#i've been so busy planning/prepping for japan

[somecunttookmyurl]

fuck i forgot to do the fucking shop again didn't i

[hackedmotionsensors]

i have been so CRAZY tired lately. I think I've just been very busy the past few months with going to Japan, last minute prepping for a con and going to knotts almost every weekend

I'M POOPED

And of course my car had yet another problem. It started rattling while accelerating so its in the shop now. Hopefully its nothing major bc I really can't afford to replace a whole damn thing again like when we had to replace the radiator.

But since I can't go anywhere this weekend (Atarashii Gakko are playing this weekend TTnTT) I'll try to wrap up that final commission and do some cleaning.

But first I'm gonna sleep. I fucking fell asleep TWICE in my chair today.

I was gonna sign up for the gym this weekend TTnTT

Also obvs like a lot of other people I'm moving to bluesky from twitter. I'll stick around until everything that that asshole has planned gets implimented but I might have to nuke the old account. I don't want to but at the very least I'm gonna have to nuke all the art on there which is frankly really a bummer. there's art there that i probably never put anywhere else and I hate the idea that I might not be able to see it again. But...also if I can't remember that its there then it doesn't matter LMAO

[queenerdloser]

it’s been such a long week and such a long day & basically im ready to collapse but thank god my hardest day is over and now i can sail through the rest of the week hallelujah

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[wonderwomanfantasy]

braid boy

Okay so I wrote two versions of this fic one where the reader is black/ has natural hair (this one!) and one where they aren't (read here)

Sero x reader

warnings: I am white as sour cream and I followed a couple tutorials to write this I'm so sorry if what I've written makes no sense.

word count: 1,000 (about)

summary: Hanta just can't keep his hands off of you...r hair

“Oh, hey sweetie,” you said looking up at Hanta. Sero smiled at you and leaned over the back of the couch, he cupped your chin and tilted your head back, and kissed you. He felt you smile against your lips and he started to melt.

Sero groaned and fell over the couch and landed in your lap. You laughed and stroked his cheek.

“Well hello there handsome,” you said. Hanta tried to brush his bangs out of his eyes but the hair fell right back in his face. He tried again and again, it fell right back in his face. You laughed as he huffed.

“Babyyy help I can’t see you,” he whined. “I need to cut my hair,” he huffed.

“No It’s sexy when it’s long like this,” you said making Hanta flush. He knew you thought he was hot, but it was nice to hear you say it.

“Here let me,” you said pushing him to sit up, he followed your lead and sat, even though he was tired enough to fall asleep standing. Gently you carded your fingers through his black hair pulling it away from his face and off the back of his neck. You picked a hair tie off the coffee table and snapped it on.

“tada,” said holding up your phone so he could see. Sero turned his head looking at the braid. Man, it had been a while since he’d seen his forehead.

“It’s perfect,” he said turning around to give you a kiss. “Now I can keep my hair long and see you,” he said kissing you one more time, he cupped your cheek and pulled you into him, he stroked the side of your head, accidentally touching some of the baby hairs that framed your face.

“Any plans darling? We’ve got the whole day to do whatever you want,” he said smiling at you goofily.

“I was actually going to do my hair today,” you said

“Oo let me help,”

“You can’t braid my hair the way I braided your Hanta,”

“I know,” he scoffed, then got suddenly got bashful. “I’ve been watching tutorials online and some of my friends even let me practice on them,” he explained.

“Please?” he asked. He looked so cute, you just couldn’t say no.

The two of you settled in the living room, everything you used laid out for him, and enough Real House Wife’s episodes to last you years.

“This is going to take forever,” you warned, he cracked his knuckles.

“I’m ready,”

He started by combing through your hair than doing a little bit of prep work, priming spray, straightening your hair slightly with a heated brush, moisturizer, then coconut oil to lock in the moister. Then Hanta made his way around your head sectioning the hair into smaller pieces using tiny elastics. Then he got down to business, he took two pieces of synthetic hair, linked them together in the middle then laying one half of the loop over your natural hair right at the base of your scalp, wrapping and knotting it in place, then keeping the hair as close to your head as possible he started to braid. He was very careful to braid the hair in the direction the braids would eventually lay.

You hadn’t lied, it took the better part of the afternoon and you went through way more Real housewives than either of you’d like to admit, but Hanta sat back proud, looking at his work.

