Tag: literalbookworm

1) Why did you choose your URL?

Way back in the heyday of Angelfire, when you chose your URL, you had to choose from a set handful of two-letter combinations and then your chosen handle went on the end. ‘ia’ was one of the options, so I chose that and made my username ‘mshadow’. The 21 is because I like the number 21 and because some websites I’ve created accounts with, iamshadow has already been taken.

2) What is your middle name?

I don’t give out personal information, but I will say that it’s old-fashioned. Like my first name, which a couple of you know, it’s a name people associate more with old ladies than people in their thirties. I was given it because there were people with that name a few generations back on both sides of my family tree.

3) If you could own a fairytale/fictional pet, what would it be?

I used to want a pocket-sized dragon. Common, maybe, but no less awesome for it.

4) Favorite color?

Right now, probably purple, but I have strong loves for peacock blue, duck egg blue, jade green and cool yellow.

5) Favorite song?

I don’t really have one? I have very eclectic tastes and have handfuls of songs I like in many genres. If I had to pick one I come back to a lot, even though I don’t listen to a lot of electronic music, it’d be Massive Attack’s Teardrop. It was on one of my Triple J’s Hottest 100 albums that I bought around the time I left school, and I found it soothing to listen to on repeat while I was writing, many years before I was dignosed autistic and learned that aural stimming was a thing. I still use it sometimes when I get anxious to mellow me out and calm me.

6) What are your top three fandoms?

Right now, Marvel/Avengers is my primary, but I dabble in Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, CSI, Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie’s Marple/Poirot, White Collar, Welcome To Night Vale, and Endeavour/Inspector Morse/Lewis.

7) Why do you enjoy tumblr?

I love the fan content, especially the amount of visual media and meta.

8) Tag all 9 of your tumblr crushes (they have to do all 8 questions too who can do this if they like)

No obligation for anyone to do this at all (I rarely do memes myself), but people I love dearly and follow avidly on Tumblr include: @actuallyclintbarton @jabberwockypie @kath-ballantyne @randomyayness @neurowonderful @spiralstreesandcupsoftea @the-wordbutler @literalbookworm and @copperbadge

literalbookworm:

Slightly less bendy fingers, thanks to ring splints purchased with the help of my grandparents! Yay!

They look gorgeous, sweetie! Emma wants to try using the plastic kind first to see if they help, because though the silver ones aren’t way above our means expensive, they’re expensive enough that we have to find out if they help before laying out money for them.

literalbookworm:

iamshadow21:

literalbookworm:

Can’t stop won’t stop

I would hang something like this on my wall, no lie.

Really? Would anyone else be interested? Bc I would be happy to do these as (very cheap) commissions or trades or something. Actually, iamshadow21, I will totally send you one for free bc you sent me a hat once and I still love it!

I’m really in love with the flames/curls look of the one on the left, so something like that would be amazing.

Tell you what, you make one for me and I’ll try to do one of my epic black and white line drawing things I used to do a lot of about ten years ago. I’ll need to buy a decent pen next time I’m in town, but apart from that, I think it’d be fun and would take me a couple of hours at most. They turn out sort of halfway between a fractal and a fingerprint. I was going to show you a pic of one, but my drawing notebook is in a box somewhere, and not with the other art stuff in the kitchen as I’d thought. As it has been the better part of a decade since I drew anything, I can’t guarantee the quality, but if all else fails I’ll draw you a rainbow mosaic – all I need for that is a flat surface, a ruler and a tin of coloured pencils, and I’ve got all those. Both are amazingly stimmy things to draw – a teacher showed my class how to draw the mosaics in fourth grade, and the pen drawing was a thing I sort of made up when I was around eighteen – nineteen – twentyish.