#is a great conversation starter

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

HAPPY SPOOKY SEASON! Have some merch

recently received new stock photos for the Terrible Pink T-Shirts i sell on etsy, and i find them so funny for some reason...

look at the smiling attractive people wearing their (also smiling!) attractive fashion wear!

[thatsbelievable]

[ccynophobia]

Okay I'm sorry for biting you and breaking ur bone 😓☹️

sigh… it’s okay… it’ll heal or whatever.

so… uh, you like harlan ellison..?

[saintjasperira]

conflicted on what to so with this, it’s either going to be hair extensions (for volume) or doll hair i think

[tiffanyachings]

there’s nothing like wearing an unseen university shirt out and about to attract every single discworld fan within a five mile radius

[rawrkittenpurr]

got tagged by the amazing em @powerful-owl and let me just say up front that these questions are so cool and i've been enjoying them since saturday when i first saw them show up on my dash, so i'm so glad i got tagged and also thank you to the anon creator!

If you could have a superpower what would it be? What would genuinely revolutionise your life?

i love the wording of this but i'll have to be somewhat controversial with my answer: i would love it if my brain could rewire itself to always match the communication style/thought patterns of the person i'm interacting with. now that being said, most of the time i love the way my brain works and i that it gives me my personality and i know that this superpower would be taking away from that. but at the same time it would make life so much easier if i didn't have to put so much effort into explaining myself in so many situations.

2. What are you having for breakfast today?

i'll be honest i'm not sure if i had breakfast today. i did have a coffee (milk, no sugar) and if i did eat, it was probably some yoghurt, fruit, and like, a piece of chocolate or cereal bar. but i'm an irregular breakfast eater.

3. Tell me about a stuffed animal you own

oh my god i have so many. but here's a fun one: the little ikea mouse (not the rat, the mouse, it's much cuter) is one of my plushies that i sleep with, because i do grabby hands while sleeping and he's the perfect size for that. his name is potato (well, krumpli, but that's potato in hungarian) and my boyfriend sometimes complains that he woke up bc i lost krumpli and he ended up somewhere on his side of the bed and it was uncomfortable.

4. What phone games do you play?

genuinely the only games i play on my phone are the nyt ones: spanagram, connections, sometimes wordle. and the linkedin games. but i refuse to use an app or have an account.

5. Can you keep plants alive?

historically, no. but thankfully my bf is great at it, so we do have a lot of plants and they are, for the most part, thriving.

6. Tell me about a mug you own

so i've had so many fights about how many mugs one household needs and if it makes sense to have this many if i only use certain mugs for their dedicated purpose (e.g. 2 disney mugs that are only used for cold medicine). but there's this one mug that an older man living in our dog sitter's house gifted me when he saw our dog, it is a huge 500ml mug and it has a dalmatian on it that looks super similar to sky. the man told me he used to have a dalmatian as a kid and some stories about him - dennis - and this dennis mug is usually used for tea now.

7. What's the last thing you took a photo of? Share if you would like to.

technically, the last photo i took was of a vinted package that i was posting lol. but the last photo i didn't immediately delete after taking it was of sky feeling very hot.

8. Sitting inside looking out at the weather, or being outside and battling through it?

if this refers to cold weather events like rain or snow, then definitely looking out!

9. What was the last candle you burnt?

a leftover winter one, yankee candle's wrapping paper pine, because guess what, it was cold and stormy and it felt appropriate.

10. What's the nicest thing you've done for yourself in the last month?

just like... allowing myself to spend money on things? not even necessarily big things, but just telling myself it's okay to have treats if i can afford them. i come from a mindset of "money is for saving, not spending", i tend to think "i could do this at home" a lot (about food, drinks, beauty treatments, whatever), and i get upset when i feel like the price of something is ridiculous (be it takeaway coffee or plane tickets). but lately i've been thinking okay, but can i afford it? do i want it? then why not get it!

now i'm tagging @once-and-future-loser (yes i know you've been tagged already, consider yourself double tagged), @argentinagp, @girlbloggergp, @himbeeref1, @aliwritex, @beachesgetpeaches cause i'm curious!

[the-least-undefinable-ordinal]

It's funny how counterproductive most women's dating app¹ profiles are.

Easily 86% of them are just pictures of themselves looking hot and a bio that is either blank or says stuff like "looking for a man who provides" or "just be funny".

An emotional connection with these women is already out of the question or at least no more likely than connecting with the supermarket cashier during my weekly shopping trip.

