#sometimes i just write silly little stories

[lucabyte]

your ocs!!!!! please ramble about them!!!!

i love your art so much

(GRABS YOU) H. CAN DO BOSS.

So ! My ocs. I guess I'll do an overall explainer for the overall groups. If you check out my Toyhouse (LINK!) there's a bunch of folders up top that are how I categorise them. It's primarily by universe except for the folders that are just "misc."

So folder 1: Blatant favouritism:

These are silly little guys that don't fit in any specific wider universe, but I really really like. So I'll spotlight the two important ones before i get real in the weeds with my main universe.

In here are notably, my Fursona (self explanatory), Ali and Pittsburgh Cincinnati. There's also Hauntkit and Clearpelt who are warriorcats ocs that *is dragged away by airport security*

... So, Pittsburgh, lovingly sometimes called pissbug, is a weird little Thing who I made as like, an homage to characters like happy bunny and Sweetypuss. She (and her weird dog) exist to stand next to strange and offputting captions. I love her. No further context. She's just silly. and violent.

Now. Ali.

Ali Alighieri has thoroughly stolen the show, and also ties into the next folder along, Making Your MK.

With over a hundred extra images compared to second place (Sorry, Tabitha). Ali is my fucked up little scrunkly. My little baby guy. They're a shared character of mine and @samhainian's, and is from their Creature Feature setting (A modern fantasy setting wherein Cryptids and Magic are real but in our modern world.) They are as such, a modern human young adult... Who is also a demon + magic user.

Strange little pansexual altersex genderqueer poetry-nerd that they are... The modern setting also means they are literally just a tumblr user. A fellow countryman, so to speak.

HOWEVER.... Ali's true origin was in *Purrgatorio*, a scrapped visual novel of mine set in the MYMK universe! They were simply retrofitted into CF as the joke with Purrgatorio was that a regular human had mysteriously just shown up in MYMK's pure-furry setting.... And then when we scrapped the project we got all attatched to our little not-so-blank-slate protagonist. But I'll put a pin in Purrgatorio for later.

Making Your MK.

(Guest of honour: My super unfinished website <3)

Okay so here's the big one. The setting with.... (looks at spreadsheet) 109 characters not including so-called incidentals. At time of writing.

MYMK is home to... Multiple stories. As you would hope when a setting has 100+ characters. I'd wager each story has about 10-20 relevant characters tops but with a big shared universe like this there gets to be overlap between casts!!! Yay !!! 😊😊😊

MYMK is the name of the main story in the setting. Pronounced "Making your Mark", it is centered around Markus Felidae (The purple one) and their family. It's very action-adventure-y. It's also the plot I'm most secretive about the backend of since I WILL!!!!! Turn it into a nice prose story with pictures SOMEDAY!!!!! But for now tee hee hee secrets secrets. Markus' family is strange and ragtag and is keeping something from them... I can't ramble on too long here unless further prompted in asks about specifics but!!! Everyone in the MYMK folder has a fully furbished little profile with a blurb about them. So if you're curious....

But yeah, I tend to think of the MYMK setting more in terms of its Locations than its Casts, due to the overlapping nature of them all. The Malbranche may be the villains of the main plot, but they're also major players in relation to The Palsgrave who are the antagonists of Moraine, etc etc,

The country everything in MYMK is set in is called New Orphidian, Southern hemisphere little thing, here's a very cartoony map of it.

Um. Cliffside!

Since it's the best map I have... Here's an exclusive sneak peek of a Zine I'll be getting back to once the fandom brain cools down a bit.... :3c

(... I REALLY NEED TO DO A TOUR AROUND THE MINECRAFT CLIFFSIDE SAM AND I BUILT..... IT'S SO CUTE....)

Cliffside is situated on a big ol' Cliff.

A tiny hamlet of a place, it used to have reason to exist, and now does not. It's not even a good tourist locale, as the cliff is much too dangerous compared to the nicer tourist spot of Welkin just a little north. Not to mention nearby Moraine's allure as a tax haven with no labour laws place where a bunch of TV and Movies are filmed!

It's where most of MYMK's main cast reside (except the antagonists from the Big City Varmonte), and is as such a location I have a lot of tiny little worldbuilding thoughts about :)

I won't go into the other locations here just because then this post will SUPER get away from me but... I think most importantly for Cliffside right now...

