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UPDATE: March 10 2025 There is flooding where I am right now, with a lot of roads cut off, so there will probably some delays to postage. I'll try and get swaps out on time still (hopefully it will clear before the next one is due) and rate the ones I receive whenever they get here.

UPDATE: January 2025 I finished my Masters Degree late last year and just (finally!) got a new full time job, starting in February. I don't know quite what my schedule will look like yet but I imagine I'll be pretty busy for a while, so I'll probably be signing up for fewer swaps in the near future. Of course I'll be honouring the ones I'm already signed up for, and rating etc.

Hello! I have always loved writing letters and getting things in the mail other than bills, which is why I joined Swapbot in 2020. I live in Australia and enjoy reading, creative writing, drawing and gardening. I'm vegan and neurodivergent. I love animals, even the creepy crawly ones. I like horror movies and 80s fashion.

ART- I love reading zines, though I have only made a couple so far. I have been enjoying making some ATCs. So far I mostly hand draw them but I want to practice some other techniques. I started an art journal in 2021 and am learning some mixed media techniques (got a gelli plate, having some fun!). I appreciate handmade paper, stamps and ephemera I could use for my journal. I'm also learning to use watercolours, so anything related to that would also be great.I also do a bit of embroidery. I'm not very good at it, but it keeps my hands busy.

Likes/Interests- Animals (dogs, cats, spiders, that weird lizard that shoots blood out of its eyes...) gardening Movies - horror, the odd rom-com, 80s movies zombies vampires bats 80s fashion K-Pop- I'm new to this, but I love BTS and Blackpink folk punk ska Cloth patches/badges- I sew them onto my jacket. Chocolate Weird earrings (some of my favourites that I have include a pair made from human teeth and some shaped like miniature toasters). Wire wrapped jewellery plushies two headed cats sci fi fantasy novels cryptids Moomins Harry Potter Soviet memorabilia tea Aussie hip hop Skepticism Creative writing

Dislikes- Misogyny, homophobia and racism Right wing politics Animal cruelty Depictions of dead animals or stuff about hunting Pseudoscience Mariah Carey (just her music, not her as a person) Coca Cola

Tea- I'm not a fan of chamomile, fennel or liquorice teas (I HATE liquorice), but I love any black tea, green tea, chai, herbal or fruity teas. I can't have dairy.

Jane Austen (Persuasion is my favourite). Fantasy- Ursula Le Guin, The Hobbit Kurt Vonnegut Sci fi JM Redmann Romance- Molly Harper, Stacia Kane, contemporary rom coms, some historical. Agatha Christie Terry Pratchett Douglas Adams Comics- Peanuts, Garfield, Giant Days, Rat Queens, Marvel (especially Squirrel Girl, Spiderman and Deadpool), DC, Dark Horse and Image amd weird Indie comics.

The Magicians, Farscape, She Ra, Owl House, Xena Warrior Princess, My LIttle Pony Friendship is Magic, How to Get Away With Murder, Wynonna Earp, Killjoys, The Expanse, Altered Carbon, Star Trek Voyager, Preacher, The 100, No Offense, Elementary, Offspring, Justified, The Good Place, Brooklyn 99, K-Drama (Hotel Del Luna, It's Okay To Not Be Okay, Sweet Home, Sweet Home, Start Up, Mystic Pop Up Bar...)

The Descent, Practical Magic, Triangle, Night of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Hocus Pocus, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2016, Moon, Bladerunner, Always Be My Maybe, One for the Money, Wonder Woman, The Fast and the Furious series, Ghost in the Shell.

LIKES: Cards with animals, spiders, pictures of places (landscapes, buildings), K-Pop, Star Wars, Moomin, Soviet cards, vintage cards (even better if they've been written on), rainbows, bright colours. Lenticular cards. Home made is cool.

DISLIKES: Anything religious, ad cards

Scratch and Sniff stickers.Anything with rainbows, sparkly stuff, animals, plants, mushrooms, fairies, goblins unicorns, My Little Pony, K-Pop, Star Wars, cryptids, zombies, Neurodiversity pride stuff. My favourite colour is purple.

I recently started collecting stamps. I like used stamps from around the world, but especially from Russia, and any with pictures of birds, insects, animals, Moomins and cartoon characters.

A-Z of things I like A- Agatha Christie, AJJ B- Bees, books, Bad Machinery, Bones (both the TV show and actual, ethically acquired bones) C- Cryptids, obviously. Comics, cinema, critical thinking, chickens, Chewbacca, crosswords, colouring pages, cherries and cherry coloured, cherry flavoured and cherry scented things D- Dairy free chocolate, detective stories, dogs, Disney, Dorothy Porter E- Eighties music, movies and fashion F- Folk punk, Farscape, ferrets, feminism, fantasy novels, Fraggle Rock G- ghost stories, Ghost Mice, gel pens, Giant Days H- horror, Halloween, hedge mazes I- Insects, the IT Crowd J- Jackalopes, Justified (the TV show), John Alison comics, Jim Henson K- Keanu Reeves, K-Pop L- Letters, Letterkenny, Lumberjames M- Moomins, mermaids, murder mysteries, My Little Pony, Muppets, the Mighty Boosh N- Narnia O- olives P Peanuts (as in the Charles Schultz comics), poetry, purple, philosophy, postcards, puzzles, puppets Q- quotations, quirky things R- raspberries, robots, rainbows S- Stamps (old ones, weird ones, pretty ones), Soviet memorabilia, Shakespeare, sci fi, Star Wars. Studio Ghibli, short stories T- tea (black, green, hibiscus, rose), tie dye, time travel stories, tardigrades, Tardigrade Inferno, teeth, teal U- unicorns V- Vegan food, vampires, Victorian literature W -Weird earrings, weird stuff in general, washi, watercolours X- The X-Men Y- yoga Z- Zootopia