So the only thing they have to offer is to be used as a disposable piece of meat, which is of course not wrong or anything but if that was their aim, then that profile isn't even useful on that front.

The one thing that would make them more desirable than just hiring a prostitute is if the expected payment was lower, which that kind of profile doesn't give high hopes for.

I'm sort of hoping these people just get lonely or stuck with uncaring partners for years, it seems like the most likely way to get them to reconsider their strategy, I don't have high hopes for that though.

¹ Sample taken from Tinder, OkCupid and Bumble.

[toyybox]

TRICK OR TREAT!!!!

here you go some chocolate rocks!! I’ve had these before they’re actually very good

and some really old writing I found from like 3-4 years ago? I wrote this before I even knew what whump was which is telling

[starburst-selfship]

Me and my mutual’s f/os when we all go on a double date together (they’re rivals)

[recitedemise]

There are so many personalities, perhaps a number flirting closer to a million or several. In that end, to grasp them all, one has better start learning, devouring all manner of manual and tomes. However, never one to be bested, Miraak trudges on admirably, and to credit, discreet as ever, Gale had hardly noticed.

But then, in all fairness, they, sat together, had technically just met. He hadn't known Miraak before, the man he'd grown to be when battered with solitude. Gale hadn't flavored his distrust or the quality of those men that had come here before him, and so, Miraak plunging longly in that study of biology? To Gale, it all seemed part and parcel with his hunger to learn. Surely, he little meant to suss him, learning how to treat this wizard in his tailored-fine velvets. Even Gale, half a peacock, wouldn't dare to assume a thought so flattering, but gods preserve him, Gale, unlike Miraak, isn't anywhere near as subtle. Even more so, Gale, unlike Miraak, is gleefully talkative.

After all, some studies, he would happily wager, are better learned beyond the pages of leather-clad books. This is where they differ, a stark chasm in their beings that would rival a ravine. Even after his isolation, Gale would jump oh so willingly into bartering words. He's a...fondness in him still, a sort of honeyed-up soul his rot couldn't conquer. It makes him honestly kind, stubbornly affable regardless if the day would strike him harder, and -- well, he's a mortal thing, too, simple with his wants and his vulnerable heart. Scholars long for knowledge in their hours with their books, but to his core, it was connection that Gale felt starved of the most.

It's a secret. And so, perhaps they've a pretense that they both will nurse.

Stirring, Gale looks to the page that Miraak thumbs on open. He looks to it, seeing little beyond words and a half-scrabbled image of some drawing of Atmora. It's conjecture a best, so shrouded in uncertainty and mystery as it is. It's a bygone era, and sadder still, an echo of a time with whom but one soul can hear. Gale listens to Miraak, their gazes locking as his host, his friend, shares a little of himself. Gale's heart folds a little, that emeralding glow freckling soft in his eyes. Like earth and moss and leaves upon the peat... Loneliness. Not for the first time, he thinks there's not a man more lonely.

"I hale from Waterdeep," he offers, "not so ancestral admittedly, but no less the hotbed for culture and aspiring innovations." He conjures up an image. "I live at her docks, surrounded always with waters as she winks with the sunrise. In the morning, I would smell the stirring of the bakeries preparing for the early birds, and at night, I would watch the stars where they would glimmer the proudest and brightest." Full and alive. There and present. The mirage before them twinkles like an ocean with a breeze, and Gale, looking up, gauges his companion.

Miraak... "How long have you been here?" / @bendwill, continued from here.

[ravioliet]

i should not be allowed to go to the comic book store <- this user just spent $70 on stuff for the mlp ttrpg

[herbofgraceandpeace]

this is personal, so feel free to ignore if you need to, but I am loooooooooosing my mind lol, so I gotta externalize the stress

tldr: pray for my stress and reliance upon God, I guess?

[octo-crafts]

Over my winter break I made a third one of these shirts (the steampunk cogs). This time, I left the pockets off completely, and I think I'll continue to do so in the future. I never use breast pockets, and the flaps make a sweater sit oddly over the shirt.

[miscmagpie]

Hi yes I had a wonderful time at the Halloween party and apparently my goofily social costume was a massive hit. I got to see friends and make new ones. All fantastic.

I'd like the post-party panic to absolutely fuck right off please.

[welcometothevale]

My first tag dump/drop thingy lmao.

The ones with full sentences are dialogue from the book.

[leon-on-the-froggy-chair]

Huh, LMAOOOOOOOOOO

you can tell a lot about someone based on their phone background. it shows what’s most important to them