Is that it's where Purrgatorio is set. Yes, that VN I said got scrapped. It's not dead. It is in fact serving it's original intended purpose as "A (mostly) noncanon exploration of character voice and setting"

It's back and its prose babeyyyyyyy!!! (A BUNCH OF THE EARLY STUFF IS ME BEING SUPER RUSTY ... BE WARNED)

Purrgatorio is currently the most publicly available coherent work I have out of my ocs! It's very low-stakes and serves mostly to bash my toys together and see what character dynamics come out, but you can look if you want to!

(There's also a whole THING on the meta of its Canonicity... It's not canon, but it's also not NOT canon. But if I talk about Metanarrative Timeline Collapse in my normal mundane non-magic setting im gonna sound bonkers ✌)

Ali's dynamics with the MYMK cast are so goddamn funny to me. Like I literally just handed my OCs some ET shit but ET is a sexually repressed tumblr user with a mood disorder.

But yeah I don't think I can coherently string together much more about MYMK without just actually explaining THE WHOLE PLOT.... Though I will absolutely elaborate on any given character's Whole Deal if i'm prompted. (OH MY GOD I DIDNT EVEN TALK ABOUT CHROME AND TABITHA. WAIT. OKAY THERE'S. OK NO IF I TALKED ABOUT THEM IT'D JUST END UP AN ESSAY ,SORRY..)

So here's some bonafide classic images for the road.

(IF TUMBLR BREAKS THE FORMATTING AND JUST PUTS THESE ONE AFTER THE OTHER INSTEAD OF IN A GRID IM SO SORRY LMAOOOOO)

... And as for the other folders on my toyhouse!

Misc and Fandom are what they sound like. Self explanatory,

Then, Ysden is @samhainian's fantasy setting. It's where our DnD games happen to be set but it's also a general fantasy setting :)

and Monster of the Week... Is currently being revamped! It used to be a modern world setting with hidden magic, now it's going to be more... Adventure Time-y. Fantasy world get iphone. Yknow. It has a lower Age Rating than MYMK's "anything goes", as it started as a Pitch Bible Project in my animation class. They're a little neglected but I still love them :) The revamp is extemely recent and not reflected in any of the art/writing yet but I'm workin on it. It still doesn't have a proper title..... OTL

So yeah!! Uh. This wasn't as comprehensive as I was hoping but it turns out I have way, WAY too many thoughts on my guys. And no idea what to do when im actually asked about them so !!!! This was not a very coherent ramble but it was a ramble !

There's things like essays on Chrome and Tabitha (Link) and also The Queer Gender Identities Of The Whole Cast (Link) hiding around on my toyhouse, and once again, Purrgatorio (Link) serves as my sandbox for playing with how these characters act in situations.

But..... ! I did try to make my toyhouse approachable for the average layman. Every character in the MYMK folder (Link) has a *blurb* of information, rather than a giant wall of text explaining everything about them. I want people to be able to understand their general vibe at a glance rather than be overwhelmed.

In any case ???? Uh. Fun game for everyone: If you know your homestuck classpect, every single MYMK character has a classpect and lunar sway. and a birthday. Try and find your andrew-hussie assigned kin! As a Prospitian Witch of Heart, I share my classpect and lunar sway with Chrome. No I don't know what this means. It worries me honestly he's kind of an asshole.

#oh my god this is so long and not coherent at all anon i love you thank you so much for asking but this is unintelligable from me LOL #long post #EVEN LONGER IF TUMBLR BREAKS THE FORMATTING WHICH IM SUPER SCARED IT WILL DO #but yeah. BURSTS INTO TEARS. I LOVE MY LITTLE GUYS THERES LIKE 10 YEARS UPCOMING OF DEV ON THEM ITS UNWEILDY #THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING AUGH.... SORRY THIS IS MOSTLY JUST SAYING TO LOOK AT MY TOYHOUSE LOLLL #but if anyone catches your eye dear reader feel free to ask about them in specifics? even if they seem niche or under-drawn... #i will have had a lot of thoughts on them. no matter what. #also my toyhouse doesnt make it clear whos trans gender because i only list pronouns and not gender identity but . theres a bunch. #i have so many goddamn nonbinary characters who use binary pronouns too its . i realise i make it hard to tell LOL #anyway the classpect assigned kinnie thing is my fav thing to do. everyone should do this with their ocs #lucabytetalks #LUCABYTETALKS LIKE. A LOT. THIS TIME. THIS IS SO DISORGANISED GOOD LIRD.....

