Lesbian humour on the YouTube

As I mentioned before, I spent the first months out of my own closet in the Ukraine, where my only access to anything remotely homosexual was the net.

This is probably the reason why I'm now doing this blog. It's the kind of thing I would have loved to have, to group together lesbian popular culture instead of having to research it myself and painfully find the good stuff amidst the tons of rubbish out there.

So this is a post about some interesting home-made videos I found on the YouTube.
Some of them are informative, others just funny ☺
 

I have my own personal ideas about videos on the YouTube. Too often they are just poorly made. No script, horrible sound, just a bunch of chicks (obviously given the topic, but actually not only) that babble in front of the computer.
Annoying.
Some videos, however, are just as I like them. Not too long, for starters. Broken down into points or little chapters, so that they just make sense, in a way. And with hot chicks. Well, ok, what they say is more important, but, let’s see the first one:

 Ten reasons to be lesbian

This girl is reeeeeeally cute. Apart from that, she also says some interesting things. A couple of her ‘reasons’ are not so obvious. They are:

1. Girls look good
2. They fuck much better
3. You don’t need that much make up
4. Straight girls like to play
5. You don’t need to dress that well
6. Girls understand each other
7. You don’t need to be fake (meaning: you don’t put yourself in competition with other girls)
8. You don’t need to watch TV anymore, because you already have enough drama in your life
9. The environment is small
10.  You don’t have to think about sleazy disgusting guys that stare are you (they don’t look at you anymore because they can see that you’re a lesbian)

It’s not like I totally agree, but it’s a nice video. Reasons 1, 2, 6, 7 are in my opinion very true. Reasons 3, 5, 10 are not so true in every case. I mean, the point of view of this girl is that of a ‘butch’ (for want of a better word) lesbian and these reasons don’t really apply to ‘femme’ lesbians. Point 4, 8 and 9 are just plainly amusing. I don’t know if I have to wish them to be right or wrong.

The same girl made another video to clarify the points about appearance. The video in itself doesn’t add much, but the final remark is bloody hilarious.
"Be real. And if you’re a lesbian, be a fucking lesbian! Ok?"
LOL 

Then we have this other girl, listing a lot of stereotypes connected with being a lesbian:

Let me to a little checklist:

Rainbows everywhere, especially tattoos  ✘  I don’t have tattoos and I quite dislike rainbows anyway
Short hair  ✔ 
They all want to be boys  ✘
G.I.Joe  ✘  but I used to watch ‘Fist of the Northern Star’ and ‘Tigerman’ does it count?
Tomboy  ✘  well, I was a bit of a tomboy when I was, like, two ☺ 
Secretly trying to convert people  ✘
Polos  ✔  I don’t think I own polos right now, but I don’t mind them
Sport bras  ✔  
Softball  ✔  and cricket, but I don’t play them anymore
Knives  ✘
Motorcycles and bars  ✘
Muscles  ✔
They don’t shave  ✘
Only have gay friends  ✘
They all watch L-word  ✔
STDs and sleeping around  ✘
Flannel  ✘
They hate guys  ✘
Low voices  ✘  
They work in construction and drive trucks  ✘
Men boxers  ✘
Ani di Franco, Teagan and Sarah  ✘  never heard of them in my entire life
They all identify with either butch or femme  ✘
Vegetarian  ✘ (I've been a vegetarian for two years, but I'm not anymore)
Birkenstocks  ✔ as with polos, I don’t own a pair right now, but I used to

Only 7 out of 25. Uhm...

Now, let’s talk about the different types of lesbian:

Just made a quick list as I watched:

Amazon, Baby dyke, Bull dyke, Butch, Femme, Diesel dyke / bike dyke, Hasbian, Lipstick lesbian, Chapstick lesbian, Ping, Sticks, Powerdyke, Androginous, Granola dyke, Pretty boi, Hipster dyke, Dykester, Softball dyke.

That's all for now :)

Murakami

A few years back, I made a wonderful discovery. I was in Romania, in my usual restaurant, sipping tea and using the internet (the only reason why I always went to that restaurant was to use the internet). I was at that stage in which I didn't have nothing to do anymore, but I wanted to take full advantage of the 3.5 RON I had parted myself from just for the privilege to use the internet. So, I started looking for things on Wikipedia. Sudden inspiration: let’s search for ‘Lesbian singers’. There ought to be a page, right? Wrong. (there’s a ‘Lesbian musicians’ page though). I got a list of pages, most of them stupid, but one caught my eye: Svetlana Surganova, Russian lesbian songwriter. Russian? Let’s have a look. The page is a stub, but the last line states that a certain ‘Murakami’ song has become a sort of lesbian anthem. Fine, let’s do some YouTube-fu (a specialised branch of Google-fu).

