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1. What is the first happy memory you can think of?
Actually, that'd be my first memory. It dates back to before my brain could entirely process visual images the way it does now. I know because bits of the image are blank or unformed, and angles and shape-recognition don't work right. Right angles in particular and out-of-focus areas are just a white empty blur. I can't actually recognize my father's face, but I can tell it's him (I have prosopagnosia so that's normal for me).
I was less than one year old. I was in a house I now know to be the house I lived in in Anchorage, Alaska for the first couple years of my life. My parents are talking to me, but only my father is visible. I can't remember what they were saying; the audio is gibberish, but it's happy-sounding gibberish, and I seem to feel happy in response to it. I'm looking at my dad, and from the muscle memory cues, I'm pretty sure I was smiling.
2. What is the last book you read that moved you emotionally?
Sherman Alexie's "War Dances" made me laugh, in a way that is only possible when you're dealing with something that is not funny yet laughter is the only coherent response to it (the subject matter, I mean -- the writing itself is frequently genuinely funny). "Recovering Our Ancestor's Gardens", by Devon Mihesuah, made me feel a bit hopeful and nostalgic, and also very upset at the state of many Indigenous folks. Karl Schroeder's "Permanence" induced a gentle, sublime feeling of acceptance.
3. If you could choose to see in either infrared or ultraviolet (in addition to the common visible spectrum), which would you pick and why?
I actually used to see in the near ultraviolet. I don't know how, but one day I realized that a lot of flowers had blue shiny parts that nobody else was seeing. Like golden poppies, which aren't blue at all in the visible spectrum. I miss it. But I think I'd take infrared this time around.
4. What's a cool dream you have had or heard about recently?
I had a dream not too long ago in which the word "apophenia" was painted in red letters all over something. I didn't know what it meant until I looked it up, and spent the rest of the day laughing.
5. i can't think of a good 5.
I will assume you asked me if I have a Mothra tattoo. And I do.
Actually, that'd be my first memory. It dates back to before my brain could entirely process visual images the way it does now. I know because bits of the image are blank or unformed, and angles and shape-recognition don't work right. Right angles in particular and out-of-focus areas are just a white empty blur. I can't actually recognize my father's face, but I can tell it's him (I have prosopagnosia so that's normal for me).
I was less than one year old. I was in a house I now know to be the house I lived in in Anchorage, Alaska for the first couple years of my life. My parents are talking to me, but only my father is visible. I can't remember what they were saying; the audio is gibberish, but it's happy-sounding gibberish, and I seem to feel happy in response to it. I'm looking at my dad, and from the muscle memory cues, I'm pretty sure I was smiling.
2. What is the last book you read that moved you emotionally?
Sherman Alexie's "War Dances" made me laugh, in a way that is only possible when you're dealing with something that is not funny yet laughter is the only coherent response to it (the subject matter, I mean -- the writing itself is frequently genuinely funny). "Recovering Our Ancestor's Gardens", by Devon Mihesuah, made me feel a bit hopeful and nostalgic, and also very upset at the state of many Indigenous folks. Karl Schroeder's "Permanence" induced a gentle, sublime feeling of acceptance.
3. If you could choose to see in either infrared or ultraviolet (in addition to the common visible spectrum), which would you pick and why?
I actually used to see in the near ultraviolet. I don't know how, but one day I realized that a lot of flowers had blue shiny parts that nobody else was seeing. Like golden poppies, which aren't blue at all in the visible spectrum. I miss it. But I think I'd take infrared this time around.
4. What's a cool dream you have had or heard about recently?
I had a dream not too long ago in which the word "apophenia" was painted in red letters all over something. I didn't know what it meant until I looked it up, and spent the rest of the day laughing.
5. i can't think of a good 5.
I will assume you asked me if I have a Mothra tattoo. And I do.
