• crochet (sometimes knitting)
• TV series bingeing
• historical fantasy & sci-fi
• languages & linguistics
• plants
• vulture culture
• eating
• sleeping
• global cinema
• video games
• creating characters
• fantasizing and ignoring the real world
• metal music
• folk and classic rock music
• medieval castles
• historical architecture
• historical crafting methods (weaving, spinning yarn, etc.)
• Ancient history
• learning about serial killers and cults
• psychology

• Heilung (always)
• Opeth
• Sepultura
• Garmarna
• Septicflesh
• Rammstein
• Ensiferum
• Blind Guardian
• Jinjer
• Björk
• Jefferson Airplane
• Led Zeppelin
• Simon & Garfunkel
• Buffy Sainte-Marie
• Bob Dylan
• Joan Baez
• Tautumeitas
• Sundae May Club
• Kaneko Ayano
• Julie Fowlis
• traditional Celtic folk

Currently working through:

• Schindler's Ark , Thomas Keneally
• The Lord of the Rings , Tolkien
• Nausea , Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Celts , Alice Roberts

Planning to read:

• The Simarillion , Tolkien
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , Oliver Sacks
• Necropolis , Boris Pahor
• Moby Dick , Herman Melville
• The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England , Ian Mortimer
• Whoever Fights Monsters , Robert K. Ressler & Tom Schachtman
• The Night Stalker: The Disturbing Life and Chilling Crimes of Richard Ramirez , Philip Carlo

Favourites finished so far:

• Frankenstein , Mary Shelley
• Dracula , Bram Stoker
• Killing for Company , Brian Masters

from Star Trek :

• Spock ( TOS )
• Julian Bashir
• Elim Garak
• Geordi La Forge
• Data
• Grilka

Others:

• Dale Cooper ( Twin Peaks )
• Fox Mulder ( The X-Files )
• Garrus Vakarian ( Mass Effect )
• Wrex ( Mass Effect )
• Lilihierax ( Mass Effect )
• Hancock ( Fallout 4 )
• Bernard Black ( Black Books )
• Oz ( Buffy )
• Floki ( Vikings )
• Michael Ginsberg ( Mad Men )
• Xena (the warrior princess)

• tribal Stone Age hunter vibes
• furs, leather, bones, antlers
• whatever the hell Heilung wear on stage
• grungy post-apocalyptic long-coat and chunky platform boots
• Aragorn's ranger outfit
• creepy pagan swamp witch
• The Seer from Vikings
• Klingon warrior
• trad. goth
• death-rock
• metalhead fashion
• 60s/70s hippie

I have...

• tattoos: 2 on left arm, 1 on right arm, 3 on right leg
• piercings: 4mm septum, 25mm/1 inch earlobes

I used to have...

• piercings: bridge, second lobes in both ears, double helix in right ear, conch in left ear, center lip ring, both nostrils

• waist-length, full head
• shoulder length, full head
• pixie cut
• 1920s bob
• buzzcut
• mohawk cut
• pixie mohawk
• dreadlock mohawk
• Chelsea cut

• born 1997
• half-Australian, half-Scottish
• Aromantic Asexual, Bi-Oriented
• sex-averse, romance-ambivalent
• extreme introvert
• shy, reserved, withdrawn, solitary
• arts & crafts person
• misophonic
• irreligious atheist
• skeptic
• existential nihilist
• misanthropist: people are dumb and stinky and can be blamed for pretty much everything bad
• INTP
• NEET
• perfectionist
• neurotic
• overthinker
• alien

• a hurdy-gurdy
• a weaving loom
• ✔ my own cute little place in a quiet peaceful city suburb
• actual close friends
• a job (that I would enjoy)
• a future
• confidence
• motivation
• self-esteem
• goals & ambitions
• more tattoos
• my old Nintendo 64 :(
• a different surname
• ice skates (and a place to use them)
• a traditional English longbow

• Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig)
• Irish Gaelic
• Welsh
• Yiddish
• German
• Dutch
• Norwegian (A2-B1 level already)
• Inuktitut
• te reo Māori
• Old English
• Latin

Places I've visited:

• England, Scotland
• USA (MA, RI, ME, NY, CA)
• Poland
• Russia
• Japan
• Fiji

Places I want to visit:

