#furiously happy

[hedgehogreads]

The phrase “Rest in peace” seems incredibly self-serving. It basically means “Stay in your grave. Don’t haunt me.” The opposite would be”Fitfully toss” or “Go jogging.”

 - Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy

#Furiously Happy #Jenny Lawson #death #humour

[tillietangerine]

Review: Furiously Happy (Jenny Lawson)

If I were stranded on a desert island and could only bring one item, it would be Furiously Happy by Jenny lawson. If I were the last human being alive in a rapidly imploding universe, it would be okay as long as I had Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson. Whenever I break down crying because the crushing weight of being alive gets me down, I pick up Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson.  The first time I…

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#100 Books for 2023 #book review #reading #Furiously Happy #Jenny Lawson #best books #mental illness

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January JOMP Day 19: So Friggen’ Funny

#jompbpc #justonemorepage #furiously happy #jenny lawson

[qosic]

I put all my 愛 for the game into this one, to everyone who has beared my shouting about this modern classic for the last 4 years, I thank you!!!

Commissioned by Greg Chun (eng voice of Kaname Date) He will be doing a signing session at a later date where you can get this as a print, go follow him for more info on that!

#ai the somnium files #aitsf #ai the somnium files nirvana initiative #art #qosicart #kaname date #iris sagan #mizuki okiura #aiba #PHUeuuuwwwwwwwwwwww this took a lot out of me #Hey can you draw this one character? oops suddenly ENTIRE cast #not only that the colours got me really mental locked if ya catch my drift #bless greg for being my second VA commission ever but also the best one I might ever get #Happy AI anniversary soon too (It's in september) #It's funny because as this game was being promoted via the leminiscate youtube ARGs I thought it looked so dumb #but then I played VLR and ZTD and they blew me away so furiously that I was like “I MUST PLAY ANYTHING THAT UCHIKOSHI TOUCHES” #and you should too if you like mind bending mystery pseudo science thrillers!

[illiteratelit]

Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson ★★★★☆    (4/5)

This book was recommended to me, Eddie, by one of my fellow bookblr co-runners - Alys! I very much enjoyed this book, and after a run of bad stories it was a breath of fresh air to laugh at a book (for the right reasons..!). Jenny talks us through tales taken from her life where she has had to deal with her own mental health issues, both in an enjoyable and a serious manner.

I’m not usually the one to go for a first person, autobiography type book, and yet I found it a very humorous bit of writing. Usually I prefer fiction to autobiographies, but the way the story was told was far more fun and non-chronological than most. Jenny’s writing style came across really well, and it almost felt as though I was listening to an audiobook as I read the pages. Reading this book didn’t take me very long, as it was gripping and written in succinct enough chapters to keep me rolling onto the next.

The one thing I found myself negatively thinking, perhaps as someone who deals with mental health myself, is that at times I felt her character (or retelling of her character) seemed a slight hyperbole, as if some of the feelings or conversations were almost edited or exaggerated. Obviously this may just be me being slightly envious as to someone who can have a more positive outlook on their own mental health and make light of the situation more often than I do, but there were some times where I would roll my eyes at something written.

But that was the only gripe I could find with the whole book. I found myself laughing out loud, turning to the people I was sat next to to read parts of the book out loud, sharing a laugh together, or photographing relatable scenes to send to my sister. It was very worthy of the four stars I gave it, and I will be looking out for other books that Jenny has (or will) write!

#books #book review #bookblr #book #mod eddie #review #reading #furiously happy #jenny lawson

[demi-pixellated]

Thought Experiment: Tail

#Inuyasha: A Feudal Fairy Tale #Inuyasha #Kagome Higurashi #Shippo #Miroku #Sango #Kilala #Fanart #MSPaint Draw #if inuyasha had a tail his tough guy act would instantly dissolve in the wind because it'd be wagging All The Time #like 'has to tie it around his waist like a belt to not constantly telegraph how happy he is to be around friends' amount of wagging #anytime he's bullying shippo you just look at his tail swishing furiously and you realize 'oh... he's playing!"

[nemurian]

@bigboobyhalo Your sacrifices have been accepted by the great Dapper. I'm so sorry but I don't think you'll be getting them back anytime soon. Or ever.

