#it is what i look forward to every year

[batboy33]

today i made the executive decision to book my june 4 months in advance

no one will be able to reach me from June 1 at 12:00 am till July 1 at 12:00 am

[donttouchmyasymptote]

happy holidays @gaybellethorn! really happy that i drew your name for @eah-exchange. i love your eah thoughts/headcanons and your presence has always felt essential to my experience of the eah fandom

the raven/apple is the main gift, but i also drew in some apple/darling/briar and some regular dappling since you mentioned them in your prompt list!!

[flaticeball]

hey! as the first season of connor bedard gets underway i, your local indigenous hockey fan, have a request of you: please don't let this kid's sure to be marvellous and jaw-dropping rookie season make you complacent with the racism of the blackhawks as an organization. it is beyond heinous that they were able to secure the first overall pick this year for a number of reasons i'm sure we're all familiar with, but i am pleading with the hockey community not to let the racism of this org fall through the cracks.

they drafted connor bedard and handed him a jersey with a giant racist caricature on the front. their mascot is named tommy hawk. they continuously fail to curtail their fans' egregious displays of anti-indigenous racism at games.

i'm not going to ask anyone not to post about bedard. i know he's huge news and i'm bummed as all hell that i won't be able to enjoy the beginning of what is sure to be an incredible career myself. but i am asking, given that his presence on the team is likely to increase the prevalence of people making and reblogging posts about the blackhawks, that you please care, loudly and actively, about the racism of this organization and how much it hurts indigenous fans to see that go unquestioned so often.

consider mentioning it in posts. consider amplifying the voices of indigenous fans and community members about the issues of these types of sports organizations. consider reading up on the history of the person they claim to 'honour' with their hideous effigy of a logo. consider censoring the logo in your posts if you are able to (please do this if you are able to). consider tagging posts so that indigenous fans are at the very least able to blacklist that team and not have to see it.

above all, please just. don't forget about it. don't forget about us. we belong here too.

[finn-from-adventure-time]

How life feels when you’re back in your undertale/Deltarune hyperfixation:

[ilkkawhat]

[mobius-m-mobius]

✨ 2024 in gifs ✨

rules: post your favourite and most popular post from each month this year (it’s okay to skip months)

Tagged by @evan-buck, thank you so much Lauren!! An absolute delight looking over all your incredible work and taking some time to reflect on my own gifs too 💖

January: •fav: Tied between Loki saying Mobius' name and an inspired Lokius set to test out new effects for the new year 🎇 •most popular: Lokius in S2 February: •fav: Only man in the world Mobius M. Mobius appreciation •most popular: Staged // BAFTAs March: •fav: Still waiting for that drink 😔 •most popular: DT as everyone's favorite chaotic car salesman April: •fav: Lokius x Fall Out Boy and TenSimm always being famous •most popular: A little suit appreciation for David's birthday May: •fav: A rather flawless entry back into the Lokius incorrect quote series if I do say so myself 🤣💕 •most popular: Owen and Tom discussing Loki (pleased to say my most popular set of the entire year!) June: •fav: Mobius falling for Loki in S1 •most popular: Loki yearning for Mobius in S2 July: •fav: Mobius + comfort and Dan Craig x Loewe the gift that keeps on giving •most popular: Loki S01E01 // PaleyFest August: •fav: History repeating itself with Midnight in Paris // Loki •most popular: Some Ten appreciation for the bestie 🎈🎉 September: •fav: This Lokius "Falling in love with a God" blended set, very possibly the best thing I've ever made 🥰 •most popular: Logan Howlett my beloved October: •fav: My Lokius in S1 summary came together perfectly and Queer (2024) had such stunning shots •most popular: David in Rivals S01E01 November: •fav: Tied between tearing myself apart over the Loki S2 finale anniversary and the range of Owen's birthday set •most popular: Loki S02E05 anniversary (shoutout to the romcom of all time 😘) December: •fav and most popular: Closing out the year the only way I know how, same as it started with Lokius down as bad as two people can get ✌️🙏

Tagging @too-funky, @dilfmobius, @lokimobius, @safedistancefrombeingsmart, @crowleybrekkers, @meep-meep-richie, and @crowlixcx as well as anyone else who wants to join!! So here to celebrate all the incredible creations throughout the year 💖💖

[httpiastri]

heartbreak, victories and sweet sweet faces 💘

[kazzu120-old]

Finally got around to watching all of Love Live 10 years too late smh...

[epitomees]

HAPPY NEW YEAR GANG!!!

Another year has started, and another year of potential interactions waits for us all!! I'm more than excited and eager to start cracking down on things around here, but I did want to give a bit of a heads up before I attempt to head dive into things today.

