Frequently Asked Questions
This is a great place to find out more about Rune Academy as a whole and about K.Forte specifically. This first section only covers some broad topics, whereas the section below it is more fun. This page will be periodically updated as the website grows and more questions are asked.
There is an immediate explanation regarding Rune. Academy’s creation that can be found in the About Us section of the site.
The additional backstory to this unnecessarily complicated world-building exercise is more complex. To sum up, when I was very young, I was allowed to fly across some oceans and continents to visit my extended family for the first time in a multitude of years. I became incredibly close with an incredible familial role model at that time. She and many other newly rediscovered family members and friends taught me all about the stranger side of the world that I’d inevitably been missing out on while living at home. Among the many ancestral mythologies and legends they’d all introduced me to, one memory has always stood out as having made the most impact on my youth.
During my stay, I’d handcrafted a set of Casting Runes with the help of my newly rediscovered role model. She’d taken me under her wing, and, among the many lessons she’d taught me that trip, one of the most important was that I could make my own fortune and my own future with my own hands. Often literally. It was the first time I was ever really exposed to ideas, customs, and beliefs that were so ancient, fascinating, and full of “unconventional thinking” by modern westernized standards. All I wanted was to live in a world that abided by and honored the old spirits and gods, full of magic, mystery, and rich lore. But I understood it was very unlikely to achieve outside of a strictly fantasy setting.
It planted a seed that finally took hold in my mind later years- after I’ve already had plenty of time to grow and develop the hobbies, skills, and interests necessary to make everything I’m working on here a reality.
For some time, I, unfortunately, thought this meant following a trend for creating magical schools that seemed to be popping up left and right, fueled by pop culture fantasy crazes. I thought it might be a good idea at the time, especially since everywhere I looked prior, it seemed the specific kind of magic and practice and culture I was exposed to as a child was not well enough represented in any of them. So I set out to create the school I wished I could have always come across myself but never found. Only after having made significant progress had I realized that it was the worst possible medium for me to achieve my goals – with not enough interactivity, engagement, and not enough creative and storytelling flexibility.
Therefore, after some time, I decided to cut my losses instead of continuing to dump time, effort, and energy into something that wasn’t going to pan out ultimately. I got some second and third opinions and reassessed exactly what medium would be best for what I’m ultimately driven to achieve. Some very personally influential people weighed in their opinions, warned me that it wouldn’t be easy, and wished me luck. I never expected anything to come easy. I accepted the challenge with open arms and came to terms with the fact that this would be an extensively long-term project that would probably take a significant portion of my life to achieve and require a lot of help… but boy, would it be worth it in the end!
Naming Rune Academy (Rune.Academy) after one of my favorite moments growing up felt like an excellent way to honor my great role model’s memory and make a permanent home for the things she’d inspired me to pursue.
I hope you enjoy the project!
Unfortunately, there is no physical location that can be visited as of yet. However, we do have a roaming cart that occasionally pops up and sells tantalizing, hand-crafted (by yours truly) wares at craft fairs for some extra spending money. And there are plans in the future to make an official physical headquartes for the project (and likely where I’ll also permanently live).
The plans involve purchasing land somewhere remote and in nature, making friends with local dumps and landfills (how shocking!), and building a gorgeous, fully off-grid creative haven known as an Earthship from entirely recycled materials. The building will be entirely self powering and self regulating, as well as have some other features you can learn about here.
I’m currently at the stage where I’ve already taken all courses necessary to build the structure (with money from my own pocket) and I’ve already saved up for and obtained its costly blueprints (one of their two-story split-level designs -again, with money from my own pocket). I’m now on the land-scouting stage, as well as the saving stage for the hauling/work vehicle!
If you’d like to donate,
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The maps are a teaser of things to come! You can always see a full gallery of maps by visiting our art gallery page.
A more recent update: There is now a MapMaking Roadmap you can check out for more details and hints for what’s to come!
The short answer to this question is, “Nope! They’re a secret!” The long answer is as follows:
This project site is currently run by me, K.Forte, as mostly a passion project. Occasionally, there are eternally loved and appreciated volunteers who come on board to help. But usually, it’s a one-woman run operation. This means all coding, artwork, research, writing, developing, and major decision and mistake making is done by predominantly one person. If anything goes wrong, you can rest assured that all fingers point at me. This also means that nearly everything having to do with this massive world-building exercise is a learning experience.