• Finland
• Norway
• Germany
• Austria
• Netherlands
• Belgium (esp. Bruges)
• Czechia
• Ukraine & the Carpathians
• Estonia
• Lithuania
• Israel (the historical sites)
• Mongolia

• snoring
• repetitive noises
• slow walkers taking up the entire pathway
• techno music outside my abode
• people being loud
• people leaving the TV on when they aren't watching it
• people poorly loading the dishwasher
• people not updating me on our plans together
• people not paying attention to where they are walking in a crowded place
• people talking over each other in conversation
• people asking "how are you?" just to be polite and without actually wanting the answer
• people
• being interrupted when speaking
• dust

If I were in a queer-platonic relationship, would I want the following things?

• Kissing (forehead, cheek, etc): No.
• Kissing (mouth): No.
• Hand holding: No.
• Cuddling: Yes, if I'm feeling okay with it (I have confidence issues; self-conscious of my body). Let's just keep the clothes on.
• Hugging: Yes
• Other affectionate touching: A little bit, depends what it is.
• Hugging in public: i guess?
• Cuddling in public: when and where would this happen..???
• Kissing (forehead, cheek, etc) in public: No.
• Kissing (mouth) in public: No.
• Hand holding in public: No.
• Other affectionate touch in public: Nah..
• Eye gazing: No...
• Crying on: I mean.. if I really need it then yeah?
• Being cried on: See above.
• Massage (giving): No.

• I love fluffy dogs (probably my favourite thing in the world)
• I love ducks and ducklings
• I have severe depression (MDD & PDD)
• Despite being Australian, I hate our accent
• I prefer the cold to heat
• I would rather live in the Northern Hemisphere
• I stand just under 5'3'' (about 161cm)
• My mother's family likely descend from the Picts of Aberdeenshire, Scotland
• I value privacy, integrity, and honesty above all else
• My favourite colours are black, mint-green and pale blue
• My eyes are hazel
• I have a collection of bones and dead animals
• I want to be a wood elf
• I was a vegetarian for 8 years

• Star Trek TOS & Deep Space Nine
• The X-Files
• Black Books
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Mad Men
• Twin Peaks
• Vikings
• Spartacus
• I loved Game of Thrones years ago when it was airing, around seasons 1-4, but lost interest after then.

• Mass Effect trilogy
• Dragon Age trilogy
• Bioshock
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
• Super Mario 64
• Halo: Combat Evolved
• Halo 3

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• The Lord of the Rings trilogy
• A Serious Man (2009)
• Amadeus (1984)
• The Seventh Seal (1957)
• Frankenstein (1932)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Paths of Glory (1957)
• The Matrix (1999)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• Metropolis (1927)
• Nosferatu (1922)
• The Other Side of Hope (2017)
• Ju-On: The Grudge (2002)

IMO.

• Leonard Nimoy as Spock ( TOS )
• Nichelle Nichols
• Alexander Siddig as Dr. Julian Bashir
• Braden Holtby
• Patrice Bergeron
• Taika Waititi
• Jeff Goldblum
• Greta Garbo
• Carice Van Houten
• Lisa Kudrow
• David Schwimmer (the Friends years)
• Orlando Bloom as Legolas
• Slick Woods
• Maria Franz
• Lori Petty as Tank Girl
• Katheryn Winnick as Lagertha

• being sexually assaulted
• being watched and/or spied on
• moths
• the ocean, and being in it
• losing my parents
• being left completely alone in life
• the future

• been assaulted (so far. who knows what the future holds)
• smoked anything
• taken illicit drugs
• been in a coma
• been to Disneyland/Disney World
• had a hallucination
• been arrested
• been on a date
• had a significant other
• kissed someone of the opposite sex
• used or downloaded a dating app
• used or downloaded TikTok
• owned a cat
• been stung by a bee or wasp
• watched porn
• been to a funeral
• seen any suggestion of the existence or power of a god
• broken any bone

• been hospitalised
• had surgery
• taken too many pills at once, then...
• ...passed out
• been bitten by a weevil
• been to Auschwitz
• seen Vladimir Lenin's corpse
• stayed awake for 26 hours
• been pierced 11 times
• been verbally harassed on the street
• held a Huntsman spider
• touched the Stanley Cup
• owned 3 dogs
• shaved my entire head
• climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge
• been kicked by a horse
• been bucked off a horse