[jittyjames]

guess who is starting therapy ✨

#it's me #lmao #idk how long i'll stick with it #but yknow #it's whatever #and insurance will help and shit so #cool beanssssss #BUT IF I DEAL WITH MY TRAUMA HOW WILL I WRITE MY SILLY LITTLE STORIES #going sometime next week for an evaluation #I just actually want to live pls and thanks so I decided to go get proper help #as should all of you #if available #fully expect to sob at all of my sessions #and they'll probably want to put me on a plethora of drugs #yipppeeeeeeeeee

[caffeinatedopossum]

I honestly don't know what people mean when they talk about "having dreams" in the sense of like aspirations and ambitions. People talk about it like EVERYONE obviously has one. And I don't. I just kind of hang out and try not to die.

#always had problems with this question #like when people ask what you wanna be when you get older or what career youd like #ive never felt like those things were options to me #i dont think ill ever have a real career #but im honestly pretty content with just working on myself and drawing my silly little characters #and talking to friends when they need someone to lean on and baking some peanut butter cookies #and washing my silly little dishes and taking my meds #it aint much but its honest work #oh oh and listening to music. gotta love discovering new music #sometimes i write music too. or poems or stories. but theyre not meant for other people #just for me 😌 #i would like to sing someone my songs someday #but thats less about a career and more about the human desire to observe and be observed #to impact people the way theyve impacted me

[thenewsthaturdead]

Hi hello due to popular demand (3 of my mutuals expressed they wanted me to) i will now be posting my art on main (and probably reblogging it onto my art blog @xx-morel-xx for archiving purposes) anyway yes i do in fact draw these are the silly little guys i keep talking about - Alec and Ondra! Ondra is a vampire who got turned in 18th century Austria-Hungary - he was not a fan of being turned. Alec's parents (or maybe grandparents havent figured that one out yet) escaped communist Czechoslovakia to the US, he comes back for university and gets his idiot emo ass accidenteally turned by Ondra while wandering a cemetery at night. They proceed to go on the run so the vampire government doesnt force Alec to murder his entire family

#oh yeah also Dana im so sorry i noticed you tagged me in that writing thing i wanted to tell u it is not in fact a writing project #but i forgot #they just exist in my head and sometimes pictures. sorry #my art #<- block that tag if you dont wanna see my silly little drawimngs #dreams of biting #<- thats the working title for their story and the tag ill probably use from now on #cuz befor i just used 'alec & ondra' but Bela is in their universe too i wanna include her more #its. from the attic demos title 'dreams of stabbing and being stabbed' yk. mcr. #ive tried to think of a more original title but have so far been unsuccesful lol

[xawkward-ariesx]

Starting the new year with three new comments on Golden Girl, feeling increasingly guilty for not updating in over two years

#ace writes sometimes #Comments #GG #all the comments were very sweet fyi they werent asking if there was ever going to be an update despite how long its been or anything #but gg haunts with me how long its been 😭 its one of the stories ive worked the hardest on and i hate that i havent updated it #so the fact other people have enjoyed it want more and are being so nice about it is just #like you liked my story 🥺? my silly little fanfic 🥺? thats so nice 😭 the people pleaser in me wants to give them the next chapter now #but its absolutely not ready and im really struggling with writing at the moment im not even reading atm either #the brain is really not cooperating #but anyway. havent had any interaction with gg in ages so 3 comments at once threw me

[cerise-on-top]

i’d just like to say that you are feeeeeddddinggg the kate lovers so well omg, there straight up isn’t enough kate love and im so happy that you are willing to write her so much. you write her so well,i adore your stuff so so much. thank you for your service tbh 🫡🫡💛

Thank you!!! I try my best here and I'm glad it pays off and that people enjoy my silly little writings!! I am always willing to write for the girls! In fact, I'm usually waiting for more requests on them because my gay heart cannot take being apart from them for too long! And Laswell is literally such a good character and it's such a shame she's so underrated! Everyone deserves someone as cool and epic as Laswell in their lives! Besides, as you said, there really isn't enough love for Laswell, so I'm more than happy to change that! Sometimes you just gotta make the people happy and write something silly and fun for them! Sometimes what you need in your life is to kiss Kate Laswell and give her a hug and go on vacation with her and cuddle with her while watching TV and cook a good meal with her and just be domestic with her in general!

