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#🫐 ; anniversary tag
ectoplasmer · 9 months
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two years. Where do I even start with this
I'm not going to try to act like these characters have been with me through some super hard part of my life within the past two years, because they haven't. I've had a normal life with nothing too big happening that completely disrupts me from my day-to-day experiences in the last few years. But I'm not going to let that fact invalidate all the smaller and tinier stresses and spirals they've helped me through. And believe me, I have a lot of those.
They have been there for the mornings when I'd wake up too early and be unable to fall back asleep, the afternoons I spent poring over essays I could've started days ago, the nights I spent stubbornly staying up much too late. They've been there for each silly overthinking session I had, for each nervous ache I got, each stumbled and rushed phrase I spoke. They've been there for when I would be nervous to walk into some crowded aisle in the store, when I would pace around the room because something had gotten me worked up, when I would get so many emotions over something and tear up over it. Every new habit, every new interest, every little victory and small loss... they've been there with me through it for the past two years. And I really don't know how to voice how new and different this is for me.
I don't usually hold onto interests for this long. I'll get into something and it'll occupy my mind for maybe eight months until something else grabs my attention and I move on to the next thing. Any past f/os I had wouldn't stick around this long. Sure, I'd still love the character, I'd still see them as my favorite character from their series, but they wouldn't move on with me to the next interest. And while I will admit that I have loved all of my f/os, current and past, very deeply, none of them seem to really compare to the love I have for my boys now. I remember being so nervous to get into something new because I was worried that I'd lose interest, that the feelings I have for them would be replaced with something that feels lesser and less fulfilling. It sounds silly when I type it out, but it was genuinely something I was afraid of. I didn't think I could ever love anyone the way I love them, and to an extent, I still feel this way.
But, geez, if they were to follow that usual formula, they are a whole 16 months late. And guess what? I have gotten into other things, picked up other shows, other books, and they are still here. I still love them, they still occupy my mind all too much, I still think about them. This silly series still has me in a choke hold after two years and I genuinely don't think it's going away for a while yet. I was literally smiling like an idiot over some cards that reminded me of them earlier, got happy over seeing a picture of one of them unprompted the other day... I'm still so in love with them and I truly hope that doesn't end any time soon <3
It feels so nice to be able to get into things with all of them. It's nice having someone to watch and read things with and getting to imagine how they'd react over things, what things we could discuss and joke over, what specific things would interest them more than others... A lot of our time when we first got together was spent watching movies because I was overly aware of the fact most of them probably didn't get to experience the life I did. They didn't get the chance to have the childhood I had, be it because of the fact they're not even from this century, or because of the circumstances of how they were brought up. I make an effort to try and include them in everything I do, consciously or not, because I want them to be able to have the chance to experience as many things as possible. I even think about them being there with me during classes, as silly as that sounds, so it's been extra fun being able to genuinely get into things with them beside me without worrying about losing them or whatever.
I'm sure I've been over this before, but I've never been this involved with my f/os before. Like I said, I genuinely did love all of my past ones, but that love feels so much more indirect than the love I have for my current f/os. I don't think I've ever referred to a character as my "boyfriend" or my "partner" as casually as I do for my boys. I don't remember using the term "love of my life" for anyone else as often as I do for my boys. I don't even remember being caught up thinking about how much I want to marry a character as much as I have for my boys. This all feels so much more serious for me because of that. So much newer and unknown and just... baffling? In a way? It feels like so much more than anything else from before. As cliche and silly as it might be, I genuinely think they are the loves of my life. I don't know where I'd even be without them. I don't know who or what else could possibly take up this much space in my life, in my brain, in my heart. I just... I love them so much. And I've gotten to do that for two full years. And that's so insane to me.
I've loved getting to go to sleep at the end of my day and getting to imagine them holding me and sharing my bed with me, I've loved getting to go through whatever routines I have and imagining them going through their own beside me, I've loved getting to sit while doing my own thing and imagining them there with me. I've loved getting to have them in my life, I've loved getting to be all giddy and happy over them, and I've loved getting to love them. One year was insane enough for me, but two years is just so much more. I think with every year it'll just be as baffling as the last for me. And I'm not saying this with the usual sense of "if we make it another year", because by this point I'm not putting anything past them. I think I probably will be here again next year writing a post at an ungodly time of night just like I am now. That won't stop me from being so blown away each time.
