Dormouse is a Troper of strange substance. She tends towards a love of science fiction and fantasy, which in her writings tend to blend or blur (her biggest project-in-Conception Hell would probably be technically described as science fiction with a Mohs Hardness Scale Factor of about two due to lack of space travel entirely, but has a fantasyesque bubble universe). Otherwise she has rarely shown an inclination to create traditional fantasy settings which involve magic systems at all - aside from one idea she has tended towards setting with other elements. She is a fan of anything (so far as she knows) by JRR Tolkien and harbors a somewhat rare enthusiasm for the Silmarillion. Neil Gaiman and Garth Nix and Ursula K LeGuin and The Bartimaeus Trilogy and a sprinkling of Discworld are other influences/loves of hers as a general rule of thumb. Anything by the Bard is worth it, just about, though she almost always prefers the Ensemble Dark Horse or the villian to the main character (Edmund from King Lear, Mercutio from Romeo And Juliet, Laertes from Hamlet, Iago from Othello - soyeah). As to other media, she is relatively sparsely furnished: She plans to watch more Doctor Who at her earliest convenience; she loved Pans Labyrinth watched at night on a flight to London, and most Pixar is golden. Manga/anime-wise, she's watched the requisite Death Note and is reading the exquisitely cerebral Liar Game. She plays online Mafia proficiently.
She embodies or evokes certain Tropes. Among them:
- All Jews Are Ashkenazi - Right here. Averted mildly by a few friends who are very much Sephardi (somehow she thinks Sephardim tend to be cooler.
- Brainy Brunette - Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
- Brilliant, but Lazy - Very lazy.
- Cool Big Sis - I like to think so, anyway.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander - In spades (though it's not wildly shoved in one's face every minute of every day).
- Crossword Puzzle - Subverted. I'm not really good at them but once spent an enjoyable day in camp on-and-off collaborating on one with a few friends.
- Informed Judaism - Averted. If you're around me it's pretty clear I'm Jewish from both a cultural and a religious standpoint.
- Massive Numbered Siblings - Six total children in the house certainly counts.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette - I have very very dark brown hair generally taken for black, and fairly pale skin (YMMV depending on how much sunlight I've gotten recently, as I do tan, to my mild dismay).
- Ridiculous Procrastinator - Turned Up To Eleven.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
- Jews Love to Argue - Especially about Judaism. You should see my class in school.
