name :    Elaine birthday :    July 13 age :    20 residence :    California, USA ethnicity :    Taiwanese orientation :    pansexual

Hey, I’m Elaine, affectionately called “Laine”, “Lainey”, “E”, or “dumbass slut” by my friends when I flirt with the cute girl at the counter. I was born in Virginia but grew up in Southern California and have now relocated to Northern California for college. I’m first-generation Taiwanese, so I identify as an American while remaining aware of my cultural roots. I’m an atheist, a liberal, and happily pansexual, which means that gender has never determined my romantic interests. I would describe myself as talkative, silly, artistic, friendly, cheerful, and paranoid. I laugh a little bit too much and definitely have an intense Peter Pan complex.

I used to be pretty awful in social situations involving strangers, but I’ve grown a lot in the past year and have put a lot of my insecurities behind me. I used to just have a big circle of really close friends, but I feel like my life is now overflowing with friends. It’s really great. I used to be a total introvert and love spending time by myself, but after my meltdown last summer, I’ve decided to start over new for my sophomore year. It’s been…really, really successful, and I have to say that I’m really proud of myself for how far I’ve come.

Last summer, my boyfriend and I had a pretty complicated and traumatic breakup. I’ve been single for almost a year now, and I must admit that I’m definitely enjoying it. We’re on an indefinite break of sorts but mostly we’re just keeping our minds open and are going to see how the future pans out. I can be pretty cynical about long-term relationships and lifetime commitment, but Mark definitely changed my mind about a lot of things. That’s why he’s special. But seriously? Whatever happens happens! No use mourning; I have better things to do with my life than be anything but happy at all times.

Currently, I’m attending UC Berkeley as a prospective English and Media Studies double major. I aspire to work as an editor at a fiction publishing company, but who knows what’ll happen? I’ll just have to wait and see what life has in store for me — and embrace it!

likes    bookstores, cartoons, clean public restrooms, clothes, collecting rubber ducks, cosmetics, Disneyland, diversity, expensive hotels, fireworks, friends, Hayden Panettiere, hugs, James Marsden, Jason Mraz, jokes, Kate Beckinsale, Keira Knightley, laughing, Las Vegas, marching band, massages, Matchbox Twenty, Pixar movies, slash fanfiction, taking pictures, reading, shopping, smoothies, summer, sushi, technology, web/graphic designing, weekends, witty people, World of Warcraft, writing

dislikes    animals, arguing, awkward silences, being guilt-tripped, being smothered, being wrong, bigotry, brand name whores, cold weather, conflicts, clingy people, dirty restaurants, Evangelical fundamentalists, derogatory jokes, homework, homophobia, knives, narrow-minded people, math, needles, posers, public bathrooms, rain, spyware, suckups, things piercing skin, littering, war

colors :    bright turquoise blue, yellow, green
number :    13
food :    sashimi, pasta, gelato, seafood in general, cheesecake brownies
beverage :    smoothies
quote :    “If they give you lined paper, write the other way.” – William Carlos Williams

fics :    All Torn Down by Obake
As Told In Song by Victoria Hughes
Bound & From the Rose, Comes the Thorn by Calliopeia
Crash and Burn by Nephrite Eyes
Experiment by Borath
First Time for Everything & On Second Thought by evangelene
Headfirst for Halos by neo-chan
Human Interest and Two Crows Joy by The Mad Lori
Masks by L. Mouse
Momentum by Regann
Music of the Spheres by mithen
Pirate Dreams by Alex Fandra
Spark by McKay
Take Me Home by BlancheMalfoy
That First Glimpse of the Sky by Shadow over Egypt
The Purpose of a Heart by Fated-Shadows
Thief by Dierdre
Wicked Game by McKay
Where the Lightning Strikes by mithen

authors :    J.R.R. Tolkien, George Orwell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jhumpa Lahiri
books :    The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffennegger
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series by Rick Riordan
the Young Wizards series by Diana Duane
the Artemis Fowl collection by Eoin Colfer
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Memory-Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Paradise Lost by John Milton

comics : Superman/Batman, Batman, Nightwing, Red Robin, Superman, The Authority, Fables

tv shows :   Yu-Gi-Oh!, Justice League, Batman: The Animated Series, Digimon, X-Men: Evolution, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The IT Crowd, Superman: The Animated Series, Transformers Animated, Scrubs, FlashForward, Fairly Odd Parents, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Glee

movies :   The Lord of the Rings, Brokeback Mountain, Love Actually, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Inception, Ratatouille, Up, Toy Story 3, Cars, Transformers, Click, WALL•E, August Rush, V for Vendetta, Stranger Than Fiction, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Bridge to Terabithia, Milk, Revenge of the Fallen, The Incredible Hulk, X2, Fight Club, Sherlock Holmes, Iron Man 2, Iron Man, Green Lantern: First Flight, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Ranma 1/2: Nihao My Concubine, 27 Dresses, Watchmen, The Notebook, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The House Bunny, The Hangover, Little Miss Sunshine, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Digimon: The Movie, Aladdin, Pokemon 2000, The Princess and the Frog, Big Fish, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, The Phantom of the Opera, Rebecca.

genres :    alternative, rock, indie, billboard hits, hip-hop/rap, house/dance, jazz, Mediterranean/Latin guitar music, soundtrack

artists :   Matchbox Twenty, Rob Thomas, John Mayer, Jack Johnson, Death Cab for Cutie, Coldplay, The Postal Service, OneRepublic, Maroon 5, Phoenix, Owl City, The Strokes, Cage The Elephant, Modest Mouse, Benny Benassi, Linkin Park, Basshunter, The Killers, Carrie Underwood, Vampire Weekend, LMFAO, 3OH!3, The xx, U2, Norah Jones, Kanye West, Akon, Black Eyed Peas, Arctic Monkeys, MGMT, Gordon Goodwin, James Blunt, Nelly, The Fray, Enrique Iglesias, Clay Aiken, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Eminem, Madonna, Goo Goo Dolls, Stan Getz, Matchbox Twenty, Jason Mraz.

songs :    “Bright Lights”, “Disease”, and “The Difference” by Matchbox Twenty + “No Such Thing” by John Mayer + “Everything” by Michael Buble + “We Will Become Silhouettes” by The Postal Service + “Dream a Little Dream of Me”

fandoms :    Brokeback Mountain, Cars, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, DC Comics, Digimon, Harry Potter, Narnia, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ranma 1/2, The Daily Show, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Transformers, Yu-Gi-Oh!

characters : (Cars) Lightning McQueen, Doc, (DC) Dick Grayson/Robin/Nightwing, (Digimon) Takeru, (Ranma) Ranma, (Transformers) Optimus Prime, (YGO!) Malik Ishtar

pairings :    (BBM) Ennis/Jack, (Cars) Doc/Lightning, The King/Chick, Chick/Lightning, (CATCF) Charlie/Mike, (DC) Superman/Batman, (Digimon) Taichi/Yamato, Daisuke/Ken, Daisuke/Wallace, (HP) Harry/Draco, Remus/Severus, (Narnia) Peter/Edmund, (PotC) Jack/Will, (Ranma) Ranma/Akane, (Transformers) Bee/Sam, (TSL) Zack/Cody, (YGO!) Bakura/Yami, Kaiba/Jounouchi, Yuugi/Ryou.