#i was remembering the moment my cousin

[duckuwu]

This is obviously a lil bit geared towards those who were alive and watching tv in the 90s, but youngins who've found their way into these shows, feel free to chime in. I was just thinking that most of us had a singular show that was OURS back then, even if we might've watched the others. Which one did you fandom the hardest / would you have fandomed the hardest?

#xena #the x files #btvs #farscape #stargate #star trek #poll #love that i forgot charmed but included sliders sorry witches #but also these definitely were the MAINS #except for the whole sliders and charmed thing smh me #not that anyone is going to check these tags at this point but: #this poll was meant to encompass that moment in time where we had these big fandomable shows AND the internet was just hitting public homes #this also wasnt meant to exclude fandom elders. i definitely remember my cousin and i watching The A Team and how he was so into it #it's just that like...these were the Mains at a specific point in time #and if y'all can't see / acknowledge that then this poll definitely wasn't meant for you #at some point during this point in time you watched at least ONE of these and it felt like home. that's what this poll is about

[coquelicoq]

god i had THE BEST TIME AT THE DENTIST TODAY and i feel completely unhinnnnngèd for saying that bc i never in a million years thought the dentist could be FUN but the hygienist was french and switched to french as soon as i mentioned that i had taken french and i understood almost everything he said to me and it felt so good!!! i never understand french!! things are paying off!!!! also i do super recommend this method of conversing in a language you are not super confident in, like it's not just a coincidence i had such a good time doing this at the dentist specifically, it was good precisely because there was very little pressure on me to talk and i could mostly just make yes/no/questioning noises and any time i wanted to say a sentence i could take my time with it because there were literally instruments in my mouth??? absolutely no pressure for me to say something just to say something it was heaven oh my god. i take back every joke i've ever made about dentist office conversational logistics. IDEAL MODE.

#i was smiling so wide it was interfering with his ability to clean my teeth lol. like okay bro now open your mouth in the OTHER direction #he was also just really funny like at one point we were talking about how i solve the nyt crossword #bc he found this very impressive and was like i'm going to tell everyone about this. except i will not use your name #because that would be a HIPAA violation #which was just the most hilarious thing he could possibly have said in that moment #also omg at one point we were discussing my job and i was trying to tell him it's largely customer service #but i couldn't remember and/or don't know how to say customer service in french so i asked him and he was like #euhhhhh...service (the french word service not the english word service)...and then trailed off and couldn't think of it either #okay maybe i'm easily amused today because i had bad insomnia last night but EITHER WAY i had a very good time #chez le dentiste which. je n'avais JAMAIS attendu qu'une telle chose m'arriverait !! #i must tell my cousin who wants to be a dentist all about this #my posts

[mountainashfae]

after 6 long months I have finally finished this painting of Cei..... Descent into Avernus has a very special place in my heart as one of the first modules I ever finished (combined with Dragon Heist) and perhaps the best character arc I've gotten to play.

I will forever love my 6 CHA Paladin who broke his Oath, who later took up the Sword of Zariel of his own volition to protect his loved ones and was changed irreversibly because of it.

Long live Cei Guin the Hellrazer!

#my art #dungeons and dragons #dnd #d&d #descent into avernus #cei guin #oc stuff #it's been so long since we played #that game finished in 2020 #he's just so special to me #I remember a lot of important moments #like his final moments before taking the sword #where he basically said “goodbye” to his cousin #since he knew he would be Changed #don't worry Llacheu #your asshole cousin has some good in him #shout out to the original 6 CHA divine caster with sun motifs and raptor wings

[letitflytoapril]

Meve my beloved

#i see a queen with a sword i fall in love #thats simple like that #queen meve #drawing is still rare and ugh painful may be too strong word but that's the best I have #but sometimes i still remember how much i love it and that was on of this moments #anyway #here is my wife's cousin

[confinesofmy]

me and my cousin i'm barely on speaking terms with (but in a relatively casual way) repotted her deceased grandmother's pothos today. this was our first time actually properly repotting it bc last summer it was in such a fragile state and we were so scared to hurt it that we just lifted it out of its pot and placed it in a bigger one but this go round we basically dismantled it entirely. we got eight discrete plants and placed it into four different pots!! in nine months it went from the edge of death to that many plants and like ninety leaves altogether. so if you're bad with plants but still wanna fool with them, i guess you should get a pothos.

