Rules: if you get this, answer with three random facts about yourself and send it to the last seven blogs in your notifs! anon or not, doesn’t matter, let’s get to know the person behind the blog <3 I was tagged by @la-muerta <3
I was such a Latin geek in school, my school sent me to compete in a pan-European Cicero competition in Arpino, Cicero's birthplace. I didn't win anything, but I met Latin geeks from Spain and Poland and everywhere, which was immensely cool. Also, I realised that from knowing Latin, I could read Italian and sort of roughly follow speeches made in that language, too.
I learned Finnish because my Gay Best Friend (TM) in my twenties was from Finland, and he had fun teaching me bad language, which Finnish has lots of. Also, numbers, when we were on a student job together. So I thought I could just as well learn the rest.
I always thought I was a dog person until I was in my thirties and a colleague with a horse stable sent an email to everybody in our (small) company with the header "Who wants a cat child?" That little cat child became my huge red cat Lucifer.
If you get this, answer with three random things about yourself and send this to the last seven blogs in your notifications. Anonymously or not. Let's get to know the person behind the blog. (Lmao I was doing this just as you tagged me)
Aww! Thank you so much for sending this to me @amyrallis! And omg! Seriously? Lmao. 😂
I really like reincarnation mangas/manhwas/webtoons/animes.
I especially like the ones where the main character is reincarnated as villain/villainess!
My favorite reincarnation mangas/manhwas/webtoons at the moment are My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, The Duchess' 50 Tea Recipes, Beware Of The Villainess!, Death Is The Only Ending For The Villainess, The Stereotypical Life Of A Reincarnated Lady, Fiancée’s Observation Log Of The Self-Proclaimed Villainess, The Reason Why Raeliana Ended Up At The Duke’s Mansion, Chitra, Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady With The Lamp, Who Made Me A Princess, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime and I’m a Villainous Daughter, so I’m going to keep the Last Boss.
Rules: Say 3 random things about yourself and tag 7 people! Not tagging anyone since it took me forever to do this. I’m trying to answer a few of these in my email.
1) I can read the same and watch the same movie multiple times and still find something new about them. It’s probably because I’m doing other things while I’m doing. Like I’m reading a book and watching a movie or doing something on the computer while watching a movie. So I’m missing things and catching different things the next time I watch or read it.
2) My favorite dog breed is the Samoyed. If I ever get a dog that’s the kind I’m going to get.
3) I love cats but I’m allergic to them. I’ve thought about getting a Sphinx but worry if I do it’ll try to run outside in the middle of winter and freeze to death because it has no fur.
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Oh wow thank you so much for this!! Ummmm ok so three random things...
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How Cool. 🥰
Three random things eh... 🤔
1. I know how to sword fight. 🤺
2. I had my first kiss under a full moon. 🌕
3. I earned a combined vocal and academic scholarship to college. 🎤📚
Okay, so @nekosmuse tagged me in the three random things meme, and I had the obligatory moment of “but I’m not an interesting person” panic before I decided to suck it up. Here you all go. Since I’m mostly in Dirk Gently fandom at the moment, I’ll start off with something both important to me and thematically relevant:
1) I first read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in a caravan in Wales.
Douglas Adams was a game changer for me. I grew up in a house where no one was particularly into sci-fi, and my only exposure to science fiction or fantasy narratives were Harry Potter (I’m a Harry Potter brat forever), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I guess high concept 90s movies à la Big or Groundhog Day.
When I was fifteen I read Douglas Adams, which was my gateway to Doctor Who, which was my gateway to Star Trek, which sealed my fate. Most importantly, I thought they were HILARIOUS. I have never laughed so hard at any other book as I laughed at h2g2 or Dirk Gently. To this day, I don’t think any other writer has influenced my adult taste or sense of humour as much as Douglas Adams.
To claim that I first read h2g2 in a caravan in Wales is slightly disingenuous, as I had actually already devoured the first four books in the series at that point, and was reading Mostly Harmless, which I brought with me on our family holiday. Plenty of our family holidays involved caravans, usually in Ireland or the UK, so I always brought a few books in case we got rained in and I got sick of playing board games. I have an extremely vivid memory of being trapped in this tiny caravan with my parents and younger brother for an epic, howling storm of at least three days’ duration, and trying to explain to my mother what was so funny that I literally couldn’t breathe through my laughter.
