#that...is really heartening

[the-everqueen]

ao3 wrapped: 3, 27, 29, 30

3. what work are you most proud of? "came in the game," hands down, because i used to think i couldn't write long fics, and i did it when i thought i had nothing creative or worthwhile in me. (on the job market, dissertation defense, post-grad ptsd) also it's a rarepair in a fandom that largely ignores anything beyond Thee Main Ship.

27. what do you listen to while writing? whatever album is the current earworm.

29. favorite line/passage you wrote this year? impossible to pick just one. i think i'm hilarious. that being said, this passage from a wereverse WIP continues to make me laugh:

As he’s learned since grad school, third-wave coffee shops are the place to score. Overpriced weed, freaky sex, the occasional cigarette. Ain’t nobody got repression and a dependence on semi-legal substances like a dude who can taste whether his coffee is French pressed or a pour-over. It’s more effort than at a club, sure, convincing some guy you just met that he’s into men and also wants to take you home and let you fuck him nasty, but Cori pulls it off with aplomb. Call him the patron saint of bisexual realization or whatever the fuck. At any rate, he manages to find a PhD student in biochem who is more than happy to swap hours in the lab for an hour exploring his newfound attraction to blondes.

30. biggest surprise while writing this year? that these WIPs just keep getting longer.

#ask games #ao3 wrapped #i feel like doing rarepairs in a heavily OTP fandom should net you some kind of heavenly reward #the wips getting longer is a good thing jsyk #i didn't think i had words left in me at the beginning of this year and now i'm still writing even for fun #that...is really heartening

[turtleblogatlast]

I think a lot about Leo standing up for his brothers in the things that really matter to them.

Like- Leo is the one who immediately pushes Mikey and Donnie into finding Raph the second it’s clear that their oldest brother is missing because he knows Raph can’t handle being separated like that.

Leo is the one who stands up for Mikey when Mikey wants to go on a solo mission, actively vouching for him and being the one to convince Raph into letting Mikey go, because being independent and proving himself just as capable of standing on his own two feet as everyone else means so much to Mikey.

And Leo defends Donnie’s honor in particular when his brothers’ intelligence is insulted because Leo is well aware of how important Donnie’s smarts are to him - and how important having those smarts valued and acknowledged is as well.

All this goes right into just how well Leo knows his brothers. For as much as he’ll tease or fight with them, he knows them, and he loves them.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rottmnt headcanons #rise leo #listen Leo loves his family SO MUCH #and like it’s no accident that Leo is consistently the one to give pep talks that #very notably #are less ‘everyone as a group’ and more ‘all of you individually’ #it’s heartening to see honestly and like #it works with how he is as both a person and as a fighter #he knows people he knows them so well he knows how they work what they’re like #which is SO USEFUL for subterfuge AND portal/teleportation strategy #my guy is charming his charisma comes from his understanding of people at an individual level #when he wants to be he is very very good at that #he’s still a teen who is too cocky for his own good at times but that does not negate his stellar other moments #he can be selfish he can be mean he can be rude but when push comes to shove he is so quick to stand up for his family #Mikey’s statement at the end of the movie about how Leo NEVER gave up on THEM is so important because it’s not JUST about the movie!! #that’s Leo as a whole he will never give up on his bros #portal jacked is telling of this too because although it has a lot of comedic moments #never once does Leo stop looking for a way to get his bros back #they’re everything to him #he’s the face man he’s a people person and he’s the number 1 pet turtle which I will discuss the implications of in this essay- #Will also say that when Leo does these moments of standing up for his bros he’s never expecting praise for it #he’s just glad they find Raph he just smiles when Mikey tells him he loves him he never mentions defending Donnie #leo has a tendency to show off fancy glittery moves but his real actions and feelings are sooo much more lowkey #that you have to be actively looking for them to catch them all #and I really really like that about him it’s so interesting HE is so interesting

[boomdeyadah]

