#i’m back from the woods

[bulldog-butch]

got a full candlelit meal ready for you 🕯️

[ofliterarynature]

Library sale finds! My tbr shelf weeps in despair.

[fantasticgothicpeachsludge]

Help! I’ve fallen for a rarepair from a show that ended 6 years 1 month and 7 days ago!

And by rarepair I mean there is one singular fic about them where they’re not a side ship or in a collection of smut drabbles

[soullessjack]

i think perhaps another layer of autism in jacks character is that he’s fine with being different, but is always upset to be treated or perceived differently.

[ubejamjar]

lots to do today

[gender-fluidz]

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[sparkles-and-trash]

So every Friday I have a big cleaning day and treating myself night and I just realized that including tomorrow there are only two left until I can take down the summer decor and get ready for fall omggggg

[goatsghost]

i love andy kang so much i’m not even joking

[hanakihan]

man you have no idea the sheer DESIRE to write something about Titanic esque chulwoo AU

The main drill is that Sungs come from a rather wealthy old noble family (courtesy of Ashborn as their predecessor being royal knight or smth), Jin-Woo is a next heir while Jin-Ah studies to become a doctor (or a nurse depending on timeline it happens im not even completely sure with setting but probably og titanic vibe mixed with Korean Idek wheeze) and parents send them on a cruise ship for vacation (and in hopes jinwoo will meet nice noblewoman or any woman since sungs are pretty chill about bloodline)

Then there’s Jin-Chul who’s a ship engineer/captain in training courtesy of navy captain on pension Gun-Hee. Gun-Hee comes from rather humble background but managed to reach rather prestigious position of first navy and then civil ship captain but now he’s on pension, and this man is an example to Jin-Chul that you can reach your dream despite your upbringing. Jin-Chul himself also comes from rather humble background on verge of poverty but money and fame never fascinated him, but ships and sailing did. When Jin-Chul was assigned on Gun-Hee’s ship as a new engineer, Gun-Hee saw talent in boy and unofficially took him under his wing teaching him to be a captain. Then Gun-Hee left (or honestly more likely was forcefully dismissed) and Jin-Chul got assigned as one of engineers/coal workers on this giant ship, but Gun-Hee still sails under his own name as a trader or smth like that.

Cue sailing day and at evening Jin-Woo excused himself since noble parties bore him to death and anyway, evening is beautiful and sea is calm. Wandering around he stumbles upon Jin-Chul doing small repairs and who nearly hit Jin-Woo in nose with his elbow because he came too close without announcement. Jin-Chul stiffly apologizing because he knows how annoying nobles can be but is surprised when Jin-Woo is the one to apologize for being so careless and invites him for an apology tea or coffee since compared to other choices Jin-Chul seems as a perfect company thanks to his sharp tongue, wits and knowledge.

Some day of cruise pass and they become rather close friends, Jin-Woo visits Jin-Chul in lowest decks which surprises everyone here and they have a rather nice drinking and dancing session, while in turn Jin-Woo helps Jin-Chul to sneak in 1st class deck so they can chat and play chess in peace of room (and so he can introduce Jin-Chul to Jin-Ah). Jin-Woo even tries to gift Jin-Chul his sapphire brooch so he can sell it for nice sum of money and get his own ship or even open his own company or smth, but Jin-Chul politely refuses, satisfied with their friendship.

Cue disaster night. Now think about captain being an incompetent prick (maybe even on levels of Costa Concordia captain damn) and fucking up entire probably miss into sure hit (even if Jin-Chul risked it and asked people to follow his instructions despite it being a big ass discipline insubordination but no one really minded because people saw that captain gives shit orders) but since bridge was still under captains command, instructions contradicted, but it still allowed a graze hit rather than direct one. So yea this gets worse, Jin-Chul was in section that suffered from impact and got tore, barely got out of here along with most of his men. Seeing how fast water fills decks he tells people to go higher and himself runs to find Sungs or other people he knows. Apparently he finds panicking Jin-Ah and through dangers of ice cold water and falling construction manages to cross paths with Jin-Woo until they got separated again. They manage to get out of sinking shell that nearly becomes their coffin (because he promised Jin-Woo to take care of and save Jin-Ah no matter what goddamnit), Jin-Chul manages to place Jin-Ah on some drifting wood before starting to sink because of cold water.

