Avatar

Rey of Sunshine

@reyisthebalance-archive-blog / reyisthebalance-archive-blog.tumblr.com

indie rp blog for Rey from The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. most interactions are mutuals only unless otherwise specified in a post.  Hate from either side of the aisle will not be tolerated, be it ship hate or character hate or actor/actress hate.  If I see it even TALKED about, I'm unfollowing.  If I see YOU do it, it's an automatic block.
Avatar
Avatar
elvhxns

The Official “Log Off” Protest F.A.Q! 

The “Log Off” protest is in response to the recent NSFW ban announced by Tumblr. The ban flags all content the filtering system detects as NSFW, reducing visibility to the community. The system has proven time and time again that is inefficient, oftentimes flagging SFW material as NSFW. 

This SFW material includes art, memes and so on. This ban directly hurts the community and will not solve the actual problems at hand due to the poor flagging system. Because of this, the entire community will suffer.  

So to respond, I propose that every user on Tumblr logs off of Tumblr for 24 hours on December 17th at 12 am EST. 

Times are listed above depending on timezone! 

This post responds to some very common questions about the protest. So make sure to read it over! 

How to Export Your Blog: 

Alternative Sites: 

Pillowfort
Mastodan 
Wordpress 
Twitter 

There is also an official Tumblr blog (ironic, huh?) and Twitter for the protest! It’s at: 

Twitterhttps://twitter.com/logoffprotest
Tumblr https://logoffprotest.tumblr.com/

There will be official updates on each account. Make sure to tag us in any posts, or use the hashtag #logoff2018

Thanks for your support guys. Let’s fight to make Tumblr better. Actually better. 

Hey y'all! For those who’ve been asking, this is the info about what this blog is doing on the 17th. I hope y'all will join me.

Avatar

             "𝓘 𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓭𝓸 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓘 𝓶𝓾𝓼𝓽.“

|MULTIVERSE, PENNED BY HOLLY|

            [𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓂𝑜 𝒷𝓎 @firstofsakaar​​,  𝓉𝑒𝓂𝓅𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒]
Avatar

*   MOULIN   ROUGE   SENTENCE   STARTERS  !

CHANGE PRONOUNS AS NEEDED / AS YOU SEE FIT !

  • ❝ Silly of me, to think y-you could fall in love with someone like me. ❞
  • ❝ Can’t fall in love? But a life without love, that-that-that’s terrible! ❞
  • ❝ Come what may… come what may. I will love you, until my dying day! ❞
  • ❝ It’s a little bit funny this feeling inside.
  • ❝ The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ❞
  • ❝ I’m not one of those who can easily hide… ❞
  • ❝ You’re free to leave me, but just don’t deceive me. ❞
  • ❝ Thank you for curing me of my ridiculous obsession with love. ❞
  • ❝ I went to my typewriter, I sat down, and I wrote our story. ❞
  • ❝ I’m paid to make men believe what they want to believe. ❞
  • ❝ You’re going to be bad for business, I can tell. ❞
  • ❝ The difference between you and I is that you can leave anytime you choose. ❞
  • ❝ If I should die… this very moment.. I wouldn’t fear.  ❞
  • ❝ Outside it may be raining, but in here it’s entertaining! ❞
  • ❝ You can hardly blame me for trying to hide, uh, Christian away.
  • ❝ We’re creatures of the underworld. We can’t afford to love. ❞
  • ❝ And in the end should someone die? ❞
  • ❝ It’s not that I’m a jealous man, I just don’t like other people touching my things! ❞
  • ❝ The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ❞
  • ❝ Stand your ground for freedom, beauty, truth & love. ❞
  • ❝ All right! No problems! Go back to work! ❞
  • ❝ The hills are incarnate with symphonic melodies! ❞
  • ❝ Never fall in love with a woman who sells herself.
  • ❝ She suddenly had a terrible desire…to go to a priest and…confess her sins. ❞
  • ❝ It’s nothing. It’s just an infatuation… it’s nothing. ❞
  • ❝ Things aren’t always the way they seem. ❞
  • ❝ Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong! ❞
  • ❝ Don't…leave me this way. I can’t survive, without your sweet love, oh baby… ❞
  • ❝ I was made for loving you, baby, you were made for loving me. ❞
  • ❝ Just one night, give me just one night. ❞
  • ❝ In the name of love, one night in the name of love. ❞
  • ❝ Love makes us act like we are fools. ❞
  • ❝ We could be heroes … Just for one day.
  • ❝ We should be lovers, and that’s a fact. ❞
  • ❝ You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs. ❞
  • ❝ Well, what’s wrong with that? ❞ 
  • ❝ Just because I … will always love you.
  • ❝ Love is just a game.
  • ❝ Please don’t start that again.
  • ❝ The only way of loving me, baby, is to pay a lovely fee..
  • ❝ The greatest thing, you’ll ever learn, is just to love, and be loved … in return.
  • ❝ I know what love is, only because I long for it with every fiber of my being.
  • ❝ It will be rehearsed in the morning, ready for the opening tomorrow night…
  • ❝ I don’t like this ending… ❞
  • ❝ All my life you made believe I was only worth what someone would pay for me!
  • ❝ But there was only one problem…..I’ve never been in love!
  • ❝ The most beautiful of all these was the woman I loved.
  • ❝ We could be heroes, forever and ever! … We could be heroes, forever and ever! ❞
Avatar

