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besthimbomachine · 2 years ago

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I want your commentary on a section of one of your fics, or a whole fic, that you've been DYING to get your thoughts out on. 😊

I hope you've been having a good day, and wanted to get this in before I go to bed glrbfj.

Owwwn thank you sweetheart <3

Btw I got this ask for the Directors Commentary thing AND another one for that too by an anon, nonnie I'm gonna save yours until chapter 4 is done cause I'll for SURE have things to talk about chapter 4 too. I fought through the pure angst of chapters 1 and 2 to get to the other ones which will have more funny, fluffy and horny things which I love writing. Chapter 3 already starts that off with the horny.

Anyways into the commentary proper, I did a bunch of parts of chapter 3 cause I really liked writing it.

I guess first I wanna comment in the fic as a whole. If anyone doesn't know, the title "my love when it counted" comes from the hozier song shrike. If you haven't listened to it, go and look it up, it's great and very much the vibe of this fic.

Anyways, this fic came not from a prompt or situation I found hot as most of mine do but from a feeling. Like, we know Kenny talked about thinking of retiring due to his injuries and we've been getting the vibe, esp after this week's show but also on his feud with Osprey, that he has been feeling the years. That he knows time has started to take it's toll on him. And I myself have been kinda going through my own crisis cause I'm reaching thirty, and as someone who only fell in tune with my own skin after I was 25, the dawning of my youth scares me.

So a heavy theme of this fic is time, how it changes you, in some ways it's bad, in some ways it's good, but it changes you. It has the power to change you so thoroughly that you become a stranger to your past self. So this is a story about the inexorable march of time and the changes it forces on you, and how sometimes you can be the right person at the wrong time. It's also about learning to live with your mistakes and putting in the work to fix things.

Also, every chapter has a working title so I can tell from one look at my Google docs what it's gonna be about, this one was "down memory lane hard".

Chapter parts will be under the read more

That was the box Kenny had dumped any photo with you in, to never be seen again. Shit, he didn’t even know he still had that. He was supposed to have thrown it away, but he never did quite get up the courage to do so. Looking at them now, he could feel the bitter sweet pang of nostalgia, the way it tasted like ashes in his mouth. Swallowing thickly, he stacked the photos together in the box again. That’s when he noticed something else, the black metal previously hidden by the scattered papers shining back at him. (Kenny made the big mistake of giving himself time to doubt instead of just throwing things out right away, big mistake buddy. Nostalgia is a drug, and also a liar, rarely the past is quite as good as it makes you think. Anyways, this is not the last we will hear from the nostalgia box, it still holds something else we haven’t heard about yet.)

For the most part, the camera seemed ok, and it sparked in Kenny a curiosity that he knew he shouldn’t feed. Whatever pictures it held, he knew they would do him no good right now. He knew he should just put it back in the box and leave it be. But he couldn’t resist as his finger pushed the power button, body moving on its own, ignoring all common sense. All he could do was hope the thing just would not turn on. (These three first chapters are just a long stretch of Kenny making bad decisions, some he really thinks would work out - like pretending you are strangers instead of trying to behave normally - and others he really know wouldn’t work out and still he does. At this point he is doing this almost as a type of self flagellation, he knows it will only hurt but it feels better to have the pain than nothing at all)

But of course it did. (hello ominous one liner in italic my old friend)

When Kenny finally made his way to the old photos, the first thing he was greeted with was his own face. Those same baby blues staring back at him, although a good few wrinkles less and many years younger. (references to how he feels about his age are actually important but hey kenny time did you good, you look better now) He had a smile on his face, features framed by the ropes as he sat on the floor of the ring. Behind him, he could see the silhouettes of Matt and Nick facing the vast empty arena, only a few more blurred forms dotted in the background.

Sighing deeply, Kenny moved on to the older photos. Passing through pictures of him, Matt and Nick preparing in the ring, as well as pictures of you getting ready or climbing on the ropes. There was one video from that day that had you and Kenny dancing around the ring, and for the second time now he felt his heart shatter as his memory failed him. He made through the pictures of the four of you, but nothing moved his mind, the memories truly lost to time. (Time and how it changes people is at the core of this fics theme yes and the first thing time goes for in a person is their memories, the human mind is actually very bad at remembering things and sometimes that’s great but other times it’s depressing.)

Biting his lower lip, Kenny laid back against the headboard, finger pressing the button again, but the picture meeting him this time being completely different. The photo had been taken in front of a large mirror outside a building, and standing in the frame were the two of you. He had an umbrella in hand, and you had the camera covering half of your face as you looked through the viewfinder. (Go ahead and imagine the most Wes Anderson looking ass picture, that’s what I was going for, and yes I do deserve to get sent to the content gulag for my hipster crimes)

Sighing again, Kenny flipped through the photos rapidly before stopping when he noticed a change in environment. The picture he’d stopped in was of you, looking away from the camera with your hair tied up, water covering your bare chest all the way above the breasts. He paused, studying the environment, the stone walls and hazy fog circling you were hard to mistake. You two were at an onsen, by the size of it a private one, probably from whichever place you were staying at. (Hello darkness my old friend, like I said, I would have a hard time getting into an onsen cause the japanese still connect tattoos to criminal behavior and I’m covered in tattos but I’ve never commited a crime [Maria has in fact commited multiple minor crimes ranging from drug possession, to showin her tits in public, to having sex in a public-ish place, to stealing from a supermarket to the worst of all,multiple accounts of piracy])

Kenny’s eyes trailed the exposed skin on the back of your neck, eyes following the curve of your spine as it delved underwater. He felt his chest tighten again, you were so gorgeous, if he closed his eyes he could almost feel your soft skin on his fingertips. The next picture had you laughing, waving one hand at the camera as if trying to shoo him away. Your movement - and the surrounding fog - made the photo blurry, but he could still see your exposed chest. Warm water spilled down the inside of your breasts, kissing your skin in ways he could only have in his dreams now.

Moving on to the next photo, Kenny felt the air hitching in his throat as his eyes met with your own, large and entrancing in a way that he never found again after he lost you. Your beautiful irises stared back at him through the screen, keeping him locked in place for a good moment as he felt himself dragged to the bottom of a lake. And for a second there, he really didn’t want to resurface. (Kenny is longing to the point of self destruction, poor guy, but like I said I like to write my man a little pathetic, take him down a notch, make him suffer for his crimes and have to work to get the girl)

When he finally remembered to breathe, Kenny fully took in the image. You stared straight ahead, deep sultry eyes locked with the lens as his hand touched your face. One of your hands held his own, your lips touching his knuckles and the back of his fingers in a soft kiss. Water droplets ran down the curve of your breasts, with the way you were sitting the water just about touched your chest, not fully reaching your nipples. God, you looked like something out of this world, like a siren ready to drag him underwater, a lure he’d never deny. (If he won’t let you do like a siren and drag him to the bottom of a lake to kill him, does he really love you?)

Blood rushed to Kenny’s face and in a moment his breathing became hard, air evading him for a long second. It was almost like he’d forgotten just how gorgeous you could be. His fragile memory - and his most shameful dreams - not doing justice to a sight he once had so freely that he didn’t fully value. He was young and stupid, and you were too beautiful for him to understand - and fuck, from what he saw in the ring you’d only gotten better. (Gotta make sure to remind yall that we are romanticizing aging in this house, you look better in your early thrities than you did in your early twenties!!!)

It did him no good. (Ominous one liner here again to remind Kenny that he should have just turned off the camera)

Watching the scene in the camera had Kenny groaning, extending his legs out in the bed, free hand coming to rest on top of the bulge now formed in his pants. He watched the image of you continue to tease him on the screen, licking his swollen head as you made eye contact with the lens. Muttering curses, his eyes followed the movements of your tongue, his fingers caressing his large bulge over the fabric of his pants. Just the sight of your lips surrounding the head of his cock being enough to have him fully hard. (One hard thing about this chapter was making it clear what was happening on the screen and what was happenning in current time you know, I wanted to make it clear enough so that things wouldn’t be too confusing. Anyways, love writing handjobs and blowjobs, this short smut gave me both, I should have expanded on it but I was tired already.)

Shit, he knew he shouldn’t be watching this. Let alone taking his pleasure from it. It felt wrong, but he didn’t really wanna think about that right now. Kenny only barely remembered filming this video, let alone that it still existed somewhere. He brushed against it again by pure chance, it was not like a premeditated thing.

Fuck, he missed you in more ways than he’d want to admit, and he didn’t want to deny his body’s desire. He didn’t want to deny the way seeing you in the ring had his mind reeling. The way hearing your voice in the backstage halls sent shivers down his spine. He knew it was wrong, but for a single moment he chose to give in to the desire burning deep inside his core. (We get a ‘I know it’s wrong but fuck it’ moment. Was it wrong of him? Yeah, kinda. But as someone who has been friends with people attracted to me and has artistic nudes floating somewhere in the internet, my personal belief is you can jerk off to a picture of me whatever so long as you treat me like a normal human being I don’t care)

Pulling the waistband of his pants down, Kenny released his throbbing cock. Veins popping around the thick shaft and sensitive head, his fingers sliding around it lazily. (thick and veiny is my favorite) He watched as you started slowly moving your head up and down on the screen, each time taking more of his shaft inside your mouth. Groaning, he cursed the lack of audio on the camera, wanting nothing more than to hear the delicious sounds he knew you’d be making. Kenny’s large hand wrapping tight around his length, fingers barely meeting as he pumped himself slowly. (One way I like to give the idea of dick size in smut instead of using the extremely vague and relative ‘it’s huge’ or the waaaay to specific and not sexy at all ‘X inches’ is to compare it to other things, writing blowjobs and handjobs is good for that. I mean, you know how large Kenny’s hands are, if his fingers can barely touch when he warps his hand around his cock, you know it’s BIG)

Kenny took in a sharp breath as he saw your lips getting close to the base of his cock, the camera shaking in his hands as a shiver coursed through his body, setting every nerve alight. He threw his head back, cursing under his breath before looking down again, watching you with darkened eyes. Taking his hand from his cock for a second, Kenny spat on his palm before he went back to fisting his length, fingers now picking up speed. (Spit is not good as lube I know, but it gives a raw sense of desperation that I find sexy for blowjob scenes)

Darkened eyes followed your movements as you bobbed your head a few more times, from tip all the way down, until your lips finally reached the base. The image shook a little before it steadied again. Kenny could almost feel the sensations, the tip of his cock touching the back of your throat, the wet warmth of your mouth stretching around his dick. He’d never forget that feeling, sinful and holy, pleasure bordering on pain. (Deep throat! Deep throat! A girl got a well trained gag reflex, kudos. Also, I know it’s cheap using a pleasure/pain comparison but I like it, I do.)

You continued your sucking on screen, and oh, what wouldn’t Kenny give to hear the noises. He groaned, trying to conjure them in his head as he fisted himself faster now, one hand almost not enough to satisfy his full length. Pre cum dripped from his swollen head, onto his fingers and down his veiny cock, making his movements easier and faster. His erection throbbing in his hand, feeling hot and heavy against his rough palm. (I love this whole paragraph, man. It’s cause Kenny has those hug beautiful hands with long thick fingers. Imining that pumping a big fat cock has me way too horny. I’m a sucker for nice hands.)

You locked eyes with the camera once again, and Kenny could see his hips bucking forward in the video. The hand in your hair stuttering in its pace as your tongue slipped out of your mouth and under his cock. Shit, just seeing that had him delirious, spilling praises out of his lips that he knew you’d never hear. (Gotta slip at least a little ‘alas, poor kenny’ moment in the middle of this horny mess) He imagined the feeling of your mouth, the warmth of your tongue all around him. Deft fists pumped up and down at a voracious speed, his cock heavy and slick in his hands, balls feeling full and tight.

