for the ask game! 2, 23, and 26!
2) do you have a collection of anything?
i fear i may truly be part crow bc i literally collect everything. in the least capitalistic way possible i love things; like, i love creation, and the act of creating, and the idea that people -- and the earth in general -- can just, make things. when i phrase it that way it sounds kinda woo-woo but i promise i'm normal.
in terms of specifics: i love art and images; i have a whole backlog of art/prints that i need to get frames for. i'm never beating the woo-woo allegations, but i also have a pretty decent collection of tarot/lenormand/oracle cards, many of which i even use w some frequency (lmao, i need to be better about taking them out and reading w them). i recently had to buy a new bookcase just to have a place to keep my calico critters (sylvanian families). i have a very modest dvd collection, and an even smaller masks collection. i have nearly 300 pez dispensers, and currently they're just in a few bins piled near my front door bc they're so fucking hard to display.
i love stuffed animals in general, but i have a few sub-collections within that larger category. i've been collecting webkinz since i got my first one when i was eight, much to my parent's chagrin (they refused to get me one for the longest time bc they thought it was a pointless fad, but i managed to talk my aunt into getting one for me and the rest has been history). i have about a dozen puffkins, which i'm obsessed w but are suprisingly hard to find. this also seems like the most logical section to mention my 70+ (at last count, so it might be closer to 100 now) furbys.
the only reason i don't currently have a cat is bc i collect dead things while living in a studio apartment, so i have no way to keep my cat away from my dead things when unsupervised. i've processed some of my own bones and mummified specimens, but i also have some i've bought, as well as a few traditional wet specimens; a couple pieces of taxidermy; many pinned and resin encased insects; and a single, beautiful diaphonized frog.
that's not everything but. perhaps it's enough.
23) what's the coolest place you've visited?
define "cool." unfortunately for you i think everything in the world is cool, hence my answer to the first question. also, define "visit." how far do i have to travel for it to no longer be. just. hanging out where i live.
anyway. sorry for stalling. i don't really travel much. i think, objectively, the answer is: for spring break my senior year of high school i went to spain. it's still the only time i've left the country, and still one of the only times i've even left my time zone🙃 some of my favorite places in the world are museums and parks/beaches/little nature patches, and obviously there were some really cool ones there. i went to the prado and got right up to the rope on the garden of earthly delights which made me cry, and one of the hotels i stayed at was right on the mediterranean, and one night at like. ten pm. one of my friends and i went for a walk just wading in the water for probably about a mile before we turned around and went back. i think in general i should be granted more unsupervised access to the water in the middle of the night all my local beaches close at sunset.
also, when i was a kid my dad used to take annual business trips to dc, and my mom and i would tag along to go the museums and stuff. i have such vivid memories of a lot of the art in the national gallery and various exhibits in the natural history museum.
for things i thought were cool, i also love peculiar artifacts of humanity. like, little shops and roadside attractions that only exist bc someone was Unmedicated. i feel a strong sense of kinship w them. some of my favorites have been the mothman museum in point pleasant, west virginia that i bullied my parents into taking me to on our way home from tennessee one year; holy land, usa in waterbury, ct; and, like, several scare attractions i've been to. but literally everyone would call me insane for ranking, like, 'corn maze w an animatronic scarecrow in it' on par w actual art museums, so i won't. at least not explicitly.
26) do you make a list before going to the grocery store or just wing it?
i really just rawdog it. conveniently i live really close to several grocery stores, so i honestly just buy, like, a handful of things at a time multiple times a week/as needed. i can't meal prep bc my brain a) hates leftovers (for a few irrational reasons; it's not relevant), and b) won't let me eat something unless it's exactly what i want in that exact moment. i'll get really invested in a food for, like, a few days/weeks at a time and then refuse to eat it ever again for months/years, so if i keep too much of a backlog of food on hand, especially perishables, it all goes bad and then i kill myself out of grief and guilt.
