#because it's in a month ish that i finish school and summer starts

[alwaysxlarrie]

10 of my fav quotes from fics part 1

OKAY SO, last year i started compiling quotes from fics that i rly liked & my intention was to start doing a weekly '5 fav quotes from fics' series at the beginning of this year. & then school/work started beating my ass, so that didn't happen lol. but i just finished summer school & have a month-ish before fall semester starts & i'm off work for a week, so i'm finally doing it!!! i think i'm gonna do a post every monday and see how that goes ?? anyway, i hope this makes someone laugh or smile !! :)

“You’ve seen my box of vibrators, Louis! They have knots for a reason! I want you to knot me!” He can’t possibly be more clear than this. -- @allwaswell16

2. “Niall,” says Harry. “If you don’t stop bouncing your leg I will dislocate it for you.” -- @londonfoginacup

3. If you have to kiss a pretty boy, you have to, pre-planned game night or not. -- @gaycousinlarry

4. Meanwhile, Harry’s half-hard in his jeans from all the cock talk and whatever the fuck Louis is doing with that cherry. -- @crinkle-eyed-boo

5. “Please,” Louis scoffed, curling up on his side to face Harry. “You said my eyes are cerulean. It’ll happen again.” -- @1diamondinthesun

6. It was winter. Louis hated winter. Winter meant snow and ice and all things cold and wintery. Louis despised all things cold and wintery. -- @2tiedships2

7. Louis’ body was great.  Firm in all the right places yet still soft and inviting.  Harry wanted to bite his stomach. -- @jaerie

8. Instantly he’s on his feet, cleaning things that are already clean, putting on shoes because he doesn’t want Louis to see his bare feet, and taking them off again when he realizes what he’s doing. -- @kingsofeverything

9. But he could be good. Louis wanted him to be. And so he did. He mingled. He chatted. He hoped Louis was watching him be a good boy. -- @twopoppies

10. “Harry you have been working here for three years and you come in ten minutes early every day. I’m not going to fire you for showing up late one time.” -- @ireallysawanangel

[confusedmothboy]

hey!! can we hear more about ranger eddie? i want to hear about this so bad.

yes ofc!! im so sorry this took so long to answer i kept forgetting about it 😭

everything about this loser is under the cut

so i've already yapped about him immediately post crash but im gonna do it again. when they were rescued, it took about a week for tabloids to start hounding him to come out, which he did, which led to more hounding. eddie, being rescued in what would have been mid-senior year, tried continuing the classes he had as a sophomore, except the harassment he and the other survivors who tried to return faced was more than he could handle, and he couldn't stand the embarassment of being so behind his peers. he studied for months, took the SAT, essentially testing through sophmore and junior year, then, when he was 19, got his GED. almost immediately after, he and travis move away to ithica, NY. eddie needed a job while he was studying at cornell, and he found a park ranger position at taughannock falls park that paid well.

interviewer: "so i see you had a bit of an unusual gap on your resume, most kids get jobs around junior year, but this is your first?"

eddie: "something came up during that time"

interviewer: "i get it, stuff happens. well, your application notes said you're a bit of an outdoorsman? former boy scout? we get a lot of those out here."

eddie: "no, i've just spent a lot of time around nature."

interviewer: "that could mean a lot of things. you a rugged survivalist, or did you spend your summers up on a nice, well-mowed campsite in mommy and daddy's rv?"

eddie: "are you familiar with new jersey's high school soccer teams?"

interviewer: ???

eddie: "do you maybe remember -it was national news- last february, 1998, those people from the plane crash they found out in the woods after 19 months? does something about me look familiar? does 19 months of rugged survivalism count as adaquate experience for a job like this?"

he's an opprotunist. he milks the trauma the public thinks he got out there for as long as he can. average grades and an unfinished high school education makes it improbably he'd get into an ivy league school? well, cornell, have you considered that he's a special traumatized snowflake whose biggest dream of all is to go to your school? try rejecting that admissions letter. turned in an assignment late? oh, sorry professor, he was having horrifying flashbacks for exactly the amount of time it takes to get caught up on the new episodes of law and order. he gets an extension.

"eddie's a logical guy, why woudn't he realize that this job would keep him from moving on from his time in the wilderness?" i hear you ask. well, at this point eddie's not logical in a sane way. he tries to treat himself the same he would have in the times before the crash. if eddie in the spring of 1996 wouldnt have a problem working as a park ranger for four-ish years, eddie in the summer of 1999 shouldn't either. he also subconsciously doesn't know what to do with himself once he's back in society. like nat, he had a purpose in the wilderness. so he returns to the wilderness part-time to keep himself sane. and it works surprisingly well for a time. eddie's not one to be scared of wandering around the woods for days at a time, because the dangers are nothing like what he had out in the wilderness.

he puts a lot of emphasis on his role of "savior", finding lost hikers, dogs, kids out there and getting them back safe and sound. he's almost obsessive about it, taking weekends away to roam the woods just to make sure no one got left behind. he doesn't talk to his co-workers, they all know who he is and know that he thinks they're incompetent compared to him.

so how does it fall apart? in december of 2002, eddie's doing his normal patrol when it starts snowing. he doesn't like to be out during early winter, but he has to finish his shift. he's humming to himself when he sees fire going in the distance. obviously, he goes to check it, and finds a group of college age kids had started it. that wasn't unusual, he has to kick a lot of teenagers out of the woods after the park closes. but unfortunately, he stumbled on some sort of frat hazing ritual. they're all wearing cloaks, at least that's what eddie said in the report, some of them are singing around the fire, one of them is sleeping in the snow wearing basically nothing, blackout drunk.

obviously, this sets off just about every awful memory eddie has from the wilderness. he fucking loses it. he's hearing voices, he's shaking and hitting the drunk guy awake, he's seeing those culty animal masks in the shadows, he tazes one of the guys with his bear tazer, it's Bad. he doesn't stop until they all get rid of their cloaks and run away, and he realizes that there is a lawsuit incoming. he finds a hoodie with their school and frat on it that one of the guys left behind, and fucking tails these guys back to their house. they talk, he explains a lot about who he is (a stupid move that he realized could be used to blackmail him in the future if these guys are out for vengance later) he ends up paying each of the people involved a thousand out of his own pocket, tanks his savings and emergency funds, and returns to the park at damn near sunrise to hand in his badge.

thankfully, no one preses charges, so eddie's able to go back to his classes and find a new job as an intern with almost no trouble. travis, who finished getting his GED just a few months before, had to work a second job because he's not going to college. rough times of empty fridges, and they joke about needing to get back into hunting and trapping. over the next four years, they keep shoving pennies into their savings accounts before eddie gets his doctorate in 2007 and starts working as a professor, the same place he works 14 years later when the adult tl would take place

holy yap 😭🙏 hope that answered all your questions on him

[nymphomaniaa]

something about us [XX] "parasite" — a preview!

summary: this snippet includes part of a scene where the reader sets up a photoshoot for a merch drop featuring the lunch club members.

warnings: slightly nsfw joke

notes: FINALLY finished this monster of a chapter! it's really long because it sets up the current "arc" ending and the next one beginning, so it's... kind of a roller coaster of emotions. below is the only part of the chapter that i felt was fluff-ish enough to include as a lighthearted preview, so make sure to buckle in when you read the actual chapter because... oh boy. it's a lot.

