OllieMolly

If friends visit your island and water your flowers for you, the flowers will be more likely to grow hybrid colors!

The study of insects is *entomology*. Etymology is the study of word origins.

#8 is very likely from a game called Five Crowns. It plays like a rummy variant but has an extra suit (stars), hence the name.

"Don't wanna live as an untold story/Rather go out in a blaze of glory/I can't hear you, I don't fear you... Don't wanna live as an unsung melody/I'd rather listen to the silence telling me/I can't hear you, I won't fear you." - Could Have Been Me by The Struts This, to me, is the… Read More

It's addictive. Seriously. Once you get over the anxiety and decision making of your first one, all you want is to find opportunities for more. The only thing that's held me back so far is money. There's so much beautiful art out there and I still have so much room for more ink!

My approach to tattoos has changed recently. Instead of going in with an idea of what I want, I've been treating my skin like an art gallery. I follow artists whose style I love, and wait for them to post a piece that they really want to do. If it speaks to me, I go for it. That's… Read More

Dante's Peak. The sulphuric acid lake scene, while entirely scientifically implausible, was gruesome enough to terrify me when I first saw it in middle school. That and the pyroclastic flow when they take shelter in the mine, and really just the whole tense feeling of impending doom.… Read More

Tara, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, hands down. There's no build up, no warning, just... Gunshot. The shock and agony on Willow's face. The disbelief. It all echoed the pain and rage and betrayal the audience was feeling at that moment as well.

My grandparents circa early 1970s, with my mom (with the short hair and missing tooth) and my aunt. Still the classiest, kindest people in the world.

Definitely Alanna from Tamora Pierce's Lioness quartet. It's beautiful and not incredibly common or overused, and evokes Alanna's fierceness for anyone who's familiar with the books. I also like Miles as a boy's name, from the same books.