#you're a shining star

[teathattast]

You know I'm yours for the taking

I'll be here patiently waiting

I know that you're gonna be mine

Your cheerleader, babe, I'm always on your side

[leatherbookmark]

241206 📸 Lythrum_1011

[butchnavi]

the shame of not having moved on from faberry in the year of our lord 2024. we all need that one yearny pretentious ass depressed white girl queerbait ship that we will never get over leave me alone okay

[hauntingblue]

Oh now the villagers know..... and arlong burned the town to punish her..... for some reason

[cat-orchestra]

late birthday coord 🎈

dress & headband: btssb

wristcuffs: bodyline

socks: off brand

shoes: Dr martens

I also wore a btssb bolero later but the only picture I took while wearing it is bad.

Also, please ignore my bag, I always use my ita bag it's the most spacious (also my milk purse but that is pink and doesn't match this coord)

[shen-mu]

Shenmu i dont think words can properly express how much i appreciate you and your art please never stop being amazing and iconic

keezers :(((((( thank you so much for your words! I'LL NEVER STOP!!! shen is unstoppable

[inocennt]

fave debut lyrics?

oh its time to defend my underrated faves

the moon like a spotlight on the lake

he's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, the only one who's got enough of me to break my heart

so i start a fight cause i need to feel something

i've never been anywhere cold as you

you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you

i hope your life leads to back to my door, but if it don't stay beautiful

don't wanna fly if you're still on the ground

like shadows in a fading light, we're invisible

it's not unbroken anymore, how do i get it back the way it was before? (this lyric walked so "i'd like to be my old self again but i'm still trying to find it" could run and "give me back my girlhood, it was mine first" could fly)

[marroniere]

Found a post here in which the op was complaining that the Jedi in adult SW shows these days are too morally ambiguous and there are no adult SW shows about the Jedi, or characters in general, who are "just good people" without any "nuance." The op, for some reason, decided that it was as if the creators of those shows were convinced that the lessons of being kind and selfless were not important to adult viewers.

My feelings about Ahsoka the show aside (haven't seen the Acolyte yet), nothing could be more wrong than mistaking the lack of nuance for goodness, or being Jedi-critical for hating the Jedi.

No person is "just good" because "good" is not a state of being, not a stable, unchanging characteristic, a factory setting (Beach Ken, Weird Barbie, Good Jedi) but a process. Being a good person is constant work. And for the Jedi, with everything that is thrown at them, this work might be even harder. Force or no Force, it is natural for one's psyche to react to extremely traumatizing events with despair, anger, and/or an urge to quit. Being good is not being free of those feelings but choosing to do the right thing. Even when it's hard, even when it comes at a price, even when one has already messed up.

To me, that's what the character of Ahsoka Tano is about, for instance. Making mistakes, having complicated (and completely valid) feelings, but still choosing over and over to be a decent person.

[discordiansamba]

do you know how annoyed Keith will be in the roleswap AU when Pidge finds Matt and Matt is now as tall as he is. He's going to be so annoyed.

[neonbutchery]

i love my partner so much

[callmebrutus]

I won't get to see qpac's revenge arc and qcellbit facing consequences of his fuckin actions feeling normal rn

[teathattast]

When I think about you, baby

Joy comes over me, yeah

And when I close my eyes, boy

Your face is all I see

Your eyes tell me that I'm yours

And there's something that I, I got to tell you, yeah

So you know that I care

[seravphs]

Five recs (but the recs are my own writing) 

Thank you to lovely @gardenofnoah and @stellamancer for tagging me! 

