#asks for ts

[hazard-and-friends]

good evening! i was wondering if you had any advice on How To Learn How To Own A Dog, or more generally How To Figure Out If I'd Enjoy Having A Dog. i'm starting to daydream about getting a dog in a few years but i've never lived with a dog and i would like to see what it's like before i Commit with a Living Creature. if someone asked me a similar question about cats (i've had cats my whole life) i'd maybe tell them to volunteer at a shelter or try to catsit for a friend, but i know the experience of keeping cats is VASTLY different from dogs. would you have any advice? how does one become a first-time dog owner without Fucking It Up?

You're going to fuck it up

I think this is the first point for any pet, that you're going to screw it up somehow, and if you can accept that and be okay with that, everything is much less stressful.

Would you enjoy having a dog?

There's a huge range in dog lifestyles.

I live with dogs where I do special feedings, take (one of) them for two 30+ minute walks a day, do daily training, prep food in advance, go to sports, go to group classes, plan weekly outings to take them new places, etc. Hazard in particular had me completely adjusting my work schedule to accommodate his needs.

I also have clients who--and their dogs' welfare needs are met--walk their dogs once or twice a week, if that, and the dog exists in the house and yard. Their time investment in the dog is about as extensive as owning a cat.

And if you get the right personality, they're not more needy than cats either--depends on the neediness of your cat.

There's a reason why toy/companion breeds are popular (or should be! should be very popular!!!!), and it's because they should be easy to live with. They want to hang out with you, they want to spend time with you, but (as adults) they're not naturally destructive, aggressive, high energy, etc. They may be higher maintenance because many of them have long or curly coats, but otherwise...they should be comparable to a spunky cat.

Similarly, depending on your region, a retired racing greyhound would be an excellent first dog. They tend to be neurotic in their own special ways, but they're also low maintenance, low energy (as long as you can provide a space for running once a day for 10 minutes or so), and a low need for stimulation/training.

How to trial it? Many shelters do fostering, but--at least in my experience--the dogs they are most desperate to get into foster homes are the ones least suitable to first time owners.

I would find a good friend with dogs and ask to hang with them for a day. Or dogsit for a weekend. Some dogs this is a huge imposition (Hazard has multiple pages of 12 pt font instructions), some dogs this is "feed him twice a day and let him into the backyard and try not to let him get eaten by eagles".

A thought experiment would be "how would you feel about owning a bengal cat?" Dogs aren't terribly extrinsically different from cats, except that they tend to be higher energy and need more novelty/stimulation on a regular basis.

In general biggest differences tend to be that we expect to walk dogs and do deliberate training with dogs. Not that cats don't benefit or need such things, and I've met cats where both were an absolute need. But we expect to walk our dog (and get upset if the dog, for various reasons, cannot be walked) and we expect to invest time/money/effort into training.

How's that for a non answer?

#asks for ts #smallblueandloud #also 3 weeks late i am VERY sorry

[keepyourpantsongohan]

Hi.....if you don't mind me asking, can I ask your top 5 (or top 3) favorite characters from Naruto? And why you loved them? And your top 5 favorite moments from the series? Sorry if you've answered this question before....Thanks...

Sure, I don't mind at all!

For top five characters, I'd say the top three are pretty static, where the other two positions can fluctuate. I love a lot of characters! For today, I'll go with:

Tenzo: So many things! I love that that he is both stern and compassionate with the Team 7 kids. I love that he makes them a Welcome Team Kakashi sign, and I love how he can be a bit of a show-off. I love how he is enamoured by Kakashi's flattery but also enjoys arguing about soba with him. I love how he makes Naruto porridge and tucks him into bed after a panic attack. I love that he has a place in his heart for Sasuke even though they weren't teammates directly. I love that he likes scaring teens with his spooky face. I love that he is willing to question anyone (including Tsunade, Kakashi and the Raikage). I love how he radiates Tired Old Man Energy despite being 26. I love that despite having one of the most difficult origin stories in the series, he is only ever kind-hearted. I love that he has this jutsu which is all about nature, but his creations are often structured and architectural, because that's who he is. I love that both his powers and decision-making are affected by being around Team 7. I enjoy him a lot!