Because of this, there are a multitude of projects open all at the same time (which you can observe in the RoadMaps Hub).
When “we” (meaning I and any volunteers I may have in the moment) encounter problems with one project, we move on to another. This is all while hoping that working on the second will allow us to learn something new or gain some sort of insight that will end up helping resolve issues with the first. You can imagine how many projects that leaves us with as “in the works”. If all working projects were to be made public at once, we’d be unfairly getting our selected niche audience excited… only to have them become aggravated as to how long the updates were taking a short time later. Progress is only updated once something passes a reasonable stage of completion and we’re more or less certain no more heavy experimentation or deletion will be happening.
Rest assured, however, that the people who work on Rune.Academy are all incredibly wonderful and driven members of society. Anything we learn in the real world, we try to bring back here and make fit into this little pocket one. Perhaps someday, in the near or far future, someone will get a little joy out of exploring it.
Donating money or digital currencies can be done on our Donation Page.
You can also choose to buy something from the shops, once they are set up, to receive something in return for your donation. All profits earned from items sold in the shops will go right back into the development of Rune.Academy.
Donating your time and services as well as resources works slightly differently. Such donations have to be handled more individually depending on what you’re willing to bring to the table. If you’d like to join and help, you can contact me, K.Forte, on any of my social media handles (although discord is probably preferred). We’ll discuss your strengths and I’ll give you a copy of projects I currently need help with. From there, you can either claim a brand new project or select from a number of unfinished projects you’d like to contribute to. Anything you complete and return will earn you a spot in the Official Cumulative Credits of the Project on the About Page (which will also make it into the final product). I try to keep things as organized as possible. Anything from coding, to marketing, to artwork, to research –any and all help is greatly appreciated!
We are already far from where we’ve begun, but we still have a long way to go. All help is gladly received help!!
Long story short, K.Forte had a very tough few years and a lot of trouble with her mental health that had made it very difficult for her to get back to her most beloved projects. The Indie-Web/Old-Web Revival Movement really inspired her to get back to it. The reminders of simpler, happier, more colorful days of the internet, where everything was a lot more fun, interactive, and personal were exactly the sort of medicine she needed.
The following are two fun, MySpace-era meme lists from a million years ago.
I thought they’d be fun to place here for you all to enjoy and get to know me a little bit better.
The originals can be found here and here. They’re from June and December 2009 respectively.
Since I’m not a teenager anymore, I feel like these answers won’t be as exciting as many people think they should be, or at least as exciting as they were perceived to be back in the day. Damn, MySpace was a different era, and we were all living in a different time when the internet was much smaller and more interconnected. Learning facts like these about your friends was actually interesting back then, because people actually had time to slow down and actually care about what others had to say. Now, everyone is bombarded with so much information that we don’t know what to do with ourselves and we basically skim over everything, too emotionally burnt out to really fell anything. We were never meant to be as busy as we are now. Our lives today are much too insane to actually enjoy the slow and peaceful moments in an actually fun internet that we used to have. I guess this is me trying to relive the good old days and I hope you get to enjoy them a little bit with me here as well.
Take a look at the lists and have some fun yourselves later as well. I’m not answering every single one of those questions… some are highly inappropriate and my family looks at this website! And others just genuinely don’t apply or make sense to me, so rather than give a bland answer, I’d rather not give one at all. Let me know if you fill these questions out on your own sites so I can take a look.
Enjoy!
Ancient MySpace Survey 1 – From Sunday, June 14, 2009
I’m texting my family group chat and my man daily. Occasionally, I’ll text some friends and my managers at work to ask for time off. But I don’t really talk to anyone else. I don’t really give my phone number out to anybody anymore. Too many notifications about absolute nonsense are overwhelming.
Damn, that’s a loaded, very personal question. A lot happened between us that made the hurt overpower any love that was felt. And after having left, taking time to heal, I found an incredible man that made me realize that I never really knew what real love was. It’s like I never really was in love until he came along. This is the best and healthiest relationship I’ve ever had and genuinely, everything else severely pales in comparison.
