#🍁 mail from: the-travelling-witch

[dustofthedailylife]

hiii love, congrats again on 500 followers, you deserve it definitely ♡ so many more too, actually

your event is so cute, i just had to join in on the fun too! i hope you don’t mind me giving you some options for you to play matchmaker? that way it’s going to be a surprise for me too hehe~

i‘d like to receive either a confession or a love letter from either xiao or childe or is there a secret admirer i don’t know about? ♡

also i‘m working on your matchup next, i just haven’t had the time to properly sit down and write o(TヘTo)

→ Letters from the Heart // 500 Follower Celebration Event

A/N: Oh my gosh tumblr did a goof and I thought your ask vanished just as I finished writing it and was about to paste it here *panicks* But it's here again, wohooo!

Thank you so much, Holly! >///< I smiled when I read your ask and I hope you like your letter! Also don't stress about the matchup, I know you're working on them and I'm not going anywhere, so take your time with shipping me, hehe <(￣︶￣)>

Oh! I almost forgot, here is your letter. I'm not saying who it's from but all I'm saying is that he looked a little nervous and not as confident as he usually seems- a bit unusual for him, hehe :3

Hey girlie!

Been a while since we last spoke face to face. I really hope I can come back home soon, we don’t want you to forget my face now, do we? Who knew that conquering the world could be so time consuming, huh? Haha, I jest… of course. 

I have received your letter today as well. I'm glad you took the time to write to me, it really made my day a lot better and I’m glad to hear you’re doing well - I do hope you’re not overworking yourself though? I know all too well that you tend to do that without noticing, in which case please remember to take a breather from time to time please - for me? 

In case you’ve heard anything, how are Teucer, Tonia and the others doing? I hope they’re all well. You know, I really hate being away from home because of them, the one thing I miss the most when I’m away is my family.

And you, actually.

In fact, I’ve thought of you every single day since my departure. Sometimes when I was lying awake at night, I wondered what you were doing right now at the other end of the continent. Are you also awake, are you reading or are you perhaps preparing your next letter for me? By the Tsaritsa, this must sound so cliché and cheesy right now - but I’m not sorry, I need to finally get this off my chest.

I originally meant to wait until I am back home again to tell you this in person, but it seems like I will have to stay a little while longer, things are not quite going according to plan over here in Liyue. If I find the courage to actually send this letter? I don’t know… I guess, if you’re reading this, I did actually decide to send it your way.

All I can think about right now is how you will look at me when I finally arrive back home. How you will smile and hug me and how you will look so sad again when I have to leave. I want nothing more than to be able to stay by your side forever and I always find that something is missing whenever I am not with you.

I have feelings for you. Actually, I’ve had them for as long as I can remember and I dream of building a future together with you - I know my job could get in the way of that but I would quit instantly if you’d ask me to do so. I’d run to the edge of the world and back if it meant I can be by your side.

I only hope you feel the same about me.

With love,

Ajax

[dustofthedailylife]

these questions are so interesting, i love it ଘ(੭˃ᴗ˂)੭ permission to steal? in a legal sort of way of course haha

because, as always, i can’t choose, pick something between 6, 16 and 26 ♡

also, how are you doing? ❀

🍁 [Genshin Ask Game]

Hollyyyyy, my love! ♥ I'm doing well, just stressed mostly but what's new (I wanna write but barely get around to *le cry*). Also yes feel free to steal it, I mean... I kinda did as well (I am a thief muhahah! <.<). I hope you're doing well, too? I still didn't get around to read your new fic, shame on me!

I already answered 16 [here] so I'll answer the other two!

6) Your first 5 star character?

That was Raiden! I play her less than I used to but I still like her a lot, she's fun! (I also don't play her as much because the Emblem of Severed Fate domain hates me and I still don't have a proper set for her... (as we say in German - die Domain spuckt mich an!!))

26) Favorite Character Story Quest

*inhales* Zhongli! Zhongli! Zhongli! ZHONGLI!

