#you might like it

[seeminglydark]

Happy Ace week by the way, from me, your friendly neighborhood Grey-Ace author! Here's a round up of many of the pieces I've done of Johnny for Ace week or Ace day in april.

You can read his story in my webcomics Seemingly Dark, and Mil-Liminal, or you can read his grey-asexual experience in a mini comic I did called Ace of Hearts, on Tapas HERE or on Webtoon HERE. 🖤🤍💜

[vaspider]

Ok, I'm going to bed, but before I do, this is the song I listen to on show mornings to get myself in the mood to talk to thousands of people for 10-14 hours.

It feels like a lot of us need to hear it right now, after the post I put up about a bit of queer slang seems to have people feeling Big Feelings about being shut out of community, especially RL community, when younger.

Call it a dream, call it a plan I call it the reason that I am Call it whatever, just call it in It's never too late to be what you might've been

Living your dream is hard work Go on and try it, you might like it

[lexithwrites]

Heavy sigh at some people in this fandom

[fidjiefidjie]

Bonne soirée 💙🆕️ 😴

Jason Mraz 🎶 You Might Like It

(Mystical Magical rhythmical Radical Ride)

[tokkiheart]

Romance Is A Bonus Book Review/General Thoughts

I’m very vocal about how much I love this drama, so I think I should just go ahead and write a review for it.

I’ve been meaning to for a while, but I’ve just been so busy with school and other stuff. Anyway! Onwards towards the review of one of my favorite comfort dramas!

Genre(s)

Romance • Comedy • Melodrama • Business(?)

Synopsis

Cha Eun Ho is a successful and handsome writer who is also the youngest chief editor at a publishing company. He has a calm demeanor and remains reasonable at work. He then becomes involved in the life of his childhood best friend and crush, Kang Dan Yi, who was once a popular copywriter. She is now divorced, a single mother, unemployed, essentially homeless and struggling in life; though she still attempts to find a job, but even with her once good career, she cannot.

However, in a desperate attempt to find a job, she lies about her background and begins to work as a temporary worker in the same company under none other than Cha Eun Ho. As they become involved in each other’s life more than often, a love story begins to unfold.

(Source: MyDramaList, w/some tweaks by me)

My Review (Spoiler Free)

I originally watched this drama for Lee Jongsuk (big surprise, not). I had been really reticent about watching it for a number of reasons, but primarily because I hadn’t really watched any Noona Romances before and I wasn’t sure if I’d like them.

This drama was a nice “Baby’s First Noona Romance” due to the friends-to-lovers arc of the relationship as well as the fact that the age gap between the characters isn’t drastically large, with the age gap between Dan-yi and Eun-ho being only 5 years and the age gap between Dan-yi and the other guy being 7 years. Additionally, everyone is an adult and none of the potential love interests for Dan-yi are still in high school.

Anyway, I absolutely adore the relationship between Eun-ho and Dan-yi, he is really supportive of her and never dissuades her from pursuing what she wants to do.

I believe that the romance in this show is really mature, with Eun-ho not wanting to force his feelings on Dan-yi. He gives her space to have freedom and to do what she wants, even if it’s going on dates with someone who isn’t him.

In my opinion, this drama is really heartwarming, sweet, wholesome, cute, endearing, quirky, funny, nostalgic and comforting. It’s really just a wonderful show to watch and I really recommend it!

I will admit, the show feels aimed at a very particular audience (that I’m definitely a part of)- book lovers. However, I’d like to think that you could enjoy this drama even if you aren’t or weren’t a bookworm. Romance Is A Bonus Book is a show that really feels like a love letter to both rom-coms, books (at least to me), and also Lee Jongsuk’s career.

My General Thoughts

This is one of my favorite LJS dramas, right behind W: Two Worlds. This particular drama hits me in a very specific place as a book lover, reader and as a writer.

For those who may not know, this was one of if not the last of Lee Jongsuk’s projects before he did his 2 years of mandatory military service. There’s a few references to his past works and characters sprinkled throughout the show, such as a character named Park Hoon (who shares the same name as LJS’s character in Doctor Stranger), there’s a brief telepathic communication between him and his boss in one episode that it has to be a reference to his powers in the show I Can Hear Your Voice. I won’t swear to it, but I feel like Jung Eugene’s character, Song Hae-rin, having unrequited feelings towards Cha Eun Ho is a nod to W: Two Worlds where her character Yoon So-hui also had unrequited feelings for the male lead played by Lee Jongsuk. Whether it is or not, I still feel this drama was a really good send-off for him because of these references.

I would say that if you’re a fan of Lee Jongsuk, books, reading, writing, and/or noona romances… you’ll probably love or at least enjoy this drama. I know that I did!

If you’ve seen me talk about this drama before, you know that I have said essentially the same thing over and over again about it. It really left me with a sense of nostalgia for when I was younger and used to live in the school library reading books during recess. The vibes of this show are just straight up cozy.

It’s curling up with a good book (or several!), your favorite hot beverage, some blankets, pillows and maybe a favorite plush toy in your favorite reading nook on a lazy day in autumn.

