Sign up to be one of the Artist or Writers for the event (Although if you've got an idea on something else you could do let us know)! Open from 11/02/2025 - 11/22/2025 10:00 am UTC -7.
Everyone will know by 11/29/2025 whether or not they are in the event!
I must be able to either send an ask to your blog, or DM you of whether you're in the event or not.
How it works. Starting 12/31/2025 at 7:00 PM UTC -7, An artist Or writer will make a post on their blog, tagging the station (urlocalradiostation) when it's up!
You will receive a time to try and get your piece out by (within 15 minutes of that time, simply so I have time to leave commentary on it before the next piece goes out).
After the piece is out, the reblogs start to come in! Make sure to leave a comment on what you enjoyed about whatever you interact with!
The radio station itself will be offering free hot chocolate or tea (drawings of the drink in individual mugs) to everyone who proves they've left a comment. And at 12:00 AM UTC -7 on 01/01/2026 an animation goes out (of all the artist and writers with bubbling apple cider).
Sign up to be one of the Artist or Writers for the event (Although if you've got an idea on something else you could do let us know)! Open f
Part of @urlocalradiostation New Years Eve Radio Station Event
Holidays have never been my thing. Be it Christmas, halloween, thanksgiving, Fourth of July, Memorial Day, or what have you. Holidays in our family always resulted in large, loud gatherings at one of a few places, such as one of our grandparents houses or one of our aunts houses. As we’ve gotten older, we’ve put together the pieces of our families undiagnosed autism and ADHD combo (we can tell dad, we can tell) and have started to understand more as to why large gatherings in small spaces were something my siblings and I tended to dread instead of look forward to.
My mothers side of the family is the worst culprits of the large, loud gatherings, and probably the loudest family known to mankind. Her immediate family, as well as the large extended family, all needed to have the last word in any argument and be the center of attention for the longest period of time.
This resulted in me and my siblings becoming experts at finding the room furthest from the main party, with some sort of seating, allowing us to sit in relative silence while we did our best to pass the time by either reading, drawing, playing an archaic video game, or watching a show on a long forgotten about TV the somehow only has the weather or reruns of movies that are already half finished.
Of all the rooms that we’ve hidden in during holiday events, Aunt Karen’s ‘sunroom’ is the one that I remember, and enjoyed, the most.
Technically she isn’t our aunt, its our mother’s aunt, but saying Aunt Karen was acceptable so we’ve been calling her that for as long as I can remember. Aunt Karen’s Christmas parties were the largest events of the year, always scheduled at the perfect time when everyone who lived out of town was home, and everyone who lived in town was off from work.
Aunt Karen owned the most beautiful house, at least in the eyes of a young child and early high schooler such as myself by the last time she hosted. It was an 1890s Victorian house, with three floors, a staircase in the entryway that allowed for everyone to fit into the family photos, a secondary staircase from the kitchen to the second floor, as well as room that was more likely than not a sunroom at some point in its life, but was set up like a secondary living room and office by the time we were visiting there.
This secondary living room became our haven during the years where me siblings and our father would hide away from the main party, avoiding the football game that was somehow always on, the white elephant gift exchange that resulted in plenty of additional shouting as no one could remember how many times they had been in possession of a gift, as well as any attempt to play a card game around the cookie table.
Because the secondary living room was previously a sunroom, it was the coldest room in the house, protecting us from the main party as we sat in silence amongst the large, pillow buried furniture, the desk tucked into the corner hiding Dungeons and Dragons supplies, and the most important object in the room, Ms. Pac-man.
This wasn’t one of those cheap replica machines that Best Buy and Costco have been selling recently. This was the genuine thing, a real Ms. Pac-Man machine. I never learned where or how, but our Aunt Karen had managed to obtain on original Ms. Pac-man arcade machine, but it was one of the things about our Aunt’s house that we always looked forward to.
They had somehow rigged the machine to allow for us to play without having to put any quarters in, and we spent many hours over the years trying to beat our Dad’s score every year, something that was never accomplished. I never got a grasp on his thought process to earn the most points, but watching him play was always exciting.
As with every fond memory, things come to an end, and several years ago our Aunt Karen moved into a townhouse, ending the decades old tradition of Christmas at her home, and losing the Ms. Pac-Man machine along the way.
