Dolly

Happy Halloween! ཐི ₍^.ˬˬ.^₎ ཋྀ

I hate writing cover letters oh my god. I keep putting this off. People of Kwenk, how do you feel about job interviews? If you have a job, do you like it?

This job looks really good. I just hate cover letters lmao. I get so worried I'll do a bad job and won't get an interview.

Would you rather hold a big spider or an average sized snake?

I'd rather hold a snake. They feel super weird, but in a cool way.

I might make a longer blog about this, but I want to become a YouTuber. Not full-time or anything, even if making money from it would be beneficial. I just want to make art and OC videos as a hobby.

If you had a YouTube channel--or multiple--what would you post? What vibes and visual elements would it have? Any YouTubers you'd take inspiration from? If you already have a channel, feel free to leave a link! (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧

I was nearly finished writing a blog on my laptop. Then, I got distracted and later shut it down, losing my work in the process. God damn it!

There's a Google form going around on Tumblr asking what people's Killing Barney songs were. What version(s) of the song did you grow up with, if any?

Scored a FREE BIKE that's the exact style I want! It's riddled with rust along the frame, but it was free, so I don't mind. It even has a basket!

My Limbus Company self-insert for the first day of Cringetober. I posted this on Tumblr yesterday, but forgot to share it here (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠) I actually drew and posted another thing before this one, but it was just two outfit ideas. I'll post it in a minute.

Has anyone else lost access to their save on Papa's Freezeria? .·°՞(っ-ᯅ-ς)՞°·.

The other drawing from Day 1 of Cringetober! My Limbus Company self-insert ♡

Just a note to those with custom graphics on Kwenk: antiviruses may falsely flag sites like Melonland as malicious, so be warned that your graphics might not appear for some people be default. I believe this is just a false alarm on the antivirus' end (but no promises, lol). It can be turned off. Just want to spread the word!

I recommend downloading the images you are using and posting them to somewhere like Tumblr or Imgur. Link from those sites instead. Hotlinking straight from the indie sites uses up their bandwidth, anyway.

All the plants in the gouse got sprayed with fertilizer. This smell is going in my list of top five most foul odors.

I so badly want one of those loft beds with the canopy tops. My dream room is full of antiques, dark wood, lots of stuffed animals, and layers of frilly blankets. I want warmly lit lamps, a spacious desk, and an armchair.

What does your dream bedroom look like?

I don't think I've shared this artwork on Kwenk. If I have, then, uh, sorry!! (⁠•⁠ ⁠▽⁠ ⁠•⁠;⁠)

These two are the mothers of two of the families in my main story, Dandelion Sun. Their names are Mary (left) and Janet (right). Mary is the mother of Tony, Ally (protag), and Joey. Janet is the mother of Brandy, Lori, Morgan, and Lola and Jack (both protags). They're best friends, despite their very different personalities.

In this, I imagine Mary is hanging out at Janet's house to watch an AFL game. Janet is wearing a jersey for a fake team I made up, the Joeys. I hope it's not a real team, haha.

How do you guys know when someone has a crush on you? I've always been terrible at reading where I stand with others, especially romantically. I also have zero dating experience, so I'm curious.

So many forms of flirting can also be platonic. I remember writing down all the signs of platonic and romantic interest and they were the same. Is it really just based on vibes? I hope not lmfao.

Do you prefer catching trains or buses?

I'm here to recommend the game Sinner Maker/Sinner Salvation. Imagine if Animal Cross and Tomodachi Life had a baby. Now, set it after the rapture. That's the game. It's in early access, so it's unfinished and a little buggy, but I'm really enjoying it.

Had a dream this morning that Kwenk added these, like, quizzes users could make. They morphed into slideshows as the dream went on. Someone was using them to cyberbully another user over their slideshow fanfictions and it turned into a back-and-forth hatemail chain. They both had super pink, lovey-dovey account themes. Also, we had blogs and also these book things that were like personal folders for blogs. I think they were made with multi-chapter fanfics in mind, but people used them for whatever.

Anyone else dreamt about Kwenk or just had any weird dreams recently?

Happy first day of September! The year has gone by too quickly (˶╥︿╥)

What are your plans for this month?

The United Nations are changing the world map. The old map was based on directions to make travelling easier. The new map is more accurate to the size and shape of countries. I attached a picture of the new world map. I recommend reading an article on this because it's pretty interesting!!