Halfway through this I realized I was treating it like a writing critique instead of an actual fic rec so it’s more a reflection on how I’ve developed as a writer lmao.

hard feelings — I love Rin and the potential for exploring complicated relationships and feelings through him. Out of all my works, this is the most reader centric. I always feel like I can improve on my angst, and that it’s never as emotionally crippling as I want it to be, but I enjoyed writing about a more imperfect reader in this one. I’d love to keep writing for “bad” readers, actually!

ask me no questions and I’ll tell you no lies — I like amnqaitynl because it’s how I became friends with Aleks but also because I think it really captures the pining of a friendship turned something more. While it’s not high stakes because it’s just a college relationship, at the same time, it’s so intense! It’s everything to you, this friendship and the potential of losing it and the potential of earning something more, if you’re willing to take a little (big) risk.

religion, like crime, is also organized — Writing mafia fic is inherently hard because I’m constantly trying to avoid the wattpad label, but I really enjoyed exploring a fraught, tense dynamic where you’re not sure if the other person has your best interests at heart because the push and pull is so fun. Playing with religion as an element has always interested me as well!

a lost love takes a long time to die — The only long fic that made it onto this list is for Nanami, which is the way it should be. When I was writing Teen Dad Gojo all the way back in 2021, I always knew I was going to write a series of (unconnected) long fics for the big three (Nanami, Gojo, and Getou.) It took me until 2023 to finish alltalttd because I was so underdeveloped as a writer that I could never manage to write more than a few lines. I think it pushed me a lot in learning how to write fight scenes, deal with major character death, create a complete world, etc. whereas in Teen Dad! Gojo I completely bullshitted it if I’m being completely honest. I also really loved the supernatural element in this! If I could do it over, I wish I could explore the ghost marriage aspect more, especially culturally.

cruel summer universe — This is a love letter to the ordinary extraordinariness of having love in your life. Even though I write it to be very sweet and happy, in the back of my mind, I’m always thinking about how it ends in tragedy for Gojo and crew, so it reminds me of this quote about how even if the love didn’t save anyone, it was there. So this is the work that’s closest to my heart because it’s about how beautiful my relationships with others are.

It’s also my coming of age requiem! While I look forward to getting older, I’m nostalgic for a life that I know is now slipping out of my hands. I’ll still have the people I love, but the shape of our relationship will inevitably change with age. It feels like growing pains, something I have to resist until I realize how good it can be for me. 

Someone commented that it feels like a hug to read, and that’s how it feels to write. Even though it flopped so badly when I first posted it to the point where I thought it didn’t make it into the tags, it ended up being the fic I connect most with others on. Cruel Summer has brought me the most beautiful and heartfelt interactions.

honorable mention: arrive through obliteration — I don’t like the smut in this and I wish I could take it out lmao but I like the atmosphere! Fight scenes are also hard for me, so I’m really glad I pushed through it. 

honorable mention: starboy — technically star boy isn’t posted yet, but while I was working on it, I realized I’ve improved a lot since Teen Dad! Gojo. One of the reasons I dislike Teen Dad! Gojo so much is because I feel like a lot of the scenes could be trimmed down where I was struggling to move the timeline along, whereas in starboy, it feels fluid and natural.

no pressure tags: @seoafin (hope you’re enjoying Japan!) @oh-katsuki (also in Japan and presumably doing better things than thinking about fic lol but in case you want to!) @mintmatcha (no pressure means no pressure but I love your writing so I’d love to know what you think are your top five are!) @andypantsx3 (on hiatus...this is not shaping up well for me lol but if you’d like to, I’m interested in what your personal top five are!) @princess-okkotsu (you’ve definitely been tagged in this before but I would love to hear your thoughts on your writing!)  And anyone who’s reading! I’m serious, I would love to hear people’s thoughts on their own work! A writer I really like does author’s notes whenever she posts a fic and reading them after I finish a fic is the best feeling. 

[grey-wardens]

wyll only approves the first option (for obvious reasons) but i really like this response

[bat-bestie]

there's a secret emotion in listening to a mechs album for the first time in a while

[youareinlove]

It’s crazy to think about how many people in this fandom probably never heard debut fully

this was the equivalent of stabbing me in the heart