Oh, I’m in love with this song. I don’t know, it just makes me happy.

Ok, here is the link. I couldn’t find an official video, but I particularly like the sound of this one. That’s the lyrics:

Мураками

Солнце выключают облака.


Ветер дунул - нет препятствий.


И текут издалека
 вены по запястью?



Я люблю тебя всей душой.


Я хочу любить тебя руками...


Я люблю тебя всей душой.


Я хочу любить тебя руками...



Долгие застынут лица.


Мы изменимся нескоро.


Отражает мокрый город


самолетов вереницы.



Я люблю тебя во все глаза.


Я хочу любить тебя руками...


Я люблю тебя во все глаза.


Я хочу любить тебя руками...



Улетаешь?


Улетаешь?


над каштановым побегом,


в переплетах Мураками?


Я люблю тебя огромным небом!


Я хочу любить тебя руками...

Here you can find transliteration and translation of the song. I don’t care much of the translation, but it’s better than nothing :)

Oh, it’s just so Russian! How she speaks about the sky, and then it links it to details of her body, and it’s all just disconnected details that convey emotions so forcefully… reminds me a lot about Anna Achmatova (I remember defining Achmatova’s one a poetics of hands and gloves… it just occurred to me how lesbian it sounds all that attention to hands).

This woman is just so SO Russian. Love it.

It’s strange what things like this do to me. When I see a text (poetry, a song, the page of a book, anything), that has even a very low level of opacity, I become like a hawk, my eyes start gleaming. I just HAVE to solve the mystery of the words, understand the subtleties, the whys behind the choice of a word. Being a literature scholar (because this is what I am, no matter what I do for a living), is a lot like being a detective, or an archeologist of feelings, reasons, sounds, images. For instance, I’m dying to understand why Murakami. What does she mean by that? Curious.

The chorus is so explicit and so hot. As I said I don’t much care for the translation given in that link. There, they say “I love you with all my soul / I want to love you with my hands”. Now, she never says “my”. Never.

So, ok “I love you with all soul” doesn’t sound right (Russian language doesn’t bother with articles) and we can add a “my”, BUT the possessive in the second line just doesn’t work for me. I don’t feel it as a personal, possessive act here. I feel it as a reference to a WAY of loving. “Loving with hands”. Making love with, and through, hands. Not just hers. Like: “I want to hand-love you”.

I don’t think she omitted the possessives for necessities of rhythm, I think she did it on purpose. But, hey, that’s only MHO. And then, I think that here речь идёт тоже о музыке. I mean, look at her playing that guitar of hers, isn’t she just hand-loving her guitar?

And that “Улетаешь?”. Oh, Russian is so multilayered. All the verbs of movement that sport the suffix u- acquire a sense of permanency. You don’t just go, or leave, or fly away. You go forever. That little u is the preamble for a farewell. So where is she going? Why is she flying away? Or maybe the flight (побег is ‘flight’ as in ‘fleeing, running away’) is not a physical one, maybe she’s running away with her mind. Or maybe, she’s flying with pleasure, and that’s the reason for that u-, for she’s going to her private realm of pleasure, the one where no-one can follow her.

The last two lines:

“I love you with a vast sky / I want to love you with hands”

Both the “with’s” (as the ones in the chorus) are translated from the instrumental case (огромным небом / руками). I love the instrumental case. How can I explain that… it’s so fascinating, because it’s immediate. No need for prepositions that shift the attention, no messing around, no chance to misunderstand (‘with’ means a lot of things) you just state the instrument (the sky, the hands), and it’s immediately there. It’s perfect. Just perfect. I’ve always loved the instrumental case. It just clicks.

Enjoy :)

Lesbian books

As I mentioned in a previous post with regards to the L-thing I had a totally ‘Ewa’ reaction. I started reading. A lot. Ok, I love reading anyway, and, oh, it might have had something to do with the fact that I spent my first year out of my own closet in ex-communist homophobic countries, where I didn’t have any access to fellow lesbians who could take me under their wings and teach me. So, go websites! And blogs! And forums! And… well, you got the idea. I then found a… let’s call it a stash of lesbian-themed eBooks, and with my utmost delight I was able to start a more bookish stage of my education. In the past three years I read a great amount of lesbian-themed books (I also read other stuff, mind you, like some Spanish novels for instance).

