aeromantic

Hey, what's up. I'm Mishell and this is my crib.
More info below.

About me

Mish | They/them, mainly'Sup. I don't really exist on the internet, but if you've found this, I owe it to you to tell you a little more.Call me Mish, or Aero if you really want to; I'll respond to both. I waver somewhere between 'sort of human' to 'outright creature' most of the time and am about as easy to socially corner as a scared, wet rat. I don't say goodbye before leaving a room, I just walk out.If you really want to keep my attention, bribe me with talking about things I'm interested in. Or, better, ask about things I'm interested in. As long as you pretend to listen, I'll talk.I'm probably autistic and definitely gay, so I like colors a lot. I'm a synesthete - I associate colors with concepts, alphanumeric characters, and things like days of the week or months of the year. Another way to keep me entertained is to ask me what color I associate with a name, or a phrase, or a string of numbers. I get very excited about it every time.

my interests

I like a lot of things. Like, a lot. If you really want an exhaustive list of what I like, you can click here. On this page, there'll just be an overview of my taste.I enjoy reading and writing. Something about language is fascinating to me, and I've been writing since I was 11. I think in prose, and I've found it's the fastest and easiest way to convey myself (which doesn't mean it's easy on an absolute scale, but still).Music is cool too. I've always enjoyed singing, and deeply enjoy being a member of a choir when I'm able. I listen to a wide variety of music, with absolutely no guarantee that any of it's good. Mainly electronic (any genre with 'synth' or 'house' in the name suffices) and some other miscellaneous indie stuff. My Obscurify score is 94%. I can and will brag about this.Aside from that, I do enjoy crafts. I'm very passionate about fiber arts like crochet and knitting, and am also fond of origami. After spending most of my time on computers, I've found there to be something addictive about physically making something and feeling its weight in your hands.

I warned you.These are sorted into broad catergories for easier viewing. In addition, there are a few items that are bolded to denote that they are special interests (i.e. I like that thing a whole lot); likewise, italicized items are former special interests (i.e. I used to like that thing a whole lot but I don't as much anymore).
I'm critical of my interests where applicable.

Literature - I can go twice as high, goddammit:
❧ Lord of the Rings (Jolkien Rolkien Rolkien Tolkien)
❧ Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
❧ For The Win (Cory Doctorow)
❧ What If?, How To, etc. (Randall Munroe)
❧ The Schwa Was Here (Neil Shusterman)
❧ Holes (Louis Sachar)
❧ Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jules Verne)
❧ Lots of other books, these are just my favoritesMusic - Kind of all over the place:
❧ Electronic: Madeon, Porter Robinson, Uppermost, Deadmau5, Lemaitre, Home, C418, Jake Chudnow, etc.
❧ Indie: Matt & Kim, Walk the Moon, MGMT, Lovejoy, Matt Maeson, IDKHOW, etc.
❧ Miscellaneous: Red Vox, Twenty One Pilots, Lemon Demon/Neil Cicierega, SiIvaGunner
❧ Video game OSTs: Minecraft, Terraria, Rimworld, Hylics 2, Undertale/Deltarune, Animal Crossing, etc.Video games - I think it's funny how I have a lot of opinions about video games even though I personally play almost none:
❧ Minecraft
❧ Undertale & Deltarune
❧ Pokémon (especially generation 4)
❧ Hypnospace Outlaw
❧ Vampire Survivors
❧ Half-Life & Portal series (especially the first installments)
❧ Animal Crossing
❧ Super Mario (especially the open-world games)
❧ The Stanley Parable
❧ Rimworld
❧ Cookie Clicker (this counts as a video game, right?)Webcomics - Thank God I grew up with the internet, otherwise I would have had stacks upon stacks of comic books:
❧ xkcd
❧ The Property of Hate
❧ A Beginner's Guide to the End of the Universe
❧ Space Boy
❧ 17776/20020 (I'm unsure if these count as webcomics, exactly, but they are so amazing and I wanted to put them somewhere)YouTube - This also includes Twitch for those applicable:
❧ Vinesauce (Vinny mostly, Joel sometimes)
❧ Jerma985
❧ Scott the Woz
❧ Summoning Salt
❧ EthosLab
❧ Valefisk
❧ Vsauce/D!NG
❧ Ordinary Sausage
❧ Tom Scott
❧ Many, many, many othersAreas of study - I'm a nerd, okay:
❧ Vexillology
❧ Astronomy
❧ Astrophysics
❧ Mathematics
❧ Computer science
❧ World history
❧ Linguistics
❧ SociologyHobbies - I do things?:
❧ Crochet/knitting
❧ Singing
❧ Creative writing
❧ Reading
❧ Graphic design/vector editing
❧ Origami
❧ Making spreadsheets/being pedanticOther interests - Things that don't fit into any of the above:
❧ Extreme weather
❧ Emergency alert systems
❧ Internet history
❧ Speedrunning
❧ Puzzles
❧ TVTropesFavorite...
❧ Color: Green, obviously. Specifically #128128
❧ Numbers: 128, 4, 28
❧ Planet: Mercury
❧ Season: Spring
❧ Animal: Crows
❧ Classical Element: Earth
❧ Chemical Element: Mercury again
❧ Letters: W & G
❧ Prefix: Omni-
❧ Word: Semihemidemisemiquaver

Cool things

These are things that I have found to be pretty neat over the fifteen or so years that I have been on the internet.

❧ The Archive - Literal hundreds of Wikipedia articles about fascinating, unbelievable, and morbid things❧ Omniglot - An exhaustive encyclopedia of writing systems and languages - including constructed and fictional ones❧ Orteil - Creator of not only Cookie Clicker but various other browser games and tools that are just as interesting❧ A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia - Word facts!❧ Wikipedia: Deleted Articles with Freaky Titles - Exactly what it says on the tin, and hilarious if you have my sense of humor❧ The Phrontistery - Obscure words and various other word lists❧ World Community Grid - Donate unused computer power to humanitarian causes with no effort and no money needed❧ Windows 93 - A web-based operating system with a surprising amount of depth❧ The Cutting Room Floor - An encyclopedia of cut and unused video game content❧ The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - Giving names to emotions without any; best read at 3 AM while thinking about life❧ WindowSwap - Look out of people's windows from hundreds of miles away❧ Powder Game 2 - A fascinating simple-physics game using "powders" with various properties❧ Photopea - It's literally just straight up Adobe Photoshop in your browser❧ Pointer Pointer - I love this stupid goddamned website so much❧ Cameron's World - An homage to late 90s - early 2000s internet. Why am I crying?❧ Cursed Computer Iceberg - Extremely perplexing computer science glitches and idiosyncrasies❧ JigsawPuzzles.io - Online multiplayer jigsaw puzzles