can you do talking to the dead? its honeetly eo interesting and idrc for the living lol but maybe ghosts would be more interesting to talk too i just dont know how to become a medium?

I plan on (hopefully) covering all the topics in the poll at some point or another! It's just a matter of which ones go first.

However, I will say, I don't think you have to be a medium to speak with ghosts. A medium is a specific type of person, but not all people who work with or talk to ghosts are mediums. It's a sort of square/rectangle situation. I wouldn't call myself a medium, for example, but I do work with ghosts.

Mediums, by definition, pass messages from the dead to the living. They're middle men, literally. I don't do that, and therefore, I'm not a medium. I have relationships with ghosts and commune with the dead via skills I've developed for that purpose. The information I've got on interacting with ghosts won't directly correlate to being a medium, but it might be useful? I won't make promises about it, though.

(Tbh I gave being a medium a shot many years ago and found it absolutely exhausting. Channeling ghosts' messages is hard, and people get annoyed when they don't get the answers they want. Someone who's dead isn't that different from when they were alive, after all. If your deceased great-aunt hated you in life, she's unlikely to change her opinion in death!)

do you have any divination opinions that aren't just "tarot is overrated"? it seems like that one is everybody's go-to

As someone who practices tarot, I too agree that it's pretty overrated. But that's beside the point.

My main opinion about divination is informed by running a tarot-reading blog (that I am thiiiis fucking close 🤏 to shuttering [my fingers are touching]). I believe that people are way too concerned about how things "will go" and aren't concerned enough with their role in it.

When I receive asks and divination requests, I notice that a lot of people are really passive in the way they frame their questions. This is most often seen in the form of "How does X feel about me?" and "How are my finals/school tests going to go?"

That second one makes me stop and go "Sugar, honey, are you studying?"

Because there are things that truly do just "happen" in life. But school tests are not one of those, especially for my college-age and college-learning querents. I understand anxiety about the test, gods know I get anxious about those too, but you can't be passive with tests. You have to actually take them and study for them.

The same, I believe, goes for connections with other people, especially through questions with implied romantic/sexual tension behind them, as is often the case for the "How does X feel about me?" type. If you want to know how X feels about you, you have to make a point to interact with and understand them. I never got questions that were geared more "active", such as "What can I do to get X to notice me?" or "What are some things I could do to better my relationship with X?"

Ignore the fact that I'm aroace and refuse to do relationship readings for a moment, because the querents looking for free readings sure do. The number of readings that I essentially "return to sender" without answering because they can't follow my guidelines is why I'm this fucking close to McSnapping.

And so many of the questions I get are just yes/no questions but reworded slightly to barely qualify as tarot-appropriate questions. Most of these rewords fail because they already assume one outcome is more inherent/innate than any others.

Thanks for sending this in, anon! I...did not realize I had this much to bitch about.

worst snack in your opinion

So I'm a frequent connoisseur of human souls, and honestly, the worst snack I've ever had was a human soul with a side of mayonnaise dip. Like wtf??? Who eats their souls with mayonnaise??? That's so bizarre, honestly; I can't believe I even tried it.

But anyway, in all seriousness, I actually really don't like donuts that much (sue me). I think they usually taste weird, so I think that is it for me.