✨Building a Mystery✨

a gay rag's gotta do what a gay rag's gotta do

Hi cutiepie!

Do you feel it?? My lord, the crisp chill in the air! The first geese honking away overhead! Millions upon millions of mosquitos dying en masse, so rapidly you can almost hear the thunk of their combined bodyweight hitting the earth at once!

Over here in Minnesota, it is suddenly, fully fall. Every kid from the feral unsupervised pack that roams my neighborhood has vanished overnight, meaning that the number of inexplicable blood-curdling shrieks I hear each day during working hours has dropped to zero. We live next door to a single mom, and on the day school started again, I saw her sitting alone on her back deck in a camp chair facing the sun at 8 AM — no phone, no book. A few hours later, I took the trash out, and she was still there, chain-smoking, just staring at the trees and absorbing the silence.

I get it. This was the summer her youngest discovered those mini popping fireworks that snap when you throw them on the ground, so.

Everyone’s in that back-to-school mood. New routines, new projects.

I have a new project, too! And I can’t tell you much about it! Not yet!!😭😭

Remember when I was housesitting this past spring and working feverishly on a mysterious project I really wanted to do with a tight deadline?

Well! That project is now officially a go, and that means… I have to go. For a few months. I’ll be taking a break from posting on here until January or February, which feels both very far away??? and also like it’s coming up way too soon, holy shit!!!

If you pay for this gayass caftany newsletter (and BLESS U IF YOU DO, I KISS YOUR FACE, I LOVE YOU AND OFFER YOU EVERYTHING, ANYTHING), you’ll find the billing and payments turned off while I’m gone.

If I know you in real life, and you know what my ~mystery project~ is, please don’t announce it or hint about what it is in the comments — I’m hoping it’ll be a surprise when I can finally tell everyone!

Y’all, I feel torn about pausing O Caftan My Caftan. I love writing on here and going off in the comments with you all and reading your perfume questions and explaining how implausible it is that anyone has ever learned to drive a Zamboni, and I don’t want to stop hanging out!!! At all!!! and I’ve taken a hard look at the calendar and realized there’s no way I can get a regular weekly post out while I’m HEADS DOWN FLAT OUT GO FOR BROKE NO SOCIAL LIFE AT ALL DEAD SERIOUS GET IT DONE for a couple months.

So! We pause. For now.

Thank you for reading this gay rag up to this point!! And thank you for being so fun!!

Hopefully, you’ll still want to read when I get back from building a mystery💕🌈