#not to be a bummer in the tags

[writtenbyevie]

earl gray and hibiscus for the tea writing asks :D

rey ✨!! my darling, my love!! how are you!! thank you kindly for the ask!! I’m hugging you so very tight ✨💛

earl grey 🤍🫖:

what time of day do you like to write?

I tend to write throughout the day, though I'm not much of a late night writer. I'll jot down lines or ideas, but rarely am I up on my computer at like 3AM. I think my goldilocks zone tends to be around the early afternoon into the evening. By that point, my brain is stretched out and ready to win the stare down between me and my laptop screen.

The one exception to this is I tend to write music more at night!

hibiscus 💖🫖:

what inspired your current WIP?

So I have several (including my secret santa fic muahahaha) but I'll talk about star-stitched!

The biggest inspiration is my own history with OCD (Christ I could make a whole post about my OCD and writing). I wanted to create a story that involved OCD, though wasn’t necessarily just about OCD. star-stitched is the result of that, along with many images, lines, motifs, and scenes that built up in my mind over the course of several months. Some of which were inspired by elements of my own life. A few examples are:

astronomy, specifically quasars, comets, binary stars, stars

the adam project (the final scene w/ the dad)

far from home by sam tinnez

j's lullaby by delaney bailey

orchestral music in general?

my dad's cancer

death (both in my personal life and like conceptually?)

some of my own previous work?

my ambiguous relationship w/ [redacted]

rain

painting in my room

slow dancing in the kitchen with [redacted]

Eventually, the story just became this monster taking up space in the back of my brain, as I worked on earth and moon, until one day I decided to plan it out. It's changed some since then, but it's been rattling around the ole noggin for a while.

Side note: I like to joke I'm the fusion child of Sakuatsu, since I'm a blonde, brown eyed, tall, hypermobile, perfectionist with OCD and several facial moles (and scattered moles all over really) born on March 20th. Bonus, my sisters are twins.

anywho thank you so much for the ask rey!! sprinkling love and kisses on your forehead like stardust 💫💖!!

p.s. the second chapter of star-stitched is coming soon!!

[toiletpotato]

The 2023 American Girl Doll of the Year is Kavi Sharma, a South Asian American theatre kid who loves Wicked SO SHE HAS A REPLICA ELPHABA COSTUME. I am absolutely ecstatic that kids get this.

edit: SHE ALSO HAS A GLINDA COSTUME

SHE ALSO HAS THIS!! BECAUSE SHE PERFORMS A TRADITIONAL DANCE ROUTINE WITH HER FRIENDS AT SCHOOL AND SHE LOVES BOLLYWOOD

[ragingbullmode]

im seeing very little coverage (at least on here) about how moo dengs popularity on the internet is leading to her being harassed at the zoo as well as how the khao kheow open zoo has a history of multiple cases of animal abuse for sake of entertainment (tw for the last link specifically- its a video that begins with a few seconds of moo dengs image but shows a baby elephant being stabbed & swat with a stick by a keeper for ‘discipline’).

while im glad that moo deng IS bringing awareness & a new love for pigmy hippos (which have a dwindling suggested 2000-3000 number population in the wild), i think we should also take into account that not all zoos/animal sanctuaries take the best interests of the animals they are supposed to care for to heart- especially ones that put more of a focus on entertaining tourists than caring for their animals.

[sleepsucks]

[insomniac-arrest]

falling into a depressive episode is so much like forgetting your period because mine at least happens pretty regularly (every winter) and surprises me every time. Like, I have no interest in eating or reading or dating anymore?? I better Google the Symptoms to see what new disease has been invented.

And it's always the same one.

[brainman1987]

I’m sure it was VERY confusing for Gricko those first few hours (and a little confusing for Cinnamon too)

(( @gricko-grimgrin and @opheliajupiter99 for the wonderful being that is Cinnamon))

[anothermonikan]

Eh, fuck it, self-indulgent post, shoutout to the aro's out there who haven't gotten confessed to at any point in their lives. I see you. We are so fucking awesome

[rosieofcorona]

hm. might need to pause on the dragon age art for a while i fear

[pinksilvace]

“It’s cold." “I know. I know, but we’re going to be alright. Do you hear me? You’re alright now. You’re going to be okay.” “I want to go home.” “We can’t go back home. We’re—we’re orphans now, remember? Nobody’s waiting for us back there.”

[ciderjacks]

let that man hug his wife

[sweatermuppet]

went for my T appointment today & i got rlly sick during the finger prick & my nurse did two tries for the actual draw & both failed so i asked to reschedule 🥲

[i-like-forcefem]

oh hey I made your banner :3

Thanks a lot for that cutie!!! Sorry for taking it without credit! Lemme know if you‘s like it somewhere!!!

