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frenchhistory:

Rules: TAG THE PERSON WHO TAGGED YOU AND LET THEM KNOW WHEN YOU’VE
FINISHED. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS/TASKS AND THEN TAG 20 PEOPLE. LET THE
TAGGED PEOPLE KNOW THEY’VE BEEN TAGGED.

Tagged by youneedasoultraveller

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

Answer these questions:

GENERAL APPEARANCE

1. How tall are you?
Under the French women median height. Tiny is cute.

2. What color and style is your hair?
My hair is coppered brown (is that even a colour? But well, I can’t deny I have red-haired in the family) and my style… See Korra in season 4? That’s it. Minus the fringe because I’m trying to get rid of it.

3. What color are your eyes?
Brown. And greenish. Depends on the light.

4. Do you wear glasses / contacts?
Yes

5. Do you wear braces?
No.

6. What is your fashion style?
“It fits me, I need clothes”. I’m making some efforts to get out of my lazy comfort zone in that matter.

YOU IN GENERAL

7. What is your name?
Marie

8. When were you born?
A long time ago.

9. How old are you?
Getting closer to 30 every day.

10. Where are you from/live now?
Born and raised in France. I’m
from Lorraine but I now live in the land of the Frenchs of the Interior.

11. Do you have siblings?
A bunch of them.

12. What school/college do you go to?
I’m not a student anymore.

13. What kind of a student are you?
I was very scholar, at least until university.

14. Do you even like school?
I did.

15. What are your favorite school subjects?
History and Latin. And Maths.

16. What are your favorite shows?
Kaamelott, Suits, the Musketeers, the 100, Orphan Black, Broadchurch…

17. What are your favorite movies?
Star Wars, Kill Bill, Labyrinth, the Matrix, the Mummy, Miyazaki’s, La brigade du Tigre, Rabbi Jacob…

18. What are your favorite books?
Le Petit Prince, Harry Potter, Dune, Howl Moving Castle, La Passe-Miroir, Seuls…

19. What is your favorite pass time?

Reading, cooking, writing, walking, travelling, sleeping,

And rugby. THE WORLD CUP IS FINALLY HERE. I’M GOING TO SEE A QUARTER FINAL IN THE MILLENIUM STADIUM IN CARDIFF.

20. Do you have any regrets?
Obviously.

21. What is your dream job?
I’m kinda happy with teaching.

22. Would you like to get married one day and where?
I’m against the institution of marriage so no.

23. Would you like to have kids one day and how many?
Let’s start with one.

24. Are you a girly girl, a regular girl or more of a tomboy?
A lazy girl.

25. Do you like shopping?
Only in Nancy.

No kidding.  I always end up doing shopping in Nancy and liking it. Blame it on paramecie and randomstufffromotherblogs.

26. What countries have you visited so far?
England, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy (+ The Vatican), Turkey, Senegal, Togo. Wales and Ireland should be add to the list very soon.

27. What is the scariest nightmare you have ever had?
I was stuck in a labyrinth with gigantic wasps. Or that one with aliens in my grandparents’ garage.

28. Do you have enemies?
Pollens. And unfortunately cats. I love them but they have the potential to kill me in an asthma crisis.

29. Who are your best friends?
Handkerchieves. For the reason, see question 28.

30. Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend and what is their name?
Nope.

And I tag… seg-oh, novaesium, vinccnt, r-stern, mis-ato, miss-cath, randomstufffromotherblogs, lilibel, lajeunefilleauxcheuveuxblancs, soudakki, benedictcrumpetbatch, paramecie, theladyandthewolves, emclouzet, unhobbity, amadriel, losthitsu, yurincredible, yveinthesky, strawberrylaugh.

I wasn’t tagged but I’m in the mood to talk about myself.

GENERAL APPEARANCE

1. How tall are you?
Average, I guess. I frequently feel either too small or too large. 

2. What color and style is your hair?
Fake af blonde with roooooooots coming in darker. The style is a short, shaggy bob because texture. 

3. What color are your eyes?
Slate blue or grey-green, depending on ?????? 

4. Do you wear glasses / contacts?
No.

5. Do you wear braces?
No.

6. What is your fashion style?
Cassie Ainsworth’s school days.

YOU IN GENERAL

7. What is your name?
Holly

8. When were you born?
On the winter solstice! 

9. How old are you?
26

10. Where are you from/live now?
Originally from very rural West Virginia, moved around lots since I was sixteen, and now I’m just outside Atlanta, Georgia.

11. Do you have siblings?
No 

12. What school/college do you go to?
I’m not a student anymore.

13. What kind of a student are you?
I was a very bitchy Hermione in class, and a narcoleptic Ron Weasley when it came to assignments.

14. Do you even like school?
I did.

15. What are your favorite school subjects?
History and biology.

16. What are your favorite shows?
Pre-Moffat Doctor Who, Supernatural, In The Flesh, Orphan Black, Red Dwarf, American Horror Story, Dexter, literally  A N Y T H I N G  narrated by David Attenborough.

17. What are your favorite movies?
The Fountain, Requiem for a Dream, Snatch, Death at a Funeral, Disney’s Robin Hood

18. What are your favorite books?
Le Petit Prince, Bridge to Terabithia, Things Fall Apart, Vicious Spring, A Short History of Nearly Everything, A Density of Souls, House of Leaves, Insomnia, Green Angel, Hatchet, LotR…

19. What is your favorite pass time?

Reading, gardening, travelling, immersive sandbox video games. However, my most frequent pastimes are procrastinating and 

20. Do you have any regrets?
Just two.

21. What is your dream job?
Cat herder.

22. Would you like to get married one day and where?
I’ve already decided that Husband shall be the last of his kind. Should anything dissolve our relationship, I won’t take another spouse. 

23. Would you like to have kids one day and how many? 

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24. Are you a girly girl, a regular girl or more of a tomboy?
I regularly chipped my nail polish working on diesel locomotives. 

¯_(ツ)_/¯

25. Do you like shopping?
Depends who with and what for. I loathe shopping with Husband, especially at Christmas.

26. What countries have you visited so far?
England, Belgium, Germany, France, the Bahamas.

27. What is the scariest nightmare you have ever had?
Definitely the one where two co-workers violently sexually assaulted me. I aggressively avoided them for the following two weeks even though they were 

28. Do you have enemies?
Enemies is a strong word. I prefer the whimsical term ‘haters’. 

29. Who are your best friends?
Q-tips and flawlessczarina​.

30. Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend and what is their name?
I have a husband. His social media designation is Husband. However, I will divulge that he has a masculine name, and I call him by a feminine nickname. The original intention was to annoy him, but he ended up taking a liking to it.

I’m gonna tag flawlessczarina, perfidiousalbion, his-name-was-writ-in-water, takingaspadetoasouffle, and karkasticred but obviously there’s no pressure. 🙂