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My tattoos

Current:

Pink azaleas (left shoulder)
Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly (left shoulder)
Polaroid SX-70 OneStep camera (right arm)
Excerpt from a Gwendolyn Brooks poem (left ankle)
Bluebell flowers (right ankle)

planned long-term:

Violets (left shoulder)
Cherry blossoms (right shoulder)
Monarch butterfly (right shoulder)
Northern cardinal and blue jay perched on leafy branch (left arm)
Carrousel (left thigh)
Vanitas scene (chest) (featuring skull, flower, butterfly, hourglass, and “memento mori”)

fave characters

animal crossing

left to right: bones, cherry, pietro, tia, merengue

pokémon

left to right: bulbasaur, lotad, bonsly, shaymin, leafeon
(can you tell my favorite type is grass?)

sanrio

left to right: hello kitty, pompompurin, chococat, keroppi, my melody

Fave colors

light violet
amethyst
violet
pastel pink
hot pink
uranian blue
cornflower blue
cobalt blue
pistacho
forest green

Top aesthetics

Cozycore
Flower Power
Gen X Soft Club
Grandmacore
Kawaii
Lovecore
Nostalgiacore
Sanriocore
Webcore
Y2K Futurism

(sourced from aesthetics wiki and daniel romero's blue collection)

Hello Kitty collection

This is my modest Hello Kitty collection. While I would love to have more, it's enough HK merch to make me smile!

Uniform Plush Mascot (Kawaii Girls Series) bag charm. I bought this bag charm for myself when I started law school in August 2025. She's been with me ever since!

My husband bought me this Howdy Partner 35mm point-and-shoot camera! I also have the matching camera case. It makes me ridiculously happy.

Hello Kitty Mocchiri face pillow from Crunchy Roll

16" Puffy Laptop Case from Sonix

Switch 2 carrying case from Sonix

Ceramic Mug with Mushroom Lid

50th Anniversary Special Edition of Time Magazine
(most deserved ever)

Hello Kitty wishlist

This is a gratuitous wishlist of Hello Kitty merch I would buy if my money and space were unlimited. It's mostly 1990s/2000s retro tech that I grew up with. One day I hope to have a retro tech corner!

Polaroid 600 camera with case and photo album (1990s)

Polaroid i-Zone (2001)

35mm point-and-shoot (1997)

Portable CD player (2002)

Portable cassette player (2002)

CD/Cassette/Radio boombox (2008)

CRT TV (2003)
(i would hook up retro consoles and play games on this)

Sony Playstation (1998)

Sega Dreamcast (1999)

Nintendo Gameboy (1997)

Nintendo Gameboy Advance (2001)

Samsung Flip Phone (2000s)

Tamagotchi (2020)

Hobbies to try

Crochet
Collage
Cyanotype

Game backlog

Camper Van: Make It Home
Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit
Palia
Pokémon Snap
Spiritfarer

Ghibli log

Watched:

My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Whisper of the Heart (1995)
Spirited Away (2001)
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

To Watch:

Princess Mononoke (1997)
Ponyo (2008)
The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)
The Boy and the Heron (2023)
and everything else!

Small joys

Spending time with my husband
No class on Fridays
Music!
Following cozy YouTubers
The Neocities community, the indie web & Tumblr (the last good vestiges of the internet after web 2.0+)
Arts and crafts
Watching Gilmore Girls (first time)
Playing Switch games in bed
Taking long bubble baths
Enjoying hot drinks

Poems

(all the content warnings)

To the Young Who Want to Die by Gwendolyn Brooks
Good Bones by Maggie Smith
Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón
I Want a President by Zoe Leonard
Antilamentation by Dorianne Laux
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
I Worried by Mary Oliver
What the Living Do by Marie Howe
won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton
Sorrow Is Not My Name by Ross Gay

Poetry Anthologies

Poetry is Not A Luxury: Poems for All Seasons edited by anonymous
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World edited by Ada Limón
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness edited by Carolyn Forché
Japanese Death Poems edited by Yoel Hoffmann
We Will Be Shelter: Poems for Survival edited by Andrea Gibson
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color edited by Christopher Soto
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World edited by Pádraig Ó Tuama
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry edited by Joy Harjo
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song edited by Kevin Young
Poems for Palestine edited by Dr. Maher Massis

reading poetry anthologies is one of the best ways to discover contemporary and historical poetry! next time you go to your local library or bookstore, see what poetry anthologies they have in stock. you may find your new favorite poem or favorite poet. <3

Movies

Waking Life (2001)
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Loving Vincent (2017)
Vita & Virginia (2018)
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
Challengers (2024)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Addams Family (1991)
Children of Men (2006)