Returning from the postal office (where the Lunch Club P.O. box was now up and running in hopes to receive packages from fans in the future, thanks to you, of course), you held the most important package in your arms three weeks before the start of TwitchCon.  Inside this large hunk of cardboard were the finalized versions of the new merch that you had painstakingly worked on throughout the past spring and summer.  It made it past weeks of reviews, tweaks, and packaging delays, and was finally in your possession, ready to be distributed to the boys so they could finally promote a project that had been on the works for months.

In the basement's common area, you spent most of the morning by yourself, working on setting up a photoshoot area for the group using a backdrop screenprinted with a repeating minimalistic pattern of the official Lunch Club logo — courtesy of a manufacturing company Ryan suggested weeks ago.  By the time you finished setting up the studio lights borrowed from Ted, arranged a couple of chairs on the set, and unpacked the box of merch to take a peek inside, most of the group had finished eating brunch upstairs.

Ted was the first to come down, since he was the one with the camera you would use for the shoot, so he was the first one to be spoiled by the surprise.  "Woah," he's taken aback by the set at first, bewildered by how official you made it look despite the very limited supplies you had.  "This looks really professional for only costing, what, like, two hundred bucks?  And my lights?"

"One hundred and eighty bucks, actually, with shipping and taxes," you snarkily reply, placing your hands on your hips with pride.

Ted lets out a halfhearted laugh, then after fiddling with his camera, hands it over to you.  "Take good care of her.  I've had her since the beginning of film school, she's practically my baby."

You wrap the neck strap around your head gently, and offer Ted a thumbs up while looking down at the camera screen, trying to orient yourself to its panel.  "We're all good to go, I think.  If you could bring all the boys down for me, please?"

"Yes, madam," Ted beams, then suddenly runs up the stairs, shouting, "Alright fellas, get all of yer asses down here right now!  We're aboutta' start rootin' and shootin'!"

A distant drawn out "yeehaw" (likely from Charlie) above you makes you roll your eyes.  These boys never ran out of ways to make noise echo throughout the house.

One by one, each of the Lunch Club members step down into the basement with 'oohs' and 'aahs,' until all of them convene in front of you and are now ogling the box behind you.  Methodically, you explain that you would start with getting shots of each member with their respective pieces of merch, then you would get photos of each of them wearing the group merch, then a few group pictures with all of them together: one set with their group merch, and one set with them wearing whatever they chose to wear.  All of these stills would be displayed on a new merch website that had already been prepared in advance by one of Schlatt's web developers he worked with, but you also intended to get some short candid video clips of them just goofing around and chatting with each other that could be used for a video promotion that could go on their channel.

If all went well, they could start promoting their merch exactly one week from now, and by the time TwitchCon rolls around, the manufacturing company should have enough pieces shipped to Ryan to be sold at the Lunch Club booth.

The shoot went as well as expected.  Each member had their turns modelling their own pieces, with the remaining boys being hypemen behind the camera.  As each session went by, you had a difficult time containing your excitement.  Your art and your designs were on official pieces of merchandise that people all over the world had access to.  You were directing a photoshoot, which granted, you had never done before nor had interest in, but for your first time trying it, each member seemed happy with the results when their mini modelling session was over.

Of course, when Schlatt's turn came around, you took the opportunity to get him in certain poses that accentuated his features.  Partly for you to shamelessly stare at his good looks in your own time, but also partly because you knew a certain part of his audience would be more inclined to support the merch drop if he looked overwhelmingly handsome in his own clothes.  If he could take advantage of you being a woman in his Love or Host show, you could take advantage of him being eye candy in clothes you designed.  More money for the group.  Everyone wins, and the score will be even between you two.

"Let's have you lean a little onto that back leg, and put your left thumb in your pocket...  Then just look at Travis behind me...  No, chin a little more to your right.  There you go.  Intense stare, and…" you directed the tall man, as you kneeled on top of a nearby stool to compensate for his height.

"Can you roll up your sleeves a little, like so the hem goes about an inch below your elbow?  Then just do that exact pose again...  Yep, that's it.  No, stop giggling.  You're serious.  You're calm.  You're serious."

"Sorry." You’re unsure what is so funny, but he stifles his laughter, then settles into the same pose as before.

"Okay, then can I maybe get you on the stool?  Yeah, just sit like you normally would.  Push your right knee outwards a little more, then let's get your elbows resting on your knees.  Yep, and then clasp your hands together, and lift your head and look towards Trav, but not too much?  You're trying to showcase your hat, so only let your eyes look up at him, not your entire head.  Chin to the right.  Perfect."

"I feel like you're shooting a fucking porno of me," he tries to contain his laughter.  "It's like you're recreating that one face reveal photo of me looking up at the camera,"

"Just trust the process, J," you roll your eyes as the shutter snaps a few more times when he closes his mouth.  "Here, you wanna look?"

You open the camera's preview gallery and show the rest of the boys first, who burst into a roar of overexaggerated gasps and whistles.

"Holy shit, he's hot!" Charlie moans, pretending to fan off his face.

Schlatt pulls himself off of the stool and meanders towards you, reaching a hand out to ask for the camera.  Once you give it to him, and he clicks through the photos, he raises his eyebrows in approval.  "Holy shit, I am hot."

"You sure are, handsome.  Now get back in that damn chair, we have more porn to shoot," you tease.  He shakes his head, chuckling as the boys keep cheering him on, chittering in excitement for his newfound confidence after seeing himself on camera.

read the entire chapter here, or start from the beginning here.

[e77y]

i love LOVE ur writing (& understand that sometimes things take a while.. lol i haven't posted in months) BUT i would love to hear about some things ur working on. or even just ideas u have.! obviously i am obsessed w grant (partially bc of how u write him actually haha ) but i would also love to hear abt any dndads fics in general ! ^_^

AHH TYSM!! This is so so sweet :’) I really love how you write Grant too! like sooo much. And I would love to hear about any of your ideas/drafts too actually 🙏

And YEAH as always there are a billion DnDads fic ideas (and lots of D20 stuff rn too) swirling around in my head haha, but I haven’t had a lot of time or energy for fic writing in a long time :( It makes me so sad bc I really WANT to but I just. can’t 😭 This semester in particular has been kind of draining creatively, because I’ve been doing a lot more creative writing in my courses/extracurriculars, which has been SUPER cool (I’m getting some published work and performances out there!!) buuuut sometimes a girl just needs to write his silly fanfic yk? 💔

ANYWAY ramble aside.. I think the main thing is that I really want to finish the final chapter of that one incomplete Scary/Lincoln fic I have. The annoying thing is that I’m like 70% done with it and have been for like a YEAR, but then I hit perhaps the most intense patch of writer’s block I’ve ever had 😭 Sighhh. I need to sit down and finish it someday soon bc I hate leaving it unfinished, but I also really truly want to revisit it. Perhaps this summer 🤞 which is. scarily soon omg. I still have so much left to do this semester 😭😭