In the screen, his hips bucked erratically now, not even caring if he was bringing your head all the way down or not. Your lips looked wet and abused as they stretched around his girth, moving up and down fast. Pulling your head all the way to his tip, Kenny’s hand moved to your lip, pulling your open mouth towards the camera before coming back to his own cock. He fisted himself a couple times, resting the head of his cock on your tongue as his thick length twitched. Rope after rope of his thick white cum spilled past your plump lips, filling your mouth with it. (I regret now not thinkin gof using the word flooding instead of filling, it would be sexier, but also I find the ‘cumming on someones open mouth so you can watch it’ thing very sexy)

Kenny pumped his hand faster and harder, feeling the coil in his gut snap as he watched you close your pretty mouth, swallowing all of his hot cum, tongue darting out to lick some that had slipped down your lip. He felt his orgasm hit like a truck, shutting his eyes as the intensity of the feeling had him seeing stars. With a grunt, his cock spasmed in his hand, shooting his cum like a torrent. Multiple white, thick ropes spilling from his cock, feeling hot as they poured on his exposed thighs and hips, staining his shirt where they fell on the fabric.

Kenny rode his orgasm for what felt like forever, ecstasy completely clouding his mind. When he finally came to, eyes opening to see his still hard cock twitching slowly. Pearly white of cum painted his fingers, a string of it coming from the head and connecting to his hips. He swiped his thumb over his still sensitive head, spreading his thick white jizz over the tip. He was breathing hard, and it still took him a moment to fully return from his high. (I have a cum kink, send me to the nasty jail cause I’m gonna write guys who cum a lot and also guys whose cum is thick, you know I’m really horny for a character if I give him both traits, I like the image of a throbbing cock too, just *chefs kiss*, once again, loved writing these two paragraphs. Press F for Kenny’s shirt tho, depending on the fabric this is gonna be hard to clean.)

Looking at the mess he’d made, Kenny felt that pang of guilt back in his chest. Shit, he shouldn’t have done that. Pushing his cock back into his pants, he cleaned his hand in his already stained shirt before sitting straight against the headboard, the full weight of his guilt crashing down. He ran his hand through his hair, lips feeling dry as he swallowed hard.

He really shouldn’t have done that. If Kenny had felt bad after your recent fight, he felt even worse now. Like a sleazy, cowardly excuse of a man. One who was too weak to let go and too harsh to fix things. Worse, he felt like he had slipped back into the self centered asshole you’d left all those years back. Shit, this wasn’t who he wanted to be, and it made him sick to the stomach. He looked back to the camera, the video had already ended, the final image being your smiling face. (like I described this chapter once: Kenny’s very bad no good at all post nut clarity)

With a quick push of the buttons, Kenny deleted the video, erasing it from existence like he had done with the others after your break up. This was the right thing, and if he had known about this camera, known about this video, he’d have done it a long time ago. Now it was done, still he felt like shit. And there wasn’t really any way to erase that taste of guilt from his mouth. (We finish with Kenny doing the correct thing and also showing that he was an asshole but not a completly awful person, he did have the mind to at least do the minimally decent thing of erasing the sex videos he knew he had - he may or may not have jerked off to them before that just as he may or may not have jerked off to videos of reader’s matches - and this one he is erasing now. Like I said he will get the chance to straighten up his act and make some better choices, I don’t wanna end this in angst no happy ending)

#wanderbreadsworld #ask #directors commentary #maria speaks #this commentary starts off very thought and full of feelings and then delves into slutty shit #would you ever guess that this fic was me romanticizing aging so I can accept the inexorable march of time?#as the mountain goats once said: I don't know if it's true but I've been told it's real sweet to grow old

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boobersandstuff · 2 years ago

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Im bord and listening too fearless (tv) for the first time! Let's go!

Also before we start I'd like to stay that ik like 5 songs from (or less) and technically I grew up to fearless cuz I'd rewatch the music video for you belong with me over & over again lol.

Fearless: I think I've listened to some of this song before from tiktok, and that's about it. Nice guitar! I'm bopping. OH FEARLESS! ok this is a great song. Drive Slow? *atw flashbacks*. 8/10 good. Awww first kiss, ITS THE TIKTOK SOUND BITE!!!!!

15: I'm Turning 15 this year so let's see how much I relate. Tf is freshmen year? 9th grade? Ik the chorus from tiktok. Good tho. So far relate at 10. Or more 💅🏳️‍🌈 lol. No he isn't Taylor you have to wait....until your 30 to meet the one. :D. I don't get people who play or like sports. Exsptionaly ppl who date ppl who play sports, all the sporty ppl ik are dickheads and bigots! I like this song. I'm playing this all the time on my birthday. 8/10. Relaterbility 3/10. I'm not American in the 2000's ok?.

Love story: AHHHHHH I LOVE THIS SONG! now imma confess a sin......I only learnt this song exsited cuz of gacha and listening to it on a cd all the time at school. Also I didn't know it was a Taylor song. I thought it was random song from a gacha life video! Anyways 10/10 love it!!!

Hey Stephen: who's Stephen? What's this song about? Imma google real quick. Ah OK. It's abt her having a Crush on a guy and never admitting it. Maybe I just can't relate (cuz aro and I got the rizz) but I don't like it. Maybe I just like love songs like love story ect, but,.....nahhh Maybe if I listen to it more I'll like it (like folklore & evermore) but for now it's a 3-5/10. Not for me.

White hourse: she preformed this at the eras tour and somehow I was able to skip a bunch of videos abt it so I have 0 clue what this is abt. Why is the guitar so sad. Oh is this a squal to Hey stephen. Why am I laughing. Ik it's supposed to be sad but to go from pinning to heartbreak with no fucking in between and just innit, it's funny! I can't take it srsly. I like the chorus but still funny. 10/10 funnies love it.

You belong with me: this was the first ever Taylor swift song I listened too. As a kid I would just watch music videos on my ipad (yes im an ipad kid) that was downloaded and I would rewatch this one the most and I love it. Just for nostalgia and that it holds up now a days it gets a 10/10. Imma jam to this now.

Breath ft. Colbie caillat: yay new song :D. Also who's colbie? Never heard of them. Awwww. I like the guitar. :(((. So sad :(. Nothing to add other than I like it and it's so sad :(. 8/10.

Tell me why: I think ik this song? Probably from tt again. OH HELLO YEAH!!! BOP!!! I LOVE IT!!! IM DANCING LIKE MARGE SIMPSON RN. 10/10 LOVE IT!!!

Your not sorry: sad piano :((. Fuck this dude honestly! He can go fuck himself. >:((((. 7.5/10 I honestly don't know what to say. It's good.

The way I loved you: ok so this album Is abt a young love and what it's like. Also this is just a jam. SHNSJSK AIDINDGDUDND THE BEAT!!! I LOVE IT!!! FUCK THIS MAN!!! FUCK HIM!!!! I LOVE IT!!! D: SJJSJSJJSNENXYIDNAJLMDHDUXNXDY. 100000000/10. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍💖💗💓. SHES SO IN LOVE THAT SHE HATES HIM AWWWWWWW.

Forever & always: awww. Cuteeee. This is definitely a song to play at weddings. Bopping. I need this at the eras tour NOW!!! 8.5/10.

The best day: so far I love this album. It's so good!!! Also as soon as I finish this I have 2 albums left, debut & red. Awwww. Idk what to talk about it's a good song tho. This album & all her contry songs are just fairy tales but taylors version. Just saying it is. Idk what that implies or means but that's my observations. 7.5/10 good! Just looked at the spotify banner in the background for the song. Why is it small Taylor? What is this song abt? I feel bad.

Change: AHHHHH! sorry I just got jumpscared I'm autistic. Ik a shit joke anyways. Bop. OK I FOUND ANOTHER GREAT ONE!! OH IK THIS SONG!!! ANOTHER TIKTOK!!! I LOVE IT!!! 10/10. Great edit music. This is giving long live, yoyok, ect. Love it.

Jump then fall: random thought um....is any of these love songs abt j*** may**......cuz doesn't speak now come next after this album...oh no... fuck. This is typical Taylor. Bopping. 8/10. This is such a long ass album. I'm skipping fuck it idc.

Untouchable: guitar.... nice. What's this song about? This is sad, I love it :( :). It's giving Taylor talking abt her sad things. Awwww it's abt the human experience abt wanting things that's out of our league. 8/10.

Come in with the rain: Taylor is a hopeless romantic & so am I!!!! I love, love...but I also don't get it sometimes. This album is hopeless romantic for teens! 8/10.

Superstar: so her? Lol. I wonder how her relationships with fellow like classmates where when she started getting big? Probably awkward and bad. 6/10 I've heard this same type of song like 10 times now. It gets boring quickly.

The otherside of the door: I've honestly got nothing the rest is just ratings unless I achally have something to say. 6/10.

Today was a fairytale: ik this song, again from tiktok. Very good song. 9/10. Nice lyrics.

You all over me: IDC!!! IVE HAD ENOUGH LOVE SONGS FOR 1 ALBUM JESUS!!! 0/10 >:( SKIP!!!

Mr perfectly fine: this was at the eras tour, time to finly hear it. I was abt to say how this is another love song but then it had a very dear John lyic & now I'm crying. Who tf is this bitch?! I wanna talk to him I swear no harm will come to him (in a video game) :) /s. Taylor 😭😭😭😭😭. I'm crying is she ok!!! I WANNA KICK THE SHIT OUT OF THIS MAN!!!! IS THIS JOHN AGAIN!? OH FUCK HIM!!! OR SOMEONE ELSE IDK!!! HE CAN DIE!!! *SOBS* I WANNA KILL HIM!/10 OR 1000000/10. Wait she dated Joe jones? I didn't know that also he can go fuck himself.

We were happy: sadness. :(. 10/10.

That's when: 8/10.

Don't you: 5/10.

Bye bye baby: 0/10 I'm burnt out.

Ok so....I don't like fearless (tv). Maybe I'll like it in time but listening to it in 1 go omg I hated it. I like how she structures her newer music and this just being long af & have 50 love songs & the rest abt break up songs just....I hate it! I wanna song that let's me see who Taylor is! Not who she dated & broke up with! Plus I got tired of the same fucking songs over & over again! If I listened to them by themselves with like a song like yoyok then maybe I'd like it more. Whatever I alr know that all the fellow swifties who see this are gonna kill me but whatever.

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yukiranine · 6 years ago

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I got tagged for a top ten list of songs I’m currently obsessed with by @emeraldlatias

Tbh some of the recent songs I’ve been listening to a lot are kinda embarrassing but lets get on with it:

Remember- FLOW

Misery Business- Paramore

Fever Dreams- Diveo

I Like It- Cardi B

Long Hope Philia- Masaki Suda

Freaking. Nyan Cat.

Sun- Bite the Lung

Akaneiro ga Moeru Toki- Scoobie Do

THE PUCCA THEME SONG

Devil Trigger- Devil May Cry (Ali Edwards/Cliff Lloret)

so uhh tagging @hideandseaking @bakunasa @un-ah @akh-afah @miniwaves @franeridan @idolshifter @kobat0s @princebog

#look ok i got a bunch of nostalgia songs #yes that includes yugioh and middle school music #ask meme

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lunapwrites · 3 years ago

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5 Movies, 4 Songs, 3 Essentials, 2 Books, 1 Quote

Hoo boy. I've got some major thinking to do on this one hahaha. In the meantime, thank you to both @signifiquint and @bluesundaycake for the tag! <3

Movies - I normally forget these as soon as I finish watching them, so let's see how I do here. In no particular order...

