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Welcome to my profile! ~ info updated 5/6/24

5/6/24: Greetings! I am slowly making my way back onto SB after a year hiatus and I am happy to be back! Just going to join a few swaps here and there to ease back into things. It will probably take me a little while before I start hosting again as well.

Please note that I moved last year and have a new address - it has been updated to be current on my profile!

General stuff about me!

Hello I'm Jess! I am 32 years old, a part-time library employee, child-free, living with my boyfriend and our cat named Kitten - sweetest in the world! I never thought I'd have a cat before we took her in a few years ago as I was always so allergic, but over time I have adjusted and it rarely bothers me anymore. She has definitely made me a cat person! 🐈

Some things I enjoy include books (reading + collecting), collage, drawing, journaling, jigsaw puzzles, meditation, all things related to dreams & altered states of consciousness, aliens!!!, conspiracy theories, thrifting, bad lifetime movies, ambient music, indie perfume (my most recent and most consuming hobby - don't worry though I won't put scent on your mail!) and of course snail mail.

If you're into astrology- I am a Scorpio Sun, Capricorn Moon, Scorpio Rising, and have a 12th house stellium. My chart is heavily dominated by water and plutonian influence and I find it does describe me pretty well, though admittedly I am not so far into it as to plan my life around transits and such. I think of it more as a tool for self-discovery/understanding. I am also a metal goat in the Chinese zodiac.🐐

I'm not religious at all, but do consider myself "spiritual" - purposely leaving it vague as I don't really define it in any way. I'm highly interested in altered states of consciousness, particularly astral projection and lucid dreaming as well as the in between states of sleep (hypnagogia,) all of which are spiritual experiences for me. If you happen to be similarly interested and are paired with me for a swap, feel free to share your own dreams and related experiences as I love to hear them!

My Groups!

Monsters, Myths, & Legends -- US ATC swappers

Oneironauts Only

Swapper's Paradise!

!!!ATTN swappers:

Since moving to an apartment, I now take my mail directly to the post office myself as I'm not sure how reliable the outgoing mail slot is at my complex. Before I moved I would mark sent when I placed a swap in my personal mailbox, but now I will mark sent when swaps have actually been dropped off at the PO which will generally need to be on a day I have off from work. Swaps may be completed/dated prior to the day I am actually able to send. I will always plan accordingly and send my swaps by the deadline!

I always rate and will try to do so the same day I receive; sometimes it may take me a few days, but chances are if I have not rated I have not yet received. I don't mind if you want to check in with me about ratings. I'll always message before rating if I haven't received a swap and would appreciate the same courtesy. If you know you'll be late sending a swap just let me know - I appreciate communication and will try to work with you! I will also do the same should something come up on my end.

For any swaps I am hosting I will always angel if you're flaked on after you've attempted communication with your partner and also rated appropriately ~ please contact me about any issues in my hosted swaps so I can help!

Please don't feel like you need to include "extras" or anything other than swap requirements. These are just ideas to help with personalizing swaps or for profile-based swaps.

Favorite Things

Colors: I LOVE green in any shade - my absolute favorite color. I also like cool blues and purples (especially green/blue/purple together,) golden yellows, deep reds, black (& white together,) grayscale, and rainbows or vibrant color schemes. Holographic and glow-in-the-dark are not exactly colors, but I love that sort of thing.

Animals: I like all animals in general, but my top favorites would be ducks of any kind, loons, bears (especially grizzly or panda,) all wild cats, and any kind of ocean creatures.

Postcards:
Tourist - I enjoy cards (from anywhere) with scenic landscapes, mountains, deserts, ocean views, flora & fauna, and those that depict weather (lightning, tornadoes etc) sunsets, aurora borealis, rainbows and such. I also like cards with local culture or significant places from your location. Some specific places I particularly like are the American Southwest, Alaska and Japan.

Non-tourist - Art themed (famous works & otherwise) especially Japanese woodblock prints/+other Asian art, Hieronymus Bosch, medieval and surrealist works, realistic animals, aliens & UFOs, space/galaxy themes, weird/strange/unusual however you interpret that, mythology, Ancient Egypt, lenticular/3D, and anything else profile related.

Zazzle/store-printed are always welcome and I also love handmade cards!