Now I want to write a little about these books, and also all the lesbian-related stuff I could find in my records (I’ve been keeping this diary of the books I read every month since 1998, which I copied onto a Numbers file when I got my MacBook, so I have a complete list of all the books I read in the past fourteen years at hand… nerd, I know). I’m gonna write whatever I feel like about each book. No rules. I listed the books in chronological order starting with the one I read first :)

This list is crazy long already, not to mention always growing, so I decided to split it into several parts, to make it more accessible. I will start with...

VARIOUS LESBIAN-RELATED BOOKS I READ BEFORE WAKING UP

The Sopranos, Alan Warner.

My mother gave me this one when I was a teenager. Read it in Italian. It’s about a group of girls in Scotland, who go to a Catholic school and sing in the choir (hence the title) but are actually the exact opposite of a good little Catholic girl. If I remember correctly there is five of them, each with their distinctive story and background. It gets slightly depressing sometimes, considering they all, more or less, come from poor families and live in squalid places, and have a lifestyle (lots of alcohol, clubbing, neglecting school, etc…) that will not improve their lives not in the least. Anyway one of the characters is some sort of alpha female of the pack, and she is lately involved in a lesbian relationship. Very hot scene in which the other girl plays the cello naked before having sex… always fantasized about cellos after that. I mean, it’s such a sensual instrument! I wrote a story in that period, about a busker cellist with a Russian name… but anyway, nice book.

Shroud for a Nightingale, P.D.James

She is one of my favourite detective fiction writers. This book is not lesbian fiction, but there is a lesbian couple in it. That’s it :)

Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop cafe, Fannie Flagg

Oh, I luuuuvd this book. And I drooled a lot on all the descriptions of awesome Southern foods! I read that in Italian as well. It’s a very famous lesbian book, and there is also a very famous movie, although the lesbian part was somewhat ‘censored’ in the movie. I mean, it’s there, but it’s not that explicit. It was the first time I read about a ‘normal’ lesbian relationship, between two women who loved each other, worked together and raised a family. Not the usual oversexed wicked lesbian character you would see in movies or the out-of-control girl lezzing up. Also, the lesbian part was not the ONLY interesting thing in the book. 
 

Orlando, Virginia Woolf

This is often mentioned in LGBT lists, although I wouldn’t know where to put it. It’s the only book by good ol’ Virginia that I managed to finish (I was bored to death by all the others). It’s good. I mean, weird, but good. The movie is great. I’ve had a crush on Tilda Swinton since then. Oh, I love redheads….

Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan le Fanu

Another one that’s often cited in LGBT lists, which also happens to be a classic vampire book. It's actually a novella. 
I… ar, don’t remember much. I was probably too young when I read it and I found it rather boring and a bit full of itself (if you can say that of a book). Maybe I should reread it someday.

Twelve dozen dialogues, Pierre Louÿs

Now THAT’S a treat. This guy is absolutely crazy. So politically incorrect, blasphemous and exaggerated! There are many things in this book (and in his work in general) that I loathe, some recurring themes that are, well, a bit too dirty for me ☺, but this book is great. It’s basically, as the title says, a series of short vignettes with lovers engaged in sexual activities. Dialogue only. Many of them are lesbian couples, although they never define themselves as such. This guy manages to make things so unbelievably outrageous that you can’t stop laughing. So comical.

New life

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Island!

After more than a year of slowly fading and almost dying, I decided to start this blog again, but to completely reorganise it.

A bit of background first. A few years back, I was in the Ukraine and I had a hopeless crush that was gnawing at me.

At the time I was writing a diary, and I wrote a lot of letters to this person, some of which I even sent, about all the things that were happening to me in the Ukraine.

After a lot of thought, I decided that all that stuff should not have stayed in my diary, and that it wasn’t really worth it to send the letters off anyway, so I decided to start blogging.

I created an identity, Ewa Munchkin, to sign my blog, and started off. Evil Munchkin was one of the many nicknames that were given to me - I had all sorts: dwarf, evil dwarf, Gollum, hobbit, smurf, smurfette… yep, you guessed right, I’m short. Not an actual dwarf at 5ft1, but still shorter than average. I happened to like Munchkin more than all the other names, so I added a first name with a Slavonic feel (after all, I was in the Ukraine, and I’m a Russian major. Yes, I know Ewa is Polish, but I happen to also speak a little Polish).