1- Don't Look Up: I am annoyed by how much I liked this movie. I watched it while I was super sick over the winter and just lay there on the couch having existential dread for eons after lol. But it definitely stuck with me.

2- The Last Unicorn: When I tell you that this movie meant a ton to me though. Just a staple of my childhood, pure nostalgia.

3- OK look I know it's not the point of this exercise but I can't separate them: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy extended edition because momma didn't raise no quitter. I absolutely adored the books. The soundtrack was gorgeous, the set design and characters were amazing, and I may or may not have been a little obsessed with both Liv Tyler and Dominic Monaghan sooooooo yeah. Also, Billy Boyd had NO FUCKING RIGHT tearing my heart out and flinging into the fires of Mount Doom like that but okay.

4- The Mummy: [helpless bisexual noises]

5- The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Speaking of animation that I absolutely loved... this movie was just absolutely gorgeous. The soundtrack still hits like a truck.

Songs - yo you're really gonna make me pick four, huh? Fiiiine. Here's some things I've been listening to recently.

1- Control - Mannequin Pussy

2- Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

3- #41 - Dave Matthews Band shut up

4- The Old Witch Sleep and the Good Man Grace - The Amazing Devil

Essentials (not including partner or dogs bc that's cheating.)

1- Music

2- Art supplies

3- My irresponsibly vast tea collection (incl accoutrements.)

Books - Look I haven't been very good about reading actual literature recently so uh. Here's my favorites from when I was a kid, minus LotR.

1- The Red Fairy Book - compiled by Andrew Lang (my mom had this and I absolutely adored stealing it from her. It's a compilation of a bunch of different fairy tales and is the only place I've been able to find Dapplegrim, which was one of my favorites.)

2- The Crystal Caves - Mary Stewart. (Also one of my mom's. This is the first of the Merlin Trilogy Stewart wrote -- tetrology if you count the Mordred one. This one was one I read and reread a lot.)

Quote - "The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.' - Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R.Tolkien.

That definitely didn't take me an hour hahaha it did. Anyway! Always feel weird about tagging folks but uhhhhh @allalrightagain, @broomsticks, @deathcabformoony, @bluestringpudding, @black-sparroww, @inmyownlittlecorner5 @greyeyedmonster-18.... and anyone else I missed who hasn't already done it and would like to join!

#tag game #lp watches #lp listens #lp reads very infrequently #lp has a lot of tea

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inkykeiji · 2 years ago

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Same anon as before, it was really cute actually!! Like obviously he was a huge flirt but it was still cute lol. I cant remember the name of the ride he attended but it was one of the bigger ones where you would have to be strapped in and he would occasionally go over (to mostly just cute girls lol) to tug on the straps to make sure they were secured and he would teach you Russian words when he did it, like he would say something in Russian and be like "that means good, Ok?" A bunch of girls (including me) would purposely keep going on his ride over and over just to see him and he'd notice and say things like "do you remember the word I taught you?" And "can you say *Russian word*?" Theres a whole bunch of other stories of him flirting with all these girls but I can't remember all of them anymore, I just remember everyone crushing on him so hard lol and being really disappointed that he wasnt with the carnival anynore the year after.

The shy carnival boy you knew sounds so cute 🥺 i can just imagine this cute sad looking guy bobbing his head to the music lol. When I was younger I always thought the people working at carnivals were so cool because they got to travel and be around that fun atmosphere all the time, like I never thought of how hard it could be. Younger me definitely wanted to date a carnival guy so I could travel with them lol so if it was Dabi there would be no hesitation in me just upright leaving with him. Me now is a whole different story tho lol carnival Dabi would probably have to make me come with now.

Carnivals in general are super interesting to me too like going every year was a huge part of my childhood and I remember them so vividly. Its probably because I grew up in a super small town where nothing happened so it was like the one fun thing we got to do and looked forward to. I still love to go whenever I can for the nostalgia lol, so I'm super excited for you to write about it I feel like more fics need to be set at carnivals lol ❤

aw anon!!!!!!

i’m so in love with this!!! that sounds so flippin smooth, you know??? like sooo smooth, and almost charming in one of those flirty fuckboy type ways, if that makes sense! ehehe aaaah see the guy who’s behaviour reminds me of dabi was not smooth or sweet at all, and the tricks he played were cruel and purely for his own amusement >.>

yeah!! he always flits through my mind, every time the carnival is in town or every time i see that ride in particular. it usually blasts popular upbeat songs, and i find the attendants that run it are often very high energy and like to pump up the crowd etc but this guy was just so chill. hahaha that’s interesting!!! i find that when i was younger, i didn’t really think about how they were always travelling, i was always so interested in the why; why did they decide to join? how long have they been working for the carnival? what are their backstories?

omg me too!!!!! the local carnival that visits my tiny town has been coming for over 100 years and i, too, have so many cherished memories of going every year with my family and/or friends!!! there are certain shows that my dad would take me to watch every single year, and i remember coordinating with the boys we liked, like at which ride we would meet up and what time we’d be there (long before anyone had cell phones!), and always buying candy apples purely to lick the candy off of them and then throw them away (what a horrible waste!)

yes!!! i’ve already plotted the entire thing out (i’m hoping it’ll only be about 5k) and i began writing it but i’m back to focusing on tag ur it now. i plan to post the carnival piece after tag part two is done!! but i can’t wait to share it with you and i can’t wait to hear what you think of it!!! i’m already loving how it’s shaping up SO much hehehehe <333

#ah finally someone who shares my enthusiasm for carnivals!!!!#no one irl gets it #i mean obv my best friend has very fond memories of going as well and we still enjoy heading over every year #but she doesn’t have the same *fascination* that i do with the concept of carnivals as a whole #anyway!!! enjoy your wednesday anon <33 #stay safe and stay hydrated <3 #inky.bb #clari gets mail

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zosonils · 4 years ago

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i'm sure EVERYBODY will ask this but top six pnf episodes? (if someone else has asked first pretend i asked pnf songs instead ok)

hdfnjkfb you’re the first person to ask so you’re good!! god this one is fricking hard though. to give myself a selection small enough to work with i’m gonna restrict it to just 11-minute episodes as opposed to double-length ones or specials, and it’s also worth noting that this could probably change any minute just based on my mood lmao

6. vanessasary roughness - just some general all-around good fun y’know! y’all know i am ALWAYS down for a ferb centric episode and the other characters who get the most focus in this episode [candace and stacy, buford and baljeet, perry and his fucking swag ass outfit] are also very cool and fun to watch. it’s the lowest on this list for attempting to make me not throw up at the idea of f*rbn*ssa but fortunately it’s just a tiny moment at the end that i can Choose Not To See. look he’s just happy to be hanging out with someone he thinks is cool

5. gaming the system - as far as the ‘cartoon episode about video games made by middle-aged guys who have probably never touched a video game’ trope goes this is genuinely really good. [on that note honourable mention to brain drain for giving us canon gamer ferb and platypus controlling me but i like gts just a little better for various reasons.] not only is the video game aspect surprisingly bearable but this episode straight up hands you so many trans rights between trans doof and phineas genderqueer moments. it’s also host to a bunch of stupid injokes with me and my friends so it can never leave my brain now ever

4. my sweet ride - THIS ONE JUST HAS SUCH LOVELY VIBES IT’S UNREAL,, between the really cute outfits and ferb hardcore stimming the whole time and candace getting to have a good day where the universe doesn’t immediately bend over backwards to spite her for no reason it’s absolutely jam fucking packed with free and easy serotonin. there’s not much more to say about my sweet ride it’s just a nice episode with a fun premise and a bumping song. look at this FAMILY

3. doof side of the moon - okay a lot of this is nostalgia blindness because it was hidden in the bonus features on the very perry christmas dvd so i watched it enough as a kid to commit the audio to memory BUT IT’S STILL REALLY GOOD Y’KNOW. i distinctly remember being absolutely mesmerised by the visuals in the floor after floor sequence and i STILL am god damn it, even if dsotm was a completely unremarkable episode in every other way i’d probably still have thought about it just for that, but it’s genuinely super good and fun even outside of having one of the best musical sequences in the entire show. i am absolutely obsessed with the lore implications of the moon in the phineas and ferb universe having a 384,400 kilometre tall building sticking out of it [by the way if i had a nickel for every time phineas and ferb have vandalised the moon i’d have 3 nickels, which isn’t much, but it’s weird that it happened thrice], and the episode even manages to make irving pretty bearable which is impressive

2. the baljeatles - y’all the baljeatles did SO MUCH. invented gay fashion, had one of the best songs in the entire show, ferb in pointy anime sunglasses????? i personally see it as the definitive episode where baljeet completely and entirely cements himself as a Good Character and never goes back, which is awesome because i fuckin love baljeet, and in general it’s just a really fun episode. only criticism is that it doesn’t have isabella in it when we KNOW she would absolutely rock a punk outfit. i can let this grave transgression slide just this once though because the rest of the episode is genuinely so fucking cool. absolute me and the boys moment

1. bully bromance breakup - goddddd this episode is SO FUCKING GOOD it’s got everything. phineas autism real, buford and baljeet gay moments, legitimate interaction between the a-plot and b-plot? all the kids caring about each other so much?? doof canonically gets his lab coats tailored. it’s surprisingly hard to put into words how much i love bbb but it’s absolutely fantastic, every day i thank it for inventing neurodivergent and gay people

#THIS WAS SO HARD HSJVNFKNGJB HELP #interesting how pretty much all my favourite episodes are season 2 #love these funni little shape children so so much #sonic forces me to answer questions #just fucking whatever #ask game #minttangle

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reimahowaido · 4 years ago

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I’ll get to those Magic Crafter Dragons I sweeeear But first, fun stuff from Discord. Dunno who made the original, it was just posted on a server, but yeet I did it anyway First of all, I don’t play a lot of games. I like games and the idea of them. I enjoy people playing stuff, I love watching others play. It’s that little sibling culture. But lemme toss a word or few about all of these. Though first of all, I only own 4 of the 8 games listed and even still I’ve only played 3 of them xD R.I.P. Pokemon Cafe Mix - The game is just Super Cute. Like oh my god Aesthetics! Adorable, every pokemon looks so nice and I just want to go to the cafe and taste everything and just chill. Please. It looks so cozy and relaxing. Gameplay is fairly simple too. Sometimes things seem a bit BS but in one way or another I’ll get through every stage etc. so it’s not too bad. Most of the time relaxing, can be addicting because of how simple things are. But really I love the game and I hope one day they’ll add more of the pokemon I like xD Buizel is my current favourite <3 It’d be nice seeing Mienshao or Mienfoo for one, maybe Glameow as it doesn’t get a lot of attention. We got Gogoat, but I wouldn’t mind a Sawsbuck or Deerling Pokemon Black 2 - To keep the Pokemon trend going, this is my fave out of the mainline games. I’ve been a fan ever since the first generation, I’m older than Gen 1 at that. But yeah, we did buy games but Nintendo stuff was too expensive and so I never really got to play those growing up. Black 2 was the first game I ever bought, for myself, with my own money. It was my first game and I loved it dearly. Still do and man I’d Love to replay it, but the curse of only 1 save file is cruel. I don’t want to restart my first ever save file. Currently I have no way of transferring anything over and I even have a Shiny Gothorita there (as underwhelming as it is, it was my first ever shiny). I love these games~~ Lots of different pokemon to choose from, great story, the fact that it’s a sequel is so freaking cool and unique I Love It So Much. Of course it’d be cool to have some extra things to do in it, like cleaning my badges, contests would be cool, I loved the mining stuff in Gen 4 when I got to try it on my friend’s Platinum save file as a kid. Speaking of, Gen 4 games would probably be my favourites, if I ever had the chance of owning and playing any fully. They have soooo much to do in them! Gen 5 is good and certainly up there in faves, but bruh, Gen 4 had all sorts of extra stuff, especially Platinum, and in HG/SS you had Pokemon following you like bruh that’s Crazy and I’d love to have that for a game I own, it’s like a dream Honorable mentions to Mystery Dungeon and Gen 6′s Pokemon Y for some grand memories. Firstly Pokemon Y, the second game I ever owned I think, great fun. I played that game for hooooooooours and it’s the only Pokemon Game that I’ve both played as a Nuzlocke and actually reset to play again. Also the first gen where I actually really got into competitive stuff, breeding for natures and stuff, and I’ve caught so many shinies in Y and Omega Ruby (mostly Y, OR has 1 shiny in Pidove, while Y has Ninetales, Pachirisu, Burmy, Gligar, and perhaps some other ones I caught/hatched myself). Mystery Dungeon games get a mention for having cool stories and I like the idea of the personality test and stuff. I’ve never played or owned any of these games, but I’ve watched Marriland play a handful of the games and currently am enjoying MDB playing through the first games in the series. Also a quick bloop on Colosseum being Cool as heck, and Battle Revolution gets a shoutout for looking so freaking good, having amazing music and making me search up videos with my favourite pokemon and just looking and watching hundreds of videos just because they looked so nice

