#I needed some joy today

[olliebjorkstrand]

i'm going thru it

#i needed some joy today #seattle kraken

[andiwriteordie]

Chapter Four | The Coming of Will Byers

Summary:

Dustin gives him another exasperated look. “For the last time, I told you that I’ve been thinking about this for a while, okay? Admit it. It’s a viable plan, and it might end up helping us. You’re just being protective.”

“Uh, yeah, no shit,” Mike snaps. “And I wonder why that is! Oh yeah! Because this plan is dangerous and traumatizing and all around fucked up! Great plan, Dustin.”

Or:

With time running out before One’s inevitable attack on Hawkins, Mike and the other members of the Party go searching for answers and ways to gain an advantage in the war, before finding them in an unlikely source: Will.

will byers main character energy WHEN?!?

okay, yeah i couldn’t resist lmao. i know i just posted a new chapter, but i’ve moved onto writing chapter 9 today, so... here’s chapter 4, my friends. get ready for some major will byers main character energy and also the return of protective mike wheeler!!!

there’s a post i made a while back about one of my hopes and dreams for will in s5, and well... i decided to make it reality in my little fic because why not??? :) i hope you all enjoy this as much as i enjoyed writing it!

#byler #byler fanfic #i needed some joy today #so here you go #protective mike wheeler #will byers main character energy #will you'll always be famous sweetie

[feykingfrumpkin]

having a fabulous time watching critical role’s latest stream

#critical role #cr cast #cr cast and crew i love you #this brought me so much joy #and i needed some of that today #video #mosschat #matt mercer #dani carr #@ everyone else pls what are your names

[candied-cae]

All I have to say about tonight's episodes is that I deserve a new Frenchie song RIGHT GODDAMN NOW

I have been waiting oh so very long, looking forward to my little guy's delightful little jams, and now that The Revenge isn't just the most depressing boat sailing across the Caribbean, he better put that fucking lute in his hands and get to work.

I need a new sprightly little pirate song to play when I need a dopamine hit. Please, Frenchie, have mercy on me.

Please, David Jenkins and Joel Fry, have mercy on me.

#Cae Has Lots of Feelings About Our Flag Means Death #I need a new Frenchie song like I need air to breathe #You don't get it - I almost cried in my car today zooming down the highway when 'A Pirate's Life' played bc I missed that vibe so much #I miss the joy and upbeat catchy little tune #And I was so hoping we'd get more than two this season #And I know we're only 3 episodes in #BUT I NEED THEM NOW #I can't be expected to continue on this mortal coil in this condition #I need my jaunty little seafaring tunes to survive in this world like how some people need cigarettes #Give me my Frenchie singing fix or I'll start shaking and writing more Room People Fics to fill the whole in my heart #Our Flag Means Death #OFMD #Our Flag Means Death Season 2 Spoilers #Our Flag Means Death Spoilers #OFMD Spoilers #OFMDS2 #OFMD s2 spoilers #OFMD Frenchie #Joel Fry

[emily-mooon]

Here’s just a little nordegrim WIP I’m working on

Edit: Finished piece

#started it today #letting you know also the prompts and stuff for nordegrim week will be out soon I just need to finish getting the post ready #this may or may not get posted for one of the days I haven’t decided yet #there will obviously be some changes made from this sketch to the final #I know it’s not WIP Wednesday yet but idc I just wanna share this sketch that is currently filling me with joy as I work on it #god I love them sm #also take a guess as to which song inspired it (hint: I posted about it last night at 3 am) #scott pilgrim #young neil #neil nordegraf #stacey pilgrim #nordegrim #emily shares some wips :]

[actualbird]

keeps me sane

art from the tot collab with white alley

#dootdootdoot #absolutely evergreen meme format. yes i WILL pause whatever nth breakdown im having. to go. omg hi luke. cutie pie. #i think. today. maybe. maybe. i might have time. to read his card. maybe. or rather i Hope. i need. Some. joy. 2day