#neither of us are corny enough to say it or interested in tearjerker moments but i think we both felt the presence of her grandmother HEAVY #this was the only potted plant of hers still living since she died back in 16 & it was. god. it was no longer variegated from lack of light #it actually had more leaves than i remembered. it had like 20. but for every leaf there were 4 places there should've been and wasn't. #water that touched the soil came back yellow which i've never researched to see what the cause is #but i associate it with like. bogs. and stagnation #like if it was still in that dark corner of my other cousin's living room it fr might be dead now #but in nine months thanks to my other cousin asking for help and thanks to us repotting it and taking our turns with it #it has more than quadrupled in size and is variegated af #i don't know what we'll do in like six months when it wants to do it again... #i'm keeping mine somewhat contained tbh i don't even like pothos i just love it bc it's a piece of my aunt #and it is like objectively so fucking sweet that we've rehabbed it like that #adam yaps #like two weeks ago i asked my other cousin if she'd want a pot of it when we repotted and she once again emphasised #that she didn't want it or any cuttings off it leaving the family or being handed out willy nilly #and i once again tried to explain that it's a pothos. it wants to be split up and thrown all over. #that's a pothos' favourite thing #plus her mom probably gave an ungodly amount of people cuttings off it like come on now #but anyway maybe she'll understand now when she sees and fully comprehends that in 9mos we turned half a plant into 4 #at this rate we'll either be giving bits away or throwing bits away. those are the options we will eventually face. #because you can't just repot infinitely. eventually your whole house will be one massive pothos in a hundred pots.

[prettyiwa]

It starts with the low call of the mourning doves.

The day is the coolest it will be and the shadows creep along the street as they run from the sun. It's always a distinct smell that lingers in the air, but one that can only be described as summer. Harkening back to the days of your youth, to long days spent doing nothing while complaining about the heat, to laughs shared with your friends while doing stupid shit, to tears shed because of sunburns and exhaustion.

Your body carries with it memories that you have since forgotten, memories that can return at the drop of a hat thanks to the specific combination of the sun on your skin and the call of the doves and the intro to that hit song from years ago. The particular sound of ice clinking against your cup or the feel of juice dripping down your chin after biting into a piece of your favorite fruit or the smell of chlorine or salt or dirt, mixing into a body of water that hits you just right.

It starts with the low call of the mourning doves, piercing your heart with stunning precision, knocking the breath from your lungs, even if just for a moment.

#there's this specific combination of sensations that just #take me back to when i was six with my cousin playing in front of his friend's house with trees that shaded the entire street #as the caw of a crow came moments before the call of the mourning dove #and another wherein i remember visiting my sister at the house where she grew up when i was four #the old stuffy feeling of the glass displays with porcelain dolls not meant for children and how everything was tinged blue #the call of my sister before she dragged me out of the house and into the sun (and man i've always hated the sun) #the scrape of my knees on the pavement as i tripped and the laugh of the best friend who she no longer talks to #the smell of the evergreen hedges that bordered the property offering nothing but home to spiders and lizards and the like #then falling asleep in the park as a teenager as i waited for my friend to come out; the feeling of safety that has since been torn from me #the grass prickled the skin of my arms and legs and the heat was unbearable but it was worth it and i would've done it time and again #and they're all so fucking visceral as though happening only yesterday #x:ix

[hella1975]

forever wishing sam fender would unrelease dead boys

#it’s like the moment I get a glimmer of hope for my hometown it reminds me of how awful it is #I feel like I’m screaming underwater at people like there’s something actually insidious about that town #and I’ve BEEN saying it and it keeps getting written off as youthful angst #bc of COURSE you hate your hometown! everyone hates their hometown! #but now I’m going to another funeral for a boy in my year and it’s another suicide and I don’t even know him #i havent seen him since primary school I have no right to be so upset by this #but I’m just trawling his ig bc he looks the same #he looks the exact same and he hung himself. he was twenty #and ofc he’s connected to my family bc everyone is in that fucking town hes like a v distant cousin #so we know the news first like so many of his friends are out having a nice night rn #and I’m here with this knowledge despite not knowing him. like tomorrow someone is going to find out their best mate killed himself #the police are literally still at his house and my mum is telling me she loves me because it’s ALWAYS the boys in my year group #like off the top of my head alone bc i KNOW it’s more ive already lost six boys in my year and I’m 20 #how many kids have to die before my hometown stops being such a shithole #sorry for the vent post i dont even know why this has gutted me so much #maybe bc the only memory i have of this boy is between the ages of 5-11 so I literally ONLY know him as a child #like he was so happy I can only remember him smiling and just. what went so wrong after that? he had spiky hair and gap teeth #and now I’ve been told that he hung himself and I just #god. i don’t even know anymore #I’ll never forgive that town #hella goes home

[andromedasummer]

hey if u live in christchurch or ashburton or rolleston or geraldine or anywhere in the area i love u okay take a breath

#nz #new zealand #just saw the news on the 6.0 i hope your properties are stable and safe and youre able to take a moment to yourself #i still remember feeling the 2011 quake back when i lived in invers. and the way ot affected my cousins and aunt and uncle. #you've all my love and support