But ofc the BIG project I want to work on is my Silver Linings series. I have three additional planned fics (shorter than the first part): one about Grant’s high school years (9-12th grade) with a focus on his friendships with the other guys (and also Andy lol); one about Grant and Marco reconnecting when Grant moves back to San Dimas for his librarian internship the summer going into his Library Science MA (so they’re like 23 or 24-ish?), and one concurrent with the original fic (set in 8th grade) but from Darryl’s perspective instead of Grant’s that looks more into Darryl’s relationships with Carol and the Oak-Garcias and his own mental health. I have ALL of them outlined, albeit not super thoroughly, but I can barely get through the first like 100 words of any of them before I get frustrated and overwhelmed by the scope of the project haha. I think it’s bc Silver Linings was originally something I went into not thinking I was even going to finish, let alone post, let alone write MORE chapters of and actually complete them all 😭 so I wasn’t so intimidated as I am now. Since I want my additions to the series to be at least half-decent yk

Some other DnDads things… there’s a big Wilsons-centric character study (who would’ve guessed HAHA) about dance that I really want to write. Because lots of them have some connection to dance! Darryl does his secret dancing classes, Grant and Marco do ballroom, Lincoln also took dance classes, and even Scary “when the beat drops, I can’t stop” Marlowe lol. I have a bunch of vignettes outlined for it. Same for a Darryl character study I want to do bc that man IS aromantic and I have a million little anecdotes I want to write about, but it’s such a Big thing that it’s daunting

Hmm what else brb opening my Google Docs ummmmmmm lol the first thing is a very silly crack-treated-seriously explicit Henry/Mercedes draft that I started for a word randomizer prompt challenge thingy. They are having bizarre hippie crystal sex. There is also a Nark one which is kinda crazy for me but the concept is um. It just works best with these two characters. I’m not gonna nsfwpost on main since I’m not gonna tag this post or whatever but like LOL. I might actually finish that one soon…? Would be an insane comeback to fic writing 😭 but I have actually been working on it for funsies so

Apart from that, I’ve got lots of oneshot ideas floating around. Mostly Grant angst or Darryl angst or Lincoln angst HAHAHHAA but also a healthy dose of Lark and/or Sparrow angst. No super interesting concepts, but maybe I’ll look closer or remember something good and rb this with more stuff. AND also a huge polydads (yes I am including Ron in this. Ron is always included. to me 🫶) teacher AU that I don’t think I’ll ever write anything for, but I do have a loose plot for it and teaching positions for all the dads hehe. Otherwise, it’s been mostly D20 Fantasy High stuff (specifically Riz- and/or Fabian-centric angst bc obvi. also lots of Fabian/Mazey stuff bc I like them. and I like dance as a lens through which to examine relationships and gender roles within them) and also um…. my superrrrr old fandoms that I’ve been revisiting for nostalgia’s sake 🫣

Okay sorry for the massive ramble omg I just realized how much I’ve typed? And it’s like. not even really coherent at all. But thank you for asking omg!! And for always being so supportive about my writing (and in general)! :’D ❤️❤️

[scarrabear]

QUOGAN HEADCANONS PART 2

hi again!!! I'm back with part 2. I honestly expected to finish my thoughts but yeah I talk a lot and just have so many thoughts soooo I'm still not done!

College Years

Logan and Michael helped Quinn and her family set up her dorm room (she has her own room but has communal bathrooms)

Logan buys his first condo to live in for college years with the plan of using it as an investment property in the future. (This could be the apartment we see Quinn at in Zoey 102??)

Logan gifted Quinn a gold necklace of his name and Quinn got him a (vegan) leather bracelet with her name on it before move in day!

Logan was very intimidated at first and didn't think he was smart enough for UCLA but Quinn and his group of friends helped encourage him.

Quinn was nervous about making friends and was one of very few girls in her class at Caltech. Logan and the gang (especially Zoey and Lola) helped boost her confidence and help block out any sexism she would endure as a women in STEM.

Their first semester there was some uncertainty on both ends on if their relationship would last, plus people kept telling them "oh high school relationships fail just dump them". Scheduling time to speak to one another on the phone and in person meet ups was hard at first but the two realized how worth it their love was.

Quinn realized a month into her first semester that no guy compared to Logan in terms of attentiveness. Logan realized how truly lucky he was to have Quinn after only spending a few weeks in school listening to his classmates *try* to sound smart.

After the first year, Quinn got a summer internship at a TekMate (currently in a crisis competing with the iPhone) and this began her working her way up the company. Logan worked as a producer's assistant for one of his father's films aka this being one of the most humbling experiences for him.

^^ that summer, Quinn lived with Logan in his condo that first summer and yeah the two had lots of sex but also learned what being in an adult relationship consists of (budgeting, grocery shopping, chores, etc.) Quinn was also saving up to rent her own place.

During Logan's 3rd year at UCLA in my mind is where he meets Jared (a new character in Zoey 102 and one of his groomsmen), the son of fellow rich/successful movie producers and Malcolm asks him to help adjust to UCLA. The two become close immediately and Logan introduces him to Quinn like a week after knowing each other.

Jared and Quinn are both gleeks. Quinn only started watching because of the character Quinn Fabray and they get Logan on board too. Quinn dresses up as a cheerio one halloween and Jared and Logan are Warblers.

In 102, Jared is confirmed gay and has a longtime partner. Back in 2010-ish, Jared was probably scared shitless to come out to Logan but wanted to because he started seeing someone, presumably his partner. Logan was the one to ask Jared "so are you and (insert name)..." to which jared opens his eyes and Logan interrupts trying to calm him down saying "its totally cool if you are! Quinn is from Seattle you know so she's cool with it too!" this causes Jared to tear up and the two share a bro hug.

Logan and Quinn start becoming more and more comfortable in his own masculinity/femininity respectively and their sexualities.

Every summer up until graduation Quinn worked at TekMate, eventually being offered a position as an invention consultant at age 23. Logan threw her a huge party.

Logan dealt with accusations all through college that he only got in because his father bribed the school...he ended up graduating with a solid B+ average.

Quinn graduated top of her class wow who's shocked not me

Post College Years/Before Engagement

Logan continues to buy up real estate as investment properties but mainly lives in one "starter" home in The Hollywood Hills. Quinn lives in Logan's first condo (rent free) and the two have sleepovers quite literally every night. Their friends and family keep harassing them about why they don't just move in together but the two are adamant about it not feeling "the right time" yet, ie: Quinn establishing herself and wants to be financially steady and Logan respecting her space but also building up his producing credentials.

Logan proposed for the first time not long after they graduated to which Quinn said she wasn't ready yet. This prompted them to have the discussion about living separately for a while. Not only did this make their relationships stronger, but helped them grow as individuals. (Logan kept the engagement ring)

Like in the movie, Logan was openly stating he wanted to marry Quinn but respected her needs. She probably wanted to establish her own name in the tech world before being known as JUST "Logan Reese's wife". Quinn always reassured him though she would eventually say yes and would let him know when she was ready.

