#we're not even going to the city

[florida3exclamationpoints]

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#so. haha ????? #idk if any of yall know the lore about my childhood bully #long story short we were supposedly really close friends my whole life except she always treated me like crap #and eventually it became more obvious and blah blah blah. extremely traumatizing and all that. big fallout. #but i haven't had to deal with her in a few years which is good #but she's still friends with . other people i know #not my friends. but people i know enough to follow on instagram ya know #and ive been seeing her on Instagram more recently (might unfollow the person responsible bc i don't enjoy it) #but anyway. i just. saw. that. she's in nyc rn???? #like. im not in any danger of running into her #we're not even going to the city #its just ?? im randomly going to new york again for the first time in like 5 years ?? #and she just so happens to be there at the same time????? like????? i dont wanna share a state with her!! especially not on vacation!!!! #but also. will i ever escape her. like seriously. get AWAY from me god

[carlyraejepsans]

i think i might be legit happy for the first time in my life.

i got out. i actually got out.

#and i mean unabashedly #fully wholly no ifs no buts no compromises. I'm out i have friends REAL friends like irl we hit it off so well in just a few days #we're all here cause we all love the same things i can hop on a bus and go anywhere i want in the city (ANNUAL BUS PASS FOR 25€. HELLO???) #i live on my own I'm meeting my roommate tomorrow and ik she's a sweetheart my professors are trans friendly the prices on stuff are decent #I GET TO USE MY OWN NAME. #i get gendered correctly even with long hair this is the first time in my life where i recognize myself in the mirror #this still doesn't feel real. if i think about it too hard i start to tear up #i think the local mutual aid group might even have resources to get started on hrt

[lucyshypemaster]

me when I see people ask for sokeefe in the newest shannon insta post that announced that there's a marella short story with fintan involved

#sry im gonna go off a little #you have a whole ass book dedicated to sokeefe #a half-assed confession #a half-assed kiss #and you STILL want more sokeefe even though we're getting an exclusive look into marella and fintan's tutor session? #MARELLA. AND. FINTAN. #and you're asking for SOKEEFE. #🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #marella redek #fintan pyren #nav's kotlc thoughts

[littlespoonevan]

the thing about romcoms is just- it's never meant to be 'is it believable?' but instead 'do you believe it?' do you believe these two characters are actually falling in love with each other??? do you believe their chemistry??? do you believe whatever obstacle is thrown in their way is legitimately something that might keep them apart for a time and not something that could be solved with one conversation?? do you believe that they believe they need to fake date for this very specific reason??? do you believe the reason why they're 'enemies' at the start, no matter how silly a misunderstanding it may be??? do you believe the grand romantic gesture fits the characters and is actually how one character would show their love to the other?? like!!!! it's about empathy and authenticity and feeling what the characters feel so strongly that even if it's a trope or a cliché it doesn't matter because you believe it

#this is what separates a good romcom from a bad romcom for me #if the conventions of the genre are used in a way that feels authentic to the characters then it'll never feel cheesy #one of my biggest pet peeves is some of the romcoms of the last decade who have this real 'we're not like other romcoms' energy #where they try to act like they're Different and move away from the usual tropes but it's shit bc that's not the point!!!! #those tropes and conventions are staples of the genre for a reason #it's how you utilise them and incorporate them that matters #like fuck me i hate action movies but i know if i go see one there's a 99% chance there'll be a car chase scene #bc that's usually a staple feature of an action movie and i mean idc but that's fine bc i know it has a function in the story to increase #the tension #and even at that someone who really loves action movies could probably tell me the difference between a good car chase scene & a subpar one #in the same way that just saying something is fake dating doesn't automatically make it good #but if i believe it and i'm in it with the characters? oh boy i'm about to feel so dELIGHTED for the next 90 minutes thank you so much #anyway i'm rewatching the lost city and every second of this movie is so silly in a fun way and fantastical but oH BOY DO I BELIEVE IT #mine