[ID: a digital illustration in the shape of a scratchy oval. Within the oval, Martin is facing away from the viewer, looking down at something he’s holding close to his chest. He is a large chubby man in a cardigan, with short hair and glasses. Surrounding him is a dark, ghostlike figure, which is probably Jon. It has no facial features except very big eyes that are staring directly at Martin’s face. It is only inches away from Martin and has several thin arms that are clutching Martin tightly on his upper arm, around his hands, and around the back of his head. The figure’s torso and head appear solid, but dissolves into the background at its waist and from where its hair extends upwards and outside of the illustration. There are words at the top that say, “Oh, hello… are you still listening?” End ID]

#thanks for all the positive feedback on the last art i posted! #it was really heartening #i drew this during october while i was following a magnus art prompt list for the month #i know it’s a little late for the magnus protocol hype but i still like it and wanted to share #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jmart #statement remains #the magnus protocol #sorry the id is so long it makes me a feel a little pretentious #my art #illustration

[onthehighwaytomel]

No Doubt is absolutely killing their Coachella set right now.

#it's awesome to see #honestly I didn't think Gwen Stefani had it in her. she pleasantly surprised me #i forgot how unique her voice is #and she's singing strongly + with a lot of energy #rest of the band is killing it too #and i forgot how many hits of my childhood they were responsible for #no doubt #coachella #coachella 2024 #livestreaming from pittsburgh #edit- olivia rodrigo just joined them. i wish she hadn't #gwen is singing circles around her #to be clear...i didn't think current gwen had it in her--after how plastic and country-adjacent she went with blake #gwen of that time period definitely had It. heartening to see her really find that strength skill + confidence again #and remind us just how interesting and unique their music was

[blazeball]

it makes me really happy to peak into the SIBR server and see people still working really hard at preserving blaseball and cracking it wide open. everyone in there is so talented and the sole reason why we have so much of blaseball still at our fingertips

#if we did not have sibr. blaseball would have never gotten thr community it has #but also i think with how blaseball was... an organization like sibr was inevitable #im not nearly skilled enough to have participated in sibr's stuff but i have always admired them #so its really heartening to see people take the end of blaseball not as an end to their work with blaseball #okay. i just woke up. im gonna brush my teeth and eat breakfast now #quincy.txt

[hella1975]

there's a very specific kind of vibe that comes with living with your friends in final year that it just does not have in first year or even second year. like as a fresher it's usually the first time any of you have lived away from home let alone with SO MANY people your age and it's terrifying and exciting and randomised to boot so it's generally carnage for a whole year in the best and worst ways, and then second year you pick who you're living with and it feels like for the first time you're doing this adult thing PROPERLY. you have a place of your own now. these are the people you've chosen to live with. studying gets serious etc. but it's still fresh. it's still new. you still don't know how to navigate it. but final year? final year is when you actually get it right. you know how to manage your time better. you know what works for you and what doesn't. studying is the main focus and you've been out in the world for three years now and it's not loud and boisterous like it was in first year and you're not exciteable and awkward like you were in second year. you're comfortable. every single one of my flatmates has their own friend group and we mainly keep to our own social circles, but we'll still meet each other back at the house after a night out and sit in the kitchen or my room to do the debrief. sometimes i'll go days not seeing either of them despite sharing a house but every now and then someone will softly call up the stairs that 'the heating's on!' or one of us will sneeze and the other two will yell 'bless you!' through the walls. the lack of interaction isn't interpreted as dislike in ways it would have been even last year, because we're all just old enough to be past that now and settled enough in our friendship not to worry about it. idk. uni is very loud and unsettling a lot of the time so it's been really sweet to see how almost boringly comfortable final year is.

