26 [M4F], Chicago, IL
about me:
i’d describe myself, i'm a nerd, runner, and community builder.
i moved to the city years ago and decided to build the kind of community I wanted to be part of so I started a meetup around nerd interests (think anime/manga/video games/adjacent). since then, it’s turned into everything from anime lookalike contests to dessert crawls in chinatown, dumpling potlucks and a ton of great memories in between. i wanted a group where i'd do stuff i'd normally do alone but with others and am happy to build an awesome community in the city.
community and service are a big part of who i am. i regularly volunteer at Nourishing Hope, a social services org, and i’m hoping to find someone who values giving back and building something meaningful together.
outside of that, my side quests include:
• Concerts (Childish Gambino, Aminé, Omar Apollo are top-tier)
• Spotify rotation that swings from Carly Rae Jepsen to Magdalena Bay to indie rock and R&B
• Baking egg custard tarts and pork buns
• Board game nights (social strategy > 4-hour rulebooks)
• Book club (we rotate off peer recommendations)
• Running (grew up with it, still run the occasional race)
• Conventions and local pop culture trivia
i love trying new restaurants, volunteering together, book clubs, game nights, basically any adventure that’s better in good company.
if you’re into side quests, good food, shared purpose, and a little nerd energy, we’ll get along.
what i'm looking for:
i’m pretty intentional about community and the life i’ve built in chicago, and i’m hoping to find a meaningful, long-term partnership.
random media i enjoy (not exhaustive):
• animation - adventure time, avatar: the last airbender, bob's burgers, tuca & bertie
• anime - detective conan, hunter x hunter, mob psycho 100, spy x family
• movies - the perks of being a wallflower, fargo, life of pi, avengers (my letterboxd 4 is really scattered...but superheroes, and comedies have been constant)
• novels - ali hazelwood, fredrik backman, john green, hank green, matt haig, r.f. kuang, taylor jenkins reid (i'm all over the place)
• tv - brooklyn 99, the good place, parks & rec (think any michael schur show ranging from the office...etc)
• video games - baldurs gate 3, fallout, final fantasy, hades, persona, slay the spire (then couch co-op includes golf with friends, overcooked, plateup, stardew valley)
• youtube - vlogbrothers, danny gonzalez, drew gooden...then too many foodtubers/anitubers to list that rotate in and out
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this is lifted from my acespace profile, and is a throwaway reddit lol.