Now loads of things happened to me in the past year, and my blog was more or less abandoned. Not that many people were really reading it, aside from the memes I started doing after a while.

As I decided to start it again, I realised I needed a clearer focus, so I came to the conclusion I needed TWO blogs.

I started a new one, entirely dedicated to Buddhism, and I decided to reboot this one with a much clearer focus.

The focus of this blog is going to be lesbianism, especially lesbianism in popular culture (mostly books, movies and music). After realising I was gay, I spent the first year out of my own closet in ex communist, homophobic countries where the only access I had to anything remotely lesbian was popular culture, and considering I start off as a literature scholar, I basically approached this topic with the same rigour I would apply to any literary research. So I will periodically write reviews and opinions on anything lesbian I discover.

I will also do lots of memes, just because I like them a lot!

I will add a disclaimer: there will be a lot, and I mean a lot, of random faffing about literature. No, I'm not trying to show off (ok, maybe a little), it's just second nature to me, and I have very few people I can actually talk to about these things, so I need some place to get it out of my system! ^^

Question galore meme (all three parts)

1. Is there someone in your life you know you’d be better off without?
Not really, no.

2. Do you get criticized because of your body?
I used to. By Kiwi. It took me a long time, but I learnt to accept myself.

3. Did you kiss the last person you called?
I haven’t kissed anyone in absolute ages.

4. When was the last time you danced?
Few days ago.

5. Do you keep in mind other people’s feelings?
To be frank, I probably do it much more than they deserve.

6. If you have a hang nail, do you pull it or clip it?
I keep my fingernails short (lord knows why, I haven’t got laid in ages), so it doesn’t really happen to me.

7. Who do you want to forget?
I would just like to forget as easily as most people seem to do.

8. Who was the last person to send you a letter?
A proper one? My friend Rozovaya. Two years ago, if I’m not mistaken.

9. Who did you last tell to shut up?
My pupils. But I did it in Spanish. Heh.

10. What’s the last thing that you smelt that smelt bad?
Well, yesterday I was on the train, very late. It was last Friday before half term and I’ve been to the pub with a few colleagues. I was on my last train and since it’s only for two stops I was standing. Guy next to me seems really tired. Puts his head on the doors. At some point I hear a weird noise and realise he’s started to throw up very quietly. I had to jump over the sick to get off the train. Didn’t smell that great. At all.

11. What’s your favorite cereal?
Chocolate rice pops.

12. How do you feel when people lead you on, but they don’t even like you?
It hasn’t happened so often for me to form an opinion of it.

13. Could you live without sunlight?
Well a recent study demonstrates that we have special receptors in our eyes that react to daylight and especially to blue skies, and according to it we need exposure to that kind of light frequency to function properly. Just sayin’.

14. What’s something you know is bad, but you want to do it anyway?
Smoking. I just like it.

15. What was the last thing you lied about?
I don’t lie.

16. Do you regret anything you’ve done in the past week?
I don’t think in terms of regret.

17. What was the last movie you bought?
Ahm… maybe Secretary? Like in 2006?

18. What is a sport you would like to do?
Karate. Or Judo.

19. When was the last time you felt like crying?
I’m a big softie. I cry easily in front of my TV shows.

20. Have you ever wanted to kill someone (not that you actually do it)?
No. Killing is wrong.

21. What was the last song you listened to that wasn’t sung in English?
Being non-English, I listen to non English music all the time. It was probably “Rise” by Origa, which is partly sung in Russian.

22. One of our SS players generally leaves a critical comment on our memes. Which is fine. All's fair. Do you let meme authors know when you hate their memes?
I rarely comment, to be fair.

23. What TV show would you like to be on?
Being Human. Good stuff.

24. What was the last video game you played?
I don’t play videogames.

25. Have you ever been in a musical? If yes, do tell.
Yes. Sung in Jesus Christ Superstar in High school. I was one of the leapers.

26. Do you follow your own style or everyone else’s?
My own.

27. What’s the last store you bought from?
The Cooperative. I wanted pizza.

28. In retrospect, have you ever let a person use you a lot?
Hell yes. I make it incredibly easy, too.

29. What are you doing two days from now?
Sweet FA!!!

30. Did you ever believe there were monsters in your closet?
No, I believed there were wolves under my bed.

31. When you graduated high school, did you let random people sign your yearbook or just close friends?
We don’t have yearbooks in Italy.

