#taking years off me too

[mirlvshft]

happy birthday to us!! .o(≧∀≦)o

it’s now been officially a year since i started this blog and have put myself in this amazing space!

been a few months since ive last posted, college has kept me in an unfortunate chokehold but yall know i couldn’t just let this pass. making this account on my 18th birthday for shits and giggles was the best decision i could’ve ever made. i’ve met and made many lovely friends who i absolutely adore and can’t imagine being without.

i’m officially 19 years old!! can yall believe that?? insanity!!!

i hope to continue to grow and meet many more friends!! miss you guys, i’ll be back again soon! MWAH (づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ

[a-compass-without-a-needle]

This is what happened after 3.1 isn't it?

[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[paperglader]

they really put alicent in bridgerton blue on the reunion and genuinely expected me to think that she didn’t in fact march all the way to dragonstone to get wifed up? bfr

[bacchuschucklefuck]

dreaming abt sophomore year class swap bard!riz

[calebsrottingcorpse]

hits him with the pony ray (closeups below the cut)

[captmuldoon]

You ever think about Jopson's mother? How her suffering was caused purely by someone's greed? How even in her pain she urged Jopson to go to the Antarctic so he wouldn't lose out? That by the time Jopson came home her pain was constant? And the only way to ease it was to take something that made her into a different person entirely? That he had to watch her soil herself, go hungry? Knowing at any moment she could stop breathing again? That she couldn't recognize her family and they couldn't recognize her? That his mother's suffering was so much that he thinks about it every time a woman laughs? That the only thing that could make her laugh in the end was also slowly, horribly killing her? That despite everything, he couldn't save her?

[sergle]

you guys ever gone through some shit that makes you think about taking up smoking

[bitchfitch]

I had a shrink appointment today and while I could not see it I knew my doc was going through the five stages of grief while I explained my fool proof strategy for doing my t shots despite a crippling fear of needles: By abusing my vastly more crippling fear of being an inconvenience.

My mother and I play phasmophobia together every week. she usually has a pretty limited time to do this bc she's like. a doctor and a college professor whos always busy. So I asked her to just. hold me to doing them. We don't start playing until the shot is done. so my needle fear doesn't matter because now it's Wasting™ her time and I have to do it quick. Using one neurosis to defeat another.

It's a horrible coping mechanism because it's feeding the inconvenience fear, but it is definitionally a coping mechanism.

[satsuha]

i don't think anyone's uploaded them yet, so i went and uploaded all the voiced banters from the octopath 5th anniversary live stage performance!

the CC subs in the videos are straight from the in-game localization, so some dialogue doesn't exactly match with what the actors are saying. i might try to add a more literal translation sometime but it will. take me time

anyway, link here! the list of banters included is below

[bixels]

What did/do you like about Pharah?

Uh, gameplay-wise, I really love characters in shooters who rely on three-dimensional movement techs. Chaining together hover and jump to stay in the air for as long as possible and keep momentum is so satisfying, and picking enemies off from the sky made me feel like a bird of prey. I was a good Pharah main.

Story-wise, there unfortunately isn't much to canonically go off because Pharah is so underutilized and neglected. Her personality's pretty boilerplate "heroic hero" (she's literally inspired by Captain America).

But it's the crumbs/bits and pieces that I really latched onto. Pharah's a confirmed lesbian; her short story with Baptiste implies she harbors a crush on Mercy (fucking thank you.). She's biracial Egyptian/First Nations. She has major mommy issues, having grown up both admiring and resenting Ana. She's the bridge between Old Overwatch, inspired by the idealized heroes who surrounded her childhood, and New Overwatch. She's one of the only inter-generational characters in the cast; someone whose experiences span the gap, which is why I seriously believe Pharah would make a great main character.

There isn't much to go off of, though; she's a very uncomplicated character (she's a soldier for a private military corporation, lol.). But that just means she's a blank slate character, so I've seen fanfic writers run wild and create some really interesting takes on her. My favorite interpretation of her's a dense, herbo gym-bro type (a lot of her liens are about work outs, exercising, and playing sports) who's easily excitable under her seemingly self-serious, armored visage. We see how she tends to gloat and hype herself up when she's on a streak too, so Pharah definitely has a competitive and boastful side under her more professional and militant performance.

Now Mercy? Mercy is a real complex character.

[katabay]

some sketchbook pages

[sukirichi]

PLEASE STOP COPYING FICS ‼️

I am by no means gatekeeping concepts or tropes. We all know that it’s normal to see the same tropes or AUs be used differently, and that is not plagiarism. However, I recently found a fic that was oddly similar to my old (and discontinued) Gojo x Reader series, Reckless. The CEO! Gojo is nothing new, and neither is an accidental pregnancy trope. The only reason I am concerned is because this Gojo series I found has the exact same themes as Reckless that consists of: a playboy CEO Gojo with a very notorious reputation, a poor reader who is an employee and asset to the company (someone who works closely with Gojo), reader getting knocked up from a one night stand with Gojo, reader with a seemingly dead/absent mother yet still in contact with her father, Gojo with a very traditional family who does not like reader, and Gojo with an ex he struggles to let go of - which are all elements of Reckless.

The first chapter of that Gojo fic is also eerily similar to my first chapter with the same flow of: YN finding out she’s pregnant and her friend being there for her, Gojo saying he’ll take responsibility because ‘they both made the baby’, YN having to move in with Gojo to take care of the baby, and both of them coming to a mutual agreement that their ‘relationship’ will be purely for the baby’s benefit. The flow of events and specific details about the characters’ backgrounds are too similar to mine.

Again, I am not gatekeeping concepts, just as how I’ve had other writers ask me if they could write their own stories or takes based off of the NAOYA’S TROPHY WIFE COLLECTION or the BONTEN HUSBANDS EXCLUSIVE, and I’m fine with that. I’m even happy people are inspired by what I write. But being inspired is completely different from taking someone’s story and posting it as yours. Please trust your own creativity and skills in writing. You can write amazing stories and have people love them without having to steal from others.

It’s sad to say this is not the first time I, and other writers, have been plagiarized. It’s even more upsetting to know that a friend of mine who has also written a Gojo series (that I’m sure you all know and dearly love) experiences the same issues with the same person. The fact that this is happening to many writers out there is disheartening. We work hard and pour a lot of love in the stories we create. None of us are getting paid for this, and we simply want to share our passions with others. So please, let us be kinder with one another and show love and support the right way. If you love a fic, you give feedback and rb/comment + show support to the writer. You don’t steal their ideas and play it off as your own because you liked it.

[puppppppppy]

i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you

[grison-in-space]

This, btw, is Matilda's facial expression at any time she thinks she should be working. In this particular case, she was checking to make sure I didn't get lost in the laundry and making sure I kept moving until it was time to GO to WORK.

(Matilda likes it when I work on campus because she gets a nice long walk at heel with interesting sniffs, and occasionally she gets visits from her friends, aka my coworkers. This is way cooler than my office from home, even if she can only rarely convince me to come out and play ball.)

[beatx-mavie-archangelx]

"pronouncing 'Þerindë' as 'Serindë' is not that big of a deal" just say you've always been called right your whole life.