#nemart #qsmp #qsmp fanart #qsmp eggs #personal hc that bc the eggs are dragons they Love hoarding things #it differs with the egg #But Dappers pride-of-place in his little hoard are the plushies that Bad made him of 'their family.' #Bad's sitting in an armchair trying to crochet normally and Dapper is crouched beside him like a gargoyle watching him unblinkingly like 0- #Bad only realises the downside of how much Dapper loves them when Skeppy finally meets Dapper in person and Dapper reacts like that dog- #-who saw someone dressed up as his favourite toy and just went ballistic with happiness #-Like Dapper is Smart and he Knows that oh this is my other dad #this does not stop him from going ???? HUH ?????? PLUSHIE GOT BIG ?????? And attempting to add an increasingly confused Skeppy to the hoard #However the Real problems arise when he meets Junior who not only looks just like his plushie but is also Small and Shiny. #Skeppy can simply Walk Away when Dapper is trying furiously to get him to stay still #Junior Cannot. #Badboyhalo voice Where is my baby #Dapper (who knows perfectly well that Junior is currently going ???? is a veritable mountain of blankets) 'Oh he's missing? That's crazy.' #Anyway once again I am unable to resist writing a whole damn essay in the tags #Neon i Very much hope you like the drawing I cannot get your plushies out of my head they are so cute <3333

[faislittlewhiteraven]

Undertale/ISaT crossover thoughts 2

Been thinking more about this despite trying to vent out all my thoughts in this previous post and now I have something of a plot I figured I'd share (in case anyone else would like a stab at it/some ideas for their own Undertale/ISaT crossover fanworks).

Story opens with a time looping Chara in the void hitting their breaking point. The wish for freedom from generations of monsters + their own alternating wishes to free their family and hurt the humans who hurt them equals a loop that begins with their incredibly painful death to buttercup induced internal blistering, and ends whenever Asriel (post absorbing Chara's soul) is killed or they 'fail to punish' Chara's human family and well. Chara doesn't know the rules so the two have them have been looping so long that now when they reach the village of humans by Mt Ebott, instead of the friendliness they were shown in early loops (before getting murdered by the official authorities who 'already have orders on how to treat monsters') the villagers now attack them on sight in terror (sobbing monster thing? Sadness!), and they keep dying over and over and over-

Basically full 'Start Again a prologue' vibes, and so Chara in full please just make it stop mode wishes to the Universe...

For everything that hurt them and monsters to be forgotten like a bad dream! (cue The Island, Sif and Chara's homeland, as well as certain nasty individuals like Chara's human 'family' being erased from memory)

For someone kinder, stronger, and untainted by hate to 'be the angel' to free the monsters in their place.

To feed the golden flower seeds stuck in Azzy's fur with their corpse.

To atone in any way for all the pain they've caused.

(To one day be able to sit and stargaze on top of Mt Ebott together with those they love, just like they promised Asriel they'd be able to do)

Cue time skip to after the end of Undertale and Flowey's 'please don't reset and ruin their happy ending' speech, to show Chara's ghost flopping on top of their flowerbed grave wondering how long they'll be able to last before they give in and ruin Frisk's happy ending once more (with heavy implication that Chara is once more stuck in a time loop with no idea how to get out).

Then a cut to Toriel and Frisk making their way down Mt Ebott and spying a shooting star, Toriel remembering her religion (goodness, how could she have forgotten the Universe?) and praying/wishing to the Universe to 'have one of its stars watch over her fallen children, and give them the happiness she could not'. Cue Chara being shocked out of their non existent skin by a person with the head of a star crashing down right through them onto their grave out of seemingly nowhere.

(Aka, Plot line 1: Chara is trapped in time loop hell and Loop has been sent to help them and possibly Flowey? out of it. ... That's literally all I've got for them right now because I have NO idea how to actually have them interact XD)

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Next section of story cuts over to the northern coast line of Vauguard: Sif and family (including Nille) are on their way back to Bambooche after their most recent travels when basically the world explodes into colours, Sif suddenly remembers a LOT more than they used to and they can all now see the large landmass to the north.

Much eye boggling, confusion, wonder and tears are had before everyone kind of parties and passes out but next day, things are being taken much more seriously:

Why is Sif's forgotten homeland, the Isle of Chara, suddenly back? Why are colours? How is this going to effect all of Vauguard (the fashion industry alone..)? And... What happened to the people of the island? Are they ok or..? And how will the rest of the world react to them being the epicenter of so much very unexpected change?

Cue brief discussion on whether or not to go (mostly just double checking with Sif if he's actually up for it despite the many potential horrors they could find there that are sure to be extra traumatising to them in particular), the group checking in with the House in Bambooche to have word sent to the rest of Vauguard (and hopefully the world at large) that the Saviors of Vauguard are on the case, and well. They could catch a boat or they could try walking along that MASSIVE steel and concrete bridge with its weird black road stretching out over the ocean (which was apparently there the entire time and ok, now everyone is getting really freaked out because it seems there was a fair bit more forgotten than 'just' the Island and the Stars. What else did everyone have stolen from their heads?).