32. Would you consider adopting a child that had a mental illness?
I have to be honest, no.

33. Does thinking about death scare you?
I don’t waste my time fretting about inevitable things.

34. If you died, do you believe that you go to Heaven or Hell and where would your spirit go?
When (not if), I die, I believe I will be reincarnated because the concept of Heaven and Hell (or spirit), doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.

35. Who did you last write a snail mail letter to and why?
You know what, it was such a long time ago I don’t remember.

36. Do you care what people say or think about you?
I do. And I don’t. That is, I rationally know it’s not important (not counting obvious exceptions like the professional opinion my boss has of me), but somewhere inside my silly autistic brain I fret about it a lot. Weird. Or maybe not.

37. Have you ever been threatened?
No.

38. Which side of your family do you get most of your qualities from?
My dad’s. I hope. My mum is ace, but her family is not.

39. What was the last thing with alcohol that you drank?
Wine.

40. Have you ever kept a relationship a secret?
No.

41. What is a quote that you love?
It will never happen that the prayer of a votary of the Lotus Sutra will remain unanswered.

42. Do you think of pure hate as something humanity created?
I never thought about it this way. I think it’s a product of our fundamental darkness, so in a way, I agree.

43. When was the last time you wanted to scream?
Yesterday, in front of one of my classes.

44. Do you ever at times see the world in black and white?
UBERLOL. I almost always do.

45. Have you ever thought that cell phones are too obtrusive?
Yes. But they are also useful.

46. In your life, where do you think the rainbow will end?
Rainbows are caused by the reflection of light in the water particles. They don’t end anywhere.

47. What is something that you never want to do again?
I’m not too keen on getting really, really drunk.

48.When was the first time you realized the world was small?
Probably when I went to the north of Italy and I found someone who graduated in my same university back in Sicily. Or when I went to my first buddhist course in London and I met a woman who regularly came to my house in Sicily and knew me as a child.

49. How you spend your time contemplating life’s mysteries?
This question is phrased in a silly way.

50. Ever discuss your political beliefs with people?
Sure, why not.

51. Do you care about the environment?
Yes.

52. What’s your motto for life?
Same as my favourite quote.

53. Is progress destroying the beauty of the world?
Too complicated to talk about this.

54. Do you believe there is life somewhere else in the universe?
Statistically it’s impossible that life is only here.

55. Would you like to rule a country?
No. I’m happy ruling my own life.

56. Do you believe everything has a purpose?
Of course.

57. Is war ever for the best?
No. Never. Ever. Ever.

58. Could you kill anyone in defense of self or loved ones?
That’s the sort of question you can only answer if you’ve been in that position. You can't predict what the adrenaline will do to you.

59. How do you react to people (Such as Governor Rick Perry) who don't believe global warming is really our fault?
I don’t know Rick Perry and haven’t heard his arguments. Normally I would listen to what a person say and deliberate if it makes sense. In this case it probably doesn’t.

60. Does love conquer all?
Love is really, really overrated.

61. Is euthanasia morally acceptable?
Of course it it.

62. Is world peace impossible?
No. It is possible. It depends on every human being rejecting the poisons of greed, anger and stupidity.

63. Is pride a good or a bad thing?
Feelings in themselves are not good or bad. Actions are.
 
64.What do you think is the purpose of your life?
Being happy.

65. Do you believe in karma?
Sure I do. You must have leaned from the stuff I said before that I’m a devout buddhist.
 

Long time no blog...

A PGCE means a lot of things. It means being a student again, doing lots of work, meeting loads of people. Some of them people are in the same mess as you. Some of them are half your age (BUT STILL TALLER), some adorable, some annoying.
But mainly a PGCE means not having time for anything that is not:
- school
- school
- planning lessons
- school
- writing essays
- school
- school
- sleeping (sometimes)

Which pretty much means no blogging. Anyhoo. Two or three people were actually reading my shtuff, so why not putting in a little effort?


