#anyway this just really got to me like it’s just a gross way to be

[tkwrites]

Split & Healed - A snapshot in two parts - Quinn Hughes x ofc

gif from @kawhh

Title: Split & Healed - a Snapshot in two parts - Part 1 

Part 2

Author: Tory / @tkwrites

Relationship: Pre-established: Quinn x Sarah

Warnings: talks of Quinns lip injury; hurt/comfort

Summary: Sarah's reaction when Quinn's lip was split.

Word count: 1,800

Anonymous asked: The commentators mentioned Quinn is still struggling to speak with that monster of a split lip. How was Sarah's reaction? Was she there? Does he catch her just staring at him with pity throughout the day because like same 😫

Comments: Nonnie, you sent this in and I had an immediate vision of Sarah putting ointment on Quinns mouth, so I had to write it out. And the actual wounding. 

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Split & Healed - a Snapshot in two parts - Part 1 

A Quinn & Sarah Snapshot

She was there. It happened, and she was immediately up, pacing back and forth in the family and friends box, clinging to her phone as she waited to hear from him. 

When five minutes went by without any word, she sent him a message, hoping to break the tension as well as get an update: If he broke your nose, I swear to God, I’m going to kill him. 

Quinn snorted before responding, my nose is fine. My lip is another story. 

What happened? 

His stick caught me just right and busted through my lip and some of my gums. Have to get stitches. 

Through? 

A gruesome selfie popped up on her screen and she yelped as her phone flew out of her hand.

“What’s wrong?” Bella asked, running to her side. 

Sarah grimaced, “Quinn just sent me a picture of his lip.”

“Really,” Bella reached to pick it up.

“You don’t want to see, I promise.” 

Bella turned the device over anyway, and turned a delicate shade of green. “Oh, gross.” 

“I did try to warn you,” Sarah said as she took the phone back and clicked out of the image so she could respond.

Oh my god, warn a girl!

Quinn chuckled and was immediately reprimanded by the doctor currently stitching his lip. He went still and tried not to think too much about what was happening on the ice without him. 

Even seeing his picture of the gash – which she was pretty certain she could have seen his teeth through if the blood was mopped up and he moved just right – didn’t prepare her for seeing him that night when he got home after the game.

He slumped into the apartment, holding a towel wrapped ice pack to his mouth. 

“Hey,” she said tentatively, setting her book aside and standing to greet him.  

“Hey,” he echoed morosely. 

“Can I see?” she asked, reaching up to take his wrist. 

Quinn felt a pained expression flash over his face. Not because it was hurting. They’d numbed his whole lip so they could put the stitches in without any pain and so he could keep playing, but it looked awful. Even though he’d washed the blood off in his post game shower, the wound looked almost worse now that some swelling had set in. 

“It’s okay,” she promised, nudging his hand down.

Quinn watched her face as he lowered the ice pack. 

“Oh, Quinn.” 

He’d expected her to wince, and instead she was looking at him with all this deep pity in her eyes. He couldn’t decide which was worse. 

“Is it still numb?” she asked, stopping her hand in midair as it instinctively reached up to touch it. 

He nodded. “Doc said –” he broke off, wincing at his voice. It was like getting out of the dentist in the worst way. Not only was his lip numb, it was swollen, and wouldn’t do anything he wanted it to, making talking normally impossible. 

“Doc said,” she prompted, ignoring the lisp. If she were in his shoes, she’d hate people reacting to it. 

“Said I should ice it,” he said, gesturing with the pack, “help the swelling.” 

“Makes sense.” 

He sighed heavily. 

“Can I get you anything?” she asked as he brought the ice pack up to his mouth again. 

He shrugged, that morose look back on his face..

“What would make you feel better?” she tried again. 

When he shrugged again, she figured she needed to take matters into her own hands. “Do you want to cuddle? I’ll play with your hair.”