(Aka, Plot line 2: The Saviors of Vauguard heading for The Island, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst, and also the plot line I've done by far the most work on, to the point that it probably needs it's own post)

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And last section, Frisk leads their monster friends down Mt Ebott back to 'the village of the humans' they came from and the monsters are stunned by the sight of... Well, wailing and sobbing adults who barely give the monsters a second glance, curious and 'just as silent as Frisk' children who smile and wave, and an old man Frisk introduces as 'Elder' who despite being very wobbly and also in tears, does his best to greet the monsters, thanks them for returning Frisk and very politely asks if Asgore is their king and here to kill them all as the stars foretold.

Cue a bit of awkward 'Um. Yes and no?' with a request to open talks with the 'leaders of humankind' only for the old man to laugh and cry as he explains that he's the closest thing this settlement's had to a leader for years now by virtue of being one of the few adults here with enough presence of mind to actually function through The Forgetting (he thanks his younger years of being an avid traveller) and that since the monsters breaking the Barrier seems to have made The Forgetting stop and they seem to have some form of government then honestly, they're the ones in charge now since stars know there's probably not much left of the Island's government still remaining all this time, and it's doubtful the people of other countries even remember they exist.

Cue everyone other than Frisk who knew all this being very surprised (Frisk's follow up 'explainations' don't really help a lot since The Forgetting is all they've ever known, and Toriel is so messed up when she realises Frisk and a good number of other kids literally can't talk or read without 'Communication Craft' due to the memory wipe effects they suffered under while growing up) and well. Monster kind move out of Mt Ebott at a breakneck pace while Toriel, Asgore, Alphys and everyone frantically try to get everyone settled, help all the very damaged Islanders into as much stability as they can (some recover better than others but there's a lot of grief over lost family, missing people, etc going around and monsters end up stopping more than a few suicides), and get things organised enough they know everyone will be fine before they can move onto working out WTF happened here. Also in the process of all this they end up working out that some things (like who was in charge before The Forgetting) are still being 'auto deleted' from memory (though the effect is fading as time goes on) and also the Island's capital is a space warped nightmare filled with Sadnesses right now and probably everyone should avoid it.

Lots and lots of world building regarding what Monsters vs Sadnesses are, my headcanons for the Universe religion (going with the Monsters also traditionally being Universe worshippers and much talk is had on the differences between 'the old ways' Toriel and Asgore remember vs the traditions and beliefs of the Islanders), and... yeah.

(That's Plot line 3: Frisk leads the monsters to the one semi stable human adult they know of and the monsters realise that not only are they free to live on the Surface now but the local humans both see them as saviors and desperately need their help after going through something that arguably makes the Underground look wonderful in comparison.)

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Eventually I'm going to have to tie all three of these ideas together and I think I've got some ideas for Plot lines 2 and 3 such as:

Sif's family and/or Undyne bumping into each other catching all the trains to search for survivors across the Island

Mirabelle and to a lesser extent the whole party finding themselves the official Vauguardian ambassadors to the newly formed human/monster Island/Isle of Chara alliance who are very much in need of aid and more info about the rest of the world.

Papyrus and Frisk also being ambassadors, making all the friendships.

Sif realising 'the Elder' is their grandfather on their mother's side and trying to wrap their head around having any family around at all (and also trying not to think to hard about all the family still missing).

Isabeau and Odile uncovering just how much stuff countries outside the Island forgot (airports, train stations, cars, all that juicey science stuff).

The Saviors of Vauguard and various Undertale folks investigating the capital together (learning some of the less pleasant aspects of the Island's politics and culture while there including stuff about Sif's dad's side of the family and why the name Chara matter so much). But well. So far have NO CLUE how to get Chara, Loop and Flowey involved with the rest of the cast since well, they're reluctant to leave and no one else knows they're there. So. Yeah. That's what I have planned out mostly. Will list a bunch of stuff I've thought of regarding Sif's group going through the Island and their hometown (totally gonna bring up the 'Euphrasie Islander and possibly Sif's mom' theory in story but not actually confirm or deny it since well, Euphrasie is out of focus and most likely going through a major 'my memories have returned, how could I have forgotten-' breakdown her beloved Claude is going to have to help her through <3) but that's for another post and er. Yeah. Please feel free to share any feedback, ideas or thoughts you might have on this, and to take a stab writing/scribbling up some of this yourself as well as I think it cold be a lot of fun and I'd LOVE the help XD

