Thanks for the tag, @annahakuouki!! Looks like my Hakuōki followers are gonna have to put up with a bit more Personal Information, since you tagged me here~
Name: Laura, to everyone’s surprise, given my choice of username.
Nicknames: Alley or Alley Cat.
Zodiac: Double Aquarius with Aries rising, and boy does that explain a lot. I happened to be born on the last day before Pisces, which places me on the cusp… and also the last day before the Year of the Fire Rat, making me a Wood Boar (with Snake ascendant).
Birthday: February 18, just like Saito. Coming right up, too!
Favorite bands: The Beatles, Caravan Palace, The Glitch Mob, beats antique, and… I like the few alt-j songs I’ve heard, and I’ve been listening to them a lot lately, so why not. Honorable mention.
Favorite solo artists: Panic! at the Disco/Brendon Urie, mostly. To be honest, I don’t really have enough favorite artists to draw lines between those with bands and those without.
Song stuck in my head: “Bloodflood”& “Bloodflood Pt. II” by alt-j. (Don’t worry, they’re a lot more chill than they sound.)
Last movie I watched: The 90s Metropolitan Opera production of Don Giovanni, with Bryn Terfel and Feruccio Furlanetto and lots of other good folk. It’s honestly a masterpiece; I first saw it when I was six years old.
Blog created: I think sometime in August 2016.
Last thing you Googled: …Lolicon… IT’S BECAUSE ZHOU YU IS MARRIED TO XIAOQIAO, OKAY.
Any other blogs: My ancient main blog, @alley-cat-sunflower, and my much more recent side blog, @thestorytellersprotege, reserved for things like my original prose and poetry. And deeper things in general, I guess. Still very much a work in progress, and most of the stuff I put up there is flawed, but… whatever. It’s a suitable enough arena for self-improvement.
Do I get asks: Sporadically, yes. Sometimes lots at once, sometimes next to none for months on end.
Why I chose my URL: This one? It’s a portmanteau of ‘shenanigans’ and ‘Shinsengumi’, which summarizes the primary content of this blog pretty handily. Alley Cat Sunflower is the result of an in-joke with my best friend, wherein Alley Cat was my secret agent codename, plus the name of my first cat (and a Grateful Dead song), “China Cat Sunflower”. But the Storyteller’s Protégé is… more personal, and too difficult to explain here.
Following: 542, apparently. I don’t really keep track.
Followers: …On this blog, 1074. What even.
Average hours of sleep: 8ish? Any less than that and I can’t function. Even 8 is borderline for me, but I’m too much of a night owl to take care of myself.
Instruments: I can noodle a few songs on my Ocarina of Time…? And I sing all the time, and I like to think I’m good. But I never had any formal lessons or classes or anything.
What am I wearing: Dark blue skinny jeans, my favorite 3/4-sleeved San Francisco Giants shirt, an orange Giants zipper hoodie, mismatched undergarments, and black socks.
Dream job: Writer/editor.
Dream trip: Japan on my adventurous days, Arcata on my normal days. Like this one. I’m feeling pretty partial to redwoods and rain right about now.
Favorite food: I can never pick one. I forget to eat all the time, anyway. Uh, probably these specific raspberry hard candies you can only buy at a place I haven’t been in years.
Nationality: U. S. of American.
Favorite song right now: I haven’t listened to it in some time, but the reigning king of the songs I love has been Panic! at the Disco’s “Don’t Threaten Me with a Good Time” since I first heard it back in summer 2016.
It being the last day of the first week of a new semester, I really don’t have the brainpower to go through and tag people. But if you want to do this, then please, please do this! I genuinely want to hear my followers’ answers; I just lack the mental energy to go through and call them to action. <3
