assures Helga that therapy is not only good, but perfectly normal, even for kids their age.
And throughout the session, Helga opens up about her family, why she’s so defensive, how she feels about Arnold and why, and feels so much better at the end of the episode. I hate that the show had to end after this season because I would die for more episodes about Helga and her sessions with Dr. Bliss.
Not to mention we get one of the best bits of dialogue in the entire series omfg:
Again, this is SUPER IMPORTANT for kids to see. This episode told us that mental health is JUST as crucial as physical health, and took every bad opinion about therapy and stuck a boot in its ass. It’s GOOD, it’s NORMAL. I can’t say enough about how much this episode meant to me as a kid, and still means to me today.
I seriously have to stop myself from going on for 500 years about Helga and why she’s not only the best character on the show by a fuckin’ landslide, but one of the THE best female characters in anything. Ever. I think I’m going to put a pin in that, and hopefully get to writing a post just about her. The point is, she is an exceptionally written character, and super important for kids to see, to be able to relate to. She’s heavily flawed, but is infinitely loyal for those she cares about. She’s extremely complex, hilarious, interesting, and deeply sympathetic. I LOVE HELGA PATAKI SO MUCH DON’T TOUCH ME, GOD.
| Criticisms & wrap-up |
I’m gonna try and end this here before it turns into a novel, but there is still SO MUCH going on in this show that I could talk about. If anyone wants to add to this post, please do!! I honestly just need to end this sometime lmaoo.
Now, the show isn’t perfect. Rewatching it in our current social climate turned up a (notedly small) few problematic things. Mostly fat jokes about Harold, and some of the boys will tease the girls, saying they can’t do certain things bc they’re girls, etc. Normally these are small, throwaway lines, but they’re still there, and stand out nowadays. Just a warning!
The only other criticism I have for the show as a whole is actually the entire plot line with Arnold’s parents, “The Journal”, and most of “The Jungle Movie”. Now, don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy it, I think there’s enough heart and depth to make up for, well, how fuckin’ silly it is, but it’s still just that. Silly. This show that spent five full seasons in an urban setting, dealing with very real characters and situations, suddenly veered off into heavy fantasy. It’s jarring, and a little weird. We find out not only that Arnold’s parents were basically Indiana Jones and Lara Croft, but also Arnold was a miracle baby whos birth silenced an erupting volcano, and now he’s seen as some “chosen one” to entire tribe of people living in the jungles of South America.
LMAO WHAT.
No, it’s kind of insane. I think I personally don’t mind it so much because I have a lasting fondness for it from when I was a kid, and like I said, it does have a lot of heart behind it, but it’s very apparent as an adult how ridiculous it is. However, in the show’s defense, its always had episodes about ghosts and all matter of supernatural creatures that just exist and are real in this universe, so it’s not totally out of left field. It’s just odd to have it at the forefront, and I can understand if people don’t care for it.
BUT! The show, at its heart, has always been about kids, their families, and the city they live in. I know if the show was brought back, that’s what they’d get back to.
Also, it’s kind of hilarious if you think about it this way; Arnold is BASICALLY a magical girl who’s super power is solving everyone else’s problems. That’s the show.
And holy cow, speaking of Arnold, I haven’t talked about him at all. SHIT. UH, real quick. Arnold is a good, good, good, gOOD, GOOD BOY. To be extremely honest, Arnold would be boring as hell in a lesser show. He really doesn’t have many flaws, he’s always doing The Right Thing(TM), he’s always optimistic... you get it. But somehow, miraculously, he’s still interesting and fun to watch. He’s just so goddamn good. Like, cinnamon roll levels of good. And he does fuck up once in a great while, but of course, learns from it. He’s definitely your standard male, pre-teen, main character in a world where we have way too many of those, but he’s just so pure that you can’t help but love him.
He honestly works best as a counterpart to Helga, which we tragically get so little of in the show (and why we need a new series dear god Nickelodeon PLEASE), but that’s a whoooole other post for me to write.
Goddamn okay, I’m wrapping it up. If you haven’t noticed by now, this show means a lot to me. It really touched me as a kid, it was my first fandom before I even knew what fandom was, and revisiting it has been so fun. It’s honestly been helping me get through an extremely rough patch in my life right now. The show more holds up after all these years, and I think it’s even more important now than it ever was. We need more shows like this.
If you’re interested, the entire series is on Hulu!
#hey arnold#nickelodeon#diversity#mental health#long post#DEAR GOD THIS TOOK TWO DAYS TO PUT TOGETHER#pls read i am begging :')#also I have zero writing talent so this is just me babbling#it's not meant to be like an actual essay or anything#just me shouting with visual references#LONG POST DID I MENTION
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Nobody’s Perfect: Part 3
Pairings: David Harbour x Reader
Warnings: Swearing, angst, fluff, unplanned pregnancy, mention of miscarriage (past)
Word Count: 2,256
A/N: This story was an idea that came to me from an interview David did. The quote was “…I’m better at the fantasy of relationships than I am at the daily real life, but I’m trying to steer myself into a realist…” And this is the story I came up with. I obviously don’t know David therefore I’m using my first amendment right, here…. & since David reads fan fics… if you ever see this, love… well, I’m sorry….
Part 1 / Part 2
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You stared off into space down the terminal David’s flight was arriving from full of fear and uncertainty. Your old doctor’s voice flowed through your brain, suffocating your senses with a past you wished with everything you had that you could forget. It was one of the lowest points in your life and you couldn’t stop yourself from thinking it was to be your fate once more.
“Earth to (Y/N). You copy?” You shook your head, snapping yourself from your memories and smiled up at David’s worried face.
“Sorry sweetheart. Just thinking. Happy Valentine’s day.” He nodded as he cupped your jaw in his hand and gave you a chaste kiss.
“Happy Valentines day, baby. Penny for your thoughts?” Your stomach turned and you shook your head.
“Not right now.” With a curious glance, he gave you a partial nod and followed you out of the airport toward your car. Your mind repeatedly tried to convince you that he would leave when you told him; that a relationship three months in was entirely too soon to have the miracle child that came to be through two different forms of birth control. And the terror of miscarrying again was snuffing out any other light you had. A baby was supposed to be a joyous situation but all you had was fear.
“Babe!” David grabbed your arm and yanked you back toward him seconds before you walked in front of a car that wasn’t paying attention in its rush to leave the airport parking lot. Your boyfriend searched your eyes and opened his mouth to yell at you for not paying attention. No matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t stop your bottom lip from trembling as you stared into his blue eyes.
“I’m pregnant.” You whispered as tears began their slow track down your cheeks. His eyes went wide and he quickly pulled you into his arms with an unbelieving shake of his head.
“Oh, fuck… shh, honey, it’s OK.” He soothed as he rubbed your back with shaky hands. He hiked his duffle up on his shoulder and pulled you back a step. “Where’s your car, (Y/N).” You looked around as you swiped at the tears on your cheeks and pointed toward the row you car was parked in. With a nod, he took your hand, checked for cars and lead you in that direction. He took your keys from your hand when you pulled them out of your purse. His head swam with thoughts as he put you in the passenger seat, tossed his bag in the trunk and got into the drivers seat beside you.
“I’m sorry I have to ask but… is it… it’s mine, right?” You nodded as you grabbed a stack of napkins from your glove compartment.
“Yea, it’s yours.” He nodded as he took a deep breath and scrubbed his hand down his face. You tucked your feet up on the chair and slipped your hands over your stomach. “I’m scared.”
“Me too, sweetheart.” You glanced over at him as he leaned his head against the back of the seat and pinched the bridge of his nose. You bit your lip and shook your head.
“I understand if you don’t wanna stay.” His head shot off the headrest. He reached out, gently grabbed your arm and pulled your hand over to his lap.
“I would never, never just leave you because of this, (Y/N).” He laced his fingers with yours and pulled your hand up to kiss your knuckles. “It’s just… fuck it’s a fucking bomb.” You nodded and bit your lip.
“I have to tell you something.” He nodded as you looked down at your stomach. “I had a miscarriage about six years ago. 10 weeks along. My body just rejected the pregnancy.” You felt his hand grip yours tightly and tears rolled down your cheeks. “I just… I don’t know what to do.” You looked over at him and shook your head. “Tell me what to do, David.”
“I can’t. Baby, I can’t tell you what to do.” He reached down between his legs to move the drivers seat back as far as it would go. He gently reached for you, pulled you into his lap and wrapped his arms around you. “We’ll figure this out, baby girl. We’ll figure it out together, OK?” You nodded against his shoulder and buried your tears stained face in his neck.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t want…”
“I know, sweetheart.” He said softly as he rested his cheek on your forehead. He stared off into the distance through the windshield and nodded slowly. “I know.”
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Every single day for the first three months was spent in fear. Fear that David would leave you or make you get rid of the baby. Fear that you would lose your second child the same way you did your first. Fear of what his family and the media would think when they found out. But surprisingly, nothing bad happened and your fear slowly dwindled each and every day you got closer to your second trimester.
Your boyfriend went out of his way to call you every second he had a chance; four, five even six times a day to check in on his girl. After the initial shock wore off, he was ecstatic despite his own similar fears. He arranged his filming with his show ‘Stranger Things’ around your first doctors appointments. He went out of his way to hire a moving company to help your mother move to North Carolina so you wouldn’t have to put his child in any sort of risk. He even borrowed a few parenting books from his brother, Scott who had two kids of his own.
