#worth every letter

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Dehya and Golden! Was having fun with tones a bit, trying some things out!

prompt: all dressed up and blade

[goldenworldsabound]

the Mondstadt Sumeru Cultural Exchange gang is going so hard in my brain rn. I finished the Haitham confession fic I started 2 years ago. Now I picked up a wip I'd only loosely outlined with Haitham AND Kaeya. Thinking on the Dehya confession too. Oooough.

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Dehya escorts her client Golden to Devantaka and some silly awkwardness ensues. After becoming romantic partners, they reflect on this event.

Pure lighthearted fluff!

word count: 1.2K

content warning: none

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Break out the presents and blow out the candles for this cookie to make sure special days are a blast! With a tiny twinkle in his eye, Periwinkle Cake Candle Cookie will make sure that every event lives up to the hype it deserves. He may be small but that love to bring smiles makes him mighty. Why sometimes Periwinkle gets so wrapped up in these plans that even he forgets when it's his own turn to be the birthday boy! There's always the biggest slice and a sweet star piece left just for him at the end of every good party.

Make a wish friends<3

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-Precious baby boy of best boyness

-Does absolute best to make the day worth celebrating!

-Too small for the big party planning like his cakey idol but thankfully he got his big sis Confetti Cakepop to help make his wishes come true

-Body molded from scented candle wax (Birthday cake!)

-All holidays are full of fun and laughs. No tears here to be seen!

-Gets sad around his birthday so he keeps busy to forget…

-Can make small wishes come true with just a boop!

-Admires a certain magical cookie group. Someday he'll be just like them! One day!

-Extra squishy and light for the tossing around

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AaAaA!!!!! A child appears

Another baby adopted from ZibijilPtelemieu

*sobbing and crying and screaming*

[mendelmakes]

I've started painting my keyboard with some of my favorite aquatic bois

[trappedinafantasy37]

do you have any bg3 fanfic that you recommend? i read and enjoy yours so I trust your judgment!

I do have some pretty good fic recs! Unfortunately my list is rather short given that reading (and writing even) is a painful experience for me as my brain likes to play tricks with the letters and draw weird shapes with them.

The first one that I would recommend for anyone to read is By the Silk that Binds Us by @moonselune. It is an arranged marriage AU between Matron Mother Minthara and a feminine reader. It is also a little bit of an enemies to lovers fic as Minthara did destroy your house (House Liakyre) and now you gotta marry her! It also contains my favorite flavor of Minthara in which she is an unforgiving power hungry asshole. Every time a chapter gets posted, I am sat and I gobble it up. And, honestly, I recommend anything that they write as they have a whole lot of drabbles with the various characters in the game and in a wide variety of scenarios.

The second one that I recommend is Honeywebbing by @mimetoist. It is a post-canon Minthara x Halsin fic and is written from Minthara's POV. In it, Minthara washes ashore severely injured, without her memory, and a broken oath and she is nursed back to health by Halsin. It also has one of my favorite tropes of "unfortunate circumstances led me to adopting a stray child" as Minthara bonds with some of the kids under Halsin's protection. I also have to give the writer a special shoutout as some of her spicier stuff has inspired some of my own spicy content.

The last one I recommend is Hell Is Empty over on AO3. It is a modern AU fic between a CEO Minthara who has recently gotten divorced from Shadowheart because Minthara did some really stupid things. Unable to cope with the divorce, Shadowheart actually wipes her mind of Minthara and anything related to her, but fate brings the two of them back together anyway. It's a bit of a redemption story for Minthara and shows her softer and more vulnerable sides.

Sorry it took me so long to post this one. AO3 had an outage and I was waiting for it to come back up so I can grab the links.

[laesas]

The hands holding yours are not clean either.

VegasPete + Hands || KinnPorsche (2022)

[teathattast]

And I often think knowing me's a strain on the eyes

'Cause finding out what I really mean

Takes reading between the lines

So I sent you a song that I thought that you might like

Could you tell that I was saying

That you're someone I don't mind?

