about rowan

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Deserted Garden of the Lost Children

kikuo - KIKUOWORLD (2011)

this is actually my cover of it! i made this very quickly just so i could put it on this page but maybe ill revisit it another day :)

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BIENVENIDO!

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hi!! i'm rowan. im a very laid back guy in my early 20s... youll see my interests plastered all over this page. i am aromantic, bisexual, and use he/they pronouns!

i have an embarrassing amount of plants if you count my propagation experiments in jars. love all of them AND all of my plants have names. i really like making terrariums, vivariums, palidariums, aquariums, whatever and doing weird science experiments in beautiful scenic Charlie House. i love food science and i ferment my own foods sometimes - see my homemade yogurt on the side :)

i make music too (with a focus on baroque pop and experimental!) i have been a programmer for over ten years now but i do webdev for fun on the side. and i stay up too late. very normal very good! i also REALLY love to read - mostly nonfiction and memoirs but i'm trying to dabble more into fiction! i am a positive and unfetterably optimistic person and my favorite thing in the whole wide world is my friends

the fermentation situation

hello gorgeous!

my plants (you can scroll!) ->

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001 thriving

crassula "gollum"

Crassula ovata

easy

my oldest. has a pup i'm potting up soon.

002 growing

marble queen pothos

Epipremnum aureum

easy

propagating!

003 recovering

string of pearls

Curio rowleyanus

picky

drama queen... i cracked the schedule though

004 being tortured

tortured echevaria

hell if i know

easy

no matter which light i put it under it etiolates OR it gets burnt and drops leaves. tortured existence but its an existence nonetheless

005 yup yup yup

my gorgeous crassulas

crassula somethingsomething

easy peasy

yup yup yup

-> full collection

favorites?

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animals

domestic cats, backyard birds, southeast asian fish, lizards and geckos :)

colors

red, yellow, blue, pink

games

all abandonware titles, tycoons and management sims, train sim world series, world of subways series, zoo tycoon + rollercoaster tycoon series, planet coaster + planet zoo, sim- titles (simant, simplanet, etc.), town of salem 1 + 2, the half life series, pokemon, roblox, friendslop anything, webkinz

movies

ill add more to this later...

books

will #revisit...

foods

dont even get me started

activities

talking to my friends, cooking, creative writing, reading, collecting + organizing physical media, media archival, researching

songs that are literally me

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Birdhouse In Your Soul

They Might Be Giants

1989

more specifically the 1987 demo, but the final resonates with me a lot too! this is like the definitive me song ok

The Machine

Lemon Demon

2008

view monster is actually my favorite lemon demon album! its hard to pick a favorite song but this one captures me the best :)

Warsaw

pilotredsun

2016

yessssuh i love downtempo. i dont know how many times ive covered this song but its a nice guilty pleasure listen

naturalist ambitions ? . . .

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crested gecko

correlophus ciliatus | reptile

planning

i wanna work on a bioactive setup with live plants VERY VERY VERY soon... if everything goes amazingly then a geckos not off the table....... if i get a crested gecko im naming them faust loleee

planted freshwater tank

aquascaping | fishkeeping

percolating

want to do a proper dutch-style planted tank. been watching a LOT of aquascape videos but i need more water motion in my place if that makes sense... the idea of a fully planted tank with a small shoal of fish or some shrimp is soooo appealing to me. i wanna get into hydroponics too!

blue-tongued skink

tiliqua scincoides | reptile

pipe dream

one of my longer-term goals, kind of a pipe dream tee bee ache... would need a bigger space than i currently have but i think about it often yup yup yup

unsolicited wisdom

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perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor

all powerscaling is dumb as everyone knows the strongest character in fiction is mr rogers in a bloodstained sweater as per the prophecy of 2006

you will never regret being kind but you will regret moments where you werent

a $2 thrift store cd is always worth buying

there is always another train

plant wishlist

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hunting for / saving up for:

variegated monstera

hoya kerrii

black prince echeveria

calathea ornata

string of turtles

bird of paradise

string of pearls

oxalis triangularis