#I'm not a cheese blog everyone I promise. this is the last of the asks i've received on the matter

[bookwyrminspiration]

its like your dream

It is! It is like my dream! It's my dream's cousin, it's distant but related second uncle, or something. Not exactly the same, but in the same family and recognizable.

One thing I've noticed so far that I find humorous is the juxtaposition of posts crossing my dash. They're either maxed out in terms of reactions or entirely blank. There are those that haven't maxed them out yet, but I keep scrolling from maxed out posts to posts without a single reaction, and I can't help but wonder what qualifications we're collectively using for these reactions. What posts merit reactions?

Alas, I do not know! But it would be interesting to figure out if there's a pattern or not. That aside, I hope everyone is enjoying the cheese on the dash. Especially all you lactose intolerant people <3

[manako-no-yami]

I posted 344 times in 2022

That's 66 more posts than 2021!

21 posts created (6%)

323 posts reblogged (94%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@its-tea-time-darling

@cloversdreams

@elytrians

@clotpolesonly

@sgchan

I tagged 337 of my posts in 2022

Only 2% of my posts had no tags

#rb - 300 posts

#prompt - 53 posts

#tmr - 26 posts

#thomally - 19 posts

#tea - 14 posts

#ask game - 12 posts

#clod not lefting but - 12 posts

#thomallyweek2022 - 9 posts

#in which everyone wishes clod would shut up - 9 posts

#tmr thomas - 8 posts

Longest Tag: 86 characters

#i just wanted to note for posterity that tea tagged me in a post that she rbed from me

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

like the sun from behind the clouds

Tags: alternate universe - modern setting, mild angst, making out, alotta cheese in this one folx, i do think there’s some, fluff, in this one tho so, yknow, hopeful ending, ??? i think? its soft okay despite the concept of the fic

Summary:

"Promise me," he says. "Promise me you won't forget me."

for day 6 of thomally week!

9 notes - Posted March 25, 2022

#4

the eternal gamble: will my sleep deprivation unlock a cosmic connection deep in the recesses of my brain and bring forth brilliance heretofore unknown, or will it just make my writing sloppy

13 notes - Posted March 2, 2022

#3

fate, pulling me back. you, pulling me forward.

Rating: T

Tags: movieverse, pre-slash, the last city, safe haven, a smidge of suicidal ideation, canon character death, post-canon

Wordcount: 1483

Summary:

"I'm sorry," Thomas says. "If I could change what happened, I would. I'm sorry I'm such a right selfish bastard, and I'm sorry for being presumptuous, and I'm sorry I couldn't save everyone.""No one can save everyone," Gally says. "You were stupid to think you could.""I know. But I had to try." - Thomas can’t help angsting. Gally is having none of it.

for day 1 of thomally week!!

14 notes - Posted March 20, 2022

#2

blinded by starlight, ch. 2: death, natural and unnatural

Work Summary:

Once upon a time, a hunter and a witch lived deep in a forest. All the hunter wanted was to live out his days peacefully and quietly with the witch. But the hunter and the witch are not the only ones that live in the forest—there is also the Beast, a ferocious, unknown monster that awakens with a terrifying cry every night.

The forest grows restless, the Beast hungry. But little does the hunter   know, these are the least of his worries. Another danger is creeping upon him, and it is after his heart. After all, what damage can the Beast do, in comparison to the monster known as love?

Featuring hunter!Gally, witch!Newt, and forest guardian!Thomas. Thomas/Newt/Gally. Rated T. Multichapter WIP.

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Notes: Implied/Referenced Suicide and Bullying tags added.

15 notes - Posted January 11, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

POV :)

Gally recognizes the knight right away. How could he not? He's had his eye on Thomas since they were eight, whether Thomas knew it or not (he didn't). He looks just a bit older, now. How long has it been since Gally left? He keeps track when he spends his days inside the tower, but it's been long enough that time has ceased to have any meaning. Gally wonders which advisor suggested sending Thomas here, or if Thomas volunteered. He doesn't have to wonder what he was sent here for---Gally has been expecting an attempt on his life from his enemies in court for awhile now. It's been long overdue.

Thomas is a good choice for this quest. Well, mostly. He's talented and charismatic in all the ways that Gally isn't. Capable, and hungry for accomplishment. However, he's also a complete idiot, from what Gally can tell.

