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GET TO KNOW THE MUN !
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BASICS
BIRTHDAY : nov 14
PRONOUNS: she / her
NAME : bambi
ZODIAC :   scorpio sun, taurus rising, pisces moon
FAVORITES
Favorite Author: tbh I don’t think I have one? Amy Harmon is pretty good
Favorite Character from Literature : not sure
Favorite Music Genre: I listen to a lot of stuff to where my spotify weekly list is screwed up, but my spotify year in review said I listened to indie the most.
Favorite Kind of Book: historical, anything that grabs my attention, anything 1700s-early 1900s.
Favorite Animal: cat
Favorite Disney Cartoon : lion king
Favorite Video Games: r.dr2 by far, but I do have a few other favorites
Favorite Color: purple
Favorite Tv Shows: I don’t watch many tv shows but probably t.urn??
Favorite Mythology:  greek but norse is cool
Favorite Food: spaghetti or anything pasta
Favorite Actor: d.omhnall g.leeson
Favorite Countries: I haven’t visited anywhere outside of the states, but I want to visit Ireland, Canada, or Britain.
ROLEPLAY QUESTIONS
CANON OR OC:  I write both but probably canon? It’s just easier for character study because I have a visual reference to work off of that’s easier for me
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN RPING : On here? May 2018, I believe, but I’ve been rping since I was in fifth grade when I wrote with *these*.
WHO IS YOUR CURRENT FC : it varies with each muse, but I use T.om N.ook as my mun fc occasionally
FAVORITE GENRE :  anything but probably fluff or angst (though usually I have to be in the mindset to do it sometimes), smut is cool. So generally and for the big three, I’m not picky honestly. I’m more selective with smut than anything.
SOFT MUSES OR EVIL MUSES : I like morally grey muses, and part of why I have so many different muses on here is because I couldn’t strictly write an evil or a good character all the time. I like the variation. Most of my muses are morally grey, even my more softer muse (Cassie). If anything, I probably prefer evil because soft would get boring quick.
WHAT IS YOUR PERFERED WRITING STYLE ? : I know I have a writing style and mostly that is a focus on a character’s thoughts and body language, usually, but it does drift sometimes depending on my mood or something I’m reading can kinda tamper with my writing. I try to write detailed but it isn’t always easy. I shift between present and past tense. For what I prefer, I’d like writing I can easily follow and distinguish what is dialogue and what isn’t in a reply. I’m not really picky but really action-oriented replies with no breather or break in between and heavy formatting hurts my brain.
HAVE YOU BEEN ON OTHER PLATFORMS ? : Right now, d.iscord is my only other platform. I used a.mino before, k.ik and w.attpad when I was just starting out.
WHO IS YOUR TOP MUSE AT THE MOMENT ? : It changes with each day and honestly with each hour tbh. I have a primary and secondary list on my muse list but it isn’t too consistent. Recently it’s been Lydia, Abe ( @cabbxges-and-kings ), Rogers sometimes, Evie. But it varies honestly. Usually I focus on one fandom at a time.
NAME YOUR MUSES YOU HAD IN THE PAST : This is so, so, so cringy and this is the first time I’m admitting it but I used to write a character from the m.arble h.ornets webseries when I first did rp stuff. I wrote Tim mostly because tbh he was the most interesting character in the whole series for me. But overall, I had a western oc that I started tumbllr rp with on my main that I retired and now use as a rp hub,.I had a few ocs on here and another blog that I retired, and an inquisitor oc, Real ones remember my cringy ocs when I started out.
tagged by : @impulse-incorporated​ ( thank you! )
tagging : I’ve seen this on the dash a ton so I’m not sure who hasn’t done this yet. If you see this, steal it from me and tag me!
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ABR Club Exclusive: Interview with Kip
If you've ever stopped by the merch table at an August Burns Red show, there's a good chance you've met their merch guy, Christopher "Kip" Hondru. Having been a fan of the band for nearly ten years, Kip and I developed a casual acquaintanceship through many merch table transactions over the years. While following ABR on The Phantom Anthem Tour in January and February, I had the chance to meet up with Kip in Milwaukee, WI where he gave me a tour of the historic Eagles Club venue and sat down afterwards to talk about tour life, photography, and how he spends his time when he's not on tour.
