#i hope you are well this holiday season!

[shenyaanigans]

3, 6, 17, 18, 27, 29 for ao3 wrapped! if you want to, of course :)

AAAA hello dear friend!! <3 thank u so much for the asks! 3&17 i answered here, but i shall answer the rest of these! <3

ao3 wrapped

6. Favorite title you used

I gotta give this one to an angel's share which was supposed to be a 5+1 that got. Out of Hand, let's say. The context is that I went to a distillery in Ireland at around the time I was being consumed by Trigun brainrot, and during the tour, the tour guide talked about how, when whiskey is aging in its barrels, it loses about 10% of its volume to evaporation, but back in the olden days, they didn't know that's what happened, so they chalked up the missing whiskey to "the angel's share"--where angels came down and blessed the barrels in the morning before they were opened, and took a drink with them. I found this anecdote to be so cute and inspiring, and I pictured Vash stealing things from Wolfwood and well. The rest is history. LOL

18. The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?

Interestingly, I would say this is Wolfwood. Not because I actually felt like he gave me trouble during the writing process, but because Trigun fandom started to really make me question whether I was doing a good job with him by the end... Part of the reason an angel's share remains unfinished is because I feel vaguely... I don't know, embarrassed? It's difficult to keep going once the seed that I've been fundamentally mistaken about a character is planted, because I can't stop second guessing that I'm somehow doing something wrong. This, as well as some other factors, made Wolfwood difficult to go back to, despite that I love him and have confidence in my literary analysis of both him and Vash.

27. What do you listen to while writing?

So USUALLY nothing, but sometimes, I'll just listen to a single song on repeat that for some reason really gets me in the groove. For like no reason. Which is why my top songs on spotify are so fucked up LOL

29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

I have a lot of favorites, but I love the drawing scene from chapter 5 of bodice ripper. It's both a massive narrative pay-off moment, and a showcase of good writing at the same time, and marrying those two aspects of narrative work has always been something I've struggled with! Here is my favorite excerpt from that scene:

With that, he turns to go. Jing Yuan is reminded, suddenly, of that day on the Alchemy Commission’s beach, when he’d run into Mr. Yang again after ignoring him for days. What if he had ended this all there? If he had allowed Mr. Yang to walk away back then, would it have been better? Certainly, it would have spared them both the tension of now. But— Is it so much better to have never suffered through loss, Mr. Yang had said at dinner, than it is to have risked and gained something that mattered? It occurs to Jing Yuan, throughout all this, he has risked nothing. Actually, he has risked nothing his entire life. And he has risked nothing knowing that risking nothing was the correct thing to do, because he has watched every person he has ever known risk something at the expense of everything, just because the potential return was high. It is he who has lived so long because he has always taken the cautious path, the meticulous path, knowing risk is only worth it when victory is assured first. He has always been a coward. It doesn’t bother him.

[lee-minhoe]

for @minchanz 🎁❣️

[siribunbun]

Happy holidays! I finished a drawing from a while back! It's a personal piece and I'm glad it's finally done after so long hehe ; U ;

[exocean]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS LOU! @levhanter from your secret santa!☃️🎄💖

[ivettel]

You can’t ever predict how things are going to go in Formula 1. You’ve just got to do the best, and enjoy it while it lasts.

@pscentral DECEMBER GIFT EXCHANGE ⟶ KEVIN MAGNUSSEN for @kmagsy • happy holidays, dima!

[insp.]

[drinkingbitterboy]

hello i just wanna say all the folks i've found in this little community are fantastic and fun and i'm happy i'm here :) still on my break though because it's a real rough time of it, but just wanna say i'll be back soon :)

also thank you for the feedback on the thing i drew! getting back into drawing after a decade off has been...rough... but the nice comments and especially encouragement from @blacktrickle have been so helpful. love y'all

[svyatoiy]

i lasted two weeks with decent activity before the assignments started piling up and took over my life...

