#<- for a couple of tags ago not for the last one

[fruitella-boy]

Ohhh this is so old school Tumblr to me, I love it 🥺

Last song: currently listening to This Hell by Rina Sawayama

Fave color: turquoise/teal/anything in between blue and green

Last book: one I didn’t finish yet, about dietary and culinary habits in my country throughout the ages! Super interesting. So far I've read about what hunter-gatherer tribes used to eat here, and also a lot on how archeologists figure that stuff out in the first place

Last movie: I'm not really a movie person, my latest log on Letterboxd was Baby Driver (2017) so probably that one

Last show: I’m also not a show person, the last time I watched a show is months ago I think

Sweet/spicy/savoury: sweet

Relationship status: in a wonderful relationship for nearly 3 years yippeeee

Last thing I googled: "how heavy is a grand piano" lolll yeah so. I went to a Queen tribute concert where they lifted a grand piano onto the podium with like 5 people. And for a quick second I thought, woah that must be heavy. And the next day my friend told me that it was basically fake 😂 it was a grand piano shape but there was an electronic keyboard inside. So then I wanted to know how heavy a grand piano actually is, and it's between 350-550 kg (700-1100 lbs) so that would've been impossible to lift with a couple of people!! Anyway.

Current obsession: nothing specifically I'd say, my list of saved articles on Wikipedia is ever-growing though (latest additions include Order of the Occult Hand and My Immortal (fan fiction) lmao)

Looking forward to: going out for dinner with my partner tonight and taking a little trip to the sea tomorrow, both as a celebration for me quitting my job (today is my last day!)

Just tagging my loved ones mwa mwa @unearthlyandradiant @pu-butt

Ten people I’d like to know tag game:

Thanks for the tag @beauty-is-terrror

Last song: Swan Upon Leda by Hozier

Favourite colour(s): dark greens, navy blue, browns

Last book: reread Bacchae and other plays by Euripides

Last movie: Brideshead revisited

Last TV show: I don’t watch them

Sweet/spicy/savoury: savoury

Relationship status: cursed

Last thing I googled: name of the newspaper in my country

Current obsession: ovid

Looking forward to: Going to Switzerland next week

Tagging: @shinaaposts @siriuslyobsessedwithfiction @perpulchra @the-etcetera-archive (no pressure and sorry if anyone has been tagged before)

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

the sensible part of my brain is like maybe I should fess up to my doctor at the appointment tomorrow and the part of my brain that got me into this mess in the first place is like no absolutely cannot do that until it's got bad enough it should have got stitches again (but unless I hit a vein I am not going to get stitches)

[hopeinthebox]

bts + reductress headlines pt.14

[sakurarevenge]

@friedrnilk thanks for the tag. (Also wow, memory unlocked. Link/sheik was a huge ship for me back in the day )

Last song: I've been on a Sleep Token kick. My favorite is Euclid but I'm listening to a lot of Rain lately.

Currently watching: I just finished Arcane and boy howdy was it something. I don't care for LoL but my husband plays a lot so it was interesting to hear all the lore dumps and references while we watched it.

Three ships: Bloodweave is big for me rn and I'm quickly getting jayvik in my feed. I guess we can round out my doomed gays trope with some anthy/utena lol

Favorite color: always has been and always will be pink 🩷

Currently consuming: toasty mug of green tea

First ship: first canon ship is probably sailor moon's usagi and mamoru. Most of my early fanfic reads were kingdom hearts tho. I especially enjoyed Roxas/Axel au fic.

Last movie: Finally saw Life of Pi for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Well-done, id recommend it.

Currently working on: I had put several fanfic and amv WIPs on the backburner for the last month while I studied for my big dumb exam. Its finally done tho (for now 🙃) so I'm happy to jump back into that again.

It's two bloodweave longfics (one canonish, one au) and one gale/tav postcanon oneshot.

I've got several BG3 and now Arcane amvs rolling around in my brain.

Tagging a few mutuals, but don't feel obligated: @oflights @chawpstix @ainosgarden @rebirthcorbenik @chabbit @untranslatablejapaneseidiom

Tag game: tag nine people you’d like to know better.

Tagged by: @oneshoulderangel

Last song: At the moment, I have "Losing Your Memory" by Alan Star stuck in my head, which I suppose makes it my current song, not my last song. Hm. I get songs stuck in my head very easily, but the last one I had there for a significant amount of time was a mashup of different language versions of "Les Rois du Monde" for about a week. "Lehetsz Király", the Magyar version, is probably my favorite of them. It's worth a listen.

Currently watching: Normally, the answer would be "random mostly terrible old movies/shows" or "nothing much", but I currently have a hyperfixation on the musical Roméo et Juliette and have been watching it in multiple languages. (Thus, the song).

Three ships: This is hard. Maybe as a result of being on the ace and aro spectrums, I'm more likely to care about which characters are interacting than whether it's romantic or platonic. Here goes:

Kedivere/Bedikay. It can be romantic, platonic, or queerplatonic, but whichever way, I'm here for it. I probably spend too much time thinking about how in Cullwch and Olwen, when Cai gets mad at Arthur and marches out, Bedwyr stays behind, keeps acting like nothing's happened, and isn't the one to avenge Cai's death. The feeling of betrayal on both sides has a lot of unexplored potential. And the version where Bedivere dies and Kay fights to bring his body back safely while mortally wounded himself... And the version where Bedivere survives Camlann and Kay isn't said to fight in it, so they might be left together after their world has fallen apart...

Platonically or queerplatonically, Galahad and the Grail Heroine. I really like the tragic Grail Quest friendships, but I like theirs most, maybe because there's something weird and otherworldly about them both. I like it when characters are strange and endearing and doomed by the narrative.

Ever since reading John Matthews' retelling, which I read before the original, I've had a soft spot for Caradoc and Guinier. The Story of Caradoc is very disturbing, and I have some major qualms with Caradoc over a detail Matthews cut out, but all the same, there's a reason these two have the best track record with magical fidelity tests. Each of them would go to the ends of the earth for the other, and together, they're stronger than any curse.

Favorite Color: Blue, particularly royal blue and some teals.

Currently consuming: Black licorice with chocolate.

First ship: This is a hard one, since through elementary and most of middle school, I tended to go along with whatever I thought the author's intentions were and was more likely to unship something. The first non-endgame ship I got invested in was Sonya/Nikolai in War and Peace. I didn't like Nikolai, but Sonya did, and she was my favorite character, so I wanted her to be happy. The first non-canon couple I thought was meant to be together was also in War and Peace: Marya Bolkonskaya and Julie Karagina. My eighth grade self did not think their letters could be interpreted platonically. I still don't.

Last movie: If the musical doesn't count, the last movie I watched was Quest for Camelot, which was awful. Though not Robot Monster-level bad, Robot Monster has an elegance to its simplicity which Quest for Camelot lacks.

Currently working on: Various fics, most of them Arthuriana or CotRK-related (I am woefully behind on the Badfic Bingo), and (theoretically) an epic-style poem, though I haven't gotten much of it written for quite a while now.

Tagging: @gawrkin, @emperorcandy, @wildbasil, @gorewound, @knightsofsomethingorother, @ladyminaofcamelot, @tasosotaso, @amashelle, @gingersnaptaff (I have no idea who's been tagged so far, apart from the people on @oneshoulderangel's post, so I apologize for any multi-tags)

[ra-vio]

I've been chanting this like a spell

[keeps-ache]

spillage.

[ + other things :D ]

[iheartbookbran]

I feel like with this whole Liam Payne situation and the resurgence of 1D content (which I’ll be lying if I said I haven’t been enjoying) it’s easy to forget what a real tragedy this is—because obviously I don’t know any of these men personally nor will I ever, but the 5 of them where still incredibly important to me in a very dark and yet very formative period of my life, and they deserve that recognition on my part at least. Growing up I very rarely thought about how the 1D members were very close in age with me, only a couple of years older, yet while I was living the last years of my childhood protected by my parents, they were literally plucked from their homes, overworked to the bone and thrown to the wolves.

Liam became an abuser and an addict, there’s no denying that, but it’s very hard for me to think that the boy I used to eagerly watch videos of everyday when I was a teen started off that way—and this isn’t me trying to put my nostalgia above the pain of his victims at all, I’m just pointing out how the cycle of abuse perpetuated by the industry can only end up ruining lives. Liam’s life absolutely did not have to end the way it did. Ultimately Maya Henry and the rest of his victims don’t deserve to be blamed for this, they should receive nothing but compassion and empathy from us, and so should Liam’s family, especially his son.

I think I will, bearing that in mind, allow myself to mourn Liam, and the girl I used to be and that he was such a huge part of. I can never be that girl again, I’ve lost and gained too much over the years to ever be her again.

I will also allow myself to mourn the rest of the 1D boys too, because while I don’t want anything bad to ever happen to them, they aren’t those boys anymore, the pedestal they used to occupy no longer exists in my heart, but a part of my love for them will always be there.

[sojourner-between-worlds]

Well. That was a Thing that Happened for sure.

[puellaphantasia]

Is it worth it to try to promote ↺ on the JCA reddit? The sub is pretty dead, and tbh I'm not sure I vibe with the people I do see posting there

[protectcosette]

there's something very special about hanging out with new friends

[maddy-ferguson]

talking to new people again is making me realize that (this is gonna sound dramatic) i haven't lived in five years but what i have done is watch a lot of movies and read a bunch of books and believe it or not that actually makes me an interesting conversationalist in some ways (?)

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

i think solaris has nearly gotten herself 'fired' for a myriad of different reasons- with plenty of her personal offenses being what zor would consider severely insubordinate. but i think the stupidest thing she was almost nearly punished for was getting into a vicious debate with the doctor because they had the gall to assume dark chocolate was better than milk

[hopeinthebox]

tagged by the exceptional @cordiallyfuturedwight and @cosmicdreamgrl thanks ever so much my loves <33

now tagging some heroes @aprylynn @thvinyl @visionsofgideontheninth @hoseeok @btscontentenjoyer @jihopesjoint @monismochi @raplinenthusiasts <333 and everyone else

[shouldntbee]

I love having friends. I love having autistic friends. I love being autistic. I love picking up their behaviors and the words and phrases they use. I love reading things and hearing their specific way of saying it. I love my friends that live in my phone. I love interacting with people and my entire life changing because of it. I love saying something then realizing. This is not a normal thing to say I got that from my friend! I love having friends.

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

feeling weird mixed feelings atm and I can't really logic them away, ig? on the one hand I'm completely apathetic about it. on the other hand there's a part of me that's absolutely horrified that I could do something like that. the fact that it's still a consistent low-level pain the whole time also doesn't help. anyway those kinds of thoughts are then making me want to harm again to cope with them but also a) it's manageable and b) I currently have a deep horror of self-inflicted pain after the last few days apparently.

[moonmoonthecrabking]

should i have gone to sleep? yep. did i instead read imogen obviously in one sitting (lying in my bed)? you bet.