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The title is because every time there's a Rapture predicted, I listen to Astro Zombies. It seems appropriate.

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As some of you may have noticed from my shrieking on social media yesterday, My Chemical Romance announced tour dates for 2026. The closest they're coming to me is San Diego or L.A., and yes, discussions are being had about which show I should try to purchase tickets for. EXCEPT that I'll have to purchase those tickets later, because they go on sale on Friday, right when I'll be in the office for an all-day meeting.
:: wails ::

The Stroppy One pointed out that more tickets always become available closer to the concert dates, and while I know he's right, that doesn't sooth the wailing fangirl part of my brain. Stupid work calibration meetings.

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Yesterday I discovered the clothing company Market of Stars, and specifically this duster. I flailed a lot about in on Bluesky and Tumblr, because my god that is pretty and I already thought of two different outfits I could use it with. To my complete shock, someone who's followed me for years and years sent me the money for it, saying they wanted to spread some kindness. I am shocked but grateful.

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IG has started showing me a lot of witchy content. Not just the aesthetic IG witches, but people who's approaches are similar to mine. I don't know why the algorithm started doing that, but I prefer it to the hordes of "alt" makeup tutorials done by baby faced, dripping with collagen youngsters. (I found all of them adorable, but found myself muttering "Okay, now show me how to do that with permanent eye bags" a lot.)

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As many of you know, my company hosts the all-hands Company Kick-Off event at the beginning of every year in Phoenix AZ, and there's always a costume theme for the first day. The 2026 theme is ... teams. Any way someone wants to interpret that, but of course all the examples were sports-related. But! I came up with a brilliant idea and presented it to my team: we all carry notepads and oversized pencils, and ta-da! We're the writing team. My peeps liked it, so that's what we're doing.

I have beaten yet another game! *shocked Pikachu face*

I beat Zodiacats on normal difficulty, and it made me cry. Because it tells a short story about a cat who gets adopted, and IDK I am feeling my feelings a bit right now. (Listening to a couple of songs my brain deems vaguely schmoopy also made me cry on the same day, so, yeah. That's where my brain is at the moment).

Anyway, it's a very short, not terribly difficult puzzle game with CATS. And pictures thereof, hand drawn, and they're really lovely.

Also on the games front, I am slowly working my way through Cats Organised Neatly. I watched Johnny stream it a while back, and then promptly bought it for myself (it doesn't always happen with games they play, as our tastes do intersect, but not entirely, so sometimes it happens). And while playing I discovered that the hitboxes on the cats are a bit weird, and that my laptop's touchpad did NOT like it at all. So I bought myself a cute sea green bluetooth keyboard and mouse that I have been eyeing up for literal months. And that seems to work okay for me.

I also bought a laptop stand at the same time, because I am intending to set my computer up on a table properly, so I'm not hunched, shrimp-like, over it either in my armchair, or on my bed. I have done this at points in the past, and it's seemed to work, so there's no harm in doing it again. And it will obviously be better for my posture.

Other than that, I've done a whole lot of nothing with my time off work - intentionally - I frikken needed this rest. The most I did was some chores that needed doing, and weren't going to wear me out. It's my own fault it ended up being two chunks instead of one straight one (the next one will be; I'm determined). The weather has improved, so it's sunny, but it's also colder, and very autumnal feeling, and I LOVE IT.

And that's all I have to really say for now!

Current Music: I'll Go Crazy (Kick The Darkness remix) - U2

There is a poll going around tumblr right now asking whether or not people change their underwear every day. This has turned into a shockingly divisive question.

I have concerns about the several people insisting that asking people to change their underwear every day is classism because poor people don't have enough underwear for a week.

Also concerned for the people who insist they can't have clean underwear every day because they can't do that much laundry. Having been in the position of not having enough underwear before, you can wash it in the sink. I've washed lots of underwear in the sink over the course of my life.

I will be leaving tumblr alone until this blows over because some folks are gross.

- I had a dream last night where I was in some sort of high-end, very posh mall, and spent ages looking at a mysterious cosmetics counter that had lipsticks that were exact matches for the OG Chanel Vamp and MAC Verushka. They had tubes of those discontinued lipsticks to swatch and match. I woke up as my dream self was about to spend $160 for two lipsticks. I'll admit I'd be tempted to do that in real life if the company did indeed have the OG tubes to swatch against.

