#my origin story

[twopoppies]

how did u become larrie?

November2013. Saw this moment:

Scrolled around on Tumblr. Ended up on YouTube on freddieismyqueen’s account.

There was no turning back.

Longer version of the story here. 😆

[icras]

i. miss dsmp. TEHRE I SAID IT I MISS DSMP

[roszabell]

soooooo what got you into prucan in the first place?

when i started watching hetalia, i just fell in love with the characters!! i dont rememver if i saw fanart of them together first or if i just started shipping them from my own brain, but it was almost immediate 😂 i got super obsessed with cana, in everyway, and then i saw pru and i was like. thats the coolest fucking guy ive ever seen AND hes a loser?? they were both hot and it was as easy as "theyre both invisible and misunderstood 🥺" and also the prussia death fics really hooked me

[unorcadox]

what got you into dreamcore/weirdcore? how did you go from being an observer to making your own edits? sorry if this is a boring question haha

no worries!

i remember this image tbh being a particularly important one to me back in mid 2020, it's the first one that really stuck with me

i decided to make my own edits bc why not! i thought it'd be a dumb little flop side project, and during the point in which no one could go outside i was honestly getting bored and impulsive

[spursdontplaybasketball]

Random ask! 🫶 How did you get into supporting Tottenham?

Thank you for asking! 💫

I initially watched soccer in the 2014 World Cup; I got really into watching as many of the games as I could at cafes and other places that were showing it in San Francisco where I lived at the time, and I had just moved into my own place and I was having a bit of trouble adjusting, so it was something cool to throw myself into. The first match I watched was Brazil-Mexico, and I loved the goalkeeping, especially Memo Ochoa. But at that point, after the World Cup was over, I kinda let it fall by the wayside for a bit.

Then in mid-2016, I moved to Pittsburgh because San Francisco was too expensive and I had also found a school I wanted to go to to finish my bachelor's degree. I joined the school rugby team just for the hell of it, even though I'm terrible at sports. I became pretty good friends with a few of the guys from the team, one of whom supported Tottenham. It was my first time hearing of Spurs, but I was intrigued.

The next spring (2017) I was having lunch with him and another rugby buddy. The other guy said that he had been thinking of getting into watching Premier League, and I thought it sounded fun too. My buddy and I both decided to look into what teams we liked. If Ochoa had been in prem, I would have probably just supported his team. I was already kinda feeling a draw towards Spurs because of the first friend, but I did look around at other teams.

Having previously been fascinated by goalkeeping, I wanted a team with a good keeper. I found a list where someone had ranked each team's goalkeeper throughout the 2016/17 season, which was coming to an end soon. The #1 ranking was De Gea, but I felt like going with United would kinda make me seem like a poser (and there were also a lot of rumors going around at the time that he was going to be transferring to Real Madrid). Not only was Lloris ranked #2 on the list, but thinking back, I feel like I was always going to end up with Spurs somehow in any case.

I started watching at the very end of the season, just the last 2 matches. I went in with Lloris as my favorite player, but the first match I ever watched, Sonny scored his 20th (and 21st) goal of the season and was so excited and enthusiastic about it that he immediately won my heart. Even though I was a bit confused because the only stream I could pull up that was working was in Spanish.

I just was stuck in after that. The next season I started going out to watch with my local supporters club, and I've been going as much as I can basically ever since.

[dgaftilwedie]

you can take the girl out of a girl but you can't take the bts out of the they/them

[scarred-serafina-fan]

My origin story

So on Christmas day in 2015, I opened a box my mom handed me and it was full of books. In that stack of books, I picked up one with the silhouette of a girl on the front. I was not really interested when I picked it up but my mom started telling me about how much I was gonna love it and that she already read it and it was based in the Biltmore house in Ashville. Only then did I recognize the house on the cover. I wasn't convinced yet but decided I would give it a chance.

Later that night when I couldn't sleep I pulled out my new stack of books and decided to try a chapter figuring I wouldn't care to read anymore then that boy was I wrong lol I stayed up forever reading it and never put it down until I couldn't keep my eyes open anymore

A few months past and my mom sees a book signing event for the new book and I was ecstatic she drove me all the way to ashville with my grandma and I got to meet robert beatty for the first time this was the first time I'd ever met a author of a book I've read (and he's still the only author I've met) he was really nice to me and I got my copy signed and they gave me a bookmark and a copy of the first two chapters of the new book! (It was not supposed to be out for another two days I think it was anyway it wasn't out yet) so I went home and excitedly read the two chapters and was freaking out it had totally hooked me

Eventually the book did come out and I excitedly read all the way until the staircase scene in one day when I then read the words "she raises her finger towards me" and I literally screamed and slammed I book shut and almost threw it across the room and then proceeded to run into the living room screaming at my mom I was never going to pick up that book again because they killed off Gideon and rowena was a piece of trash that annoyed me so much I hated her (my opinions at the time I do not share them anymore lol)

