#andie my beloved...she was a botanist

[horrorknife]

peter doodles too. and his dead wife andrea

[rynnwolfe]

The ever-lovely @couchcushings tagged me in one of these fun ask memes to distract me from the Death Void(TM) that I’ve been staring into for the past few hours. Thanks, dear, these will be so fun to answer!

1) Favorite 1960s sitcom and if you don’t have one, google them and pick whichever one looks the funniest.

I never realized how many 1960s sitcoms I loved! My top three have to be The Andy Griffith Show, Hogan’s Heroes, and The Munsters (though The Addams Family is right there with this one). So we have a soft, family-oriented one, a classic comedy/war one, and a wacky pseudo-horror one.

2) Which children’s book series is the best in your highly objective opinion.

Whyyy do you ask me these difficult questions?? Once again I’m torn, because I spent an obscene amount of my childhood buried in books; I have pieces of my heart and soul in nearly every one that I read in those formative years. But if I had to choose a select few, they would be: The Artemis Fowl series, the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series, and the Last Dragon Chronicles. And ask me about these last two if you want to hear an overly-excited spew of love toward these series.

3) Which supernatural creature are you most likely to date and why?

I feel personally attacked by this question, you sneaky lass. Well, I suppose this mainly depends on the personality of the individual? I don’t know, I tend to not have a type so much as a specific person. But if I had to pick, I would say I’d be partial to either some sort of forest/plant creature, or some form of were-creature. Preferably a bear-esque creature. <3 

4) Drawing or writing and why?

I adore both, though I think at this point in my life I prefer writing due to the depth that you can achieve in your writing more efficiently than in drawing. I adore art, but I’m at a point in my progression that I can see what doesn’t look right, but I don’t have the ability to fix it. Writing doesn’t give me that issue as often.

5) On a scale of Hercule Poirot (everything has its Very Specific Place) to Sherlock Holmes (my bills are in the light fixtures), how organized are you?

It depends on the specific thing I’m dealing with, actually. My books must be in alphabetical order by author and my clothes must be organized by type as well as color, but my plants are a very haphazard, more aesthetically-based collection, and my school supplies are forcefully shoved into one drawer that I dutifully ignore. So, both, I suppose? Not in the middle, but a duality between the two depending on the circumstance.

6) Your fave OC (if you have any).

Does it need to be mine? If not, I’d say my favorite is probably either Patches, Pietro, Julian, or Lucky from Chelsea’s lovely and twisted collection of various ghouls, goofs, and gangsters. <3 I wish to smooch them all, honestly. If it does indeed need to be my own, I would say probably Reagan Smith, my dear little German mafia member who is trying to dismantle a Kingsman sort-of organization from the inside while saving as many new recruits as she can. She’s very broken and I adore the unusual mannerisms I was able to weave into her character. Or my trash, Greek-tragedy vibe of a lawyer, Thomas Richard Haroldson who is the disgruntled single father of a very fussy carnivorous plant, and who is being thrust deeper and deeper into the dark side of many of our beloved supernatural creatures.

7) What would your horror/fantasy alter ego be like? (EG mine is a cheerful necromancer who likes building bone dogs.)

Chelsea already knows the answer to this, as my alter ego is her alter ego’s roommate. But for all you know don’t know how deeply invested I am into this story line we’ve created, my alternate self is a botanist who deals in the darker and less-natural areas of the plant kingdom, a la Little Shop of Horrors. She loves her precious, bloodthirsty children very much, and does her best to care for their every need. Which, as you can imagine, gets her into a quick downward spiral of shady dealings and general murder. Also, Zombie Fungus. Never befriend Zombie Fungus.

8) What was the last book you read?

I’m rereading Lord of the Rings, but also I’m working my way through a few botany books, my favorite being The Flora of Middle Earth which has me over the moon at all the information about plants, their cellular makeups, and how they exist in the world of my favorite series. <3 Makes me feel like a true hobbit.

9) What’s your Type™?

I thought I had a type, but recently that has been very overthrown by a few lovely gentlemen whom I shall not name. So I’ve realized that I don’t have a physical preference, per say, but Chelsea changed my life by saying that: “Joyful. Your type is joyful.” Truer words have rarely been spoken, I think. I want someone who, despite going through difficulties, holds in them a strong belief that life is worth living, and that there are people worth loving, jokes worth telling, and blessings worth being thankful for. I suppose I want someone who isn’t afraid to laugh and be silly, and love fully. Bonus points if they have the stature to fight a bear in hand-to-hand combat.

10) If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?

There are so many lovely places, and each has complex good and bad aspects that I don’t even pretend to understand. However, I would say some of my top places to at least visit would be: Ireland, New Zealand (not simply because of Lord of the Rings, I promise), and perhaps anywhere on the coast. I am fearful of the ocean, and yet it calls to me sometimes.