stingrays

Nick

he/they

I'm a 23 year old college student majoring in Spanish and minoring in theater. I've been working part-time at a craft store since late 2019! As of August 2023, I've also started doing bookkeeping there. As of this spring semester, I'm also involved in a paid internship at my university with the World Languages department! I've been learning Spanish for 7 or 8 years now, and I've also taken some Japanese classes. I hope to try learning some Russian, too. (I can read the Cyrillic alphabet, but I don't know much vocabulary or grammar.) Swaps written in Spanish are always welcome.

I'm open to private swaps, so if you'd ever like to do one, just DM me!

January 2025: As of now, the Spring Semester of school has started, and while I anticipate all swaps going out on time, please understand if there are delays!

Some of my favorite things...

• the color blue
• the ocean
• fish
• Cold War history
• espionage (especially the Cambridge Five, Kim Philby, and Adolf Tolkachev)
• foreign language & linguistics
• arts & crafts
• theater
• puzzles
• reading (especially audiobooks)
• writing
• making original characters
• video games
• horror
• vampires
• animals (especially dogs, hippos, seals, bats, fish, and other marine animals)
• Sanrio & San-X characters (my favs are Cinnamoroll, Pompompurin, Pochacco, Hangyodon, and Jinbei-san)
• stickers & other stationery

Favorite Artists:

The Strokes (!!!), Filthy Boy, Glass Animals, Autoheart, System of a Down, Damian Lewis, Parrotfish, Marina, Angelo Badalamenti

Favorite Genres:

rock, bossa nova, jazz, indie

Non-Fiction:

• "A Spy Among Friends" by Ben Macintyre
• "Maus" by Art Spiegelman
• "Prisoners of the Castle" by Ben Macintyre
• "The Billion Dollar Spy" by David E. Hoffman

Fiction:

• "Declare" by Tim Powers
• "Interview with the Vampire" by Anne Rice
• "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
• "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle
• "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" by John le Carré

Manga:

• Anything by Junji Ito
• Death Note

My top faves...

• American Psycho
• Berserk trilogy
• Casablanca
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Groundhog Day
• Hot Fuzz
• Interview with the Vampire
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Scream
• Song of the Sea
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Naked Gun
• The Princess Bride
• The Thing (1982)
• What We Do in the Shadows
• X-Men: First Class

My top faves...

• A Spy Among Friends
• Being Human (UK)
• Cold Case Files
• Columbo
• Criminal Minds
• Dexter
• Forensic Files
• Hannibal
• Impractical Jokers
• Interview with the Vampire
• Invincible
• Succession
• The Boys
• The Legend of Vox Machina
• Twin Peaks

My favorite anime...

• Death Note
• Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica

I enjoy...

• ATCs
• card-making
• collages
• crochet
• drawing
• miniatures
• papercrafting
• sewing
• stamping
• writing

Video games I enjoy...

• Abzu
• Ace Attorney
• AI: The Somnium Files
• Animal Crossing (City Folk through New Horizons)
• Danganronpa
• Disco Elysium
• Fortnite
• L.A. Noire
• Minecraft
• Muse Dash
• Stardew Valley
• Undertale
• Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
• Yuppie Psycho

Physical games I enjoy...

• Betrayal at House on the Hill
• Bohnanza
• Catan
• Coup
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Ecologies

Aesthetics I enjoy...

• angelcore
• babycore
• creepy, weird
• dark academia (!!)
• decora
• gothic
• Halloween
• kawaii (!!)
• kidcore (!!)
• lolita
• ocean-themed (!!)
• vintage

(Don't know what one of these is? Click on the respective links to learn more!)

Colors I love...

• blue (all shades)
• baby blue (!!)
• blue & white (!!)
• blue & pink
• black
• black & red
• brown
• burgundy
• cream
• green
• primary colors (red, blue, yellow)
• purple
• rainbow

(i love pretty much all colors, so you can't really go wrong!)

• bright colors
• dark colors
• pastels

Aesthetics that aren't for me...

• animal print
• beige mom
• boho
• minimalism
• modern farmhouse

continually updated!

A: animals, anime, aquariums, art, anatomy, architecture, angels, axolotls, abalone shells, ATCs

B: bats, books, bookmarks, blue, black tea, blood, bones

C: cats, crochet, crossword puzzles, choir & choral music, culture, crafts, Cinnamoroll, Chernobyl, Cold War era & history, CIA history, coloring, cryptids, carnivorous plants, ciphers & codes, crabs, creepy things, clouds, clovers, Cyrillic alphabet, cacti, Chococat

D: dogs, drawing, dark academia, (cute) devils, die-cuts

E: espionage, ephemera, Eric Carle

F: fish, flowers, Furbies, fruit, food, fashion, figurines (anime, video games, etc)

G: green, gardening, green tea, ghosts, golden retrievers

H: history, Halloween, horror, hydrangeas, handmade items, Hangyodon, hippos, herbal tea

I: instrumental music, i-Dogs, interior design, ice cream

J: jigsaw puzzles, Japanese, Jinbei-san, junk journals, June

K: kidcore, kawaii, kandi

L: language & literature, lobsters, Lisa Frank, lucky cats (manekineko), lace, lily of the valley, learning, lapis lazuli, Little Twin Stars

M: manga, mail (sending and receiving), marine animals, musicals, music boxes, murder mysteries, mental health, malachite, Mary Oliver, memo sheets, Mamegoma, Marumofubiyori

N: non-fiction, neurodiversity

O: ocean, Otamatones, oranges (fruit)

P: postcards, piano, poetry, Pochacco, Pompompurin, purple, primary colors, periwinkle, psychology, philosophy, paranormal phenomena, perfume, Porygon, pearls, plushies

Q: quiet, Quagsire

R: reading, riddles, Richard Siken, rainbow, records, rhythm games, ribbon, raspberries, Russian

S: seals, sharks, sushi, sewing, stickers, stationery, Sanrio, San-X, Spanish, stars, spies, supernatural phenomena, slime, Skelanimals, stingrays, Soviet memorabilia, sunfish

T: theater, tarot, tulips, true crime, toys, tea, turquoise, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, trivia, Tokage-san (Sumikko Gurashi), Tuxedosam

U: uniforms, USSR history, Usahana

V: vampires, video games, Vocaloid, vintage

W: word searches, washi tape, wind chimes, white, water

X: x-rays

Y: yarn

Z: zines, zoos

123s: 1946-1991 era

shell divider, yellow star