#what makes you happy?

[two-webers-in-a-trench-coat]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers :)

Thank you for the question! This is my first time answering one, and I feel eager and grateful to do so.

Hello! 👋

I’m taking this as an opportunity to let others get to know me and hopefully invite them to respond and share about themselves too. I’d like to get to know my tumblr mutuals and followers. In the spirit of getting to know one another…

Here’s a list of 5 things that makes me happy:

1. Animals:

Whether the animal is one of my pets, a little/large creature that has come across my path, fictional or real, belonging to someone else, living out in the wild, etcetera, I tend to think most animals appear friend-shaped, and they make me feel very happy. Some of my favorite animals include: toads (and frogs), cats, dogs, turtles, bears, mice, birds, and rabbits.

2. My interests / fandoms:

An easy way to put a smile on my face is to either talk passionately about something in which I’m interested or to get me talking passionately about a subject I love. It likely need not be said that engagement with those interests or fandoms directly also makes me feel happy.

Examples include: X-Files, MSR (X-Files), D&D, MBMBAM, Vlogbrothers, Dear Hank & John, my favorite anime, Venture Bros, JS&MN, sociology, sociology of religion, psychology, neuroscience, community, culture, etc.

3. Dessert:

There’s a spectrum of happiness inducement for me. Chocolate chip cookies, crème brûlée, and cheesecake induce higher levels of happiness than say… a slice of cake with vanilla icing. A slice of pumpkin cheesecake is top tier. I also enjoy a good slice of pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. I also greatly appreciate breakfast, so if French toast and cinnamon rolls can pass for desserts, add those to the list too!

4. My hobbies:

Reading, writing, playing D&D, gardening, cuddling animals, etcetera are just a few.

5. My friends:

I could talk about my friends, especially my best friends, for… hours — if not days — at one time. They make me feel happy and grateful to have them in my life. Get me talking about *them,* and I may never shut up.

Now, it’s your turn — if you’re willing and interested in taking the opportunity. I look forward to learning about what makes you happy too! Please share :)

[november-rayne]

list 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers <3

Ohhhh... @acidcasualties Can I steal your list? Because a lot of my answers are on there (boobs) 🤣

Things that make me happy:

Mexican food and margaritas. I can't be sad around chips and salsa. It's physically impossible. The salty rim of a perfect margarita on the rocks? Fuck me...

The sting of a perfectly placed swat 😈

Good hair days. I have Bellatrix hair, so on the days it behaves, I am a happy little witch.

Autum/Spooky season. Give me all the macabre decor. The haunted hayrides and corn mazes. Costume parties. Hot apple cider. Crisp fall afternoons with leaves crunching underfoot. A crockpot full of chili and cornbread right out of the oven. Pumpkin scented EVERYTHING. My birthday. Fire pits and s'mores.

Music! Alternative rock/Grunge. Broadway. Pop. Hip Hop. I have a very eclectic collection. Music has been a huge part of my life. I can't live without it. I attend a lot of concerts and shows. (I'm seeing P!nk tonight)

Bonus

6. My family. My boys. I am raising some pretty cool kids. When the four of them are getting along they are so fun. My hubby. He loves me unconditionally, and I am still trying to wrap my head around that one. And I can't forget my cats! I don't have any daughters; they are my girls.

7. Hiking, swimming, running. Anything I can do in nature to help me exhaust my adhd.

8. LOKI!!! No explanation needed.

9. My many creative outlets. Writing, soap making, DIY home improvements, party planning, to name a few.

10. Tumblr. I wish scrolling this Hellsite was my fulltime job 🤣

[ganymedesclock]

I think cis people should also be their gender of choice. Like, if you're a man, you should get to really enjoy being a man- have fun with it! If you're a woman, take the parts of womanhood that really deeply make you happy. If being a little androgynous or ambiguous or hidden is the part that really makes you happy, you don't have to be trans for that. If you wanna lean really hard into being femme or masc- do it! You have one life in your body, do what makes you happy. Ditch the stuff you don't like.

My sinister queer agenda is I think that everyone should be the gender they like in the way they like it.

[surkeart]

be free!!

