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.

my local post office

✍🏻 has a really early pickup time, 8am I believe, so when I mark 'sent,' that means I've passed it over the counter or dropped off in the indoor mail drop box, and it will most likely be postmarked the next day!
✍🏻 I'm a stickler about my commitments so I will always send out on time, unless there's an actual emergency or serious sickness. If you don't receive something from me, please reach out!

prompts

If you're writing me a card, and need some prompt ideas, here are some of topics I love to read about!:

❤️ What's a book, movie, TV show, or game (board game, video game, etc.) that you've recently enjoyed a LOT? Like totally sucked in. Or an all-time favorite. And why?
🧡 Song recommendations!
💛 The story of the last place you traveled or the next place you want to travel!
💚 Have you ever had a paranormal experience?
🩵 What's some of the best advice you've ever received?
💜 If you could live forever, OR become a multi-millionaire tomorrow, which would you choose and why?
❤️ What was the highlight of your day, or something you're really looking forward to?

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!
✍🏻 Recycling! You might find me cutting stickers off of envelopes if they still look nice, to decorate your envelope with. Feel free to do the same for me! I also love using paper scraps from planners/ calendars/ posters/etc. in my collaging projects. Feel free to send me any cute "used stickers"/pretty papers that would otherwise end up in the trash! (I don't really use newspaper or magazine clippings though!)
✍🏻 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:
• anything handmade, atcs, things from small art shops,
• washi samples, tiny journaling stickers,
• cards (like tarot cards, playing cards), dye cut shapes, ephemera
• sheet music, scrapbooking paper scraps, pages from old books, pages in foreign languages,
• random postcards, stationery, tri-fold cards
• recipe cards, recipes from old magazines,
• anything printed in the 1990s or before
• bookmarks, bookplates

no thanks

• Tea (I know - Sacrilege! I prefer coffee though. Your wonderful tea stash is wasted on me, I'm afraid.💔)
• Harry Potter
• AI generated images
• religion or politics
• animal mascots of Disney (Tweety Bird, Donald Duck, Winnie the Pooh, etc.)
• monkeys/primates