#about flame

Art

I started drawing when I was 11, when I first picked up an interest in reading (the seed that started my fan art journey!) but I wasn't super serious about it. I wanted to be good of course, but at the time I really wasn't willing to work for it.

I would draw casually throughout middle and high school but it wasn't until late high school and into college that I started to really work for it. The summer after my freshman year of college I picked up digital art for the first time, and boy have I come a long way since then!

Music

I play the cello, some piano, and ukulele (I'm waaay out of practice with all of these, though). I also did 10 semesters of voice lessons during my time in college, just for fun

Education & Future Goals

As far as my listening tastes go, my main genre would probably be best classified as indie-pop. I'm also a sucker for string music or orchestration of any kind, including filmscores and video game soundtracks. I also love soft, stripped back acoustic sounds with a lot of emphasis on vocals.

Current favorite recording artists to listen to include dodie, Sleeping At Last, Billie Eilish, AJR, and Cavetown

I went to the same arts school for 13 years (K-12) where I grew up with music, dance, theater, and of course visual arts. Art and music have been an enormous part of my life, though I enjoy the other two as well.

I recently graduated with a BA in Digital Media with a concentration in Video & Film and Storytelling. Someday I want to work on a film set or in an animation team, fleshing out characters, building storylines, editing, or any other job in the field of entertainment and storytelling.

Misc./Other

I’m aroace! I've toyed with a lot of micro labels, but my sexuality seems to be fluid enough that's its easier to just use an umbrella term like asexual and aromantic. If you want to know how I feel about my micro labels currently, I tend to stick with gray-asexual and demi-romantic.

I have a INTJ-T personality. I also recently learned I'm a 5w4 on the enneagram!

I have an older sister (who's also here on tumblr 👀) and a younger brother, both of who I love very much! My family also has two kitties, Thor and Loki.

I'm fascinated by the world of character design. Like many others, a character's unique design is often what pulls me into a piece of media. I would love to bring back some of my old OCs or work on creating new ones in the future.

I'm actually not sure any one thing or moment got me into it, I've always just been fascinated by it for as long as I can remember. It's actually kind of funny, because for the longest time I didn't actually like being tickled as a kid (at least, that's what I thought), I just liked the idea of it. I realized later that it was because the way I always got tickled (by family members) was waaay too intense and overwhelming for me to enjoy it. It also often felt... manipulative? Like, if I was upset because someone said something that hurt my feelings, they'd just tickle me so I physically couldn't stay upset at them and I didn't like that. I'd always just freeze up and try not to give the reaction they wanted so that they'd stop. I would watch others get tickled and kind of envy the way they seemed to have fun.

Then I got into my first and longest relationship of ten years, and though I didn't have the vocabulary for it at the time, he was a HUGE ler, so tickling slowly became a way of playing and/or showing affection in our relationship.

Fast forward to 2019 when I (re)joined Tumblr and unintentionally stumbled upon t-fics, which I consumed with a fury. I think that was the start of me realizing and admitting to myself I was into it. In the same area of time (late 2019 to early 2020) I had a couple really good experiences with tickling in that relationship that just solidified in my mind that I enjoyed it. Ironically, we broke up that April (2020) before I really gained the courage to tell him how I really felt about it, sooo that was the end of that 😅 and I haven't gotten much more than a poke or prod from anyone since! Woo hoo! /s