#question friday!

[smokey-ilya]

Rhys my smokey beloved, happy question friday to you! TGIQF as Bee would say 😊 I have some questions for you!

1) Do you wake up well? Or do you need several spaced out alarms and maybe a bucket of water to the face?

2) Tell me about something you are hoping to achieve this year?

3) Do you get overwhelmed easily? And do you have good methods for getting through it?

🖤😎✋

ahhh! yes! TGIQF indeed! aka the weekly showing of your sweet galaxy brain 🖤

1) i will usually wake up pretty quickly… but i usually set alarm pretty close to when i actually need to get moving so i don’t leave time for shenanigans

2) okay, love this, and the answer would be to try a new skill or craft… maybe take bass lessons for the bass that’s collecting dust in my room or learn how to cut bottles for cool candle and plant holders or learn how to make cocktails or learn some new stitches for embroidery or take advantage of a new job perk where i can take studio art courses—something creative and purely for joy!

3) haha, yes, i do get overwhelmed easily about silly shit like dropping my keys when i’m trying to key into my apartment or thinking about cleaning, but when it comes to big time stressors and happenings, i am typically focused and calm (or at least able to come off that way). is that my clinical social work training? probably. i would never say that i thrive in chaos, but i would say that i can manage it fairly well. things that help me keep my shit together: talking (i’m a huge external processor, i need to be able to talk things through which is why i see a therapist in addition to connecting with the people in my life), deep breathing, guided meditation, making lists and double pros/cons lists (where you write out pros of doing X, cons of doing X, pros of not doing C, and cons of not doing X to gain a greater insight into X’s impact), eating comfort foods (chicken and rice soup, baby!), and asking myself “what can i do right now to be a friend to future myself?” i’ve also been trying to incorporate more joyful movement into my life, which is a deeply intentional reframing of exercise because fuck that, i just want to move my body in ways that feel good to simply feel good.

thank you, howl! i love your creativity and reading everyone’s responses 🐺🖤

[smokey-ilya]

Arooooooooooo 🐺 Question Friday IS back, we're on week two of question friday redux, so you haven't missed too much 😊 Some questions for you this week:

1) If you were an animal in a cartoon, what animal do you think you would be?

2) Do you own your home? Or do you aspire to? Or are you happily living free of the obligations of being a homeowner?

3) Would you ever stay overnight in one of those famously haunted house places?

Thanks for dropping by, I hope these go some way to distracting you a little 😎

QUESTION FRIDAY 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

1. i say this lovingly because their my favorite animal: a hippo. i'm chonky, i have short legs for my height, i love water, i'm capably violent, i've got some battle scars, and i'm kinda cute sometimes 🦛

2. i don't own my own home! i'm a renter and a millennial... so maybe i will be a renter my entire life. owning a home is definitely attractive to me, but i also love being able to call upon others to fix shit when it breaks instead of being responsible myself. maybe one day!

3. the only place i would willingly stay, i don't know why, is the ambassador hotel in milwaukee where jeffrey dahmer killed his first victim... is there something wrong with me? yes. would i do it anyway and have i tried to convince rori to do it with me? also yes.

so excited this is back! you're truly magnificent, howl 🥺

[smokey-ilya]

Rhyyyyssss so glad you are here to represent the sexy elders and our advanced but apparently useless html knowledge, thank you for your support during this trying time. Questions?

1) Have you ever been the subject or a rumour? OR have you ever started a rumour that got out of hand?

2) Do you use mantras or affirmations or any of those type things?

3) Tell me a song you remember having on your myspace front page and whether you stand by it or not.

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we have to hold it down for the sexy elders! i do what i can to preserve our rich internet history, telling tales of old and heartbreak as we all became programmers to create the most spectacular myspace profiles 😆

1. not that i can think of! i’m sure there have been rumors about me, as well as rumors that i’ve perpetuated at various times, but i will say that despite being a big old gossip, i deeply value truth and try to make sure my sources are *solid*

2. something i find myself saying a lot is “and the world will keep on spinning” which i find grounding… things can be uncomfortable or embarrassing or hurtful at times, but the world will keep on spinning and there is momentum even when it doesn’t feel like it. this mindset has assisted me in times where i’ve felt stuck but also, times where i’m anxious/fearful about my next moves… if that makes any kind of sense.

3. it is damn near impossible to fully delete a myspace page so i can tell you with full confidence the current song, the song that will be immortalized forever on there, is “shining on” by big d and the kids table 🏁 i stand by it! i love them and ska and i’ve been listening to the same bands since i was 12/13 😅

as always, thank you for your question friday exercise! you come up with the most interesting and thoughtful questions, and i love reading the responses! 🥰

[smokey-ilya]

OK I really thought you had participated before but I can't find it if you have so I am sorry forever if I happen to have asked you any of this before! I try to keep track but I am fairly terrible at it. So here goes have some questions:

1) Tell me about the time that was like, the coolest you've ever felt.