Both of your fears nearly disappeared by the second trimester and morphed into preparing for the arrival of your son. You chose to stay with your mom instead of bouncing around from Atlanta to New York to Chicago with David’s filming schedule. He finally got a small break in filming mid-July the day ‘Stranger Things’ came out on Netflix and he came down to Hendersonville, North Carolina on the red-eye to watch with you.
“I’m digging you in the uniform and cuffs, ‘Chief’.” You teased as you sat on your bed between his legs. “I think you may need to bring that shit home with you.”
“You would like that.” You giggled and nodded as his palms danced across your baby bump, gently pressing in on your child with each pass to get a kick back. You both glanced over as his phone chimed for the hundredth time that day with someone else congratulating him on the hit show the two of you had been binge watching all day. With a small smile, he poked back at his son, who kicked at his hands to protest not getting attention.
“Got him spoiled already.” You said with a smile as you looked back at the TV. He chuckled against your back and kissed the top of your head.
“Anything for my little boy and my favorite girl in the world.” You smiled to yourself as he rested his chin on the top of your head. You jumped slightly at a jump scare and gripped David’s leg a little tighter. His eyes stayed glued to the TV, just as lost in the show as you were as he moved his chin down to your shoulder. “You’re alright, baby girl.” He said softly as he pulled you tighter to his chest. You nodded as you watched Joyce, Hopper and Will in the Upside Down.
“So sad.” You whispered. David nodded against your shoulder as his hands tightened ever so slightly on your stomach. You rubbed his leg reassuringly as the two of you watched the end of the episode in silence. As the credits rolled, you picked up the remote to start the next episode only to see a ‘More like ‘Stranger Things’ option.
“What?! It can’t be over!” David chuckled and kissed your shoulder blade.
“That’s it.”
“But what happened to El! What’s with the worm thing? When is Jonathan going to admit he loves Nancy.” You looked over your shoulder with a fake scowl. “And when are you and Joyce hooking up? Jesus, baby. I need more!” He laughed, whole heartedly and shrugged.
“Don’t know. Guess you have to wait and see.” You scowled and scooted forward so you could go get something to drink before bed.
“You know I’m stealing your script when you get it.”
“The hell you are. You’ll get me fired.” He leaned forward and pushed on your ass to help you too your feet.
“I would do nothing of the sort… I’d just read it like really, really fast.” You paused in the doorway of your room and looked back over your shoulder at him. “You have them already, don’t you?” He shrugged and grabbed his cell phone to feign disinterest.
“Already read ‘em, too.” You growled at him as a smirk pulled at the corners of his lips.
“I don’t like you right now.” Your son kicked in your stomach and you turned partially and pointed at your bump. “And neither does he because he knows you’re being mean to his mommy.” Your boyfriend laughed as he looked up from his phone.
“Well I’m not spoiling it because I know you well enough to know that if I spoil it and let you read the scripts, you’re just gunna bug me when we watch it because I spoiled it. Which is why I don’t tell you what happens in movies I’ve seen that you haven’t.” You scowled and headed back to the kitchen.
“You’re gunna learn, baby boy, that daddy is no fun.” You heard him call out ‘I heard that’ as you said hi to your mom.
“Show’s done?” You nodded as you paused at the end of the couch and stretched your back.
“It’s really, really good.” Your mom looked up from her book with a smirk.
“Is it? Or are you just saying that because your baby daddy is in it?” You laughed as you continued on to the kitchen in the two bedroom, two bathroom ‘cabin in the woods’ she always wanted.
“Please, don’t ever call him my baby daddy ever again. You are not a teenager, you’re an old lady.”
“Who can say whatever the hell she damn well pleases about the father of her grandson.” You leaned against the counter and sipped your water with a shake of your head.
“You’re incorrigible.” She giggled and nodded as you refilled your glass of water and headed back to your bedroom.
“Sleep well, sweetheart.” You smiled and kissed her forehead on the way past. She leaned forward and kissed your stomach. “You too, in there. Give your mama a break tonight, OK?” You giggled as you rubbed at your stomach.
“Yea right. He’s been kicking up a storm since David got here.” Your mom smirked as she picked up her book.
“He knows who baby daddy is.” You rolled your eyes and shook your head as you headed back down your hallway.
“You’re embarrassing yourself, mother.” David cocked his eyebrow at you as you walked into the room with a laugh.
“What’s she doing now?” You set your cup down on the bedside table and headed over to his suitcase to steal one of his shirts for bed.
“She’s now most likely going to be referring to you as my baby daddy for a while.” He hummed as he got up off your bed and came over to you.
“How about fiancée?” You looked over at him as he reached past you to grab a box from his bag. There was the slightest tremor in his hands as he pulled open the top to reveal a gorgeous, flower shaped, white gold engagement ring. You gasped and looked up at him as he gently sunk down onto one knee. “Sweetheart, I have fallen head over heels in love with you and I can’t imagine spending my life with anyone else. Will you marry me?” You nodded frantically as tears spilled from your eyes.
“Of course.” You heard your mom cheer from the living room as he stood up and wrapped his arms around your waist. He kissed you passionately as you cupped his scruff covered cheeks with your hands. He pulled back with a smile and tears in his own eyes so he could put the ring on your favorite.
“Your son agrees with it, too.” You joked as you took a hold of his hand and set it on your stomach. He smiled at the steady thumps.
“He knows we’re meant to be a family.” Your smile threatened to break your cheeks as you pulled him down to kiss you again. “I love you.” You nodded against his lips as you kissed the tip pf his nose.
“I love you, too, David.” He kissed you once more before heading over to grab his phone and his cigarettes.
“Come on, let’s go call my mom and show your mom. She’s been bugging me all day to see the ring.” You cocked your eyebrow at him as he showed you the shirt he was giving you permission to steal and tossed it on the bed. “Well I had to ask someone for your hand.”
“You’re too cute, baby.” He smiled and nodded as he turned you around and pushed you gently toward the door.
“I know I am and you love it.”
Part 4
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Tagging whomever whats to do it!
My personality:
I’m loud.
I’m obnoxious.
I’m sarcastic.
I’m cocky.
I cry easily.
I have a bad temper.
I’m easy to get along with.
I have more enemies than friends.
I’ve smoked.
I’ve smoked weed.
I drink coffee.
I clean my room daily.
My appearance:
I wear a piece of jewellery at all times.
I wear makeup.
I wear contacts.
I wear glasses.
I have braces
I change my hair colour often
I straighten my hair often
I have a piercing
I have small feet
Relationships:
I’m in a relationship now.
I’m single.
I’m crushing.
I’m always scared of being hurt.
An ex has physically abused me at least once.
I’ve told someone I loved them when I didn’t.
I’ve told someone I didn’t love them when I did.
I’ve been in love more than two times.
I believe in love at first sight.
I believe lust is more important than love.
I’m married
I’m a virgin
I often date
I prefer to date extroverted people
I prefer to date people who are like me
I prefer to date people who are unlike me
I take relationships very seriously
Friendships:
I have a best friend.
I have at least ten friends.
I’ve gotten a phone call in the last 48 hours from a friend.
I’ve beaten up a friend.
I’ve been in a serious fight with a friend.
I am close with my friend(s)
I spend a lot of time with friends
I have a crush on a friend
Experiences:
I’ve been on a plane.
I’ve been on a train.
Someone close to me has died.
I’ve taken a taxi.
I’ve taken a city bus.
I’ve taken a school bus.
I’ve gone bungee jumping.
I’ve made a speech.
I’ve been in some sort of club.
I’ve won an award.
I’ve spent 24 hours on the computer straight.
I’ve been in a physical fight.
Music:
I listen to R&B.
I listen to country.
I listen to pop.
I listen to techno.
I listen to rock.
I’m one of those people who play songs repeatedly until I hate it.
I hate the radio.
I download music.
I buy CD’s.
Television:
I spend at least six hours a day watching television.
I watch soap operas daily.
I’m in love with Days of Our Lives.
I’ve seen and liked the O.C.
I’ve seen and liked One Tree Hill.
I’ve seen and liked Americas Next Top Model.
I’ve seen and liked Popular.
I’ve seen and liked 24.
I’ve seen and liked CSI.
I’ve seen and liked Everwood.
Family Life:
I get along with both of my parents.
My biological parents are still together.
I have at least one brother.
I have at least one sister.
I have at least one step brother/sister.
I have at least one half brother/sister.
I’ve been kicked out of the house.
I’ve run away from my home.
I’ve sworn at my parents.
I’ve made my parents cry.
I’ve lied to my parents.
I’ve lied to my parents about where I am.
I’ve lied to my parents about what I’m doing.
I’ve lied to my parents so I’d be allowed out.
I’ve walked out when I’ve been grounded.
Hair:
I’ve been brown. (that’s the colour of my hair)
I’ve had streaks.
I’ve cut my hair in the past year.
I’ve dyed my hair in the past year.
I’ve been blonde.
I’ve had black.
I’ve been red.
I’ve been light brown.
I’ve been blue/green.
I’ve gotten my hair thinned.
I use conditioner.
I’ve used silk therapy.
I’ve used hot oil treatments.
I’ve curled my hair.
I’ve straightened my hair.
I’ve ironed my hair.
I’ve braided my hair.
School:
I’ve yelled at a teacher.
I’ve been suspended.
