#good discussions going on today ��

[study-lizard]

just keep chuggin! (trying to not think about how august is approaching)

I went to a cafe from my bucket list with a friend yesterday and it was lovely! They also serve waffles which I shouldn't eat bc im gluten intolerant... but I might try when I come back. But overall, I am getting my life in order!

[elainsgirl]

Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled we're finally getting an announcement next year, but I'm exhausted!! I left the fandom because I couldn't stand the ship war and SJM's silence. I still love Azriel and Elain and I am invested in their story, but I stopped enjoying the Acotar world if that makes sense. I don't know if other people in the fandom feel the same way, but I'm close to the point where my reaction to book 5 will be "Oh yeah, I used to love those books", even if it's confirmed to be about Azriel and Elain.

In a completely different case, we never see Rebecca Yarros say "I won't tell you who Violet's endgame is. You'll have to wait and see!!"

I don't know if people will be so burned out when the book finally comes out that they won't care anymore. I don't know if SJM's strategy will backfire. Time will tell.

we’re all in the same camp, I totally feel you. Like

YES FINALLY WE WILL BE GETTING SOMETHING 🥳

but also,

Its been too long & I no longer care that much 🤷‍♀️

I think the fact Sjm has been so silent - its the most frustrating part. I don’t blame her but I think there was so much things going on and I feel like - this whole thing was planned. it wasn’t a matter of delays or whatever.

We needed to read HOFAS to understand the lore for ACOTAR 5. Obviously, hofas had to come after hosab - through this order, the years went by. Mass isn’t online therefore I don’t think she knows the full extent of the shipwars. To her, that bonus created some *doubt/drama* the way Emerie appearing in Cassians chapter during acofas did. Im very curious to hear her thoughts on all this once acotar 5 is out, anyways, I think at one point - maybe within the last 2 years - BB and Sarah realised it will be more impactful and a big deal to announce info about acotar 5 during the acotar 10 year anniversary.

obviously I cant speak for everyone else in the fandom but from my mutuals across all platforms and from my followers on Instagram- the general vibe is that we’re all so done with this fandom, sarah and the books. The ACOTAR world has lost its magic - people have taken the books so seriously and critically. Every character and ship is hated on, the fandom vibe is filled with disgusting toxicity and not just from the shipwars but the character wars as well. Its not the same vibe as it was when I first read the series in 2020. Hopefully, after elains book is calms down and we’re all reunited again.

I think by the time the book releases, the online fandom will be burnt out and not care as much but the casual fandom will be very excited for the release. And ig it doesn’t matter as Sjm will always be popular and her books will always sky rocket. Didn’t she recently win some goodreads awar despite hofas not being that good? So all in all, those of us that have been in the fandom a long time won’t be as excited as we would’ve been 2-3 years ago.

I haven’t read Fourth Wing but I’ve heard Rebecca is very active in the fandom which makes peope in her fandom love and respect the books more. Thinking of it - its the trend now for authors to engage consistently with their readers. Its a way to build a good relationship between audience and author but also to promote their books. Maybe Mass and BB feel like Sjm is big enough and doesn’t need to form that connection w us as they know we will eat up whatever she releases. And atp I think they’re right. I don’t think her “strategy” will backfire as her audience is no longer young teens - they’re adults that love her worlds as they connected with them young and will read whatever she puts out.

but you’re right, time will tell and hopefully that time comes soon.

[rmbunnie]

I am alone on this barren earth (Jason Todd liker and Mia Dearden liker who honestly thinks issues 69-72 of the 2001 Green Arrow run are fun and good and would really like to talk about them beyond "Jason Todd was ooc and irredeemable there because he was trauma-dumping on Mia but also everything he said was fake and made up and he was manipulating her to become his sidekick and he blew up her school in retaliation because she didn't so really we should ignore the whole comic as bad writing /or agree he should just be read as an sadistic sidekick killer" (None of which is true and over half of which is directly stated to be false in the comic's text) but all people ever have to say about the comic is weird wrong takes about the three pages in which the gym fight happens ripped out of the very interesting and fun surrounding context)

[commsroom]

fun fact! "good boy" is said six times in wolf 359: four times as a more playful response to following orders (fourier to hui; bernouli to klein; hera to eiffel (twice)), and twice as a display of power (lovelace to kepler; cutter to eiffel). this makes eiffel the recipient of half the show's good boys, cutter the only male character who says it, and hera & eiffel the only repeated set of characters.

incidentally, there is only one time "good girl" is said, and it's from eiffel to hera. make of all of this what you will.