[b4kuch1n]

frog documentation. frogcumentation

I think I mentioned a while back I'd post nibling frog momence after the gift's done given. which happened on the 2nd this month I just forgot lmao. anyways we can do it now. I used the boigameista pattern scaled up to four pieces of A4 print paper and decided to double deck it to a two layer thing, not unlike a pillow, for ease of washin. because it was gonna be gifted to a one year old child

took a long time and made a number of mistakes bc hand sewing makes me worse as a person but this guy was done in time for the birthday occasion and that's what matters. chose non-fuzzy fabrics for it because we live in a dense city in the tropics and from personal experience if I hug something made of fur I would explode. the original plan included felt patterns on its back for bonus textures for baby but that wouldn't stretch well along with the rest of the thing so had to hold that back. eventually we got this

zipper across its ass, the coat type of zipper bc I miscalculated when ordering. but it did have a shape and that's all that matters to me. will be a fun game for the baby to grow up and be severely misinformed about what a frog looks like

happy extremely late birthday to this thing also

#bakuspecial #uhhhh. whats my craft tag. I forgor. update this later #frog plush babeyyyy #I want this thing to last until the heat death of the universe so I felled all the seams down. dont recommend doing this by hand #Im so stubborn lmao I refuse to get a serger I will simply get better at hand sewing instead. damn its taking kinda long #there used to be a Lot more frogs around hanoi. but the lack of clean water ponds and lakes have driven down the population #I live like right at the edge of the city rn tho (will no longer be the case in five years) so there are still a lot of aminals #house robins. skinks. fireflies (!!!!). praying mantises. tree frogs #they love to hang out at the fountain inside the complex right across the street. had to pick em up to return to the fountain #from the hot brick tiled ground a few times #theyre so small. theyre so small.... #I miss house geckos they dont show up a lot in our apartment. I wish they would they would love the cockroaches around here #and of course. bc the kind of rice we eat is more short-grained and thus usually not all the way dried like the longer-grained type we have #so many rice weevils. do u know those little fucks do not drown for a Long time #do u know they lay eggs inside the rice grains and that's how u find out ur rice about to become the weevil beverly hill #by washing the rice and seeing hollowed out grains float up. I have become an expert at this. #but I get to see skinks in random bushes so who am I to be pissed about that. skinks rule #this has been baku talks about animals for a mile of tags. thank u for listening #well. its evening and the family wants to go out so that's what we're doin. hope u have a good time too wherever u are #see u this midnight when I reblog every new posts I've made in the last week or so lmao

[anxiously-sidequesting]

So I once made a funny shit post about the Young Wizard actually beaming to the Spiral at the tender age of 45 but it got me thinking of the opposite. What if the Wizard was incredibly young

Since in the game it isn't specified at what exact age we arrived in the Spiral I think it's just up to the player to come up with that part. I personally like to think The Wizard was around 7 or 8 when this happened but what if they were actually like four or five years old

Like shieeeet that's young enough where we wouldn't really remember our time on Earth very clearly right? Our family and maybe our friends but unless we had like ungodly memory powers, we wouldn't be able to remember all of the details of our original home. Like isn't it proven that human beings first gain self and special awareness at 3 or 4? Something like that

And this can open up for some sweet scenarios - little kid Wizard running up to Malorn with a scribbled drawing of him with a big smile on his face, or us and Ceren reading picture books together or clinging onto Nolan's robes as we attempt to stand on his feet as he walks like a penguin, but there's also this sad and messed up undertone that in this universe Ambrose took what was essentially a child just out of toddler stage and decided to keep them in the Spiral instead of returning them to their family

And like imagine how that would affect us. We would see it as normal at first because we grew up in the Spiral, we spent more years in the wizard world than in our home on Earth, but what if the Wizard gained awareness later on in life and actually realized what happened. Would they even care at that point because the Spiral was integrated in them at such a young age? Would they feel any yearning towards their original family, would they miss them at all? Would the Wizard be bitter about not getting to know them?

It's different when you're 7 - 10 and onwards because at that stage in your life you've more than gotten used to Earth life. You've gained awareness and it has been emotionally and mentally established that THIS (Earth) is your home. You know your parents and you know your friends and you know your environment. You will miss that when it's gone and feel it's absence because you're old enough to at least notice when you're taken away from it. But when you're still at that impressionable and oblivious stage of like 4 - 6 years old? The Spiral is all you know now. Your parents faces will be blurry, you may not even remember the details of what your home looked like. You may remember certain smells, colors or feelings you experienced when you were on Earth but that may be about it. And the saddest part about that is depending on what Ambrose and the other adults put our Wizard through, we may grow to completely forget even those essential memories. That Earth part of us would TOTALLY be gone and that would include even our parents (or other caretakers). I'm crying actually