Fire Emblem has to be the 2nd series of games I’ve gotten the most into. Although I’m a fairly new fan and my experiences and knowledge are limited, I do still enjoy the series and games - both old and new - a bunch. I only own Awakening, Conquest and 3 Houses, but I’ve again watched others play the past games a bunch, so I have some knowledge and memorable moments from those games too. Now I haven’t actually gotten myself to play 3 Houses yet, I’ve seen playthroughs of the game already and know the story etc. But yeh. Still, I’d say that I’ll probably like 3 Houses more than Awakening and Conquest. Awakening is nostalgia galore for me, but it does have its things with the story and characters and stuff. It’s nice, but I dunno, I just feel 3 Houses has an edge on it in some way. Maybe it’s just... Less controversial? Less Flame Wars? Maybe? Fates games, well, we all know the big glaring thing here. The story. And some of the characters suffer from this too. I kinda do wish that the Player had a biiiit more control in how the story went and played out, like I feel you definitely could have saved Scarlet in some way still, and all that. But eh, there’s enough stuff for me to go and prefer 3 Houses over it. And yes, I like choosing the members of my team and playing however I like, so giving me the ability to class my characters however I want is going to be a mistake as I’ll just make everyone a mounted unit and get destroyed but hey! Options :2 Variety :22 Great tiiiiimes~ Also it’s Blue Lions for me, Golden Deer Second Now for the games I don’t own. I chose Radiant Dawn because the Tellius games are just so good. I love the character in them, the story is pretty solid and the worldbuilding is cool too :2 I like both of the games, and while Path of Radiance is more coherent and doesn’t give split the characters up a bunch, Radiant Dawn has More of the great characters :2 Yes I know, not all of them are as fleshed out and thought out as the first game’s characters, but yo I still love them. I love a good continuation to a story. I love a ‘hey maybe it wasn’t as Black & White as we were made to believe’ twist. Also just hella good memories from watching BigKlingy play these games. The audience memed Aran to the final levels. We did it, he did so well, Aran deserved to be there xD Radiant Dawn also brings us Nailah, who is just. Yeah, you speak to me on so many levels, I’m easily readable. But also, woman, wolf, strong, yasss~~ Also I love the idea of the Jaegan character being a Thief/Assassin. That’s just so different and cool to me after all these Horse Units. And I’m the one guy who likes Levail and would love to see more of him. Give us more of Levail, the man who almost made it to being playable. Man. Levail is probably the one reason I’d pick Radiant Dawn over Path of Radiance xD The other game I’ve watched BigKlingy play through (and that’s my only experience on that game) is Sacred Stones. Pretty solid game all in all. Story, characters, but speaking of that story, if you really think about it, it’s Hella Dark, and that’s actually kinda cool in a way. I’m not that into dark stories, but here it worked. Also watched PhoenixMaster1′s playthrough on the Echoes game. I do like the game, if i find it one day I Might buy it but I’m not like in a hurry to get it. It was cool though, different for reasons but hey~ Also, Berkut, yes. I’m one of those people who like this angry man. But come on, he was really good xD Spyro I’ve already talked about in my lengthy little thing that I’ll get to continuing eventually xD But yes, I freaking love Spyro, my childhood, still very enjoyable experience full of great memories Metroid Fusion - Oh boy here come the nostalgia~ I’ve actually never played any Metroid games myself. I got introduced to the series in the early 2010s through youtube videos. I’m fairly sure it was me looking through dozens and dozens of Top 10 videos, several of which were on ‘the scariest bosses’, either unexpectedly scary or something else. But guess what, Nightmare from Fusion was in there, and I Think the person in the video said something on not wanting to even show the final forms of Nightmare’s face because it was that horrifying to them. And honestly? The fact that they didn’t show how bad it got, mixed with my morbid curiosity and woop, here I go~ Down the Metroid rabbithole where I watched a lot of videos on people fighting Nightmare and the other bosses in the game, eventually going into watching full run-throughs of the game and enjoying my time. Game looked pretty good, soundtrack was really nice too. And so I ended up on listening to a lot of the game series’ music and getting more familiar with the other games and the lore too. Learning to know that Samus was a lady was also hella badass. Fusion started it all for me, and while Super Metroid is cool, people also just play it a loooot, especially the Speedrunners, there’s also plenty of hacks based on that game and yeah I get it the game is Good, but that makes Fusion all the more special to me~ Devil May Cry 3 - Ok so again, I’ve not played any DMC games myself. This one again though is nostalgia ocean for me~ 2010 or such, I’m on some forum, said forum has a forum game based around songs or such and someone links one from this game. I Think it was the Doppelganger battle theme, or then I just found that one and listened to it for hours among the other battle themes these games have because they’re soooo gooood~~ DMC 4 was fairly new at that time, but I remember Gredo’s and Agnus’ themes being up there in songs I listened to a lot too. My experiences and stuff on this series was fully based on the songs, images on said songs, bits and pieces of the cutscenes of these games I saw and comments I read. I didn’t get too deep into DMC back then though, but I did have a bit of knowledge here and there, even if my idea of the stories in all the games was, well, I wouldn’t call it warped, but I definitely had imagined the story going differently to how things actually went xD Still, as a few years back I returned to DMC out of that feeling of nostalgia, and discovered DMC 5 had Just been released, boi, I was In. And I watched through cutscene compilations, playthoughs and what have you on all the games (Except for DmC, boot to you ReBoot), and it was quite the hype time~ I enjoy the chracters, the story that there is around them, and just how carefree and fun stuff can be. The party sure did get crazy~ Lost Dimension - The last game I have on the list there. This might be a weird one and I get that yeah. How many have even heard of this game? I sure wouldn’t have ever known of it without BigKlingy’s playthrough of it. But that playthrough was full of memories, I should really rewatch it one day~ I may not remember an awful lot about the game, but I do keep coming back to it in one way or another. I liked the character designs, the fact that all of them were unique and had their own abilities, there was a bit of story around all of them, the traitor system had you thinking & made each run a little different... That’s some Cool Stuff! The game might be a bit obscure and seriously not known at all, but for what it was, it was great and I enjoyed it a bunch! And now for stuff that wasn’t on the list but I kinda still want to mention. Because why not~ IB - This Almost made it onto the list, but I felt a little closer of a connection to the other games on it. But IB is one of those games from the early 2010s that I also got introduced to through the wonderful world of Youtube. I have forgotten the name of the person whose playthrough in the game I watched. But I watched a ton of people play this game. It was just. So cool. The puzzles in this game were nice and the fact I myself could solve and understand them too was pretty nice to me, and for some reason I just enjoyed watching other people react to the game and try solving stuff. It also had a couple different endings so watching and seeing what the other people got was also interesting. Great memories~ Witch’s House / Ao Oni / Mad Father - And all sorts of other horror games that kinda fall under this grouping and style and stuff. Yeah, IB kinda opened a bit of a thing for me as I realized I greatly enjoyed the horror games with puzzle elements to themselves + a bit of story here and there. There’s definitely much much more than these 3, I watched soooo many of these games being played by others. Ao Oni I may have discovered through my Hetalia phase though, HetaOni, if any of you still recognize that name. Daym. Although at first I didn’t want to watch HetaOni because of the portraits. Pfffff I thought the person who made them was being mean to some of the characters, but nah, I’d later learn that those were simply just mimicing the ones from the original game. But yeah, Ao Oni had a dozen variants and things inspired by it so those kept me busy for a whiiiiiile Hades - Now here’s a cool recent game! Again, haven’t played it, but it looks cool. The story is nice, character designs are God Like (hehe), soundtrack is super cool, aesthetics and oh my god everything is voice acted oh my gooood. This game is just. So cool. And the team who did it seems really cool too and are seemingly full of nice amazing people. This is definitely some great example work on how things should be done :2 Definitely something to look up to, I love everything about them~ The only reason Hades isn’t up there is because of its recentness and my brain not managing to think of it somehow even as I struggled to come up with stuff (I was mostly trying to think of stuff I had played, so that’s one thing. I even struggled to remember DMC because my current hyperfixations are elsewhere and that’s freaking Wild considering how much I enjoy DMC) But yeah, Hades is Super Freaking Cool Crash Bandicoot - These games I did play as a kid actually, the 1st one was way too hard and the 3rd one was my favourite. I like Crash, these games were nice too and I have plenty of good memories with the game, just not enough to make it up there on my list. Yeah it sounds stupid that I’d take out a game I actually played and replace it with stuff that I didn’t, but... Hey, my list Minecraft - Watched several videos on other people pllaying this game, I know of it, I respect it, but I’ve never played it myself and stuff. It’s cool but didn’t make it on the list Animal Crossing - Riiiiiight, these games seem adorable and I wouldn’t mind owning an AC game one day. I’d probably reset continuously though to get Skye in my town/village/island, she’s my favourite xD If the recent game had cost lest I might have gotten it. 60-70€ is just, a lot of money Persona - I guess I’ll mention these too. My experiences are through Bigklingy’s videos again. 3 is a fave, 4 seems cool, 5 I don’t know a lot about but it seems nice too. I probably wouldn’t be able to play these games myself, since some fights kinda need certain things and strategies and you can’t really just pick whatever and whom ever and roll through with brute strength. I mean, I Guess you could, but that might not be as fun in the long run? Who knows, but it’s not exactly like Pokemon or Fire Emblem in those regards you know The big conclusion is that I like all sorts of different aesthetic looks, mostly probably natural with some brighter colors in it. Stories are good, I love stories! Good characters with nice designs and backstories are really nice too. Things being thought out and built nicely is great you know? A little bit of strategy, fantasy here and there. Nothing too dark and gloomy or ‘hyper realistic’ or what have you. I guess no first person shooters either, though combat is fine. Games where I can pick and choose what to use and what kinds of ‘teams’ I build and the ‘members’ I use in them is nice. I do love watching others play, but with games like Pokemon & Fire Emblem I have that drive of choosing who to use and having my own unique experience kinda gets me to buy the games.

