#life check

[theredconversegirl]

~2024 Update

Hello my dear 🍅🌸 friends,

I hope you all had a great 2023 and happy 2024! ✨

It’s been so long - just over a year, I know. 😲 I miss you and being here a lot. I’m still fighting more battles than I can handle, but while fighting them, I realized that I also deserve some small mercies. 🥰

I love reading, I love SS, I love writing, and I love helping you guys, so while I’m not fully back here or active every day like I used to, I’ll start to indulge in small visits here and there. 🥳

I don’t want to create any expectative or promise anything that I can’t deliver, so I created a FAQ page to address common questions, and to outline my plans for sharing content in future interactions.

I tried to be honest with myself as I wrote the page. Essentially, it covers questions about Asks, Reading/Writing, and what I can do online now without overwhelming myself and my life (health/family/work). 🙏😅

You can check it here: FAQ 💬

I've also updated our beloved MASTERPOST. There were a few broken links that weren't opening in the app. And I changed the blurb on the top with current info.😉

Besides this quick update, I wanted to thank everyone for sticking around and for all the kind messages sent my way. 🤗 You guys are awesome! You all make my day and warm my heart with your kindness. 🥰 I really appreciate all of you, thank you so much!! ❤️

I hope everyone has a great week, sending lots of love! 💕

Stay Safe,

xoxo

#personal #quick update #thanks everyone #faq page #life check #life is hard and unfair #it can only get better #miss you all

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours? #also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that! #unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week

[diabloku]

Lucifer: *enters the hotel*

Alastor: I cast vicious mockery 😈

An animation my sis and I made for fun

Music is Perception Check by Tom Cardy.

#hazbin hotel alastor #Hazbin hotel #Hazbin hotel Lucifer #vivziepop #Hazbin hotel fanart #Alastor #Lucifer #Perception check #“you're much shorter in real life” #Alastor has no mercy if you're under 5“2 lol #I did: the storyboard; artworks and animation #And my sis did: the coloring; animation as well and the compositing #Team work makes the dream work lol

[whump-it-like-its-hot]

So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?

“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”

And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.

#not whump #more real life ramblings let’s gooooo #EDIT genuinely why is THIS the post that took off #I have muted notifications for this thing mate I didn’t even double check my spelling #and you fuckers ran with it #good for you but also why

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

woke up and someone spilled vanilla extract all over my dash, so as punishment you strange little beasties are getting all the VANILLA FACTS i know:

vanilla is the 2nd most expensive spice in the world (2nd to saffron)

which is why more than 99% of what we call "vanilla extract" is actually vanillin (vanilla's dominant flavor compound) and is not extracted from real vanilla.

luckily, even professionals struggle to tell the difference when it comes to things like baked goods. but there is a distinct difference in non-heat treated products like vanilla ice cream. real vanilla has a more complex, individualized flavor profile.

why is vanilla so expensive? because it is a ridiculously delicate & demanding crop. complete primadonna.

vanilla beans come from vanilla orchids. these crazy flowers bloom for A SINGLE DAY and have to be HAND-POLLINATED in a process that is exhausting, delicate, and requires specialist knowledge passed down over generations.

then, if you're lucky, you get vanilla beans.

which then require months of further specialized treatment.

the entire process takes about a year and can go wrong at any stage

vanilla has been cultivated for over 800 years (possibly much longer). the first known cultivators are the Totonac, an indigenous people of Mexico.

the Aztecs used it as a sweetener to balance out the bitter taste of cocoa. it was popular in a drink called xocolatl--the precursor to modern hot chocolate!

it is only pollinated by a very specific orchid bee!!!

which is why no fruit could be grown outside of Mexico until the 1800s

Edmond Albius, born into slavery, invented the pollination method we still use today--launching a global industry when he was just 12 years old.

today, the majority of the world's vanilla is grown in Madagascar

if you want real vanilla, read the labels carefully--it's harder to find than you think!

in conclusion, those tiny black specks you see in fancy vanilla ice cream? those are vanilla bean seeds! itty bitty orchid seeds!!! they are delicious and also a PRISSY BITCH!

