Origin of pen name: Dunno. Just liked it. Like my email address, really. vegarrakis. It just has a nice ring to it, don't you think?
Gender: Dunno, but I got the female bits, so I s'pose that's the one.
Age: None of your damn business. Actually, I'm fifteen. Universe hasn't imploded yet, so I guess that was safe to say.
Location: A paradox. Right. Like I have a reason to tell you. I'm not in Britian, though. And my nation's flag's got red and white and blue in it. Just in case that may or may not give you a hint. Got a buncha stars, too. Sparkly ones. 'Case you didn't know, I mean. Or if you're psychic. Or something.
Likes: Quotes, well-written fics, well-written books, fanvids, philsophical debate, mercy, faith, love (heh, wot can i say, I'm a sicker for softies), darkness (or not), freedom, rock music, material comforts, feedback, pizza w/ bacon ranch, corn dogs, raisin bread, pecan nougat logs, and English muffins w/ grape jelly & butter. Other stuff, too, of course, but then you could be here for hours and I could be here for eternity and if anyone's actually reading this then they have time to waste anyway and I guess I'll just move on now.
Dislikes: Liars, cheats, cowards, politics, pointlessness, irresponsibility, disloyalty, lack of honor, lack of integrity, people who should die (terrorists, molesters, rapists, murderers, etc.) even if I don't have the right to judge them, cruelty for the sake of cruelty, vengeance, laziness and unproductive activity, thoughtlessly written works (except poetry, 'cause sometimes that's actually cool), botched karaoke, dependence upon anything or anyone, the stamping of free wills/dictatorship, lack of tact, lack of taste, feedback with no meaning, mushrooms, asparagus, heavily-saturated-with-vulgarism rap, blind followers, beets, okra, and cooked onions and carrots. But lima beans are okay.
Favorite Quote: "The downfall of humanity, truly, not with a bang, but with sin's longing whimper. And what can save us from that but love? I speak not of our ruthless God and merciful Lord; rather, that which we feel whether we want to or not, that passion which tears hearts to bits inside, tears open our scars and sets to healing those old wounds properly; that which moves more than mere mountains, destroys and brings life to our souls - the most powerful force of all the forces there ever were or ever will be. In our courageous, witless faith we find the breath of love, on which rides the burning seas, in the warm twilight of the golden sun, without which flames of Hell would have us freeze and with which dreams and reason become one.
For love to live, yes, there must be evil and sinning and debauchery and the like; yes, for there to be happiness there must be sorrow; yes, for there to be pleasure we must have first experienced pain - but it has to end somewhere, all the violence and hatred and aggression, otherwise...it'll go on forever; an eternity of despair. But there is hope. And that hope, that little tendril of stubborn dreams and wistful desires, teeters on the precipice of a destination to which the journey means more than anything. A long journey of infinite love begins with just one choice. Just one. Love, after all, is not only something worth dying for: it's something worth living for."
- opening two paragraphs of A. N. Williams' speech given in response to confused inquiries as to her sonnet, entitled "Deeper Than Soulmates". Itilacized words beginning with "breath of love" and ending with "become one" are a recitation of the first four lines of said sonnet.
Second Favorite Quote:
"...Dark-winged Night,
Into the bosom of Erebus dark and deep
Laid a wind-born egg, and as the seasons rolled
Forth sprang Love, the longed-for, the shining, with
wings of gold." - Aristophanes
Third Favorite Quote: "Life goes on. Tomorrow, I'll wake up, take a shower, eat breakfast, water the yard, and get some homework done. Monday, I'll wake up, shower, go to school, go to karate class that evening. And Tuesday, and Wednesday, and so on. The world doesn't stop turning; roses don't stop growing. As I long as I live, I can say, 'And life goes on.' No matter how much I hurt, no matter how I fail or succeed or grow old and helpless, the world keeps turning under my feet, and life goes on." - A. N. Williams
Favorite Quotes From TV Shows:
Ninth Doctor: "Excuse me, do you mind not farting while I'm saving the world?" Slitheen: "Would you rather silent-but-deadly?" - Doctor Who, Aliens of London
"This might seem like a stupid question, but has anything fallen from the sky recently?" - Ninth Doctor, Doctor Who, The Empty Child (in the middle of WW2)
"I'm glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words." - Ninth Doctor, Doctor Who, The Doctor Dances ("Last words": 'Go to your room!)
