→ ie, i'm genetically goth and pretentious uwu

→ turns out goth genetics can be awful
→ if i'm exposed to sun too long, i'll start breaking out in sores and my skin will bubble like an intense sunburn after only a few hours. suffice to say, i don't tan
→ we found out when my daycare would take us to the pool every day in the summer and i had to be medically examined for burns after a few days. then we couldn't switch me out of that daycare program, so while everyone else swam i had to sit under an umbella alone for hours on end ),:
→ ppl used to make fun of me in high school and call me "the vampire." kinda weak attempt at shade if you ask me

→ when it gets on my skin it can itch and cause a rash, and when i drink it straight it makes me nausous and feels "heavy"
→ i also don't find it refreshing, ex. i can down a glass and still be thirsty lol

→ when one of my own wisdom teeth was removed, it was fused with with my maxillary sinus bone. i still have it and it's gnarly af lol
→ when i had other wisdom teeth removed, they only let me keep one and i was so disappointed ),:

→ my natural color is black like my soul

→ goth genetics fucking me over again (from a dye perspective lol)

→ colors my hair has been: black, platinum blonde, hot pink, lavender, pastel pink, purple, purple > pink ombre, and teal. it's currently teal

→ then they turned green. then they turned grey, and were grey so long my pediatrician told my parents they were gonna stick. (they did not, and my eyes are brown. i got fucking cheated)

→ aka, a lazy eye; that means one of my eyes turns inward, and has weaker vision than normal

→ i can see well enough in my right eye to navigate the world (my "dominant" eye) but i'm p much blind in the left

→ this means i don't have depth perception and see the world "flatter"

→ my mom's friend's husband was an old school american otaku, and had a ton of vhs tapes. so when mom would visit her friend, the adults would sit me down in front of the tv to watch his "cartoons" :,)

→ lum has been my life-long ultimate waifu uwu

→ that means i don't have a "mind's eye," and can't mentally visualize things