The Basics
Name | Wendi |
Location | Hong Kong |
About Me
About Me | Trying (and failing miserably) to live a life of a story-book heroine. |
Check All That Apply | Queer, Pansexual |
Website/Blog/Tumblr | witchesandpiratequeens.tumblr.com |
Looking For | Queer Friends on the Internet, Queer Friends to Make Out With |
Relationship Status | Single, Forever Alone |
Are You Out To Your.... | Nobody, It's Complicated |
What I Like
Favorite Books | The Secret History, A Song of Ice and Fire, Atonement, Protector of the Small, Song of the Lioness, The Queen’s Thief, The Princess Bride, Cloud Atlas, Twelfth Night, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, The Aubrey-Maturin series, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, The Old Kingdom, Tipping the Velvet, Orlando, Anne of Green Gables |
Favorite Movies | The Dreamers, Girl Interrupted, Beasts of the Southern Wilds, The Fall, Atonement, Labyrinth, The Princess Bride, Pan’s Labyrinth, Brave, The Hours, Dead Poets Society, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Master and Commander |
Favorite TV Shows | The Hour, Hannibal, Vikings, Elementary, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Doctor Who, Hornblower, The Borgias, The Wire |
Favorite Sandwich | Avocado and honey sandwich |
Favorite Quotes | “I, for one, am a man of passions, capable of and liable to do rather foolish things for which I sometimes feel rather sorry. I do often find myself speaking or acting somewhat too quickly when it would be better to wait more patiently. Now that being so, what’s to be done? Must one consider oneself a dangerous man, incapable of anything at all? I don’t think so. For example, to name one passion among others, I have a more or less irresistible passion for books, and I have a need continually to educate myself, to study, if you like, precisely as I need to eat my bread.” “I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.” “Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.” “To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world . . .” “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” “The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real, for a moment at least, that long magic moment before we wake. Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smoke-stacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true? |
Favorite Writers | Tamora Pierce |