- The US leg of the MCR tour ended last weeked. HOWever, as of yesterday, new ads related to MCR have been seen in New York, Detroit, Minneapolis, and San Diego. Some are just spray painted logos in parking lots outside of stadiums, but some have been bulletin boards and signs of either one or more of the band in the Black Parade uniform, or the Keposhka MCR logo. The fandom, no surprise, are losing our MINDS. Does this mean there's going to be another US leg of the tour? If there is, does it mean more weird storyline/lore that the band is potentially in some sort of stasis or time loop? (I won't give you the whole breakdown, but over the course of the tour Gerard has become more and more corpse-like; paler, wounds on his face, etc., and he's stabbed to death at the end of each Black Parade segment of the concert. There's more. There's a lot more.) Does this mean there's going to be a DVD or something? Should I start saving money for tickets and travel just in case? Who knows? Not the fandom, that's for sure.

- I've been tired ALL THE TIME lately. I'm sure some of it is the ambient stress level we're all dealing with plus the ongoing varying stress levels of work, but the rest may be my chronic health issues flaring up? My body trying to stage a coup and force me to rest? I don't like any of these answers.

- I'm finally getting back into a rhythm of witchy things. I'm pulling a tarot card most days, and I did some ritual work this week. It felt good. I need to do more, because it helps me approach things with more clarity and giving myself grace. And whooooo-boy, do I need both of those things.

So! How are you folks doing?

Yesterday, I went to Burnley to upgrade my phone contract to SIM only, and buy myself a new phone.

Between that, the rent, a few other things, and the fact that I have to go back to the dentist next week, I have spent A LOT of money in a very short space of time, and I don't like it at all. I am glad I can manage to do this, thanks to my job, but SHEESH it feels very uncomfortable.

(That said, I just checked my bank account and actually my spending wasn't too ridiculous? My balance now versus what it was when my last pay went in wasn't actually too different - I was expecting it to vary by WAY more than it did).

Anyway, the SIM only deal is £25 per month less than what I was paying, so it will even out in the end, and I can afford it.

As for the dentist - I had to go for a check-up, and I need a filling, as the tooth he'd previously identified as cracked now has a very visible chip out of it. Although I qualify for NHS treatment, I don't get any help with it, as I'm working*, so I've already paid for the check-up, and the filling will be twice as much, YAY. On the plus side: it's pay day this Friday, and also this is my first filling in well over a decade.

So yeah, the phone I ended up getting was a Samsung A26 in mint green. I haven't finished setting it up properly yet, but omg it's so nice to have a phone that functions how I want it to, and I don't feel like I'm struggling with all the time. AMAZING.

(My old phone is a Pixel 7a, and I do not like it ONE BIT. Apologies if you have a Pixel and you like it. I just don't think it was the phone for me).

Also while I was out, I did a bit of shopping for my nephew's birthday (not for a while yet), and feel like I failed at that, because I've seen him so little over the last twelve months (for understandable reasons), that I don't know what he's into these days. I've got him some Pokemon and Mario stuff, but that feels very predictable.

I also - because I am a fool of epic proportions, and somewhat predictable myself - bought myself a squishmallow. It is a frog, and his name is Robert, which amuses me for a variety of reasons, not least because I have a beanbag frog I've had since I was a teenager that I called Robbie, after Robbie Williams. Because I was very into Take That when my mum bought him for me. So I sort of felt I had to buy him. And then when I got home and read the bio on his tag, I saw that he has the same birthday as my dad. Which amuses me even more, given how little he and I got on together.

If you want to see what he looks like, I posted a pic on my bsky yesterday.

Anyway, all that aside, I am on holiday from work (apart from the bit where I'm not), and it has rained every day so far, because that is just my luck (and also autumn in the UK). Also my meet up with Sarah had to be cancelled because her husband got ill, and she didn't know if she'd pick up what he has, and obviously didn't want to pass it on. So I am thwarted in being social! (for now)

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*~~I could apply for an HC2 certificate, but I still probably wouldn't get totally free treatment.~~ I have applied for one! ~~I don't know! I guess it would at least help with my prescriptions?~~

Current Music: Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy - Queen

Crossing fingers that someone nominates Monkey Island for Yuletide this year (not a shoo-in but isn't totally unthinkable and has happened before) and that someone actually fulfills a request for it (much less likely, unfortunately).

Quick ethics question.

I'm looking into getting some wax seals for ttrpg reasons.

It's very evident that everyone is getting the same set of seals from somewhere. The majority of shops are carrying the exact same seals.

Do I pay etsy boutique prices or is this a circumstance buying off aliexpress or amazon or temu is cool? Some folks on etsy are asking for $40 for just the brass part without the handle and the exact same stamp with the exact same pictures are going for $8 on other listings.

(I am aware of an ongoing amazon boycott. I order things off amazon once every few months and they are usually things I can't find in person.)

edit: I guess the question is: At what point of a thing being stolen can I absolve myself of trying to find the original creator and buy what's best for my pocketbook?

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