user question and answer?? / get to know me kinda thing i guess

[Asyli]

[align=center][div style="borderwidth; width: 450px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12px; font-size: 8pt"]i have honestly wanted to do something like this for a very long time and i'm really excited that i both have built up the nerve to do so and actually have the time. basically, ever since i fell out of actively roleplaying and keeping up with chat threads or discord groups i haven't really been able to reach out to others? i've lost a lot of contact with old friends and honestly don't know anything about a lot of the members on bearbones aside from a select few and i was hoping that this thread would encourage me to be open with others and thus allowing others to, i don't know, feel more comfortable around me? it's kind of like one of those things you do when you want people to come in and just talk and joke around and then sort of just... become closer? i don't know if i'm explaining this well so i'm just going to get right into what this whole thread is going to work, yes, okay.

— this is a q&a, which means that you are allowed to ask me any kind of question (weird, awkward, funny, serious, etc.) and i will answer it; i have decided that i will not refuse questions (however, questions that violate bearbones rules or general privacy rules will be ignored but y'all are probably good with that) and will force myself to answer any and all questions asked.
— along with that, each day i will give one fun fact about myself; it probably won't be fun more than it will be embarrassing because why not share all my humiliating secrets? you can ask questions about the fun fact or just ask any question in general.

[Asyli]

[align=center][div style="borderwidth; width: 450px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12px; font-size: 8pt"]fun fact #1: i have leporiphobia, which is the phobia of rabbits. when i was a little kid my family went to this pumpkin patch a town over and while we were looking through the patch a rabbit jumped out from behind some of these pumpkin i was looking at and crashed right into me. my little (i think i was eight?) kid self was sort of pushed to the ground by this rabbit before it ran off and it was probably one of the scariest things in my life and i could never really figure out why? i despise rabbits with my whole heart and i even sort of panic when people show me pictures of them? i just... god, i hate them with such a passion, like, not in a mean way but in the way where you try to stay away from them because you know if they get too close you'll start sobbing. fun story, i once had to have a close friend of mine come out of his house to scare the rabbit in his yard away so that i could get out of my car — i mean, it wasn't a fun story for me but... now you know that.

[crows]

Ooo god that sounds like a really inconvenient phobia esp around now :///

Compared to rabbits (which I’m gonna guess are your least favorite), what’s your favorite animal?

[buzzbee]

oh man, that sounds bad :0!!

how about any other animals that have similar appearances to rabbits, like ferrets or guinea pigs?

[grimdark]

just here to provide that moral supportâ„¢

[Asyli]

[align=center][div style="borderwidth; width: 450px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 12px; font-size: 8pt"]⸺ Okay, okay, okay the ultimate question and one i always struggle to answer because i basically love almost all animals. personally i think my favorite animal (at the moment) is the cotton-top tamarin because they're the smallest of the primates and absolutely adorable and it makes me so, so sad that they're nearing extinction because they're running out of forest. like, just look at those little assholes? they're adorable and i would die for them in a heartbeat if i could. also, it took me awhile to decide between the tamarin and the meerkat so i'm going to say that the meerkat is my second favorite animal, followed closely by the extinct tasmanian tiger in third place.

⸺ i think i'm pretty good with animals that look like them? well, i don't panic as much but i know that guinea pigs make me really uncomfortable and while i won't... freak out as much as i do with actual rabbits i don't like to hold them or touch them; looking is fine but i cross the line with them at touch. ferrets don't really look like rabbits to me so i'm usually pretty chill with them, in fact, one of my close friends own a ferret named bug and he's this small little jackass and i would die for him? he's a sweetheart, sort of. i have an issue with hamsters to a degree, i've owned a lot of them and loved them but it's always been very, very difficult for me to touch them and i think that they do affect me? rabbits i can't look at, i can't be around, i don't like to talk about them but when it comes to look-alikes i'm usually okay as long as i don't have to touch them?

fun fact #2: i have synesthesia, it relates mostly to taste for me meaning that a lot of the things i see taste a certain way — it's mostly like words or colors (sometimes smells); a lot of words when i'm reading or listening taste a certain way and a select few colors have a certain taste. i always have this nasty fucking aftertaste in my mouth, even when i haven't eaten anything because when i talk a lot or hear other people talk to me the tastes sort of blend together and blegh. yeah just, it's mostly a taste thing with me? i don't really know how to explain it outside of that, whoops.