#We talked the entire 3 hours I was there

[becca-e-barnes]

Hiii I have nothing to do at work so of course I have to day dream about different dark!Bucky scenarios (I do not condone cheating but this is really hot to me aaaa)😩 like imagine your husband and Bucky have always had an ongoing rivalry, They worked together, went to college together, hated every ounce of each other. One night you’re at the bar with your friends when Bucky comes over to you and buys you drink after drink after drink, taking you back to his house. He’s throwing you on his bed and ripping your clothes off, kissing you hungrily. “Get ready baby, this is gonna be much tougher than you’re used to.” “Please.” “Yeah? Is he not satisfying you baby? This pretty pussy deserves to be treated right, luckily I’m here now.” He’s so rough with you, fucking you harshly, the dirty talking is driving you crazy. He’s so cocky and cruel, bending you in several different positions and pounding into you for hours. If only you had seen the camera… (part 2??? Bucky making your husband watch the video 😭) -💒

This, a thousand times over 😵‍💫 and I can just imagine throwing all the stuff at him that you wouldn't dream of doing with your husband. Maybe your husband really doesn't let you explore your fantasies and if you've got one chance to do that, you're determined to take it.

Especially if Bucky is quite a bit rougher than you're used to while still being so respectful. He got the impression that you're not being fucked how you want to be and he wants to give you everything you dream of when you touch yourself. He's not necessarily rough with you because he wants to be. He's rough because that's what you want.

If he's feeling extra filthy too, he'd fuck you in the bed you share with your husband. You're on your hands and knees on the bed, presenting your glistening pussy to him, enjoying the sensation of him smearing your arousal over the tip of his cock.

"Fuck, do you know how bad I want this?" He hums quietly, trailing his leaking tip over your slick folds. "Do you know how badly I want to press inside you? You've made such a mess. Bet you feel like fuckin' Heaven and he doesn't even appreciate it."

With his free hand, Bucky grabs a handful of your ass, squeezing just enough that you feel it hurt.

"Don't want to rush this though." His tip lines up with your entrance, teasing the little fluttering hole and God, you're desperate. "I want to take my time. Want to make sure every time your head hits this pillow, you remember how it feels to have every. Last. Inch of me slip inside you."

You can't have him wait any longer though so you press your hips back onto him, feeling just the tip slide into you. "Good girl, that's it. Fuck yourself on me. You need this, don't you? You need to be fucked right for a change."

He's not wrong. You couldn't stop now, even if you wanted to so you keep going, taking all of him. The weight of him inside you is delightful.

"Oh God, you're perfect. You feel like you were made for me." He doesn't dare move. Instead, he takes a second to just enjoy the wet heat of your body and the snug fit of you around his cock.

"You are. A fucking. Dream." He tests the water with a few shallow thrusts, rutting his tip against the sweet spot inside you. You're so wet, you're convinced you must be dripping onto the sheets and your eyes roll back in your head at the very thought.

This is how sex is supposed to feel. You didn't think you could crave anyone the way you do now. "Buck, please." You whimper, rolling your hips back against him, pressing him as deep inside you as possible. "Don't be gentle."

You hear him groan and feel his fingertips trail down your spine, making you arch your back into the bed. "Is that what you need, sweetheart? Can tell just by looking at you that you need it hard and fast and rough tonight. I'll be gentle with you tomorrow morning, I promise. Gotta work some of that tension out of you first. Bet you haven't cum in months."

You don't like that he can tell so easily but you're not surprised either. The first sharp thrust knocks the air from your lungs but all you hear is a pathetic sob, followed by the crack of a hard spank to your ass and the blossoming, stinging pain he's inflicted.

You're not surprised that it only makes you wetter.