so here’s to two years of me and these dorks. I’m already excited to see where the next one will take us <3
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maximumdino · 1 year
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The Chromatic Legacy Challenge: 3 Year Anniversary Edition
Sul Sul! 🌺🍋🍒 ☔ 💝🫐🍫🍇🏁🍀🌹🎮🍊💎🌲
I’ve been revisiting this challenge every year since it's creation (2020), and I'm back again with a slightly modified version of CLC. While playing some old challenges like Not So Berry, I realized that I have some ideas for a challenge myself. That's how I came to create The Chromatic Legacy Challenge, and I’m excited to share it with everyone! This is a VERY colorful challenge that's updated to March of 2023. This challenge is designed to get the very best out of the Sims 4, and I hope you like it! There are 15 generations with certain unique requirements to complete their generation! It's always interesting to see how long it takes you to complete all the generations. Tag me at or @maximum.sims to share your beautiful creations with me! Thanks so much for playing, hope you have fun! You all are absolutely wonderful.
ALL GENERATIONS: RULES
-Like other colorful challenges, it is suggested that the hair, makeup, clothes, and house of your heirs ARE the color of the generation (which is listed in the rules of each generation).
Money cheats are not allowed! Promotion or skill cheats are also not allowed. The only kinds of cheats that are allowed are cheats that influence a babies gender/number and (if you wish) or need cheats.
-If you post your game, tag me! Tag your post with #chromaticlegacychallenge on Instagram or Tumblr (@maximum.dino) and tag me @maximum.sims!
-Normal lifespan is recommended
-At the end of the day, do what you want. If you don't like a requirement, don't have a pack, you don't have to do it. This is designed for you to have fun, so do what you want! <3
-I love you, thank you for playing, it makes me so happy to see! I hope you enjoy
Without further to do...
1 ~ Bubblegum🌺
You grew up in a humble home with your parents, searching your couch cushions for money. After your parents die, you have nowhere left to go but a small lot next to your old family home. Your parent’s old home where you learned to train and take care of animals was bulldozed in a unexpected event, and now all you can hope is that you can build a veterinary clinic on top of the foundation of the remains of your childhood home.
- Vegetarian, gloomy and the dog or cat lover trait
- Must complete the friend of the animals and soulmate aspirations
- Starts life in an empty lot without any more than 20k simoleons.
-Adopt at least one stray cat and one stray dog
- Max out the pet training, herbalism, and veterinary skills
- Run your own veterinary clinic. Build your house inside the clinic. Get it to 4 or 5 stars
- marry a sim who has the opposite animal lover trait (if your a cat lover, marry a dog lover and visa versa.
- Optional: Complete the feather collection
- pink
2 ~ Lemonade 🍋
You grew up with a loving family, and never had any reason to doubt yourself. You respect your family's vet business but strive for something else. You've always been good at using technology and getting along with others, and you are so excited for your future and can’t wait to become a parent. Your parents lend you some money- and off you go to start a new life in the real world. But things didn’t exactly go as planned. Your home is smaller than it looked on the housing website, and your hopes are skyrocketing down. When you’re about ready to give up, you get an opportunity to be a secret agent for the type of company you only heard about in movies.
-self assured, family orientated, squeamish traits
-must complete the computer whiz and super parent aspirations. Cheat the tech guru part of the Computer Whiz aspiration, as this sim is not in the tech guru career.
-reach level 10 of the secret agent career (diamond agent branch)
- max out the programming and parenting skills
-Start as a YA in a one bedroom tiny home or one bedroom apartment. You may only move/expand when you become an adult
-Yellow
3 ~ Cherry🍒
You can't remember a time in your life without someone by your side. Ever since you were a child, you knew that forever you and your best friend would stick together for your whole lifetime. But you are an aspiring actor, and a wonderful comedian - and your best friend… is not. You set off to Del Sol Valley the moment you turn 21 to pursue an acting career, leaving your friends and family behind. As you navigate celebrity life, you act, you flirt… but no relationships stick. That is, until reuniting with your childhood best friend...
-goofball, outgoing, romantic
-must complete the master actor and joke star aspirations. Cheat the entertainer part of the Joke Star aspiration, as this sim is not in the entertainer career.
-Be best friends with someone during childhood and teenhood. Grow apart during your young adulthood, and marry them in your adulthood
-Move to Del Sol Valley when you age up into a young adult
-Flirt with many sims, but do not commit to an official partner until you get with your childhood friend.
