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March 2022 - Taking a break as I've gone back to study part-time in addition to my work commitments. I hope to return sometime in the mid-year.

Hello! I'm Alicia (she/they). I love happy mail and have been penpalling or sending other types of snail mail in various ways since I was a kid. I'm in my early 30s, childfree, in a long-term relationship and we are owned by a cat!

*** Please do let me know if you haven't received your swap before downrating! Mail from Australia to pretty much anywhere can be a slow and/or perilous journey (sometimes taking up three months! Especially at the moment with the pandemic still causing issues). If something doesn't arrive, please message me and we can work something out :)

The Wicker Man; the Back to the Future series; Spirited Away; Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me; Withnail and I; Fargo; The Shining; The Ghoul; A Field in England. There's about 50382048 movies I still want to watch - please send me your recs! I particularly enjoy horror movies or anything weird.

Villette; Crash (JG Ballard); Pride and Prejudice; High Rise; Rabble Starkey; The Adventures of Tintin; Calvin and Hobbes; Lolita; American Psycho; Maurice; Raymond Carver; Annihilation (Vandermeer); Philip K Dick; The Cipher (Kathe Koja). I buy far more books than I read, unfortunately, but talking about books and reading in general is something I really enjoy.

Lately trying to read more poetry, so far I'm fond of Auden, Yeats, Eliot, Catullus, Sappho, Larkin, O'Hara. Always happy for more recommendations for both prose and poetry!

I'm on Goodreads too, please feel free to reach out to me there :)

Twin Peaks; The Prisoner; Inside No. 9; The X-Files; Black Books; Arrested Development; The Day Today; Serial Experiments Lain. I'm sure there are plenty more I can't think of right now.

I really will love and appreciate anything you send to me! However, the below are some of my especial favourite things:

• kawaii style
• anything colourful, foiled, holographic, glittery. Basically all the shiny things!
• anything gothic/witchy/weird/creepy
• Halloween!! It's not really a thing here so I'm always excited to receive Halloween items any time of the year, since they're hard to get
• Christmas items. I find them so cheery :)
• lengthy letters, since I tend to ramble on myself, ha!
• also upcycled items
• things that represent your hometown/city or country
• your artwork :D
• pretty much anything to do with animals
• things in languages other than English

I'm obsessed with stickers and washi tape, and to a lesser degree also obsessed with memo papers and letter sets.

I like both tea and coffee, although I'm not a big fan of chamomile tea. I mostly drink green, assam, lemon and ginger, sleepytime.

Characters I like:

• Peanuts/Snoopy
• Pretty much all Japanese characters from brands like Sanrio, Crux, San-X, etc. Especial favourites include Cinnamoroll, Pochacco, Rilakkuma, Kerokerokeroppi, Pompompurin. Basically any of the non-human characters, haha.
• Studio Ghibli
• Tintin! I grew up with the books and would love to visit the official museum one day.
• Calvin and Hobbes :)
• Pokemon
• Moomins

Dislikes

There aren't many things I don't like! However I am not super into non-papercraft items such as lace, brads, ribbons and the like as unfortunately I have no aptitude with sewing, knitting, acrylic/resin crafts, etc. I'm also not really a big Disney fan unless it's Alice in Wonderland or any of the animal characters.

I'd love to hear your music recommendations with stories attached (like what the song reminds you of, a memory you associate with it, a movie it's from, etc).

Lately listening: The Twin Peaks soundtracks, Eartheater, Grimes.

credit: Jubilee

• animals of all sorts but particularly cats
• Peanuts/Snoopy
• David Lynch's work
• languages, esp. Ancient Greek and Latin
• Indonesian culture
• internet culture, cyberpunk
• fanfiction/fandom
• creepypasta
• weird videos on youtube
• niche microgenres like dreampunk, vaporwave, etc
• journaling
• horror films and horror video games
• let's plays
• 'aesthetics'; (e.g. dark academia, kidcore, cottagecore)
• surrealism
• contemporary and conceptual art
• developing spontaneous and very short-lived obsessions with people and things
• mental health
• tattoos, including the stick and poke kind
• piercings
• LGBTQ+/pride things
• woolgathering
• stickers
• postmodernism
• folklore and mythology
• true crime
• the occult