#Now I want to him to have a tattoo that says Non Sum Qualis Eram and one that says ���this is not for you”

[charmfamily]

Darken the city, night is a wire. Steam in the subway, earth is afire... 🐺

Werewolf'd Knox Greenburg & Johnny Zest Truant as suggested by @smok3inm1rrors

[echospool]

tagged by @linz33y. Pretty sure she already knows most of this about me, but it’s fun to go through anyway ^_^

relationships: None current. I really should have put more effort into dating pre-covid. I haven’t had many long term relationships, and the ones I’ve had have been....less than nurturing. The last person I saw with any regularity was a coworker. We hooked up on 2017 on Inauguration Day in a fit of drunken despair. They got clingy. I ghosted. Protip: it’s hard to ghost someone you work with, but with enough determination anything can be done. We are on good terms now though.

break ups: My relationship before that one was....uh....my boss’s boss kind of blackmailed me into dating him. He told me he loved me, and that his idea of love was “someone he would actually visit in the hospital if they called him because he doesn’t really care about people that much.” He then went on to explain to me that mansplaining isn’t a real thing, and the fact that I was involved in Women in Tech organizing was inherently sexist against men. We broke up badly and then I quit my job and went elsewhere.

kids: not so far. probably not in the future, but I’ve definitely considered adopting so we’ll see.

brothers and sisters: I have a younger sister who just finished up library school.

pets: I have two excellent cats. A grey longhair named Aleister Meowley and a tuxedo cat named Darien. They’re my buds.

surgeries: I had my tonsils and adenoids out when I was 12. Also they shaved down the tubes in my nose and snipped of my uvula while they were in there. And I had 2 emergency surgeries to unblock a bile duct in my liver and then remove my gallbladder in October 2018. Oh, and I got my wisdom teeth out without laughing gas. It was horrifying.

tattoos: 4! My first tattoo was a matching one with my sister. We got the leaves from the last page of “What you Know First” by Patricia MacLachlan on our right shoulderblades. I also have a sunflower on my left elbow, “Non sum qualis eram.” on my left wrist, and a plague doctor with lavender and poppies on my right shoulder that I got in June. I want to get tattooed again soon.

countries you’ve been to: US native. I’ve been to Mexico, Barbados, Aruba, Costa Rica, and China.

been in an airplane: Yes

been in an ambulance: No

sing karaoke: I love the shit out of karaoke.

ice skating: A little bit when I was a kid. It sucked and I hated it.

been on a cruise: Twice when I was little. I wanted to go on the Writing Excuses Cruise this year, but I’m pretty sure in a post-2020 world I will never voluntarily get on a boat again.

driven a motorcycle: No thank you.

ridden a horse: Yes. I went to horse camp a couple times in the summer when I was a kid.

stayed in a hospital: When my gallbladder and liver were failing in 2018 I spent about a week in one of the worst hospitals in [CITY NAME REDACTED]. It was truly horrifying. Do not recommend.

favorite fruit or berries: Cherries

favorite colors: In 2012 I got a black Kia Soul so that I could say that things were “black like my Soul” and have it be perfectly accurate

last text: “It’s definitely helping a bit. But probably more as an air purifier than a cooler. It feels less musty in here.”

coffee or tea: Coffee. Yes milk, no sugar.

favorite pie: Also probably cherry

favorite pizza: Hard to go wrong with a greasy pepperoni pizza

cat or dog: KITTIES

favorite time of the year: Autumn

met a star: Not that I recall.

flown a helicopter: No thank you.

been on tv: My Kindergarten class appeared on local news one time.

broken my leg: Never broken a bone!

seen a ghost: I wish

been sick in a taxi: I’ve been queasy but never thrown up in a taxi

seen someone die: I used to volunteer at a hospice on the “transition team,” the team that sat with people as they died if there was no available family to sit with them. I worked multiple shifts and sat with people as they were “actively dying” but was never actually in the room when the moment happened.

I don’t really have tumblr friends yet. I’m pretty bad at interacting. But if you would like to be my tumblr friend, do this and tag me letting me know :)