#Games #Lists #Text #Some sort of 'fill this' meme I think

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warmest-oceans · 4 years ago

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A Non-Paradoxical Moment of Accepting Oneself While Falling in Love with a Best Friend

Set in Phuket, a beautiful large island in southern Thailand, I Told Sunset About You already wins the Best Picture category. The island is magnificent on its own — blessed with emerald clear water, bed of white sand, quiet calm breeze, but the island also has the charm of its old town scenery. Every shot feels like it was shot in a new world. The combination of laid-back island life with culturally rich town is visually pleasing.

Aside from its excellent choice of set, the storyline is the true gem here. In the peaceful island of Phuket, we’re brought into the not-so-quiet lives of our two male protagonists, Teh (Billkin Assaratanakul) and Oh-aew (PP Amnuaydechkorn). From the start we know that these two best friends are about to be involved in something that’s bigger than themselves, something that’s uncontrollable and something that will change their lives forever.

It won’t be a 10/10 series if the actors can’t bring the golden storyline to live. The actors who play our male protagonists apparently have been friends since they were teenagers, making every scene they act on-screen believable. The chemistry can be seen clearly with a dash of improvisation here and there by the actors themselves and the magical direction by Boss Kuno, the director of the series.

I can’t really wrap up my introductory of the series without mentioning the amazing soundtrack and scoring. We only have three songs as soundtrack (with different versions) sung by our male protagonists, but the quality is top-notch, you’ll fall for it!

OK, I’m done with my introductory piece. Now, let me gush about this series. To me, I Told Sunset About You has become a coming-of-age story that left a permanent dent in my heart. It’s everything I ask for in a series; a beautiful set, excellent story, magical chemistry, and incredibly fitting soundtrack. Sadly, the series is almost always lumped into BL category, which I find insulting to the series to be honest.

Although I don’t identify myself as a part of LGBTQ+ community, I relate to the series more than I initially thought. Let me be honest, I am INVESTED in this series. Let me just write down the things that I think make this series is in a whole another league.

Self-acceptance in the middle of everything else

The series is great at delivering the moment of being a teenager who’s in the middle of self-discovery, starting to think about the future (the protagonists are in 12th grade), falling in love (hard) for the first time (on top of that, with your very own best friend!), seeking acceptance and validation, and trying to stay afloat at the same time. The topic seems to be nothing out of ordinary, but its ordinariness that brings up its own charm when it’s combined with excellent character development.

We all go through self-discovery and we all try to accept who we are when we’re teenagers — how crazy it was, restless, tiring, but also exhilarating it was. That’s why I think the series will resonate with most people.

I love how the process of the protagonists discovering and accepting themselves also answers the dilemma of falling in love with the best friend. Personally, I believe that I need to love myself first to love another person (note: if you want it to work and if you want the relationship to be a healthy one).

Thanks to this series I had a pleasure of reliving the experience of self-discovery and self-acceptance once again. No kidding, after I watched the series, I did a bit of self-reflection.

Impulsiveness

I think the first emotion that the series successfully portrayed is the impulsiveness of hot-blooded teens. I love how chaotic and erratic Teh and Oh-aew can be. One day they’re best friend, tomorrow? Who knows. Everything is a mess and everything is truly a collection of fleeting temporary moments.

Nobody in the series got their shit together and it’s supposed to be like that. Nobody figures out shit when they are in 12th grade. Everyone in the series is scattered, explosive, tortured, yet sensitive and delicate at the same time. It really reminds me of my own 12th grade moments!

Most of teens would act out of their gut reactions and that’s exactly what the characters do in this series. They’re not perfectly groomed and planned. So if you’re no longer in your teenage years or maybe if you’re in your 30s, you may find some of their actions to be silly and atrocious even. Tip: try to remember your teenage years. Try to remember all the stupid things you did in 12th grade. It helps you understand the characters.

Jealousy among friends is real and valid

I rarely see a show can realistically execute the side story of jealousy in friendship or even rivalry. Sometimes it’s too mean, sometimes it’s not even brought up (mostly being avoided in a story). I Told Sunset About You portrays jealousy in the most relatable way, through microexpressions. Through Oh-aew’s subtle glance at Teh and Ma or through Teh’s smile when talking to Oh-aew. Really, kudos to the whole team!

Naivety that leads to boldness

I think we can all agree that we’re much bolder when we’re younger, no? That’s because we have this naivety vested in us. Like trying to learn how to ride a bike for the first time, we don’t think much about the risk, we just want to have fun with the bike. We think adults will catch us when we fall anyway.

It’s another thing from the series that makes me fall in love with it. These flawed characters, probably in their 17 or 18, think that everything will be sorted out eventually. While, we adult know that most of the time, we clean our own mess. You’ll know what I’m talking about in episode 4.

Everyone got their own idea of first love

I think love is a complex, hard-to-understand feeling for everyone in every age, let alone for a bunch of 12th graders. Deeply impressed with how the series handles the tenderness and also the chaos of first love. How the series shows different outcomes of loving romantically for the first time is also admirable.

Teh stole my heart. At first, he was so certain about his feeling. He was calm, loving, and patient, the best you could be when you’re in love. But later when he’s in turmoil with himself, he becomes petty, awkward, and impulsive. He thought he loved, but turned out, it wasn’t even the kind of love he’d imagined.

I’m the main character

No character in this series is a filler. Everyone got their own dream and ambitions. Tarn, the female character isn’t just an obstacle between our protagonists. She’s a fully-developed character, an independent woman that works hard for her dream and a dynamic person. Bas, a male character, a good friend of Oh-aew has his own likings and dream. He’s good at some things. He acts on his own. Everyone is the main character in their own world and it’s evident in the series.

Symbolism and color theory

This wouldn’t be one of my favorite series without hidden meanings, symbolism, and color theory. Almost every scene and every material placement is intentional in this series. I won’t talk about it much because it’ll spoil the fun of you finding them.

Nostalgia

I had fun watching, crying, smiling, and laughing throughout the episodes the way they are. Aside from warmth and the feeling of awe, maybe the production crew doesn’t realize that it also makes me feeling nostalgic.

It reminds me of how futile and just fragile some of the moments from my youth were. They looked like big deals when I was in my 17, but now they are just dust. They really don’t matter in the next 5 years.

It reminds me of how insanely good falling in love felt like. It was intense yet tender, messy yet everything fell into pieces perfectly. The feeling that you want to give the person the world, but sometimes that world isn’t what the other person wants or needs. The feeling that you can almost do anything for this person. The suffocating feeling of not knowing what to do, but want to do everything for the other person. The liberating feeling of falling into the abyss. The feeling of surrender… completely.

The series makes me remember how exciting and scary it was when I realized I fell in love with one of my best friends, how confusing it was to even talk to him the next day after the realization. I just wanted to be with him ever since. Nobody could take that away from me and everything just didn’t make sense anymore in my head, just like how Teh and Oh-aew felt.

As you can see, I only have good words for the series. I hope, after watching the series, you’ll feel various emotions but hopefully… they’re all good and warm, because that’s how I felt. I also think that the production crew tried really hard to deliver a heartwarming series (please watch the documentaries/their behind the scene videos, it’s amazing!). I hope this series can be a newfound joy for you.

#itsay #i told sunset about you #itsay review #review #i told sunset about you review #bkpp #billkin #pp kritt

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evermorehaikyuu · 4 years ago

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Hello! This is my first time sending in a request in your one of my favourite writers! can you write a fluff bokuto x reader song fic inspired by the the moon song by beabadoobee and Oscar Lang? I hope it’s ok! Thank you!

~[𝔸 𝕄𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕄𝕚𝕝𝕖𝕤 𝔸𝕨𝕒𝕪]~

Song: The Moon Song by Beabadoobee and Oscar Lang

Note: The way I got an angst idea for this but you know what, I won’t make it angst because you asked for fluff, so HERE IS THE FLUFF. Also, this was longer than I thought it would be, I apologize.

Word Count: 1998

Warnings: A tiny bit of angst at first, along with nostalgia

I’m lying on the moon

Loneliness. That’s what they both felt. Bokuto was so far away from her grasp, it felt like she was clinging onto him by the tips of her fingers. It was as if she was on the moon, watching him from there. Bokuto had gone out of the continent with his team in order to play someone else.

“You’re leaving?” Y/N had asked.

“I’m so sorry…” He whispered, looking anywhere but at Y/N’s face.

Pulling herself to him, she wrapped her arms around his waist and smiled up at him. “Get me souvenirs wherever you go.”

He kissed her forehead softly and said, “I promise I’ll be back soon! And with a bunch of souvenirs for you.”

My dear, I’ll be there soon

It wasn’t as if Bokuto and Y/N had broken up. It would have broken Bokuto if they did break up; fortunately, they didn’t. Y/N was patient enough to wait for him when he came back from his retreat out of the country.

Atsumu, Hinata and Sakusa all reassured him by saying that she was fine, she was just lonely without him and that it would work out.

“Relax! She’ll be waiting for ya when you come back!” Atsumu said. “Come on, we gotta go practice.”

Bokuto pocketed his phone and followed the blond, doubt still clouding his mind. There were no new messages waiting for him when he came back.

It’s a quiet and starry place

Darkness fell upon the city faster than anyone could have predicted. Y/N stepped outside and stared up at the stars. A smile fell upon her face as she stared at them. She was currently on the phone with Bokuto and it was early for him yet late for her. She said, “Do you remember when you first asked me out?”

Bokuto had a soft smile on his face while he recalled the memory. “Yeah. It was under the stars, wasn’t it?”

Y/N snickered. “You forget that you accidentally slipped afterwards and tried to play it off as cool.”

Bokuto whined, “You promised you wouldn’t bring that up!”

“I promised not to bring it up in front of other people and it’s just us two right now.” She tried to make out a constellation, thinking that she could see the Big Dipper but gave up after a minute. Then she heard groaning and a scream in the background. “Was that Hinata?”

The bi-colored hair boy breathed out, “I’msosorryY/NIhavetogonowbeforeCoachkillsme.”

Y/N’s lips pursed. Even though it was dark, she would stay up as long as she had to just so she could talk to Bokuto. However, they both knew that a long-distance relationship on the other sides of Earth would be difficult. This was one of the examples. Hoping that her voice wouldn’t give her away, she said, “Of course. Bye, Kou, love you.”

“Love you too.” With a click, he was gone again.

Time’s we’re swallowed up

It was hurting a lot more. She had woken up for the nth time without Bokuto at her side. The rays of sunlight winked at her through the slits of the curtain. She slowly extended her arm, reaching for Bokuto but her arm fell into empty space. No one was next to her.

She looked at her phone for any new messages or missed phone calls. Nothing from him but a ton of messages from her friends. She answered them all with a facade that couldn’t be uncovered over text. Long distance was hard enough for them, but she was trying to do it for him.

In space we’re here a million miles away

“So when are we going back?”

Bokuto looked up from his phone, which had no new messages so he sent one to Y/N, hoping that she would wake up to see his message in the morning and smile about it. Hinata had just asked the coach when they were going to go back and Bokuto could not hide his excitement. He couldn’t wait to see Y/N again and have her back in his arms.

“In another few weeks. I know you are restless to go back, but your head has to be in the game or else we’ll be sent back earlier than it seems.”

He loved Y/N with all his heart, but if he went back with a victory, he would be the happiest man on the planet.

There’s things I wish I knew, there’s no thing I’d keep from you

Y/N was humming as she started to cook breakfast. Akaashi was supposed to come over later that night and she had already cleaned the place. A ring of the phone broke the silence and she went to look at the contact, a smile washing across her face as she picked it up. “Hi, Kou, aren’t you practicing right now?”

“I have a break! I’m finished with practicing but I thought about calling you before going to dinner with the others.” He had just taken a shower and was now panting slightly as he talked. “Are you okay? Is everything well over there?”