Now, I’m a sucker for happy endings despite shit looking really bad, so let’s say Jin-Woo with others on safe boat manages to find shell shocked Jin-Ah wrapped in Jin-Chul’s coat, pointing at water and trying to say something with her teeth chattering and managing to say that he’s drowning, Jin-Woo saying ‘not on my fucking watch’ and jumps after, managing to grab him and drag on surface, man is absolutely freezing with lips blue and not really conscious but still weakly breathing.

ANYWAY they safely get back on shore, they all get medical treatment, Jin-Chul earns himself pneumonia (well fuck his sailing dreams ig), Sungs’ gratitude for saving their children and a fucking trial because captain blamed entire catastrophe on lower deck crew defying his orders and following engineer’s ones and that’s a big ass crime in navy. Things ain’t looking good because they want to prosecute him in shortest time to give people answers who’s the guilty one, Jin-Woo is really ready to throw hands with people, Jin-Chul’s patient explanations through coughs ain’t helping because no one can confirm accuracy of his words and that’s when Gun-Hee himself enters court saying smth like ‘maybe you should interrogate deck staff too to hear what commands captain was giving’ and then our sir proceeds to destroy this captain‘s whole career. Jin-Chul is cleaned of accusations and becomes a sort of a good example semi-legend, but thanks to extreme colds diving he now can’t sail on long distances but fear not Gun-Hee invites him to work for him since Jin-Chul is out of commission and Jin-Woo once again gifts Jin-Chul a sapphire brooch but this time asking if Jin-Chul will share future with him. Jin-Chul honestly having ??? reaction while Jin-Woo with the most deadpan face asks ‘You seriously think I’ll dive into cold waters of ocean at night to drag you on surface and then using my body warmth to keep you alive if i didn’t cared about you???’

[mildmayfoxe]

photos from home 12.26.23

[akiwitch]

Might have cool news soon! Might not!

Going into the woods this weekend, gonna figure out Shadowcast while I’m amongst the trees.

On another note I got hiking boots because doing research for Strange Paths made me realize I miss hiking and I should go more.

Yes writing a horror novel about people hiking made me want to go hiking.

I’m normal!

[tanjir0se]

OMG EXACTLY I understand completely, with characters like him and Tanjirou, I can't help writing what people must smell like to them, like genuinely it's just so fun to add in. No you don't need to know, but it's important. To me, that I tell the readers what people smell like to them

Same for Zenitsu's hearing, you WILL read about what others sound like to him..it's important

It's so fun..,,

YES! YOU UNDERSTAND ME

For me it’s a really fun way to make each perspective of the characters unique. Like of course Tanjiro would notice things like how someone smells. Or Zenitsu would have a set of sounds he associated with one person!!

And it can be used for evil also, as I am currently using it _(:3 」∠)_

[swallowtailed]

dispatches from the first half (e13) of autumn in hieron: 

throndir is my new favorite pc. just a sweet guy with a cute dog, a hometown full of preppers, and a half-explained chosen one quest! cannot wait to find out what’s going on with him.

i’m having a great time with lem, fero, and hella’s whole deal. incredible party. they’re gonna absolutely wreck shop in nacre (which is a stunning setting already). also shoutouts to keith for carrying the entire energy of the show so far

i have a vague idea of what’s going on with the gods due to having listened to marielda, but in the context of autumn, it feels like i have answers to questions i don’t even know how to ask yet. which is exciting! love to watch a world get built. we’re already going some fascinating places—apocalypse and faith and death and museums and ethics and genre—so i’m really looking forward to hieron getting deeper and weirder.

[grannie-nasty]

I forget to take my ssri for two (2) days and suddenly I’m dying in the spirit realm in my dreams

[cyncerity]

me in my dorm room listening to this

[gary-goldstein-law]

Listening to my bones creak in the late hours of the night.

Am I just another house settling? Did my home and I come from the same star?

Each painful grinding of bone and joint reminds me only of the creaking pain before a tree’s branch snaps off.

Am I breaking? Am I a suffering tree watching as the forest around me burns? My branches creak in pain while I hear the crackling of inevitable doom around me.

The fire will consume me, but for now I sit, breathing, growing, creaking, breaking.