#10 things to get to know me better

[claudiajcregg]

10 things for 10 people you’d like to know better!

Tagged by the lovely @holy-ships-x-red-lips . Thank you for tagging me, friend! I started to answer these on Thursday, which means I've had to change some answers multiple times. (A problem of my own making. I kept forgetting about posting it.)

Last Song: I'm listening to my SNTV vinyl today! So, Dear John as of answering this. I still can't believe I got to experience it live. If I close my eyes while listening to it, I see my view of that sea of purple lights.

Last book: I'm about halfway into The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller! That I've finished? Sunrise on the Reaping. I've started a bunch lately but haven't finished that many! (I gotta get back to The Secret History, which I was enjoying, but I knew I wouldn't finish in time for the book club.)

Last movie: I need to get back to watch more movies. Can't remember the last one at home, but A Real Pain in cinemas a while ago. (Oh, I think the "El Mago Pop Lands in USA" doc counts! We just finished that one and now my dad regrets not getting tickets… I spent the entire winter asking him.)

Last TV show: if long YT videos don't count, High Potential on Disney+. It was fun to see TJ Thyne and Nasim Pedrad on the one we watched last night! (I think it was 11?) I'll probably watch Hacks in a bit, too.

Favourite colour: Purple! I like all shades, but warmer purples that are almost reddish, I love.

Sweet, savoury, or spicy: Sweet.

Relationship status: 🧍‍♀️

Last thing I googled: Several attempts at trying to find an available copy of Gracie's RSD First. If I can't get it tomorrow from a few EU/UK stores I have my eye on, I'll wait for the inevitable drop on her website. (I just hope I'll have made it home by 9PM!)

Current obsession: These are unserious ones, but no less true, lmao. Raging about different aspects of RSD in town, but I'm glad I did my chill thing in the afternoon. (However much you think you've heard me rant about it, it's just a fraction of what poor Waves has.)

Also, constantly refreshing the couple of things that are on their way (esp my tgw deluxe, which has to be my slowest eBay/GSP experience so far… no one needs to hear my rant about how the seller was very nice but wasn't really listening to what I was saying. That package spent 10 days at UK GSP without being scanned!!!!). Anyway, I think it'd be hilarious if the other GSP shipment from the US got here before tgw.

Looking forward to: Tuesday onwards! I'm taking Tues and Wed off (I should've also taken tomorrow off lbr, but I'm planning on taking a random Monday off next month instead, iykyk). I'm also curious to see what comes out of my car dealership visit on Tuesday! I don't mind an almost new/KM 0 car vs a new, personalizable one that might be ready in September. I haven't really driven since I got my license.

Tagging: @likeanorangeonatoothpick @kidmccabe @malkaleh @maryoliveoil @unseenacademic @leoleofitz @jessbakescakes @bartletslesbians @etherealthv @district447

(As usual, if you want to do it, consider yourself tagged! And if you don't want to do it, that's also fine! I forget who's done this, so I went with the last few moots I've seen in my dash.)

[licorishh]

no way she's alive ?? yea those mental health breaks because social media makes people suck are wild huh

[clumsypuppy]

axolotl

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Megastar (my first toxic yaoi) x Bingjiu (my most toxic yaoi)

[piecesofchess]

Tartarus is still a little broken and that's Fun !

[cometblaster2070]

absolutely high off my ass rn i'm not going to lie but it just always blows my mind whenever I think about it for more than 5 seconds that raz is actually fucking 10 years old like that's a bloody 5th grader and he's gone around and speedran like 30 people's lifelong traumas in the span of like 6-7 days because canonically psychonauts 1, psychonauts 2 AND rhombus of ruin all take place in the span of under a week.

i will elaborate more on this later but I was just seeing gameplay footage of milla's nightmares and what not and I just. like raz saw that. a 10 year old saw that. also the same 10 year old, like 2 days later was buried alive by ford??? ik it was in his head but still????

that boy is 10 get him therapy oh my god.

[seaquestions]

blake lets him keep it. this is a dire lapse in judgement on his part but they're just gonna have to live with it. (ids in alts)

[wholahoop]

10 people I want to get to know better

I was tagged by the lovely @arminaa8 ❤️

Last song: I don't listen to a lot of music - I'm more of a Radio 4 kind of girl (for non-Brits, it's kind of talk radio, but with a lot of politics, culture and audio dramas). Maybe the soundtrack of Honkai Star Rail as I'm playing counts? 😂

Favorite color: bright pink, but with turquoise a close second. I love bright colours! I am, in theme, a tiny bit Barbie/Elle Woods, if they were lazier and less designer label, haha.

Last movie: Rewatched Jurassic World Dominion because I couldn't remember if I'd seen it before (I had: it was just very forgettable, boo).