I’ve had an in-school suspension.
I’ve been sent to the principal’s office.
I’ve walked out of class.
I’ve skipped an entire day of school.
I’ve skipped a whole month of one certain class.
I’ve failed a test.
I’ve cheated on a test.
I’ve helped someone else cheat on a test.
I’ve failed Art.
I’ve failed P.E.
I’ve failed math.
I’ve failed another class.
A teacher has called my parents.
Basics:
I am male
I am female
I am neither male or female
I am under the age of 18
I am 18 or older
I am straight
I am gay or lesbian
I am bisexual or pansexual
I am trans
Negativity:
I have/had depression
I have cried myself to sleep
I have/had anxiety
I am often lonely
I keep a lot of emotions inside
I am scared of talking to people I want to talk more to
I have an eating disorder
I have low self-esteem
I often feel I embarrass myself
I have been abused
I feel people consider me dumb or don’t take me seriously
I am quickly jealous
I feel people want me to be someone/something I’m not
I have been sexually assaulted
I have experienced discrimination/racism
Positivity:
I have become a better person
I have gotten out of a bad period of time
I am confident
I am looking forward to something
I have enjoyed myself over the past week
I have met a famous person
I consider myself a kindhearted person
I am currently feeling relaxed and comfortable
I appreciate the little things in life
I have nobody in my life whom I hate
I have achieved something large this year
I am part of a religion that brings me peace
I have lost a lot of weight
I have a movie/game/song which cheers me up
I…
…get scared from watching horror movies
…play a sport
…read a lot of books (YES!!)
…have allergies
…feel shy around the opposite gender
…am a feminist
…own an instrument (if my cheap flute from middle school counts)
…can draw
…am listening to music right now
…value romance and friendship equally
…have sneaked out of the house
…am outgoing
…respect people’s comfort zones and personal space
…am deaf
…spend money on a daily basis
…want to write a book
…can ride a horse
…put my hands over my face when I’m flattered
…like the colors pink and yellow
…own an xbox (I have a PS4 though!)
…shop at least once a week
…have a drivers license
…drink alcoholic beverages
…get scared by unsettling imagery and screamers
…eat fast food at least twice a week
Likes and Dislikes:
I like parties
I dislike parties
I like perfume
I dislike perfume
I like “so bad it’s good” movies
I dislike “so bad it’s good movies”
I like playing video games (Oh, yess!)
I dislike playing video games
I like chocolate
I dislike chocolate
I like having a busy schedule
I dislike having a busy schedule
I like laughing at my own jokes
I dislike laughing at my own jokes
I like compliments
I dislike compliments
I like heavy metal music
I dislike heavy metal music
I like snow
I dislike snow
I like taking walks with someone
I dislike taking walks with someone
I like people who aren’t very talkative
I dislike people who aren’t very talkative
Random:
had/have a pet.
bought condoms.
gotten pregnant.
failed a class.
kissed a boy.
kissed a girl.
used a little paper bag for lunch.
had a job.
slipped on ice.
missed the school bus.
left the house without my purse/wallet.
bullied someone on the internet.
sexted.
had sex in public.
watched “The Breakfast Club”.
been overweight.
been underweight.
had an eating disorder.
been to a wedding.
been on the computer for 5 hours straight.
watched tv for 5 hours straight.
been late for work.
been late for school.
kissed in the rain.
showered with someone else.
failed my drivers’ test.
ran a km in less than five minutes.
been outside my home country.
been on a road trip longer than 5 hours.
had lice.
gotten fired.
had a credit card.
been to a professional sports game.
broken a bone.
been unhappy about my weight.
won a trophy.
cut myself.
had an STD.
got engaged.
been on a diet.
tried out to be on a tv show.
rode in a taxi.
been to prom.
played a drinking game.
stayed up for 24 hours or more.
been to a concert.
had a three-some.
had a crush on someone of the same sex.
been in a car accident.
had braces.
learned another language.
killed an animal.
been at a yard sale.
been to a Japanese steakhouse.
wore makeup.
skipped school.
been a vampire for Halloween.
had my wisdom teeth taken out.
snuck out of the house.
bought porn.
had a virus on my computer.
had oral sex.
dyed my hair.
gone skinny dipping.
graduated from college.
wore someone else’s clothes.
voted in a general election.
rode in an ambulance.
rode in a helicopter.
caught the stove on fire.
got in a fight.
met someone famous.
been on vacation.
been on an airplane.
been on a boat.
broken something expensive.
had surgery.
kissed someone before I was 14.
beat a video game.
found something valuable on the ground.
made a survey.
stalked someone on facebook/myspace.
prank called someone.
been to a library outside of school.
cut my hair and hated it.
peed outside.
went fishing.
helped with charity.
taken a pregnancy test.
been rejected by a crush.
been suspended from school.
broken a mirror
#tagging game#oddly personal#feels like some things are mentioned more than once#tagged by vk-crzy#tagged by dimichan#personal
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Thank you @ai-kuran and @holy-moly-vampire-knight for tagging me!
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Feel free to ignore this, but I’ll be tagging: @icedflower, @roxy1294, @aphrodytevalentine, and @2rsask
My personality:
I’m loud.
I’m obnoxious.
I’m sarcastic.
I’m cocky.
I cry easily.
I have a bad temper.
I’m easy to get along with.
I have more enemies than friends.
I’ve smoked.
I’ve smoked weed.
I drink coffee.
I clean my room daily.
My appearance:
I wear a piece of jewellery at all times.
I wear makeup.
I wear contacts.
I wear glasses.
I have braces
I change my hair colour often
I straighten my hair often
I have a piercing
I have small feet
Relationships:
I’m in a relationship now.
I’m single.
I’m crushing.
I’m always scared of being hurt.
An ex has physically abused me at least once.
I’ve told someone I loved them when I didn’t.
I’ve told someone I didn’t love them when I did.
I’ve been in love more than two times.
I believe in love at first sight.
I believe lust is more important than love.
I’m married
I’m a virgin
I often date
I prefer to date extroverted people
I prefer to date people who are like me
I prefer to date people who are unlike me
I take relationships very seriously
Friendships:
I have a best friend.
I have at least ten friends.
I’ve gotten a phone call in the last 48 hours from a friend.
I’ve beaten up a friend.
I’ve been in a serious fight with a friend.
I am close with my friend(s)
I spend a lot of time with friends
I have a crush on a friend
Experiences:
I’ve been on a plane.
I’ve been on a train.
Someone close to me has died.
I’ve taken a taxi.
I’ve taken a city bus.
I’ve taken a school bus.
I’ve gone bungee jumping.
I’ve made a speech.
I’ve been in some sort of club.
I’ve won an award.
I’ve spent 24 hours on the computer straight.
I’ve been in a physical fight.
Music:
I listen to R&B.
I listen to country.
I listen to pop.
I listen to techno.
I listen to rock.
I’m one of those people who play songs repeatedly until I hate it.
I hate the radio.
I download music.
I buy CD’s.
Television:
I spend at least six hours a day watching television.
I watch soap operas daily.
I’m in love with Days of Our Lives.
I’ve seen and liked the O.C.
I’ve seen and liked One Tree Hill.
I’ve seen and liked Americas Next Top Model.
I’ve seen and liked Popular.
I’ve seen and liked 24.
I’ve seen and liked CSI.
I’ve seen and liked Everwood.
Family Life:
I get along with both of my parents.
My biological parents are still together.
I have at least one brother.
I have at least one sister.
I have at least one step brother/sister.
I have at least one half brother/sister.
I’ve been kicked out of the house.
I’ve run away from my home.
I’ve sworn at my parents.
I’ve made my parents cry.
I’ve lied to my parents.
I’ve lied to my parents about where I am.
I’ve lied to my parents about what I’m doing.
I’ve lied to my parents so I’d be allowed out.
I’ve walked out when I’ve been grounded.
Hair:
I’ve been brown.
I’ve had streaks.
I’ve cut my hair in the past year.
I’ve dyed my hair in the past year.
I’ve been blonde.
I’ve had black. (my hair is naturally black with brown streaks lol)
I’ve been red.
I’ve been light brown.
I’ve been blue/green.
I’ve gotten my hair thinned.
I use conditioner.
I’ve used silk therapy.
I’ve used hot oil treatments.
I’ve curled my hair.
I’ve straightened my hair.
I’ve ironed my hair.
I’ve braided my hair.
School:
I’ve yelled at a teacher.
I’ve been suspended.
I’ve had an in-school suspension.
I’ve been sent to the principal’s office.
I’ve walked out of class.
I’ve skipped an entire day of school.
I’ve skipped a whole month of one certain class.
I’ve failed a test.
I’ve cheated on a test.
I’ve helped someone else cheat on a test.
I’ve failed Art.
I’ve failed P.E.
I’ve failed math.
I’ve failed another class.
A teacher has called my parents.