#asks answered <3 #💒 anon #becca writes spice #bucky barnes x reader smut #bucky barnes smut #I've got no words for what I've just written #I think I made myself dizzy #I want to give this like nine more parts eughhhhhh #and I think I'll definitely give it at least one more #tw: cheating #there's nothing I love more than finding someone you just click with #I usually stick with the same hairdresser #but my hair was sitting weird and I was desperate to get it cut so I went to a different stylist at the same place I usually go to #and we just vibed #she's the coolest #within half an hour we were planning how she's gonna tell the new man she's seeing that she's starting her first round of IVF #We talked the entire 3 hours I was there #and she said she hopes her daughter turns out like me 🥺🥺 #like no girl I swear you don't #but that's the sweetest thing anyone's ever said

[emrysofealdor]

so uh fun fact! my ex-boyfriend and I became close to each other because we made an agreement to watch each other's favorite media, so I played danganronpa and he started watching merlin.

we got together, and then we broke up (on good terms), and I teased him about never actually finishing merlin even though I got through all of danganronpa. well, flash forward to about half a year after breaking up. we've only sent a few texts during this time, but one day, I check my phone and see-

so, yeah. not even six months can prevent the appeal of bbc merlin. and not even a cishet white man can deny the existence of merthur

#this entire situation is just. so funny to me #we ended up getting on a call and we talked about the finale and the whole series for like. over an hour. it was great #but yeah! I figured if anyone is to appreciate this hilarity it’s you all <3 #bbc merlin #merlin #merthur #bbc merlin spoilers

[alpacacare-archive]

let sans rest day, featuring the entire skelefam! cus brain rot 

#i wanted to draw more but my wrist rlly hurts and im tired lmfao #i had to do this today cus i missed both of the let papyrus say fuck days #one day i will tag a post with that tag #one day #but for now #letsansrest #he deserves it #can we get some appreciation for this wonderful wonderful guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i love him so much #i could talk about him for hours #this entire family has me in a choke hold #pap doesnt know how to relax tm #gaster is liquid tm #also listened to. sm. ytpmvs while drawing this. sans would absolutely love ytpmvs wont he #assuming he isnt making them #i also need to draw/at least sketch a dtiys that i really wanna do #its them also #shocking i know #so im not going to bed <3 #gn yall i love you so so much <333!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #sans #papyrus #gaster #skelefam #dadster

[doecrossing]

just sat through the most horrible, awkward, tense dinner I've ever experienced in my whole life

#my bf's family was in town to see the eclipse #he was like 'hey do you wanna get dinner with us after?' #and he's met my entire family so even though i didnt want to it was only fair. #anyway his uncle picks us up at my apartment. his sister is in the car. #no one asks who or how i am and i do not get introduced nor have the chance to introduce myself #for like a good 3-5 minutes. off to a bad start. #we get to the restaurant. a pizza place. his family is already seated. #no one except for his grandparents acknowledge me. they are the only 2 people to talk to me directly for the entire meal. #his grandfather asks some stuff about my life. i answer normally. he veers off into tangents that i can only respond to with 'haha' #or a smile and nod bc they are so personal that i literally have nothing to add #the children in the family spill water everywhere. there is yelling in the public restaurant while my bf goes and gets napkins #like a normal person might do #despite being at a pizza place everyone decides to order an individual dish instead of something to share #this might be fine if there were only 4 of us. there were 10. #they get mad when the food takes over an hour to come #at this point i wished i had ordered a cocktail #his uncle is the most awkward person ive ever met. he quotes outdated memes out loud. #at one point everyone except for me and my bf was on their phones #his grandfather shows me vulgar facebook posts #what is WRONG with people #im going to shower and change into my jammies and have a drink and watch something stupid #i need to cleanse myself of this whole. thing. #txt

[horny-ex-catholic]

So last night I made out with my friend (hopefully soon to be partner. We're talking some stuff out) and aside from just being really fun, I learned I apparently really like teasing them and I may not actually be 100% submissive

#dont get me wrong #im still a massive bottom #but also i grabbed them by their throat and made them purr #at one point they were leaning back to collect themself and I grabbed them by their jaw and said 'no no no. come here' kinda aggressively #and they made some *very* nice noises #we just kept going back and forth teasing each other and getting revenge when one of us made the other one flustered #at one point i broke them just by crossing my legs #i was wearing this dress with a tall slit in the skirt #so when i crossed my legs it fell open and showed like my *entire* thigh #i was still decent but i could see them rebooting and they just went 'what was that. what did yo do??' in this adorable shaky voice #we completely lost track of time and ended up leaving the lounge area we were hanging out in a little past 5 in the morning #and we'd gotten there at 11 #and had a 2-3 hour break when some girls showed up to use the microwave for their dinner #they were cool and we hung out and shared queso #and then my friend got me super flustered as soon as the two of them left by telling me how cute I am when i talk about my interests #while they were choking me a little #i have. not recovered. #my post

[scattered-winter]

i want sooooo badly to lash out and pull away from everyone but the god damn people pleaser in me .