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Photo by Ray Duker
David: How did you get the nickname Kip? Do you prefer Kip or Christopher?
Kip: It's something my sister called me when I was younger. Friends and family always call me that, and it just kind of stuck around. I'm told that Kip is a nickname of Christopher. In regards to which name I use when I'm introducing myself to somebody, it depends on who I'm with. If I'm with my friends, I'll introduce myself as Kip. If I'm some place where I'm by myself, I'll go straight to Christopher. I do like that name a little better, but I'm not picky. I was named after my grandfather, so I think that's why I like the name Christopher. I use Kip when I'm selling merch for ABR, unless I'm trying to be funny. Then I'll give them a funny name. Sometimes it's fun to mess with the kids [laughs].
David: How did you get introduced to ABR, and how did you start selling merch for them?
Kip: I grew up with a lot of the guys in the band, went to the same school (Manheim Central), and rode the school bus with JB. I've known Brent since second grade, so I've always been around and would always help out here and there with local shows. When I was in college I would go out with them during the summer or on weekends when time allowed it. In 2009 I came on full-time when our previous merch guy was looking to get out of it. I wanted to stop my 9-to-5 job and go on tour because my friends were doing some cool stuff.
David: Did you go to Manheim Central from 1st through 12th grade?
Kip: Yup, born and raised. JB and Brent went as well. Matt was homeschooled, and Jordan [Jordan Tuscan, the original bassist] was homeschooled along with Matt. Jon Hershey, the original singer, was in my grade. I knew him longer than I knew Brent, probably by about two years. JB was in the grade above us. Josh Bowman, our tour manager, was in JB's class.
David: What's it like in Manheim with August Burns Red? Does everybody know them, or know of them?
Kip: A lot of people do. When I meet someone and they're like "oh what do you do?", I tell them I work for a band. They'll ask "what band?" and I'll say August Burns Red, and they'll be like "oh I think I've heard of them!" or "oh I saw them in the newspaper the other day!" [laughs].
David: Where did you go to college, and what did you major in?
Kip: I went to The Art Institute of Philadelphia from 2003 to 2007 and majored in photography. I really excelled at digital output and large format printing. I also did a lot of traditional film photography as well and would mix the two mediums together, scan the negatives, and then print them out digitally. I used specialized cameras called large format cameras, which are unique to work with and something I enjoyed.
David: I know you have a camera collection. How many cameras do you have in your collection? Do you use them?
Kip: I'm not sure, maybe over 200. Not all of them are work. I try to use them, but other things have kept me busy recently. I always try to keep a camera around or on me. I have one on tour with me, but I've only shot two pictures so far [laughs]. A lot of what I shoot doesn't need to be rushed around, so I'm just amassing images. I have a spreadsheet of the cameras in my collection, but it's not up-to-date. I kind of stopped adding to it and recently sold a lot of cameras.
David: It's always surprised me that you're really into photography and collect cameras, yet you don't use Instagram. Why is that?
Kip: I was never much about posting and sharing a lot of things. I never really got into that. I'm trying to stay off my phone much as I can [laughs]. It becomes an annoying habit.
Editor's note: If you want to check out Kip's photography, visit www.christopherhondru.com.
David: You used to post on Twitter a lot about things that happened at shows while selling merch and you started the Shoes Got Weird photo series. What happened to that?
Kip: I just lost interest in that stuff. I do think that photo series was funny, as a quick off-the-hip kind of thing. That hashtag came out of one particular tour I was on. I was working for The Devil Wears Prada, and they would spend a lot of time at the mall on off days, so I would be walking around the mall with them killing time. We would walk into shoe stores, and I would be like "dude, shoes got weird! Look at these!", and then it just became a thing [laughs].
David: What's your favorite part of selling merch?
Kip: I can't pinpoint just one thing. It's a combination of a bunch of stuff, like traveling with my friends, seeing new sights, and continually meeting new people. Like you for example, and getting to recognize your face and getting to know your name, seeing you come back time and time again, and seeing how stoked you guys are as fans. It keeps me going just as much as it keeps the guys in the band going and excited. It'll be sad the day I stop touring, because I won't be able to see everybody who I'm acquaintances with as easily.
David: What are some of your favorite ABR merch items you've sold over the years?
