Degard

Hello there!

My name's Mafer, I'm 25 and I'm currently stuying Graphical Communication Design at the UAM, a very well known public university here at Mexico. I already have a daughter that I love a lot (long story there involving teenage pregnancy) and she made me love all things cute.

Since I was a child and even before 'anime' and 'otaku' were known words around the world, I've liked a lot japanese culture, specially the food: obentou, wagashi, sushi, daifuku and pocky specially. X3 I also love origami, and kawaii stuff...

However I also have a dark side, because I love goth stuff... you may imagine the overjoyed feeling I got when the Gothic Lolita concept came into my world. :) Which is why I love laces, crosses and elegance.

I love colours, specially green, wine, black, white and pale pink. And I really feel influenced by Art Nouveau, which is my favorite artistic movement. You might tell I like elaborated things.

I also like cakes, all kinds of tea (Earl Grey should be the most favorite), dark chocolate, rainy days with a glance of sunlight, the guys from Ouran Host Club, good looking guys and goth trends.

My hobbies are knitting, crochet, drawing, taking photos, cooking, playing Final Fantasy XI, and doing loads and loads of lucky stars.

Okay then, hoping you understand and tolerate how I dislike certain things the same way I understand and tolerate your dislikes, here's my ranting about stuff I don't like:

I don't like dogs, frogs and odd shaped animals related items (by odd shaped I mean things like this: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/Degard/M-32861-2.jpg DX ).

Also pleaso don't send anything american retro 50's-60's like imagery because I don't really find it appealing. Unless it's Kamio's Alice's sets, those are really cute.

I also hate emo stuff, like, you know, the typical The Ramones white logo surrounded by bright pink. So no black/white+kill-my-eyes-neon combinations please @x And when I say emo stuff I also mean no Simple Plan, My Chemical Romance, Avril Lavigne, etc. kind of stuff. You might also forget any plain broken heart imagery or cut my wrists stuff... And a large list of emo stuff dislikes etc.

LIKES

Some things I love are letter sets and flake stickers. Stamps and deco tapes are also things I'd like to have; postcards, origami and lucky stars paper also. I like Ruu & Suu, bunnies and kittens and Alice in Wonderland stuff. Also any kawaii food related stuff is just great, and I really love Hannari Tofu! Chocolate is my passion and strawberries too, and japanese traditional sweets or wagashi. I also started to find sembei really interesting (and tasty looking, I want to try some one of these days...) also daifuku are great. Tea stuff is always loved and gratefully accepted =)

DISLIKES

Please don't send any Unko-kun (Little Poo) related items, because... well... it's a poo XP Also no real puppies nor kittens nor babies nor anything. Don't like real pics in the kawaii section.

My likings are very distant, right now I might be hearing j-pop and the next moment I'll go for black metal. I've realized that most of times, rather than liking just a couple of bands and knowing all their songs, I prefer to know a lot of songs from a lot of bands.

However I of course have my favorites between the randomness, they are: Apocalyptica, Blind Guardian, Rhapsody, Aleks Syntek, The Dresden Dolls, Arctic Monkeys, Dark Lunacy, Les Luthiers (these are actually a group of comediants, they really make me laugh), The Mars Volta, The Offspring, The Pillows, Muse, Richard Cheese (If you love funny covers, THIS is your guy!!), Final Fantasy music, and Tsubasa Chronicles, Petit Cossette and Gankutsuo's OSTs... Among others :P

My most favorite of books is "The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende, when it comes to likings, be it from Rowling's Harry Potter books going through Ann Rice's Vampire Chronicles and ending at Wynne Jones' collection. I'm an all about fantasy lover.

But I also love science fiction, Dan Simmons is one of my most favorite writers and Frank Herbert is sublime, I only have read Dune but I'm looking forward for the rest of the saga.

I love doing lucky stars, knitted and crochet stuff, paper crafts, origami and drawing, I'm best at pencil drawing, then comes color pencils and watercolour. Another thing I'm very proud of is that I'm quite capable of creating my own books, hardcover and all.

Mostly doing things from stuff I already got and transform them into really cool looking stuff with the lowest budget I can get. Yeah, I know this makes me sound like a horrible person but trust me that when I tell you really cool looking it MEANS really cool looking. :)

The Fifth Element, The Red Violin, Cronos, Coraline, Hayao Miyazaki's work is some of the best I've ever seen, also Tim Burton's movies with a special place in my heart for The Nightmare Before Christmas...

Movies are not really my forte, so that's why I'll leave it like that. :3

I actually ain't much a T.V. person, however I get to watch ANIMAX from time to time and really prefer to watch anime more than anything.

My current fav's right now are Samurai Champloo, Ouran Host Club, Code Geass, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu and Lucky Star.

Other programs I like to watch at times are decorating and food related mostly. There's specially one that is called Master Sushi which is (obviously ^_^;) totally about sushi and japanese food.