#promised i'd get it up though

[egophiliac]

still ruminating over Lost In the Book With Spooky Skeletons Part 1, so here's a selection of some of my favorite little bits! (...some more loosely paraphrased than others) (I just feel like Idia has no room to criticize in general, okay)

anyway, I'm sure we're just going to have a fun time celebrating Halloween and nothing bad is going to happen whatsoever! :)

[septimusmoonlight]

You doing ok?

hi

[kastillia]

[ephemer4lpetrich0r]

I ended up drawing an inverse scenario of this, I just had to! Buuut since this is Goob we're talking about here, this ended up being much less angsty. No time for misunderstandings if bro goes for the grab instantaneously right LOL

and everything turned out totally okay happy-ever-after the end yayyyy yippeeeee!!

[littlewigglers]

About my tanks

Usually wouldn't post this but since it's gone from every so often to twice a week now in my asks or messages. Ranging from well meaning to pretty rude.

I am aware the tank I keep my giants in is too small, I've said so before in posts. The person I got them from said my tank was fine at the time so that's why I went ahead and got them.

I do plan to upgrade the tank but I have a number of limiting factors - Money, I don't have £200-300+ to drop on this tank, new substrate and stronger shelves to hold the extra weight. - No car, anything I'd buy has to be delivered to me which greatly limits my options to local stores or very expensive shipping - Where I live limiting my options. All I can get delivered to me(at a reasonable price) currently is either exoterra tanks or fishtanks with lids that wouldn't work/no lids.

So yes I'm aware of the issues and I'm doing what I can with what I've got until I am able to get a new tank. I've plans in place to hopefully have it sorted by late spring.

[adustoflove]

Every time I cry, my first thought is just I wish Scrabble were here 😭

[fatass-adam]

@dreamerlucifer: Make an Angel Dust!

My brain: Make a Vox!

Me, pointing violently to Adam and Chaz: CAN I JUST ENJOY MY SILLY ASSHOLES IN PEACE??

[claudiajcregg]

putting yourself down is a bad habit and will not make your writing (which is good already) better

Maybe it's part of the problem, but I don't see what's particularly wrong with what I said or where I'm putting myself down in a way that would warrant this? Or how any of that correlates to making my writing better? I am expressing gratitude and surprise at having that many subs when I don't think I'm that good. (I like my writing! I like other people's writing better, too! And I'm pretty sure some people I consider to be great writers have fewer subs, which doesn't feel right!)

I wish I could see myself through your eyes, anon, and glad you see it differently! But I just don't like being told how to feel.

Once again: I'm thankful to all of my readers, whether they are subscribed or not! I'm even more grateful to those who read any of my stories and liked them enough to subscribe to my profile and get notified of new ones as they come out! It's incredibly flattering. When I started writing, I never thought I'd be brave enough to put any stories up on AO3, but… Now I actually have people who will be happy to see me posting new stuff? What.

[starswallowingsea]

reddit says to watch the enstars anime then play the game should I do that?

so the anime adapts some of the main story from ! era so it would be a good background for it. i havent seen it yet though so its not like. required by any means. but if you play the game i do recommend reading the main story there first (it doesnt really get good until like chapter 5 which is. how many episodes in? so many but once you get there its so worth it). but being familiar with the story beats of the first era is not a bad idea so definitely go for it if you want to watch the anime first

[cesium-sheep]

aaaaaaa okey I ordered the speaker and the star projector. (and a beauty blender and a neck support and the new volume of yona and the garbage disposal cleaner matt wanted.) it was still only $35 actually out of pocket and I get my allowance in the morning which will completely replace that amount. I will definitely like the speaker and if I don't like the star projector arin will.

[the-maddened-hatter]

I'm ngl, I never expected Game of Thrones to make me feel so parental.

[rotisseries]

are you ever gonna post about stranger things and byler again

idk? probably, if it grabs my interest again? stranger things is a family tv show in my house and has been a long term sleeper agent interest for me so I know I'll most likely be watching the 5th season and ill care again. I just fell out of it last year, most fixations only last a year for me anyway before I lose enthusiasm (until there's new content) and also 2022 was my first active participation fandom experience, and it shows, and it was overall an at times extremely questionable experience 😭😭😭😭 so I got great friends out of it but now I feel Weird about it. so

[busterbby]

— i love you.

fluff. gn!reader. 1345 words. saburo.

in which saburo says 'i love you' for the first time.

note: wanted to put out something sweet and on theme before February came to an end! and who better than with my boy sabu <3. I have nothing more to say except to listen to 'i love you' by ryusenkei

The first time Saburo says ‘i love you,’ he’s a bit hesitant. The words lay thick and heavy on his tongue, on his heart, and Saburo almost has to spit it out of him the way they get stuck in his throat. No, this can’t do. Not that he doesn’t love you, but.. these words were so hard to say, to even admit. It took him a good while to even get the courage to say the words to himself in his head without short-circuiting and steam rolling off his head. 

but still, they’re as sure as can be. The first time he tells you he loves you, Saburo says it with all his heart; he’s never been more sure or more correct of anything else: not of his test answers when he turns them in, and not even of an odd job he just finished that he just knows Ichi-nii will be proud about, as Saburo relishes in the praise. 

And he never says anything lightly, y’know. It’s just.. he needed the moment to be right.

He hesitates for a moment or two, takes a deep breath and swallows his pride thickly as Saburo stands outside your door. He had just dropped you off back home after another study date at the library; it’s a little late, now that it was winter, and even though it’s cold out now, Saburo feels oh so warm. burning almost. Winter has never felt this warm before. 

