Hello RAoC friends, I appreciate you all so much <3 Please know I've posted this in case you're curious, and I appreciate the time and kindness that goes info everything I receive.

Just for reference, these are my likes & dislikes. Thank you for everything you've sent me and continue to send, they're sparks of joy in my life and I couldn't be more grateful. If you haven't already, please sign up for my 2024 mailing list so I can send you something!

A bit about me:

I have a tortie cat and a geriatric bearded dragon who I love to the moon and back. I have a background in fine arts and French, and am going into librarianship. My French is very rusty, mais j'adorerais si vous m'écrire en français ! I enjoy learning about others, even just about your average day:)

LIKES

Colors & Aesthetics

• dark jewel tones, black, neutrals

• creative and fun cohesive color palettes

• witchy/dark vibes

• scholastic aesthetics/academia

• cottagecore, swampcore

Stuff

• animals in general, especially in relation to wildlife conservation

• but also specifically cats, reptiles, and eels

• hiking, being outdoors

• gardening & plants

• language & linguistics

• books & reading

• art & history, art history

• paintings of Byzantine and medieval cats that look like the artist has never seen a four-legged mammal in their life (also please go look up "van gogh babies" and be horrified)

• travelling & learning about new places

Prompts

• bad & dad jokes

-book recommendations, anti-recommendations, book lists (PM me for my Goodreads!)

• how’s your day going?

• what’s you ideal vacation?

• pls tell me all about your pets!

Holidays

• Halloween

• Solstices

• Christmas (non-religious)

• New Year’s

• I’m curious about what others celebrate!

DISLIKES

• requests for items (unused washi, stickers, etc.) (very infrequent, but still worth stating)

• glitter (bad for the environment, marine life in particular!)

• references to or discussions of religion

• spiders (I'm trying my best, I promise! I can handle outdoor spiders, small indoor spiders, and all jumping spiders, just not images of spiders:( pls don't make me cry!)