Spending time at my Grandmothers house this most recent Christmas has made me realized just how many of these traditions that I used to dread as a child are now dead and gone, and how my attitude towards the holidays has become one of irritation over excitement. While holidays will still never truly be something I enjoy, I wish the excitement and build up around them was still something I could participate in without feeling dread and exhaustion due to the capitalistic environment I now work in.
I miss those large and obnoxious Christmas parties, even though I spent a so many of them hiding with my siblings, simply because it gave the season something to look forward to and be excited for, instead of simply additional time off of work.
Hopefully this next year gives me the time and energy to truly enjoy myself around the holidays!
The radio station is hosting a monthly farmer's market! Sign ups for December's spots are open now! These will close November 9th at 5:00 PM UTC -7. Blogs will be messaged November 16th at the latest with whether they are in December's Market.
December's Market will be Tuesday the 9th! From 9:00 AM UTC -7 to 7:00 PM UTC -7.
While vendors are allowed to promote 1 post about any commissions (writers will not be allowed to promote fanfic commissions for legal reasons), or items they sell, all other posts by them in the Farmer's Market tag and in tagging the blog must be free for public access (meaning that it is viewable, you set your own terms for usage).
This is currently the only event where Vendor's may sell things. All other events will be used to showcase the talent in the community!
Please remember to tag the blog and use the #radio station farmer market, that way it shows up in the tag!
Different Sector's to Sign Up For:
Food Trucks:
Requirements: Artist (No Set Skill Level), Writer (No Set Skill Level): You write or draw something centered around a food truck. Pick your own theme.
Produce:
Requirements: Artist (No Set Skill Level), Writer (No Set Skill Level): You write or draw something centered around produce. Pick your own theme.
Crafters:
Requirements: Textile/Fiber Artists (No Set Skill Level):
You create something of your own design. Pick your own theme.
This is an idea and not mandatory: Open up requests for the market and everyone who verifies a reblog of your work with a comment gets to put in a request for you to create something.
Mandatory: 1 piece in the #radio station farmer market, tag! Other than that you are free to set up your own terms!
Hello Loyal Listeners! Tonight we're hosting the New Years Eve event! For this event we have three talented people who are bringing us some amazing works for this event!
They are:
@cameforstuff
@bren-the-chicken
@sharkiesforjoy
During this event, if you reblog their work with tags or comment and call in the radio station off of anon with proof (send in an ask with a screenshot) then I will do a little doodle of your hot cocoa or hot apple cider mug!
Hello again Loyal Listener's! Apologies for the radio silence, I've been swarmed with thoughts, ideas, and things I had to actually do! Unfortunately that means this radio station's been a bit silent. I think to help with that, I'd like to bring on another host if anyone would be willing!
While I would be more in depth about each of these, and none of these have to be done every day, these do have to happen often!
Hosting would include:
Reporting news
Reporting weather
Going through art and stating your thoughts on it
Play Music
Play Podcasts
Have fun!
If you'd be interested in hosting, DM @glacierruler and I'll provide more info for you!
Hello loyal listeners! We are changing the schedule of the radio station in order to better support me, your host. Why? Because otherwise I'm never going to come back to this even though I love it so much.
Text posts:
1/week on Saturdays! These will be updates to the station, and some other news! Found on Saturdays! Will deal with unreality at times.
Interviews:
1/week on Saturday Nights (my time) to Sunday Nights (my time) we host an interview with one of the locals! (It'll be with someone related to a fandom I'm personally in or one of my moots). It will be tagged with #radio station interview
Songs:
2/Week on Monday and Wednesday I will post some songs I like! I may do more than that but this is what I will aim for.
Art:
1/Week on Friday I will reblog an art that I like with my commentary on it! Reminder that while this is a gimmick blog, I do mean every word I say about said art!
Events:
More about these in the next post, but I'd like to host some fun community building events on this blog! Those will be held on random Tuesdays and/or Thursdays!
This next song is one I feel like I do a lot. Where I say I'll do something next time, be somewhere next time, I just got to work on this one thing first. Just got to finish this one thing first. Next up is Come Hang Out by AJR
