#but i'd be lying if i said i was excited

[bookishfeylin]

Unpopular Opinion Time

I'm not excited for The Stolen Heir, and I'm probably the only person who isn't. I think part of it is my aversion to sequels, but... I honestly don't want to return to Elfhame. The story was done in The Queen of Nothing. The Suren storyline/cliffhanger was fine as just that--a cliffhanger. I trust Holly Black, but... idk man. I'm just not excited. The Folk of the Air had a happy ending and sequels always mean disrupting said happy ending. Jude and Cardan finally worked everything out and built themselves a family and I'm not ready to see it all ripped apart.

If Cardan and Jude aren't in the book, or if they appear as a small cameo but nothing more, then I'll probably like it.

[genericpuff]

Hey puff! So you said Hades is a "mess who hasn't spilled over" and there are definitely some warning signs even now - Artemis' dislike, the ominous grin in the last chapter does not bode well for Alex, him treating Minthe pretty badly and dismissively, being open about his attraction to Kore while acknowledging Minthe, eating Dio to shut him up and laughing about it (No Kronos flashbacks, Hades??) Of course he did a lot of this in LO too but that was framed as a good thing and you seem more self aware than that.

My question is are he and Kore still endgame with his bad traits? Or is Kore just hiding a much darker, more selfish side who would like all this?

Hades and Kore are both very, VERY complicated people with complicated backstories that involve both the good and the bad. They're both victims of circumstance as well as their own wrongdoings (even the ones that were well-intentioned, they're both walking the road to hell wink wink), they're both holding on to some pretty dark shit and we're going to be exploring plenty of both sides along the way. I'm obviously trying not to spoil anything, but I will say that Hades and Persephone are not going to have a cut-and-dry 'fairy tale romance' like what was attempted in LO, Rekindled is attempting to be a more faithful retelling of the original Hymn to Demeter after all (or at least its original themes and messaging). They're both incredibly damaged people with a lot of tightly-sealed baggage that DESPERATELY needs to be unpacked and we all know what happens to relationships built on those types of foundations ;0 So that's all ima say on that ~

As for the irony of Hades 'eating' Dionysus, hurt people hurt people. Though I wouldn't worry about Dionysus, he just projects his consciousness into berries, he's alive and well ;) As for Hades... let's just say you shouldn't eat berries possessed by the god of madness, guy is gonna have a harsh comedown LOL

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23/09/24 || Monday

Wow, September is ending. Time really flew past this year. Preparations for masters applications are going through and it's both stressful and exciting. I'm going to mom's birthplace for a week, so hopefully some posts will be of the village I absolutely adore.

[thaylepo]

hubris

I've been super into repotting all my propogating houseplants and growing seeds from grocery store fruit for shits and giggles this summer.

Pictured are my many lil jade plant babies, my red currant tree that has survived and regrown from someone (not me) putting it into a storage unit for winter while it was still green and leafing (pro tip: make sure ppl caring for your potted trees while you are off in a different town for college know not to heckin do that), and my lil baby dragonfruit cacti in their Humidity Bins because it is dry as a popcorn fart where I live.

(Another pro tip: don't forget to open the bins, as pictured properly here, when placing them outside in the morning sun for some good good UV -- this avoids literally steam-cooking your poor innocent baby cacti. That one's on me. I won't show you a pic of the resulting carnage, but suffice to say about half survived. Luckily dragonfruit seeds are super easy to germinate like this and can be bought in the literal thousands for the low low price of 7.99 per a single fruit at safeway.)

But by far the most consequential of this summer's fucking around and finding out is this:

Context: So the downstairs bathroom where I live has a dried flower arrangement in it (i live with a lady in her 60s, it is her house). Said flower arrangement includes these:

(apologies to anyone with trypophobia.)

These are lotus seed pods, for those who do nor know. Large ones. These ones are only a bit smaller than the palm of my hand, and they come from this flower:

(Unsourced pinterest photo with live human being for scale. Note the corresponding palm-sized seed pods.)