Kakashi: I love his love of not only Team 7, but of all of his friends' students. I love his compassion towards his enemies. I love how much he stands by Sasuke in particular, both in a sense of physical protection but also emotional outreach. I love that he grows from feeling like a failure in leadership at Kannabi Bridge to leading his whole village. I love how he wants to be socially off-putting, but he's actually the most popular guy of all of his peers. I love that in the face of immense loss he opens his heart again and again. I love that he's self-effacing about his personal qualities, but unbelievably competent and hard-working with his ninja abilities. I love his dynamics with Gai, Tenzo, Tsunade, and so many more. I love how neither him nor Tenzo want the kids to see him kill Kakuzu. I love that he's a dog person. I love that his hair's a little stupid. I love that he writes Naruto notes about eating more veggies. I love the ongoing bit of covering half of his face. I love him!!

Sasuke: This post has already gotten quite long, but I love how Sasuke's greatest struggle in the series is fighting how much love he feels. I love his body "just moves" when Team 7 is in danger. I love that he ran to protect Naruto when Itachi was after him. I love that he thanked Sakura and laid her gently on a bench to say goodbye. I love that he is an extremely competent ninja, but can't come up with his own answers the Chunin written exam at all. I love that he reins in his curse mark by thinking about Naruto and Sakura. I love how he constantly changes his aesthetic in questionable ways. I love that he causes international incidents. I love that he uno-reverses Orochimaru. I love how desperately he tries to understand Itachi, the Hokage, Konoha, and himself. I love that he's a snake expert who gets parenting advice from Aoda. I love that he's a cat person. I love his narrative is not about him being home (in Konoha) but about having a home, as in a place to return to where he is loved. He is Teenage Ninja Batman and he is Me, The Baby.

Gaara: I'll try and keep this brief(er): I love that he is so, so unhinged during the Chunin Exams and EQUALLY, so well-adjusted after. I love his relationship with his siblings. I love that he is the first person we see to be both jinchuriki and Kage. I love that he's like, "Wow, Lee, you're slower," during the Retrieval Mission as if he did not personally rearrange Lee's legs. I love that he calls out the other Kage for forsaking themselves. I love that by default his power is defensive. I love how much he adores Naruto. I could talk more, but you get the idea!

Hashirama: I love how he is smart enough to found a village and invent a whole style of jutsu, but at the same time he's extremely silly. I love his relationship with Madara, calling him a "gift from the divine" to begin with, and saying that he's "fundamentally kind" after he's killed thousands of people. I love that he puts matching statues of him and his ex at the border. I love that as he also had this loving relationship with Mito, he invented bisexuality in the Naruto universe. I love that he bows his head to the other Kage. I love that he teaches his granddaughter to gamble (poorly). I love his dynamic with Tobirama, and his love for his siblings. I love him saying, "I'll deal with you later!" I love him patiently explaining to Sasuke his entire origin story. I love that he is willing to die for peace, but also willing to fight for it.

(Honourable mentions to Minato, Kushina, Tsunade, Naruto, Sakura, Neji and Zabuza who I also thought about putting on this list.)

