hee, sounds like a good recourse to me. and yeah, i don't like unrelenting grimness either. or like, stuff that revels in being ~dark and gritty. (got it, just wasn't sure how significant something has to be to count as a conflict...)

not so much fearlessness, just not really travelling to places that are very tricky tourist-wise, i guess. :D;; like, russia is one country i definitely want to visit someday, but i feel like knowing the language/travelling with someone who does would be particularly important there, so. :| also i have a lot of other fears, e.g. travelling to places where you need lots of jabs beforehand (so i haven't, whoops).

(ah, fair enough! i've still managed to travel a bit post-uni but have been very lazy about linking my facebook photo albums on LJ...)