Well HOPEFULLY the incredible man I’m head over heels for!! He mentions all the lovely feelings daily so I’m pretty sure they’re there! Hahaha
Past 1 I believe… I was actually working on this website! But typically I pass out before midnight. Work is too exhausting.
The rain pitter-pattering on the roof and some vague medieval video game sounds occasionally making their way over to me from the office. It’s a very peaceful night here.
I consider my man to be my best friend… so literally a few seconds ago. If we take my brother into consideration, then a few hours ago. If we take my sister into consideration, then I got a snap from her this morning and a massive bombardment of text messages in the family group chat at around the same time. I can’t remember the last time I spoke to anybody else for any reason.
Actually myself. Because Alex sleeps in way too late and I have to tell myself that “I got this” every morning as I tackle each day.
YEs!!! I LOVE horseback riding!!! I wish I could do it more often! Horses are majestic and beautiful… but boy do they get themselves in trouble sometimes. If you didn’t know any better, you’d think they were actively trying to kill themselves with the stunts they pull sometimes…
Believe it or not, some astrological things that are supposed to come to pass. I get pretty deep into it, and as long as you go deep enough, it’s insanely accurate.
Surface level astrology is all crap. But once you start looking at aspects and transits and get your software out, you genuinely get excited for the future. (As long as nothing too difficult is predicted… because then you start prepping hardcore… but I tend to like a challenge regardless.) Especially when something comes to pass and you basically get to say “Oh THAT’S what it meant!” or “I totally saw that coming!” and give yourself a silly little pat on the back.
You get to watch the story lines of the world unfold in very fascinating ways. It’s basically a massive algorithm that the entire world runs on if the world were a simulation itself. It’s very fun to untangle.
Absolutely not. The changes that have been occurring within myself and within my life have all be insanely fast and insanely powerful. And change is good. The only constant in life is change. And if you’re not embracing the change, then something is very wrong. Because if you’re not growing you’re dying. It’s a law of nature.
No. I don’t get many chances to wear jeans as they’re not allowed at work. And when I’m at home, I just want to be comfortable. I don’t wear outside clothes at home.
Too many people. Many people were kicked out of my life by controlling individuals, and many by general life circumstances. I miss many people daily. But after enough time passes, it’s near-impossible to reconnect.
If it’s an acute situation, I have a very strong need to resolve the conflict immediately, even though sometimes it would be smarter to let all parties involved to cool off. And if I don’t resolve conflicts as soon as they crop up, I mull over whatever situation I’m in over and over and over again in my mind until it turns chronic and eats me alive. This is generally why I like to resolve things IMMEDIATELY.
Historically, I haven’t been. But life has taught me to slow down and that everything happens exactly at the right moment. “Divine Timing,” some people call it. Nothing can be rushed if it doesn’t want to be rushed. But that doesn’t mean that I’ve taken to sitting on my behind and doing nothing. I still go a hundred miles a minute til burnout regularly.
Genuinely neither because I don’t like to be stressed. But if I had to choose, I’d probably choose mad because it gets me moving and wanting to accomplish things. I’ve been in the heavy heavy sad boat before, and it feels like the world is drained of all its color and nothing is worth doing anymore.
Hahaha some of these questions are genuinely so amusing. I’ve lasted for years in some, so here’s to many years more!
Another amusing question straight out of the 2010’s. I’ve literally never said souped. I use the other two words sparingly, but I hear them said fairly frequently by others.
Today, in order to relieve stress. My computer wasn’t working right and it really frustrated me. I think crying is a very healthy way to relieve stress so I’m not very shy about doing it. I’m a firm believer that everyone should cry more. You genuinely feel better after a good, healthy cry. Nothing is pent up any longer and you can go on with your day better than before.
I’m surrounded by my plants <3 but there’s a lot of green in our apartment aside from the plants. Green is a very fresh, healthy color. The blanket I’m laying on top of currently has a very large amount of green, so it’s technically the closest green thing to me at this very moment.
My admin image on this site here is the Rune Academy tree logo. I made it back when I first got the domain situated and started fleshing out the look and feel of the project.
I’m at peace after a long day of hard work.
