So, obvs making music is a big thing for me & I cover that elsewhere. But ofc I love listening to music too. I vibe a lot of stuff, from classical to jazz & blues, folk, prog rock, punk & metal, EDM, pop, and most of all hip hop.

Tbh, idgaf about genres. Hate genre silos & gatekeeping bs. Most interested in the spaces between & the peeps who chart their own path.

Special shout out to BTS. 소리질러! They are a great example of artists whose work spans & borrows from many genres.

They also kill it live (saw ’em 3 times so far). The pic behind here is made outta a photo of my Army Bomb (BTS lightstick).

For western music, first mention goes to Run the Jewels. El-P’s dusty dystopian shit has always been my jam even before RTJ.

Had two cats growing up, and always wanted one since moving out. We finally got Yuki, and she was a dream come true.

Tragically, she had an undiagnosed heart condition and we lost her at only eighteen months old. I still miss her so much every day.

We weren’t gonna get another, since Yuki is irreplaceable. But we were struggling a lot with how empty the place suddenly felt, so in the end we changed our mind.

Sumi & Suki, pictured here, are Yuki’s little sisters in spirit, and now instead of being too quiet, it’s crazy here. :3

So when I say literature I mean bad puns, obvs. If you think you got game, step up & get knocked the f- out, bring it. *^*

I guess I like reading actual books (well, ebooks, it’s 2019 lol). Atm, most of what I read is online & mostly non-fiction but I go through phases.

I write speculative fiction & enjoy building elaborate (some might say byzantine ;o) secondary worlds. Probs even more than the writing, tbh.

Mainly work at novel length but have written poetry & shorts, novelettes, novellas, all the things. Then I decide they’re shit and sit on ’em forever.

Since I don’t have access to any of my decent photos (they’re on my half-dismantled old PC), this section ended up fucking lame.

“Hey I enjoy photography, have a shitty low-res version of one of my fav old pics.”

I had to blow it up to like twice the size for it to fit behind here. So it looks like ass. But the original’s pretty nice, imo.

One day I will get access to all my old photos & screenies again. I don’t get out much to take photos atm coz ill, meh.

Same prob as above here. I ain’t been cooking or baking for quite a while coz of health crap, and I can’t find any decent pics of stuff I made. Probs my old PC has some, idk.

This pic is just one of my jambalaya that Vany passed over to me.

I mostly just make stuff up when I cook, rather than following recipes & stuff. I enjoy the creative aspect of food. But obvs I use recipes when I gotta.

“Culinary Arts” is a bit of a misnomer for most of the random crap I make, tbh. :3 But it all tastes goood.

So, I’ve always been into tech stuff. My dad taught me how to build PCs & stuff when I was little. I run one web server atm but it’s just a modest lil one made outta my old netbook, lol.

In the future we are planning to upscale & self-host a lot of our various sites and stuff, I guess. Just need a diff internet package first. >.>

I really enjoy developing front-end stuff with html & css (not so much js)—the design aspect esp, but the coding is fine too. I’m pretty hyped for css subgrid, which is in the firefox nightly builds now iirc.

Doing this page required a new set of skills tho, working within the limits of WP’s Gutenberg editor to show what can be done.

I mean, the interests are not really in ranked order here. But obvs, I wouldn’t even be here if I didn’t love games, right?

FFXIV is the game I have spent the most time playing (upwards of 400 full days, lmao, it’s terrifying). Jaded FF fangirl I guess. Not a SE stan tho, but I still throw way too much money at them. >.>

If you know what the game in the background is then you know what is probs my “fav” game (along with FFVII at least), even if i don’t really do ranking and “favourites” tbh.

If you know what the scene in the background is, then congrats, you get some free insight into the depths of my psyche and self-perception. ;3

I’m a huge linguistics nerd. There are lots of examples on Discord of me boring everyone about it. I’m fascinated by all aspects of language, speech & writing.

I’m also lazy af tho so I never bothered to learn a second language (*third, I speak Scots & English) properly. I… can read hangul… tho? D:

I sorta half-assedly know Latin, I guess, albeit shittily. It’s my biggest influence probs in the main languages I create.

Yup, told ya I was a nerd, lol. I do conlang a bit (sometimes a lot >.>) when I am worldbuilding for stories. I just enjoy it & find it relaxing, plus it teaches me more about irl language too.

Idk if I like philosophy or if I’m just too plagued by existential angst not to be drawn to it, eheh. Either way, it’s another sometime fascination. I’m always thinking about why I’m here and what reality even is.

Btw, bonus points to anyone who (a) knows who this is behind here & (b) sees the connection with another pic elsewhere.

So, being real, I kinda whirl around the bases of existentialism, nihilism & absurdism, but, true to my postmodern milieu, I can never settle on a path or resolve any meaning.

When I feel impelled to seek wider meaning I look for solace in Platonic & esoteric-mystical philosophy, but the rest of the time I’m a cynical valueless shitter. :3

These are not sexy subjects, mhm ik yup. But, but… they have a lot to say about how & why peeps act the way they do. I always want to understand everything I can.

I’m not someone who finds it easy to be like “meh, I don’t need to know”. I always need to know. Otherwise, what am I even doing here?

History is so full of wild stories, as good as, or better than fiction. Social sciences in general ain’t about being right but they are our best stab at figuring out why we and others do the things we do.

And I mean, as someone who writes fiction, there’s a whole lotta ideas & inspiration to take from all that stuff.

I studied Geography & Environmental Science at uni. Went on to do PhD in Marine Geoscience before health forced me to quit. That’s why I chose the wave as background.

My work used to involve subaqueous landslides & the destructive tsunami those often cause.

I’ve spent a lot of time reading about the other sciences too, just coz I find them so interesting & they teach me so much about how the world works.

When you wanna create secondary worlds in fiction, then, the better you understand the irl world, the better you can approach creating others, imo.

Not a hardcore anime nerd like most of y’all but still enough of one, I guess? Most strongly into stuff that’s overblown, pretentious & semi-incoherent coz I feel an affinity then.

Same goes for my taste in all forms of art, I guess. I can’t draw or paint or whatever so I’m in awe of people who can & I love seeing their work. It’s inspiring & makes me wanna do the stuff I can do too.

One of the things I like most about being here in Artnia is that I have the privilege of getting to know other artists, seeing what they do, talking to them about it.

Same is true at home, since Vany is super good at photorealistic digital art & also talented with traditional art (acrylics, watercolour, pastels, etc). She even made a pumpkin look like Yoongi using a blunt knife. ;O

So, this section was not just an excuse to squeeze in another reference pic, honest. More bonus points for the peeps who recognise what it’s taken from, tho.

Thinking about the future & reading the thoughts of peeps who specialise in that is something I do quite a lot anyways.

Cyberpunk is big mood for me. I wanna think stuff like automation, 3D printing, social justice, etc., might lead to a future where ppl work less & create more, but…

…I kinda feel like we’re headed for some dystopian shit where the hyper-rich just use & abuse us more instead. o.o;

Leading on from the above, one thing that could help to democratise our currently undemocratic societies a lil in future is blockchain tech.

When implemented right—which everyone is still working towards—it offers the means to take away power from centralised authorities & institutions like banks, stock markets & corps.

Part of the reason the mainstream economy has been slow to catch on is coz it poses a threat to their hegemony, (also why some of them are also looking at ways to control & monetise it).

A lot of ppl don’t want that to happen. Done right, blockchain can offer a decentralised internet where we can say goodbye to http, server farms & huge data centres.