#this was supposed to be a happy post LMFAO #i wanted to make little kid/familial relationships headcanons with the wizard city student npcs. maybe ill still do that #i can see even nolan taking us under his wing and hyping us up and going “WOW thats so pretty!!!” at a drawing we made #penny dreadful would be the best older sister. by accident of course bc she wasnt looking to adopt but she saw us- #-one day and was like ''yeah. yeah they can be my family'' #imagine us being one of the highlights in malorns day. after a hard day of work he just sees this little kid- #-running up ro him just so happy to see him for no reason. they hug his waist and then tell him about their day #duncan grimwater shenanigans. ''ew i dont want this child near me'' (is nice to them anyway bc theyre 4) #villains when they see a toddler has come to kill them: 🧐 #even malistaire goes ''what the fuck is this you want me to beat up a child??? ambrose???????'' #we're 8 years old when we face off morganthe in zafaria #thats so fucking funny morganthe would be APPALLED #and you bitches KNOW grandfather spider would adopt us IMMEDIATELY #''good job son (gender neutral)!'' grandfather spider says as we beat him the fuck up in mirage #wizard101 #w101 #wiz101 #text posts

[cinna-bunnie]

i shared a peanut butter cookie with my manager today

#we've been working on a project together this month and I've been getting to see her at her office more ૮ ᴖﻌᴖა #we usually just meet remotely or sometimes at the office in our city but we're setting up a new office so it's just us there #she treated me to lunch yesterday too (⁠〒⁠﹏⁠〒⁠)♡⁠ she got us gyro fries n i had some pepsis 2 share. #chaotic as the project's been it's been rly nice🧍🏾‍♀️im usually just working from home #when i get there we go to the lil coffee shop together ૮˶• ﻌ •˶ა i like their drinks n their staff r really nicey 2 me 👉🏾👈🏾 #the new office is nice too actually... even before the building change i just love talking 2 anyone frm her city. they r all so nice n #friendly and inviting. literally so akskska i am always being invited to stuff when i visit. #after moving into my next place i wanna give this city a fair chance now that i actually have a good one to Experience it for a year #and if it's more of the same imma move to her city fr 🚶🏾‍♀️i wonder where the queer ppl kick it at.. #we have some enbies n real sweet gals from that office around my age I'd love to hang with 👉🏾👈🏾 much 2 think

[practically-an-x-man]

4:21 PM on the first day of the new year

my mom: we need to talk about the car

#i don't want to talk about the car I don't even WANT the car!! at all!! #but they're making me buy it from them so i can continue driving to my sfx school #meanwhile my dad's also talking about buying another car bc 'with your sister learning to drive soon we'll need another car eventually' #which reads to me as 'we're buying another car so your 17yo sister can effectively have it. yknow to go hang out with her friends' #'oh you need to drive into the city to get your education? buy our car. market value. yeah i know it's 12 years old & has engine problems' #tw vent #vent post #vent

[hairtusk]

I will share my time with you, you make the years go slow

And I'll take good care of us both, you'll see how I can grow

#just spent the loveliest christmas break with my boyfriend; i'm heartbroken to leave even though we see each other again in 5 days :') #currently at the station in the rain looking over the city #feeljng distinctly ropey after 6 days of solid drinking #but my long-distance best friend is visiting from denmark for one night only in our hometown #so we're going to meet up and drink some more #'tis the season #anyway. say some quick prayers for my stomach and liver and poor yearning heart

[scattered-winter]

i hate the tourism industry like. so much actually. haha

#tourism absolutely choked the life out of my family's farm and all the other family owned farms in the community. lol. lmao. #we helped with a little farm work today and man....it's all so different now. we're now a small city of old rich people #who have essentially pushed out all the farms and fields. its all developing subdivisions and new apartment complexes now. #man... #winter speaks #personal #like i don't know how to express the grief i feel for the way of life i had growing up. and the way of life my mom and dad had growing up. #and their moms and dads. and their moms and dads before them. #we have always been farmers from both sides of the family it's in our blood as much as music is and now it's just...gone. #my youngest brother doesn't even know what it's like to wake up at the asscrack of dawn to go feed the calves. #there's an entire chunk of our family's history and heritage that he will never be fully connected to. #i just....man. man

