#I'm trying to

[blonde-fraumell]

Hi, howdy. Just popping on to say hi and that I'm still around. I haven't touched Tumblr or AO3 since I vanished, but I do plan on continuing my stories and art. Things have been... hectic, to say the least. New job, family emergencies, among more.

[veinsfullofstars]

my kingdom for more darkroach fics

[jokers-ghoul]

A Mix Sahaphap Wongratch appreciation series. ᐅ ᐅ ᐅ Cupid's Last Wish as Win

[amethystina]

You know what? You’re getting another fluffy filler chapter

Or, more correctly, I’m getting another fluffy filler chapter because that’s apparently the only thing I want to write right now. I’ve been on the verge of a nervous breakdown these past couple of days since I’m looking at what I have of chapter 23 so far and it’s just more pointless fluff and I’m like “no, I should move on, this doesn’t really drive the plot at all” and then I feel bad because it feels like I’m stalling and not writing what I “should” be writing.

But I also can’t bring myself to cut the scenes I’ve written so far because they’re cute and kinda funny and Ga On is being a little shit and I love that for him. And Yo Han is being a flirty bastard and I think we ALL love that for him.

So to hell with it. I know I promised plot soon but that apparently won’t happen in this chapter. Maybe not even in the next one since I now have to push some of the things I initially intended for this chapter to that one. And I think I just have to accept that. I haven’t been able to write in several days because I’ve been fretting over this and high-key panicking because oh god, this isn’t really necessary why am I writing this?

But I think the answer is “because I want to see Ga On be a little shit and take Yo Han by surprise for once.” Admittedly, Yo Han kind of turns it around (as he always does) but an attempt was made and it was a rather good attempt too, I must say.

So yeah. This is me officially declaring that I have the right to write another (relatively) pointless fluffy chapter because I want to. Maybe now I can continue writing without almost having a goddamn panic attack.

Let’s pretend its for the character development, or something.

[ceruleanfuckup]

Are you dating anyone right now? You getting your ass ate?

No and no 😞 life is cruel and existence is pain

[dionysus-complex]

funniest Kamala Harris VP picks go

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.

[soaptaculart]

The cat and the dad she said she "didn't want"

[podcastwizard]

cashier: ok that'll be $20

me (visibly sweating): ah, yes, of course! a perfectly reasonable price for a grilled cheese and a small smoothie! that was exactly the price i expected you to say when i ordered a single grilled cheese and a smoothie and my vision is NOT getting blurry as we speak! i am a perfectly normal temperature and my speech patterns are natural and even because this is the countenance of an individual who expected to pay 20 american dollars for a single grilled cheese and a smoothie!

cashier: where's all that blood coming from

[trans-cuchulainn]

i do think there is a degree to which certain kinds of Instagram activists have convinced themselves that traumatising themselves in solidarity is a useful form of activism. "I'm having nightmares and crying so much I want to be sick because of all these videos of dying children but I can't look away while people are getting hurt" I mean don't you think you'd be able to help more if you weren't having nightmares and crying all the time?? don't you think this is a one-way trip to burnout? don't you think maybe increasing the amount of trauma going around is counterproductive? I dunno bro there's something to be said for bearing witness but there comes a point where you gotta look hard at yourself and go "am I helping, or am I just making myself suffer so I don't feel guilty for not suffering while somebody else is experiencing bad shit"

[captainjonnitkessler]

Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"

Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.

[ducktracy]

sharing a very sage bit of advice from The Simpsons' own John Swartzwelder that i've been trying to hamper down in my writing and drawing alike. let your inner crappy little elf do his worst

[dr11ft]

chicana miku 🤎

[millany]

😳

[magentasnail]

I'm absolutely obsessed with the book of bill, best thing i've ever read and it no joke gave me actual nightmares !! 100/10

[andy-dandy]

love seeing the beginnings of perseus "pay your fucking child support" jackson's crusade against the gods' parental negligence problem in ep 1 & 2 of the pjo show. the absolute KING of "my daddy gave me issues so HE'S about to HAVE issues"