💔☕️🌻 aromanticism/relationships, growth from suffering, beauty of daily life + sunflowers w/ Nathan of Crawl Across the Sky (26)

Co-Host: Crawl Across the Sky / Host: Xinyi Xan (@xinyixan) 🥳✨JULY GAME 1YR BDAY GAME NIGHT: 👉🏼 Sign Up 👈🏼 Do you love meeting new people? Do you like games? Do you like conversation? Grab your favorite drink and join us for the 1 year anniversary of Don't Be Strangers Podcast + community with a game night celebration! If you enjoy conversational card games such as Table Topics or We’re Not Really Strangers, we'll be playing a similar game: Don't Be Strangers Q&A Edition, where everyone will have a chance to answer thought-provoking questions inspired by the podcast. 💌 📬 Join Our Digital "Pen Pals" Club to Meet Other Introspective/Students of Life 👋🏼 Come Say Hi! @dontbestrangers 📍🗺 My Remote Office Coffeeshop Reviews (Google Maps) 💬 Join Our Discord! Welcome back to Don’t Be Strangers, a series of wholesome conversations that focuses on fighting social isolation through stories of everyday people. **I’m your host XinYi, and I typically meet my co-hosts for the very first time while recording! If this sounds fun to you, please consider applying to co-host a future episode. Or if you’re into community building and making friends, we now have a Discord channel open to you. All that information can be found on instagram @dontbestrangers! Also… July is the official one year birthday of Don’t Be Strangers! We’re celebrating with an public free virtual game night on Sunday July 24th. It’ll be small groups, conversational style, answering questions from past podcast episodes. You’ll get to meet other cool potential new friends who are all into deep-talk. I’ll just be chill with good vibes. Sign-ups are currently open and linked from the instagram page! Today I’m speaking with my friend Nathan of Crawl Across the Sky whom I first met in a FB group called Asian Creative Network. Occasionally I scroll through the newsfeed in that community and like posts and comments to send some good vibes. Well, apparently I had liked one of Nathan’s posts and he tried to friend me. I asked him who he was (because I forgot that he was one of the people’s who’s post I liked) and he told me that he thought I lived in his part of the world due to the context of the post he shared (the one that I liked). And then, me being me, was like, hey why not. I accepted the friend request and soon after we had our first video call. My first impression of Nathan from 2019 is that he’s a multi talented artist who does graphics, illustrations and paintings, and is a musician. Extremely well read and it showed in the way he spoke. And honestly, I left that first conversation lowkey intimidated by how cool he was. In this conversation, we touch on topics such as… my aromanticism his aspirations to pivot his career from being a studio patiner into programming Everything Everywhere All At Once Sunflowers and how they grow in nuclear toxic waste the theme of suffering in Nathan’s art