stingrays

Nick

he/they

I'm a 23 year old college student majoring in Spanish and minoring in theater. I've been working part-time at a craft store since late 2019! As of August 2023, I've also started doing bookkeeping there. As of this spring semester, I'm also involved in a paid internship at my university with the World Languages department! I've been learning Spanish for 7 or 8 years now, and I've also taken some Japanese classes. I hope to try learning some Russian, too. (I can read the Cyrillic alphabet, but I don't know much vocabulary or grammar.) Swaps written in Spanish are always welcome.

I'm open to private swaps, so if you'd ever like to do one, just DM me!

Part of the fun in Swap-bot for me is making other people happy with what I can send to them! That being said, I will always do my absolute best to get my swaps out to you. There have been times where life has gotten in the way and I've needed to send things out late, but rest assured I'll always get something to you. Conversely, I'm not a stickler for deadlines, and if you need to send out a swap a bit late for whatever reason, please don't worry!

January 2025: As of now, the Spring Semester of school has started, and while I anticipate all swaps going out on time, please understand if there are delays!

Some of my favorite things...

• the color blue
• the ocean
• fish
• Cold War history
• espionage (especially the Cambridge Five, Kim Philby, and Adolf Tolkachev)
• foreign language & linguistics
• arts & crafts
• theater
• puzzles
• reading (especially audiobooks)
• writing
• making original characters
• video games
• horror
• vampires
• animals (especially dogs, hippos, seals, bats, fish, and other marine animals)
• Sanrio & San-X characters (my favs are Cinnamoroll, Pompompurin, Pochacco, Hangyodon, and Jinbei-san)
• stickers & other stationery

Favorite Artists:

The Strokes (!!!), Filthy Boy, Glass Animals, Autoheart, System of a Down, Damian Lewis, Parrotfish, Marina, Angelo Badalamenti

Favorite Genres:

rock, bossa nova, jazz, indie

Non-Fiction:

• "A Spy Among Friends" by Ben Macintyre
• "Maus" by Art Spiegelman
• "Prisoners of the Castle" by Ben Macintyre
• "The Billion Dollar Spy" by David E. Hoffman

Fiction:

• "Declare" by Tim Powers
• "Interview with the Vampire" by Anne Rice
• "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
• "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle
• "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" by John le Carré

Manga:

• Anything by Junji Ito
• Death Note

My top faves...

• American Psycho
• Berserk trilogy
• Casablanca
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Groundhog Day
• Hot Fuzz
• Interview with the Vampire
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Scream
• Song of the Sea
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Naked Gun
• The Princess Bride
• The Thing (1982)
• What We Do in the Shadows
• X-Men: First Class

My top faves...

• A Spy Among Friends
• Being Human (UK)
• Cold Case Files
• Columbo
• Criminal Minds
• Dexter
• Forensic Files
• Hannibal
• Impractical Jokers
• Interview with the Vampire
• Invincible
• Succession
• The Boys
• The Legend of Vox Machina
• Twin Peaks

My favorite anime...

• Death Note
• Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica

I enjoy...

• ATCs
• card-making
• collages
• crochet
• drawing
• miniatures
• papercrafting
• sewing
• stamping
• writing

Video games I enjoy...

• Abzu
• Ace Attorney
• AI: The Somnium Files
• Animal Crossing (City Folk through New Horizons)
• Danganronpa
• Disco Elysium
• Fortnite
• L.A. Noire
• Minecraft
• Muse Dash
• Stardew Valley
• Undertale
• Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
• Yuppie Psycho

Physical games I enjoy...

• Betrayal at House on the Hill
• Bohnanza
• Catan
• Coup
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Ecologies

Aesthetics I enjoy...

• angelcore
• babycore
• creepy, weird
• dark academia (!!)
• decora
• gothic
• Halloween
• kawaii (!!)
• kidcore (!!)
• lolita
• ocean-themed (!!)
• vintage

(Don't know what one of these is? Click on the respective links to learn more!)

Colors I love...

• blue (all shades)
• baby blue (!!)
• blue & white (!!)
• blue & pink
• black
• black & red
• brown
• burgundy
• cream
• green
• primary colors (red, blue, yellow)
• purple
• rainbow

(i love pretty much all colors, so you can't really go wrong!)

• bright colors
• dark colors
• pastels

Aesthetics that aren't for me...

• animal print
• beige mom
• boho
• minimalism
• modern farmhouse

continually updated!

A: animals, anime, aquariums, art, anatomy, architecture, angels, axolotls, abalone shells, ATCs

B: bats, books, bookmarks, blue, black tea, blood, bones

C: cats, crochet, crossword puzzles, choir & choral music, culture, crafts, Cinnamoroll, Chernobyl, Cold War era & history, CIA history, coloring, cryptids, carnivorous plants, ciphers & codes, crabs, creepy things, clouds, clovers, Cyrillic alphabet, cacti, Chococat

D: dogs, drawing, dark academia, (cute) devils, die-cuts

E: espionage, ephemera, Eric Carle

F: fish, flowers, Furbies, fruit, food, fashion, figurines (anime, video games, etc)

G: green, gardening, green tea, ghosts, golden retrievers

H: history, Halloween, horror, hydrangeas, handmade items, Hangyodon, hippos, herbal tea

I: instrumental music, i-Dogs, interior design, ice cream

J: jigsaw puzzles, Japanese, Jinbei-san, junk journals, June

K: kidcore, kawaii, kandi

L: language & literature, lobsters, Lisa Frank, lucky cats (manekineko), lace, lily of the valley, learning, lapis lazuli, Little Twin Stars

M: manga, mail (sending and receiving), marine animals, musicals, music boxes, murder mysteries, mental health, malachite, Mary Oliver, memo sheets, Mamegoma, Marumofubiyori

N: non-fiction, neurodiversity

O: ocean, Otamatones, oranges (fruit)

P: postcards, piano, poetry, Pochacco, Pompompurin, purple, primary colors, periwinkle, psychology, philosophy, paranormal phenomena, perfume, Porygon, pearls, plushies

Q: quiet, Quagsire

R: reading, riddles, Richard Siken, rainbow, records, rhythm games, ribbon, raspberries, Russian

S: seals, sharks, sushi, sewing, stickers, stationery, Sanrio, San-X, Spanish, stars, spies, supernatural phenomena, slime, Skelanimals, stingrays, Soviet memorabilia, sunfish

T: theater, tarot, tulips, true crime, toys, tea, turquoise, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, trivia, Tokage-san (Sumikko Gurashi), Tuxedosam

U: uniforms, USSR history, Usahana

V: vampires, video games, Vocaloid, vintage

W: word searches, washi tape, wind chimes, white, water

X: x-rays

Y: yarn

Z: zines, zoos

123s: 1946-1991 era

shell divider, yellow star