The Honestea Tag

The beautiful Ivy Miranda tagged me for this!  Thanks, Ivy.

{Rules}

- no lies allowed. if an answer is too shameful to expose you may substitute the answer with a gif/image of someone drinking tea.

- there are optional bonus additions to questions but these are not for the faint of heart.

- if you complete the tag having answered every question + the bonus additions (no gifs used), you are dubbed a certified tea chugger, and you deserve a badge to show the world that you are not afraid of a steaming hot cup of TRUTH.

- tag at least one other person (a tea party with just one is not very fun. trust me.) untagged persons are more than welcome to fill it out as well (nothing cooler than crashing a tea party).

{Questions}

what is a 'bad' (generally disliked) movie that you actually love?

The Phantom Menace, maybe?  I don't know if that one is generally disliked or just generally mocked (which, fair).  Either way, I enjoy it.  Some other candidates (except I won't concede that they're bad) would be:  The Lion King (2019), Emma (1996) with Kate Beckinsale, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010).

what is your most shocking reading habit?

Um . . . I dog-ear, sometimes?  Again, I don't know if that's considered shocking or not.  Either way, I feel no guilt about it. 😜

Or maybe the fact that I don't always "skip" objectionable content when I'm reading?  IDK WHAT YOU GUYS THINK IS SHOCKING. 😂

tell us the number one lie you write in your posts.

I can't think of anything I tend to lie about in my posts other than your typical, everyday exaggeration.  I withhold information or only give part of the story sometimes, but I don't think I say things that I know are incorrect on here.

tell us the worst character name you've ever thought up. {bonus: share a character name you find ridiculous in a book/movie}

I'm coming up empty, sorry.  My very first protagonist was named Jewel because she was a princess and had sapphire eyes and was modeled after a cartoon on a birthday card — but I was also, like, seven, so cut me some slack.

what is the real reason you procrastinate writing your work in progress?

WOULDN'T WE BOTH LIKE TO KNOW.

Actually, I do know:  It's a combination of lack of energy, lack of inspiration, and lack of desire to spend my free time on it.

what is a genre of music you secretly love?

I have a love/hate relationship with some country and some mainstream pop.  [To be clear, other country/other mainstream pop, I have a fully love relationship with.  (Don't come at me for that dangling preposition.)]

if you're a plotter, what do you really think of pansters? and if you're a panster, what do you really think of plotters?

I'm a plantser, but in my experience, plotters are the ones who tend to be a bit more elitist and more likely to issue (faulty) universal advice.  So, they're the ones I'd like to see take a seat every now and then. 

share at least three lines of dialogue from one of your first writing projects {bonus: give us the good stuff. your most gruesome butchering of the English language}

Believe me, no one wants to revisit my old writing less more than I do, but, alas, I don't have access to my early projects at the moment.  They're in relatively deep storage and I don't feel like delaying this post until I can dig them up.  As a compromise, here's a more or less verbatim one-liner from an early story, because it's the worst one that I can remember relatively clearly:

"I shall see you again when summer's magnificency is upon us."

As that one extra in Where'd You Go, Bernadette put it, I didn't just think outside the box, I thought outside the dictionary.

tell us the title & artist of the last song you listened to.

As of this edit, "Wild Sea" by Phildel.  (Fantastic artist, by the way.  Go to her for all of your fantasy WIP needs.)

which beloved book/movie character do you dislike & why?

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I actually have a post in draft explaining all my opinions on Steve, why I despise him so virulently, etc.  I'm just torn on whether or not to finish and publish it. 

Also, Jo March.  I've never liked Jo March very much.  Partially because she's always triggered memories of some personal trauma, and partially because I almost always dislike hot-tempered characters.  It's incredibly difficult for me to respect them.

tell us the title & topic of a post you have left in draft.

"Black Comedy:  My Do's and Dont's" — an exploration of dark/morbid humor in literature and film.

what is a book you pretend you've read/would like to read but know you never will? {bonus: share a time when claiming you've read a classic/well-known book didn't end well}

I'd like to have one day read all of The Canterbury Tales, but will I ever actually finish them?  Probably not.  Same goes for a lot of the ancient philosophers/historians.

tell us the title & topic of the most embarrassing post you've ever written. {bonus: include. the. link.}

Listen, anything I posted before 2019 tends to embarrass me when I reread it, so . . . the bar is real low, here. 😂  I don't know if I could isolate the single most embarrassing post, though.

{I Tag}

Katie, because there are few things I love more than "spilling the tea," as the kids say, with her. 😉

- what is a 'bad' (generally disliked) movie that you actually love?
- what is your most shocking reading habit?
- tell us the number one lie you write in your posts.
- tell us the worst character name you've ever thought up. {bonus: share a character name you find ridiculous in a book/movie}
- what is the real reason you procrastinate writing your work in progress?
- what is a genre of music you secretly love?
- if you're a plotter, what do you really think of pansters? and if you're a panster, what do you really think of plotters?
- share at least three lines of dialogue from one of your first writing projects {bonus: give us the good stuff. your most gruesome butchering of the English language)
- tell us the title & artist of the last song you listened to.
- which beloved book/movie character do you dislike & why?
- tell us the title & topic of a post you have left in draft.
- what is a book you pretend you've read/would like to read but know you never will? {bonus: share a time when claiming you've read a classic/well-known book didn't end well}
- tell us the title & topic of the most embarrassing post you've ever written. {bonus: include. the. link.}

Weigh in:  Should I spew unfiltered hatred 

at Steve Rogers in blog post form?