Last TV show: Tried the first episode of The Good Ship Murder last night - with a cop turned cruise ship singer as a sleuth. I love a cosy mystery series!

Sweet/spicy/savory: Can I have all of them??? I love savoury most, though - please give me curry, or all the cheese. It's always tragic to go to a restaurant and be offered a cheese course but have no room to fit it in 😭

Relationship status: Very happily married 😍

Last thing I googled: One Hundred Stars - considering buying these palazzo pants (yes, confusingly we do sometimes refer to trousers as pants)

Current obsession: Trying to stay warm when it's fucking freezing at the moment...? Trying to be cheerful on the bluest of blue Mondays?

Looking forward to: Eating dinner, booking some mini holidays, the weather warming up, reading some of my enormous #tbr pile, dipping into some of the awesome looking drarry fics the lovely @sweet-s0rr0w and @sitp-recs came up with for me, going to bed because I'm tired and it's only Monday.

Tagging @sweet-s0rr0w, @sitp-recs, @dewitty1, @lqtraintracks, @magpiefngrl, @faiell, @parkkate, @saintgarbanzo, @yiiiiiiiikes25, @a-bichol and anyone else who wants to play - I want to tag you all, but that would be insane 😂

[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

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[softquietsteadylove]

Hello love, how are you?

I know you have done a couple of this already, but may i ask for one where Thena is suffering because of her period and Gil is being a good boyfriend and taking care of her, pretty please.

Also thank you for all your works they are amazing 🩷🤍.

"Thena?"

He didn't get any response as he cracked the door open even further. Which, he wouldn't under any normal circumstance. But not only was this bathroom at an end of the school that no one ever used, he had gotten an inside tip.

"Babe, I know you're in here," he broached carefully. She wasn't in here for no reason.

"Get out."

There she was. But it didn't have her usual sharpness. Plenty of acerbic distaste, certainly, but it had a kind of morose undertone to it.

Gil pressed the door closed behind him, "come on, sweetheart. Sersi sent me."

There was a stall door between them, but he could hear the look of betrayal on her face. "That little-"

"Hey," he assuaged, pressing his palm to the painted steel. "She's at the mall with Dane--who I know damn well you wouldn't want knowing about this, too."

"Whom," she corrected him, although even that lacked her usual gusto. "And that doesn't mean you were the acceptable alternative."

"Thena," he attempted in a sweeter voice. He looked down at the feet under the stall's gap. He had some sympathy; he didn't think of it as nearly so big a deal, but there were probably few things more personal to a girl than this. "Is it bad?"

She took her sweet time answering him, and even when she did, it came out as a miserable little warble. "I can see it a little."

A little would be enough. Especially if she was wearing white jeans.

"Do you know when it started?" he asked, in he thought was a pretty calm and cool way--logical, as his girlfriend would most appreciate.

She sighed (heavily). "After, or maybe even during practice. I managed to slip away from the team."

Gil frowned. Wasn't it, like, girl code not to leave one of their own in this state of distress? "You didn't wanna ask one of them-"

"I wouldn't say I'm that close with any of them," Thena spat. He didn't think she had any real dislike for them, either. But then again, his girlfriend didn't excel at vulnerability, and maybe this was too much for her to even turn to her fellow woman.

She had texted Sersi in blind hopes that her sister was close at hand.

"Okay, here," Gil sighed, pulling up the bag he had with him. He looked up, and then down, "do these doors have hooks on the inside?"

"You think our school has the luxury of something like that?"

Okay, yeah, she had a point. He huffed, "well, I dunno, so you don't have to put your bag or purse or whatever on the floor?"

"I'm not saying it's not a good idea, Gil, but no, they don't have that."

She really was feeling like absolute shit.

"Okay," he gave in easily. He set the bag on the ground and used his foot to slide it in to her. She did snatch it away from his gaze eagerly. "Sersi didn't say which one you liked, so I got a little pack of both, and-"

"Thank you--out."

He sighed again, but there wasn't much more he could do for her at this point. "Okay, okay, but I'm gonna be right outside the door."

"You don't have to, Gil."

He made a face at the stall door again, not that she could appreciate it. "I'm not gonna leave you like this."

"You could, though."

He didn't even really have anything he could compare it to--what she must be feeling at the moment. And for someone who struggled to talk about her own discomfort like she did... "I'm sorry, Thena."

It was so, so quiet. But he caught it--the little sniffle. The telltale sign that her misery was not just mere anger or frustration.

"There's no need, Gil," she tried to dissuade him again, more genuinely and less angrily this time.

"Babe, you know I've eaten you out, right," he commented rather dryly, "it's not like I can get freaked out by your period."

"That's-!" For however strong it started, it gave way to her misery not a second later, finishing in a whimper, "different."

She was right, it was different. But he was trying! He just wanted to make her feel better.