#sorry to make two personal posts in as many hours but man . #i dont want to go to the family gathering. i dont want to talk to people. i dont want to celebrate holidays. #i dont want to do ANY of this i want to be left alone. smfhhhhhhhhhhhh. #(all this is in context with irl family btw. friends in phone ilysm this doesnt apply to u <3) #like i get that we're all grieving together or whatever. but i want to stop being civil about it. #everyone in my family is very religious and theyre using god and church to cope with this. as people do. #but im NOT religious im in fact the only one in the entire family who's NOT religious and i am not comforted by any of that. #''we need to be grateful for this trial that jesus has given us'' ok well what if i set something on fire. #i just. want to fight someone. bloody fists blood in my mouth kinda fight. #none of this ''good christian sadness'' shit i want to fucking fight someone. biting and clawing like a wild animal because i feel like one #et cetera. #this is senseless and meaningless don't mind me i just donnnnt wanna go to the family gatherings <//3 #its like. everyone's SO determined to pretend like everything's fine and normal. carrying on with things like every other year. #and i get that theyre trying to deal with this shit but things are NOT normal. they will in fact never again be normal. #idk. i need to punch someone. i need someone to punch me. and then i need to be alone by myself for 300 years. #winter speaks #personal

[eeunwoo]

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#hii.. im still not really here a lot re kpop its just not really like the most important thing in my life rn lol #but uh i guess my dog's passing is something i gotta deal on my own entirely. my mom seems pretty much over it without really taking me int #account at all. today shes even sorta like. making odd comments/jokes about it like 'i talk to toto sometimes' because we say this #weird lady on tv talking ab how she talks to deer heads. and i just stared at my mom like deadpan and just looked away #bc what the fuck. and ofc she wouldnt consider its not an ok thing to say . otherwise shes really like trying to make out that im being a #really good kid and taking care of her and her feelings bc shes inventing things in her head about me being extra nice and careful with her #shes like awww youre taking care of me <3 and im like no im actually treating you like you're a total stranger in my house because you #basically are. and anyway. im basically on my own like i always am. i just have to deal with it all alone. as always. which is like fine #its just im extra lonely and alone so <3 ive also been suicidal and really really on the edge. that's your alex update if anyone cares #to be completely honest it's been taking everything in me not to just od right now its all i can think about and i havent felt like it in #years. ive just been sleeping for 12 hours at a time lmao........ anyway yeah thats it? #mrow.org

[dennisboobs]

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#no time 2 talk i'm translating a song-- #first of all. hi. i'm not leaving <3 but. #the yakuza hyperfixation hit me like a ton of bricks it hasn't done this in YEARS i usually just play the games through #and then continue on but 8 has pulled me back into 2018 so. my ykz sideblog is @okitanoniisan #also the entire series including side games (judgment/lost judgment) are on sale for as much as like 80 percent off on steam & ps store #so if you want a bunch of very big meaty games with a shitload of fleshed out side content and fun minigames #and some of my favourite characters in existence. you can get the collection bundle (7 games) for like 40 bucks #or just get yakuza 0 for less than the price of a fancy coffee. you WILL want to get the rest of the games. i promise. #hiiiiiiiiighly recommend the judgment games if you like mystery crime thriller stuff imo they're even more compelling than the main series #and gameplay kicks major ass i have like 235 hours on lost judgment alone (i was going for a platinum and still haven't gotten it) #also if you get the ykz collection go for 'yakuza: like a dragon' too it's on sale for ridiculously cheap and its like a 50 hour jrpg #(it's the 7th game but the english release would never let you know that. followed by gaiden and infinite wealth as 7.5 and 8) #but the last two just came out so theyre not on sale yet <3 #go. be free. play good games. #i'm done shilling they're on sale until the 15th so go try out yakuza 0 at the very least <333 #ada speaks #we now return to our regularly scheduled dennising

