KatonRyu

I'll always love this particular one:

I prefer ordinary ones. I do have an electric shaver I'm using right now out of necessity, and it works fine, but as soon as I can go back to regular razors I will. It's just more versatile and causes less irritation for me.

Stray. It's not the lengthiest game out there, nor is it particularly hard, but spending a few hours with a virtual cat is always fun.

Petrichor, probably. I also love cut grass.

I have actually written and self-published a fantasy novel, and I'm planning on starting the sequel this year.

Mostly, though, I just write fanfiction, some of which are easily novel-length. I just like writing adventures with lots of fluffy shipping moments but usually also world-ending stakes at some point. I also enjoy hurt/comfort oneshots with fluff afterward. As you can probably tell, fiction is my thing. I love reading non-fiction, but I don't think I'd like to write it.

I don't have any. I'm fine being employed by the small software company I work for today. I don't want to have a management or leadership function and I don't care about making way more money. My goal is essentially to live comfortably and do what I want, and I've already reached that goal.

For writing style, primarily J.K. Rowling and K.A. Applegate, considering Harry Potter and Animorphs are some of my favorite books. Also Paul van Loon, though people who aren't Dutch or Flemish likely won't know him. He writes children's books, and one of his main series (De Griezelbus) has a writer as the main antagonist, and writing and telling stories is a very central theme of the series. Some of the stories were also scary enough that they still make me shiver, which very few horror stories can do anymore. I also take a lot of inspiration from Tolkien's world-building and linguistics, though obviously I'm nowhere near his level in either of those things.

Beyond that, I take inspiration from just about everything I like in some way, so that would take too long to list.

Don't like it at all, actually, but I do it anyway since I enjoy being alive and healthy.

Jazz, to this day. I can't listen to it. It literally makes me physically ill.

EDIT: Typo

Star Trek (and I don't care to, as the setting doesn't interest me much)

Stranger Things (I still need to watch that some day)

The entire MCU (Can't be bothered with it, really.)

If I like a band a lot, I'll likely listen to a new album they put out in its entirety at least once. From then on, though, I tend to just replay the songs I like best.

I like the game, but I suck at it and can't really be bothered to improve. I watch analyses of famous games from time to time, though, when the almighty algorithm happens to recommend one.

Elden Ring and Stray. I might manage to beat Pokémon Scarlet/Violet before the end of the year, but as of now I haven't bought either of them yet, so maybe not. Stray's probably my GOTY, though.

Emo pop punk, probably. It's the genre I like listening to the most, even now.

Avatar (Last Airbender and Korra)
Gravity Falls
Star vs the Forces of Evil
The Owl House
Amphibia
Lots of old Cartoon Network shows (Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Cow and Chicken)
My Life as a Teenage Robot
Fairly Oddparents
W.I.T.C.H.
Loads of anime

My stepdad was a news anchor, did radio for a bit, and is now back on TV, and my mom used to present a music show in the late seventies. Neither of them would be known outside the Netherlands, though.

In any fandom, any kind of gatekeeping or 'no true Scotsman' discussions. You don't need to have read/watched every single thing that exists within a universe to be in a fandom. Stop taking it so seriously and let everyone have their fun. Heated discussions are fine, but only in spaces where that sort of thing is expected. Someone sharing a headcanon that contradicts the speech of General Sodoff in chapter fourteen of the seventh book of the expanded universe's Blowhard Rebellion (the second version, before the reprint), should not be met with derision and spite.

Playing loud music while riding a bike. Just put in earbuds, mate, no one wants to hear your shitty hiphop from a low-quality speaker.

Believing that being on a bicycle makes you lord and master of all traffic and no longer giving a single solitary fuck about their own and others' safety.

Having no spatial awareness in the supermarket and blocking off an entire aisle with their shopping cart.

Driving like an utter moron, like not using turn signals or overtaking on the right, or most annoying of all, pulling up in the left lane at a traffic signal just to overtake me, and then drive like a geriatric mole immediately afterwards. Fuck all the way off to Saturn, please.

And, to a lesser degree, people commenting on a fanfic with a question or remark that was addressed within the story itself several times. Learn to read.

I'm not American, so nothing. But for any Dutchies on here, my CITO score was 546, so that was pretty nice. It's also been twenty years since I took that, but hey.

I don't know, really. Looking at blood relatives, I certainly love my grandma and sister. My mom died twelve years ago, but I did love her, too. Aunts, uncles, cousins...I like them, but they're more acquaintances than anything else. My dad's not my biological dad, so he isn't technically speaking a relative, but I do love him. My stepdad as well.

Having said all this, though...in general, my friends are far more important to me than my family, so while I do love my family in a way, I love my friends more.

Fifty million euros or so, so I wouldn't have to work ever again and I could just spend my life doing exactly what I like.

I don't even know what Miracle Whip is, so Mayo for me.

Still my girlfriend. Living the best life already.

I'm not sure if nearly three months without a reply is thread necromancy, but I'm going to do it anyway. Yes, and IMO it was never not bland. I've played it a bit, but I didn't think it was very good. Even the memes lost their funniness pretty quickly, and I hate the word 'sus' with a bloody vengeance.

Not a chance. I can't even stand roller coasters, let alone a rocket blasting off. And the weightlessness would have me floating around in my own puke for sure. Hard pass.