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littlehungrywarrior · 7 years

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there’s a lot of things about me that are fucking absurd and really cool, so when ppl ask me to tell them about myself, i break em out immediately (”my family heirloom is a severed head named oswald,” “I can see disney studios from my house,” etc)

but just bc im bored and I feel like it, here’s some stuff about me that I dont think I’ve ever really talked about? not secrets, but just...mundane things that I don’t really ever say in favor of Ice Breaker™-type things

I have a profound respect for mail services. When I was 7-8 years old, we watched a documentary in class about how the postal system works, its history, and about the various jobs involved. It was an extremely formative experience for me. I don’t send a lot of things over snailmail and so I’m not really sure how to express my respect and support but it’s definitely there. Unfortunately, I’ve yet to play the FallOut game where you’re a mail carrier, but I wanna... I wanna.

Though I’ll claim to the ends of the earth that sports confuse me, I am a huge speed-running enthusiast. One hobby/interest/self-esteem exercise I have is that I really like to learn jargon/lingo involved with...anything, really. So I started watching speedruns to pick up the lingo and I just...became infatuated. I’m no expert but I’m %100 into it for more than the lingo at this point; I’ve long since got that covered. One of my favorite parts is golf-clapping along with other fans when something cool/impressive happens.

I can’t sleep without a hat on. A beanie, specifically. When I was, like...5 or something, I was terrified of vampires, and for some reason I thought vampires bit the skull and not the neck. So I pulled my blankets up over my head at night. My parents thought this was dangerous (I might suffocate) so they gave me a hat to protect myself with. I’ve long since outgrown my fear of vampires (and learnt that they don’t typically bite skulls) but I’ve associated hats with nighttime safety for so long that I can’t fall asleep without one. In the event that I don’t have one, I can wear underwear on my head to suffice...and I think I wore a stuffed animal once somehow but idk.

I’ve had my SPiN in genetics for so long that 5-year-old me used to infodump strangers at the grocery store. When I asked where babies come from, my dad got me a picture book written for kids specifically to answer that question. We still have it; my brothers used it, too. It starts by explaining pollination and then extends the same concepts to dogs and then humans. Most of the information is on pregnancy and fetuses rather than sex, and cell development immediately caught my fascination. I asked my parents for more information about this and they gave me some more microbiology stuff. Combine that with my animal obsession + budding interest in heredity and you’ve got a tiny obnoxious geneticist who wouldn’t stop telling random people in line at the grocery store about how chromosomes are passed on through haploid cells. Dad got real smug about it, it was fantastic.

On a similar note (and I have no memory of how this actually happened), I more or less learnt to read spontaneously? All at once? Again, I have no clear memory of this until the part where I can read... My parents read to me every night but I never was able to do it myself. I had a huge library built into the wall at perfect me-height for reading. One morning, the summer I turned 5, I (according to legend) walked up to my parents, got their attention, said “I’m going to read now,” and then (this part I do remember) sat down and read every single book in that library over the course of two or three days. Super rough estimate, but it was somewhere between 70-200 books, with a variety of target ages ranging from 3 to 10-11. No chapter books, all pictures, but the second I was finished I wanted more books. My mom took me to the store to buy more and insisted I get a chapter book since I’d burnt through the picture books so fast. And that’s where I got my first Warriors book.

That was not the last time I read an entire library. In 7th grade, a friend of mine and I both had sex ed previously and so were allowed to skip that year’s sex ed on the condition that we spent that class in the school library. And together, we read the entire thing. Only what was on the shelves, though; nothing in the back. Actually, at one point on the last day, we’d already read every book in the place and we were bored, so we pulled some books out of the back to look at and none of them caught our interest. One of them was the first Hunger Games book WAY before it got popular. We’d never heard of it, both read the first 2 pages, didn’t like it at all, and put it back. You should’ve seen our faces when it suddenly blew up into a huge thing. The sad thing is, I remember a lot of books that I enjoyed but can’t find now because I can’t remember any specific titles or characters. We sped through everything to finish it all and didn’t really take a lot of time to absorb details so a lot of them are lost to the vague, hazy back of my memory. Still looking for that manga where the ninja kid...stops an evil scientist from...some kind of virtual world machine. There’s a piranha tank? And then the bad guy...gets sniped by a helicopter and falls off the roof, or something? Also there was a manga version of Maximum Ride, which I only remember by name because 2 chapters in it suddenly hit me that this was a comic version of a text-novel my mom was reading at the same time. I bought a handful of books from that library at the end of the year and still have them.

