1) my nickname irl is: blorb! (which is not based on blorbo.) my brothers and i made up goblin versions of our names and use them with each other, and blorb stuck. i currently have a valentine a friend gave me with BLORB in heart letters stuck to my fridge. blorb!!

2) a compliment i haven't forgotten: this xmas at family dinner, my dad (who is loving, but not very effusive) told the table, '[blorb's] gift is that she can bend anybody to her.' and did this little hand motion that made it clear he didn't mean it like, harshly. but like a flower to sunshine 🌞🥹🌻

3) i will say with this family estrangement stuff happening on one side of my family there are a LOT of things i want to say to everybody involved. but it's not my place. so instead i keep quiet. and instead send bitchy voice notes to my friends. like a god-honoring blorb

4) i don't believe in one-person-for-one-person-in-the-whole-universe soulmates but i do believe in deep and immediate connections

5) biggest turn on: being cursed with a terrible secret that you must take to your grave. also, one time at a wedding i got really drunk and i let a hot guy slowly pull off my fake eyelashes. and that ruled

6) my first official job was working the desk at a very fancy antiques store. i had no idea what i was doing, was underqualified for every part of it, and had no internet so i spent most of the time drawing on printer paper so i could scan in the pages at home and post them to livejournal

7) was listening to music while cooking dinner (and doing the little cooking dinner boogie) so: sexotheque by la roux! 🕺🏻

8) a recent one, but i bought my 5 y/o nephew where the sidewalk ends for xmas, and a book of poetry is obviously going to get lost in all the crazy of christmas, but the next night he curled up on my lap and we read it together & he loved it and fell asleep a little & i've never been happier!!!!!!

9) overwhelming: the world!!!! hard not to look at the news every day and not feel like my brain fluid is leaking out of my nose. other than that it was only since i've gotten to the other side of it i can see how exhausted and burnt out i was during the CONDO process

10) if you gave me $100 i would spend it on something very stupid, like lots of iced coffees with some kind of ube salted foam on top, or a very stinky candle that gives me a headache but smells like a ghost died in it

11) i can get very in my head about things. so i feel appreciated when someone can take me by my stupid little face and be like. here is a truth. most of the time i mean metaphorically. but in one case one of my bffs literally held my face and yelled I THINK ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU ARE NOT HERE! a gift.

12) i don't think that i have trust issues - i'm protective of myself (especially like, online) but i'm very naturally open to people. sometimes too much! but i will hold a grudge for a long-ass time tho...very darcy of me my good opinion once lost etc etc

13) favorite concert is always mcr, but it's also a fucking shame that arcade fire is dead 2 me bc i tagged along with some pals to their Funeral tour way back in the day, knowing nothing, & cried like the whole time. a hipster cliche but the feelings are the feelings

14) i wish i could say i don't care what people think about me but uhhhhhh i do! mostly bc i don't want to actually be a dick when i'm not trying to be. i try to move through the world aware of the affect i have on people (we live in a society!!!) but also know some of that's just out of your hands

15) my main hobbies when i am not POSTING are: spin classes. thrifting. baking. lots of cross-stitch kits. dm-ing our dnd game which is on year - eight? spooky movie film club. rewatching the same heated rivalry clips cut into a million different fan edits. chatting nonsense with my pals!!!

16) my dream home: has hardwood floors, dark wood trim, and a kinda ugly stained glass window somewhere. persian rugs & lots of built-in shelves for my treasures. a good porch & windows i can open, with screens because bugs are the devil. i must be able to see a tree & also my neighbors' front door.

17) my strongest held belief is that we need to get rid of encores at concerts. what is this silly little pantomime where i clap for you like you are tinkerbell to come back on stage. you pretend, we pretend. build the setlist with the breaks built in and send me out on a perfect high

18) if i could get on a plane tomorrow where would i go, honestlyyyyyy boring answer but i would love to go skiing again. miss being the slowest person on the mountain with the children's training skiis on. they didn't even give me poles. i listened to my one air pod under my helmet & was in heaven

19) i think my most attractive feature is that i like people and like talking to people and like when the people around me are having a nice and fun time and feel included, and vanity-wise i have a very nice smile with lots of BIG TEETH and good lips 🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷

20) i think aliens are 1) out there somewhere [hand wavy, vague] and also that 2) i don't want to be here when we meet. i'm booked and busy, sorry!!!!! i saw mars attacks too young and am not fucking interested! every time they bring it up on the news i disassociate into another dimension 😊🌸

21) biggest turn offs are: republicans, spoil-sports, not being at least a little bit silly, leaving the shopping cart in the parking lot, chewing gum and/or spitting on the sidewalk, incuriosity about the bigger world, bad texters, talking to me like i'm stupid (i'll kill you), music snobs

22) thing that has made me laugh the hardest recently is when i was over at a friend's and i sat in her chair & it broke under me, but not completely, so i spent like ten seconds balanced in mid-air on one remaining leg, clinging to the table, and making a HHHHRRRRKKKKKK squawking sound of distress

23) my favorite animal is a penguin. i had a very deep and embarrassing penguin phase as a kid, became deeply embarrassed by my penguin phase as a teen, but then have embraced it again as an innately cringe adult. and it rules. look at them. look at them! haha fuck they rule