"One touch of magic, coming up!"

these two 🫶

prefacing this by saying, this has been in my drafts for a While but i’m currently going through and queuing shit to clear it out sooooo strap in for a weird ride 🫶

Ghouls just vibing, mostly not talking, just basking in one another’s presence

Cumulus: Do we want like, 4 kilos of fresh strawberries?

Multiple startled ghouls at the interruption look up in confusion

Cirrus: babe it’s like 9pm, respectfully What The Fuck are you on about??

Cumulus: do we, or do we not, want a 4 kilogram pack of strawberries

everyone: …

cumulus: It’s a simple question, yes or no?

cirrus: what in Satans name would you do with that many strawb-

Aurora: *wandering back in from the kitchen* Obviously the answer is yes, Lus, who the hell would say no to that?

Cirrus: I’m not sure you understand how many fucking strawberries that is, Rory

Aurora: *shrugs as she plops down next to rain who’s blocking the others out* seems like the opposite of a problem to me, darlin’, i vote yes to the strawbs

Cumulus: alrighty then, well we better go get em

Aurora: WAIT like right now?

Lus’: yeah well she ain’t gonna hold em for us…

Dew: *sighing as he gets up wordlessly and grabs the car keys* cmon then, whose coming with me, none of you bitches can drive in the dark so guess that leaves you with me or yall are walking

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Ghosts spoilers under cut!!!!!

I ‘just’ finished the season and I have so many thoughts:

1. I am so glad no one got sucked off. Though I kinda wish Humphrey had been to be honest. I adore him but his treatment as a ghost is kinda depressing & his life was tragic and I think he deserved to be at peace

2. JAMES !!!! ANTHONY!!!!!! my heart actually heart watching that I felt like I was being torn apart. I wanted to cry I wanted to smile. Cap’s death was so sudden and tragic and his bit of backstory just left me wanting more. It’s just so fucking sweet he channelled his feeling of incompetence due to his rank and his place in society into becoming this father figure to Alison & most of the ghosts. He finally received the respect and love he deserved in death. Like he’s the one who brings them back together every single time it’s so beautiful.

3. WHY DOESNT ALISON GET TO KNOW ABOUT CAP ?!?? This is so fucking frustrating !!!

• Julian’s monologue. Oh my god. They know what their audience want. I never thought it would’ve come from him but I’m so glad it did it was perfect. The way everything came full circle was so perfect. My dream ending for this silly little show

• The ending was exactly what I wanted and needed and more. Just us panning out of Button House as they’re all watching tv together. I think I’ll have a love-hate relationship with all of the ambiguity of some things but I love that it didn’t feel so closed off and final. 1000000/10

• I hope the Xmas special flashes forward by year or so so we can see Alison & Mike’s baby

• Mike’s dream was pure nightmare fuel holy shit!! The voice was so fucking funny though (I have the sense of humour of a ten year old)

• I love how everyone had some kind of redemption. Especially Fanny 🥺 - ‘my new family’ and ‘You’re a very brave man’. And Barclay giving them old baby/kid stuff & reassuring Mike

oh btw i’ll be super offline this weekend cause i’m away for a wedding so i’ll be back with my hanji shenanigans on sunday 🤠

Trash Day

And I'm back with another clear out my drafts day! At least to start. I currently also have 245 uncompleted tags and 197 asks...

Yeah, it's trash day...

Crops in the ass.

I've got my drafts done and my queue set up to run my drafts until 6am est on Sunday. I have not gotten all of my asks done but those will likely be added to the queue. I'm starting to get more of a list of threads which I love, but I wanna keep things from overloading me. Thanks for baring with me. I may post things sooner, not sure.

What do you mean by digital cleaning?

It's something I've been working on more this year because I had a bit more travel than usual so couldn't do actual home cleaning, but I always take a couple of days in the Month Of Cleaning where I'm focused on my digital life. It's good to make your physical home a comfortable place for yourself, but it's also good to recognize that we have "digital" homes that need attention. And often this is at least less physically demanding, so it's good to keep it in your back pocket for days when you're mentally okay but physically too tired or sore to do more of that kind of work.

In the shortest possible terms, digital cleaning is just making sure that your phone, computer, socials, and other digital "presences" are organized in a way that you find helpful, and that you take a moment to either answer those messages you've been putting off or give yourself amnesty on doing so.

This tends to make a lot of people extremely anxious in a way ordinary physical space cleaning doesn't, so I'm going to put the rest of it behind a cut...

So when I say digital cleaning, I refer to stuff like going through my likes on Tumblr and clearing them out, going through my drafts and turning them into queued posts, answering my asks. I spend time in my email inboxes, either responding to messages or removing them. I am not an "inbox zero" kind of guy, but I like to keep the read-but-not-answered messages to a minimum, and towards the end of the year that usually means a clear-out and amnesty. I clean my Google Drive -- delete old files I uploaded for others, move documents I'm no longer using into an archive, move documents I want to work on into a central work folder. I go through my catch-all folder on my hard drive and organize it; I sort through the year's photos and organize those, partly to archive them and partly because I make a scrapbook from them each year. I don't usually have a ton of tabs open but often have more than I'd like, so I go through them all and either read, bookmark, or get rid of them.

I look in my phone's file tree to make sure I delete files I don't need (mostly menu downloads, Restaurants Stop Making Your Menus PDFs Challenge 2K24) and I sometimes go through each app on my phone, make sure I still use it, and make sure it's set how I want it. If this sounds like a nightmare, bear in mind that I very rarely put apps on my phone to start with -- I think my mother has more apps open at any given time than I have apps on my phone ever.

