i just want to say that i love everyone in the play it by ear and off book fandoms. we may be a small group but we're tight-knit and that's what matters ❤️
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Its so amazing the little moments that impact your life. My high school did Poetry Out Loud when I was a junior - a very painfully shy, weird, quiet student who read books and didn't really have friends. I was always good at memorization and, as a student who thrived on perfection, I searched for hours on the website for the perfect poem.
In the end, I chose one that now isn't one I've kept up with but sometimes bits of the dialogue come to me even though its been over a decade since then. I won my class's competition but refused to go in front of the school (due to aforementioned shyness). So it didn't help my public speaking skills but it did give me a life long love of poetry. I've now memorized dozens of poems. I have stacks of poetry books on my shelf. I have poems hanging on my walls and tattooed on my skin.
Just, idk, there's something so special about how certain things come your way out of the blue and turn into something that becomes a part of you. Ordinary events stitching together parts of your soul.
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argh last thing i'll probably post/rb about the dsmp, but im feeling sentimental today. The nov. 16th stream was the first time i ever used twitch, and all the fanart and fan animatics that came out of it were so inspiring!! It was such a cool community, despite the shitty parts but every fandom has those, and im so glad i was a part of that era. Because of it I was able to realize a lot about myself by virtue of realizing it was okay. Mc is such a cool medium to tell stories in and im so glad i found it. Happy nov. 16th everybody
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It's amazing how well cat food and trick or treaters has been for training Nadja to be normal about ppl coming up to the front door.... we've had an uptick in house guests in the week since and she is calming down so fast!!!??? And I'm like??? That's all it took!!?? TRICK OR TREATERS AND CAT FOOD!!??
Like I still have to muscle her away from the door (barking) to get her attention but then she sits when I ask and once she gets her treaty treats she's like "oh yes hello human friend may I have some pets can I sniff your face I love you mom can i have more cat food." All the high energy excitement of a person at the door disappears in a blink. All those problem behaviors go with it.
And I'm just once again stuck by the fact that I think I accidentally got a difficult puppy as a first puppy. Bc now that she's older and able to actually focus she can like?? Do things?? Be trained?? Be bribed into good behavior?? Tho to be fair I have learned A LOT with her in the last 2 years.
I just love my dog so much and want her to be a good girl and she IS a good girl, she is just a terrier about things. And it is a steep learning curve once you realize that your whole life your whole family trained the dog together instead of just you and your spouse.
Side note: we have a large stockpile of dog treats that were given to us but when those are finally depleted i will be buying a bag of temptations cat treats to see how those work on her.
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My fic "When it Rains..." is two years old today I am feeling reminiscent /lh
a) it being the first ever thing i properly wrote, the whole reason I started writing
b) its the second fic on the edgejeanist tag, which has grown SO much over the past couple of years and its so amazing to see that, i get emotional about it /lh
c) I wanted to bring it back for old times sake, for any who maybe might be interested in reading it, and hell. why not. its her second birthday :]
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Hey friends ✌🏻
So I'm slowly working on requests! I really appreciate everyone's patience. I've been writing daily and my goal is to post 3 times weekly starting in September. Currently I'm posting twice weekly just because this summer has been very busy and I have three demons (including my cat) to keep alive. I adore all the messages, comments, likes and reblogs! I'm closing in on 1700 followers which is honestly just amazing to me 🥺 so thank you to EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU for your support 🖤
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Woah, this week has been so crazy that I didn’t realize I hit over 100 followers! 🥰
2 months ago, I had 5 lmao so I really appreciate all the love i’ve gotten on my writing and my existence on this platform. While this can be a shitty, toxic place - it’s also a wonderful place of bonding, friendships & simping. 😋
Thanks to the people who have made this platform big fun for me over the past few months. Ya’ll know who you are 😉💓
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i love you unshaved legs i love you armpit hair i love you tank tops without a bra i love you buzzed hair i love you acne i love you not wearing enough deodorant i love you yellow teeth i love you cargo shorts that haven't been washed in a month i love you sweatshirts with food stains i love you wearing pajama pants everywhere i love you not caring about beauty standards. i love you people who just exist. i love you
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I know I haven't been so active in the last year and I really want to start using my blog more but I just want everyone here to know how much I love and appreciated you ❤️
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i love the one tumblr thing where we essentially make communal web weaves. when someone introduces a topic that means something to them by showing song lyrics or a line from a book or whatever, and other people contribute with things THEY know that have a similar theme. like its silly but i do sometimes love the things that come from this site
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This January, the day before I left Italy to come back to Sweden, I digitized an old VHS with some family video of my first years of life.
In 2023 I turned 30 so you can make the math on how old that VHS was. The quality was bad. It has probably always been bad but it could only get worse with time.
While digizing it, I re-watched it and I had some thoughts.
I did not realize how present my extended family had been in my life. Sure, my grandparents have always been there, but I had not realized how much my aunt, and cousins and uncles loved me. For many years I felt them distant and now I feel them close again and watching those videos I realized that they had never left, I was just too busy living my life to notice it.
My parents are old. Watching that video, I was the one that has changed the most, of course. The first video was done hours after I was born. My cousins were kids and now they are women and men. But in those videos my parents are closer to my age than their age now. They are more similar to present me than to themselves.
I thought seeing my grandparents wouldn't affect me so much. But hearing their voices did the trick. It's easy to remember a face. It's less easy to remember a voice. I now struggle to remember what was their smell. All the clothes that belonged to my grandma have now lost their scent. Sometimes, however, it happens that I open a box, not knowing what's inside, and I can smell her again, as if she was there. Why can't we invent something to save the scent of a loved one? Why do we have to lose this part of them?
The total lenght of the video is 16 minutes. Two years of my life in 16 minutes. In my phone I have like... 5-minute videos of friends I am not so attached to unwrapping their birthday present, but I have 16 minutes of my first 2 years of life. Then nothing until my father bought a camera when I was 8 or 9. But somehow those 16 minutes are more dear to me than the 8k photos in my 3yo phone. It's not a critique on modern days and "those kids with their phones", I just think about how things changed in my life and how my kids will have hours and hours of videos documenting every day of their life and I have 16 minutes and how I don't wish for more and maybe they will.
In conclusion, don't wait until the last minute of your Christmas holiday to do this kind of project and for the love of god don't re-watch the videos while you are flying back or you will end up crying on a plane next to a stranger that just wanted to watch the barbie movie in peace (any resemblance to real persons is purely coincidental)
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Fanfiction Readers
I cannot begin to tell you how much I adore my consistent readers. I never thought my writing to be that good or anything but consistently I have a few readers that pop up every time I write a new chapter.
While I don't think my writing is good, they appreciate it for what it is and it just is.
I guess what I'm trying to say is you should upload that story you've been sitting on. Start that fic that nobody else will write. Be the pioneer of fanfiction or fanart.
Create something beautiful because at least one person needs to see it and its more than yourself. Share your stuff with the world because it deserves to see the light.
I didn't see it until I've had not one, not two, and probably above three hiatuses because of how chaotic life gets but people still came back to read the story. People still came back to see what was written.
People will always want to see what you've got.
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