It’s back!!! This is some sort of spur-of-the moment kind of post. I realized that my first one wasn’t complete yet! So here are the additional five things where I tried to break some labels! Woot!

I like spoilers.

I only have read the first two books from The Raven Cycle series, and because my timeline is full of spoilers, I already knew who died. I was shocked, now, that’s a given, but I wasn’t boiling mad that I knew who it was even before I read the book. I have a very different approach and treatment to spoilers. If you didn’t know, I personally seek spoilers, especially if I love the series to pieces. It will never deter me from enjoying the series, book, etc. I know some people are offended by knowing information beforehand, and I respect that. But I’m an oddball when it comes to spoilers. So if you share spoilers, I won’t be mad. In fact, if I’m very interested in that piece of information, I will actually ask you for more. Spoilers have different side effects for me. It fuels me more. So yeah, spoilers, I ain’t hating you! :]

I’m a bibliophile who prefers paperbacks to hardbacks.

I know hardbacks are such pretties; they are nice to gaze at. But as a collector, I really, really prefer paperbacks because: (1) they are economical: they are more than a hundred pesos cheaper than hardbacks. (2) They are space savers; they take up little space, plus they don’t weigh much if I do carry them around. (3) They don’t have jackets. I hate dust jackets (with the exception of my manga, which is not included). I also cover my books with plastic, and it’s hard if they have a jacket. It doesn’t look nice with it! So yeah, paperbacks FTW! :heart:

I’m a bookworm who doesn’t like to read outside.

I read it in one sitting. I remember being asked how fast I read, and I think I told this person I could read a 300-page book in 3–4 hours. Less if I really, really love it. So I always designate a time when I cannot be disturbed. If there are chances that I do read outside, that means I have plenty of time to do so. If I only have, say, a 10-minute break, I’d rather use that time to do something else. Not reading; definitely not reading. I’m just going to be restless because I was unable to continue. Outside means busy. So outside is not the best place for me to read.

I’m a huge anime fan who hasn’t watched a single Ghibli film and doesn’t watch a lot of highly acclaimed anime films).

If you check my MAL account, I have watched hundreds upon hundreds of anime series and counting! (But granted, I’ve been an anime viewer since I was like 5 or 6 years old? So the number isn’t really a big surprise. I don’t even remember some of them anymore. But I never tried anime that are quite highly acclaimed, like Akira (the film that inspired Looper, a bit of the Matrix), Paprika (also an inspiration for the movie Inception), and not even a single Ghibli film, like Princess Mononoke (from which I heard Cameron got some ideas for his hit film, Avatar).

But I did watch some of them. I really liked Metropolis by Ozamu Tezuka (the godfather of anime/manga) and that action film, Ghost in the Shell (from which The Matrix drew its main inspiration for its cyberpunk theme). Nevertheless, this is something I openly and readily try to rectify.
I’m perhaps one of the least trendy bloggers.

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I think I must have said my piece about it already. I’m not one to jump immediately onto trends. I don’t actually feel like an outcast, even though I don’t do what others do. It needs to be something I really like before I try it myself. Also, if it doesn’t fit my personality and style, I will not do it. I more on the: “If I know I won’t like it, I’ll not try it. But how do I know? I just know!

Do we share the same sentiment? Also labeled in such a way? Do share it with me! I love learning about your thoughts about it!