I’d change some interactions I’ve had with people. I’ve had some hard lessons in life, and I’d like to think they helped me to become a much better person.
I love all colors. But my absolute favorite color combinations are natural earthy tones that involve copious green accents with occasional sprinkles of reds and oranges. Very much like how you’d see them in natural ratios in a lush forest.
I’m always delighted by citrus smells. They feel very healthy to me, and it’s like my entire body has a reaction when I smell them. Like, “Vitamin C incoming!” Aside from that, I love cinnamon smells, the smell of the the great outdoors, petrichor, and the way that most fruits and flowers smell. And if I’m hungry, I love the smell of something delightfully seasoned cooking away. Especially chicken or stew.
Yes, and I always make sure to ham up and really overdo the “Wow, isn’t this romantic?!” to really get the laughter going. If everyone’s vibing in a good mood, a little comedy can only make the mood better!
All of these questions. I’m genuinely taking the time to answer each one thoughtfully. But I always have my endlessly running list of tasks in the back of my mind. My brain is sadly never free of noise.
If you mean right not in this moment, then getting ready to go to bed. But I’m thinking it might be another late night for me. I can at least respond to these while simultaneously brushing my teeth!
If you mean in life in general, that will take too long to answer and might send me into an existential life-crisis spiral. I should be taking back my own life!
Yes, I love gardening and seeing seedlings grow big and strong. Though I freak out when pests get involved or when plants start to die for no reason. Thankfully it’s rare. But I do also enjoy other activities that can mean “working in the yard” as well. I love woodworking and building things as well. Those can technically all be done in the yard as well.
Hazel. They’ve got a bit of everything in them. And one had more of certain colors than the other, which is fun.
Yes, a few people. The top of the list are my partner and my family. I don’t know what I’d do if anything were to happen to any of them. I know that my parents will pass away one day, hopefully not anytime in the near future, but it’s still difficult to comprehend and I dare not think about it. And if anything were to happen to my little siblings or the love of my life, forget about it.
Frivolously waving my arms around while going about my happy day as if nothing could go wrong.
I was a bit groggy but I was motivated. I think the happiness came a bit later. Not first thing in the morning.
Yes, now I very much do.
Ancient MySpace Survey 2 – From Monday, December 21, 2009
Tapping away at my ancient little laptop here. Lately, it’s like I’m always working. But when the inspiration hits, you just can’t quit! And working on something meaningful is much better than boring 9 to 5 work. I still have to wait to get off of work for the meaningful things to start though. It’s a bit of a major bummer.
Considering the fact that my man is my best friend, absolutely. And my brother and sister are next in line after him. And they can’t get rid of me that easily.
A nice salad. Like with every meal. And there are so many ways to make a salad! You can have your standard green tossed salads and then your creamy egg, potato, and tuna salads. You can never go wrong with the blanket statement that is “salad”.
This is too vague a question. I try to live life to the fullest and eek every bit of experience out of this Earthly experience. I’ve done everything from road-tripping across America, to starting my own brick-and-mortar business with my family, to getting married and divorced, to doing my fair share of fun, extreme sports, to working on a massive project such as this. The answer to this question is entirely dependent on what flavor of crazy you’re looking for.
Considering that this has happened to me before, but thankfully not at 5am… instead closer to midnight… I wouldn’t hesitate in immediately calling the cops under the assumption of it being another stalker situation. And yes, I’d check first who it was in a way that wouldn’t give my checking away.
My brother told me some stories over the phone about his escapades. He has a very fun and active life and is an incredibly good storyteller. I had a lovely time chuckling along with him.
I always have plans for the weekend! I work on weekends! And weekdays. And holidays… oh please let it stop…
But generally, all the plans I get excited about for any days off that I get revolve around either working on my projects, working with my plants, or going hiking somewhere. Those are the 3 major things that I genuinely start bouncing out of my chair for.
I tried that before. I was young and dumb and just wanted to be with somebody, without caring who. It was a miserable inner existence and I learned my lessons. I went and found myself someone who loves me exactly the way that I am, but who’s also capable of growing alongside me, and I’ve never been happier. I’m never doing any of that pandering to the egos of others nonsense ever again.