Rose: "Hello." Jack: "Hello." Rose: "Hello," pause, "Sorry, that was hello twice there." Cpt. Jack: "Are you feeling alright? You look a little dizzy." Rose: "What about you? You're not even in focus..." - Doctor Who, The Empty Child
"Can we stop agreeing on how we're going to die and do something about it?" - Dr. Daniel Jackson, Stargate SG-1
"I'm an Air Force officer just like you are, Colonel. And just because my reproductive organs are on the inside instead of the outside doesn't mean that I can't handle whatever you can handle." - Capt. Samantha Carter, Stargate SG-1
Col. O'Niell: "It's time for plan B." Maj. Carter: "We have a plan B?" Col. O'Niell: "No, but it's time for one." - Stargate SG-1
Teal'c: "Daniel Jackson's preliminary electroencephalogram proved anomalus." Col. O'Niell: "I dare you to say that again." - Stargate SG-1
Gen. Landry (about Vala): "She just accused the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee of having a... uh, let's just call it an 'insufficient manhood.' She's gotta go." - Stargate SG-1
Favorite Quotes From Books and Famous Stuff:
Prof. Snape: "Do you remember me telling you we are practing nonverbal spells, Potter?" Harry: "Yes." Prof. Snape: "Yes, sir." Harry: "There's no need to call me 'sir,' Professor." - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." - Aristotle
"What is now proved was once only imagined." - William Blake
"You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with the singleness of purpose." - William Adams
"There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people." - Josh Ashford
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." - Charles Austin Beard
"Question everything, and when it doesn't have an answer, make one." - A. N. Williams
"We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens." - (Justin) Brooks Atkinson
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to." - George Herbert Allen
"What is history but a fable agreed upon." - Napolean Bonaparte
"I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and have one's doubts." - G. B. Burgin
"It just goes to show that great loyalty and companionship can be found in both complete strangers and long-time friends, even if they are separated forever -- ...That even in the coldest and most distant of hearts, there is and always will be a glimmer of something that stays with them for an eternity longer than the forever they are apart. This book's joyful on the surface, sad underneath, and all around and in between is a determination to see the words through. All in all, nothing could possibly be any better than this." - A. N. Williams (in review of a book)
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." - (John) Calvin Coolidge
"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time." - Marian Wright Edelman
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard Aiken
"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting." - Edmund Burke
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." - Helen Keller
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." - Lady Nancy Astor
"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept." - John Gardner"
"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." - Unknown
"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." - Danny Kaye
"The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were the not the wrong sort of people." - Jon Wynne-Tyson
"Computers make it easy to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." - Andy Rooney
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." --Berthold Auerbach
"Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." - Richard Nixon
"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen." - Samuel Paterson
"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It is the same damn thing over and over." - Edna St. Vincent Millay
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin
"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning." - Bertha Flowers
"People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall." - Leonardo DiCaprio
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon
"I'm not running, and I'm not walking fast. I'm going where I need to be." - Johnny McEntyre
"There is always someone worse off than yourself." - Aesop
"The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." - Clive Staples Lewis
"You have to be honest with yourself. It's not that important with other people." - Unknown
"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." - Ernest Hemingway
"Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger." - Stella Benson
"Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn." - Sophocles
"As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end." - Adlai Stevenson
"Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on." - Anderson H. Scruggs
"People expect more from me. I expect more from me too." - Celine Dion
"The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading." - Archibald MacLeish
"Guns are left to do what words might have done earlier, properly used." - John Waller
"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money." - Mark Twain
"I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail." - William Faulkner
"Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy. Acting's just waiting for a custard pie. That's all." - Katherine Hepburn
"Without pain and sorrow, there can be no happiness or pleasure." - A. N. Williams
"Just as a hundred fools do not make one wise man, a heroic decision is not likely to come from a hundred cowards." - Adolf Hitler
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth." - Aesop
"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature." - Ernest Hemingway
"I'll sleep when I'm dead." - Warren Zevon
"Some people love us and some people loathe us. You can't dwell on it." - Mel Chisholm
"If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so." - Christopher Murley
"All say, how hard it is that we have to die--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live." - Mark Twain
"Be willing to give your best before expecting it of others." - Unknown
"A man trusts his ears less than his eyes." - Herodotus
"If you want something, go out and do it." - Victoria Adams
"I hear and I forget
I see and I remember
I do and I understand"
--Chinese Proverb
"Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself." - Malcolm X
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats
"He who listens only to truth is tragically misinformed; he who listens only to lies is not worth saving." - A. N. Williams
"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work." - Mark Twain
"Failure is an event -- not a person." - Unknown
"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists." - G.K. Chesterton
"If life indeed is a stage, then how can we act our parts if we can't read our script?" - Quyen Vu
"The more you know, the more you know you don't know." - Unknown
"To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for." - Alexander Smith
"Genius is the man who tells right from wrong. Wise is the one who admits that he is wrong." - A. N. Williams
I know more quotes than that. I'm just too lazy to go look up the exact wording.