-Max out the comedy skill
-Reach level 10 of the acting career and max the skill
-Become a world famous celebrity and place your celebrity tile down
- Red
4 ~ Periwinkle☔
You have always been proud of your parent, a successful actor who taught you to be the best you that you can be. You had always wanted to follow in their footsteps, but after seeing them in a musical, you couldn't stray your thoughts away from the idea of being a big music star. Since childhood, you've been playing all the instruments and making music. You struggle with love, and you just want to meet your special someone. Playing music for money outside of your home, you start your path to becoming a famous musician.
-Music Lover, Snob, Dance Machine
-Complete the Musical Genius and admired Icon aspirations
-Play music in the city during your young adulthood
-Max the dance skill + three of the following skills: singing, guitar, violin, piano, or DJ mixing, pipe organ
-Reach level 10 of the Social Media career
-Make at least two Trendi looks a week
-Get signed by a record label, win an award for your music, or place down a celebrity tile next to your parent's.
- Be in five or more relationships throughout your life, at least 4 ending on bad terms.
-Indigo
5 ~ Rosegold🏵️
Unlike the rest of your family, who all aspire to be in the spotlight, you are unsure of what you want to do with your life. Being a barista and taking care of your chickens is the only thing you can think to do to support yourself. You always had a knack for the creative arts and seem to get along really well with llamas and bunnies, but never knew how to put that into a job. Finally, after long days of research, you decide to open your own retail store to sell your works- with a farm to support you at home.
-Animal Enthusiast, creative and cheerful
-Max out either the knitting or handiness skill (or both!) and the cross-stitching skill
-Max out the barista career, mixology skill, and finish the Master Mixologist Aspiration
- Run a retail business to sell woodworking or knitted clothing and own a farm.
-Have a chicken coop in your parent's backyard as a child
-Do at least one task for Henford on Bagely residents a week
- After completing the barista career quit your job to be a full time retail business owner and farmer
-Have exactly three children, and they must be triplets you may cheat this
Optional: Complete Country Caretaker Aspiration
-Peach
6 ~ Blueberry 🫐
You've never been afraid of anything. The world looked different in your eyes, and you always saw everything as an opportunity. While the other triplets play games outside on the farm, you spent your childhood days afterschool watching the news. That's when you realized how broken and messed up the world was, and you soon realize that you want to help. Instead of becoming a detective or police officer, you decide to become a lawyer to defend the innocent, and you write books on your achievements. But every hero has their flaws, and yours is you're too busy helping the world to watch your children grow.
-Ambitious, Perfectionist, Good
-Complete the Friend of the World aspiration and the Bestselling Author Aspiration
-Watch the news after school as a kid
-Max out the research and debate and writing skills
-Take in a stray cat or dog
-Marry an ambitious sim as a young adult, drift apart from spouse during adulthood. Become best friends with them as an elder
-Adopt a toddler
-Hire a nanny to take care of all of your children. Do not take care of them yourself.
-Reach level 10 of the Law career in the lawyer branch
-Always do your homework and at home work task throughout your life.
-Always work hard at work/school
-Optional: earn the workaholic lifestyle for both you and your spouse
-blue
7 ~ Bronze 🍫
You love plants. Your very blue parent is always busy with helping other people that they never spent much time helping you. As a result, you spent the entirety of your childhood in your room, growing plants, doing homework and making things. When you become a young adult, you move to a new place where you are all on your own. You love gardening, but your passion for robotics gets you into the engineer career.
-loner, loves outdoors, Overachiever
-Complete the Freelance Botanist and Outdoor Enthusiast Aspirations
-Be a high school and elementary school A student
-Move into a world away from your family when aging up into a YA
-Have a fully functional garden
-Max out the robotics, flower arranging and gardening skills
-Have a low relationship with both of your parents
-Have your child complete all infant milestones and finish a child aspiration
-Have just one kid and be best friends with them
-Obtain the super green thumb trait and early bird trait from the rewards store
-Join the Engineer career and reach level 10
-Optional: Unlock the outdoorsy lifestyle
-Brown
8 ~ Violet 🍇
Your parent clinged to you since you were a child. You know that they just want to make you feel loved, but you can't help but feel smothered a bit by their love. You adore them, too, but you do wish you had a bit more independence. You spend lots of your time playing soccer with your parents (even though it isn't their strong suit) and dreaming of one day climbing Mount Komorebi with all of your friends by your side. Luckily, your parents are receptive to your wishes for independence and want to help you in any way you can, sending you out with hopes and lots of love for a safe journey up the mountain.