Here is one of the antagonists to my story, Dandelion Sun. Her name is Kirsty Dickenson. She lives with her twin, Tom, and grandmother, Charlotte in a small, Aussie town called Halboro. The story is set across the year 1994.

I want to make this kind of drawing for all the classmates, if not the main families, too. I'm not good at coming up with outfits, but I'm satisfied with this pattern. I'm also a big fan of yellow memo paper and plan to use it for all the backgrounds. It's great for pretending the characters drew on the background.

Want to crash out, but internet safety is important. Instead, I'll ask what life tips you guys have for being independent. As basic as you want. Laundry, cleaning, shopping, budgeting...Anything. Even if I already know it, reading advice from you guys might help me calm down. No pressure, but thank you if you do!! ദ്ദി ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ )

Peter Cullen too. I'm not okay. Rest in peace.

Rest in peace, Dolly Parton 3

Anyone else hate cooking with oil? It's so aggressive. Water boils, but oil jumps out from the pan to attack you. It sucks.

If anyone has a miracle cooking tip for dealing with oil, please tell me. I'm an abysmal cook.

This post is inspired by a post here by @zanza.

What would you guys want in the blogs? What would make you actually want to use the blog function? I know this is just The Lounge, but I hope brainstorming ideas in a large group like this will catch the staff's eye. This could be a good opportunity to get some features we'd actually use, so we can make the most of the features already here.

Personally, I think being able to upload multiple images to blogs would be super cool. Inline images as well! I'd love to be able to add pictures to the side of my paragraphs or little decome emotes in my text. We could use this to add cute dividers, headers, and whatnot.

If that isn't possible, just having the opportunity to change text colours would be really neat. I'm unsure how difficult it would be to add entirely custom colours, but even a default set would be nice.

I truly think the blogging function here could be so popular if it just had more stuff. Right now, posts are the most eye-catching things. For me, I'm discouraged to blog when I know I'll get more interaction on posts.

RE: Blogging

I made a post about this in The Lounge. There, I had to conserve my own suggestions so I could actually ask others what they wanted. Here, I will dump my own ideas for how staff could improve the blogging feature.

- Images. Multiple images would encourage people to post things like comics and really any image sets. Inline images would be even better to break up the walls of text. Dividers, decome, and even just pictures to the side would be great. Alt text is a must if we get this.
- Text colours. Free range to choose any colour would be preferred, but even a nice site-wide palette would be cool. Again, it would break up the text.
- Audio embeds. A much later game feature, if it'll ever be added, but I digress. I think just something like what we have on our profiles.
- Blog background styling. Not necessarily what we have in the posts/profiles, where we can change everything. Even some presets (paper textures, greeting card styles, etc.) would add some fun customisation!

Overall, I think blogs need more than text styling and a higher character limit. Posts garner more interactions because they can be shared in groups, which people already have more control over. Images also tip the scale a lot. I don't want to make posts worse, but I think blogs need to be more inviting than posts overall.

I think blogs should be the main way we talk here. Blogs are where you dump how your day went, while posts are, "My day sucked, lol," or, "Blog is gonna take a little longer."

Ended up making a group for people to brainstorm things we want added to Kwenk! It might not be on the front page for the groups yet, so search Kwenk Suggestions & Ideas. I'll also drop the link.

kwenk.com/g/83

First post! I suppose an introduction is in order, even if this will get buried eventually.

Hello! I recently made a post in The Lounge, inspired by another user's post, asking what features people would like to see added to Kwenk. Specifically, I was asking about the blogging feature. Although I just posted it, I realised it would be good to have a place dedicated entirely to what we do and don't want on this site.

The group description has a character limit, so I'll throw some conversation starters down here. However, don't feel bound by these. As long as it doesn't break the Kwenk Terms of Service, anything goes!

1. What features do you think are boring, and what would make them more fun?
2. What is something you think would add to the old web revival theme?
3. How do you think we can keep Kwenk unique from other social medias (Bluesky, Insta, etc.)?
4. Any issues with the site as a whole (lag, loading times, etc.)?
5. What are some vague ideas you'd like to see added? Even if you don't know how to implement them!

How much do you want to integrate physical media into your life? Do you want it to be more popular overall? What things, if any, do you think should be replaced/mostly replaced by physical media? Any stuff you want to keep digital?

