#i'll send a personalized picture of a thumbs up if you figure out which singular one i added to on here

[turtlemagnum]

answered these on bluesky, so i figured i should post the answers here too! warning, long!

q: why are you on bluesky? a: twitter started to suck even worse and most of the accounts i used twitter for started to post here too

q: any other social media? a: mostly just tumblr lol

q: still posting on twitter? a: nope! lemme tell ya, i fuckin Tried with twitter. never worked out! oh well!

q: what do you post on bluesky? a: stream of consciousness bullshit!

q: nationality? a: MERICA WOOOO YEAGH USA USA USA

q: gender/pronouns? a: nb more or less comfortable with presenting how i'm expected to (which is to say, male). there are some bits i Ignore (i like having emotions), but essentially i present as a cis man, just a cis man who doesn't really give a shit about the macho bullshit that a lot of them seem to. pronouns are he/they/it, because i don't really care how i'm referred to as long as it's not femininely, and "it" became something of a term of endearment to me

q: one word to describe yourself? a: ORC

q: something you hate about yourself? a: the person i used to be.

q: something you love about yourself? a: y'know i just spent like 5 minutes staring at this question, after spending a while trying not to come off as too self deprecating in the last one

q: what's your perfect date? a: i can only really speak in hypotheticals as i've never really been on a date, but playing video games together sounds nice

q: any hobbies? a: oh god so fucking many dude, you have no idea. writing, music, video games, anime, linguistics, history, i could go on

q: play any instruments? a: i have a guitar that i can't really play, but i've been slowly getting closer to competence over the years. i'm definitely better in a DAW than with something physical though

q: name a random fact. a: animals are real, and you can pet many of them….

q: favorite food? a: definitely a tie between burgers and fried chicken

q: favorite drink? a: this tends to drift over the years but currently it's mtn dew!

q: favorite season? a: winter! it's fucken snowy outside & im very happy about that

q: favorite sport? a: i don't really like sports but i like martial arts and i think that's technically a sport so yeah

q: chinese zodiac sign? a: monkey….!!

q: somewhere you want to visit? a: definitely japan

q: know any other languages? a: don't wanna sound like a broken record but i've been learning japanese on and off for years at this point, and i'm getting scarily close to being competent!

q: favorite song? a: i find it hard to quantify something as complex as art in terms of "favorite" as i find that deeply reductive, so i can't really give a satisfying answer to that, sorry! for the record the last time i would've been able to answer that, it would've been shine on you crazy diamond

q: song you're listening to now? a: mario 1 castle theme i guess? i just have a video running in the background and they're playing mario maker

q: saddest song? a: probably variations on a cloud? i dunno, lot of competition for that

q: first game console? a: n64 babey yeah woo!!!!!!

q: favorite video game? a: see my answer about my favorite song

q: last concert you attended? a: uhhh blossom i guess? i dunno it was years ago and i didn't really like any of the music, it was all kinda mediocre

q: last book you read? a: read a bit of the five rings by miyamoto musashi

q: last movie you saw? a: gremlins babey!!!

q: cat or dog? a: i'm a top, so dogs.

q: day or night? a: i'm a creature of the night, babey!!!!!

q: what's your lucky number? a: 762

q: favorite quote? a: there's a fragmentary sappho poem where bits of what seemed to be several different lines were all that's left of the poem, forming the words "someone will remember us, i say. even in another time", and i'm gonna be real with you and say that whenever i think about it it makes me fuckin cry

feels a bit weird writing this with tears in my eye after thinking about the last one, but here goes:

q: what color is your tooth brush? a: cyan, but i just use whatever is in the multipack i buy from the dollar store

q: favorite movie? a: see my other responses about art! (it's commando)

q: coffee or tea? a: tea, oh my fucking god do i hate coffee, like holy shit dude you have no idea. when i was a kid i drank like 3 pots of coffee and then i puked and ever since then the smell of coffee makes me wanna puke. meanwhile tea is just pretty alright, but way better than coffee

q: favorite character? a: undyne from undertale, though shoutouts to sans, arcade and veronica from new vegas, and also My characters

q: what do you prefer to make? a: i'm definitely more of a writer than anything else, though i'm trying to learn music and visual art

q: who's your favorite OC? a: i don't really consider my characters OCs but my favorite character i've conceptualzed is definitely a tie between agon and aisha

q: who'd you do fanart of? a: i've made fanart of undyne and sans i guess?

q: traditional or digital? a: digital all the way babey!!!!!!!

q: weakness? a: my biggest weakness at the moment is definitely my visual art

q: strengths? a: definitely my writing. i've got a pretty good blend of naturalistic dialogue and flowery language that feels natural to Me, y'know

q: anything you make but never post? a: f:nv erotica

q: weirdest thing you've ever made? a: probably the same answer as the previous question

q: any art goals? a: i'd like to become competent at both music and visual art eventually!

q: do you do NSFW? a: i plan on it eventually but my visual art skills are NOT there yet lol