[erythristicbones]

while i do love that i decided to write the EOTA trilogy w/ different POVs for each book, bc yea it's just the same 6 ppl working together regardless but it's important to see all of their POVs, it does also leave a lot unexplored for the previous POVs each time. like these things still happen and i DO get to explore them, its just different when it's no longer the POV

#this is namely me thinking about kirsens ptsd + depression and recovery #like book one puts her on the path to recovery and you get to see from her POV as she gets to that point #then she's still a hugely integral character in books 2 & 3 you just arent seeing her thoughts/POV #and her recovery is still taking steps forward AND back over those two books #which the reader will see bc obvs she's still a part of the main trio saving the world #its just. it does make me lowkey sad that the reader wont see her thoughts as she makes those steps #like I'LL know and i Could do short stories on some of the scenes in particular i know will be going on in the background #but its not quite the same for the reader #i dont think i'll ever consider changing my POV plans tho #bc each book has 2 POVs of ppl taking different paths to reach the same theme/moral #its as important to see jashe/novas and isaac/demis POVs as it is to see kirs/luces #its just a shame i wont have the time/ability to write each characters ENTIRE journey thru these morals/themes #lowkey tho i might start a kirsen short story tonight if this mood continues to plague me #i have Thoughts about kirsen. and also kind of myself bc boy howdy does she have a lot of me in her #and i want to explore at least two scenes in particular that happen in the few month interim between book 1 and 2 #ones that get mentioned/remembered by jashe but also i just really want to ACTUALLY write kirsens POV of those moments #its one thing to have jashe worrying over her cousin while theyre forced to save the world #its another to see kirsen having those struggles herself and trying to hide them or work thru them w luce

[perenlop]

sorry ik i said i was done with my wc rambling but wtf happened to ivypool. both in the books and in the fandom. originally she was this cool ass double agent with a compelling character arc with both positive and negative development that felt cruel yet natural and we all cheered when she broke out of the abusive situation she was in. now people just go “aw shes the girlboss to her malewife cousin </3″ and thats all the fancontent of her amounts to anymore bc incest is ok if theres one vaguely feminist line, and in the books she’s literally just a complete bitch to dovewing for finding happiness after being used for so long, to the point where she’s apparently putting whats basically an orphaned teenager in distress to stick it to her sister. like what the fuck happened man i hate the erins so much

#remember when wc fans were like ''oh my god do not give her a mate itll literally ruin her character if u do to her what u did #to every other female protag that didnt die or suffer horribly'' #andd were like ''hell yeah aroace ivy! lesbian ivy! we need one character that doesnt end up with a man PLEASE'' #and now ppl will apparently get angry if u suggest either of those bc ''oh my god let us have the boring male wife UWU'' #what annoys me abt that ship specifically is that they were acknowledged out loud tobe cousins #their direct relationship is called out multiple times before fern is born. its the entire point of omen of the stars #but uwu its ok if it fits my cookie cutter girl boss male wife ship dynamic i guess #granted there were some moments in oots where shes too harsh to dove and ppl held her as perfect when she wasnt #but i can forgive those moments bc shes a child being manipulated behind the scenes #in the new books its like. wtf is she even doing? #echoed voice #also not related to the post but still ivy related. most maps and songs associated with her are actually dove songs bye

[evkso]

the mortal urge to leave something behind

#humans I think are so special for their need to leave a sign: I existed #this was me at that moment in time will my future self remember me #all this is abt my cousins and I leaving little messages in a picture book <3

[fragileizywriting]

adrien probably sleeps with the tv on so he doesn’t feel lonely. whenever kitty isn’t around, that is. he probably gives her the biggest forehead smooches, like a looooser. if luka shows up and the three of them are napping on adrien’s bed, adrien is the middle spoon. always. safe and warm and loved

#communal napping is so fundamentally important to me #speakizys #sharks and sugar #my cousins and i used to do this all the time bc we would stay up all night playing video games #like i remember there was 8 of us one night #we played and finished mario bros for the wii #and the moment we finished it was like 2pm the next day #we all brought the air mattresses from grandma’s guest room #and NAPPED #it was so good just SLEEPING with people you care about #FUCK #just…. hanging out #bonding but also asleep

[seafoam-taide]

going to be seeing family members i have not seen or talked to in 4 years tomorrow. debating how to talk to them. like. “so i understand that you are incredibly christian. what are your opinions on lgbtq people.”

