saturnsrings

My name is Abby and I'm a bored artist watching my twenties fade away working a desk job. Please spice up my life with some happy mail!

I love reading! I typically finish 60-100 books a year. I love to curl up with my fluffy Maine Coon cat named Chowder and read until we both doze off. I also have a bratty black cat named Jafar who can turn you to stone with his glare o.o

I have 1000+ rolls of rare and weird washi tapes & I love to share! If you have a special interest I can find a washi in my collection for it. I'm open to private swaps, just message me!

I'm getting really into typewriters lately, I have a Royal Touch Control model from the 1930's and I love writing letters on it, it's so satisfying!

Goodies: Art prints, postcards (I love illustrations, not so much photos), letter sets, writing paper, patterned paper, postal stamps, ephemera, string and twine (I love Avril yarn!), stamped images, handmade envelopes, enamel pins.

Themes/ Aesthetic: All shades of green, watercolors, abstract patterns, nature/botanical, painted landscapes, field guide illustrations, bizarre/surreal, cityscapes, graffiti, video games, grungy edgy fashion, rainy days, daily life/monotony, cozy scenes, academia, outer space (especially Saturn), creepy, Halloween, skeletons, sweary or crass, butts/nudes, 420.

Animals: Cats, insects (scarabs and beetles), raccoons, skunks, pandas, llamas/alpacas, red pandas, birds (crows, ravens, owls, seagulls, parakeets).

Rare animals like Tapirs! Okapis! Axolotls! Capybaras! Ostrich! Walruses! Quokkas! Lemurs! Pufferfish! Blobfish!

Characters/ Fandoms: Gudetama, BT21 especially TATA, Studio Ghibli, One Punch Man, Mob Psycho, My Hero Academia.

Stationery Brands/ Designers: Mind Wave, Classiky, Yohaku, Sunny Sunday, BGM, Dailylike, Moodtape, Mark's Maste, Aimez Le Style, Papier Platz, Tosto, Yumi Imai, Ours, Pion, La Dolce Vita, Yuko Higuchi, Abstractales, Dodolulu, Neetiska,

Tea: Jasmine Green and Earl Gray are my faves.

Art journaling, collage, mixed media, gelli printing.

Block printing/ printmaking/ hand carving stamps (would love to swap stamps!)

Happy mail/ papercrafting.

Watercolor, paint pens, gouache.

Movies: The Lives of Others (German movie- please message me if you've also seen this!)--Studio Ghibli--Howl's Moving Castle--Alice in Wonderland--Your Name--Patema Inverted--A Silent Voice--Wes Anderson movies--horror movies (paranormal horror, not slashers).

TV: The Good Place--Good Omens--Stranger Things--Haunting of Hill House--Rick & Morty--Spongebob-- The Genius Game--The Great British Bake Off

Video Games: Borderlands 3-- Overwatch-- Zelda Breath of the Wild-- The Last of Us-- Stardew Valley-- Diablo-- Divinity--Nancy Drew games-- Transistor (obsessed with the visual style & music!)

Novels: Stormlight Archive and Mistborn Series Brandon Sanderson--The Winternight Trilogy-- A Darker Shade of Magic Trilogy-- The Night Circus-- Night Film

M/M (gay) fiction

Poetry: Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickenson & modern poets

Graphic Novels: Harrow County (droolworthy watercolor illustrations!)-- Saga-- Junji Ito-- Monstress

Khalid, Billie Eilish, Alt-J, Billie Holiday, Neutral Milk Hotel, Queen, Rufus Wainwright, Simon & Garfunkel, the Roches, fun.

Kpop! Specifically BTS... I am surprised to be so into a boy band in my late 20's, but they make me so freaking happy! Yoongi is my bias :3

Snail Mail/ Stationery/ Journaling: Skylar Hand--MyLifeMits--The Paper Letter Blog--Wendy's Journal Adventure--Johanna Clough--Brittany McCowan--Job's Journal

Art Channels: furrylittlepeach--MercurialMilk--Kasey Golden--Seaweed Kisses--creationsceecee

My Brother, My Brother and Me-- Wonderful!-- The Adventure Zone-- S-Town-- Welcome to Nightvale-- Ologies-- The Black Tapes-- The Moth-- RadioLab-- This American Life-- Sleep With Me

Recommendations welcome- I have a long commute!

Glittery stuff, religious themes, planner/ scheduling, A4 (8"x11") size stationery, journaling cards, minions, keep calm, exercise-related, teacher/reward stickers, kid stuff.

Not a fan of bows, cutesy butterflies, hearts, princess, fairy, mermaid, unicorn, Disney, pink or cutesy-pretty stuff.

Hateful, homophobic, racist themes, though I've never received anything like that in this great community! ^_^