So @rambo and @missy have given us the homework of writing 10 random things about ourselves. Well....anyone who follows me knows I'm the queen of randomness...so bring it on!!! :)
And since we are being random...lets start with number 5.
5. My favorite animal is the Bat. And I might be a comic fan...but more of Marvel so don't attribute the favorite animal to Batman or anything since that is not the case! I just love bats. Always have. I find them extremely fascinating. From the way they communicate , to where they live, to the way the thrive in colonies...I just love them! My favorite are brown bats...they are Megachiroptera bats (or large bats/megabats). They look like dogs with wings ^.^Though pygmy bats are pretty cute also! Random facts about bats? Their babies are called pups, their groups are called colonies, they live everywhere on earth except the arctic, they use echolocation to "See", the smallest microbat, the Pipstresllus nanus of Central Africa is only 1.5in (4cm) long and has a wingspan of only 12.5 cm(about 5 in)...while the biggest bat is called Pteropus Vampyrus and it achieves a wingspan of 1.4m (nearly 5 ft) and a body length of 42cm (16.7 in)! :)
Ok lets start in order now that we got that out of the way...
1. I hate bananas....the texture, the taste, the smell....EWWW! Mushy fruit is just...ugh...gross! And if they sit out they smell awful! I even hate anything flavored with banana. YUCKY! Broccoli isn't so great either....
2. I can not do animal deaths in movies...or even TV. People can get murdered, slaughtered, cut up into bits but as soon as someone turns on the dog...I have a problem. I still to this day have never finished "I Am Legend" because I can't get passed the dog getting killed, regardless of what it was for. (SPOILER SORRY FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVENT SEEN IT! ). I will literally get up and walk away from a movie that shows an animal being brutally beaten or killed. If it is "implied" then I'm ok...I will still cry but I didn't have to see it. As soon as they show it..I'm done.
3. This goes with number 2. I am NOT a vegetarian. While I hate animal cruelty and death....I know that I need meat to survive...as do many other animals in our world. I am fine eating meat as long as it doesn't have eyes etc and I didn't see it get killed. I had a horrible experience with a lobster when I was nine, even to this day I can't eat lobster. They served it to me with the head, eyes, EVERYTHING. I began crying at the table and ran out to the car. I even picked him out of the tank, not realizing exactly what was going to happen to him. I actually don't eat seafood at all.
4. My spirit animal is a falcon, since I was born on April 9th. Here is a quick description of a Falcon. A natural born leader, the Falcon can always be looked upon for clear judgment in sticky situations. Furthermore, the characteristics for this Native American animal symbol never wastes time, rather he/she strikes while the iron is hot, and takes action in what must be done. Ever persistent, and always taking the initiative, the Falcon is a gem of a personality to have for projects or team sports. The Falcon can be a little on the conceited side - but he/she is usually right in his/her opinions - so a little arrogance is understood. In a supportive environmental the Falcon "soars" in his/her ability to maintain passion and fire in relationships, and always remaining compassionate. Left to his/her own devices, the Falcon can be vain, rude, intolerant, impatient, and over-sensitive.
6. Yup, I skipped 5....remember...I did it first ;) I am VERY much into astrology(this goes with number 4). I was raised with it in my house and do believe it can tell you a lot about yourself. Some of it is yes "general" statements that could go for anyone, HOWEVER when you have a correct birthchart done with not just the Sun sign but include your Moon sign, Ascendent, House number etc....it really goes into depth about who you are....VERY accurately I might ad. I am an Aries with Ascendent in Cancer and a Moon in Sagittarius. I get alot of traits from all aspects of those particular signs. Keep in mind a Sun in Aries is different than an Ascendent in Aries. So my Ascendent in Cancer has different traits than someone who is Cancer by the Sun sign. It gets complicated and interesting. I'm willing to do a birthchart for anyone :)
7. My favorite dessert is cheesecake....not much to describe here...what's not to love? lol
8. I have an obsession with ram skulls, goat skulls, vampires, pentagrams etc. Anything that is demon related. No, I am not a satanist, as I am agnostic but I do believe in good powers and evil powers and a higher power that keeps a balance between the two. I find the origins of all demons , pentagrams etc extremely interesting....and a lot of it wasn't for evil.
9. I don't like jelly, jell-o or really anything that is "gel" related. It's weird...it moves on it's own....that is a problem >.<
10. I have an extreme obsession with Grimm fairytales. The original stories, not the Disney versions. And actually...not even just Grimm stories but original fairytales. Random facts about fairytales? They were originally written as horror stories to keep children from running off into the woods. Heres some facts about those "innocent" tales you know...that maybe you don't know the original story....
The Pied Piper
In the tale of the Pied Piper, we have a village overrun with rats. A man arrives dressed in clothes of pied (a patchwork of colors) and offers to rid the town of the vermin. The villagers agree to pay a vast sum of money if the piper can do it – and he does. He plays music on his pipe which draws all the rats out of the town. When he returns for payment – the villagers won’t cough up so the Pied Piper decides to rid the town of children too! In most modern variants, the piper draws the children to a cave out of the town and when the townsfolk finally agree to pay up, he sends them back. In the darker original, the piper leads the children to a river where they all drown (except a lame boy who couldn’t keep up). Some modern scholars say that there are connotations of pedophilia in this fairy tale.
