#seconding that notion

[huellitaa]

2♡25: first quarter wrap-up! ୭🩰🐈‍⬛✧

this year, i've sectioned it out into quarters; the first, second, third, and fourth, for each three months. rather than going all in with the goals and ambitions for this year to just spread them out randomly through the year, or worse, be constantly forgetting to update them every month, something i am VERY guilty of, splitting it into manageable yet productive sections! i'd recommend this to anyone with consistency issues; it's never too late to start! ♡

.⁺ ♡ FIRST QUARTER: PROGRESS 💬🐈‍⬛🎀 ❜❜ ♡

👛𓂃 ࣪˖ inner

♡ definitely gotten braver over these past few months. i've been so much more bolder than i ever have been and i love it

♡ super bad depressive episode for majority of march (but i've handled it surprisingly well! ♡)

♡ <- went back to weekly therapy sessions

♡ worked on solidifying my self image and handling insecurities better

⊹˚. 💄beauty

♡ began exploring more types of makeup

♡ started using hair and body oil (100% noticed improvement! ♡)

♡ tried out a new haircut (jellyfish bangs! ♡)

♡ started dry brushing before showers

🧁𓂃 ࣪˖ social

♡ somehow got the most beautiful girlfriend in the world??????????? what the freak???????????ily ♡ ♡ ♡

♡ got into sum serious drama with an ex-best friend! yikes!

though this was SO stressful, it was a learning curve and gave me some really helpful insight actually into how female friendships (and malicious liars) can work. i'm grateful for the memories and the experiences she taught me, but i NEVER wanna see this girl again 😭 i love my real friends who stick by me no matter what u guys are the real ones (you know who you are.)

♡ achieved my life goal of going to a tubatu concert!!!!!!!!!!! ♡ ♡ ♡

♡ made new friends!!!!!!!!! ♡

♡ balancing my social life and my mental health better than i ever have been

♡ went to an anime & gaming con ♡

it was so super fun!!! i've always been way too shy to go to one of these things but i am always gonna be a loser at heart, so i took the opportunity and it's one of my favourite things i've done this year! little me would be so happy ♡

♡ still rewiring my mindset towards social situations (any progress is progress! ♡)

♡ gotten less scared of wearing what i want and indulging in & finding my own style in public! (little me would be so proud ♡)

⊹˚. 🐈‍⬛ academic

♡ scored 46/75 on my phase 2 maths exam (61%)

i was actually aiming to get 60% on this test!!!! i got exactly 50% last time and i'm not the best at these exams, so i'm still super proud of myself and am aiming for somewhere near 70% for phase 3 ♡

♡ placed highest in my class (again!) for term 3 english assessment ♡

♡ scored 37/50 on biology exam

♡ scored 38/50 on chemistry exam

♡ scored 45/50 on physics exam ♡

♡ got some of the highest science grades in my class! ♡

for the 3 tests altogether, i got 120/150, which is 80% in total! i was so shocked when i calculated it all, considering on the phase 1 exams i got 78/150, so 52% in total. i wasn't expecting such a huge improvement, but i studied hard, and it paid off! (would you guys like to see a post on what i did??? ♡)

♡ got my first detention ????????? what the freak

🩰𓂃 ࣪˖ artistry

♡ worked on my first proper clothing project (going beautifully ♡)

♡ began learning coding! (going super well!!!! ♡)

♡ painted for the first time in a little while

♡ gotten super into drawing and reading again

♡ actually started learning to cook!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ♡ (iykyk.)

♡ working on magazine business card designs and fashion designs

.⁺ ♡ SECOND QUARTER: AMBITIONS 💬🐈‍⬛🎀 ❜❜ ♡

⊹˚. 💄inner

♡ set up some real routines

consistency and discipline is something i've always struggled with because i can never seem to find a healthy enough balance for either of them . i want to focus on this throughout all of the second quarter, but specifically lay out some routines in april.

