If you're curious about the avatar, it is robots applauding something, and it is from the fantastic webcomic Gunnerkrigg Court. If you have never read any of it, I highly suggest you do.

Hello. I am Penelope Wendy Bing. But not really. Well, not really, but it's good enough. I'm a college junior double-majoring in English and Theatre arts and minoring in music. I love to write, read, sing, and act, although lately I only get to do them when it's for school. I hope to teach ELL and/or high school English. I'm Catholic and politically smack dab in the middle. Bad Wolf.

Current Events (Updated 11/11/15):

Writing- Essays, because I'm an English major.
Reading- The York mystery plays for my medieval literature class. English major intensifies
Listening to- The babble of a crew preparing to run a show.
Wearing- A dress and heels that I haven't quite broken in (ow).
Eating- Nothing.
Drinking- Water
Breathing- Air, I'm glad to say.
Planning- An essay. See above.
Contemplating- THE ESSAY. SEE ABOVE.
Fangirling over- Percy Jackson and the Olympians and its extended universe. Loved The Sword of Summer!
Dreading- essay redundancy
Hoping- essay done

Honors:

I received the Summer 2010 Hunger Games Fanfiction Awards for

Best Poet

Best Multichapter Author

Funniest Story/Best Parody (Funny Little Fruit)

Best Single Poem (The Alphabet Book)

Best Single Poem: Runner-up (Where Are the Victors)

Best Drabble Series (Little Pictures)

I received the Summer 2011 Hunger Games Fanfiction Awards for

Best WTF Moment (Funny Little Fruit)

Most Humorous (Funny Little Fruit)

Best Backstory (It Starts With Five)

I received the Starvation Monthly Oneshot Challenge awards for

1st Place (It Starts With Five. Prompt: Five)

2nd Place (To Find the Space Between. Prompt: Perfection)

3rd Place (Sunset, Dawn. Prompt: Dawn.)

A reader also wrote this limerick about one of my stories, Funny Little Fruit.

The apple is a funny little fruit.

He and the cheese had a dispute.

The cheese got quite haughty,

Quite rude and quite snotty,

And, eaten by Apple, turned mute.

Favorites:

Movies: Ratatouille, Princess Bride, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, pretty much any Disney musical, Dead Poets Society, Monster House, Coraline, Nightmare Before Christmas (I'm going through a mild Tim Burton phase) the Muppets Christmas Carol, Flipped, The Crucible...the list goes on.

Books: I can't possibly list everything I read, so I'll give you a "short" list. Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Leviathan, The Pendragon Adventure, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Warriors, Faeries of Dreamdark, Maximum Ride, Artemis Fowl (all of these are a series) Un Lun Dun, Bad Kitty (a picture book, but so cute!) Skippyjon Jones (ditto the picture book thing), Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Expect this list to grow as I realize I've forgotten stuff.

I feel that one books series needs individual mention, because it's so under-supported. The Chanter of Tremaris trilogy by Cate Constable. Amazing, beautifully written books. If you haven't read it yet, do! If you have, then post a story about it. PM m to tell me you have and I promise I'll R&R.

Music: Evanescence, Kerli, the soundtracks of the musical Wicked and every Disney musical out there, Yuki Kajiura (a Japanese composer), A Fine Frenzy, Florence the Machine, Fall Out Boy, Eric Whitacre, and too much other stuff to list. Again, this list will probably grow.

Anime/Manga: Gentlemen's Alliance Cross, D.Gray Man, Tokyo Mew Mew (although I haven't read much of it at all. D: )

Quotes:

It's you and me against the world... We attack at dawn. -Unknown

Those who danced were thought to be rather insane by those who could not hear the music. -Angela Monet

Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet. -Unknown

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing's going to get better, it's not. -The Onceler (The Lorax by Dr. Seuss)

Insert pretty much every line from Firefly in here*

iShip: Peeta/Katniss, Amy/Rory, Alek/Deryn, Beetle/Jenna, Magpie/Talon, Andrew/Parley, Aja/Spader, B'Elanna/Tom, Seven/Harry, Deeba/Hemi, Chakotay/Janeway, Max/Fang, Percy/Annabeth, Allen/Road, Lenalee/Kanda or Lenalee/Lavi, Artemis/Holly, Finnick/Annie, Bella/Edward, Haine/Takanari, William/Janet, Jessica/Rex, Booth/Bones, Angela/Hodgins, Jack/Kat, Simon/Maia, Kendra/Gavin (and yes, I'm in denial. You all should come join me; denial is lovely this time of year :D).

Stop the Pairing Wars!

By copying and pasting this in your profile, you vow to respect other pairings and the people that like them.

You shalt not insult them, explain why they can't be together, or say that they would rather be with someone else.

You shalt have your opinions but shalt not insult shalt avoid them if you hate them.

You shalt keep an open mind about stories even if you despise the pairing.

You shalt paste this in your profile.

Copy Pastas-

82 percent of teenagers do drugs, drink alcohol, and rob convenience stores...put this in your profile if you like bagels.

The Review Revolution...

Even if the fic has 10,002,464 reviews already...

Even if the fic is older than time itself...

Even if it was abandoned a loooooooooooooooooooooong time ago...

Even if the author turned out to be a total psychopath...

Even if the OC is a Sue and the spelling would make a dictionary cry...

I will review every fic I read. What goes around comes around, and more people will review my own fics. I have joined Review Revolution.

Now goodbye to you all! I think I'll close with a poem written for me by my good friend Mel. I think it'll provide a sense of clossure. If not you'll get to enjoy some fun poetry. Speaking of Mel's poetry, all you Hunger Games fans should go read her poem book 'Haunting the Loser'. Now without further adieu, the end of my profile.

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Nighty night night.
Don't get tucked in too tight.
Your feet will go numb,
your mouth will go dumb,
you'll lose your sense of touch,
and that's just too much.
It's happened to me,
Try it; you'll see.
But I'd advise you not,
because it also makes you hot.
And with heat you can't deal,
when you simply can't feel.

-LoveTheBoyWithTheBread