As for favourite moments, here are a few:

Kakashi standing up to Orochimaru on Sasuke's behalf, without mangekyo, back-up, and after signfiicant blood loss

"I liked them! Is that weird?" "No... I liked them too." Kakashi and Naruto's retroactive dialogue about Zabuza and Haku

Gaara using his sand to have Naruto shake his hand

Naruto meeting Kushina for the first time and hugging her

Hashirama and Madara's simultaneous warning to each other to run away when their fathers were trying to attack

#dnana-2809-blog #asks for ts #long post #top 5 asks #naruto series

[eighthdoctor]

i would love for you to talk about war crimes vs atrocities :chin-hands:

so i'm gonna talk extremely dispassionately for a bit about wars and why we have them before zooming in on gor specifically.

a war is a way to solve a problem.

sometimes the problem is "i'm a bag of dicks and think my country should have more territory" but still. a problem.

usually (unless you are a bag of dicks) a war is not your first approach to problem-solving, because wars are expensive on every possible level. financially. logistically. the longer your war goes on, the less your people like it--fewer willing troops, and also greater risk of getting overthrown and replaced by someone else. you're going to have food problems sooner or later. much easier if you can solve your problem some other way.

so: wars not typically the first solution to the problem.

however a war isn't one-sided. there's someone else here. and with some NOTABLE EXCEPTIONS which all are war crimes for reasons i'll get to, the other party ALSO needs to agree that a war is the best solution to the problem of "someone just invaded me". (as opposed to, say, surrendering.)

ergo: wars (and all fights) are between two (or more) parties who have both agreed this is happening.

you don't need a discussion beforehand, you don't even need to be able to speak each other's language. but if someone at the bar pulls out a knife, you have options other than jumping them. if you DO jump them you have now agreed it's fighting time.

okay so what about that surrendering option. in a bar yes, there are many options other than "fight or give up", but if someone has lined up their army on your border, you really are down to (1) fight, (2) unconditional surrender, (3) negotiate.

#3 requires us all to come to some basic agreements but it's also frankly the most common. MOST instances of country-level posturing do not result in war, they result in another treaty.

#2 (and also #3) can happen at any point after #1 starts. (tbf, it's also possible to start negotiations and then go nah bro, fuck you.) but let's say we start fighting, then go "wait shit, actually we can't win this".

in order for surrendering to be a good option here, the consequences of surrender have to be better than continuing to fight.

this is the root of most war crimes, not geneva.

because let's play out some warcraft scenarios (and put in a cut):

scenario 1: I surrender to the swarm of zombies overrunning my country. this does nothing to change the zombie behavior bc the Lich King is nuts, and we all get killed anyway. the NEXT country over watches this and goes "ah, no surrender then" and fights to the bitter end, making the conquest so much harder than if surrender had been an option.

this is why even a powerful army respects surrender--sure, you'd only lose 1-5% in the battle, but why lose even those when you could lose 0%?

scenario 2: I "surrender" to the orcs but don't really mean it, the moment they let their guard down I reveal my secret weapons/magic/whatever and slaughter them all. unfortunately the rest of the Horde is watching, now knows we cannot fucking be trusted, and next time an Alliance force is outnumbered, the surrender is not respected and we're back to scenario #1.

(scenario 2.5: I wear a recognized neutral flag such as the red cross in order to gain access to the enemy's base of operations and conduct sabotage. the enemy now refuses to let the red cross enter their zone of control. if this gets bad enough, forces may start shooting the red cross on sight. this is why using the red cross is a war crime.)

okay back to azeroth.

scenario 3: I don't fucking trust orcs, even when they've surrendered to me, so I'm going to slap them all in camps and keep them on starvation rations. I'm shocked and appalled when I learn that the orcs are now doing the same thing to our surrendered forces, and pitch a fit when my commander tells me to shape the fuck up.

a lot of war crimes boil down to "if I do it to them, they're gonna do it to us" and drawing a line based on palatability of that. If we mistreat our POWs, they're going to mistreat theirs--and as established before, surrender is an important concept, so "just don't take POWs" isn't really going to work.

scenario 4: I attack a group of civilians in order to provoke the Alliance into a battle they're not ready for. this works (and I win the battle) but now the Alliance is freely killing every Horde race they come across and in about 6 months my army won't have any food.

this one is tricky because different eras/cultures define 'civilian' differently. but in general, there are combatants and there are non-combatants, and if I start killing noncombatants, so is my enemy, and if this spirals long enough we all starve.

