#sometimes it’s that I saw a snail today. it was effervescent

[oldfritz]

the best thing about having Some Fucking Guy living in your house all the time is just providing him with updates. I am a 24 hour news broadcast and josh cannot change the channel!!!!

[lesamis]

So sorry if this is a sensitive question, but how do you cope with having friends, *especially* a best friend, so far away? One of my oldest friends is moving 30 minutes away by train and I already am anxious we won't be able to stay friends? I could never imagine her being two hours away. /gen

hi anon, don't worry, that's totally an okay question to ask! having become, at this point, sort of a pro at long-distance friendships isn't the most fun thing in the world, but i promise it isn't terrifying or lonely either. there are ways to combat the sense of distance, and even when you really feel it, i think some aspects of being far apart can actually make friendships more meaningful to you.

for one, there's all the obvious ways of keeping in touch: phonecalls, facetiming, texting, seeing what they're up to on social media. i think it's important to figure out what your friendship needs, because these things can vary so much. sometimes staying in touch is less about having a long weekly phonecall talking about deep stuff (although it absolutely can be that) and more about texting each other the most trivial things on a daily basis. there are friends a couple countries away whose text exchanges with me often amount to "saw a snail today, effervescent" type conversations. these things matter. it's just good to know you're on each other's minds.

then there's also... i guess i'd call it inventing new ways of being close? sometimes you rarely text, but your friend will send you a care package in the mail out of nowhere, so you know that they're thinking of you even when you don't hear from them. or someone in your friend group moves to france of all places, so when easter break comes around, you all pile into a car and drive to grenoble for eleven hours just to see him. maybe you don't see someone on their birthday, but you can order a flower delivery for them as a surprise. or you're visiting someone an hour's drive away and you get stuck talking for far too long, so they lend you some clothes and you get to have an impromptu sleepover on a weekday. there's a special kind of romanticism to reminding someone over and over that you care, even when you're far apart.

one final thing i've also learned that might sound a bit strange, but could also be important to mention: dead silence, not hearing from someone for months on end, can be absolutely fine. this has been the case for me especially with very old friends. you can be completely out of touch with someone, never hear from them at all, forget to text back for half a year, etc etc, and then you see them for the first time in ages, and it feels like you've never been apart. not being in touch doesn't always have to mean emotional distance, or a friendship growing weaker. there's a good chance that, once you've known someone for a very long time, you'll always be able to pick up right where you left off.

none of this is to minimize the scarier aspect of distance, of course; if i could snap my fingers and have all my friends living on my street, i'd do it in a heartbeat. it's special to be able to share your daily life with close friends, and i can only imagine how much it sucks to lose that. but i do think something special can be gained in that change as well! all the best to you & your friend, anon :')

[sincerely-sofie]

This was super fun— and genuinely a great method to develop characters with!

If given the ability to eat actual food instead of just getting her energy from the sun, water, and soil, Sen absolutely would crunch on raw coffee beans like they were a delicacy.

Kip canonically is able to use chopsticks better than Twig is, despite her having more human-like hands and Kip having flippers!

Twig definitely forgets to eat when stressed. It’s been an issue since she was a young human and Grovyle would have to nag her to eat more than a couple shriveled berries at a time when they were on the run.

There’s no social media in my PMD-verse, but in a Human AU? Yeah. Ark would be tumblr famous for being very strange in social interactions, very archaic in his vocabulary, and very endearing in his efforts to figure out how to run a blog. He’s the embodiment of “Saw a snail today… effervescent.”

In a Human AU Spindle is regularly terrorized by Gengar, who can do a spot-on Freddy Fazbear laugh impression, after he tells him how he binge-watched a bunch of YouTubers play the entire FNaF series over the course of three days straight and was terrified the entire time. Spindle is a FNaF lore expert and he is not happy about this.

Ruby would LOVE Claire’s in a Human AU. This girl looks like she’d be the perfect emo / goth kid, depending on what day you see her, and she’s too shy to wear the clothing options available at her store of choice, but she’s 100% bedazzling all of her backpack’s surfaces with pins and patches and keychains from Claire’s.

Opal and Ruby would share a Wattpad account where they post elaborate roleplay logs and fanfiction about each other’s OCs in a Human AU. They have three followers who are bots and they love them dearly, even turning them into OCs to join their self-inserts in adventures. A couple kids from school follow them as well but have no idea what on earth their stories are talking about, as they don’t make much sense to anyone outside the two sisters.

Necrozma is a deity beyond mortal comprehension. It’s not exactly that he’d cover for Litten if the time came, it’s that he’d intimidate anyone who came to confront his boy so badly that they’d turn tail and run without a word of explanation, much to his confusion.

