#things that changed the trajectory of my life

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My Ranking On: How Good The Magnus Archive Character's Are At Cooking

Gerard - Gerry has no idea what to do in front of a stove. No one has ever taught him to cook, and he doesn't care enough to learn. He lives off microwavable mac and cheese cups and cheap fast food, which is just fine by him regardless of how concerned Gertrude is about his organs.

Daisy - Daisy could make...something with a stove. She just chooses not to because she doesn't like cooking when microwavable meals are right there. Because of how little she cooks her skills are...rusty to say the least. She can make a half-decent grilled cheese though.

Gertrude - Gertrude can and the very rare occasion does make small meals like scrambled eggs. However, much like Gerard and Daisy, she prefers fast food and easy to make meals. In theory she could make a decent large meal if she had a recipe and some spare time to make mistakes, but in practice she never cooks.

John - John can and does make small meals. He's never really liked cooking, but he does sometimes make a small plate of stir-fry or something. All things considered, his food's pretty decent. It's just not great because he rushes through the cooking process to get back to whatever he was doing. But, I mean, it's edible.

Melina - Melina is a big "make a sandwich or throw some pasta on the stove and call it night" type of girl. She could make a good meal if she had a recipe, but cooking's never really been her thing enough for her to put a ton of effort into the craft. However, if Georgie asked her to make her something you can bet that she could make a five star meal.

Basira - Basira cooks most nights and her food is consistently good. Daisy is over at her house a lot in the evenings hoping to get a meal and eat together.

Martin - Martin cooks almost every night. It's one of his hobbies and he knows well what type of foods pair best with what after his research into what foods pair best with tea spiraled a bit. He can make a REALLY good comfort dish.

Elias - Elias cooks most night, and with all his years of being alive, that means he's a pretty skilled in the art of making food. He either makes a full five star meal with an appetizer, a main course, and a dessert, or microwaves ramen noodles. There's no middle ground.

Peter - Cooking is one of those hobbies that is significantly more enjoyable in solitude, so of course he loves it. He cooks multiple times nearly every day as it's something for him to do that doesn't involve other people. No one will ever taste his food, but man is it good.

Sasha - Sasha is a fantastic cook. She's the CEO of finding a recipe online and then making it his own. She's literally never made a bad dish in her entire life and she does brag to John about her ability not to burn things.

Tim - Tim is great at cooking on an instinctual level. He doesn't even need to have a recipe to make a five star meal that will change the trajectory of his friends taste buds forever. It's a gift...and a curse given how much the people around him hope he'll bring food to every gathering.

[graysparrowao3]

2024 Writing Reflections

Thank you @little-paperboat, what a nice tag to receive, really interesting to reflect on these questions. I'm not sure who may not have a tag, here are some no pressure ones if you would like to join and an open invitation (no seriously, I really like this one I want to tag everyone lol)💛 @wakacreations @thylyre @faetouchedfool @barbwillbrb @lolliputian

What's been your biggest learning point this past year?

To embrace the joy of writing. This meant trying new things or putting them out there or just writing what spoke to me. Writing "easy" and not worrying about my prose - if I just wanted to write fun dialogue with the same damn dialogue tags, then go for it babe, let those blorbos yap. If I wanted to put in the most cliche, in-your-face metaphor, smack that literary device on the arse and send it out! If I had a short idea that I thought was fun, I could share it as a fic, or a post, or even just a message amongst people who like similar things. The more I embraced the joy of it just for its own sake the less anxious I felt about it.

How has your writing developed this past year?

Writing sexually explicit content. I'm very cautious about the explicit content I consume for my own psychological comfort, and it was quite liberatory to be in control of the writing and know what was going to happen, and definitely allowed my writing to grow in depth, gain a new skill, and explore more heavy and intimate themes.

Bad writing habits?

I get impatient and want to be done with something even when I know the editing isn't quite finished and then spend the next hour frantically making edits after it's uploaded.

Favorite thing you wrote?

I feel like this changes every time I reflect on it, probably because I like them for different reasons.

For now, I'm going to say Part 10, the main "concluding" part of the NB series. I was absolutely exhausted after I wrote it.

I'll also say chapter 10 in The Elturian Prodigy, because in it Rolan begins to figure out the events of Descent into Avernus, and I was proud to be able to come up with how he might do it that didn't seem super obvious but that an intelligent character could reason through.

