More About Me ✴︎ Misc. Questions
✶Why did you make this website?
I made this website so I could have a small little corner of the internet to myself. Sure I have tumblr and instagram, but being able to completly control the user inter-face is a whole other story. My hope is to share my thoughts and feelings and art to those that would like to see.
✶What is your height?
5'11 and 1/4 (I don't think I will ever actually hit 6 ft)
✶My favorite colors?
Mostly terracotta oranges. Aqua/teal, and browns. I also love orangey-reds, not the plum kind, red-leaning burgendy, and yellowy-green. Colors that come up in nature or look like they could be found on a jewel bug are my favorite.
✶Do you have pets?
I have one dog, a pug, named Pedro who is 11 years old and a cat named Mordecai who is about 3 years old. I don't think I have any photos of my cat on my laptop so....someone remind me to update this soon!
✶Do you have a secret talent?
I don't really think this is a secret talent at all, but I'm bilingual. Though I'm really shy to speak Spanish around people who aren't family. I can do a little oragami and calligraphy. I can focus and unfocus my eyes on command as well as change my handwriting depending on my mood. Not hidden, but I can also hand-sew. And I'm not too bad at cutting hair.
✶My love language(s)
Mostly quality time and I think acts of service. I honestly sometimes think love-language types are silly because I want all of them. They're all good in my eyes. But I think maybe it's more of which one are you more inclined toward naturally. Up until about a year or so ago, I hated any form of physical touch. Especially from family, but I've grown to like it as I've gotten older. I appreciate gifts, especially on special occassions, but I find this is the love language I value the least. I think maybe it comes from the fact that gifts growing up were more transactional, ways of appolgizing, without actually making the concious effort to correct behavior. So...I kind of resent gift-giving because of that. But, I really like home-made gifts, I think those are the sweetest.
✶My favorite foods/drinks
Tiramisu, cherry garcia ice cream, maraschino cherry (the deep purple kind), chinese food, street tacos, shawarma, coconut (the kind you can chop up and drink), mango with sticky rice, strawberry lemonade (honestly any fun lemonade), blueberry tea with honey, blackberries, dried mulberries, salt-water liquorice, cinnamon rolls, red and green liquorice, potato curry, miso soup (any brothy/thin soup), sweet potatos, crab salad onigiri, kimbap, pickles, pickled radish, diet coke (specifically vanillia cherry), kit-kats, any sour gummy, cucumber matcha latte, pork and custard egg bao, egg, crab rangoon, watermelon with salt, jamón ibérico, fetta and spinach pastry, lemonade iced tea
✶My favorite thing to thrift
I love finding kitchenwear, specifically beautiful mugs. I used to have a problem of thrifting too many, and my whole cabinet at home would be filled with them, so I had to stop collecting them for a while. But now that I work at a coffee shop, we have reusable mugs, so I usaully thrift them so they can go there. I also love thrifting any kind of jewelry, I love finding beautiful ashtrays-- I can't wait to have my own apartment, so I can finally smoke on my porach without anyone judging me. I also love looking for tech, finding a really good coveted CD or casette always makes my day. But they're harder to come by than you would think. On a good day, I really like looking for fun shoes, but I almost never buy any, because well,, I'm not a 6-inch pink high heels kind of guy, but maybe I could be someday...
✶A website you could scroll forever
Tumblr.com and Pinterest.com , I have some websites though that I'm quite fond of and will hoepfully make a "bookmarks" page so you guys can visit them as well :)
✶My comfort media
Intially hearing this I was thinking comfort shows, and I don't actually think I have any, but I do have some comfort movies as well as albums. Music wise, Pet Sounds, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Back to Black, the Guilded Palace of Sin, Parcely Sage Rosemary and Thyme, and Tracey Chapman are all albums I find very nostalgic and also very comforting just because I listened to them a ton growing up. Movies, I really really really find the Fantastic Mr Fox to be a joy, even though I know that's a really basic take. Edward Scissorhands, Coraline, But I'm a Cheerleader, Little Miss Sunshine. These all have a very big nostaligc quality as well that I find very lovely. Book wise, I know this is evil, but the Road by Kerouac, the Stranger by Camus, anything by Dostoevsky, and Frankenstien by Mary Shelly. There's show I really liked growing up called Haibane Renmae, that I really like. And I also,,,, and you CANT judge me for this, find Hetalia to be a really beautifully stupid show. I love it so much.
✶A line from something I carry with me
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference... I have more things I carry with me but this is all I can think of for right now, hopefully I'll make a quotes section so I can paste all my favorite things here.