Personally, my ideal car would have a CD player. I think I would mess with playlists by skipping songs and stuff while driving. Pretty bad distraction. With CDs, I've already curated the playlist. Having less flexibility would force me to skip less and focus on driving more.

That said, I'm a fan of bluetooth speakers. I know most chunky radios come with okay-ish to good speakers and might come with CD/cassette player integration, but I don't want to haul a big speaker around. Bluetooth speakers are so handy.

I don't want bluetooth forced into everything, though. Don't charge me for something I don't want or need. From what I've experienced, modern devices think that quantity is better. It's kind of hard to escape unwanted features and then be charged more for it ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

Protagonists of my story, Dandelion Sun, except with the old title. I will have to update this sometime. My beloveds <3

OC QOTD: What time period is your OC from? How does this influence their life, behaviours, and beliefs? If your OC is from a fantasy world, feel free to answer for their world's timelineand/or what periods their setting is based on!

How do you engage with your ships? Do you prefer fanfics, art, or sticking directly to the source material? Do you make any stuff?

OC QOTD: What are/were your OC's favourite and least favourite subjects in school, or any other kind of formal education they received (training, mentors, etc.)? If your OC never attended anything formal, what other "subjects" would they consider their favourite?

I will have to wait to post my reply to this. It's nice to hear what people OCs love to learn about most!

I love how the owner of this group's username being "????" makes it look like Kwenk doesn't know who owns this group.

I just finished Canto VI and holyyyyy shit it was SO GOOD!! The Mili song is such a banger. It's used really well within the gameplay. I have been listening to it on repeat.

Heathcliff is now my third favourite character.

OC QOTD: How frequently does your OC bathe/clean themselves? Are they happy with this frequency? How long could they last without bathing before they feel too grotty to put it off any longer?

Going to try to post questions for people's OCs here semi-regularly. I'm going to include my responses in the comments because I have too many OCs, haha.

OC QOTD: Through what medium do you want to tell your OCs' story/stories? Why did you choose this medium? Are there any things you'll have to learn for this?

Some fun, dramatic songs of various genres:

- Akathisia by Machinery of the Human Heart
- Laplace's Angel by Will Wood
- Through Patches of Violet by Mili
- Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf
- 10538 Overture by Electric Light Orchestra
- Theme from New York, New York by Frank Sinatra

Died twenty thousand times within the span of a week. Now, I'm just tired.

See, now I'm thinking about how cool a Quenq book club would be. Imagine if we organised to read specific books like an actual club? I have no idea how feasible this would actually be, but it sounds cool.

Don't count on me to make this, though. I'm not a consistent reader. I just think it'd be neat.

Hello! I have a question for you all.

When is the best time to shop for formal/prom dresses? As in, how soon in advance should I shop? I want to avoid last-minute buys, but I don't want to buy something too soon and then get upset because I saw something else. I know that's hard to predict, but I assume there is an ideal time frame.

Specifically, I'm looking for vintage (1950s) dress. If the op shop/thrifting gods bless me, I might find something there. If not, I'm happy to scour second-hand listing and even online stores. If you have advice relating to any of those subjects, I would really appreciate you sharing it!

I don't go shopping for fancy clothes, like, ever. Thank you for any help! Hope you all have wonderful weeks.

I'm looking for book recommendations for a monthly reading blog I am starting. Unfortunately, I don't know what books are good versus what ones have an extremely loud following. Please, send me some that you like or have heard are good!

I'm looking for published books only, so please no (web)comics/manga, fan-fictions, or anything of the like. No hate at all to that stuff. I just want to focus on traditional books for this. if you want, you can DM me any comic/manga recommendations you have!

I welcome both fiction and non-fiction. Interests include:
- Realism
- Philosophy
- Comedy, including dark humor
- Mystery
- Coming-of-age novels, both for young adults and adults
- Chemistry, astronomy, and history
- Dystopias
- Queer representation
- Literally anything focused on hope and belief in humanity/community, despite the horrors

Honestly, these are off the top of my head. Got a favourite book that doesn't fit? Send it my way! All I ask is that there is no explicit sexual content.

Thank you!!

I said I was going to make a blog post introducing my story Dandelion Sun, but I've decided to give quick blurbs for a couple other ones before that. Dandelion Sun is included as well for the fun of it.

HALVERSE (OC universe):

Dandelion Sun: Six teenagers growing up in an outback town in 1994. Each episode is one day of the year. Covers bullying, identity, familial relationships, crushes, and the wonder of the little things in life. So, so many plotlines. Too many to cover in one paragraph.