[pardonmydelays]

so it's been a few days since you saw waitress, what are your initial thoughts?

thank you so much for reminding me and sorry for being quiet about it for so long, i've been meaning to write this mini essay but i really needed to take a deep breath & collect my thoughts first. so...

sugar, butter, flour... (it's been ringing in my head for days)

i honestly didn't really know what to expect when i started watching it. i knew a little bit about the plot, not that much tho, & i knew who wrote the music for it, the rest was a mystery to me.

i always say the best musicals are the ones that make you cry & this was definitely one of those. it made me feel... so many things at once. so first of all, i think the proshot was absolutely beautiful & i wish we could see more musicals this way. second of all: the characters! all of them so incredibly written & so real!

ok, i am really trying not to be chaotic here, but it's not easy (i've cried multiple times while watching it, ok???). jenna's story completely broke my heart. also, as a person who ended a very toxic relationship not that long ago, i must say i could feel her pain & struggle even more (earl reminded me of my ex so much it hurts, but we are not going there). but she wasn't the only relatable character here, this may be surprising for you, but i literally had a mental breakdown on "when he sees me" cause i found a little bit of myself there (wow, i've got issues)... another song worth mentioning is definitely "she used to be mine" (that was the moment i had to stop watching for a second cause my eyes were so full of tears i couldn't see anything lol). and don't even get me started on "you matter to me"... especially when you think about the ending...

the ending was really surprising for me, but not in a bad way i guess? as much as i wanted a happy ending for jenna, i didn't want it to be all perfect cause that's the thing about life, right? it's never perfect. but she did found herself & her happiness eventually & to be completely honest with you anon, i love a good story that shows us we can be happy without men (even tho it broke my heart a little bit). also, she wasn't left alone. she had amazing friends (another thing that always makes me cry because friendships are so important to me & they are always my favourite part of the plot) & her little daughter! & her own place! & omg i think i'm gonna start crying again...

so, like, you know. i will probably rewatch it pretty soon, i'm also gonna listen to the soundtrack more cause my thoughts are really chaotic at the moment, but overall i think this is such a great musical, definitely one of the best i've seen so far and i am dying to see it live! the choreography was absolutely incredible, the whole cast was amazing, the music was really, really good and the plot made me cry like a baby. this is all you need to know. i loved it so much!!!

[enjoythesilentworld]

Simon's Month - Soulmates

day 25 @youngroyals-events getting close to the end...

Simon, curled up and heartbroken in the backseat of Sara’s car, realizes some things.

Or, Simon sees his and Wille’s lives laid out across the universe.

read below or on ao3 (T, 600)

He can barely breathe. 

“Goodbye, Simon.”

The words still ring clear in his head, Wille’s sad eyes forever burned into his memory. 

Simon knows it was the right decision. For the first time in his life, he knows that he’d made the right decision for himself. They never would’ve worked long term, they were barely working then. No matter what Wille said, he could’ve never been both Crown Prince and Simon’s boyfriend. 

But, then, why does it feel like Simon’s heart has been ripped out of his chest? Like it’s been left there, slowly bleeding out on the gravel steps of Hillerska. Or, perhaps, it was still lying in Wille’s bed in the palace, staining his bed sheets a deep crimson, wet blood mixing with the many wet tears they’d shed that awful night. 

That was meant to be the end. One final bit of closure. Simon said his peace, had told Wille it wasn’t him but the monarchy that was the problem, and yet. Here he is, sitting in the backseat of Sara’s new car, driving away from the love of his life, leaving him behind, along with the school that had ripped them to shreds, and he feels like he’s dying. 

He squeezes his eyes shut against the tears and tries to remember how it feels to bring air into his lungs. How does that work, again? It was always so easy to breathe around Wille, even if things had been bad sometimes. 

With his palms pressed into his eyes, the brightness of the cheery summer day dims to black behind his eyelids. He tries to calm himself, tries to remember that this was the right decision and that if he never saw Wille again, that would be for the better. For both of them. Wouldn’t it?