I greatly dislike how many drafts and asks I've built up over this year. Some have been left untouched because my stupid pea brain told me 'I'll get to it later' and then 3 months pass without me remembering about it. Other things I've been trying to answer but then I don't like how I wrote it so I saved it for later and then never got around to it. If you know me well, I never like to delete these asks/drafts from my writing partners since they put their time and energy into crafting an interaction with me, so I always feel bad for deleting it in the end.

But I know if I keep this up, it's only going to get worse for me. Decision paralysis is so real, and the lack of attention and motivation due to my full-time job doesn't help much either ESPECIALLY since this year was MORE BUSY than before due to it being an election year in my country. I'm trying not to make excuses here, but the nature of my own personal life and my career has picked up so much in the last two years I've barely had the time to sit down for threads.

So with the new year starting, I'm going to wipe clean the majority of my asks/drafts. I'll save the Christmas/winter asks and any drafts from October onward. I want a fresh start, and so I think it's best for me if I nuke most everything in my inbox.

NOW THAT DOES NOT MEAN I DON'T WANT TO INTERACT WITH YOU!! I want more interactions, I want to reblog memes again instead of holding off since my inbox is FULL of unanswered asks I'm too nervous to delete. I feel like that will also help gain some of my muses' voices back. Please feel free to keep sending me things, or pop into my DMs and chat with me one-on-one if you want plotted interactions instead! I'm game for whatever you'd like!

This turned out to be longer than expected, but I've wanted to get this off my chest for a while now. I cherish all my writing partners, those I've known for so many years, those just new to the blog, and those future writers I'll get to hopefully know this coming year. It's one of my goals this year to start thinking about what is best for me when it comes to Tumblr RP writing and how I can keep myself engaged in my hobby while balancing out my personal life/career life. I'm so thankful to everyone who's written with me this year! Your patience and understanding is something I treasure about you because there's not many people who have those qualities nowadays.

Here's to a new year!! New interactions, new experiences, new memories, new friends, and plenty of fun too!!

[corviiids]

THANKS @kimdokjafan you are so kind and generous. ok im cashing in the first of three blank checks to talk about faith trust and pixie dust (most recent chatfic) because the last two directors commentaries were too serious so let's do a silly one.

some p5r spoilers, and this is mostly about sumire, and it's long again. do i need to keep disclaiming that these are long? you should know me by now.

i had this written for a while before i started formatting it because i wasn't really sure if i should post it? i feel like silly chatfic is something people go to for predominantly lighthearted nonsense so i was like, maybe there's too much plot and dramatic misunderstanding and i should just keep this one for myself. but then i was like well nothing matters and maybe someone will have fun with it. it's kind of terrible how much fully or mostly completed fic there is my docs that just doesn't see the light of day lol. write for yourself etc but i like sharing! too bad it comes with the mortifying ordeal etc. anyway that was a tangent

potato counter is a neopets game. there's no deep lore i just like neopets. i guess in this universe ryuji doesn't play neopets? or maybe he's just never played potato counter specifically. i also have a different fic where ryuji DOES play neopets. it's about neopets and ryuji and goro talking on neopets.

i think this might literally be the first time ive written sumi in a fic because i haven't actually written that much fic for royal, like, now that im looking, literally almost none? and none that had a group dynamic. so it was kind of fun to find her voice for the first time in a silly groupchat like this. i was worried people would find her exclamation marks annoying but i personally thought it was endearing so i added it in there.

every time i do a gag where a character corrects their own typo i have to code more stupid little bubbles to make it happen but i think it's worth it. all the effort that goes into making tgis look as much like a real chat as possible

this obviously doesnt take place in the canon p5/r universe, but im imagining sort of a postcanon sumi personality where she's more comfortable being herself and isn't borrowing kasumi's brand of confidence, but she's visibly a really anxious person without that kasumi veneer. i also think in this universe sumire is a fairly recent addition to the friend group, and while everyone likes her a lot and she really likes them, i kind of wanted to emphasise that feeling of being in a friend group where everyone's established and you're sort of a plus-one? you don't really fit yet. part of that is her being new, part of it is her anxiety, part of it is just the kind of person sumi is where she's so polite and self-conscious she ends up taking herself out of things with her own good intentions. stuff like her interrupting the flow of an existing conversation by greeting everyone instead of jumping straight in because she doesn't feel comfortable inserting herself, which means everyone else stops to greet her even though that doesn't normally happen in a friend group, or making a point of thanking everyone for being invited to events while the others take it as a given.