They buy their first home together after 10 years of dating (age 27). Around this time as well, the CEO of TekMate announces they are stepping down from the position and they suggest Quinn be one of a select few to begin the training process to take over. Quinn is eventually chosen as the new CEO a year later at age 28, the youngest and first female in the company's history.

Shortly after Quinn becomes CEO, Camille (new character from Zoey 102 and one of her bridesmaids) is hired as head of marketing for TekMate. the two become fast friends and Quinn immediately introduces her to Logan who is just ecstatic. Camille also gets along great with Lola, Michael, Stacey, Mark, and Jared.

Logan entrusts Camille to text or call him whenever Quinn is stressed at work.

The idea of of developing the unbreakable see-through phone comes when at a party, Logan randomly wonders what would happen if he ran over his old iPhone with his new car (one of his new cars I should say).

on their anniversary every year, they take a trip to a different area of the world.

Logan and Quinn go all out for decorating their house for Halloween, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Valentines Day.

Lyric was the one who asked the couple the most on when they would get married.

When the unbreakable see through phone was getting closer and closer to launch, Forbes magazine cover, etc. is when Quinn felt she was truly established as "Quinn Pensky, the inventor" and when she told Logan she was ready to get married, he cried. He also told her he still wanted to propose to her to which she anxiously anticipated it.

Yeah Part 3 coming soon!!! Thanks again for reading you lovelies <3

[alolanrain]

how old is everyone(Like students and teachers) in your ta au?

Ash is freshly 22 while Kukui is a couple of month’s into being 30, which makes them 8-ish years apart. The class is wildly different in age as I hc that Kukui’s class is like a hodgepodge of all ages because their all ridiculously smart in someway that a normal class can’t fully support them like they need, hence why Kukui stepped up. Burnet is 27 and helps Ash make old man jokes at Kukui, all in good loving jest of course.

There are a few OC teacher’s and fellow Student-Teacher aids that i haven’t gotten to yet but their coming up shortly.

Kiawe is the oldest at 15 when Ash arrives in Alolan but quickly turns 16 within the first few months of Ash being a TA at the school. Lillie’s right after him turning 16. Like almost a week after Kiawe. Mallow is freshly 15 as well, having her birthday a little before Ash arrives, and Lana is close by at 14 but turns 15 later on. Think like when the class goes to Poni island for the first time (excluding saving Lusamine) to do those class reports. Then lastly comes Sophocles at 13 and being the youngest of the class and his birthday is the last of the class. It fall’s around the time the kids would have their version of a summer’s break.

Gladion doesn’t really have a pinned age yet, i haven’t decided if he’s 19 turning 20 or 20 at the start of the story then ages up to 21 much later down the line. Either way he’s in the range from 19 to 21. Hau is mid to late 19 year’s old when Ash meet’s him.

Also you guy’s can defiantly ask more questions about everyone in the TA!au, i have like 5 WIPS dedicated to nearly each major playing character in the au that i just haven’t finished and theres’ just so much stuff I can’t find a way to work into the au.

[gracelbranch-blog]

Dear Diary🤡🤭🤪😍

I don't even know how to begin to write a blog post, bear with me! I need an outlet! I can't burden my friends with this! For the past few months I have been feeling so indecisive about the decisions I make and even the decisions I want to make; mostly regarding moving. I so badly need to move out of my house. I love my family, I love my three cats, however I feel so behind and like I am exactly where I didn't want to be by still living in my childhood home. A majority of the people I know do NOT live with their parents, and I need to be freed from the shackles of living under someone else's roof. However. Not paying rent is so nice. That is a blessing. Although I need to get out into the real world. But I also keep thinking about whether or not I will actually be happy if I move to where I want to go, which is like a whole other state. And that's a lot. Going to school in Detroit which is only an hour and a half drive was a pain in the ass because I didn't love it until things started reopening after covid and I had money to do things and I was 21 and had friends, but if I didn't have people to hang out with it was boring for me. I spent a lot of weekends coming home to either see my friends or my cats or attend some sort of gathering. I know Chicago is somewhere I love, I have friends there, I have a potential roommate situation, and as far as the job market it is so much more vast there than a little city with vacant shopping centers. And there is so much more to do there, so many third spaces to hang out, which I sometimes crave. I cannot walk around Meijer for an hour like I used to and Target is not in anyone's good graces at the moment. So I know I would love Chicago and also I think in order to have any sort of progression in my life I need to leave. Men are slim pickings around here, covid and a lack of friends in one place gave me a not great finish of my late teens and start of my early twenties, and a career is so much easier to start there than here. And I would much rather do it now when I know there are friends there and more opportunities fresh-ish out of college, and while I am still young and willing! But I also have fomo when it comes to life here. Like my best friend of fifteen years and her entire family who I have grown up with are still here and I have been included in celebrations for a long time...I would feel guilty leaving them and missing out on fun things. One of her sisters just moved out on her own after leaving a garbage relationship and was like "So you'll come over and watch movies right?" and obviously I said yes, these sisters are like my sisters too. But I don't know how long I'll be around to do that. There are little things that have become tradition in my household, like the annual snow sculpting festival 20 minutes away, or the lawn chair film festival Sunday nights in the summer time, or the Fourth of July fireworks we can watch from our driveway with aunts and uncles and cousins. And all the random family gatherings! I am so fortunate to have family I love, including a cousin who has a pregnant wife, and I know I would miss out on seeing this kid grow up with the rest of my family.

So like that's a lot of it I keep thinking about how I need this change and also everything holding my back from pursuing it. And that's besides the fact that I have $200 in my savings account currently and no job prospects despite applying to so so many it's insane. The cycle of being "not local" during the summer time in school and the lack of experience is not doing me any favors now which sucks. I started using my friend's Chicagoland address just for a little more security maybe. Like yes I am local! Aka I have a couch to crash on. Anyways. If you read this far thank you and also sorry. I need to not apologize but I am sure this is a pain in the ass to read and therapy hasn't been as productive post-election as I maybe would like it to be? I love my therapist but she suggested I talk to my mom about lending me money for rent as if my mom didn't help pay for four years of art school and isn't almost as broke as me. I will not be putting that on her at all.

I'll be back! This was nice for me. I am getting so old and confused.

[hotcheetohatredwastaken]

7 & 10 or perish

7. Share a line/paragraph/snippet that you were especially proud of.

Okay so I love this chapter just for the fact that everything I've been setting up for 200,000+ words culminates in here (but this section I've chosen also should reveal nothing heu heu heu). Also @needfantasticstories complemented the wording of one of the sentences, and I seeing my work through another's eyes really makes me appreciate it? If you know what I'm saying? But yeah, I wrote this during the poetry section of my AP Literature class in high school, if you couldn't tell by my gratuitous use of alliteration, semicolons, and parallel sentence structure.