"I'll be outside," he reaffirmed to her door, pressing himself to it as if she would know he was trying to comfort her like that. "And I'm not leaving without you, so don't even try it."

"Fine."

Gil pulled himself away from the door slowly. He lingered, in case she was going to change her mind and tell him to stay. But she made not even a sound, which wasn't even that easy to do with the crinkly plastic pharmacy bag he'd brought in.

He had even had the wherewithal to ask them to double bag it, for privacy reasons! He thought that was a pretty smart move, on his part. He had gotten both tampons and pads, which maybe was a little overkill. But he didn't want her to get stuck with one if she was more comfortable with the other. And he'd thrown in some pain meds and some chocolate, just for good measure.

Gil leaned against the wall outside the bathroom door. They were at the very end of the hall, by the door that led straight to the fields. Now that all the practices were over, no one would be down here until teachers left or cleaning staff came to do their thing.

His heart ached for his poor Thena, imagining her discovering the blood and too uncomfortable around her teammates to ask for help with it. He wasn't entirely sure where her ire with them started, or if it was for Thena reasons or something else. But the fact that she had slipped away from them to endure the misery for herself spoke to how solitary a creature she really was.

He stood up straight as the door opened and Thena emerged with the bag in the crook of her elbow. She was staring straight down at the ground. "How do you feel?"

"Humiliated."

Gil smiled down at the top of her head as she headbutted him right in the chest. He didn't mind. He wrapped his arms around her, pressing a kiss to her hair.

His first instinct was to say something to lighten her mood, maybe a joke or something. But he felt the faint but real little spots of warmth in the cotton of his t-shirt. He rubbed her back, "it's okay."

Thena had never, ever, cried in front of him. Not even when she told him about Ikaris laughing at her for being a virgin. He was still determined to kick that guy's ass one day.

She pulled away, rubbing her eyes to erase the last of her woes for herself. "Thank you."

"Of course," he frowned. Like he was doing some great thing by helping her out with this? It was pretty basic boyfriend stuff, he was pretty sure. "You know I mean that, right?"

"I know," she grumbled, and there was some of his Thena starting to emerge. She stepped away from him, her arms wrapped around herself.

"You want me to, uh," he tilted his head, "check if you're good?"

"I would rather die."

He chuckled; now that was his Thena.

"Just," she mumbled out, embarrassment written all over her. "Give me your sweater.

He did so in an instant, pulling his black hoodie off his shoulders and wrapping it around her. She extended her arms on her own, threading them through the sleeves smoothly. He made sure it sat on her shoulders and then gave the bottom a tug to verify that it did indeed cover well beyond her (cute) butt.

She looked at him as she started pushing the sleeves up.

"Lookin' good," he grinned at her with a wink.

She rolled her eyes at him, but the way she let him take her hand told him she was still feeling a little shitty about everything. "Take me home?"

"You got it," he assured as gently as he could. As much as he wanted to offer to take her out and do something fun, it wasn't about what he wanted. And if she wanted to wallow in her misery for the night he would ask and beg and plead to join her in that misery. "You know-"

Thena didn't even turn her head, just gave him one hell of a side eye.

But he smiled, braving on for the love of his young life. "As I keep reminding you, I am in this for real, babe. Like, real deal, long haul-"

"Yes, yes, you have said," she sighed, although he could see her starting to smile again.

He gave her hand a squeeze. "It's not like I was never gonna be around for...something like this."

It showed on Thena's face just how much she appreciated his delicacy with it, even after the fact.

"It's not a big deal--not to me, at least," he shrugged, hoping he was saying the right thing. All he could hope was that she was really hearing him and getting how much he meant it. "And if you ever needed help like this again--just call me, okay? Text me, email me if you have to."

She laughed at the suggestion, but all he needed to see was that cute smile, showing off her teeth. She had a cute laugh, too.

"I'll be there, Thena," he finished, pouring his heart into it. "In a heartbeat."

"I know, Gil." Well, that was the end of that. It wasn't up for discussion anymore, and he would be pushing his luck to try and continue it.

But he happily let her release his hand, only so she could wrap her arms around his one and press her face into his t-shirt sleeve. "You gonna let me carry that bag for you?"

"No."

"Okay, fine," he chuckled. Whatever she wanted--needed. Anything at all. He looked down at her as they continued down the hall, taking their good, sweet time. "Thena, I-"

"I hope," she prefaced, giving his arm an extra squeeze, "you're not about to say something I wouldn't want to hear on arguably the worst day of my life."

Okay, so not the time for an I-Love-You. Their first, he had to keep reminding himself, no matter how many times he had already imagined saying it to her.

"Yeah, no, totally," he mumbled, resigning himself to keeping it in again.

"Just-" Thena pressed herself even closer to him. "Just wait a little longer."

