✨ Chelsea 🌻📚 @greengaybles@computerfairi.es

@shippychaos Okay but homo.promo is so good. I would love this as an instance name.

@amyanshawnye You sure do and you sure can. Looking forward to reading, I love having creative friends.

The thing about getting enough sleep at reasonable sleeping hours is that the second my body starts announcing to me that I feel tired, my brain immediately starts doing the mental equivalent of a toddler banging pots and pans together to create a raging cacophony.

Why does the idea of lying still long enough to fall asleep fill me with uncontrollable anxiety? Why is my brain waging a lifelong war against me and my peace and happiness?

I'm tired.

@amyanshawnye I'm not an Ausie and I'm not sure how critical I'd actually be because sapphic romance with thriller elements sounds amazing, but I'm up for it if you can't find anyone who's a better fit :)

@ariel Hello and thank you! :) You seem lovely, and I noticed that the musical version of Heathers is listed in your bio and I also love it. I want to see it live. The movie is one of my favorites of all time.

@lachesis There's one called Paperback Book??? Intriguing!

I think I would rather pay more for something that actually lasts a decent amount of time without me having to constantly reapply, but if it lasts a few hours, that's long enough. Better than 30 minutes, which is how long one person said it lasted on them.

@lachesis A friend did recommend Wet Garden to me and it's on my list, but I saw a ton of people saying that their scents don't last more than a couple of hours at the longest, so they have to be constantly reapplied. That made me nervous to buy. Do they last long on you?

My holy grail scent is still one that will allow me to smell like an apothecary in the middle of a flower garden just after a rainstorm, which is a lot and I'm still searching for it. I want to try Garden Hideaway from Stereoplasm and The Philosopher's Garden from Osmofolia when money allows. Indie fragrance is an expensive hobby.

I'm not sure exactly what it smells like to me, something warm and a little smoky and spicy, with a faint sweetness behind it. My mom says it smells like a Victorian tea room, but I don't get any tea from it personally.

I think I've boxed myself so firmly into florals that I haven't given other scent types a fair chance, and although I'll never love gourmands or scents with musk, I'm thinking I might start branching out a bit.

I have an intense love affair with indie #perfume, and normally I go for florals and green scents, with occasional forays into herbal. I'm currently trying out Villa Diodati from Poesie (pungent wild rosemary and fresh balsam pine, crystal clear lakewater, dry, dark vanilla), and it's not at all my usual thing, but I'm starting to warm to it. I avoid vanilla as a rule, and I was nervous about it in this, but it's not the primary note that I smell.

@shippychaos I couldn't find a larger general use instance that was made for queer/trans people that I liked, so I just went with a smaller one with less specific rules but hopefully a better vibe. I hope you can find something that's a good fit eventually!

I'm not on board for requiring them on posts where marginalized people are discussing their lived experiences, though, and I'll likely boost posts where that's happening, so if that's an issue for you, I might not be the best person to follow.

And a note re: content warnings: I'm absolutely willing and happy to use them, and I'm familiar with the main things like violence, nudity, gore, and other similar common triggers, as well as food and bugs and so on. But if you follow me and you'd like me to use a more specific one, please let me know. I want to help make everyone's experience as chill as possible, and there are bound to be things I wouldn't think of on my own.

Since I've locked my profile and now require follow requests, here are a few reasons I might not follow you/accept your request:
* You have no bio and/or no posts so I literally know nothing about you.
* You post/boost images with no alt text.
* You post/boost a lot of sexually explicit content (nothing wrong with it, just not my jam).
* You do a lot of Twitter cross-posting.
* It doesn't seem like we have much in common.

@PaulDitz Aww I'm so sorry! How disappointing/frustrating.

@squid I'm so glad! It's my favorite thing about being here, all the photos I'm able to appreciate and share. No other social media is as good about it, even when we beg.

@LaserScheme Thank you! I'm very happy to be here, it has the best name.

@annaonscreen Nice! I'm always happy to meet more people who are on the same wavelength as me :)

@chel Yay, glad I'm not alone out here with this name! I hope you like it more than I do though, it's always felt weird on me.