#now THIS is a great birthday present

[gotta-bail-my-quails]

the k in my name stands for king

[kasirose]

Happy happy birthday to the resident high warlock of glitter and our hearts, Magnus Lightwood-Bane!

[huffle-dork]

Egotober Day 31: Happy Halloween

I had to work Halloween so I’m very late… and I really wanted to draw the rest of the swaps but I’m so tired so it’s just the Brody bros and their boos… but!! I did it!! I finally finished a whole month for the first time in 4 YEARS!! I’m so glad I worked through it and did all 31 drawings!!

Oh also They’re all characters from Nerdy Prudes Must Die cuz I’ve been obsessed with it again. Bro is Max, Stacy is Grace, Alt is Steph and Oli is Pete!!

[mitamicah]

A serious question for my brain: Why!??

[anotheryoutubefanpage]

Just saw the love of my life <3

[keyrousse]

38, yay!

[sweetpea-sprite]

OH HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUBY OMG........ HAVE A GOOD DAY ABOUT IT!!

THANK YOUUUU i'm moving <3

[shoechoe]

Happy birthday! (´v`)ﾉ｡+゜*｡

Thank you (that's a very cute text emoji by the way)

[malapertmarquess]

It’s nearly my birthday, so I celebrated by inviting some friends over for a book and potatoes party.

It was excellent. There were so many potatoes, and everyone came in costume as a literary character, and I had a lot of fun! Seriously, is there a better idea for a birthday party out there?

Oh, and I had a delectable cheesecake, which I naturally needed to decorate appropriately for the occasion:

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

o.m.g!!!!!!!!!!!

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[autism-corner]

big tragedy

[givemeasword-callmequeen]

I know my family doesn't know me at all... But especially on my birthday I get hit with "wow they really don't know me. You were looking at that & thinking of me? Please look again & think again."

[plexippusangel]

Had a nice vent session with one of my friends today and realized that while some of my unhappiness with some of my roommate situation is valid, the frustration is out of proportion. There's a lot of stuff that I'm absolutely not owed, but because it's a disturbance to the status quo while a bunch of other shit is going wrong, it feels way worse than it is.

And I have to get a handle on that before I start trying to have a conversation about all of this.

I don't like to let things simmer but frankly I have been doing bad for a while and I don't have the level of self-control that I need to handle things properly. The cracks are starting to show a bit in other areas of my life and that's freaking me out worse. But I can bear a bit of frustration for a while. I've done it for years. I'll cope. I'll call my retirement company on Monday so I can start the process of cashing that out. I'll get myself better fed so I can function a little better and I'll do my best to get some sun and see people. I'll get a better job again. I'll go back to therapy. I'll see a doctor. I'm not falling apart forever. I just need to keep my cool and handle things as they currently are for a little while longer. I'll be okay.

[a-sleepy-ginger]

12/2/24

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Woke up in clean comfy bedsheets

Got birthday wishes

Made millionaires shortbread

Got chocolate muffin

Gave brother a fright by accident

Felt cute wearing my jacket

Got a nice gift from my friend

Mother showed me my great nanny's jewellery and we talked (found out that apparently my fingers are small?)

Was cosy while taking dog out on his walk in heavy rain

Talked with family

Tried blood orange for the first time and liked it

Listened to my favourite songs

Managed to get out of going to see my grandma (she's not a nice person)

A sign of affection anime was really cute

[reddpenn]

Here is a potentially silly question: how do you feel about birthstones? Do you think they fit the months (by season or astrological sign)? Do you have other stones you'd rather see as birthstones?

Okay, so, birthstones make absolutely no sense.

I mean, look at this mess. We’re doing beryl and corundum twice! I get that they get Special Different Names for their Special Different Colors, but it's just lazy. And why are we giving some months cheap, common gemstones like garnet and amethyst while the poor June birthdays have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars for FREAKING ALEXANDRITE? That’s incredibly unfair! We should be picking birthstones that are all roughly the same price. And why do some months get multiple gemstones? I’ll tell you why: because nobody can agree on an official list and every attempt to standardize this thing has just added MORE birthstones to every month.

So obviously the answer is to standardize it again, by throwing out everything and starting over. Here are our goals:

Fair pricing. You should be paying roughly the same amount regardless of what month you were born in. We’re getting rid of those ridiculous outliers like diamond and alexandrite.

More customization potential! Nobody should be stuck with a stone they hate. We’re picking gemstones that come in multiple colors or varieties, so that everyone can choose a variant they like.

Wearability. Some birthstones are too fragile to be worn as jewelry. We need to replace them with stronger stuff.

No more duplicate gemstones. Every month gets a stone or family of stones with a unique chemical composition.

