stingrays

Nick

he/they

I'm a 23 year old college student majoring in Spanish and minoring in theater. I've been working part-time at a craft store since late 2019! As of August 2023, I've also started doing bookkeeping there. I've been learning Spanish for 7 or 8 years now, and I've also taken some Japanese classes. I hope to try learning some Russian, too. (I can read the Cyrillic alphabet, but I don't know much vocabulary or grammar.)

Some of my favorite things...

• the color blue
• the ocean
• fish
• Cold War history
• espionage (especially the Cambridge Five, Kim Philby, and Adolf Tolkachev)
• foreign language & linguistics
• arts & crafts
• theater
• puzzles
• reading (especially audiobooks)
• writing
• making original characters
• video games
• horror
• vampires
• animals (especially dogs, hippos, seals, bats, fish, and other marine animals)
• Sanrio & San-X characters (my favs are Cinnamoroll, Pompompurin, Pochacco, Hangyodon, and Jinbei-san)
• stickers & other stationery

Favorite Artists:

The Strokes (!!!), Filthy Boy, Autoheart, Glass Animals, System of a Down, Damian Lewis, Parrotfish, Marina, Angelo Badalamenti

Favorite Genres:

rock, bossa nova, jazz

Non-Fiction:

• "A Spy Among Friends" by Ben Macintyre
• "Maus" by Art Spiegelman
• "Prisoners of the Castle" by Ben Macintyre
• "The Billion Dollar Spy" by David E. Hoffman

Fiction:

• "Declare" by Tim Powers
• "Interview with the Vampire" by Anne Rice
• "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
• "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle
• "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" by John le Carré

Manga:

• Anything by Junji Ito

My top faves...

• American Psycho
• Berserk trilogy
• Casablanca
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Groundhog Day
• Hot Fuzz
• Interview with the Vampire
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Scream
• Song of the Sea
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Naked Gun
• The Princess Bride
• The Thing (1982)
• What We Do in the Shadows
• X-Men: First Class

My top faves...

• A Spy Among Friends
• Being Human (UK)
• Cold Case Files
• Columbo
• Criminal Minds
• Dexter
• Forensic Files
• Hannibal
• Impractical Jokers
• Interview with the Vampire
• Invincible
• Succession
• The Boys
• The Legend of Vox Machina
• Twin Peaks

I enjoy...

• card-making
• collages
• crochet
• drawing
• miniatures
• sewing
• stamping
• writing

Aesthetics I enjoy...

• angelcore
• babycore
• creepy, weird
• dark academia (!!)
• decora
• gothic
• Halloween
• kawaii (!!)
• kidcore (!!)
• lolita
• ocean-themed (!!)

Aesthetics that aren't for me...

• animal print
• beige mom
• boho
• modern farmhouse
• shabby chic

wip

A: animals, anime, aquariums, art, anatomy B: bats, books, bookmarks, blue C: cats, crochet, crossword puzzles, choir & choral music, culture, crafts, Cinnamoroll, Chernobyl, Cold War era & history, CIA history, coloring, cryptids, carnivorous plants, ciphers & codes D: dogs, drawing, dark academia E: espionage, ephemera F: fish, flowers, Furbies G: green, gardening, green tea H: history, Halloween, horror, hydrangeas, handmade items, Hangyodon, hippos I: instrumental music, i-Dogs J: jigsaw puzzles, Japanese, Jinbei-san K: kidcore L: language & literature M: manga, mail (sending and receiving), marine animals, musicals, music boxes, murder mysteries, mental health N: non-fiction, neurodiversity O: ocean P: postcards, piano, poetry, Pochacco, Pompompurin, purple, primary colors, periwinkle, psychology Q: quiet R: reading, riddles, Richard Siken, rainbow, records S: seals, sharks, sushi, sewing, stickers, stationery, Sanrio, San-X, Spanish, stars, spies T: theater, tarot, tulips, true crime, toys, tea U: V: vampires, video games W: word searches, washi tape, wind chimes X: x-rays Y: yarn Z: zoos

shell divider, yellow star