#tide of consciousness #also considering possibly just not bringing anything up at all #because i have yet to deal with people Purposefully misgendering and i do not want to have to #blegh #maybe my cool older cousin will understand... she read homestuck... #FUNNY STORY THAT ACTUALLY. actually. #so before i even the fuck knew what homestuck was before i had an online presence. #she was drawing some art while i was in the room. #a picture of as she described it 'zodiac people' that i remember were very oddly colored #years later i recalled that moment and went WAIT. /WAIT/ #and then i never saw her after that revelation so i never even got to fucking!!! ASK!!! #THE LIKELIHOOD OF HER HAVING BEEN ON TUMBLR At SOME POINT IS HIGH ACTUALLY

[nero-neptune]

i think this whenever i see a post about adhd (just passed two posts about adhd on my dash, so)- every so often (when i remember), i seriously consider getting an adhd diagnosis. i think that just might fix....Something. bc like i know the whole ‘x is a symptom of adhd’ is like a big meme these days (or was), but i just came across my diary from when i was 12 to 13 years old (that i also somehow mostly finished, save a few pages, which is Not the case at all for the two other diaries that just stopped halfway through). so, like 10+ years ago, i apparently wrote down (the context being that my mom was mad at me for getting a few failing grades in the 8th grade. the bolded words were underlined in the diary btw): “I like piano. I love to practice. I don’t like science, math, etc. I don’t love to study things. I know it’s good for me and will help me later in life, but I fall asleep and I get easily distracted. Very, easily distracted. I wonder if it’s ADD...” and i just left it at that, like that’s a problem for tomorrow. well, it’s tomorrow! so if i ever do get that formal medical diagnosis, i’m gonna find it really funny that i had that shit figured out as a child, even if it never went anywhere bc my parents didn’t believe me lol

#i remember asking my mom (i guess around the time i was 12 or 13) if it's possible that i have adhd or add #bc i'd read about it and started thinking about maybe that's why i couldn't focus and why i got so distracted #or why in the 4th grade my teacher yelled at me in the middle of class bc i kept fidgeting in my seat #(that moment is like burned in my brain bc i didn't even realize i moved around that much but then i realized no one else did that) #but my mom. after telling her all this. just scoffed and said 'there's no such thing as adhd' and that was that! #time jump 10 years and she says offhand 'oh did you know my younger brother has adhd. and that your cousin has adhd' #but said in a tone that's like 'i still don't think that's a real thing' but damn. so it's in the family is what you're saying #anyway i just had some thoughts about this #funny how my blog is basically a diary these days #rambles

[hunset]

thinking about the first girl i had a crush on 😮‍💨

#i remember the exact moment i realized it too lmaoo #we were listening to mr brightside and she started jumping up and down singing it and i thought it was the cutest thing i was heart eyes #she was my cousins neighbor and everytime we went to go visit all i would want to do is hang out with her lmao #i just recently looked through her ig cause she popped up under the who to follow and she is married and has two kids #also found out that her bday is feb 2 like she would be an aqua that definitely checks out

[skeletalheartattack]

Great taste

Funny

Hot damn zarbon WAS gnc as FUCK huh

wadda hell.. great taste AND funny...? wuh, who mee? 😳👈

no but seriously thank you!!! 🌺🍀🌼

and absolutely in love seeing people react to zarbon the same way i do :) but YEAH what a fucking icon he is... an absolute gnc prince omg...

#ask #anon #now idk if folks think the same way i do about his monster form. ohhh girls 💅 ohhh you have no idea... love him entirely.... #i learned about him from dbz budokai 1 (huh. i wonder why i want that game back from my cousin so badly 🙄) #DBZ was my brothers thing so i only saw a few episodes as a kid. and dbz budokai 1 was the game i owned personally #and i learned DBZs lore mostly from that game. also probably why i had a harder time remembering the buu saga. since its not in that game #but like. playing through the vegeta segments of budokai 1's story mode and seeing zarbon for the first time???? #oh some wires crossed the moment i saw him babes... and then he did his monster transformation #''oh hes super neat :) probably wont affect me in the future though'' it did babes and it shows #fell in love with that dude On Sight. (and im oh so normal about it) #hes also probably the reason im bisexual. like i imagine my tastes would be a lot different if i didnt see him in that moment #listen... blue skin. green long hair in a braid. pink arm warmers. thigh highs with his thighs peeking out. his jewelry... #hes so gnc omg... 🙄👋 (fanning myself off) #i hope one day to own some arm warmers like those they look comfy as hell and ive always felt that way #anyway lets take a step out of my brain because its like a sauna in there okay? #i appreciate you like my tastes though anon :) #i imagine if i made an entire chart of every character and made it without the concept of judgement lurking around the corner #youd probably see some characters on there like ''oh. i see. alright sure it makes sense. i think'' #but hm yknow? looots of men on that chart. like its like 80-90% men #i just think thats interesting is all :) #and we gotta pin it all back to one character 🤗 #oh but alas... toriyama had to give him permanent tummy hurt... 😔😭 #listen. i will talk your ear off about zarbon. i feel so bad for all my mutuals who have to hear me gush on and on #BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ASK ANON!!! #i love seeing the asks so far that mention zarbon. like yeah i guess ive slutted out about him just enough for that to make sense #but thank you for giving me your thoughts :)