Starter Call

Hello my peeps this is just the third day of actually being on this blog again and already I’m a pile of salt but it’s fine!  all’s fine!  

So if we’re mutuals then LIKE this post for a starter or specify your blog in the “replies” section if you’re a side-blog!

Avatar

♥ What’s the WORST thing that has happened to you rp wise?

Avatar

Buckle up, kiddos.  It’s story time with the Tequila Aunt

Once upon a time, back when the mun was a kiddo herself and not the self-declared Tequila Aunt of the SW RPC, the mun had an active Obi-Wan blog.  She was just getting started and basically RPed with anyone who popped into her inbox b/c she was desperate to talk to people and have fun.  

Then one day, she gets a (MUSE NAME REDACTED) in her IMs asking if she wanted to RP, and she agreed!  The other mun then sends in many memes, and our heroine is alright with this but can’t seem to get her Obi-Wan muse to cooperate with answering things from them.  No matter how hard she pushed, Obi-Wan dug his heels in and REFUSED to have proper threads with (MUSE NAME REDACTED).

Finally, the mun gives up and messages the other mun.  She says “Hey, I am really sorry about this but I can’t seem to get Obi-Wan to cooperate and our RP styles are clashing but mostly my muse refuses to cooperate so I’m afraid I can’t do threads with you for a while but we can still chat ooc about other things.” and the other mun is like “no worries I understand!” and so the Obi-mun thinks “that’s that and I won’t have to deal with any of this ever again!”

But then something strange happens.  The other mun sends the mun several messages over a period of about 2 weeks, at random times of the day and night, about RPing again.  The first few times the mun didn’t really think much of it, but then the messages got increasingly belligerent and went from “hey can we please RP?” to “RP WITH ME” to “I saw that you’re online so RP with me!”  It got so bad that the mun started avoiding her tumblr, but she was still a kiddo in the eyes of the fandom and unwilling to flat-out block them.  It got to the point where the other mun was actively trying to track when the mun was online, following and liking all posts connected to the mun that other muns did, messaging them at least every 3 hours, etc.

Finally, the mun makes a change to her rules.  It states “no hate for ships or characters will be tolerated on this blog,” and lo and behold the other mun (whom she knew would post anti-ship things every once in a while) reblogged a ship-hate thing and so the mun felt perfectly fine blocking them.

This would be the end, but then when the mun started making other blogs she noticed that this same other mun would always follow her blogs: Every single one of them and always almost immediately following a “hey I made a new blog!” post.  And so our mun would end up having to block the other mun BEFORE posting a promo or “hey I’m over here” thing, but this wasn’t enough.  This same other mun then got involved in group chats our mun was in and RP weirdly with Obi-Wan, even being all “(MUSE NAME REDACTED)’s feelings are hurt by the hostility from Obi-Wan!” in their interactions.  The mun’s new friends from the group chat moved the chat to a different platform and invited the (MUSE NAME REDACTED) mun, which made our mun very uncomfortable b/c she felt uncomfortable with them around.  She finally spoke out about it to a close friend, who then made a new chat and only invited specific people so that the mun could feel comfortable again.