I’ve only been in one play but something fucking sweet happened during production. I was Malvolio in Twelfth Night because, and I quote my drama teacher (who had known me for 8-ish years at that point and also who was smirking her ass off when she said this), “You’ll see why when you read the play.” She was not wrong and to this day that smug fuckin grin gives me life. Anyway, I was Malvolio, and you know that “Some have greatness thrust upon them” speech that everyone’s so inspired by? That speech is a fucking prank pulled on this asshole and it’s about bangin’. So the scene is that I dramatically read this “””love letter””” I’ve received and then run off to go embarrass myself. The speech is LONG and so I asked if I can just...actually have it written on the letter. And she said yes! So I wrote it down with intent of reading it off the letter. But opening night, the actress who was to place the letter grabbed the wrong paper and so I got just a blank sheet. Guess fucking what? We’d re-choreographed that scene so many times the night before that I slammed that shit anyway, word-for-fucking-word. And I was never mad at my friend for grabbing the wrong paper, so I say this in jest, but her punishment for grabbing the wrong paper is that the entire cast/production team did not hear the end of my pride for the entire week. For a timeframe reference, I was 12.

When I was a kid I had a horse named Emmy. She was a rental horse. Actually, I think she was a pony? The way the rental worked was that she lived in a barn with a bunch of other horses. Her owners were a small business who gave riding lessons, but instead of just riding each session, one of the horses was “yours” (assigned by age, height, and temperament, not picked by the kid) to take care of while you were there and ride consistently every session. Essentially, she was only my pet when I was on the property. I can still ride but I’ve gotten rusty and I can’t do anything above a trot for more than a few seconds. Both times I’ve jumped have been accidents, once on Emmy and once on mom’s current horse, Meteor. I’ve fallen only once, and it was off Emmy. Mom’s going to be getting a gigantic thoroughbred soon and I’m both terrified and excited to ride this very large boy.

I talk about this in person but not online because...why would it ever come up online?? I have worn the same style of red jacket every single time I leave the house since I was a pre-teen. It’s to the point where people will only recognize me if I’m wearing it. I had a friend in high school who was/is a really cool guy, we were seniors and we’d been close friends since freshman year. I had my jacket tied around my waist because of the heat. The school had two campuses a block apart and I was walking from one to the other to get something. Friend was walking from the other to the one, so we passed each other. Wordlessly. No wave, nothing. I was tired, it was hot, I didn’t really think anything of it. Then suddenly, a foot behind me, he freezes dead in his tracks and says my name with some kind of stricken shock. He had no idea it was me. At all. Keep in mind: my jacket? Tied around my waist. Not even off, just around my waist. Since then I’ve used this jacket thing to my advantage. Sparingly, I can take it off to sneak around. It’s like I’m invisible to people I know unless I say something and they hear my voice. It’s incredible.

Going back to speed running, way before I knew that it was a thing at all, I taught myself to speedrun two games: The Lion King (PS2, not the impossibly hard one) and Putt Putt Saves The Zoo. As they were unofficial speedruns that I didn’t really call anything and just kinda did when I was bored, I never timed the latter, and I only timed the former once using my mom’s kitchen timer. It was a rough estimate since sometimes I paused and forgot to hit play for a few seconds, or I needed to pause but didn’t for a few seconds, and the timer only counted full minutes anyway, but I still remember the time: 35 minutes. I keep meaning to go back and re-teach myself to speedrun it, perhaps more professionally, and time it with more accuracy. I still remember all the strats but I can’t pull them off with as much fluidity as I could when I was still in practice. I also can, when watching both Lion King 1 and 2, still point out with frame-perfect accuracy exactly when a scene starts that was a cutscene in that game.

wow writing this was fun and I kinda wanna do it again. ok

#what do i tag this as #me??#me

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foxeygem · 7 years

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EVERYTHING! (all questions)

omggg ok im going to answer half cause I’m sleepy and ill post the rest another time (also bc it would be a hella long post) lol

1: 6 of the songs you listen to most? constantly changesss idk I’ve listened to quite a few pink floyd songs a lot and still do, but i also have been listening to tyler the creator recently. oh and the black keys

2: If you could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be? first i thought hendrix then i realized this said anyone on this earth and i don’t know id have to think about that

3: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 23, give me line 17.