I loved the post you made it for btw!!! (And felt applicable to the blog)

[5ucket]

@sansxyouweek day 6: game on!

putrid skeleton man kicks your ass in sonic adventure 2 battle wyd

[itty-bitty-sunshine]

Did a quick doodle to cope with the fact that my cousin's cat screwed up a hand-made gift I was almost done with, so have some hurt comfort with sun and yn ig

I might take a time to make a proper yn design later

[darthmaclunkey]

seeing last jedi again was so good. i will be fighting in the last jedi trenches until i die. if last jedi has no fans left on earth then i am dead etc etc. some very rambling and incoherent thoughts under the cut:

i love luke so much in tlj. luke skywaker is my all-time favourite character from anything, because he really embodies one of the core messages from star wars: being good is a choice, and it's a choice you have to keep making. right from the start of new hope, we see how luke is just constantly thrust into situations where, time and time again, he's given the choice of the easy way out, or tempted by the dark side. but luke always chooses to do the right thing, even when it's hard. in rotj we do get a glimpse of him as this aloof, emotionless jedi, but then it all unravels in the finale when he is forced to confront vader. i know a lot of the vitriol around last jedi is from people who think it ruined luke's character, but to me, his arc makes perfect sense. sequels luke is a man who has spent his whole life making sacrifices and working hard to do good, until it's all torn away from him by the dark side - a dark side plot specifically designed to undermine luke and the light, mind you - yet he still blames himself, because a fleeting temptation from the dark to take the easy route out and save the galaxy from what he saw in ben almost got him, but it didn't. and he paid for that temptation dearly. i would have hated to see a sequels-era luke who was just some epic version of the distant, quasi-mystical jedi knight we see in rotj (as i've seen some people saying that's how he should have been). what kind of character arc is that? he gets to the end of the OT and then never changes? i'm drawn to luke because of his humanity, the fact that you still see the tatooine farmboy in him years later. his sacrifice at the end of last jedi is so beautiful and poignant to me; a lesser script (cough tros cough) would have had him jump in an x-wing and show up to plow through the first order with his lightsaber. i love what we get instead: his moment with leia, her touching his hands and realising he's a projection - his knowing wink to threepio - the image of him emerging from the dust and smoke, unscathed, and how it clearly puts the absolute fear into kylo ren - the way he doesn't even attack, just dodges and blocks - then, finally, the shot of him on ahch-to, watching the sunset, and, once he's gone, the image of his cloak blowing away in the wind, symbolic of his spirit joining the cosmic force. that's my jedi master luke. funny, powerful, human, flawed, but still, after all this time, making the choice to do good and fight for others, even if it's the hardest thing he'll ever do. whew. luke skywalker i love you.

i love how last jedi looks. with the exception of maybe empire, i think it's the best-looking of all the films. it's stuffed with references to absolutely classic cinema, like the shot in canto bight that's an homage to the café dolly shot in wings, or the classic hitchcockian dolly zoom as finn and rose look over the cliff, and the opening sequence with the bombing run is just a straight homage to old war movies, which is just what the OT did with the space battles being shot-for-shot remakes of ww2 dogfight footage. original-flavour star wars was a love letter to to so many other films and tv shows, so this feels so natural. at the same time, there's a lot of sequences that feel really innovative for star wars, like the montage that accompanies rey's connection to the force on ahch-to, or the film's extensive use of close-up shots and slow-mo. the lighting is gorgeous. finn's fight with phasma looks astonishing on the big screen - the colour grading and visual effects really go off in that scene.

i love all the force skype sessions with kylo and rey, but especially the scene where she's out in the rain and, when they disconnect, you see kylo running his hand over his face then shaking the rainwater from his glove. something I hadn't appreciated before is how well the film sells you on the idea that they are both present in the same space, despite seeing them both shot against different backgrounds. the intimacy of the rain-on-glove thing gets me every time.

i love everybody's arcs. every single member of the main trio has a full arc in the film. rose tico is such a lovely addition to the main cast, i hate how she got totally shafted in rise of skywalker.

on a completely superficial note: the main cast are all at their hottest in last jedi. especially poe dameron. especially poe dameron.

the throne room fight scene is one of my favourite movie scenes ever (and in star wars, it's only beaten out by the binary sunset scene from new hope). i WISH i could relive the first time i saw it at the midnight screening i went to in 2017. i may have been sitting politely, but i was hooting and hollering internally.

rian johnson, they could never make me hate you.

[viewlumia]

The rebranded LEGO Magazine literally got (almost) everyone here!