there are a lot (a LOT) of armies that won because they used scorched earth, either as the invader (Sherman's march to the sea) or the defender (Russian defense against Napoleon). but there is generally a line of acceptability here because again, if I'm killing your civilians (and destroying your food), then you're going to start killing mine. which is presumably part of why we're at war in the first place.

scenario 5: I destroy a city that has strategic military value but also is full of civilians without giving the civilians time to get out.

hopefully everyone can see what the immediate response to this is going to be. (Sylvanas. of course they're going to try to destroy Lordaeron. that's the logical response.)

at any rate: there are acceptable targets, which have opted in to this stupid problem solving ritual we're all playing. and then there are unacceptable targets, which are either opting out (neutral states) or are unable to opt (both sides' civilians). if I kill your civilians unnecessarily, you're going to kill mine, and then my surviving civilians are going to go "actually we'd like a different leader now thx".

scenario 6: since civilians are off the table, I dress my raid party up as Horde civilians and off we go into Horde territory to blow up some fortifications. (6.5: same thing but we're in Horde uniform.)

this is the same issue as scenario #2 but in a different hat. armies--historic or modern-are Large. I won't know everyone on sight. if I don't know everyone on sight, I need to trust that the people in my uniform are who they say they are. I may have basic preventative measures (code words, ID cards) but if I cannot trust new people I'm going to stop letting people into my fortress. and then eventually we lose, which is unfortunate, but simultaneously I'm pulling the same trick on you, and everyone spirals into paranoia.

now. spying is acceptable and you can wear whatever you want. but you go in, you spy, and you leave, and any blowing up happens while everyone is in uniform.

this is one of the things that distinguishes 21st century warfare, is the regular use of civilian identity to conceal military action. what happens if ANYONE who 'looks new' could be an enemy actor? not what I wanted to happen, that's for sure.

scenario 7: I tell my subordinate to remove enemy agents from the city (this is fine). my subordinate removes enemy combatants AND enemy noncombatants and generally makes this into a cull (this is not fine). we are BOTH at fault: my subordinate obviously manifested reasons to kill a bunch of civilians, but I was nowhere in sight.

armies need to have Someone To Put Blame On. by being in charge, you are saying you are that person. therefore, if your subordinate fucks up badly enough, it is your fault for not stopping them.

scenario 8: there's this new super explosive mineral that can power weapons (this is not a war crime). after mutually using it on each other, everybody decides that the amount of collateral is a colossally bad idea and mutually stops using it (obviously fine). however I think this is stupid and secretly keep supplying my soldiers with it (THAT'S THE PROBLEM).

hopefully we can all see where this one went wrong: if we both agree to Not Do A Thing, and then i Do The Thing, my enemy is not only going to do it in return, but ALSO decide that I am untrustworthy and my odds of negotiating an exit to this go WAY down.

scenario 9: I still don't trust orcs. these ones aren't fighting but I put them in camps anyway. when they rebel, I unilaterally start killing them even when they surrender. I say this isn't a war crime because we're not at war.

which it isn't! this is an atrocity. in real life we've defined this as a war crime because, well, nazis, but this IS an area where Geneva matters.

the difference between this and scenario 5/Teldrassil is that Darnassus is not, perhaps obviously, part of the Horde and so therefore attacking it constitutes an act of war. if Sylvanas had thoroughly lost her mind and wiped out Orgrimmar that wouldn't be a war crime, it'd just be insane.

the orcs are stateless, which complicates matters--if you stick your own civilians in camps and murder them, that's just being a dick. murdering people from another country is an act of war (and potentially a war crime); murdering stateless people has been a war crime irl since the 40s (it's those nazis again) but may not be one on azeroth.

scenario 10: after our last battle, we made a peace treaty. years later, I now know my enemy is preparing to attack me again, so rather than wait for a declaration of war, I go start it first.

