#the freshman experiment

[bacchuschucklefuck]

doing chibi is a good design exercise bc it forces u to think on shapes n essential details, essentially thumbnailing ur designs. its also a terrible design exercise bc it ends up looking cute no matter what

[skunkes]

i promise i mean this in the most lighthearted non serious way possible but i need to get with an older man before i age into it being normal and expected of me vs it being 🫦

[librarycards]

wild how it's relatively recently that i recognized my whole finding lesser known books/giving book recs thing as like, A Special Interest. like no it's not a special interest i just think about it 24/7 and derail normal everyday activities to do it and the way i run my goodreads just happens to make stalin look like an anarchist

[viktoriakomova]

Am I allowed to say I’m looking forward to next season so that things can get back to “normal” (if such a thing exists anymore 🤪) wrt covid years and not having a senior* class every year…? 🫥

[incomingalbatross]

hlrngh

[bucephaly]

Amazing take on the dash tonight. 'I think most people actually don't want or value or need romantic affection or attachment and that most people are aro' uhhhhhhhhhhhh????

Also like. I'm p sure what constitutes the difference between romantic and platonic and sexual affection and attraction is purely cultural and different to everyone. I wish people would stop focusing so hard on the idea that these labels are like actual objectively true things about people. Like, would some people probably be happier without feeling forced to pursue relationships by society? Sure. But saying that most people are Actually Aromantic and that 'very few' people actually want or value romantic attachment ???? I'm honestly kinda tired of these like 'most people are Actually bi lol' 'most people are at least a Little ace!!' Etc etc type takes. 'No one is Actually cis' like can you shut upppppp these words are just WORDS for extremely abstract cultural concepts that mean different things to everyone yall do not need to take them this seriously. And im just so tired of people being like 'man knowing about this identity helped me, im sure Everyone feels like this and Everyone actually secretly hates this common thing' like uhhhh no. They don't. Lol.

[smolandweirdwriter]

Hi I just think you're really cool so I have this suggestion for you

Adaine with POTS.

ok hear me out this isn't just "giving the character I'm obsessing over my chronic illness" I have a cool idea

adaine and ailwyn are fighting and adaine's feeling really shitty, like her hands are feeling limp and she knows shes gonna pass out, but she keeps fighting because she can't just give up and let her sister win.

she passes out, and wakes up laying on the floor, ailwyn gone. she reaches for the bottle of water and chips she keeps on her bedside table but she cant move enough to get them.

an unseen servant joins her in her room, and it looks different to the ones she normally has in her room. it gets the water for her, and helps her recover.

later when she goes into ailwyns room, she finds her book open to the chapter for summoning an unseen servant.

sorry if I phrased this really wrong I just don't really know how to get words onto a page

Adaine knows she passed out and wakes up with a jolt. She gasps, jarred; there are no hard tiles beneath her, no cold air against her body, she has not been left on the floor. She is... in her bed.

Alright, she reasons, she passed out and Aelwyn told Mother and Father who had Unseen Servants take care of her.

She blinks hard, expecting a headache, a bruise from having hit the floor. Nothing. There's no way Aelwyn could've summoned an Unseen Servant in time to catch her--and no way she would, either.

None of her family have healing magic.

It feels impossible, but she has the slightest sensation, maybe a flashing memory before she passed out, of Aelwyn lunging for her. Catching her. If she had the breath to do so, Adaine might have laughed at the absurdity of the idea.

Adaine's gaze catches on the clock across the room. Her mother has a conference and her father has meetings with the Council of Chosen. They won't be back until dinnertime.

That leaves...

An Unseen Servant slips into the room, holding a tray laden with a tall glass of water and pitcher, as well as salt tablets and some crisps. The servant is brusque, forces her to drink two glasses of water and take the tablets with sharp, condescending motions that Adaine recognizes so very well. The servant leaves the chips on her table and disappears.

Adaine wants to speak, but her blankets are comfortable, and she's tired, and, well... She fades back to sleep.

When she awakes hours later, she hears her family beginning down the stairs for dinner and rushes to join them.

She arrives in time to hear Aelwyn sneering, "--still asleep I think. She's been dawdling around in her room all day."

Adaine freezes on the landing.

Angwyn spots her and says, "Adaine. I hear you had a relaxing evening."

Adaine stammers, "No, I wasn't, I-I didn't, she- I'm- I'm not- I--"

"Very eloquent, little sister," Aelwyn purrs. "Truly, the benefits of being raised by a trained politician have not been wasted on you."

"First off, politicians aren't eloquent just because they lie convincingly," Adaine snaps.

"So you admit you're trying to lie?" Aelwyn raises a brow.

Bitch. Bitch, bitch, you fucking bitch, choruses in Adaine's head, drowning out any memory of her sister's Unseen Servant or kindness, squashing it down into nothing.

"No, I--"

"Girls," Arianwen breaks in from the table. "Sit and be civil. That means you, Adaine."

Adaine glowers at everything in her vicinity and slumps into her seat. Aelwyn does not look at her for the rest of the meal.

[we-are-inevitable]

i have a lot of feelings about frat boy jack and weird queer davey by the way. so so many thoughts and feelings. thank u pidge.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

it just idea .......

[evidenceof]

sometimes i revisit my old blogs and it's like wow reblogs to likes ratios were so different back then. also wow the notes

[transmechanicus]

How to remove the words seratonin, dopamine, and oxytocin from the minds of people who take psych advice from unlicensed tiktokers. Bonus points if it takes the tattoos they got of the molecules bc they’re scientifically illiterate and think a chemical structure adds legitimacy to their pseudoscience.

[you-get-me-closer-to-god]

[wutheringheightsfilm]

i don't think toxic semi-homoerotic friendship counts as a relationship but the red flags in that one were that she literally wrote a play about us (me and my friends and her because we were all in a friend group) and then proceeded to name me after the love interest in fun home and make me out to be a terrible shitty person because i had a crush on a boy and not her. she wrote this for her playwriting class and forced us to read it with her as our parts and then proceeded to read this out to her entire playwriting class. for a grade

[our-queer-experience]

My friend who “adopted” me and my friends he’s just so. Okay we’re in the same choir program and after the concert this past week he gave me a big hug and said “good job son” and I nearly started crying it was so sweet and made me so incredibly happy as a very fem presenting (by nessecity) transmasc

awww

[sufficientlylargen]

The US government has known about the existence of extraterrestrials for decades, the problem is that when we made first contact the aliens said "We come in peace" and the human responding said "Thanks, you too" without thinking and so the US built a giant signal jamming facility at area 51 and every other time they've tried to contact us we just pretend not to notice.

[toxooz]

When me being horney for a sec for orc smut and orc boyfriends leads me to a the coolest art and artist i have ever seen and then that leads me to a lovely story that i binge read the whole thing and got super attached to the characters in less than 15 mins .... Legendary stuff ur doing here honestly!❤️❤️ Also you captured anxiety so well i have never seen anything so accurate to it in my life but i relate to abby so hard even thou im nearing my 30's (which in turn also makes relate to olli too) but listen if anything happened to abby im Gonna kill everyone in this room then myself itsg i will be a puddle on the floor 😭 (/j ofc)

GOOHH THANK YOUUUU!!!!

glad u resonate with the whole anxiety part its comforting tbh lmfao it means im doin somethin right and dont worry Abby may have yet to go through Horrible experiences (well *more horrible) BUT HE DOESNT DIE just gets character development HA