#like my day today was literally drag myself out of bed at 10am to meet my econ friends bc we're in a group together #and i spent two hours with them writing a fucking TRADE REPORT before coming home #and the rest of the day was kinda lost. i showered. i put a wash on. i had a nap. i mainly stayed in my room #which sometimes is the End Of All Things but today was quite nice #and i can hear in their rooms how my flatmates are doing the exact same thing. pottering about and getting on with uni #and we've barely spoken all day but earlier my one flatmate ran into my room all excited to show me her nails #bc she's been teaching herself to do gels and it took her 2 hours but im still one of the first people she wanted to show #and just now we all went to use the bathroom at the same time and it led to one of our Stair Sessions #where we all inexplicably just gather on the stairs and chat for no reason with a cup of tea #idk it's just nice. it's such basic shit but i can't belive in first year i used to spend EVERY DAY with these girls #and we were one single friendship group and that was all we had #and then in second year one girl branched off bc she lived in a studio and got into her societies #but me and the other girl lived together again and it was the same thing of she was a friend before she was someone i lived with #and weirdly that can actually be detrimental to a dynamic. but this year we're all just very solidified and confident in ourselves #and where we stand and yes we all have our own friendship groups outside of the house now #but there's still that love and simple comfortableness around each other that you only get with time and a hell of a lot of proximity #and a sense of being settled that maybe is just what happens as you get older #idk it's just really nice. if i had this exact same day in first year (doing economics and barely leaving my room) #it would've been a really bad depressive day for me so the fact i can find such contentment from it now is really heartening #i love my little life here im very proud of what ive been able to achieve :) #hella goes to uni #feeling nostalgic because SOME BITCH decided to ribs post

[etirabys]

fascinating when I binge a tumblr user who reblogs a lot of art and realize that they like art

#you see‚ i don't really like art‚ so this is heartening for me #rambl

[gilears]

Hi I just wanna say that all-star is my nr. 1 favourite fic ever, I’m so happy you wrote that!! I know you wrote and posted it quite a while ago but still!!

Amazing, Gorgug does only have one pair of weird beat up shoes that have a new kind of fungus on them

Yeah this was just me sending good vibes and encouragement!! You did really well with that fic!! Yay!!

omg! this ask could not have come at a better time, you are so sweet and this cheered me up SO much, thank you one million 🥺💚 i am doing a little dance MWAH

#YAY!!! ty new friend i am smiling so big #that fic was so special to me then Circumstances made me rly upset about it #so always so heartening when ppl like that one specifically. :') #im-really-tired-and-stupid #ask

[holdoncallfailed]

also i've been laughing all day at this comment on a weaponsetc post quoting john cale saying something bitchy about lou reed...a handbags at dawn declaration...

#something very heartening about how all older VU fans refer to john cale as if he were gay. they really were just two old petty queens #text

[plant-ago]

Sitting out around the campfire on a late summer evening, singing old songs

@worldsbeyondpod

#I really couldn't decide whether to post this #this recording was not like technically good and I rarely share my singing #but something about WWW just really makes me want to try to put my own creativity into it #as a thank you for how good of a story it is? #the vibes of the night when I recorded this were immaculate #so I hope that translates #worlds beyond number #WWW #the wizard the witch and the wild one #rain road #what a beautiful song #I was heartened by Taylor saying that he wanted the recording to not sound like a professional choir because it's a folk song #here are some truly rustic vibes for you sir #crickets tunes #brennan lee mulligan #aabria iyengar #erika ishii #lou wilson

[sparklyslug]

I started poll working in 2020 and I enjoy it for many reasons, it’s a great way to spend Election Day while a) contributing to the system and b) being legally barred from discussing the election in a way that’s really good for stress. But I think above all I love it as a way to spend 12+ hours relentlessly charming women aged seventy and above, aka my number one goal in life at all times always.

#OLDER LADIES ARE SO COOL I WANT THEM ALL TO BEFRIEND ME!!!!!! #I also want to support democracy #amazing to do both things at once #ama about poll working I really do love it #I’m doing two days of early voting this weekend and the thing itself on Tuesday #sparkly originals #it’s tiring for sure it’s a long day it extroverts me out #but it’s also really heartening and lovely #and hey you get paid

[lizmitches]

if anyone was wondering what my breaking point on this site was, it actually wasn't the alarmingly quick descent of a niche fandom. it wasn't the recreational blogging that began to feel like a job. it wasn't even the lesbophobic anon hate.

it was that goddamn fucking egg post

#truly considered never posting another thought here after that one. lordy #anyway thank you so much for the sweet asks and messages they were really heartening to return to!

