potofsoup

potofsoup
I created my tumblr account in... January of 2014? Anyway, that week, I was chatting with a coworker, and I am notoriously bad with colloquialisms, so I was trying to say that something wasn't my cup of tea, but I forgot the phrase, so I said that it wasn't my pot of soup instead. (It's a container of liquid!) And after some gentle teasing by Coworker, I decided to lean into it -- after all, I really like soup! So when I created my tumblr account, I called it potofsoup. :)

Most people call me Soup, which bears a certain resemblance to my real name, so I like that. It's mostly worked well for me, except now I'm potofsoup2 on tumblr.

icon
I'm not an icon person -- I pick one and I'm done. My personal tumblr used to have 生煎包 because they're my favorite soupy dumplings. My personal DW just has a face. My fandom icon is just me holding a pillow, overcome with feels. This was after a spring break spent reading Captain America fanfics in 2014.

language
I speak and write Chinese, although it's as a heritage language. My family is actually in the heritage language business, so I kind of grew up with this assumption that Chinese culture is transmitted through the Chinese language. It's only recently that I'm trying to get out of that mindset. My own Chinese -- my reading comprehension is great, I can translate classic Chinese texts with relative ease. My writing takes more effort to start, and sometimes phrasing gets a bit weird. My speaking is the worst -- I sound half like a 4th grader and the other half like a 40 year old man.


fannish identity
Fannish identity is something that I think a lot about.
( oof this got long )