♡ dig into more uncomfortable sides of my mental landscape

somethign that goes hand in hand with my consistency issues is that i always forget to make time for the less glamorous stuff. i wanted to focus a lot on looking into the more unpretty sides of my mental state and beginning to work on those, as they are something i often avoid.

👛𓂃 ࣪˖ beauty

♡ pilates.

with my theme of consistency for this quarter, i wanted to add in a part i have ALWAYS procrastinated. 2023 pilates summer was PEAK and we're gonna make 2025 spring-summer pilates even better ♡

⊹˚. 🐈‍⬛ social

my social life is honestly doing amazing at the moment, so i don't think i have anything to add right now ♡

🧁𓂃 ࣪˖ academic

same as social; nothing to add here right now! ♡

⊹˚. 🩰 future

♡ financial management / money control!

aka i NEED to stop impulse buying the moment i have money😭😭😭

♡ look into work experience for the summer

i heard some of my friends are doing it this summer, and i didn't know i was able to do it, so i'm gonna look into it!!! third quarter here i come 😼😼😼

♡ continue learning coding & sewing

all my love! 🎀💬🐈‍⬛️🫶🏻🩷

[daddy-long-legssss]

Alex Turner on living in Los Angeles in 2013 and 2018

"Someone told me a thing about LA that’s really stuck with me: ‘You sit by your swimming pool and fall asleep with your Pina Colada and then you wake up and you’re 50 years old!’ We’ll have to wait and see but I don’t think that’s going to happen to me." – Alex Turner on living in Los Angeles in 2013 [x]

"This is where my machines and my piano are. That's what keeps me there for now. I had not considered staying there for so long. But I guess I fell asleep next to the pool, a cocktail in my hand, and I woke up five years later (laughs) ... At first I came to California because I needed to change my life, reinventing myself, I felt that I disappeared ... I got used to the comfort, to the habits, it was necessary to change the setting." – Alex Turner on living in Los Angeles in 2018 [x]

[kindahoping4forever]

Ash via Emma Rosen on IG

[menacerie]

Torn between writing about the horror of Amélie being a baby incubator for a magical creature, and writing about the unexpected twist of Duusu sculpting a fetus out of Colt's tissue because Colt didn't provide him with enough materials and messed up the whole process, so Colt's deep hatred of Félix was exacerbated by birth trauma and Félix having to drain on his life force via magical umbilical cord until he grew into a proper healthy baby.

[highest-seas]

imagining the lannisters and the trakands meet is so fucking funny to me... blond hair colour red lion sigil scheming bitches stand-off

[moonlitkissing]

Having someone turn their head when i walk by is hell of a drug

[vault-kid]

i like to personally think that the Lone Wanderer, obviously raised religious (christian) to some degree, had their incredulity with religion for good after seeing James die.

or maybe even after James left, and they were forced to be the Wasteland's errand person using their morals and beliefs for the good of humanity, but ultimately just being used.

faith slowly fading, turning into hatred and resentment, or maybe just a lost soul wondering why God abandoned them just like everyone else did.

[fisherrprince]

miskellaneous

[anetherealpoetess]

i'm not reblogging the original post because the op seems great and i don't want to hurt feelings. but this is such a fun-killing take i genuinely want to gnaw my arm down to the marrow of the sea-foamy bone:

"if the most interesting thing you can think of about a character is the ship you like them with, then I don't think you actually like that character very much."

romantic relationships where every lamb becomes the knife and every knife becomes the lamb are not interesting to you? or what about vampiric psychosexual laments full of blood-bound codependency where the lovers are each other's slow descent into decay and ruin? i mean, that's fun! that is objectively fun!

shipping is strangeness and sincerity and terror. it's vault-bright lucy and her irradiated wasteland-rotten ghoul. it's louis de pointe du lac's naked centering of lestat in a narrative other characters keep trying to invade but louis stubbornly just won't let them. it's these violent delights having violent ends. it's transgressing societal boundaries of right and wrong (an inherently empowering narrative for women and gay men who have been told what to do our whole damn lives.) it's paying homage to a cruel god but also that cruel god is an ordinary person traversing a post-apocalyptic landscape with you. it's hand in unloveable hand! it's hand on my cowardly heart!

the most intersting thing about many many many characters are their romantic entanglements. and that's okay! it's more than okay! it's lush and febrile nutritional goodness that incapsulates all aspects of fiction and therefore life, from horror to devotion, from tenderness to gut-shocking betrayals, from loving monstrosity to hateful divinity.

if you ever catch me not shipping, call a priest. i've been possessed.