[katamarigender]

crushing a can against my forehead talking to this person grAH

#and not in a good funny way. #I LOVE YOU. WHAT DO YOU NEED ME TO DO TO PROVE THAT I ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT YOU. DO YOU WANT ME TO CLONE MYSELF? #MOVE TO YOUR CITY SO I'M WITHIN DRIVING DISTANCE WHENEVER YOU'RE NOT FEELING GOOD? SAY *EXACTLY* WHAT YOU NEED TO HEAR AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT? #you're making it sound like you want to meet me halfway but you keep. moving. the middle point. to be closer to you. #we're good friends when you're happy but any time you're feeling Less Than Chipper i'm suddenly not good enough? #IS it actually all my fault and i've secretly been horrible at communicating this whole time??? #do i not bare enough of my soul to you. is that it. am i too quiet for you. #well guess what! i don't open the floodgates cause i'm not sure you can take it! to be quite honest! #i tell you how i feel and suddenly i'm making things about myself and being dismissive of your feelings. #but it's okay if i sit there and let all your thoughts and feelings wash over me #and you expect me to just nod my head and tell you how valid you are. every. single. time. #you're lucky i'm not sick of it. #or maybe not because APPARENTLY you have a plethora of other people and friends you can go to. to get the response you actually want. #so why do you even still talk to me about it if you believe i'm just going to respond wrong every time... that's what i'm wondering. #maybe this is too mean...

[soldier-poet-king]

pf session tonight joy and laughing for the first time in eons vs stress bc I have to drive to work for the next 3 weeks and haven't really done that since I once again failed the advanced permanent test in June and have sorta just sworn off this whole thing out of anxiety and self loathing vs bg3 release week is upon us and I have a long weekend to play it vs I have been SO desperately sad and empty lately ????

#franposting #it is too much I'm going to bed #but that also means tmrw gets here sooner #and work is just. been bad lately. and now we're adding extra stress via my commute #like driving doesnt even shave THAT much time off bc the 401 is so bad #and the ttc sucks but at least i can zone out and not fear for my life #i would legit rather drive downtown than on the 401 #fuck highway driving #i need to move to an apt on the subway line so i can have a reasonable commute and also not have to drive #my intermediate license expires in a year and the absolute terror of having to try the highway test again #this is a stupid system and i want to kms over it! i am a safe good regular driver #the city highways are actively hostile to human life and i dont want to use them why do i have to prove my skills on them #i need to stop im gonna work myself into a frenzy again #LITERALLY WHY IS ONTARIO LIKE THIS AND NOWHERE ELSE #stupid multi tiered driving system

[yohankang]

i really need to pack but i'm in the 'tee hee i'm going on a trip :D' mode and i can't focus at all ahjdfjsjs

#i'm seeing my friends tomorrow!!!! first i need to spent 4 hours on a train but hey. it's a trip!!! #we're gonna grab breakfast at my fav place and then go grocery shopping cook at home and then go out in the evening #it will be my first time getting drunk in a while lmao i hope my alcohol tolerance is still high .. #i'll be staying there until monday so i also hope to visit my fav botanical garden and explore the city more #and eat as much delicious food as i can lol #i'm taking monday and tuesday off <3 #i'll be back home monday evening but i still need tuesday off because i want to bake a cake and muffins to share them at work on wednesday #because people in the office already know it's my bday 😭 so i need fo prepare something... #and then on friday a friend from my hometown will visit me <3 i will literally be celebrating my bday for a whole week lmaoo #it's what i deserve 😌 #SO ANYWAY guess who's still not packed #my train is at 6:50 am [*] #i still have time to pack and take a shower and iron my clothes and paint my nails. right #k.txt #(it's almost 10pm)

[crazy-fruit]

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#jojo rambles #delete later #this is a good ramble #because I am realising that friends are good and talking to them is good #even if they live in another city or far away #telling them about your life and listening to them and their struggles #I partly feel like I am re-learning friendship #after covid and ending friendships #and realising that I actually know with whom I get a long and that these relations are more important to me than people I see weekly #because there isn't that much of a connection #I want to know what is going on beloe the surface and not only on the surface #I want trust and be trustworthy #at a time and age where we're old enough to no longer talk behind backs #where a 'secret' has a different meaning

[kaltacore]

one super important detail about carver's 'pro-templar' stance is that he openly admits that he never saw magic as a threat before kirkwall. he can be petty and constantly annoyed by his siblings being all magical and special but he never thought of them as abominations who need to be locked up for everyone's safety. kirkwall is the reason he starts to express doubts and we know how fucked up the veil here is.

