#kaedix

7. what’s one thing that happened this year that you want to change?

Gosh, I fell down a couple of months ago and I landed TERRIBLY. Normally when I do that, I only sprain an ankle, but this time I pulled a muscle in my right arm and something in my left wrist, too. The ankle and the arm have healed, but there’s still a pinch of pain in the wrist whenever I do my yoga and I’m :| y u no heal? :| :| :|

13. best movie of the year?

Oh gosh, I DID watch movies this year, but not many. And unlike my television shows, I did not keep a list (The TV shows thing was a new years resolution since I went basically, like, a decade without watching TV for the most part), so now you’re going to make me THINK

It would either have to be The Old Guard because Charlize Theron 🔥 -or- (and I can’t believe I’m going to say this) Rogue One. I am not a big Star Wars universe fan in general (sorry) - the movies are okay, but in a “I’ll watch this once” sorta way. But Rogue One just really, really impressed me. Not only because the story filled in a lot of blanks for the original trilogy, but because we got a story about the nobodies who died so the somebodies could win, and like... there are just so few of those narratives out there? I was deeply impressed.

21. what message would you give yourself at the beginning of the year?

I know you were expecting to expand your in-person social group this year honey, but life is going to happen and it looks like you’re just gonna have to keep WORKING ON YOURSELF :O

15.  did you make any new friends?

- I like to think so. There were some new faces on the discord this year, and they’ve been active and chatty and pleasant, and I regard people as my friends for less. <////<

20.  how did this year treat you in general?

- Not too well, I’ll admit. My mental health has been a lot like going bungee-jumping, and as a jobless, young, disabled person, the forced solitude of lockdowns and covid restrictions took a major toll. For a person like me, losing the cashiers, the chatty strangers in the grocery store, and the community drivers was like losing most of my irl social life completely.

25.  what’s one thing that you hope will continue next year?

22. tags you used most this year

for original posts, definitely #obiyuki and #akagaminoshirayukihime, but otherwise...probably “i love this” and like... OTTER FRAND

26. best song you listened to this year

I know this song is OLD but it is NEW TO ME and it makes me desperately want to write some Touka Bergatt fic

Deuteragonist - politics

Name: Quoye

Background: Quoye is a night-dweller exiled from her world completely for reasons she doesn’t like to go into. In any case, she was given the mark of a traitor and shunned, then hunted, by her own people. She escapes into the daylit world and though the transition nearly kills her, she discovers she can survive if she avoids sunlight and regularly steals fire from day-dwellers. It’s not easy to take though, so she becomes something of a thief and a swindler. One day, she goes to the rescue of a day-dweller she had just swindled, saving him from a Zve by pulling him back into the night world with her. She then accompanies him on the rest of his journey to oust the Zve permanently. They quest together for many months and form a strange, sometimes uneasy, but strong friendship. At the end of their journey though, she leaves her friend behind and lets him think she is dead or lost. Shortly after this, our story begins.

Thanks for the tag @infinitelystrangemachinex !!

Childhood book: The two books I remember vividly from childhood are Princess Nevermore by Dian Curtis Regan and Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements. I haven't ever gone back to read Princess Nevermore but I've reread Things Not Seen a few times and it's held up okay. 😂

Reading list: Oh man. I don't really have a list of books that I MUST READ. I know I want to read Six of Crows eventually. Any new Regency romance book that comes out I usually jump on right away. I'm still searching for That Book Series that like, makes me feel like I'm reading Harry Potter again for the first time, you know? Haven't found that yet. 😂

Recently read: I just read an absurd amount of Regency romance novels back to back. They kind of all blurred together, but one that I really loved was Where the Stars Meet the Sea by Heidi Kimball. 

18. fandom you plan to join next year

I don’t plan to join a fandom so much as I fall into them face first. XD That being said, I am very much looking forward to the Netflix anime of Gokushufudou/Way of the Househusband. I am currently watching the Live Action and it is making my writerly hands ITCH

26. best song you listened to this year

This question is like choosing between children.

Okay, okay, going back through my spotify adds for the year, I’d have to say...

It just makes me happy :)

I was tagged by @infinitelystrangemachinex and @jaygirl987! Thank you <3 (I’m very late.)

Favorite comfort food: Chips. Usually Cheetos. 

Favorite drink: Mango lemonade or cucumber lemonade

Favorite relaxing activity: Reading or scrolling tik tok. oops. 

Favorite fluffy/feel good fic: Smoke and Sunshine by @infinitelystrangemachinex! It’s truly beautiful and I go back to it often. 

Favorite calming scent: Eucalyptus and peppermint/spearmint.

Favorite white noise: Rain noises, and recently, frog noises! 

Favorite relaxing (or uplifting) song: “The Sound of Surviving” by Nichole Nordeman.

Favorite book to get lost in: I don’t often go back to books, but when I do it’s Edenbrooke or Blackmoore! 

Favorite tv show to chill out: Parks and Rec. 

The best advice you’ve ever had: I have received so much sound and life-changing advice in the past few years, but one that has really resonated with me recently is learning to make small repairs (changes) every day instead of later scrambling to make big repairs after a long period of time. It’s all a part of trying to be mindful and it’s helped me a lot.