#by meiri

[findflower96]

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[blaithnne]

SO HE WAS JUST SOME GUY THIS WHOLE TIME??????

[youjide444]

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[meirimerens]

pathologic fest day 7

"Astride a Bull"

night riders

🐂🐂🐂🐂 \o/

[airborneice]

someeee doodles i've been doing on and off of @the-hilda-librarians-wife's oc Meiri from the fic Fireflies bc i care her

the comic is a bit from her fic and the others are just. the vibes 🤷‍♀️ don't be fooled by my stupid drawings it's a wonderful fic!!! go read it!!!!

[miki-my-love]

[thatonecatcat]

HELLO HI YES I KNOW IM SOSOSOSSOOS SORRY IM LATE TO THE PARTY I WAS CURSED BY ART BLOCK N STUFF BUT I MANAGED TO POP OUT THIS I TRIED MY BEST @the-hilda-librarians-wife

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEIRI HERES MY GIFT 🙏🙏

[jetcat-14]

@the-hilda-librarians-wife I feel like this would be something Meiri would say lmao 🤣

[the-hilda-librarians-wife]

hi 👉👈

WHAT

Waddles. Waddles how. How did u manage to sneak up on me with this. I’m completely flabbergasted. Like it’s a WHOLE CANVAS and it’s ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS?????? The sunset lighting, the multitude of details (holy cow even the thumb hole in her hoodie) the FIREFLIEEEES IM GONNA CRY

Also you did them both so freaking cutely 😭😭😭😭 Meiri looks so happy and I can absolutely see her chasing fireflies on the wall. Ed just looks so SOFT looking at her how did you even do that.

I. I don’t even know. What to say tbh. This is just so freaking cool and stunning and as always absolutely flattering that you chose to draw my girl 🥹🌹 I will definitely treasure this forever (forgive me talking like a troubadour or something, it’s true geksgsjsgd)

[z3vie]

( @meimeimeirin ) MOON WATCHING — to spend the night beside zhongli, gazing at the moon while wrapped in each others arms — he wishes for nothing more. actually, if he were given just one wish, it must be to spend eternity with you, just like this. it doesn’t take him very long to notice the subtle shivering of your arms, and only a single second longer to drape his coat over you, pulling your body closer to his own to provide you with some warmth.

[findflower96]

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[blaithnne]

@the-hilda-librarians-wife I was going to draw him holding a fish and then realised what a fool I was

[youjide444]

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[meirimerens]

how do i save money as a college student? there are cafes at every corner luring me in with coffee and food. cooking in a dormitory kitchen can be stressful (there are other people there sometimes), i generally don't enjoy the process of cooking, and the ouroboros of dirtying and washing the dishes is exhausting. i've moved to making coffee at home (grinding the rocally loasted beans), but still sometimes buy takeout coffee during classes to lift my mood 'cause education is eating my soul alive.

i will likely not have the bestest of tips because 1) my living situation is different from yours and i can tell you not dealing with dormitory kitchen nightmares actually helps a lot 2) i'm gonna be saying stuff you will not like. but you might have to hear it regardless.

full disclaimer as far as "saving money": i have worked fulltime all summer and was living at my parents' at the time, who would legitimately look at me with horrified eyes if i implied i wanted to pay a rent in my own house. i also am currently working (part-time) and, due to my low income, i qualify for multiple types of government aid. a tip: if there is anything like that in your country just apply apply take em take em all. even if it ain't much just take it. i also live very close to some of the cheapest supermarket chains in my country, which might not be the case for you.

now here are tips, including things you won't like hearing:

you're just gonna have to be neutral towards cooking. you don't even have to like it. just be neutral. you're also gonna have to be neutral about doing the dishes. is it sisyphian in nature? yes. is it a normal part of being an adult? also yes. you're not always gonna have mommy to do your dishes for you. partners and friends are not dishwashing machines. in the same way you have to become neutral with being alone like in your life in general for your own peace of mind, you have to become neutral with cooking and cleaning.

plan your meals for the week and ONLY GO SHOPPING FOR WHAT YOU HAVE PLANNED. this video got me on that grind and this is how i'm handling food way better this year than i was the first time i was on my own. you might have to stock up on "essentials" (at least a cooking oil such as olive or canola, salt, pepper, some spices that you can fw with, depending on the cuisines you fw some soy sauce,...). if you go shopping without a set bunch of ideas, your food will go bad before you eat it. or you'll try to eat it by making shit up and you will be disappointed and it will put you off from cooking.

related to above: look up low-effort recipes. look up shit like "student meals" "one pot meal", "easy lunch", stuff of the sort. save them their dedicated youtube playlist. and then do them. do a one-pot recipe, eat in the pot, have leftovers, that you keep in the pot, cover it with film, put in fridge, and eat the rest, from the pot, another day. less cleaning up.

speaking of cleaning up: check out this video. it will not make washing dishes any more enjoyable like you won't yippiiii kick your feet in glee but it might at least make it suck a little less.

get on what my dad calls "cuisine de célibataire" or "bachelor's [maidenless] cooking". it's bullshit meals that you can whip out quickly. typically in my case it's recipes i found online that i lower the effort for even more. doesn't have to be cute doesn't have to be fancy it needs to be nourishing and good enough that you'll want to eat it.

also kinda sucks if you're a meat eater and goddamn i could go for a marinated chicken breast rn but lower your meat consumption if it's not already done. the world is so beautiful these days that you can find plenty of vegetarian or even vegan meals that don't suck. i really like pickup limes' recipes. her cherry tomato orzo recipe entered my regular rotation, sometimes i swap out the orzo for pasta, or the cherry tomatoes for normal tomatoes, or i make it soupy, whatever. make sure you still get protein because otherwise your brain and body will hate you like for real for real, but thankfully chickpeas and lentils can be very versatile & also tasty & pretty cheap.

leftovers. always do more than you think you'll need. if you want to cook for 2 meals, actually make a portion for 3.

now this is a part that just sucks. won't even lie to you. just sucks. to quote marx "The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being." the one way to save money in this world is to deprive yourself of stuff. means not buying clothes you would like but don't necessarily need. not getting little treats as often as you're used to. it just sucks. won't lie.

related to above and to little treat : make of the treat more a Reproducible Vibe than something you systematically buy. my little treat is a biweekly (as in one every fortnight) boba tea (the cheapest they have on the menu). but between these, i still must have a treat to keep myself from going nuts. this i do by making a tea of mine, from my stash that i would have regardless, and make it a little bit fancier. sweeter than i usually have it in the morning. and with a little cookie. i buy the pack of cookies regardless because i will snack on it over the span of the week/the two weeks it takes me to finish, but it is the combination of sweet tea + cookie dipped in the tea (very important) that constitute The Treat. The Treat for me can also be lying down in the middle of the day with my glasses off.

resist the temptation. even if it fucking sucks so so bad and i'm aware of it. but if you try to save money, you won't do it by spending it on stuff.

tried to word it in a way that doesn't make it sound kinda erotic and failed but basically the harder you resist the temptation the better it feels when you give in some days if not a week or weeks after the first desire crept upon you. makes it special 💋 or so help me god

on god it's gonna be okay in the end and if it's not okay it's not the end. AFFIRM!!!!!

[airborneice]

@the-hilda-librarians-wife forgive me but i had to draw it

from this fdjhsbdh

[blerdyotome]

Melanin Monday Spotlight: Hydrangea (Meiri Games)