[Have I posted this before? I hope I haven't DX I am very proud of it. If I have let me know and I'll try to find something else]

Wild stepped into the ornate church. High stone ceilings flew overhead, lined with stained glass windows—depictions of their Golden Goddess—that sent shattered slivers of light dancing along the cold stone floor. Rows upon rows of lowly stone pews stood in ordered procession on either side of the walkway, stretching all the way to the raised platform at the front of the cathedral. A great statue, so unlike the one that he knew, loomed over it all. The Hylia he knew had hair of flowering vine, and robes of majestic moss; this one's every strand was spun of gold, this one's every fold formed of ivory. His Hylia’s face was of cracked calcite, worn down and rounded out over years of exposure to the elements; this one’s was of sharp, shining porcelain. Little gray wings he’d only ever seen tucked to her sides, like those of a Rito fledgling, were now golden and stretched out in their full glory. She did not lower her head over clasped hands in constant thought of her people, as said by her now-extinct priests; instead, her gaze was cast victoriously outwards, her hand thrust forwards like that of a sovereign, conquering queen. White rose petals drifted and fluttered gently down to lay scattered across the stone pews. They trailed after Wild, swirling around his ankles with every step, as he walked forwards in a dreamlike state to the foot of the statue. It only grew larger, more imposing, as he approached, and himself so much smaller.

10. What are your writing goals for the upcoming year?

Okay okay okay okay. Just because you asked, I'm going to end up having to write out my entire planned chapter by chapter schedule and pin it to the top of my blog, aren't I?

But for a summary, basically--right now I'm trying to finish up my Noble's Warning chapters, which will get me to through February and some of March, so that I can participate in FebWhump without juggling two projects. The Differences chapters, which are pretty much done besides a few select bits that actually need to be written, should carry me all the way to Spring Break and through. During Spring Break (cuz I'm a cringe college student) I will try to finalize enough to make it close to the Heal Chapters, which should free me up until finals are over in May/June-ish.

Summer is when things get real. That's when I'll evaluate how much of Arc 2 I have done and how much time I think I need to finish it. If I'm ahead of schedule, I'll make sure I've hit all the finishing touches for Arc 1 and start releasing chapters twice a week. If not, I'll give myself more time with the once a week updates. Plus, I want to take a break between Arc 1 and 2 just to let ya'll squirm, so that gives me at least a month, I think, depending how hard ya'll cry at me to continue. There's also a whole timeline thing there of whether I want to do flashbacks of a section or if I just wanna say F it we ball, but that's beside the point.

If I do once a week releases, I already have enough planned content for Arc 1 + the occasional Prologue pieces to get me through the entire year and then some. So yeah, that's the plan for the year :D

[weezly14]

so i used to use this more as a blog where i talked about my life and my feelings and there's been both a lot and nothing happening in my life lately but i sure do have feelings! so i'm gonna write it down and send vibes into the universe because why not. what else do i have to do today?

i've been a little MIA in terms of working on my fics. i've barely written. first it was a rough fucking winter; then summer kicked my ass just as bad. i hate summer.

"but why has it been rough?"

well, because i'm not fucking pregnant yet.

we've been trying for a baby (i hate this phrase) for ten months? ish? and nothing has happened. in school they made it sound like you skip protection once and you'll get knocked up; my mom got accidentally pregnant twice. and here i am, charting dates and peeing on ovulation predictor sticks and tracking symptoms and the whole nine yards, timing sex and taking fucking prenatals and vitamins and not eating sushi or steak during the two week wait and not drinking at all, and all i've gotten to show for it is my fucking period, every month like clockwork.

the studies say, it can take up to a year. yes, most couples get pregnant within six months, but sometimes it takes longer. sure, fine, whatever.

so it's been hard enough trying to get pregnant and then failing (because it does feel like failing, every time), but then two things happened in quick succession:

my best friend got pregnant, sort of accidentally;

i got sent for bloodwork and the results caused my doctor to refer me straight to a fertility clinic.

when i saw the results i cried, but i thought i was just spiraling and being over dramatic. sure, my AMH is really low, but it's technically still in range, and that's not everything, right? my other tests were mostly fine, not totally out of the normal range. then i called my doctor's office, only to be told "we're referring you to a clinic, your ob/gyn doesn't think you'll get pregnant without treatment."

it's a hell of a thing to be told while standing in the pasta aisle of a grocery store.

in the midst of being referred to the clinic, i of course googled. read articles and papers. cried to my husband, my mom, my friends. of course the clinic was booking weeks out; in three weeks i'll go for my first appointment. my mom said, well maybe now you'll get pregnant. it happens, you know - people struggle and then as soon as they get booked to see a specialist, or start IVF, they get pregnant.

my period started over the weekend. it was not a good time.

the thing about trying for a baby is that every month is the same fucking rollercoaster, only you can't get off, and despite knowing exactly how it'll go, it's still somehow traumatic every time. every cycle there's the devastation when your period starts, followed by the hopeful/planning mode of "let me now track ovulation, let's chart out when we need to have sex." then there's the actual sex - trying to still have fun with it as opposed to the clinical "literally all we need is for you to finish," though sometimes it is just the quickie before work or after dinner because it's Fertile Week and we need to optimize our chances so it doesn't matter if it's not very romantic, we can have romantic sex later. after that it's the waiting game, the two weeks of overanalyzing every ache, every twinge, of looking up expected due dates and thinking about how to announce to family and friends, of hoping and thinking that maybe you are actually pregnant - all followed by the two, three days leading up to your period where every trip to the bathroom has the potential to devastate. where every pms symptom is enough to set off a fresh round of tears until your period actually starts. i've stopped taking pregnancy tests early. the stark white negatives (or rude NO - on the digital tests) was too much for me to handle in my already hormonal, pms state.

it hasn't been a year, which makes me feel like i shouldn't be so upset already. on the other hand, my egg reserve is apparently incredibly low - that is, i'm rapidly running out of eggs, and who knows if the ones i've got are even any good. in three weeks we'll see a fertility specialist, and based on my extensive research and trolling on reddit and listening to podcasts, i'm fairly confident they're going to tell us it's IVF or bust.

because i'm running out of eggs, for reasons that might not exist, or might just be "sometimes things just suck for certain people." some people get a diagnosis of "unexplained infertility," which basically means the doctors have run every test and there's no reason you can't get pregnant. we aren't in that camp, we're likely in the "diminished ovarian reserve" camp. for reasons that are unexplained.

meanwhile, my best friend is pregnant, and i can't talk to her without crying.

we moved into a bigger house a year ago in preparation for kids. we got our finances in order, we made sure our marriage was solid, we planned - and now? we've always wanted two, maybe three. at this point i think we'll be lucky to get one. maybe i'm being pessimistic. i'm trying to be confident but also realistic. IVF doesn't work for everyone. even my clinic, which has the best numbers in the state, has a 63% success rate. sounds great, and it is - but that's 37% of couples who don't go home with a baby. nationally, the outcomes are something like 50ish% of IVF cycles will result in a live birth (they measure by both pregnancy and live birth, because even if you've managed to get pregnant, there's no guarantee you'll stay pregnant.)

today is a good day, by the way. today i can talk to my mom, i can call up our insurance, i can write this and be factual and calm and not crying. today i feel like we have a good chance, like we will end up with a take home baby. today i'm cleaning my house and looking up meal plans to increase my fertility. exercise regimens to help me get in shape to increase my fertility. tomorrow might be a bad day. bad days are when i can barely get off the couch, where i cry at the thought or mention of my fertility. where a tiktok of a dad and baby sends me spiraling. when it all feels fucking useless and unfair.

today is a good day. i don't know what tomorrow's going to be yet.

i've been isolating all summer, which isn't hard to do when most of my friends aren't local. but i find i don't want to be around anyone, really. i don't want to talk to people. i don't want to be asked how i'm doing, i don't want to be asked what's new or what i've been up to.

