1. What's your favorite animal? panther
2. What's your favorite color? purple
3. What did you dream of becoming when you were a little kid? explorer/field biologist or fabulously successful medical researcher
4. When did you come out as trans, gay, etc? I'm not counting saying "I'm a boy" when I was little. I casually called myself "gay" (while exclusively dating guys) starting in maybe 2005 or so. Came out as specifically trans in late 2009.
5. What's your favorite food? My favorite food is tabooli, but I don't buy or make it much, and it's just a side dish. My favorite food that I actually eat is stir fry with brown basmati rice. Various vegetables, and peanuts rather than tofu. Lots of lemon juice and ginger.
6. What funny stereotype are you? Trailer trash. I'm uncultured, have bad teeth, drawl when I'm tired, had a kid as a teenager, get welfare, eat too much grits and tomatoes, smoke cigarettes (never inside, and now only occasionally), and I'm mean and white and desperately poor.
7. What are you studying/plan to study/studied? I was studying genetics and neurobiology, and because it takes awhile to satisfy college prereqs as a 7th grade dropout, I had time to get pretty deeply into linguistics and spanish too. Now I study Oregon history as a layman in my free time.
8. What's your favorite time of year? autumn
9. What are your nicknames? My nicknames are/have been Spike, Scavenger, Batman, Luka, Lucas, Jessica, Becca, Kael, Marie, Louise, Rat, RL, and Chiquita. Don't ask me how all that happened. Only Luka was my doing, when I was 14. And Felix, of course.
10. What's one item you could not live without? A pen. Writing makes me feel better.
I really enjoyed reading everyone else's responses. But I have no clue what a scruff is, and I've never seen spaghetti bolognese. I dig spaghetti and scruffiness, though.