#undertale #in stars and time #fais fanfic rambles #isat #isat act 6 spoilers #undertale spoilers #isat spoilers #ut #cw suicide mention #undertale isat fusion fic #post game #fanfiction #Chara and Loop have so much trauma to rant furiously together about but IDK how to even start #Flowey I think remembers SOME stuff looping with Chara during their fusion but they only got those memories back post Undertale #heavy focus on the forgotten island #and all the stuff that may have been forgotten all over the world (in both settings) along with it #...Now wondering if I could play up Dr Gaster vanishing as being partly due to the Forgetting as well #(I feel real guilty making Chara 'responsible' for causing so much damage they'll no doubt will feel horrific guilt over) #(hopefully ensuring the 'win condition' for the story's end requires them getting a happy resolution makes up for that a little) #no clue how to start it but yes frisk and Sif looper friendship is mandatory and I WILL make it happen. Somehow

[jellibuns]

WIP Wednesday

Thank you @kiwiana-writes and @piratefalls for the tag!!

I've been a bit distracted with irl figure skating (Worlds was WILD woo boy) but now I'm back to writing about my fictional figure skating boys!! Inspired by Alex's birthday today, here's a snippet from a later chapter (I swear there's more to this fic than direct parallels to the book haha)

Alex steps through the door of the hotel room and instead of the expected sensation of Henry’s lips immediately on his, the room is dark, the only source of light coming from a small candle atop a slice of strawberry shortcake. Henry stands in the center of the room, giving Alex a soft smile. “I know it's probably not in your approved diet, but I thought a birthday would be as good an excuse as any to break it.” Alex is struck speechless. Henry's hair is still damp, seemly freshly showered, wearing nothing but an old pair of sweats that barely cling to his hips. Alex has been looking for those, but he can't bring himself to be mad, he’s never seen anyone more beautiful. “You may want to make your wish darling, the candle is starting to melt.” Alex manages to shake himself out of the trance long enough to close the distance between them and quickly plunge the room into darkness with a quick puff. “Happy?” “Depends on what you wished for.” “Baby.” Alex chuckles, he can hear Henry’s shuttered exhale at the nickname, it never gets old. “I didn’t need to wish for anything, you’re already here.”

a few no-pressure tags @three-drink-amy @cha-melodius @indestructibleheart @wordsofhoneydew @firenati0n and anyone else!! please tag me, I'm in desperate need for more fic friends to follow!

#happy birthday best boy!!! #alright back to furiously editing chapter 1 lmao #red white and royal blue #firstprince #henry fox mountchristen windsor #alex claremont diaz #rwrb #wip wednesday #fic: his golden complexion (dimm'd) #rwrb fic #red white and royal blue fic

[sighonaraa]

everyone duck i'm experiencing mcu emotions again (finally watched loki s2 and uh. Did Not Enjoy It!)

#finally...........my last straw #me when my Blorbo gets put into a situation that shrimply. doesn't fit them. doesn't fit their character. doesn't make me happy- #get him outta there! GET HIM OUUUUT!!! #furiously writing the sequel to 'hear you calling from some lost and distant shore' RN #i'm so. [sobs] #anyways! i'll be fine! just gotta write another 10k of brotherly hugging and bonding! #sid speaks #loki #mcu

[impossible-rat-babies]

me grabbing eyrie and shaking them is it not enough to have gone through four ships by now. is it not enough for you funny man

#first thancred then g’raha and then zenos and now I’m still thinking about redacted #I can’t even mention and expansion or it’s gonna be so obvious #moots can stash this post in a folder and in two months I’m gonna be goofy pool #me furiously filing away things into AU’s before accepting at this point there just isn’t a canon #okay okay haurchefant doesn’t count bc I never really entertained beyond what the plot gave us #and with thancred it turned into a they had sex once or twice in ARR and it wasn’t ever a relationship #even though they did end up with a messy friendship in post HW + ShB of unresolved guilt #G’raha slipped into they worked better as friends tbh #Zenos is a can of worms of you get to au’s funny man #and I’ve been vibing a lot with the one where he dies and there’s a lot of complicated grief for eyrie #and the nebulous status of what they meant to each other #enemies or friends or kindered spirit or the hero and the villain aren’t so different #I am NOT SPEAKING redacted into the world #I’m gonna rotate it in my brain #owen talks #no consistent canon we create what brings joy in the moment #and look back at what we once created with the affection of something that once made us very happy