Relief crashed through him like a wave. He didn’t have enough energy to make decisions. He was tired - so, so tired - and now he had this stupid busted lip because Hagel couldn’t keep control of his stick. Even though he knew it probably wasn’t intentional, he still wanted to blame him. It was just the perfectly imperfect set of circumstances. Wrong place, wrong time, hit with just the right portion of the stick to do maximum damage. At least they’d gotten the 4 minute power play. 

“Come on,” Sarah said quietly, taking his free hand, “do you want to go to the couch, or bed?” 

“Bed.” 

She led him up the stairs, and after asking if he wanted to change, pulled out pajamas for them. Once they settled into the sheets and she turned on a baking show for them to watch, he rested his ear on her chest, calmed instantly by the steady, familiar beat of her heart. 

Her fingers found their way into his hair, and his eyes fluttered closed.  It was still terrible, this busted lip, but at least she was here, and still loved him enough to hold him and play with his hair. 

Several days later, as they were snuggled up on the lucky couch reading, he snuffed out a frustrated noise as he tried to get more comfortable.

“What’s up?” she asked as her fingers stilled in their journey down his back. 

“Just hurts,” he mumbled, adjusting again so his head was fully in her lap, and he could look up into her face. 

Glancing down at him, Sarah felt an ache swell in her chest. Not only was he in pain, his perfect, lovely mouth was marred with stitches and swelling. He was still handsome, of course — sort of roguish looking now — but it would take some getting used to. She wondered how badly it would scar. 

“And my lips are dry.” 

They looked dry. He’d been licking them, absentmindedly fiddling the stitches with his tongue.

“Here,” she adjusted slightly.

He huffed, not wanting to move. 

“I’m just going to get you something,” she said, “I’ll be right back.”

Reluctantly, he sat up and she stood. 

She was holding a white tube when she came back a few minutes later. “Here,” she said, handing it to him. 

“Aquaphor?” he read. 

“It’s basically fancy vaseline, but it’s really nice at keeping moisture in. I use it on my lips at night in the winter.”

That was good enough for him. 

“Will you do it?” He felt a little silly requesting it of her, but he knew from experience how much lighter her touch could be compared to his own. And quite frankly, he just wanted her to touch him. She’d been incredibly reluctant to kiss him since it happened, and though he was glad she wasn’t running headlong into anything, he wanted to feel her. He finally had time at home and he couldn’t even kiss her because of this fucking lip. It wasn’t even that they spent all their time kissing. They both had busy lives and things they needed to get done, but the fact that he couldn't do it only made the desire stronger.

He should send Hagel a bunch of hyper-realistic fake donuts, or some shit like that — just so he could experience the disappointment of having something delicious dangled in front of him, only to find he couldn’t actually eat it. 

Feeling her touch him wouldn’t be the same, but at least it was something. 

“Sure.” Sarah took the tube back. As she settled next to him, the little lights from the Christmas tree reflected in her eyes making them look starry and magical.

The lid clicked open with a quiet snick. He watched her squeeze some of the thick ointment onto the pad of her index finger. 

“You’ll tell me if I hurt you?” 

When she looked back into his face, she found Quinn watching her intensely. That intensity never failed to awake something within her. She pushed aside the desire that growled to life in her belly and heat that sparked between her legs.

He nodded.

“Ready?” she asked, as she reached out to rest her pinky on the side of his chin for grounding. 

“Yeah.”

“Do you want me to do the bottom or the top first?” 

Eyes darting to hers, he asked, “what?” 

She gave him a mischievous little smile, but her tone was serious. “Should I start with the top lip to get it over with, or ease into it?” 

Disappointment and relief swept through him in equal measure. “Get it over with.” It was always best to get the hard part done first. 

Even though she tried to keep her touch as gentle as possible when she spread the salve onto his lip, he still flinched. 

“It’s okay,” he assured, reaching up to keep her from pulling her hand away, “just a reflex.” 

He intentionally bit back a wince as he lisped over the words, worried she would think it was a response to something she was doing. Trying to figure out how to talk when half of his lip was unnaturally stiff was no cake walk. He hated the way it changed his speech. 

She started again, and he held himself still. 

Watching her do this, let alone feeling it, soothed him and also awoke something primal in Quinn. Letting his eyes wander down to her mouth, he couldn’t stop thinking about the pleasured noises he could pull from it when he went down on her. Another thing he likely wouldn’t be able to do until the damn thing had healed more. 

He wished his mind would stop conjuring up images of everything he wanted to do, but couldn’t because of this stupid injury. 

“Better?” she asked, pulling her hand away. 

He nodded. “Still want to kiss you,” he mumbled. 

“I know, Quinny. I can’t stop thinking about kissing you, either.” 

A frustrated noise huffed out of his nose. “You’re not helping.” 

She smiled, “maybe we can try…” Leaning in, she pressed a gentle kiss to his bottom lip, doing her best to avoid causing any pain. 

He still let out a hissed kind of whine.

“Did I hurt you?” she asked, pulling back abruptly. 

“It’s just tender,” he sighed, a dark edge of defeat in his voice. “This fucking sucks. I wanna kiss you so bad.”

“I know the feeling,” she said, eyes straying down to the dark stitches again. 

Quinn took a measure of comfort in the fact that she, at least, was feeling the same longing he was as he lay down again, settling his head back into her lap. 

Her fingers ran into his hair again and he sighed. At least there was this. 

Part 2

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[kukuandkookie]

Was going to reblog this just 🤝ing OP just because this is growing into one of my biggest pet peeves, and a major reason that despite my excitement for donghua going popular, it will always drive me nuts how people engage with donghua and the Chinese language.

But now I figured I’d reblog this reblog because of some additional thoughts!:

One is that yes, a foreign language is definitely going to sound foreign to you at first, but also yes, it applies to every language! That’s why it’s foreign! 🥲

And I’m not directing the harsh tone at you ahaha. I’ve just noticed that people can be extra weird about Chinese specifically?

Sometimes it’s really small things like someone commenting, “I don’t know/understand Chinese but this song is beautiful!”

And that’s actually absolutely fine, but it does show an interesting discrepancy between how people engage with “popular” languages like Japanese and Korean in comparison to Chinese, because most people don’t feel the need to announce they don’t know Japanese or Korean when listening to Japanese and Korean songs. Evidently we’ve normalized it as a global whole, showing the strength of Japan and Korea’s soft power, to the point their languages don’t feel foreign.

Additionally, I do think Japanese is easier for English speakers to process than Chinese. A name like “Ren Zhichu” tastes much stranger on an English speaker’s tongue than “Miyamoto Kanade,” which works to Japan’s advantage in terms of soft power and their media in terms of building fandoms.

But the one issue with how people interact with Chinese specifically is sinophobia, which has been pretty normalized over the years.

Sometimes it’s as tiny and minuscule as something like people putting the Chinese language version last or second last in a dub compilation video for Hoyoverse games, even though the games are Chinese. Even if they were to go by alphabetical order, Chinese still comes first!

Like I get them putting English first because the compilers are mostly English speakers, but then why is Chinese usually second last instead of second? 😮‍💨

It’s so petty of me but when you get so many comments about how cacophonous or gross Chinese sounds being the reason anime fans won’t check out donghua, it ends up being just another thing about anime fans and their attitudes toward donghua that drive me up the wall.

Plus when pointing to the other cases mentioned in the original post…yeah it’s just so frustrating ALFNSKSH.

To expand on the original post’s examples, when the Japanese dub for Link Click first came out, some websites went out of their way to edit and re-label the Chinese original as a “dub” while not labelling the Japanese dub as a dub. That baffles me almost as much as it baffles me to replace the original Chinese OP with the Japanese OP even though both songs are in English anyway on websites even when the viewer is trying to watch the Chinese original. 🫠

This isn’t helped that when a donghua has a dub, most clips uploaded are of the dubs.

Pair it with sinophobia and you get glorious combinations like people recently reacting to the PV of Call Up Girls with incredulity that “Chinese anime” had “got good” while also complaining about the Chinese sound alongside complaints about watching something “made under the evil CCP.”

And other common comments include people claiming the Chinese VAs don’t emote as much (I usually saw this with the Scissor Seven fandom and I have thoughts on that as well*) or how Chinese VAs don’t have as much experience as Japanese VAs (to anime fans, don’t worry, Chinese VAs still have plenty of other works under their belts) or how Chinese sounds weird coming out of an “anime style” character’s mouth etc etc (some people even make it a traditional versus simplified Chinese thing, with people saying mainland Chinese Mandarin specifically sounds bad, along with claiming simplified Chinese ruins Chinese culture), etc etc etc. 🙄

* To briefly expand on the Scissor Seven thing, people highly praise the English dub for being more expressive, but I think there’s multiple factors at play here to result in such an assumption:

1) English comedies have a tendency to sound…harsher and more sarcastic/mean than Chinese, so for the jokes to land, Ronny Chieng, Seven’s English dub VA, speaks more brusquely than he does in Chinese. It doesn’t make Seven into a crude caricature or anything, but he’s more of an English language-style goofball than the cuter goofball he is in Chinese. That English version appeals more to the male fans who watch the English dub based on western cultures of such comedic characters.

2) English as a language does tend to lean…toward a harsher, more direct tone than Chinese, even though Chinese has a reputation for sounding harsh and angry. What I mean by this is the tone you see for jokes on Twitter in response to art/media people like, such as “delete this” or “kys” or “I’m sending you to hell for this omg 😭”—that kind of more sarcastically harsh undertone for the sake of comedy doesn’t always translate as well to some other languages SLFNSKSH. Scissor Seven in the English dub leans more toward that tone’s enunciation than it does in the original Chinese version.

3) I guess also Chinese is just spoken fast enough people for some reason assume Chinese VAs can’t emote?? Perhaps Chinese media does favour a more pleasant sound that to foreigners completely blends together, but there’s plenty of examples of Chinese VAs being very expressive—for donghua, it’s as early as season 1 of Mo Dao Zu Shi from 2018. And on that note, the fact it’s so foreign to foreigners that they can’t tell VAs are emoting ironically becomes a sign they really shouldn’t be talking about the quality of Chinese VAs in the first place. 😶

Like to give a “less expressive” example, three of the four characters in the above example are rather stoic, but even in their stoic-ness, they’re still emoting, however subtly!

(And not to criticize the hard work of dubs either, but dubs can also lead to people missing out on details, like Seven switching to Cantonese when he’s similar to his original self, or even the joke in season 1 episode 1 of Link Click, where Qiao Ling calls Lu Guang “Guangguang” and Cheng Xiaoshi wonders if they should call dogs “Wangwang” then because doubling up a name sounds cutesy in Chinese and “wangwang” is the Chinese onomatopoeia for dogs barking. I remember watching that popular Danny reactor guy and he chose to watch Link Click in the English dub, and this joke was translated a bit weirdly. Even though the official English subs don’t have a translator’s note to explain this joke, a viewer can at least still hear the rhyme, because I remember the official subs do say “wangwang” and not “woof woof.”)

And I get Japan treats its VAs like celebrities and they have their own fandoms, but that shouldn’t prevent some fans from showing respect to Chinese VAs when it comes to Chinese media.

I’m genuinely of the mindset that most media sounds more natural in their original language, not just to be superior, but because the specific requirements for dubbing (matching lip flaps etc) often result in a stiffer and more awkward and unnatural performance than it would in the original language, which the animation/acting was literally centred around. And without the worries of “matching lip flaps” and maybe even “capturing the vibe of the original line,” VAs simply perform more believably because they sound more like they’re talking than acting.

So the final thing about this is that I do wish anime fans could be more normal about languages in general.

Like we get it! You’re not used to Chinese! That by itself is fine! But literally all you have to do to get used to Chinese is get more exposure to Chinese—and the other thing is, it’s still an entire language with culture and nationalism attached to it.

Just because it’s been commodified via a media product doesn’t change the fact it’s a language tons of people speak! I get some anime fans are racist/prejudiced asshats, but for the non-racist/prejudiced ones who still act weird about Chinese, I hardly see people question why German or Russian sound the way they do, yet people will for Chinese.

And asking for a dub in your own language isn’t not okay, especially since some people have disabilities that benefit from a dub, but to ask specifically for a Japanese dub just because you think Chinese doesn’t fit a show that has an “anime” style or you think it would sound better or you think Chinese is too gross or whatever excuse anime fans come up with is still really grating. 🫠

Just the other day I saw people suggesting to two different reactors to watch Link Click in English instead “in case they get more out of it” because it was one of the few dubs they thought did it well and to watch To Be Hero X in Japanese because the “cast is stacked.”

Not to disparage the dubs, but besides the possibility of someone missing details in Link Click’s original language due to an unfamiliarity with Chinese, you can get a ton out of the original Chinese version too. And the Chinese VAs cast for To Be Hero X can be considered as also stacked, even if they’re new to anime fans. :P

My reaction was very much so that plus a “these are definitely going to be one of the few reactors who will watch Link Click but To Be Hero X especially in Chinese (in fact, the reactor for To Be Hero X was simply reacting to the Chinese trailer, which was already a surprise because the Japanese trailers are the ones going viral, but also they might still switch to the Japanese dub when they watch the actual show)! So just let me have this!!” 🥲🥲🥲

Twitter full of people complaining about the Japanese dub not being out yet

BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU

If you have a fucking problem with the Chinese audio, then don’t watch a Chinese show, you xenophobic weeaboo!!! Stay in your own anime lane and leave Link Click and other donghua alone

Chinese definitely takes some time getting used to when you’re used to only hearing Japanese, but that doesn’t mean you should shit on it and think only the JP dub is good. At least fucking try to stick with the original Chinese audio and learn about a new language and culture!!!

By the way, this problem isn’t just with donghua. I remember when Trese, a Filipino animated series, came out, a lot of people were also going for the Japanese dub just to make it “sound like anime.” WTF.

Stop making Japanese anime the standard for every other Asian animated series! There are whole different animation styles and cultures outside of Japan!!! Erasing all of that just to push your weaboo preferences is fucking disrespectful and immature.

Like, in some of the copies I have of Link Click, they’d make Japanese the default audio. Others would replace the original opening sung by BaishaJaws to the cover of the song done by the Japanese dub. That was fucking unnecessary.

Thank god Link Click hasn’t entered the mainstream English spaces. If it did, it’s gonna attract more people acting weird about it being Chinese ugh

[hopecomesbacktolife]

oof, a bit of a personal rant here

so as is tradition, I just finished A Media TM and had to go to the tumblr tag to find pretty gif sets, posts, etc, general love for the Media TM as one does! a delight, 10/10. but, oh my god, and this was a sageuk (historical kdrama) and like. I didn’t know this needed to be said in the year of our lord 2023, but.

please don’t make posts in a tag for a historical/period drama complete with historically accurate culture, costuming, etiquette, social norms etc… and call it “weird,” “unnecessary rules,” “wild/strange costumes,” etc. like. y’all. this is based on Actual Real Life Historical Culture of an Entire Country, so, maybe, like, don’t?

like, yeesh, I was just really taken aback to see multiple posts to that effect in the tags. *cue Gina Linetti singing racism racism racism*

[vristrogen]

something about people calling vrisrezi "toxic yuri" always puts me off. i understand the lack of words to really put their dynamic but like you know theyre in a relationship thats largely good for them right. they arent dating because "it sucks but it would be worse without each other" they genuinely really love each other a lot

[medicinemane]

Saw a poll asking which fast food I'd give up for a week for a million dollars, and it's like I'd give up fucking food for a week for that price, there's literally nothing that wouldn't be on the chopping block when it's giving it up for a week

Not to mention I already barely have fast food once a month, and that's only if you count the costco pizza or burgers from the general store (which are more like backyard bbq style... like... the not great but not bad kind from a grill, you know?)

So... money please, I already won, pay me

[rosalind-hawkins]

What Do I Ship?

Don't mistake this for a tolerance or tier list. I will read and write ships that aren't even on this list, or write ships from the secondary list sometimes, this is just to give you a general sense of the stuff I mainly support/think about and in what capacity. Might be updated periodically. Ranting and comments in the tags.

Re: the Mokuba ships, I only ship them in non-problematic ways, where either the Kaiba brothers are ageswapped, making Mokuba the same age as the rest of the main cast, or where they only get together far post-canon where Mokuba's an adult. We cool? Cool.

Primary Ships

(things I can/want to create content for; this does not include every ship I've ever written, just the ones I care about/are currently engaged in writing/plan to write multiple fics for, or ships I just stan in a way that I know it'll never end)

Euroshipping (Kaiba x Ryou)

Puppyshipping (Joey x Kaiba)

Mumbleshipping (Kaiba x Ryou x Duke)

Teaseshipping (Joey x Ryou x Kaiba)

Snareshipping (Joey x Duke)

Trustshipping (Kaiba x Ishizu)

Polarshipping (Joey x Mai)

Blueshipping (Kisara x Kaiba)

Mizushipping (Kisara x Priest Seto)

Minorshipping (Ryou x Duke)

Mastershipping (Duke x Kaiba)

Puffshipping (Joey x Ryou)

Sweetshipping (Ryou x Mokuba)

Wintershipping (Mokuba x Amane)

Rollshipping (Duke x Ryou x Joey)

Secondary Ships

(things I will read but I don't write {much, or anymore, in some cases} for one reason or other)

Wishshipping (Joey x Yugi)

Powershipping (Kaiba x Marik)

Graceshipping (Ishizu x Ryou)

Doubtshipping (Kaiba x Ryou x Marik)

Petshipping (Duke x Kaiba x Joey)

Axisshipping (Kaiba x Siegfried)

Angstshipping (Ryou x Marik)

Irateshipping (Marik x Joey)

Buddyshipping (Joey x Tristan)

Heartshipping (Yugi x Ryou)

Fragileshipping (Yami Yugi x Ryou)

Changeshipping (Duke x Marik)

Logicshipping (Priest Seto x Priestess Isis)

Gemshipping (Ryou x Thief King Bakura)

Thiefshipping (Yami Bakura x Marik)

Candleshipping (Kaiba x Ryou x Yami Bakura)

Antagoshipping (Kaiba x Yami Bakura)

Corruptshipping (Priest Seto x Thief King Bakura)

Stoicshipping (Kaiba x Priest Seto)

Shimmershipping (Duke x Mokuba)

Guardshipping (Kaiba x Roland)

Senetshipping (Ishizu x Duke)

Angelicshipping (Ryou x Rafael)

Mercuryshipping (Kisara x Kaiba x Ishizu)

Entrepreneurshipping (Duke x Kaiba x Siegfried)

Unnamed (Aigami x Marik x Yami Bakura)

Scholarshipping (Kaiba x Ishizu x Ryou)

There's also plenty of random unnamed poly ships that I want to play around with in one-shots, usually a combo of my top six fave characters.

[1roentgen]

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[giantkillerjack]

Ya know. I spent most of my life with horrible painful soul-crushing social anxiety.

And after about 25 years of continuous hard work, suddenly, people started pointing out - to my utter bafflement - that I had, in fact, achieved my lifelong dream of being charismatic. I'm 29 now; I feel comfortable in most social situations, and it is a very rare person whom I cannot make laugh.

I am, undoubtedly, finally, charismatic.

But do you know what I found?

I found that now that I have an understanding of which social rules serve which functions -- Now that I have an understanding of just how much damage my awkwardness was doing to people, well,

I found that, actually, my awkwardness never really hurt anyone at all. People were just judgmental dicks to me about it.

