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Blog Schedule Update
Hello everyone! Micah here. I’m not sure if anyone has noticed my absence the last few months. I’ve been busy with more mundane things.
In this time, I’ve come to the conclusion that this blog is not as important to me as it once was. I’m still going to be here, but I won’t be updating regularly. I intend to show up randomly, when I have something to say. Figuring out a post for every month…
Hello my readers!
I would like to take a moment of your time to let you know that this blog will start posting only once a month, on the first Saturday of the month. The second Saturday will still be Color My Cartomancy spreads, until they run out (there’s only a handful left!).
The change is due to my mundane life–I am persuing an online degree and have a lot less time for anything but…
Hey Lovely Followers,
The inbox is now open!
-Wren
Hey Lovely Followers,
The inbox is now open!
-Wren
I have had writer’s block from hell lately, largely because I’ve been too attached to getting everything right.
This blog was easier to write when I posted every day, because it meant that I didn’t get trapped in perfectionism-driven writer’s block. I just wrote things that were as good as I could make them in the time I had available, then posted them, then posted more things.
Now that I don’t post every day anymore, my posts tend to get indefinitely delayed. Nothing I write lately feels good enough to post, and I want to just keep working on things until they feel done — but the thing is, there is *always* room to improve posts. Wanting to wait for things to be better isn’t resulting in better posts, it’s resulting in *no* posts.
So, I’m trying to keep in mind what I know: If I want to write good posts, I have to *actually finish posts*. Waiting for posts to be better will not get them written; being willing to write them will get them written. And if I write some bad posts along the way, that’s a step towards writing the posts I want to be writing long-term. Silence will not help.
With that in mind, I’m planning to post every day between now and Friday. I will most likely hate most if not all of this week’s posts, but they will be written and they are a step towards getting my blog voice back.
I decided to make a new blog mirror. From now on, realsocialskills.org will point to the new site, and realsocialskills.tumblr.com will be the URL for this site.
(The domain is still transferring, so realsocialskills.org may be down for a couple of days).
I’ll continue to post all of my posts to both realsocialskills.org and realsocialskills.tumblr.com. If you prefer to read via Tumblr, that will still work the way it always has. I will also continue to read my Tumblr asks and submissions.
Here’s why I’m adding a new site at realsocialskills.org:
Tumblr isn’t for everyone:
- Tumblr is a great platform — for some people.
- Some people would rather read a regular website than a social media website
- Some people find Tumblr completely unusable, especially on mobile devices.
- Tumblr sometimes breaks accessibility features, and I want a platform I have more control over.
- In order to make my website useable to more people, I’m making it possible to read my content without using Tumblr.
Tumblr might not be around forever:
- Social media sites come and go.
- Tumblr may shut down at some point.
- They also might change the interface or terms of service in ways that break my blog.
- (Eg: If they start requiring users to be logged in in order to read content)
- Tumblr also sometimes abruptly bans, shadowbans, or deletes accounts
- If Tumblr shuts down, deletes my account, or becomes unusable, I want my blog to keep existing.
- Creating another blog site mirror now means that if I lose access to Tumblr for whatever reason, I won’t lose all my subscribers.
Some links are probably going to break — please let me know if you encounter broken links, and I will fix them.
Anonymous said to realsocialskills: hi, I really appreciate all the social justice type posts you’ve been making but I was wondering if you are going to be continuing to make posts with tips about dealing with different social situations that can come up in day to day life? thanks
realsocialskills said:
Hi there!
The short answer: Yes, that’s my intention.
A somewhat longer answer: I’ve always defined social skills really broadly, and that’s going to continue to be the case. Some of my posts have political overtones, some don’t. From my perspective, it’s all about interacting with people.
It’s hard for me to predict what topics I’ll address when — I tend to write about whatever happens to be on my mind. That’s influenced by what I’m spending my non-blog time doing.
As you might imagine, I’ve been spending more time doing political things than I used to — so some of my posts reflect that.
Posts have been sparse because my computer has not been consistently functional for the past couple of weeks. I’m still intending to resume daily posting.
I think I speak for both Kitty and myself when I say this is quite unexpected. We started this blog a week ago, and we’re already past 100 followers! I really thank all of you guys, and hope you keep enjoying the content we post. Thanks for everything, and we’ll keep it up on our end for you ;) ~Sixxth
We’re moving the fics!
Hey guys! So I have finally decided I will put all of my works from this blog on AO3 (in case something happens and this blog gets killed or something). I will be reblogging some old content and give you guys the link to the AO3 fics soon.
Yours truly,
Glamrockmonarch
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oi gente !vcs devem estar se perguntando o porquê de eu não estar postanto tanto recentemente por aqui no blog… e eu vim explicar sobre isso, a verdade é que eu estava realmente ocupada com algumas atividades escolares e com coisas particulares da minha vida também (eu estava pretentendendo começar a trabalhar)… mas não se preocupem, eu vou fazer sim todos os pedidos assim que possível, por favor, eu espero que vcs possam entender e me desculpem a falta de posts aqui :(
sobre as requests fechadas:
bom, eu vou deixar elas fechadas por um tempo, até que eu possa retornar a fazer os pedidos, pois, eu não quero deixar os pedidos se acumulando.
