#thank you all for making this worthwhile

[answersfromzestual]

Little things can make your day...

I still have an ask sitting in my ask box that keeps me going.

Sometimes life can get hard, and I debate why I still do this? Why do I spend time doing research for strangers instead of spending time with my family?

This ask is why...

This person thanked me for clearing up the misconceptions of phalloplasty and said that now they are working towards phalloplasty.

I will keep this ask forever. And if you know who you are, I am forever grateful for you, and so should everyone else who uses this blog.

And to that person. I hope you are on your way to phallo, and I wish you all the best.

Stay Golden Everyone ✌️ 💙 💜

[answersfromzestual]

OOOps I posted in the wrong place 😎

I have completed the transfer to its own Blog

It is still, technically, a side blog, I haven't figured out if it is possible to transfer it and also make it a main blog without reposting the data post by post.

There is no reason to follow the other blog, this one will remain intact as it is.

The entire account is dedicated to this blog and only this blog. So I apologize for all those who followed the new blog.

This blog has the same URL, title, and content as before. Nothing has changed on your end.

Here is the link to the Blog Directory

Remember, if you need some advice and would feel comfortable sending me an e-mail, it is still answersfromtheshadows@gmail.com Feel free to write me and we can have more of a conversation about the questions you may have. Of course we also have the Ask Tab.

Thank you to all the loyal followers who have waited and waited for this to be its own entity.

Stay Golden 💙🩷

[marlynnofmany]

hi! how are you?

i've been looking for a story i read on tumblr a while ago that i really loved but lost track of and i was wondering if maybe you were the author.

it started out with a time traveller who didn't adjust for the earth's rotation and ended up on a spaceship which had a tree with universal translation fruit. the crew had different quarters to best accomodate the different species they all were.

it's one of my favorite sci-fi pieces i've ever read and if it's yours could you please post a link to it? or if it's not yours but sounds familiar could you possibly point me in the right direction? even if not, thank you for taking the time to read this and i hope you have a great night!!

Yes, that was me! I'm so glad you liked it that much! I had a lot of fun writing it. It's called The First Time Traveler to Survive, and here's a link to the first chapter. I linked them all together so you can click between them.

Thanks for asking! I'm glad I could point you to it!

[heynhay]

i love your art so much man . it's incredible :)

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

hii! i just wanted to say a quick thank you to the utterly lovely humans who left me such wonderful comments on four walls this weekend 🥹 i actually cannot begin to say how much reading them has made my little writer’s heart sing 💓💓 i haven’t had the chance to respond yet as i’ve had a very busy weekend with family stuff and a gig and a friend staying, but please know how much i appreciate them - i will reply to them properly very soon 😘

[simmore]

so in love with my pixel family’s little (not so little) home! I've been building and adding on since May of last year... it's a huge property at this point and my game sounds like a fighter jet when it’s running.. but that’s okkkkkkayyyy

ㅤㅤㅤ ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ★~(◡‿◡✿)

Y'all, I have been taking pictures of this family's entire story. It's been a rag to riches fam, but I got upset with the game one day and deleted all my screenshots. (All my in-game pictures got deleted and I was about to give up completely on this family.... I have two entire walls of picture collages. It completely ruined my vibe. Hince why there's an unused photo frame on the fireplace in the first pic. My heart won't let them go !!)

I've since started taking more pictures of their story. Gonna start posting them soon while I recover from my 4th back surgery… Happy Simming ❤︎ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ

ㅤㅤㅤ(ꈍ‿ꈍ)

[haunted-xander]

You ever look at ARR and go wow absolutely none of the Archons were done any justice at all

[completeoveranalysis]

Bit random but I want to thank you wholeheartedly for this liveblog. These years I keep seeing people say they hate Tsubasa bc it’s “confusing” and bad and it bums me out bc it’s one of my favourite stories ever, when this happens I think of you and your liveblog and how you Get It, you see in it what I see (and even more bc you have a giant brain) and I feel less alone in liking it, I also feel happy bc you’re a delightful person and I really enjoy reading your thoughts about it. So THANK YOU!!!!!!

Aw! Thank YOU Anon - and don't worry I'm right there with you! Everyone has different taste in media, but sometimes it can really get to you when you genuinely adore something and other people either dismiss or outright insult it.

Not to worry though! Even just from the activity I see from my niche corner of the fandom I know for sure that there are thousands of people who adore this series just as much as you, and they're out there if you ever feel the need to find more of them. But that aside, I'm very touched that I could have a positive impact on your internet experience, and I hope that continues! Feel free to drop by whenever you like!

