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Hey everyone!
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So about more than a month ago, I asked on Instagram to ask me questions for a Q&A video,
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and I'm finally doing it!
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Sorry it's taken so long.
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I thought it was about time to do another one of these,
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because the last one I did was when I had
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something like 250,000 less subscribers than I do now,
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which is nuts!
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I can't even comprehend how many people that is,
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it- it blows my mind,
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But, hi!
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Thanks for being here,
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thanks for subscribing,
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and lets get into a Q&A session!
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"What is your favourite thrift store in Sydney?"
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Villawood Anglicare
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I'm gonna regret saying this to so many people,
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because you're all gonna steal all my stuff now,
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but, it's the greatest op shop.
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It's like a sorting warehouse,
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and all of the clothes are put into giant bins,
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and you basically go dumpster diving into those bins.
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It's like all the men's, women's and children's clothes are all thrown in together,
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and then you buy by the kilo,
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so everything is 8 dollars a kilo.
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It's an amazing place,
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but also quite far out, it's hard to get to, so,
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when I'm able to go that's my favourite place in the world to visit.
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"If you were a vegetable which one would you like to be?"
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I'd be a sweet potato.
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Kinda matches my hair colour,
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yeah, and I love sweet potato,
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which means I would eat myself...
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[silence]
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I also got a lot of questions about dogs,
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because on my Instagram I have made it well known that I am obsessed with dogs at the moment,
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I'm so sad that I don't actually own a dog,
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and my life goal is to own two dogs.
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I'll answer a couple of these
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"What's your favourite breed of dog?"
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My favourite breed, aesthetically, is Dachshunds - Sausage dogs - Dachshunds? Dachshunds? Dachshunds.
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Not sure how to pronounce that.
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They're so cute,
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they have such silly little legs
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But I personally wouldn't get one because I don't think their personalities are particularly what would suit me.
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If I were to choose a breed of dog to own for myself it would be a mutt, a rescue mutt,
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Labrador-ish size,
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A mix of Labrador and Golden Retriever and Terrier would be awesome.
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Yeah.
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"What sort of music do you enjoy?"
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Well, if you have watched the videos on my channel,
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you will know
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I really like chiptunes, and glitch-hop
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The genres of music that I generally listen to are
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glitch-hop, alternative rock, indie music, electronic dance music,
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modern swing, Australian hip-hop,
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Basically anything that you can dance to, anything that's upbeat and positive, I really like.
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Yeah!!
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"Do you think it's cool to have an accent?"
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I don't have an accent.
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You have an accent.
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It's all relative.
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I don't have a particularly strong Australian accent,
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so oftentimes, um,
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people in Australia will actually ask me where I'm from,
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'cause they think I have an accent.
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They often think I'm from England or America?
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[pause] um...
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My voice does not sound like that either.
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Yup, that's what I have to say about that. Yup!
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"Crunchy or smooth peanut butter?"
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Crunchy, always, who are those psychopaths that like smooth peanut butter?
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"Who is your favorite Power Puff Girl?"
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Definitely Blossom, I even have a Blossom handbag,
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and it's the most amazing thing that I own.
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Actually, I say that about half of the clothes that i own.
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But it's one of the amazing things that I own.
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"What's a weird food combo that you enjoy?
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Mine is banana, cheese, and eggs on toast."
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That's disgusting!
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[laugh]
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But so's mine, my weird food combo that I really like
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is vinegar on chips, not like hot chips,
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like, crisps, chips, like the...
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Like salt and vinegar chips.
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With more vinegar on top.
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I really like vinegar, basically vinegar on anything.
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I like vinegar on dried noodles as well,
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especially when it makes it go all soggy.
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Pretty disgusting.
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"I love you!? Does that count as a question?! Gahhhhh!!!??"
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No. Not a question.
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"What is your favourite lollies?" Anything that's extremely sour.
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Just, I love sour things
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so much!
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"Would you rather have cereal dust permanently stuck under your nails, or nails permanently stuck in your cereal?"
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I guess I would just not eat cereal.
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'Cause I don't want cereal dust stuck under my nails, gross.
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I would just have to forego cereal, which would be really sad because I love cereal, but
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if there's always gonna be nails in my cereal, that's a definite choking hazard, so...
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Yeah.
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Nails in my cereal, and then not eat cereal.
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If I'm allowed to do that.
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"Why do you dye your hair in orange?"
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[pause]
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Because I've always wanted to be a natural redhead.
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[gasp] Oh my gosh and the other day, I was waiting for a tram,
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and it was a really hot day, it was really sunny,
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and I didn't have any sunscreen on,
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and this redheaded guy holding a bottle of sunscreen came up to me and was like,
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"Yeah, you and me, we're both redheads, we need to look after each other,
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have some sunscreen."
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He totally mistook me for a natural redhead and I was like,
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"Thaaaaanks."
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And, um, hoped he wouldn't notice my- my roots, that aren't red.
