im so tired of twitter making it easier and easier for people to put your work through ai. Like you only need 1 single click now to do it. Big ass button for it on your work. fuck you fr
but also it’s the platform i’ve come to love the most when it comes to interacting with people and building actual friendships. Nowhere else feels as easy to connect to people. It makes me so sad. I don’t know what to do honestly.
Also with the raise of ai and recently getting laid off i’m not sure if I can even be employed in a creative job anymore. So im trying to build my art business more to maybe someday be able to live from it….however social media is a big part of that journey sadly and twitter has always been my best platform in terms of reach. I kind of need to keep using it to grow but I also really don’t want to anymore. i hate this i hate this i hate this
I'm finally committing to chipping away at the massive amount of stuff I get tagged in and then forget about, (whoopsie!) so if you've tagged me in something and I've ignored you, big sorry and love you, I'll hopefully get around to it soon!
@dudewheresmynug tagged me in this, and please consider yourself tagged if you'd like to participate! <3
Tag under the cut!
1. Origins of your blog’s name:
Back in ye olde 2016, I changed my Minecraft username to ‘Mehlodi’ because I wanted a creative way to spell the word ‘melody’ (obviously the actual spelling was already taken). Any and all friends I made from that point onwards would just shorten it to ‘Mehl’, which is what everyone calls me to this day (and, to the person who owns the Minecraft username 'Mehl'...I've got my eye on you 👀). One of my dear, dear friends started greeting me by saying ‘hello, Mehl-o’ and HENCE? The blog name was born, and is still a running joke between us today!
2. My ‘I’ll always order this food’:
I’m legally obligated to sample the spaghetti bolognese at any and every establishment that serves it, and I even keep a ranking in my notes app of where serves it best :)))
3. Overused emoji:
These sorta rotate every few months, depending on the mood I’m in, but right now I feel like I use 😂🫡🩷🙂↕️🙏👀a lot!
4. Current comfort movie, show, and book:
*crickety crack* okay, so this one has LAYERS. To me, there’s a difference between my favourite movie and my comfort movie - my favourite movie is A Star Is Born (2018) but I fear that cannot be my comfort movie, as I’m an emotional wreck every time I watch it, so then my comfort movies are any of the animated Barbie movies from the 2000s (I could yap about them forever, trustttt)
My favourite TV show is Brooklyn Nine-Nine, there’s literally zero competition with anything else. I’ve loved it for years and always will (though I pretend Season 8 doesn’t exist)
Comfort book is difficult, because I have so many favourites - however, I'm gonna be basic and say the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas (I always come back to the first 4 books specifically, and defending myself here by saying that I read the series as it was being released, before her books were massively popular!!!)
5. Song on repeat:
Usually it’s anything Taylor Swift, thoooooough currently I’ve got the soundtrack of the next musical I’m performing in on repeat (it’s a good one!)
6. My current hyperfixation:
It’s never not gonna be Dragon Age, let’s be real. But @glowinthedarkpaint and another good friend just recommended me ‘Searching For A World That Doesn’t Exist’ and I’m currently in a deep lore rabbithole with that, so check back in a few months to see how it pans out, I guess :)
7. Oddly specific thing that brings me joy:
Editing something so that the grammar and punctuation is *chefs kiss* perfect. (don't use this post as an example, I've committed many grammatical crimes)
8. What smell makes me happy:
Walking in the bush in the area I where grew up - it’s all temperate rainforest, and the smell of the moss and the leaf litter is so crisp and beautiful.
9. Something I loved as a kid and secretly still do:
2000s animated Barbie movies, and I’ll die on this hill (Magic of Pegasus fans RISE)
10. Phone wallpaper right now:
A picture of me and Trixie Mattel at a M&G from last year - it’s always such a fun talking point!
11. Are you an early bird or a night owl:
Night Owl 1000% - I feel like I get so productive from like 8pm-midnight and then crash after that ahahaha
12. If you work, what is your profession and do you like it:
My primary focus is my acting/theatre career - auditioning for stuff is like a whole job in and of itself, but it’s my passion and I’m chasing it as hard as I can!
ik people are only here for my fandom content and YES I totally get that and I love u all for it
but the reason I’ve been MIA for a hot second is because I’m playing elle woods in legally blonde the musical! deeeeeep into rehearsals atm and we open in just under a month, so I’m literally living and breathing the colour pink atm and have 0 time for anything else in my life
BUT I promise I’ll get back to incessantly posting about rue and neverook soon 💖💖💖
Heads up now that I probably won’t post much of anything for Neve week in July because I’m in a musical that opens then, and I’m going to be absolutely wrecked for most of the month because of it 😭
But I’m gonna make the effort to at least do something for it, whether it be super belated or not!
🎶✨list 5 songs you like to listen to, then send this ask to 10 of your favourite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨
woah hey this is so lovely and cool and awesome! most of my listening is either taylor swift or musical theatre soundtracks, so I’m gonna put 5 songs from my Neve/Rue playlist (that I promise I will share soon!) so it’s more interesting!
1. Savior Complex - Phoebe Bridgers
2. Hot Tea - half•alive
3. Gemini Moon - Renée Rapp
4. Not Enough - Mia Wray
5. Staying - Lizzy McAlpine
i’m planning on getting back into writing soon, motivation is simply just nonexistent atm, but getting to add to and listen to my lil playlist while I inspo-scroll pinterest helps so much - thank you for the lovely ask!! 🤍