I actually think it was a robocall. I get a lot of spam. These questions really were from a simpler time…
Casual, social drinking, not really. The second people start getting sloppy, it’s a massive turn-off. When I used to commute from the city, I’d constantly see well-seasoned (aged) people get on the the late train absolutely plastered. They looked and smelled terrible, and made me question humanity. They seemed to have made all the wrong choices in life in order to be getting on the train in that state, on a random Thursday, at what looked like 40-something years old. Although they could have been much younger, as alcohol really does age you a lot. I don’t drink. Only occasionally, and I’m very picky about what I ingest.
I’ve been messing around on computers since I was tiny. I have a restless mind and need to keep myself constantly engaged in something, and computers have always had endless ways of filling whatever boredom voids I’ve ever had issues with. I’m always down to learn new things, and most software I’m interested in is deep enough to keep me entertained for hours.
I don’t normally give anyone the finger, so I genuinely can’t remember the last time. I remember one random time years ago though, and it was in the middle of some gnarly traffic that had some heavy construction vehicles blocking an intersection during a green light for my lane. The guy behind me could see those vehicles and wouldn’t stop blasting his horn at all of us anyway. I did show him the finger then to try to get him to shut up. It didn’t really help.
Both equally I think. My heart and my passions are very powerful motivators for me. But my mind is also so overactive that it ends up evening out with the heart simply for the fact that it can never shut up.
Sure. I feel like something that’s supposed to be deemed embarrassing happens every single day. But I recognize that I’m only human and things happen sometimes. So nothing is really worth getting embarrassed over. You laugh about it and move on. I rarely get embarrassed over things I do. I get really bad second hand embarrassment for other people and even situations in movies though. I don’t know how that works.
It would have to be a very nice offer for a lot of money for the amount of time I’m about to spend on whatever game-show it is. And not just a chance to win a nice prize, but a nice guaranteed sum. Contracts would definitely need to be thoroughly mulled over. Because I’m too busy doing too much already and don’t have time for reality-TV game-show bs. It would really have to be worth it.
Nothing. This question if from the era of fun ringtones, before our phones were overrun with spam and nonsense notifications. My phone has been on silent since the year of the flood.
Yes, my man and my brother. I’m very close with them both. It’s pretty great because we all have amazing communication and in general and tell each other basically everything.
A nice glacial freshwater lake over a potentially shark/jellyfish/seaweed/pollution infested ocean that can pull me into a rip tide to kill me any day.
I want to say it was something for Unreal Engine, but I do think I bought food after that. I don’t really spend much if I can help it. I make all my food at home and don’t really want for anything like clothes or chachkies for around the house. I already have everything I need. So I’d genuinely have to think about when I last spend money on something. It was honestly likely gas for my car or a bill or some sort if it wasn’t food or the Unreal Engine assets (Unreal gives away a lot of things for free, and I can’t remember if I paid for what I got or not.)
My go-to inspirational, mood regulating, entrancing song of the everything is always Secunda from the Skyrim Original Soundtrack.
In life in general? I wouldn’t say I’m “happy” with all of them. I can say that I can’t regret any of them, even the poor choices I’ve made, as they’ve all come with a lesson that I ended up having to learn in order to become a better person.
When I’m away from the people I’m bonded to the most in my life, I miss them. I also constantly miss a couple I call the “old peeps”, who are like grandparents to me. They took me in for a bit while I was at the lowest point in my life. I always tell myself I need to visit them more frequently. And of course, I miss a lot of people who passed away. Namely, I miss my aunt and her wisdom and personality, and a fun old fart named Larry.
I like both. And fun story, our landlord recently got his hands on an insane amount of bananas, like pounds and pounds and pounds of them, and wouldn’t tell us how he got them. We were all tasked with helping him eat them before they all completely browned so they wouldn’t go to waste. It was actually pretty awesome.
And I’ve also experienced the apple (and actually also peach) version of this scenario as well. My family and I would frequently go apple and peach picking when I was a kid with our family friend group. We’d hold contests while out in the orchard for whole would be able to eat the most fruit while out there. I’m sure many people would get pretty close to 100 in one go while trying to out-compete one another. We all realized after a while that the best way to win in these scenarios was to eat the smallest apples and peaches we could find to just collect the centers as proof. Fun times!