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Is homophobia right? Should a person's sexual orientation affect the way a person is treated in society? If you say yes, read this and think again about your answer.
I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.
I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.
I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.
We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.
I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.
I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.
I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.
We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.
I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.
I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.
I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I did not have to always deal with society hating me.
I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.
I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most: love.
I am the person who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male.
Re-post this if you believe homophobia is wrong. Please do your part to end it!
If, upon seeing the series 4 trailers, you wanted to see Donna Noble exterminated, then her remains jumped on, burnt up, put in a blender, jumped on again, and then flung into the Void, copy this and paste it on your profile.
If, upon actually watching the first few episodes of series 4, you loved her to death, copy this and paste it on your profile.
Weird is good, strange is bad, and odd is when you don't know which to call someone. Weird is the same as different, which is the same as unique, therefore weird is good. If you are weird and proud of it, copy this onto your profile!
There's nothing wrong with arguing with yourself. It's when you argue with yourself and LOSE when it's weird. If you agree, copy this and put it in your profile.
If you have, in fact, argued with yourself and lost, copy this and put it in your profile.
If you talk to yourself, copy and paste this into your profile.
If you have ever stared at a computer screen for hours and hours reading stories that people who have no lives whatsoever and have enough obsession with something to write a story about it have written, and you are one of the aforementioned people, copy and paste this into your profile.
If you have ever pushed on a door that said pull—or vice versa—copy this into your profile.
If you dislike those obnoxious snobby people, PLEASE copy this to your profile.
92 percent of the teenage population would die if Abercrombie and Fitch said that it wasn't cool to breathe anymore. Put this in your profile if you're part of that 8 percent that would be laughing their bums off.
If you have ever had a mad laughing fit for absolutely no reason, copy and paste this into your profile.
98 percent of teenagers do drugs and/or drink alcohol...put this in your profile if you like bagels.
If you probably need a life but have no intentions of getting one, copy this and paste it in your profile.
Whovian and PROUD!!
If you've ever wondered what you're like in a parallel universe, put this on your profile.
If you know facts that not many others know, like in the United States it's a federal offence to cheat at Poker, put this in your profile.
If you have ever said something that has nothing to do with the current conversation, put this in your profile.
If you have ever slapped yourself on the head and/or banged your head on the table and/or hit your head on a shelf for no reason, put this in your profile.
If you have embarassing memories that make you want to slap yourself/someone else, put this on your profile.
If you hear the voices of characters in your head, put this onto your profile.
If you are weird, insane, crazy, odd, not-normal, a freak of nature, psychotic, random or anything similar, put this in your profile.
A large percentage of writers don't know the difference between "your" and "you're". Or "it's" and "its". Or "there", "their" and "they're". Or "too" and "to". If you are one of the ones that do know the differences and want to deck those who don't, put this in your profile. (And God, do I ever!)
If you think Writer's Block is evil, put this in your profile.
If you've ever burst out laughing in a quiet room for no reason, put this in your profile.
For me, crazy is a loose term. Crazy is when your stare at a pencil and laugh when someone asks you just what you find so interesting about the eraser. Crazy is when you do or say a totally random thing like, "Do you ever wonder where the eraser bits go?" or start having a thumbwar with yourself. So if you're crazy, put this on your profile.
If you've ever seen a movie or TV show so many times you can quote it word for word and you do so at random times or when the moment seems to need a quote, put this in your profile.
If for no reason, you've laughed during a part of a movie or show that wasn't during a normally funny part, put this in your profile.
If you think flamers should get a life, put this in your profile.
If you have ever had a mad laughing fit for no reason, put this in your profile.
If you believe that writing Doctor Who smut is a minor blasphemy, even when it's your own ship, just because he's the Doctor and we shouldn't be playing with him like that, copy this and paste it in your profile. (Implied smut is all right, though. You know what I mean.)
If you're sick of all these "copy this and paste it on your profile" messages, copy this and paste it on your profile.
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