idk i love that she feels a bit out of place with the phantom thieves in p5r. and part of that is a natural consequence of being a new addition in royal who can't be naturally integrated with an existing dynamic but i honestly feel like the writing team realised that and acknowledged it, and really leaned into it, and that made it work incredibly well for me. like, it's part of her character that she's sort of an outsider. it's not like p4g's incredibly clumsy integration of marie and subsequent attempt to shove her down everyone's throat as the canon love interest in p4ga (knife). sumi has that outsider vibe on purpose and it makes me really like her dynamic with the thieves as an individual

goro also feels slightly out of place in these chats, but his conversational style blends more naturally with the other thieves at this point and he even uses their codenames sometimes. i keep saying my chatfic series isn't a real Series because the lore keeps changing, but if we accept that they're all kind of following a General Continuity, assume this takes place some time after the last fic in which ren added goro to the groupchat and they made an effort to integrate him into their friend group. he's kind of there now and has settled into being the weird boyfriend. that's his role.

every time goro says something like "ren and i" assume it's the text equivalent of him talking to the group with his arm around ren's waist.

ok i got really fond of this silly running joke where sumi brings up the weather when she's feeling uncomfortable. she's so polite. i like this thread because setting it up meant i got to tie it off like this:

this just made me happy lol i liked writing this. i tried to use it to demonstrate that despite goro's abrasiveness he obviously knows sumire pretty well, he's attuned to her quirks and knows how to tell when she's having a bad time with her anxiety, so he uses her little weather habit to ground her.

i honestly dont think goro and sumire could be considered close in p5r and as much as i like the "royal trio" in canon they're not really... like... friends? with each other? they're both attached to ren, so it' more a V shape than anything else. but that said, i really LIKE goro and sumi's canon dynamic. he takes a really grouchy but politely attentive supervisory role to her during their few forays into the palace as a trio where he doesn't really know her well but clearly identifies her as a harmless little tryhard who needs some guidance and steps into that role grudgingly, and she immediately looks up to him despite being very wrong footed by his ruthlessness, which i find incredibly charming. i think given time they could be good friends, they just didn't get much chance to know each other very well in canon. so i tried to kinda do that here.

once goro stops being evil and joins the group they all kind of tiredly accept that his role is to occasionally push a cup off a bench while smirking and refuse to clean it up. emotionally, i mean.

wait i need to backtrack chronologically to talk about akeshu.

in this scene they're in the same room lol talking and snickering while typing. im trying to get at that vibe of the annoying couple who is flirting with each other, via you. you know? like ostensibly they're talking to you (sumire) but everything they say to you is part of their stupid game. sumi is incidental to goro and ren teasing each other about flirting with someone else, goro is reporting everything ren says because his boyfriend is so eye-rollingly foolish in a cute way. they're very tickled by how amusing and charming they are. gross. disgusting. sumire im so sorry for putting you through this

anyway here are too many of my favourite jokes from the fic

[fionnaskyborn]

People like this have made me terrified that I am mischaracterizing my favorite character by playing into his strengths and emphasizing them so much... That I'm making things "too anime", "too over-the-top", and by doing that straying away from the groundedness that made the character compelling in the first place... But I think it's better to be a fan who loves someone so much they're willing to step into goofy over-the-top showcases of strength and morals out of love than being a fake fan who only ever rags on what they proclaim is so dear to them. I dunno. I don't think I'm wrong in saying that. I'm hella insecure when it comes to my own writing, especially with this guy because I want to do him as much justice as I possibly can as a writer. But I have to convince myself that it's not too much.

[longagoitwastuesday]

I have learnt things about Geto that I wish I could unlearn

[bluespring864]

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[puhpandas]

john disagreeing with in his words "copying and pasting the origin story from the books into the games effectively spoiling everything about it" in his new video is so fucking based he is so real

[punkrockisafulltimejob]

For those who are unsure of whether or not they really have the "sensitivity to cold" symptom of fibromyalgia, because you think that it's just you not being able to handle colder temperatures like other people, that's one way of putting it. The other way is, when it's winter and the temperatures start dropping, do you feel your pain more intensely? Do you feel like you have more problems with your joints? Is your partner always commenting how cold your fingers and toes are, but it somehow gets more frequent in winter? Those are other ways to consider being sensitive to the cold.

[thevoidstaredback]

Let the Christmas traditions (amen) begin!

Tonight, we have a roast dinner, accompanied by A Christmas Story. After which will be Christmas Carol, followed by Muppet's Christmas Carol. Finally, mom and dad will go to sleep, while I set out stockings (me and mom switched out this year. I'm excited)

In the morning, we'll wait for Twin to get here. When she does, it's stockings, then breakfast of donuts and chocolate milk, then presents