✶Writers you love
I read Durkheim in class and actually really enjoyed what he had to say. Shiller, Camus, Nietzsche, Didon, Kerouac, Dostoevsky, Shelly (Percy and Mary), Lanston Hughes, García Lorca, Du Bois, Cervantes, Nerudo, Frost, Beckett, Chiang, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Bécquer, Antonio Machado, Kafka, Thomas, Keates, Yates, Blake, Baldwin...I'm surely forgetting some but that's all I have rn/
✶My favorite textures
Wet clay, velvet, teeth, wire, skin, animal fur, silk hankerchiefs/scarves, cold metal, cyrstal, moss, smooth stones, denim, leather, corduroy, smoke, parchment, thick oil paint, aliminium foil
✶Favorite weather/time of day
My favorite weather is whenever it's a little bit misty/foggy outside. It makes walking around feel mysterious, like some sort of detective in an old timey noir. My favorite time of day is Twilight, right before all the light from the sky is fully dark. It makes me pensive, reflective, a little bit sad, but in a beautiful way. I like the familiar melancholy of walking home.
✶Coffee or tea (and how you take it)
I used to not drink coffee at all because I can't handle anything too bitter. Now that I work in a coffee shop I've forced myself to start drinking coffee. I like a hot mocha or any kind of iced latte with flavoring. I also like the idea of tea, a lot more than I think I actually enjoy drinking it. I more like having someone/something to keep me company. I like blueberry tea, sometimes with a bit of honey. I also really like this ukranian tea that's strawberry marshmallow flavored. As much as I know it's bad for me, my favorite way to get caffiene is sugar free redbull mixed with some sort of fruit flavoring.
✶Something small that makes me irrationally happy
Smell of dew in the morning, seeing wild animals (deer, coyotes, squirrels, beautiful birds), the swirls milk makes when you pour it into black coffee, the catharsis after cracking all your knuckles/bones/jaw, seeing my pet dog -- especially after a long day, the smell of other people's perfume when they walk past you, when a stranger smiles at you in public, rubbing my feet together like a fly after jumping in bed, stickers, a friend thinking about you throughout their day, the sound of clicking heels as I walk across pavement, the taste of honey, the sweetness of a berry after expecting it to be tart.
✶What time do you usually wake up?
On a good day, I wakeup around 9:15 am, but if I had it my way, and I often do, my body will wakeup naturally at 1 pm regardless of what time I went to sleep. I'm a BIG believer in sleep.
✶Animals I’ve been compared to
fox, red panda, racoon, wolf, ginger cat
✶What are your fashion inspirations?
I mostly get my inspiration from pinterest smh my head....first and second-wave emo fashion, tweemo, 2000s styles, 80s styles, some medieval revival and 70s influence. I find a lot of queer aesthetics and stuff from anime very compelling. I also love anything western. I'll attach some photos below. :D I also love anything weird and spacey, I think true beauty is whatever stays in someone's head even after they've walked away. I think true beauty is making people's head's turn.
✶What are your hobbies?
Coding, drawing, writing/journaling, listening to music/making mixtapes, collecting items (hopefully post my collections on here soon), reading tarot, deocorating/collaging, reading (when I get the time), jewelry making/painting when I get the time
✶What is your dream job?
Ideally, I would love to become a DJ, that's one of my many dreams. But realistically, hopefully becoming a professor or some kind of respected author/authority on some topic of my interest. I would love to become an artist of some kind, or maybe a museum curator, but I just don't think I could ever base my life around the whims/tastes of others--selling art, curating for others, ect. I also at one point in time, and still now, would love to work at a post office. I think mail is so important and so beautiful. I still send letters to my friends because I love the medium so much.
✶What is your favourite perfume?
I have a lot of favorite perfumes, I actually have a bit of a problem about hoarding them. My favorite one to wear is this one, it's called amber by nemat, I got a large bottle of it this christmas. It only really smells like amber, I have other perfumes that smell like catholic church incense, frankincense/myrrh, dark cherry (for when I'm feeling very feminine), and rum.
✶Where do you usually hang out?
I hate....admitting this, but you most likely, most definitely find me at my school's campus cafe/library. I hate being that perdictable, but I think it's that I spawn in there, it's my pre-saved checkpoint. If not, I'm most likely in my room...sad, I know. When the weather is warmer though, I like to hangout outside, back at my hometown I would spend hours in the woods/nature preserve just so I could be alone, away from the world. I would always have deer visit me. :) If not, I might be at a friends house, or maybe at the movies, the library, who knows.
✶What is your hairstyle and hair color now?
Right now, I'd say my hair is a sort of maroon, not longer orange. And my haircut,...? is like a shaggy mullet? I'm not great at explaining, I just cut it myself using a razor, to get that sort of feathery effect.
✶Do you have tattoos or piercings?
I have 19 piercings. 9 on the left ear, 7 on the right, 1 tounge piercing, an eyebrow, and my lip-pierced. Fortunatley, or rather unfortunatley, I have no tattoos because I'm a very finicky person, and I don't know if I could ever fully commit myself to something so permentant. My thought, wait until I've wanted something for multiple years, and then get it. Below are some tattoos I think are worth considering though.