[deus-ex-mona]

it’s that time of week again…

#and M A N today’s getsuyoubi was extra yuuutsu #first i dropped 2 cup things filled with water. cool. a mess was made. nice. #t h e n my workstation shook by itself and one of the cup things toppled down again. only it was filled with (diluted) acid this time!!!! #i wish it fell onto me bc at l e a s t my bad day would’ve ended with just an acid burn instead of getting worse #bc *then* we found out that we were near-out of [insert reagent here] that we need to run blanks for [test thing] yay!!!!! joy!!!!!!!!! #so we had to use a substitute solvent (sadge) #if only it ended there aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #i left work on time -> waited forever for the delayed bus -> decided to get some coffee or sth as a pick me up t h e n… #the coffee place happened to run out of single bags so i decided to put it into my bag instead (mistake)… #…a n d dropped my phone while trying to prop the stupid drink upright so it wouldn’t spill. #unfortunately for me though... some rando picked up my phone some time within the 30s-1 min wherein i realised that my phone was gone… #…and took it home with him instead of handing it to the customer service counter at the nearby train stations. ha. #called my phone a couple of times with the phone from a customer service counter but he~~ didn’t~~ pick up~~~~~~~~~ #and so. long story short. i had to leave the house an extra time to go to this guy’s place to pick up my bb (read: my phone) #bc the dude~~~ can’t~~~~ speak~~~ english~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ so he didn’t understand me when i told him my location~~~~~~~ #and now it’s almost 8.30 in the pm. im waiting for the delayed bus to go home from wherever tf i am now. and i haven’t eaten all day :)))) #(aside from a small cake thing but it’s negligible tbh) #aND HOLY FK I HATE THIS I FLAGGED DOWN THE BUS BUT IT SKIPPED THE STOP HELP ME I JUST WANNA GO HOME #.am i allowed to cry yet. i. just. i just wanna eat my dinner. #…come to think of it my drink ended up spilling in my bag while i was hunting for my phone. so. there’s that to clean up ig. #ughhhhhhhhh i wish that guy had just left my phone where he found it. s o b s #so yeah. if you read this i hope you had a good monday at least… #this truly is my ✨t r a g i c c o m e d y✨

[binders-and-beanies]

Doin bad again folx

#might delete later I’m just wide awake and miserable #summer bill came out today and it’s $7100 not including housing which will be $2400 #literally dunno how im gonna pay for that and my dad is. adding to the emotional turmoil of it all #not able to get a loan at least not before the bill is due #able to get aid luckily but again who knows when or how much #my bday is tomorrow and for months I’ve been like please just let my bday be a good day i need one #i need some hope. not that I haven’t had good experiences lately bc I have. but nothing that lasts #nothing i get to feel good about for more than a day before a new problem drops #I need to enjoy my birthday without feeling this deep dark dread and fear and fucking guilt and hopelessness #I have fun plans for today And tomorrow and I’m grateful but honestly stressed about that too #bc it’s gonna be a lot + bc of all I need to do outside of that #+ I don’t get to spend my bday w friends the way I want like I have one friend Maybe coming w me #my bday is supposed to feel celebratory and instead it feels like absolutely forcing some illusion of choice or joy in my life #on top of it all. the most peaceful I usually ever feel is in bed w my partner and now my body won’t even let me hold or be held by them #currently laying next to them not touching them so I at least don’t keep them up w how physically miserable I am rn #I’m literally always physically miserable at this point and it feels like spring is never gonna come and provide any relief #but it’s like can I at least be cozy w them. nope instead I’m wide awake facing various horrors #despite being permanently exhausted and falling asleep in class after 40 ounces of coffee #Im just. so fucking unhappy in life rn dude I don’t want life to be like this forever with the constant threat of it getting much worse #fucking shred of joy in this godforsaken world: the sleep noises they r making rn #mine #txt #vent post #suicidal ideation tw #<- cry for help

[laundrybiscuits]

The first chapter of purify our misfit ways is now up on AO3, encompassing almost all the content posted to tumblr.

I’ve edited and expanded it a bit more heavily than usual, because I wrote a lot of the first draft while exhausted and miserably sipping an overpriced smoothie while killing six hours in my least favorite airport. Still sort of trying to figure out what I’m doing with this fic, so I may go back and edit it further, but I think it’s hit some kind of minimum threshold of acceptability and I basically wanted to overwrite the tumblr draft.

