"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

-Oscar Wilde

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First update in about two years or so.

Decided profile page needed a massive overhaul, because this is a lot of my high school self and it's a little embarrassing.

Not that me being almost 23 and still writing fanfiction isn't, but...whatever.

So for those of you wondering, things are going well, I've been busy (and not really writing as much) but with me slowly losing my mind here in grad school, I figured that fanfiction was a good way to cling to sanity.

For those of you just meeting me, I'm Rora. I write fanfiction. I obsess in unhealthy amounts over things that I enjoy, most of which tend to involve hot guys, high drama, and good plots. And vampires, let's not forget about those. I'm currently finishing up my masters degree. After that, I plan to go and fulfill my lifelong dream by teaching. And maybe publishing a few books, that'd be nice, too.

Aurora's Loves

Movies: Too many to list, but a few favorites are Van Helsing, the Underworld series, Black Death, Dorian Gray, the Hunger Games series, Serenity, Avengers, the Captain America/Thor/Iron Man movies, and The Road to El Dorado

Music: Evanescence, Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, Kamelot, Halestorm, Epica, Blackmore's Night, and getting into Delain and Amaranthe

Books: Oh sweet Jesus...anything by Cassandra Clare, just about anything young adult really (Divergent, The Hunger Games, etc), Andrew Davidson's The Gargoyle, Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Adarlan's Assassin series by Sarah Maas, and the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin, that bastard.

TV Shows: The Musketeers, Orphan Black, Merlin, Sleepy Hollow, Game of Thrones, Firefly, The Pillars of the Earth, and an assortment of cooking reality shows that involve Gordon Ramsey.

And a few words of wisdom from my favorite characters

"If I even complain about an assignment not being exciting again - "
"I'll punch you so hard you'll beg me to kick you."
"I was going to say 'remind me of this moment,' but that works too." -Aramis and Athos (The Musketeers 1.09, "Knight Takes Queen")

"What about the code?"
"Oh. Who has time?" - Porthos and Athos (The Musketeers 1.01, "Friends and Enemies")

"Come on, get your shit together, you silly tit!" - Sarah Manning (Orphan Black 2.01, "Nature Under Constraint and Vexed")

"Honey. That thing I did back there, for Peeta, that was called saving his life. If I wanted you both dead, you'd be dead." - Finnick Odair (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)

How About a Song for the Road?

"Drop Dead Cynical" - Amaranthe

Drop dead cynical

I need attention, feed my addiction
I want the action, the satisfaction
You have to feed me worse that I inquire
So my discord someday takes me higher

I hope to thrill you that expectations rise
I want to bring you so that you can compromise
I'm coming at you like a killer now
so it's the truth you are drop dead cynical

Welcome to the new world
Open up the gates of paradise
So let's get cynical
Run into a new maze
Open up your minds
and soon we'll all
Be drop dead cynical

Be drop dead cynical

It's your illusions, fatal contradiction
I need the action premonition
I like to thrill you, I am what inspires
Let you explode in a cosmic fire

your death counts as a light that feels right
To die so sadly as the red behind the sun
You make it hard to justify now
Say what you want you are drop dead cynical

Welcome to the new world
Open up the gates of paradise
So let's get cynical
Run into a new maze
Open up your minds
and soon we'll all
Be drop dead cynical

Be drop dead cynical

I hope to thrill you that expectations rise
I want to bring you so that you can compromise
I'm coming at you like a killer now
so it's the truth you are drop dead cynical

Welcome to the new world
Open up the gates of paradise
So let's get cynical
Run into a new maze
Open up your minds
and soon we'll all
Be drop dead cynical