Hi Dee’s
you know my earlier post girl power this is a very funny post thing i found which proves i’m obsessed with the Tamora Peirce books here you go!:
- You can recite paragraphs out of her books word for word
- You use saying from the books ex. ‘odds bobs!’
- You wear purple contact lenses
- You will only get a cat with purple eyes
- When you get called out of class because you are getting picked up early from school, you walk in and quickly say, ‘I fell down!’
- You try to control the weather
- You carry around a sword for years, then at the end you lock yourself in the basement and pretend to endure mass amounts of pain silently
- You cut your hair short, refer to yourself as the male form of your name, insist that you go to an all boys school, and only tell a select few that you’re really a girl
- You wont even think of deeming a guy worthy of you if he isn’t named George, Jon, Numair, Cleon, Liam, Nawat, or Dom
- You insist on calling your history teacher Sir Myles
- You draw a lioness on your brother’s toy shield and confiscate it and his toy sword claiming you’ve earned them and then carry them around with you
- You have your own toy shield and sword
- You get up at dawn to practice the art of Shang Fighting
- When you’re asked where you are from you resond, ‘Tortall’ and just smile
- You can answer and quiz about the books and pass without ever looking at a book
- You refuse to go near anyone named Roger
- When you get a fever you are convinced that you are going to die because you think you have the sweating sickness, inwardly your curse Roger
- You fear mister roger(s)
- You claim that you can talk to your cat
- You’re completely convinced that Jackie Chan is a Shang Warrior
- You walk around making everybody call you Alanna, Kel, Alianne, or Daine
- You mention your favorite Tamora Pierce character, everyone in the room fleas
- You go to her book signings, drop to the floor bowing, making your head touch the floor out of respect
- You walk into a bookstore and you need to find one of her books even though you already have it
- You go camping just so you can have a fire to look into on the off chance that you will see something
- You pretend that you are Alanna or Kel practicing falling whenever you fall
- You re-write songs, changing the words into ones that have to do with the books
- You spend hours looking up Tamora Pierce Websites
- You create a website
- You are really enjoying reading this
- You ace your medeival unit in school due to your broad knowledge of it from the books
- Your screen name or e-mail has to do with her books
- You have to get the new book the day it comes out
- You can think of new ones off the top of your head
- You read Tortallian fan fiction
- You write it
- You have fictional conversations conserning TP’s character with your friends for hours
- You hassel everyone you know to read the books
- You wish that you lived in Tortall and were best buds with your fav. character
Some visitor submissions:
(from Lady Charlotte):
- You reread every book at least twice a year, mostly more
- You Google Image search characters from the book to see if other people imagined them like you do (which is actually how I stumbled across your site)
- You imagine yourself with Jon, George, Numair, Dom etc etc…
- You buy merchandise off the internet and insist on using it ALL the time
- You go on the Tamora Pierce website and find out when her next books are coming out (Numair-the early years!!!!!!!! HUZZAH!!!!!)
- You name your cat Scamp(that was my friend), and consider naming your children after the characters…
Byeeeeee Deeeeeee’ssssssssssss
-Diyanna
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