1. Silly little sleepover type question but do you have a crush at the moment?
Yes - my boyfriend is still my crush, even after 10 years of being together! (:
2. hi maple! how long have you been playing neopets!? i love ur site <3
Hi there!! Thank you! My first account (that I no longer have access to) was made in 2006. I must have played for 2-3 years and then lost access (and a bit of interest, at that point). My new account was made in 2022, and I made it to have a fun little distraction every other day - who knew I would get so attached to those silly pixels?
3. Take the chance to tell us anything you want. From your friend, Vashti
Hi Vashti ♡ thank you for that! Hmm this is hard to think of a random thing to tell... how about my childhood teddy bear? I got him when I turned one. My uncle brought it from the US (he's an airplane pilot). It was my favourite thing in the whole world - I still have him, and besides the music thing on his back that doesn't work anymore, he's basically still perfect! I love him dearly. I named him Botcho - as my mom tells the story, I was once with him and someone asked what was his name, and I blurted Botcho very quickly, as if I had named him in secret ever since the day I got him and just never told anyone. Botcho means nothing, it's probably just a combination of syllables that I could sound it out as a one year old, but it stuck! I never even brought him to Belgium with me, because the idea of losing him with my baggage or something terrifies me. So he is safe and sound at home, in my bed.
4. Any habits or rituals from your daily life?
To be honest, everyday is different for me. I work as a freelance graphic designer, so I make my own hours and I have no office to go to. Lately I haven't had much work at all, so I have more free time for myself. In the mornings I shower, tidy the apartment a bit, maybe clean something. Some mornings I go out for a walk and a coffee. I have lunch by myself, so I like to take my time to cook something nice and full of vegetables. I usually watch something on Youtube or Netflix while I eat. The afternoons are a bit more random: somedays I have to go grocery shopping (at least 3x a week), so I do that (and maybe stop at some other shops on the way), I cook my boyfriend's lunch for the next day, study for a bit, read (at home or at a coffeeshop), or maybe that day I go to the library and read there, pick up a new book. I like tidying up the apartment, vacuuming and then making myself a matcha latte to relax after. Around 7pm my boyfriend comes back from work, so we eat dinner together while watching something (rewatching Twin Peaks with him atm!) and we take our vitamins. Around 10:30pm I'm already sleepy.
I want to get back into working out at home again. Even though most days I walk 10k steps, I still would like to exercise a bit more! Sorry this was long and I'm not sure if it's what you wanted for an answer.
5. You said you like Japanese city-pop, so what are your recs?
Tatsuro Yamashita is one of my favourite artists. His stuff is not on Spotify, so I recommend listening to his stuff on Youtube or downloading it and putting on your phone (thanks, iTunes!)
If you want a playlist though, here's
mine.
6. Hi Tabi! I want to know what is your blogs/ sites/ neocities inspirations for your own site? Either for the content or the visuals.
For visuals, I was a bit inspired by
meixins for the nostalgic thing of clicking around in images instead of just a list of links... but what inspired me the most with this layout was my love of digital collages! I'm a
landing addict (even though I don't publish my boards on there anymore... I save them and use for blog posts or other personal things!), and also enjoy making little collages to post on social media, those all made on Photoshop (you can see them also on my
photo diary).
For the content, not really inspired by any other site or blog. I had personal blogs while growing up and always enjoyed sharing things I'm passionate about and some bits of my real life, so I feel like I keep doing that...
7. do you prefer to be called maple or tabi?
Here, on my blog and space surrounding it, I don't mind either! It would be very weird having someone in real life call me Maple, though! Specially because they don't know about this blog (not that I hide it, I just don't offer the information, you know? Unless they follow me on twitter, cause I shared the link there). My friends and family usually call me Tabs or Tabi so I'm used to those.
8. What would you do if you could slow down time?
I'd rather not have that power, as I would slow my whole life down. Time would never get back to normal pace.
With that said, a more casual answer would be: read more.
It's 1:30am so I'll finish answering this weekend!!