#i just want a gift basket

[eccentricverbicide]

what do I gotta do to get one of those chocolate gift baskets on valentines day? get a man??? ew

[vaingod]

my family values gold jewelry as like an ancestry passing down of assets (especially for roma women) and it became a topic of conversation cus i dont own any gold just silver and my grandma wanted to give me some but apparently my aunt pawned all of our ancestors gold 20yrs ago and its my grandmas biggest regret as she tells me stories of that gold,

how it was passed to my great grandmother a woman that wished to trouble no one to the point of dying w a set of folded clothes she wished to be buried in, her gold for her daughters and the money needed for her burial next to her bed so the act of dying didnt inconvenience anyone ever,

how my grandmas oldest sister was the last to wear that gold and as she was dying in the hospital her last words were "take my gold off before they come get me or it wont be seen again" ,

she grits her teeth when she remembers all the work sweat blood and tears that has gone to owning and passing it down generations, how it wasnt all the same gold, pieces of it would come from different family ends at different eras from different places, how invaluable it was as our family history and how vile it was for it to be pawned effectively erasing everything it was meant to signify not as jewelry but as memento as a traveling altar to our ancestors, none of us are buried w gold because the point is passing it on, and its just gone it ended and everytime my grandma digs her heels in to take me to a jewelry store to get me gold where we just silently look and dont buy anything we both feel how devastating it is that things are the way they are

[night-triumphantt]

Happy Birthday @cashweasel beloved, have a soft kiyazan non confession confession, love you and these two idiots sm and I hope your day was amazing

[smartichokes]

holy fuck i might actually pass this class

[quirefeast]

hey gang, hope you’ve been enjoying the fact I’ve been posting literally everday this month it’s been sooo crazy i feel insane 🏃‍♀️

i want to be able to afford Christmas presents this year, so if you want to support me and my work, pls check out my kofi! sharing my posts is also a huge help 🥺 thank u!!

[landwriter]

💝 & 🍭 for the fic asks! :)

Thanks, Nate! :)

💝What is a fic that got a different response than you were expecting? For sure it’s gotta be Black Shore! It’s the strangest thing I’ve written, and I felt in my heart it was really neat but did not expect much engagement at all from a story that opens by addressing the reader, has poems, is broken into arbitrary sections, and is from the POV of an ocean that is technically also Dream. This was the third fic I'd ever posted. Not only did it get read, but @missmisnomer made insane and gorgeous art for it, and @btwimkindagay wrote an ESSAY that made me weep. To me, writing is just loving things loudly into the void and it’s such a fuckin’ incredible and life-affirming experience when people love a thing back. Especially when it’s a bit weird.

🍭Why did you start writing? I sure didn’t plan to! At all! I’ve spent my life telling stories and writing creatively in every way that did not force me to actually own up to Writing, because perish the thought that I might do something I love dearly and be witnessed Trying, and potentially Failing. Better to just love it from a distance! When struck by bouts of awful desire to Be A Writer, better to just say Someday Soon! Better to bear it and go on.

Then two things happened last September: I watched The Sandman and liked it a lot; and I remembered that I had once started writing a fanfic over a decade ago, and I suddenly remembered the title. I looked it up expecting the cringe and laugh, and instead found lots of nice comments, including this one written nine years after the last update:

What am I doing, I said. I used to be brave enough to write when I was 12. And it had meant something to someone, even then. I left lots of insane messages in my best friend’s DMs. And when I was done crying and unpacking all my grief for the kid who wrote and frustration with the grown-up who wouldn’t, I went to bed. I was too wired and raw to sleep. So I got up and started writing a Sandman story. Then I kept writing all weekend. And the rest is history.

(let’s get real! fic writer asks)

[lexicals]

Smth kinda funny I only just realised tonight is that I've accidentally made a habit of doing one gaming-for-exercise quest per year lmao. 2022 was ddr, 2023 was beatsaber, 2024 is gonna be ringfit adventure. Completely unintentional but kind of fun now that I've realised it

[todayisafridaynight]

this might not make sense. but i feel like after moving to america masato’s dramatic ass would start thinking of Daigo as Right Person Wrong Time & like he’d make Daigo the embodiment of his “sordid” youth & how he’s Outgrown smudged eyeliner and drunken bathroom hookups. so he Becomes Ryo Aoki and returns to Japan & sees chairman Daigo with his slicked back hair & pressed suit & pleasant smiles, the same image that Ryo Aoki wears, but different, somehow. Daigo still has his familiar stubble & his dark eyes, Shitty 20-something Daigo is still there in Chairman Daigo. somehow, Daigo managed to change, managed to be this better, fuller, realer person without killing off his former self. while Ryo Aoki changed his name, burned his bridges, went under the knife and became an entirely new being. I think it’d infuriate Masato, it’d drive him mad, out of jealousy and superiority. How stupid of Daigo to keep his past so close to his chest. How lucky of Daigo to be able to transform without having to shoot his past between the eyes.

Meanwhile Daigo is just like 🧍‍♂️ nice glasses nerd.

(Sorry if this is incoherent)

anon i cant stress how much im eating this and seasoning it and putting it in every soup and dish i make i am injecting this straight into my bloodstream and i'm turning this into a pill so i can take it every day oh my god

[jenny-dreadful]

kids have got to have boring toys

[chronicowboy]

parks & rec au changed my life. i just left an essay in ur ao3 comments but it's literally not enough whats ur address can i send u a gift basket im so serious

hi yes hello i need your address to sue for emotional damages that comment left because what the actual fuck. i saw it just before i went to sleep and i was like actually crying happy tears and my heart felt so fucking big. thank you for changing my life with your essay which i want tattooed on my forearm so i can read it whenever i fucking want i'm so serious.

[icewindandboringhorror]

a littol rats 

[lilgynt]

still sobbing my eyes so never having a weed free night again

[flovera]

laurie and frank were adorable together.

[tvslashers]

manifesting money even tho im not working for the rest of the month because i really would like to get my neighbors a gift for Eid this year

[clochanam]

mmm smth abt aisling wanting and trying so hard to find a peaceful resolution right up until she realizes her opponent will genuinely hurt, kill or threaten the safety of her loved ones, and then she just drops them without hesitation. like the reason that fiachra is still alive is literally because he's very widely aware of her boundaries. it's less that he respects them, and more that he knows precisely how fucked he is if he tries to cross them. fiachra warning people not to target anyone other than aisling, only to watch with exasperation when they imply they'd hurt stanley and she just rips the soul from their body.

[thedeadthree]

​🥀🐦‍⬛💀⚰️🌫️ <3

(possible?) balduring the gates spoilers!!!!!

*glares*