Getting to know your mutuals meme
Ooh this feels so LJ, I like it. :) Thanks to @too-antigonish for nominating me! This is long. It is going behind the thingy.
Origin of my blog's name:
It's part of a lyric from a song I started writing some years ago and never finished (and probably never will now, as it's partly about living too far away from the sea and I literally live about a 2 minute wheelchair push away from it now ;-) ).
I'll always order this food:
We have two Chinese takeaways round the corner and they're both awesome and I'm fairly flexible except that there will be beansprouts as one of the veg things. :)
Most overused emoji:
Sparkly heart.💖 Also anything that adds up to "this".
My current comfort film/movie, show, and book
I'm not doing films much at the moment, so shockingly there isn't one! When it comes to filmed theatre though: can't go wrong with the Bridge Theatre's "Midsummer Night's Dream" from 2018, or the Royal Ballet's "Winter's Tale", and I cannot wait to rewatch the National Theatre's "Importance of Being Earnest" with Ncuti Gatwa and Sharon D. Clarke :) I will be rewatching "Knives Out" again soon though. I should watch more films tbh! Show-wise: "Heated Rivalry" at the moment, shockingly enough. ;-) I've also started watching quite a few French-language murder mysteries to improve my skills. :D Books: "A Taste of Gold and Iron" by Alexandra Rowland. Also all of the Watch books by Terry Pratchett. And pretty much everything by KJ Charles and Jordan L. Hawk and A.J. Demas. Nonfiction-wise, I'm gradually listening to the talking book of "Between Two Rivers" by Moudhy Al-Rashid which is just fricking beautiful.
Songs currently on repeat/on my favourite playlists: The Fretless's cover of "My Moon My Man" (it's on Bandcamp, I recommend it so much to fellow HR fans) about half of the Hamilton soundtrack, still "Mountains" (Stray Kids) about half of the Placebo album "Without You I'm Nothing" "Father's Lullaby" (Hazel Askew/Lady Maisery) "Worker's Song" (Dick Gaughan) "Standing as I Do Before God" (C. McDowall, sung by Tenebrae) "I Will Be an Angel of Peace" (Will Todd, after St John Henry Newman, sung by the Sixteen) "Waves" (Jake Runestad, sung by Conspirare) "Space Rabbits of Brocklevoons" (Kate Rowe) most things by The Amazing Devil "The Keys of Canterbury" (Show of Hands)
(yes my tastes are weird and electic and ultimately I listen to more choral music and folk than anything else. :) )
My current hyperfixation. Heated Rivalry, surprising no one. ;-) And François Arnaud as an actor (along with all of the rest of the cast to a lesser but still important extent). And learning more French, which is not-unrelated. ;-) I continue to be highly obsessed with Shakespeare, Tolkien, Roger Allam, classical history, mediaeval history, some early modern history, nature. Choral music and folk music, as above, the morseverse, Shetland, the Accidental Warlord universe, etc. etc. etc.. I never really lose hyperfixations, they just go down to a simmer a bit. ;-) But yeah, currently Heated Rivalry and despite the Horrors in a small but loud corner of the fandom it's being lovely. :)
Oddly specific thing that brings me joy. The seagulls nesting on the roof of my building. And the incompetent pigeons who hang out in the alcove across the road, visible from my bed. :)
What smell makes me happy? Bog myrtle, and I haven't smelled it properly in years because the dried stuff is never good enough. Other than that, a lot of other herbs. The sea (of course). Rannoch Mor.
Something I loved as a kid and secretly do. I don't know about secretly. ;-) Being in the dark with small pretty or glittery lights on. So, Christmas trees with only the fairy lights illuminating the room. The fun bits for kids at the Natural History Museum etc. Glitter lamps and lava lamps. I now know this is a visual stim thing, and I really want to go to somewhere with decent dark skies again one day and see a good quantity of stars. :)
Phone wallpaper right now. Not going to share it, but it's a lovely picture of a sparrow on a branch.
Early bird or night owl. I like being an early bird. I tend to be a night owl though. Or, which is very bad for me, both. Sleep is an issue. Since I have a fatigue-related chronic illness, that is a problem.
If you work, what is your profession and do you like it? I'm not able to work. I'm… vaguely and slowly learning stuff about bookkeeping though, and I think if I'm ever well enough and can work for an organisation or individual I respect then I would absolutely like it. But then I also like writing and singing folk music when I can do that, so. :)
Most of my energy (other than for scary being-disabled-and-so-on admin) goes to organising online events for myself and friends. Watching theatre together, doing readthroughs over zoom. I love both the admin end of this and the rejoicing in theatre (and acting!) end of this.
I nominate @thekenobee, @epexegetical, @endeavour12345, @modernlovedespair, @amazonrhinos, @ashfae, @mostlyjustgoose, @waywren, @harperhug. But absolutely only if you'd like to! Also there are many others who I'd be delighted to see do this. :D