Anyways my mom read the book since I was "done" with it and came back to me to tell me that Gideon wasn't dead and I needed to continue reading lol a few more months past and they announced the splintered heart and I decided I'd finally suck up the trauma of the staircase chapter and continue reading and I was so mad at myself for waiting because I was so excited for the 3rd book again

My mom took me to the book signing again and this time they had moved it to the Barnes and Nobel they are always at since and since it was so much bigger it wasn't as crowded and they had more things there including selling the book 2 days early (that's right I got to read it 2 days before everyone else lol) he was super nice again and again I LOVED it it actually became my favorite book in the series and still is I was so thankful that my mom talked me into picking the series back up

Willa came out and again I went to the book signing and got the book 2 days early (they also had a special willa flavored ice cream which I'm still obsessed with since they have sold it at every book signing since) I enjoyed it but it was probably still my least favorite out of the 4 books (or second to least considering I was still very much traumatized by twisted staff still lol)

Book 4 came out and same as usual went to the book signing had a fun time loved the book but.... I was now in the summer of the worst year of my life the dreaded year 13 XD I actually ended up in a depression and was dealing with a lot and wasn't reading as much serafina just sat on my closet shelf collecting dust until 2021 when he finally released willa of dark hollow and despite still not being able to find the energy to read I bought the book and hood from the king raven trilogy by stephan r lawhead with the hope it would get me back info reading again and despite having a hard time getting back into willa I did binge read hood and it reignited my love for reading again even if I was much slower at it then before and I decided to start rereading the series again and I still re-read and fall in love with the books all over again on occasion it's a obsession I've never been able to kick and probably never will <3

Course then he released the graphic novel and had the first book signing since 2019 I was so excited I dragged my mom back to ashville with me again and we stood in line for me to get willa of dark hollow signed (the graphics novel was presigned smart ngl) and when I looked at the card they always gave us to put down a message for him I decided to tell him about how he had affected my writing because when I first started writing I picked up his books to analyze how he did it and build up from there and I go up there I hand him the card he glances at it and starts to actually read and looks up to me and smiled and says "so your a writer" and I swear yall I was about to fangirl so hard me and him had never had a real convo before because I get my book signed take a photo and move on that's how those things work but he just started asking about what I write and stuff and it was quick cause I had to get out of line so the next person could meet him (she was so sweet ngl I loved her I would love to meet her again ngl) but he was so encouraging!

Then I started posting on tumblr and decided I was gonna make a fandom myself if no one else was gonna do it lol and I met all yall and it's been great! That's my story and I hope it continues on as he releases more books!

[regnantlight]

@mightiestbanana

[enchantedspools]

This is an appreciation post for one of my favorite comics! I started reading Check Please! by Ngozi Ukazu back in college. I continued reading it when I went abroad to live for 3 years in Japan. And then, like lots of things in my life, it fell off my radar for a while. Like 2-3 years a while...

Fast forward those years, and a good friend reminded me of it, and as so much time passed, I began reading from the beginning. At this point in my life, I began leaning into my hobby - crochet - to start my own business, and I was just beginning to design my own patterns. I was looking for something small to start with and settled on bookmarks because of my life-long love of reading.

I ended up designing this bookmark here, a Georgia Peach to represent Eric Bittle, and I've been designing (and reading) ever since!

[xx-midnight-candy-goblin-xx]

Why are you called midnight candy goblin? Is there a reason or did you just go 'fck it I'm gonna name my self after a time, a food, and a creature'

It's an inside joke between a friend and I

I stayed over at his house once and snuck downstairs at midnight to their kitchen to get candy, their mom's boyfriend saw me hobbling about whilst stealing Snickers and twixes and later described me as a goblin

My friend said "You're the midnight candy goblin" and I was like "Oh mai gawd that's perfect"

[twopoppies]

hi gina💖 I read your origin story and I have to ask. Is your daughter still a fan of them? And does she believe in Larry?

Hi, sugar. She does like 1D 's and Harry 's music now. And yes, she totally believes in Larry. But she's also queer, so she very much sees the same clues I did. My son, on the other hand, couldn't care less about music or closeted boy banders. But he puts up with me. 😆

[holidayhearrt]

What does holiday heart mean?

[rraaaarrl]

thinkign about that poll about first fandoms you read a fic for and

yeah pretty sure i had JUST discovered geoshitties and made my own silly site with tackyass hello kitty repeating background (baby's first website!!!) and fell down a rabbit hole of what was called in those days, "webrings"

something like this, right

anyway, it was some fansite all about a certain fuckboi

look at this little shit. look. at. him.

what an asshole, ...my idiot son

anywho, yeah.

[unorcadox]

love your work, how did you get into it?

saw a random tumblr blog making edits, said "i wanna try that too" and kinda just fell into making it frequently and people liking it. i didn't even tell my friends about this blog for the first several months, bc i was literally too embarrassed at the (honestly more likely than not) possibility of it flopping horrendously and becoming one of those things i tried for 10 seconds and never picked up again

[angrywarrior69]

you may have already gotten this but uh....who was cosplaying who?

I'm assuming you're referring to my origin story, see the original ask here my mom was Spock and my dad was Kirk 🫡