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But I was so excited in being mistaken for a natural redhead.
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Anyway,
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why does anyone do anything? That's a weird question.
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Next! Ooh! Here's a question I get asked a lot.
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"If you're Australian, then why don't you use the metric system when you sew?"
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So, I have four reasons for this.
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One, is that by using inches you're working with smaller numbers, which is just easier to work with,
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easier to do maths with in your head and stuff.
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Two is that I learned to sew by using inches,
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because I watched a lot of American YouTube tutorials, and read a lot of American sewing blogs,
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and I also learned to sew using vintage patterns, which also used inches.
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Three, vintage patterns,
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they also use inches, so if you're using them, it's just easier
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if your brain's already working in inches.
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And four is that most of my audience come from America, so using inches is just kind of easier
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for the majority of my audience.
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Sorry if you do use the metric system,
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but there's plenty of calculators
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that you can use to convert one to the other, online.
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And any maths that I do,
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with dividing or multiplying things,
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you can use either centimeters or inches, it doesn't matter.
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"Do you know anyone that calls sandals 'double pluggers'?"
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[laughing] No? What?
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Who calls sandals double pluggers?
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Is that like an Australian thing?
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"Would you rather always have to say what's on your mind, or never speak again?"
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The first one.
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I pretty much do anyway,
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so I don't think it would change things too much for me.
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I would definitely seem a lot more rude,
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but,
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I generally, I don't
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think mean things about people, generally?
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And I would absolutely hate not being able to speak again, so,
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the first one.
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If worse came to worse, I'd always just
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lock myself in my apartment and make YouTube videos,
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and edit out the things that I said that were horrible.
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It's better than never having to speak again, I guess.
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"If you were to become an animal,
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a) based on your personality,
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and b) at will,
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which animals would they be and why?
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Talk about the ways in which your answers differ slash are similar and why."
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Is this like an essay question?
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That was worded in a very, very formal way.
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If I was to become an animal,
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I'd become a cat.
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Cats have it pretty easy,
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they just get to lay around, sleep,
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and eat, lay around in the sun.
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They're also pretty good at surviving,
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they're pretty flexible,
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they can jump high,
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they can jump on things... Yeah, I'd be a cat.
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"What did the man say when you entered the ham contest,
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he said, 'You can't enter, you won last time.'"
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[silence]
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That's not a question.
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"Do you think Hermione should have married Harry or Ron?"
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Ron!
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What the heck!?
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How is this even a question?
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How could Hermione have married Harry?
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Sorry, no.
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No, no, no.
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"If you could have one Adventure Time character come to life, who would it be?"
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Obviously Princess Bubblegum.
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We'd be best friends.
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We'd do all the science together. Plus she's got the most awesome fashion sense.
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"Read something in Hungarian slash say something if you already speak it."
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This person knows that I'm half Hungarian, and I think they're also Hungarian as well.
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Hello!
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Uh, say something in Hungarian.
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*Hol a sapka?*
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*Hol a kalapja?*
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Yeah, that's basically all I know how to say in Hungarian,
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and I'm sure that I pronounced those atrociously, as well,
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feel free to correct me, anyone who's Hungarian.
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"What is your favorite lipstick?"
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[silence]
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This is Aria by Stila Cosmetics.
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"Can you wink? You said you have been practicing."
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Check this out.
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[silence]
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I can also do this now, I've been practicing this, too.
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Wait, wait.
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[silence]
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That was something I couldn't do before either.
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Very exciting, learning to do things with my body.
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And face.
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"Favourite song?"
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Right now, it's Santigold's "Can't Get Enough of Myself."
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Go look it up, right now. Highly recommend it.
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"Also, how many pets have you had in your life?"
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I've had...
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eight.
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Three cats,
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one dog,
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two hermit crabs,
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and two fish.
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A lot of people want to know about my relationship!
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I do have a boyfriend,
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and he's camera shy,
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and I don't know if he'll ever be on my YouTube channel.
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Sorry.
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If it was up to me, he would be, tomorrow.
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But, it's not up to me,
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he doesn't really wanna be...
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I've been working on it though,
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he's... sometimes he's been like, "Yeah, maybe sometime in the future."
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So, [clicks]
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Maybe you'll see him one day.
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You can see a couple of photos of him on my Instagram account though,
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if you're just dying with curiosity to find out who he is, though.
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"Moose or meese?"
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Uhhhhhhhh.....
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Moose?
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I have a couple questions about ethical clothing,
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so,
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"Tips on how to source your clothing ethically?" and "Favourite brands?"
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I've actually written a couple of resources about this,
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which I'll link in the description box below,
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which you can find on my blog.
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I have both a letter that I responded to about ethical clothing,
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and also,
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an ethical clothing directory.
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So you guys should go check them out.
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"Would you rather be a piece of corn for one day of the year,
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so that you would live like a corn and
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and you could get digested but not die,
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or be invisible for one day of the year,
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but you have to be completely naked to be completely invisible,
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because only your body becomes invisible?"