declarations of war matter. it's not just being honorable and shit, it's giving everyone time to clear the civilians out and make sure that most of the people dying actually signed up for this. it's telling the opposition why you're declaring war and giving them the opportunity to pick a different option.

furthermore if you signed a peace treaty, a declaration of war is your opportunity to explain that this isn't you breaking your word, the other party did so first. this is important because at some point you'd probably like to sign another peace treaty and nobody is going to listen to you if you just demonstrated you do not give a shit about things you signed your name to. they're probably going to require that you give up a whole lot more than they would've otherwise because of the odds that you're going to be a shit in the future.

okay so in sum. wikipedia has different core principles but mine are:

meaningful surrender (#1, 2, 3)

demarcation between combatants and noncombatants (# 4, 5, 6)

trustworthiness/keeping your word (# 7, 8, 10)

you can also sort of derive the latter two from surrender--if I can't trust you to not kill me, I'm not going to surrender in the first place (trustworthiness), and if you're not demarcating who is and isn't a combatant, what even is going to happen once I've surrendered? but for comprehensiveness, let's take those three.

and go to a reblog because this is fucking enormous.

#asks for ts #Anonymous #the power to manipulate belief #all examples are WoW for two reasons: #1 will hopefully keep this from spreading bc holy shit that sounds appalling #2 did not drive me to tears in the course of this post

[nobledemons]

YOU GOT YIUR TUMBLR BACK! YAY!

#took me two years of emailing tumblr support to complain lmao #asks for ts

[ollieofthebeholder]

Ok ngl I'm kinda curious about this

How do you feel about the "Jurgen being Martin's father" theory?? Or the "Keay cousins" theory? (AKA, the theory that the K in martin K Blackwood was Keay)

I have...never heard of either of those theories before you put them into my inbox. Let's start there.

As for the first one: I think canon is explicitly against it. We know Martin looks like his father. If Jurgen Leitner had been Martin's father, Jon would have probably mistaken him for Martin when he turned up in the tunnels. Even if it was too dark for him to see at first, Daisy would have probably used the fact that they looked alike in her interrogation of Martin as a kind of "how do you know Sims didn't think he was murdering YOU" type of thing. Certainly there wouldn't have been so many questions about who this old guy was.

As for the second one: I am definitely not opposed to that theory, as you can probably guess if you've read promise. I never thought about it before, but I like it.

#asks for ts #anonymous #tma #the magnus archives

[prongsmydeer]

What's your Hogwarts house?

#this is my way of both saying that i don't identify with hp at all anymore. and also that when i did. i liked gryffindor #i assume this is because of one of my old circulating hp posts LOL #anonymous #asks for ts #also: trans women are women. t*rfs not welcome

[ashesandhalefire]

# at the VERY LEAST they should be touching each other's waists again like what the FUCK why don't they at least HUG #the fact that i had to watch maria and greg fuck in a church camp lobby but michael and alex can't share a bed in their shared home??? #everyone in that writers room is going to the bad place :)

Your tags as always are on point. The physical distance and almost robotic feel between Malex in their kissing scenes is such a shame because we KNOW, we have SEEN what Tyler and Vlamis can do when given the chance, and it feels like they're being stifled. It makes me want to scream.

ESPECIALLY because that m*ria/greg scene and the gross comments with her and Isobel the morning after were both SO gratuitous and unnecessary to get the plot point they needed, while sex and intimacy is legit an important part of Malex's story because of the hate crime they suffered which they were never allowed to really talk about! *aggressively bites the writers ankles like an angry chihuahua*

IT'S SO WEIRD okay like i don't know what is happening but i hate it. are they being directed to hold themselves like that?? are they making the world's worst acting choices??? they never used to behave like preteens at a dance trying not to pop an imaginary balloon between their hips, but now we just keep getting Shoulder Touches of Affection that make it feel like someone is standing just off screen with a cattle prod in case they get too close.