-Active, adventurous and jealous traits
-Complete the extreme sports enthusiast and bodybuilder aspiration
-Max out the fitness and rock climbing skills. Max out either the snowboarding or skiing in addition
-Reach level 10 of the athlete career
-Lead 3+ mountain expeditions
-Have at least one tragic event happen during your life (interpret this how you wish)
-Have you or your partner read your child(ren) to sleep every night
- Have your parent (bronze gen) attend all of your babies' births.
-Move your parent in while they're an elder until their death.
-Have a close friend group of 3-4 from high school to death
-purple/violet
9 ~ Silver  🏁
Rock Climbing? Check. Karaoke? Check. Swimming? Check. Your parents prepared you for everything by reading you stories every night of what you can be. Everything sounds so interesting, from meeting mermaids to spying on your noisy apartment neighbors. When you were a kid, you couldn't wait to grow up! You can't wait to try and cook all sorts of foods and drinks, and throw all sorts of crazy parties. Now that you're an adult, there is so much to see and do… and you're going to do it all!
-Child of the Ocean, foodie, childish traits
-Work in the salary person career in order to fund your travels
-Every house you live in must be a tiny home (any tier)
-Have at least two flings in every world you live in
-Reach level 10 of the charisma skill and max out 3 other skills
-Complete Any Collection OR learn all of the recipes at the food stalls in San Myshuno
-Finish the Mt. Komorebi Sightseer aspiration as a teen, the city life aspiration as a Young Adult, and the Beach Life aspiration as a adult
-Raise your children in a home in Sulani
-silver/grey
10 ~ Mint 🌿
While your parents were out partying and adventuring, you read every single book in your bookcase. You have fantasized about beaches with clear and blue waters- but Sulani isn't exactly like the stories. There's a lot of garbage in the water, and the water is murky green. You make the decision to start an organization to help Sulani flourish once again. That's why you absolutely hate litterbugs- well, until you meet a special litterbug… which makes you more determined than ever to convince this person to listen to your passion. It's a tough job, especially for someone who can't even order a drink at a restaurant, but you find yourself enchanted with them- almost as much as the ocean you love.
-Child of the Island, socially awkward, bookworm
-Complete the Curator and Leader of the Pack aspirations
-Complete the Microscopic Prints Collection
-Reach level 10 of the logic and fishing skills
-Restore Sulani and become best friends with a dolphin
- Complete the frog collection
-Reach level 10 of the conservationist career
-Your last partner must be someone who you talked out of being a Fish Poacher, a Litterbug, or an Anti-Environmentalist. You must be enemies first before redeeming your relationship- romantically. Whether you marry them, woohoo them, date them, or end the relationship is up to you.
-Live in Sulani for entire life
-Create a club of conservationists and have a gathering at the beach every Friday
-mint
11 ~ Velvet 🌹
You grew up with one central rule in your home; Stay clean, stay green, and stay safe. Of course, You decided to be magenta instead of green, but you still abide by the rules. While helping your family rescue turtles and remove trash from the beautiful blue waters, you were inspired to draw them all. Every second of your life you were thinking about how beautiful everything you saw would look if you had created it by hand.  What a beautiful world you live in, and you just must capture its beauty. You work hard to learn your craft, working as a painter for your livelihood. But once you get to the top of the career, you realize that life working on art every day all day was causing you to lose the passion for art that you always had as a child. So... You quit. Your new life is ahead of you, and you want to spend it with your family, and doing the occasional side gig.
-Neat, Proper, Art Lover
-Max out the creativity skill and Artistic Prodigy child Aspiration
-Complete the Painter Extraordinaire and Master Maker Aspiration
-Max out the painting, fabrication, and juice fizzing skills
-Reach level 10 of the painter career. After this is complete, become a freelance painter.
-Paint a Painting From Reference of every world
-Move next to one of your ancestors' houses and paint the house.
-Paint a picture of mint generation, black Generation and orange generation (at any ages)
-Have exactly two children, and they must be twins. You may cheat this.