[chuluoyi]

i’m smiling so wide reading the tags in reblogs 🥹

[faejilly]

Fic: the dreams in which i'm dying Author: glorious_spoon / @glorious-spoon Reader: faejilly

Podfic Stream/Download: ao3 | archive.org | dropbox MP3 | 6.04MB | Length: 00:09:59

Podfic for sansets / @captivamoon & purimgifts2023 / @purimgifts that I totally forgot to post about when reveals went live 😅

[answersfromzestual]

Thank You:

I am but a humble man, and seeing the recent amount of interactions with my blog, the amount of questions coming in, the fact big blogs are reblogging my directory.

I can not begin to thank everyone who has supported me, sent me postive messages that kept me going, helped me build a helpful blog.

I am at a point where I can help a huge mass of people, while that is intimidating, I will take the challenge.

Send me your asks, your questions, concerns.

I will find you the correct answers, even if I need to ask a clinic or sleuth the web.

Thank you to everyone who's here supporting this blog and actually reading and enjoying the information I provide.

I am so happy I can gather this information for you.

I am happy you are here, alive, and fighting the world to be yourself. It's hard but you're doing it and look at all you've done! You deserve love. You deserve happiness.

-Zestual ✌️ 💙🩷

[waltenfiled]

I posted 18,551 times in 2022

That's 13,436 more posts than 2021!

1,757 posts created (9%)

16,794 posts reblogged (91%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

LET'S GO!!! ALL MUTUALS <3333

@insertchaoticenbyname

@atrocious-causation

@renchanters

@branzypierce

@t4tpoisondamage ( why hello there me lmao )

I tagged 8,954 of my posts in 2022

#fave - 3,005 posts

#save - 2,718 posts

#qtbites - 1,275 posts

#undescribed - 933 posts

#gar posting - 385 posts ( for some reason I'm not surprised! )

#hatthew posting - 249 posts

#yeah - 201 posts

#described - 184 posts

#hcs9 spoilers - 146 posts

#giga biter labs - 130 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#theres this website called [movies2/watch.tv] without the unneesery symbols- its a pira/ting website and you can watch a bunch of movies on (please do check it out, it's a good one. without the slash in the middle btw)

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

HIM. dips him SO SO SO low it's CRAZY

TAGLIST ; @vampirescott @lolihavenoideawhatiamdoing @krabmeat <3

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#4

533 notes - Posted February 14, 2022

#3

See the full post

654 notes - Posted May 17, 2022

#2

See the full post

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My #1 post of 2022

i hope this evil reaches you well.

8,930 notes - Posted September 29, 2022

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[the-rogue-mockingjay]

Worst Part/Best Part of Ravi’s MSQ journey so far—GO!

OKAY UHHH. ALL OF IT

Jk LMAO

We're making a sandwich out of this, we gonna start with aspects of MSQ that she likes, put all the MSQ shit she hates in the middle, and then we're gonna end with which sections of MSQ she enjoyed the most! :> Buckle up, friends, and let me spin you a bit of O'ravi's tale! 🥪☕

Best part of MSQ, as in "the aspects she likes the most": getting to meet such a huge variety of people, see all these incredible vistas, making a positive impact on people's lives, the friends she's made along the way, just- the incredible depths of love that she gets to experience. In some ways, it's her ultimate dream come true- she set out to become a minstrel, she wanted to see the heart of humanity, to learn of other cultures, she wanted to just...it's hard to put into words, but she wanted to live life to the fullest. To experience fully, to understand fully, it's sort of like- you know how Y'shtola's dream is to uncover the truths and secrets that lie at the heart of the world? O'ravi's dream is very very similar, except instead of being like, based on knowledge of the star, it's centered around people- their histories, their folklores and languages and songs, the love and loss and hope, the rage and sorrow and despair. O'ravi loves the star, but her truest love has always been people, not unlike Venat. And being the WoL is the only path that allows this dream to be reality.

Worst part of MSQ, as in "the aspects of it she doesn't like": she has a whole ass list and it is LONG. Really long, and it includes watching people die, people using her for their own political ends, having to put up with people she fucking hates, being everyone's Ace In The Hole, people making her play the kingmaker, people acting entitled to her time and energy (this is the biggest reason why she currently dislikes and distrusts Wuk Lamat T^T*), having to kill people literally constantly, the pain that all the fighting leaves her in and the toll it takes on her mind and body (she used to ignore it/not give a shit but she can't do that anymore)... Long story short, there is a Reason(TM) why she's a dark knight ldfkjghdkjgh, and she might be a paladin now but that doesn't mean she's hung up the greatsword. Far from it. (She has hung up Shattered Heart (formerly Zephirin's sword) though, much to Aymeric's relief fdklgjhdkgj. Not sure what sword is her main one now.)

