#so I don’t really know where to start

[gatheryepens]

Okay mini life update since I’m about halfway through my gap year….

[tsuchinokoroyale]

Happy new years… let’s stay hydrated together ✨

[unriding]

a … a gift from the talented @kruinka 🥹 thank you so much!! ദ്ദി ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ)

[zehl0w]

Mfw both of the guys you have a crush on start holding hands at school

[thegooblet]

you know how cats will leave dead mice and birds on your doorstep as gifts? lifesteal mapicc totally does that shit

[onpie]

Noodles and Tea’s work inspired me fr

[dykedvonte]

Mini rant below and in the tags, the only time I’ll talk about this and my personal take on it.

The way people talk about hypothetical male Anya on Twitter and the idea of how Mouthwashing would play out if the genders were swapped makes me remember how people still don’t take sexual assault and rape with male victims with the same gravity, especially when the perpetrator is female.

[dailysquiddo]

but what if she was a superhero-ish guy. what then. what would you do then

[ash-and-starlight]

thank you @mafaldinablabla for the tag!! the game is to share 9 of my favourite books from the last 12 months, or 9 books on my tbr list for this year.

Here is what i’m looking forward to read this year! (my hunt for beautiful covers never ends. in this house books Shall be judged by their cover)

tagging uhh @erisenyo, @chitsangenthusiast, @ranilla-bean, @poikilotherm, @kyoshialone and whoever else wants to do it u.u

[rowanisawriter]

i know for a fact that maybe 20 generations ago i was a monk in an abbey that brewed beer for the other monks and also helped shave their heads like that little patch of bald on their heads i would help with that. i just know it because whenever i imagine myself in an abbey i can almost feel the cold in the air and it smells different from how cold smells now, you know when its winter and you can smell the winter and how it smells different from fall. So i know i was there and i know i brewed good beer too. and i would be the best at praying also

[joocomics]

it’s heartbreaking to see what my briize mutuals are going through right now… i love riize and it upsets me that it’s come to this but i can’t imagine how it must feel like for those of you who’ve been with them from day one or who grew to love all of them unconditionally at another point of their journey. just wanted to send you all a warm virtual hug 🫂 i’m here for you 💗

[hwaslayer]

since 2024 is coming to an end in a few hrs on the west coast, i just wanna say thank you 💕 thank you to every single one of you for your support and love, for always making me giggle and smile, for rockin’ by my side and for reading my silly ‘lil fics. no matter if you’ve been riding with me since @xpeachesncream days or if you found me through pmylm on here - ya’ll are the best, truly!

we made it through another year, and i’m very proud of you for getting through all the good & bad shit this year has thrown your way. to 2025 and many more years together; i hope the new year will be kind and good to you, and i hope it’ll bring you all the genuine happiness, love and support you deserve 🫶🏼

[dreamerdrop]

Palinopsia // Luther Sloan/Julian Bashir, Elim Garak/Julian Bashir // Rated M

Garak is dead. Garak is dead, and yet he’s right there, holding Julian close, still warm.

Yet somehow, he looks strange, his eyes are the wrong shade of blue. His voice doesn’t sound quite right. But Garak is there, and Julian feels whole again.

So why does it all feel so wrong?

Archive Warnings: Noncon, Graphic Depictions of Violence.

(Distinct lack of warning for character death is because Garak isn’t actually dead and that’s kind of important.)

Additional Warnings: Hallucinations, Psychosis, Non Consensual Drugging, Noncon Via Deception, Lots of Mindfuckery, Sloan being a petty jealous twat. Also some choking.

[toddtakefive]

thinking about todd and his resolve toward… not quite isolation, but being alone in a room full of people again. he goes along to the study room to sit on his own and do his homework, he sits at the poets table and follows along with what’s being said while keeping quiet, he goes to the meetings at all but doesn’t necessarily contribute (in fact, if you watch him when cameron is telling the story ‘from camp in sixth grade’, you can see that he recognizes it before any of the other poets but doesn’t voice it until they all have). he’s not alone, necessarily, if you want to get technical about it, he’s just lonely, and he’s generally okay with that. he doesn’t have friends and that’s fine, he doesn’t participate in class and that’s fine, he doesn’t have a relationship with his family and that’s fine—he could live without any real connection and he’d have been, more or less, fine.

the thing about when he says “i can take care of myself just fine!” is that he isn’t really wrong, you can infer that he’s been doing it his entire life anyway, it’s that ‘taking care of yourself’ isn’t the same thing as really living or being happy. todd’s an introvert, certainly, and even as he gets closer to the group he defaults to sitting quietly in the background, but he’s also denying himself community out of fear not introversion. todd isn’t friendless because he’s an introvert, although that definitely plays a part, he’s friendless because he pushes anyone that might want his company away. if anyone has every wanted for his attention in the first place. (neil’s unwavering interest in him is unique (even when it comes to the rest of the poets, who are fine with todd coming along and joining the group, but aren’t really hellbent on him being there in the beginning) and his refusal to accept it is a direct result of being so lonely growing up.)

there’s obviously something to be said about the implications of his parents neglect, and the more than likely fact that he grew up friendless, and how those both play a part in in him being so skilled at dodging social interaction/being so avoidant of it, but by the time we see him in the movie he’s all but accepted his fate as being alone his entire life. he’s already accepted being the family disappointment, and he’s already accepted he’ll never amount to anything, and he obviously doesn’t like it, but he’d have managed living with that knowledge without the confirmation that it was all wrong. would he have been miserable? almost certainly. but he’d have managed. he’d done it for that long already, anyhow.

[luuxxart]

royal college trio 🍂🍁

[wisegirl-seaweedbrain]

and the crowd… exchanges confused glances?