#ask muk

when i first started out this blog, i was pretty enthusiastic about it. i got to dumb around with a pokemon i love and talk to all of you people. my follower and following lists were both pretty low and it was pretty easy talking to all of you guys, which i tried to do as often as i could.

then, lots of things happened and i started talking to people a lot less and not really paying attention to much of what happened whenever things happened.

so right now, my thoughts are along the lines of:

i don't talk to enough of you guys

i don't interact with enough/any of the blogs

i don't participate in enough/any of the events

other stuff

i mean, i still love muk and this blog and the community in general, so i definitely don't want to delete or leave. but i think maybe i should take a break from it and see if i can get back that enthusiasm i had when i was first starting out.

i want to talk to the mods more and i want to have muk interact with the blogs more since muk's character is overly friendly and it makes no sense for me to not have muk interact with everyone. i want to send an ask to every ask blog that follows me and i want to be more consistent with updates.

one idea would be to spend that time thinking of a plot or story for muk but, honestly, i don't want to do that. i don't see the muk blog as having any fort of plot going on or special things. just a big dumb who interacts with everyone about anything (mostly food).

i don't know who a majority of my newest followers are. i don't know who many of the newer blogs are. i don't know the plots or stories of blogs i've been following for a while.

i have a terrible memory when it comes to plots, so when people post big stories and comics about them, i feel bad when i can't remember what happens because they spend so much time doing them. sometimes, i end up skipping over the stuff entirely because it is a long read and i know that i will forget most of what i read.

which also might be why i haven't been sending out asks. people enjoy things that will further the character development, plot, etc, but since i can't follow it, it wouldn't make much sense to send anything.

so maybe if i have a sort of fresh start, i will be able to try keeping up with things. maybe not. i won't know until the time comes, really.

i know i'm rambling a lot and probably repeating things. i apologize for it, but i feel like i should explain everything to you guys. i'm pretty bad at getting my thoughts and feelings across, i think, but i might as well try?

i love muk, i love you guys, but it has gotten harder for me to show that. it's really hard for me to put muk on hiatus like this, but this is the only thing that makes sense to do.

what this hiatus will mean:

i will not post any answered asks

i will not make any posts, period.

i will not participate in any events or things

i will not send any asks or make replies to anyone's posts

while i was going to say 'i will be logged off until the end of the hiatus', i think i might stop by and see if any people leave messages or reblog posts, etc.

if you need to contact me, you are free to send fanmail/an ask to this blog and i will reply to it privately.

this includes:

if you are in need of any advice

need to vent to someone about anything

need to let out any anon hate, as in you suddenly feel the urge to send anon hate to anyone. if you need to send it, send it to me. i don't mind and i can handle it.

if you have answered an ask i sent previously

if you have any questions

if you have drawn any fanart or anything and would like to show me

if you would like to show me anything, regardless of if it is related

i will not be checking my tracked tags for muk, so please let me know if there is anything. i may not post it, but i would definitely love to see.

outside of that, you will be able to contact me at my personal or at my peta!slowpoke blog. slowpoke will continue to update and will not be affected by this hiatus whatsoever.

i will still stream games or art every now and then, but i will only post notifications on my personal. if you would like to be notified whenever i stream, let me know and i will make a list of people to send messages to.

edit: if i stream, i may post it on this blog as well, but the post will get deleted when the stream ends.

if you want to skype, my skype is: hujireky

this hiatus isn't really a sudden thing, but even so, i hope you guys understand why i am doing this.

i will delete the asks remaining in my inbox.

anything you send from this point on will only be answered when the hiatus is finished, if it something directed at muk and is clearly in character.

i really want to keep in contact with you guys while i'm sorting out everything since you all feel like a strange sort of family. maybe you won't miss me while i'm gone, but i'll definitely miss you.

i don't know when i will end the hiatus. it may be a few months, it may be more. maybe even less.

other than that, i guess my last words are:

Try not to fight too much

and take care, everyone.