Hi everyone! I'm a queer Millennial artist, hobbyist writer (mostly queer romance, and fantasy), small-business owner (fantasy pins), and novice violinist.

I have two dogs (Pembroke, and Cowboy Corgi). I'm conversationally functional in Japanese. (I lived in Japan for 3 years between 2010~2015, my last visit was November of 2024!)

I love to travel and daydream about traveling. Some of my hobbies are enamel pin collecting, Tarot card reading, journaling, cardmaking, crochet, embroidery, reading, & video games (Final Fantasy XVI is my favorite! Otherwise I mostly like to watch my partner play games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill.)

I like music, especially dreampop, trance, melodic dubstep, electropop, Jpop, Jrock, indie rock, emo & grunge rock.

favorite motifs

🖼️ fine art (Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionism)
🪐 outer space, moon & stars, constellations, star maps, astronomy, astrology
🍂 autumnal, Halloween
🧙‍♀️witchy, spooky, non-gory horror (haunted houses, haunted forests, witches, aliens, ocean horror, space horror, psychological thriller)
🔮 tarot cards
🌈 90s nostalgia, 90s animated films
🍣 All things Japan, retro Japanese anime
🌸 magical girls, Sailor Moon, Card Captor Sakura
⛈️ rainy imagery
☕ coffee, cafes, bakeries
📚 bookish, cozy themes
🌠 nighttime cityscapes
🌲 Woodland animals - especially stags, unicorns, foxes, and rabbits
🎻 Violin music, musical motifs
🩰 ballet, dance, performing arts
🛸Sci-fi, (Star Trek TOS)
🏳️‍🌈 queer, LGBTQ+ themes
✈️ travel, far-off places, maps
🦄 Fantasy creatures- dragons, unicorns, mermaids
🪻 illustrated botanicals & fruits, mushrooms
💄 vintage Americana

misc. faves

✍🏻 stamps & stamp math! (I have relatively few lower denominational stamps from yesteryear, but I love them all! My favorite newer Forever stamps are the Janice Joplin, Goodnight Moon, any related to outer space, any that are holographic! I even like canceled stamps!)
✍🏻 I love reading (and writing!) long notes - please feel free to ramble!
✍🏻 If we're in a swap where the 'assignment' is to exchange 'flat goodies,' and you want some ideas (I'd love anything!) some of my favorite 'types' of flat things are: atcs, washi samples, bookplates, tiny journaling stickers, cards (like tarot cards, playing cards), dye cut shapes, sheet music, scrapbooking paper scraps, pages from old books, pages in other languages, postcards, recipe cards, recipes from old magazines, tri-fold cards, anything printed in the 1990s or before, bookmarks, ephemera... etc.!

no thanks

• Harry Potter
• AI generated images
• religion or politics
• animal mascots of Disney (Tweety Bird, Donald Duck, Winnie the Pooh, etc.)
• monkeys/primates