#csoip

[colap1nto]

i have loved your japan diaries so much and now that you’re almost on your way home i think i can finally ask what your favorite food was on the trip!! seeing all of the delicious goodies you got every day had me 😵‍💫🤤

😍💕😇🥲😮‍💨

i'm so happy that you enjoyed it!!! i loved doing it so much by sharing all my little adventures with you as well, even if it was not in the same timezone & that it was confusing me the fuck out lmao

my favorite food was when we decided to hit the food markets at kyoto. everything was d e l i c i o u s & it was the highlight for us tbh!! we didn't have a bad food and we decided what we wanted to eat to our own portions & all. we definitely said that it was the best food we've had on this trip.

notable mention: the snoopy café @ universal was also !!! for the theming especially but the food was also very good.

[moregraceful]

PLEASE TELL ME ABOUT COLD WAR KIDS OLD MAN YAOI ERA i love them but know very little about them as a band!!! (the all caps are excited not aggressive i swear)

OUR STORY BEGINS IN 2004 AT BIOLA UINIVERSITY WHERE MATT MAUST AND NATHAN WILLETT MET FOR THE FIRST TIME.....

basically it's like. ok sorry you have unfortunately unlocked what is basically 20 years of being a fan of this band + a conspiracy theory born from being a bored teenager in suburbs and never really leaving the suburbs + having a crush on Nathan Willett as a 20yo and never growing out of it. Also absolutely nothing I am saying I have receipts for bc I simply did not think I would ever have a captive audience for Cold War Kids old man yaoi and thus did not save receipts. Also I might have hallucinated some of it.

BASICALLY IT'S LIKE. WHAT IF WE MET ON AN EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN CAMPUS. AND WE WERE NOT EVANGELICAL. AND WE FORMED A BAND WITH AN EVANGELICAL AND A 18 YEAR OLD WHOSE PARENTS HATED US. AND WHAT IF WE STAYED TOGETHER FOR TWENTY YEARS WHILE THE BAND AND THE CITY AND OUR COUNTRY AND OUR LIVES CHANGED AROUND US.

AND WHAT IF OUR ROUGH EDGES HAD BECOME WEATHERED AND SMOOTH 20 YEARS IN.

AND WHAT IF WE COULD BARELY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE WERE NO LONGER ROUGH AND READY ALT INDIE ROCKERS BUT GROWN ASS MEN WITH KIDS AND WIVES. THAT THE CACOPHONY OF YOUNG RELATIONSHIPS WAS NO LONGER SOMETHING WE COULD RELATE TO. THAT WE WERE NO LONGER INDUSTRY OUTSIDERS BUT INDUSTRY OURSELVES.

SO WE WROTE AN ALBUM AND PUT PHOTO OF US KISSING ON THE ALBUM COVER AND IT WAS OUR FIRST SELF-TITLED ALBUM IN 20 YEARS

AND WE WERE BOTH BOYS?!!

Like u truly do not have to open your self-titled album with a song called "Double Life" written by Nathan from the perspective of Nathan but framing Nathan as a mother while he struggles with the concept of multi-faceted identity....fellas (male), is it gay to contain multitudes??

When you live a double life, it’s dangerous Oh, not to fear love, not to fear Keep it calm, calm, calm, it's dangerous Oh, not to fear love, not to fear

LIKE IT'S ALL THERE. THE ROUGH EDGES OF "THE JOY, THE JOY, MISERY" HAVE BEEN SANDED DOWN. WE DON'T FEAR LOVE ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!! WE DON'T FEAR OUR FUTURES!!!!! WE DON'T FEAR LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In conclusion they saw me from across the bar and they hate my vibe (I was 16 I should not have been in the bar in the first place but the bouncer was looking the other way when I ducked inside). WHY WAS ALL THEIR PROMO FOR THIS ALBUM RELEASE LIKE THIS

stop. somewhere i am seventeen punching the air in my bedroom at 2am because i'm gonna make it.

And if you are thinking to yourself damn I know some stone butches who look like they hate me like that, let me tell you!!! They are unfortunately men who are still shedding their identity as "alt rockers constantly on the precipice" which has unfortunately been embedded in them for the past 20 years.

I been trying to get a grip for all eternity I know we don't know a man who acts maternally And I'm on the brink of civil war, need a gender-fluid Jesus morе I'm dancing right here, but my heart is always torn

IT'S LIKE IF TOXIC MASCULINITY MET A POET WHO WAS TRYING ALL HIS LIFE TO RUN FROM SOMETHING AND SOMETIMES THAT THING WAS "A GOOD LIFE" AND SOMETIMES THAT THING WAS "DOOMSCROLLING TWITTER." GIRL (NATHAN WILLETT). GET A GRIP.

we saw you from across the bar and we have to go IMMEDIATELY.

[colap1nto]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BESTIE I’M SO HAPPY YOU’RE IN MY LIFE!!!! cheers to another great year of shenanigans 🥰

😭🤯😵‍💫☺️🫣

liv, thank u so much 💕💕 i'm glad that you are a part of mine as well 🥂

[colap1nto]

poetry&prose night

alright. i'm not in a mood to like... write something really 'big' or work on a fic (irl is draining me) BUT i'm down for a little something. short and sweet.

so, i'm down to write some prose/poetry instead. here are the rules for tonight:

head to this link & pick (1) word of your choice from any list from the very lovely creativepromptsforwriting.

choose your ship (or dynamic... oh the narratives of some...)

head to my ask box and put your choice in it

thank you guys so much if you every have the time to send me some stuff mwah!

@pptiny @goodsticklehky @lordofthegoldenflower @jimothystu @gordiemeow @csoip @elizabethdolly @three-headed-monster @fifthovertime &/or anyone who wants to give it a shot and that i forgot (sorry if i did fhdjkshfdsf)

[moregraceful]

straight up i love your boba order analysis so much i would listen to a podcast about it. i don’t know who half these people are and i’m like “oh my god kasper moregraceful you’re so right!! absolutely!!!” so. wrt: is there anybody’s boba order you’ve thought about but not gotten to discuss yet? (if not, do you have any boba recommendations? i’m always looking for new combos to try)

you are so kind!!! I have been enjoying diagnosing boba orders SO much, keep em coming

I got a juicy ask about Devon Toews that I'm waffling over how to answer (in a good way) so I am going to bravely state that Devon Toews gets a LARGE brown sugar black milk tea 50% sweetness 50% ice with milk foam and coconut pearls. haters may say "he is almost 30 no one in their 30s can handle that much sugar" to which I say: yes, Devon Toews is no ordinary man. Devon Toews is a king who can handle. 50% sweet 50% cool as ice that's HIM

For myself, in the summer I like fruit green tea mixes or jasmine green tea with fruit jellies of some sort (the star shaped ones are delightful) but as well as black milk tea or earl grey milk tea on the reg. I've been WANTING to try milk foam with green tea at Gong Cha but I'm also like...am I psychologically prepared to face drinking 16oz of that. Like in non boba situations green tea + dairy makes me recoil, I'm a green tea purist. But Gong Cha has never betrayed me (unlike many other boba places) so maybe I need to fortify myself and try it.

Thank you for sending this wonderful ask!!