bafflingjerboa

Hi! I'm Jaiden, I'm back to swapping after a couple-years-long hiatus and I am excited to be swapping again!

I am a software engineer in Ohio, but that's probably the least interesting thing about me.

Outside of work, I enjoy crocheting, sketching, writing, reading fiction/fantasy/sci-fi, and catching up on my shows ❤

⭐ Kawaii washi tape/stickers

🐻 Animals, especially: axolotls, mantis shrimp, dogs

📖 Books, YA sci-fi/fiction theme

🎥 Renaissance era Disney/Pixar & Studio Ghibli

🦸‍♀️ Marvel (Tony Stark, Loki, & Spiderman are my favs!)

🚀 Space

🐇 Alice in Wonderland

🎧 Musicals!!

📖 My favorite book of all time is Ender's Shadow, but I love almost any sci-fi/fantasy. I love nostalgic YA books from my childhood, including Divergent, The Selection series, Steelheart, Cinder, Red Rising, Splintered, Heart of Iron, Warcross, Uglies/Pretties/Specials, The Maze Runner, The Hunger Games, Gilded, etc. (I recognize many of these are objectively bad but the nostalgia keeps me coming back!)

📖 I also enjoyed Where the Crawdads Sing and A Gentleman in Moscow, but those are more serious so they are outliers.

📖 I also love graphic novels, like Nimona and The Shadow Hero!

🎬 I am always down to watch a classic Disney/Pixar movie!

🎥 My favs include Beauty and the Beast, Nemo, Lilo & Stitch, Enchanted, and Monster's Inc.

🎬 My non-animated favorites include Knives Out & Glass Onion, Inception, Men in Black, The Matrix, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Hobbit & The Lord of The Rings, The Princess Bride, Clue, & You've Got Mail.

🎥 My favorite tv shows are Adults (although I have mixed feelings on it, but the funny parts are so funny), Crashing, Fleabag, GBBO, Psych, Vampire Diaries, The Good Place, Adventure Time, and Gravity Falls :D

🎵 My fav musicals include Beetlejuice, Hadestown (Original Cast Recording, NOT the Broadway version!), Phantom of the Opera, BMC, DEH, Hairspray, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables, Legally Blonde, Chicago, The Greatest Showman, Heathers, Mama Mia, Mean Girls, SIX, Something Rotten, Wicked, Waitress, In the Heights, 21 Chump Street, and (the one that started it all for me) Hamilton!

🎶 I've been getting into indie/grunge music semi-recently so thankfully I've broadened my music tastes a bit too ;)

If you've made it this far, then you have to look at my dog!