• Arizona
• Athens
• Bologna
• Cappadocia
• Florence
• Hamburg
• Jerome, Arizona
• Maine
• Munich
• Philadelphia
• Prague
• Quebec City
• Rome
• Salzburg
• San Francisco
• Siena
• The Peloponnese
• Vermont

• "imposters disguised as prophets"
• "there is safety in cereal"

• Fill my life with experiences, not things
• Find a career that I love
• Find my perfect creative outlet
• Go on a road trip across America
• Travel to each continent at least once (3/7)

• a carpet of bluebells
• a bright red cardinal on a naked branch
• the persistence of sunlight
• the persistence of rain
• a ghost love score
• the brilliance of Nightwish
• factories from a bygone era
• caramelizing onions
• missed connections
• freak form revitalized
• an open window
• an unmelted mountain of snow
• sun-kissed skin
• a misty morning and a rainy window

• shy smiles
• vodka kisses
• silenced moans
• a sea of white dresses
• flower petals floating on the air
• the laughter of old friends
• a polluted turnpike
• oblivion
• blooming bruises
• a sea of doubt
• a glimmer of hope?
• running mascara
• crippling self-pity
• the cool kiss of metal
• nails on skin
• the cold truth
• emptiness

Currently

• Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas - Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough

Recently

• Waking Gods - Sylvain Neuvel (4/5)
• Bright Air Black - David Vann (5/5)
• I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life - Ed Yong (4/5)
• The Night Sister - Jennifer McMahon (3/5)
• Lab Girl - Hope Jahren (4.5/5)
• Library of Souls - Ransom Riggs (4/5)
• Hollow City - Ransom Riggs (4/5)
• Caraval - Stephanie Garber (5/5)
• In Real Life - Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang (3/5)
• Monstress - Marjorie Liu (4/5)
• The Winter People - Jennifer McMahon (4/5)
• A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness (2/5)
• Lair of Dreams - Libba Bray (4/5)
• Moose - Max de Radiguès (2.5/5)
• The Bear and the Nightingale - Katherine Arden (5/5)

• amoeba
• aurora
• cataclysm
• celestial
• convalesce
• effervescent
• ember
• ephemeral
• equinox
• eukaryote
• ghost
• hazel
• mercurial
• nebulous
• nightshade
• oracle
• petrichor
• quiescent
• ruminate
• sequoia
• siena

• a cold downpour
• gleaming opals
• yearning from afar
• arms linked in solidarity
• a shriveled pomegranate
• two of snaek
• one of tortle
• birthday bud
• revisiting an old friend
• a soothing calm
• lightning over the desert
• thunder rolling through a canyon
• pure Americana
• hail?!

• HIM - Boston - 11/17/05
• The 69 Eyes - New York - 6/20/07
• Placebo - Holmdel, NJ - 8/29/07
• HIM - Holmdel, NJ - 8/29/07
• Linkin Park - Holmdel, NJ - 8/29/07
• Sonata Arctica - Hartford - 10/12/09
• Nightwish - Philadelphia - 9/16/12 (setlist)
• Delain - Worcester - 4/11/15
• Nightwish - Worcester - 4/11/15
• Sabaton - Worcester - 4/11/15
• Sonata Arctica - Hartford - 2/20/16
• Nightwish - Hartford - 2/20/16 (VIP)
• Seven Spires - Worcester - 4/2/16
• Sonata Arctica - Worcester - 4/2/16 (VIP)
• Leaves' Eyes - Hartford - 11/12/16 (setlist)
• Sonata Arctica - Hartford - 11/12/16 (VIP)
• Battle Beast - Worcester - 4/22/17
• Leaves' Eyes - Worcester - 4/22/17
• Delain - Worcester - 4/22/17
• Katatonia - Worcester - 4/22/17
• Sabaton - Worcester - 4/22/17

• I do not wish to evade the world, yet I will forever build my own. - Nightwish
• My fall will be for you. - Nightwish
• I lust for after no disaster can touch us anymore, & more than ever I hope to never fall where enough is not the same it was before. - Poets of the Fall
• In the grace of your love I writhe in pain. - HIM
• Fallen angels in the night, and every one is barred from Heaven. - Placebo
• Me istutettiin yhdessä puu. - Antti Tuisku
• Which way to the fountain of my youth, I wonder? -Poets of the Fall
• Fear is a choice you embrace. - Nightwish

• A Hobbit hole in the Shire
• The Palace of Minos, Knossos
• Helsinki
• Lapland under the Northern Lights
• The Ring Road, Iceland
• Patagonia
• Alpine glacial lakes
• The Black Forest
• Visions from a window on the Orient Express
• The Giant's Causeway
• Cotswolds
• The heart of Cappadocia
• A sea of blue flowers, Hitachinaka
• The Lion's Gate, Mycenae
• Deir el-Bahri
• The Red Rocks of Petra
• Alaskan wilderness
• A rainy day in the Pacific Northwest
• Vienna √
• Cherry blossoms in Tokyo

• a rainbow forest
• a crystal forest
• soil the colour of blue steel
• the painted desert, aptly named
• a look backwards in time
• the start of something great
• so.many.books.
• blankets of rain
• forked lightning
• aegean blue
• new car smell