šŸ’“šŸŒ™ 🌈

šŸ’“ – what’s a little thing you appreciate?

I really appreciate it when people send me things that they say reminded them of me? even if it’s just a song or a picture of a cloud or something, it makes me super happy.

šŸŒ™ – what is the loveliest dream you’ve had?

this is something I’m not sure if I’ll ever actually tell my girlfriend because I don’t know if she’ll believe me, but when I was maybe 13 I had this repeated dream where I would meet a girl with dark curly hair and glasses and she would lend me her umbrella. I didn’t remember her name but I did remember that it started with an A. I had actually completely forgotten about the dream until almost a year after Ash and I started dating, it was really weird and I had to double check my internal timeline to make sure we hadn’t already met at that point, but now I’m sure we hadn’t because I wrote about it in my middle school dream journal.

🌈 – describe your first love.

I know that this is probably in reference to romantic love, but honestly, my first love has and always will be my sister. she’s one of the most important people in my life and there were a lot of years where she was really the only person I had and I owe so much to her because of that.

why don’t you like wano?

  1. Not enough Carrot.
  2. Momonosuke is one of my least favorite characters and Kin’emon isn’t anything to write home about either.
  3. We are not faring well in the female character department so far. Tama is pretty much boring, Kiku had… potential, in the beginning (her character design is also boring though) but has not lived up to any of my expectations. Okay honestly, I’m so fucking tired of Oda introducingĀ ā€œstrong female charactersā€ and then just NOT. LETTING THEM FIGHT. I’m fucking done with it, I don’t give a shit if KikuĀ ā€œdishonoredā€ that guy by cutting off his top-knot or cut down a few background characters, it’s not enough and I can and will throw a fit about it. The only character I really like is Tsuru because her design is nice, but she’s done literally nothing thus far so…
  4. The setting is pretty much just feudal Japan, which is fine, but I’ve come to expect more from One Piece especially after Whole Cake Island.
  5. In general the writing seems kind of all over the place. I’m not even going to touch on the time travel thing.

what are some books you like/recommend besides the ones listed on your fandoms page?

god thank you i love this question

General recs

  • Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
  • The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner
  • No ExitĀ by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald (I recommend doing some research on her life before reading this one, for context)

Fantasy/Sci-fi

  • The Earthsea Cycle series by Ursula K. LeGuin
  • The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
  • Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
  • Never Let Me GoĀ by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Howl’s Moving CastleĀ by Diana Wynne Jones

Non-fiction

  • Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
  • My Name is Rachel Corrie by Rachel Corrie (edited by Alan Rickman)
  • This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited byĀ CherrĆ­e Moraga and Gloria E. AnzaldĆŗa

Classics that are actually good and not lame and boring

  • The Picture of Dorian GrayĀ by Oscar Wilde
  • Madame BovaryĀ by Gustave Flaubert
  • The Count of Monte CristoĀ by Alexandre Dumas

I’m definitely forgetting a lot, this is just off the top of my head… some day I’ll make a comprehensive recommendation list of all my favorites