RachiiChu

Hello!

My name is Fallon. I'm 30, and live in Arkansas with my husband and our young son. My husband and I are both medical lab scientists, but I honestly prefer the nature and conservation side of biology!

We have lots of pets: a dog (Ollie), 2 cats (Mochi and Pepper), 2 tarantulas (Princess Petunia and Gideon), and several tubs of other various invertebrates. I'm an avid bug collector, but trying to keep it small until we finish a big move in a couple years.

I'm not very crafty or artistic, so I'm mostly here to collect postcards. My collection is enormous! I have every continent except for Africa, which I'm still hoping for one day. I have fibromyalgia and POTS, so I am exhausted most of the time. Between my more limited mobility from fibro, full time work schedule, and parenting a preschooler, I am not able to travel much (especially in a pandemic now, ugh). So, postcards are my way of vicariously seeing the world through others until I can hopefully do so myself.

I log my postcards in a spreadsheet to keep a map of where all they are from, so if you wouldn't mind putting your city and state/country on it, I would be forever grateful!

I love birdwatching, nature journaling, rockhounding, reading, puzzles (jigsaw and word/number/picross), video games, spending time with my kiddo, traveling when possible, cooking, baking, and trying out restaurants.

I'm a non-binary, bisexual leftist and I am passionate about both conservation and human rights.

If you've swapped with me before, you probably knew me under the name Rachel (hence the username from like 11 years ago that now I can't change). I legally changed to my (previous) middle name a couple years ago. Sorry about the confusion!

A: anemones (flower AND creature), aliens, ABBA, amphibians, Adventure Time, anime, Ace Attorney, the Adventure Zone (only listened to Balance, though), Animal Crossing, Annihilation, AJJ, Abe Sapien (Hellboy), Annabelle Cane (TMA), Astarion (BG3)

B: blue, birds, beetles, butterflies, bluebells, button quails, bluebirds, Bob's Burgers, books, Borne (by Jeff VanderMeer), Becky Chambers, barn swallows, Blade Runner, Bjork, Between Earth and Sky (Rebecca Roanhorse), Battle Subway Twins (Ingo and Emmet - Pokemon), Bronte sisters, baking, Butthole Surfers, Baldur's Gate 3, Bloodborne

C: Columbo, cats, cropduster planes, Camilla Hect (TLT), cryptozoology, coffee, champagne, crossword puzzles

D: dinosaurs, Deep Space 9, Derry Girls, Donna Beneviento (RE:8), Disco Elysium

E: Elias Bouchard (TMA), Enver Gortash (BG3)

F: fossils, Fever Ray, farmlands

G: Godzilla, ginger, Gravity Falls, The Great North, Ghost, gardenias, Grimsley (Pokemon), Guzma (Pokemon Moon)

H: Halloween, Hollow Knight, Hatoful Boyfriend, horror movies, Hellboy, hollyhocks, Halsin (BG3)

I: Interpol, Ianthe Tridentarius (TLT)

J: Jaws, Jeff VanderMeer, Jurassic Park, jumping spiders, jellyfish, Jill Valentine (Resident Evil)

K: kaiju, Kira Nerys (DS9), Karl Heisenberg (Resident Evil), Karlach (BG3)

L: lighthouses, The Legend of Zelda, Let's Not Meet, ladybugs, LGBT+, Lower Decks, The Locked Tomb, Leonard Cohen, Lae'zel (BG3), Leon Kennedy (Resident Evil)

M: mantids, monsters, The Mountain Goats, Mitski, moths, Modern Family, moons, The Magnus Archives, mourning doves, Morbid, Midnight Mass, Mob Psycho 100, musical theatre, mountains, maps, monster girls, Minthara (BG3)

N: Night in the Woods, nudibranchs, National Park After Dark, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nanu (Pokemon Moon), Nova Twins

O: orange, outer space, Osomatsu-San, the Owl House, Ologies, orcs, Orin the Red (BG3)

P: pho, pancakes, Phantom of the Paradise, Park Chan-Wook, pumpkins, photography, Pokemon, partridges, Prince Sidon (Breath of the Wild), Pyrrha Dve (TLT), Plumeria (Pokemon Moon), Palamedes Sextus (TLT), Peter Lukas (TMA), poppies (red and orange!), puzzles, postcards, picross

Q: quails, queer

R: raccoons, Radiohead, Resident Evil, Rilakkuma, Rebecca Roanhorse, rain, reptiles, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Re-Animator, Rika (Pokemon Scarlet), Rolan (BG3)

S: Stardew Valley, Star Trek, sushi, Sanrio, The Shape of Water, Space Dandy, Serial Experiments Lain, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, St. Vincent, Strangers in Paradise, sakura trees, sunflowers, sea stars, strawberries, Sylvia Moreno-Garcia, Shadowheart (BG3)

T: trains, tarantulas, Try Guys, tarot, tteokbokki, Twin Peaks, Tori Amos, T. Kingfisher, Tank Girl, Team Skull (Pokemon Moon), tieflings, TTRPGs

U: Undertale, urchins, urban legends

V: vampires, video games

W: writing, Welcome to Night Vale (haven't listened in a few years but still have a major soft spot for it), Wuthering Heights, What We Do in the Shadows, women knights

X: The X-Files

Y: You're Wrong About,

Z: zoology

• chalky items
• explicitly Christian messaging/imagery outside of art, storytelling, holiday cards, etc
• heavily scented items
• Conservative-leaning messaging

I was super into Harry Potter as a kid, but I no longer feel comfortable with it since I grew up and started really seeing the awful things involved and what a dreadful person JKR actually is.