Post a random fact about you

I have a lot of tattoos but no piercings not even my ears I don’t know why I just never wanted piercings as much as I wanted tattoos

 

I love to cook! I love making dinners and lunches for my husband and I and our friends. It makes me very happy when people really enjoy the food I make! Maybe it’s a southern thing haha!

 

I like to collect beautiful masks from cultures other than my own. (Only ones that are acceptable for outsiders to own, that is.) I have a kitsune mask from Japan, two dance masks of Barong and Rangda from Bali, and a snow lion mask from Bhutan, among others.

 

I have a hole in my heart, but doctors say it isn't causing any negative symptoms, so it doesn't require medical intervention.

 

I live 9 years in China and almost gave up on BJD because it's really lonely here ((

 

I have that problem with Hallmark movies, particularly Christmas. My mom loves watching them but they are so predictable and I always know what will happen and she gets irritated

Before Corona , I did not go out much but now I stay home 99% of the time except when we went to the Uk and Ireland. I just felt more comfortable out of the US. I am torn about moving out of the country but I daydream about it all the time.

 

My best friend and I rescue and foster feral and medically needy kittens. (It’s even more expensive than collecting dolls, let me tell you).

 

I love tea. I usually drink 2 or 3 cups of different hot tea a day. Currently I have ten different teas at home to choose from. They do not get backed up, I really do cycle through and finish them. I would say they mostly have different purposes.

 

I was diagnosed with autism at the age of 30 and dolls are one of my longest standing special interests

 

Lifelong fan of Columbo. I love that show.

 

My parents always talked up Columbo when I was growing up, and I was always like "yeah sure"... but then I actually saw it, and it is really good! You've had good taste for longer than me, lol

 

@babezoid I will force my dolls to watch all the seasons.

 

I love trains - riding them, watching them, looking at locomotives. I love them all - cargo, commuter/public transport or long distance travel, even hanging out near train tracks and walking on them. I've deliberately chosen to live in properties near train tracks because the sound of the rail is very comforting. I've ridden the rail coast to coast in United States and Australia, and one of my bucket list goals is to travel across Europe via train.

ETA (Oct 2025) - I went to Japan and rode the shinkansen bullet train! Another train activity ticked off my bucket list. ^^

 

My current glasses are 16 years old

 

@aihre Aww, you've made me nostalgic for the sound of the trains rolling through our little town in northern BC. When it was below -30 C out and icy, they sounded strange, creaking and screeching as they hauled through... I found it comforting to wake to their howls in the night and know they always made it just fine even through the snow.

Random fact... my husband and I share the same birthdate. It results in us being asked to review paperwork almost every time, as they assume we've made a mistake.

 

@Havra I would love to hear that sound you describe. I now live near a commuter train line (literally a minute's walk to the tracks, I love it), and when I have the windows open and the air is still, I hear the horn and the distant rumble.
And there's this place in my city where the commuter trains run on raised bridges. I remember standing under a bridge once, hearing and feeling a train pass overhead, and almost fancied I heard magic being conjured in the subsonic rumble and vibration. There's something magical in rail, you can't persuade me otherwise.

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Random fact ... I once studied at a research institute with 3 Nobel laureates on staff. And though it's not about me, my mother once took undergraduate units with a fellow student who eventually went on to become a Nobel Literature laureate.

 

@aihre Sounds like the seed of an urban fantasy novel to me. I agree, there is something special to it.

Hm... this is barely about me, but as a teenager I discovered new neighbours shared our same (fairly unusual) surname, and the father's name was only one letter off from my dad's, and the teenage daughter's name began with the same letter as mine. We could find no actual family connection with these people.

 

I am officially a (self) published author!

 

2024 is the year I turned 60 and we moved to Canada for my job.

 

Same here! But was diagnosed at 43. Dolls are one of my longest special interest too.

A random fact about me is that most of the characters that my dolls incarnate are original characters i have created and played for a long time in the Sims 4 (Sims are my second longest special interest)

 

I recently started playing The Sims 2 again I love that game sooo much and it’s probably my favorite in the series! I keep trying not to download too much custom content though as when I was a teen I would always download all the goth/emo outfits I could find and it would sometimes crash my game

I think that game and stardoll was what fully started my interest in BJDs… I loved any sort of dressup game back then

 

I really enjoy falling asleep to Gojira's music. It's like my insomnia just slips away when I put it on at night. Could be a personal quirk, but I think more people should try it, genuinely

 

My guilty pleasure is Twilight. I want to go to the film locations and go to con. I also write fanfics and read it.

 

Are you a rattie?

 

First time hearing that! But it was an interesting quick dive.

 

I am a complete and utter idiot who falls again and again to the same tricks and scams and afterwards I say , I won't be made a fool again only to be made a fool just minutes later.

 

I can tie a cherry stem into a knot sans hands. I also have Visual Snow Syndrome which makes everything look super pixelated in real life for me, especially when it’s dark.

 

Learning how to do BJD faceups actually helped me to get better at doing my own makeup!

 

I have hypermobility, otherwise known as being double jointed- something quite funny to me considering the hobby

 

I am very into what goes onto my feet and I have a nice little collection of Converse high tops and Dr Marten's boots. I'm pretty much done buying more I think but I do like thrifting them and coordinating my outfits with them.