Now without further ado, I present to you:

The New And Improved List Of Birthstones With No Problems Or Flaws That Everyone Will Definitely Agree On And We Can Start Using Right Now Immediately

JANUARY: GARNET

I've got no problem with garnet. It's a fine, classic birthstone, so January can keep it. But I would like to see a little more garnet diversity. January birthdays shouldn’t be confined to just red. The garnet family of minerals contains a rainbow of different colors, like orange hessonite, green uvarovite, pink rhodolite, yellow grandite, and many more. They’re all garnet, so we should be wearing them all!

FEBRUARY: QUARTZ

The original birthstone of February was amethyst, which is… kinda boring. Super cheap and common and you only get one color? No, we can do better. February gets ALL the quartzes now. Keep wearing amethyst if you want, but also feel free to branch out into clear quartz, citrine, rose quartz, smoky quartz, rutilated quartz, tiger eye… actually, take all the agates too. If it’s quartz, it’s yours!

MARCH: SPODUMENE

March was originally aquamarine, but I’ll be giving all the beryls to May, so we need a different stone here. Let’s stick with that theme of pale pastels and go with spodumene. For an April birthday, bedeck yourself in green hiddenite, pink kunzite, or yellow triphane. Despite its subtle colors, your birthstone has some amazing fluorescence, with really cool pinks and oranges under a UV light.

APRIL: FELDSPAR

Diamond is too pricy for this list, so we’re replacing it with something less expensive and way more interesting. April will now be represented by the feldspar family. We’re talking labradorite, moonstone, amazonite, aventurine, and sunstone. While you don’t have much variety in color, your stones are full of shimmery schiller which glitters and shifts as it catches the light.

MAY: BERYL

May’s original birthstone was emerald, which is great and can stay, but we’re also adding its siblings! May is now represented by all beryls: Emerald, Aquamarine, Morganite, Bixbite, Heliodor, Goshenite, and whatever other varieties I’m forgetting to list. A bright and saturated rainbow of colors is represented here, so everyone born in May is sure to find something they like.

JUNE: ORGANIC GEMSTONES AND FOSSILS

It’s time to address the alexandrite in the room, and obviously we’re getting rid of alexandrite. A stone worth $15,000 to $70,000 a carat does not belong on the same list as friggin amethyst. Instead we’ll look at the other traditional June birthstone, pearl. The problem with pearl is that it’s a clear outlier in this list. An organic gemstone, by some definitions not even a mineral. Should we replace it? NO. We are OWNING it. All organic gemstones now belong to June. Pearl is joined here by jet, amber, coral, ivory, ammolite, petrified wood… in fact, June can have every fossil ever.

JULY: SPINEL

July was originally represented by ruby, which is a fine stone and won’t be kicked off the birthstone list - we’re just shuffling it down to September. Replacing ruby for July is spinel. (See, it’s funny because historically spinel has often been mistakenly identified as ruby! That's a little gemology humor for you.) Available in any hue you could possibly desire, spinel offers some nice color options to a month that previously only featured red. Of course if you want to keep wearing red, red spinel mimics ruby so well that you’ll barely notice the difference.

AUGUST: PERIDOT

Nope, we’re not changing this one. Peridot is the ideal gemstone and you ungrateful August whiners can die mad about it. HOW ABOUT YOU LEARN TO APPRECIATE PERFECTION

SEPTEMBER: CORUNDUM

Sapphire is a wonderful, classic stone and it deserves its spot on this list. But the corundum family has been separated for far too long, and we’re finally going to reunite them. Joining sapphire in September is its sister ruby. Between the pinks and reds of ruby and the many, many colors of sapphire, these two stones give September a nice variety of colors.

OCTOBER: TOURMALINE

Look, as gorgeous as opal is and as much as I love it, it is both way too pricy for our list and also TERRIBLE in jewelry. This stone is just too brittle to wear around from day to day and can be ruined just by getting it wet, which makes wearing your birthstone a huge hassle. We’ll kick opal out and hang on to October’s other traditional birthstone, tourmaline. Pink tourmaline may be classic, but this stone comes in plenty of other colors. Whether it’s brown dravite, watermelon elbaite, or the rare and beautiful blue indicolite, you can wear them all!

NOVEMBER: TOPAZ

November can keep topaz, but we’re not confining it to the color yellow. This stone comes in a huge variety of colors, and now they can ALL represent November. No further notes; it’s a nice, classic stone.

DECEMBER: ZIRCON

I dunno, I’ve had to come up with 12 of these, I’m burnt out. Sure, zircon, whatever.

“BUT WAIT,” you say. “Now instead of having a single color assigned to each month, almost every month is represented by almost every color, making it impossible to tell anyone’s birthstones apart and removing what made them special and recognizable as symbols!”

Well CLEARLY you didn’t read the title of this list.