Through the darkness, small little shapes begin to swirl, faded and blurry like a distant memory. 

Two shapes, two outlines. A car. Two hands interlaced. A bright, happy sun filtering through impossibly green trees. 

Two forms holding each other. Wille. Wille, holding Simon.

Like a wave wiping clean the sand of a beach, the colors fade. Then, they return, slightly different. 

Wille is still there. That is Wille, isn’t it? He looks different, somehow. Older, more relaxed, but tentative. He smiles shyly at Simon over a small table, scattered with half empty coffee cups and shredded straw wrappers, and reaches out to take his hand. 

Another wave, another moment of darkness. Then, Wille again. They’re walking down a beach somewhere, unfamiliar to Simon. Wille is saying something, but the words don’t reach Simon’s ears. The feeling from them, he feels. It’s warmth and appreciation, trust and love. 

Another. Light, Wille— No, Wilhelm, in lavish robes and a crown on his head, a stern look on his face, though Simon can see the exhaustion and terror hidden underneath. Simon sits in the crowd. Their eyes meet, and Simon gives him a nod and a small smile, and Wille returns the smile.  

Wave, dark. Light, Wille. A sky of stars, the mesh roof of a tent, Wille pressed against his side. They’ve finally made it to a camping trip of their own, no fights and no sharing a tents. Now, they share a sleeping bag and stare up at the stars together, whispering secrets and stories, baring their souls under the night sky. 

The next wave comes, and recedes, and Simon opens his eyes. Light, real light, but no Wille. No more images, no glimpses at what could have been, what was in another life, what may be in this one. Except, it wouldn’t, not in this life, because Simon walked away, and rightly so. 

That doesn’t mean it doesn’t feel like Simon left a piece of himself behind. 

His hands fall to his lap. He closes his eyes again. Wave, dark—

“Simon!”

For a second time, his eyes shoot open. 

“Simon!”

He turns, looks over his shoulder out the back window of the car. Light. Wille. 

Wille.

Simon turns back to the front again, stunned. Wave, dark, light—

“Simon!”

Wille.

[dustykneed]

oh. oh this post by @/muirmarie is going to live rent free in my brain for ever and ever and i wouldnt want it any other way

(obviously all credit for the prompt goes to her!!! i just saw her post and was struck by a mental image so vivid i see it behind my eyelids every time i blink,, the POWER she holds i swear

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We Change With Time

Chapter 2 - Business Trip

Golden travels to Sumeru to pick up something for work, and meets up with an old friend (/crush).

word count: 1.3k

content warning: none

[goldenworldsabound]

update the Genshin!Golden polycule (Alhaitham, Dehya, and Kaeya with Golden at the center) has a name now. Mondstadt Sumeru Cultural Exchange. FEWJHFKJHEWKJF if I add any future faves this may have to change but for now XD I'm amused by myself

[hamadryad111]

I have a headache from all the tears I have shed, that’s all I gotta say.

Jk (no but for real I have a terrible headache now and feel dehydrated from all the tears I’ve shed lol) but my full review is in the comments under the story! Ended up writing an entire essay (I don’t shut up about my emotions unfortunately) and also about how much I loved this story as well as the wonderful author of this story @farore05 , Writing is absolutely unmatched.

I can proudly and confidently say this is the greatest fanfic I have ever read. Please please please Fayetos fans read it. I promise you you won’t regret it.

POV: me after finishing the last chapter

[crossbackpoke-check]

find a blorbo (nhl tag game)

RULES: Go through the roster of each NHL team and find at least one player that you can root for.

