#thefacesofcaptainswanproject

TFCSP Round Two: Week One - “Hello, my name is… (with a twist)”

Hello, shipmates! My name is Kayla. I’ve chosen The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under VHS tapes for my objects. These movies will always hold a special place in my heart.

1. I can’t tell right from left without looking at my hands

True. When I was a kid I wrote everything mirror image backwards, so the “look at your hands and the L is the left one” never worked for me. As I got older it was easy to tell because my left hand has a mole and my right one doesn’t, but by that point I think I missed the window for naturally knowing which is which.

2. I’ve visited every state in the USA, at least once

Lie. I’ve only been to 3 states, if you count the one I live in. I don’t travel much. Though I have been to Australia (that’s where that goat pic was taken!)

3. I have no idea where I was born

True. I learned pretty recently I was adopted, so I have no idea where I was adopted from. I know my brother was adopted from Mexico, but my DNA test says I’m half-Euro-white/half-Southeast Asian (thanks 23andme, could you be any more vague?), so I have no idea where I was adopted from, or where I was born.

TFCSP Round One: Week Nine - “Favorite character besides Captain Swan.”

(Short post because I forgot again because tv and homework.) I have a lot of favorites that I don't know how to rank, so I'm gonna pick the one I have the most merch for so I have a picture for this. :)

TFCSP Round One: Week Eight - “What was your first fandom?”

I fell a bit behind with these, so I’m answering 5-7 in one post.

TFCSP Round One: Week Five - “Tell us about a goal you worked to achieve.”

Trying to be me. Fandoms have taken over my life. Whether I’m feeling happy or sad or upset, whatever, shows/movies/books/music(als)/etc. are my outlets through which to feel it. I’ve always been into these to some extent, but I used to get kind of embarrassed sometimes by just how much. I used to write about them in whatever school assignments I could get away with it but never really made friends through them (or true friends in general but that’s a different issue).

Now, however, almost all of my outfits are character/show themed, not always very subtly (kind of like Disneybounds but in my daily life), and fandoms have become conversation starters when I’m otherwise at a loss. The friends I have now are very dear to me, most of them I’ve met through fandoms, and they’re so much truer friendships than any I had growing up. I wouldn’t trade them for anything.

I’m far more open about the things I enjoy now, and I continue to insert them into college assignments wherever possible even when they’re presentations. Two of my friends and I analyzed Frozen for a sociology paper and PowerPoint, and I used Hamilton for a current event, devoted a page of my About Me site for Web Design to talking about multiple fandoms, and created a café for Captain Swan for my other big Web Design project (partially pictured above, and the rest of it is here).

I don’t know what my life/career goal is anymore, but I will try to be me.

TFCSP Round One: Week Six - “What kind of music do you like?”

A little bit of everything. Pictured above is just some of the range of my music taste, and that’s not counting the CDs I couldn’t find or fit in the picture as well as my various Spotify playlists and iTunes downloads. I love anything from ‘50s rock'n'roll to '80s rock to '90s pop (any other BSB fans in the CS fandom?) to some country, from Disney to Broadway to Daughtry to Skillet to Tenth Avenue North, from tobyMac to Crowder to Frank Sinatra to Jason Mraz, and so on.

TFCSP Round One: Week Seven - “What three things would you want on a deserted island?”

TFCSP Round One: Week Four - “When did you start shipping Captain Swan?”

I honestly don't remember when I started shipping Captain Swan, probably at least partly because I shipped them before I knew what shipping was.

TFCSP Round One: Week Three - “What would your superhero power be?”

Hello! I had planned to take another selfie with my headphones on to show side by side with this picture, but I totally forgot and now my hair is a mess and I'm exhausted.

TFCSP Round One: Week Two - “What do you do for the holidays?”

Hello! I hope it’s okay that I took a video this time instead of a picture to show my family’s Christmas tree. I wanted to get pictures of cookies too, but we still haven’t gotten to make any yet. We’re running a little bit behind this year.

Baking cookies, my mom and I decorating the tree and the house, and all of us drinking hot cocoa while watching the Rankin & Bass Christmas specials (my current blog title is from an underrated one, and if you’ve seen that one then you’re extra awesome), the Charlie Brown Christmas specials, and the animated Grinch are all some of my family’s Christmas traditions. While we decorate and bake, we play the Christmas CDs and cassettes we have (though this year I used Spotify), and Alabama’s have to be in the mix somewhere.

My parents, my brother (until this year now that he’s married), and I invite my grandparents to our house for Christmas Day, go to church if it falls on a Sunday because otherwise our church doesn’t have a service, open presents, and have ham for lunch. My brother and his wife will come over for lunch still this year but are going to spend the morning at their apartment. Sometimes, weather permitting, some extended family visits us, and sometimes we visit them.