-Have a wall of art and memories in your bedroom
-Have an Eco Friendly footprint
-Have the Eco Lot trait at all times
- magenta, velvet
12 ~ Black 🎮
Your family tells you that you're the next person in a long line of successful people, but you don’t really understand. You wish that you could be an artist like your parents, but you just can’t draw. In your meantime, you like to cook while staying in your own little zone, making delicious foods to eat. You want to be a gamer… or maybe a simtuber? Or maybe you should have settled for making grilled cheese in your parents’ basement. You can't see yourself being an important name on simtube, especially with all of the enemies you've made. Your twin wants to help you, and soon you find yourself behind the camera, starting to record your first ever video.
-Complete the Master Chef and Grilled Cheese Aspirations
-Unflirty, Geek, Hotheaded
-Upload at least two videos a week using the video studio
-Livestream video games three times a week
-Max out the cooking, gourmet cooking, video gaming and media production skills
-Be best friends with your twin
-Write and publish a novel
-Complete a multi skilled aspiration as a child
-Max out all child skills
-Make enemies with anyone with the mean or anyone who is mean to you or your friend
-Get into a fight with 5+ sims
-Date ONE sim who must be outgoing. It's your choice if you chose to stay with this sim
-Have only one friend not in your family during your childhood and high school
-Have your child(ren) using the science baby function
-black and white
13 ~ Orange 🍊
You were born into fame, and you love the attention. You’ve always loved pranking your parents and friends at school, and you also love photography. You like taking pictures of your world, inspired by your grandparent’s artistic talent. You don’t spend very much time with your parents, but you don’t really mind, because you enjoy spending time with your friends. You're a photographer and mischievous partier, but you try to keep your persona clean as you head into your job as a doctor after graduating from college. But during college… you go wild. Parties, keg stands, woohoo galore.
-Party Animal, bro, lazy
-Complete the Chief of Mischief and Academic Aspirations
-Max out the doctor career
-Max out the mischief and photography skills
-Marry two different sims in your lifetime
-Have a zero relationship with both of your parents
-Make enemies with a coworker
-Have all of your children young
-Cheat on a partner multiple times
-Have a voodoo doll tied to all of your exes
-Never talk to or invite over your parents to your home
-All of your children must be accidental (to the sim, maybe not to the simmer)
-Woohoo with at least 6 of your college friends without commitment
-Optional: Complete the Party Animal Aspiration
-orange
14 ~ Turquoise 💎
Your family was always very important to you, so when your parents slipped up one day and told you, in fact, that you do have a grandparent who’ve you never met. But whenever you ask about them, your family refuses to answer. As a teenager, you do some digging, and you find the address of your grandparents, and you end up at their doorstep with questions. You look to them for guidance, leaving your parents behind you. But things don’t go as planned, and soon you have to be a young parent, too. You fall in love with your child at first glance and you want the best for them, but you still don’t know what life you want, so you find a job as a food critic thanks to your grandparent. But your struggles aren’t over, because when your grandparent dies, you get fired from your job, and you are left without a job. So, without anyone else to go to, you resort to taking up an offer to put your thieving skills to work as a criminal…
-Clumsy, Kleptomaniac, non committal
-Criminal, babysitter, and Critic careers
-Complete the Renaissance Sim and Public Enemy aspirations
-Never meet your grandparents until you move from home as a teenager and move in with them
-reach level 10 of the parenting skill
-Have your only child in the beginning of your young adulthood or sooner
-Be a babysitter as a teenager. Become a critic until you get your grandparent dies, and become a criminal after they die
-Take family leave while your child is an infant.
-Reach level 3 in 3 careers
-Move out of your grandparent’s house when they die. When they die, their whole inheritance goes to you. (their money)
-Get engaged once but never marry
-Turquoise
15 ~ Pine 🌲
While you adore your parent, you can’t help but want to steer clear of their criminal lifestyle. Your family easily provides you with science sets and miniature explosives that they directly told you NOT to blow up your siblings with, and you're ready to go to space and meet some aliens. You also love to bake, because you love to eat (a little too much). Once you become a teenager, your parent ran into the cops and had to leave your home to go live somewhere else. That somewhere else… was Evergreen Harbor. It was quite not-green (unlike yourself) and you couldn't help but want to help people fix up their beloved, once flourishing town. And as much as you love Sixam, you love your own planet, too. So you get to work.