LET'S DO SOMETHING COMPLETELY NEW AND SHOCKINGLY OUT OF CHARACTER!!!!
(... a meme... shhh)

A is for Age: 25

B is for Beer of choice: Carlsberg (the three times a year I actually drink)

C is for Career: high school teacher

D is for favourite Drink: coca cola

E is for Essential item you use everyday: lip balm

F is for Favourite song at the moment: a draw between 'Ramalama bang bang' and 'Mount Wroclai'

G is for favourite Game: the serpent dance! (scout stuff... you can't understand)

H is for Home town: Aethnaville

I is for Instruments you play: my voice

J is for favourite Juice: pineapple/banana/coconut smoothie

K is for Kids: I have enough with the ones I teach

L is for Last kiss: N is for Next question

M is for marriage: ma mancu motta (Sicilian for: no way)

N is for full Name: Ewa Munchkin

O is for Overnight hospital stays: only once when I was three, not sure for how long. Both my eardrums were perforated.

P is for phobias: needles, crossing the road

Q is for quote: Quot linguas calles, tot homines vales.

R is for biggest Regret: none

S is for sports: cricket and softball (once upon a time), yoga and bellydance (are they even classed as sports?)

T is for Time you wake up: 6 am T.T

U is for colour of underwear: well it depends

V is for Vegetable you love: honest, everything apart from butternut squash

W is for Worst Habit: smoking

X is for X-rays you've had: none that I know of

Y is for Yummy food you make: I've been told that everything I make is perfect

Z is for zodiac sign: Leo

This is my entry for:

The Sunday Stealing Player's meme

1. :::sniff, sniff::: Is the dog in the house?
Nah, this is a cat house.

2. What is the best piece of advice you've ever received?
Ewa, if you don’t like this situation, you have the power to change it, if you don’t change it, it means you don’t want to, so stop buggering me (my dad, when I was about nine years old)

3. What's the worst experience you've ever had involving alcohol?
A beer shower in my last night in L’pool. Not only I didn’t get to drink the beer, but I was freezing.

4. What's the worst thing you've ever done to another person?
I don’t know. My usual problem is that I’m too nice.

5. Who do you think started the concept of memes?
The Big Brother. A way to keep us lowlives occupied in petty occupations AND know what we think about stuff. Yessss

6. Give a song title or line that describes how you are feeling right now.
Ha! I got it! Small blue thing, by Suzanne Vega. Lovely.

7. What's your favorite search engine? Yahoo!, Google, Ask, Bing? or something else?
Google.

8. If Paul is the Cute One and John is the Smart One and George is the Quiet One and Ringo is the Funny One, which Beatle are you?
Well, defo NOT George. Let’s say John.

9. The democratic government decides that, not only do we have to share our money with people who choose not to work, we also have to share our children with those who do not want to ruin their bodies with being pregnant. Which child do you give up?
I don’t have any children. And I find this question stupid to say the least.

10. When should you procrastinate - now or later?
Witty bastard.

11. What is your favorite fast food?
Depends. Are you talking of the food you eat during fast?

12. What was your favourite game as a child?
Walking around the room talking to myself. And I’m NOT kidding.

13. Why terrible twos have to be terrible
No idea. In Italy four or five is considered the worst age.

14. Describe your favorite family member.
Well, my parents.

15. What does your favorite breakfast consist of?
Milk with cereals (rice puffs are nice) and a lot of coffee.

16. What food is better the day after it was made?
TIRAMISÙ!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But also parmigiana. *drools*

17. What was your last big purchase?
Probably my bedlinen (15 quid or something).

18. When was the last time you kissed someone and really enjoyed it?
Oh, dear. More than a year ago.

19. Why are there memes?
Read #5

20. Describe yourself using two words that rhyme. (i.e. fuddy-duddy)
Ok, here’s an experiment. Oh, you who come to comment, would you do that? Describe me in, etc, etc? Ta.

21. If you were given the option of a "do-over" in life .. would you take it?
As in doing someone over?

22. What movie makes (or has made) you cry? What touched you about it?
Bambi. God, I cry like a fountain when the mother is killed. *sniff*

23. What is one big mistake that you did in your life? And what did you do to make it right?
I don’t think in terms of mistakes. You can always create value out of things. Unless you are a sociopath, that is.

24. When Life Gives You Lemons, What Do You Do With Them?
Lots of things. Squeeze them and use the juice, burn them to perfume the room, hell I can even use them (with the aid of a pumice), to get rid of body hairs.

25. How different are you in real life as compared to the online identity you have created for yourself?
Not much.

26. Do you know what your parents would have named you if you had been born the opposite sex?
Hell yes. Jacopo (pronounced Yah-koh-poh). *pukes* One more reason to be happy I’m a woman.

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