Five days ago I found one of the seeds from these pods on the bathroom floor, idly looked up some how-to instructions, and I think you have all you need to put the rest of this story together.

After only two days in water, I was forced to confront what I, primarily a succulant and cactus grower, might have gotten myself into.

Some people are born great, some acheive greatness, and others fuck around with seeds from a tropical water plant that have been known to still germinate after 200 years without thinking of what exactly they'll do if it actually grows, and find themselves unprepared for the responsibility of what will become the water-garden version of Jack's fucking beanstalk.

I'm naming it Audrey II. Updates will follow.

[prettymediocrewizard]

nothing new but I am slowly chipping away at something. trying to keep it quick and simple since its just for fun but wanted to share a wip since it'll still be little bit before I finish. However, 3/5(?) pages are done ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

sneaky edit, 4/5(?) pages done > u >

[frostycatblr-fandom-files]

Pros of New Writing Project

Fresh dose of new-project-giddiness!! I love new projects!

Making my own story banners is a lot easier now

Character with little canon material = room for creative freedom

Ideas go brrrrrrr

Cons of New Writing Project

Not fully sure what my plan is yet :')

Character does not have a lot of canon material to work on :')

Character is highly disliked, perhaps even widely hated, by certain circles of the fandom :')

I'm worried I'm gonna get a few weirdos about this story...

[pynkhues]

are you just never going to answer gg asks again or what

I mean, you're assuming I get all that many asks about GG these days. The show ended three years ago, and while it's still one that I love very dearly, I don't know if I have all that much left to say about it - I answered a lot of asks while the show was airing and in the year after it, and I wrote a lot of fic for it. While there are still some wips I'd like to finish one day (and it's those that I still sometimes get asks about), the truth is I haven't worked on them in a minute and don't know when inspiration will strike again (because inspiration does still sometimes strike - I even posted a new fic back in January).

I don't know. I'm allowed to be excited about other things, and sending an ask like this doesn't exactly make me want to run back to what's left of the fandom.

[discjude]

sigh

[couldbebetterforsure]

AAAAAAAHHHH~!!!!! Shuffle Units!!!!!! We're actually getting more shuffle units in Idolish7! I know I wasn't the only one in the fandom begging for them to do shuffle units again, and now finally the dream is real! And the units they've decided to go with sound so interesting!

Unit 1 (Riku, Gaku, Momo, Torao): Whatever song they get will either be the most energetic bop or the most sensual thing you've heard. I always hoped for Riku with Touma or Haruka but I'm super curious to hear him with Torao. Gaku's been teamed up with Riku again, it's hilarious how often this happens!

Unit 2 (Yamato, Sougo, Yuki, Minami): Oooh, the composers are all grouped together! Also RIP Yams, he's hanging out with Yuki this time around! I can't wait to see what kind of song this group comes up with.

Unit 3 (Iori, Mitsuki, Ryuu, Touma): This is the closest we have ever gotten to an Izumi brothers duet. I'm glad they ended up in the same unit, this is gonna be fun. I'm expecting something more rock sounding.

Unit 4 (Tamaki, Nagi, Tenn, Haruka): We get to hear more of Haruka and Tenn singing together!!!! That little tiny bit they had in Pieces of the World wasn't enough for me, I need more! Some really strong vocals are gonna come from this squad!

[kozuki-hiyori]

Usopp's character arc between Alabasta and Enies Lobby, my beloved

(Sorry, I've been re-reading OP over the course of the past few months and his progression really sticks out... although, maybe that's just my love of him)

Obvi, he joins the crew as such a coward, we all know that (gotta love him for that too) But after speaking to the giants in Alabasta he really does grow!! The fight with him and Chopper against Mrs. Merry Christmas and Mr. 4 (and their dog) with that first instance of bravery that is really, really him standing up and deciding to be brave for his crew (even if that bravery only lasted a few seconds) You just can't help but cheer for him!! He's so joke-y all the time and his sudden instances of conviction are briefs, but they're there all the same!! Through Skypeia and Long Ring Long Land, he does at least try to fight and support his crewmates!