Basics:
I am male
I am female
I am neither male or female
I am under the age of 18
I am 18 or older
I am straight
I am gay or lesbian
I am bisexual or pansexual
I am trans
Negativity:
I have/had depression
I have cried myself to sleep
I have/had anxiety
I am often lonely
I keep a lot of emotions inside
I am scared of talking to people I want to talk more to
I have an eating disorder
I have low self-esteem
I often feel I embarrass myself
I have been abused (verbally, never physically)
I feel people consider me dumb or don’t take me seriously
I am quickly jealous
I feel people want me to be someone/something I’m not
I have been sexually assaulted
I have experienced discrimination/racism
Positivity:
I have become a better person
I have gotten out of a bad period of time
I am confident
I am looking forward to something
I have enjoyed myself over the past week
I have met a famous person
I consider myself a kindhearted person
I am currently feeling relaxed and comfortable
I appreciate the little things in life
I have nobody in my life whom I hate
I have achieved something large this year
I am part of a religion that brings me peace (idk I’m on the fence)
I have lost a lot of weight
I have a movie/game/song which cheers me up
I…
…get scared from watching horror movies
…play a sport
…read a lot of books
…have allergies
…feel shy around the opposite gender
…am a feminist
…own an instrument
…can draw
…am listening to music right now
…value romance and friendship equally
…have sneaked out of the house
…am outgoing
…respect people’s comfort zones and personal space
…am deaf
…spend money on a daily basis
…want to write a book
…can ride a horse
…put my hands over my face when I’m flattered
…like the colors pink and yellow
…own an xbox
…shop at least once a week
…have a drivers license
…drink alcoholic beverages
…get scared by unsettling imagery and screamers
…eat fast food at least twice a week
Likes and Dislikes:
I like parties
I dislike parties
I like perfume
I dislike perfume
I like “so bad it’s good” movies
I dislike “so bad it’s good movies”
I like playing video games (does the sims count lol)
I dislike playing video games
I like chocolate
I dislike chocolate
I like having a busy schedule
I dislike having a busy schedule
I like laughing at my own jokes
I dislike laughing at my own jokes
I like compliments
I dislike compliments
I like heavy metal music
I dislike heavy metal music
I like snow
I dislike snow
I like taking walks with someone
I dislike taking walks with someone
I like people who aren’t very talkative
I dislike people who aren’t very talkative
Random:
had/have a pet.
bought condoms.
gotten pregnant.
failed a class.
kissed a boy.
kissed a girl.
used a little paper bag for lunch.
had a job.
slipped on ice.
missed the school bus.
left the house without my purse/wallet.
bullied someone on the internet.
sexted.
had sex in public.
watched “The Breakfast Club”.
been overweight.
been underweight.
had an eating disorder.
been to a wedding.
been on the computer for 5 hours straight.
watched tv for 5 hours straight.
been late for work.
been late for school.
kissed in the rain.
showered with someone else.
failed my drivers’ test.
ran a km in less than five minutes.
been outside my home country.
been on a road trip longer than 5 hours.
had lice.
gotten fired.
had a credit card.
been to a professional sports game.
broken a bone.
been unhappy about my weight.
won a trophy.
cut myself.
had an STD.
got engaged.
been on a diet.
tried out to be on a tv show.
rode in a taxi.
been to prom.
played a drinking game.
stayed up for 24 hours or more.
been to a concert.
had a three-some.
had a crush on someone of the same sex.
been in a car accident.
had braces.
learned another language.
killed an animal.
been at a yard sale.
been to a Japanese steakhouse.
wore makeup.
skipped school.
been a vampire for Halloween.
had my wisdom teeth taken out.
snuck out of the house.
bought porn.
had a virus on my computer.
had oral sex.
dyed my hair.
gone skinny dipping.
graduated from college.
wore someone else’s clothes.
voted in a presidential general election.
rode in an ambulance.
rode in a helicopter.
caught the stove on fire.
got in a fight.
met someone famous.
been on vacation.
been on an airplane.
been on a boat.
broken something expensive.
had surgery.
kissed someone before I was 14.
beat a video game.
found something valuable on the ground.
made a survey.
stalked someone on facebook/myspace.
prank called someone.
been to a library outside of school.
cut my hair and hated it.
peed outside.
went fishing.
helped with charity.
taken a pregnancy test.
been rejected by a crush.
been suspended from school.
broken a mirror
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Hillary Clinton on where it all went wrong | The Sunday Times Magazine
The woman who lost to Donald Trump reflects on the failure of her presidential campaign and coping with crushing disappointment. Interview by Christina Lamb
First comes a man to switch the chairs. Then a young press officer to arrange their position. Two men in grey suits with tell-tale earpieces, the Secret Service, hover at the doorway. Stylists flit in, pleased the weather is overcast as it is “kind for photos”. It feels like the entourage of an ageing movie star or the forward party of an absolute monarch. “She’s just coming,” I am repeatedly told, followed by: “She’s held up.” I keep getting my notebook and tape recorder ready, to no avail. And then, when Hillary Clinton finally walks in, I am helping the photographer prepare his shot, crouching down pretending to be her and making angry and devastated faces; she did, after all, lose the election to a womaniser whose candidacy she considered a joke. Fortunately, she appears not to notice and immediately moves the chairs closer. “I feel like we’ve met,” she says, warmly. This is odd, as she is the one who is familiar, if a bit softer, blonder and bluer-eyed in person. At 69, she has been on the world stage my entire adult life. First lady, wronged wife, senator, secretary of state, first woman to run for president for a main party. Even her pantsuits are familiar; today she wears black trousers and a blue top as shiny as a Quality Street wrapper.
“I’ll bet you know more about my private life than you do about some of your closest friends,” she says in her new book. “You’ve read my emails, for heaven’s sake. What more do you need? What could I do to be ‘more real?’ Dance on a table? Swear a blue streak? Break down sobbing?”
That, of course, is exactly what I want as I wait in the hotel in Chappaqua, the small, leafy town north of New York that she and Bill call home. At the end of a nearby cul-de-sac stands their large white clapboard house, where she has been doing yoga (favourite position: Warrior II), praying and downing chardonnay to drown her sorrows. Today, it’s strictly iced tea (it’s not even midday) and she is so much nicer than that brittle woman on TV that it feels mean to ask her to relive her pain. Instead of cursing or sobbing, she is keen to discuss why child refugees are going missing in Europe, and the implications of last month’s Kurdish referendum.
We establish that we met in the bar of a hotel on a trip to South Korea in 2010 that included a visit to the demilitarised zone, where she was literally eyeball to eyeball with a soldier from the communist North standing outside the window. I was surprised then by how funny she was over gin and tonics.
Korea, of course, is very much in the news. The day before, the president had prompted gasps in his first speech to the annual UN general assembly in New York by threatening to “totally destroy North Korea” and taunting its leader, Kim Jong-un, as “Rocket Man”.
You must feel you should have been the one standing there, I say. Her smile is part-grimace. “Put aside what I would have said, how I would have conducted myself, I just found it hard to believe he was standing there as president and saying what he was saying,” she says. “It was a distressing speech — dark, dangerous, selfish, incoherent — and left as much room for misinterpretation and confusion as I ever heard in a speech by a president of the United States.”
She was particularly worried about Trump’s suggestion he would undo Barack Obama’s hard-won nuclear deal with Iran, which Trump derided as “an embarrassment to the United States”.
“They want to blow up the Iran nuclear deal just because we did it,” she says. “I think the Iran nuclear agreement was a stellar example of multinational co-operation, but more than that, it certainly put a lid on its nuclear programme. So when I hear President Trump talk in such a bellicose manner, threatening not just North Korea but Iran, it raises the potential you will have two extremely dangerous nuclear challenges in two regions of the world with unforeseen consequences, which will be horrible for people in those regions.”
Trump’s repeated use of the word “sovereignty” (21 times) in the speech and insistence that he would “always put America first” seemed intent on undoing all the effort she put in as secretary of state in the Obama administration to — as she sees it — restore the international reputation of the US after the damage caused by George W Bush’s War on Terror and the invasion of Iraq. “It’s not about me,” Clinton insists. “It’s about the message that sends to the world and what his priorities are, what he values and doesn’t.”
Of course, it is also about her. Rather than accept defeat and go quietly into the night, as many believed she should, she has written a 494-page angst-ridden book, titled What Happened. Though she laughs a lot in our interview, her bitterness resonates in every mention of the T-word — and there are many. A close female friend of hers tells me that “Hillary is utterly devastated”. “I have developed the hide of a rhinoceros,” Clinton insists to me, but I can’t imagine what it is like actually Being Hillary.
In the 1990s, she had to endure the whole world knowing about her president husband’s affair with the intern. Who can forget Monica Lewinsky’s semen-stained Gap dress? Then, when she contested the Democratic nomination in 2008, she had to watch the job go to the cool younger guy with far less experience. After that, she had to swallow her pride to work for him, which she did with great aplomb. Then, to run again and lose to a reality-TV host who boasted of sexual abuse, and tweets insults to everyone from the mayor of London to the Pope.
Clinton clearly can’t get her head round the fact that her fellow Americans voted for Trump rather than her own supremely qualified self. “I thought I’d be a damn good president,” she says. “I did not think I was going to lose.”
She admits she had prepared for her first 100 days with binders full of policies, and had written her victory speech, which she planned to give dressed in white, the colour of the suffragettes. Indeed, so confident was she that, as the results started coming in on election night, she went for a nap in her suite at New York’s Peninsula hotel. She woke before midnight to find husband Bill and her team ordering in whisky and ice cream for the shock, as the key states of Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Iowa all fell to Trump. By 1.35am it was all over. The victory party was cancelled, the white suit packed away, and the specially built platform in the shape of the United States under a symbolic glass ceiling a terrible embarrassment.
Instead, she and Bill lay in bed staring at the ceiling. Does she still wake up every morning, wondering how it happened? “Yeah,” she replies. “I’m not living it every minute of every day, but every day I live it.”
