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hey there, name's laurel.

unrecognizable reflections - we don't really see ourselves as who we portray to others. sometimes mirrors don't create accurate reflections.

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About Me

NAME: Laurel

AGE: old enough.

FANDOMS: 

TV SHOWS: Glee, Once Upon a Time, Big Bang Theory, The Glee Project, Avatar: Legend of Korra

BOOKS: The Hunger Games, Harry Potter

MOVIES: The Lion King, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Inception, Marvel Universe

MUSICALS: RENT

OTHER ASSORTED FAVORITES:

MUSIC (English): Glee, Taylor Swift, ADELE, Sara Bareilles, Lifehouse, A Fine Frenzy, Bon Jovi, Journey, Eminem, Goo Goo Dolls, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, The Killers, Sam Tsui, Paramore, Owl City, Billy Joel, R.E.M., Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Boys Like Girls, Celine Dion, The Swell Season, Pentatonix, Maroon 5, Imagine Dragons, Two Door Cinema Club, Passion Pit, The Lumineers

MUSIC (Korean & Chinese): 2NE1, 2PM, SHINee, HyunA, IU, SNSD, Beast, Big Bang, MBLAQ, Super Junior (& -M), Jay Chou, Leehom Wang

MUSICALS: Once, Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Lion King, Thoroughly Modern Millie, American Idiot, Billy Elliott, Avenue Q

TV SHOWS: How I Met Your Mother, Star Trek, Dream High 1 & 2, Community, New Girl, The Voice (US & China), The New Normal

BOOKS: 1984, Inheritance Series, Warriors Series, Ender’s Game Series, I Am a Strange Loop, Crank, Impulse, Wasted, Madness, Where the Red Fern Grows, Sarah Dessen books (basically all of them haha), Looking for Alaska, Lovely Bones, Kite Runner, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Jane Eyre, Norwegian Wood, The Fault in Our Stars

WRITERS: Haruki Murakami, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Sarah Dessen, George Orwell, Rene Descartes, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Green, Ellen Hopkins

MOVIES: Once, The Fountain, 500 Days of Summer, Mulan, Tangled, RENT, Star Wars, Dead Poets Society, Revolutionary Road, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Starry Starry Night, Memento, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, A Beautiful Mind, The Intouchables

STRAIGHT GIRL CRUSHES: Naya Rivera, Heather Morris, Taylor Swift, Emma Watson, Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, IU, Hyuna, Mila Kunis, Adele, Zooey Deschanel, Anne Hathaway, CL, Jennifer Morrison, Scarlett Johansson, Nellie Veitenheimer, Natalie Portman

APPRECIATED GUYS: Harry Shum Jr, Taecyeon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jonghyun, Sam Tsui, Michael Weisman, Andrew Garfield, Robert Downey Jr, Adam Levine, Steve Kazee, Ryan Gosling

INTELLECTUAL INFLUENCES: Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, Rene Descartes, George Orwell, Haruki Murakami, Richard Feynman

MUSICAL INFLUENCES (piano and marimba): Robert Schumann, Claude Debussy, Keiko Abe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Tommy Igoe, Gordon Stout, Ludwig van Beethoven

SCHOOL SUBJECTS: Biology, European History, Mathematics, English, Band/Music, Physics (I’m not good at it though)

LANGUAGES: English, Mandarin Chinese, Latin, French, Japanese, Italian, Korean
(note: italicized are languages I am fluent in or have studied / the others are languages I wish I knew)

HOBBIES/INTERESTS: marimba, piano, dance, writing, reading, singing, art (traditional and digital), derping

OTHER THINGS YOU’LL FIND HERE: 

  • Personal posts
  • Nerdy stuff (biology, math, history, philosophy, psychology)
  • CTY
  • Quotes 
  • Art (mine and others’)
  • Disney
  • My writing
  • Fandom blogging
  • Random reblogs
  • And everything in between

My blog is honestly really all over the place. What you see at one point probably won’t be anywhere near the same as what you see if you go another few pages or something. 

MY OTHER BLOGS:

(meh I haven’t had time to post on these in a long time)
list of tags commonly used are on link in the sidebar

you know what, JUST TALK TO ME OR READ MY BLOG TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ME