-i have this poetry book idk there isn’t a 17th line but ill re write it for you. cracks. here you are covered in cracks from falling and not being caught. cracks from loving someone incapable of reciprocating everything you gave them and yet here you stand. still beautiful. still worthy of the love you’ve always given. i wrote this for you.

4: What do you think about most? o.o

5: What does your latest text message from someone else say? how ya doin nat

6: Do you sleep with or without clothes on? i switch it up

7: What’s your strangest talent? huh. i can lick my elbow

8: Girls… (finish the sentence); Boys… (finish the sentence) idk i could go anywhere w that and i don’t want to decide that right now lol

9: Ever had a poem or song written about you? i have.

10: When is the last time you played the air guitar? how bout real guitar?? yesterday

11: Do you have any strange phobias? hm not really except car washes used to make me nervous lol

12: Ever stuck a foreign object up your nose? nope not 4 me

13: What’s your religion? i have my own beliefs but i wouldn’t say i have a religion

14: If you are outside, what are you most likely doing? looking at the sky. taking pictures. hiking, exploring. longboarding. meditating.

15: Do you prefer to be behind the camera or in front of it? maybe behind.

16: Simple but extremely complex. Favorite band? ughhhhh. i listen to such a variety and have favorites within those genres but. pink floyd has a special place in my heart

17: What was the last lie you told? damn this q is real haha i told my friend id tell her when i got home bc she wanted to chill but that ended up not happening (I’m just feeling like being alone)

18: Do you believe in karma? yesyesy

19: What does your URL mean? I’m on that cosmic fl0w

20: What is your greatest weakness; your greatest strength? i will get back to u on that

21: Who is your celebrity crush? i don’t really care for celebrities that much

22: Have you ever gone skinny dipping? yes haha

23: How do you vent your anger? writing!! & gym helps a lot

24: Do you have a collection of anything? i collect crystals/stones.

25: Do you prefer talking on the phone or video chatting online? depends on the person. maybe id wanna see u;)

26: Are you happy with the person you’ve become? yes

27: What’s a sound you hate; sound you love? forks on a plate, wind chimes

28: What’s your biggest “what if”? theres too many

29: Do you believe in ghosts? How about aliens? oh yeah

30: Stick your right arm out; what do you touch first? Do the same with your left arm. my bed frame, my nightstand

31: Smell the air. What do you smell? dat kush

32: What’s the worst place you have ever been to? aw i don’t wanna shame anywhere

33: Choose: East Coast or West Coast? west

34: Most attractive singer of your opposite gender? kinda the same question as 21 like its whatever

35: To you, what is the meaning of life? answering this now id say experience, answering this later in life I’m not sure.

36: Define Art. art is so subjective, i guess i would define it as a timeless and ever-changing

37: Do you believe in luck? ya I’m 50/50 w luck but some people really do have some luck

38: What’s the weather like right now? its comfortable a lil overcast a lil breezy

39: What time is it? 1:12 AM

40: Do you drive? If so, have you ever crashed? i drive i haven’t crashed

41: What was the last book you read? dirty pretty things

42: Do you like the smell of gasoline? meh

43: Do you have any nicknames? nat, natie

44: What was the last film you saw? death note

45: What’s the worst injury you’ve ever had? when i split my head a bit

46: Have you ever caught a butterfly? No, I haven’t tried. i like to leave ‘em be

47: Do you have any obsessions right now? no

48: What’s your sexual orientation? I’m mostly straight but i like having fun with some girls, what can i say girls are beautiful

49: Ever had a rumour spread about you? yes

50: Do you believe in magic? no

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