He no longer wanted to know of a hand like His, holding Velochar’s cheek as he wept. A voice like His, telling him it will be alright. It was because of a thing that wore His skin and looked—
Season 1 ena: Has literally no responsibilities, spends all of her time just walking around or hanging out with her friend, very emotionally unstable obviously but one of the few npcs who say something that’s truly upsetting immediately backpedals and offers her kindness instead
I’m going to the conservatory and the zoo tomorrow; treating myself like a blue-haired senior who needs to be bused from her retirement home to on weekends for cultural enrichment.
I made this post two years ago, and nothing has so meaningfully improved my life as “treat yourself like a senior citizen and schedule some enrichment.” I have an honest-to-god enrichment calendar now. It exists specifically as a place to put all the stuff that I might want to do on a random evening or weekend. And I read local papers a lot more, searching for things to do, smaller events that are more up my alley or offbeat street fests that I wouldn’t know about otherwise. (Side benefit—I know a lot more about local reporting too.) It doesn’t matter that I put plenty of events on the enrichment calendar that—because it’s on a Wednesday, because I’m tired, because the planets are in the wrong position—I don’t go to! The point is not create an unbending obligation that will haunt me to my grave; the point is to pay more attention to the world, and leave my apartment to join it sometimes.
Basically, I don’t think there’s going to be an announcement that Tumblr is getting shut down. If the pattern we’re seeing holds, I don’t even think it’s going to happen intentionally. I think Tumblr is going to go out like an early 2000s forum: they’re just going to keep cutting the tech support budget until something goes wrong in a way that none of the remaining skeleton crew know how to repair, which could be tomorrow or three years from now. If it does happen, it’s probably going to happen completely at random, so there’s no point stressing out!