Hence---approaching a dragon, notoriously prickly, proud, and dangerous creatures, alone and without the advantage of surprise.

He feels the embers in his belly stir as he breathes, and allows tendrils of smoke to escape his jowls in warning.

Thomas responds by throwing aside his sword.

I could kill you right where you stand, Gally thinks. Why are you so certain I won't?

"You're quite beautiful, milady," Thomas says, bowing. He sounds reverent, sincere.

He's naive.

Gally has to keep from rolling his eyes. He beats his wings, lifting into the air just slightly, and controls his descent carefully before landing in front of the knight, who is now staring, slack-jawed, from where the wind knocked him onto the ground.

Gally closes his eyes, and lets the transformation take over.

He supposes it’s about time he face his old rival again, in person.

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(this is for my day 2 thomally week fic!)

18 notes - Posted February 11, 2022

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[issela-santina]

a Filipino girl's random thoughts re the Josh dela Cruz era of Blue's Clues, so far

NOTE: I will continually come back to edit this post because if I just reblog this to enter new thoughts, you won't get the whole thing.

Josh is brown as heck and whenever I look at it, he puts Filipino mass media networks to shame. We're used to seeing Western-pretty light-skinned people more often than not; if you're Filipino and you have one white parent and glowed up abroad, Filipinos would flock to you easily. Josh was Dubai-born and grew up in NJ yeah but still, seeing a brown-skinned, full-blooded Filipino on that screen, especially getting to know that Steve, Angela, &al picked Josh for his energy instead of his race, was refreshing to say the least.

Josh came in and told everyone at his audition that he's 5'10" (sorry @ everyone who was misinformed that he was 5'5"). In case you're curious, our word for describing tall people is "matangkad". I'm 5'1" so in my POV, matangkad si Steve. Mas matangkad si Josh. Pinakamatangkad si Joe. You get the idea.

I asked about the pineapple bibingka when resident lola/granny Carolyn Fe posted about her BC&Y! rep on FB's Subtle Asian Traits group. The responses were sparse but they have admitted they like their bibingka with mango or peach as well. It's not the first time I've heard of fruit bibingka since at least in fiction there's Deuce Bigalow's white dad who admitted that he loved the Filipino mom's raspberry bibingka. The reason I'm curious is because where I live, bibingka toppings are savory like salted egg or cheese. Moreover, I'm used to watching people bake it in clay pots over a fire around Christmastime. Masarap talaga, promise.

WHEN JOE SAID YUM OVER THAT BIBINGKA PRESENT MY BRAIN CHEMICALS EXPLODED. THAT'S IT. THAT'S WHY MY BLOG HAS BEEN FLOODED WITH DONOVAN PATTON MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE.

Carolyn greeted me on my 25th this year on Twitter with a link to the bilingual Happy Birthday video and it's the best thing that happened on that day. She might also influence my singing. Who knows. But I want to cover her when I have the energy. (Check out Carolyn Fe Blues Collective!!)

The way Josh looks, he looks like the grown-up version of a children's book character I used to pick off a university press or book fair shelf and then secretly read. I forgot the author(s) or the character's first name but the character's last name was Dacanay. He lived a provincial/small-town life somewhere in Pangasinan(?) and dreamed not high, but deeply.

Josh's superpower is making a guitar suddenly appear whenEVER he needs it. Fully strung and well-tuned. As a musician, sana all.

Josh-wolf from the Halloween specials haunts me so much because we have the aswang, aka this giant snowballed convolution of concepts all of which cannot just be encompassed by translations like werewolf or vampire. Fan fiction based on this would kill me.

Blue's looks in the original were nice but the reboot looks are my kind of cute. She's fuzzy. I could pet her and Magenta all day.

Steve's episodes have been the ones I look out for with the most hype. Not only his appearances as a character but also when he writes, directs, and produces. I kinda want one where he leaves clues himself.

I read from an interview with Josh that Joe/Donovan is writing and directing BC&Y! stuff too, and I'm anticipating what he brings to the table in that department. After trolling us into playing Joe's Clues and making us guess a mystery present, I think he'd make a wicked gamemaster.

Joe and Josh need to have a skidoo adventure together. Please.