Does she sometimes want to kick something? She laughs. “A friend gave me a little sign that says, ‘I do yoga, I meditate and I still want to kick somebody.’ I know that feeling.” It wasn’t just losing, she adds, but to whom. “It’s deeply troubling, because if I had lost to what I’d call a ‘normal Republican’, I would have disagreed with them — I had deep disagreements with George W Bush, but came to understand his worldview. I knew his father, I knew Reagan, I would have a lot of political differences, but I wouldn’t have felt the same sense of real loss for our country, that we elected someone who knows so little, cares even less and is just seeking the applause of the masses. I feel a terrible sense of responsibility for not having figured out how to defeat this person. There must have been a way and I didn’t find it.”
Instead, in the early hours of November 9, she made a concession telephone call that she describes as “one of the strangest moments of my life — weirdly ordinary, like calling a neighbour to say you can’t make his barbecue”.
After addressing shocked and tearful supporters the next day, she and Bill drove home in silence. Desperate for distraction, she decluttered all her wardrobes, arranged photographs in albums and remodelled the adjoining house they bought last year. In between, she went for walks with Bill and their dogs, read all the Elena Ferrante novels and went to weepy Broadway musicals such as Les Misérables.
But it was impossible to escape. Even the wallpaper in their bedroom, yellow with pastel flowers, was a copy of that in their old bedroom in the White House.
Then there was the inauguration that she and Bill were expected to attend as former president and first lady. Knowing the eyes of the world were on her, she steeled herself to “breathe out, scream later”, and tried to imagine she was in Bali.
Over and over, she asked herself “Why?”. Astonishingly it came down to just 77,744 votes out of 136m cast. “If just 40,000 people across Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania had changed their minds, I would have won,” she wrote.
“I thought, ‘I have to understand what happened,’ ” she tells me. “That’s why I wrote the book.”
Yet the writing process was so painful, she admits, that “at times I had to go and lie down”.
Shouldn’t she just accept defeat and shut up? She gives the very idea short shrift. “I am perfectly willing to take responsibility for all the shortcomings I can identify about myself and my campaign,” she says. “But that wasn’t the whole story. I’ve been in campaigns for decades, nobody runs a perfect campaign. People make gaffes, missteps ... This was of a different order in terms of forces at work and I think that’s one of the biggest threats to democracy.”
The “forces” blamed in the book include misogyny whipped up by Trump, the American electoral college system (which meant she got 3m more votes than Trump, yet still lost), the spreading of fake news through social media as well as other interference by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, that she describes as “more serious than Watergate”. This includes Putin’s alleged involvement in the dumping of her emails by Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder.
Most of all, she blames the FBI director James Comey for firing off a letter to Congress just before the election — in which he revealed that the bureau had uncovered emails “pertinent” to a previously closed investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email address for classified information during her time as secretary of state. “What happened was almost a perfect storm,” she says. “I think I would have won without the Comey letter. I think the combination of the letter 11 days before the election, and what the Russians did weaponising WikiLeaks, raised enough doubts right at the end among a couple of tens of thousands of people in three states to vote differently.”
I point out that the former vice-president Joe Biden criticised her campaign for its lack of economic message, while Tony Blair said the anger that buoyed Trump “is not unjustified. You can’t just sit there and essentially blame the people.” They are not the only ones who accuse her of being elitist and out of touch.
“I knew that [anger] was out there,” she replies. “But I believed — and the popular vote proved it — more Americans agreed with the direction we were heading than not, and I believed Trump was temperamentally unprepared and unqualified to be president.
“I think there was lots of justified anger and distress over the financial collapse of 2007-2009,” she adds. “People’s savings were wiped out, they lost jobs and homes. But Barack Obama stabilised the markets and navigated us through it to the point that now incomes are beginning to rise and jobs are being created again.I don’t think Trump’s principal appeal is based on economic insecurity. It was a combination of playing on the fears of people who are worried about losing out in the future by fuelling sexism, racism and anti-immigrant feelings.
“The whole campaign he ran, from the very first day, was aimed at scapegoating. So if you are not in the place where you think you should be in society, that’s because someone else has taken it.”
In his campaign, Trump talked about how a victory for him would be “Brexit plus plus plus”. Did the British vote, less than five months earlier, not make her think that a similar populist earthquake was possible in the US? “Brexit should have been a bigger alarm than it was,” she admits. “It was some of the same people working for Trump, advocating for him. They thought, ‘Hey, we’ve got this figured out, just tell a really horrible lie over and over again, keep people off balance and make them think that this will, if not make their lives better, make them feel better.’ They voted against modern Britain and the EU, believing that somehow this would be good for their small village. It made no sense. The same thing played out in my race, but I didn’t think we were so vulnerable. But it turned out we were wrong — in part because the Russians played a much bigger role.”
By the “same people”, she particularly means Nigel Farage, the former Ukip leader, who was an enthusiastic advocate of Trump. Indeed, he was the first foreign politician to be received by Trump after his election. She speaks of Farage with disgust. “He came to the US to campaign for Trump and spent half of his remarks insulting me in a very personal way and talking about Trump as the alpha male, the silver-backed gorilla. Think of those images and what that says about what’s acceptable and what’s not.”
The real Bond villain in her book, however, is Putin, who she believes wants revenge for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the expansion of Nato. She also insists he has a personal grudge against her, describing him as “manspreading” in their meetings.
“US policy of the 1990s, to help democratise and protect former Soviet states, was something Russians didn’t like,” she says. “Putin said the collapse of the Soviet Union was the worst catastrophe in human history. But he never personally attacked my husband.
“There was that famous encounter Bush had with Putin when he said, ‘I can do business with him, I looked into his soul.’ I said, ‘He’s a KGB agent — by definition he doesn’t have a soul.’ So I sparred with him from a distance and as secretary of state. It was a personal grudge.”
To try to improve the situation, she says she would always go to meetings with Putin trying to find something they could actually engage on, but “as President Obama once said, [Putin] is like the bored guy in the back of the room”. She finally got his attention by asking him about wildlife conservation. “He came alive!” she recounts. “He takes me down the stairs — all of his security guys are jumping up, because we weren’t expected — into this inner sanctum with a huge desk and the biggest map of Russia and he started telling me he’s ‘going here to tag polar bears’. And then he says, ‘Would your husband like to come?’ I said, ‘Well, I’ll ask him, but if he’s busy, I’ll go!’ ”
The invitation never came. Instead, last October, the US government formally accused the Russian government of hacking the Democratic Party’s computer network, and said that Moscow was trying to “interfere” with the US election. Russia also used its own state-run media, such as RT and Sputnik, to generate anti-Clinton stories, as well as internet trolls to post fake stories on Facebook and other social media.
Last month, Facebook admitted that Russians had spent at least $100,000 on some 3,000 ads on US issues, posted on the site in the past two years. If people clicked, they received a stream of provocative news stories.
“No country has attacked the US with so few consequences,” Clinton writes. Should the Obama administration have done more, I ask. “Aagh,” she sighs, “that needs a whole other session.” She continues with a plea for the British authorities to investigate Cambridge Analytica, a behaviour-profiling company run by an old Etonian that reportedly received £5m from the Trump campaign to help swing voters.
“I hope the UK are investigating,” she says. “You know they were involved in the Kenya elections and Brexit, and are the subject of congressional and special counsel inquiries. The question to be asked is: how did they, the Russians and the Trump campaign converge?”
Grudges aside, what did Putin hope to achieve by supporting Trump? “I think it has exceeded his expectations — except for the unpredictability of it,” she replies. “He thought he was backing somebody who would immediately lift sanctions, be quiescent about Syria and Ukraine, and he’s got a lot of it.”
The Russians may have spread fake news, but why did so many Americans believe it? This, it seems, is the question that haunts her. One particularly improbable story that gained traction involved Clinton and her campaign chair, John Podesta, running a child-trafficking network from a pizzeria in Washington.
“Why would people believe that? Do they despise me and my politics so much that they are willing to believe the most horrible lie? How, in democracies like ours [can] people believe nonsense and lies on the side of buses about how much money the UK government paid to the EU? How did we let this happen?”
Clinton not only feels she inflicted Trump on the world, but that she let down women who had thought they were going to see America’s first female president.
Whatever you may think about Hillary, it was unedifying, to say the least, to see election rallies in the world’s most powerful nation chanting, “Kill the bitch!” How did that make her feel? “Sexism and misogyny are endemic in our society, so of course they are present in our politics,” she replies. “What I found so despicable was that it was stimulated by the candidate himself. In that campaign we had someone who advocated violence, who said all kinds of terrible things, who smirked at other terrible things. It was hard to believe it was happening.
“I got an honorary degree a few years ago from St Andrews in Scotland,” she continues, “and one of the other honourees was Mary Beard [the Cambridge classics professor]. She pointed out that some of the really horrible things people said about me harked back to ancient Greeks.” For example, the campaign mugs depicting Trump holding up Clinton’s severed head recalling Perseus holding up the head of Medusa.
“And Margaret Atwood, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale, told me it reminded her of puritan witch-hunts of the 17th century.”
In the book, she describes how it felt as Trump followed her around the stage in the second TV debate, two days after the release of a tape in which he bragged about groping women. “He was literally breathing down my neck,” she writes. “My skin crawled.”