Little Red Riding Hood
The version of this tale that most of us are familiar with ends with Riding Hood being saved by the woodsman who kills the wicked wolf. But in fact, the original French version (by Charles Perrault) of the tale was not quite so nice. In this version, the little girl is a well bred young lady who is given false instructions by the wolf when she asks the way to her grandmothers. Foolishly riding hood takes the advice of the wolf and ends up being eaten. And here the story ends. There is no woodsman – no grandmother – just a fat wolf and a dead Red Riding Hood. The moral to this story is to not take advice from strangers.
The Little Mermaid
The 1989 version of the Little Mermaid might be better known as “The big whopper!” In the Disney version, the film ends with Ariel the mermaid being changed into a human so she can marry Eric. They marry in a wonderful wedding attended by humans and merpeople. But, in the very first version by Hans Christian Andersen, the mermaid sees the Prince marry a princess and she despairs. She is offered a knife with which to stab the prince to death, but rather than do that she jumps into the sea and dies by turning to froth. Hans Christian Andersen modified the ending slightly to make it more pleasant. In his new ending, instead of dying when turned to froth, she becomes a “daughter of the air” waiting to go to heaven – so, frankly, she is still dead for all intents and purposes.
Snow White
In the tale of snow white that we are all familiar with, the Queen asks a huntsman to kill her and bring her heart back as proof. Instead, the huntsman can’t bring himself to do it and returns with the heart of a boar. Now, fortunately disney hasn’t done too much damage to this tale, but they did leave out one important original element: in the original tale, the Queen actually asks for Snow White’s liver and lungs – which are to be served for dinner that night! Also in the original, Snow White wakes up when she is jostled by the prince’s horse as he carries her back to his castle – not from a magical kiss. What the prince wanted to do with a dead girl’s body I will leave to your imagination. Oh – in the Grimm version, the tale ends with the Queen being forced to dance to death in red hot iron shoes!
Sleeping Beauty
In the original sleeping beauty, the lovely princess is put to sleep when she pricks her finger on a spindle. She sleeps for one hundred years when a prince finally arrives, kisses her, and awakens her. They fall in love, marry, and (surprise surprise) live happily ever after. But alas, the original tale is not so sweet (in fact, you have to read this to believe it.) In the original, the young woman is put to sleep because of a prophesy, rather than a curse. And it isn’t the kiss of a prince which wakes her up: the king seeing her asleep, and rather fancying having a bit, rapes her. After nine months she gives birth to two children (while she is still asleep). One of the children sucks her finger which removes the piece of flax which was keeping her asleep. She wakes up to find herself raped and the mother of two kids.
Rumplestiltskin
This fair tale is a little different from the others because rather than sanitizing the original, it was modified by the original author to make it more gruesome. In the original tale, Rumpelstiltskin spins straw into gold for a young girl who faces death unless she is able to perform the feat. In return, he asks for her first born child. She agrees – but when the day comes to hand over the kid, she can’t do it. Rumpelstiltskin tells her that he will let her off the bargain if she can guess his name. She overhears him singing his name by a fire and so she guesses it correctly. Rumpelstiltskin, furious, runs away, never to be seen again. But in the updated version, things are a little messier. Rumpelstiltskin is so angry that he drives his right foot deep into the ground. He then grabs his left leg and rips himself in half. Needless to say this kills him.
Goldie Locks and the 3 Bears
In this heart warming tale, we hear of pretty little goldilocks who finds the house of the three bears. She sneaks inside and eats their food, sits in their chairs, and finally falls asleep on the bed of the littlest bear. When the bears return home they find her asleep – she awakens and escapes out the window in terror. The original tale (which actually only dates to 1837) has two possible variations. In the first, the bears find Goldilocks and rip her apart and eat her. In the second, Goldilocks is actually an old hag who (like the sanitized version) jumps out of a window when the bears wake her up. The story ends by telling us that she either broke her neck in the fall, or was arrested for vagrancy and sent to the “House of Correction”.
Hansel and Gretel
In the widely known version of Hansel and Gretel, we hear of two little children who become lost in the forest, eventually finding their way to a gingerbread house which belongs to a wicked witch. The children end up enslaved for a time as the witch prepares them for eating. They figure their way out and throw the witch in a fire and escape. In an earlier French version of this tale (called The Lost Children), instead of a witch we have a devil. Now the wicked old devil is tricked by the children (in much the same way as Hansel and Gretel) but he works it out and puts together a sawhorse to put one of the children on to bleed (that isn’t an error – he really does). The children pretend not to know how to get on the sawhorse so the devil’s wife demonstrates. While she is lying down the kids slash her throat and escape.
Cinderella
In the modern Cinderella fairy tale we have the beautiful Cinderella swept off her feet by the prince and her wicked step sisters marrying two lords – with everyone living happily ever after. The fairy tale has its origins way back in the 1st century BC where Strabo’s heroine was actually called Rhodopis, not Cinderella. The story was very similar to the modern one with the exception of the glass slippers and pumpkin coach. But, lurking behind the pretty tale is a more sinister variation by the Grimm brothers: in this version, the nasty step-sisters cut off parts of their own feet in order to fit them into the glass slipper – hoping to fool the prince. The prince is alerted to the trickery by two pigeons who peck out the step sister’s eyes. They end up spending the rest of their lives as blind beggars while Cinderella gets to lounge about in luxury at the prince’s castle.
Hopefully that was enough Randomness for you :) And not only did you get to learn a little about me....you also got to learn about other things! :)
XoXo
Mara
Oh just for good measure...here's a booty.