favorite season, favorite warm drink, favorite recent read!
i love spring! it's getting warmer, brighter, the air begins to smell like sunshine and earth, the birds are back. i can bust out all of my funky little jackets and caps and start wearing sunglasses again, sit outside with my friends for a picnic or a coffee... i love walking around and spring is such a perfect time for it. everyone seems so much happier.
i love a cappuccino but also when i feel ill or in need of an immune boost, i make tea out of freshly grated ginger, turmeric, chilli flakes, cloves with an orange and half a lemon and lots of honey and it's soooooooo good (it's going to make you so sleepy too... perfect for a little nap)
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson -- this was very reassuring to me on a personal level, but also, she is just an amazing writer, and her writing is so seamless and uncomplicated, and yet sophisticated... i love reading about women loving women and she is truly so, so great about it, i want to pick up more of her writing. also, hmm, i'm reading back what i wrote and just be aware that this is not a happy feel-good novel, it's more of a memoir that deals with a LOT of heavy themes, so just keep that in mind if you decide to pick it up. i read it in two days and then i had to take a week from reading anything, i was so affected by it.
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| Happy big brother day! (Pt. 1)
A little three part fic I wrote for Mother’s Day but was too shy to post, so here it is now, I’ll post the other parts soon if you guys want them!
(Part 2?) (Part 3?)
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“It’s Mother’s Day tomorrow”
Dot looked up from her book to give her immediate older sibling a confused look, wakko was laying on the floor looking at the ceiling, the expression on their face conveyed that they were thinking about something important.
“Ya?.. what about it?” She asked, intrigued but puzzled, as far as all of them were aware they didn’t have a mom or dad, so Mother’s and Father’s Day were holidays her and her brothers never celebrated, so why wakko was talking about it now is beyond her.
Wakko rolled over onto their stomach and looked at her
“Well, I was thinking about how the only actually person we’ve ever had close to a mum is yakko, and..” they stopped for a moment, fidgeting with the ends of their sweater sleeves
“…and?” She prodded, urging them to continue talking,
“And i was thinking why don’t we celebrate Mother’s Day for yakko?” They concluded with a small smile.
She blinked and mulled that over in her head, wakko was right about that, yakko was the closest thing they’ve ever had to a parent, sure he didn’t act like one all the time but he did care for them and love her and wakko just a much or more than a parent would, even if he didn’t say it often.
She remembered all the times he would comfort her and wakko after nightmares and tell them bedtime stories and sing lullabies, how any time they accomplished something no matter how small he’d cheer them on as loudly as he could, or when they were still fresh off the page and stuck in the tower he taught them how to write and read among other things, she smiled, ya yakko got on her nerves sometimes but she loved her brothers, and yakko definitely deserves some recognition for all he’s done for them.
Wakko was still looking at her waiting for a reply, grinning she put her book down on the couch cousin next to her, rolling off onto the floor to sit next to wakko “that sounds like a great idea wak!” Hearing that she agreed, wakkos tail started wagging happily and they nodded, tongue flopping as they did and began giving ideas
“Ya! We could give him breakfast in bed!”
“Oo we could make him a card!”
“And Let him relax and do nothing all day!”
Her and wakko passed ideas back and forth for a while, ranging from picking him some flowers to stealing buying him something really expensive (though both of them knew he would try to make them return it) eventually they had a small list compiled “m’ sure we could do all of this for him, he’s gonna love it!” Wakko announced happily skimming the page they had decided to brain storm on, dot nodded but than thought, next month there was also Father’s Day.
She frowned slightly at that, what were they supposed to do on Father’s Day then? Should they wait? Besides, yakko identified as a male, maybe Father’s Day would be more appropriate? But when had they ever cared about or acknowledged gender specifics?
Wakko noticed how she didn’t respond and looked up, their tail stopped wagging slowly seeing her expression, their tongue poking out as they frowned too,
“What’s the matter? Think he won’t like something?”
She shook her head and sighed “no.. just remembered that Father’s Day is next month”
Wakko looked confused as to why this was a problem, before they seemed to understand and their expression wilted “oh..” they said quietly, looking back down at their list with a forlorn look to their face
She flopped onto her back after another sigh and spread out like a star fish, what were they supposed to do now? All there awesome plans were going to have to wait a whole month! and she hated waiting, she wanted to do them tomorrow.
Her and wakko sat in silence for a bit, wakko seems to be deep in thought again, she was about to just tell wakko that they could wait a few weeks when they spoke up
“What if we just made them big brother days?”
she propped herself up on her elbows to look at them
“Big brother days?”
“Ya! Two days in a year not counting his actual birthday, where we do whatever people do on Mother’s and Father’s Day!” Wakko smiled, tail starting to wag again,
After a beat, She grinned widely again and jumped up from her spot on the floor
“That’s a great idea!” Why hadn’t she thought of that first?! That’s exactly what they needed, wakko got up off the floor with her and started to flap their hands around, glad they had found a solution, and began following her as she walked towards the tower door
“Let’s go wakkorino! We got some flower picking to do!”
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There's this guy at work who I'm like, surface level friends with - I get on with him well enough, he's nice, and hes only a couple of years older than me, but he just doesn't Get my sense of humour (it's weird. I have a weird sense of humour) and he's a bit too serious to really be on my wavelength, so i dont think we could ever be close. but we can have a conversation and be pleasant to each other.
This guy is also super super shy. he's soooo shy.
Anyway, we were just passing the time of day earlier, and i asked what shifts hes working this week and he said he's going to be working with Jo for two mornings (who everyone knows does basically no work) and out of nowhere he literally came out with the funniest little aside I've ever heard him say. It was sooooo dry and sarcastic and I don't think he even meant to say it out loud - it caught me off guard and I let out a proper cacklelaugh in response
He looked so surprised and happy!
I've literally never seen anyone realise that they've been funny and made someone laugh like that and been so surprised about it
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