kristina - they/any - 20s - (not) a real doctor - makes viruses for a living 🦠 "I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that, in knowing the sun is there."
obligatory pinned post to catch everyone up on What My Deal Is
hi i'm kristina. they/any pronouns. not a "real" doctor (i have a phd) but i am a real worm. living in maryland and making viruses for a living 🦠 sometimes i yap about them on here too, under #talking virology
TAGS THAT I USE FOR MY POSTS: #automatonic posting, for any personal textpost; #automatonic asks, for asks; #automatonic photos, for photos; #automatonic writing, for any writing i post (or occasionally, posts about my writing).
THINGS YOU WILL SEE A LOT OF ON MY BLOG: queued posts (9 out of 10 reblogs are spit out here: #queue who). #art. pictures of space (#space is the place). #words and/or #poetry. #history. music (#Kristina's jams). #cats and #dogs, not necessarily living together -- and also, my dog (#lucy posting). #tarot. going nuclear (#nuclear tag) or going to the poles (#polar exploration tag) or going to the sea (#ocean tag). swords...#sword of a lot, actually. #arthuriana. posts about #nyc and posts about maryland (under #maryland mentioned)
SOME LONG-STANDING AND CURRENT LOVES FOR FICTION (everything tagged by name, pretty much)
movies: aaaaalllllll kinds of horror movies. the truman show. dark city. AKIRA. moon. blade runner. brazil. the fall. honestly just take a look at the all-time favs list i made on my letterboxd
directors: david lynch. david cronenberg. john carpenter. martin scorsese. oliver stone (sorry).
tv shows: LOST. twin peaks. the prisoner. the x files. severance. the simpsons. star trek (namely the original series, next gen, and deep space 9). fringe. the leftovers. nowhere man. pluribus. mash.
books: the dark tower. the stand. chronicles of amber. the divine comedy. rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead (i know it's a play, whatever). richard iii (I KNOW IT'S A PLAY, WHATEVER). house of leaves. the master and margarita. jane eyre. the illuminatus! trilogy. VALIS. jonathan strange and mr norrell. piranesi.
authors/poets: stephen king. roger zelazny. terry pratchett. dostoevsky. tom stoppard. shakespeare. philip k dick. susanna clarke. mary oliver. czesław miłosz. t.s. eliot. c.s. lewis. tim powers.
artists: ivan aivazovsky. gustave dore. john martin. the pre-raphaelites. william blake. harry clarke. ilya repin. mikhail nesterov. francis bacon. j.c. leyendecker. claude monet. nicholas roerich. vincent van gogh. kay nielsen.
video games: silent hill. alan wake. control. soulsborne games. disco elysium. planescape torment. hades 1/2. esoteric ebb. resident evil. halo. fallout.
music (not to be confused with musicals): bruce springsteen. nine inch nails. talking heads. radiohead. the mountain goats. basically any kind of post-punk, new wave, and alt-rock you can think of.
musicals (not to be confused with music): les miserables. phantom of the opera. natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812. jesus christ superstar.
tropes: ghosts. labyrinths. doppelgangers and shadow selves. "hell is what you make of it." hole theory. "you are your own worst enemy." ergodic text. metafiction. unreliable narrators. byronic heroes. "hope is a weapon you are trained to wield." body horror and transformations. Came Back Wrong. "even if you leave this place, you can never leave this place." haunting the narrative, eating the narrative, chained by the narrative.
OTHER TAGS I USE: #gender tag, for that mysterious and ineffable self-descriptor; #religion tag, for religious stuff; #grad school tag and #the post grad life, for the struggles of academia and industry respectively; #husband tag, for posts that remind me of my husband (does not have a tumblr); #dad tag, for posts that remind me of my dad (DOES have a tumblr); #writing tag, for posts about writing.
AND I ALSO HAVE OCS (wip)
Henry Doran -- my long-standing and long-suffering D&D blorbo for 6 years running, a changeling swashbuckler rogue/hexblade warlock who reverse-engineered his way into becoming a paladin. more about him in this post!
Vakka-Keshu -- my character in a homebrew D&D campaign set in the Elder Scrolls universe, a dragonborn (mechanically and also literally) clockwork sorcerer who frequently becomes unstuck in time. fun fact, her name roughly translates to "Dawn-Star Lost"
Ayelin -- my character in a Mutants and Masterminds campaign that takes place circa 1938 in faux-New Orleans, largely inspired by Indrid Cold as depicted in The Mothman Prophecies ("What do you look like?" "It depends on who is looking") and other writings on ultraterrestrials, as well as a fun bit of historical trivia concerning Thomas Jefferson sighting a UFO over the swamps of Louisiana in 1800. highly proficient telepath, mentalist, clairvoyant, and shapeshifter. more of her bio can be found here.
"Hotspur" --
Dunya Voronin --
Dirk Morgenstern --
Valentine "Val" Faulkner --
Leithe --
Maia Ardelean --
D-03, aka "Doe" --
Jocasta O'Rinn --
i've also put some thought into DMing a spelljammer campaign and stuff for that is tagged #spelljams. ask me about any of this stuff at any time!
WHERE YOU CAN ALSO FIND ME: letterboxd, twitter/x, bluesky, ao3, spotify, goodreads, storygraph, pagebound.
this is the end of the pinned post -- you may now adjust or turn off your television set.
i dont watch it but its very funny to me that iwtv s1 episode titles are like We Burn Eternally Beneath The Hateful Fury Of A Deity’s Ancient Vengeance and iwtv s3 episode titles are like Cleveland
i understand all that shit about honor and knighthood and solemn vows but “kingslayer” is simply a bad insult. it sounds cool as fuck. might as well call him the landlord annihilator or the billionaire’s bane.
fun new element that i think would spice up football in a really dynamic way: there should be a very large pig on the field who has been trained to also go after the football.
strange man in black hooded robes with a skull mask hovering around town, hes got a stack of papers in his arms, stapling them to various poles and handing them out to bypassers. you look at the poster hes putting up everywhere. "LOST: SKELETON ARMY" is written in large text, underneath is a picture of roughly 5000 skeletons with various weapons, taken like an elementary school class photo. underneath the picture is "CALL NECRUS THE VILE" followed by an evil rune
