I was tagged by @hepatosaurus and realized that if I wanted to do this, I'd better do it right away or it’ll get lost in the mists of time (aka my drafts)
ONE / name / alias. Mel
TWO / birthday. Late April
THREE / zodiac sign. Taurus
FOUR / height. 5'6"
FIVE / hobbies: Reading, art, video games, knitting, ukulele. A lotta these've fallen by the wayside on account of The Depression but I'm working on it!
SIX / favourite colours: green (so many different shades of green - the verdegris patina on old metal, the golden-green of light filtering through new leaves, the aqua colour of the sky a bit after sunset) but a new favourite lately has been mustard yellow. It's like navy yellow. Also blue is pretty great - don't make me choose!
SEVEN / favourite books. Oh gosh, so many books. The Discworld series and the Vorkosigan Saga to start with, anything by T. Kingfisher or Ursula Vernon (especially Digger), the Bordertown anthologies, are all very good and had a big influence on me. More recent books that knocked my socks off are This is How You Lose the Time War and Empress of Forever, but if I don't stop with the book list now we'll be here all day. Science fiction and fantasy are my jam.
EIGHT / last song listened to. Out of Time, by Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, who are AMAZING and I saw live recently.
NINE / last film watched. I saw Venom for the first time last week, and it was just as much fun as I'd been promised.
TEN / inspiration for muse. Man I don't even know, I'm struggling with this lately. I'm working on my fundamental drawing skills in the hopes that it helps me get over the hurdle of getting my ideas out. I can imagine some pretty cool stuff but it's like path to getting the ideas out of my brain and onto paper is clogged or something. (clogged full of feelings about failure and success and fear, I'm pretty sure, but I don't think a drain snake can fix that; we'll see how a therapist does) Anyway, I want to be able to share some of the cool imagery in my head - underwater grottoes full of bioluminescent fungus, cities built into canyons criss-crossed with bridges and trams, all sorts of cool fantasy shit, but when I try it feels really bad at how far what I can draw is from what I WANT to draw, and learning how to be ok making "bad art" so that you can build your skills to the point you're making good art is the real thing I need to learn. That's hard, though.
ELEVEN / dream job. working on re-wilding and conservation, restoring wetlands and tallgrass prairies, like actually getting out into the field and doing the work on-site - but as this is a *dream* job it takes place in a world where that work is well funded, well supported, and well paid. Ah hell I should probably try and figure out how to get into that line of work anyway, it’s not like it doesn’t need doing. Maybe once I’ve gotten my technical communication certificate like I’m working on I’ll write grant proposals for organizations that do that kind of work so they can get funding, or I’ll make infographics for fundraising drives for ecological conservation or something.
TWELVE / meaning behind your url. I love the visual effect of opalescence, and I also love the humble potato, truly the underappreciated rock star of foods. I also think that complex word + simple word = funny. I also don’t appear to be much at first glance but are really interesting when you take a closer look.
let’s tag….
@elsajeni @opalescentdragon @byronicproclivities @acciomjolnir @terriblesplitends @tyrannosaurus-trainwreck @ohsilverplease @boomvagynamite