The Obi-Mun has never seen the stalker mun again.

The End

Avatar

the salty af munday meme

Because, like it or not, we’re not all balls of sunshine all the time. We can be pure salt when we want to be.
☠ What does someone have to do for an instant unfollow from you?
♥ What’s the WORST thing that has happened to you rp wise?
♦ What was a mildly annoying thing that has happened to you rp wise?
♢ Has anyone ever tried to steal your blog? Your headcanons? Icons? All that jazz
♚ How many people don’t like you?
⚜ How many people do you not like?
✮ Have you managed to stay away from drama?
☄ Have you ever been in the middle of drama?
☯ Have you ever tried to bring peace to a situation?
☼ How long do you stay mad?
☀ What’s your rp pet peeve?
☁ Have you ever forgiven a partner when you shouldn’t have?
☂ Have you ever been forgiven when you knew you shouldn’t have been?
☢ What fads/trends are you so over?
☣ Have you ever rp’d with someone you knew for a fact was abusive but tried to give them a chance/to make up your own opinion on the roleplayer? Did they change or did you understand what people were talking about?
♨ Have you ever made a public call out post?
❀ What has made you completely lose your chill?
✿ What do you think about public call out posts?
✂ A fandom that you feel isn’t open and accepting?
✉ A fandom that you feel is open and accepting?
✦ Thoughts on duplicates following you?
✧ Do you agree with reblog karma or is it forced interaction?
❥ Has someone ever ruined an FC or character for you?
❦ Has someone been jealous of you?
❧ Have you ever been jealous of anyone?
✖ How has Tumblr RP changed since you started?
♒ Thoughts on the fandom you’re currently rping in?
❣ How salty are you feeling right now?
Avatar

✧   BRAM   STOKER’S    DRACULA   PROMPTS  !  

*  CHANGE ANY PRONOUNS AS NEEDED . FROM THE 1992 FILM , BASED ON THE 1897 NOVEL .

  • Enter freely of your own will, and leave some of the happiness you bring.
  • Your firm writes most highly of your talents..
  • Do you believe in destiny?
  • And, to you, there shall be many strange things…
  • Do not put your faith in such trinkets of deceit!
  • Our ways are not your ways.
  • The children of the night. What sweet music they make!
  • I have crossed oceans of time to find you.
  • He likes you. There is much to be learned from beasts.
  • Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the self.
  • The green fairy who lives in the absinthe wants your soul.
  • You are safe with me.
  • Your impotent men with their foolish spells cannot protect you from my power.
  • I condemn you to living death.
  • There is no life in this body. I am nothing, lifeless, soulless, hated and feared.
  • I am nothing, lifeless, soulless, hated and feared.
  • I am dead to all the world - hear me!
  • I am the monster that breathing men would kill.
  • Where is my God? He has forsaken me.
  • It is finished. Give me peace.
  • Contrary to some beliefs, vampires, like other night creatures, can move about by day.
  • The vampire bat must consume ten times its own weight in fresh blood each day.
  • Gentlemen, we’re not fighting some disease here.
  • It stalks us for some dread purpose I do not yet comprehend.
  • Vampires do exist.
  •  This one we fight, this one we face.
  • It is here that we must find him and destroy him utterly.
  • We’ve all become God’s Madmen. All of us.
  • I was disappointed we could not marry before his departure.
  • I am happy that he got sent on this important assignment.
  • I am longing to hear all the news.
  • It must be so nice to see strange countries.
  • I wonder if we, I mean [name] and I, shall ever see them together…
  • I love you! Oh, God forgive me, I do!
  • Can a man and a woman really do…that?
  • I admit that her free way of speaking shocks me sometimes.
  • I wish I were as pretty and as adored as she.
  • The truth is that I admire [name], and I’m not surprised that men flock around her.
  • You’ve been so good to me.  
  • I know that [name] harbored secret desires for you.
  • I understood at last how my love could release us all from the powers of darkness.
  • Our love is stronger than death.  
  • I too know what men desire..
  • You’ve got to love him, and marry him right then and there.
  • And I want you to take this, my sister.
  • It’s my wedding gift to you.
  • Leave these others and come to me.
  • My arms are hungry for you, my darling.  
  • Kiss me and caress me, my darling husband, please…
  • You are my love… and my life, always.
  • I think strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul.
  • I said nothing of my fears, as he will read them, no doubt.
  • I know now that I am a prisoner. 
  • I just want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
  • I want to be what you are, see what you see, love what you love.
  • These may be the last words I write in this journal.
  • I have a part to play in a story that is not known to me.
  • I will try one last time today to escape to the water.
  • ‘ [name] has left me with these women, these devils of the pit.
  • They drain my blood to keep me weak, barely alive so I cannot escape.
  • She lives beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness.
  • These creatures do not die like the bee after the first sting, but instead grow strong.  
  • He can appear as mist, as vapour, as fog, and vanish at will.
  • Now all these things [name] can do, but he is not free.
  • ‘ Ahh, listen to them! What sweet music they make!
  • I would watch my colonial tongue if I were you.
  • You will, I trust, excuse me if I do not join you.
  • It’s not true. I too can love, and I will love again.  
  • Those marks on her throat. No disease, I’m sure the blood loss occurred there.
  • Will you cut off my head and drive a stake through my heart as you did poor [name], you murdering bastard?!
Avatar

