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8, 17, and 38 for the ask game 🙂

17. name 3 things that make you happy

bread

timeless themes that make us human

the prince

38. fave song at the moment?

i posted this in the last one i answered but more than one song im loving at the moment all the time

8. recurring dream I'm putting under the cut cause it's long as hell ad i dont wanna do it to yall

man ok so I started dreaming about the city how many years ago now around 2 years ago the first time it was wonderful I used to just refer to them then as dreams about the terminal cause the first few were about interactions I had with a food terminal first time it was just answering around the food terminal buying different things from different vendors and talking and thinking about the recipes I would make with the things I bought basically the experience i have whenever I go to a foreign ingredients market the terminal was in the downtown of a city, the city resembles Toronto in many ways but none of the landmarks are there the second time I dreamed of the terminal it was closed, it was grey and cold outside, the streets were entirely empty and it was eerily quiet i walked up to the building to see if I could see i to any of the windows and inside it was just desolate and dusty

no vendors, small streams of light coming through the mostly boarded up windows I remember feeling so disappointed the third time I dreamed of the terminal it was similar but now there was a flood creeping up from the south side of it by the time I awoke I was up to my lower thighs in water now the 4th time this is where the dreams start shifting to be more about the city I have an approximate map of the layout of the dream city but basically from the left of the building about a block up there's a street that runs east west there was something similar to a trader Joe's/wholefoods, a Japanese import store, a really shitty Italian grocer/bakery, an ulta. a church. and a few other miscellaneous shops and whatnot I dreamt about trying to get to the terminal but not being able to get there cause anytime I turned a corner to try and get close to it buildings would crop up in my way so I perused the shops on that street instead

the next time I dreamed about the city it was east of the terminal, there was like a small food fest pop up restaurant carnival thing I wandered among the makeshift restaurant trailers which started to close in around me, I remember waking up when I was about nearly crushed next time I dreamed about the city was i was in yhe slums outside the city and was trying to get out but the more frantic I was the worse the conditions got

next time after that was i was walking on a railroad track back into the city but the tracks were like warped and twisted in impossible ways and seemed to stretch on nearly forever God then there was the dream about Jimmy's which is a whole side substory of the city saga and then the most recent one I had was a friend of mine and I riding the street car back into the city down the street with all the various shops on it but all of them were closed and boarded up

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12, 38, 1, 3

what are 3 things you’d say shaped you into who you are?

answered previously but 3 more things lesgoooo

when i was a kid my ma and i both used to get up around the same tie and it was usually before anyone else was up o we would watch historical docudramas or just historical fiction stuff together, my majors in uni were history.

honestly duno how i forgot this one in the previous ask. Being fat. I grew up as a fat kid and then into a fat adult through the obesity epidemic coming out of the 90s cocaine chic fashion where model diet tips were the rage like cigarette and coffee is breakfast, half a grapefruit for lunch, salad and red wine for supper. You grow up different when you know that EVERYONE inherently will dislike you when they meet you for reasons beyond your control. Coming out as gay is much less scary when you know people already dislike you, being your authentic self is much easier cause it doesn't matter whether you suppress it or not, people are going to dislike you. Yes it sucks cause you know selfesteem and dying alone and whatever but like, there's also a freedom to it ya know?

and of course music, i would not nearly be the person i am today if i had been born deaf, music is everything to me and i have learned so much from it over the years, corny, i know, but i'm at least 40 percent corn by volume at any given time

3. 3 films you could watch for the rest of your life and not get bored of?

the prestige

little women

howls moving castle

38. fave song at the moment?

12. what’s some good advice you want to share?

the worst thing anyone is ever gonna do is kill you, and very few people will kill you for asking basic questions, stay curious.

[asingularcanadian]

1. 3 things that shaped you

Coming from a lower working class fam growing up, we learned how to like steal music and cable and shit when i was real small, made a lot of our own fun and i think it really did give me a bigger appreciation for the experiences i would have in my 20s

Hearing gogol bordello for the first time when i was in like grade 9, really that was my introduction to anything european folk flavoured in terms of music which i would then go onto study in uni

honestly this is corny as hel but joining tumblr, one of my parents is very conservative so growing up I was really like center right in my politics and shit but i was starting to lean more left throughout my teens and then i got on tumblr and was exposed to so many different people and views and experiences really opened my eyes to the world

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Favorites

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Music?

do you mean band sing album genre instrument cause this question could have a tonne of answers. I dang opera semi professional for years, did my masters in Eastern European ethnic musics, I am on a mission to listen to just about everything I can get my hands in but my heart is in metal.

Singer?

Male: tie between Devin Townsend and Alexander Veljanov, honorable mention to Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Female: Tarja Turunen no doubt, I'd be nowhere without her

Animal?

I love a stinky cade, any cade is A grade observe

many stinkies

Piece of Clothing?

Anything flowy. I got a lot into long gauzy fashion kimonos/cardigans and I havent stopped since.

tie dyed thisn last year

Day of the week?

something electric about fridays

Movie?

Howls moving castle

Director?

dont have one tbh

Food?

I dunno if I can pick just one, I love pretty much all pan Asian food, for months I had pho every night for supper, I would kill a man for a budae jigae, 红烧牛肉面 ? kill me. I do however also love a good chicken parm so ya know

Drink?

alcoholic: reeses priestess

non alcoholic: dirty rootbeer hazelnut

drink i drink most often always: water

Colour?

red, like a nice deep rich red

like

Tv series?

seeing as I've watched Pose like 20 times since January probably that

Vacation destination?

That I've been? Macedonia

That I would like to go? Murmansk