Heartstrings and Hairspray: Unrelated spin-off set in the 1980s. Tells the story of a a band's rise to fame and the effects this has on the members' relationships. Oath & Creed was never intended to make it big. What will they do now? Sadly, not really my focus at the moment.

Super Space Sailor: In the Halverse, it's a sci-fi fiction franchise about a human scientist and the twin aliens he teams up with to save Earth. In the 1970s, after our planet is invaded by other aliens collectively known as The Empire, he is appointed as humanity's sacrificial lamb. Could he truly be their last hope?

NON-HALVERSE (all separate universes):

The Butterfly Effect: The year is 1958, and Edith has never felt so deeply. After her family is forced to move to Washington State, she experiences a psychotic episode. Only a daily journal is keeping her doctor from sending her to hospital. When she finds entries from her future, she's forced to wade through the lies of her town, the mystery of the journal, and her own grip on reality.

Rivers of Thyme: Three years prior, Barley's godchild disappeared from her homestead. Everything is lined up to land her in jail, but she knows more than she will ever admit. Trees are shifting, animals are slaughtered in the night, and she has seen far too much to ignore. With only her gun, she is determined to find Thyme, no matter the cost.

Umm, yeah!! I love my OCs #myocs. If you have any questions, please ask! I love to talk about them! Thank yo

Oh, I forgot to say thank you for one hundred profile visits. I feel kind of weird saying that. I'm not someone who cares much for follower counts, and this is a site geared towards making actual friends. Even so, it's nice to know people have taken interest in my stuff! (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶) ‹𝟹

Would anyone be interested in a group for web developer, designers, and so on? I only know of the one for profile skins. I would like there to be one for people who actually make websites.

I'm absolutely down to make it myself, but I'm an amateur coder. If anyone else wants to run the group, I welcome it. It's not like I own the idea, anyway, haha.

How many people here are into website creation, whether you actually do it or it's just an idea? For those who code, what languages do you prefer? I'm basic and only have a grasp on HTML and CSS. However, I want to wrap my head around JavaScript.

I miss writing self-indulgent fanfiction. I miss writing fanfiction in general. Do any of you write fanfictions of your ships?

Even if you don't write, what scenarios do you like to think of?

Gonna make a blog post at some point to introduce my main OC story, Dandelion Sun. In the meantime, here's some info about it.

The story follows the lives of six teenage best friends over the year 1994. This story will be a comic. Each episode will be one day of the year, so it's very much a slice-of-life story.

The protagonists are: Renee, Lucas, Ally, Mary-Anne, Lola, and Jack. Lola and Jack are twins. They all live on the same street, Hal Street, which is the northernmost street in Halboro. They're all young teenagers.

Their struggles mostly cover school stresses and interpersonal relationships. These include: exams, bullies, school fights, family fights, and some crushes. However, their biggest struggles come from within themselves. As coming-of-age stories go, they must face change and the reality that the past can never be returned to.

The main setting is a tiny town called Halboro. It's located in southern Queensland state (Australia) and is in the outback! For any of you who know about Queensland geography, it's in south-eastern Balonne Shire. In other words, it's right above the QLD-NSW state border!

Dandelion Sun is intended for mature audiences only. There are lots of content warnings for the story. Of course, only things appropriate for Quenq will be posted here. However, the CWs include: abuse and violence, death, mental and physical illnesses, drugs, bigotry, and lots of foul language. There will be NO explicit sex scenes, even if there are innuendoes and crude jokes. A chunk of the CWs don't apply directly to the protagonists, either.

I encourage questions about the story and characters! I know I haven't given a whole lot here, but I will have more to say in my blog post. I'll also share a link to that here once it's completed! (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)

Some power pop bands because people I talk to IRL don't recognise the genre (most of these are '90s):

- Jellyfish
- The Posies
- Matthew Sweet
- Sugar
- Material Issue
- Jason Falkner
- Big Star
- Teenage Fanclub

And my ultimate favourite: Velvet Crush! I love their album Teenage Symphonies to God. I think the band is pretty niche. I hope I can meet someone else who knows about them! Unfortunately, I've been having a hard time finding their proper discography. I want to listen to their songs in order, but I dunno where to find their other albums.

None of my Tumblr mutuals know I have an account here. Kind of funny to think about. I doubt they even know Quenq exists!