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i don't get angry when i'm pissed; i'm the eternal optimist.
been watching frieren with an rl friend! which was kinda unexpected given she doesn't watch anime and i've retired from anime for a long time. didn't expect to get as into it as i am, but we're caught up now and can't wait for the next episode.

now that we're caught up, we've been checking out apothecary diaries and man, it's so unhinged in such a fun kinda way. having a hella good time rn.



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exactly what the tin says, folks.


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i don't get angry when i'm pissed; i'm the eternal optimist.
me and my rl friends have conceptualized a lot of projects over the years but goddamn the plausibility of making a full vn is still so exciting, we already have the layout, outline, and research prepped babyyyyyy



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i havent watched anime in so long and now im in ep 10 of frieren and actively looking for keychains of himmel while struck with the longing of wanting a dead anime (male)wife. how am i here.
lmk if you find any because ive been wanting himmel merch ever since i read the manga years ago. thats my wife fr !!!!
so far the closest ive gotten is finding indie artists in redbubble when you put "himmel frieren" in the search bar BUT ITS STILL SMTH

hes such a wife i love him,,,



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i don't get angry when i'm pissed; i'm the eternal optimist.
i havent watched anime in so long and now im in ep 10 of frieren and actively looking for keychains of himmel while struck with the longing of wanting a dead anime (male)wife. how am i here.



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i don't get angry when i'm pissed; i'm the eternal optimist.
five things that went well, ez.

1. started this year a broke uni student consistently stressed off her ass with a rlly rough irl situation spanning months while being therapist to a lot of shit i shouldn't have been a therapist to; ended this year with a degree, a thesis, honors, a well-paying job, and a reminder of the absolutely incredible people in my social circles and healthy relationships ive already got

2. bought a new snazzy gaming laptop with my own money after yearning to get a new laptop since 2020 and toughing it out with my old on life-support laptop for 3 years

3. got into a rlly competitive well-paying traineeship program for a big international media conglomerate that had over 100+ applicants all around the country and only accepted 30 after a rigorous vetting process including interviews, focus groups, assessments, and webinars. they only got who they deemed "the absolute Best the country has to offer" which i'll take as a major w

4. got back into reading despite a massive multi-year reading slump i'd been on, and finished a book i rlly enjoyed within 3 days!

5. in relation to the above, just got overwhelmed with absolute love, support, and care from a lot of people within my community, and my social circles irl and online, as well as people beyond those spheres after a rough stint a few months back. genuinely cannot be any happier with where i'm at.

jokingly called this year to my friends and my therapist (so another w: finally got the financial stability & motivation to get therapy after wanting to do so for so many years), this was rlly the year of character development for me and as much of a hot mess it was, i'm p satisfied with how it turned out for me and my choices. which, if you told me i'd be in this mindset and position last january, i would NOT believe you and still be crying over thesis.

all in all - for all its highs and lows, merry christmas and happy holidays everyone! here's to the new year, baby.
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- baldur's gate 3 finally. reached act 3 last night. please don't look at my steam hours on it please.
- god of war: ragnarök's valhalla dlc. gowr is easily my all time favorite game for a number of reasons, and the fact they dropped the valhalla dlc for free on my birthday is just, like, some kinda sign ill be real.

prior to both of those, resident evil 4 remake. bought separate ways last week so i'm planning on picking that up after my first run of bg3, then replaying either tyranny, pillars of eternity, or divinity: original sin 2.



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finally playing baldurs gate 3, its been less than a week, and my dm backlogs in all social media and chat apps has never been longer o h n o



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currently reading Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchinson and man, it makes me want to write mlm or wlw assistants to rival magicians in the early 1910s energy.

also currently reading Black Punk Now, edited by James Spooner and Chris L. Terry & Defeating Dictators: Fighting Tyranny in Africa and Around the World by George B. N. Ayittey, albeit less regularly than the above since they're primarily non-fiction deepdives into major topics. enjoying both of them a lot!

lowkey tempted to finally reread the Strange the Dreamer duology by Laini Taylor after BWD since i unironically consider the seond book in that series an actual masterpiece and its been so long since i've read it, but we'll see
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wish i could find someone to write toxic yuri with me
next time we're on a site together hmu lets go, for however shortlived their thread was isobel and sirin were fun



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bc a couple ppl posted old lines they wrote, im joining the bandwagon bc these two passages are stuff im hella proud of and hate a lot for the sheer reason that i cant write these bangers again bc i already did

Penelope doesn't get it, honestly.

