3, 5, 26, 28, 33

27, 34

goodluckmodes: rubs my hands together

3. The meaning behind my username
smithsyndicate is for Have You Heard of Suda51's Cult Classic Action Shooter RPG Killer7, Now Available on Steam Remastered and with the Full OST?

the smith syndicate in question is these freaks i love them very much

i have an account for garcian but idk if i could ever play him because i'd literally have to go to the mods of any game like 'hey! my character physically turns into 7 alters that each have a physical body and some of them are appable. what do i do'

but killer7 is really good everyone please watch it at least if you dont wanna play it also the soundtrack bangsRussian Roulette - Killer7 2018 Remastered Original ...

5. A fact about my personality
the other day i described myself to a friend as a doggy with no object permanence

so like you could not talk to me for 3 years just bc of life, and if you came back like 'hey danni what's good' i would be like OMG IT'S YOU HI!!!!!!!!!!!! no matter how long it's been aldskfjgag

but yeah i'm a really lowkey person and unless you've wronged me directly or hurt someone i like, we don't have beef i promise. even if you've annoyed me a little bit in the past we don't have beef i PROMISE. im a low maintenance friend you don't have to worry about me

i also think very warmly of people in dwrp i havent spoken to or crossed over with in a game for forever so if you're reading this and we haven't been in a game for like 5 years??? i still love you and think of the fun we had together fondly <3

26. Favorite quote
I have two I think about very frequently

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write?

Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.
-Franz Kafka

I think about this soooo much when I think of media that has really torn me open LMFAO like I just watched my friend play through the indie game Mouthwashing last night and that shit was devastating. I LOVE MEDIA THAT WRECKS MY LIFE

and i really like getting to write shit that just punches you in the gut and touches deep powerful human emotions!!! FEEL THAT SHIT!!! IT'S GOOD FOR YOU

and another one that i've been thinking about since I read the book in 2020 at the height of BLM, which was a CRAZY and radicalizing experience for me personally, is this speech from Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed:

that’s such an interesting quote im into it

ikr it's so fucking good kafka knew what he was DOING with that

actually im just pasting in the quote and linking to it cause it's so long lol“You can only be the Revolution”

and immediately after this the government starts firing on them

ive fucking absorbed this shit deep into my value system. we have to help each other through this stupid life or else, we are all that we have

just reading through it again gives me chills everyone please read The Dispossessed. ms ursula was so right and so insightful about so many things i love her and her enormous brain

you can only be the revolution, it is in your spirit or it is nowhere GODddddddd godddd

28. What I find attractive in other people
ok now i will take the opportunity to say that i am a lesbian but i do still kinda feel like wobbly demi/ace spectrum so ??????????????

BUT i like girls and people who ID as girl-adjacent and i would say that my physical type irl is a girl who is pretty but has something unique or not conventionally attractive to her bc i think that makes people more beautiful tbh. im usually attracted to other women of color bc i am one lol

but i also find myself more drawn to personality first so like, physical attractiveness is a factor but not end all be all. just be niceys 2 me

i also rly like people who are willing to engage me in deep thoughtful conversation and are empathetic enough to ask me for what i need when im sad or upset or mad etc. i love da communication

33. Go-to comfort food
ooooooh i love foooood theres so manyyyyy but lemme pick one special one. SAPPORO ICHIBAN RAMEN MOTHERFUCKERS

ive eaten this when i was a kid, when i was broke, when i was sick, when i couldnt decide on what to eat, etc etc this shit is so good esp if you crack an egg into it while it's cooking and let it poach. god bless u sapporo ichiban

theggnator: GG'S TURN!!!!!

27. Favorite album
RADIOHEAD'S IN RAINBOWS ALBUM OF ALL TIME

Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into PlaceTHE ALBUM EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

theres so many great tracks on In Rainbows but this is my favorite

lovage-To Catch A Thiefmy other favorite is lovage's only album music to make love to your old lady by, it's so good, its like one of the branching points for my taste in music bc it's got so many elements of hip hop/electronic/trip hop/stupid campy bs/etc

34. Coffee or tea
I like both but I drink coffee way more frequently, just because I'm the only REALLY big tea lover in my house and it's easier to make one big pot of coffee for everyone lol

my sister's gotten into matcha recently tho

i do still really love tea and my favorite is oolong, but i'll try like anything. im not super into herbal but i will still drink it LOL

you can only be the revolution ....lays down a little.

“it is in your spirit or it is nowhere” is so powerful

uklg is an insanely good writer she beats you DIRECTLY over the head every time

i think a lot of her insightfulness comes from being raised by anthropologists and growing up in berkeley lmfao she was IN IT and so ahead of her time on so many things

also very funny: she shipped spirk

FUJOSHI OF ANTIQUITY URSULA K. LE GUIN

TRULY HOPELESSLY FOREVER