Kitsune is a jock through and through. However, her favorite subject would be music class, and her favorite extracurriculars / clubs would be marching band and home economics.

Halcyon would LIVE in heels if she was a human. She’d never go anywhere without some new pair of highly elevated art pieces for shoes.

Deu has never stolen anything in his life because he’s terrified of the concept. He was once given a pamphlet by somebody advertising a traveling play that was coming into town and chased them down through a crowd to return it while crying.

Thanks for the tag @dreamsandrosies, this was amazing and I’d love to do it again sometime :> For my own tags—

@fujii-draws, @i-never-forgot, @aria-the-derg, @driftingballoons (I don’t know if you consider them OCs, but I’d love to see some headcanons for your Skitty and Treecko!), @oblonger, @onlyhereforghosttrick, @billycorn, and @stingraywipe! I’d love to see you guys do this, but no pressure if you’re not interested. Anyone else who’d like to give this a whirl, tag yourself and go for it!

I found this site that generates you a random headcanon.... How about we do that: you enter the name of a character (or your OC!), post what you got, and then comment on how true do you think it is for them!

Not true. That was very easy.

Who's next!!! @judejazza @mcwentfandomtraveling @sh0jun @lorei-writes @groovylita @queengiuliettafirstlady @scummy-writes @ludivineikewolf @yarnnerdally @yanderepuck @vioisgoinginsane @venulus @fang-and-feather @leonscape @writingwhimsey @foreverxdaydreaming @keithsandwich @verynormaluser

[valtsv]

the only kind of famous i'd ever want to be is famous but in a just some guy way. like i don't go to parties or galas or meetups or whatever and if i'm dragged into a public appearance i just eat the free samples and refuse to answer any personal questions except one about my herb garden. poor quality photos of me in the wild drinking coffee and smoking a cigarette just appear on the internet sometimes out of nowhere. if you're really lucky you'll see the back of my head in one of my friend's photos. no one knows where i live. i have a twitter but i only post on it once every full moon to say shit like "saw a snail today... effervescent". you end up knowing more about the snail than you'll ever know about me.

[number1salesman1997]

sunday again? no problem

some soft/romantic spam headcanons, mostly wholesome, some weird, and like 1 is mildly spicy if you squint because i don’t honestly have anything truly “sinful” about spamton for sinday

Spamton hasn’t had many real friends, much less relationships, so at least at first, he might brush off affection at first or even outright reject it if he's feeling down on himself. He's depressive at times, so he doesn't always feel like he deserves it. He can be kind of depressive, so he can be distant and in need of reassurance.

Other times, he is an absolute little sponge for attention and can be downright clingy. Hope you like being prodded with a long hard nose because beaky nuzzles. He loves being affectionately patted and groomed/fussed over, and is basically touch starved so he WILL cry sometimes over it. Unprompted compliments, petnames, etc. will make him hyperventilate with glee.

Likes to smell and lick and sometimes pocket things belonging to the object of his affections like an absolute creep so have fun with that too

Gets extremely stressed and overwhelmed easily. He can go from little red circle cheeks to full blown red face in under a minute. Might short out a bit if he becomes too flustered.

He will always be wanting to do the sleazy arm-loop-around-the-waist. Particularly in public spaces. He is not especially possessive but he would definitely want to “show off” that he is loved and that this person is “his” in a way.

Spamton’s love languages are gift giving and spending quality time with the subject of his affections. If he knows something they like, he’s going to get them That Thing Only in excess until they say something about it. In addition to this, Spamton being an enjoyer of awful jank will often gift people things that just. Suck. However if you explicitly tell him anything you want him to buy for you, he will single-mindedly pursue the capital to buy the thing for you even if he goes broke in the process because he can “JUST EARN MORE KROMER [[rofl]]” He also wants to spend every waking moment with his specil person so that he can be there just in case they have need of him. He wants to feel like he’s useful and important to those he loves.

Spamton’s idea of a fun date is a long walk through town (aka an excuse to go shopping), going for a fly above town (aka an excuse to show off his wings while conveniently getting to hold somebody), going to see a movie (and watching all of the ads like it’s part of the experience), and honestly just. Consumerism. Any kind of holiday that involves consumerism will result in Spamton blowing stoopid money on relevant purchases for that someone. Hope you fucking LOVE Christmas and Valentine’s Day.

He will ask to borrow money for ridiculous harebrained business ideas and you probably won’t get that money back.

He will call and text you. All the time. At all hours of the day. "SAW A SNAIL TODAY. [[effervescent]]”

If anyone is rude or threatening toward the object of his affections he will steal their credit card information. Doesn’t matter if they’re in a relationship or not. He’ll do this for good friends sometimes too. But if it’s more than a friend he will go out of his way to RUIN them financially and then spend the money on that person.

