serious-comedian asked: 1, 19
WOOO PEOPLE ARE DOING THE THING. All right, I’m fine, I’m an adult, I got this.
1: (truth) Who was your first major celebrity crush? (dare) Put your music player on shuffle and post the first five songs.
Okay, I just put myself through Hamilton on shuffle, that was traumatic, truth it is. Uh…yeah, so, my first celebrity crush was David Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King. I was probably four. When I say Labyrinth was formative, I’m serious about that. I’d say don’t judge me, but honestly I have no regrets, do your worst.
19: (truth) What is the first thing you remember having to keep secret? (dare) Tag five bloggers who you associate with being obsessed with something particular, and list what each of them is obsessed with.
Uh…don’t have the brain power to do the blogs thing, so uncomfortable truth time it is. Pretty sure the first time I ever kept something secret it was my screaming terror of cicadas. I was maybe three? My grandfather decided that I was going to like bugs if I was going to be interested in science and he started giving me dead ones…like…as a collection, I guess. I refused to touch the cicada and he made me hold it in my hands until I could do it on my own. He still doesn’t know how much I hate them, and he never saw me scared again, even though he kept giving me dead cicadas every time he saw me until I was about nine. Cicadas now give me severe panic attacks. It’s awesome. …my family’s kind of a piece of work.
Well, that got grim fast. Uh, let’s see, what’s more cheerful…I fucking crushed it on my Organic Chemistry exam this morning and I got into a crazy-prestigious fellowship this summer, and my dad’s up here to collect me after my physics exam and we went out to dinner tonight and it was great, and I’m getting to do my senior thesis on battlefield medicine, which is SUPER FUCKING COOL. Smile, guys, you have a 100% survival rate of your life so far.