“Trump was running a reality-TV campaign filled with personal attacks, giving people a great show,” she says. Yet people didn’t just watch it — they voted for him, women too. While Clinton won the vote of black, Latina and Asian women by large margins, 53% of white females preferred Trump. Was she surprised? “No, because these forces have been around my entire life. But both through legislation and broad consensus, starting in the 1960s, it became less and less acceptable in our politics to run on race or be overtly sexist. But that didn’t mean everyone agreed and all of a sudden became feminist and opened the circle of opportunity.”
This, she says, presents a huge challenge for any traditional politician. “When people come along and say we just have to figure out how to get along with voters who voted for Trump, I say, ‘At what cost? At the cost of turning our backs on refugees and immigrants? At the cost of permitting discrimination against blacks and women?’ No, that’s not an acceptable cost. How do we do a better job of conveying, instead, that we are going to grow opportunity in society, so more people can realise dreams? That has to be the message.”
She made that pitch, though, and it didn’t work. Has America now had enough of the Clintons? “I am not going anywhere, but will be active in politics, which I care deeply about.”
She is setting up an organisation to recruit and train young people — particularly women — to go into politics. “I will do not-for-profit work, working with universities and writing and speaking out [against] what I see as a global backlash against women’s progress.”
Nicola Sturgeon, first minister of Scotland, recently said: “Things that are seen as strengths in a man are seen as weaknesses in a woman.” Does Clinton agree? “I met Nicola this spring in New York and we had a great conversation,” she says. “There’s a commonality that exists among women who reach a certain level in politics.”
Has she met Theresa May? “No,” she simply says.
Do women lead in a different way? “I think I do. I am very comfortable in a more collegial way. I like to listen, I don’t like to brag or lie about what I can do, which I think put me at a disadvantage this time!”
After all she has endured, would she encourage her own daughter, Chelsea, to enter politics?
“I don’t ever think like that, because she is an independent, incredibly accomplished person. She has written a couple of very good books, I don’t think she’s at all interested in office.”
In the meantime, spending time with Chelsea and her two young children is one of the bonuses of losing. “Grandchildren are the best!” she exclaims.
Bill, she says, is a wonderful hands-on grandfather to Charlotte and Aidan. It’s an unexpected image — almost as unexpected as the affection with which she repeatedly refers to her husband throughout the interview. When I was a Washington correspondent in the Obama years, everyone told me the Clintons’ was a marriage on paper and the couple had struck a deal that she would stay with him in return for him helping her become president. She vehemently denies this, saying she is “fed up with people speculating on the state of my marriage”. In the book, she admits there were times she doubted its future, but she decided to stay with him because “I love him with my whole heart”.
Family aside, there’s always the chardonnay and a strange relaxation technique she describes as alternate nostril breathing.
It’s time for her photos, and what Clinton calls her “glam squad” appears to touch up her hair and make-up. She worked out she spent 600 hours — or 25 days — getting ready on the campaign trail. It’s not over. Next week she comes to the UK, where she will go to Swansea for the naming of a law school in her honour. “I am blessed with a strong constitution and am resilient,” she insists. “I am not going to spend the rest of my life looking backwards.”
The smile breaks and for a moment she looks as crestfallen as the 13-year-old Hillary who wrote to Nasa saying she wanted to be an astronaut. “Sorry, little girl,” came the response. “We don’t accept women into the space program.”
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster £20) is out now
Hillary Rodham Clinton makes exclusive UK appearances at both The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival and Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival on Sunday 15 October
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@whatever-fangirl tagged me, so here i am. basically you’re supposed to bold the things that apply to you on these lists. I’m going to tag: @sassyvixenpistols @paint-brushes-and-melodys @insideagoldenlocket @nowhalia @pinkspacerose and @spadeofcube
I’ll even make it so you guys dont have to read this unless you want to
My personality:
I’m loud.
I’m obnoxious.
I’m sarcastic.
I’m cocky.
I cry easily.
I have a bad temper.
I’m easy to get along with.
I have more enemies than friends.
I’ve smoked.
I’ve smoked weed.
I drink coffee.
I clean my room daily.
My appearance:
I wear a piece of jewelry at all times.
I wear makeup.
I wear contacts.
I wear glasses.
I have braces
I change my hair color often
I straighten my hair often
I have a piercing
I have small feet
Relationships:
I’m in a relationship now.
I’m single. (i’m talking to someone)
I’m crushing.
I’m always scared of being hurt.
An ex has physically abused me at least once.
I’ve told someone I loved them when I didn’t.
I’ve told someone I didn’t love them when I did.
I’ve been in love more than two times.
I believe in love at first sight.
I believe lust is more important than love.
I’m married
I’m a virgin
I often date
I prefer to date extroverted people
I prefer to date people who are like me
I prefer to date people who are unlike me
I take relationships very seriously
Friendships:
I have a best friend.
I have at least ten friends.
I’ve gotten a phone call in the last 48 hours from a friend.
I’ve beaten up a friend.
I’ve been in a serious fight with a friend.
I am close with my friend(s)
I spend a lot of time with friends
I have a crush on a friend
Experiences:
I’ve been on a plane.
I’ve been on a train.
Someone close to me has died.
I’ve taken a taxi.
I’ve taken a city bus.
I’ve taken a school bus.
I’ve gone bungee jumping.
I’ve made a speech.
I’ve been in some sort of club.
I’ve won an award.
I’ve spent 24 hours on the computer straight.
I’ve been in a physical fight.
Music:
I listen to R&B.
I listen to country. (not willingly lol)
I listen to pop.
I listen to techno.
I listen to rock.
I’m one of those people who play songs repeatedly until I hate it.
I hate the radio.
I download music.
I buy CD’s.
Television:
I spend at least six hours a day watching television.
I watch soap operas daily.
I’m in love with Days of Our Lives.
I’ve seen and liked the O.C.
I’ve seen and liked One Tree Hill.
I’ve seen and liked Americas Next Top Model.
I’ve seen and liked Popular.
I’ve seen and liked 24.
I’ve seen and liked CSI.
I’ve seen and liked Everwood.
Family Life:
I get along with both of my parents.
My biological parents are still together.
I have at least one brother.
I have at least one sister.
I have at least one step brother/sister.
I have at least one half brother/sister.
I’ve been kicked out of the house.
I’ve run away from my home.
I’ve sworn at my parents.
I’ve made my parents cry.
I’ve lied to my parents.
I’ve lied to my parents about where I am.
I’ve lied to my parents about what I’m doing.
I’ve lied to my parents so I’d be allowed out.
I’ve walked out when I’ve been grounded.
Hair:
I’ve been brown.
I’ve had streaks.
I’ve cut my hair in the past year.
I’ve dyed my hair in the past year.
I’ve been blonde.
I’ve had black.
I’ve been red.
I’ve been light brown.
I’ve been blue/green.
I’ve gotten my hair thinned.
I use conditioner.
I’ve used silk therapy.
I’ve used hot oil treatments.
I’ve curled my hair.
I’ve straightened my hair.
I’ve ironed my hair.
I’ve braided my hair.
School:
I’ve yelled at a teacher.
I’ve been suspended.
I’ve had an in-school suspension.
I’ve been sent to the principal’s office.
I’ve walked out of class.
I’ve skipped an entire day of school.
I’ve skipped a whole month of one certain class.
I’ve failed a test.
I’ve cheated on a test.
I’ve helped someone else cheat on a test.
I’ve failed Art.
I’ve failed P.E.
I’ve failed math.
I’ve failed another class.
A teacher has called my parents.
Basics:
I am male
I am female
I am neither male or female
I am under the age of 18
I am 18 or older
I am straight
I am gay or lesbian
I am bisexual or pansexual
I am trans
Negativity:
I have/had depression
I have cried myself to sleep
I have/had anxiety
I am often lonely
I keep a lot of emotions inside
I am scared of talking to people I want to talk more to
I have an eating disorder
I have low self-esteem
I often feel I embarrass myself
I have been abused (verbally, physically)
I feel people consider me dumb or don’t take me seriously
I am quickly jealous
I feel people want me to be someone/something I’m not
I have been sexually assaulted
I have experienced discrimination/racism
Positivity:
I have become a better person
I have gotten out of a bad period of time
I am confident
I am looking forward to something
I have enjoyed myself over the past week
I have met a famous person
I consider myself a kindhearted person
I am currently feeling relaxed and comfortable
I appreciate the little things in life
I have nobody in my life whom I hate
I have achieved something large this year
I am part of a religion that brings me peace
I have lost a lot of weight
I have a movie/game/song which cheers me up
I…
…get scared from watching horror movies
…play a sport
…read a lot of books
…have allergies
…feel shy around the opposite gender
…am a feminist
…own an instrument
…can draw
…am listening to music right now
…value romance and friendship equally
…have sneaked out of the house
…am outgoing
…respect people’s comfort zones and personal space
…am deaf
…spend money on a daily basis
…want to write a book
…can ride a horse
…put my hands over my face when I’m flattered
…like the colors pink and yellow
…own an xbox
…shop at least once a week
…have a drivers license
…drink alcoholic beverages
…get scared by unsettling imagery and screamers
…eat fast food at least twice a week
Likes and Dislikes:
I like parties
I dislike parties
I like perfume
I dislike perfume
I like “so bad it’s good” movies
I dislike “so bad it’s good movies”
I like playing video games
I dislike playing video games
I like chocolate
I dislike chocolate
I like having a busy schedule
I dislike having a busy schedule
I like laughing at my own jokes
I dislike laughing at my own jokes
I like compliments
I dislike compliments
I like heavy metal music
I dislike heavy metal music
I like snow
I dislike snow
I like taking walks with someone
I dislike taking walks with someone
I like people who aren’t very talkative
I dislike people who aren’t very talkative
Random:
had/have a pet.