In my honest opinion, yes. Very attractive. It’s always encouraging when you come across someone with basic literacy and competence, especially in today’s day and age when everyone gets ai to do everything for them. I’m unfortunately impressed by anyone who can string even a couple of paragraphs together on their own nowadays without assistance. What has the world become…
Some people yes, some people, no. Life is all about changes and unfortunetely, sometimes people just drift apart. In a few cases, some of my old friends have proven to me that they turn into completely different people once they get too comfortable with someone, and that doesn’t fly in my book. I’ve cut out most people in my life who only exist to start arguments and use those around them. Friends are people you choose to be around who make your life more a more pleasant experience. The second they start too much drama, my life is no longer pleasant and they’re no longer in it. Since I’ve made and started sticking to some of those peace-of-mind rules for myself, my life has become a million times calmer. I almost never argue with my significant other, my coworkers, nor anybody else in my life. I choose to react differently or walk away and life is better.
This is a genuinely interesting question. I was often in choirs and singing groups when I was younger (as well as a few very musical schools), but not anytime recently. And those weren’t so much people singing to me as they were people that I was singing together with (unless it was a teacher singing at us to show us how we should follow).
I’ve also gone to concerts where the performers were singing to the audience, so therefore they were also technically singing to me as a member of the audience.
And I’m sure my endless fun nights of karaoke would also not make much sense here because that’s also not a “singing me a personal song” type of answer.
In this case, I’d say that the majority of the time that anyone sings to me personally is when I’m home alone with my man. Whenever we both feel happy and happen to have a song stuck in our heads, we’ll sing it out loud. And if we just so happen to be in the same room together, we’ll direct it at one another and really ham up the theatrics. And super sappy fun fact, when we first started dating, I wrote him a song, recorded it, and sent it to him. He then responded to my artistic expression with his own. He wrote me a poem!
I’d wish to be able to make money by following my passions and no longer having to hoof it to my boring paper-pushing job. I’m going to be more proactive now in keeping up with these passion projects now in efforts of trying to make that dream a reality. This includes me being more active about Rune Academy and anything else I’m working on online as well. I can’t keep letting my job exhaust me to the point where I have no energy for anything else in my life. I want to shift where the majority of my energy goes within the constraints that society gave me to work with. Wish me luck!
In some cases, yes, but in other cases, absolutely not. But in absolutely all cases, I fully understand that people come and go into our lives like seasons, and teach us the things that they need to teach us in the moment that we need them to. I stopped stressing a long time ago about when I’ll be able to see or talk to someone again. More people will always come into our lives with more experiences and we just have to keep looking forward. And this peaceful attitude towards all this only comes from living through some of the hardest times I’ve ever gone through, with having lost basically everything and everyone from my life… and then having gained much more that I could have ever imagined afterward.
Yes, this is called water fasting and I actually do it quite often. I have a sensitive stomach, and the only thing that I’ve learned that has the ability to fully calm it down is giving it a long resting period. It’s like the whole I.T. principle of “turning it off an on again” fixes most computer issues. It actually resets quite a lot in my body overall, so sometimes I do it when I can’t get out of a mental funk as well.
Sometimes I fast for a day, sometimes for 3 or 4. Sometimes much much longer if I’m experiencing sometime like a back issue that won’t go away. I’ll occasionally tie it in with something I’m doing spiritually as well, but not always. When I was newly out of college, I became friends with a lovely Hindu woman who would fast anytime she wanted a prayer to be answered and wanted to show the gods that she was serious about it. That really stuck with me and I unconsciously started doing it myself after a while too. It’s like a type of sacrifice that goes along with whatever divine intervention you’re asking for that always made very poetic sense to me. Usually, I fast for health reasons though.
Also, just because it works for me, doesn’t mean that it’s going to work for everyone and I don’t want to be influencing anybody’s actions here for legal reasons. Do your own research and check with your doctor etc etc etc. I’m not a doctor and am not giving any advice here. Just telling what I do.
It was definitely something I had to do or I’d be putting my immortal soul on the line. When I went to college, my dad seriously pushed me to join Christian group after Christian group to keep me in those circles. Even after college, when I briefly lived with my parents, I got entangled in what was basically a cult. The more adult I became, however, the scarcer I made myself in churches and around people belonging to organized religions.