Kip: I like selling guitar picks. They're fun, unique, and collectable. I've become a pick collector myself because of selling them, and I've met lots of pick collectors through that. Now I save some picks for certain people because I think they're great guys and I want to make sure they get some picks. I've got two of every pick we've sold ever since we started selling them at the merch table. Someday I'll put them all in a frame of some sort.
David: What are your favorite cities, venues, and places to eat on tour?
Kip: A lot of people ask me this question. My quick answer is I like a lot of the smaller college towns, particularly in the Midwest, like Spokane, Washington; Lawrence, Kansas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Des Moines, Iowa; Missoula, Montana. Those are cool because they're smaller towns, so if I wanted to check something out it's not far away from the venue. I usually have limited time before a show to go check something out, so if I'm close enough I can maybe ride my skateboard there in half the time I could walk there. It's usually a cool cheeseburger joint, burrito shop, or a bar/brewery that I'd like to check out, maybe a skatepark sometimes.
David: I didn't know that you skate. Do you use a longboard or a normal skateboard?
Kip: Cruiser board, and some longboarding. Not as much as I used to. I used to skate in the skatepark when I was younger. I'm not trying to do any tricks anymore [laughs]. I'm strictly cruising around. I like snowboarding a lot. I don't get to do that much, so that's where longboarding comes into play. Being on Warped Tour really got me into that because it had a lot of parking lot space, so it was an easy way to get around. We had a group of friends who liked to skate and we would find cool hills. That was always fun and something I enjoyed about going on Warped Tour.
David: So do you bomb hills a little bit then?
Kip: Yeah [laughs], I'm not trying to get max speed, but I will carve pretty fast.
David: Besides cities, what are some of your favorite venues?
Kip: One of my favorite venues right now is The Fillmore in Philadelphia. It's a newer one, beautiful, it's good on all fronts. It has good parking for us, and there's an easy load-in. It's also in a cool neighborhood. There's lot of things to do around there. I also like Philadelphia a lot. A venue a lot of us like in in Belgium. It's called AB Brussels. It's a scenic venue too and state-of-the-art. It's completely soundproof, like you'll walk outside and have no clue there's a metal show going on inside [laughs]. It's in a historic town with lots of cool architecture, which is something I enjoy about touring. I like architecture and history and being able to see something that had some kind of tie to the past and is still around. This building (the Eagles Club) is an example. I really dig that stuff. Anything that's an old theater that's still being used is cool to me, especially if I can find an old picture of what it used to be.
David: What do you do when you're not on tour?
Kip: A lot of different hobbies, odd jobs, and things to make money where I can here and there. I don't actually look for other tours, but if they fall in my lap, sometimes I'll take them. Lately I've been really involved with making cider. I've been a longtime home-brewer, so I started making hard cider and learning about apples and different apple products. Living in Lancaster County, PA, there's a lot of farm history and barns that I'm intrigued by, so I'm exploring local history back home through the history of the apple.
David: What's your favorite kind of beer?
Me: I like all kinds of beers and ciders and the whole gamut of the spectrum. I don't have an absolute favorite, but I definitely like something that's very flavorful and hopefully 100% real ingredients and no adjuncts if that makes sense. That sounds kind of nerdy [laughs]. So like a good farm-based or orchard-based cider, rather than random ciders you're gonna find at any bar.
David: If someone is visiting Lancaster, what would you recommend they check out?
Kip: Drive into the country side if you can. Go see the farms and see an Amish buggy. There's lot of cool things to see in the city as well. There's Central Market which is the oldest farmer's market in the country. There's good food and stands to get produce. There's tons of restaurants and cafes. A lot of people like Prince Street Cafe. I like a lot of bar restaurants like Pressroom, Taproom Spring House, Lancaster Dispensing Company, The Fridge, Quips Pub, Lancaster County Brewing Company, Horse Inn, and Isaac's Restaurant.
David: Is there anything else you would like to add?
Kip: Come to the 15-Year Anniversary Show! We haven't talked about it yet, but we might do some cool merch items there. This is the first time it's on the record, I haven't said this to anyone else, but there's a small chance I might bring some of my personal poster collection there. I have a flat file cabinet at home with photos and posters I've collected over the years that have been piling up.
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