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I'm Dagný Erla (she/her), a thirty-something Icelandic person still trying to find out what I want to do with my life. I've always been creative, and since I have ADHD (diagnosed in my 30s) I tend to jump between hobbies and artistic expressions a lot. Sometimes it's frustrating, but recently I've found that all the little skills I've built up over the years are proving useful in many ways.

My most recent obsession is ceramics, after I took a long-awaited beginners' class in wheel throwing. I fell in love with the process immediately and now my goal is to make ceramics my main career! You can take a look at some of my work in the Portfolio section. You can also see my work on Instagram although I don't update it often.

I am also autistic (diagnosed as an adult) and I generally need to be quite protective of my nervous system, but limiting sensory stress can be very complicated as a parent and a cog in the capitalist machine. I try my best!

Hobbies I've had/still have:
  • Oil painting
  • Watercolor painting
  • Drawing
  • Digital art
  • 3D modeling
  • Ceramics
  • Clothesmaking
  • Knitting
  • Crochet
  • Cross stitch and embroidery
  • Handspinning
  • Playing mandolin
  • Dungeons & Dragons
  • Magic: The Gathering
  • Programming
  • Gardening
  • Foraging
  • Mushroom picking
  • Video games
  • Cycling
  • Weightlifting
Other interests:
  • Japanese (unofficially around JLPT N4-N3)
  • Cooking and baking
  • Journaling
  • Folkloristics/Ethnology
  • Fantasy and sci-fi
  • Science
  • Vinyl records

Favorite media

TV shows

 Black Books, Jeeves & Wooster, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Blue Eye Samurai

Anime

 Mob Psycho 100, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Bocchi the Rock!, Dan Da Dan, Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man

Books

 Going Postal and Good Omens by Terry Pratchett, Uprooted and the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik, Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo, Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard, Mindset by Carol Dweck, A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers, the Moomin books by Tove Jansson, Tehanu and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Video games

 The Dragon Age series, Stardew Valley, Baldur's Gate 3, Minecraft, Baba Is You, Unpacking, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Red Dead Redemption 2

Music

 Kendrick Lamar, MF DOOM, bbno$, Tyler the Creator, Digable Planets, Thundercat, Doechii, De La Soul, Josephine Baker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ninja Sex Party, Khruangbin, Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, The Longest Johns, Donovan, Carole King, Eartha Kitt, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday

Movies

 Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), Clue (1985), My Neighbor Totoro (1988), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Youtubers

 Game Grumps/The Grumps, Jarvis Johnson, Hank Green, fantano, Kurtis Conner, 1bike1world, Florian Gadsby, Lindsey Nikole, marc insco, Edvasian