[jimmyandthegiraffes]

knew id break down properly eventually but wasnt planning on doing it on the floor in my mothers bedroom bc i didnt wanna walk the dogs lol

#im never getting a dog <3 #its also the fact i was supposed to be going to glasgow today #but couldnt for Covid Reasons #this isafter my birthday got cancelled for the same reasons #(i did still have a good time tho im not complaining abt my birthday) #(i got lovely presents and loads of birthday wishes n i felt rly loved even tho i couldnt go anywhere) #(and then i spent the day watching doctor who eating cake and looking at pictures of ocean liners) #(literally no complaints there) #and yea anyway ive been in the middle of nowhere for ages unable to drive and ive just been rly lonely and kinda bored and aimless #and like my anxiety levels have been INSANE the entire winter #like we are talking fight or flight all day every day for no reason #and like insane insomnia as well #its officially 'chronic' insomnia lol ayyyyy #and yea essentially i couldnt take walking the dogs and i was in bed like. id rather die than have a dog bark at me ever again #and then i walked them anyway but ive cried for HOURS today lol so now my head hurts #but yea it was boundto happen eventually

[destinyandcoins]

have we talked yet about the possibility that UFOs and every suspected bit of extraterrestrial evidence could actually be originating from the advanced civilizations living in the trenches of the ocean just as bemused and wondering as we are about the world beyond them and reaching out in exploration? because given the fuckoff incomprehensible expanse of ocean floor we've yet to actually study or even really guess at what specifically is down there, I think there's a real possibility there's a complex society of, idk, particularly clever sea slugs and other amalgamations of physical matter like hydrogen and thulium and other shit we've never considered as a viable fundamental building block of life. and the fucking whales are the only living creature with the kind of planet spanning range and intelligence to know there's two complex evolutions of sentient life existing on opposite spheres of reality from each other who would really benefit from learning about the other, but we're both too fucking stupid to understand how whales communicate

#Idk man the ocean fucks me up sometimes #And also I think we're missing entire realities out there just waiting to be discovered #Because we've got such a specific and artificially tunneled view of what we see as reality or as supporting of life #And like. Ghosts and aliens and shit are that seeping into our world. But we don't even have the tools to start understanding #Like we're looking for alien life but we're looking according to OUR understanding of how life works and how life could occur #But that's just based on our own little planet our own little corner of the known universe #And man. There is a whole fuckoff lot of everything else out there in the infinity of the universe and the existence of anything #And we are just not equipped to ever know or understand much of any of it. But god that doesn't stop us trying #Trying to understand and find some way to prove we're not alone or unique in the universe #We have this thing called life and we want to share it with someone something somewhere somewhen #''There's gotta be someone else out there in the universe because I want to experience it with them'' #Hm. Many thoughts #But also the Mariana trench is eating the pacific plate at a rate of 3 inches per year??? #That's what we're talking about when we say shifting tectonic plates and why islands are moving micro amounts year by year? #The Mariana (and many other) trench(es) are EATING OUR PLANET?? why. Why are we not talking about that more explicitly #I feel like that's a better use of our time than squabbling about what social media we should use now instead of twitter #(None. You should replace Twitter in your life with 2-5 hours per week #of contemplation of how our PLANET IS EATING ITSELF. AND BELCHING UP THE REFUSE IN THE FORM OF VOLCANOS AND MUD VENTS) #Breaking news: my new hobby is geology. Fucking WILD stuff going on over there #Geology tag

[heartshapedtrap]

just hung out w friends for five hours and feltso full of whimsy I could pass out <333 I miss them so bad already but I get to see them tomorrow tooooo