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Obviously the invisible one.
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I don't care about being naked,
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and no one would be able to see me 'cause I'm invisible,
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so no one would be able to see that I'm naked
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so obviously the invisibility one, that would be awesome.
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I don't wanna be a piece of corn.
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"What is the hardest part about living with a chronic illness?"
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You guys wanted to get deep, huh?
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I guess the toughest part is that, it's...
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it's always there.
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Like, it affects me every single day.
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I can't just have a day where I wake up and I'm not sick.
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And things are always coming up because of it,
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I actually started trying to film this Q and A about a month ago,
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um,
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and then.
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as I was talking, I actually stopped being able to breathe properly, and ended up at the emergency room.
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The things I do for you guys!
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But that ended up being a side-effect of a medication I take
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to stop me dying from my illness.
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It's just something I have to deal with, all the time.
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Um, if you actually wanna know what
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it's like to live with a chronic illness,
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this YouTuber Hot Pink Sun makes some really, really awesome videos
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about disability and chronic illness.
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And you should go watch them.
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"If you had to choose a superpower, which would you pick?"
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The ability to stop time.
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Definitely.
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I've thought about this a lot, in the past.
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"If you could only make one DIY for the rest of your life, what would it be?"
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Now, I thought this was gonna be a harder question to answer, but
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[laughs]
T-shirts!
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I really like making t-shirts!
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At the moment, I've been making a lot of cute crop t-shirts to wear,
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and putting different prints on them,
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and doing contrasting ribbing, and...
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[sigh]
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That's a tough question though, I'd get really sick of it.
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But, if I had to, I have to choose one, it'd be t-shirts.
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"Would you rather be a planet, or the universe itself, controlling everything and everyone?"
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Oh, man.
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Well, if I was a planet, I'd just be a hunk of rock, so...
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I guess the universe?
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That's a lot of pressure. I get to control everything though.
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Actually, I like the sound of that!
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"What part of clothes making do you hate the most?"
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This used to be cutting out the fabric, until I got myself a rotary cutter.
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Now cutting out fabric's really easy, so,
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I actually really like all the parts of clothing making,
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a lot now.
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If you hate cutting like I did, don't suffer for four years,
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like I also did.
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Get yourself a rotary cutter and a cutting mat,
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those two things are amazing and will make your life so much easier.
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"If you had a useless superpower what would it be?
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For example: the power to fly, but only in enclosed spaces,
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or the power to sneeze garlic. It must be useless."
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I don't know, I think that the power to sneeze garlic
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would be useful in some situations.
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Like, if you run out of garlic, and,
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you had a recipe that needed garlic,
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who else is gonna be able to sneeze garlic?
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You would save the day!
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So,
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in a similar vein, I would have the power to change my lip colour
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to whatever I wanted
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it to be.
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Just using my mind.
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Not 100 percent useless, but pretty useless as a superpower.
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I think that fits your criteria.
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"What's your favourite protein slash protein complex?"
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Okay,
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so this will make sense to about 2 percent of the audience,
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my favorite protein is Leghemoglobin.
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Stop texting me!
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Oh, it's Katie.
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Oh! She wants to hang out tomorrow, okay!
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Now I'm gonna try and make the non-science-y people
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in my audience get interested in this.
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It's my favourite because
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two totally different species provide both components of the protein,
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and it only works once both species are together.
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So it's a protein that carries
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nitrogen and oxygen around plants,
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but it only exists when bacteria which are living in the plant's roots
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in a symbiosis, are in the plant
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and the plant produces the other half,
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and together,
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the protein comes together to make a thing that's similar to hemoglobin,
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which carries oxygen around blood,
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if you're a human.
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Which I'm assuming you are.
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So, the protein can only exist if there's bacteria living in the plant's roots.
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Also another reason why I love microbiology, because that's so freakin' cool.
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"Do you have any other talents aside from sewing?"
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I like to think I'm pretty good at science,
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I also know how to drum,
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and I'm pretty good at Scrabble.
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"Do you believe that there's life on other planets?"
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Yes, I do, definitely.
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I don't think that aliens have ever visited Earth,
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but, I think that there's so many planets
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in the universe, that there just has to be life, somewhere.
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"Have you ever seriously injured yourself with a sewing machine?"
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Yeah, I once, while I was sewing, I
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got my finger wedged underneath the foot somehow,
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and drove the- the- s- the needle right through my finger.
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Okay, not right through,
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but it, uh, cracked my fingernail, and
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went into the flash underneath.
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Pretty horrific.
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Be careful while sewing, guys, it's actually an extreme sport!
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Don't know if you knew that about sewing, but it is!
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Okay,
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I mean, yeah
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uh, that's
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that's all the questions I feel like answering.
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So, thanks for asking them,
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thanks for being lovely and supportive human beings,
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and, I'll see you all for my next video!
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Bye!
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