Shows

Westworld (2016-2022)
Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009)
The Addams Family (1964-1966)
The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)
What We Do in the Shadows (2014-2022)
Widow's Bay (2026 - )
Pluribus (2022 - )
Severance (2022 - )
Better Call Saul (2015-2022)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

Albums

t.A.T.u. - 200 KM/H in the Wrong Lane (2002)
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994)
Halsey - Badlands (2015)
Green Day - American Idiot (2004)
Placebo - Meds (2006)
The Distillers - Sing Sing Death House (2002)
Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994)
KennyHoopla - Conditions of an Orphan// (2025)
Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (2023)
Lil Nas X - Montero (2022)

Games

Animal Crossing
Pokopia
Pokémon
The Legend of Zelda
Cozy Grove
Hello Kitty Island Adventure
Stardew Valley
World of Warcraft
Valheim
Phasmophobia

Museum log

Visited:

Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL
American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Metropolitian Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

To Visit:

Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
Glenstone Museum, Potomac, MD
Whitney Museum, New York, NY

Art movements

Arts and Crafts
Art Nouveau
Expressionism
Golden Age of Illustration
Harlem Renaissance
Impressionism
Pop Surrealism
Pre-Raphaelite
Surrealism
Ukiyo-e

(image is of the painting Ophelia (1852) by John Everett Millais, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite movement)

Art Forms

Painting
Photography
Printmaking (especially woodblock, intaglio & lithography)
Sculpture
Installations
Architecture
Textiles
Assemblage
Jewelry
Glass

(image of William Morris' tulip woodblock sourced from Clare Mitten's blog post)

Artists

René Magritte
Gertrude Abercrombie
Mary Blair
Remedios Varo
Edvard Munch
Faith Ringgold
Claire Morgan
Guerrilla Girls
Vincent van Gogh
William Morris

Theatre log 🎭

Tennessee Williams' Night of the Iguana, Dir. Emily Mann, December 2023, New York, NY

A defrocked clergyman encounters inside disturbances amid outside disturbances at the Costa Verde Hotel in Acapulco as the world prepares for World War II. After four women of different ages and backgrounds, along with a 97-year-old poet, engage in the clergyman's spiritual struggles, their lives leap dramatically forward.

Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Dir. Will Davis, April 2024, New York, NY

Orlando’s adventures begin as a young man, when he serves as courtier to Queen Elizabeth. Through many centuries of living, he becomes a 20th-century woman, trying to sort out her existence. An adaptation of the “longest and most charming love letter in literature,” written by Virginia Woolf for her lover, Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a theatrical, wild, fantastical trip through space, time, and gender.

Art I've seen

(This is not an exhaustive list)

Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans (1962)
Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World (1948)
Barbara Kruger's Belief+Doubt (2012)
Beth Cavener's The Question that Devours (2012) and L'Amante (2012)
Claude Monet's Agapanthus (1914-26) and Water Lilies (1914-26)
Candy Chang's School of the Future (2013)
Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad (1925), Night Windows (1928), Gas (1940) and Cape Cod Morning (1950)
Faith Ringgold's Jo Baker's Bananas (1997) and American People Series #20: Die (1967) (same day she passed)
Guerrilla Girls - major exhibit with several works
Gustav Klimt's Hope, II (1907-1908) and The Park (1910)
Henri Mattise's Dance (I) (1909)
Henri Rousseau's The Sleeping Gypsy (1897)
Jacob Lawrence's The Migration Series (1940-1941) (30 even-numbered panels)
Jung Kangja's Kiss Me (1967/2001)
Keith Haring's Untitled (Figure Balancing on Dog) (1986)
Kenny Scharf's Moblobz and Cosmic Cavern. Note: I saw this for my 20th birthday in June 2013 at the Alabama Contemporary Art Center in Mobile! Scharf created the first version in 1981 inside a closet of his New York apartment shared with Keith Haring. My hometown of Mobile is incredibly lucky to have Scharf's work and presence in its contemporary art scene!!!
Leonora Carrington's And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur (1953), Ship of Cranes (2010) and The Palmist (2010)
Louise Bourgeois' Untitled (with foot) (1989)
Polly Morgan's Receiver (2009)
Meret Oppenheim's Object (1936) and Fur Teacup [After photo by Man Ray] (1971)
Remedios Varos' Weaving of Space and Time (1954), The Juggler (The Magician) (1956), The Call (1961), and Phenomenon of Weightlessness (1963)
René Magritte's The Menaced Assassin (1927), The Lovers (1928) and The Portrait (1935)
Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory (1931) (still not as good as Magritte)
Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, The Olive Trees at Saint Rémy, Mountains at Saint-Rémy and Portrait of Joseph Roulin (1889)

