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I'm Neon. I'm 39, queer, and live just outside of Portland, OR.

I like the sun, fresh air, being silly, playing music, singing, making stuff, old video games, wandering my neighborhood, wearing as much eye blindingly bright colors and rainbows as possible, and attempting to speak languages I don't know very well. I also travel as much as I can and I love old books with awesome illustrations (esp. medical or nature). I'm obsessed with Disney theme parks and Tokyo (planning trip #4 for when it's safe).

My favorite arts and crafts are crochet, making zines, making miniatures, watercolor, making silly and weird collages, and UV resin. I also pretend I know how to sew.

I'm a nerd. I like science, geography, and history. I love languages and speak English (fluent), Spanish (okay), Japanese (learning, intermediate beginner), and I just stared teaching myself Polish. I also love trivia and puzzles (mostly paint-by-number/nongrams/griddlers and anything put out by Games magazine). I go to the library at least two-three times a week (well, when it's not a pandemic).

I mostly just listen to the same music I've liked since the '00s/'90s.

I like stuff that's loud - pop-punk, riot grrl, grunge, post-punk, emo...not metal so much though.

I also like J-pop and K-pop, but not really enough that I know any artists or anything. I put it on Spotify sometimes.

I also love Disney music, of course, but it usually makes me cry because I don't know when I'll be able to get back to a Disney park again!! :'(

I don't have a ton of time to read these days, and with all the shit in the world, my focus is...unreliable. I read in the bath sometimes. I like queer YA fiction the best, dystopian is good although a little close to home sometimes these days...

I also am going through a phase where I LOVE reading obnoxious business books, I don't even know, your guess is as good as mine as to why, LOL, but I've been reading Russell Brunson's Dotcom Secrets series and I CANNOT GET ENOUGH. WHY?!

Also also, watching the new Baby-Sitters Club made me want to re-read the old books, so I'm now on the hunt for them when I go thrifting. So far, I've only got #2.

I don't watch a ton of TV. I have Netflix and I watch a lot of YouTube. Some of my favorite shows are:

• Pose
• Hollywood
• The new Baby-Sitters Club
• Sabrina
• Riverdale
• Anything super queer
• One Piece
• PreCure
• Patriot Act
• Umbrella Academy
• Steven Universe
• Great British Bake-Off
• Queer Eye (the new one)
• Dragula
• Reluctantly, RuPaul's Drag Race, because RuPaul is transphobic and fracks, but I just really like drag

My favorite movies are queer stuff, documentaries, Studio Ghibli, cute things, Disney, cheesy Hallmark type stuff. Mostly things that are feel-good because the world is feel-bad.

I love so many characters! Here are some of them:

• Kirby (I have a giant rainbow Kirby tattoo)
• Oswald (Disney rabbit)
• Peridot (Steven Universe)
• Cure Whip (Pre Cure A la Mode)
• Cure Milky (Star Twinkle PreCure)
• Keroppi (Sanrio)
• My Melody (Sanrio)
• Strawberry King (Sanrio)
• Little Twin Stars (Sanrio)
• Hangyodon (Sanrio)

I'm pan-craftual...I love learning new crafts!

My main crafts are:

• crochet (mostly doilies)
• journaling (kawaii journaling, but I want to get into junk journaling)
• making miniature dioramas
• UV resin
• cross-stitch
• watercolor
• gluing things to things
• pretending I know how to sew
• zines, I have lots of mini-zines about random topics

• Rainbows
• Decora
• Bunnies!!
• Frogs!
• Sanrio
• Bubble tea
• Snacks/food (especially cute food things)
• Neon
• Weird things
• Disney
• Clowns/circus
• Nerdy shit, I just like learning stuff
• Kirby
• Zines
• Astrology
• Parfaits/macarons/desserts in general
• Fruit, especially strawberries and watermelons

Things I'd like to receive:

• Fiber art of any kind that you made (crochet, knit, woven, sewn)
• Anything that has to do with any of my favorite stuff
• Letters in languages I may or may not speak
• Stories
• Weird snacks
• Giant necklaces, especially with parfaits or stuffed animals
• DIY skill shares
• Clown things
• Neon bright mega fashion accessories
• Queerness
• Weird art
• Rement, gachapon, miniature anything
• Handmade items!! I love it a lot more if you made what you send, even if you don't think you're a good artist
• Your zines!
• Kawaii memo sheets, letter sets, and stickers (I'm not picky about brand or anything, just like bright cute stuff!)
• Resin accessories (keychains, necklaces, rings, etc.)
• Random weird found bits and bobs, stuff you found on the ground, a colorful flyer, a funny ad, something with an interesting texture, a blurry photograph, instructions from something...
• Postcards, souvenir books, or ephemera from weird places and amusement parks, vintage or current
• I'm really interested in junk journaling but have not had the confidence to make one yet, so feel free to give me tips, good tutorial links, or supplies
• Old Baby-Sitters Club books

Things I can offer:

• Letters
• Weird art
• Doilies
• Travel tips for Japan/Tokyo
• Tea
• Sass, a lot of sass
• Stickers
• Mini-zines
• Letters typed on a typewriter
• Kawaii memo sheets
• Doodles
• Watercolor paintings
• Postcards, mostly of Florida and California
• Tiny crocheted things

Please do NOT send me the following...I appreciate the thoughts, but it will go in the trash/recycle/compost or get passed on:

• Anything racist, misogynist, heterosexist, cissexist, etc.
• Anything floral/flower-themed whatsoever, I hate it, sorry.
• Scrapbooking items
• I HATE GOLD please nothing with gold accents, it ruins perfectly good stickers and jewelry
• Please don't call me she or a girl. I am not female.
• Deco books/friendship books (I think that's what they're called?), I don't do them
• Please don't talk to me in AAVE if you're not Black, also I really hate being told I'm "fabulous" or "fierce" or any other coded ally theatre words.
• I'm very allergic to dogs and cats, so if you have them, please try to keep the fur out of anything you send me
• I'm sober, PLEASE NO MENTION OF DRUGS, ALCOHOL, ETC. Thank you!! (including pot leaf motifs and all that)
• I really, vehemently hate JK Rowling and Harry Potter, she's a vile human being and at this point, I'm kinda judging anyone still into it. Sorry not sorry. (If you're confused by this, please Google JK Rowling terf or JK Rowling nazi)
• This goes with the racism stuff, but nothing that is cultural appropriation like dreamcatchers, things with the g*psy slur, etc.

Thank you!!