#but im doing my best

[stevebabey]

𝔣𝔬𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔯 𝔠𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔟𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 ! - this celebration is closed!

hello my beloveds, i recently hit a bonkers milestone so ofc, i would love to celebrate with u all !! whether you’re new here or a long time follower, i’m so v glad to have u here in my corner of the internet :’) mucho thank u’s and too many mwah’s to count, just know i’m giving u all a big sloppy kiss <3

now, without further ado, i humbly invite you along for 6 days (from the 16th - 22nd of jan) of ruby’s very own tour of hawkins, indiana :)

you’re new in town, you say? hmm, you might like to head to STARCOURT MALL; it’s best and brightest in the town! seriously, it’s filled w some very fancy stuff, there’s something for everyone, believe me

alongside a🍦emoji, send in your favourite fics, favourite authors, really anyone you want to shout out and think deserves sum appreciation ! this is just to spread some love :’) and hey, if u send ur own fic on anon, i ain’t gone be none the wiser hehe

or maybeee, you’re more of a hopeless romantic like me and would prefer a trip to LOVER’S LAKE: whether for first time dates or late night make-outs — looking at you, harrington 👀 — all good romance blooms lakeside

alongside a ❤️‍🔥 emoji, send in some blurb requests! [one] [two] [three] [four] [five] <- these are some prompt lists but they’re not required :) remember to tell me what list u got ur prompt from!

okay, neither of those pique your interest? well, FAMILY VIDEO is great for curing boredom! and the staff are easy on the eyes as well, which totally helps

alongside a 📽 emoji, send in thoughts and concepts hehehe - any genre, any length. you can even go behind the beaded curtain to the 18+ stuff if u want (sfw or nsfw allowed)

oh, there’s also the RADIO SHACK, though it’s a bit run down. probably only go in there if you’re a mutual i reckon, just to be safe

mutuals, send in a 🎧 and i’ll assign u a song from my music + some lovely words from me

oh dude, i forgot to say! i got us invited to a legendary STEVE HARRINGTON PARTY🕺🏻we’re gonna play all the classic party games it’s gonna be totally tubular

you guys know these ones :D fmk, this or that, cast your mutuals, any ask game ur pretty lil head can come up with + if you’d like, tell me what 80s song you love the most and wish would play at parties (i’m always lookin for more hehe)

i sincerely hope you enjoy your stay in hawkins! MWAH, ruby x

(some do’s and don’t’s for requests are below the read more if you’re on the fence about an idea !)

i’m pretty vanilla in all senses: no non-con/dubcon, no pregnancy, no hard kinks, no x reader for anyone besides steve, no steddie x reader, that’s about it :)

as this is a follower celebration, it is intended to be for followers of the blog <3 i ask that if you’d like me to put the time & effort into writing something for u, mayhaps u shud follow if you don’t already :D idk i’m not a cop and technically nothin bad will happen if u don’t but u shouldn’t :) ok

if i don’t respond to your ask, i’m probably working away at it but also hey, it just might not scratch my brain. i’ll do my best to get them all written but absolutely no promises.

tagging sum mutuals <3

@hawkinsindiana​ @spideystevie​ @harringtonbf​ @familyvideostevie​ @sanguineterrain​ @katsu28​ @stvharrngton​ @sunshinesteviee​ @plainemmanem​ @teenbiology​ @stevestummy​ @augustslippedavvay​ @husbandharrington​ @joellkeeny​ @keeryshouse​ @sparklingsin​​

#DIS STARTS TONITE BTW!!! #i haven't done one of these since i hit 1.2k in fuckin 2017 or smth #dear god i know i have forgotten something #but im doing my best #and hoping this will suffice #follower celebration 2023 #that's gonna be the tag for this me thinks #MMMM I AM NERVOUS #this will be the next challenge for me #ruby.txt

[anime-scarves]

I've been tracking my calories since the new year and it's been very eye opening. I'm a little overweight and have been for a lot of my life so this is overdue. The good news is that it has been going very well. My issue with weight was that I 1) binge eat snacks 2) eat portions that are too large.

