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[arliganzey]

9 Fandom Folks to Get to Know Better

Thanks for the tag @orangez3st !!

3 Ships I like: Darman/Etain, Din/Cobb, Kalluzeb

First Ship Ever: I'm pretty sure it was Falco/Katt (StarFox 64) but it could have been Han and Leia too haha

Last Song You've Heard: Sabrina Carpenter - Busy Woman

Favorite Childhood Book: The Stinky Cheese Man and the Fairly Stupid Tales

Currently Reading: A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland and both Hard Contact and Triple Zero

Currently Watching: Whatever Classic Doctor Who is on PlutoTV (especially if it's the Third Doctor 😍)

Currently Consuming: Prosecco (it's friday night babyyyy)

Currently Craving: Cinnamon rolls

no pressure tagging: @hellfiresky @orangez3st @verpineshatterrifle @spaceyjessa @sugaarquoted @viscanpikamine @starlitspiral111 @rishioutpost @caburdrawings

[compo67]

I'm so out of it today

Was up until 4 reading fic

Got up at 7 bc my body hates sleep

Got up at 10 bc I fell back asleep somehow but then couldn't sleep anymore

I've just been watching The Nanny and absentmindedly playing scrabble on my phone, sitting here in my giant Bears night shirt and sweats, unshowered, stubble scratchy on my face, my hair a mess, kinda sleepy kinda dizzy

What an odd Thanksgiving

[catlliecal]

Sometimes I’ll be scrolling through my followed blogs and I’ll see the tiniest message that says “so-and-so started following you!” And I just sit there and think, “I don’t really post/reblog anything because I’m too lazy to tag stuff. Why are people following me.”

[dragonsworncosmetics]

So, some backstory: when I started this little hobby business I straight-up had no idea what I was doing. I just knew I didn’t want to bite my nails anymore, I didn’t want to get migraines, and I didn’t want to spend twenty freaking dollars on boring pastels and neutrals. I needed glitter in my life and I needed a Garrusmancery manicure and I needed it RIGHT AWAY, and moving so fast with everything wasn’t maybe the best idea. In the last year and a half I have learned so much and grown as an artist that I am slowly reformulating all of my older fandoms — changing up my glitter and mica ratios, learning different finish techniques, and recognizing that being lazy and only wanting to paint one coat is not really necessarily a good idea when it leaves you with over-thick, gloopy polish. XD Here’s to how much more beautiful a glitter polish like Iron Bull is when you have a better mix, and a grateful shoutout to those of you who swatched for me way back in the beginning when my work was pretty but also at the same time terrible. Thanks for going on this ride with me, everybody, and I hope you look forward to how much bigger and better Dragonsworn can get from here. :D

[calpatine]

HI, I have some questions about your nail polishes as I'm trying to narrow down my list of, uh, 30 of that I want to a more reasonable number. You have a lot of polishes with microglitters; do you find they're a pain to remove? (I repaint my nails every week without fail so I try to avoid the big flakey kind, but I don't use a ton of microglitter so I don't know.) 2: We're in the same-ish geographical area; do you go to conventions? I want to drool over nail polish in person...

(cont) Also, 3: how does one make custom nailpolish!?!?!? I have so many questions I can't believe I didn't know this is a thing that could be done

WELL HELLO THERE thank you for these fabulous questions and I will do my best to help you out, though I admit to a bias for basically every color I make and I am not really the best source to help you narrow down from 30 (go with samplers to start, samplers are the best).

1) I don’t find them a pain to remove in general but I also am forced by the gods of Ugh Migraines Why to use expensive non-acetone removers (which, funny story, is also the reason why I make nail polish).  Organic mineral-based removers tend to require a little extra elbow grease anyway so I never notice a lot of trouble except with the really big glitters, like the stars and tinsels in Urdr. My personal preference is Tate’s Natural Miracle,  which I pick up from Amazon.

2) I do indeed go to conventions!  I opened this month at Magic City Con in Birmingham, and in October I will be nail-bitingly shipping a flat of glittery goodies to Seattle for GeekGirlCon, one of my very favorite places in the world.  I have also been known to meet people for coffee and exchange shipping for conversation!

3) For a small hobby shop like mine, nail polish is made by combining 5-free lacquer base and various pigments into an empty polish bottle with the assistance of the world’s tiniest immersion blender.  It’s basically really, really sparkly Mad Science.

[calistadracula]

Eight for Eight

Got tagged by lovely @mademoiselle-lani

Rules: Answer eight questions and tag eight people.

Last movie I watched: I guess it was Lights out with my sister. Wasn’t that bad to be honest, suprisingly short though.

Last song I listened to: Grande Finale by Studio Killers

Last book I read: Like start to finish? I am currently (still reading like after six months) Tikli by Donna Tart. Last one I read from start to finish was probably The explained Dictionary of Finnish mythology or something like that translated to English.

Last thing I ate: Cookies, healthy eh?

Where would you time travel to?: Probably to some big and meaningful event in history just to see how did it really happen. The further the better.

Fictional character I would hang out with for a day: Roxy Morton. Deffinetley my Lancelot.

If I could be anyhwere right now, where would I be?: accepted in University of Lapland and studying there.

Current fandom obsession?: I don’t know? Kingsman is always there but haven’t been in Tumblr for ages so I don’t have access to the beautiful content so easily.lol

I’m tagging @wildkitte @mevahvistumme @the-fancy-bandit @missdeadbun @krakenbabypermitsit @emmudevill @usva-aave @khatyleen

[arliganzey]

10 People I’d Like To Get To Know Better

Tagged by: @mereelskirata thank you!! 🥰

Last song: Bodys by Car Seat Headrest

Favorite color: Green

Last book: Officially started rereading Hard Contact but I’m constantly digging around the whole series for reference; otherwise A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

Last movie: Clue (that’s the last movie I actually put down the screens and watched!)

Last TV show: Skeleton Crew (haven’t watched the finale yet SHSSHHHHH I’m watching it Thursday)

Sweet/spicy/savory: Spicy

Relationship: married to my high school sweetheart. gross

Last thing googled: the Jane Lynch Glee meme so I could make this:

Looking forward to: Going out to dinner with the besties on Saturday

Current obsession: obviously I’m a 360 repcomm party girl. But I’m also obsessed with Jo Na Nawood and the kids that deserve to bully him

NPT: @verpineshatterrifle @the-pyromaniacs-teki @viscanpikamine @sugaarquoted @babyscilence @hellfiresky @gh0st-c0mpany @geno-haradan @fox-trot @beskad

[arliganzey]

It’s my birthday 🥰

my evening plans are cancelled due to an incoming ice storm (DRAWING CLASS NO).

Send me asks for my birthday?? AMA about republic commando hours are back, fic prompts, ship questions… send me a character and I’ll give you a song?