*IT'S NOT REALLY WUK'S FAULT, O'RAVI IS JUST REALLY FUCKED UP AND HAS BEEN BURNT TOO MANY TIMES BEFORE 😭 I believe that she means well and is just overenthusiastic but O'ravi 100% does not, tbh she almost resents Wuk Lamat for sins that she hasn't even committed yet, just on account of the way she, like, approached O'ravi like the fact that she was gonna agree to help her was already a done deal and assumed the answer would be "sure let's go" without really even considering the possibility that she could - and had the right to - say no....

Worst part of MSQ, as in "time that sucked the most": base Endwalker and Stormblood (base + patches). Somehow those ended up being a lot worse and a lot harder than post-Vault Heavensward, because at least in Heavensward she had the support of her friends and the Fortemps, it was a conflict she had very personal stakes in and no one was forcing her to be there (unlike SB), and she had hope that she could save Estinien. Endwalker was just....a different can of worms which I'm putting under a cut in a bit.

Stormblood was bad because she absolutely did NOT want anything to do with that war and she didn't believe for a second that winning it was possible (Nidhogg and the Horde had reasons she could understand and she was still semi-naive and optimistic back then, but the Empire felt incomprehensible and unstoppable and she'd become extremely pessimistic by then). She just wanted to go back home to Ishgard and be left alone to grieve her friends. To sum up her biggest issue with Stormblood: Hien found it odd that she was dead silent most of the time, and he once asked for her thoughts about his plan to flood Doma Castle. Her answer amounted to "I don't have any thoughts because there's no point in thinking, it's not my job- I'm just here to be a good obedient weapon and kill whatever you tell me to. Why would I waste my time having an opinion on something when what I feel/think/need doesn't matter to anyone?"

Yeah it was really fucked up lfdkjgfdghldk. (For the record, I do like Stormblood, this is all just O'ravi's feelings about it, and they're extremely negative because it was the lowest point of her life by a landslide. She was overwhelmed by trauma and grief and it kind of broke her, she was afforded no time to process anything that happened before she was thrown into war as the Alliance's #1 Weapon. Her opinions are not my opinions, please don't come at me FKJGLHDKGJH)

Endwalker fucking sucked because uhh.....well. She held herself personally responsible for the Final Days. The rest of this is going under a cut!

It's kinda hard to get into details but between the time loop and the fact that she personally slew Zodiark, not only does she believe the blood of everyone who became blasphemies is on her hands, she also believes she doomed the Ancients - and Azem, personally - and sacrificed them on the altar to save her own people, her own timeline, her own life. She considers herself the root of all Final Days-related suffering and death both for the Ancients and for modern Etheirys, and the whole time she's practically praying that she'll be killed to end the Final Days. She believes that fate demands it- that all she is MUST die to redress the balance. If everyone else were to flee on the moon, she would be obligated to remain on Etheirys until the bitter end, because she caused this. She burned the world. All of it is her fault, she deserves to die, and there is no ending to this story in which she lives. For her to survive would be an affront to the gods, to fate, to the people she's wronged, to everyone that ever lived. She adamantly refuses to listen to anyone who says otherwise or any evidence to the contrary fgljkdhk.

I know in-game the narrative treats the concept of WoL becoming a blasphemy as kind of a joke because in what world would that ever happen lol, but uhhhh, it does almost happen to O'ravi after what I call her day from hell (the Final Days of Thavnair, where Ahewann dies and Matsya's friends are killed and he and his friends' baby almost turn to blasphemies, etc). She has a breakdown after the meeting with Shirabaht and the dignitaries, and it takes the combined efforts of Ardbert, Estinien, and probably Fray to stop her from turning. The guilt and self-loathing and sheer fucking stress from all that happening just turned into wholesale despair. It only happened that once, though.

The only reason Endwalker DOESN'T rank as being a worse time for her than Stormblood is, ironically, her unshakeable belief that she had to die at the end. Because dying at the end was her best shot at redemption and atonement, and the thought of being able to atone, even if only in part, became the hope she could hold onto. She wasn't sure if she could save Etheirys, but being able to give it her absolute all without the distraction of being worried about her survival was sort of a saving grace sdkjfhlkdjgh. Idk it's weird!!! It's a lot!!! It was a bad weird time!!!