✧   BROOKLYN  NINE  -  NINE  SENTENCE  PROMPTS   !  

*  A VARIETY & MIXTURE OF THE SHOW, CHANGE PRONOUNS AS NEEDED / FITTING .

  • ❝ The next time I see you I’d like you to be wearing a necktie. ❞
  • ❝ Get rid of the mouse, and get your act together. Now. ❞
  • ❝ I see what you’re trying to do, but it’s not gonna work.. ❞
  • ❝ Wow, looks like he hates you even more than me. ❞
  • ❝ God, you must have been the worst fourth grader ever. ❞
  • ❝ Giving him a name makes him human. ❞
  • ❝ I’m fairly certain you would be caught. ❞
  • ❝ What’s the most valuable thing in your office? ❞
  • ❝ You mean my job as an amazing detective/genius? ❞
  • ❝ Did you tell her we slept together twice? ❞
  • ❝ I’m not gonna lie, that turns me on a little bit. ❞
  • ❝ I’d wondered why all the birds had suddenly stopped singing. ❞
  • ❝ You’re going to leave my precinct and my task force alone. ❞
  • ❝ Come on, who wants to take this seriously? ❞
  • ❝ I bet she tucked herself in the bed too tight and got stuck.  ❞
  • ❝ Where have you been? We’ve been worried sick!  ❞
  • ❝ Oh, is he sore from high-fiving criminals he’s gotten out of jail? ❞
  • ❝ Did he get a murderer off who then murdered him to celebrate? ❞
  • ❝ A cop and a defense attorney sleeping together? That’s highly unusual. ❞
  • ❝ It’s a personal matter, involving a personal friend and his personal uncle. ❞
  • ❝ So you remembered to turn off your signature, right? ❞
  • ❝ I promise you, as soon as they tell me, you’ll be the first to know. ❞
  • ❝ You won. Go ahead and gloat, you toad. ❞
  • ❝ Look, I promise I won’t tell anyone, alright? My lips are sealed! ❞
  • ❝ This is a secret. Do you understand me? ❞
  • ❝ You do know what they do to witches up there, don’t you? ❞ 
  • ❝ Well, I think we handled that with dignity. ❞
  • ❝ Are you making fun of my stutter? ❞
  • ❝ Oh. Uh… Sorry. I think I’m feeling a little awkward. ❞
  • ❝ How do we make it not weird? ❞
  • ❝ I just realized I’m never gonna be able to say that to his face. ❞
  • ❝ You know I’ve made a lot of improvements since you left? ❞
  • ❝ I know we just met, and I don’t wanna be too forward… ❞
  • ❝ I’ve got that feeling about you. I like you. I think tonight we- ❞
  • ❝ They just gave me ten years in prison.. ❞
  • ❝ You can’t do anything except disobey orders and screw up! ❞
  • ❝ Why are you dressed up? You look like an idiot. ❞
  • ❝ What’s up? How can I help? ❞
  • ❝ Well, we’ll just break you down to nothin’ and see what time it is. ❞
  • ❝ Speaking of which, I’m getting hungry. What’s for dinner? ❞
  • ❝ Why do people like these things? They’re just shiny rocks. ❞
  • ❝ We’re gonna talk to a lawyer and get a professional opinion. ❞
  • ❝ Looks good! Can barely tell you hulked out in here. ❞
  • ❝ I just threw a bunch of popcorn on the floor. It wasn’t that hard. ❞
  • ❝ All I did was be the only person who believes in you. ❞
  • ❝ Somebody’s tryin’ to kill me, and I need protection. ❞
  • ❝ I can smoke as much weed as I want. ❞
  • ❝ It’s this kind of bickering that makes us such an adorable couple. ❞
  • ❝ I saw an opening and I had to take it. ❞