Biggest win?

Finding support and kindness that uplifted me to such an extent that it has changed the trajectory of my life. I'm part of the many folks who have found their joy and creativity again thanks to fandom writing and the overwhelming and unexpected kindness of people in the online community spaces. I even had some people in real life remember I was trying to write again and ask how it was going and I had to not be a big emotional mess about it. Thank you online writing friends <3

Your favorite words of the year, aka the words you check each chapter for, making sure you didn't repeat them 788 times?

Everyone is always breathing in various ways. Lots of deep breaths, huffing, snorting, air catching in throats. Or chuckling in various dry, wry, ways. Or brows doing various things; raising, creasing, cocking.

This is a ridiculous sentence, but I had to take a moment in the middle of the NB series and check I wasn't overdoing twat, bastard, and feck and turning it into a caricature. (There's a part where Rugan says "Every other word out of your mouth is 'feck this' or 'bastard that'" which was absolutely me calling myself out lol).

Goals for the new year?

I think I responded to this elsewhere, but in this moment I am thinking...

Just don't stop reading and writing, keep practicing and growing.

Always remember the kind words of internet friends that have made you have faith in yourself.

Keeping working on the ongoing WIPs.

I think, if I'm being honest, I would really love to finally get something original self-published or close to it by the end of 2025. As the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, but the second best time is now.

What are you excited for in the new year?

Well I'm in the middle of a couple of interviews, so getting hired would be good because life has thrown a lot around recently that won't be letting up any time soon. Fingers crossed.

I got some books for Christmas and my anniversary before that I'm looking forward to reading. Just finished the First Law trilogy.

Getting through some more of my fic WIPs and moving towards completion of those projects.

Some more cheeky tags because this is a great tag game if you are interested @vera-king-hrfl @beesht @ashprince-of-bel-air @alpydk @dutifullylazybread

[sableeira]

I feel like we deserve a “Dazai, Chuuya, age Seventeen” light novel as compensation for everything that happened during Meursault.

[whataghostlyscenee]

y'all have no idea what this pic has done to my life, i've never been the same since this pic of him came out

[willowser]

oh my god, fine, i didn't go to bed because 🥺 what about nerd kirishima 🥺

like it's sero's fault that you even meet him, because he keeps flinging shit at you across your shared desk, and you get into this stupid war with office supplies that turns VIOLENT, until one of you — him, for sure — gets their foot caught in the web of wires under the table and yanks them all out, causing both your computer screens to go dark.

"you idiot, you're gonna get us fired!"

and he's like, "chill, chill, chill, i can fix this."

and his idea of "fixing it" is calling the company's support desk and asking for his buddy kirishima to come down to your department because he's got something cool to show him. and the "something cool" is the absolute disaster of dusty, unplugged cables that are hanging loose on the floor.

the first thing you notice about him — because how couldn't you — is how big he is ????? this little dweeb from support, who is actually not little at all. six foot something, with a white button-up that's clearly too tight on him, his red hair pulled back into a bun, and some STUPID. LITTLE. GLASSES. WAAAAAHHH.

and he gets on his knees — slacks straining over his thighs — to look under your desk to fix this mess, and he keeps having to readjust his STUPID. GLASSES. and you're just sitting perched on the edge 😌 watching him 😌

you ask him, "want me to hold that for you??" and he SMACKS his head into the underside of your desk, hissing out a little "ow, shit!" before rearing back to look up at you, a lil wide-eyed, pink-cheeked !!!

very quickly, his eyes cut to where your legs are crossed in your skirt, right by his head, before he's asking, "sorry, what?"

and he's just so stinking AKFHFUSLALHDLALA that you nod to his shirt pocket where he's got his phone, the flashlight on, struggling to see under the desk. "i said, do you want me to hold that for you?"

"oh, no, no!" kirishima is quick to look away, down to his wide, now-dusty hands. "that's—no, i don't want you to have to do that! thanks, though!"