(It was this bit:
“If any of them had chosen to look out of the window at that moment, they would have been startled by the sight of Ford Prefect dropping past them to his certain death and flipping v-signs at them.” )
I think the writing of Douglas Adams, especially “Mostly Harmless” and “Dirk Gently and the Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul” introduced me to the concept of gallows humour in a way that appealed to the depths of my soul. Things could be sad, and clever, and funny, and I spent the remaining few years of my adolescence probably being very puffed up and irritating about this fact.
2) I’m a vegan.
Okay, if you have any “vegan at a dinner party” jokes, get them out of your system right now. I don’t have enough interesting hobbies or personal attributes to leave this out.
I went vegan last year, and it’s actually been pretty okay in terms of regulating my diet and so on. My main struggles have been as follows:
- People getting pre-emptively defensive and assuming I’m going to give them shit for eating meat or dairy or whatever, which inevitably results in them saying something along the lines of: “Don’t you think a lion would eat you if it got the chance?”
Buddy. What do you think you’re arguing, here?
- Going home to visit my parents and forgetting that living in Dublin (an actual city) has spoiled me slightly in terms of dining choices, so that every time I go to a local restaurant with my family I am surprised all over again that the only thing I can eat is bread and sometimes pasta.
- Having to scan the ingredients of every fucking chocolate bar I pick up
- “Vegan at a dinner party” jokes.
Mostly it’s been pretty okay, and I’ve been trying to also switch to cruelty free makeup etc, which brings me to my next point...
3) I work in high end retail, and I’m very conflicted about it.
Working in a swanky department store is not all you might expect it to be. You are much less likely to be seduced by Cate Blanchett and much more likely spending your day pretending not to be horrified at people casually dropping €800 on a small, black handbag.
I work for a makeup and skincare company, which shall remain nameless, but which is not cruelty free. I found out the other day that our brushes are made from animal hair. In fact, in a disturbing twist, our lip brush is 100% weasel. I figure I’m not the only person to ever experience the cognitive dissonance of working at a job which conflicts with most of their personal beliefs, and I have to pay the rent, but it’s a weird situation for me.
There’s also the “It’s a stopgap job!” conflict, which is the mantra I’ve been repeating for the last five years. In my head, I only work in retail until I can either work in publishing or get back into academia, but after years of doing freelance proofreading/editing on the side and taking numerous, soul-crushing internships, I’m feeling a little worn down. Mostly this results in me watching old episodes of Friends and strongly over-identifying with Rachel and Chandler.
On the other hand, working in retail is sometimes kind of fun. I’ve had office jobs in the past as well (most notably when I lived in England and worked in an office in Reading, which is near to Slough, where The Office is set. This fact caused me to laugh on a near daily basis, and was not nearly as amusing to my co-workers), and on one memorable occasion worked as a door-to-door salesperson, which was its own level of hell. Any of these jobs can be kind of funny if you’re determined to be positive about it. My Weirdest Customer award probably still goes to that guy who approached me in a department store coming up to Christmas and opened with:
Him: Have you ever seen the movie Perfume?
Me (backing away slightly): Erm...yes?
Him: Do you have any perfumes like that?
Me: Like...perfume made of...people?
Him: Well, one of them was made of hair.
Me: No. I don’t sell any perfumes made of human hair.
Woman standing nearby: *uncontrollable laughter*
Luckily, he left before attempting to kill anyone or start an orgy.
So, there you are. Sorry it took me so long, @nekosmuse. I guess I have to tag three people, so... @ivyblossom @acloudofunknowing @vands88 TAG, YOU’RE IT.
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Thank you so much for sending this to me @the-con-she-called-conscience!
I like cute things.
At times I dream of anime and cartoon characters. It’s like seeing fully new episode of some anime or cartoon or a crossover episode.
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Aww! Thank you so much for sending this to me @hellbubu!
Three random facts about me:
I like to add gifs/pictures to my posts for visuals.