That’s it. This time.. Saburo shuts his eyes to calm himself and takes a deep breath. This moment, in the stillness of the cool night and the warm lantern glow of the streetlight, just before you knock for your parents to open the front door — this moment is perfect now for him to finally say those words he’s meant for all these months. the words he’s held in his heart, bit his tongue on, for so long. 

“I.. love you.” 

but, Saburo whispers it so quiet and cute, just enough for him to hear (but even his own voice makes Saburo burn. His words and breath are so soft, too warm as they materialize in the winter air. 

just enough for him to hear, the daintiest of breaths. It falls into the winter winds, and saburo can see his words materialize . there’s a slight squeak just at the end of his sentence too as his voice cracks; honestly, you may as well thought you heard a mouse. 

“Huh? What did you say, Sabu?” 

Seriously. Saburo huffs, averting his gaze and hiding himself just a tiny bit into his scarf. mm, if you loved him just as much, then surely you already know what he wants to say? surely you can read what he means in his eyes? that’s what his brothers would say, which they probably only picked up from all those shoujos they’ve read, Saburo scrunches his nose (but then again, Sabu didn’t know much about love himself). 

It was already difficult enough to say it once, and now he had to say it twice? Oh he thinks he would probably just spontaneously combust on the spot, if it was even possible for a human being to get any warmer, and his heart might just give in. 

He had it all set up in his head to be absolutely perfect after all, but well, that was a miscalculation on his part. since he’s a fool. an utterly lovesick, no good, fool. 

“I said,” he huffs, perhaps a touch pouty that it didn’t all go as planned. “good night, and.”

but he loses that attitude just as quick, when sabu feels his face burn, when he repeats the words in his mind once more — I love you. 

ugh, the words get all backed up again, choking them down once more. It’s just so damn difficult, Saburo wants to groan; he built it all up in his head after all, and now since that didn’t work, he wasn’t sure whether he should just completely abandon this plan or just go through with it. He was a complete perfectionist after all. 

but, Saburo also wasn’t an idiot. A lovesick fool, maybe. but no idiot. 

His cheeks flush the sweetest rose (though he’d just take it to be from the cold winter winds, for his sanity). but no, he can’t back out now; he wasn’t going to be like his foolish older brother who kept pestering him, saying he bet Saburo would never confess — not in a million years — just to piss him off. No, he had to prove Jiro wrong.  

He gives your hand a tight squeeze, for reassurance. Saburo swallows thickly once more. and.

“I love you.” 

idiot. he says that to himself; he’s the idiot, after all, for messing up the most critical moment and having to repeat his words. for falling in love so hard. 

Saburo averts his gaze all shy, and he purses his lips tight as he whispers the words once more, but this time just loud enough to hear; they waver on his tongue, and you can even see the way his breath shakes in the cold air, as he speaks the words oh so sweet and meek. though if you were to ask, that’s just because he was cold and shivering from standing in this weather, yes yes. not because it took all his courage and strength to muster to say these words to you or anything else. 

Sure, it doesn’t quite roll off his tongue. It’s not super romantic like all those animes he’s walked in on his brothers watching. It doesn’t roll off his tongue quite as nice or smooth, the way that it’d send your heart fluttering — Saburo isn’t that sort of heartthrob. 

It’s not smooth or silky like pure decadence or ambrosia from his lips that’d tingle your ears and have you asking him to repeat it over and over — I love you. It’s not the most perfect thing like he has rehearsed, going over all the different scenarios that could play out in his head many times as he walked you home. 

No, it’s just Saburo. 

and he doesn’t say anything lightly, y’know. 

What does love even mean anyway? I mean, Saburo loves his bros — that he knows. He loves Ichi-nii and how strong he is; he aspires to be like him, in some ways. He loves Jiro too, as incompetent as that fool tends to be (seriously, were they even related at all on the family tree?). but, well, that was just natural, wasn’t it? Saburo didn’t really have to think about why he loved his bros, or that he did. 

He’s still young and immature (as much as he likes to think he’s not). He’s never been in love before, much less had a crush or even dated. He doesn’t know much about love, if anything at all; but, what he does know is that he always feels.. funny around you. He feels these flutters in his heart that has got him thinking that he has an arrhythmia of sort, and he always gets all warm that Saburo thinks he might be sick with a fever or the flu. 

All Saburo knows is that he wants to stay by your side. He wants to be the one to drop you off home after school and make sure you got back safe. He wants to be the one to hold your hand, always. He wants to be with you. 

and that feeling comes to him natural, just like his love for his bros. 

so, as Saburo looks at you, with all the stars of the night sky in his eyes, you know it’s true. and he’d huff if you don’t say something soon. Don’t just leave him hanging when he just told you the most vulnerable words, he’d probably scold, all murmuring underneath his breath.

But, before you can open your lips, and before your own breath materializes in the cold air, from just one look into your eyes, Saburo knows (because he loves you, remember?).

You love him too.

[brightdeadthing]

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[tardis--dreams]

I kind of asked my boss about opportunities to start working more than i currently do and maybe switch to a different position and today my one coworker told my other coworker (we share one office) 'if all of the students are getting promoted it doesn't help us either' while i was In The Room and now i feel guilty lol

[thespacebetweenworlds]

Anyway sooooooo regarding my ongoing fic. I've decided it's gonna be smutty after all. Idk why I thought it might not be