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100 Facts

  1. I can lick my own uvula
  1. I played the euphonium in high school
  1. I suffer from crippling coulrophobia (fear of clowns)
  1. When I was little, I had an imaginary iguana named Victor Hugo
  1. I collect and wear vintage kimono
  1. My eyes are so dark brown my government documentation (passport, driver’s permit) actually lists them as black
  1. I currently have four tattoos
  1. My breasts are comically enormous (currently a 36H)
  1. I have a Chiari’s Malformation and will eventually need brain surgery
  1. I’m fairly tall - 5’10 and a bit, or 1.79m
  1. I work in an awesome toy store as well as doing part-time technical editing contracts.
  1. I have life-threatening allergies to artificial watermelon and sometimes other fruits
  1. My heart beats freakishly fast - fastest resting pulse I’ve got it on record is 245 beats per minute. For reference, the average resting pulse is about 60 beats per minute.
  1. I’m incredibly clumsy
  1. I wanted to be an architect when I was a kid
  1. I don’t have any sense of depth perception - everything looks like a non 3D movie to me!
  1. I’m partially deaf in my left ear
  1. I am a voracious reader and never go anywhere without my nook, but I still love paper books
  1. I love to cook and bake, and I’m pretty fucking good at it
  1. I have a huge nail polish collection - nearly 500 bottles at present. My nails are *never* bare
  1. I used to row/scull competively
  1. I have a huge assortment of scars due to clumsiness, surgeries, and a history of self-injury
  1. I am attracted to both men and women
  1. I have a soft spot for “defective” cats - stupid needy ones, formerly abused ones, ones with brain damage, etc.
  1. My great-grandfather was a famous hockey player
  1. I am the antithesis of a picky eater - I will eat pretty much anything at least once before passing judgement on it
  1. I am a bit of an adrenaline junkie, but I’ve had to curb my habits because of health problems
  1. I faint at the drop of a hat
  1. I once gouged my cornea with a fork
  1. I have art of myself as a Green Lantern by Ethan Van Sciver
  1. I have art of myself as a Filthy Assistant by Darick Robertson
  1. I have a knack for randomly finding valuable things - I’ve found nearly $300 in wadded up cash on the ground, and once found a diamond and gold tennis bracelet that was evaluated at about $1500. And yes, I did put up signs and notices for the bracelet but it never got claimed, so I gave it to my mom.
  1. I am a fairly decent photographer
  1. I am equally fascinated and terrified by the vastness of space
  1. My mother and my aunt are identical twins
  1. Whenever I join online forum communities, I end up being suckered into being on the administration/moderation staff.
  1. I have never been out of North America, but I have gone coast-to-coast within it
  1. I am an only child
  1. I hate The Great Gatsby
  1. I can’t drive for health reasons but I love cars, in particular classic American muscle cars and English luxury supercars
  1. I can pick things up and write with my toes
  1. I am ambidextrous, but in the most inconvenient way possible - I can only do certain things with one hand and certain things with the other