if he joins the order, he does that out of necessity but i'd say he's also that rare templar who's motivated not by fear for himself but by fear for the people he cares about and at least one of them is a mage. this city is full of demons and abominations and blood magic, situation here is a lot more complicated than in ferelden and there's also his not-so-almighty mage sibling who doesn't seem to be concerned about this. even though they can be killed by one of these things. even though they can become one of them.

also he desperately needs purpose and if he was never taken to the expedition he finds one and does so by his own choice. and for the moment he thinks it's the right thing to do but the order never helps him resolve his doubts. he's never proven wrong because there are still demons and abominations threating the city. he's never proven right because some things templars do are completely unjustifiable and straight up cruel. this is not the purpose he wanted. this is not the reason worth deeping the rift between him and his sibling even more than it already was but it's too late to quit just like that. it's not like he despised the templars. it's not like he didn't understand them completely. but the way he bitterly says "you don't understand this life. i didn't" to sebastian summarises how complicated his time in the order was all along

#honestly i wouldn't say that carver is a good templar. he's loyal to whoever he serves but that's just. his way of things #good templar fucking hates mages. it's not like i'm exaggerating tho. almost all templar characters who got major promotions in the games #were traumatized by some magic accident first and then were allowed to work with mages. while they were dreaming of massacring them #or they were just. willing to kill and torture people with no traumatizing background or whatever. even better #carver is just not like that. he thinks this is a respected promising job. he can see a point of it #and then we have these cut lines where cullen mentions templar!carver was threating anyone who dared to mention hawke. well #is he that pro-templar tho. or was he just raised among mages for all his life and was taught to believe that magic is a normal thing #but then got exposed to the whole city where mages were causing problems. a lot. and started to wonder if his family was just an exception #(yeah yeah mages were not in fact the root of a problem but we're talking about character's point of view here #and carver is a lot more concerned about his place in said family and the world and his relationships with his sibling #than the veil and stuff) #as a result we get a story about distancing yourself from the people you love for a cause that was not worth it #a cause you chose and regretted but some things cannot be undone and you have to live with it now #i don't usually go for this route but it is so tragic actually. hits almost as hard as warden bethany #carver hawke #dragon age

[the-way-astray]

holding out hope . . . don’t act like it’s set in stone . . . it’s not . . . yet . . .

(much ranting in the tags)

#kotlc #yes this is about the POSSIBLE keefe short story collection or book or novella about his time in the forbidden cities emphasis on POSSIBLE #i can’t deal with anymore keefe content guys i can’t do it anymore there’s already too much #let me OUTTTTTTT shannon i just wanna be done with this series stop holding me hostage let me FREEEEE /hj #if it's keefe-centric and away from the main story why can’t she just release it AFTER the series is finished? like this is SOPHIE'S story #obviously with the baby and whatnot i’d be cool with her not releasing a book for another year but releasing extras IN PLACE of a REAL book #i don't understand /gen #if she has the energy to write a book why doesn't she just write the next one #it might not be that tho that's just a possibility obviously i'm just curious #in the case that this extra is going to be released in the place of book ten this year it's like well. why doesn't she just do book ten #i wish i could say 'i'm not a keefe hater but this is too much keefe content' but i am a keefe hater so #IT'S FINE IT MIGHT NOT BE THAT MAYBE WE'RE ALL SUPER WRONG AND SHANNON'S JUST HAVING A SILLY GOOFY TIME #also even if this IS a special announcement we could still get book ten news? along with the announcement? mayhaps? #manifesting book ten news along with the special announcement please shannon #sigh hoping praying manifesting anything not keefe #if it is a short story collection i cannot tell you how BADLY i want it to be the adults' backstories #like i'm rereading unlocked rn and grady edaline alden and della all have so many blank spots in their registry files??? #an extra could fill those in . . . just saying . . . #also the ancients #the ancients are super interesting . . . just saying . . . #luzia's pyrokinetic friend! fallon and luzia's mom! fintan (possibly) throwing vespera in the dungeon! luzia and vespera light experiments! #fallon and the other two on the original council! bronte and fintan's relationship! fintan and luzia's relationship! #bronte working under fallon as an emissary! them going to meet the ogre king! luzia and orem's relationship! why orem doesn't like his mom! #so many possibilities . . . come on shannon . . . please . . . #give us this . . . just this . . . #throw a great gulon incident short story in there to keep the keefe stans happy and then get into the juicy stuff #begging pleading imploring shannon to hear my prayers #anyway #if we manifest no keefe content there won't be keefe content <- lying