"you should," sero pipes up, sitting in the chair at his desk, useless. and he's probably got, like, twizzlers or something from the vending machine, chewing on them as he grins at kirishima. "should get down on your knees and—"

"dude!" kirishima grits, neck bobbing as he swallows. and now even his ears are pink, so you can't help but to ask—

"you don't want me to help you?"

and he's like, stressed !!! like, "oh, no, no, that's not what i meant! if you wanna get down here, then i'd be glad—or, y'know, if you—"

but the more he keeps talking, the more nervous you can see him getting, and the more your smile stretches until he's just ducking back under the desk before you can tell that he's starting to sweat akfjeisjdjalndhak

[targarrus]

magical girl

[soulmvtes]

my end of year reflection was mainly a sense of gratitude for what i have and what i've been able to do, it was a difficult year for many reasons but i ended it feeling so connected to myself + at peace with things that i wasn't with in the first half of the year. i don't have many resolutions per se for the year ahead but i hope all the love i put out and joy that i find keeps me going and that i can continue to cultivate my sense of self and learn new things and have lots of wonderful experiences <3

[turnipoddity]

turnip what movie should i watch

anyone that asks me this and my answer shall be the same: you should atleast watch swiss army man once in your life if you haven’t

[vcrnons]

RYUJIN [Artist of the Month] 'Therefore I Am' covered by ITZY RYUJIN | November 2021

[shadystranger]

Absolutely insane spn tie-in moments

Sam was taken away as a sacrifice, but Dean was left behind, so Dean worked with a demon (against Bobby's protests) to get Sam back. The demon could beat that God-like evil through a ritual but needed a willing container to contain thousands of dead souls. Dean had the spirits of despair-stricken dead people slammed into his unconsciousness. Their joys, their hopes, their dreams, their doubts, their confusion, their grief, their anguish, their love, their hate, their lives. Dean would feel it to his marrow. Anyone would be driven mad going through this. But he focused on Sam, his joy, his hope, his protectiveness over him, his anguish, his love, and his life with Sam, and that's what kept him grounded. This is the most powerful romance shit i ever seen like goddammit.

Dean lost himself in the dead. He became a treasure-seeker, a girl who committed suicide after being violated, a wizard trapped in a doll. President Harry S Truman, after he dropped the A- bomb on Japan. Ernest Hemingway, when he volunteered for the Red Cross in World War I. A gay store worker. A poet. A Duval Street musician who died in a diving accident.

At the end of each memory, Sam would appear. Dean recognized Sam again and again. Dean controlled all the dead souls in his body by focusing on Sam. This feeling was stronger than the strongest pleasures Dean had ever experienced. Like the entire world was at his fingertips. The love, hatred, sorrow, and joy of thousands of dead souls in their lives were all condensed in Dean.

But Dean focused on Sam. No matter what, he had to save Sam, and that enabled Dean to get the dead under control.

[gomzdrawfr]

Just asking….you’re also into Leon S. Kennedy from Resident Evil? If so.

WHICH Leon version you like BEST???👀

I've been meaning to answer this but I put it off so long bcuz I'm trying to contain my excitement and not go absolutely bat shit crazy over Leon SLKDGHFJGHLK

THE best is such a hard choice but...im biased and I love games that get remake so...Leon from RE 4 remake is my fav...LOOK AT HIM

AND-

and because I feel like it...a few more honorable mention:

pretty boi Leon from RE2...

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh oh man Leon from re6 nearly took the top spot bcuz....*GESTURES FRANTICALLY*

[lq-jikook]

he does not understand how insane we are 😭

[glowinggreeneyes-e]

happy one year to the google doc for the longest ghosts/capvers fanfic (?)… its been through so much, all before its first birthday… it should’ve been at the club 😩

[wraithsoutlaws]

you know i had a fun little vp idea i wanted to do for the cyberpunk anniversary but i haven't had the energy to even touch it recently so i'll just settle with saying that this game impacted me in ways i never thought it would when i first picked it up 3 years ago. i knew i would enjoy it, i had been looking forward to it for a long time, and despite a ~controversial~ launch, i had a fucking blast from day 1 (on ps4 no less). regardless of bugs and memes and public dunking, the story grabbed me like nothing else could at the time, and it reignited so much of my passion and motivation for art that i had lost in the clutches of mental illness and i'll always be grateful for that. it introduced me to so many wonderful people (some whom i carry very close to my heart), and maybe most personally surprising, it gave me an outlet to understand parts of myself that i had been too afraid to acknowledge for a long time, the courage to accept and embrace myself as non-binary, and allow myself to just BE without trying to convince myself i'm crazy. that's not what i expected from the get-go but it's been a really fun journey to be on ngl

[digitalsymbiote]

Just got some extremely good news, so we stay winning today