Which has been much-needed, against this sudden and awful autumnal chill! Give me back the heatwaves, please.

u/boogerzombie x 5 - Thank you for the usual explosion of energy and excitement! Also love how our ugly card exchange is becoming nicer and nicer. Replies have been written!

u/disabledimmigrant x 8 - As usual, I do not deserve you or your gifts (you are the gift, of course, of course); I'm having a bit of a time, but I finally sifted through your mail, and it's pushed my mood up despite my dour disposition! I hope you're taking care of yourself half as well. Postcards are on their way!

u/Slavkan12 x 2 - Thank you for the cards, which I devoured with delight! I'm so amused by how tightly-packed walls of text have squeezed out all stamp space; I'm chalking this up to my influence and taking full credit :) Dispatching my response within the hour!

u/tigerbarksmeow x 4 - Thank you for this amazing haul! Are you secretly me? From the username (impeccable choice) down to the card themes! Huge shoutout to USSR propaganda posters, which I can never get enough of; I'm putting that card aside as something special :) I do remember your love for Waterhouse! I'll confess to liking Dickens a lot - I discovered him when I was young, and was sucked in by the sheer amount of detail and small, sympathetic human dramas. Wilde and Hardy have special places in my heart; who are your favourite Victorian authors?

u/soft_distortion - Thank you for the national park postcard, featuring a beautiful rabbit stamp (it looks like it may be Chinese-zodiac-themed?). I'd love to do a jungle hike, though I suspect the mosquitoes would tear me apart!

u/stephkempf - Thank you for including me in your 4k flair (congratulations again!) celebration - and with such efficiency!

u/not_katrinalenk - Thank you for the Guernica card, which was quite sobering and topical. I haven't watched The Rehearsal, but funny and weird sounds like my thing!

u/wabisabi_sf - Thank you for the 'SUCK MY BALLS' card! Basic milk tea is a classic, timeless order...but adding lychee jelly is a demented choice!

u/SiamLinio - Thank you for the gorgeous wood duck card; I have such a soft spot for birds, and bird illustrations, so this makes me very happy. Did you get round to playing Genshin Impact, or watching 'Locke & Key'? Unbelievable that you put 'room reorganisation' under your list of fun things - I've just done this, with much pain!

u/mtlsmom86 - Thank you for the lovely sleeping owl card, stickers, and soup recipe (it'll be an improvement on what I've started doing, which is dissolving stock cubes and drinking that directly). Strongly relate to all plans for this year going out the window; here's to us figuring things out!

u/-littlebeesandtrees- - Thank you for the random card and good vibes - I'm thrilled to have been thought of! How did your dentist appointment go? I went to a new dentist for the second half of a root canal recently, and after several minutes, the dentist asked, 'um...so...which tooth is it?' Not encouraging! I'm sorry to hear about the forced account change, by the way - people can suck. On the plus side, your new username is super cute!