"i've been cleaning my house and trying to get pregnant and failing. last week i made a new recipe, and today i cried."

it's not an exciting life i'm leading these days. and anyway, no one wants to hear about fertility struggles.

it's not that i'm too stressed. i don't need to go on vacation, or get drunk and have sex, or relax and then i'll get pregnant. sure, i could use a vacation, but that's not the magic ticket. the problem isn't lack of sex. i have depression; the stress is always there, but that's why i see my therapist and my psychiatrist. that's why i take my meds and do my self-soothing shit.

i'm not pregnant because i'm just not. and hopefully the specialist will have a plan and hopefully that plan has a more than 30% chance of succeeding, and hopefully we get to bring a baby home - but today? today i'm not pregnant, and it's not a guarantee that i ever will be.

so even though today is a good day, i'm still really fucking sad.

but, you know. i'm trying to have hope.

that, too, is a cycle.

[m1ster1e]

Life update to kinda explain my distance from Paper Airplanes, sorry this is so long:

(☆Short explanation: 1.more working hours, 2.tiny living space, 3.unattended/worsening injury☆)

Ik my audience is still pretty small BUT I do still apologize for dragging my feet on this next chapter. I have a majority of it done but usually I'm severely out of spoons to get it all finished up.

1. I think a part of my problem is my new major is basically entirely online. (Yes, I did leave CS finally and my mental health has improved DRASTICALLY in terms of academic life) Because of this I now work a shit ton of hours which is great for my wallet but now that little 50min-1hr break between classes I used to have is gone I no longer have my quiet study and writing time. It's office hours and then home. And home isn't bad, but it isn't the most comfortable place either.

2. My boyfriend and I share a room and sleep in a twin bed together, not a problem until you're back to back in your desk chairs lol AND there's like 4-5 people living in the same living area as you so it's just really cramped and hard to find a nice and comfortable place to write lol. I'm still very blessed to have a roof over my head and all that jazz but we were looking for an apartment however his father did not approve us living together (we already live together in secret and even offered to get a two bedroom) but his father refused, which means we would not get his parents hand me down furniture they promised him when he got his first apartment. Anybody with Hispanic and especially religious Hispanic parents probably gets that even though you're an adult you're not really an adult in their eyes which is a problem with a collective culture I think.

3.And an unfortunate update but I've developed snapping hip syndrome which I know I've technically had since high school but the intense physical demand of collegiate cheer has made it extremely painful. The pain started about a year ago and has progressed even further now. The problem is our assigned athletic trainer had resigned over the summer, with her gone we no longer had anyone specific assigned to our cheer or dance problems. This posed a risk to our safety as before her our program struggled to be taken care of seriously and given medical attention when needed. We had asked our department director if we were guaranteed medical care even without her and he promised us we would not have the problems we once had. This was most definitely a lie. I reported this pain in early October and still have yet to be seen other than the initial consultation that lead to my diagnosis. There is nothing worse than knowing what's wrong with you but NOBODY is interested in helping you and if you seek medical care outside of the university you could face punishment. I will likely not been seen until somewhere in January if I'm lucky and there is no other reason for this other than the current team of athletic trainers not believing we are truly athletes. My condition is worsening to the point I'm non functioning without some sort of OTC pain med and it's absolutely ruining my quality of life. Oh and btw thank the Varsity Sprit ™️ monopoly for the reason cheerleaders can't be a part of athletics (NCAA), they will happily hold our status as athletes and the ability to compete alongside them for a couple bucks. This makes our status on campus so low and nobody takes us seriously, our university isn't even interested in contracting another trainer even though our department swore this situation would only be temporary. It's ruining my mental and physical health because I can no longer work out AT ALL or do any of my typical cheerleading activities because of my restrictions, and with PT (or even further care considering this has been unattended for so long) I likely won't be able to do anything until March-ish which is NOT EVEN ONE MONTH from our cheerleading nationals, especially as this is my last year. I'm angry and hurt from how I and my teammates have been treated. Hurt physically, mentally, and emotionally. I'm not even worth the time of day to be treated for serious chronic pain.

Anyway. Enough whining, hopefully I can finish some stuff up soon. Love yall guys sm!!!

[djarinova]

em my beloved bestie !! 3, 16, 20 + 25 for the soft ask game please (˶ ˘ ³˘)ˆᵕ ˆ˶)

aaah my sweet ada :3 thank you so much for sending theseeeee

for this soft asks game!! <3

3. Reading or writing? Why?

oh GOD how am i meant to choose only one??? this is the meanest thing ever..... but if im doing one for the rest of life then i think id have to pick reading!! even though i have been truly truly slacking with reading books this year, like ive barely read one... its absolutely ridiculous. but there are just some stories that i would absolutely not want to be rid of, if i could never read the internal devices again or if i was never able to read FIC AGAIN??? i would truly become so weird and sad hahaha

16. What’s something you want to create soon?

the easiest (and most obvious) answer is fic!!! i want to write more and gush about my little fictional characters and work more on my reputation event (that i started 10 months ago) but. I'd love to paint something soon:( i rrly rrly miss painting, and it's so nice to take the time and just create something. sigh. i fear this will not be happening soon:'(((

20. Tell us about a memory you hold close to your heart.

first one that came to mind was honestly the first time me and my boyfriend held hands ..... <3 as previously mentioned somewhere we were at a local festival with my then best friends big friend group-this included her fiancee, my now boyfriend and lots of their friends from school. about 12 ish in total. it was the end of the first night of music, scouting for girls had just finished and every one was heading back to the tents, but i kinda felt like loitering a little around the field so my not-then boyfriend offered to keep me company so my friend could go get some sleep. we ended up wandering around very slowly, sort of people watching, sort of chatting, and i was keeping track of the time because it was almost midnight and i wanted to be the first one to wish him a happy birthday 🥺 and just after the clock struck twelve he asked to hold my hand and offered his hand palm up, but me being me, knew exactly which way i wanted to hold his hand and so i, instead of taking his hand, held my hand out palm up and waited for him to interlace his fingers with mine. which he did. and then when we got back to our tents afew of our friends were hanging around on the camping chairs and clocked our hands being linked, and although they didnt rrly say anything because they weren't sure how I'd feel about the teasing, there were definitely some very obvious glances given towards us hehe

25. If your soul was a color, what would it be?

oh god, how do i even choose this omggg..... i think, as much as I'd adoreeeeee my soul to be a shade of green, i truly think it could be a light blue colour... because beach and ocean and summer and these are all things that are very me hahah (but also im lying if i dont say that i also think my soul could be similar to 3f7050)

sorry i talked so much hehehe but i was just very much enjoying answering these questions bestie!!

[pikespendragon67]

Pikes Summer Check-Up 2024 Edition

Started to go “hm I still have to unlearn the don’t speak unless spoken to mindset that I have” but remembered I could do a checkup post instead!

Current life updates:

Right now I’m saving up for conventions happening this August, though plushie collecting & Steam summer sales miiiight have interfered. Whoops. (…and I wonder if I should get back to my FE Cipher card collection). My next big-ish trip is visiting my middle school best friend with another high school friend. I’m also hoping for my next big trip this year to be Boston in late September to meet with a friend. After that, it should be a trip with my middle school best friend to a farm, something Halloween related with IRL friends depending on what they want to do, no clue for November, and seeing relatives for New Year’s.

Gonna see if I can reorganize my closet since everything in my room got reassembled when we got new flooring. Feels cluttered as a result. Hopefully my back won’t kill me.

Might have jury duty next week too OTL

What I’m watching:

Current schedule for watching anime is as follows:

Mondays - Digimon rewatch along with Spice & Wolf 2024. I really like Lawrence and Holo’s banter. For Digimon I just got to where Mimi obtains her Crest. Man adult me really just became Joe, huh.

Tuesdays are filler at the moment since I need to wait for Pokemon Horizons to update on Nettingtonflix (I watch the dub) and I finished Kakuriyo. Part 2 of Kakuriyo was…eh, I guess? I noticed stiff animation a lot and I didn’t really get the sense of drama/urgency that I was expecting. Might throw in some more Digimon episodes until Horizons updates. (I’m liking it so far, though it’s not something I’d shout to the heavens about)

Wednesdays - Baccano finally. I might need to rewatch some parts because they retell events from different perspectives, but I see repeats and get confused if I already watched the episode or not because of that.

Thursdays - Moribito. I’ve heard this show was good, though I think I need to rewatch this one as well since I miss important info when something dramatic’s not happening. The curse of having a show as background noise during your lunch break at work.

Fridays - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure rewatch. Friends were talking about watching it so it got me interested in rewatching once more. I’m still on Phantom Blood but I’m excited for the rewatch until I hit Stardust Crusaders. Unfortunately it’s not my favorite part and it’s the longest.

Saturdays - My Hero Academia and Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin. I’m gonna see if I end up liking Sakuna more as an anime or as a game. As for Hero Academia, I’m really liking how this current season’s hyping up the finale. And with the manga ending next month, I kind of hope Vigilantes can be animated

Sundays - Tower of God season 2 and My Deer Friend Nokotan. Nokotan kind of reminds me of Lucky Star, but I’m hoping the shitposts aren’t just making fun Koshitan. Tower of God season 2 looks pretty promising. Though I lament that God of High School had to rush everything into 1 season.

I’m getting hyped for TYBW part 3 subconsciously and also hope the light novels get covered.

In terms of stuff on Youtube, it’s mostly let’s plays for games that I want to see if I want to play them myself. I appreciate that SMT 5 Vengeance fleshed out certain characters more, but damn. I also finished watching the ProZD Plays Ace Attorney 2. Franziska is wonderful, I wish she was in a different game. I liked case 2 the most in spite of Hotti’s mere existence.

What I’m Playing:

Stopped TTYD in the middle of chapter 6 since I didn’t want to deal with the turning platform section. So now it’s back to 428 Shibuya Scramble. I’m in the 3 PM section of the game now and things are getting spicy. So far my rankings of the routes are Tama > Minorikawa > Osawa/Achi > Kano.

I also have quite a few fighting games in my Steam library now! I still only button mash, but I’ve been playing with some folks in the Granblue community and my friend Merlin. My “don’t speak unless spoken to” mindset unfortunately kicks in when it comes to inviting people to play games, though. Like granted people are busy and I don’t want to bother them but aaaaaaa (so if you wanna play with me on Steam I’m free most weekends. Though my wrist may fatigue itself too. F)

I’m also contemplating if I want to have various small fics in a collection or add alternate endings in my main Bleach fic

AND NOW, I end asking how ny’all are you doing. Any cool things on your end?

[meirathinks]

(pretend I wrote this using quill and paper lol)

It's been a year since I've read your 'The proposal' fanfic and I still can't get it out of my head. Every once in a while I go back to it to read it again, its so unbelievably good. Everything down to the story and the characters just give me major nostalgia since the original 'The proposal' is my absolute favorite romcom, and to see it paired up with my favorite character in fiction is honestly a dream come true. Sometimes I have to just process that such a masterpiece of a fanfic exists and with such exeptional writing to boot (it's sadly hard to find good series these days). I'm a highschool student who's life is very dull and boring, but knowing that I have your fanfictions to look forward to at the end of the day improves my mood tenfolds. You're one of my favorite fanfic writers, I wish you a very fulfulling and happy life.

Signed, and admirier of your work.

(pretend that i received this via carrier pigeon)

hello anon. I have read through this multiple times throughout the day— and each time it brought tears to my eyes, thank you for your kind words :). Whats crazier is that today is my birthday!! Thank you for the wonderful gift.

I started the proposal in the summer between 10th and 11th grade. I finished it in February of my 11th grade year. I was, very much so a high school student with a mind numbingly boring life.

I started writing fan fiction because i wanted to (so so so so badly) write the proposal. i had just watched the movie and i started pacing with a notebook (my family thought i had finally lost it).

Today marks the second week of my first year at university. Thank you for growing with me— I'll be honest I thought no one would read my very niche reader insert fan-fiction. I read over it sometimes and cringe at the psuedo-intellectual, pretentious word choice before I realize that i just talked like that in the tenth grade😭😭

I also read A LOT during the 6 (ish) months i wrote the proposal. I read essays and classics and contemporary fiction (I can give you a Proposal supplementary reading list if you want😭😭)

Thank you again!!! I dont think I'll every be as passionate for smth as I was for The Proposal and that's alright!! I'm glad that you loved it, And I'm so so grateful that you reached out :).

Please be kind to yourself! Have an amazing day.

[inkofamethyst]

May 29, 2025

Instead of adding scales right now, I think I'm going to do this one finger independence exercise thing I found online. I really want to up my left hand finger dexterity. I think that'll be useful for scales (whenever I start doing them). I think when I gain more confidence and start working more on songs and less from workbooks (to be clear, I fully intend to use workbooks this whole summer; working through skills in a structured way is a big part of how I aim to steadily improve (I abandoned this for uke and regret it)), I'll begin my practice sessions with scales and arpeggios and the like.