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hey guys ! you guys must be wondering why I haven’t been posting recently here on the blog… so I came to explain about it, the truth is that I was really busy with some school activities and private things in my life too (bcs I was intending to get a job)… but don’t worry, I will do all ur guys requests as soon as possible, please I hope you guys understand me, and I’m sorry for keeping everyone waiting :(
about the requestclosed:
well, I’m going to leave the reqs closed for a while, until I can get back to ordering, because I don’t want to keep the reqs piling up.
hello 911 lovers!
we’re back from our break & our requests are open again now!
some things in our life changed so we’re quite busy. it means we won’t take more than 5 requests at a time to make it easier on us. you’ll have to wait a bit longer because we won’t have as much time to edit. don’t worry though, we’re looking forward to create things for you guys again!
with tumblr banning javascipt from pages (see herefor more info) we can’t edit ours (icons, headers and working on) so for now the icons & headers will only be in the posts and not the pages. we’ve contacted tumblr support and we’ll post an update once we get a reply.
we can use pages with javasciprit again and can update them, so you’ll find the graphics on it.
we hope you’re doing well and wanna say thank you for supporting this blog!
sending big hugs to you - j & n
over the next few days you’ll see some older art that was already on my blog get posted again; that’s because i edited the tags on the mobile app and it automatically deleted the captions. i didn’t notice until i had done this to five or ten posts. sorry about this.
i’m still working on the ask meme art. if you haven’t seen yours, hang tight. in the meantime, i have a public service announcement.
hi, everybody - im in debt! isn’t that funny? anyway, here’s how you can buy me!
rules:
- one or two people/characters
- + $5 per additional person/character
- no pornplease
- no real person ships. if they are real people and not characters, i don’t want to draw ships. unless they are married irl?? let’s play it by ear
- no cars or machinery unless you want it to be a nebulous heap of shapes with the word “car” written on it. if that is what you want, proceed
- i’m not great at animals so keep that in mind. but i will do my best
- i also reserve the right to turn down a request. you don’t want art from somebody who’s not into it. you’ll get it and it’ll smell like the fact that they weren’t into it
timeline:
- let me know if you have a deadline
- otherwise i will give you a loose eta
- and i will keep you updated on whether that timeline changes
prices:
payment on receipt. please do not break my trust and shatter my carefully rebuilt worldview. i will do my best to avoid breaking and shattering yours. that is how the cookie bounces
sketch/lineart
- black and white with some shading
- $15
blank background
- color but with only a solid color background
- $20
partial background
- color with simple or patterned background
- $25
full background
- color with fully suggested background
- $35
bonus:
first thing i lay my eyes on
- i will turn my head and draw the first noun i see
- $2
- wow!
betp, all these terrible things you’ve told me have somehow not turned me off of commissioning you! how can i get in contact with you?
well, i’ll tell you:
- my email: [email protected]
- ask or message on this blog
- ask or message on my main
god i hope i didn’t leave any typos in here
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To those who have sent in asks that I haven’t answered yet- I promise that I will answer them in the next few weeks. I’ve been unable to keep up with this blog as much recently due to school and other personal events, but I will not abandon it! I love answering people’s questions, and I don’t intend to ignore anyone. Thank you for your patience!
I’m sorry for not posting quite as much lately- I do have a few more asks to get to but the research for them is taking a bit longer than I originally thought it would.
In the meantime, I just wanted to post a friendly reminder that I do have a personal blog! I post on it daily, so if you want more of… well, me, then feel free to follow me on @historical-fangirl.
In honor of the 1st day of August, 2020, here is a list of the posts I have made so far on this blog about Tuck Everlasting (incidentally, this post is also the 100th post I have made on this blog, which is a bit of a milestone!)
How the Tucks Would Have Dressed in 1808 (With A Note About Winnie Foster’s Clothes in 1893)
Where Did the Tucks Come From?
What Miles and Jesse Would Have Worn as Children
What Winnie Would Have Worn as a Young Adult
What Mae and Angus Would Have Worn When They Got Engaged
Some of you may know me from my other history blog, @musicalhistory. Or you may be a complete stranger to me and my odd self, in which case welcome to my little corner of the internet!
This blog is my new personal blog (but be warned that it is technically a sideblog and so I will not be able to follow back from here). On it, you will be able to find links to my fanfiction writing, fun historical headcanons for any of the history-related fandoms I am in (and there are quite a few of them), updates about any historical sewing projects I may or may not be working on, occasional screeching about musical theatre, and general historical Aesthetics™. In short, this blog is the place where I will express myself and my interests in a less… academic way than on my other blog (although I still type and speak like a 130-year-old, don’t worry).
So, if all of that sounds interesting to you, follow this blog! And if it doesn’t and you couldn’t care less about anything to do with me and my life, that is a completely fair point and I hope you have a lovely rest of your day.
For those of you who care and would like the opportunity to see more of me outside of this blog- I now have a personal blog! There isn’t much on it at the moment, but (hopefully) there will be soon.