Art to see

Any woodblock, especially from the ukiyo-e period
Intaglio prints
More installations and sculptures
More art nouveau and art and crafts works
Andrew Wyeth's Wind from the Sea (1947) (I need to go see this at the National Gallery of Art)
Charles Addams, especially any of his The New Yorker comics that became The Addams Family
Claire Morgan
Edward Gorey
Edvard Munch, especially The Scream (1893), any version of it
Elizabeth Catlett's Invisible Man: Ralph Ellison Memorial (2003)
Gertrude Abercrombie (I need to visit Chicago!)
Jacob Lawrence's The Migration Series (1940-1941) (30 odd-numbered panels) (I need to go see these at the Phillips Collection)
Mary Blair, especially her Alice in Wonderland (1951) concept art
M.C. Escher
Vincent Van Gogh's Self-Portrait (1889), Roses (1890) and Green Wheat Fields, Auvers (1890) (I need to go see these at the National Gallery of Art)
William Morris

Art books

Owned:

Art of the Heart by Mary Emmerling
The Bayou Painters: South Alabama’s Art Colony (1946-1953) by Paul Richelson
By Hand: The Use of Craft in Contemporary Art by Shu Hung and Joseph Magliaro
Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America by Phyllis Kornfeld
Cherry Blossoms in Bloom: Great Works of Japanese Woodblock Printing by Anne Sefrioui
The Color and Flair of Mary Blair by John Canemaker
Curious Cameras: 275 Cool Cameras from the Strange to the Spectacular by Todd Gustavson
Ghosts and Martyrs: The Fine Art of Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters
Gustave Doré’s Illustrations for "Paradise Lost"
Hi-Fructose Collected Vol. 1 Hardcover
Hi-Fructose Collected Vol. 4 Hardcover Deluxe Box Set
History Refused to Die: The Enduring Legacy of African American Art in Alabama by Horace Randall Williams
In the Darkroom: An Illustrated Guide to Photographic Processes Before the Digital Age by Sarah Kennel, Diane Waggoner and Alice Carver-Kubik
Juxtapoz Handmade
Juxtapoz Wild
Monet’s Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism by Philippe de Montebello
My Soul Has Grown Deep: Black Art from the American South by Cheryl Finley, Randall R. Griffey and Amelia Peck
The Polaroid Book by Barbara Hitchcock
Polaroid: The Complete Guide to Experimental Instant Photography by Rhiannon Adam
Polly Morgan: Psychopomps
Queer Love in Color by Jamal Jordan
Wondrous Strange: The Wyeth Tradition

Wishlist:

A History of Photography in 50 Cameras by Michael Pritchard
The Art of My Neighbor Totoro by Hayao Miyazaki
The Art of Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki
Camera Crazy: A History of Toy and Novelty Cameras by Buzz Poole and Christopher D. Salyers
The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900 by James Meyer
They Drew as They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney's Mid-Century Era by Didier Ghez
Flowers of Japan: Great Works of Japanese Woodblock Printing by Amélie Balcou
The Four Seasons: Great Works of Japanese Woodblock Printing by Amélie Balcou
Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery
Hi-Fructose Collected Vol. 2 & 3 Hardcover

Art magazines

Hi-Fructose:

Hi-Fructose 8 (2008) (Cover Artist: Camille Rose Garcia)
Hi-Fructose 11 (2009) (Cover Artist: Mark Ryden)
Hi-Fructose 14 (2010) (Cover Artist: Greg 'Craola' Simkins)
Hi-Fructose 21 (2011) (Cover Artist: Andrew Hem)
Hi-Fructose 23 (2012) (Cover Artist: Junko Mizuno)
Hi-Fructose 24 (2012) (Cover Artist: Henrik Aarrastad Uldalen)
Hi-Fructose 25 (2012) (Cover Artist: Audrey Kawasaki)
Hi-Fructose 36 (2015) (Cover Artist: Kehinde Wiley)
Hi-Fructose 41 (2016) (Cover Artist: Greg 'Craola' Simkins)
Hi-Fructose 55 (2020) (Cover Artist: Beth Cavener)
Hi-Fructose 56 (2020) (Cover Artist: Hattie Stewart)
Hi-Fructose 57 (2020) (Cover Artist: Miss Van)
Hi-Fructose 59 (2021) (Cover Artist: Hanna Lee Joshi)
Hi-Fructose 64 (2022) (Cover Artist: Jennybird Alcantara)
Hi-Fructose 68 (2023) (Cover Artist: James Jean)
Hi-Fructose 71 (2024) (Cover Artist: En Iwamura)
Hi-Fructose 72 (2024) (Cover Artist: Lee Gihu)
Hi-Fructose 73 (2024) (Cover Artist: Chet Zar)
Hi-Fructose 74 (2025) (Cover Artist: Younguk Yi)
Hi-Fructose 75 (2025) (Cover Artist: Martha Rich)
Hi-Fructose 76 (2025) (Cover Artist: Tim Biskup)

Juxtapoz:

coming soon