 

I am an adult who is a St. Jude patient since I have had cancer since I was six years old.

 

Speaking of Columbo, tonight's episode, "Death Lends a Hand" was one of my favorites. The best is still "By Dawn's Early Light" but this one shows so much character from Columbo.

 

Having an open/high-minded Mother that not only Raised me with Boys AND Girls toys,
but had notions on encouraging me to become a Scientist or Astronaut,
my mom stocked me in NASA/Space-themed Toys, and had my Dad build NASA and Sci-Fi Models
to decorate my Room with.

That Said; i had this old Cabbage Patch Kids Astronaut Girl in those early-Childhood mid/late-1980's days...
and She has returned to me for X-Mas 2024... in the reworked form
of an Adorable Precious Moments Girl that i have renamed "Colette"

 

I am obsessed with Miraculous Ladybug. My kids got the play line dolls, and I think they indirectly led me to bjds. I loved the poseability and range of motion they have, and well....next thing I knew, I was here lol.

 

I have narcolepsy! It's not at all like media shows it as, so I do my best to educate people on it when I can. I've fallen asleep while blasting metal music to keep me awake before, lol.

 

I prefer odd numbers to even numbers. Just, in general.

 

I went to Montessori school from pre-K through 9th grade! (minus 7th grade, but we don't talk about that)

 

When I was 13 my school closed down unexpectedly

 

I may have an unhealthy obsession with The Sandman comics and Netflix show, specifically the titular character Dream and his antagonistic nightmare creation the Corinthian.

9387459876 stories amassed through word docs, Character.AI, Sims games, ChatGPT, art commissions, etc. including their genderbended versions.

Surprise, surprise! They are the reason I got into BJDs.

 

Please delete

 

Apart from dolls, I am also collecting tarantulas :P

 

I'm a creative person ( I paint and is educated in sewing and design) . I love the variation and the chance to customize your doll in the BJD hobby. I can live out a lot of styles on my dolls that I don't dare try my self .

 

I adopted a ferret about about a fortnight ago. Not a pet I thought I’d ever have but here we are…

 

Horticulture is my passion.

 

I’m a big fan of Doki Doki Literature Club

 

@Tsuna , that's so cool! Do you have a favourite, either in your collection or that you'd like to keep?
@PBitzel nice, I also like it and am currently in uni studying agriculture

Random fact about me is that I'm the oldest of five siblings and the only guy- I have four younger sisters!

 

I desperately need a Minoan dress as it looks in statues in Eid size

 

My most pretentious pet peeve is Early Modern English being used incorrectly. Get your thees and thous in order!

 

Thank you for asking Yes, I have around 30 tarantulas My favourite one is Poecilotheria Metallica. It is so beautiful!

 

Oh wow, they're beautiful! I've liked tarantulas ever since I got to hold one as a child, but my terrarium experience ends with isopods/millipedes lol
How difficult/particular do you find caring for them?

 

I wear Victorian-style clothing on a daily basis, mostly homemade from extant 19th-century patterns.

 

I got my picture with Stan Lee now a decade ago, I have played steel drums (bass) and flute.

 

My Grandmother taught me how to knit when I was 8 and I have been knitting ever since- 63 years.

 

If there's no ice to fill the glass with, I water down my coke. Too fizzy.

 

I love listening to vaporwave. Yes... the genre version of elevator music/Muzak... my very low-brow guilty pleasure. (Though I'd argue vaporwave is more than just elevator music ) Here's a radio stream.

 

I am a very, very big fan of Beetlejuice!

My favorite version of him is the cartoon character. I grew up with him way back in the 90s. To be honest, I don’t know if I saw him as a role model or if I had a crush on him. It was probably a little of both.

I find it amusing that both official (Monster High, Kotobukiya) and fan made (Enchanterium) dolls/figures of him usually portray him as female. I really think it speaks to Beetlejuice’s unique ability to appeal to people of any gender. Beetlejuice can be all things to all people.

Hey, since I typed his name three times, do you think a bjd version of him will manifest in my craft room? (Just kidding… ~_^)

 

I love Thunderbolt Fantasy. It's a collaboration between Japanese writer Gen Urobuchi and the Taiwanese crew of the wuxia puppet show Pili. Hands down the most entertaining show I've ever watched. I never thought that puppets would be so compelling.

 

I’ve been playing MTG on and off since the 90s. This game is also what got me into doing art! My favourite colour to play is black (and red) and I collect demon and bat cards which are almost all in decks lol.

I also share a birthday with this game, same day different year. There’s a doll I’ll be receiving on our bday this year and I’m naming her after my favourite commander, Kaalia.

Some years ago I was the first person to post a bat commander deck on the internet. This extremely niche deck went semi-viral and WOTC started printing a lot more (and better) bat cards about a year after. I don’t know if my deck influenced this decision of theirs, but I like to think it did.

 

Although I’ve never seen either of the Avatar movies, I think that the designs of the Na’vi characters in general are quite beautiful.

Owning a Na’vi BJD is pretty high up on my wishlist. I’ve seen photos of some floating around on the internet so I know that they do exist, but I don’t know where or how to obtain one. I haven’t done any research on it though. I just see pictures of them occasionally and I always think, “Dang, I really want one of those”.

 

I live for My Chemical Romance! Everybody who knows me knows my biggest love is that band!