#perdvivly

quilt - how do you take your tea (or coffee)?

Many many ways. But when I'm making (instant) coffee for myself at home it's usually black (mostly started so I could have it in my room without having to get milk from the kitchen but has become a genuine preference); I mentioned adding cayenne and cinnamon once before & I do recommend that it's very good. If I am in the kitchen and do have milk I might add some, but never sugar. Like to experiment with various spices and flavourings in it. From the university coffee machine I usually get cappuccino. Tea I take in every flavour I can get my hands on (will list some specific ones I like for other people who asked this), almost always plain (no milk or sugar).

crow - which school subject do you wish you had an aptitude for?

Already gave languages as an answer to this one. I might give history as a second option, but tbh it's hard to even tell if I'd have had an aptitude for it if it were taught well, because the curriculum by default already teaches it as "memorise these facts", and then the teachers I had for it were just not interested in actually teaching anything at all. So first of all I wish I'd been taught it better. But an instinct for sniffing out good sources myself and extracting important/relevant things from them would certainly be great to have.

orchard - share one thing that you’d like to happen this autumn.

Really hope my masters student successfully completes his thesis.

jack-o-lantern - if you could look like any celebrity, who would you choose?

This is actually pretty accurate to my previous life where among the jumble of cutlery in the kitchen drawer I strongly preferred a knife/fork pair with dark blue plastic handles, which were weathered and not particularly attractive and probably quite cheap but just felt good to hold. And it's true that despite this I made an effort to rotate through the other cutlery somewhat, although not equally. I think as well as not wanting the other cutlery to feel bad there was a sense of not wanting to over-exert the set I liked, and possibly wanting to be open-minded to the possibility that the non-blue ones would improve with practice.

I feel like big jumpers must be pretty load-bearing for your deal since the two artist's renditions of you I'm aware of plus your actual self when I saw you all include this detail, even though as I recall the weather was quite generous that day, although I'm probably not a very impartial judge, lifelong layers-minner as I am (minner = opposite of maxxer if that's not clear). In terms of shitposting style, well one mustn't be reductive about these things but something I associate with you is like, bringing an interpretive lens to some subject that is alien to that subject; feral vs domesticated water is an example of a highly viv-type post of yours imo, as is the 1000/8 posting from a while back. Like, asking questions that don't fit and following through on the hypothetical world where they do fit. There's other things but this is a strong theme I feel like. I might not be describing it well but hopefully I'm pointing at it? More broadly: you seem to be pretty deep into quite a broad spectrum of interests which is a cool type of person to be imo, you value careful thought and compassion more wholeheartedly than most of our tumblr peers, you have a very gentle aura irl that's nice to be around.

There's perhaps some conspicuous gaps in my map of your deal which maybe you can fill out for me someday if you're inclined to. I feel like there's some gender happening with you but I don't know the details. I know you're sad a lot but I don't know if there's a situation(s) or narrative(s) attached to this, there might not be of course. Surely more stuff like this that isn't coming to mind right now.