an immediate association with the object world

Thanks for tagging me @chainofclovers!!

1. What's your blog title from ?

It’s a bog body thing, a book thing (bog is danish for book), a bog woman thing (the old woman who brews that particular, thick fog that appears over the marsh at twilight in the late fall, another very Scandinavian reference), and a remnant from the era of tumblr when we were all talking about stanning all the ladies you hate and all that.

My tumblr title describes the characteristics of nonabstract photography.

2. What movie have you watched most recently? What did you think of it?

I’m gradually working my way through Jacob Tierney’s IMDB so the last thing I watched was the weirdly horny bisexual incest movie Blood (2004). I thought it was interesting, but also wasn’t really sure what it wanted to communicate other than “here’s a fucked up scenario with two fucked up people”. I have a soft spot for play adaptations that are very unapologetically play adaptations though, so it worked for me. Anyway, that was a while back, I need to watch more movies.

3. what are you looking forward to right now?

I’m currently on my way to Finland for a networking event where I’ll be appearing on a panel as an expert (??). I’m going a bit early to visit family I haven’t seen in a while and I think it will be nice 😊

4. if you could do anything at all today, what would it be?

Spend less time at the airport. Read a ton (I will be reading a ton)

5. What's your drink of choice? (Coffee/tea order, alcohol of choice, pop, etc)

I like black coffees and black teas and pilsners. I’m really very simple. I like cortados at cafes and mojitos when it’s warm out. I don’t really do soda.

6. What's your hair routine like? Anything special?

I have a slightly grown out curly mullet situation these days, so I just sort of brush it wet and let it do its thing, hoping for the best.

7. what's your favourite way to travel? Is there a mode of travel you haven't done that you want to experience?

Trains are great! (Currently on one 😌) As a kid, my favorite part of travelling was when I would visit my family in Finland, and we would take the ferry from Stockholm. We’d eat dinner on the ferry, looking out over all the tiny little cottages on tiny little rock islands in the Baltic Sea, and I’d think about the sort of people who lived there. I was really not a fan of the 12-hour-long car ride to get to the ferry though. Very much prefer a train to a car.

8. favourite month of the year and why?

November is usually when i start feeling like i’m getting a hold of what i want to be doing with my year.

9. favourite time of day and why?

2.30 a.m.

10. do you play or follow any sports? & elaborate on that?

I watch women’s olympic hockey when denmark or finland are doing well, so not really for a long while. But I do actually “follow” sports in the sense that i watch a lot of sports documentaries and occasionally listen to sports podcasts and i’m a sucker for any fictional depiction of atheleticism and sports culture. There are just very few sports i have any interest in sitting down and watching in full.

11. what kind of music is stuck in your head a lot lately?

I saw a post the other day about tallahasse by the mountain goats as an album and have repeatedly had songs and bits of lyrics from that album stuck in my head since.

12. dishes or laundry?

Laundry, but only because i’ve been in bad cycle of full sink guilt lately.

13. what's something you learned recently?

I learned that ken jennings and brandon sanderson were college roommates? The world is very small. I am learning that over and over again. See also, @freetobegrace following me for like a year sixteen years ago.

I also learned about rat kings! Rat kings are cool and disgusting and so metaphorically rich that it feels weird to know they’re a real thing.

14. if you could give a TED talk on anything, what would you talk about?

I have a whole thing about how gendered perception of various technologies are perpetuated culturally and then in the tech itself that i could always rant about. That, or like, art books as a means of democratizing access to art beyond the many problematic boundaries presented by cultural institutions (which is probably how I ended up on the aforementioned panel).

15. What's a piece of advice you find yourself giving a lot?

You are braver than you think are.

16. what's a piece of advice you would give to yourself five years ago?

Just try doing stuff maybe. It’s not that scary actually.

17. do you believe in luck and superstition? Do you carry any lucky items or follow any lucky rules?

I like spiritually in the abstract and i’ll knock on wood just in case but i wouldn’t say i’m a true believer.

18. Are you musical? Play any instruments or sing? Would you ever perform for an audience?

I am not. I cannot. I would not.

19. Write, type, or speak?

Typing is my type.

20. what do you wish someone would ask you?

Would you like a free burrito? (Dream big)

Since I already tagged @freetobegrace in this post, I’ll tag her again, but also I’ve seen this post going around a bit and don’t know who hasn’t been tagged already. Also @president-bethersonton and @mouthfulofbirds

Not random at all, and I’m so happy to hear this! I love Big Eden a lot and have always maintained that if mainstream America/the world had at all been ready for an interracial gay romance in 2000, it would now hold the same status as Nora Ephron’s rom-coms do, where we all agree that it belongs to a canon of the caliber of romances they truly don’t make anymore. And while Heated Rivalry is obviously very different from Big Eden in a lot of ways, it’s really been the first time I’ve felt that, actually, that is something a mainstream audience is fully ready to embrace. It’s nice to hear that you like my Heated Rivalry rambling too, especially since I haven’t really found my space in this fandom yet and it sometimes feels a little bit like I’m screaming into the void whenever I yap about it.