#like it wasn’t even planned we just talked on the phone then met up at **** house chatted while our other two friends made us friendship #bracelets and watched the cat be silly with a bowl of water that was like two hours of us doing that #then agroup car ride (I love when we do this sm it’s like my favorite part when we hang out) skin to skin in a tiny fucking car laughing #talking listening to music on our way to Taco Bell then rode around taking scenic routes b4 gas station break to like pee n buy snacks :33 #flicked up another scenic route went to the epic park w the cool playground n reminisced about how it felt like being a kid again at 1am #I’m convinced all these fuckers are neurodivergent bc not one of them can go without stemming and ***** fucking climbing on top of the every #single thing LMFAO doing backflips off of swings and stuff too I had like an insane amount of whatever bc I skipped like the entire time #just to idk be silly and **** joined in :))) switches seats in the car and went to another park then rode in the car again to more scenic #routes and all the way back to **** house to get our stuff and each driveour cars back home <3 #we group hugged at the epic park and the moment was so surreal bc we all were close to crying especially ******* like I love my fwends sm i #cannot even properly describe how happy they make me feel like sonearnestly so #I weirdly felt closer to ***** tonight too probably bc we indulged **** antics together and were skin to skin in the backseat of the car #like having to fasten each others seatsbelt his arm awkwardly behind me n out the window that close n how alike we are… #OH WAIT him and **** buzzed their hair like days before n it really hit me that I haven’t seen him w shirt hair since I’ve first known him #when we all were once coworkers together and it’s like a fond memory now and crazy to think about how we’ve all grown together as friends #ok done being sappy now b4 I actually fucking cry like eyes are on the brink as I type :p #* #personal #heartshapedtrap #can y’all tell I left my journal at home… and needed to like remember how happy I’ve felt since seeing friends <3 #omggg i forgot to mention how they all cheered and were like happy for me during the scenic car ride that I’m almost certain im lesbian #still unsure of myself but I think that’s probably the closest label idk I just feel really happy that they support me nomatter what yaknow

[nerdie-faerie]

Why is it when I have a big task to complete that should take days to do, I procrastinate the hell out of it when I have plenty of time but when it comes down to the absolute last minute, I can do a couple of days work in a couple of hours? What the fuck is wrong with me? Why couldn't I do it casually over a couple of days but can do it in matter of hours?

#ace is a mess #Tag talk #personal #i started to organising/clearing out my room at my parent's four days ago did half of one aspect of it did the other half of it two days #later then did nothing else and yet today ive done pretty much everything else that shouldve taken days in 3 hours? wtf #im losing my room when i go back to uni its being repurposed for someone else and so i needed to actually all of the sht i havent organised #since we moved in in 2018 then made even more disorganised when i moved to uni in 2020 i havent organised ANYTHING the entire time weve bee #here because i was supposed to be getting different furniture and then that just never happened and then im rarely here and just end up l #living out of my suitcase and between switching out cold weather and hot weather clothing over breaks its just become more chaotic and has #been too big of a job for me to even contemplate tackling and now im leaving tomorrow and i have literally choice and have done 5 years wor #in a couple of hours like why? why do i intentionally stress myself out like this? why cant i make decisions if im not at peak stress level #why dont i have any motivation unless im literally feeling ill with stress? why do i work like this? #also yes i know its ridiculous ive been living like this sincee sept 2018 but consider most of the problem was closed inside drawers and #therefore i couldnt see it so it didnt exist. that and im not here much i guess

[owengrose]

HATE long intros to a talk. Yes context is important but THIS MUCH????? give me one or two sentences and let's get into what we're ACTUALLY here to talk about

#like am i the only one who doesnt like this????? #if this talk is 3 hours but you spend the entire first hour on an intro you just wasted an hour that we couldve used to dive deeper!! #ugggggggh #adri rants

[anarkhebringer]

I finally saw the cutscene of Karlach visiting her parents' graves with Null and I've had tadpoles about it all this time

#baldur's gate 3 spoilers #OC: Null Number #category 7 autism event in the tags incoming #imagining Null visiting his own family's graves that night #he'd told they're buried in the city graveyard but didn't tell where #so late that night Astarion notices him slinking out of camp and decides to follow him out of curiosity #and what does he find but Null standing at three graves in a line for his parents and sister #and it's the most heartbroken Astarion's ever seen him #he's sobbing so hard no noise is even coming out aside from shaky breaths and the occasional whimper #repeating to himself what he said to Karlach about becoming soil‚ water‚ and air‚ and how we don't die‚ we change #and now Astarion understands why Null looked so distant in his gaze despite the warmth of his smile when talking with Karlach #he didn't even approach like he planned to he just left and let Null be alone #his entire plan fell apart seeing how broken Null was and he had no clue what he could even say in that moment #sorry I'm exploding about this because Null's been raw about his family's deaths his entire life #and the Emperor's first meeting with him being in the form of his sister didn't help AT ALL #like his main goal in life alongside getting his wings and power back by breaking the curse he's under is finding solace in their deaths #he just wants peace and for them to rest in peace knowing he loves them and still lives for them #anyway #sad fae that's cursed to live as a drow hours again I'm so fucking happy I made Null in this game and made an AU for him