  1. I cry easily and often. Books, movies, sappy commercials, etc.
  1. I was severely bullied in school
  1. I love snow, I love playing in snow, I love watching snow fall, I even sort of enjoy shoveling snow
  1. Sometimes when I’m drunk, tired, or angry I will swear in French instead of English
  1. I love the woodblock prints of Ando Hiroshige, and collect kimono with the 53 Stations of the Tokaido motifs
  1. I’m fascinated by cephalopods
  1. I think pigs are absolutely adorable, and collect pig toys and knick-knacks
  1. Whenever possible, I sleep entirely nude - if I have to wear pyjamas I toss and turn all night
  1. I’m afraid of abandoned industrial and medical structures - empty hospitals, hotels, office towers, etc
  1. Due to my health problems, sometimes drinking makes my fingers go totally haywire and I can’t type
  1. I have a kink for undone bowties
  1. I love tea
  1. One of my best friends is a super-awesome Aussie and if she was’t married I would elope with her
  1. I own a sari and can kind of wear it, but I need practice
  1. I have amazing thrift-store mojo - some of my best finds so far far include a brand new leather skirt with tags still on, a nearly-new Anthropologie skirt, and a pair of bespoke pants by a high-end Italian tailor, all for under five bucks each
  1. When I was younger, I was a vegetarian but due to a strange genetic defect it fucked my liver up and my triglycerides and cholesterol shot up to dangerous levels
  1. I love board games
  1. I learned to talk at a very young age, but was a very late walker
  1. I hate the colour orange
  1. I am scared by freezing rain, after having lived through the Ice Storm of 1998
  1. I can understand Greek to an extent, but can’t really speak it fluently
  1. I am a beast at Scrabble, to the point where a lot of my friends refuse to play with me because I always win
  1. When I yawn I make sounds like Chewbacca
  1. Clusters of small, naturally-occuring holes (like the ones in bones, shells, etc) make me incredibly uncomfortable
  1. Cilantro tastes like soap to me
  1. John/Sherlock is really and truly my OTP - I’ve never been involved in a fandom to this extent and I’ve never shipped a couple like this before
  1. I can bend my fingers backwards by 90 degrees
  1. Bread is one of my great weaknesses - baguettes, foccacia, pita, anything bready
  1. I know all the words to The Lion King - dialogue too, not just songs - and it drives my friends and family crazy
  1. I love any and all retellings of the classic Beauty and the Beast myth
  1. I am ridiculously infatuated with Benedict Cumberbatch, but that’s not really a shock to anyone
  1. I have an aquarium that is home to a leopard sailfin plecostomus as long as my forearm
  1. I am quite kinky, to the point where it’s freaked people out before and was partially to blame for the ruin of one relationship
  2. I still live with my folks for health reasons, but they are awesome people and I quite enjoy living here
  3. I’m allergic to dust
  4. If I were ever to get a purebred dog, it would be a Scottish Deerhound – I think they are the most awesome dogs ever
  5. Every Harry Potter sorting-type test I’ve ever done (and there have been many!) has put me squarely in Ravenclaw
  6. My first name, Diane, is nearly always either pronounced or spelled wrong
  7. I am prone to terrible attacks of the giggles, and once I start it is incredibly difficult for me to stop
  8. I have an inconsistent limp due to nerve issues in my spine, but because it comes and goes or switches legs, people often accuse me of faking it or playing it up for sympathy
  9. I love psychological thrillers and suspense films, but can’t stand gore horror – I don’t even find them scary, just stupid an annoying
  10. A few years ago my enteric/digestive system shut down and I lost 45lbs (20 kilos) in just under six weeks, but I’ve gained it back now
  11. I was once the receptionist for a company that manufactured industrial packing tape – I had no prior experience doing reception work and their phones were so incredibly busy I regularly had up to twenty people on hold at any given moment. I quit after a month
  12. I love the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh, to the point where I have part of Starry Night tattooed on my calf and one of my cats (a slightly unbalanced ginger) is named Vincent
  13. My favourite game in the Final Fantasy series is 9
  14. I love Jelly Babies and it makes me sad that I can’t get them here
  15. My family tartan is Lauder
  16. The only thing I’ve ever been able to play decently on the piano is the theme from Star Trek: Voyager
  17. Nearly two decades ago, my cousin and I found a chicken wing randomly attached to a mural in a restaurant and we still laugh about it today
  18. I don’t understand the appeal of Coldplay – I don’t hate them but I am not particularly fond of them either
  19. Despite the fact that I am thirty years old and suffered minor hearing loss, I can still hear really high-frequency tones I shouldn’t be able to anymore, including things like dog whistles
  20. I am borderline-narcoleptic and have to take medication to stay awake when I’m out in public
  21. My mixed drink of choice is the Bloody Caesar
  22. The Wizard of Oz is my go-to comfort movie when I’m sick, but it drives me crazy when I’m not sick
  23. I love the city of Boulder, Colorado, even if it is filled with smelly hippies
  24. There is a closet in my room where Things Go To Die – we store things for friends, we put stuff in there to get it out of the way, and nobody ever reclaims them
  25. My parents are huge geeks – we still have first edition D&D books lying around the house that my mum gave to my father while they were dating
  26. My ask box is empty and loves you!