If he ever ended up in a proper relationship with anyone he would brag about his s/o constantly, in both wholesome and less wholesome ways. He would YES want people to know he has a partner and shoehorn them into conversation so he looks good, but he would also talk them up a lot and tell people about why they’re so great and be sure everyone knows how special they are.

And if you want anything ~spicy~ I hope you like 46 year old virgins because even during the success years he never really got close enough to anyone to sdfjjakgkljer kge;rlsl;a fjre ;

[not-poignant]

ef, texting arden: saw a snail today... effervescent

Lmao, Arden would’ve been so endeared if Efnisien had let him know about that.

I wish sometimes that Efnisien would talk to people about these things that he does! How is it that no one except us know about Stupidhead!

[adhdo5]

☀️🔥 for tamlin!

This got SUPER long so I’m putting it under a cut

☀️ What makes your OC genuinely happy? A person, an item, their hobby? Where is the place they’re happiest, or most at home? What is the happiest they’ve ever been?

For Joey, he is most at home with Teeth, most likely!! Teeth just gets it!! Teeth is also too human to be an Eldritch god but too Eldritch to be human (tho from the other way) and is spatially detached but now worked into reality in an incredibly similar way that Joey is temporally detached as he exists in the timestream!! Teeth understands and is fun and is nice to him and casual with him and they don’t need to make sense or need him to make sense and “sense” isn’t even on the table anyway and ooh pretty patterns!! They have the most similar vantage points almost in all existence and they can sympathize w/ one another effectively and they just GET IT they are BFFS AND THEY LOVE EACH OTHER A LOT 

But in general as to happiest: for Tamlin, it’s usually little things 

She finds happiness in art, especially visual art or performance art -- written fiction and video games can upset her sometimes, but sometimes she finds beauty in them, too, depending on the day, on the her, on the work, flipping through pages or wandering around maps murmuring “you exist, you exist, you exist” 

They find happiness in neon colors and eyecatching fashion because while they are here why not cause some eyebleeding clash? It’s a sign of compliance and of rebellion at the same time, of doing the unexpected and following their desires as an individual but also of signaling that they are other they are cryptic they are Something Else as they know they are; and that’s also why they like their myriad friend groups many of which consist of ppl and entities that also run around in alt fashion 

Xe finds a certain comfort in the stubborn persistence of the rest of the Council, of the “apocalypse? Just say no!” attitude that xe has literally seen in action, seen WORK. Xe has a station xe cannot abandon but xir colleagues remind xem that xe can refuse to go down without a fight and maybe, even if xe fails, the fight was worth it. That maybe, even if xe was never acting of xir own volition, the results meant something and that maybe xe can take ownership even of xir own compliance 

And on that very note fae finds happiness in happiness itself because every snatch of even the slight burst of happiness at “saw a snail today... effervescent” memes that Four sends from the field or the sample of Seven’s half-cognitohazardous breakcore that they want faer feedback on reminds fae that fthat happiness for faer... exists even if it’s only in snatches in the interim, and even if it doesn’t seem enough when fae’s between those snatches, every single time fae gets one fae’s reminded of how it is in fact the most important thing in the world actually 

🔥 If your OC known for having temper tantrums? If not, what gets them really angry? What makes their blood BOIL? Is there anyway to calm them down or are they unstoppable? What are they like when they’re angry? Do they take it out on their loved ones? 

Tamlin is not known for its rage, but when it gets mad it’s because it’s been disregarded. 

Time does not react well to being ignored, and Time is not kind to those who do not heed its warnings, and Time is not very pleased when people ignore its advice, and Time gets really pissed off when people doubt its mettle, and Tamlin does not make requests. It makes statements. 

Because of this, its displays of anger tend to be displays of power at the same time -- they’re unceremonious reminders that Tamlin is a terrifyingly powerful reality bender, that “reality bender” is honestly almost an understatement when it comes to it, but they don’t usually tend towards aggression as much as “YOU SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP DO :) YOU :) KNOW :) WHO :) I :) AM??? :))” 

Like Tamlin is rarely threatening someone when it’s angry -- it’s definitely intimidating, but it doesn’t make like, active threats or brandish weapons or anything. It angrily displays its power and its competence and might show off historical events etc., and it’s usually almost more passive aggressive than anything? It’s a very :)))) kind of anger and usually revolves around “YOU’RE WRONG :) have some fucking lemon cakes :) Got it? :) Good :) Now have another lemon cake :) And get out of my House :)” 