He looked down at the top of her head again (since she wasn't up to looking at him yet, apparently). But she didn't have to ask; he was going to wait for her until the day he died, he had already decided.

It wasn't even really up to him. Somewhere along the way, he had fallen beyond the point of no return, and he would do anything - literally anything! - for her.

Thena let him kiss her forehead as they continued shuffling along, the hum of the fluorescents and the crinkling of the bag offering a soundtrack to their quiet moment.

"Y'know, I heard baths are good for cramps. We could-"

"Not a chance, Gil."

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

Kills me that I took a Tumblr break on the day Grace watched Materialists (which slotted in next to Captain Fantastic with movies that cut to the heart of really real personal interesting problems for me) and Cate is analyzing Marvel movies, but such is life

[peppered-ronis]

today's "it's so over" "we're so back" cycle has been "i have wasted the past, like, 10 years of my life" vs "well what the fuck was i meant to be doing anyway"

[scarwwars]

very hard to put into words how weird it is to see so much league hype and content rn, ive played for 10+ years and it genuinely sort of feels surreal for the lore to be a focus of the community for once

honestly it feels strange to see ANY sort of hype to existing for the game outside of the player base and like its the LORE, TOTALLY FREE TO CONSUME that's getting people involved in the game/universe, and it ESP feels like vindication after riot scrapped the universe site, stopped putting out colour stories, shut down riot forge, has basically made a skeleton team of the legends of runeterra game- the best game riot has ever released and the biggest effort theyve ever made to open the world up and explore the lore

if arcane wasnt enough for you, i beg you go poke around youtube and watch some of the old league content, the cinematics are so beloved by the community, the parody songs (this is war from falconshield, anything from instalok) AND riot's officially released anthems and songs (most with lore stories depicted in their music videos), necrit is great for lore explanation videos of the wider world of runeterra, all the alternative universes like pulsefire, star guardian- theres just so much lore and a library of stories to go read (and a published book though I was not a huge fan), if you dont want to play the moba you can play the ruined king game, song of nunu, convergence, mageseeker (steam/xbox/ps/switch/etc), legends of runeterra (totally free to play card game with very fair and generous card collection methods), teamfight tactics, just- theres even a ttrpg (Legends of Runeterra: Dark Tides of Bilgewater) you can play with your friends if you dont want to sit down an play a video game

rlly at the core of it all i just hope with arcane riot sees that they should be investing in the lore and hiring genuinely good writers (so we dont repeat the SOL event MOST IMPORTANTLY) but also so they see that the content they put out doesnt always need to have a price tag to generate revenue/interest for them, and what keeps people coming back is the world they created

TLDR: ARCANE ONLYS I LOVE YOU PLEASE GET INVOLVED WITH MORE OF THE UNIVERSE THAN JUST THE SHOW I PROMISE YOU ITS GOOD

[greppelheks]

Just QUIT my job! 🥰

[dewitty1]

10 people I want to get to know better!

Tagged by amazing @mzuul and brilliant @wholahoop (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Last song: Sister Golden Hair by America (I was listening to my playlist entitled "The Bridge" dont effing judge me, I'm goddamn old, ok)

Favorite color: pink pink pink anything pink!! ( Got to agree here, though I don't wear it even though i was sort of snidely asked if it was my favorite color because my hoodie, purse and wallet were all pink that day)

Last movie: A Real Pain.(I have to say that I absolutely ADORE Kieran Culkin. I would watch more Succession but with just his character. Or almost anything with him in it. I find him very relatable. IDK what that says about me lol...)

Last TV show: E.R. I am basically binging the whole series, with a few new shows thrown in for fun. (yes, it's from 1994. Am I ostriching because of the state of the USA and the world rn, maybeeeeee)

Sweet/spicy/savory: I like all the foods. But I'm trying to cut back on sweets due to DIABEETUS. And some foods inflame my arthritis (I do not recommend getting OLD AF kids 0/10)

Relationship status: Been Divorced so long I'm brand new again! Nah. I'm just a single, old , cat lady, and it's just fine.

Last thing I googled: Welp, it was something someone asked about in the kink channel of one of the Discords I'm in, and because I like handing out knowledge like a grandmother gives cookies lol..

Current obsession: Trying not to stress about stuff I can't control? IDK. Getting in reading time when life is throwing other crap my way? blehhhh

Looking forward to: Spring, and warmth.

Tagging (no pressure, ever) @heyjude19-writing @generalpizzaengineer @its-the-allure @newskyillusion @edieblakee @jtimu @matredaen @jelliewrites @proboscidea-althaeifolia @draco-abraxas (sorry if you’ve already been tagged or already did it) -and anyone else who sees this and wants to join!

[godblooded]

my brain: delete everything, disappear completely, take your dogs, drive until you have to stop, stop existing.