Everywhere I clean, I look for files named things like "notes" or "deal with" or "random" and move them all into one place so that whatever is in them, I can sort through it and make sure it goes somewhere permanent. Logins go in the login/password spreadsheet I keep, addresses go into my contacts, story notes go into a "fiction scraps" file, random thoughts either get moved into a journal file or put into drafts to become Tumblr posts, etc.

If this sounds like I might have some kind of compulsion disorder, I get that; when I explain my digital hygiene systems a lot of people look at me like I'm spouting a mad but harmless conspiracy theory. But it's something I used to have to do periodically even before I created National Clean Your Home Month, because otherwise I could never find anything, and everything was just...harder. As I once told a boss who admired my organizational skills, "It was this or endless chaos."

Putting addresses into my contacts list means I always know that the addresses I have for my friends are up to date. Putting logins into a spreadsheet means that five minutes spent now will not result in five weeks of procrastination later because I can't find the login and can't do anything else until I do that. Going through my email and archiving old conversations means not only can I find them easily when needed, I don't have to look at them the rest of the time. Sometimes I even go through my various wish lists and remove old/purchased items, or clear out all my "save for later" carts.

There's no doubt this is stressful, but like every part of NaClYoHo, it's broken down into smaller tasks; I don't have to look at my computer and organize everything on it all in one day. I can answer a few asks, then sort photos (something I find very soothing up until the moment I Don't), then read and delete some emails, then I'm done for the day. I can spread "answer or file all your work emails" out over a couple of days. I can maybe empty out my Likes but just turn the ones I actually want to reblog into drafts for now and deal with them later in the "drafts" phase of cleaning. And if I don't manage to empty out my inboxes, at least they're emptier than they were.

I'm struggling this morning with having put a bunch of physical cleaning on the to-do list but not feeling physically up for it, so I did what I felt capable of doing (measuring cabinets for new shelf liners mainly) and later today I might sit down and start building this year's photobook. Or not -- I have to code Radio Free Monday, sort out a prescription and possibly go pick it up, plus a very full day of work and a couple of afternoon appointments I can't shirk, so today may simply be a "get through the day" kind of day. That's okay too; some days the spirit is willing but the schedule is full.

Little blog update

Hello everyone! :D

I really wanted to do a little blog update since the last time I posted was just around a year ago. At that time I wasn't doing the best mentally and was struggling with guilt for not rebloging more of the incredible Undertale art due to the lack of mental and emotional energy.

You all supported me so much and told me it was completely ok to just reblog and not pressure myself to add personalized and long tags to everything I reblog and... I have!

Last year in January this was the situation:

I had posted around 4000 posts in 5 years and accumulated 4000 drafts in that same time span and things have changed... a lot @_@

Not only have I been able to clear out all the drafts, everything was queued (in groups of 1000 posts cause dumblr only allows a 1000 post queue -_-) but I have been keeping the queue full for the whole year! It hasn't dropped below 850 queued posts during that whole time, despite me posting between 35-50 post daily (I raise the daily posts when the queue gets too full).

How many posts is that, you might wonder? :3

A LOT! XD

This whole year I posted ~4000 old drafts, ~7000 new ones and almost 1000 are in the queue still! And that's not even all of the art that I saw, just the stuff I could fit in my queue! This fandom is freaking incredible guys! We are going strong and creating so so so much wonderful stuff!

I just wanna say how happy I am to see the fandom still going so strong! Thank you everyone who keeps creating and making every day a discovery and a joy to exlore.

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just to clear something up because apparently even when I’m not talking I’m causing drama.

I feel left out because people are talking about stuff I don’t know!! and people have little friend groups (WHICH IS OK! YOU DONT NEED TO BE MY FRIEND THATS JUST HOW I FEEL) where they have little jokes and it’s kind of isolating especially when my content, the sole reason I come here, isn’t gaining traction, replies, reblogs, comments etc. Because it’s not popular.

There’s currently a surplus of people writing about college students, freshmen and I simply do not fit in that category and I will not. The same boys being written about, called me m’am while talking to me so clearly they also think I’m OLD so I will not be engaging in that, it’s just a weird place and I’m trying to find my situation in it.

Nobody is being mean to me, I just feel a certain way and nobody owes me anything because of that.

I’ll see you guys next week. all of my queued drafts are out 🤎

A mutal of mine is making some very good points about the need for patience when it comes to roleplaying, and it's prompting to me to give some minor psas about my roleplaying style

As a general rule of thumb, I reply to things in the order I've owed them. You can lose notions of playing favorites in this sense. That has no bearing in my reply order

I break above rule on a few exceptions: for ask memes and the first reply in a thread - and this is done to reassure people I'm genuinely interested in the interaction

If I reply to a smaller thing many times in the same day, it's because its not all that serious of a thread and im likely gonna drop it at the end of the day. These are mainly for the memes and dash commentaries

If you see multiple queued replies in a row for the same person come out, it's because they replied to all those threads in quick succession.

I have a lot of drafts and ongoing threads. give it time. Yes, it takes a while

I hope this clears up an confusion about my reply times to people

//my goal for this week

clear out drafts (almost all will be queued)

do starter calls (will be posted as i do them)

make some open starters (will be queued)

here's hoping i don't loose steam

"Ah yes, flowers in the attic, as opposed to crops in the ass."

-@jumperk, 2022