[rillette]

so what happens in the eaglnheart and gerad run. Also what's the gerad halcarol dynamic

hiiii lolipop, havent seen u in my askbox in a bit!! welcome back ^_^ going to put this under a cut bc it got kind of long and also i decided to add panels so it got even longer teehee

englehart's run is abysmal because he wrote a lot of his own problems issues into the story (its very oversexualized) and he's the one that introduced that gross fucking arisia plotline may he rot in hell for that.

Gerards run has hal as like the precursor to geoff's hal, where he's very. he's written to be the leader type where he hates taking orders from people and he wants to do his own thing and shit which is fine, but like hal is notoriously a yes-man. i love him to bits but he would fall for an mlm scam. theres textual evidence even

so, since that underlying yes-man tendency isn't addressed his character "growth" into a leader type role feels very hollow and forced.

he's also written as a stereotypical man's man, where he's you know what i think he's just the writers self insert probably. like they keep bringing up how many chicks he pulls and how he's great with women and then he keeps being misogynistic and its like hold on. where did the hal that got mad at carol's dad for being a capital m misogynist go. that's not hal.

I think that gerad's run has some great plot ideas, like with mosaic and entropy, but the writing doesn't hold up and his hal characterization is shit. also they keep using that nickname for tom and it makes me mad

the gerard halcarol dynamic strips carol of all her agency as a cold motherfucker. i love carol for who she is; a ruthless bitch! and the carol in gerards run is very. hold on let me find the panel that made me mad.

this is so. carol would never say this shit with a straight face. i can really only see carol saying this in a mean way like if she was actively trying to put hal down. carol is ruthless and capable and wayyyy more of a leader than hal is. i realize i keep saying that carol is mean but i mean this in like the best way possible she IS mean it's part of her character and it's part of what allows her to be such a successful businesswoman. she is cold and bitter and she uses that as a self-defense mechanism she is not the type of person to get sad and angsty about sitting around waiting to see if hal is okay Gerard.

i want to talk about the halcarol dynamic while im here. hal and carol work best as best friends. they are deeply deeply important to each other and i think their romantic relationship is important to both of their character growths but part of that growth is them breaking up and staying just friends.

i think that hal and carol see something in each other that they both desperately want to have for themselves. for carol i think she wants the freedom that hal has to just fuck off into the sunset and have adventures without the pressures that come from her dad and from running ferris. for hal, well. 🏳️‍⚧️. i think that hal truly does love carol but he's also in love with the idea of carol, the strong and collected buissness woman.

I think that hal and carol's relationship is them trying to fill that void inside of themselves. but their romantic relationship is doomed to fail because you can't ever truly love your reflection in the mirror.

#hal jordan #asks <3 #ty for the ask!! #comic talk #oh my god when did we get tag editing holy shit #this changes everything (i will forget about this in 5 mins) #the transgenderification beam can also apply to carol (im looking at you the predator arc) i just havent thought deeply about that yet #so i didnt bring it up #if u want a well written carol u guy should read the sleepers books by christopher priest they are sooooooooooo (coughs up blood) #i have been writing this post for an hour. #i had a lot to say about halcarol today apparently #also hal wants love and support and carol is near incapable of giving him that because of her own issues ack!!! they make me insane #also im not talking about the arisia thing. if you don't know what it is look it up for yourself i wont be answering any asks about it #bc i hate it very much and i like pretending it never happened in the first place #you know the arc is dogshit when the entire rco comments section is like yo this shit is ass

[broke-on-books]

✒️ please!!