2) Amongst your friends, when something goes wrong are you looking around the room for an adult, or are you the adult??

3) Before making a decision do you gather lots of advice, or do you prefer to strike your own path, consequences be damned?

These are good ones I think! I hope you enjoy answering them 😊 Come back and see me again some time 💋 🖤

howl 🥰 i participated in the first question friday many many fridays ago and these are definitely new!

1) oh god, the coolest that i’ve ever felt… one year for my birthday, a couple friends and i went to see jeff rosenstock and my friend worked at the venue so we had a “vip” table? that felt cool despite it being a silly little punk show, sitting back with a few beers and special stickers to alert security we were in fact cool and the lead singer from my favorite local band was also there and sitting at the table next to us so it was all very 😎✋🏻

2) i’m definitely the “mom friend” that looks after everyone and manages the logistics. i love a plan and i’ve done crisis work for so long that it takes a lot to rattle me, so when things get a little wild, i like to think i’m a comforting force

3) i tend to solicit opinions/advice, but only from two or three most trusted people in my life! i’ve become more confident in myself and my decision making in recent years, but i do appreciate additional insight

ahhh, HOWL, these were thought provoking in such a fun way. i adore you and i adore that you do this, building our little community and our relationships 🥺 you’re fantastic 🖤

[howlinchickhowl]

Psst...hey...it's Question Sunday!

Hey y'all. Remember when I used to do this thing every Friday where I asked people to volunteer to be asked questions? Well. I'm feeling curious again! And also like I've been dipping in and out of tumblr just enough to keep my endorphin levels steady for so long that there are like a million people i don't know here and that seems bad and wrong. So today we're doing a special one-off Sunday edition of everyone's favourite quiz about themselves, and I encourage anyone and everyone to join in, old friends and new strangers, even if we've never interacted, especially if we've never interacted, go for it let's interact!

Here's how it works.

COMMENT on this post to indicate that you are up for a little inquisition. (A like is not clear enough, you might just like the concept but not want to be asked things, I need explicit written consent lol)

I will send an ask to your inbox with three cool and fun questions about you! (If you operate more than one blog, please let me know in your comment which blog you want your questions directed toward)

You answer the questions! Or you don't. No pressure. Only curiosity.

edited to add: if there are things that you do not like to be asked about, please let me know, either in the comment or in a dm or whatever kthanksbye x

That's all the rules, let's mothertrucking goooooo!!!

[howlinchickhowl]

Mini question friday?

I'm on the train for the next hour and 20 minutes so if you respond to this post within that time I will send you one question. A lightning round of sorts, for old time's sake!

GO GO GO GO GO!!!

[howlinchickhowl]

If you're a fan of Question Friday you've probably noticed a gap in regularly scheduled programming? I've gotten busy, and almost always on Fridays I am working, and working in a way that doesn't allow me to be here and do QF with you in a way that doesn't end up with me asking questions on Sundays, which to me is not ideal. The fun of question friday, I feel, is in the frenzy of it, of me being here at my computer and you all being on the other end and it all happening kind of in real time, on the same day. And I simply cannot fulfill that right now.

I had this idea that I would make it to a year, and do an anniversary edition, but a year came and went a month since and this is the first opportunity I have had, on a Friday, to do this.

So here we find ourselves, at the dawn of a new age. I hope to be able to sporadically do one off sessions when I have a free Friday, but for now we must bid adieu to regular interrogations from your friendly grand high inquisitor.

So roll up, roll up, come get your questions for the last ever regular

QUESTION FRIDAY!!

Respond to this post and I will send you three questions to your askbox. If you would like not to be asked about certain things, let me know. If you want your questions to be sent to the askbox of a blog that is different to the one you are responding from, let me know. Answer the questions whenever, don't answer them if you don't want to, they're your questions now. Question Friday lasts as long as it is Friday somewhere in the world. And that's it! In the immortal last words of CG Ian, let's play.

[howlinchickhowl]

Uh, hey. it's Friday again. Again. Let's get nosy!

QUESTION FRIDAY!!!

how it works:

👋 Respond to this post and I will send you questions! If there are things you don't like to talk about let me know, if you want your questions sent to a sideblog then tell me which!

🤟 Answer the questions whenever you want, however you want. There is no credit for attendance, actually there's no credit at all, I ain't your teacher or your parent, this is a self-evaluation.

✌️ That's it. That's all the rules, well, all the ones worth reading, everything else you learn by playing 🙃

Let's go!

*question friday not limited to lesbians, it's just a funny gif. lesbians welcome though. terms and conditions apply.