tagged by @bondedpairs!! when i say too many teams to count and here for the narrative um. i may not have lied. this is not an extensive list of my blorbos but in order to make it not ten thousand years long i made up the rule that i had to do it straight from memory :)

anaheim ducks: as evidenced by recent events i DO like mason mctavish and trevor zegras but i have to honor laura and mention troy terry and beloved goalie gibbie*

boston bruins: oh for sure brad marchand… can i say patrice? one of the charlies got traded but i think mcavoy is still there because gryz is gone, brandon carlo is there still i think

buffalo sabres: cozens & thompson, owen power, rasmus dahlin, ukko pekka luukkonen

calgary flames: is chris tanev still here? is markstrom still here?? noah hanifin?? as a last resort i’ll say blasty

carolina hurricanes: aho & jarvy & teuvo teravainen & brent burns is still playing maybe? i know sepe got traded

chicago hockey: the bedsy narrative is compelling but ANDREAS ATHANASIOU MY BELOVED reunited with tyler bertuzzi… that’s the real story. also i like foligno

colorado avalanche: gabe landeskog, whatever ross colton & miles wood have going on, natemac + jo, mikko

columbus blue jackets: have long been on the merzlikins train, have been swayed to the darkside of umich boys (brindley, kent johnson, fantilli, blankenburg who is now on nsh)

dallas stars: seggy! mush! roope + miro and otter and robo and wyjo (rip ty dellandrea) and harls! etc.

detroit red wings: MOST players. dilly larks, moritz seider, jv, raymond, rasmussen, kitty, lyon, etc except for k*ne

edmonton oilers: mcdrai, ofc. nugent-hopkins, nursey, rip vinny & skinny

florida panthers: tkachuk, reinhardt, sasha barkov, verhaeghe (is there still?)

los angeles kings: adrian kempe… kevin fiala… danault… quinton byfield & alex turcotte

minnesota wild: kirill, marat, fleury, brodes, fabes, boldy, moose, middsy, spurge… god’s perfect idiots

montreal canadiens: going out on a limb here to say martin st. louis but also xhekaj (both), slafkovský, suzuki, my austrian reinbacher, yes fine cole caufield

nashville predators: MOST BEAUTIFUL D PAIR IN THE WORLD GRADY SKJEI AND ROMAN JOSI!! juuse, evangelista, isn’t stamkos there and also someone else who absolutely should not be

new jersey devils: nico… tuna (tatar), dawson mercer, siegenthaler, dougie hamilton, yes the hugheses whatever

new york islanders: barzy, zeeker & marty, anders lee, noah dobson lol

new york rangers: mika & chris, lafrenière & k’andre, shesterkin

philadelphia flyers: frosty & beezer and tk and sanny and the new baby michkov and coots and scooty loots and foerster etc etc. you know the Guys

pittsburgh penguins: the two headed monster but also compelled by rutger mcgroarty, and kevin hayes was there!!!

ottawa senators: timmy stü & brady! josh norris! the evolution of shane pinto! ullmark now and brännström and claude giroux and chabot

san jose sharks: ekky, thrun, mario, borde, logan couture, shakir, that other vaguely blond rookie

seattle kraken: brandon tanev, andre burakovsky! grubauer & d’accord also

st. louis blues: jordan kyrou, nathan walker (is still there?), rob thomas? is parayako still there?

tampa bay lightning: hedman, point, they dumped so many guys after the cup run… is kucherov still there or is he in nashville?? anthony cirelli (notable for being made out with by pat maroon)

toronto maple leafs: mitch, jt, willy, alex nylander, kniesy, dewar, et

utah hockey: crouse, keller, tuba

vancouver canucks: quinn, brock, petey, jt, garly, höggy, i want to say dakota johnson, elias lindholm?

vegas golden knights: brandon montour is here now… alex pietrangelo, so sorry to one i can’t remember who loves the lions it will come back to me

washington capitals: full of love and stupidity. oshie, nicke/ovi, pierre-luc dubois, dowd, vrána, milano

winnipeg jets: adam lowry!! josh morissey and kc and morgan barron, also vladdy my beloved

tagging @stillfertile + @colap1nto + @songsandswords + @moregraceful if they haven’t done it yet, i know they follow at least a couple teams. if anybody else wants to play i love adopting blorbos!!

[ask-wren-zhang]

For your ask post:

If they were ever granted one wish, what would they wish for?

Sighs in wistful lactose intolerance, "to eat a cheesecake." 😔