[hedgehogreads]

It was Halloween and I was spending what might be my last night alive in America chasing after a nine-year-old, sugar riddled zombie Red Riding Hood while my storm trooper husband hopped through the neighbourhood with us. At the last moment I’d surprised him by dressing up as Darth Vader so that when he was suited up I could jump out and scream, “Victor . . . I am your . . . boss!” He was not amused. I tried the death grip but he refused to lean backward in the invisible choke. It was probably because after I got Victor dressed in his twenty-seven-pieces outfit he found that he was unable to sit, lean, bend over, or even put on his own shoes without help. It’s really not that different from how most women feel after getting Spanxed up on date night, but as a man, he was utterly out of his element. He was like a knight, but wearing PVC and a unitard instead of a suit of armour. Honestly, if the rebels knew what I knew, they would have just pushed all the storm troopers over like dominoes, leaving them to awkwardly rock like turtles who’ve accidentally rolled over on their backs. I suspect the storm troopers’ wives (who obviously had to help them completely dress and undress every day) went into their marriages knowing that they were likely going to be young widows. It’s sad, but I’m betting the dark side had good life insurance plans. The dark side always seemed very organized and vaguely Republican.

 - Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy

#Furiously Happy #Jenny Lawson #star wars #halloween #costumes

[marklikely]

the lack of wilson family divorce is literally just homophobia because they were desperately trying to convince me that darryl is attracted to women

#they were like no hes attracted to his wife we swear this isnt a comphet marriage we totally promise. #and you won't convince me that easily!! #avpost #dndads #i want to be like tree in happy death day 2 when i see him. *waving hand furiously* YOU ARE GAYYYY

[akkivee]

I feel like Kuko talks at animals. Like he’s talking at a cat and Hitoya jokingly asks like ‘Oh what’s he saying?’ And Kuko just picks up the cat and says ‘He thinks your hair is ugly and you should shave it’

hitoya: he did not say that

kuukou: *holds cat up to hitoya’s face* bet 😈

cat: *paws at hitoya’s hair*

cat: *he actually wanted to play with it and kuukou is a liar*

hitoya:

#vee got an ask #goatbro13 #i’m furiously grinding at arb for kuukou’s 2nd card to get the rest of the story #but kuukou is definitely talking at the cat and the cat was talking back lmao #but kuukou recognised the cat was new to the temple and treated it to some fried tofu #and looked to be planning a catnap together 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 #he’s evolved card is considerably less wholesome tho lol but i’m happy he finds friendship in animals too lmao

[fission-mailure]

Super glad right now that I'm no longer friends with a particular person, since I can guarantee that in the wake of the Russell Brand allegations she would be desperately trying to come up with excuses for him and/or asserting that all of the women involved (who purportedly don't know each other) are lying. The moment she learned he had allegations of rape against him, he would've become her absolute favourite person.

Not even because she especially ever liked Russell Brand, just because she never failed to express her undying support for sexual or domestic abusers (at least so long as they were men). Like, this is also the person who steered unrelated conversations constantly towards rants in defense of Johnny Depp, and who sulked about how the MeToo movement was going to 'destroy the acting industry,' the number one way to shoot to the top of her estimations was to be credibly accused of violence against women.

#it actually remains amazing to me that i just lingered in that friendship for so long #because the moment i should have known to cut her off was when i realised that she got furiously angry and sulky at people #if they dared to not seem happy #because it 'made her feel bad' and because she felt it was taking attention away from her #and that was when i was like nineteen #i stayed friends with her for years and years after that even though i should've kicked her to the curb then #and spared myself her gaslighting and emotional abuse #and her abuse apologia and her eventual descent into transphobia and anti-vaxxery

[badolmen]

The true writeblr experience: spending hours and even days organizing and doubling checking that your pieces are correctly linked so that the nonexistent audience can read with ease.

#ra speaks #personal #writing #my main isn’t my writeblr don’t worry you didn’t miss me post something here #but o7 just finished spending four days correcting the links I’ve been using for the past month bc u can’t get permalinks on mobile anymore #tumblr is actively trying to make me use desktop and it’s working. I have a bijillion xkit extensions running to make I bearable #but I’m not happy about it >:/ #me. furiously linking over a hundred posts that cumulatively have like. 50 notes total: for the readers! <- no consistent readers to speakof #sorry if this is like depressing I’m not upset abt it it’s just. it’s not a waste of time bc /I/ want the links to be correct for myself #but also. literally no one but me will notice.