She laughed a little before answering. “Yeah, everything’s okay. I still miss you, when will you be back?”

“Soon, very soon, I’ll come back home with several victories!” He wasn’t going to tell her that if he won the game in two days, he would be going back home the next week. “I promise and then I’ll stay with you!”

“I’ll be stuck to you, be prepared for that.” Y/N smiled as she looked down at the food she was making.

They stayed on the phone for another hour, the call only ending because Atsumu yelled that if Bokuto didn’t hurry up, they’d leave without him. That night, Akaashi and Y/N had been talking about anything and everything, he brought a sense of calm that she had not had since Bokuto left. When Akaashi was gone, it felt as if she was back to her normal self again.

It’s a dark and shiny place

The cheers of the court were immense but they were nothing compared to the MSBY team, who were hollering and cheering with sweat and tears mingling on their skin. They had just won the game they had trained vigorously for, they would be going back home.

Sakusa had shaken Atsumu and Hinata off of him to go take a shower first, leading to them going after Bokuto to celebrate further. Their smiles never fell from their faces as the realization that they would be going home sunk in.

Meanwhile, Y/N was hugging her knees while staring at the blank TV, multiple thoughts running through her head. The part of her that missed Bokuto was clawing at her brain and not letting her do anything. She put her face in her knees, breathing shakily. It’ll be fine, he’ll be home soon.

But with you my dear, I’m safe and we’re a million miles away

“Akaashi, don’t bring my hopes up, why are we going to the airport?” Y/N said as she bounced in her seat, her hands shaking even though her arms were numb.

“I have to pick someone up.” He looked over at her and continued. “You should come with me.”

“Fine, but I want to get a snack.”

At the airport, she was waiting with Akaashi, looking at the new arrivals who all looked tired and jet-lagged. Slumping over the metal railing, she asked, “So who is--” Her voice caught in her throat as she saw blond hair, then orange hair, followed by black hair and--

“KOUTAROU!” Y/N shrieked as she raced to the exit to get to Bokuto, Akaashi at her heels.

Bokuto had been positive he heard Y/N’s voice, but he didn’t see her anywhere. That was until someone was speeding towards him and before he knew it, he had someone in his arms. With the widest smile on his face, he spun Y/N around, his heart beating rapidly and him being ecstatic that Y/N was back in his arms, the way he wanted her to be. “Y/N!”

Y/N clutched onto him tighter, choking up. “You’re back, you’re really back.” She made no move to let him go so he helped her wrap her legs around his waist and secured her with one arm. Bringing Akaashi into a side hug, he said, “Hey, hey, hey, Akaashi, thank you for bringing her and picking me up!”

“Wait, does that mean no one came to pick us up?!” Hinata yelped, making Y/N and Bokuto laugh and Akaashi chuckle. He said, “You can come, I think we have enough space.”

We’re lying on the moon

Once they had gotten back home and unpacked his stuff, Bokuto grabbed her by the waist and buried his face in her neck, sighing. “I missed you so much.”

Her hands found their way to his hair and she started stroking it, making him smile softly. “I missed you more, you have no idea.”

They made their way to their bed, Y/N delighted that she wouldn’t be alone at night anymore. He fell into her open arms, his head on her chest. Y/N continued her administrations with his hair, slowly making him fall asleep. She looked outside the window at the full moon beaming down at them and let out a breath that she never knew she was holding. Kissing his head, she whispered, “Love you.”

“Love you too.”

It’s a perfect afternoon

Bokuto and Y/N were currently out and about, going everywhere but no idea where. His grip on her hand had not loosened as they walked around the city. “Ooh, there’s ice cream! Come on, let’s get some!”

They had gotten their own cones because as much as Y/N loved Bokuto, she wasn’t going to share her cone. They kept walking, never letting go of the other’s hand.

In his excitement, Bokuto pointed at something, making his cone fall to the floor, the ice cream already melting on the hot pavement and him staring at it. Y/N’s mouth twisted as she tried to bite back her laughter, but upon seeing his disappointment, she couldn’t help but shake her head. “Fine, I’ll share my cone, just this time.”

Both of them kept walking, sharing Y/N’s cone and smiling as they continued walking through the city, not giving a care as to where they were going, as long as they were together.

Your shadow follows me all day, making sure that I'm okay and

When it was 9 am, Bokuto was dedicated to getting out of bed to start exercising and even then, Y/N wouldn’t walk up for that. However, she would wake up to make him breakfast while putting on his hoodie. Her eyes would droop as she kept making food, but it was routine for her to do this. Bokuto, after changing, went to her and wrapped his arms around her waist, nuzzling his face into her neck as she hummed.

“It smells delicious, Y/N!”

“You say that every morning, love.” Following the ten minutes of his embrace, she gave him his food and said goodbye as he left for his run. She fell asleep on the couch and in an hour, he returned, panting heavily before taking a shower. The sight of Y/N curled up on the couch with his hoodie made him beam as he lay down next to her, taking her into his arms. Bokuto slowly started to stroke her hair as she rested her hair on his chest, her breathing slowing as she was safe and okay in his arms.

“I love you.” He mumbled, sure that she was asleep.

She tilted her head up and muttered, “I love you too.”

With a smile on his face, he closed his eyes, tightening his grip on her.

Everything was normal again.

We’re a million miles away

#haikyuu x reader #asks #requests #bokuto x reader #bokuto x y/n #bokuto koutarou x reader #bokuto koutarou x y/n #haikyuu songfic #bokuto x you #bokuto koutarou x you #man this took me a while #i thought it was going to be short at first and i was wrong #ah well

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2020 In Review

Hoo boy, here we go.

[Ok just before I begin. I had this queued to post in the first month of January but it doesn’t seem like that ever happened haha. Better late than never I suppose!]

So I am a nostalgic bitch, and since 2011, have loved to make memory boxes for each year, where I put trinkets and memories into a shoebox. This year I have continued that tradition, but I have also kept track of my happy memories throughout 2020 in my planner. This was done with the intention for me to upload a year-in-review sort of thing in hopes that maybe like, 3 people max on this god-forsaken site will read it. This sort of reminiscence was inspired by my friend @a-lbeit, who has done these for a few years now and me, as a slut for nostalgia, was encouraged to do the same back in January (I think? What even is my memory at this point?)

2020, as it has been for many, was a very shit year, and I am no different. I would safely say that this year has undeniably been the worst I have lived through. But I am here. I am present. And I have made it through some of the darkest times to face 2021 with a new sense of hopefulness. Keeping track of my happier memories has been something that has truly got me through this clusterfuck of a year, so I am glad that I can finally go through them all again and share them with you.

Read it, or don’t, I don’t give a shit what you do with your time, but if you do, I hope that you aren’t bored to tears. And I hope to keep myself accountable to continue to do this for years to come.

Buckle up, grab a hot drink and a snack and get comfy, because this is a JOURNEY.

January:

· Kicked the new year off with hosting a 1920’s themed party with some of my closest friends at my family home at the beach. Had fun with drunk SingStar, playing What Do You Meme, creating a playlist with everyone’s top 3 songs of the decade (it was a bangin’ playlist I must say), and just overall drinking too much and having a riotous time

· I remember going to the beach New Year’s Day (as is tradition in Australia) and playing ultimate frisbee in the shallows and completing a crossword puzzle on the sand (I am a 75-year-old woman, it is just a fact of life)

· I also had my friend Kirsten from South Australia stay with me for the New Year’s period and it was lovely to have a guest over! I haven’t spoken to her much this year, she sort of fell off the face of the planet, but I hope she is doing ok.

· Went town to Torquay (a beach town in Victoria) for the 6th time for Beach Mission, which is essentially a holiday program for kids in preschool-year 9 where we run activities for them. It’s a Christian-based program but the aim isn’t to convert the kids or anything like that, it’s more to show God’s love to them through our actions and how we as Christians live our lives. It’s also a convenient way for parents to dish their kids off for a few hours too haha. This was my final year of being a part of this program, and I am so pleased to have made so many memories and (hopefully) impacted many children’s lives during my time there

· I remember going on a late-night beach walk with my boyfriend Josh, talking about what the year had in store for us. We were just sitting on the beach, as you do, and I saw a shooting star. I can’t remember what I wished for (if anything) but in that moment, life was a dream.

· The week after beach mission I started at my new internship! It was for a place called KidsCo, who run school holiday programs at workplaces, so parents don’t need to take time off work to look after them. I helped with client relations and a lot of behind-the scenes stuff. I really loved it there

· On the very first day of my internship I remember there was torrential rain, and the train home was delayed by like, an hour or so lol

· One of the best parts about interning at KidsCo was that they were the official child-minding service for the Australian Open. I make an effort to go each year, but I was lucky enough to get free ground-entry for me and a guest for the duration of the event. I went quite a few times and got to take my mum and Josh along as well.

· Saw my only concert of the year, The Veronicas, at the Australian Open. When I say the moment the violin riff at the start of Untouched absolutely went the fuck off is an understatement. Grade 5 me would have cried (and 23 year old me did a little bit too tbh.) Yet another of one of my “all-time-favourite-songs” that I’ve had the pleasure of hearing live. (I also went through the year feeling sad that this was the first time in 11 years I hadn’t gone to a concert, but this one certainly fell through the cracks)

· Started planning my trip to the UK to see my twin sister, and best friend, Jess

· Went away to Rye for the Australia Day weekend #changethedate. An excellent time with excellent mates, and went to the beach pretty much every day and got mindlessly sloshed every night

· Listened to the Triple J Hottest 100. I think 4 of my picks made it in, which was pretty good

· Continued my job as the office manager/events coordinator at my church

February:

Basketball started back after the summer break for my two different teams, The Vikings and The Wildcats (honestly such a highlight of this year with how the rest of it ended up going)

As a team-bonding activity at KidsCo we hired a boat for a few hours and I got more drunk that I had been for a while. It was a very fun time jetting down the Yarra, waving drunkedly at the people jogging by

For Valentine’s day Josh and I had an indoor picnic with our favourite food! The weather was shit for Feb, hence the indoor nature of the picnic

Saw Shrek the Musical with two of my closest pals, Bec and Katie (I honestly forgot that this happened in 2020 hahaha) but it was ICONIC

Had a Jackbox night with The Boys

Had my cousin Amy from England over for dinner! I hadn’t seen her in 5 or 6 years, so it was so lovely to connect again like no time had passed at all

Went to Healesville Sanctuary, a lovely conservation park which focuses on preserving and educating its visitors about Australian animals, with Amy

Went to mini-golf for a friend’s birthday on the leap day. He technically celebrated his 6th birthday which was excellent

Saw Cody Ko and Noel Miller live with Bec and Katie

Finished working at the church office to make room for the potential job opportunity at KidsCo

March:

Ahhh March, you shitstorm of a month. This is where everything started going downhill.