[inkskinned]

she's singing in another room and my dog is asleep at my feet. my grandma asked me why i haven't found a man yet and i laughed. oh, you know. i like my house clean.

my girlfriend is also my man is also "my partner" if i'm in a professional setting. yesterday we went to a ren faire and a man mimed at me - you're together? and at my delighted nod, his baffled, you're gay? made me laugh. a woman with rainbow hair said i love the two of you together. you're both so beautiful it's absurd.

my dad introduced my partner as my "..... friend. or whatever" the other day. he knows we're dating. in the same way, i was never able to get my sister's husband to stop saying that's gay like it's 2008. he still uses the word fa***t, and my sister's defense of him has always been well, he's just kidding.

my lover and i dance to old music in a tiny kitchen. we judge new music together and take food critique very seriously. we watch love is blind before we fall asleep and agree that if they had a queer season, it would be bloody but also make for excellent tv. of fucking course queer people would know someone for only 2 weeks and agree to get married. what are you saying.

at a bar with friends, a man puts his hand on my wrist. got a boyfriend? and yes, i do have a boyfriend, she's amazing. i am texting her while i wander around a gas station named after geese. i am visiting a swing state for a wedding. in the candy aisle i overhear: she's actually like a lesbian it's disgusting. two teenage girls with packaged sandwiches in their hands, giggling. no literally, like. i'm not, like. okay with her being there while we're all, like, naked and changing.

my girlfriend and i tailgate, drink gin and cider out of cups. from the frat group beside us, a man corrects himself with one of his friends: bro, i mean, nonbinary entity, and it makes everyone around him laugh, myself included. he razzes his friend the same way i would have killed for at 19 years old - like nothing happened, he continues: you apply sunscreen like an alien. he does a little sassy (and fairly accurate) dance interpretation of the motion. his friend is laughing so hard they're crying.

i am lucky, i live in a safe neighborhood in a safe state. my masc passenger princess comes up from DC. i drive her for an hour to where all the leaves are a violent arrangement of color. we walk along the trails, letting autumn into our blood. in this part of the state, there's a lot of pickup trucks and trump signs. when we chastely kiss before getting into the car, i accidentally make eye contact with a woman holding her child's wrist. she looks disgusted. she looks fucking pissed.

two hours later my girl and i are eating dinner on a patio, soaking in the last warmth of new england sun before the chill of winter sets in. we are giggling and trying to talk through plastic vampire teeth. at another table, i see a young woman sit up straighter. i watch her watch us. she blushes and takes her partner's hand from across the table. shy, like the taste of evening has just become something deeper.

it's worth it for this moment, i think. my lover is still humming the same song she's been singing for four days straight and i don't want to kill her for it. her guitar is beside my bed. her toothbrush is in my bathroom. in a few moments i will make us lunch. we are lucky enough to have found each other. it is lucky enough to be in love.

[batbabydamian]

happy booping! 🐾

[mroddmod]

they are like puppies. 2 me

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I am incredibly serious right now when I beg you all, please, and if you have Twitter or Tiktok or whatever to please spread the word: click on an author's profile on Ao3.

You want to know if an author has written more? Want to know if they're still writing? Want to see more from them? Want to know if they've written a trope or kink or sex scenario you enjoy?

Click on their name. And look at their profile.

I cannot tell you how many times in the last six months someone has read a new or newer fic of mine and said they (a new reader who has read nothing else I've done) "can't wait to see what you do next!" I've written 50+ fics and over a million words already.

"I don't know if you're still writing..." click on my profile. I am. I literally wrote a 128k+ fic for that ship last month.

"Would you ever do X?" "Please do Y!" I already did. Click on my name and look at my works.

Archive of our Own is a library. It's an archive. Not social media. It is your responsibility to fight back against the laziness that corporate algorithms have trained into you.

Click my author name. Just click it. Just click it.

Before you demand more, or ask if a writer will do XYZ, or wonder if the author still writing, or anything - click on their profile. Click on the author's profile.

I'm not trying to be mean or condescending or anything like that. I'm just exhausted. It's disheartening and frustrating to repeat myself ad nauseam, because someone couldn't take thirty seconds to do the tiniest bit of work to see if I've written lately, if I've written more for their ship, or scan my works to see if I've written what they're asking for. Please. Please. I'm begging.

Click the author's name, and explore before you ask.

[chloesimaginationthings]

Can’t spell “Five nights at Freddy’s” without GAY

(Based off @/flashcs5 post)

[phantom-kiwi]

Venom 3 spoiler warning but like

"Ride me cowboy", "we've been together for a year?", "Sometimes I think we would've been happier you and I living a life like this", them calling each other Thelma and Louise? Them talking about future plans and the camera directly cutting and staying on literal happy newlyweds?? "BUT I NEED HIM BACK" ???? A montage of their time together???? Hello ??? Symbrock nation can you hear me !!!!