#cherry chats #I know I am far too young for Laswell but in another universe I am going to kiss and marry her too #I know I say this a lot but she's literally so cool! I remember being smitten when she was on the boat giving instructions in MW2 #besides she's literally so pretty too?? sometimes I look her up on google or pinterest just to look at pictures of her #her actress did such a good job portraying her I'm a big fan of Laswell #but then again give me any woman in a man-dominated medium and I will cling onto her like a koala and never ever let go again #I am so happy with the sudden increase in requests for Laswell because!! I get to write for her!! #wagging my imaginary tail every time I see “can you write x for y and Laswell?” YES!!! I CAN AND I'D LOVE TO #so it makes me really happy to see when people enjoy my writings about her as well! it really motivates me to keep going! :D #thank you for your kind words! I'll be sure to keep writing my silly little requests and stories for you all!

[mihrsuri]

Really feeling the (applies to me alone) ‘other people, people who have horrific trauma in their pasts and presents do amazing things, are doing amazing things and you just waste your life and cry/are a perpetual victim today’ brain.

#i didn’t ask for this cptsd and no tshirt was offered #it’s just it’s actually among my insidious Brain Narratives #other people have jobs/create amazing content/have amazing hobbies and do incredible advocacy #and I just…knit and draw and write silly little stories and can cook sometimes

[lesamis]

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sometimes i get a little sad about the way being at the phd home for a long time makes me want to like. take off the academiasona and just breathe for a bit. bc i love my friends here but our lives are v fundamentally different and this becomes glaringly obvious when one of them mentions their summer home or says they're taking their mum to the folkwang museum for her bday or when they randomly have cremant in the house and i instantly feel like im wearing some kind of Bildungsbürger skinsuit they tailored for me and it doesn't fit right. but then. these are the same people you can send a silly little poem to that you wrote about a rotten lemon and they'll reply straightaway saying they love it and it reminds them of this one contemporary sculptor who makes giant bedazzled rotten lemons. and for a second this whole thing makes sense

#i know we all compartmentalise and stuff & i know it's not often that someone Gets like. all of you #but i notice sometimes that i don't mind someone not Getting the research stuff. like i care abt it a little but it's just a job #whereas having to bury the part all the time that deeply cares abt the trashiest pop culture imaginable #feels like committing violence against myself like let me discuss the merits of home makeover shows NOW or i'll die. #at any given point the silly little fantasy story im writing or the latest blorbo du jour is very much. the biggest thing i've got going on #and it's weird to switch that off for a month and pretend the big theory discussion over dinner is actually meaningful to me #i know it is to them! and they think it is to me! and maybe i care a little but i've got one foot in the escapist fantasy rn babey #reverse truman situation where everyone thinks this situation is real life except for me. im just playing a researcher on tv #anyway conducting class analysis on yourself is like. ahhh yes. hm yes. this is what we in the discipline call fubar #thus concludes today's navelgazing hours thanks for joining :')

[cetoddle]

therapy was interesting she kinda just out of nowhere asks if i like writing and i was hesitantly like….yes……and she got all excited she was like you should really pursue that. i think that’d be great for you. and i was like thank you but why are you saying this. i don’t remember exactly what she said cause i think i blacked out a little but basically said im very well spoken and deliberate with my word choice and she said she’d have been very surprised if i said i don’t write at all

#im trying to remember what exactly she was saying but my brain kind of short circuited #i was like oooo im being praised i think this is great -w- and barely processed what she was saying #i told her a little bit about all the work i’ve already done on some of my projects and she seemed genuinely impressed .. #but maybe she was just being nice..but then she yells at me when i say things like that #so i guess i’m going to choose to believe she was being genuine because she’d yell at me for thinking otherwise #she’s really encouraging me to continue writing and i’m stressed ;-; #she asked why i don’t consider pursuing it more seriously someday and i was like well #i just don’t think it’s realistic #she asked why and i kinda just. #well laurie i don’t actually know i just feel it in my bones i suppose #she went >:( #i told her a little bit about the kind of stuff i like to write and she got all sad cause i enjoy writing horror stuff #she’s like aw :( i’ll never be able to read any of your stuff i get scared so easily :( #that made me actually laugh for real #maybe this comes as a surprise to some of u i talk abt it sometimes but i do actually write short stories a lot #i just have literally never shared them with another living soul cause i’m fairly certain they’re SHIT. but i do it #i stay silly !!!! #sigh… #id like to have told her more about my bigger projects but whenever ppl do try and ask abt it #i just freeze up like oh it’s silly..it’s just something i do as a hobby irs nothing serious don’t mind me… #😖 #i like writing but i don’t like talking about my writing #anywaysss #snow.txt