Considering that someone tweeted about Blue's Clues crossing into gothic horror territory after introducing Joe (who also eventually embraced his inner kidcore goth by wearing purple as standard), the tradition continues with Josh: dressing up as a beholder at one point like the previous two hosts and as a wolf multiple times, able to conjure an instrument out of nowhere, and of course, his skidoos emit spirals like it's happening in a Junji Itō storyworld.

Steve and Joe wear their colors brighter now compared to their original series wardrobes. Josh is as blue as the early morning twilight sky.

There's a ghost in the living room because the resident who, as a child, summoned an unworldly hound out of a book one cold winter's night had said so. What else can Steve do?

It's really nice that retail workers get some representation with Joe but my gosh having a tall hot pallid middle-aged kidcore goth with cheekbones that can cut through glass suddenly appear every few episodes to give a side quest makes me weak. I would adjust my spending habits just to see him more often. (Editing to realize that there's been a song written of this kind of sentiment back in 1993.)

Trader Joe's. HAS NO ONE NOTICED—

Headcanons: Marlee goes to Joe's present store to buy gifts on occasions. Joe barely has time to himself because of the shifts but when he does give himself a break he wants to sit in the library and read. Steve frequents a small restaurant that Miranda runs; after a long day at work the two sometimes take the opportunity to talk about life and their dogs.

I'm hoping more cultural holidays get a deep dive the way Chanukah got it with “Festival of Lights”. Start with Kwanzaa since I remember it getting touched upon back in the old series.

When did I crush hardest on Josh? The moment he operatically got an email.

He hears a strange whirring sound, and proceed to find clothes strewn all over the bedroom. Song Man realizes that he forgot that he's doing the laundry. After playing Blue's Clues. He hears a strange whirring sound.

Josh's handy dandy notebook is a writer's/artist's wildest dream. It's as thick as a fricking novella. And the smartphone on the back cover? Warms your pages. I don't know if you like that but I do. Having Steve and Joe on speed dial is a bonus.

Can't say if this era's takes on the old tunes are better because the beat breaking the flow before the last words of the line gives those last words more emphasis: a redeeming factor since the flow is jagged and syncopated compared to the old version which more easily follows the beat. Yes I am a nerd.

„Isang Araw Kasama Si Plum“ („Un Día con Plum“ pero Tagalog imbes na Español)? Pwede ba?

The amount of eye bag on the boys but especially Josh is a mood in and of itself.

DONOVAN PATTON × CAROLYN FE COLLAB WHEN?

“I'd go anywhere with you!” Josh, I'm a homebody, pero sige.

So does Blue have her own handy dandy notebook or does she borrow it from Josh just for the song?

I'm kinda here for the fact that this school canonically managed to employ 2 different teachers named Marigold.

“My favorite part of school is snack time.” BRUH.

Drinking game: take a sip for every rainbow you see in this franchise.

[caprice-nisei-enjoyer]

Tagged by @algernon-charles-swinburne. I love these!

Name: Okay, I'll bite. What's a "name"?

Age: Oh man, for a few months I thought I was 28 for some reason. I'm not.

Height: Literally 5 feet. No inches.

Where do you call home? The San Francisco Bay Area, although that's changing as we speak

Any tattoos or piercings? Nope!

Last song you listened to? The Greatful Dead - Looks Like Rain

Last movie you watched? Promising Young Woman

Last book or fanfic you read? Prince of Persusasion by Scarlett Scott

Do you collect anything? I have ADHD. That's a dangerous question! I have enough messes as it is!

Morning person or night owl? A morning person in principle. I just can't keep myself from staying up too late.

Are you an optimist, a pessimist, or a realist? I'm an optimist, which is to say I'm a realist and everyone else is a pessimist :P

A quote you live by? "Get a job." - my dad, when asked if he'd ever given me any good advice

Are you an introvert, an extrovert, or an ambivert? Again, I'm an extrovert in principle but I moved like once a year from 2016 to 2021. So it's been hard to keep friends.

Do you believe in an afterlife? No, our best evidence about the universe doesn't leave much room for the supernatural.