- Genius, glutton and materialistic traits
- Finish the Eco Innovator and Nerd Brain Aspirations
- Move with your family to Evergreen Harbor as a teen, and live there for the rest of your life
- Reach level 10 of the scientist career
- Max out the baking and rocket science skills
- Go to Sixam
- Enter every Finchwick Fair with a pie every possible time
- Woohoo in a rocketship at geekcon
- Complete any collection (one that has not already completed by past generations)
- Overcome a fear
- Live in an off the grid lot the entirety of your young adulthood
-Optional: Complete the Live Fast Teen Aspiration
- green
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loveofmirsan · 8 months
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MirSan Week 2023 💜
We had so much fun celebrating our favorite taijiya this past week with @only-you-sango-week! We hope you'll join us as we keep the love going next month with MirSan Week 2023! 💞
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Join us in exactly one month as we celebrate 15 loving years of marriage between our favorite monk and demon slayer with themes pulled straight from both the modern and traditional wedding anniversary gifts.
🫐 Dates: October 9th - 15th 🫐
Themes:
10/9 | Paper & Clocks
10/10 | Cotton & China
10/11 | Leather & Glass
10/12 | Fruits & Flowers
10/13 | Wood & Silver
10/14 | Iron & Candy
10/15 | Linens & Lace
Make sure to tag us @loveofmirsan and tag your posts #weekofmirsan2023 so we can share in the love of all of your amazing creations 💜💕
🍂If you have any questions, please feel free to ask! Some FAQs are listed below the cut!🍂
We're so excited to fall in love with MirSan all over again with all of you this fall 💞
FAQs:
Do I have to use both of the prompts for a day? No, definitely not! The prompts are there to help with inspiration, so please feel free to use both, either, or even neither if you prefer!
Can I post within a story I already am writing or does it have to be its own story/oneshot? You can post any MirSan fic you'd like! Whether that's new or something you have already been working on - even our mods are expecting to use some of the theming to update their own longstanding WIPs, so absolutely feel free to do the same!
Do I have to participate in all days? Of course as avid MirSan fans, we'd love to see work on all of the days, but it's definitely up to you how much you'd like to post! Only have the bandwidth for a single day - great! Only a couple days worth of drabbles - that works too! The whole week except the last day - wonderful! It's 100% your call 🙂
When do I have to post/will it count if it's late? If the listed dates don't work for you, you are, of course, more than welcome to post whenever you are able, we will always reblog even if it's outside of the official event dates! We'd never say no to more MirSan!!💜
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sentinelprimeswife · 3 months
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˚ ༘ ✰ ·˚꒰ hello! ꒱ ₊˚ˑ༄
✦ my name is rebeca but you can call me beck or brady!
✦ basic info: (18) (POC // asian & mexican) (afab)
✦ i go by any pronouns and i am unlabeled!
✦ im a self shipper (Officially married to TFA Sentinel Prime, it’s canon btw) (idc what you have to say ;) )
✦ fun fact! i’ve had a crush on him for over 12 years and my anniversary is on july 17!
✦ my inbox is always open and so are my dms and i’m verrry active!
✦ it takes a lot to offend me and i’m not one to block people but please behave!
✦ a little add on from ^ i don’t find jokes about harming him to be funny so please try to hold back from saying them around me <33
✦ also don’t be afraid to tag me in sentinel prime content!
✦ my other social media accounts will most likely have the same “sentinelprimeswife” username!
✦ im most likely the -🫐🍊anonymous asker if im asking nsfw accounts!
✦ i only post/re-post Sentinel Prime related content!
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ectoplasmer · 9 months
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Kinda late but Happy belated two year anniversary!!!🩷🩷🩷 Hope it was a great day and for more years to follow with lots of love!!😁
don’t worry about being late!! you saw how long it took me to actually respond to this lol. thank you for the well wishes, it definitely was a great and enjoyable day with my boys <3
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ectoplasmer · 2 years
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hhhoh no anniversary is in less than a month
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ectoplasmer · 9 months
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hey. hey guess what monday is
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ectoplasmer · 2 years
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so, I spent a ton of time rolling around how exactly I wanted to make this post; I didn't know whether or not I should make it as some sort of letter to my f/os, I'm not sure if I wanted it to be a big huge multi-paragraph post, I wasn't sure how to frame a lot of things with it. But now that I'm actually sitting down and typing this, I don't think I really need to legitimize how this post is constructed. I'm just going to type... and see where it gets me. Talk about how I got here and how the past year has been with these characters in my life, and just. appreciate them :) I'm starting out a bit heavy here, so there is a content warning for animal death and a bit of negativity. Don't feel entitled to read <3
My aunt's dog passed away on July 14th last year. I spent the day leading up to it sick with nervousness and wondering how I'd deal with the feelings that came with losing a dog that had been with me throughout my whole life. I spent a lot of time feeling guilty because I hadn't seen her very often after my aunt moved out of our house. I spent so much time thinking about certain memories I had with this dog and how much I loved her. I remember arriving at my aunt's apartment and just breaking down sobbing, because I thought about how this dog used to literally shake in place whenever she saw me, how she used to always be so excited by my arrival or appearance. But now she couldn't do that; her legs didn't work much anymore, and she looked so frail. She was still excited to see me, still dragged herself to the doorway when I arrived, but I could tell it took her so much energy to do it.
