#relativereflections

favourite colour(s): short answer: blue, but specifically certain shades of sky and aqua blue, turquoise, and teal

last song: The Night we Met by Lord Huron

currently reading: Little Thieves by Margaret Owen, interchanged with the audiobook of Lord of the Rings (finally managing to “read” that using the free audiobook versions on Spotify after starting the books at age 11 so that feels like an achievement of sorts)

last movie: Ghost Ship, which was kind of hilariously terrible but I would not really recommend it

sweet / savoury / spicy: I have both a profound love for all of these and an equally profound inability to make choices .__.

Porcelain: Your favorite article of clothing?At the moment, probably my black ripped jeans. They are very comfortable and make me feel a bit punk rock (though to be fair I will put on joggers/pajama pants the second I get home, so maybe it should be those)

Splatter: Your favorite artists or art pieces?Probably Dali, I saw La Gare de Perpignan on a school trip to Cologne and I spent ages just looking at all the different layers of imagery it contained. I also really love Kira Imai’s work

Asylum: Your favorite place in the world?London in general, but if it has to be a specific place I’d pick the bookshop Hatchards near Picadilly Circus. The book selection is amazing of course but the shop itself just feels very home-y and comfortable

I was tagged by @help-me-hide-me

Name: Ilja

Nickname(s): Il, and... I don’t know, people don’t really give me nicknames (and I’m on unsteady terms with the only one who did)

Gender: Non-binary (specifically neutrois)

Star sign: Leo

Sexual orientation: Short answer is bi

Hogwarts House: Gryffindor according to Pottermore, others generally sorted me as Ravenclaw

Favorite color: Baby blue

Favorite animal(s): Wolves

Time right now: 18.24

Average hours of sleep: Either just over 7 or 11+

Cat or dog person: Both, used to be more of a dog person but have grown more fond of cats over the years

Favorite fictional characters: Constantine, Yurio, Mimikyu

Number of blankets I sleep under: 1 duvet

Dream trip: Tokyo (preferably in the cherry blossom season), Canada, and a combination of New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco

Dream job: Studying serial killers (preferably the more deranged sort)

When this blog was created: I think summer of 2012?

Current number of followers: 206, which I am still quite surprised by considering this blog is literally just the weird combination of things I like and/or care about

When did your blog reach its peak?: Don’t know if it has or will, I’m just here to see things I enjoy

Somehow I never got a notification of this, so I’m sorry for the late reply ;_;

4. what are you looking forward to?

Finishing my Master’s thesis (if that every actually happens), but then again I’d probably just be riddled with anxiety for the grading so, not much really ;_;

17. opinion on insecurities.

Hmm that’s a tough (and slightly vague) one, in general, I think they are generally far less noticeable to others than we think. Sometimes they might help motivate you to work on something but in my experience they mostly cripple you in certain situations or prevent you from doing things you want to. Not a fan, basically.

33. something you want to learn

There’s a million things but the first one that came up in my mind was more languages (specifically Chinese but I also want to improve my French and German, and learn the basics of a few others).

I have an endless list of things I want to learn, and it’s not even that I lack the time, it’s just that I barely have enough energy to keep up with the things I’m already supposed to do. I’m afraid I will end up never having the time/energy until it’s too late (e.g. I want to pick up learning to dance en pointe again, but, physically, you have to be quite young to learn).