[paiigemahoney]

9-1-1 | Hen & Chimney "And thanks for following me down that hillside." "The first of many, I'm sure."

[hinamie]

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[soaked-doors]

a comic about wine, a wager, and reconnecting through your weird kids

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this behemoth of a comic is finally done - and just in time for zoros birthday huehue. initially i wanted to make a zolu introspective from an outsider POV and was like you know who would have really funny input on this … mihawk. and then it spiraled into seven pages of mishanks sitting and talking. i thought it would be funny if mishanks ended up doing self imposed couples therapy the day mihawk brought luffys bounty bc well. its kind of hilarious to think abt mihawk realizing shanks was onto something all those years ago after he meets zoro and luffy. like sure this new generation is batshit crazy but my god are they cooking. anyways. cheers. get some kids

[stealingpotatoes]

happy mean girls day to everyone who celebrates <3

(commission info // tip jar!)

[inkskinned]

the tradwife movement is the same as it has always been - back in the kitchen, back to breeding - it just has better branding.

when i was younger, i hated pink. i was not like other girls. this is now something i'm embarrassed of - this was not me being a "girl's girl."

but it was expressing something many of us felt at the time: i literally wasn't what girlhood was supposed to be. this is a hard thing to explain, but you know when you're not performing girlhood correctly. it isn't as easy as "i liked x when girls liked y" - because there were other girls that liked x, too - but i never figured out exactly the correct way to like x, or to be interested in y.

now there is the divine feminine. this is the same rhetoric it has always been: women are biologically driven to like pink and ribbons and submitting to our husbands.

the problem is that the patriarchy found a better PR team. because yes, actually, i want every woman to have the choice to be a homemaker. i also want her taken seriously for her legitimate home-making labor. i want her to be recognized as also having a job, just unpaid. i want men to have this opportunity, too.

but it is no longer "i made this choice and I love it." instead it is a sixteen-paragraph rant about how selfish it is that my generation isn't having kids. instead it's long videos about how if you feed your children processed foods, you're going to kill them. instead it is "this is what womanhood is supposed to be. i feel bad for any other choices you're making."

the shame spiral is just prettier. it is large houses devoid of personality. it is the implication: if you don't have this, you aren't happy. the solid, everlasting assurance: women are actually supposed to be submitting. this is the default. this is the natural state of things. all other attempts inflict suffering.

but you can no longer say i'm not like other girls. you can no longer reject this image completely. you cannot find it revolting, even if you know that the underbelly is toxic and festering. sure, it is the same repackaged patriarchy. but the internet does not have shades of grey. you should support and reward other women! your disgust is actually internalized misogyny. not because you are seeing a vision of yourself the way they're trying to train you to be. not because you feel her ghost pass within an inch of your earlobe. not because your father will eventually ask you - why can't you be like her?

because they figured out how to make it beautiful: women will sell other women on this idea, and we will find the singular loophole in feminism. sure, she's shaming you in most of her videos. sure, she implies that a different life is obscene. but she just wants you to be happy! you'd be happier if you were listening!

and the whole time you're sitting there thinking: i'd actually just be happier if i had that kind of money.

[yeetus-feetus]

When you get this, please respond with five things that make you happy! then, send to your last ten people in your notifs. you never know who might benefit from spreading positivity. thank you, you're the best <3

ahhhhh I get anxiety about sending people stuff so if you see this please go ahead and reblog it with 5 things that make you happy <3

Ok

Moss. Idk it's just soft and green and I wish everything was made of moss. I also just like most plants. But miss is on a whole nother level I just need it so bad.

Random shiny objects that the people I care about gift me. I eat that shit up. If you want to propose to me with a really nice pebble I will accept that and say yes. Even if it's trash, if you're gifting it me I'm gonna treasure that shit.

Pillow nests/pillow forts. They are SO comfortable. My entire bed is just a nest of stuffies and pillows and way too many blankets for the summer heat rn. But like also building pillow nests or pillow forts together 🥰 like yes let's make a pillow fortress together and just snuggle together bro.

Cats. Or just like any soft furry animals. But I own 3 cats and I like them because they're assholes but they're cute about it. Also they will immediately let me know if someone who comes over has bad vibes, very helpful.

Seeing people from community. Like idk, the world feels like it's ending, but when I see a group of people share their interests and form a wholesome community and just interact with each other like family, it makes me forget about that feeling of impending doom. Because look, people can be happy, and they can be kind. It feels really nice.