#ask hall of fame

[spurgie-cousin]

You admit to having mental health issues but still feel qualified to judge Christians? 🤨

#ask hall of fame #edited to put my answer in meme format

[ugh-yoongi]

an underwear ad will not be able to handle seokjin’s third leg. imagine them giving him long johns instead lmao

LDKFGJLFDGJ BYE

#this is the funniest ask i've ever gotten #ask hall of fame #jewel answers

[mallowstep]

I think you should write strangle hyperspeciric little oneshots that come into your mind forever actually, if you'd like. I think it would be kinda epic

yeah ur so right anon ur so right

#ask #anon #mine #ask hall of fame #i think very highly of this ask #i can't express it in words #so i'm putting it in the hall of fame for safe keeping

[lgbtqtext]

Are you a water is wet believer? (no judgement either way but i thirst for knowledge)

LMAO honestly idk, since it can make things wet but cannot become more wet itself. But ice is dry. Water is water 🤷🏻

#ask #ask hall of fame #not text

[whump-queen]

I can't explain it but this gives off you-vibes

me, casually approaching you in the back aisle of a walgreens

#this is in fact how I walk irl #answered asks #akias asks #^.^.^.^.^ #I love this ahsnfjrkfjrje #verified skegg #friendship speed run!!!! #💖💖💖💖❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥💕💕 #skeggy #ask hall of fame #akiacore

[the-insomniac-emporium]

So, question J. Are you pretty much done writing for re8? I haven’t seen you upload anything for that fandom in awhile. If so, than I would like to formally say thank you, for the quality content you provided for us. Take care now :)

So this has been sitting in my inbox for a while now (don't remember exactly how long), partially because I wasn't sure about my answer, and partially because the way this message ends punched me in the feelings in the best possible way?

I don't even fully know how to explain it, honestly, but this is just really frickin sweet??? I love you for this

anyway, to answer your question: I do intend to go back and finish all of my ongoing RE8 stories (which is a fuck ton). Something I struggle with (as someone with real bad ADHD) is balancing my different interests. That often manifests with me only being able to "keep track" of a couple videogames at a time, even if there are a lot of games I REALLY enjoy within a short period of time. More importantly, my writing tends to follow whatever currently has my interest.

After HFW came out, that became my Major Focus for a bit, then I got sidetracked by other fixations (Arcane, for the most part), as well as the aspects of HFW that I didn't love

Then OOPS I got really into Fallout 76 for about a month or so, and right now I'm clutching Tiny Tina's Wonderlands in a death grip and using boss farming as a mindless activity to distract myself from recent (personal) events :)))

Except I don't, ya know, do any writing related to Wonderlands, and my other current fixation (Arcane, although it is starting to slip away from me, because I have perhaps strangled the life from it) brings with it the biggest fan project I've ever worked on.

I don't really know what I'm trying to say at this point. I guess the main thing is... I don't know when I'll get back to writing RE8 stuff. I also don't know when (read: if) my mental health will start curving back towards the ideal range, especially because so much is shifting in my overall life right now.

Trust me when I say that I REALLY, REALLY want to keep writing stuff, and that I honestly hate my lack of writing activity. I get it, I know why I'm having trouble getting anything done, but it does suck. And, well, there's not much I can do about that right now. Not directly, at least. Gotta help my family, gotta get my head right, gotta keep taking steps to ensure I can support myself.

Lastly, I just want to reiterate the fact that I think this message is a really sweet, respectful way to check in with me about my stories. I've been writing fanfic for around a decade now (not that my first ones were any good, obvs, and this blog hasn't been around for most of that time), and I've gotten tons of comments that are just "write more of this" or "when are you going to update?!?". Those, ya know, don't really motivate me. But this is polite, it expresses gratitude, and I really appreciate that.

TLDR: Yes, I will write more RE8 content. No, I don't know when. Sometimes life is a fist fight in a Denny's parking lot, but at least I've got people who will buy me a snowcone as condolences for when I get my ass kicked :D

Sincerely, -Jordan Van Daalen*

#*not my legal name #j says things #update #asks #anonymous #ask hall of fame

[fencesandfrogs]

I know you didn't actually ask so feel free to ignore but I follow you because it's like I am sitting on the floor colouring in and you are doing whatever you want to do and sometimes you tell me about your day. I don't often interact because I don't have anything helpful to say but I care about your life and am interested in your thoughts. We don't know each other that well, in fact you don't know me at all, but if you want to talk I will listen. That's it, I guess.

this ask was so nice and sweet to receive. i've been holding onto it for a bit. seriously, this is just. <3

fwiw, i recognize you from my notes. and you're always welcome to interact.

