"I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband."
~ Bathsheba Everdene, Far From the Madding Crowd

"The liberties protected by the Constitution are not fair-weather freedoms -- in place when times are good but able to be cast aside in times of trouble. There is no question that this country has faced, and will face, emergencies of every sort. But the solution to a national crisis can never be permitted to supersede the commitment to individual liberty that stands as the foundation of the American experiment. The Constitution cannot accept the concept of a 'new normal' where the basic liberties of the people can be subordinated to open-ended emergency mitigation measures.

"Rather, the Constitution sets certain lines that may not be crossed, even in an emergency. Actions taken by defendants crossed those lines."
~ Judge William Stickman IV, September 2020 Federal court ruling (public record) in favor of the citizens of Pennsylvania sick of living under the iron heel of the delusional, self-appointed King Wolf of Pennsylvania

Incredible as he inept,
Whenever the history books are kept,
They'll call him the Phony King of P-A!*
*Parody and transformative use permitted by Fair Use Act

Favorite Movies:
1. Apollo 13
How To Train Your Dragon 2 (yes, 2 - first film was good, but it seems like a prologue for this awesome, epic story)
King Kong
Ghostbusters
The Marvel Cinematic Universe films
The Toy Story trilogy
Beauty and the Beast
The Lion King
It's A Wonderful Life
Rise of the Guardians, or as I call it, The Film That Didn't Deserve To Bomb!

Favorite Books:
1. 1984
Fahrenheit 451
Little Women
Dracula
The Harry Potter series
Wuthering Heights
Mansfield Park and the rest of Jane Austen (minus Persuasion... UGH!)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Jungle Books (both)
*sigh* Atlas Shrugged (author was 100% insane about many things, but you need only to look around and listen to see she was 100% right in her predictions about other things)

Greatest Cartoons:
1. Avatar: The Last Airbender (ooh, shocker, huh?)
2. The Powerpuff Girls
3. Steven Universe
4. Rupert
5. Adventures of the Gummi Bears
6. Teen Titans
7. Danny Phantom
8. DreamWorks' Dragons (should be a favorite of every Avafan)
9. Pinky and the Brain
10. Gargoyles

Greatest TV Show Of All Time: I Love Lucy
Greatest Cartoon of All Time: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Best Girl Power Show: The Powerpuff Girls
Show Best At Getting Stuff Past The Radar: Avatar: The Legend Of Korra
Best Written Literary Character Of All Time: Severus Snape
Greatest Fictional Character Of All Time: Scrooge McDuck, as written by geniuses Carl Barks and Keno Don Rosa

Shipper Of: Mai/Zuko, Toph/Sokka (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Mako/Asami, Bolin/Korra (Avatar: The Legend Of Korra)
*Later: Korra/Asami. Wow...*
Janine Melnitz/Egon Spengler
Ron/Hermione, Harry/Luna (Harry Potter)
Katniss/Peeta, Gale/Madge (The Hunger Games)
Christine/Raoul (The Phantom of the Opera)
Judy Hopps/Nick Wilde (Zootopia)
Hiccup/Astrid AND Astrid/Heather (aka "how Korrasami should have been written from the start") AND Aang/Zuk- sorry, I mean Hiccup/Dagur (Avatar: The Legend- oops, always get those two franchises mixed up... DreamWorks' Dragons)
Scrooge McDuck/Glittering Goldie

Shipper Of Pairings that Would Be Considered Blasphemous In Their Fandom: Amethyst/Steven and Jasper/Steven

First Pairing I Ever Shipped When I Was Too Young To Know What I Was Doing Or Knew It Had A Name:
"With moves like that, I don't know why you've never beaten me."
"Maybe because it's fun having you come back for more, Bill..."

Worst Literary Characters Of All Time:
3. Bella Swann
2. Anne Elliot
1. John Galt, fiction's worst Mary Sue ("too good to be true" = faking reality; "too good to be true" plus sociopathy = intolerable)

Favorite Biblical Passage:
"And when He entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to Him as He was teaching, and said, 'By what authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority?' Jesus answered them, 'I also will ask you one question, and if you tell Me the answer, then I also will tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John, from where did it come? From heaven or from man?' And they discussed it among themselves, saying, 'If we say, "From heaven," He will say to us, "Why then did you not believe him?" But if we say, "From man," we are afraid of the crowd, for they all hold that John was a prophet.' So they answered Jesus, 'We do not know.' And He said to them, 'Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.' " Matthew 21:23-27 ESV