The first thing of note that happened this month was me injuring my ankle at basketball, which had me out of action for a few weeks. It was especially bad because I was nearing the end of my internship and was hoping to do my best work so that I would be chosen to stay on as an employee, but had to take a week or so off to rest my ankle. My ankle would continue to be tender and sore for most of the rest of the year

Went away for the Labour Day long weekend with the family

Finished up my internship at KidsCo. Honestly was lead to believe that I would be staying on as an employee and felt sort of betrayed after all the work I did for them, but whatever

Had a party at Bec’s house to listen to Triple J’s Hottest 100 of the Decade. One of my favourite songs was number 1 which was a pleasant surprise

Went down to the holiday house for a few days just to have so me time and sort myself out

Animal Crossing New Horizons came out haha. Honestly was one of the highlights of this year though. I stayed up until midnight so I could download it as soon as it was available because that’s the sort of person I am

Mum’s birthday dinner with Dani, one of my best friends, and her girlfriend Amy

Went for a hike at Sugarloaf Reservoir with Josh and got spooked by a mob of kangaroos

April:

My mental health started really taking a downward spiral this month for multiple reasons which I won’t get into here, but this is more a note to my past self to say that it will all be ok I guess? Idk I just felt like this needed to be here

Did my ankle badly again on Good Friday

Watched the Overwatch League live with my friends and just memed in the livechat lmao

WARNING - this is a bit TMI but I am going to share anyway since it was a big part of this year, and if you are reading this you are either a stranger or a good friend so I really don’t care lmao: This month I also started to get bad pains in my uterus, like, not period pains but deep, stabbing pains. This continued on for the next few weeks without me doing anything about it, except for increasingly getting stressed about it, although I will talk a bit more about this later.

Josh and I celebrated our 6th year together which was ~wholesome~

Called my friend Ashley from the US and just caught up. It was nice to see her face again. She is a good egg. I haven’t talked to her since but I really hope she’s ok.

May:

Watched Star Wars with Josh and his family for “May the 4th”

Started a volunteer job at Kivuli, a non-for-prophet that is based in Kenya, and started helping out with their website and social media stuff

Zoom movie time with my friends, we watched How To Train Your Dragon I think? Athough everyone was talking over the movie so I didn’t really get anything out of it

Played Scattergories (one of my favourite games) with Bec and Jess on zoom and just wrote really stupid and funny answers and I remember this being just what I needed

Went for a long walk with mum and one of her friends and her daughter on a track we don’t usually go on, which was a nice change of scenery

Went down to the holiday house for the first time in forever since restrictions were eased, at least for a little while lol, with the fam

Went to Portsea for a walk along the beach with Bec and her husband Trevor

Did an online trivia night that night with a big bunch of friends

Had a doctor’s appointment to see what was goin’ on down there. Honestly freaked that it could be something REALLY bad. Got booked in to have an ultrasound the next week, so at least I’d be finding out what was wrong soon.

The day after I got my results was the 21st of May, the day my mum and I were meant to be flying out to the UK to see my sister and her boyfriend. It was already hard enough a month or so before when I had to cancel my flight, but this day was so SO difficult. I can’t remember the last time I cried so hard. I am so blessed to have a boyfriend like Josh though. He was by my side the whole day, and held me as I cried. Oh man I am crying as I write this now, it was such a hard time but I know I will see my sister again.

And then the day after THAT whole ordeal was my birthday, which was meant to be spent in London with Jess but it turned out to be the first birthday we’ve had apart. This day was also hard, but made better by being with loved ones and having dinner at my grandma and grandpa’s house. Grandma’s roast potatoes make everything better.

Went to Geelong to see the other side of my family, it was so good to see my nan again. I love her very much.

Went to the Briars with Bec and went on a lovely nature walk and saw a lot of little wallabies and even an emu

Had an ultrasound and my pain turned out to be a 10cm wide cyst!!! So fun!!!!! Thank the heavens it wasn’t a child. I was so relieved. It is still in my body so that’s cute tho.

June:

Applied for a bunch of jobs, and even got a few interviews! Still no job.

The absolute highlight of this month, and maybe even the whole year, was going away to Lake’s Entrance and Yarram with mum, dad and Josh. It was so good to go to the country, I love country towns so much and the wildlife and nature is so beautiful in the eastern part of Victoria. If you ever get the opportunity I recommend going there!

We ate so much nice food and just relaxed. It wasn’t a perfect replacement for not going to Europe, but it was something at least.

Did more work for Kivuli which kept me busy

Went to Bec’s house to bake a cake. She came out to me as bi this day too, and the cake was coloured like the bisexual flag!

Started a short course through the university I went to in Facebook for Business. It was a great way to build up my skills.

Played Animal Crossing with Dani’s little sister, Tami, a very wholesome time

Looked after Josh’s dog Jed while his family went away for the weekend (also went into the start of July) and was honestly the greatest time

July:

Halfway through the year. Thank fuck.

Had another job interview

Went on lots of walks

Was just generally cold

Did a lot of cleaning

Painted the downstairs rooms at church, which took a few days and a lot of back pain, but it’s cool to think that I was able to contribute my energy and time to something while I was not feeling good at all

The restrictions were tightened again, meaning that I couldn’t go further than 5kms away from my house, except to see Josh, so this was a really lonely time for me.

Really got into Masterchef with mum this season. They had all returning contestants from other seasons so that was really fun to watch.

Got and assembled a new couch upstairs that I can say I actually own myself. I absolutely love it.

More walks, despite the cold

This was a very uneventful month, but that’s ok!

August:

Had a call with the hospital I’ll be having my cyst surgery with. It was good to know that things would be started. I had to have a blood test and a second ultrasound then put on the waiting list for surgery. Still no sign on when that will be happening though 6 months later. Just so lucky to live in Australia where all of these appointments are free.

Went for a really nice long walk with Josh. Got shat on by a bird.

Did lots of stuff around the house, just tidying and watering the plants and sorting through my wardrobe to purge all the clothes I grew out of

Had an online Switch games night with some friends which was fun. We played Smash Bros. and Mario Kart and just had a great time!

Ok this sounds super lame but my favourite podcast, The Jenna & Julien Podcast, finished forever which came as a surprise and was just really sad. I really hope it comes back one day.

Did my tax return lmao

Baked rice puff/marshmallow bar things

Made an ASOS order to fill my happiness with material things. Did get some cute clothes and lingerie tho 😉

More games with Bec and Jess, we played Golf With Your Friends this time

Had a cocktail night with Josh, where we just made a bunch of fun cocktails and got drunk. I can’t wait to live with him so we can do this all the time.

Lots of Kivuli work, as we are planning for our 10th anniversary fundraising event

September:

Baked cookies, which was something I did a lot at the start of lockdown but sort of drifted away from. I absolutely love to bake.

Started working for Media-Wize, a small PR company that was started by someone I know at church.

Started playing Among Us at the start of the month

So many Among Us nights omg, just call me queen impostor please

Did my induction for Media-Wize

Got n e r v o u s because I kept getting things wrong in my new job. I always seem to fuck up the good things and opportunities that I get

Did a livestream reading of The Great Gatsby on my friend’s Twitch stream. It was really fun and something I had never done before. I voiced Tom Buchannan, which was interesting but cool to sort of get into the character. I hope to do something like this soon.

I burnt my hair while cooking dinner and had to give myself a haircut lmao. It was the first time since 2018 that I had cut it so it was a long time coming anyway.

So much Media-Wize work. It felt good to finally be getting paid to do a job

Got locked out of my bathroom so I had to climb up the laundry chute to unlock it from the inside, all because a fly outsmarted me (it’s a long story… and honestly best told by speaking it)

October:

Had the Kivuli 10th anniversary livestream. Lots of work went into it and it was so much fun! It’s incredible that a non-for-profit that has benefitted so many children and families is still going strong. Such a blessing to see.

Dad’s birthday, and we had a picnic with grandma and grandpa and saw them for the first time since lockdown was somewhat lifted

Walked to Beasley’s nursery with Josh and got a coffee. This was the first proper, not McCafe coffee I had had in months and it was SO good

Played Animal Crossing with Dani

More Among Us, a theme for the last few months of 2020

Watched the AFL Grand Final. Wasn’t super exciting this year tbh, especially since we couldn’t have a BBQ or party or anything, but hopefully next year will be different

Nearly moved out of home with a friend of a friend, but since I didn’t have a job, didn’t think it would be a wise decision. Would’ve been nice though

Did some more Media-Wize work. I haven’t been given anything to do since this time though, so I don’t know what’s going on with that? They really be ghosting me tho.

Applied for JobSeeker so I would at least be getting a little income

New Jackbox came out, and had a games night with The Boys playing all the new games

Voted in the local election

Went to Westerfold’s Park with Josh for a lovely long walk

Played lots of The Sims 4 (but tbh I have been doing this all year)

November:

This month things sort of started to turn around, as Covid wasn’t hitting my state hardly at all, so I was actually able to see family and friends again!

Went to my old primary school with Dani and played basketball and just shot around and talked. She also came over for dinner. It was so nice, and she is a true friend.

Had a picnic at the park at the top of the street with my dad’s side of the family, all together at last

Melbourne Cup Day, not that I really care but it’s nice to get a day off. Went on a day trip to the Dandenong mountain range. It was so, so nice and bought some lovely little things from local shops, went for a bushwalk and had a bakery lunch

Went to the park to throw the frisbee and kick the footy around with Josh and his friends, although they are my friends too tbh

Had a picnic with a group of friends that I hadn’t seen since January, so it was so, so good to catch up with them and have a delicious BBQ dinner

My favourite online comedy group, Aunty Donna’s Netflix series came out! Had a virtual watch party with a few friends and binge watched it all in one go

Had lunch with grandma. This used to be a weekly occurrence but for obvious reasons was put off for this year. I absolutely adore her and every lunch we spend together is so precious to me

Went to Kyneton with some of the family as another day trip

Christmas shopping time again. So weird to be at the shops and feel sort of normal? I went 4 different times in the span of a week and a half haha

Josh’s birthday! We went to this maze place with has a bunch of big mazes and other fun activities. It was such a perfect day. Then we had dinner with his family.

Got a letter from the IRS saying that I needed to provide them with proof of identity, so that was fun trying to sort that out. We love the outdated US tax system <3

Went to a bridal shower for my friend Katie

Went for another hike with Josh to the mountains

Drove down to Geelong for a friend’s wedding and stayed at my nan’s house

Had a pub dinner and Jackbox night while down in Geelong with The Boys

A good friend of mine was leaving to live in Japan for two years, so I went to her house one last time to say goodbye and chill in her pool and just hang out

God why is it so hard to get a job?

December:

Omg we have made it to December. It truly is a miracle with how this year went tbh. And if you have read this far, thank you but also, how little of a life do you have?

Went to my friend Katie’s wedding. Sort of surreal to go to a wedding during a pandemic but it was fun and I got to see a lot of friends I hadn’t seen in a while

Enjoyed the hot weather and went to the beach a number of times with a variety of friends

Went Christmas shopping, and just shopping in general since it was safe to and shops had finally opened again

Got a job at a talent agency where you get gigs as a paid extra in TV shows and movies, which was pretty cool! I even had a professional photoshoot to get headshots done, something that I had never done before. Glad that I could get some pictures to use on LinkedIn though haha. Still haven’t been cast in anything but here’s hoping.

Had dinner and drinks with Josh, Bec and Trev in the city for the first time since it reopened. God I love Melbourne so much. It is just so magical on balmy summer nights. This was such a special evening, and was so good just to be in the city again

Had a lovely day with Dani, starting with breakfast and then going on a hike before the weather got too hot. We went to Sherbrooke Forest, a place I hadn’t been before, and it was incredibly beautiful

Had a number of job interviews this month too, none of which got back to me which was annoying :/

Now it was heading into the time where every weekend is packed with Christmas do’s so I’ll just collate them in this point. Lots of drinks were consumed and many delicious roast dinners

Had our annual Christmas Carol’s service at church. It was a blessing to be back in the building for the first time since March, and to be able to do something I love (singing) with some of my best friends was the best

Christmas eve I went to my grandma and grandpa’s house (on dad’s side) to help them set up for Christmas lunch. Spending time together just the three of us is so special, and I am so glad I was able to come over and just chat and be in their loving presence. Then that night I went to our 11pm church service to bring in Christmas day. It was a great service and was great to see our kick-ass minister give a sermon face-to-face.