Send me a ✒️ and I'll pick a poem I think you'd like

After flipping through my notebooks I decided to go with my first instinct for you, which was "A Toast to the Alchemists" by Laura Gilpin. This poem hasn't been published online officially, so they're aren't a ton of sites that have it that I could find with a quick Google search. However I've attatched photos of a reddit post with it along with my version in my journal.

I picked this poem because of its themes of time and the passage of time, as well as magic and giving emotional significance to the most mundane and clinical of things (atoms and elements). In other words, taking magic from the world around us, especially through a lens usually seen as lacking wonder or whimsy. Also vibes, I mainly did it based on vibes.

Some other poems I considered in my search/additional recommendations are listed under the cut:

If you liked the writing of this poem, and haven't read it already (or have) I definitely recommend "The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin. It's by the same author and is her most famous poem and is fairly well known and also soooooo good. So good.

Poems with similar themes:

Poems with similar themes to "A Toast to the Alchemists" are

"Dusting" by Marilyn Nelson 💘 (literally cried to this. To be fair it was 10 minutes after I finished the HDM finale so it was mainly because of that but still. Great poem.)

"The Sciences Sing a Lullabye" by Albert Goldbarth

"Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (90% sure you've read this one its the time theme but inverted and it's great if you haven't)

Rejected picks/Poems that gave me Anu vibes (many for no particular reason):

Poems by Ted Kooser for some reason??? NO idea why they're very different from the ones above but some of my faves are "Selecting a Reader", "In a Country Cemetery in Iowa", "The Constellation Orion" and "Flying by Night" (I'm v much questioning this pick now but I'll keep it up here just in case)

Honestly a bunch of random unrelated stuff was popping out at me ("Listen" by Miller Williams, "Cartoon Physics, Part 1" by Nick Flynn, "Snow" by David Berman) and like a million billion more which I all got from the same anthology (Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins) so if you want to read a bunch more poetry, based on vibes alone, I'd say look for the book, the website, or the sequel. The poems from that book aren't too similar to the one above but it's really one of two books I generally recommend people right off the bat (it was my lit teachers favorite lol) because it's meant to get young adults and teens into poetry and introduce contemporary poetry in general. Idk how much poetry you've read whatever but even if you aren't new to it it's still a good compilation of late 90s/early 00s poetry that makes you think but isn't super long/totally incomprehensible

Anyways that got WAY longer than I anticipated or anyone probably wanted but poetry is an obsession of mine and recommending poetry is much more complicated and harder that it looks, even for the people you know best in the whole world AFTER interviewing their opinions on poetry, not to mention how difficult it would be for internet friends on tumblr. But anyways there's a couple poems, I got the vibes as close as I could with the poems I had on file. (Although i do feel like I'm missing something big 🤔) Anyways thanks for the ask Anu! Hope you thought my pick was alright!

#and please for the love of god dont feel pressured to read ANYTHING on here i spend hours and hours reading poems so when i rattle off names #like that its very much me bouncing along like a frog eating skittles hopping from poem to poem to poem #based on vague vibes and feelings #also also also i already knew this when i made this ask game BUT. recommending poetry is like trying to juggle with your eyes closed because #you just KNOW you just KNOW there is a group of perfect fall in love poems out there but theres a million factors you have to take into #account to find them. like theres theme theres rhyme theres rhythm theres style theres readability/directness #and you have to try and predict someones opinions on all of that while also trying to gauge their level of patience on topics like #age of poem clarity use of standard language and spelling experimental features and line breaks #when a use of any of those they dont like can turn them off a poem entirely #like we were asoue fans together so youd probably like something with ambiguity and could tolerate a more classical look #BUT then comes in the length factor and also a bit clarity plus we have to remember theme and i cant think of any poems that fit that idea #with a theme you would like that i would feel comfortable recommending (because some poems are good but also difficult) #and i LOVE difficult poems theyre my besties but i always hate them during the first 3 reads at least and who has time for that if you dont #have poetry brain disease like i do #anyways. thats a very long way of saying. i tricked you into asking me to ramble abt poetry mwahahahahahahaha #also if anyone out there feels like theyre someone who rambles a lot about their interests to others and can at times feel a little guilty #abt that the poem “To The Sea” by Anis Mojgani talks a bit about that from an outsider pov #blah #poetry tag #answered #jacobsnicket