(src)

#Vanilla Extract #i open the tumblr app and immediately my nostrils are invaded by the overwhelming stench of vanilla #also if you want real vanilla extract at a discount: check out stores like HomeGoods TJMaxx Marshalls etc #the foodstuffs section tends to have fancy nonperishables for much cheaper than upscale grocery stores #you can get things like saffron truffles fancy oils at surprising prices #still expensive but like. 50% cheaper #or just shoplift if that's your thing i won't tell you how to live your life #did i just spend an hour writing this? yes. why did i do that? i don't KNOW

[swordy-da-goat]

Do the traffic cones have any basic knowledge like shapes and colors or do they have to learn all that from road wiz?

They have a school session every week

#the road wiz #myart #sqwonks #they’re teaching the smaller ones because they’ve been brought to life last #fact check me if i got that fact wrong though

[thelostmoongazer]

Undivided attention

#if your subcribed to my patreon you would have seen this early #check pinned for my patreon if you want early access to stuff like this! #lego monkie kid #lmk #lmk fanart #lmk sun wukong #lmk mk #moon art #digital #comic #long post #context to this is that i like dad!wukong head canons #and i like to think that wukong took care of mk for the first couple of years of his life before he dropped him on pigsy's doorstep

[existedwithoutyourpermission]

Update

#1 - school update

um... im going to boarding school for highschool!!! which means i probably wont have time to write much or probably update

that is.. if i pass the tests for it!

the school is pisay/pshs v

(stripped straight out of their fb page LOL)

its the butuan campus! you will never know who i am or what i look like though bc i dont even plan on to showing how my face looks hehehe

i mean

unless you somehow know my facebook

or my name

or both (hello fb friends & family)

anyways

im hoping to get in

im unsure if i ever will though

the deadline for the application is like at october 13

close to my birthday (october 25) amazing yes but the exams are at november 18

im so excited

i still have to apply though

so theres that!

im probably gonna be a dead blog again due to possibilities of being burnt out bc of this being a "research-oriented and specialized public high school system in the Philippines that operates as an attached agency of the Philippine Department of Science and Technology." (ripped off of google)

im unsure about passing but hopefully i do

#2 - HOC (House Of Chaos)

now; about the house of chaos fanfic, if you ever read #1, you know at some point i will either probably pass or not pass science high, but i am going to apply !!

so if i pass, just know i am going to be fluffin' piled with gosh knows how much homework and studies!!!!!!!!

i'll be burnt out or probably somehow get not so burnt out lolz

so back to the fanfic

im ofc going to write part 2 if i have motivation!!!!! but if it somehow isnt written until an update probably about pisay its probably going to happen but it will be a long time, please bear with me here!!!!!!!

im pinky promising you guys i will not leave the fanfiction into the depths of the void in this blog

pLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE bear with me

i promise to try and update about the part 2

#3 - status/life

honestly im (d)ucking tired but not much to the point I have legitimate eyebags. although at some point accidentally sleep in class (tysm classmate in front my seat that wakes me up)

my life is a basically holding onto music (coping mechanism)

well thats pretty much it bye I guess see you soon in another update

#welcome home #hannibal #nbc hannibal #aa #ace attorney #ace attorney phoenix wright #anon #anon ask #answered asks #ask away #life check #life checks #relatable #wait is this even relatable #idfk at this point #spiralling into my own void of madness that haunts me as it eats me away and leaves me hollow and empty with nothing but as a puppet #a puppet #nothing #but #a #puppet. #a puppet to be controlled #I knew not let it do that #but I'm nothing but an idiot #an idiot who can't suck it up #someone who can't even control #..

[moonilit]

He got some fact checking to do

#Crepus lost like 5 years of his life at that moment #He will lose more #You can tell me Diluc cried and was all ‘was i a bad older brother’ #I don’t believe it #Kaeya probably told him he will go check things out in sumeru #And diluc was sure. #They are kids they probably don’t know how long a mile is #‘Far’ is just what’s behind the hill #I like to think crepus took the next ship immediately #He didn’t even returned to the winery that day #He just handed Diluc to addy jcsthnk #Crepus #kaeya #diluc #genshin impact

[ghost-comets]

as soon as riz mentioned that thumbs up this was all i could envision for that scene