And then, of course Water 7!

How all of this bravery he can't find in himself, but is still there, comes crashing down, because he knows he's the most scared and cowardly and is still, truly, weak, and how he worries about being dispensable because of that. How he's the one who gets beat up, again and again, and how his strong connection to the Merry brings this all out. And although he is brave in his persona of Sniper King, he can't quite find the bravery to face his crew without that mask. At least not until he finally asks to rejoin.

It's just so good!! God, I fucking love him!!

[localguy2]

Chapter 8 - Raging Flames - is out! 

In which, Kai finally shows up and joins the team. 

Enjoy! 

[growsgardengrows]

it's time, see you all on the other side guardians

[brothersonahotelbed]

I MIGHT BE GETTING A TATTOO THIS FRIDAY JUMPING UP AND DOWN SCREAMING CRYING

[dehlilas]

i’ve said this blog was resurrecting about 900 times so far, but — i think i should just admit it’s a low stakes blog at this point and be at peace with that. which means i badly wanna write but i’m also going through kind of a really shitty time and so i can’t really manage to be around that much. that being said i do wanna add a few canon muses i’ve had a itch to write for a while now, plus a couple ocs that have been floating through myhead, so ofc hit me up if you wanna know more, you know how annoying i can get with my characters <3 but also hmu for plotting and stuff ! i badly wanna write but i’ve been so out of it for so long i don’t really know where to begin again, honestly ... 

[inbabylontheywept]

my grandpa was a good man. and it really wasnt his fault - recreationally lying to kids is a proud family tradition - but he told me, once, that cutting a worm in half resulted in two worms.

i think he said it so i'd be more morally okay with fishing? i actually dont remember the context.

point was, he told me this, and he understimated (by a very large margin) how much i liked worms. i was a worm boy. very wormy. and after hearing that, i went home, and i dug through the garden, flipped over every rock, did everything i could to gather as many worms as i could, and then i uh.

i cut them all in half. every worm i could find. all of them. with scissors.

i then took this pile of split worms, and i put them in a box with a bit of lettuce and some water and stuff and went to bed expecting to double my worms overnight. i have math autism, so i had a vague understanding that if i did this just a few times in a row, i would eventually have a completely unreasonable amount of worms.

i was very excited to become this plane's worm emperor.

(i think i was...six?)

anyway, i did not become the inheritor of the worm crown. i instead woke up to a box of dead worms and cried. a lot. i got diagnosed with panic attacks as a teenager, but i think i had them as a kid, i just had no idea what they were. i was kind of processing that a.) i had killed what i had assumed was every single worm in my yard, and thus would have no more worms, and b). i was going to like, worm hell.

(six year babylon spent a lot of time worrying about god.)

so i kind of freaked out, and i climbed a tree, because god can only smite you if you're touching the ground (?) and i sat up there mostly inconsolable until my mom came out and asked, hey, what's up? what happened?

so i explained to her that i had killed all of the worms, forever, and was also Damned, and she took me to the compost pile, and we dug for all of five seconds and found like twenty more worms.

the compost pile was full of worms.

she then told me that a). there were more worms, and we could put them back under rocks and stuff and recolonize our yard and b). that one day, i would die, and go to heaven, and be able to talk to the worms face to face. that i'd be able to tell them all that i was very sorry, and that i killed them on accident, driven only by excessive Love, and that she was positive they would forgive me because worms have six hearts and no malice.

at that point, i think i was sixty percent tear-snot by weight, and i had no choice but to gather enough worms that i could hug them. which my mom helped with. and then after that she helped me put some worms back under each rock.

and for my epilogue: i spent a significant portion of my childhood in trees. and for many years after, even when my mom didnt know i was watching, i would catch her giving the space under the rocks a light spritz with the hose. not because she loved worms.

but because she loved me.

[kirkwallsbane]

REALLY liking this music ngl