Thankfully I already cook regularly and typically eat healthy foods, just too much of them. On an average day when I don't have snack foods around it is simple to stay under the target calorie goal and sometimes I'm even like wait I need to eat more. But when there are snacks involved... they end up becoming a meals worth of calories and that throws everything off. But I'm getting better at it and any snacks I buy now are lasting a lot longer. I don't want to stop eating them, just build good habits about enjoying smaller portions of them.

I probably should have weighed myself before hand to keep track of progress but I didn't lol. There has definitely been a decrease in how hungry I feel and I get full with smaller portions. Pretty happy about that because it means that I'm adjusting to correct amounts of food instead of just shoveling more down my maw. Also vegetables have literally no caloric density. I think I could eat infinite vegetables and not even get close to my daily goals.

#text #this is brought to you by the cauliflower gang #one whole head is like no calories #but 100s of % of your vitamin C requirements #its tough out here #but im doing my best

[velv3tdream]

6 years ago I would have celebrated the new year out of my face on drugs. This year I’m alive, healthy and sober from hard drugs. It’s not been an easy ride, and I struggle with my mental health on a daily basis, but I’m still here and I’m proud of how far I’ve come.

#personal #every day is a struggle #but im doing my best #if I can do it you can too #soberiety #clean and sober #it gets better

[actualsunflower]

:3

#im having lag troubles with my tablet which is preventing me from getting anything good done #but im doing my best #lucky it is my friday today so i will have time to try to fix issue #sunflower's art #jay evarhart-valentine #am i even still allowed to tag stuff as fallout oc when it's the furry version. or is the fandom uppity about that

[femme-malewife]

How do I let someone know that their fic has actually helped me feel like I can probably come to term with my religious trauma without actually trauma dumping them?

Asking for a friend.

#i know im till trying to face it but #whenever i read/reread it #that fic specifically #i feel like its possible for me to face the religious trauma ive been through #even if its only a bit #for those who dont know... #which is pretty much everyone except like 3 people #and im only saying this here because i dont think anyone reads my tags #but #i was born and raised in a cult #it took over 20 years to realize this #im trying to unteach myself all of the indoctrination #its not easy #but im doing my best #i still get severe anxiety attacks when i think abt what i am #sometimes it can dissolve into a full scale panic attack #there isnt a day that goes by that i dont think about it #some ships remind me too much of the cult. its why i cant stand the Mischief Guy x Innocent Girl trope #im not gonna dive too much into detail but lets just leave that at that okay? #its a big reason i dont like hetlip ships #it genuinely reminds me of darker times. more isolated times. times where i felt as though im nothing more than a puppet #for the damn congregation to string along #where i have no control of my life #so while i do respect people who ship those tropes. i make sure the words are hidden. #anyway thats not what this is about. at all. i got off topic. #idk im not feeling all that great rn mentally. might reread that fic again to try to help

[vivi-ships]

Hi, idk how to explain this in a way that properly expresses how much I'm feeling on the inside right now but I haven't been able to play my violin in like 5 years and I just started crying because I played twinkle little star all the way through

#violin #ive been having an incredibly unpleasant time #but im doing my best #vi's thoughts

[skellydun]

why is it when people ask me what i want as a gift i immediately become someone who enjoys nothing at all and has never wanted anything a day in their life.

#my birthday is a month away and my best friend and i #will be on our vacation in a treehouse and so she's trying to make it a Day and wants to have gifts there and im like uh #who am i ? #what do i like? #28 on the 09/18 baby

[pocket-dragon]

Durge murder aura detected

#Dusk is a smol bean and all i do is put them in situations #these two share a warriors bond #baldur's gate 3 #BG3 #baldurs gate 3 #lae'zel #tav #Durge #the dark urge #resist durge #they are trying their best #dusk #dnd #comic #u can actually read more about them on AO3 #im pintsizeddragon #which is to say you can read karlach/druge fics on my ao3

[leamiche]

everyone look at my seal rolls

#im so enthralled with them. this is the best moment of my life #seal #bread #how do i tag these. idk #my baking

[borealiszero]

People should make more doomed by narratives siblings relationship.