Her other saving grace was whatever the fuck she had going on with Aymeric FKGJHDFLJGHD. That's a post for another day but the tl;dr of it is they had a sort of star-crossed lovers thing going, she threw caution to the wind and decided to kiss him and be open about how much she loved him despite the fact that they'd never get to be together the way they both wanted, they were sort of just making the most of the scraps of time they had because time was running out

Best part of MSQ, as in "time she enjoyed the most": ARR patches and the first round of ShB patches. The ARR patches were her highest point for a long time, she had everything she wanted, all the adventure and purpose and thrills she could ever want. It was also before grief shattered her and she was made to pick up the pieces, before most of her idealism and hope was ripped away from her. It wasn't perfect, though, much as she used to think it was.

The first round of ShB patches were for the most part such a joyful time? Norvrandt never for a moment took her for granted the way Eorzea does, and they don't idolize her to the point of dehumanizing her either. There's a sort of kinship that she has with the people of the First, because they've known such horrible loss and kept on living anyway, same as she has. It's more of an even playing field, as it were. She can breathe easier there. She was also sort of drunk on the joy of being reunited with G'raha and the fact they both survived; the very complicated feelings she had about Emet and Amaurot were sort of buried under that fdlkgjhdgjk. She loved helping people, and then getting to go home to the Source and reunite with the people she thought she'd never get to see again (Aymeric, the Fortemps, and her family most of all!), and so that all outweighed the problems of Elidibus's Weird Stupid Bullshit by a lot. Most of the second round of ShB patches were good too, but she was so emotionally fucked up by the Seat of Sacrifice (as well as her own insecurities getting really bad) that she couldn't enjoy those as much.

tysm to anyone who read all this, and tysm for asking this meg!!!! this is probably more than you bargained for FGKJLDHGJH but you asked a very good question!!!!!!

[icharchivist]

I'm glad you think of us trying to bully you as a safe space <3

BUT I DO!!!!!!!!!

Bullying from anons warm and cozy, oh to be tormented by people who knows which buttons to press and use this knowledge specifically to make you flustered, happy, and feeling silly. what's not to like!!

But honestly tho, i almost mentioned in the other ask i got today about whether i'm okay with my blog becoming an ask blog like this, but then i didn't bc i thought it might be mean spirited, but now i'm right back on it-- is that one undeniable perk of the anon is that i actually check my dash far less now.

And while there will always be content i will miss seeing (especially information post about irl issues which i do think are important to be aware of, or good arts, or what people i like on here are up to), by god am i not missing reading negative petty fandom stuff.

Even things i agree with leave me with a major bad taste in my mouth because when it's all you see, it just ends up being like poison tainting everything else.

Being able to take a step back, mostly enjoying the things you enjoy, and having the negative stuff being something you discuss with yourself, is much more freeing at the end of the day.

So in the end just genuinely messing around, being silly, making fun HCs just because why the fuck not, is really so, so much more enjoyable to me.

Like, sure, i've been scarred beyond repair by some stuff shared here, but that's the price to pay -- but in the end since i'm having fun, what's not to like yaknow?

so like, i actually genuinely appreciate the anons, they do stop me from doomscrolling and spiraling on most day because everytime it pulls me back into some comfort zone, even if it's to terrorize me in it. Sometimes it can take a bit for me to go back to the headspace needed to answer the anons -- but i take that, everyday, over just reading negative stuff that just ends up leave me spiraling alone with my thoughts yaknow?

So, actually, thanks y'all for deciding to terrorize my inbox -- this is, without a doubt, the best thing that ever happened to me 💞💞

[quinn-borel]

*slides into your inbox to tell you that the modern AU fic is amazeballs and I really love it* <3

Thank you anon! I really appreciate you taking the time to tell me that ;w;

[hexonthepeach]

i love u fic authors who write over 5k words. i love u fic authors who write over 20k words. i love u fic authors who write over 50k, 80k, 200k

u might think it’s too long for people read but, i see how much work u put into it. i hope u know i’m here to thoroughly spoon feed myself word for word. no scrolling to skip. nah, if you wrote that much of something, it’s gonna be fucking worth reading and i’m probably gonna die a minimum of 6 times too.

ur a god.

thank u for coming to my ted talk.