Niko. Colette. Niko and Colette. She's sure a few might consider it jealousy — the girl next door dislikes the relationship between a boy who happens to be a close friend, and his prettier, hotter, domineering girlfriend. But that's not why Penelope doesn't get it.

It's... this. The push and pull, to return to a bleeding wound knowing it'll just reopen. If it's love, don't you learn?


this other one is rlly long so ill spoiler text it but i swear, allow me to write introspection and i absolutely will write introspection

In another life, Thian drafts a different story of could have beens and what ifs. It’s not something that’s habit; for as much as he once considered himself an artist, he could rarely envision something grand. Too rational. Both feet on land. He’s not Cassandra, who can scheme up brilliant ideas and madness in a technicolor form of something to remember. He’s not V—

He sighs. Thian drafts the concept art in his head. In another life, family didn’t die and brothers didn’t leave. In another life, a scholarship is won and he went on a plane to Athens and never looked back. In another life, he and Patterson might have made it past three months, maybe even until after a graduation he actually lasted in college enough for. In another life, Zachariah Valiente is alive, and Thian’s still his protege. In another life, he didn’t turn Val down the first time, and they probably blew up into a fallout that left nothing but bad wounds and hated each other for the rest of time. In another life, he got it right with Cassandra. In another life, he got it right with the boy with streaks in his hair. In another life, there is no Asmodeus. In another life, his magic stayed as it was. In another life, he was already dead before he got to this point, gave in to the teenage angst dream of death and suicide or the burnout that kills you sooner than any goddamn natural cause. In another life, he kept the stupid guitar. In another life, maybe he could take the idea of someone who ľ̵̗̱̏̏o̸̧͆̾͠v̶̠͚̅̍ȩ̷̗̥̿ś̵͓̞ him, without any fucking pacts intersecting that question. No goddamn idolization, no goddamn immunity, just—

”Don’t think the with a heart’s hypothetical,” he says coolly, because it’s an easy enough thing to say. Kai Tan gives a damn.


edit: actually, rereading the thread the above passage is from, i also remembered this bit and how much i love the trope of "non-theatric/talkative/eloquent character abruptly rambles into a soliloquy about existentialism and what it means to be a person". bonus is that i was tipsy while writing this. spoilered due to the sheer LENGTH my god.

Love, in Thian’s cloistered and narrow understanding of the word, is weird, complicated, and inherently fucking difficult to separate from other shit. Lust, fascination, idolization, codependency. Pick your poison. He’s likely gone through every iteration, and is all too willing to just foot the bill.

Something bothers him about the story she tells, though. In the effortless question of what it means to be wanted, or if it were ever possible…

”Bullshit.”

No hesitation, a response blunter than a kitchen knife.

”People make stupid fucking decisions, and we keep making stupid fucking decisions, but isn’t that the whole fucking point of, I don’t know, being a person?”

He doesn’t know if he’s making sense.

”We just make the stupid decision, and sure, it’s, like, shit to realize or look back on later. But seven times out of ten, we do what we can to not make the same stupid decision, then make more stupid ones, and avoid making our old ones, until, eventually, that lands us with…”

With what?

Us, and it’s bullshit that stupid decisions automatically means you’re never going to be wanted by someone, because there’s at least 7-billion people in the universe, and sure, it’s none of that soulmate crap — but that kind of… permutation of stupid decisions must just make you someone who can be enough for someone who’s their own mess of stupid decisions that wants to do it right, just like you do. And with you, because we’re all idiots who don’t fucking like being alone. If we did, we wouldn’t be fucking surrounded by art. Which, you know, is shit made by someone else and is an outpour of who that person is, or was, and what mattered enough to them that it was worth making something about.”

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thinking a lot abt this line from disco elysium and going insane again

VOLITION: Subdue the regret. Dust yourself off, proceed. You'll get it in the next life, where you don't make mistakes. Do what you can with this one, while you're alive.


if you havent played disco elysium yet, this is your sign to play disco elysium.



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