penny farthing

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About me

Gender Female
Occupation animation, moving picture shows, hobbies, dandyism, purveyor of fine reading material, anachronistic aeronaut
Location a saffron-colored airship, United States
Interests Steampunk, Engines, the coming thing, flying machines (especially airships and autogyros), electricity, chap magazine, derring-do, architecture, bespoke suits, chums, ace pilots, distributism, truth, Bunburyists, obstinance, spats, swashbuckling, microbes, pints, train stations, philosophy, Nikola Tesla, Language of Flowers, elegance, wordplay, haberdashery, comics, beauty, video games, artsy craftsy stuff, fine art, traveling (except I'm broke), museums, muses (especially Terpsichore and Melpomene), jodhpurs, Ray Harryhausen, nerdy stuff, fancy stuff, spectacles, spectacle, tomfoolery and jiggerypokery - AT THE SAME TIME!!!!, mustaches, mustache parties (wouldn't you like to know), war monuments, Roman Catholicism, Take Home Chef, cholera, punctuation; grammar, dandies, kittens, men with monocles, crusades, top hats, pie, sammiches, belly dancing, skeletons, mad science, men's shoulders, specimens, feet, people with cool hair, Thomism, neo-classicism, Buster Keaton, Beaux Artes, things that go WHOOOSH!, weird things, quaintrelles, curry, the fancy trays people used to keep by the front door for their guests to leave their calling card in, Wikipedia, Schadenfreude, capitalism, hock and seltzer, trains, supporting the troops, the coming thing, rodeos, gin, drawing room comedies, affectation, stout, the danse du ventre, adverbs, autogyros, colloquialisms, ghosts, onomatopoeia, tattoos, lost and forgotten things, difference engines, Halloween, Christmas, worlds fairs, Vincent Price, anatomical illustrations, being the only profile that comes up when I click one of my own interests - makes me feel unique and aloof
Favorite Movies Nightmare Before Christmas, The Iron Giant, The Rocketeer, The Illusionist, Stardust, Hell's Angels, The Prestige, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Wings, Seven Chances, Forbidden Planet, High Noon, Muppet Christmas Carol, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Miss Potter, Ghost Busters, Mrs. Miniver, The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
Favorite Music Abney Park, Alice Cooper, Johnny Cash, Bon Jovi, Antonin Dvorak, Vernian Process, Pentaphobe, J. S. Bach, Red Elvises
Favorite Books Devil in the White City, The Immortalists, anything P.G. Wodehouse

Aren't papier mache cuts the worst?

Actually, yes. Bleeaaagh! Sticky and stings.