#WE CAN'T LET PEOPLE KNOW THEY'RE INTIMATE #asks for ts #anonymous #wank for ts

[fuckyeahsterekfanart]

Could share the artist that made the fanart of your icon? I don't remember their users.

I'm so sorry for the delay in answer!!

Our icon comes from the incredibly talented @ninterbit!

You can find & reblog the original fanart here <3

-raisesomehale

#mod raisesomehale #mod post #anonymous #ask #asks for ts

[armandomendoza]

got my fucking account back

#vsbwrld #asks for ts

[hazard-and-friends]

Hmmm, my dash did a thing. I feel like "hazmat" should be Hazard's "place" blanket.

🤣unfortunately his place cue is "park it" which i like enough to not want to change it

#asks for ts #doomspaniels

[keepyourpantsongohan]

As an Obito fan (I love the guy he gets too much hate, some of the accusations he’s received on this app are wild, his relationship with Rin is an adorable OTP, don’t @ me) I think the main thing that causes him to get away with puberty is that the Zetsu cells modify his height

Truth be told, I actually don't think we as a society dunk on Obito enough, given all that he does LMAO. (However, Obito fans are some of the best and funniest people I know, so it is what it is, hahaha.)

I'd be fascinated with the implication that Nagato and Konan are aware of all the weird science experiments to which Obito is party. Do they know about the tree body? The living Hashirama wall? The room full of eyes? Is he the one chakra rodding Nagato's Pain bodies? Is he the Weird, Buff, Science Grandpa to OG Akatsuki?

Also, here's a meme I made about Obito in Ninja Heaven being in puberty forever:

#anonymous #asks for ts #paint edits

[eighthdoctor]

What D&D alignments would you assign Sylvanas and Jaina, and have they changed since the fall of Silvermoon and Theramore? I think Sylvanas is and always has been lawful evil, her sisters just never noticed.

I think there comes a point in character complexity where alignments no longer make sense.

We'll use my latest D&D character Max as an example.

Max started out as Lawful Good. In a lot of ways Max also finished as Lawful Good. He's the archetypal Good Kid TM. Does things because they're right, not because they're easy. Helps little old ladies cross the street. Explained to an NPC that the party was helping to fight a coven of night hags (which we were wildly under leveled for) because how could we not try to help? That kind of good. Very anxious, very prone to rule-following behavior. Hates disappointing others. Saved the world through the power of friendship and idealism.

Max also spent over a year lying to his family, working as a small time conman and revolutionary instead of going to bard school. He has absolutely no problem using serious mind magic on people he thinks have crossed a moral line--the only reason I didn't take geas (which lets you curse people, like fairy tale curses) was I didn't think it would be useful in the Faewild. He did have and used Suggestion multiple times.

He is rule abiding but not necessarily law abiding, and absolutely broke into a man's house and was willing to falsify evidence if we couldn't find what was needed. He didn't kill but again, was willing to, the country's ruler if it came to that (it didn't). He sold his freedom to an archfey for knowledge. He could lie well enough to defeat just about anyone's checks, and did, and used exact words to get away with aforementioned breaking-and-entering to the cops.

To a cop friend.

To his employer.

So Lawful Good? Or Chaotic Neutral? Certainly the Summer Queen didn't like him very much (before he rewrote her mind to forget about him + the rest of the party) and might call him Chaotic Evil.

Here's what I think:

Jaina is, fundamentally, someone who tries to do The Right Thing. What is that thing? She's willing to put in the energy to find out. She wants to be a good person, she tries to be a good person. She also has been repeatedly traumatized, has repeatedly had it demonstrated to her that many others are not working in good faith, and can be skeptical and caustic as a result. She's had periods where--thanks to the trauma and the ongoing betrayals--she's decided that The Right Thing is meeting violence with overwhelming violence. Is that Good? Or Evil?

