Early this morning, my favorite tea shop was burgled and lost thousands of dollars to damages and theft. Friday Afternoon Tea is a minority-run business, and the owner Friday Elliott dedicates herself to creating a safe space for the queer and neurodiverse community she and her family call home. Friday has a unique form of synesthesia that creates taste from sound, and she uses her superpower to create amazingly complex and full-bodied tea blends.
If you’re in the market for tea, check out »Friday Afternoon Tea« and consider making your buys there as they try to recover from this loss. Check out the fandom blends category for her Critical Role themed blends!
@msviolacea tagged me here (read the questions and answers, but it's a longer post, so am copying the questions).
Were you named after anyone?
Actually, I was named "in honor of" my great-grandmother, whose name turned out to be double alliterative with my surname, so my parents then chose a different first name. My middle name was in honor of my other great-grandmother (and again they modernized the name, although in that case, I wish they hadn't, because "Lena" would have been a much more interesting middle name than "Lynn" which is what they ended up with.
When was the last time you cried?
Within the last week.... family tsuris.
Do you have kids?
Nope.
Do you use sarcasm?
it is my factory default setting.
What’s the first thing you notice about people?
I have a terrible memory for faces, seriously awful, and I almost need to meet people three times before I can call their image to mind and match a name to it. Therefore, what I always do is try to find a unique feature that will help me remember them. So, it varies.
What’s your eye colour?
Brown.
Scary movies or happy endings?
Happy endings. Not a fan of scary.
Any special talents?
Writing, I guess. If you go with less than usual talents, I have a really good auditory memory (better than my reading memory), and am pretty good at identifying people by their voices (probably a compensation for the terrible face memory), songs by the first few notes, dialogue from movies.
Where were you born?
Somewhere in the continental U.S. is as much as I am prepared to reveal.
What are your hobbies?
Reading, photography, walking, writing, video games, movies, ice skating (though... it's been a while).
Have any pets?
Two cats and they hate each other.
What sports do/have you played?
My parents, being of the opinion that their kids should always be busy and have hobbies, signed me up for every recreational sport available in my town - that included softball, floor hockey, horseback riding, swimming, golf, and tennis. I was terrible at ALL of them. As an adult, I learned how to figure skate, and was oddly not terrible at it (granted, I wasn't good either, but I did pass up through ISI 4 freestyle, and could land all the single jumps except the axel).
How tall are you?
On the shorter end of average.
Favorite subject at school?
English and journalism ... I liked history a lot, but all of the history teachers were just the sports coaches marking time until practice after school, so my history education tended to be self-motivated.
Dream Job?
Working screenwriter or television writer.
Now for the 15 tags .... only if you want to, no pressure: