#bc that's already a given

[firenati0n]

Signing out for the year to decompress, celebrate my birthday, go on vacation, and generally be a silly goose.

Thank you so much for a 2024 full of laughs, friendship, joy, writing, and growth! I am, once again, so incredibly grateful for a good community and corner of the internet. The support and kindness I have experienced during tough times and low points has really kept me going, and I try to express my gratitude as much as possible. Much love for everyone I've met at all points this year—some very good eggs. 💛

I am so proud of the writing I have done this year as well. A friend recently told me that my writing has a theme of earnestness, kindness, and sincerity—an unbelievably gracious thing to say, thank you (i did cry yes)! I end up writing so much of myself into my work...whether it's to dissect tough emotions, project heavily onto firstprince, or express tenderness/introspection/humor. So, it means so much to me when anything of mine resonates with a reader. It feels like acceptance.

I try to go into a new year with intentions instead of resolutions, and one of mine is to engage in more self-compassion, both in and out of fandom spaces! Please hold me accountable LMAO negative self-talk in my personal and professional life is such a drag fjasdlkjflkasdf so i want to release that element of comparison and guilt and bitterness in all aspects, especially writing and rest/recovery. We're here for a good time, not a stressful one! If anyone has good intentions/resolutions to share, I am all ears. :)

Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and a restful and restorative break. Sending all my love and good energy as we move into 2025! appreciate y'all immensely.

xoxo roop 💛

had my 1 year fic anniversary a few days ago, a delightful and strange feeling. a whole year of existing (publicly) in the fandom.

thank you so much for reading, supporting, engaging, chatting, all of it! i am so grateful for a space where i can meet wonderful people and experience kindness and grace and friendship. i hope it is clear that i don't take anything for granted around here.

2024 was a pretty tough year personally and professionally, so i continue to be thankful for y'all as I work to become a better writer and person. appreciate you sticking with me through my ups and downs.

the tenderness of human connection is so important to me. i thrive on it, need it more than i would like to admit. vulnerability is hell sometimes, but the link that forms when someone truly sees you and understands is sometimes one of the only things pulling me forward. so, thank you for letting me be mushy and weird and sentimental and transparent, and thank you for holding my hand! as always, i will continue to reach out through these pixels and hold yours as well.

xoxo roop 💛

[puppyeared]

this place is so fruity

[namtanlovesfilm]

[theriverbeyond]

Waiting for Alecto the Ninth (2023)

[licorishh]

Texan Miku!!

I absolutely love this trend going around and I desperately wanted to jump on the train because I always miss out on this kind of thing but I got it done this time YAHOO

[beatcroc]

there's no way the bathroom at peppino's pizza is actually that big but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . hey ummm anyway.... i care them...... anyway there's a lil ramble on my take on fake pep's like psyche or whatever in tags on the og post if ur into that kinda thing :y

hey! it's a series! fake peppino world tour: [noise] [noisette] [peppino]<- u are here [gustavo] [gerome] [noisette again]

[nellasbookplanet]

Okay but I'm going a bit insane about the growing disconnect of "maybe we're meant to harness it"/"maybe we're meant to fight it". They both thought they were on the same page when they said it, when actually they were on polar opposite ends of the same spectrum. Imogen meant "I never plan to give in to this power even if part of me wants to, I will continue fighting it, but it’s a comfort knowing there’s someone who understands the temptation and who I know won't judge and will still love me and understand if I ultimately fail and give in". Meanwhile to Laudna it meant "I've been in this struggle for longer than I can remember and I don’t know if I can do it much longer. I don’t know if I want to. I don’t know if I even should, or if giving in would be better for all of us because I'm a lost cause. You understand this about me and won't judge as I inevitably am doomed by the narrative, and you won't demand of me that I fight an inherent part of myself, even if it’s destroying me". And Imogen is finally catching on to this disconnect, is realizing that to Laudna their connection isn’t just understanding but an excuse, not too different from Lilliana. And, desperate of losing Laudna to power just like she did her mother, she says, 'if you let me go, I'm gone', meanwhile Laudna is going 'all I can do for you is die and let you go to lift you up' and both of them are going 'why are you so upset about this. i love you'.

[moeblob]

What if I straight up didn't explain myself? What if I just said trust me on this? Would you?

[popfizzles]

Rum and Tumb ARE demons, but the Devil made them specifically to replace Cuphead and Mugman for him. The Devil did his best to make them look as much like the twins as possible (and he got pretty close, all things considering)!

Here's a reference of their base form colors, and all the notes of the small differences they have compared to the twins.

Cuphead and Mugman were the best, most efficient repossession men the Devil had ever had, so the Devil wanted to hire them full time (and of course, get their souls in the process), and after they refused, the Devil got a bit obsessed with the idea of having them anyway.

Rummer and Tumbler were the first and only attempt at making his own.

[rainbowdonkee]

Book 9 is here with new characters!

Rune is our FIRST male OC and I’m shedding tears 😭

It literally took them like 7 years and a total of 9 books but it’s finally happening!!!!

[magician-under-the-m00nlight]

aptx!kaito au in which Shinichi doesn't know aptx exists and feels insane that his leading theory is "a six year old is the mastermind behind Kaitou Kid"

[natelia-aldelliz]

1 : Soap never had any idea that woman wanted him carnally, he's not the most observant on that front (he never noticed Ghost flirting with him and thought his love was one-sided for the longest time, but tbf Ghost was also very discreet about it)

2 : He sewed the hat, eyepatch and hook himself, because he's the best uncle and then got distracted as he was wrapping it up, so now he's watching a tutorial on youtube about how to build a voice box. Honestly how hard could it be, he builds explosive devices as a hobby (listen, Price doesn't have to know)

3 : He is out to his family, but doesn't want his mum to know he has a boyfriend because he knows she'll insist on meeting him and welcoming him to the family and making a big deal out of this, and he knows that Ghost isn't ready for that.

4 : Christmas is obviously a very hard time for Ghost, but he is very very in love with Soap and some days still can't believe that it's mutual, but then his Johnny does something like that and his head gets quieter while he's melting a bit.

5 : For the people that didn't see my other post : the bird is a Caique parrot, and they're supposedly very energetic, a bit loud, medium sized, unintelligible, very friendly to what they consider their family, adventurous and danger prone, with an explosive personality and a hate of boredom, so basically the adhd bird.

[happistar]

How many invisible things do you think this man has lost?

(Lodgetember Day 2 - Griffin)

[sesamenom]

Feanor messed something up in the reembodiment process :/

[milkweedman]

So, used up a little of what remains of my beautiful rya lambswool that I had dyed a couple years back I think, to make the second handle on this bag (which is also done, just keep forgetting to take pics). And then I thought, wow, this would be the great base for a bag !

This picture fails to really show the base since it's covered in one of the other yarns I'm using. I had this idea of a very thick felted base (rigid, if I can manage it) and then a much thinner fabric that has a wider circumference so it can bulge out a little, with a drawstring on top. Originally I was going to felt the base first, but I think I want the fabric to be felted also, and I've already played the game of "Can I felt the initial element and then add more stuff and felt again ?". Which for the record, you can, but I've found it's unpredictable how much the first part will felt the second time. So dimensions get much more tricky. So, I will felt it all in one go before I add the drawstring.

Initially I wanted to knit the fabric part, but the base is already so rigid that dpns really didn't work (ridiculous laddering at the corners plus just terrible to work with). Now I am doing double crochet (us terms). I will update with how it goes.

Also, my roommate is going to make seitan with me, which is exciting ! They've made it a few times and I fucking love seitan and want to learn how to make it myself, since vital wheat gluten is currently very cheap at my nearest store. Or rather the thing in the bin next to it which is identical is very cheap, which is basically the same thing.

So I probably won't finish crocheting tonight, but maybe tomorrow ! Pics to come.

[milquetoad]

of the many injustices put forth toward the show by fans i think the most overall damaging and telling of a complete lack of critical viewership is the idea that sam riegel builds his characters with nothing more than the bit in mind. like you are only telling on yourself if you think characters like scanlan shorthalt and veth brennato are one-dimensional and depthless