Taking her to the vet wasn't much better. I'd already begun crying when the doctor tried to walk us through the urn pamphlet, and going through the experience of seeing her lay there, when she wasn't even really there... it hurt. A lot. And I think that's to be expected. But I went home afterwards, after sitting with my aunt in her car for a while just to make sure we both recovered from whatever heartbreak we'd undergone, and I sat in my living room and went about the rest of the day. Maybe it's weird of me to say, but I thought it'd be worse. Don't get me wrong, I still miss her. I still miss that dog so much and even typing this has me tearing up because I'm trying to recollect whatever even happened during this time, but I thought I'd be more... torn up over it, I guess. I felt almost numb about it, and I felt guilty over it.
I kept thinking for the few days following her death that no one would ever be as excited to see me as she was again, that my aunt's apartment would just feel strange and vague and foreign now without her. And it did. It still feels like a piece of her home is missing whenever I visit her, even after she's moved into an apartment that that dog hasn't and will never touch. It made me feel weirdly alone, even though I knew that was absurd. But that thought kept creeping back into my head, about how someone I'd known nearly my whole life is gone now, someone I considered a staple in my existence, and it made me feel really worn and... dare I say, lonely.
My way of dealing with these tough emotions has always been through fictional worlds and stories, so I turned to good old reliable childhood cartoons, because of course I did. It was mostly just to distract myself, to try and ignore my boredom and that insistent underlying ache from the past week. I don't remember how exactly it ended up on my recommendations list, but it did: the recognizable figure of the protagonist of Yu-Gi-Oh just standing there on my screen, likely mocking me and my growing boredom towards Code Lyoko's monotonous and repetitive story telling. I think I might've already started the show a year or so back, but I dropped it due to distractions and other busying plans going on at the same time. So, I thought, "Why not? What much do I have to lose? At least I'd get the right to say I watched this whole series, if it does end up being uninteresting" (which was, and still is, my main excuse for all media I get into).
And, to say the least, even with 4kids's flashy quips and sometimes stupid humor... the show was really quick to charm me. It wasn't even a slow buildup, this was something that instantly grabbed me and dragged me along with it for all the plot points and it's characters. I'd already known about Yu-Gi-Oh from my childhood, through the very blurry memories of a five year old that spent most of her time inside. However, I knew I was enough of a fan for the series because I very clearly remember being sad when Zexal would be playing on Nickelodeon rather than DM ^^; Though I didn't know much about the plot, and I barely recognized any of the characters, that didn't ruin the experience at all for me. I got to learn the story all over again, experience it in it's entirety, become familiar with the people within it all over again... and it definitely helped me stave off the boredom, and maybe with the help of a bit of projection... it helped me feel less lonely.
I think that's a big chunk of what this series was even originally about. I mean, we do start off with the protagonist being a timid, lonely boy who spends most of his time with a puzzle, and once he finishes it, he wishes for a true friend. While this does come in the form of the main friend group, it also comes in the form of the Pharaoh. There's all sorts of things I can highlight with this series and friendship, but I feel like the best thing I can point out is Yugi's whole character arc. Being able to go from someone "weak" with no friends, to someone who is slowly building his way to being stronger, who has people who support him and he supports back... it gave me hope, I think. I'd never been the best with making friends. But something about this character always gave me comfort, and looking at this series as a whole... a ton of the lessons provide an understanding I think few things have been able to capture for me.
