faqs

recently i’ve been getting progressively pissier asks from people whose questions i haven’t answered because i’ve answered them previously, but obviously no one can be arsed to scroll through my archive to find stuff and also i’m shit at tagging (ok i never tag posts) so the search box is pretty much invalid. so here are some FAQs which i will probably add to over time.

how old are you?

- i turned 18 on november 10th 2011 and adulthood is treating me well

where are you from?

- i live in a nondescript town outside of manchester. i was born in a shitty little place called buxton (of the mineral water fame), and i work and go to college in stockport, a particularly disgusting part of the depressingly shite concrete jungle that is greater manchester, north-west england.

what do you do?

- i’m in my a2 year of college studying art, music and philosophy, an a btec in music performance. i work part-time at mcdonald’s and spend the rest of my free time chilling/partying/procrastinating.

how tall are you?

- 5’11”

what dress size are you?

- 8 on top, 10 on bottom (classic pear shape, hoorah) and cursed with a never-changing 24 inch waist meaning that i can never, ever find clothes that fit properly

do you have an eating disorder?

- clearing this one up; i absolutely do not. i’m vegan and not really hugely interested in food. i don’t do any exercise apart from walking. i don’t diet. i don’t count calories. i don’t have a special diet, i don’t have any diet tips i’d like to share, i don’t have a secret to being thin, nor am i even particularly thin at all; size 10 is perfectly healthy thanks very much. i detest ‘thinspo’ and find it very upsetting to receive anons that label me as thinspiration. i am not pro ana in any way. i don’t hate my body, and whilst i don’t want to encourage anyone to think they need to be the size that i or anyone else is, i also won’t refrain from posting photographs of myself because someone else thinks that, for example, my arms are “too thin”. i am comfortable with myself and it is not in any way my fault if others are not comfortable with a) me or b) themselves.

why did you shave your head?

- i thought it’d be a liberating experience and my god it was. it took me a rather long time to convince my mum it’d be a good idea (well over a year, in fact) but man was it worth the effort. i wasn’t at all scared, it felt amazing, and i can’t imagine wanting to grow it out at any point in the foreseeable future. it’s increased my confidence and it just feels right. i shave it myself about once a week on a number 2 and honestly i’ve never loved any hairstyle more.

are you a lesbian?

- nope. i might have a shaved head and like to dress androgynously sometimes, but whilst i can appreciate beautiful women, i’ve yet to meet a woman who i am attracted to. i’m firmly on the straight bus, and though obviously i can’t know what will happen in the future, i don’t think that’s going to change.