  • ❝ But this isn’t over! I will hunt you to the ends of the earth! ❞
  • ❝ What?! But we saw him throw them in the garbage! ❞
  • ❝ Nobody’s ever gonna see that footage; the case was cut and dry. ❞
  • ❝ It’s not like I’m dying to tell anyone I saw your- ❞
  • ❝ I’m dating my son-of-a-bitch ex-husband; who am I to judge? ❞
  • ❝ I’ll let you guys talk! I’ll just close my eyes. ❞
  • ❝ I’ll let you give me a spray tan! Any shade you want! ❞
  • ❝ Massage! I’ll give you a massage! ❞
  • ❝ I’ll also give you full control over my hair and wardrobe. ❞
  • ❝ That really freaked me out and I just want this to end now. ❞
  • ❝ The cheese is amazing. It melts in my mouth. And in my hands! ❞
  • ❝ Come on, you can be honest. ❞
  • ❝ I want old, expensive books. I’ll send you a list. ❞
  • ❝ The tow truck just got here, so that’ll buy us at least an hour. ❞
  • ❝ Tow truck?! What the hell’d you do to my car?! ❞
  • ❝ What we need in here is an armored personnel carrier. A tank! ❞
  • ❝ Well, I’m gonna go follow up on a lead right now. ❞
  • ❝ Woah, no! What’re those morons doing in there?!  ❞
  • ❝ Why is everyone just standing around? Get back to work! ❞
  • ❝ What’d you do? What’d you say? ❞
  • ❝ I hear you can smuggle in crap from outside. ❞
  • ❝ What’re you lookin’ at? You got a problem? ❞
  • ❝ I like you. You got balls.. ❞
  • ❝ I hate to rub it in, detectives, but I told you they’d find me. ❞
  • ❝ Well, he keeps yelling, “Disability for life!” so I think he’s fine. ❞
  • ❝ Who hired you? Who do you work for, pizza man?! ❞
  • ❝ You look out there and see a problem, I look out there and see an opportunity. ❞
  • ❝ What have I become? Was this whole thing even worth it? ❞
  • ❝ All because we shut down a foot massage place. ❞    
  • ❝ Oh, my God. The City has no mayor now. ❞    
  • ❝ Put your magical hands where I can see them! ❞    
  • ❝ Did they make their bust? Did they save the precinct? ❞  
  • ❝ I was behind the bar the whole time. ❞    
  • ❝ I bet they have some awesome name for it. ❞    
  • ❝ Can a paring knife remove a human heart in under a minute? ❞    
  • ❝ I think you guys might be our best option at finding this guy again. ❞    
  • ❝ You know, a bunch of us are going out drinking tonight. ❞    
  • ❝ How did you get over there? Who are they? ❞    
  • ❝ I’ve been calling you. Why won’t you answer your phone? ❞    
  • ❝ We’ve been onto you for weeks, and we finally got you. ❞    
  • ❝ I’ve never seen them before! What is going on? ❞    
  • ❝ We’re on the money trail, and we just found a new lead.  ❞    
  • ❝ Okay, this is bad. This is really bad.  ❞    
  • ❝ Wait… What? Did you say “eat people”? Are you a cannibal, [ Name ]? ❞    
  • ❝ I’m always gonna be one step ahead of you. ❞  
  • ❝ I’m so confused. I don’t know what’s happening right now. ❞
Avatar

Fanfiction racism nonsense

I’m making this post fully aware that I’m probably going to get a lot of shit for it, with typical accusations of fandom policing aboudning: however I feel like my experiences and observations, which are cumulative, warrant a proper call out.