“Done, praise me beloved,” he said. You smiled.

“Not half bad,” you teased and leaned in to kiss him.

But before you could reach him, the lights shut off. “Huh,” Sero said, he tired the tv, nothing. The lights the ceiling fan, the stove, all nothing.

“I think the power’s off,” you said, he nodded, his face grave like he’d snapped back into hero mode.

“Will you find the candles? I’m going to call the building manager.” you nodded and followed his orders, digging through some drawers until you found a handful of candles and matches. The sun was setting casting golden rays of light into your shared home. It was romantic, or at least it would be if you weren’t freaked about the power outage.

“Apparently the powers out down the block but it should be back in a few hours,” Hanta said clicking his phone off

“How long is a few hours exactly?” you asked

“The landlord said two hours but I’m willing to bet it will be at least four,” he sighed. Your frown deepened, “awe don’t pout baby we can still have fun even without internet, we’ll play battleship or something,”

“Hanta if the power is out, the AC is out,” you sighed and Hanta’s face fell as he came to the same realization. You were in the middle in one of the worst heat waves Japan had ever seen, both of you were going to be cooked alive.

“We’re going to die,” he said, the grave look on his face made you burst out laughing. Hanta grinned, you were so pretty when you laughed.

“Would you like to spend the night with me while we’re roasted alive?” he asked offering you his hand, you grinned and took his hand in yours lacing your fingers with his.

“Of course.” It was already starting to heat up inside, the hot air seeping through the walls, the summer mugginess inescapable. You wondered if this heat was what caused the outage, everyone in Japan running their air conditioning on full blast.

Normally Hanta would use this opportunity to pull you into him for a long nap and some snuggles. It had been a long time since Hanta had been scared of rejection, but he was fairly sure that if he asked you to hold him now you’d shoot him down.

“How about a nice cold shower together? I mean the water still works,” he asked.

“There aren’t any windows in the bathroom, we’d be completely in the dark,”

“That’s what the candles are for, we’ll just stick the candles in the shower and-” he offered, then immediately backtracked. “Nevermind that was a bad idea, a bath?”

“Hmm, a candle-lit bath, how romantic,” you said, tugging him to the bathroom.

The two of you lounged in the bath across from each other. Hanta had spent a pretty penny getting a bathtub long enough for him to fit in comfortably as an added bonus the tub ended up being large enough for two. The water was cool, lit with several different candles placed around the lip of the tub.

Hanta let himself relax for the first time that day. He loved his job but sometimes it felt like the world was on his shoulders, but being here with you and just basking in your presents made it better. Even if he had to work hard to be everyone’s hero, but at least you were there for him his own personal hero.

[losingitinjersey]

Last week, my first week back to work post maternity leave, felt both incredibly long and short at the same time. The fact that I'm now experiencing my second Monday back in the office feels like I never left but that everything's changed.

Thankfully, I'm slipping into a groove and finding less anxiety in my routine. When erp woke up at 4:30am today instead of any time after 5 I wasn't overly stressed with how I was going to manage but reminded myself that it wasn't a busy day and everything would be fine. I even laid back down for half an hour due to my not being frazzled and worried what I would forget.

On Friday Kevin was out of commission all day from a stomach bug and unfortunately, it hit me all day Saturday. Amazingly, erp seems unscathed and I'm so so grateful it hit Kevin and I on different days so we could share erp care while the other hugged the toilet. I'm also grateful that it hit on Saturday so I could recover on Sunday.

Last night I was reminded of one of my least favorite things about living on the east coast - late night start times for live broadcasts. I've never once missed watching an Oscars until yesterday. Yes, I recorded it and plan to watch it at some point but it's not the same. Given that my bedtime is anywhere between 7pm and 9pm having a show start at 8pm on a night where I need to do all the prep for the week just wasn't working for me. I chose my priorities and sadly the award show wasn't it.

Here's to a good week all around for all of us.

Viewing Update: finished Queer Eye Japan, finished Next In Fashion, watched all available new episodes of Fuller House, started and finished Locke and Key, started watching The Office season 2.*.

*This is now my third time trying to watch The Office. It's always been too cringey for me but too many people I enjoy their recommendations love this show so it deserves a third try. Maybe just have to keep at it.