Another thing that puts Tamlin in the :) rage kind of mood is bitterness. It’s again tied to power, but this time in the scope of actually being powerless rather than of being underestimated, and while it’s less directed, it’s something Tamlin is more likely to lash out with, almost to prove to itself that it can. It rarely does it to others though -- usually it’s at itself in the depths of the corridors of its House, where it gets to yell at itself with wild abandon and push itself deeper and deeper into a spiral until someone comes and talks some sense into it 

[volturialice]

I have eczema too do you have any tips on dealing with it?

ooooof. ok content warning for discussion of Gross Things and injuries and lowkey self-harm below the cut

so. I grew up with like, SEVERE severe eczema. as in, huge open sores all over my arms, legs, hands, feet, and sometimes neck/face/ears. ones that never went away. my quality of life was…not great, lol. I frequently got staph and other infections, I had to wear long pants and long sleeves at all times, it hurt to shower or bathe or swim and salt water was RIGHT out, people avoided me because my appearance grossed them out, and still other people (frequently adults and teachers) saw the injuries and assumed I was self-harming, which. I mean, the scabs were itchy as fuck, and I frequently scratched them open (gross gross GROSS and yet I still did it!) so in that sense it sometimes…was? but was also a very involuntary and physiological medical condition, so when people who didn’t know me told me it was self-harm that felt horribly dismissive of my feelings and agency. (like…to this day I still couldn’t tell you if it was self-harm. maybe it was part self-harm and part medical condition, I have no idea.) basically it was a lot of discomfort, a lot of pain (to this day I have a freakishly high pain tolerance) and a lot of gargantuan struggles with self-esteem, body image, and social stuff.

people (including many doctors) also told me I would “grow out of it.” 

I did not. some people do, but like. come on asshole that’s not a fucking solution, you expect me to sit here covered in scabs until puberty maybe fixes everything? shut the fuck up steven

what happened to me was that my mom is a fucking terminator who did tons of research and eventually, through sheer persistence, got me in to see one of the best dermatologists in the area. this guy took one look at me and went, “yeah, you need UV treatments.” so that is what I got, for about 2.5 years during middle school—basically went twice a week to get zapped by an upright tanning booth. sometimes had sunburn in the dead of winter. it was weird (and it isn’t for everyone because there is of course the risk of skin cancer), but it eventually worked on all but two areas: my right hand and left foot. took another year of trying to treat those two places with medicated bandages and shit before they finally gave up and injected steroids directly into my hand and foot, which hurt like a biiiiiiitch but worked within weeks.

so that was pretty much my Eczema Journey. by high school, I had gone from walking around bleeding all over the place (seriously, jasper would’ve killed my delicious ass SO FAST, what the fuck is a papercut lol bella get on my level) to having a pretty good quality of life, my eczema reduced to “irritating dry skin.”

today, 1/9/20, to take stock, I have:

gross dry hands because it’s flu season and I’ve been washing them a lot

perpetually chapped lips

one (1) cut on the corner of my lip that has been there since december and refuses to heal ugh

which is like absolutely nothing to me, I spend every day so grateful that my skin has been basically fixed and now does its one (1) job of holding my blood and guts in

before I was Cured, there were a couple of things dermatologists had me do that might help you

…they didn’t always help me but here they are

1. mineral oil baths. they are gross but they will leave you feeling like a snail (effervescent) or a greased pig, or a p*rn star because you’re covered in slippry slime lmao. it’s supposed to help form a barrier to protect your skin? idk man sometimes these made me itchier but I’m just one person

2. chlorine bleach baths—please note that this means A TINY AMOUNT OF BLEACH diluted in water, not a bath in 100% bleach lol fucking ow. these are good for killing bacteria and preventing staph infections, etc.

3. going to the pool. same deal as the bleach bath, the chlorine kills bacteria.

4. get some sun. UV rays in the right amount are good for eczema, as my particular case proves. but like, don’t get skin cancer. it’s a balancing act.

things I still do now that I’m Cured 

…and have a normal, manageable level of eczema (some of these are no-brainers but idk your life so bear with me)

1. moisturize constantly. I never leave the house without a travel-size tube of moisturizer. I moisturize every morning, every night, and as needed throughout the day. this requires keeping a giant thing of moisturizer by my bed like some kind of gross h*ntai-addicted teen boy, but whatever that’s a sacrifice I have to make

2. ALWAYS moisturize after getting wet in a pool/shower/etc. like, within minutes. PAT your skin dry, don’t rub, and then moisturize immediately.

3. but also? don’t get affected areas wet that often if you can help it. take sponge baths rather than showers sometimes, or shower in cooler water. when it comes to avoiding washing your hands without spreading Spanish Influenza et al, hand sanitizer is your friend.