Like with lovers you can just sever it and not have it related to you ever again but with siblings how could you?

You grow up with them you raise them or they raised you you both know how unforgiving the world is to both of you? You would die for them but will hate them for doing the same and yet none of you would regret it and both of you know it. They could be the person you loath the most and miss the most cause you still remember how they sneaked a candy into your hands. You can sever the tie but you can never look away at what you've lost, at whom you've lost because fate doesn't allow you to be together, eating dinners in quiet peace, if only there's another life, another time, where i can make you another plate of pancakes i would im sorry im sorry im sorry —

#[borealis.txt] #sorry um. got feels again #just. aughhhhhhhhh #like genyas and sanemis relationship and the brothers in sctir #theyre so fuckin tragic cause god. aaaaaaaaaaaaa #'because my nemi is the best brother' WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME!!!!!! #edit: alright you guys can rb this again cause im feeling charitable

[weirdcat1213]

my mind is on its law straws cuz im going through Scary Situation but the underpaid little guy in my brain pokes me with a stick every now and then to remind me theres new ao no exprcist coming in a few weeks

#HEAD ISNT EMPTY #BUT IM DOING MY BEST

[sillypilled-friendcel]

new mutual i just realized prolly has a homestuck pfp but i am pretending otherwise for my own sanity becuz they seem cool

#im doing better abt that lately #it doesnt bother me as bad as it used to #maybe a sign im healing? #idk #idk if ill ever heal from what she put me thru #but im doing my best #and i think thats good

[catmanbowser]

Please draw leather jacket discowing more I beg of you he is so pretty!!!!! Also maybe leather jacket Cass but ahhh your art???? It's soo goodddd!!!

THANK YOU TEEHEE <3<3

Idk if you’ll see this anon bcs this is an old ask but here you go </3

#cb answers #catman's art #dick grayson #cassandra cain #nightwing #batgirl #dc #i remmebr i have tumblr asks of course i do [lying] #im not good at drawing leather stuff..sorry…tried my best….

[gayanimebitches]

saying fuck u transitions for this edit bc they all look ugly and do NOT fit the vibe

#other #im struggling so much w the text vs clip lineup #bc this song does not have vocals aligned w the beat consistently #but im doing my best #!!!!!!! #it is almost done i just need to fine tune

[goldenjuniper]

hot drinks 🐱☕️ (alternate version under read more!!)

horror sans belongs to sour-apple-studios!!!

#drawing this prompt with horror was SO FUN i looove how it turned out!!!! #couldnt decide on which version i liked so i kept both of them HAHAHAH #im a little behind on the badsansuary thing but im gonna do my best to keep up HEHE #june art #horror sans #undertale #undertale au #utmv #described #id in alt #bad sanses #badsansuary

[softinvasions]

DIRECTOR'S NOTE • Nov. 2023

You can't go home. This play has a particular care for and interest in its victims. The resident

inciting event is endless. tragedy is much more concerned with footnotes than it is with gods.

well acquainted with what happens afterward, storytellers claim they can't diverge from what's

written: resist. rage against what must be. tell a story about war without talking

about love. survive its aftermath. fail to find resolution. make this suffering

a home. There's no breaking this chain— fate, as always, gets its way.

Poetry assembled from the program of an Oresteia production. Nov. 2023.

#p #analog #oscillating wildly between liking and hating this but you have to get the gunk out to get going again #the last line...the rest of the poem has to be REALLY solid for it to work and im. not sure it is. but its here lol #bad 'scan' quality too but i am too impatient to wait to get to a real scanner #what i do like about this one is the enjambment #i think its some of my best