[glownery]

wishing everyone who celebrates a happy easter and an even happier transgender day of visibility 🐣🪩🫶🪽

[wherela]

how do you tell someone that you love them, even though you turned them down because yes, we may share the same values but he doesn't believe God is good, and so that makes us fundamentally different? asking for a friend

[the-forest-library]

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[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

the downside to being a sitcom neighbour sort of person is that when rough things happen and emotionally fuck u up a lil bit, it also sounds completely made up

[checkadii]

I want them to know we made it to 19

And a rant. Of sorts.

Ahem.

A response to a letter to the future from a laptop that probably will kick the bucket if I try to boot it up today:

Hey. It’s me again. It’s you again. Tomato, tomato.

We have to stop meeting in the sticky notes program. All these options available, and we chose fucking sticky notes! Could’ve written it down, make our handwriting look nicer, but no!

So, how have you been? Hope you’re doing well. I know those years weren’t quite the best for us, so I don’t know why I bother, really. I still hope you’re doing well. I’d like to think we’re doing well.

I’m doing… okay. I’ve been stuck for a while between something that is not exactly a rock and not exactly a hard place.

It’s something. And it’s a place. I don’t think our ability to understand ourselves, our feelings, our needs and wants has gotten any better, so that’s that.

Do you know I’m in business communication now? Yeah! We got into university! That’s cool, right? It’s not what we wanted to do, not even close, but we fucking made it into something! Uni life was different from what we thought, by the way. Not a bad thing, just a note, I suppose.

We’re still drawing and writing, if you’ll believe it, and I’d like to think we’ve improved. No, we still so so sucks at artfight.

We got a bank account! And our steam account isn’t as empty (most if not all the games were either on sale or affordable, don’t worry. I know what spending does to you) anymore. You would love Ultrakill. You would’ve loved to play Lethal Company with ██ ███. No, I’m not in contact with anyone from there. No, I don’t know how ██ is doing. Wish I did.

Did you know Sirius died? His wounds got infected. I wasn’t allowed to bring him to the vet. He got worse over the months. Died beside the door. He’ll be healthier, okay?

Still can’t eat spicy, which. Damn. Well, okay, it’s to an extent, that’s improvement.

Ah. Still can’t swim, either.

We got into podcasts! Horror ones, yeah! We also got into this manga which I think you’ll find absolutely boring for a while. You’re still into Creepypasta, right. Right. I think.

What year are you from again?

Agh, Gacha games. No, you haven’t quite escaped them. Sky is surprisingly still something we play.

Honestly, I don’t know what to tell you. He stopped drinking, I think. We’re talking again. I moved, if that wasn’t obvious by now. Sis did too. I’m in a slump. I’m exhausted for no reason. You’re rotting in bed, cringing at every sound. I isolate myself in my room, dreading sleep.

All in all, not that changed.

You’ll figure out your identity. It takes a bit.

I’m running out of things to say. That’s kind of sad. I don’t know what you’d want to hear from me. My memories got worse, you know.

Same time, similar place next year? Maybe I’ll be more eloquent then.

So, how are you, me from the future? How have we changed? I, me, myself— we’ll be waiting for your response.

Make it to 20, okay? We made it this far.

[teabookgremlin]

coming off a shift where i spent so long giggling and kicking my feet about my crush (few instances: we were discussing our “mansonas” and she said i’d be “nerdy but cute”, a front of house person needed to help close the kitchen and she immediately said i was her first choice, she said how she and a few of my other coworkers have discussed how i should be working back of house bc they think id be good at it, also she just said my name a bunch of times)

[formula-fun]

ok i know this is quiet hours for most of my mutuals but guys if hypothetically someone were to steal your masters thesis how would you respond to that

[rosenbraut]

Anyhow. Outfit!

[supercantaloupe]

think maybe my professor was so eager to have a lively discussion about literally anything but politics today that class ended up letting out like six minutes late haha

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

this class........ 8 weeks long........ 13 discussion boards........ minimum 500 words per post........... 200 word replies......... is it too late to drop it..................

[mars-ipan]

dungeons and dragons is so fun bc right now i’m in 2 campaigns and i play them back-to-back on fridays.

in the first campaign i play this mangy little level 5 goblin spores druid named pellet. she is silly and i love her to death. also she will bite your ankles and it will fucking Hurt. the entire party she’s a part of is very well balanced and- despite their sometimes clashing personalities- they’re very competent in combat which leads to thrilling high-stakes battles

in the second campaign i play a level 4 half-elf goolock named cal. we’re all playing villains in a cyberpunk and we work for a villain organization. cal is NOT built for this whole high-stakes job thing, nor is the rest of his team. this party consists of a bunch of glass cannons and one glass nuclear bomb (our wizard). today’s session was the first time cal has been in combat and not passed out or been downed- we did not finish this encounter, though, so there’s still time for him to get bodied

[tardis--dreams]

Feeling homicidal at work today ♡