@skygemspeaks tagged me in a 6 facts ask game last week and, well, I kept forgetting to do it up until now. My bad!
Rules: Rules: share 6 random facts about yourself and then tag 10 followers apologies but Iām exhausted today, so Iād like to forego tagging. But consider this an @everyone for those who perhaps are in the mood for a tag game? Itād make my week if someone did this and tagged me for it.
1) To perhaps no oneās surprise, Iām still in university. Iām a fourth-year Comp Sci major and dual minoring in Creative Writing and Math, since math unfortunately comes with computer science most of the time and itās essentially a free thing, haha. My favourite thing is seeing profās faces when I tell them because āthose are very opposite subjectsā, which is a brand of Bafflement I have gleefully been delivering for all my years here with the Eclectic Courses I Love To Think Of Taking
(my fave is still the advisor back before my first year, when I told him my spread was ācomp sci with either creative writing or physics minorā and he looked me in the eye and pointed out that they were all VERY different, and then his double-take when i added that i wanted to take Anthropology for my humanities requirement immediately afterwards. He respected that I came in knowing what i wanted tho lmao.)
2) Okay this one iāve mentioned but only briefly I think... I accidentally abducted a deck of cards from a community center in Ottawa a few years ago now. I still have it in my room -- Iād return it but tbh I donāt know how to send it back and itās old as hell anyway? The story is that it was my last day at a week-long event called Encounters with Canada and I was gonna play cards with a friend I made while there, but, well, we ended up forgetting? I tucked them into the pocket of my bag so we could play after we finished our things but that time never came, and by the time I remembered it was there it was far too late. So sometimes I giggle to myself over the fact that I have it.
3) Iām one of those weirdos with flexible toes. When I was younger I used to make my sister laugh by picking things up with my feet or āwalkingā across the ground or whatever. The pinky of my right foot specifically was also very moveable for some reason? I could never do it with my left foot, but I can literally also wiggle my right pinky toe and pick things up with it like itās my big toe and I still donāt know why.
4) My writing and fandom antics began, roughly, around the 2011-2012 era, back when a website known as TinierMe still existed. I went by pokeshadow55 and did a Whole Heckton of RPās, both original and fandom-based -- some of the websites I made for them still exist actually?? I no longer know the login for the weebly account so I canāt exactly take them down. I also kept surprisingly comprehensive logs of all my roleplay ideas, the RPās I started that were successful, my own character bios, and the character bios of other people who signed up for my roleplays! Some of those ideas and characters (that I made, that is) Iāve still used to this day, as OCās and concepts -- my character, Rithan, is one of them.
(thereās a handful of usernames/nicknames of users from those days I donāt oft like to admit I still have in my mind tbh. Would it be weird, I wonder, if they knew I still thought about them however passingly? Am I remembered in anyone elseās hearts the way I remember them? Thatās something Iām a little scared to find out, I think.)
5) The first fanfic I ever officially wrote with the intent to post was this ROTG alternate scene fic I did based off the original beat panels for the movieās third act. While Homestuck is what drew me in towards fandom spaces in the first place, Rise of the Guardians is still what pushed me forward into posting and taking part proper -- though I didnāt get a tumblr until a few years later.
6) I have written roughly half my posted word count (on Ao3) -- which, as of right now, is 84k words on the dot -- in self indulgent Fire Emblem Three Houses content alone, in the past month. This is, roughly, a far more dense wordcount that Iāve churned out in the span of a month than I have in like, the past five years. Someday, maybe iāll do something that can actually be posted again.
Again, should it strike anyoneās fancy, consider yourself tagged in an @everyone! I really would be happy if someone tagged me in this just for the heck of it, but Iām just too tired to tag anyone specifically. Nonetheless, thanks for tagging me!
