My name is Bastian, I'm a 24-year-old guy from Newfoundland.

I have a lot of different interests from makeup to animals to cooking to outdoorsy things, and more. I like being creative whenever I can!

Please DO NOT send any scented items! We have birds and scent sensitivities. See the end of my profile for other nopes.

I tend to opt for low-cost and/or simple swaps; livin' the spoonie life is rough. As a result my presence here is also somewhat limited and I don't log in as often as I should; please bear with my slow replies! I do always send on time (unless I have contacted you otherwise) even if I don't mark sent for a while.

Recently I've begun getting into stencil & spray paint work. I'm still really new at it but it's really interesting and I very much enjoy it.

I find paper crafts interesting and occasionally have made cute things (like ATC's or skinnies) to send to friends in the mail. I also like to do origami!

I really enjoy knotwork and macrame and don't do it nearly enough.

I've gotten into cross stitching as well and it's very enjoyable, though I'm not great at it.

Thought this would be a good way to organise things! Updated as I think of things

A: animals, ATCs & supplies, abstract art, aquariums, archery

B: bees, books, bento, Burt's Bees

C: cats, chocolate, cupcakes, cross stitch & supplies, candy, cyberpunk, crowns

D: dragons, dance, Death Note

E: electronica

F: fabric, fire, fountain pens

G: gel pens, Germany, glitter, graffiti & street art

H: Hello Kitty, Halloween, hot chocolate

I: industrial music

J: jerky

K: kawaii, k-pop, knives

L: leopard print, language, locks & lockpicking

M: makeup, metallic, macrame, Minecraft, marshmallows, martial arts

N: Nightmare Before Christmas

O: origami

P: plushies, paper crafts, pillows, puzzles

Q: queer/LGBT+

R: rainbows, ribbon, reptiles

S: Sephora, stickers, spray paint, stationery sets, spiders, soccer, Sherlock Holmes (original stories & Elementary especially), stamps & ink

T: tea, Turkish delight, travel, tarot

V: video games

W: washi tape, word/letter art

Z: zines, zentangle

In our house, there's me, my roommate, and:

3 cats / 5 budgies / 1 betta fish / 2 corn snakes / 1 bearded dragon.

Most of our animals are either rescues or rehomed from people who were moving or otherwise unable to care for them. If we can find the space, we are likely to take in others; we do foster/pet-sit on occasion as well.

Television

Orphan Black, Elementary, Fringe, Breaking Bad, Doctor Who, The Flash; crime, drama, science fiction, classic mystery

Music

Rammstein, Emigrate, Eisbrecher, EXO, Got7, 2PM, Coldplay, alt-J, VNV Nation, Colony 5, Depeche Mode, Genesis, Super Junior, Hyuna, Muse, Covenant, Rage Against the Machine, Monsta X, [more as I think of important ones to list]

Please do not send the following:

coffee, scented products (incense, scented candles, perfumes, herbal sachets, etc.), sour candy, green apple candy, seafood cat treats (one of the kitties has allergies), teas with apple or citrus flavour, Disney, soaps or cleansers (ask first!)