#Personal I guess

[tiger-manya]

It's so irritating hearing things like: "All countries are just imaginary, those are just lines on a map. Why would anyone care about that stuff?"

Bitch, gender is imaginary, race is imaginary, days of the week are imaginary, but all of those things are impacting your life nonetheless. Money as a concept are as legitimate as those lines on the map; does that mean that wealth inequality magically doesn't matter anymore?

Like, I'm glad you're existence is so safe you can barely care about the country you're living in, but for some of us the movement of those lines on the map is the matter of life and death.

[dromaeo-sauridae]

would a pegasus baby be a foal? a chick? a third thing…?

[danybunny]

I've been trying to catch up w my coursework admin stuff.. I'm so behind and so overwhelmed 🫠🤧

[smanfa]

it's my first pride month as an openly trans and very very gay woman, how exciting :)

[leoreadss]

When is bloody cold outside but you live in Spain and Spanish people don’t believe in heaters so you’re wearing so many layer (we are currently with a super thick pjs, a penguin onesie and a sweatshirt) that go to the bathroom will be a Herculean task but your brave and decide to drink the second cup of tea of the night.

Also my cat got scared of the penguin face hoodie and run away. Have a lovely night my friends 🐧

Bonus content for my autistic fellows out there who love penguins like me. My onesie is an emperor penguin ones and even if I’m super tall like 1.60 m with my winter socks on I can easily hug one of them (the emperor penguin not my socks, even tho they’re so fluffy and… oh Brenda shut up please) and gently pat them on the head. And did you know that the emperor penguin is a great diver and the deepest è recorded dive was 564m that’s the equivalent of nearly 2x the height of the Shard? Meanwhile I can barely float and my cat is back only to steal my chair (I’m writing from the floor. I wish I had penguin paws and prevent my booty from frozen but I’ll except my destiny. That was that. Was nice knowing you…. No no no! Oh Brenda why are you crying?)

Ok bye

[blutopaz15]

just wanted to say that this has been kind of a tough year for me in fandoming, but I really really intend to get back to it. I keep trying to get "caught up" here on tumblr especially, and be more active again...but I keep feeling all awkward and overthinky about it. my intentions are still to do so because I miss feeling so good fandoming, and I really really want to get those good feelings and spark back. I have lots of rayllum ideas post s7, plus baby au to keep working on, and lots more older wips too...all this I guess to say that I really, really don't want the mess that's been this year to continue getting in the way of fandoming

[strawberry-lemonade-kisses]

As a mixed woman(black & white) in the USA seeing Kamala Harris stand so proud and not let people who openly deny her heritage and her ethnicity bother her brings me such joy because it hurts my feelings when people try to deny that I'm mixed or make me seem like an exotic bird. she literally is unmoved by it and I aspire to have that strength.

[howlinchickhowl]

It's been a minute since I played tag! (And also apparently since I've made a tumblr post from scratch because I could not for the life of me find the make a new post button 😑) I'm getting in on this one early before too many people tag me in it and I get overwhelmed, but thanks to @gardenerian and @gallawitchxx for waving me over.

Under a cut because I am a talkative little so-and-so today

name: howl 🐺 (aroo)

age you are mentally: I am a thousand years old I'm a newborn baby i'm ready to retire I'm not ready for senior year to be over I've seen too much the world is brand new i hate not being in control i cannot be put in charge i'm only small! you understand.

top 3 fics that came out last year (that you can remember at this point lol): being the most predictable bitch alive and second and thirding mel and bee when I say OLD HABITTTTTTSSSSSS by @whatthebodygraspsnot , guaranteed to satisfy by @catgrassplantdad and this one didn't come out last year but it was UPDATED last year to my great and incredible joy and I may have been so excited I forgot to comment on the new chapter which I will be doing immediately after I re-read it but Selfless Acts of the Illegal Variety my beloved, by @abundanceofnots

add in any authors who you read all of their things: I have not been able to do a lot of reading the last couple of years but certainly folks whose works get me real excited are those above, ray, jessie, and ellie, then of course @gallawitchxx @gardenerian @iansfreckles @whatwouldmickeydo @suzy-queued @the-rat-wins @captainjowl @sam-loves-seb @biblionerd07 (and if @gallavichy ever decided to start writing again I would legit leave my job in the middle of the work day to go somewhere private and scream and then read whatever it was)

fave artist/band/singer/group your discovered last year (has to be new to you, not new): Last year for the first time in maybe a decade I bought a ticket to a concert that no one had asked me to accompany them to, so I think I'm gonna have to say Remember Monday, petty queens.

one thing you learnt last year that you’re taking into 2025: sometimes asking for help is the only way to get to the finish line.

was it a good year or bad year? indescribably bad.

is there anything superstitious you do to try and continue that vibe or absolutely change it? i'm not really a superstitious guy? I feel like the only way you change the vibe is just by straight up changing it.

fave WIPs you're following into this year: I am not up to date on what is being updated, but I am always praying for updates on a few things - Elevator Music, Selfless Acts (again! I'm greedy!), Let The Bodies Do the Talkin', Things Beyond Mistake, Tender Hearts and Other Maladies - can you believe before this fandom I literally would never read a fic unless it was finished? and now I'm surrounded by all these amazing works I never would have known the joy of if I had kept that nonsense up! Read WIPs folks! It's joyful!

are you doing any January ‘get healthy’ things? I wouldn't call it a 'get healthy' thing, but after several years of living on everyone else's schedule I am choosing this January to try and 'be healthy' by listening to my body and not do anything it doesn't want to do.

more random questions ~~ did you consider yourself an avid reader before you found fanfic? for sure, I am the bookish girl to fic monster pipeline. She is me.

do you read books as well as fanfic? yes (but not as many as I used to!) or no: fanfic or die -- I struggle to read books when I am struggling, so I end up reading fic instead, but I am always reaching for a book, even if I don't end up reading it. So far this year though I'm on my third book so far!

what are you doing to survive this january so far? Sleeping, eating, saying yes when I want and no when I want, sleeping some more, taking my dog for a walk, ignoring my bank balance, reading, writing.

woo tag game! We did it! I am tagging everyone who I have tagged in the body of the post, as well as @heymrspatel @callivich, @sleepyfacetoughguy @mickeyheartian and @gallavichsuperfan , and everyone who has tagged me in a game this last year, I see you keeping me in your hearts and minds and I appreciate you!

[moonamite]

CHET SUFFERING YAYYYYYYY

Uh tw scars and Randall’s dead body I guess. And gays

[tiredofsatansbullshit]

i'm going to reread the entirety of The Wayne's on Twitter to see if i have any ideas for more chapters or if i should just entirely abandon it. i feel like i've been dragging it out for too long, i don't know?? but then again, every time someone leaves a comment on ao3 or under their reblogs here it makes me want to write more...

I really dunno

[blistering-typhoons]

they/them.

they/them they/them thEY/THEM THEY/THEM THEY/THEM THEY/THEM THEY

I HAVE BEEN FUCKING

NONBINARY

THIS WHOLE FUCKING TIME.

[dromaeo-sauridae]

pleaaaase reblog this and tell me what your dream car is not one that would be practical but one that you just want so bad

[lumiy-a]

as this year approaches its end and i think woah, next year i turn 35, i inevitably remember the general feel of unhappiness of the 20s, because i thought i was supposed to have the best decade of my life, and i was not. the 30s did not sound like fun, so i thought i had to reach the top happiness in my 20s, and instead i was feeling miserable at times because i felt like an adult but did not have the means for being an adult.

in your 20s, chances are that you’re a student, so your monthly budget might be not the same as that of a full-time worker, and maybe you’re still there figuring out stuff in your relationships, or you are not financially independent from your parents, or you still don’t know what to do once you’re done studying, and if what you’re studying now will actually bring you where you want, and maybe if you change your mind you feel like it’s too late, stuff like that… or maybe in your mid-late 20s you’re at the beginning of a career you don’t know if you’ll like or worse, you’re doing the infamous phd…

it’s really a lot to process at the same time, and a lot standing in the way of being a free adult.

so to all my tumblr friends in their 20s: i feel you, and if you feel miserable sometimes because of all the uncertainty or because you feel trapped without money, it’s alright. your age does not have to be the best of your life just because the richest 20-something people seem to be having the best time.

[smanfa]

a handful of my favourite drawings this year

gonna just bury a personal post in here too, give it a read if you fancy:

as i've said a few times, this is the first year in a long time where art has had no monetary component for me, and it still took a little while, but i feel like this is the year where i've actually managed to de-program myself from years of being a Twitter Artist, and switch over my mentality from drawing what i think people want to see, to what i want to make, and also learn not to force myself not to draw if i don't want to, and on that note i dunno if i'm just feeling residual burnout from the years of grinding out for twitter or what, but i was kinda surprised how small my appetite for drawing actually was

that said, when i do draw now, i know it's because i'm actually really excited to be doing it and i feel like it's shown in the results tbh, there's way less drawings this year where i felt like i'm just going through the motions and drawing for the sake of getting something out there, and i look back at basically everything i've drawn like "yeah, that was cool, and i had a lot of fun making it"

part of that is that i've also discovered just how important it is to actually enjoy every part of my art process, i've sorta just cut out parts i don't enjoy - i'm way more willing to just leave things looking slightly wonky, and i haven't done any fuckin lineart this year at all, i've cut that shit out entirely because i don't like doing it, instead i just spend 10 minutes cleaning up my sketches and go straight to colouring and it feels like nobody's even noticed, it rules lol, and i've put a bit more focus on making things that feel like "scenes" rather than just "pretty girl in white void (with optional background circle)", not that all my art needs to be that, but it's been satisfying taking the time to just draw little simple backgrounds or focus on building an overall vibe, rather than just the character

tl;dr dumbass girl learns to have fun drawing again by not giving a fuck

love u lot <3

[acourtofwhatthefuck]

ANYWAY I’m all about spreading positivity so I’m here with some self-love for my squishy bits because I am of the opinion that the batboys would looooove them thank you very much 🫶🏻🫶🏻

[the-salted-fish]

"Seek inner peace "

Your mind belongs solely to you.

Don't lose your composure by being swept away by the surroundings. Dedicate some moments just for you, away from the bustle.

It's time to Re-center.

Anchor your peace -practice mindfulness, meditation, or gentle exercise.