Me @ this drama:

[unleashed-inuyasha-ff]

Chapter Five: The Fox and the Hōshi

Where to read: FFN, AO3, WP

Characters - Inuyasha x Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Shippo

Word Count - 4,359

Warnings - Slowburn, Angst, Drama, Romance, Semi-Out of character, What-if?

A/N - Set in an alternate timeline under a what-if? scenario

Excerpt:

"Who is this 'he'? Is he the one who told you to steal the Shikon Jewel?" Kagome asked. "Are you alone?" she took another quick look around and, seeing no one, returned her attention to the kitsune.

Shippo hesitated, and Kagome could see the wheels turning. So he wasn't alone.

"Uhm…" he dithered. "Well... I…" he looked away, almost ashamed.

Kagome's eyes nearly bulged from her head, and she gasped once she felt a hand lightly caress and grip her bottom. Before she could spin around to confront the molester, she felt warm breathing on her neck. The hairs on the back of her neck stood up, and she was still shocked.

"He's with me, beautiful lady," a male voice whispered from behind into her ear, the owner of the roaming hand.

Kagome could feel a little shriek erupt from her throat, and she whipped around and connected her closed fist with the deviant's unsuspecting face. The force of her blow caught the man off guard and hit him square in the jaw, sending him staggering backward.

[not-poignant]

🎃

🎃 Do you write fics for certain holidays? Which is your favorite holiday inspired fic?

I've only done this once or twice, where I've written a New Year's fic. I can...only remember one actually.

The Best of Broken Resolutions, an Augus/Gwyn AU. I literally wrote it and put it up on New Year's Eve in 2014 (the amount of chapters I put up on New Year's Eve should actually confirm that I have no life lmao). But this one is specifically about Gwyn and Augus as architects, celebrating New Year's, and I'm quite fond of it.

I do mention celebrating holidays in other fics, but I didn't write those fics for certain holidays. I don't really do stuff like that.

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For the fandom meme

[bowl-of-soupie]

@corviisquire

Be sure to keep it lit… by Abigail Larson on Instagram for the Over the Garden Wall show at Gallery Nucleus

[crow-caller]

as a child there's nothing cooler than a kid who gets subjected to evil experiments and gains special abilities. it's even cooler if these abilities also cause unfathomable suffering to use/against others. children love stories like this.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

10 years ago, I was watching my Potential and Opportunities dissolve and evaporate in an ocean of cheap gin and expensive whiskey.

But 5 years ago, I was in Rehab.

One of the exercises they had us perform was to imagine ourselves happy, 5 years in the future.

Many of us in that room had forgotten how to imagine nice things happening to them. A few snorted (well, I snorted), finding the notion that we’d even still be around in 5 years grimly humorous.

For about half of us, it was the last stop on the way down.

But I indulged the therapist. I was there, after all, because I did not want to die. So, I imagined myself, 5 years hence.

Happy.

It came to me all at once; an artistic remix on Norman Rockwell’s Freedom From Want, reframed with myself placing food at the table.

Sunday Dinner At My Place, I answered, when it came my turn to share my fantasy. I was asked what food I imagined eating.

It’s not the meal itself, I said, it’s the implications framed around it. Sunday Dinner At My Place means that I have a Place. It means that I have Family that will actually speak to me and friends who actually want to see me. It means money enough not just to feed myself but others too. It means having the time to spare to take the time preparing the meal.

A lot of nodding heads all around me. A struck chord. Many people with no Place, in that place. Nowhere that would lament their leaving.

5 years hence, as I lay down to sleep in my Home, with my Wife and my Son, surrounded by my Art and my Flowers, I reflect.

It was a long road. It was hard. We lost people. So many people. There were long days and long nights and hospital stays. Angry arguments with ghosts. I changed, in ways I never hoped for, or expected. Good ways, finally, for once. Slowly, against the backdrop of a world in chaos, I found my mind.

Sometimes, My Wife wondered aloud, what she did to deserve me. After some stumbling with my feelings, I eventually settled on an answer.

I’m a Rescue.

She gave me a Home.

And, so, I gave her a Family.

It seemed fair

This Sunday, my folks, which whom I have not had a shouting match in years, will come over for dinner. We will cook and eat together. My Friend became My Wife, and she took a piece of me and with it she made Our Son. There will be many hugs, and no violence. Good Things Happened.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t know what the future holds.

don’t give up yet, ok?

It could get good, even.

[slyandthefamilybook]

why do you guys talk like you think not voting means no one gets elected

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

hey since it's coming up again: no it's not a good thing that the government wants to ban tiktok. no you should not be glad that the government might ban tiktok. no you should not respond to this with "good riddance" or "hurry up I hate that app". I should not have to explain this to you but the government banning a social media app is still a bad thing even if you don't like the UI or booktok or having to say "unalive" or how you think it's killing the very notion of attention spans. It's still bad. It's bad.

[hinamie]

mentor

[canisalbus]

✦ Freshly ordained ✦

[let-them-fight]

can we stop doing this trope