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You Know You Are Obsessed With Tamora Pierce when...
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You make a fire, touch it and are surprised because it
hurts
You stare at a candle for two hours trying to use your
gift to light it and when it doesn�t work you say you just have to meditate
more
You wear a rock on a chain around your neck and insist
the Mother Goddess gave it to you.
You cut your hair extremely short, dye it read, get
purple contacts, and use the masculine form of your name and only tell a few
people you are truly female.
When you see a really tall man with black hair you run
up to him and ask him if his name is Numair.
You try to handle red hot metal with no protection and
are surprised when it�s still hot when it touches your skin.
You talk to animals and wait for them to talk back and
if they don�t you assume they must be in a bad mood.
You won�t eat meat of any kind.
You won�t even consider going out with a guy if he isn�t
at least four years older than you.
You have to sleep outside and you NEVER forget your bow
You get into a major fight at school and when you go to
see the principle your excuse is: �I fell down!! Honest!!!�
When some one mentions the word �ordeal� you start to
shiver and refuse to say a word about it.
When the sparrows in your yard don�t listen to you, you
are forever traumatized.
When people ask you who you have a crush on, you say
�King Jonathan� and ignore the strange looks they give you.
You name your cat Faithful and insist that his eyes are
really purple even if they don�t look like it.
You swoon whenever you hear the words George, Jonathan,
Numair, Neal or Dom.
You won't even go near the kid at school named Roger
especially if you catch him wearing orange.
When some one asks you where you�re from you say
Pirates� Swoop and when they don�t seem to recognize the name you go, �Oh you
must not be too familiar with Tortall. It�s a couple days ride southwest of
Corus.� When they still seem confused you walk away muttering to yourself
about people these days.
You call your history teacher Sir Myles and your gym
teacher The Stump.
You have a great fear of the TV show Mr. Rogers.
You talk to animals as you would humans, and you�re
convinced they understand.
Whenever you hear the word that sounds somewhat similar
to Ozorne, you clench your fists and start muttering curses,
When your science teacher talks about the ozone layer,
you grit your teeth and declare your ready for war.
You're convinced that plants come up to greet you.
You wear a black robe and try to turn your enemies into
trees.
You have a horse, real or toy, named Cloud,
Peachblossom, Darkmoon, or Moonlight.
You insist you are fleeing Carthak because the Emperor
ordered you under arrest.
Your parents are getting worried about you because
they�ve gotten a dozen phone calls from the principal about how you�ve been
standing in the halls trying to blast your enemies with your gift
You stick lead into your baseball bat to improve your
swing
When the kids you baby-sit ask for a bedtime story you
tell them about the time you saved Fief Dunlath, or the time you and knight
master defeated the Ysandir.
When the class brain starts lecturing you, you ask if
they know about the Bazhir tribe called the Bloody Hawk or about the Doi
seers.
You see a black hawk and start talking to it, referring
to it as Numair and asking it how in Mithros's name did he get stuck as a hawk
again.
The new girl in school, Delia, is really nice to you,
but whenever you see her, you mutter to your friends "Slut" just loudly enough
to hear you. And when she takes you to the counselor and the counselor asks
you why you said that you say "Well, she did sleep with Prince Jonathan and
who knows who else."
You say odds bobs, a lot�
You wear purple contact lenses
When you get called out of class because you are getting
picked up early from school, you walk in and quickly say, 'I fell down!'
You try to control the weather
You carry around a sword for years, then at the end you
lock yourself in the basement and pretend to endure mass amounts of pain
silently
You wont even think of deeming a guy worthy of you if he
isn't named George, Jon, Numair, Cleon, Liam, or Dom
You draw a lioness on your brother's toy shield and
confiscate it and his toy sword claiming you've earned them and then carry
them around with you
You have your own toy shield and sword
You get up at dawn to practice the art of Shang Fighting
When you're asked where you are from you respond,
'Tortall' and just smile
When you get a fever you are convinced that you are
going to die because you think you have the sweating sickness, inwardly your
curse Roger
You're completely convinced that Jackie Chan is a Shang
Warrior
You walk around making everybody call you Alanna, Kel,
or Daine
You mention your favorite Tamora Pierce character,
everyone in the room flees
You wish that you lived in Tortall and were best buds
with your fav. character
You talk to passing animals and expect them to answer
you.
You name your iguana Skysong, call it Kitten and insist
that it's a dragon.
In geography you start to draw a map of Tortall when
your teacher says draw your country.
Every time you smell something bad you scream 'arrghhh
stormwings!!' and run for cover.
You dress as Alanna when its Halloween.
You dress as Alanna when its
NOT Halloween.
When asked where you are from
you reply, Snowsdale, Corus, Trebond, or Scanra and you can�t fathom why
anyone wouldn�t have heard of these places before
Whenever someone asks what
kind of gift you want for Christmas you promptly describe the color, skill
level, and what mastery you want it to be
You stay far, far, way from
any city that has the word �Black� in it
You�ve upset your father
countless times by telling him that your real da is a god
You find this page hilariously funny
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