[junonreactor]

something something the use of isekai/transmigration as a copout for authors who are hesitant to commit to their story and characters and can only face their own writing through a thin veneer of "ironic" engagement with their chosen genre

#obviously not always the case and sometimes it is just like. bait/marketing/bad writing in a different sense. but my fucking god. #please engage with your story earnestly or at least have genuine fun writing it bc as a reader having the background noise of the author #going 'but i mean it's kind of silly haha like a normal person wouldnt react this way or like this i mean i know it's just a fantasy haha' #is like. you know works on ao//3 that tag as 'ooc sorry' or 'ik this isn't very good but give it a shot maybe'. it's like that. #anyway. self-provided break over i have to go back to reading [throws up in my mouth a little bit] service agreement terms #ein babbles #to delete

[mamahoggs]

List 5 facts about a favorite sim of yours, and send this to 10 simblrs whose sims you adore 🫶🏼🫵🏼

its undead greasy magic boy time lets go

full name is milo lazarus cleaver. a little on the nose but thats just how we do it around here

do you wanna know what killed him? do you really wanna know what killed him? flying broomstick accident. gotta be careful on those things

tall. and skinny. he's 6'2 but a strong breeze could send him flying. maybe thats what happened with the broomstick

attuned to growth and nature magic, or was anyway. now he only really wilts things

did i mention he's hopelessly in love with his best friend

#lian answers #zinxsims #i am again here to say my ocs are 9 times out of 10 a little ridiculous #maybe more than a little #i will write him and jupiter actual intro posts sometime soon i promise i just keep reworking them #their story is the usual amount of silly but its also got a lot of worldbuilding and i want to share that in a way that makes sense lmao #rather than just default to realm of magic lore when thats really not the universe they exist in

[potatoesandsunshine]

trying very hard to balance the (true) ‘i’m writing this for fun for myself’ justification and the (also unfortunately true) ‘at max forty people will read this so what’s the point of spending all this time on it’ feeling

#the thing with fic is like. truly and fundamentally it is for me. i do these silly little stories so i can read them later. #but also: if i didn't want people to read it. i wouldn't post it on the internet. #like i've been tinkering with this story for about a month and i KNOW it is not gonna be Big Online. you need to know that i know that. #but also damn.... a lady can want comments sometimes. it's not like Bad to want to know what people think of your stories. #i feel like there has been such a swing to 'write for yourself write just for yourself if it gets five views you should still be happy' #and that's.......... just not realistic lol #anna's fic notes

[aliaoftheknives]

to be cringe for a second or whatever it's very strange that fanfic is the one genre that people who aren't interested in engaging with it always feel qualified to talk about, somehow. this might just be me but what's the point of doing that sort of thing. what kind of insight do you think that you can provide. no matter how good your extrapolation is it is still, at the end of the day, speculation about a genre that you don't and won't engage with. i don't get it

#neil.txt #and also it's just a little bit silly to make this sort of sweeping statement about an entire genre of writing comprised of so many #disparate modes of engagement. obviously how people write their fanfic depends heavily on the type of media that they're engaging with #what that text thinks is important vs what the author thinks is important. whether that matches up. how they expand on things if they're no #how sometimes it's about two stories superimposed on one another in a way. #like i dont read romance novels because i dont like them but im not going to be like lol this is how all romance novels are. ive never read #one btw. so what is it about fanfic

[meringuejellyfish]

i think the fact that witch hat atelier somewhat struggles with introducing a few too many characters at a time but then not really taking the time to fully flesh out or utilize them leaving for much to desire from characters that do appear to be quite interesting is something i consider a blunder of the series but its also rather humorous to me because i think this author just really likes character design i will be honest