<3

#ask #fruitfortheferryman #mine #ask hall of fame #that's technically a mallowstep tag but y'know #seriously this ask was so #<333

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

don’t be shy turn on your boops-

LET ME BOOP YOU GOD DAMN IT

omg I woke up to like 5 asks about this and had no idea what anyone was talking about bc I refuse to update my tumblr app lmao

BUT I HAVE NOW TURNED ON THE BOOPS !!!

#ask #the hellsite answers #hellsite hall of fame curator’s bullshit #hellsite hall of fame curators bullshit

[dear-ao3]

10:22am, november 11, 2023. katya knocks on my bedroom door to show me this ask that has appeared in our ask box.

i do not think that this is real. but, i am absolutely dying of laughter.

#saving that for the ask hall of fame #not a tag #from saph #f1 #mclaren #be careful girlies #hey anon who sent this if this is real #please have oscar and lando read the delaware post for social media content

[shiftythrifting]

#uncle blasp #manscaped #I swear we're not getting ball money #thank you andre #the night terror you didn't know you needed #shitposting #the crossover nobody asked for #hall of fame

[graegrape]

hm

#ghost trick #lynne #cabanela #gt #my art #sort of . this is just a silly i wanted 2 post since i have nothing better to do with it #btw someone asked me so i personally hc him as bi. Love wins #hall of fame

[lavendorii]

long-term nuclear waste warning messages/subnautica

#txt #i literally need to be pretentious about this game it's one of my all time favorites #i dont even think anyone cares. but i do!!!! so ^_^ #subnautica #subnautica spoilers #crabsquid #sea emperor leviathan #warper #sea dragon leviathan #sea emperor #sea dragon #long term nuclear waste warning messages #this place is not a place of honor #ryley robinson #planet 4546B #infection #hand veins #ask to tag #faust don't look #lavendorii hall of fame

[hellsite-detective]

Could you please tell the story of how you and Madame Curator got together? I love those kinds of stories!

ah! a wonderful story that i love telling!

see, me and Madame Curator met on tumblr! no surprise there. i was just going about my day when suddenly i started getting all of my queerplatonic yearning posts on my main blog spam liked. i looked to see who was doing it and noticed she was also reblogging a lot of them. i went to the blog she was reblogging them to and noticed her pinned post was all about wanting a qpr, and she specifically wanted the exact same things i wanted!

so, because i’m socially awkward and don’t know how to just message people, i opened my ask box on my main blog. and by some miracle she sent an ask in! specifically saying that she hopes im able to find a queerplatonic relationship one day. after that, i messaged her and was like “heeyyyy so you seem super cool!! we should talk moooore” and then we did talk more! and like… two weeks of constant messaging later, i messaged her and was like “hey so i kinda maybe possibly want to be in a qpr with you!” but in a super vague way. she said she wasn’t interested and we went about our conversations like normal

the next day! she messaged me being like “okay actually remember when you asked me out? well i think we should revisit that because i maayyybe realized i like you too.” then a couple days later we had a detailed discussion about what we would both want out of a queerplatonic relationship and setting boundaries and then we just ended up together!!

i’ve never believed in “soulmates” (i’m too aroace for that) but after everything that’s happened with her… i’ve started believing it. she’s just amazing and i’m so glad that i met her!

#i didn’t even know she was tumblr famous when we first met #so i was so shocked when i found that out omg #hello madame curator i love you! #yes the cynical hard-boiled detective is in loooove #ask #hellsite hall of fame #queerplatonic #qpr #hellsite detective #not a post case #the detective responds

[mallowstep]

1/3 hi! um this is like a whole story but basically I was a huge fan of ur work for abt half a yr before I checked out ur tumblr and after like 2 months of that I came across ur proship posts. My first reaction was like not great. But then I sat with it for a while and I really thought about it for like a few months and I was like huh wow yk I actually really like this point of view. Anyways, after that, I tried to explore what proship actually was more starting with the reblogs and your posts

2/3 on here and then going from there. And it just made me feel so good. Like, there was no more tireless searching for every single possibly problematic thing in the media I consumed or making sure it wasn’t cringe, I kind of just did what I wanted. And I kind of ended up adopting that mentality in my everyday life and my depression has gotten so much better. Like in the end, is it really worth it if some random person on the internet thinks I’m problematic for reading warrior cats. Anyways

