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name: Aroihkin

nickname: Aro

zodiac sign: Taurus/Ox, my birfday is cinco de mayo.

height: very short

languages: English

Nationality: MURIKKKA (sigh) more specifically a typical american caucasian mutt

favorite season: Fall I guess since it’s not at all cold here in central Cali, but the part of the state I live in isn’t literally on fire. Usually. Knock on wood. Spring can kind of go fuck itself because what little rain we get usually happens then, and in huge bursts that don’t actually seep into the ground, and I have to work outside in it.

favorite flower: I have no idea lmao

favorite scent: Lately whenever I walk into my apartment and the strongest scent is from my welding bag sitting in the living room, that makes me pretty happy. It’s a combination of molten steel offgasses, burning flux, and warm leather. IDK it just smells like ‘I did a good job’. I also like that my apartment smells so little like anything else that my welding bag can sometimes be the strongest scent in the room, considering it’s not potent at all.

Otherwise, probably blackberries.

favorite color: Light turquoise/aqua, in that zone.

favorite animal: All animals are good! But every dog I see is a good pupper.

favorite fictional character: Probably Zevran Arainai, but I have a lot of favorites.

coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: I like all three, and regularly combine coffee with hot chocolate.

average hours of sleep: I aim for 9 and hope.

cat or dog person: Both are great but I have kitties right now and no doggos. They’re just a lot easier while living that apartment life. Someday I’d like to have a couple of both.

number of blankets you sleep with: I will lay there freezing for a while before I’ll pull my one blanket on. It’s a side effect of the eight years where I wasn’t allowed to sleep more than four hours at a time before someone would be pounding on the wall demanding my immediate presence. It’s something I’m actively working on.

dream trip: IDK I’ve never had the option so I don’t give it much thought.

blog established: November 2011

followers: 647 which I feel like ain’t bad for not being a fandom blog

a random fact: Uhhh... I own a robot vac (Neato D3) who I named Beep Boop in the app, but usually call Beeper when I invariably talk to it while it does its beeperly bidding. There’s something awfully endearing about it when I get a message on my phone that’s like: Beep Boop: I’m stuck! like aww, buddy.

It’s not just a novelty item, either, beeper cleans the floor real nice. I got rid of my upright vac during the move because beeper does just as good a job.

on critrole.com , just type "gif of the week" in the search bar, open the first result, scroll down

that would be a funny, broken day, if it ever happens. But also, you can make private posts... is the thing that they are "published" scary?

I'm no expert. That said, I don't think it will harm your eyes. Now I'm more curious as to why it happens. You said new glasses, doesn't that word include the lenses? Isn't the prescription new? Also, is the blurr the same effect of your eyes condition or an effect you're unfamiliar with?

New glasses with a prescription that’s maybe a year old. I got glasses back when I got my eyes checked but I picked small frames and that meant the distortion was super severe whenever I turned my head etc so I ended up not wearing them. Got these bigger ones in the mail yesterday from another online shop; I’m effectively new at wearing prescription glasses at all.

that height difference..

I'm so used to playing f!Lavellan that it cracks me up every time.

(Really, it's funny with everyone, but Solas is the character I hyper-focused on in previous games so it's even more jarring and amusing with him.)

This is very cute, adding Cole was a great idea. I hope you’ll be able to finish it, I’d really like to see his reaction.

Had surgery on carpal tunnel, it was either that or have monks teach me how to ignore pain.. rest your hands Aro!

I ended up taking so much pau d'arco (anti-inflammatory) for so long that I managed to knock it back down without surgery, but yeah. I don't want it to get to that point again. (I was even having to wear steel-reinforced wrist braces at work, just to be able to do my job. And I got in the habit of holding one arm under my tea cup at all times while carrying it.)

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how about "take breaks more often"