What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?
Books.
What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?
Books.
Who do you spend the most time with?
If we’re talking time spent offline, it’s with Mellon. Otherwise, it’s with my bestie, J.
If you had to change your name, what would your new name be?
It would be the name I use here, and in real life, Theodora Lucia Vanyar.
Describe your dream chocolate bar.
A mix of white and milk chocolate with either more white chocolate or sea salt caramel inside it. Optional roasted almonds.
Do you remember your favorite book from childhood?
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
List three books that have had an impact on you. Why?
Three books that had an impact on me growing up were:
1. Grimm’s Fairy Tales: inspired my love of folklore
2. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: my first book I was taught to read
3. Clan of the Cave Bear: a book that could make reality a little less stressful when reading it.
Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life.
Crocheting, snuggling my partner, and squishmallows.
What jobs have you had?
So many.
Like, in the twenty four years I’ve been working or volunteering, I’ve had more than a dozen jobs.
Some of my favorites were server, craft teacher, candy striper, theater tech, and a summer camp counselor.
Do you practice religion?
I am a practicing Pagan. I am a person of faith, but I don’t know if I consider myself as practicing a religion.
What are you good at?
There are several things I am good at, in my humble opinion.
I am good at being empathetic. Good at crocheting and being anxious. Good at being kind to others, not as good at self-aimed kindness.
I am good at typing on a typewriter, at hand writing thank you notes, and a hundred other little lost arts that have nearly no place in the digitized world of today.
I’m good at panic cleaning and depression napping, at rhyming a spell by the third draft, and reading far too fast.
I am good at being a friend.
What personal belongings do you hold most dear?
This one is simple: the pentacle I wear on my grandmother’s chain.
What is the legacy you want to leave behind?
Kindness. Compassion. And the belief that an act in good faith can change the world.
How do you feel about cold weather?
Cold weather is my ideal weather. Despite my decade plus spent in the south going to college and after, winter is my favorite season.
Cold weather is wonderful. Layers of warm clothes, holidays that gather family members together, and just the glory that is snowfall. I love it.
There is just something about the silence of snow that is wonderful to me. Mind you, I despise driving in it, because I never learned to drive in snow and my car, before it got wrecked, had just gotten snow tires.
I can appreciate other seasons, but cold weather times are my favorite.