Now that I have the skill-level to (most of the time) creatively vocalize what is in my head as soon as I think it and without fear, I can confirm once and for all what I had always suspected:

I was worth talking to when I was quiet.

I was worth talking to when I was awkward, and when the words in my head took time and patience to hear, and when most of my jokes didn't land. I was worth talking to the whole time.

So I just... I hope that if you've ever wondered whether you are worth communicating with, the answer is yes. Absolutely yes. Each of us has a soul worth sharing - and if you and I were talking, I would happily wait for you to speak (or communicate in other ways) without condescending, and I would never shame you for that harmless awkwardness that so many people feel the need to violently stomp out.

You are worth talking to. You just are. And you deserve people who will speak to you with kindness, with patience, and with the basic immutable respect owed to all people.

(I talk about this with some frequency, both on tumblr and in real life. At some point, maybe I'll gather all my thoughts on the matter into one post. At some point, I wrote about my personal experience trying to build my social skill. But I felt the need to say at least a little bit tonight after seeing this other lovely post, and I'm glad I did. It will happen again.)

[orcelito]

Ok also so I got my eyebrow and nose piercings back in... march, I think? I was supposed to go back in to get the bars changed out some time ago but I never did. Largely bc my eyebrow piercing has Not been healing smoothly (keep accidently banging it and getting it caught on things so it doesn't wanna heal) but I think the long bar has been actively hindering my healing (making it easier to get caught on things) so I decided to change it out Myself. Bought some new smaller jewelry online and it got here today and

I'm not generally squeamish when it comes to my own body. Like pain, blood, whatever. Don't rly care.

That, though... that took some effort.

But I did it! Smaller jewelry to hopefully make healing a little smoother from here on out. I also got some new jewelry for my nose stud that'll get here tomorrow. That one at least won't be a huge deal, since the nose piercing has healed so much more smoothly, thankfully.

(Preemptive warning for Gross Details in the tags. Lol)

[running-in-the-dark]

had a conversation about gym class with my friend who I went to school with today - it was depressing but also nice to hear that her experience with it (at that particular school) was just as bad as mine.

I don't think the way my school treated gym class was entirely normal tbh. it was completely different to the school I went to after, anyway. and everyone I talked to there only knew gym class to be a pretty fun, lighthearted thing. at my old school it was only about achievement, you had to be perfect, if not you were usually yelled at. and if you couldn't participate because you were feeling a bit ill (but not enough to stay home from school) you were ridiculed and/or insulted in front of the whole class. this happened with every gym teacher we had over the whole 9 years there.

it felt like two hours of punishment, there was nothing good about it. and it made at least the both of us feel like any kind of exercise/sport, especially in a group setting, was terrifying - for years after. even my much more positive experience at the other school I went to didn't make that go away.

[sureuncertainty]

at least now i've gone through an important tumblr rite of passage, watching a longtime mutual become a radfem :/

[yourfourthparent]

something interesting about dick riordan is how he never compares white characters to food in physical descriptions but when a character of colour is white passing he still finds a way to compare them to food. it won't be about their skin but it'll be about their hair or their eyes. and yet he doesn't do it with white folks. huh. i wonder why that is (sarcastic).

[maraeffect]

haven't even been awake for two hours and this is probably the worst morning i've had in a while 🙂 cw EXTREMELY disgusting unsanitary tags.

[danielnelsen]

im reading all my old hwu fanfics oh god.. like i was a decent writer but some of the stuff i wrote smh......... and like.. the ships. or one in particular. had to write for the most popular ship if i wanted anyone to read anything i wrote but please know that i HATED it

[pizzazz-party]

i was on my way to killing my fourth tissue box last night when blood started coming out along with the snot, so that’s how im doing

[gregmarriage]

‘fake it til you make it’ but it’s me trying to become more confident in myself and get serotonin by wearing cute clothes that are out of my comfort zone and trying really hard not to feel like a clown