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wait until the end

(video by saraaaandipity on IG)

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damn people rly hate type 2 diabetics don't they

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Today has been pretty good

Got up late for me (8.30)

Had breakfast, had to sit inside because the morning air in the mountains was slightly too crisp

Went on a 4.1 km jog, not the furthest I have run but I think this was one of my best runs in a while. It felt really good

Sat in the sun. Despite using sunblock I still ended up with some strips of sunburn on my neck and legs.

Had a small ice cream. Was nice. Finished my book, it went up in quality but eh. It wasn’t great.

My parents came. They managed to behave somewhat.

Went to celebrate my eldest nibling’s birthday. Had fun doing it, had a gratin with ham, and a really pretty cake.

Went to the local community center, who are celebrating the solstice a little early. Stood by the fire and talked with the locals and said hi

Met my nibling who were with their friends. We had fun goofing a bit before heading back to the party.

The party died down, and mom decided to light our small fire pit. Sat in the fire enjoying the evening.

Now it is one am, and it was a great day and time. I am so glad I got the time off to come back.

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Happy Pride!

p.s. this would make sick desktop wallpapers, please someone who loves Trixie try it on

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self discipline is so hard like. i know the sucker who's in charge...a pushover who hates authority and loves hedonism

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“First and foremost I’m writing for myself,” I hiss through my teeth, resisting the urge to refresh my email for an Ao3 message for the 100th time.

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(jigsaw voice) hello. you claim to be hungry and yet you have not eaten for the past nine hours. in front of you is a plate of food. you're not trapped in this room and there's no death timer or anything, however. the longer you don't eat the hungrier you will get. you will not stop being hungry until you eat. you don't even have to eat the plate of food in front of you, you can just eat whatever. please. anything. i'm begging you. good luck.

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Once I "made" a custom emoji for my mum by crudely drawing a hijab on it and now whenever she wants me to buy a coffee for her I get a text like this

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Poll winner Madeline

happy pride

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how do you feel about princess twilight x sunset shimmer (instead of scitwi)

I like their dynamic in Rainbow Rocks (kitchen scene and all the stuff yk), but what I'd like MOOOREEE is some good fanfic in which they meet in the academy and start to compete:) rivals to lovers implied:)

I liked that concept so much so I spend all day drawing them, it was so fun😭💔

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cinderella marries the prince

and it’s… fine. The prince is great! They’re in love, he’s very sweet and passionate, writing her poems and songs, giving her anything she wants. The time she spends with her husband is great.

but cinderella is not royalty, her family was noble but she never spent time in those circles. She’s used to being busy, she’s used to cooking and cleaning and mending. There are hours, days, where she has nothing to do.

time passes. cinderella learns the fancy lady type of needlework. Learns to ride horses. Reads a lot.

as is normal for royalty at the time, they travel and are hosted by nobles or stay at castles owned by the king. But even that variety begins to become routine. The prince is distracted, there’s a lot of young women living and working on their route. Daughters of nobles. Younger and prettier with soft hands that have never done a day’s work.

cinderella needs something to spend her time on, and there’s a part of her thinking a couple-only trip might get her husband’s attention again, so she suggests making an old castle that’s fallen into disrepair their “project.” It was built in the time when castles were made to be defensible, so it’s quite sturdy, but it’s overgrown and secluded. The prince doesn’t know why his family stopped living there either. A hundred years ago it was their summer home.

so they go. And they work. And for a while it’s great! But when they leave for winter cinderella’s husband forgets her once again. cinderella resolves to make the best of her life and stop worrying about a man who has gotten what he wanted from her.

summer comes again and this time cinderella goes alone to the old castle (minus staff, of course, but cinderella manages to narrow it down to only repair workers and one maid). She can cook and clean and mend again, but this time it’s her own choice. She is happy.

this summer they make more progress on repairs. The workers say that most of it can be salvaged, except one tower that’s been completely overgrown with vines and briars. It will have to come down, eventually, but for now it can be safely ignored.

cinderella has more free time now. The old castle has a surprisingly untouched library, though time and moisture have damaged many of the books. Behind a collection of greek poetry cinderella finds an old diary. Very old, in fact, at least a hundred years. It’s rude to read a diary, of course, but whoever wrote this is long dead, and cinderella is bored, so…

from the description of activities the author looks to have been nobility. Maybe even a princess. She’s sensitive and sweet and smarter than she seems to realize. If circumstances had been different cinderella wishes they could have been friends…

after the summer ends cinderella returns to her husband. He’s spending a lot of time with a young musician and cinderella can’t even work up the energy to care. She does some research about the castle and the family she’s married into, finds out the name of the princess who wrote the diary.

aurora. Cursed and forgotten. She died young, they say, in a plague that also took out the castle staff and her own parents. Luckily they avoided a succession crisis, but not so lucky for the dead.

time passes. cinderella goes to the old castle again and again, even out of season. Soon enough all that remains to be done is the old tower, and the builders say they should tear it down and fill the gaps before it gets cold.

one night cinderella is restless. The princess from the diary had been fond of that tower, and cinderella is far more attached to a dead woman than she ought to be. She gets out of bed, reads by candlelight, and finally goes to walk the empty halls.

she finds herself going to the tower. Pushing past the vines that don’t seem so troublesome really. They almost part before her. The stairs are perfectly intact, the door at the top is already cracked open. As if she should have done this years ago, cinderella steps into aurora’s bedroom.

she’s as beautiful as the stories say. And sitting under her hands, crossed across her stomach as it rises and falls, is a book of greek poetry.

years later, people will tell the story of cinderella as a cautionary one. Don’t seek above your station. Don’t marry for prestige. After all, a girl who grew up as a servant once married the crown prince, and disappeared after only three years. She ran away, they say, she couldn’t handle the lifestyle.

two old women who run a bookshop together agree with the lesson. Marrying for the wrong reasons never ends well. It’s best to wait for someone you have things in common with, shared interests.

or, failing that, the more linguistic of the two says, wait a decade or ten for someone to fall in love with you from your diary.

her partner laughs and hits her with the socks she is mending.

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Here’s the new 24 hour comic I drew this year!  This one is called THE KING’S FOREST.  cw: blood, violence

PS: if you liked this, there’s a whole book of these comics available now!

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i be like “it is what it is” and almost vomit from anxiety

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SINNERS 2025, dir. Ryan Coogler

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what will it be, boss? the comfort of misery or the pain of change?