Whew, okay, heavy and actually "important" things out of the way... onto the whole point of me making this post and day a big deal. I am absolutely horrible with keeping track of time, so this day probably isn't the most accurate for when I officially deemed certain characters as f/os, but I feel like it's important enough that I might as well count it. I think a more accurate date would actually be closer to Ryou's birthday, and I didn't even officially add Melvin to the list until sometime in December, and Thief King is a whole other mess... but let's not think about that too much ^^;
I'm not even sure where to start with this part. Usually I'd break it down into the usual four paragraphs but... there's just so much these characters have done for me that I'm not sure I can break it into just four paragraphs. I'm still finding it so trippy that I've spent nearly a year with them. They've been with me through a half remembered summer, a busy autumn, a harsh winter and a tired spring. They've been with me on the days I didn't feel like getting out of bed and the days where I was so nervous that I had to drag myself out, they've been with me on my fatigued mornings and stressed afternoons, they've been with me through my embarrassed moments and the moments where I felt dumb and like a mess. And of course they've been there for my better moments and good days, too, for the days I would do nothing and feel satisfied with it, for the days I would do something I was worried about only for it to turn out better than I expected. And I don't think there's much I could ever do to thank them for it all.
They've... made me feel wanted, if that makes any sense at all. They've made me feel less alone. And that means so much more than I could ever describe. Even when I would have those moments where I thought I must be such a child to be imagining characters comforting me when I was upset or stressed, those bouts of negativity wouldn't last very long. Maybe it's stereotypical of me to say this, but... these characters, they've made me feel different compared to the other fictional crushes I've had. Back in January, I had a dream that was specifically about Ryou, and usually that wouldn't be such a big deal but... it was for me. I've had dreams that used fictional characters as placeholders, as in my brain would use stock images or things that looked similar to them to fill in gaps but... this had been the first time I'd genuinely talked to and interacted with any of them. And this was absolutely ground breaking to me, considering it was him of all people. And I think that made me so much more hopeless when it came to my love of this character and his series.
I could drone on and on about how these characters have been a comfort to me, how much I love them, how much I feel like they've helped me this past year... but this post is already long enough and I have all of today to talk about them.
So... happy one year to me and these dorks, I guess. I can't wait to do it all over again :)
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ectoplasmer · 2 years
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while I think a more accurate time for this would be during a moment where it isn’t 12am… today marks exactly a year since I started watching Duel Monsters, and while it has taken over quite a big chunk of my life… I don’t think I’d have it any other way <3 thank you to whatever whims of (algorithm) fate that ended up putting this show on my Netflix recommendations lol, not sure where I would be without it.
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loveofmirsan · 10 months
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🍂Fall in love with MirSan this October as Week of MirSan returns🍂
Celebrate 15 loving years of marriage between our favorite monk and taijiya with themes pulled straight from both the modern and traditional wedding anniversary gifts.
🫐 Dates: October 9th - 15th 🫐
Themes:
10/9 | Paper & Clocks
10/10 | Cotton & China
10/11 | Leather & Glass
10/12 | Fruits & Flowers
10/13 | Wood & Silver
10/14 | Iron & Candy
10/15 | Linens & Lace
Make sure to tag us @loveofmirsan and tag your posts #weekofmirsan2023 so we can share in the love of all of your amazing creations 💜💕
🍂If you have any questions, please feel free to ask!🍂
We're so excited to fall in love with MirSan all over again with all of you this fall 💞
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loveofmirsan · 7 months
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🍂MirSan Week 2023 Starts Tomorrow🍂
Who's excited for tomorrow? 🙋‍♀️🤩
We can't wait to fall in love with MirSan all over again with you all this week! 💞
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Join us this week as we celebrate 15 loving years of marriage between our favorite monk and taijiya with themes pulled straight from both the modern and traditional wedding anniversary gifts. 🎉
🫐 Dates: October 9th - 15th 🫐
Themes:
10/9 | Paper & Clocks
10/10 | Cotton & China
10/11 | Leather & Glass
10/12 | Fruits & Flowers
10/13 | Wood & Silver
10/14 | Iron & Candy
10/15 | Linens & Lace
Make sure to tag us @loveofmirsan and tag your posts #weekofmirsan2023 so we can share in the love of all of your amazing creations all week long 💜💕
🍂If you have any questions, please feel free to ask! Check out our FAQs here!🍂
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ectoplasmer · 2 years
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hi I’m gonna hit two birds with one stone here aaand for organization + filtering purposes:
catchall tag —> quartzshipping
anniversary tag will be a simple lil’ —> 🫐 ; anniversary tag
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