Ok here we go, Christmas was a doozy, let’s go. So Christmas lunch was, as I said, with my dad’s side of the family, which is always a great time. Cracking open crackers and fighting over who’ll get the bottle opener or nail clippers is always a highlight haha. But we had the fucking best roast potatoes I swear. I need to know what my grandma puts into them because I could genuinely eat 20 of them and still have space. Then the rest of the afternoon was spent in a food coma until I went to Josh’s house to spend dinner with his family. Another delicious meal and great banter was what I needed, although I can safely say that I put on at least 5 additional kilos after that day.

The next day the fam and I headed to Geelong to see my mum’s side of the family. Was a great drive down and I listened to all of The Avalanches new album which had just released. Easily the greatest album of the yeah hands-down. So we spent lunch there and absolutely stuffed ourselves with more food. Three Christmas meals really took a toll on me, but I am just blessed as it is to have a loving family and food on the table.

The next day dad, Josh and I headed to the beach to spend that weird time between Christmas and New Year’s. To get there we took the ferry that goes from Queenscliff to Portsea, which is always a fun time, since we don’t often go from one side of the bay to the other (if you don’t know the geography of Victoria I apologise lmao). Mum didn’t come with us as she had some symptoms of Covid, so went home to isolate and get tested. Thankfully she tested negative and she joined us the next day.

Once I got back home I had to prepare the house for my friend Jono who was visiting for new years from SA. Many last-minute chores and cleaning was done haha.

New Years Eve! Went to pick up Jono and my other friend Sarah from the airport and dropped Sarah off at her accommodation and ended up staying there with Jono for a while as this was where the New Year’s party was going to be. Although, in true Victorian fashion, our premier announced that there was going to be a limit of 15 visitors at any house from 5pm that night. Excellent. We love a last-minute change of plans. So we had lunch and spent the afternoon at my friend’s house before heading to a local park to chuck the frisbee and kick the footy around. We also had our second annual NYE trivia competition, which my team lost by 1 point!! Dang I get so competitive, but we will win next year, I can feel it. The new year came through uneventfully, we were in the middle of a game of Scattergories or something like that when someone changed the channel on the TV to see the Sydney fireworks across the screen and like, 4 second left of the countdown. I gave Josh a bog ol’ smooch and gave my friends a big hug. We had done it. 2020 was defeated.

Conclusion (damn this really be an essay tho)

This year was undeniably the hardest year I had ever been through. Going through unemployment for the majority of the year and having no sense of purpose hit me hard but I am entering 2021 with the hope and willingness to get on track with my career. And I think I will be successful. A lot of truly awful things happened around the world this year as well, with the devastating bushfires at the start of the year, the powerful BLM protests, Coronavirus absolutely destroying lives and many, many other global events but through it all, here we are. I hope you all keep well this year and that your 2021 is infinitely better than your 2020.

Song of the Year: Tangerine – Glass Animals

Album of the Year: We Will Always Love You – The Avalanches (I CANNOT stress this enough, but you absolutely must listen to this album!)

TV Show of the Year: The Mandalorian - Season 2

Movie of the Year: Bombshell (the only movie I saw at the cinemas so didn’t have much to go with)

Memory of the Year: Going away with my family and just enjoying time away with each other

Thank you for reading this, if you’ve made it this far, you’re a real one <3

#me #2020 #2020inreview #nostalgia #anactualnovel #iapologise

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tongue tied

pairing: mirio togata x reader

summary/prompt: the third years have finally come to an end of their ua career and are celebrating the night before graduation with a dorm party.

rating: teen

word count: 1,731

warnings: fluff but lowkey bittersweet angst? also mentions of alcohol.

a/n: i tried my best to make this a gender neutral as possible but i wrote with a fem!reader in mind, so i do apologize if something is more female bent. this makes me super nostalgic for some reason? anyways, feel free to drop requests :)

nejire bounces into your room, blue hair trailing behind her.

“dorm party dorm party!! we’re having a dorm party, didn’t you hear? you better be coming! it’s the last thing the senior class is doing together before we part our ways! stop packing and let’s get ready! i have a few things so you don’t look like you just hopped out of bed!” she sings, buzzing with energy. you sigh, stretching your arms up and standing up from the boxes you were half-finished packing.

“good thing i haven’t packed my clothes yet.” you grin, holding up your arms. she hugs you, spinning you around.

“we’re gonna have so much fun! ok, so the party’s on the roof, it’s getting set up by someone right now, let’s get ready. don’t feel pressured to put on super fancy stuff, just don’t wear pajamas. i’m going to wear the pink cami bodysuit and light blue jeans, along with that white fluffy jacket from ryukyu. should i do makeup? i’m not sure if i should do makeup, i think i should. you should try some! at least a little chapstick or something to perk you up.” rambles the blue haired girl.

“alright nejire, how long do i have? i have to shower still.” you pick up a towel and a bath robe to run downstairs and clean yourself pre-party.

“you have about an hour and a half, you should be fine. come find me when you’re ready, we can walk up together.” she boops your nose, then bounces out the door to her dorm room to most likely get ready. stripping out of the sweats, tank top, and underwear you had on all day, you put on the bath robe and pad down to the elevator, then down to the showers. you get in, turning on the hot water and start massaging soap through your hair. thoughts consume you of things that happened in your three years at ua. different events and different memories. training camps, class field trips, vacations, get togethers, and many many moments spent with a bunch of future heros. the nostalgia makes you smile in bittersweet memories. then the what if memories. the things that never ended up happening. times you were too scared to speak out, which left many things to only the imagination of how they could’ve ended. crushes that never developed into anything more. friendships that were never formed. relationships and missed opportunities due to fear of speaking out. before long, the time is gone and someone’s knocking at the dorm shower door, inquiring passive-aggressively when you’ll be done. you yell out an apology before finishing the shower’s intended purpose (getting clean, not thinking about how close the end of your ua career is). snagging the bathrobe and tying it around you, you walk out of the shower with your stuff, toweling your hair. another apology slips out to the poor classmate who sat there for lord knows how long before you walk back to your room. setting down your things, you start looking for a suitable outfit while trying to finish drying your wet hair. settling on a simple pair of ripped jeans, grey top, and boots, you start to put curls in your hair. a little bit of fluff never hurt anyone. glancing at your phone time, you freak out seeing that two hours have already flown by. you text nejire while finishing your hair that you’re ready. you put on some lip product and spray a tad bit of your favorite fragrence on your neck, then decide to call it a day there as nejire knocks on your door excitedly. snagging your phone and a few other necessities, you pocket them then head out the door to meet one of your best friends. she stands at the door, waiting for you to come out. meeting her, you give her a hug.

“last moment together before we graduate. it makes me sad but happy.” you sadly smile, wrapping your arms around her. of course, nejire’s not one to pass up a hug so she reciprocates the affection.

“stop being sad then, focus on happy, be sad after we graduate! plus it’s not like were never going to see each other again. me, you, tamaki, and mirio are stuck together for the long ride!” she smiles. mirio. mirio was the ray of sunshine in everyone’s life, but especially yours. you met mirio in second year through a project and joined the trio’s friend group. he always helped you out whenever you were down, everything about him was admirable. nejire gives your arm a tug, breaking you out of your daze about the blonde boy.

“stop dreaming about mirio and get on the elevator!” she says, pulling you into the elevator. you turn bright red and hit the blonde

“nejireeeeeeee!” you pout and she laughs.

“i see the way you look at him, you’re not fooling anyone. well, except maybe him. he’s really stupid sometimes.” she winks. the elevator dings, indicating you’re at the top floor. both of you get off and walk to the staircase up to the roof of the building. you open the door to see the party in full swing. music thumped and there were kids dancing. a few tables had drinks and snacks on them, but there were more cups on the ledge of the roof. glowsticks in pockets, hands, and around limbs or belt loops lit up the mostly dark roof. colored string lights lit what the glowsticks couldn’t reach. you could pick out the heads of the kids in the hero course since you trained with them for three years. business, general, and support class kids were also at the party. you could recognize a few of them, but not many. nejire pokes your arm, points in tamaki and mirio’s direction. mirio’s talking with some kids from the general(?) course while tamaki stands behind him, close to the ledge of the roof. mirio spots the two of you and waves, a smile on his face. nejire gets pulled away by a different friend, but not before throwing a teasing parting remark your way. you wade through the sea of people to mirio’s side. he gives you a big smile and a hug.

“hi (y/n)!” he grins. you smile up at him and poke his cheek

“hello mirio.” you let go of him and get involved in the conversation he was in. talking about stories at ua, the small group of you laugh and reminisce on older times. eventually, they one by one wander off until it was the two of you. a glowstick halo makes its way onto your head. you look up to see mirio smiling.

“a glowstick crown fit for a king.” he teases. you laugh, leaning into his side. you take it off of your head then jump up and put it on his head. he looked like a confused puppy as the purple glow washes over his face.

“now it’s on a king.” you smile. he hugs you and puts his chin on your head. you stay like that for a while, just appreciating each other.

“i’m kinda thirsty, come with me to get something to drink?” you asked. he turns around to get a red solo cup.

“i’ve got punch here if you want it. it’s really good, i had a cup already.” mirio offers it to you. you grab and take a sip. a little bit of vodka touches your tastebuds, the fruity taste far outweighing it.

“mirio, you know this has alcohol, right?”

“does it? i don’t think it does” he gently takes the cup from you and drinks. he takes a second, trying to pick it out, but can’t do it.

“oh well, it’s not the end of the world. we can let go for one night.” shrugging, you take it back and down it. you fall into casual banter, making jokes and talking. nejire and tamaki join in eventually.

“i literally cannot comprehend how you don’t have a girlfriend. you are literally the perfect package, everything in one.” the alcohol made your words toward the blonde bolder.

“probably because he was busy making goo goo eyes at you.” nejire winks. mirio turns pink and you laugh

“yeah right.” you smile, then shiver, now cold.

“i’m going downstairs with tamaki, he doesn’t look too good.” nejire sighs, nudging him with her elbow softly. she puts an arm around him comfortingly and walks with him to the door. she opens it, then disappears when she shuts it.

“are you ok? do you need my jacket?” mirio takes his black bomber jacket off and puts it around your shoulders. you thank him, rubbing his shoulder. other seniors are bouncing around and your eyes drift over to them by the speakers.

“hey, let’s go dance with them.” you drag mirio to the middle of the roof where kids were just dancing together. the beginning of tongue tied by grouplove played in the background as kids bounced up and down and swayed together. you giggled, grabbing mirio’s hands and bouncing around with him. he smiled, jumping with you. the song built up in the background as the kids sung in the background.

“TAKE ME TO YOUR BEST FRIEND’S HOUSE! ROLL AROUND THIS ROUNDABOUT OH YEAH!” you looked into mirio’s blue eyes, smiling as a silent tear ran down your cheek because of the bittersweet moment. the roof sung as a unit. all the seniors in ua became one, singing the same song together for the first and final time. he puts his hand on your face and wipes the tear away with his thumb. you lean into his touch, moving closer to him. his other hand rests on your waist, swaying to the beat with you. the distance is pretty much gone, standing chest to chest, dancing together to the song together.

“TAKE ME TO YOUR BEST FRIEND’S HOUSE! I LOVED YOU THEN, I LOVE YOU NOW OH YEAH!” mirio moves closer, and you close the distance. your lips met softly, eyes falling shut. his lips taste lightly of the fruit punch. you entangle your arms around his neck. eventually, you break the connection, still holding each other close. you grin for the billionth time that night and lean your head against mirio’s chest, listening to his heartbeat that thumped in time with the song in the background.

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