Fullsteampowell

Pronouns: She / Her

Sexuality: Queer and complicated

Short version bio: I'm a middle-aged, somewhat damaged, artistic (also autistic) nerd who enjoys good science fiction, good music, good food, and friendly critters with fewer than eight legs. It should be noted at this point that I consider the appendages on cephalopods to be arms, not legs, and as such they are exempt from this rule.

Longer version: I think the most relevant bit of information for this website is that I am a collector. I differ from the standard collector in that rather than collect one specific thing, I collect collections. Postcards, matchbooks, foreign currency, buttons, fabric, toys, t-shirts... You name it, I probably have a few dozen of it carefully tucked away somewhere for future use or display. At this point you might think I'm a hoarder, and under different circumstances that might actually be the case. However, I take great care to cultivate only those things which are of genuine interest or use to me, and I like to pare down my hoard as often as possible by giving my extra things away or by participating in swaps like those listed on this website.

Shortest version: COME TRADE JUNK WITH ME!!!

AFI, The Offspring, Strung Out, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Rebel Spell, The Phenomenauts, The Stellar Corpses

VNV Nation, KMFDM, Left Spine Down, Rabbit Junk, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, 3Teeth, Neuroticfish, Covenant

Gogol Bordello, Jonathan Colton, Zoe Keating, Unwoman

Book-books: Anything by Lois McMaster Bujold and CJ Cherryh (ESPECIALLY The Vorkosigan Saga (Bujold) and the Foreigner series (Cherryh). Most things by Becky Chambers and Cherie Priest. Some Ursula LeGuin, some Kurt Vonnegut. Both of them turned weird when they got older.

Comics: Tank Girl, Serenity Rose, Nimona, XKCD, Dr McNinja, Persepolis... And Saga. You need to go read Saga right now. Seriously. Do it.

Doctor Who (ALL of them), TORCHWOOD, Red Dwarf, Firefly, Farscape, The X Files, Babylon 5, Star Trek (ALL of them), Andor, Warehouse 13, Futurama, Archer, Sherlock, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Hawkeye, Ms. Marvel, Adventure Time, Rick and Morty, Supernatural... Yeah, okay, I said it. I'm one of the SuperWhoLock people. Don't judge me.

Top 3: Jurassic Park, The Fifth Element, and Gattaca.

‘70s and ‘80s: Alien and Aliens, classic Star Wars, Tron

‘90s: Hackers, The Craft, Practical Magic, Twister, The Matrix

Later: Avengers, Pacific Rim

Recent-ish: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Free Guy, The Adam Project, The Shape of Water, Terminator: Dark Fate, The Fall Guy

Alan Forbes, Frank Kozik, Tara McPherson, Jhonen Vasquez, Shepard Fairey, Banksy, Megan Lara, Nikki McClure, Sarah Duyer, Amanda Lynn, Stitchmind.

Illustration, painting, collage, sculpture, jewelry, costuming, props, clothing design... pretty much everything except charcoal, watercolor, and oils.

Cats, cephalopods, butterflies and moths, cupcakes, robots, science fiction, science fact, shiny objects, intense colors (think neons and jewel tones), goth stuff, feminism, tattoos...

And pretty much anything punk.

Classic punk, hardcore punk, '90s punk, horror-punk and psychobilly, cyberpunk, steampunk, diesel punk, surfpunk, nerfpunk... all the punk.

Except maybe pop-punk. Not so fond of that one.

If you already have something ready to send which includes these, feel free to send it anyway. I’m not actually this picky. I just figure it’s best if folks know my preferences.

• Spiders
• Christmas things
• Christian or New-Age Spiritual things (other religions are fine, but I live in America and the proselytizing is pretty intense)
• Motivational quotes (the toxic positivity is also pretty intense)