Tea/Coffee etc: For tea I'm open to most kinds, caffeinated or decaf and herbals. I would love to try your favorite flavors! My favorites are herbal (any kind - but especially love chamomile & sleep blends,) flavored green and white teas, and earl grey. I'm not fond of "diet" teas or artificial sweeteners. For coffee samples, any kind is welcome. I prefer not to receive any food items other than hard candy. Preferably all in individually sealed bags please!

Music: in no particular order... Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Iron & Wine, Emma Ruth Rundle, Queen Adreena/Ruby Throat/Katie Jane Garside, Sun Kil Moon, Red House Painters, Modest Mouse, José González, Have a Nice Life, Steve Roach, Brian Eno, and Boards of Canada. Love ambient and 90s (and early 00s) alt/rock in general.

Books/Authors: Philip K. Dick, Robert Monroe, C.G. Jung, Terence McKenna, Alan Watts, Shirley Jackson. I'm a fan of science fiction, new age/occult/esoteric weirdness, and interesting non-fiction. If you'd like to be goodreads friends, let me know! I'm not super active on there, but do update it when I'm actively reading something.

ABC list of likes!

A - aliens, altered states of consciousness, ambient music, animals, Anubis, aquariums, art, astral projection, astrology, astronomy, aurora borealis

B - badtz-maru, banknotes, bears, bibliomancy, bioluminescent creatures, birds, black widow spiders, bookmarks

C - capricorn, cats (wild cats especially!), coffee, coins, collage, conspiracy theories, crop circles, cryptids, cults, Curt the bear (from animal crossing)

D - deep sea, deserts, documentaries, drawing, dreams/dreaming, ducks

E - eclipses, ancient Egypt, ephemera, ESP (extrasensory perception)

F - forests/woodlands, fractals, fridge magnets, frogs, fun facts

G - Garfield, ginkgo leaves, glow-in-the-dark things, goats/rams, green

H - handmade art, herbs, Hieronymus Bosch, history (particularly about ancient civilizations), holographic things, horror, hypnagogia

I - insects

J - jigsaw puzzles, journaling, Jupiter

K - kelp forests, keroppi, keychains, kimono patterns

L - landscapes, letters, lifetime movies, lilies & lily-of-the-valley, liminal spaces, loons, lotus, lucid dreaming

M - mail art, medieval art, meditation, memo sheets, mixed media, moths, mountains, Mt. Fuji, mugwort, mushrooms, mythology

N - The Nazca Lines, near death experiences (NDEs), new age topics

O - occult/esoteric topics, oceans and ocean creatures, origami paper, ourosboros

P - paranormal, perfume, Philip K Dick, photographs & polaroids, psychic phenomena, Pluto, poems/poetry, postage stamps (foreign or domestic, used or unused etc,) postcards, praying mantis, pressed pennies, podcasts, psychedelic themes, psyduck, pyramids

Q - quotes

R - radios & old radio shows, reading, reality TV, reptiles, Robert Monroe, rubber stamps

S - science fiction, scorpio, scorpions, sleep paralysis, space/galaxy themes, stationery, stickers, Stonehenge, sun/sunsets, surrealism

T - tarot, tea, thrifted items, tornadoes, trees, tropical fish, The Twilight Zone

U - UFOs, Ukiyo-e (woodblock prints), Unsolved Mysteries, used books

V - venus flytraps & other carnivorous plants, video games, volcanoes

W - washi tape, weather phenomena, weird & otherwise strange things

X - the X-files

Y - Yōkai (Japanese folklore)

Z - zener cards, zines, zodiac

Dislikes

I think I'm pretty easy to please and like many more things than I dislike, but there are some things that I don't particularly want to receive. Whenever possible I will try to pass such things on to other swappers who do enjoy them.

• loose glitter on anything
• any kind of holiday themes (even when in season - I just don't care for holidays)
• religious messages such as god/jesus loves you, bible or other verses etc or anything with the intention to convert or assert one belief over another (I don't mind some religious imagery from any religion if it's particularly beautiful or historically interesting)
• patriotic or political themes
• harry potter, star wars, marvel, pixar, disney, anime or similar
• children's items or crafts, teacher/reward or kiddie character stickers (I can use alpha/numerical stickers so I don't mind receiving those!)
• food items (aside from sealed hard candy, tea or coffee)