This is a post that will concern the fanfiction of writer Malevolent Reverie on Ao3, who is @evil-shenanigans on tumblr and has to do with persistent racist behavior on their part that I’ve tried to call in to no avail.

I just wanna say, before I start, the fanfics that I will discuss are largely non-con/dub-con and underage fics that contain a lot of violence. I want to make it clear that this post is not about discussing the morality of non-con/dub-con and underage fics and I don’t want my post hijacked for it. While feelings are always charged on the matters of non-con and so forth, recognize that that is an entirely separate discourse I’m not interested in talking about. This concerns racism only. Don’t use it a polemical against other subjects.

Please note that I am not drawing attention to the problem of Malevolent Reverie’s racism in hopes of getting Ao3 to delete any of their work. Don’t even bother them with this, it’s useless and not needed anyway. One more thing: Under no circumstances should anyone send threatening messages of bodily harm to @evil-shenanigans​ or spam their inbox with cowardly anons. Hell, there’s not even reason to bombard them on Ao3. Do your talking here in the open, if you want to say something to them.

I’ve just. Had it up to here and my particular interactions with Malevolent Reverie I think opens up a discussion on a much larger issue about how we treat Finn, Rose, Poe and other characters of color in our Reylo fics. 

Btw any antis who want to use what I’m about to say for their own purposes - fuck off.

Ok then

#rey kenobi apologist (ooc)#*starts reading thinking that it's typical fandom racism against Finn and Rose*#*sees that there's also racebending of Rey to be a Lakota woman in a fic filled with violence and r&p* against her B/C of that*#*sees that the author claimed that her grandmother was a Native so that makes it ok*#a who DID WHAT NOW?#Look I get a bit prissy when people try taking small parts of indigenous culture to add to their muse for the Aesthetic™ let alone this bs#I AM Lakota and I am really fucking offended that someone would use MY heritage and MY PEOPLE'S suffering for some dark shit fic#all the other racist bs was just the icing on the shit cake for me#keep your racist bs out of MY REZ#We have had so many problems there over the years by both the government's hand and our own#we are NOT a backdrop for your twisted fanfic#and this ''boo hoo my grandmother's a Native'' shit is NOT an excuse b/c if you actually cared about your culture YOU WOULDN'T DO THE THING#b/c honestly if your grandmother WAS an indigenous woman then you would KNOW NOT TO DO IT AND WHY IT'S BAD ON MANY LEVELS#my people (especially on Pine Ridge but elsewhere too) have had problems with women ''disappearing'' or being murdered for generations#it's kind of a big deal when you fetishize a Lakota woman b/c it allows white folks to dehumanize them and make it ''ok'' to destroy them#and this is true for all indigenous women honestly but I'm Lakota and Pine Ridge is notorious so I'm focusing on THAT#anyway so if you WERE native american (but the fact that the claim is a tentative ''my grandmother was one'' speaks volumes)#you'd know that writing a fic where a Lakota woman during one of the tensest times in our history being abused IS NOT FUCKING OK#and let's go back to the ''my grandmother was one'' thing#if you truly were a native american then you wouldn't fucking phrase it that way#I'm sorry but if you truly had blood of any sort then you'd say you ARE native and then explain which side it's from if not on both#so when you say ''my grandmother is native'' you're basically saying that your claim to ''your'' heritage is so tentative#that it's saying you're grandmother was 1/16 Cherokee or some shit#gods even the wannabe Native I met had more fucking integrity than this#at least she claimed ''her'' heritage before rattling off that she's an 1/8th total of 8 different tribes#and no i'm not talking about blood quantums or being on the rolls.#I'm talking about how if you truly were indigenous and had any sort of claim to that heritage you'd claim it#I?  I'm not on the rolls (yet).  And yet I KNOW who I am and where I come from and I don't say my father's native or my mother's native#I say *I* am Native and THIS is where I get it.#That's how I was taught to do so by my INDIGENOUS family
Avatar

I am tentatively.  TENTATIVELY.  Reviving this blog.  I’m still furious at the SW fandom, but I love Star Wars itself too much to throw in the towel forever.  I’ll be devoting one day a week to this blog, and I’m going to revisit my rules to see if I need to alter them in any way.  

You are using an unsupported browser and things might not work as intended. Please make sure you're using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge.