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#utmv#sans aus#undertale au#ink sans#dragon balance au#hold on i have more shit to post i swear#somethings been rotting in my drafts for months oops#i just gotta polish it#i’ll give u a hint of what it is tho…#💀⚰️🐦⬛#aaaanyway#how yall doin 👀#sleepies art
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20's ♡ she/they ♡ POC
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directory ♡︎ fic rec page ♡︎ nsfw visuals
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October
Creatures crawl in search of blood...(All October) 🎃
↳ Spooky Season 2024
March
Stroking him while holding him pt 2 (Feb 18th) ♡
↳ Changbin, Jeongin, Hyunjin, and Minho; nsfw
January
Stroking him while holding him (Jan 16th) ♡
↳ Felix, Jisung, Seungmin, and Chan; nsfw
Big Dick!Chan and Possessive Reader (Jan 8th) ♡
↳ small drabble; nsfw
2023 • Done ♡
[depression break]
December
Poly December (All month)
↳ masterlist for all 2023 Poly December writings
November
none
October
spooky season masterlist (All month) 🎃
↳ masterlist for all 2023 Spooky Season writings
September
#3: mischievous swaying with chan (Sep 30th) ♡
↳ chan mild public play; little smutty
#2: chan being a meanie nsfw (Sep 29th) ♡
↳ mild brain rot of chan going from sweetie to meanie in bed; smutty
#1: Chan comes home from tour (Sep 29th) ♡
↳ my feelings about chan coming home; fluffy and smutty
Siren 2 (Sep 4th) ♡
↳ Seonghwa shares something special with you
Chan comfort (Sep 3rd) ♡
↳ you bring Chan home from work and you can practically hear his racing thoughts
July
7 nurses, 2 patients (July 24th) ♡
↳ you and Mingi are recovering together with the most chaotic staff of nurses: your boyfriends
April (oops)
The Innocents: 01 (Apr 26th) ♡
↳ Jimin saves two innocents caught in the crossfire; Mafia!Jimin x Yoongi x Reader (8pm est)
Felix makes three: 01 (Apr 26th) ♡
↳ The morning after the ice is broken; Chanlix x Reader (6pm est)
Bang Chan masterpost (Apr 17th) ♡
↳ just a masterlist of my Chan content because im a whore for him :)
[10:45] felix ft. jisung, changbin, and hyunjin) (Apr 15th) ♡
↳ you get impatient; nsfw
[1:56] chanlix 2am tears ; suggestive (Apr 15th) ♡
↳ a late night visitor’s tears
chan draft drabble, mildly nsfw (Apr 11th) ♡
↳ chan unknowingly insults you, felix hears things he shouldn’t
just a finale (Apr 10th) ♡
↳ the finale, pt 7 nsfw yunho drabble (thank you)
don’t shut me out(dont shut your legs) (Apr 4th) ♡
↳ pt 6 nsfw yunho drabble
January
tourist fireworks (Jan 10th) ♡
↳ yunho new year’s drabble
private new year (Jan 10th) ♡
↳ bang chan new year’s drabble
it’s been a good year (Jan 1st) ♡
↳ woosan new years drabble
2022 • Done ♡
November
poly masterlist (Nov 15th) ♡
↳ masterlist for my polyamorous posts
imagine someone found your sex tape (Nov 9th) ♡
↳ woosan drabble (2am thought)
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October
spooky season masterlist (All month) 🎃
↳ masterlist for everything I released in October
Notice:// some haven’t been posted yet
vampire training: prologue (Oct 13th) ♡
↳ vampire!yunho mini series | series masterlist
request: demon!wooyoung x angel!reader (Oct 7th) ♡
↳ spooky season request (smut)
September
darkness falls across the land (Sep 30th) ♡
↳ Halloween masterlist 2022
chanlix and comfort skz reposts (Sep 23rd) ♡
↳ reposting of my poly chanlix and soft comforting skz drabbles from my old acc
just a room away (Sep 23rd) ♡
↳ pt 5 nsfw yunho drabble
woosan drabble add-on (Sep 17th) ♡
↳ something extra for the woosan one👇🏽 he’s gonna leave marks
woosan drabble (Sep 15th) ♡
↳ San hears screams and bursts in to scold woo. Bad timing?
just a mistake (Sep 11th) ♡
↳ pt 4 nsfw yunho drabble
Hard hours (Sep 10th) ♡
↳ a few asks
just a little thunder (Sep 9th) ♡
↳ pt 3 nsfw yunho drabble
Hard hours (Sep 9th) ♡
↳ a couple posts
July
????! JK
↳ finally posted this JK au
RIC ch 4
↳ the start of part two
TMIAOU
↳ the past and present
use me - bill withers (July 7th) ♡
↳ drabble based on use me by bill withers
perv!chan (July 7th) ♡
↳ lil thought of bestie perv channie
June
channie comfort during depressive episode (June 25th) ♡
↳ chan fluff comfort drabble
just a ride home (June 13th) ♡
↳ pt 2 nsfw yunho drabble
don’t hang up (June 8th) ♡
↳ nsfw yunho drabble
May
Random hard thought (May 31st) ♡
↳ nsfw yunho thought
please don’t regret it (May 31st) ♡
↳ angsty chan drabble
the monsters in all of us: one (May 5th) ♡
↳ vampire!jungkook story from my old blog (nsfw)
reconciliation in currency ch 3 (May 5th) ♡
↳ the interview (nsfw)
reconciliation in currency ch 2 (May 3rd) ♡
↳ tae’s pov
reconciliation in currency ch 1 (May 2nd) ♡
↳ sugar daddy! former bestfriend! taehyung
slightly insecure reader with comforting channie (May 1st) ♡
↳ bang chan drabble, slightly nsfw
♡ directory ♡
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Okay okay okay I’ve been thinking about this for a few days now here’s my list of genshin boys most likely to least likely to become a yandere and why:
-xiao. Millennia of suffering and he meets somebody who makes the pain dissipate? Hell never let go.
-diluc. People have died in his arms, he can’t risk losing another loved one... it’s not like he doesn’t have the wealth and resources to keep his beloved by his side.
-Childe. I think he’d be the most dehumanizing yandere - he treats you almost like a child (haha) as be manipulates his way into your heart. And god knows that he gets what he wants.
-albedo is obviously in the top half of this list. We’ve talked about his yandere tendacies before so I won’t relist them but jeez get this boy some therapy.
-razor. Now this sounds surprising but after years of protecting his Lupical, do you really think he’d let somebody he loves and sees as helpless wander alone? I feel hes less captor and manipulative and more of a stalker if he becomes a yandere
-venti. Freedom is his entire world, but can he let his beloved have freedom if it endangers them? One of the most manipulative ones on this list, except he has no clue that he’s doing it.
-kaeya. Maybe you’d gotten to close to one of his secrets. Maybe you’d figured out something he wanted to die. It doesn’t matter much now, all you know is that you were tried and declared guilty by the knights of favonius and were sent into a dungeon protected by the Calvery captain himself.
-zhongli. Has the yandere desires, but refuses to give in. He’s loved and lost so many times over the years and he figures he doesn’t want to take that away from his beloved.
-chongyun. I’ve gone back and forth between him and xingqiu for this one, but I feel like these last 3 are all pretty much tied for not being a yandere. However, if he met someone who could somehow null his congenital positivity than he might move up on this list...
-Xingqiu. He has a strong sense of justice and honor, the idea of manipulating, stalking or god forbid kidnapping his S/O is appalling to him.
-Bennett. Literally just tryna vibe. Devotes as much time as he can to make sure any relationship he has is healthy.
So basically:
Everybody on this list: *frothing at the mouth, thinking of ways to keep their S/Os with them*
Bennett, Chongyun, Xingqiu and to some extent Zhongli: what the fuck
Your list... Simply amazing. Now that I’m thinking about it, I’m beginning to wonder where other characters would sit on the list. Mainly Scaramouche though aha oops Anyways, please never stop sharing your thoughts!! They are so GOOD!
Xiao’s backstory and past is just perfect material to fuel his yandere desires. He’s suffered for so long and has never really experienced positive emotions, let alone love itself. The poor adeptus is always brooding on his own and here comes his darling, bright and happy and just...perfect. They’re like a glimmering star in his murky darkness and he wants to treasure them. There’s no way he’s going to let go of the feeling he gets when he’s with them, nor is he going to let them leave his side.
It makes sense that Diluc would also be at the top of that list. He’s got the making of a yandere, especially considering all of the people he’s lost in his life. Now that he’s found someone so important to him, he can’t risk losing them. It would destroy him if he found out that his darling got hurt or was even killed because he wasn’t taking enough precautions to keep them safe. He’d definitely blame himself if something like that happened.
Childe, pspspspsp!!! The power this man holds... Omg he makes for such a terrifying yandere. On the outside, he seems warm and disarming—just your normal, happy-go-lucky kind of guy. He’s not dangerous at all! No way. But under all of that falsified charm is someone who knows how to pull strings. He’s a Fatui Harbinger, so of course he has the means of getting you wrapped around his finger. It’s not all that hard when he’s got money, power, and strength. Plus, when he wants something he’s not going to stop until he acquires it; Childe lives for the thrill of chasing after you and it’ll be even more fun once he catches you. Someone should send me more thoughts about yan!Childe!!! orz orz
Albedo also qualifies as a neat yandere! Something about yanderes who are into science is just...fascinating to me. It’s also cool because Albedo’s rumored to be a homunculus, so that adds to the intrigue! Albedo has the resources to get what he wants as well. It won’t be all that difficult, and if it proves to be challenging he can just think of other solutions to pacify his darling. He is a researcher, after all, and a good researcher seeks to find the best solution to a problem.
Razor would be a feral yandere. He’s more action than words. He doesn’t put much thought into what he does because it feels more like an instinct to him. He’s just protecting his Lupical. There’s nothing wrong with that! So why are you acting so difficult? D:
Like you said, Venti’s not aware of his manipulation and he just does it because it works. His belief that everyone deserves freedom is probably what really holds him back. He doesn’t want you to feel caged, but that feeling is practically inevitable since he’s always hounding you. Venti is a very suffocating yandere and he doesn’t even realize it.
KAEYA! KAEYA! I love the idea of Kaeya having some sort of blackmail on you—something so bad that you absolutely can’t let the world see. And so he uses that to keep you quiet. If you did stumble upon one of his secrets, he can’t possibly have you running that pretty mouth of yours. But if you do end up spilling his secret, it’s only fair that he shares yours, right? An eye for an eye, as some would say. Kaeya’s very smooth and calculative when it comes to handling blackmail. Whenever it feels like you’re trying to one-up him and possibly escape, he’ll flirtatiously remind you of the power he holds over you. Blackmail is rather compelling, is it not?
Zhongli does have the motive to be a yandere, as you pointed out, but he’s a strange case. On one hand, it makes sense that he’d want to protect his beloved at all costs, but on the other he’d probably be aware of these unhealthy tendencies. Although he probably uses the idea of a contract to keep your relationship going, even if it’s clear you don’t want anything to do with him. But if you do, that just makes it easier on him!
NO BECAUSE I THOUGHT THE SAME FOR CHONGYUN!!! Not the yan!Chongyun piece rotting in my drafts for a month or two now ehehee I had some thoughts about Chongyun but never bothered posting it for some reason. Anyways, I do think Chongyun has potential to be a yandere! As you mentioned, his congenital positivity can become an issue and he doesn’t want that to seriously affect his daily life. So he’s probably very pleased to find someone who can nullify that positivity. It’d be similar to Xiao’s case; Xiao likes someone who can be the light in his dark world. Chongyun falls for the person who can null his congenital positivity and is someone who he gets along with.
The only way I can see Xingqiu being a yandere is if he wants a noble, storybook romance. Okay, that sounds strange, but consider it! He’s a huge bookworm who probably doesn’t exactly experience romance aside from what he reads in his novels. Although he doesn’t dabble in the romance genre all that often, he does like the idea of being a hero and sweeping someone off of their feet. So when he meets you—another fellow bookworm or maybe the two of you are thrown into an arranged marriage—he just feels an undeniable connection. This must be some form of fate or a sixth sense. Maybe he can be the main character of his own story! You’ll just have to cooperate and you can be the valiant knight’s love interest!
Bennett’s vibes are so nice. How could he be a yandere? He’s just too sweet and pure. He’s really just here to chill and gather an adventuring team full of great friends! But if anyone has any thoughts...please share them!
That’s it. I’m writing about Scaramouche even though he’s not on the list. Please, why do I simp so much for him? Anyways, we don’t know nearly enough about Scaramouche to determine his backstory or past. But he just oozes yandere! Most of the Harbingers are probably the same, to some extent. He’s like Childe with all of the power and resources, but whereas Childe relishes in the chase Scaramouche refuses to put up with it. It’s just way too inconvenient for him. He’d rather catch you when you least expect it and then keep you for himself.
Gosh, he’s a very determined and possessive yandere with a strict agenda; this man probably cheats in order to get you. He’ll send his underlings to do the work in his place. They’ll stalk you and report back to him and it isn’t long before he learns of your friends, certain family members you’re close to, and even where you live. It’s terrifying, but this is Scaramouche we’re talking about. For someone so short, he sure knows how to intimidate and beat fear into those below him. Good luck to the poor soul who catches his eye.
I must thank you for making that list! It was lots of fun to consider their mindsets and behaviors as yandere. :D
#chit chat#yandere genshin impact#yandere genshin impact x reader#yandere xiao#yandere diluc#yandere childe#yandere albedo#yandere razor#yandere venti#yandere kaeya#yandere zhongli#yandere chongyun#yandere xingqiu#genshin impact bennett#yandere scaramouche#yandere x reader#this was so fun to write about#xenia-cenia#your brain is galaxy level
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🤍 Haikyuu WIP excerpts
preview post for hq because recently i showed sara a list of my works in progress and she laughed at me and then made a dn joke like this is 2015 or something. we got:
🤍 communal property /// ushijima x f!reader x tendou 🤍 sunshower /// atsumu x f!reader x osamu 🤍 corporate ethics /// kuroo x f!reader
anyway these are all terrible first drafts and i'm not sorry. however i am very very into these pieces and if you're interested in seeing them finished, you should tell me fr fr
🤍 communal property /// Ushijima x f!Reader x Tendou
Summary: Tendou shares everything with Ushijima—his food, his dorm room, even the AVs he likes. Why not his girlfriend, too?
Tags/warnings: poly relationship in progress (only you and Tendou are dating at this point), mild suggestiveness ??, s*ze k*nk
Status: 10k words written (holy fuck lol) out of ~11k total? this bitch better get finished is2g
After the match, your voice is hoarse from screaming but you still manage to yell congratulations for your boyfriend when you meet him and Ushijima outside the locker room in the stadium. You’re pumped on the adrenaline of the game, so you don’t even protest like you usually would when Tendou picks you up in the middle of your hug and lifts you off the ground effortlessly. “How was I? Awesome, right? I told you we would beat them!”
“You did, you so did—“ Even though your throat hurts, you can’t help gushing about every rally, every soul-crushing block, every impossible spike. “—and then the guy on the left thought he was clear to shoot it but you just—“ You throw your arms in the air and mime hitting the ball down like a blocker. “Wha-bam!—and the look on his face! I thought he was going to punch you!”
Tendou laughs and lays a sloppy kiss on your cheek, just as thrilled as you are by the win. “You really liked it that much? I thought you weren’t into sports.”
“I loved it! You were so cool! I can’t believe I’m dating someone so cool!” You wrap your legs around his back and hug his face close to yours, reveling in the fact that this weirdo belongs to you wholly and entirely, that you get to have him to yourself (well, other than his roommate). “And I’m not into sports, I’m into you.”
Tendou smiles in a way that makes the sides of his eyes crinkle up and little red patches bloom over his cheeks, a look that says, I like you so much (Y/N), I like you I like you I like you, except he’s probably trying not to be mushy like that since Ushijima is standing off to the side.
You feel a little bad for ignoring him (no one likes being the third wheel, even if he never shows signs of caring) so when Tendou sets you down you turn to Ushijima. “And you! Holy shit, Tendou said you were good, but I didn’t know you were that good. The ball when you hit it was super loud—honestly, how are your hands okay? If I hit it that hard I’d probably break something.”
“My hands are fine…this is normal for me.”
But just because you’ve got them here in front of you and you’re still pumped from the exhilaration of the win, you can’t help grabbing Ushijima’s hand and flipping it palm-up to inspect. True to his word, there’s no redness, just the calluses he’s built up on his long fingers. “Wow.”
“You don’t need to worry about Wakatoshi,” Tendou tells you, grinning and then making a face. “He’s a monster, he can handle it.”
“No kidding. You’re both monsters.” You put the base of your palm up against Ushijima’s to gauge the size of his hand against yours, and without prompting Tendou grabs your other hand to press against his own. Tendou’s fingers are a bit longer, but Ushijima’s are…thicker, more solid. Your hands look like a little kid’s in comparison. “Can I be honest? Half the time I was thinking I actually feel bad for the other team. If I had to take on both of you at the same time, I’d probably cry.”
You’re (mostly) joking, but it’s still a complete shock when you see the side of Ushijima’s mouth curl up a tiny bit. You’ve known each other for months at this point, but you’ve never seen him smile until now. Half of you is wondering if this is some kind of optical illusion caused by the atmosphere and the dim light of the stadium cutting through the evening, but the other half of you enjoys it. You made Ushijima smile. You did that.
“Don’t sell yourself short, (Y/N).” Ushijima says, tipping his head to the side.
“Yeah!” Tendou chimes in, resting his chin on top of your head and folding his arms around your neck from his place behind you. “I’m sure you could take both of us. Right, Wakatoshi?”
So that’s probably a sign.
🤍 sunshower /// Atsumu x f!Reader x Osamu
Summary: [Kitsune AU] You find an old Ō-Inari shrine in the woods that may not be as abandoned as it looks.
Tags/warnings: Shinto religion, this preview is biased toward tsumu oops, yearning/soft vibes
Status: 3.9k words written out of 5–6k? total
Atsumu was the one who found you.
That’s how he likes to talk about it, that he found you, like you’d still be wandering around lost in the woods if it weren’t for him. Osamu thinks you would have found your way back home eventually but Atsumu likes it better this way, this framing that makes it seem like they saved you.
It’s hard for him to tell time linearly the way humans do but you mention once that you’ve known them for a year and that seems to fit. It’s spring now, almost barely tipping into summer, and it was spring when Atsumu found you. He remembers because of the way it was raining: light and tender, a summer rain early in the season, each little drop tapping off a leaf and then rolling into the forest bed to be eaten up by the grass and the soil.
Atsumu likes the rain, likes the sweet earthy smell it makes and the way the plants look so lush and green and alive, like they’d bleed if he sunk his teeth into them. He was out in the woods because of the rain ('Samu was in the shrine, as usual, attempting to set buckets under the millions of holes in the roof so the rainwater wouldn’t pool and rot through the wood underneath). But Atsumu was half asleep in a tree when he heard you crashing through the undergrowth, tripping over ferns and snapping every twig in your path (thought ya might be a bear, he tells you later, that’s how loud ya were) but he wouldn’t really have woken up if he hadn’t heard you singing.
(The odd thing is, you weren’t actually singing. You remember that day as vividly as they do: the warm, humid air making your skin feel sticky under your yellow raincoat; the tiny raindrops filtering through the canopy and kissing your cheeks; the ink feathering out on the damp xerox of the old map you found in your great-aunt’s attic so you could barely make out the “X” that was supposed to mark the location of the lost Inari shrine… You were cursing how stupid you’d been to go on a wild goose chase into the mountains with no cell service and no marked trail to look for a shrine that no one had seen in decades. You definitely weren’t singing.)
But Atsumu remembers it differently. No matter how many times you explain that you were just talking to yourself, when he replays the sound of your voice back then (reaching and lilting and falling, the way the birds talk to each other in the early morning, except the music of it was poured into syllables and words), it sounds like you’re singing. He wasn’t sure at first, hadn’t heard a voice that wasn’t Osamu’s in so many years that he gets tired counting them, but then he saw you push into view from between two bushes and he thought, a human!
A girl, too—it was hard to say at first because you were wearing that weird, slick jacket of yours, so bright yellow it was like an oversized flower blooming out of the grass, but then you tilted your head up to feel the rain on your face and the hood fell down and he knew. Not just a human, a girl! Atsumu wanted to yell for Osamu, make him come and confirm that there was a person wandering around not a mile from the shrine. A real person! Singing and smiling and wiping the rain off her cheeks (does that mean you like the rain, just like he does? did you come out to feel it too?) But he also wanted to surprise Osamu so he hid his tails and his ears and came down from the tree and asked if you had lost your way in the forest, since you were so far from any path…
When you think back on this yourself you’re amazed that you just went with him: a strange boy (man?) wearing a fox mask and traditional Shinto priest robes, which were somehow pristine white and red despite him having appeared from nowhere in the middle of a dense forest, who told you he had no idea what direction the village was but he could take you to the Inari shrine you’d been searching for…well. Maybe you were too surprised to be wary, or maybe you were just exhausted and lost. But you like to think you had a sense of it even then, the irrational belief that the boy in the woods was not just a boy in the woods.
Atsumu thinks you knew. Humans always understand, even when they try not to… He remembers, he took your hand that day in the forest and you saw that the claws on his fingers were too long to be human, and you said nothing because on some level you already felt it. Your skin was cool then, smooth and damp from the rain; he wanted to stop, run his hands up your arms, touch the places on your face where your mouth had been turned up at the corners and press his fingers into your cheeks.
🤍 corporate ethics /// Kuroo x f!Reader
Summary: [Office AU] The new junior marketing associate just happens to be Kuroo’s favorite camgirl, and he’s having trouble keeping his hands to himself.
Tags/Warnings: boss/employee, businessman!Kuroo as a reformed player, camgirl reader, this excerpt has a lil bit of 18+ content 👀
Status: 1.2k words written out of 4k? words total
Kuroo doesn’t watch porn.
It’s not, like, a moral principle or something. He has nothing against pornography. As far as he knows, it’s perfectly normal for single men. He just doesn’t like it…unless it’s you.
When he was in school it was easy. Being a teenager meant being so flooded with hormones that a warm breeze could get him up, and the adrenaline rush of winning a game was better than any big-titted porn actress faking moans into a shit-quality boom mic. Sure, he watched porn back then (what teenage boy didn’t?), but it was more out of curiosity than necessity. It was all kind of a mystery at that point, the way it can only be when you’re a clueless virgin and you and all your friends are too busy practicing for the next game to get girls.
Somehow Bokuto was the first one in their friend group to lose his virginity, and the memory of the dumbass self-consciously describing the experience has been lodged in Kuroo’s brain for the 10+ years since. “It was…I don’t know. She smelled good. You know how girls always smell good?” Bokuto’s hands twitched and his face was pink. “It’s just really…soft.”
Soft was right, Kuroo would reflect when he got laid for the first time a few months later. Soft, warm, wet. Sex was awkward at first, but before he knew it it was more natural than breathing.
It didn’t change much after high school, either. He didn’t get into volleyball for the groupies, but they didn’t hurt. There were girls when he played for his college team, more girls when he joined a business frat, so many girls he couldn’t keep track…they blurred together after a while. It didn’t take effort. You don’t need game when you’re 6’2 and you’re in the gym 40 hours a week, and you definitely don’t need porn.
So he never got into it. Now that he’s promoting volleyball instead of playing, things are more complicated. Kuroo’s never been the type who expects things to fall in his lap, but there are so many rules when it comes to dating in the real world. Good morning texts, anniversaries, flowers, parents. It’s exhausting. One time—seriously, just one time—Kuroo misses his girlfriend’s birthday to go watch a Jackals game, and the next time he sees her she throws her drink on him in public and keys his car. After that, Kuroo decides that until he’s ready to settle down there will be no more girlfriends. Which means no more reliable sex. Which means resorting to porn.
Which means you.
You, batting your eyelashes at the camera and biting the side of your lip. You, purring and mewing like a kitten. You, lying back on your pretty pink bedsheets in your pretty pink lingerie, sliding your hands between your legs. It takes Kuroo a full month to decide to pay for access to your website (Kenma’s unsolicited recommendation) but it takes less than five minutes for him to upgrade access to premium. You look like a wet dream—no, you look like the centerfold of every dirty magazine Kuroo managed to get his hands on when he was younger. Pristine and alluring and so deliciously out of reach.
And you make it so simple. No delicate emotional games with rules Kuroo never bothered to learn. No pretending to care how your day was. You untie the little bows on the side of your panties and lick your fingers and Kuroo just has to take his dick out and watch you. Getting off hasn’t been this easy for him since college. You’re a camgirl, you exist on his computer screen, and that’s how he likes it.
Which makes it a lot more awkward when Kuroo finds out that the only woman he’s gotten off to in the past…year, maybe?…somehow just got hired in JVA’s sports promotion department as his junior associate.
Your prim work blouse is buttoned up to the collar and your makeup is different, but he knows it’s you. You have to tell him your name twice because he’s too stunned to respond the first time, and even then he can’t summon up more of a response than a curt nod because his mouth tastes like dirt.
You smile a little awkwardly at his cool reception, and the hand you’d extended out to shake swings back down to your side. “Um, the guy at HR said he sent up my info yesterday…I’ll be working directly underneath you?”
Directly underneath me. Kuroo is taking a sip of his coffee when you say this. He doesn’t spit it out, but it’s close.
#haikyuu x reader#ushijima x reader#tendou x reader#atsumu x reader#osamu x reader#kuroo x reader#hq x reader#haikyuu#ushijima wakatoshi x reader#tendou satori x reader#atsumu miya x reader#osamu miya x reader#kuroo tetsuro x reader#haikyuu imagines
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[uh, may I say that the first time I wrote this it was July 30th 2020, because I know for a fact this is just going to sit in my drafts and rot there ;-;]
[ (8/09/2020) hi, presumably authors note here! Thanks to my weird habit of suddenly deciding to write something new and going until I'm falling asleep typing at 3am... I don't remember making this. At all. It kind of appeared in my drafts at one point and I'm just going to go with it. I also have no idea what it's supposed to be but I'm posting it how I found it cos I thought it was funny. You have been "warned". proceed.]
Core four feel guilty af so all try to mend their relationships with the dark sides independently of one another bc they don't know how the other three would react, anyway, the dork sides think they're doing it this way to not overwhelm them or something, (they have no idea that everyones trips have been "secret") but they figure that Virgil would want his headphones back sooner rather than later so they go up to give them back to him and Oop! everyone is in the same room and all four of them think "am I going to have to defend their asses in a second, oh god what if I get kicked out and go live down there with them and I never see these three again! What if that makes something bad happen to Thomas? Oh god oh fuck-" (mhm, even Patton. Having to pick between his famILY's warrants a "fuck" he thinks) and are waiting for the other shoe to drop, while Janus and Remus are just there like "yo, tf is going on why are y'all looking at each other like you're trying to figure out who the murderer is?"
Virgil gets Panic! ked because 'oh shit history is repeating itself has nothing actually changed, I thought we'd had some Growth™ -' and Roman sees this and thinks 'oh shit Virgils history with them is probably all flooding back to him rn, I gotta help him see that everything's gucci-' so he asks lemon and lime to back it up a lil bit. Logan sees this and thinks 'ah yes, how fitting that I have to (verbally) fight Roman about this. Welp, guess I'm loosing a friendship today. That sucks dick.' And (figuratively) ((maybe also literally too, idk)) jumps to the defence of the two and Janus sees this and is like "hold up, did non of y'all know you were all doing the same thing?" And Patton's like "HAHAHA- UM what thing??? Janus???? What????? do you mean??????" And Janus is like "well fuck, I guess you really do need my help with lying, damn. Anyway all of y'all have been coming to vibe w/ us over the last like month, I thought y'all had coordinated it tbh, but apparently not." And during all this Remus snuck a tentacle to Virgo for him to grab onto while he Panic! ing and Roman tried to poke it away at first bc he didn't want Virgil to freak out, but he actually made grabby hands for it so Roman was like 'oh, ight I guess that works' and took his other hand cos they want him to know that both sides of his family still vibe with him, no matter what.
Also Virgil happy cries a lot when he starts to go and chill with them BC he has Nostalgia and crying is a good thing sometimes.
Also also Raman cries a lot in the start too bc he's been having Even More dreams about them together as kids and waking up Extra Sad™ but now he gets to clown about w/ him again and yeah he has to wash his tunic thingy more thoroughly now bc there's almost always dirt or monster blood or slime or something on it but he'd rather wash a billion stains out of his clothes than stop having a good relationship with his brother again
Also also also Patton cries in the beginning BC he still blames himself for everything, so Janus and Remus explain to him that there's nothing that calls for blame to be placed on anyone. Yes Thomas might have been different if Creativity hadn't split, but that could go for worse as well as for better. He might not be able to help the people that he helps now. And also Roman and Remus wouldn't exist, and if he's honest, Remus prefers having someone to fight and bounce ideas off of and bully relentlessly, because Roman can do the same right back, and it's never boring. And that does make Patty feel at least a little better. For now.
Also also also also Logay doesn't really cry, but that makes sense. Not because he's emotion-less, but because the other three have strong emotional ties to the pair, he on the other hand, just has some choice words he could reprimand, so he rants. And rant he does. He rants about how sorry he is and the things he should have done differently. He rants about the others when they get a little too much (Remus likes these, especially when they're about Roman and he can join in) he rants about the sea and the stars and the wonders of the world (not the list, just cool things in general) he rants about philosophy (of course Janus loves these, there have been many debates and once REMUS had to brake up a nearly-fight... They've since avoided that particular philosopher.)
Also also also also also (I need to chill) it ends with a cuddle pile, that started out the same way cuddle piles used to go for the others. Janus, all six arms out, and Virgil curled up facing each other with Remus's front pushed against V's back, a good few more tentacles out and crawling all over the other two, then Roman squeezes his way in next to Virgil and Logan and Patton go to Janus and Remus's other sides (hehehe) perspectively. Logan puts his arm around Jan, and gets one back in return, while Parrot jumps on Remus's back, and his tentacles carry him over so he's laying across the rest of them and giggling. It's so much warmer and safer than any of them imagined it would be...
Logan does cry then, they all do. It makes sense, it's a very emotionally charged moment, for all of them.
It's perfect.
#platonic dlampr#sympathetic remus#sympathetic deceit#sympathetic light sides#sympathetic everyone#but the all light sides think the other light sides aren't sympathetic#if that makes sense#creativitwins#soft angst#happy endings all round motherfucker
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UC 50.12 - Warwick vs Wolfson, Ox
For the second time in three weeks we had a Wolfson College on our hands, this time of the Oxford variety. Both institutions are named for the Wolfson foundation, a charity with an endowment of £800m, which offered support to the struggling colleges, previously called University College (at Cambridge) and Iffley College (at Oxford), the latter of which didn’t even have a building until the foundation granted them some money.
The Cambridge college, whose notable alumni include The Challenge’s own Eric Monkman (and indeed he is listed on their Wikipedia, along with a link to his own page, which I didn’t realise existed), were tonked out of the competition by Merton, Oxford, with one of the lowest scores in the history of the show, so their Oxonian cousins would be hoping for somewhat of a better performance. Their one and only prior appearance on the show came last year, when they made the quarter finals with a pair of tiebreak wins.
However, Warwick haven’t been knocked out in the first round since 2005, so they’ll have a task on their hands to make it through. Anyway, let’s not bother with the rules; here’s your first starter for ten.
Warwick negged the first starter and Wolfson took a hat-trick of them to open up a sixty point lead. The plate-glass captain was called Rout, but it was his team who were looking to be on the receiving end of such an affair, until Pollard put a stop to the rot with Peter Grimes.
The LA Lakers are currently playing the Miami Heat in a best of seven series to decide the NBA Championships. In the first match of the series Miami took a fifteen point lead in the first quarter, which was a bit of a thrashing for LA, who didn’t like it one bit and subsequently went on a 75-30 run to flip the tables comprehensively. In no way am I comparing Andrew Rout to LeBron James, but Warwick didn’t take too kindly to having their nose bloodied in the opening exchanges, and absolutely battered Wolfson from hereon out, winning the remainder of the match by 260 to 45.
I’m going to do that thing I occasionally do where I tell you a big story about something I’ve written and deleted rather than think of something completely different to write about instead, because I don’t think anyone would have got anything out of the extended basketball comparison I’ve just gotten rid of (though saying that, I published an entirely nonsensical review in the style of Tenet and just let you get on with it).
I reckon the references to LeBron James and the Lakers are probably accessible enough for the general reader, but I had long bits about alley-oops and pick and rolls, and how they compared to answering questions about Classic FM’s revision playlist. And then some convoluted stuff about trades and draft picks that I’m not even sure I understood, so you can thank me for sparing you of that.
However, making you read a couple of paragraphs about paragraphs which you haven’t read has boosted the word count to the point where I’m happy to call it a day (you’ll be glad to hear), and I’m sure everyone understood the main point of the basketball comparison which is that Warwick absolutely dunked on Wolfson after the first few minutes.
Final Score: Warwick 255 - 105 Wolfson, Ox
105 is by no means a terrible score, but after their bright start Wolfson were simply blown away by Warwick’s mesmerising Offense, and just had to sit there as answer after answer dropped down on their heads.
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Just solve the problem!
While the contractors were working to replace the siding on our new home last summer, they discovered a termite infestation outside the bathroom.
Further investigation revealed that the floor under the tub was not only wet and damp, but had actually completely rotted. So, we hired somebody to repair the damage. On the first day he was here, I went into the bathroom barefoot. Oops. I stepped on a shard of glass tile. That splinter was stuck in my foot for weeks.
At first, it didn’t really affect normal activity. If I wore sneakers and socks, I barely felt it. But if I wore sandals, I got a sharp stabbing pain in the side of my left foot. If I tried to run, the same thing happened. And forget about going to the gym!
Now, the obvious response here is, “Why didn’t you remove the sliver from your foot?” Great question!
On the very first night, Kim did try to remove the sliver, and we thought she got it. But the next morning when I took Tally for a walk, I realized the sliver was still there. But I didn’t do anything about it. I lived with it for weeks, a constant source of low-grade irritation.
This, my friends, is a perfect example of a couple of things.
First, it’s my family’s mentality in action. For some stupid stupid reason, we Roths don’t like dealing with medical issues. When we’re sick, we suffer for days (or weeks) before going to a doctor. When we’re hurt, we just suck it up. When I was young, my mother sprained her ankle. She limped around for months before seeking medical attention. In college, I broke a finger playing touch football over Thanksgiving. I dealt with the intense pain until Christmas break, at which time I finally decided to see a doctor.
Second, this a perfect example of putting up with a problem instead of finding a solution. Most people — myself included — are willing to tolerate a great deal of dissatisfaction and discomfort before deciding to remedy whatever is wrong in their lives. I’m not sure why this is the case, but it’s true.
With the glass shard in my foot, most of the time I barely noticed. But sometimes the pain was especially bad. I remember one morning while walking the dog, it felt like somebody was stabbing me with a needle. “I just need to solve the problem,” I thought to myself — and that reminded me of some wise advice I once received.
Just Solve the Problem
About a decade ago, I worked with a life coach. Each week, we’d have an hour-long phone conversation about the ways I was trying to become a better person. I made great progress in some areas, but little progress in others.
One day, we were talking about my inability to eat a healthy breakfast. I’ve always been the sort of guy who knows he should eat a nutritious breakfast but doesn’t actually do so. My coach had been encouraging me to make this a habit in my life, but I kept complaining about all the reasons it wasn’t possible. Eventually, she’d had enough.
“J.D., you’re being ridiculous,” my coach said, exasperated. “This isn’t rocket science. Millions of people eat a healthy breakfast every day. You can too. You need to stop making excuses. You need to identify the problem and solve the problem. Just solve the problem!”
This advice hit me hard: “Just solve the problem.” Obvious, I know, but that doesn’t mean it’s not powerful. I began to recognize that, in so many ways, I deliberately lived in the problem instead of living in the solution. I realized that maybe I could fix the things that were broken in my life if I’d only take the time to do so. (After all, I’d already made the resolution to become a money boss — and that had worked wonders with my financial situation!)
With breakfast, for instance, the solution was to make it easy to have healthy choices. For me, that meant stocking the fridge with egg whites and chicken sausage. It meant learning to like yogurt. It also meant giving myself permission to spend a little extra on pre-packaged fruit and — not kidding — breakfast steaks. (I was eating paleo at the time, so a piece of filet mignon was perfectly acceptable…if somewhat expensive.)
Related reading: A few months ago, there was a thread on Reddit discussing why people choose long-term inconvenience over short-term inconvenience: “I just spent at least 10 minutes undoing several screws using the end of a butter knife that was already in the same room, rather than go upstairs and get a proper screw driver for the job that would have made the job a lot easier and quicker.” And I spent weeks limping around with a sliver in my foot rather than have Kim spend five minutes taking it out.
How Do You Solve the Problem?
“Just solve the problem” is terrific advice that can be applied to all aspects of life. For almost a decade now, it’s been a mantra of mine. Admittedly, it’s a mantra that I sometimes forget to repeat to myself. But when I do remember to heed these words, they help me get a hell of a lot done.
But just how do you go about solving the problems in your life? I believe there’s a six-step process that you can use to tackle the things you’ve been neglecting for too long:
Recognize a problem exists. You need to be conscious that a problem is present before you can figure out what that problem is. Sometimes this is easier said than done. It’s easy to get complacent, to just accept that this is “the way things are”. For instance, you might be unhappy with your financial situation; you might realize that something with the way you’re handling money isn’t working.
Identify the problem. After you’ve recognized that things aren’t right, ask yourself why. What is the specific problem that’s leading to your unhappiness? Is there more than one problem? Using the previous example, once you’ve realized you need to do something different with your dollars, you might find that debt is dragging you down.
Diagnose the source of the problem. Next, try to figure out why your problem exists. How did it start? Why does it continue? Why does it make you unhappy? With our financial example, you’d quickly discover that your debt exists because you spend more than you earn. But why do you spend more than you earn? When did you start doing this? Why do you continue to do so?
Brainstorm solutions. Now that you’ve identified the problem (and its source), it’s time to figure out how to fix things. This is the fun part. Come up with a list of ways you can overcome the problem that’s been holding you back. To get out of debt, for instance, you might take a two-pronged approach: boost your income by taking a second job while also cutting back temporarily on some non-essentials.
Formulate a plan. Once you’ve come up with a solution to your problem, make a plan to turn these dreams into reality. How specifically are you going to implement your solution? What steps can you take today and tomorrow to solve the problem? If you’re trying to trim your budget, you might draft a prioritized list of places you can cut your spending. Then you can write down concrete steps to take toward each of these goals.
Take action. The last step is the most important. To solve any problem, you must take action. It doesn’t do any good to identify the problem, to brainstorm solutions, and to formulate a plan if you’re not going to do the work necessary to make things right. You’ll never get out of debt if all you do is tell yourself you ought to spend less. You must truly spend less in order to eliminate the problem.
Here’s one way I’m currently using this “just solve the problem” methodology in my own life.
As you may recall, Kim and I both packed on the pounds during our 15-month trip around the U.S. We’ve been home nearly two years now, but we haven’t lost any weight. We’re both aware that a problem exists: We’re uncomfortable with how we feel.
Why are we fat? Why aren’t we fit? What’s the source of the problem? Well, alcohol is a big culprit. We drink far too much beer and wine. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that all the extra weight that each of us is carrying comes from booze. The lack of fitness, however, is because we got out of the habit of exercising. When we first met, we both went to the gym five times a week. That’s dropped to zero times a week. Yikes.
So, how can we solve the problem(s)? First, we can drink less. Second, we can choose healthier foods. (Our diets aren’t terrible, but they aren’t great either.) Third, we can look for ways to make exercise happen instead of coming up with reasons that it can’t.
Now that we have some solutions, we can develop a plan to put them into action. Kim recently spent a couple of weeks doing a medically-supervised water fast to reset her system. When I return from this road trip, I’m going to make fitness my top priority. (Sorry, GRS. You’ll drop to number two.) I’m going to return to my trusty “paleo-ish diet”, commit to cycling every day, and do what I can to avoid alcohol.
The Bottom Line
I have a terrible tendency to overthink things. I make them more complicated than they have to be. That was certainly the case back when my life coach was trying to teach me how to eat a healthy breakfast. I mean, how hard is it to pull a yogurt from the fridge?
I get frustrated when people come up with reasons that something can’t be done instead of thinking of ways it can be done. Yet I’m guilty of the same thing when I fall into the trap of overthinking the problems in my life.
Taking my foot as an example, I used all of the following as reasons not to remove the sliver:
“Oh, the contractors are still here. We should wait until they leave before we remove the splinter.” (But, of course, by the time they’d left I’d forgotten about it.)
“Oh, my feet are dirty right now. We should wait until I’ve had a chance to clean them.”
“Oh, Kim just got home from work. I should give her a chance to rest before I ask her to remove the splinter.” (But, of course, I’d forget to ask her to help me later.)
“Oh, we’re about to leave. It’d be inconvenient to take the time to get the splinter out now. We should do it when we get home.”
“Oh, I’m tired. We should just go to bed. We can always remove the splinter in the morning.”
Looking back, it’s clear to me that these were lame excuses. I’d come up with reasons not to remove the sliver of glass instead of looking for an opportunity to get it done.
Eventually, I recognized how foolish I was being. Kim and I sat down one night and she spent 45 minutes searching for the splinter in my foot. And you know what? As soon as she pulled it out, everything felt so much better. Hard to believe such a tiny splinter could cause so much pain. And hard to believe I’m so stubborn and stupid that I’d live with that pain for a couple of weeks instead of simply solving the problem.
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Just solve the problem!
While the contractors were working to replace the siding on our new home last summer, they discovered a termite infestation outside the bathroom.
Further investigation revealed that the floor under the tub was not only wet and damp, but had actually completely rotted. So, we hired somebody to repair the damage. On the first day he was here, I went into the bathroom barefoot. Oops. I stepped on a shard of glass tile. That splinter was stuck in my foot for weeks.
At first, it didn’t really affect normal activity. If I wore sneakers and socks, I barely felt it. But if I wore sandals, I got a sharp stabbing pain in the side of my left foot. If I tried to run, the same thing happened. And forget about going to the gym!
Now, the obvious response here is, “Why didn’t you remove the sliver from your foot?” Great question!
On the very first night, Kim did try to remove the sliver, and we thought she got it. But the next morning when I took Tally for a walk, I realized the sliver was still there. But I didn’t do anything about it. I lived with it for weeks, a constant source of low-grade irritation.
This, my friends, is a perfect example of a couple of things.
First, it’s my family’s mentality in action. For some stupid stupid reason, we Roths don’t like dealing with medical issues. When we’re sick, we suffer for days (or weeks) before going to a doctor. When we’re hurt, we just suck it up. When I was young, my mother sprained her ankle. She limped around for months before seeking medical attention. In college, I broke a finger playing touch football over Thanksgiving. I dealt with the intense pain until Christmas break, at which time I finally decided to see a doctor.
Second, this a perfect example of putting up with a problem instead of finding a solution. Most people — myself included — are willing to tolerate a great deal of dissatisfaction and discomfort before deciding to remedy whatever is wrong in their lives. I’m not sure why this is the case, but it’s true.
With the glass shard in my foot, most of the time I barely noticed. But sometimes the pain was especially bad. I remember one morning while walking the dog, it felt like somebody was stabbing me with a needle. “I just need to solve the problem,” I thought to myself — and that reminded me of some wise advice I once received.
Just Solve the Problem
About a decade ago, I worked with a life coach. Each week, we’d have an hour-long phone conversation about the ways I was trying to become a better person. I made great progress in some areas, but little progress in others.
One day, we were talking about my inability to eat a healthy breakfast. I’ve always been the sort of guy who knows he should eat a nutritious breakfast but doesn’t actually do so. My coach had been encouraging me to make this a habit in my life, but I kept complaining about all the reasons it wasn’t possible. Eventually, she’d had enough.
