#friendpresents

Automattic: WELL. Do YOU know the story of the long red pirate coat I found at goodwill for five dollars that has served me immensely well for several years? No?? We’ll go with no.

Look at this coat. Look at this outfit. My god. This was from my first LARP! How times have changed. This was so many years ago and I have Learned Some Things about costuming. But this COAT. What an absolute glory. This picture doesn’t do it justice.

Look upon baby Kira.

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Staff: Oh goodness, probably. The thing that comes to mind is that brand of post that says the gays must submit to the mortifying experience of being known if they’re to find love and joy? Like you have to be vulnerable to find love? That’s actually really good advice. And something I’m struggling with right now!

This is a hard one! I think the way that I think of advice is sort of like how I think of a present someone has given me. Like I will most likely internalize it in some way. Though I also know when advice is trash and should be discarded immediately. I’m a dumbass bastard but like, a considerate one.

Ads: Dumbest thing you’ve done for attention?

Oh god I really don’t know...probably something in high school, over a crush. Which of course is a very understandable thing to do, but even now I sometimes want to look baby me in the face and go, “do you know that you’re very impressive by yourself without pretending at anything and anyone would be lucky to have a conversation with you?”

Automattic: Best item you’ve found at a yard sale/secondhand store?

Let me think about this, because I think you’d probably guess my answer to be that floor-length red coat with the black velvet trim, and you’d be correct.

Actually...my current work table/desk cost $10 at a surplus store and it’s just like a woodshop table or something, but it’s turned into such a lovely space in my room and I’m just so pleased about it. Here is said desk, obviously covered in plants and other things.

oh my GOD this was so FUN

The first, a clandestine forest ritual! So named “we float on inches of air”:

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The second, within the theme ‘dark academia’! So named “the night class”:

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the LENGTHS i went to, okay here we GO

!!! well hello!!!

I already answered the devil’s prompt in the ask from eldritchwyrm, so I’ll refer you to that ask! (it should be just below this one)

the world: do you like waking up early?

I do! I have a hard time of it, though. I really like being awake when most of the world is still asleep, and the earlier I wake up the better I feel about tackling the coming day. I love the colors of the sunrise, especially out in the desert when you gotta take every not-bone-drying hour you can get. Mornings can just be a very soft time, and if I was better at my sleep habits I’d take advantage of them more.

the devil: do you enjoy thunderstorms?

my DEAR, I am woefully ill-equipped to express how much I love thunderstorms. Like I wish I could somehow show everyone how wonderful the desert smells after/during a thunderstorm, it’s the most emotionally filling smell I’ve ever experienced. It feels like river mud is settling in your lungs and you could just sink into the ground and go back to what you were made of in the first place.

Best thunderstorm I’ve ever experienced was during the summer before senior year of high school. I was staying up really late, like 2am late, to work on an online physics class, and took a break to go walk around in the rain out the backdoor. The rain was very gentle but steady and felt surprisingly warm, and suddenly I looked to the northern bluffs and a massive, roaring rumble that sounded like the announcement of the arrival of the god of all creation went off and the entire sky went blinding white for a second. I took that as a sign that if I stayed outside any longer I would be vaporized on the spot and decided I wanted to live on in the safety of my house.

wheel of fortune: oh this is absolutely fascinating, so for reference I went into “Liked Songs” on Spotify, which I treat as a sort of “Listen Later” playlist

1.) Where’d U Go - Illenium/Said the Sky

2.) Some of My Best Friends are Windows - Squalloscope

3.) Better Than That - MARINA

death: I have a hard time thinking of my long-term future, but man, if it can be anything...

1.) Learn to play the guitar as beautifully as my favorite music artist, Yvette Young

2.) Adopt kids and teach them how to harbor hope.

3.) I’d love to go into space and just be able to see how small and fragile the earth is, but also be able to look out into the vastness of space in the clearest place to see it.

temperance:

I think the strangest one I’ve had was a horror dream, and it’s particularly strange because I had it more than once when I was small, like five or six years old. I was basically zooming through a sequence of darkened rooms, pausing over a movie theater and a living room in particular. In the movie theater, it looked like a crowd had just run out in a panic and there was stuff thrown all over the walls. I finally got stuck in the living room, and a shadow casts across the wall. I try to make myself move to hide behind the couch, but I’m too slow. The monster (that looks sort of grinch-like with tusks) comes in and goes to bite my head off, and then I wake up.

2. chocolate bars or lollipops?

Chocolate bars! I’m a huge sucker for letting squares of chocolate just melt in my mouth. I love hershey’s milk chocolate bars and I have since I was little.

18. ideal weather?

Ooh I’m gonna pick a different one for this. I really love when there are stormclouds all around on the horizon in the summer but you’re under the clear sky in the middle, and you can see sunbeams blazing across the sky and the air is cool, almost electric. Ideal if you are driving with the windows down and the rush is turning you into a beaming conduit.

24. favorite crystal?

I love…opals…glitter…shine…rainbow….dragon eggs….I also have one in each ear and I pretend they can store magic in them for later!!

28. five songs to describe you?

aha! I will choose five more!

blinding - florence + the machine | the unwinding cable car - anberlin | space girl - the imagined village | teach me to fight - yonaka | keeping warm - we were promised jetpacks

85. fairy tales or mythology?

Man…I love both tbh, but I think I gravitate toward mythology more? I love stories about having the courage to challenge and outsmart the gods, because I think they teach us that gods are created out of our own fears and desires and wills to explain the universe to ourselves through stories. I know gods are thought to be immortal, but they seem more changeable and ever-morphing to me, more like reincarnation than immortality, which I prefer. Fae are often too powerful and don’t change enough for my taste.