Hello, it's Thistle & Verse, and today I'm
going to be doing the Meet the  Community
tag. I was tagged a while ago by Fantasy
Book Addict, and I'm just now getting to
it,
so thank you for your patience. So
first question is what's your name.
Chloe. Where are you from? I'm in
Pennsylvania. I'm from a suburb of Philly.
Do you have any pets? Nope. I used to
really like dogs, but I realized that
they're just very high maintenance. I
don't have the energy.
I played with the idea of getting a cat
or like maybe some other like low
maintenance pet,
but I just... I'm very selfish and very
focused on me. I don't really
want to bother with caring for anything
else at this stage in my life,
so I don't have a pet, and I probably
won't be getting one anytime soon.
Most binge-worthy Netflix show? Haikyuu.
That show is something. I
don't really watch sports anime like
that, like
at all, and I was just like sucked in.
It's about these
high school boys who play volleyball in
Japan.
Their team isn't very good, and they're
trying to be more competitive, and it's
about like the
competitions and dynamics between all
the team members. In terms of my favorite
characters, first up is Asahi.
He's the gentle giant. Really
what won me over was when he switched up
his hair from a bun
to just using a headband during
games because he didn't want to get
traction alopecia and like push back his
hairline, and I was like
that is real. Asahi's number one.
Number two is probably
Kageyama. He's just very
blunt and very competitive, He doesn't
always realize when he's being like
rude. And then number three is probably
Tanaka.
Editing Chloe here. I just refilmed the
clip because I couldn't stop laughing,
and it
just didn't look natural, looked very
very cheesy so
i'm re-filming it. But basically I
like Tanaka.
He's very energetic, he has a shaved head,
and he's kind of one of the comic relief...
They're all comic relief characters
honestly. They're all such goofs but
Tanaka especially.
The team is from a rural area of Japan. I
think they're from like a rural part of
Tokyo,
and whenever they play against other
teams who are actually from Tokyo,
Tanaka calls them city boy, and he thinks
it makes him look really cool and
intimidating.
And like the whole time his teammates
are just rolling their eyes, they're so
embarrassed, and
it just makes him look like a gigantic
dork.
And I just enjoy lovable goofs in anime,
so yep.
An instant buy author? N. K Jemisin.
Yep, I don't have to think too much about
buying books by her.
Hobbies besides books? So I garden.
I don't have too much to show
right now. Actually, wait I do. So I forgot
that I actually do have something to
show for it. So I got a bunch of tomatoes.
I'm not going to take them out to
show you but
like this bag full of tomatoes. Which
is great.
I'm going to probably just make
caprese with them
and use them on grilled cheeses.
So I got those, and I
tried to do beets and lettuce this yea,r
but like I didn't
get enough of them for me to feel like I
should get like a cover for them, so I
just
put them out back for the rabbits to eat
basically. Like I'm not gonna get
anything out of them.
And I did potatoes this year.
I had like so many plants so like this
being like the only harvest I have is
kind of disappointing,
but I have like some more seeds potatoes
for next year.
I'm gonna change up the dirt and see
if that makes it any better.
The thing which I feel like I'm really better
at
is flowers. I have a plumeria plant,
which I'm really happy about because my
main goal
is to get it to flower one year and like
for the flower to actually open.
I had a flower like once like two or
three years ago, and it just kind of
fell
off the plant before it could fully
bloom. And I moved it into a bigger pot,
and it's like doing great. It got like
this... it was like this much extra growth
on one branch, and it has two branches so
it's like this much extra growth.
So that's nice. I'm hoping to get flowers
next year.
And I also like write in my spare time.
I feel like that's pretty common for
people on booktube. I just kind of write
for
fun right now. Like I have been saying I
would submit places, but I just haven't.
I haven't really had anything
submit worthy and like when I say that I
mean like no
actually. I don't like writing long form
stuff.
I mostly write short stories. To me I
feel like I have like
one moment where I'm like, 'yes, I want to
write about this one moment, and like I
want to write a lot of this one moment,
and like that's it.' Like I don't want to
do like a whole like
300 pages about something. Like I don't
feel like it.
A random fact that most people don't
know? So
I don't think a whole lot of people know
I really like karaoke,
and my go-to song is You're Welcome.
Favorite bookish or nerdy swag? That's
hard.
So I have a holographic card with the
cover of the Deathless Divide on it,
which is one. Then I have this
Escaping Exodus card
with Adalla on it, who's probably my
favorite character from the book.
And I just love like the neon effect on
her hair. And then
I have this from the MagnifiqueNOIR
volume 2 Kickstarter.
It's one of the characters with her
pride flag on her tail.
I just think it's really cute. Like I
want more of these stickers. Like I might
get some of the Prism Pink stickers
because I think they're adorable.
One book or series you love but no
one talks about?
I definitely have like underrated books
and stuff, but like I feel like
I can find people who talk about them so
I don't know if that counts.
A book I'd like to see get more love is
A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson.
I understand why it's like a book that
isn't for everyone,
in terms of like how it skips
perspectives and how the world building
is and how the prose is kind of dense, but
like I really love it, and it's like a
sentimental
fave. I wish I could just see Kai Ashante
Wilson getting more love,
getting more praise. I'm just coming off
my interview with Briana Lawrence, so I'm
going to be gushing about Briana Lawrence
for a while. But I would love
for her MagnifiqueNOIR series to get more
attention. Also because
she's trying to get it made into like a
cartoon and like do other... like maybe
like a graphic novel or like other
adaptations, and for that to happen,
people need to read it
and give her money and show interest, and
so you should read it and give her money
and show interest, so that
I... so that *we*
can get this cartoon and these graphic
novels and this merch.
So yes, Kai Ashante Wilson's
A Taste of Honey and MagnifiqueNOIR
by Briana Lawrence.
Favorite new booktubers? I'd say Texts and
Tangents.
Sheri's just really cool, very chill,
humorous in certain ways. Like I don't
feel like she does jokes every time, but
I feel like she has observations that
are just funny.
And then The Book Barrel. I feel like he
has a very good camera presence,
and so I enjoy his videos a lot.
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