“J.D., you’re being ridiculous,” my coach said, exasperated. “This isn’t rocket science. Millions of people eat a healthy breakfast every day. You can too. You need to stop making excuses. You need to identify the problem and solve the problem. Just solve the problem!”
This advice hit me hard: “Just solve the problem.” Obvious, I know, but that doesn’t mean it’s not powerful. I began to recognize that, in so many ways, I deliberately lived in the problem instead of living in the solution. I realized that maybe I could fix the things that were broken in my life if I’d only take the time to do so. (After all, I’d already made the resolution to become a money boss — and that had worked wonders with my financial situation!)
With breakfast, for instance, the solution was to make it easy to have healthy choices. For me, that meant stocking the fridge with egg whites and chicken sausage. It meant learning to like yogurt. It also meant giving myself permission to spend a little extra on pre-packaged fruit and — not kidding — breakfast steaks. (I was eating paleo at the time, so a piece of filet mignon was perfectly acceptable…if somewhat expensive.)
Related reading: A few months ago, there was a thread on Reddit discussing why people choose long-term inconvenience over short-term inconvenience: “I just spent at least 10 minutes undoing several screws using the end of a butter knife that was already in the same room, rather than go upstairs and get a proper screw driver for the job that would have made the job a lot easier and quicker.” And I spent weeks limping around with a sliver in my foot rather than have Kim spend five minutes taking it out.
How Do You Solve the Problem?
“Just solve the problem” is terrific advice that can be applied to all aspects of life. For almost a decade now, it’s been a mantra of mine. Admittedly, it’s a mantra that I sometimes forget to repeat to myself. But when I do remember to heed these words, they help me get a hell of a lot done.
But just how do you go about solving the problems in your life? I believe there’s a six-step process that you can use to tackle the things you’ve been neglecting for too long:
Recognize a problem exists. You need to be conscious that a problem is present before you can figure out what that problem is. Sometimes this is easier said than done. It’s easy to get complacent, to just accept that this is “the way things are”. For instance, you might be unhappy with your financial situation; you might realize that something with the way you’re handling money isn’t working.
Identify the problem. After you’ve recognized that things aren’t right, ask yourself why. What is the specific problem that’s leading to your unhappiness? Is there more than one problem? Using the previous example, once you’ve realized you need to do something different with your dollars, you might find that debt is dragging you down.
Diagnose the source of the problem. Next, try to figure out why your problem exists. How did it start? Why does it continue? Why does it make you unhappy? With our financial example, you’d quickly discover that your debt exists because you spend more than you earn. But why do you spend more than you earn? When did you start doing this? Why do you continue to do so?
Brainstorm solutions. Now that you’ve identified the problem (and its source), it’s time to figure out how to fix things. This is the fun part. Come up with a list of ways you can overcome the problem that’s been holding you back. To get out of debt, for instance, you might take a two-pronged approach: boost your income by taking a second job while also cutting back temporarily on some non-essentials.
Formulate a plan. Once you’ve come up with a solution to your problem, make a plan to turn these dreams into reality. How specifically are you going to implement your solution? What steps can you take today and tomorrow to solve the problem? If you’re trying to trim your budget, you might draft a prioritized list of places you can cut your spending. Then you can write down concrete steps to take toward each of these goals.
Take action. The last step is the most important. To solve any problem, you must take action. It doesn’t do any good to identify the problem, to brainstorm solutions, and to formulate a plan if you’re not going to do the work necessary to make things right. You’ll never get out of debt if all you do is tell yourself you ought to spend less. You must truly spend less in order to eliminate the problem.
Here’s one way I’m currently using this “just solve the problem” methodology in my own life.
As you may recall, Kim and I both packed on the pounds during our 15-month trip around the U.S. We’ve been home nearly two years now, but we haven’t lost any weight. We’re both aware that a problem exists: We’re uncomfortable with how we feel.
Why are we fat? Why aren’t we fit? What’s the source of the problem? Well, alcohol is a big culprit. We drink far too much beer and wine. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that all the extra weight that each of us is carrying comes from booze. The lack of fitness, however, is because we got out of the habit of exercising. When we first met, we both went to the gym five times a week. That’s dropped to zero times a week. Yikes.
So, how can we solve the problem(s)? First, we can drink less. Second, we can choose healthier foods. (Our diets aren’t terrible, but they aren’t great either.) Third, we can look for ways to make exercise happen instead of coming up with reasons that it can’t.
Now that we have some solutions, we can develop a plan to put them into action. Kim recently spent a couple of weeks doing a medically-supervised water fast to reset her system. When I return from this road trip, I’m going to make fitness my top priority. (Sorry, GRS. You’ll drop to number two.) I’m going to return to my trusty “paleo-ish diet”, commit to cycling every day, and do what I can to avoid alcohol.
The Bottom Line
I have a terrible tendency to overthink things. I make them more complicated than they have to be. That was certainly the case back when my life coach was trying to teach me how to eat a healthy breakfast. I mean, how hard is it to pull a yogurt from the fridge?
I get frustrated when people come up with reasons that something can’t be done instead of thinking of ways it can be done. Yet I’m guilty of the same thing when I fall into the trap of overthinking the problems in my life.
Taking my foot as an example, I used all of the following as reasons not to remove the sliver:
“Oh, the contractors are still here. We should wait until they leave before we remove the splinter.” (But, of course, by the time they’d left I’d forgotten about it.)
“Oh, my feet are dirty right now. We should wait until I’ve had a chance to clean them.”
“Oh, Kim just got home from work. I should give her a chance to rest before I ask her to remove the splinter.” (But, of course, I’d forget to ask her to help me later.)
“Oh, we’re about to leave. It’d be inconvenient to take the time to get the splinter out now. We should do it when we get home.”
“Oh, I’m tired. We should just go to bed. We can always remove the splinter in the morning.”
Looking back, it’s clear to me that these were lame excuses. I’d come up with reasons not to remove the sliver of glass instead of looking for an opportunity to get it done.
Eventually, I recognized how foolish I was being. Kim and I sat down one night and she spent 45 minutes searching for the splinter in my foot. And you know what? As soon as she pulled it out, everything felt so much better. Hard to believe such a tiny splinter could cause so much pain. And hard to believe I’m so stubborn and stupid that I’d live with that pain for a couple of weeks instead of simply solving the problem.
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