#feeling so grateful!!!

[jeonsupershy]

hello beautiful people, this is kashi here! as 2024 winds down, i want to end the year with gratitude for all the lovely people i’ve met here. this blog reaching 2k followers has me floored—i still can’t believe anyone would follow this chaotic little corner of mine, but i’m so, so grateful you’ve chosen to stay 🙇🏻‍♀️💘

(this blog is actually just an elaborate love letter to him at this point but thank you for letting me scream about him with all of you)

thank you so much for being here and making this platform such a bright and welcoming place. i’ve grown so much as a person and as a content creator on caratblr, and all i can say is thank you 🥺❤️ thank you for supporting me, and thank you for always leaving sweet notes and tags on my creations.

this blog has been my safe haven for a little over a year, bringing me peace and warmth during tough times. thank you for being part of this journey; i truly can’t put into words how much you, the boys, and this blog mean to me.

to my wonderful mutuals: even though i’m a bit awkward when it comes to interactions, please know i cherish each of you deeply 🥺 and to everyone who follows this blog: your reblogs, tags, comments, likes, and asks bring me so much happiness. you light up my days simply by being here 🌻

to those tagged below, please know how grateful i am for your presence on this platform. all of you never fail to brighten my dash, and it’s truly a privilege to have crossed paths with you 🌟 each one of you has inspired me so much, and i’m incredibly thankful to see your beautiful content 💞 i’m really shy and awkward, so i apologize if i’ve never initiated any conversations, but please know my heart holds so much admiration for you and your blog.

last but not least (omg, for a shy person, i’m quite the yapper!), i wish you all a happy holiday season and a wonderful new year! may the coming year bring you endless joy, warmth, and success. thank you for being part of this little corner of the internet 🌟💞

@96z, @97-liners, @baekhyunnybyun, @bei-b, @caspleosvt, @chancheols, @chwedout, @coupsnim, @db2k, @dinogimon, @eoieopda, @etherealyoungk, @facethesuns, @fairyhaos, @hanjlsung, @hongtonie, @jeonghanic, @jeonwon-wonwoo, @jnwonwoos, @kimsmingyu, @kveom, @leedonghun, @master-tonberry, @meowonhao, @minzbins, @powerboo, @scouped, @scoups, @seonghwasblr, @seoksoonwoo, @scoupssolo, @seungkwan-s, @soonhoonsol, @sugurugetos, @sungjinhos, @vcrnons, @wnjunhui, @wonboos, @woneko, @wonwoorideul, @woozification, @zyx

[stil-lindigo]

lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)

if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.

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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.

I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.

I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.

If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.

[oars]

[therearecookiesdraws]

[hinamie]

9 / 266

[caratbow]

under the missile toad 🐸♥️🎄

x

[softsimulation]

6am at the butler family home it smells like coffee beans, buttered toast and laundry detergent in this kitchen

[mxcrayon]

losing my actual mind rn

i had this interaction in the dropout discord (i am the first and third person). short. simple. i only got the first year bc of a discount + a gift card i had, so i was planning on using this person's suggestion.

then, i got this.

oh my god!! how nice!! how sweet!!! how thoughtful!! i gave them my email and they sent over a subscription, i thanked them profusely. i was very grateful, very touched.

hours and hours later i was still thinking about it and i recalled how, in the email id gotten about it, it said "tao yang sent you a subscription" and id seen that and thought "oh haha like the tao yang" and then moved on

but now, thinking back, i was like.... theres no way, so i googled tao yang.

......

TAO YANG BOUGHT ME A FUCKING ANNUAL DROPOUT SUBSCRIPTION

[httyd-art-requests]

New Tail (Reprise) - Part 2/2

Previously... (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)

Now they can match <3

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Bonus:

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[backpackingspace]

Athena with odysseus: surprise attacking odysseus and bodily slamming him to palace walls (for awareness training). Randomly kidnapping him from the palace to drop him in the woods (or the ocean or on two memorable occasions on a completely different island) (survival training), using her full strength in sparing matches (odysseus has many broken bones) dragging him up by his wrist so they're face to face. Not being careful with how often she uses quick thought or any of her other powers (what? He seems fine. She's sure odysseus has always been a freak it's definitely not brain damage it's/fine/hes /fine)

Athena with telemachus, after she accidentally knocked him out once: right right odysseus and penelope taught me how to do this when they had me babysit you. Gotta be gentle so so gentle. Gotta support the head gotta craddle humans not yank them up by the wrist (she knew odysseus was a freak why didn't he say anything??) Can't just funnel her full power into the kid gotta be so gentle.

[collieii]

someone probably said this already but in spiderverse i think it's interesting how when pavitr was first introduced everyone thought something bad was gonna happen to him bc of how confident and optimistic he was. and then in the actual movie we see that something bad was supposed to happen to him (police chief dying!) but it doesn't! miles stops it! and miguel berates miles for this, says it's going to cause the universe to collapse or whatever.

there's this idea that tragedy is inherent to spidermans growth, and while it's true that some spiderpeople learn important lessons through loss, no one stops to ask, is it really necessary? yeah, maybe the chief was supposed to die. but why does spiderman have to be formed through tragedy? why do we (as heroes) have to let people die? pavitr didn't lose anyone, and he's still a good spiderman! maybe, if he doesn't suffer, he'll end up better off for it!

so while miguel is arguing for all this big picture stuff about saving the multiverse he's lost sight of what it really means to be a spiderman, he's not looking out for the real individual people. yeah it's just one person who would die, but that one person means something to someone. shrugging and saying "stuff just sucks sometimes, we can't do anything about it" is the opposite of what superheroes do. pretty obviously, miles arc is also a reflection of the struggles people face in real life, working within unequal systems, where it's easy to shrug and say "that's just the way it is" and not ask "but why does it need be this way? can't we do something about it?"

miguel is arguing that you can't have your cake and eat it too. presumably, miles and co. are going to find a way to get around that and change things for the better (and maybe that's why miles has that line about two cakes in the advisors office!)

[artsymeeshee]

Second-guessing

[cricketandclover]

hi i just met ryan ross :)

[hinamie]

a tribute to celebrate the finale of the manga that has meant so much to me these past few years

[casualavocados]

Chen Bowen as CHEN YI & Chiang Tien as AI DI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023) behind the scenes

[morningstarwrites]

TY for 200K views on my fanfic, Of Saints and Sinners 😭

to celebrate, I'll accept one art request - you can leave it in the replies or hashtags! (this scene is from ch. 18)