A weird or fun fact about yourself: I have no idea what other people find weird or fun. I have a lifelong vendetta against seagulls. The first time I ate a Babybel cheese, I ate the wax wrapper with it. I have listened to (part of) The Nutcracker Suite hundreds of times. I was concieved, born, and raised in three separate cities (thousands of miles apart). I've had this blog since probably 2013 but I've only been active since 2019. I once rescued a person who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. I'm a habitual liar, especially on the Internet.

If you could have coffee with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be? Dead seems like the way to go. If we're bending the laws of the universe, might as well bend them as much as we can, right? Would be cool to sit down with Fermat and get an idea of how he proved his Last Theorem. But ultimately I think I'd pick Trevor, a young man I knew who died when we were both young.

As always people who want to be tagged in this should consider themselves tagged. But I'm betting @max1461 and @squareallworthy would have a good time with this.

[rubyvioletindigo]

It's a Friday night and past 9 o'clock in the evening. I'm spending it like a loser and I'm honestly 100% content with that. I usually have plans on the weekends but I get this weekend to myself. Tonight, I ordered a honey BBQ chicken strip sandwich from Whataburger, fries, a Coke Zero with no ice (they added ice anyways but oh well), and got a free chocolate milkshake. It's my cheat meal because I've avoided fried foods most of the week and I was hoping it would hit the spot. It did nothing unfortunately. I'm craving something particularly delicious and I can't figure it out yet. But I'm not disappointed because now I know for sure it wasn't Whataburger I was craving, so that's another food craving suspect I can cross off my list.

The food I am mysteriously craving is still at large and I don't know what I'm searching for. All I know (by process of elimination) is that sushi, a Philly cheese steak sandwich, Taco Bueno, shrimp rolls, and Whataburger, are not hitting the spot. I promise I'm not as fat as I sound, I'm just a foodie and food makes me very happy.

I probably sound a lot younger than I actually am. I'm a millennial born in the 90s but my laid back yet chaotic personality makes many people think I'm in my early 20s. My nephew is 22 years old and his fiancée is 20 and she asked me to be one of her bridesmaids in their wedding this October. I don't think she realizes I'm about a decade older than the entire wedding party. It's really weird for me, not gonna lie. It feels like I'm living my own version of 21 Jump Street but it's not like I'm trying to hide my age. I own up to it if anyone asks but everyone just kinda assumes I'm in my early 20s so my age never comes up. Asian genes are pretty awesome. I'll happily be an Asian Alexa Demie, haha.

I haven't written in an online blog in years. I'm pretty sure this form of social media is pretty outdated but I'm posting on here for myself. I want to look back on these future posts I'm going to write as a fun nostalgic project. So here are some key notes of where I am in life at this exact moment on April 1st, 2022.

-I'm happily single because dating guys who can't communicate annoys the shit out of me. If a guy really wants to date you, he will put in effort. If he's half-assing it and barely trying to get to know you, the harsh truth is that he's not that into you. Don't let him waste your time because you will regret it.

-I love my job as an international banker. Three years ago, I prayed and wished for this job and it finally happened a year ago. That quote "Remember when you prayed for the things you have now," really hits home with me. I'm really grateful for this job because I never wake up dreading work. Not many people can say that and I am aware that I'm truly lucky.

-I am pretty happy with my life. I try not to focus on what I lack but what I am blessed with. My parents passed away in my mid-20s and I've had a rough life until these last few years. Those difficult years that make up most of my life are the reason why I appreciate how good things have been lately. I have a dependable car that is paid off, inherited my parents' house that is also paid off, and have what I need. Life and God have been very good to me and I don't take that for granted.

-I'm really proud of my life experiences. I've hiked Machu Picchu twice; visited the Santorini; swam in Cenote Ik-kil; visited Chechen Itza; traveled solo to Peru, Greece, and Vietnam; went skydiving; got drunk with friends on a beach in Mexico; etc. I hope to have more amazing life experiences as time goes on. I need to experience as much as I can before time runs out.

I don't know how my life will turn out in one year, five years, or ten years but I do know life is pretty good now. I hope this isn't my life highlight and that things will be even better in the future. To future me who may or may not be reading this, whether things are better or worse, stay humble and be grateful. We've experienced hell and weathered the worst hurricane but somehow survived all that to make it to calm waters. Hopefully those calm waters will eventually bring us to a beautiful paradise island and we understand the why the hurricane was necessary to take us where we need to be.