#indulging my inner-child

[try-and-try-and-try-again]

06/05/24 // Something nice. I (impulse) bought two 3D printed fidget toys from a garden centre. I was going to go for a walk with my parents but it was raining so we went there instead. An axolotl (yes blue is hardly accurate but it was the only colour) and a shiny copper snake (it has the proportions of an earthworm but oh well, I love how it shimmers). The garden centre had both a reptile shop and an aquatics shop where I saw amongst other things live axolotls and one of the most beautiful shimmery betta fish I have ever come across (described as iron ingot). I didn’t take pictures because I didn’t have my phone.

[lovecolibri]

The new d20 merch?! Owlbears dice tray? La Famila mug? Moon is the night sun pin??

RIP my bank accout I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️

[thefreakandthehair]

(this is not at all based on my personal experience this week with a water main break and myself having grown up as a trailer park kid and my fiance as... not)

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It's 2006 when Eddie and Steve buy a small little 2-bedroom house and all is going well until there's a water main break in their neighborhood. Thankfully, it's fixed quickly but there's something called a "boil water precaution" until the water company tests for bacteria, etc. The recording instructs them not to drink, consume, or really use the water much at all until they receive a follow-up with an all-clear. Steve has no idea what the fuck is happening or what that even means; meanwhile, Eddie just sighs, shoves himself off the couch, and trudges into the kitchen.

"What-- what are you doing, Ed?" Steve stares, confused, in the doorway of the kitchen. Eddie's got three big pots out, filling them with water from the tap, and sets them all to high heat on the stovetop.

"Boiling water? You heard the same automated call I did, right?" Eddie stares back at Steve, equally as confused but for different reasons.

"But, why don't I just, I dunno, go to the store and get a couple packs of water bottles? Or a big jug?"

Eddie freezes on the spot-- in all the many, many times he'd seen his folks and then Wayne boil water for him to drink, he'd never considered that as an option because it was never proposed as an option. Money was tight, boiling water was free, and that was simple math.

"I-- well, yeah. Huh. I guess, yeah, I guess we could do that." Eddie chuckles to himself, turning the burners off and feeling a slight sting of embarrassment. It's been years now, and he knows that Steve doesn't look down on him for his upbringing but reminders like this of how impoverished his childhood was compared to Steve's will always hit that tender spot in his chest.

Steve clocks the lack of eye contact, the soft voice, the hunched shoulders when he starts emptying pots over the dirty dishes they'd meant to wash but would now have to wait. He crosses the threshold of their little peach kitchen ("we are painting this room immediately, Steve") and takes the pot from Eddie's hands, pouring the rest out himself.

"Y'know, it's actually pretty cool that you know how to do shit like that. Make something from nothing, fix problems."

Eddie rolls his eyes, just a touch. "You do too, I was with you through the whole almost-apocalypse thing, remember?"

Steve huffs out of his nose. Of course he remembers that. That's how they'd ended up here in the first place, but that's not his point. Once the last of the three pots is emptied, Steve pulls Eddie into him, hugging him so tight and swaying him side to side until Eddie finally laughs.

"Y'know I love you, right?"

Eddie pushes back just enough to look at Steve with his warm eyes, salt and peppery hair starting to crop up just at his temple, and arms still wound tight around his waist.

And yeah, there are a few things Eddie Munson knows for sure: boil water if the pressure was cut off for too long, a can of beans and white rice make a damn good meal, and Steve Harrington? Well, Steve Harrington loves him.

[bee-sidebranch]

is dragon time

[gautiersylvain]

Could I kiss you?

[pacing-er]

ItaFushi in Neopets...

I wish I could've given Megumi spikier hair but this is the best I could do that wasn't species locked or impossible to find 😭😭😭 also getting Yuji hair that is remotely close to his canon look was a lost cause so I didn't try lol

[mabelsguidetolife]

was shopping with my parents and i saw bath crayons and my dad saw a glint in my eye as i looked at them and was like “do you want those????” but then my mom was like “she’s not a child, you know”

……… the thing is, i kinda would’ve loved to get them ngl

[canine-teethed-sheets]

they're watching rapunzel.......

[fihyn-art]

cheer up and dry your damp eyes and tell me when it rains and I'll blend up that rainbow above you and shoot it through your veins ♪ ✧･ﾟ: *

[lesbiancolumbo]

It’s kind of funny that the adults who love YA and comic books and Disney and other media for kids also, apparently, want desperately to be taken seriously by other grown ups. (You know, treated like an adult.) Like ‘yes, I only read Harry Potter fanfic and watch cartoons, but damnit Barbara don’t you patronize me! I demand to be treated with the same respect as any other adult baby!’ (I’d say ‘have a drink and calm down’ but my bottle warmer is on the blink.) Does the defensiveness come from a place of insecurity or do they genuinely believe that other adults are lying when they claim to enjoy adult things? Like do they think all adults would secretly prefer to watch CocoMelon instead of HBO and play with Lego rather than have sex, but gosh darn it most grups just won’t admit it?

i think they just never grew out of the child mentality that adults are boring and lame unlike them, this fifteen year old moron, the coolest person they know (because they know like 20 people). they see adulthood as going to bed at 9 PM and having to work and do taxes and chores and watching war documentaries and reading nonfiction. it just smacks of arrested development to me, but i also like don't take that kind of adult seriously and i definitely don't put any stock in their opinions on books, films, etc., and will tell them so lol.

[starmolts]

OMG!! :D it’s god’s special boy :)

[pawfrill]

he is the prefect balance for me and my childlike self, he acts like he doesn’t enjoy my foolishness but he secretly enjoys seeing me act so giddy over the smallest things

[ichiiigos]

what if i...

[yeehonks-sketchbook]

Hi Tumblr! it's me again. Say hello to my mutant OC!

[sylphidae]

Idk how my mom never realized im autistic i used to eat something i called "hamburger salad" as a kid that was literally just cooked ground beef, shredded cheddar cheese, and ketchup mixed up in a bowl...

[iamthemaestro]

one thing about me is that once I pick up a plushie in the store with intention of buying I Cannot put him back in favor of another one. I can’t give him false hope like that. he might be a little messed up but he spoke to me. we have a connection