5. use a generic, non-cosmetic moisturizer. I can’t stress this enough. I am currently not on any prescriptions, which means I get my stuff over the counter. but my skin will absolutely not tolerate ANYTHING with any kind of cosmetic-y chemicals that make it Smell Nice or whatever. no aveeno, no neutrogena*, no…see I don’t even know what other brands are because I don’t use any of them. brands I use: cetaphil and cerave, and that’s IT. this goes for shower gel and other skin products, too! basically, the less Fancy and nice-smelling something is, the better it probably is for your skin.

*the one exception is neutrogena’s “sensitive skin” sunblock. that is the only sunblock I’ve found that doesn’t irritate my skin. is good.

6. same deal as #5 when it comes to laundry detergent. most brands will irritate your skin, so look for something labeled “sensitive skin” or “free and clear,” etc. 

7. fabric softener bad. do not use

8. for lips, I’ve heard aquaphor is good. hasn’t really worked for me, I just use regular chapstick and apply it like every 5 minutes. dermatologists have also recommended I use vaseline, but I don’t like to feel slimy (see #1a)

9. not to sound like a Live Laugh Love insta influencer, but stay hydrated! it’s extra important if you suffer from eczema. people aren’t kidding when they say it’s good for your skin.

10. kind of an obvious one, but if you have allergies, avoid the stuff you’re allergic to. ‘twill cause flare-ups.

11. try not to sweat. which isn’t to say, like, “don’t exercise ever,” but be ready to rinse off with fresh water and then moisturize immediately after you sweat.

so yeah, that’s my whole spiel. think I covered everything! but of course, different things work for different people. if anyone else has tips, feel free to comment with them!

[disabledfabian]

lgbt crdnd was talking about social media au so here are some of my favs in a list

modern au mollymauk runs a podcast called "that's the tea" to gossip about stuff (bc drama™ and puns whats better?) and invites caduceus on and cad just. talks about actual tea bc that's what he thought the podcast was about

neither know that the other is talking about something completely different

mollymauk: spill the tea!!!! cad: ............ why would i do that???

he has a weird posting schedule and no one ever knows when he’s gonna show up on social media. it can be months between postings. it becomes a meme where blogs are set up with urls like mollywatch 

fjord has a channel where he just eats weird shit

plays lots of horror games even tho he hates horror. molly often comes on to bug him

his insta is "saw a snail today. effervescent"

jester has a channel where she eats sweets and talks with others! also lots of vlogging

she’s also super famous on tiktok

probably has a prank channel (but not the gross youtube pranks, more like “i replaced all of caleb’s paper with traveler pamphlets!!!”

lots of uwu/owo type of emojis in her tweets

caleb does book reviews

he also never comes on camera so you don’t know what he looks like

he makes it seem like frumpkin is giving the reviews

beau does parkour videos on insta and snapchat

she has one really awkward motivational video on her youtube channel

her twitter is full of political tweets

nott does those unboxing amazon package videos and also backyard scientist stuff

twitch streams with jester occasionally! they do a lot of monster factory type stuff

caduceus does asmr and cooking videos

he doesn’t realize he’s famous he just likes sharing his family recipes

he invites jester on once to decorate baking products and months after it people are still commenting they see some glitter somewhere in his kitchen

it becomes a meme

#GlitterWatch

yasha is very famous for her very chill stardew valley playthroughs

also does some asmr!

she and beau play games together sometimes (especially games w/a female protag or lgbt stuff)

shakaste does golden girl reviews 

calianna is v shy about coming on camera but when she guest stars on someone's channel, the comments section is just "CALIANNA!!!!"

very aesthetic insta

her twitter is full of positivity and fun jokes!

does song covers w jester and molly

kiri has a twitter and there's only one tweet "im very small" but she has more followers than anyone else

will guest star in other’s videos but doesn’t have her own account bc she’s too young

plays mario kart with the group

good at faking sound effects and loves to prank others with things like phone notifications

[lesbellaswan]

Sometimes I see a snail post and I genuinely forget effervescent wasn't canon

Like I can just so easily picture them cuddling one night and Edward playing with Bella's hair and just being like

"I saw a snail today," he said quietly, turning a lock of my hair over in his hand. "Effervescent."

"Was it?" I asked, my breath catching as he tucked the hair behind my ear. Chills went down my spine as he moved his hand to trace my jawline.

"Almost as effervescent as you are," he smirked, smiling my favorite crooked smile. He leaned in and kissed my forehead and I could feel my heart skip a beat under the feel of his lips.

Or some shit like that