You couldn’t publish this today.
You’d have to hide it under seven layers of metaphor.
every time i ask people if they do any new years resolutions its all ooooo i dont like making them bc i fail or ohhhhh no i couldnt keep up wiht that and then when they ask me and i tell them about Pasta Quest (i am eating as many different pasta shapes as possible in the space of a year) or when i did Fruit Adventures (every time i saw a fruit i had never eaten before id get one and eat it and read the wikipedia article about it) theyre like hang on i forgot you can make Fun Ones i want a fun one
while i actually made this post back in May, since New Year’s is approaching here’s some of my fave suggestions from the tags if you’re looking for inspiration!
other favorites from the notes I didn’t get screenshots of at the time:
- learn the names/species of local plants, bugs, and birds where you live (iNaturalist or Merlin the bird app help with this)
- learn the rules to 10 new card games
- steal the colored paint cards from hardware store paint aisles and use them to make art
- try out every different apple variety you can find and rank them
- similarly LOTS of people in the notes doing soup quests, and a few cheese quests also
- similarly lots of people reading/watching certain amounts of media over the year, and tracking/rating it
- track the number of cats/dogs/etc you see over the year
there’s plenty more in there too :)
this year I’m gonna grow things from SEED
Specifically tomatoes and maybe melons
[ID: There are Tumblr tags interspersed through the post. They read
- biigmiikey: coulle years ago my roommate besties new years res was to be cozier, she got a new bed and rearranged her room and i was like damn that is a great resolution
- emmagoldmanfanclub: last year i did sneeze count., i sneezed 1072 times in 2022
- digitalcockroach: fr mine for next year is gonna be to read the wikipedia for every currently existing country in alphabetical order
- cephalopodink: i do eat more pickles every single year. never regretted it. love eating pickled things., rabble babble, queuettlefish
- abysswarlock: only time I did something like this was a resolution to look at clouds and try to see pictures in them at least once a day
- prosocialbehavior: last year mine was to unsubscribe from all marketing emails, maybe this year ill do a fun one
- t4ttragedy: one year mine was just that every time i felt the impulse to compliment someone i would actually do it, and that was like 3 years ago and i just kind of kept doing that
- eevee-williams: my 2018 one was so fun, i learned to make all the classic cocktails, i don’t do it a lot any more but i still do it sometimes, today i got home from work like ‘you know what would fix me? tequila sunrise’, and brother i was so right about that. it’s fixing me
- beatnikfreakiswriting: yeah! the year i turned 21 i made my new year’s resolution ‘wear more red’. It was fun, i wore way more red. i like red., year after i did ‘wear more green’ and you know what? I did that!, i now wear both red and green frequently.
- akinari-kashihara: Mine was to enter every free giveaway I could nothing btw, I’ve won nothing btw
- attractivegkry: I’m going to spend more time in my hammock, once I’m done with school I’m going to visit people and LOOK AT BIRDS when I’m there
- blueberrytruth: saw someone on tt whose resolution was to see every artwork from acnh in person, which is a very cool resolution if you have the means to travel
- anawkwardblue: I think I’m gonna try weaving!, and making fairy houses for the woods
- heylabodega: One year mine was to cook with more butter and the next it was to wink more.
- moonspren: one year i asked for book recommendations on Facebook and read every single one, it was interesting but i recommend only doing this with people you trust, i read some shit books that year
- hrududil: this year my goal was: 30 cat selfies (with different cats), and also: every time i get boba i get a diff flavour :)
- kavat: this year my resolution was to wear more silly little outfits and i think im doing well
- khezhatkhaleesi: a couple years ago my reso was to be slightly less of a lil bitch about eating chilli and i did it!!!, got a chilli in my dinner the other week that would have ruined my night in the past but i just barely even blinked
- cikero: my most successful one was be nice to bugs, and I still do it :)
- bastardclownbaby: yes!!, i am doing Wear All Of My Clothes which is not only fun but useful in helping me figure out what to actually get rid of
- yu3s: txt, my new years resolution this year (last year?) was cat journal where i wrote a journal as a cat going on an adventure and saved cat photos, and every cat my friends sent to me or tagged me in i put in the adventure also! like as an apothecary owner cat or a baker cat etc!, got busy and stopped doing it but cat journal will be my resolution next year >:3c protagonist is wizard cat and it will explore the world!
- nopeferatu: my new years resolution is to suck and fuck, just kidding i dont really want that, my new years resolution is to make myself like avocados :)
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