[mieczyhale]

something something bastard of the barrel: man, myth, or living nightmare out for revenge~*~*~

merry christmas (or grishmas, as i first typed on accident) to @number-0-iz from your secret santa! 🎁

[red-moon-at-night]

"Capri where have you been????"

LIVING MY DREAM LIFE WITH MY DREAM WIFE THANK YOU VERY MUCH

finally living my lesbian farmer life to the fullest and I couldn't be happier tbh

[koopaling-headcanons]

Happy (belated) New Year!!

What do y'all think the Koopalings would do in celebration?

[0809sysblings]

it is always a little funny to me when people try to make psychologists and psychiatrists out to be the only people ever capable of being able to accurately diagnose mental illnesses and disorders and that their word is law as a way to criticize self diagnosis when like. once i was hospitalized and the psychiatrist there who i had not even known for more than a day tried to diagnose me as bipolar despite me having No history of mania because he.. couldn't really understand why i acted the way i did i guess???

[birdietrait]

i’ve been so happy this past week 😌

[queenofbaws]

Hi Queenie, I hope you had a nice Christmas and doing are well.

Can I get a Bobby skit with your fancy new keyboard? 😁

Whoever'd been the one to design the room like that was an idiot and a half, but there was an upside to the weirdness of the den: With the naked bulbs on one side of the room and a whole blank wall across the way, all you had to do was find the right spot to sit and suddenly your shadow multiplied. Not totally, that was...they kind of smooshed on top of one another, fanning out from the middle, each one lighter than the one before it, but it was still cool enough.

That was what he kept thinking as he hunkered down onto the brown-and-browner nap of the carpet, throwing glances over his shoulder every couple seconds or so to make sure the kids were watching - all those shadows. He pulled out the old standby, the real easy shit, and with just a couple adjustments, the wall filled with a shadow puppet pack, four wolves cast by four bulbs, each tipping its head back to sniff the air and howl at the moon, and...

They weren't laughing like they usually did.

"You guys always love this stuff, what's - " Bobby began, unbending his fingers and turning to the couches where Kaylee and Caleb sat slumped, the looks on their faces not making any sense...until the exact moment they did and it was all he could do to stare down at his hands, trying with all of his might to remember another shape - any other shape - that might make up for such a stupid mistake.

six sentence sat(or)sunday!!!

[tinytinyrat]

Beloved

[prosebushpatch]

Since Christmas is around the corner, I wanted to talk a little bit about one of the most well-known Christmas Redemption Arcs and my favorite thing about A Christmas Carol. Enjoy!

[shawoluvs]

I was tagged by the lovely @solaarflaree~ thank you~

Shuffle your on repeat playlist and list the first 10 songs:

*I don't actually have an 'on repeat' playlist because I often just listen to my newest stuff on shuffle or literally everything on shuffle so these songs are just the next 10 on my current shuffle

I Just - Red Velvet

Midnight Rain - Taylor Swift

Romeo - Chairlift

Knock On - NCT 127

Make A Wish - NCT U

Shades of Cool - Lana Del Rey

Fire Alarm - NCT DREAM

Levitating - Dua Lipa

The Seed - Aurora

땡땡땡 - LOONA

Your Top 15 favorite TV shows can say a lot about your personality. List your favorite shows:

*These are not in a specific order 'cause it really depends on what mood I'm in but these are my all time faves~

Black Sails

Heartstopper

Doctor Who

Teen Wolf

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtvS)

Hannibal

FRIENDS

The Originals

Stranger Things

The Wilds

Yellowjackets

Anne with an E

Merlin

His Dark Materials

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Basically if it's gay, supernatural (though ironically I've never watched Supernatural) or all about the girls then I am in~

I have been so inactive on tumblr idek if half of these lovely people are still knocking around but I'm going to tag @babyange1face, @mistarover, @mizugucci, @joshriku, @fourseascns, @ncityzen, @absolutelyinconceivable, @kanqseul-gi & @eternallys ~ no pressure to have a go but I hope life is treating you well ~