#stranger things fic #steddie #fic: purify our misfit ways #the next part of wait for the season is almost done too #I think it might close out the chapter but I need to review the chapter as a whole bc I think it’s shakier than the preceding material #at some point I may need a beta? but I’m honestly not sure if that would fuck with my carefully calibrated relationship to fandom-as-work #so I need to think about it more #think twice before going into The Creative Industries y’all; it can seriously fuck up your ability to find joy in making art #also: someday I may actually do better at ao3 link posts with like. summaries and shit. #today is not that day.

[pippindot]

We went to the park for the first time in forever. Pip romped and played like she used to. I watched her like a hawk but no missteps and no wrestling. It was so nice to see her so joyful. I think we will be coming back while we have nice weather and the ground is soft enough for good footing.

#am i self conscious because a judge called her deconditioned and i KNOW she needs more exercise #MAYBE #more than i thought #but balancing conditioning her and not reinjuring and letting her have fun and my work schedule and opportunities and and and #it's really damn hard #but today was a good day of some good self directed free play and i checked her back throughout and no ouchies #watching her use her body with joy is just...such....so happy #pip #3 years #at the park #and tangentially #patch up pip

[mchiti]

so stressing out for our game tomorrow today I can't even sleep not joking I'M STRESSED OUT

#i need to feel the same joy some of u guys felt today #like....I need this #i love ma club more than anything basically I need this for us 😭

[daydadahlias]

that thing calum does when he puts his hands on ashtons hip when they side hug

Calum Hood CEO of the "this my man" pose

#pigeon #anon #y'all KILLING it with the asks lately i just wanna say thank u #they make me <3 so happy <3 #sparks sm joy fr #like im very sincerely grateful for cute asks #and some slutty ones too <3 #anyway some of these aare blurry sorry kind of a wreck today so im struggling finding photos lol #thank you !!! maya !!! and ashley !!! for helping me!!!!!!!! #i needed help #and crystals blog ofc always thank u #anyway i love cashton #and i love that calum is always like 'mine' #there's one gif im trying SO hard to find #where he yanks ashton over by his waist #i'll find it today i swtg

[citriarchive]

sometimes joy is watching two brits play virutal golf or having K.K. Slider perform a song you like or finding reginald the archaeopteryx or finishing your turnip graph and getting to see that fluctuating is objectively the best pattern to look at because look at this fucker

it's got a whole-ass kingda ka drop look that that shit i fucking love graphs i love DJ K.K.'s live version i love reginald and i love feeling So Oasis Right Now

idk i don't feel all the way better by any stretch of the imagination. but accumulating little things that being joy just. idk. i feel safer than i have all day just for that. again, not all the way better but not on the fucking tipping point of crisis

in other words i think i just understood distress tolerance

#; the citrus speaks #i even got some new flower hybrids today!! #i got both of the yellow mums i needed to start on my green mum path #and a pink mum!!! #like at this point everything has been so much all the time that i just want to find joy in the smaller things #it doesn't fix a damn thing but how can Everything be bad when i got my first RryyWw pansy #suddenly realizing that this is how yaevinn gets through the day actually #everything sucks but there are still some good things #anyway i need to hit rocks #; lemon's inane ramblings

[heartapnea]

had to sneak away to weep a bit about how well my little brother is growing up like. he’s such a brilliant young lad and so compassionate and loving idk for the most part I felt I didn’t know what I was doing when it came to ‘parenting’ but I’m just so fucking PROUD that he turned out the way he did

#tbd soon I just needed to get this out lol #he’s only 12 but he’s so emotionally intelligent #and we talk about so much stuff #today he told me some of his friends have started saying homophobic things and it upset him. but he talked to them and asked them questions #instead of getting angry. he asked them why they felt like that or what they think the word means #and told them there’s nothing wrong with being gay. he said that in class! in front of all the kids!! knowing how mean they can be! #idk I was just so blown away and wanted to cry as he was explaining it to me #he loves his friends and wants them to learn better #it’s just really special to see him grow and use the tools I’ve given him to navigate life. mannnn #my pride and joy through and through

[firemourn]

ohhh u wanna create aus with me soooo bad u wanna make affiliated verses and push minis of our characters together ohhhhh is the hypnosis working is it is it

#delete later #'cause at the end of the day yes i love canon yes it brings me joy yes it provides much needed context otherwise everything falls apart #however. have u tried the verses today? have u done something a little silly a little fun just for some Joy... #THIS BARBIE WANTS TO MAKE VERSES WITH YOU !