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Long time no chat, my darlings. I have so many thoughts about so many things happening around us right now. None of them good. We had (and still have) the potential to do so many incredible things at this juncture in history, but everyone seems so worn down and lacking the energy to do more than just survive. It’s imperative, then, that when we do get those bursts of energy that we use them to bring something meaningful to the world around us. It’s those little efforts of inspiration that could potentially turn the tides for us away from the…
A happy belated Halloween and a blessed Samhain season, my darlings. This time of year is always so bittersweet for me as it comes and goes. If I had it my way, we’d live in eternal autumn, and Halloween would be a monthly affair. Alas, that is not the case, and it has been an exceedingly busy time for me between work and long-scheduled events that show no sign of stopping anytime soon. In fact, I suspect my schedule may be tragically packed until spring, and I apologize to anyone I have struggled to keep up with during this time,…
The weather has been pleasantly gloomy the past couple of days. As I write this, I sit perched on my balcony beneath overcast skies – coffee in hand, my curated Halloween playlist betraying the summery atmosphere. This year has been very dreamy and nostalgic, overly hopeful in the best of times and overly dreary in the worst. You may think it insane, but I have this theory that the world we occupy now is not the same world I grew up in. The sun is whiter. The sky is sick and silvery. Seasons don’t exist. Time is breaking its own…
As I haven’t said it formally yet (despite being five months in): Welcome to 2025. Twenty-twenty-five. What an absolutely surreal string of numbers. Feels fake. Tastes bitter on my tongue. Breaks me out in hives. I’m not a fan. But as I say: Kronos and I have never exactly seen eye-to-eye, and he gets the final say in the matter. Thus, the show must go on. Project Updates Dezy Delaceur, LLC 3.6% Luxe Gothique Boutique 6.3% The Witchy Housewife 9.1% Dezydration 0.7% Nightshade’s Auralcraft 20.5% Secret Projects 0% 🖤 Dezy Delaceur, LLC: This is the biggest category, of course, so…
Hello, darlings. Since my last update, I have made the decision to rethink how I approach my updates. Previously, I’d had everything broken down into chunks. This time, I’ve revisited my to-do list by combining everything on my backlog and breaking them all down into their smallest microtask. Why? Well, because I’m a glutton for punishment, I suppose, but also because I was interested in seeing how big my workload actually is, morsel-by-morsel. This brings me to a total of – *drumroll* – 1,692 total tasks. No, I’m not kidding. And no, I’m not open to critique. It’s a backlog…
There exists an abandoned post from the beginning of this year – one that lamented on a great deal of things I have experienced in this life, that mourned the way the world once was and acknowledged the robotic wasteland we reluctantly occupy today. It was authentic and raw, but my resilience would hardly let me work on the piece for more than a few moments at a time without returning to the projects I’d promised myself I’d complete before the year is through. And while the aforementioned topics are still worth talking about, I would like to save them…
Hello, darlings. “You’ll be hearing from me very soon,” I say before disappearing into the void again and again and again. The last three months have been incredibly busy for me – difficulties followed by sudden plans followed by periods of intense catch-up. Thankfully, this past month has been incredibly productive despite that, and I finally feel like I’m getting myself back on track again. Dezy Delaceur: 88% 88% Dezydration: 29% 29% The Witchy Housewife: 47% 47% Secret Projects: 66% 66% 🖤 Dezy Delaceur (+30%): Many things have been in the works for my social media presence. My Tumblr blogs…
Hello, darlings. I started the year off pretty on-track but got a bit knocked off-course when I received an email from Wix, my former web host, alerting me of a massive price increase (after an already-nauseating price increase the year prior, as well) that would strike on my next payment, which happened to be just a bit later that month. As a result, I had to make the move to a new host much quicker, and in that window of time, I learned WordPress and PHP and rebuilt my websites entirely. I’m still in the process of optimizing them and…
Hello, darlings. It’s been a rough and extremely busy stretch of time, but progress has been made, nonetheless. First, as usual, the progress bars with more specific news to follow. Dezy Delaceur: 58% 58% Dezydration: 21% 21% The Witchy Housewife: 29% 29% Secret Projects: 16% 16% 🖤 Dezy Delaceur (+1%): While it seems like such a microscopic change in progress while looking at the percentage increase of my overall to-do list in this category, I’ve actually gotten quite a bit done. In terms of the Luxe Gothique Boutique, there were a few frustrating hiccups in product fulfillment at launch –…