Sylvanas is, fundamentally, someone who tries to protect her own. She has a fairly expansive (and fluctuating) definition of 'her own'--those she's oathsworn to, of course, but also those she's taken even tenuous responsibility for. The Dark Rangers, the Forsaken, the Horde--also the sin'dorei, seventy Gorean women, and three kittens. And Jaina. What will she do to protect them? Anything. Again due to repeated trauma and betrayals, she sees threats where none exist and reacts acccordingly. Evil? Or Good?

Did these change with traumas? They certainly got more extreme. But all available evidence is that pre-Third War, Sylvanas wanted to protect her people and Jaina was dedicated to doing the right thing.

It's just the details that get tricky.

#asks for ts #Anonymous #the power to manipulate belief

[nobledemons]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE your art so mich, i actually couldnt find u and i got so sad hut here i am!! i found u!

my favorite of yiurs has always been the horror coulle drawings and charms and I was wondering jf u would be open to making one for danbert from re-animatir , very fun and gay movie check tw before watching tho! if it glowed in the dark that would be super rad!

So I made a post here asking for people to let me know what horror pairings they would like to see this year: Instagram Post

Reanimator was suggested already so definitely like the comment so I know that there's interest! I am very interested in rewatching it this year so it's definitely high on my list.

all suggested pairings with the most likes will go on a big poll for newsletter recipients to vote on! Sign up for my newsletter on my shop.

#asks for ts

[ollieofthebeholder]

Hey! BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD!! Once you are given this award, you’re supposed to paste it in the asks of 8 people who deserve it. If you break the chain nothing happens, but it’s sweet to know someone thinks you’re beautiful inside and out. 💞

Best possible start to the day, month, AND weekend. 🖤🩶🤍💜 Thanks, Nonnie.

#anonymous #asks for ts

[prongsmydeer]

1.holy shit ayesha i just found your blog after what, six, seven years? i don't know when/if you'll see this but i was this tiny thirteen year old on tumblr, absolutely goggle-eyed over jily and everyone within the jily fanfic circle (what was it called? you guys had a name im sure). i'm 18 and in my first year of uni rn, and it just struck me how time really FLIES. i was feeling a little low and impulsively decided to binge jily fanfics (something i havent done in close to half a decade) and it

2. all just came flooding back. the amount of time i spent reading jily fic! staying up till 4am writing my own terrible stories on the back of my school notebooks! some of the happiest, most creative years i've spent have been with you guys tbh, soaking in everything. i'm so delighted your blog's still up - it's like a small pocket of my girlhood, a window into the past. much much love and i hope you're doing well. (we never talked or interacted much, but i held you in very high esteem). <3

Omg, this is such a sweet message to receive! Similarly, I did spend a lot of my teenhood in that HP/Jily space. I'm so glad that the conversations and space were a happy place for you!! It feels like such a creative whirlwind and wild time in retrospect, and especially where now I don't really feel the connection to HP itself anymore, I am so glad to have had created some good memories with wonderful people.

Hahaha, I can't say I ever particularly felt connected with a group name myself (aside from Brorgy, shout-out to Katie, Kristina, and Todd), but I do still have 'never be royals' and 'moviepaloozaparty' in my tracked tags, in the remnants of group chat names from that time.

I'm glad that my blog can serve as that window. Time really does fly; this blog has been up for ten years. I definitely still hang out on the internet and share interests; they're just a bit different now! I think I'll always love this kind media engagement and creative outlet. I'm very flattered that any of it has made an impact.

Congratulations on being in your first year in uni. Hope it goes well for you! Much love to you, and thank you for sharing such a lovely sentiment. <3

#anonymous #asks for ts #i think this is part of why i don't change my url! it's like part of my name now and how my friends may know me

[ashesandhalefire]

you forgot about one crucial part of the bad timeline- majority of malex scences are them thanking maria for saving alex and being the greatest person that ever lived

the bad timeline writers scripting literally any plot event:

#wank for ts #asks for ts #anonymous