No seriously, so far no other character quest has managed to captivate me more. There is just so much to unpack about that man, like my god (literally). His past is really tragic and he's experienced so much but at the same time also lost just as much.

All facts aside, I also think he is hot so that might also play a part here but ofc I'd never admit that ... <.<

[dustofthedailylife]

ohohoho, reworking your navi post i see? interesting, interesting 👀 i wanted to redo my navi/ masterlists for so long but idk what to go for so…

anyway, how are you doing, dear? i hope life’s treating you well (>᎑<๑)/♡

also, referring to one ask i saw: germany represent!!

Yeeees, I did! 👀

It was time to tidy up because it started to become waaaaay to long and cluttery. I was getting annoyed just looking at it 😂 I know the issue of not knowing where to start all too well though.

I'm doing well! I hope you are, too? ♥

Life has been a little slow, I've been waiting for the new Genshin update and procrastinating. I'm planning to pull for Xiao till I hit pity and hope he comes home, I'm on 50/50. I gotta save the rest for Kazuha even if I lose, so pls come home Yaksha boy! Other than that I'm just studying and drawing a lot ^.^

And Germany represent indeed! :3

[dustofthedailylife]

[because i know you can relate]

me looking at the paragraph that’s entirely made of one sentence: …i‘ll deal with that problem later

narrator: she did not, in fact, deal with the problem later

i don’t think i can ever get rid off run-on sentences, they are deeply ingrained in my soul

lately i‘ve noticed something else though:

most characters: my dialogue has a reasonable length

zhongli looking down on them: pathetic amateurs.

(/j)

Yeeeeah... I can relate to this more than I'd like. they are ingrained in me, both in English and in German.

BUT I think I've somewhat localized the problem of why I can't end sentences earlier for the life of me. Did your teachers always tell you "Don't start a sentence with but or and"? Because mine did, and that is pretty much why I often use a comma instead of a period. I have the words of my teachers echoing in the back of my head every time.

Turns out - there is actually no rule that you cannot start a sentence with but or and. I was lied to... all these years.

Anyway... gonna try to battle my overly long sentences with that newfound knowledge now. That, and trying to separate sentences with separate actions/thoughts with a period instead of a comma.

Come over here and fight me if you have a problem with it, Mrs, Smith!!!

And yes... Zhongli talks a lot and I tend to write him like that as well. That man has a complicated way to speak though... so I guess it's fair? haha!

[dustofthedailylife]

hello there

i have nothing to say but wanted to talk to you again jshsh

Holly ❤️❤️

I didn't get around to read your newest fic yet but I really want to because I love angst! Like I said in an ask I just answered as well, I undortunately barely get any time to read anything at the moment. Curse being a student 😩

Hope you're doing good, my dear!! (っ.❛ ᴗ ❛.)っ

[dustofthedailylife]

hiiii, congrats on 1k!! again

my name is holly, as you may or may not know, and i sure hope you already have somewhat of a sense for my personality because oh boy do i suck at describing myself, but i´ll try anyway <3

i´m rather introverted and very shy until you get to know me better, then you´ll see a whole other side of me

sassy and sarcastic are my native languages but most of the time i keep my quips to myself because again...shy (but i love making others laugh with them)

i´m a perfectionist to the point where i´ll get extremely upset/angry with myself when something doesn´t go as planned; it also causes me to procrastinate a lot (look, if i don´t start, it can´t not be perfect)

my friends called me a pessimist quite a lot but i´d argue i´m more of a realist; anyhow, i try to hide all of that under a more calm, good-natured exterior

as for my hobbies, i obviously like writing, reading and gaming but i also enjoy drawing (especially tattoo-style pieces), learning foreign languages and doing sports (mainly tennis and dancing)

i listen to music during basically everything i do (headphones are a must!!)

in a relationship, i´d look for someone honest who i can trust and who i feel comfortable enough with to not hide who i am (bonus points if he makes me laugh)

self-confidence? hardly know her

^the insecurities from that (i.e. difficulties trusting people and their intentions, constantly comparing myself to others, need for validation, etc) are what i consider my ugliest side; but now that i´ve realised where the root of the problem is, i´m working on improving myself

i cannot stand people who are blatantly ignorant/ choose to be a jerk (to put it nicely) and completely disregard others´ feelings and interests don´t get me started on racists, misogynists and all the other nasty bunch

also, please, common sense is supposed to be common; you have a brain most likely, use it!!

zodiac sign: cancer

mbti: infj

that should be enough, right? i´m looking forward to seeing who you think my ideal match is <3

Holly, my love! Thanks for participating! Well then, let me see what my scryglass says...

Your Perfect Match is...

Shikanoin Heizou

Now listen! I was originally gonna go with Childe but then I remembered you're already married sooo, it would've been too obvious.

Anyway! You met Heizou the first time when he was investigating a case and accidentally rang on your door instead of that of his suspect. Little did you know you'd become a target of his "investigation" nonetheless.

Not criminal of course, but he just couldn't get you out of his head so he looked for excuses to ring your doorbell again. Lucky for him you lived in an area where he often had to go to investigate.

Eventually he couldn't keep making up excuses for standing in front of your door anymore so he asked you if you had any interest to go out for a cup of coffee with him.

And hooo boy, if he thought he'd fallen hard for you already he would soon realize he was so wrong. The moment you started warming up to him and started showing your sarcastic and sassy side he was head over heels for you.

You could match his wit with ease and let me tell you he is swooning!

He is also someone who reassures you a lot and manages to make you see the good things in yourself and the things you do or help you find the things you can improve on (not yourself though, you're literal perfection in his eyes!). He is simply the perfect counterbalance to perfectionism!

Oh and you can bet he makes you laugh frequently. His quirky and sarcastic personality compliments yours perfectly. Sneaky teases or playful jabs here and there thrown at each other is your daily bread and butter.

Common sense? His trademark. Can't have your head screwed on backwards as a detective after all!

Bonus: Loves snaking his arm around you when you sleep. He definitely is the big spoon in the relationship.

"Hey, uhm... no, I'm not here for an investigation, this time at least. Uhm, actually I've wanted to ask if you would like to go out with me sometime?"

[dustofthedailylife]

okay so i realised sth and now i promptly have to go and ask someone else on their experience, you being the unfortunate soul at the end of my curiosity sorry not sorry ksjdj

i never think „oh let’s read angst“, i‘ll read it if it’s in the tag i‘m looking around in and think „oh this was beautifully heartbreaking“ but at the beginning of my journey through fanfic land i never set out with angst in mind you know?

so i‘m wondering if other people read angst with intention of reading angst or if angst fics are just… stumbled up (╭ರ_•́)

also idk if i’ve said it yet, congrats on 1k!! it was expected but still 💐

Holly!! <3

So, there is a thing because I actually might be the wrong person to ask about this, hahaha! 😂

I would say the normal case for people is probably stumbling upon it and deciding to dive into an angst fic spontaneously if it happens to be in a tag you're coincidentally browsing. Any objections? Anyone?

I, however, knowingly go search for angst when I'm in the mood for it. And I absolutely love writing angst. More often I am in the mood for fluff though because I don't think I need to tell you how much it hurts to both read and write angst (especially no comfort variants).

I don't know what that says about me but here we are lol! I guess I just like breaking my heart sometimes without actually breaking it.

And also thank you!! I'm still quite baffled about it 🤭✨

[dustofthedailylife]

answer this publicly or privately idc but i have to vent my frustration about that anon, i wish i had more time to do it

first of all: i‘m so sorry, anon; if this is your take on things then i truly pity you

BUT

that ask was the epitome of entitlement if i’ve ever seen it and i don’t care if i‘m about to sound mean, you need to hear it apparently

writers share their stories for FREE and ask for what? reblogs on a site that works on reblogs? feedback on their work or a word of appreciation when you liked it?

guess what nobody asked for or needed: people who are too cowardly to come off anon and then give their unsolicited opinion while being rude as fuck about it

i think a lot of writers would appreciate constructive criticism, the keyword being constructive which involves naming points you like and dislike in a polite manner

i don’t know what your goal was with that ask, if it was to make a writer cry, i can assure you, the opposite happened bc you’re a clown at best and an absolute laughingstock at worst

honestly, please, enlighten me, what was your motivation here? do you feel better about yourself now? again, so sorry it takes putting others down for you to feel a sliver of self-worth

so, sorry not sorry for being rude but if you disrespect someone else i absolutely don’t see a reason why i should show you any respect

with all due respect, which is none, fuck off

Holly, you absolute queen! Go off! 😭❤️

And I couldn't agree more with everything you said. It is peak entitlement and writers aren't asking for much in return...

I'll stick with my theory that is someone who is unhappy with where they are in life so they need to take it out on others. Can't help but feel pity.

[dustofthedailylife]

as someone who’s been planning a harbinger fic for a month or longer now, it’s absolutely wild seeing some of my headcanons hold up with the new information (columbina as the missing harbinger, pantalone not having a vision, etc)

but it also feels like my research is going down the drain bc the shock factor won’t be there anymore, hoyoverse why, couldn’t you have waited until i was done o(TヘTo)

anyway how are you today? handling the news well?? >///<

harbinger outfit childe is living in my mind rent free

I'm definitely looking forward to that Harbinger fic of yours 👀

The fact you actually went 9000 IQ and predicted some things is crazy. You're a smart cookie!

Low key sad about Pantalone not having a vision but I hoooope he will be playable nonetheless (solely for scientific reason and totally not because I'm violently biting my pillow because of the way he looks). Definitely inhaling that hopium!

I get that you're disappointed though, the surprised factor like "wow my those headcanons were legit and big brain moves" aren't there anymore BUT I'm sure it will be awesome notheless because everything you write is!

As for me, I'm good, just busy as heck! And yes I did handle the news well - in fact so well I totally forgot Mihoyo dropped the Sumeru drip marketing. Head empty - just Harbingers today for me lol!

[dustofthedailylife]

how’s it going honey? life’s treating you well i hope? you haven’t melted in the heat yet? hopefully you can soon find the time to relax a little <3

you know, this is probably just me overthinking but when you said you liked angst and didn’t read my fic my brain went straight to “omg she hated it, my life is ruined” but like i know how stressful life can be at times and that we often don’t have enough time for fanfic but a little voice in my head is being dramatic :’) my fatal flaw </3 just tell me you didn’t have time yet and that you didn’t hate it from the bottom of your heart and i’ll call down jsjsh

Honey!! AAKJDJSN come to me earlier if that's what you feel like!!

I actually didn't have time to read it yet because I'm writing my exams on the 22-30th this month. (*delusional laugh* It'll be fine, 6 exams during that timespan, 5 hours each hahaHAA! 😭 I've been preparing for this for over a year it'll be fine right? RIGHT?!)

I have my tabs open on it and I still want to read it but it's quite long and I wanna have proper time to sit down to read it and gobble it all up. But rest assured I'll run in the door to your askbox in first thing when I've had time to read it (aka. once I have my life back and uni stops having a death grip on me)

My current status summed up is essentially:

[dustofthedailylife]

phew, i gotta admit, that was cathartic to some extent

now that the venomous holly cleansing ritual is done, i’m willing to be sweet again

It truly can be cathartic, right? It's sort of why I answered the ask, too. As well as to address some things in general.

anyway, it's whatever now and I'm in no way, shape, or form planning to let that get me down! I have too many brainrots and ideas that still need to be realized.

And you can be venomous but still sweet when you jump in to hiss at anyone being a poophead to your friends. 10/10, Dust approved, would do the same.

[dustofthedailylife]

oho 👀

emotionally recover you say~

did that satisfy your need to get your heart broken? /j

truly though, glad you enjoyed it <3

I am very satisfyingly heartbroken, thanks for asking 🤝🏻😂

Also totally didn't immediately run to read [this] thing I wrote again, specifically Childe's part to feel floofy again, nope, not me.

[dustofthedailylife]

you say you’re slacking, i can barely string two sentences together since that childe fic lol definitely not questioning my self-worth haha i would never /lh

anyway—

cosy, comfy, like coming home to a warm drink and a fuzzy blanket on a snowy winter day; new and surprising yet comfortingly familiar, that’s what i see, what i feel, when i read your fics ♡

for reasons of not being able to choose because everything is so good, this witch is unable to provide examples at the time, we ask for your understanding until we fix the issue!! ༊*·˚

[Ask Game]

Dont all authors go through phases like that? I hate the feelings. My head is brimming with ideas, yet I can't bloody string words together 😭

And awww that's such a beautiful description, Holly! 🥺💕 I can say, I do feel quite similar about your works! :3

[dustofthedailylife]

one of these days i’m gonna shoot tumblr in the foot for hiding your posts on my dash

i don’t know why, some people’s posts only show up once in a while even though my dash is set to chronological and i swear to god, the crimes i’m about to commit—

and now tumblr is also hiding your fics in the tags? let me just

Tumblr is being a big bully, boooo! :(

I did take a small break for the second half of August until pretty much last week because I was writing my exams for university and then went on a short vacation but ever since I feel like tumblr just kind of hates me? It's just a bit crickets on here for me at the moment and then my fic got hidden in the tags... twice.

I was so motivated to write and that incident reeeally just killed my vibe a bit. But trying to not let it deter me since I was super motivated to keep writing my Diluc fic and also am half done with some HCs and short drabbles... just gotta finish them now. If I don't put out anything then there is no way of it getting better again, so I gotta keep going 😠

[dustofthedailylife]

💐✨🧡HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUST!!!🧡✨💐

i currently can‘t write something as lovely as you did for my birthday because i should really go to sleep yet i still wanted to hop in here and wish you all the best for not only the coming year but also all those which will follow ♡

i‘m feeling incredibly blessed that i got to meet you and i‘m hoping that we’ll stay in contact for a very very long time, no matter where our lives take us >///<

words are escaping me right now, so i‘ll end this here but just know, if i‘d get to see you today, i‘d tackle-hug you immediately and i wouldn’t let go for a while hehe~

enjoy your vacation and spend today however you like, you truly deserve it!!🧡

HOLLY!! thank you so much, love! 💕

You're truly the sweetest and I'm just as glad I got to know you, hope there is many more great moments to come. Starting a Tumblr was one of the best decisions I made this year, everyone here, including you is just so sweet 🥺

And don't worry that you couldn't write anything!! Sleep is definitely more important 🤭✨ I also sorta took care of that myself since I have something schedule for later... It's is entirely self-indulgent, oops! 👀

Anyway! Thank you so much for reaching out to me and wishing me a happy birthday! It truly means a lot 🥺💕

[dustofthedailylife]

but— okay i won’t jshsh

ah that’s good to hear!! i have need for validation max levelled on my skill tree, so i just needed a little reassurance haha <3 yes i kinda overdid it with the word count…

i wish you all the best for your exams, i didn’t realise they were this soon, it kinda sounded like there was a little more time still; but i know you’ll kill it, you’re always well prepared so i have a lot of faith in you!! i’m cheering for you!!

Was about to get ready to fight you over the start of this ask Q(`⌒´Q)

And yeah they're super soon and it'S so much stuff I have to memorize that despite being on this for over a year I still feel like I'm at the start. I just hope to weasel my way through somehow... I want to start working finally, but these exams are going to be no joke, heard it often enough that many fail them (I'm a wreck about it skskksjds).

But thank you, dear! Definitely going to try my best! („• ᴗ •„)