3/3 I just wanted to thank you because I never would have changed my mindset and fixed my mental health if it wasn’t for your blog and your clear explanations.

normally i would wait until the morning for this, but...i really wanted to get to it tonight. sigh. this as nothing to do with my inability to sleep at normal hours, no.

i appreciate you sticking around to find out what i'm about! (fwiw, i don't consider myself proship. i tend not to agree with self-described antis, but i've also met plenty an anti who doesn't...conflict with any of my viewpoints? they're...just someone who agrees with me? so.) seriously, i appreciate that a lot.

i think my blog is more a snapshot of what fandom was like back when i started on the internet, which was...well, fandom-wise, was around 2012? oh, the math i struggle thru for y'all. anyway. back then, my opinions were normal, if not leaning conservative. so it's...just really goddamn weird for me to find out my opinion is actually super controversial and heavily debated. i know i tell this story every time, but there was that post about asking if ships were okay and what you ship is between you and god.

but...yeah, that's what i'm all about. i'm about having fun. like...i legitimately worry about most self-described antis. it legitimately reminds me of the way i behaved when i was a bundle of anxiety and trauma responses. it's...not good. there are times when i have had to close a tumblr tab not because someone said something aggressive or anything, but just because...seeing someone question themselves like that was incredibly upsetting.

so i'm really happy you got out of that mindset, because i just...i don't know, it's not healthy behavior. i worked so hard to overcome it, i still work hard to overcome it, and it is fucking...terrifying to me that a community exists that validates people and encourages them to stay in that mindset and get worse. i've said i'm not here to change minds, and i'm not. i think that would destroy me. i've worked so hard to understand that i am not responsible for what other people do with my words. that i am not responsible for any harm that could happen. i don't think letting myself get into discourse beyond the level i'm currently at would be good for me.

but still, that doesn't mean i can't get happy when i did help someone.

so yeah, yeah i'm really happy for you. i hope...god. i don't do this to change minds and i don't think telling people directly that they should change or bad mental health is good. but. i hope people find peace. and i don't think that's...

urgh, okay. i have...learned that there are unanswerable questions. i used to think that all questions had answers. but. your anxiety is insatiable. there will always be something problematic to worry about. the only way to escape is to decide you aren't going to try. (that's some loosely repeated OCD therapy things. there's way more to this but it's late.)

so i'm really, truly glad i helped you. as someone with serious mental health problems that are reflected in how i engage with media...i get it. i get it fully. and i'm really happy things got better for you.

y'know i'm not here to change anyone's mind. i'm just a guy. i'm just a dude, who posts about warrior cats and sometimes rages at the world. but.

idk, i don't go out and expect to change anyone, but if anyone is changed by me, that feels good? and i do...i want people to find peace. i want people to not be wound up tight with insatiable anxiety. i want people to get to have fun and enjoy things.

(ending note:

"cringe" and "problematic" really stop mattering when you have a Cringe and Problematic Disorder. like. idk i have experienced a lot of harm. that's not a secret. i have experienced a lot of different kinds of pain. if you want to tell me that warrior cats is problematic, that i shouldn't engage with something that lets me understand my own goddamn life, or that sharing the way i do that and having people support me, when saying it directly is either something i can't do or something that leaves people speechless, fuck, go for it.

but i'm not going to listen. i have bigger problems. if i was gonna cringe about something, it'd probably be about a younger part talking to people, only i'm not even going to cringe about that. if i was concerned about something problematic about me, it'd probably be the fact that i got in a fist fight with myself, only that's...well okay, it's something i'm working on. but it's not something the internet gets to judge me for.

so like. yeah. idk. the past...six months? have really reframed a lot of things for me. i have really, really, really just stopped fucking caring.)

<3

#ask #anon #mine #shipcourse #ask hall of fame

[sexygaywizard]

My gender is nothing exciting; I’d just describe it as “woman, but slightly to the left”.

All women should be to the left, comrade! Proletarii vsekh stran, soyedinyaytes!

#no longer accepting gender asks #i answer #tell me about your gender #hall of fame

[whump-queen]

hears you whump anons and SLAPS that fucking follow button bc thats some neat shit

you have great taste, love 😘

I use the tag #tormenting my anons for those asks!

there’s also a whole lot more anon whump on my sideblog @akia-afterhours

<3333

#if you send something just sign off w an emoji so I can keep track of y’all <33 #I still have a bunch of asks i’m hoarding and need to answer aaa #akias asks #answered asks #tormenting my anons #yes this isn’t me tormenting anyone but it’s being discussed so it gets the tag. #ask hall of fame