[lovevalley45]

so far no one has voted for the deleted grilling scene on my ‘most iconic spooner moments’ poll and that makes me believe it isn’t as common knowledge as i presume it is. why does it look like they’re abt to have a grilling date here in the galley. the one time i’ve shipped esperastra fjfjjd (if you can’t tell, it’s from “bored on board onboard”)

[kindahoping4forever]

📸: Emilia Staugaard for Behind The Blinds magazine

[peaches2217]

You’ve said that Bowser only kidnaps Peach twice in your AU. After she’s rescued the second time, even if he doesn’t kidnap her again, does he try sending Kamek or any of his henchmen out to attack the Mushroom Kingdom? Would he go as far as trying to harm/kidnap Mario and Peach’s future children?

Surprisingly, no. Things like abduction and invasion and death are given a lot more gravity in my Marioverse (it leans more Magical Realism than outright Fantasy like the series proper, emphasis on Magical). Bowser in my ‘verse is on par strength- and size-wise with his 2023 Movie counterpart; you can’t take him on directly unless you’re roughly the same size or strength or incredibly resilient, or unless you’re powered up.

The first time Mario faces Bowser, he’s powered up, but still outmatched. He gets a few good hits in, but he ultimately defeats Bowser through quick thinking and spatial awareness (read: luring him onto a bridge then cutting it down). The second time, Mario has to force his way through a hellish gauntlet just to get to Bowser, so by the time their showdown begins, his Power-Up stock is depleted. All he has at his disposal are his natural strength and his wits.

This makes the fact that he absolutely curb-stomps Bowser that much more shocking. I’m talking missing scales, broken horns, he splits the guy’s shell clean in half with his bare hands, because this time Peach has been Bowser’s prisoner for three months and Mario is channeling thirteen long weeks’ worth of pain and fear and guilt into a fiery, unstoppable rage. The only reason he doesn’t kill Bowser is because he doesn’t have time. Facing him head-on means he takes way more damage than he did the first time, and eventually he realizes he has to get going now or he’s gonna drop dead before he reaches his Princess.

And he does, in fact, drop dead, just moments after finding her cell in the dungeon and breaking down the door. If not for fast action on Peach’s part and her ability to wield the power of the Stars Themselves, that would’ve been where his story ended.

So you have Bowser, nigh-indestructible by all accounts, severely injured and nearly killed by a human who’s not even using Power-Ups or magic, and the human still survives??? And leaves his fortress on his own two feet??? Bowser refocuses his conquests afterward, adamant that he will take over the Mushroom Kingdom and deal with that pest protecting the Princess! He’s just gotta be more prepared, make sure he’s got all the resources he needs to ensure a swift and effortless overtaking! Suggesting that the mighty Lord Bowser might actually be terrified of this guy and deliberately avoiding him will get you sent straight to the gallows, so no one outright says it, but it’s still widely understood.

[will-the-ghosts-go-away]

me coming up with different backstories for eglee

[dreamsy990]

is that really so scary?

as a bonus. some of my thoughts on this scene from when i played (ft phantom commentary!)

[wildsaltair]

I could write an entire thesis on how Maximus is so husband-coded and how different he is from other action heroes of, before, and after his day. he is so timeless because his qualities go so far beyond the generic, and I want to stand on a mountaintop to explain this in painstaking detail to the whole world

[leadandblood]

Will Wood White knuckle jerk is Jopzier vibe