bought condoms.
gotten pregnant.
failed a class.
kissed a boy.
kissed a girl.
used a little paper bag for lunch.
had a job.
slipped on ice.
missed the school bus.
left the house without my purse/wallet.
bullied someone on the internet.
sexted.
had sex in public.
watched “The Breakfast Club”.
been overweight.
been underweight.
had an eating disorder.
been to a wedding.
been on the computer for 5 hours straight.
watched tv for 5 hours straight.
been late for work.
been late for school.
kissed in the rain.
showered with someone else.
failed my drivers’ test.
ran a km in less than five minutes.
been outside my home country.
been on a road trip longer than 5 hours.
had lice.
gotten fired.
had a credit card.
been to a professional sports game.
broken a bone.
been unhappy about my weight.
won a trophy.
cut myself.
had an STD.
got engaged.
been on a diet.
tried out to be on a tv show.
rode in a taxi.
been to prom.
played a drinking game.
stayed up for 24 hours or more.
been to a concert.
had a three-some.
had a crush on someone of the same sex.
been in a car accident.
had braces.
learned another language.
killed an animal.
been at a yard sale.
been to a Japanese steakhouse.
wore makeup.
skipped school.
been a vampire for Halloween.
had my wisdom teeth taken out.
snuck out of the house.
bought porn.
had a virus on my computer.
had oral sex.
dyed my hair.
gone skinny dipping.
graduated from college.
wore someone else’s clothes.
voted in a presidential election.
rode in an ambulance.
rode in a helicopter.
caught the stove on fire.
got in a fight.
met someone famous.
been on vacation.
been on an airplane.
been on a boat.
broken something expensive.
had surgery.
kissed someone before I was 14.
beat a video game.
found something valuable on the ground.
made a survey.
stalked someone on facebook/myspace.
prank called someone.
been to a library outside of school.
cut my hair and hated it.
peed outside.
went fishing.
helped with charity.
taken a pregnancy test.
been rejected by a crush.
been suspended from school.
broken a mirror.
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nobody asked me any of these questions because u all h8 me but I wanted to answer them anyway so here we are (^:
1: Name: Mia (:
2: Age: 19
3: 3 Fears: spiders, people crawling and being chased in horror movies, my dog dying someday
4: 3 things I love: my dog, park jimin, Speezy Freezes
5: 4 turns on: boys listening, empathizing, learning from their ignorance, and advocating for important causes. K I N K. get u a freak like that ^^^
6: 4 turns off: being talked over, mansplaining, greasy hair, bad smell
7: My best irl friend(s): @jaemamba, @namjoons-broken-toe, @mark-biased
8: Sexual orientation: bisexual
9: My best first date: going to my university’s football field at 1:00 in the morning with my dog, running around with him, and then driving to Speedway to get Speedy Freezes
10: How tall am I: 5′4
11: What do I miss: my best friend
12: What time was I born: i was born at 5:18 on 6/18
13: Favorite color: red
14: Do I have a crush: i fell in love with my eye doctor yesterday. does that count?
15: Favorite quote: “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
16: Favorite place: this is hard. mt favorite destination type place is antigua, guatemala, but my favorite place to be is anywhere with my dog (:
17: Favorite food: scalloped potatoes
18: Do I use sarcasm: me??? noooo, never.
19: What am I listening to right now: dope - BTS
20: First thing I notice in new person: teeth and hair
21: Shoe size: 7 1/2 US size
22: Eye color: green
23: Hair color: brown
24: Favorite style of clothing: sweaters
25: Ever done a prank call?: when i was in, like, middle school. OH! also american airlines when they were being unhelpful little douche-dicks this summer when they lost my luggage in france ((((:
27: Meaning behind my URL: um i’m in love with jimin’s crooked tooth
28: Favorite movie: monster’s inc.
29: Favorite song: leave me lonely - ariana grande
30: Favorite band: BTS
31: How I feel right now: tired and hungry
32: Someone I love: park jimin
33: My current relationship status: i’m in an exclusive relationship with food
34: My relationship with my parents: eh
35: Favorite holiday: christmas and thanksgiving
36: Tattoos and piercing i have: i have a tattoo of mine and my brother’s hands in a pinky swear on my right side, a tattoo that says “i belong deeply to myself” on my left side, a big tattoo of athena on my left thigh, and my dog’s paw print on my right foot. i have my ears double pierced and my nose pierced.
37: Tattoos and piercing i want: i’d love to have nipple piercings but my boobs are reeeeally big and that increases my risk of infection and irritation, so i probably wont get it done. and the next tattoo i want is a bow behind my ear
38: The reason I joined Tumblr: fandoms
39: Do I and my last ex hate each other?: i don’t think so, we just don’t talk
40: Do I ever get “good morning” or “good night ” texts?: lololololololol no
41: Have I ever kissed the last person I texted? i would hope not
42: When did I last hold hands?: like a week ago with my best friend
43: How long does it take me to get ready in the morning?: it depends on if i put on makeup or not. no makeup = 15-20 minutes, makeup = 30-40 minutes
44: Have you shaved your legs in the past three days?: i think so. i’m losing track of time so it’s hard for me to remember hahahaha.
45: Where am I right now?: at my apartment.
46: If I were drunk & can’t stand, who’s taking care of me?: i don’t drink so quite honestly, i don’t know who it would be helping me
47: Do I like my music loud or at a reasonable level?: loud
48: Do I live with my Mom and Dad?: no
49: Am I excited for anything?: i’m excited for to make a new character for d&d
50: Do I have someone of the opposite sex I can tell everything to?: yes(: my best friend Martin, but he lives thousands of miles away in normandy, france
51: How often do I wear a fake smile?: more often than you’d think. i’m very good at it.
52: When was the last time I hugged someone?: two days ago i hugged some family members after visiting
53: What if the last person I kissed was kissing someone else right in front of me?: i would not care in the slightest lol
54: Is there anyone I trust even though I should not?: i don’t think so. i usually keep trustworthy people close to me and untrustworthy people away from me.
55: What is something I disliked about today?: i accidentally slept in waaaaaaaay too late.
56: If I could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be?: park jimin
57: What do I think about most?: my dog
58: What’s my strangest talent?: i have a few. i memorize license plates, i can name every color in a 64 pack of crayola crayons, and i can look good in any pair of sunglasses
59: Do I have any strange phobias?: yes. people crawling and being chased in horror movies. also, people touching and grabbing my wrists/being restrained
60: Do I prefer to be behind the camera or in front of it?: in front of it.
61: What was the last lie I told?: “my dog locked the door, not me.”
62: Do I prefer talking on the phone or video chatting online?: i’m just gonna say facetimeing because it’s kind of a mix of the two
63: Do I believe in ghosts? How about aliens?: yes and yes
64: Do I believe in magic?: no
65: Do I believe in luck?: yes
66: What's the weather like right now?: snowy snowy snowy
67: What was the last book I've read?: everything, everything
68: Do I like the smell of gasoline?: yes
69: Do I have any nicknames?: mi and higgie smalls
70: What was the worst injury I've ever had?: when i broke my arm in 7th grade. i was playing soccer and i was the goal keeper and somebody from the opposite team kicked the ball and snapped my arm in half.
71: Do I spend money or save it?: a mix of both
72: Can I touch my nose with a tongue?: nope
73: Is there anything pink in 10 feet from me?: yes, a pencil
74: Favorite animal?: giraffe and puffins
75: What was I doing last night at 12 AM?: watching mulan
76: What do I think is Satan’s last name?: i asked my roommate and he said “faust” so i’m gonna go with that lol
77: What’s a song that always makes me happy when I hear it?: serendipity and lie
78: How can you win my heart?: food and dogs
79: What would I want to be written on my tombstone?: sneezed on the beat, and the beat got sicka
80: What is my favorite word?: serendipity
81: My top 5 blogs on tumblr: @got7-markjinson, @yeoldalayhehoo
82: If the whole world were listening to me right now, what would I say?: “fuck donald trump”
83: Do I have any relatives in jail?: not that i know of
84: I accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what’s even cooler is that they endow me with the super-power of my choice! What is that power? teleportation so i could go anywhere in the world for free!
85: What would be a question I’d be afraid to tell the truth on? “are you happy?”
86: What is my current desktop picture? sehun lookin’ all perfect, as always (’:
87: Had sex? no
88: Bought condoms? no
89: Gotten pregnant? no
90: Failed a class? no
91: Kissed a boy? yes
92: Kissed a girl? no)))):
93: Have I ever kissed somebody in the rain? no omg too cheesy
94: Had a job? i’ve had 4
95: Left the house without my wallet? yes
96: Bullied someone on the internet? i more-so fight with people on the internet, not bully.