#BYE GIRLIEE #imagine throwing your parents for such a fucking loop that they have disadvantage on insight checks against you for the REST OF YOUR LIFE #fantasy high #fhjy #dimension 20 #riz gukgak #kristen applebees

[madootles]

dramatic eyes. dramatic lips. drama on the cheeks.

sketch

#the fuck's a look?? #this show keeps making me cry happy tears #this show made me cry last season when ed and stede kissed. Now I'm crying because LOOK AT IZZY! LOOK AT WEE JOHN!!! #please for the love of god only look at this with the night light filter on. forgot my screen was tinted yellow and the colors are FUCKEDDD #ya ya It’s la vie en rose I didn’t check my references my b my b je regrette ok #our flag means death #ofmd #our flag means death spoilers #ofmd season 2 #izzy hands #wee john feeney #ofmd s2e6 #this show brings me so much joy especially now when everything is so hard in real life. #they just get to be queer with their pirate friends #skdfjhskhgjfnlisadfhlksjdfh;sk #art #fan art #the first time in a while I've been inspired to make art :_) I love

[theredconversegirl]

~TRCG update

Hello dear friends,

Hope everyone is doing well. 💕

I stopped by to let you all know that I’m alive (haha) and that I miss being here with you. Unfortunately, life circumstances are keeping me away from tumblr, social media, and most (if not all) of my hobbies. 

Within the last six months, I was diagnosed with a few conditions which I briefly mentioned before but I won’t go into detail -- it’s certainly life changing but not threatening if I take care of myself, and I’ve been working on that since then. But on top of that, both Mr. Red Converse and I were laid off recently, within a couple months of each other. The tech layoffs caught up to us it seems. 😭

Anyway, while I’m trying to put my life back together, I just wanted to say hello and that I’m not away because I want to. Hopefully, once this rough patch is past us, I’ll be back with full force, filling your timeline with endless rec lists and new fics to read. 🙏🥰

I’m grateful for everyone that still lurks around my blog and likes my posts - it’s heartwarming to see the notifications, and sometimes it’s what makes my days brighter. (Ugh, I’m sounding so broody and sulky that I’m sure I could write some good angsty fics if I could stop to channel this feeling into a blank page lol).

Hope you are having fun with all this official SasuSaku content and the new fanfics & fanarts that are for sure being posted following all the Retsuden saga. 🍅🌸  

I wish everyone a great week! 🤍

Stay Safe,

xoxo

#personal #life check #quick update #thanks everyone #hope to be back soon #adulting is hard #and exhausting #missing SasuSaku #and tumblr

[bloodysparklez]

wake up babe, hua cheng saying "as you wish" in the new tgcf dub episode just dropped

#tgcf #hualian #hua cheng #xie lian #tgcf fanart #qi rong #he xuan #princess bride au #I REBLOGGED W MORE OF THIS AU - PLS CHECK THE REBLOGS OR MY ACC IF U WANNA SEE MORE #someone did a dub over of the he xuan doodle and its the best thing thats ever happened to me #kieran lastname and james cheek i owe u my life

[taiistired]

real life winner

#taevi.png #life series #cleo #zombiecleo #zombie cleo #rlsmp #real life smp #rlsmp spoilers #SO. THAT VIDEO HUH #spent like 2 hours getting to the airport and finally got through security only to check my phone and get whiplash at EVERYTHING #i'm heartbroken i couldn't bring my headphones sadly

[shortkingvi]

we seal mike flanagan away for a year and then every october he re-emerges like a progressively more insane little show business gremlin to put a curse on my bloodline

#every fucking october now i’m forced to face some deeply buried truth that i’ve avoided about my life #he said oh you thought the catholic trauma vampire show was bad? check this out #fall of the house of usher #midnight mass #haunting of hill house #haunting of bly manor #mike flanagan

[thrill-kill-kult]

#I hope a lot of people see this #poll #music #metal #Im genuinely just so curious about how people build their music taste #I’d say I most often find an artist on a Spotify generated playlist or in my recommendations #and I’ll listen to their top songs then start going through their albums #but I do love using gnoosic and obscurify #I also love finding small playlists #esp ones made by musicians #huge fan of the aggrotech attack playlist #I like pride myself on having extremely obscure taste in music lol #I love showing people cool small bands they’ve never heard of before #on that note check out My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult #and Xorcist