#into one heck of an expression

[the-chronicles-of-a-bookworm]

sometimes, when i go out with my friends or something, I always buy coffee if there's a cafe nearby. i drink coffee almost as much as water. and mine is pretty normal, a honey almond milk flat white will do the trick. except, i always add 1 or 2 extra shots of espresso. and AFTER those two shots, I put in 2 more packets of sugar and mix it all up. when i get this, people normally except a very sweet honey almond milk flat white, but sometimes, they don't hear me putting my order. so they dont know i have 2 shots of espresso in it. they come up to me and ask, "can i have a sip?" and i always say "yeah sure" and i never tell them about the espresso part. if they ask me what it is, i just tell them its a honey almond milk flat white with extra sugar and something else. and they drink it, and the face they make when they take a sip is always nice to see.

[livingonthesands]

0.85.

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[fisheito]

i am thinking about. From the Earth, Nectar

[sysig]

Softly, slowly, I want to love you anyway (Patreon)

[nantokanarusaa]

Ao no Flag (SERIES FINALE SPOILERS!!)

Seriously, don’t read this if you are planning to read Ao no Flag. That being said, go read the manga now!!

Finally finished reading Ao no Flag and I have so many feelings. Non-coherent, rambly, messy feelings. I was looking at reactions online and what mainly boggles me about the reactions to the final 2 chapters is people being “how is Taichi suddenly gay??” My friend living on this big planet he never was (he’s bi). He most likely just realized it later in life. Did the events of his 3rd HS year help him figure it out? Heck yes. Is he suddenly bi? No.

Not all queer people pop out into this world and instantly know they are queer. Heck, it took me 23 years to figure that out. It’s not like Taichi instantly realized he likes Touma and started dating him. He knew Touma mattered to him somehow, but it took him multiple years to realize how, as evident by him maybe starting his relationship with Touma after 5 years when Touma contacted them all. He gained life experience and grew.

People go through a lot of learning, unlearning and growing. Especially if you are outside of societal expectations and norms. Taichi grew up learning to and wanting to blend in with society. “Be normal, don’t stand out too much”. Add to that low self-confidence and you feel stuck. Feel like there is only black and white. only one right answer to life. It can be very difficult to look out of this dark box, trust me, I had a tough time and sometimes still do. But it feels like Taichi thought and thought and pondered even back in high school and came to the decisions that he did.

And isn’t that what the series is about? growing as a person, making mistakes, learning, allowing yourself to be visible and vulnerable, and eventually, making choices, even if they don’t make sense to anyone else, and continuing to do so?

These two pages really hit me hard and I was wondering why. And then it hit me. This is possibly the happiest I’ve seen Taichi be since his childhood. Like genuinely happy. He’s reached max happiness points and is sharing those with Touma. He’s made his choices, and he’s happy. You can and are allowed to choose what or who makes you happy.

That’s all that matters.

[soup-for-ghosts]

HSR 2.1 SPOILERS

maybe this was funnier in my head

[onceinawhilemoon]

Can we talk about how Sherlock wrote this interesting introspection next to one of his crime scene sketches?

Bottom right text reads, "I'm caught in the suspension of time. The days just melt together, feelings get muddled, & my head feels both heavy & airy at the same time."

Top left corner text reads, "I'm caught feelings"

[nami-moittli]

The persona dancing games are so good that I want ALL my favorite medias to get persona-style dancing games

[wysteriaisapenguin]

Happy Pride!!! 

Percy’s on a date with Harold for a Pride Parade on Sodor~ 

[calamitaswrath]

While I'm still riding the Xenoblade X hyperfixation, let me just use it to talk gender identity some more.

Between deciding on my current Cross design back during last December and where I am now (i.e. feeling that I'm probably a Woman But A Bit To The Side), I initially did have the plan of just switch between the male design and the female one. But even though I kept those two looking as close to each other as possible, there was always something that I didn't quite like about the male one on a very basic level, and something that I just couldn't put my finger on, let alone fix. Somewhere down the line, I decided to also make myself smaller builds for both, as an alternative to switch to. So, "Young Boy" instead of "Boy", and "Girl" instead of "Woman". For the female Cross, that worked out well enough, and I still have the design I came up with for that saved in-game, even if I have taken no screenshots. But with the male Cross? For the life of me, I could not put together a design that I even remotely liked. Absolutely nothing felt right, even though on principle, I guess I preferred the younger looking face over my actual "main" male Cross (which even then, I almost never used). In the end, I just gave up that whole design process entirely. I guess that only really serves to show that I'm really not off in my current self-perception. . .

[pokimoko]

5, 10, 20, and 25 for fic in review ask thing!!!

5. What ships captured your heart?

I am a gen writer through and through, so it's a very rare thing to see me writing a ship-focused fic. That said, I really enjoyed the pairing of Karlach and Astarion this year, though I wouldn't say I shipped them necessarily in a romantic sense. The fic I wrote that had them together had their relationship tagged '(it's fairly ambigious; is it romantic? queerplatonic? platonic? yes), (the love and devotion is there regardless)' which I think basically sums up how I view them (and also how aromantic I am about shipping 😅).

I also liked Billford, but in a strictly 'oh yeah they're super divorced, they are never getting back together' kind of way. Not sure if that counts as shipping, but hey, it's definitely counts as something.

10. What fic was the most satisfying to write?

I would have to say either 'The Poetics of Space' (Gravity Falls) or 'On Waxen Wings We Soar, In Spite of Inevitable Ends' (Baldur's Gate 3). They were the two fics I was the most happiest with this year, not only regarding the quality of the writing itself and the themes they explored (the constance of change not only in the world but also ourselves, and finding joy in and making peace with the time you have left), but also how they tied everything together in their conclusions. Both of them equally made me feel a 'wow..I did that' feeling of accomplishment when I finished them, so yeah, they both were absolutely the most satisfying to write.

20. Share your funniest line.

Being more of angst-based writer kinda limits my collection of comedic lines (even my more comedic story this year was extremely angsty), but there was one line I wrote this year that got a couple comments about it making the reader laugh, so I'll go with that one (because if two people found it funny, surely it must be, right):

“You try fixing an interdimensional portal for thirty years without learning physics," (Stanley) said. "I know what quarks are now. Do you know how much I hate knowing what quarks are.”

25. How did you recharge between fics?

Usually I'd spend the first few days after finishing a fic trying to figure out the what the heck to do with the spare time I had previously allocated to writing said fic, and then once I figured that out (and had yet to be overcome with the urge to write something else), I'd probably watch a TV show, read a book, play video games, and do some art. I'm boring like that.

Send me a number!

[6mayhem]

miss him (fictional bisexual emo from a 2015 webnovel)

[sleepyone2three]

Franky and Robin telling bad puns right after Brook makes a killer entrance with one? I don't think I'll ever love anything more.

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

Blows my mind how “damn” is considered an actual swear in the US, but they got away with saying piss in an episode of Regular Show

[sysig]

DAX is just so expressive ♥ (Patreon)

[spacephobos]

some ppl on the internet will really argue that characters that look like this "aren't feminine"

like yall really genuinly think this is the only way a character can look to be considered feminine

and then will turn around and argue a woman in heels and full makeup is actually masc bc she what? wore jeans? (this goes double for non white women who are held to a much higher scrutiny)

ive seen this in so many fandom spaces. and some of you guys really have such a binary and sad outlook on gender and gender expression and really genuinly hate anything that isnt within a strict gender binary. and then will frame white women in dresses as being so "subversive and feminine when all female characters are masculine nowadays"

literally you guys hate masc women so much that any woman not in a dress 24/7 is "too masculine" in your eyes