1. I share a birthday with Takeuchi Naoko-sensei…and a bunch of celebrities I couldn’t care less about
  2. I’m allergic to garlic and aluminium
  3. I have hollow earlobes, a minor genetic fault I inherited from my mother
  4. I have all my wisdom teeth, but am missing my top second premolars — they were yanked out due to worries I wouldn’t have room for said wisdom teeth. (turns out there was plenty of room — I could grow another set without discomfort!)
  5. I’ve also had a permanent retainer behind my lower incisors and cuspids for more than half my life; I’m not sure if I’d be able to adjust to not having it, now!
  6. I’ve never broken an actual bone, but have broken cartilage (columella; after smashing my face into a table the night before Christmas. EPIC.)
  7.  my hair started going white (not grey — straight to white, nearly transparent) at thirteen, an unfortunate combination of genetics and desperately necessary fluoxetine
  8. I’m ambidextrous
  9. I have dyscalculia — mathematically dyslexia, basically. numbers turn into soup in my brain.
  10.  I was diagnosed with autism at six…my parents decided to let me go through the majority of my life without knowing, which was…nnnnnnnot ideal
  11. I was called stupid throughout my primary and secondary school years, but once I got to uni…let’s just say, I once passed out during a spoken exam and still got a 7 (my school’s equiv of an A+)
  12. I speak Korean with a Japanese accent — my poor seonsaengnim looked so baffled when he figured it out
  13. linguistics and languages are my absolute jam; talk etymology to me and I’m all yours
  14. I’m not allowed to drive (by the law, not by my parents or partner or whathaveyou)
  15. Either Nicky Wire or RM are probably my dream men, which is a) quite the study in opposites, and b) says a lot about me…I’m not sure what, but a LOT
  16. my dream woman…is a secret! ♥
  17. I probably know more about Middle-earth than I do about the primary world. I make no apologies.
  18. my worst nightmare would be living permanently in a caravan or a tiny house
  19. I’ve known my closest friends for over 20 years
  20. I’m a complete and utter domain whore — I own more than forty of the damn things; not all of them in use…yet
  21. I believe in weird things, and I believe that if you believe this makes me a bad person…perhaps you’re just kind of a massive bitch. just saying.
  22. god I love tiramisu something absolutely shocking
  23. for all my thorny stabby shyness, I go to pieces over cute things and animals
  24. I think the Kakao Friends and BT21 are the cutest things ever — Muzi and Chimmy have my whole heart
  25. I hate the publishing industry, because it’s more toxic than Hollywood, even
  26. I have exactly zero interest in publishing any of my work traditionally
  27. the writing community is so toxic that I don’t even want to truck with poetry or literary magazines
  28. the only artist I’ve seen more than once is Tori Amos
  29. I love jacaranda trees an unreasonable amount
  30. spring, however, is only my second-favourite season
  31. I have exactly NO desire to ever set foot in Tokyo, but I’d love to visit Kyoto at some point — maybe even live there for a while
  32. I am perfectly content being alone — in fact, I prefer it
  33. that doesn’t mean I don’t want friends or I don’t love the ones I have, though
  34. the happiest night of my life was the night I saw the Manics in Sydney, all on my lonesome
  35. actually the happiest moments in my life all occurred while I was alone — except for one day
  36. I shared the happiest day in my life with a wonderful boy who some secret, deeply hidden part of me will always, always love
  37. after that everything kind of just got worse and worse, very slowly
  38. I’m living through the lowest point I’ve ever been in my life right now, and to be perfectly honest I don’t know if I’ll come out the other side
  39. but I feel like if I’d had the best day and night of my life, it’s okay if I disappear now
  40. I’m really weirdly unemotional about that feeling/realisation
  41. I’m 150% a dog person, but I own a cat because people kept telling me they’re easier to look after (a lie — they’re equally difficult). I love my cat a lot, but I’m SO not a cat person.
  42. I’m obsessed with the Heian era. I don’t know why, but I love it
  43. Sei Shounagon is my ultimate flawless oneesama and I wish I was like her — witty, well-read, self-possessed, and full of glorious feelings.
  44. but weirdly enough I relate far more and am much more alike to Murasaki Shikibu — more than any other historical figure
  45. reading her diary felt like I was reading something I’d written, to a scary point
  46. I honestly think Murasaki was jealous of Shounagon, because in her diary she sounded exactly like me when I’m jealous of someone and pretending not to be…
  47. I use British spelling because that’s what I was taught and was in the books I read growing up
  48. I do, in fact, give a fuck about the Oxford comma
  49. I hate toxic positivity with all the fire of the ten suns Hou Yi shot down
  50. I don’t think I’ll ever be married, but if I do, I want a beach wedding/handfasting