Years ago I wrote about how learning a new instrument was akin to learning a new language for me. And I do still stand by that. When I was playing flute in high school, I was generally able to instantly translate written notation to fingerings or conductor direction to embouchure. I was playing simple pop songs by ear as early as elementary and middle school. The instrument and I just kind of clicked eventually, like it was an extension of me. I didn't need to actively translate "treble clef A on staff -> first two fingers and thumb -> don't overblow" because it was instantaneous. Playing by ear and having an intuition for intervals without the formal music theory training was a talent I did not appreciate at the time but now recognize as a next step in musical fluency. One can learn an instrument from lessons and books the same way one can learn Spanish in a class. But fluency comes with real time practice in never-before-seen contexts and challenges that must be creatively overcome. That skill is exercised when playing by ear or when playing with other (better) musicians. It is a conversation within which one is truly tested and through which one improves. It's the same concept as with language immersion programs.

I think I'd once written that my goal was to join a jam session by the end of the summer. I'd say that's a soft goal. I don't know what my skill will be like at the end of the summer or if I would have an amp available that was appropriate for jamming or if I'll even find a jam session I'd like (though I'm not against any genre, really; I think cross-genre experience would be very valuable). But I think if I was to set one goal for the end of these three-ish months, it'd be to drastically shorten my internal "translation time". That implicates a whole slew of skills, of course (reading bass clef, knowing the notes of the fretboard, high finger dexterity).

I need to wedge myself into the local music scene somehow. Maybe find a local band I enjoy and go to a few of their shows. Or hang around at a bar that hosts a lot of local acts. Or something. I think I've found one that's close to me, maybe I'll check it out this weekend...

I finished Crisis on Infinite Earths pt 3 finally. And like, okay, yeah, the ending was fine and made sense. But it was so so awful getting there. Nearly painful. For a three-part event released over the course of multiple years, I just expected so much more. The animation was awful, the script was boring, the jokes fell flat, the attempts at emotion fell flat, and while the plotting ended up making sense, I honestly did not trust the process (the only real surprise was the bit about Constantine's involvement). Plus they put that grown man in a Robin suit T.T While I had technically "done the homework" and was familiar with most if not all of the reference material (basically the WB straight-to-video animated movies), it'd been so long since I'd seen any of them (and I feel like I have to keep so many multiverses straight at this point) that I barely remembered anything from them. In all, I wouldn't really recommend them. Unless someone was doing a binge of all the WB animated stuff. It'd be easier to get through and make more sense with all of them being out at once. I'm willing to tolerate more than I should when it comes to superhero content for whatever reason, but this didn't even manage to be mediocre in my book.

Today I'm thankful that I randomly was able to see my makerspace-friend today (idk if she'd technically gotten a name before now..). I didn't even know she'd moved away, as we hadn't really chatted since like, January because I was in the midst of quals prep and she in the throes of med school apps the past few months and then she got an acceptance and only very recently whisked herself away! She's so cool. Texted me this afternoon right before I was about to run an experiment because she was in town visiting another friend, and I'm glad we got to link once more! I really want to keep in touch with her.

Also thankful that my """experiments""" are tentatively looking good. Last summer when I was doing basically the same thing for two months straight, I had super inconsistent results, but everything is looking solid the past three times I've run the procedure (I remade some of the solutions for this summer and suspect that I'd labeled something incorrectly last summer which is annoying). Plus my postdoc has been out sick the past few days which has really forced me into trusting myself, something that's kind of been difficult to do because I've also screwed up so so so much lol. Anyway I will see tomorrow whether they are actually turning out well.

It's been very quiet in the department this week. Quiet in the lab, too. No undergrads. Advisor mostly working from home. My postdoc out sick. My island-friend away on staycation. The other grad student graduated. The other postdoc.. somewhere but def not in the lab. It's been nice. Serene. Peaceful. I am getting things done (because I must: I have a (lowkey low-key) poster due next Thursday and am (re)generating much of the data for it this week (I technically had done it previously but it looked dreadful and would've needed re-doing for publication anyway)). I feel productive. I am moving quickly right now because I must (for more reasons than just the deadline), but I will slow down after next week to adopt a comfortable pace so that I don't burn myself out.

But for now, I feel good. External stressors aside, I passed my quals, my experiments look good, my period is back to normal, I'm learning a new instrument, I'm crafting, I'm hanging out.

[husbandograveyard]

posting schedule

Just calculated, with one more double posting and otherwise one drabble per day, the last summer drabble should come out sept 10th? ish? give or take a day as my brain doesn't want to math properly. So I will be spending this week still prewriting them, hopefully finishing them and plopping them all in the queue. School year starts next week and I have SO MUCH to do still in preparation, so I'll be less present next week and the week after. With drabbles and other stuff queued, my tumblr should just be doing its thing in the meantime. If I do find time, I'll spend it working on the halloween stuff, and I might have a little break from other writing (maybe, I don't know how busy I will actually be once I am back i my teacher groove). Halloween schedule has been shared already, so the works will be posted according to that schedule.

I have some events, box openings and other things planned, but it will truly depend on how busy I am. Keep your eyes peeled I guess? I have some really fun plans, but I don't want to promise a lot, because I for sure don't want to overwork myself off of Tumblr again.

Hope y'all are doing fine!! <3 Posting schedule under the cut - times are all CET

Rest of August: Summer drabble every day around 7pm - queued September 1st-10th: Summer drabble every day around 7pm - queued September 11th-30th: ???? New drabble collection / headcanons on requests / Abc writings / mini event ???? - depends on how busy I get. October: Spooktober all month - 20 writings according to schedule, around 8-9pm every day / every other day November: Random drabbles / headcanons on requests / Mini event (planned) and OR Birthday event December: Holiday event? (unplanned) / Mystery event / Leftover requests

[tragicallyuncreative]

Clearly I've spent a little too much time thinking about the timeline to have this detailed an answer lol 😂 but this is actually correct!

The book likely takes place in early fall. S. E. likely created the character's birthdays after writing the novel so it's not 100% accurate for the timeline to make sense, but close enough. Ponyboy's been 14 for a month, but his birthday is in late July. So it's likely been closer to 2 months. Sodapop will be 17 in a few weeks, but his birthday is in early October. So we're likely in early-ish September. School has already started, so it's likely not summer (Darry saying he can go to the movies since it's not a school night and Pony worrying about all the school he missed while on the run after he's talking to Darry after Johnny and Dally die). The fountain also had some ice in it so it's cold enough to be cold at night, which isn't typical in the summer (again, i know way too many details).

So since it's a school year, it would initially make sense to think it's his freshman year based on his age. But Pony is already the youngest in his grade even if he didn't skip a year. This is because he has a summer birthday. I had several friends with summer birthdays (June, July, August) who turned the year correlating with their grade after everyone else had (like you turn 14 during your 8th grade in most places. Pony would turn 14 the summer after finishing 8th grade). So it's not unusual to graduate high school at 17. But since he's skipped a year, he's bumped up ahead even more. If he hadn't, he would still seemingly be younger (turning 15 after finishing his freshman year). But he's bumped up, so he turned 14 right before the book, then started his sophomore year! Also, technically it would be his first year at Will Roger's High because it was grades 10 - 12 in the 60's.

I should not know any of this lol 😂😂😂

“it’s 2 more years then you’re going to be the first curtis boy to go to college”

…ponyboy is 14,,he’s a freshman & the book is set in august i think the musical is set in october like boy has more than just two years lol