#salutationstothestars

heyyyyy thanks for the questions!! I’m sorry this took literal hours to answer, I got Very Distracted and then forgot to check if I got any questions :P

Harvest: what fictional character do you most identify with? Why? - I’m gonna give a couple answers here because otherwise it would be almost impossible to decide. first i’m gonna go with the protags from the Airborn series of book by Kenneth Oppel. i projected onto both of them so hard as a kid and i’m p sure that they make up like 60% of my identity today. 

second is the protag from A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. that one’s for a much more personal reason, which, if you’ve read the book, you can prolly figure out. let’s just say we’ve gone through similar (though not identical, thankfully) struggles. 

thirdly, and this one’s a little esoteric but bear with me here, I’m picking the protag from The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence. I’ve never been through the things he’s been through, I didn’t read the book at a young and impressionable age when it could actually shape the person I became, and yet when I read that book it felt like I was reading my own thoughts out loud. I don’t know how else to describe it, but it just felt like we had the same thoughts/feelings/reactions to the world around them.

Bonfire: describe your dream house. - I have 2 dream homes, basically my dream home and my dream vacation home. my dream home is a float home in false creek (in Vancouver, natch), it’s a cute little brightly-painted house with ample windows to let in natural light, and it’s filled with plants and probably a fair number of critters (at least 2 cats, a reptile or 2, maybe a bird). the walls are painted in light blues, greens, purples, pinks, basically every wall is a different colour. the furniture is an eclectic mix of very basic items and incredibly strange thrift-store finds (I absolutely have the loudest, most garish couch you can imagine, also possibly a water bed). there’s a lot of unstained, unfinished wood and steel and iron, and the walls are covered in art and the shelves are full of knick-knacks. it is bright and peaceful and surrounded by the place I love and full of things I love. 

the semester starts in less than a week and I just today found out my school is offering urban beekeeping courses for the first time ever, only in the summer semester

the semester that I am starting in less than a week

urban beekeeping

you get to learn to handle and care for and be with the bees

I saw the other day that AngelaKahl nominated me for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge (thank you so much, by the way!), so I did it as soon as I had a break in my schedule. I’m probably joining the gravy train late in the game, but it’s for such a good cause.

Be warned: I look slightly unhinged. I act slightly unhinged. I AM slightly unhinged.

If anyone watching this is from England, I sincerely apologize for this tomfoolery.

BEFORE THE BEGINNING — three sentences (or more) about something that happened before the plot of my current project

They say that his grandmother, Trisha Bodt, often had ‘funny’ feelings about things. Funny feelings that eerily became reality a large portion of the time. She knew things: little things like where forgotten tools were and big things like years when production machines will break and they need to save before it occurred.