Ever single day, I’m incredibly excited for making more progress in my game and on this website. I feel like my entire sense of self-worth is basically tied to the things that I accomplish, and whenever I take a day to fully relax, I’m riddled with guilt for having “wasted a day”. So I’m definitely excited by the project that I’m working on constantly.
My natural internal clock. I often wake up before my alarms. Sometimes I wake up as soon as the sun comes up because it’s directly in my face. On very annoying occasions, I’m woken up by a very annoying bird squawking right outside my window absurdly early in the morning.
No. This was always a hard line with me. There were some occasions where that hard line was tested, but I passed all those tests and always put myself and my own self-respect first, and so should everybody else in my honest opinion. Everyone should always be openly communicating whenever problems in relationships arise, and if you can’t work through problems without exploding or going behind someone’s back, you shouldn’t be in any relationships at all.
Only once when I was a teenager. And it wasn’t a full dye either. I just got a variety of highlights. I’ve always loved the color of my natural hair, a well as the naturally silky texture, and I’ve never really been compelled to potentially damage any of it by putting chemicals on it. I’ve seen way too many girls have their hair thin or become the consistency of dry straw from too many chemicals or salon visits in general. I almost never go to the hair salon unless I want to chop it all off immediately after a massively life-changing event to clear the energy. I’ve only done that maybe 2 or 3 times in my life though. Maybe that’s the Leo Rising in me with all the hair talk, but I’ve always had a lot of opinions and protective tendencies around my hair. I almost never put heat like curling or flat irons to it either. Only on rare, special occasions, and that’s about how rarely I also use hairspray. Most days I just wake up, wash it, brush it, and go on my merry way. I love my hair just the way it is.
Oh mY GOD Don’t ask me that question! I have absolutely endless tabs open on all of my computers and phone at all times. And depending on what I want to work on, I’ll go to that specific computer and start digging through wherever I left off. And believe me, most of my computers are ancient laptops of varying sizes that cannot handle the abuse I put them through. The one I’m on right now sounds like it’s going to break through our atmosphere at any moment and is hotter than a furnace. It crashed on me yesterday precisely because I was trying to make it do too much with too many tabs open. Poor little guy.
I’ll be changing it to Linux as soon as I change the charging port inside because it’s loose and barely connects. I’ll also clean out whatever debris is inside at the same time to give it new life. It’s a pretty decent laptop so it should still last me many more years. But genuinely, Linux has helped a lot with the performance on most of my computers, so I’m slowly changing them all over. I love all my computers so much. They’re all little engines that could.
Freedom.
I want to be fully self-sufficient, possibly off-grid, working for myself on my own projects and actually being fulfilled in life. I don’t want to be part of the rat race anymore. I don’t want to be a gear in the giant machine anymore. I want to live in nature, surrounded my clean air, endless plants, clacking away on my computers that are run on energy my home generates by itself from renewable sources… not dependent on oil or gas or whatever wars are constantly fought over.
Sometimes one, sometimes two, sometimes none. Depending on how much of a jerk my neck is being to me in the moment.
Absolutely! The more best friends, the merrier! The more love you give, the more you get! I never understood controlling people saying they have to be anybody’s one and only or that you can’t have more than one best friend. That’s strictly for romantic relationships. The more close, dear friends you have, the greater and stronger your support network, and the easier you can get through life’s toughest moments with them backing you up.
Kefir I made myself in a pickle jar from a starter my dad gave me. And yes, it was everything I’d ever imagined and more. It brought a tear to my eye, put a pep in my step, and made my soul sing. 10/10 A+ would recommend. I currently have more brewing as we speak!
Both are amazing! You can’t make me choose between the two!
However, hot chocolate is more accessible year round and there are more ways to dress it up with different toppings like nutmeg, cinnamon, marshmallows, and even ice cream! And the hot chocolate itself, as well as the ice cream you put in it comes in different flavors!
Hot apple cider is definitely healthier, incredibly delicious, and possibly more appreciated when it comes around because it’s a more seasonal treat.
Hot chocolate is associated with winter, but it’s always there, even in the summer.
To work on my game.