tara.

in the least pretentious way possible i really love inconvenience and classic literature :,) but at the same time i worship at the altar of air fryer and still read and write fanfiction at my big age, i'm a multi-dimensional human

music in general is one of my biggest hobbies right now, cultivating a collection, making playlists. death to spotify, mp3 player is my bff :)

such a big question- i recently rewatched brother bear and realised the level to which it ingrained itself into the core of my being as a child

i think the last tv show i watched was stath lets flats? tbh the majority of what i watch in my spare time tends to be video essays on youtube (big love to wild geese and 

been reading a lot more classics recently, love james baldwin to pieces, stoner was what spurred on the incentive, but i've really always got a few on at a time. my next few to read are an anonymous novel called diary of an oxygen thief and out of africa by karen blixen, but i'm thinking of moving onto some stuff by the gottmans and bell hooks after those... currently finishing my annotations of giovannis room and player piano by kurt vonnegut!

i try to have none. the way i see it is that every person, even those you find boring or evil, will bring valuable lessons and insights to your life if you search for them right. please don't take that to mean i'm apolitical by any means, it's just the way i like to approach people in general. we're all multi-faceted and even if what you're learning from someone is how you dont want to be, it's still valuable in my eyes. i'm always trying to challenge and strengthen my beliefs, and the more i do so the more i feel the black and white my brain likes to search for dissipates and i feel closer to myself and the people around me. 

the thing is i could even answer this heroes prompt ideologically speaking by quoting a figure like che guevara for example, but the way that's interpreted relies entirely on how you, the person reading this, sees him as a figure, which relies on what you've learned about him and from where, and then also what that means to you. (i use this example because it is particularly difficult with a figure like che who's legacy has been largely muddled and mixed up with acts of different figures, genuine acts of fiction, heavily biased and unsubstantiated reporting, and purposefully misleading and entirely contradictory use of source materials- which in itself is not commonly understood or researched, which shows how misleading the idea of having heroes can be even on a level which seems like it should be commonly understood) ((another example of this being when i started seeing this english fella who was lovely and considered himself to be buddhist adjacent, and who considered winston churchill to be one of his heroes. i knew him well enough to know that this was because he was english and simply knew next to nothing about winston churchill outside of an awareness of the fall of the nazis and the loving image he may have picked up from the proud british mentality, when i asked for clarification on why it confirmed those suspicions entirely. if i wasn't willing and able to see this side of things i might, as a staunchly anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist irish woman, have simply decided to stop speaking to him then and there due to the severe conflict of interest. really, it had nothing to do with it, he just thought 'hitler bad', and yknow what matey? i agree. i mean even look now at the way i've purposefully described myself with more specific, understandable ideological takes rather than calling myself a commie, for this exact reason- what that means to me might not mean the same to you.))

i operate on a 'the less you think you need to learn the less you know' kind of mentality. i genuinely feel as though i know absolutely fuck all, and that i will never know enough. that means to me that i'll always be growing and adapting, so who cares? 

i've not had so much time for games recently, they used to be my main hobby! dragon age origins is my all time favourite game, i was so excited for veilguard i was listening to weekly updates throughout its development and its been out for years now and i'm maybe a quarter of the way through, life is so full! i feel like i might get really into mortal kombat again sometime soon. we shall see!