#thankfully the main cast is just so wonderfully captivating and incredibly enjoyable that its not really a case of ''being stuck with boring #main characters when the side characters are infinitely more interesting'' #its more so ... characters like alaira jujy heiheart etc etc are so fun and cool and it makes me mad because i just want to know more about #them !!!!!!!please. just a little bit #when jujy (and heiheart) appeared in the recent chapters i was freaking out you guys dont know #JUJY WAS INTERACTING WITH THE OTHER APPRENTICES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!G #fucking hell man. the main four apprentices are genuinely some of my favorite characters in anything. ever #but also ... jujy could have been a main character. lol #and im a little (very!) upset that shes not when i think about it #sigh ..i cant wait for alaira and euini to reappear #with the case of alaira i actually get so so upset i wish they didnt just disappear for so many chapters without even a simple mention #i get it theyre going rouge but :-( they had the one comic where euini sends letters to richeh but we never get something like this in the #actual series #and its so strange to me. i cant keep living like this i need alaira to tell me stories about her life #i CANNOT keep making shit up about her i miss her so bad its not even fucking funny #i also ... want to see more of her and qifrey :-( i think about them sometimes #alaira is one of qifreys only and dearest friends ....i love how silly and tender their interactions are #these people dont see eachother very often but wont hesitate to joke around a bit whenever they do happen to cross paths #theyre just very comfortable around eachother #i just like how this series writes relationships between the adults its handled with such a specific care and is so natural. but thats a #whole other ramble #these are ...people

[didsomeonesayventus]

In regards to last reblog idk i have a lot of works i probably should orphan (and in ff.net's case nuke entirely) but like. Idk man it feels weird and wrong to let go of something i was genuinely invested in and happy with even if it's incredibly cringe like hey i made that for fun i've grown out of it but like. It's still something that made me happy once and i dont want to pretend i wasnt stupid and free and cringe

#katie rambles #like i feel physically ill reading old fanfic sometimes im not fucking kidding #but im also way too sentimental to really destroy or forsake them. #because like. i was happy with them once! #i had fun making these stories and exploring my craft #and i definitely wouldnt be as good as i am at writing today if not for the thousands and thousands of words I poured out for the joy of it #and there's absolutely stuff in there that i would not do today and i imagine couldn't without a fair bit of scrutiny #(and dare i say catch the cancel from it) #but i wrote so freely then. i simply had fun with the process and engaging with people who liked my work #so as much as i hate my old fics. I love them too. #they all have little pieces of me + my joy + my silly little brain trying to figure out the world around me through characters i cherish #and i dont want to let that go. i dont want to pretend it didnt happen as much as i may want to #idk im just. sentimental. i miss writing fic. i wish i could give my old work a fair read #and i wish there was a way to say 'this is old fic that doesnt reflect current me' without just straight up abandoning or deleting it

[ectoplasmer]

ryou should. um. marry me. maybe

#only a maybe though because do i reeaally like him that much or #(yes. i do.) #head in hands stuff came up personal and familial wise so i’m just. bleh #additionally i am so exhausted agsjdhd i keep passing out for like three hours whenever i get home… #literally no drive to do anything after school #it’s horrible #anyway. just thinking of him. i totally just think he’s neat it’s nothing more than that. totally #rgrhrhg you ever think about your f/o saying their theoretical vows at your guys’ theoretical wedding. #crying into my hands adbshfkg #i shouldn’t be crying over something as simple as this but i am lol #i sometimes just think about how he’d look during it or how he’d look at me and how he’d say them #do you think his voice would get softer when he says them. do you think he’d smile while saying them #he writes his own campaigns and stories and letters so i think i’d die on the spot hearing whatever vows he’d say #he’s good at writing and i just know whatever he’d have to say at such an important moment for us would probably Kill me haha #it’s just a silly little thing for me to think about but. god. one day i swear #i want to spend the rest of my life with him and i already know this #it’s so silly that i can feel this much for hecking. mr side character over here #agh i love him though. so much. a dumb amount. must i go on #him and his weirdness and his dorkiness and everything else #but i have to live through this first!! and then probably a couple more things!! and then we can have that #only a maybe though. because again do i reeeaaally like him that much or #lol anyway #spooky ghosts