97: Had sex in public? never had sex, so obviously not hahaha
98: Played on a sports team? yes! growing up, i played soccer for 7 years
99: Smoked weed? nope
100: Did drugs? nope
101: Smoked cigarettes? nope
102: Drank alcohol? i hate alcohol
103: Am I a vegetarian/vegan? no
104: Been overweight? yep
105: Been underweight? nope
106: Been to a wedding? yes
107: Been on the computer for 5 hours straight? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 5 hours? i think you mean 5 TIMES 5 hours lmaoooo
108: Watched TV for 5 hours straight? YES. WHO HASN’T????
109: Been outside my home country? yes! 3 times(: i’ve been to guatemala, mexico, and frace
110: Gotten my heart broken? eh, not really
111: Been to a professional sports game? yes
112: Broken a bone? yes! 2
113: Cut myself? no
114: Been to prom? yes, twice
115: Been in airplane? yes, soooo many times
116: Fly by helicopter? no, but i would love to do it sometime!
117: What concerts have I been to? omg there are so many. in order: taylor swift, kelly clarkson, one direction, demi lovato, bastille, lana del rey, marina and the diamonds, one direction (again), ed sheeran, the 1975, ariana grande, and then i’m going to see harry styles and niall horan this summer!
118: Had a crush on someone of the same sex? yes because i’m fckin GAY
119: Learned another language? i’m studying spanish and korean
120: Wore make up? all the time lol
121: Lost my virginity before I was 18? NO BECAUSE I HAVE NEVER HAD SEX. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT SEX
122: Had oral sex? NO
123: Dyed my hair? nope
124: Voted in a presidential election? yes, just 1
125: Rode in an ambulance? no
126: Had a surgery? yes
127: Met someone famous? yes, i met lea delaria fro oitnb
128: Stalked someone on a social network? UM ALWAYS???
129: Peed outside? yep
130: Been fishing? yep but it’s soooo borning
131: Helped with charity? yes
132: Been rejected by a crush? all the fucking time (^:
133: Broken a mirror? i dont think so
134: What do I want for birthday? for park jimin to acknowledge my existence ((((((((((((((((((((((((:
why am i such a noob????
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feel free to do this if u want to!
My personality:
I’m loud.
I’m obnoxious.
I’m sarcastic.
I’m cocky.
I cry easily.
I have a bad temper.
I’m easy to get along with.
I have more enemies than friends.
I’ve smoked.
I’ve smoked weed.
I drink coffee.
I clean my room daily.
My appearance:
I wear a piece of jewellery at all times.
I wear makeup.
I wear contacts.
I wear glasses.
I have braces
I change my hair colour often
I straighten my hair often
I have a piercing
I have small feet
Relationships:
I’m in a relationship now.
I’m single.
I’m crushing. (kinda)
I’m always scared of being hurt.
An ex has physically abused me at least once.
I’ve told someone I loved them when I didn’t.
I’ve told someone I didn’t love them when I did.
I’ve been in love more than two times.
I believe in love at first sight.
I believe lust is more important than love.
I’m married
I’m a virgin
I often date
I prefer to date extroverted people
I prefer to date people who are like me
I prefer to date people who are unlike me
I take relationships very seriously
Friendships:
I have a best friend.
I have at least ten friends.
I’ve gotten a phone call in the last 48 hours from a friend.
I’ve beaten up a friend.
I’ve been in a serious fight with a friend.
I am close with my friend(s)
I spend a lot of time with friends
Experiences:
I’ve been on a plane.
I’ve been on a train.
Someone close to me has died.
I’ve taken a taxi.
I’ve taken a city bus.
I’ve taken a school bus.
I’ve gone bungee jumping.
I’ve made a speech.
I’ve been in some sort of club.
I’ve won an award.
I’ve spent 24 hours on the computer straight.
I’ve been in a physical fight.
Music:
I listen to R&B.
I listen to country.
I listen to pop.
I listen to techno.
I listen to rock.
I’m one of those people who play songs repeatedly until I hate it.
I hate the radio.
I download music.
I buy CD’s.
Television:
I spend at least six hours a day watching television.
I watch soap operas daily.
I’m in love with Days of Our Lives.
I’ve seen and liked the O.C.
I’ve seen and liked One Tree Hill.
I’ve seen and liked Americas Next Top Model.
I’ve seen and liked Popular.
I’ve seen and liked 24.
I’ve seen and liked CSI.
I’ve seen and liked Everwood.
Family Life:
I get along with both of my parents.
My biological parents are still together.
I have at least one brother.
I have at least one sister.
I have at least one step brother/sister.
I have at least one half brother/sister.
I’ve been kicked out of the house.
I’ve run away from my home.
I’ve sworn at my parents.
I’ve made my parents cry.
I’ve lied to my parents.
I’ve lied to my parents about where I am.
I’ve lied to my parents about what I’m doing.
I’ve lied to my parents so I’d be allowed out.
I’ve walked out when I’ve been grounded.
Hair:
I’ve been brown.
I’ve had streaks.
I’ve cut my hair in the past year.
I’ve dyed my hair in the past year.
I’ve been blonde.
I’ve had black.
I’ve been red.
I’ve been light brown.
I’ve been blue/green.
I’ve gotten my hair thinned.
I use conditioner.
I’ve used silk therapy.
I’ve used hot oil treatments.
I’ve curled my hair.
I’ve straightened my hair.
I’ve ironed my hair.
I’ve braided my hair.
School:
I’ve yelled at a teacher.
I’ve been suspended.
I’ve had an in-school suspension.
I’ve been sent to the principal’s office.
I’ve walked out of class.
I’ve skipped an entire day of school.
I’ve skipped a whole month of one certain class.
I’ve failed a test.
I’ve cheated on a test.
I’ve helped someone else cheat on a test.
I’ve failed Art.
I’ve failed P.E.
I’ve failed math.
I’ve failed another class.
A teacher has called my parents.
Basics:
I am male
I am female
I am neither male or female
I am under the age of 18
I am 18 or older
I am straight
I am gay or lesbian
I am bisexual or pansexual
I am trans
Negativity:
I have/had depression
I have cried myself to sleep
I have/had anxiety
I am often lonely
I keep a lot of emotions inside
I am scared of talking to people I want to talk more to
I have an eating disorder
I have low self-esteem
I often feel I embarrass myself
I have been abused
I feel people consider me dumb or don’t take me seriously
I am quickly jealous
I feel people want me to be someone/something I’m not
I have been sexually assaulted
I have experienced discrimination/racism
I…
…get scared from watching horror movies
…play a sport
…read a lot of books
…have allergies
…feel shy around the opposite gender
…am a feminist
…own an instrument
…can draw
…am listening to music right now
…value romance and friendship equally
…have sneaked out of the house
…am outgoing
…respect people’s comfort zones and personal space
…am deaf
…spend money on a daily basis
…want to write a book
…can ride a horse
…put my hands over my face when I’m flattered
…like the colors pink and yellow
…own an xbox
…shop at least once a week
…have a drivers license
…drink alcoholic beverages
…get scared by unsettling imagery and screamers
…eat fast food at least twice a week
Likes and Dislikes:
I like parties
I dislike parties
I like perfume
I dislike perfume
I like “so bad it’s good” movies
I dislike “so bad it’s good movies”
I like playing video games
I dislike playing video games
I like chocolate
I dislike chocolate
I like having a busy schedule
I dislike having a busy schedule
I like laughing at my own jokes
I dislike laughing at my own jokes
I like compliments
I dislike compliments
I like heavy metal music
I dislike heavy metal music
I like snow
I dislike snow
I like taking walks with someone
I dislike taking walks with someone
I like people who aren’t very talkative
I dislike people who aren’t very talkative
Random:
had/have a pet.
bought condoms.
gotten pregnant.
failed a class.
used a little paper bag for lunch.
had a job.
slipped on ice.
missed the school bus.
left the house without my purse/wallet.
bullied someone on the internet.
sexted.
had sex in public.
watched “The Breakfast Club”.
been overweight.
been underweight.
had an eating disorder.
been to a wedding.
been on the computer for 5 hours straight.
watched tv for 5 hours straight.
been late for work.
been late for school.
kissed in the rain.
failed my drivers’ test.
ran a km in less than five minutes.
been outside my home country.
been on a road trip longer than 5 hours.
had lice.
gotten fired.
had a credit card.
been to a professional sports game.
broken a bone.
been unhappy about my weight.
won a trophy.
cut myself.
had an STD.
got engaged.
been on a diet.
tried out to be on a tv show.
rode in a taxi.
been to prom.
played a drinking game.
stayed up for 24 hours or more.
been to a concert.
had a three-some.
had a crush on someone of the same sex.
been in a car accident.
had braces.
learned another language.
killed an animal.
been at a yard sale.
been to a Japanese steakhouse.
wore makeup.
skipped school.
been a vampire for Halloween.
had my wisdom teeth taken out.
snuck out of the house.
bought porn.
had a virus on my computer.
had oral sex.
dyed my hair.
gone skinny dipping.
graduated from college.
wore someone else’s clothes.
voted in a general election.
rode in an ambulance.
rode in a helicopter.
caught the stove on fire.
got in a fight.
met someone famous.
been on vacation.
been on an airplane.
been on a boat.
broken something expensive.
had surgery.
kissed someone before I was 14.
beat a video game.
found something valuable on the ground.
made a survey.
stalked someone on facebook/myspace.
prank called someone.
been to a library outside of school.
cut my hair and hated it.
peed outside.
went fishing.
helped with charity.
taken a pregnancy test.
been rejected by a crush.
been suspended from school.
broken a mirror.
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