[tragedyposting]

Is tumblr unusually popular in Poland I feel like that’s the number one non-anglophone producer of tumblr users. Is this just some weird bias on my dash? If so what is it abt me that attracts such a volume of Polish blogs into my blogosphere.

#many of my ancestors came from Poland :) #but also were Jewish and in their time were really denied a sense of nationality so I don’t really consider myself Polish American #well that and when they lived there it was under the Russian empire so it’s a complicated subject #anyway as a result I find it EXTREMELY heartening to see how many polish bloggers I follow/interact with are allies against antisemitism #fuck yeah #rebecca rambles

[godofsmallthings]

sorry yeah, I wasn't trolling that's why I said it was gonna be out of left field, but your explanation does help. I know it's cross-dressing and it's a performance, I just didn't really get the "why" behind it, (if it helps I also don't get why eminem needed to create slim shady at all) if that makes sense, and I figured I could ask you because I've seen some of your posts about drag queens. And thank you, I really appreciate it!

no problem!! i honestly don't feel like i'm the best person to give a nuanced answer here for the 'why' because i don't do drag and an embarrassing amount of my knowledge about it comes from rupaul's drag race (which is a starting point, but nowhere near the only/most true iteration of drag culture). if you want to learn more, i'd recommend the documentary paris is burning (1990) (it's pretty short!) which talks about the nyc ball scene and has a lot of really great interviews

#it's really interesting because the current iteration of mainstream drag is like. this capitalized-upon version of this counterculture. #and on one hand it's heartening to think that there's enough acceptance for drag to be profitable but on the other...it does feel like a lo #of the heart and teeth behind it are being lost #but i think that's true of any counterculture that gains mainstream interest #anyway i'm just saying things #ask

[theprissythumbelina]

there's nothing like calling up a friend on short notice and knowing they'll drop everything to help you when you need it

#also on today #my horse has arthritis but its getting treated #and she's already feeling better so that's heartening #I got a lovely pie #love good pie #and I found a set of novelty pencil sharpeners shaped like WW2 vehicles #so my day is really going quite well considering

[bluest-planet]

Ngl working on this chaiflower fic is fun. And not as like, creatively stumping as usual? It takes forever for me to write if I'm not in the mood but I've been consistently adding small bite sized bits throughout the week at my own pace while I worry about life stuff or work on other projects. It makes me feel like I'm actually making progress, no matter how small it is very day.

That said. I'm looking at the current 3k word count knowing with my entire heart and soul it's probably gonna have to be more than like. Double that at the rate this story is going lol.

Gotta love that character introspection and complex relationship interaction.

#blue speaks #thinking about changing the name too. i wanted it to be slightly angsty with mostly sweet and heartening stuff but i dont think thats gonna #fly anymore lol #anyways I like writing for Pavitr's character a whole lot #ik we dont know a lot about him in the movie verse so im borrowing stuff ive heard about his comics #so. sorry if i disappoint. just trying to write him as how i have been imagining and theorizing #cause hes a sunshine boy no doubt. BUT! #some stuff ive heard about the ckmics makes him really interesting #and also #i get this. chivalrous/empathetic/extremely principled character vibe from him? #like. okay ill just leave this nugget but; its just that deep sense of inate honor and sense of whats right and wrong #and like. although he feels fake that doesn't make him forget his own morals n stuff contrast to the other spidersfolk #(thats not including the main group n miles tho) #and how hes just. legitimately a good kid trying to do good and love his friends so deeply. #not unlike miles #who reflects that and encorages him that hes on the right path as well as helping him provess his own feelins #as a spiderman? #hopefully i can pull it off