#good stuff 2k22

[1000-directions]

good stuff 11-15-22

had a bit of a tense standoff with two of my coworkers today who didn’t like the way i chose to solve a problem, but my supervisor completely agreed with me, which was really nice after they made me doubt myself. i trust her opinion way more than theirs, and i would have been really disappointed and kinda humiliated if she didn’t support me, but she DID

i stopped to pick up a veggie burger on the way home from work and it was sooooooo good and satisfying. i also ate a salad so there’s my vegetable for the week i guess!

so, uh. me and @jedusaur are dating. very new stuff, but very good stuff :)

#good stuff 2k22 #little victories #food cw #jed #see steph date (poorly) #(successfully???? for the first time ever?????? stay tuned i guess lol)

[ralseinumberonebiggestsupporter]

more ralsei is seam's kid au heehee hoohoo

yay yippee hooray

#deltarune #my art #ralsei #seam deltarune #jevil #susie deltarune #deltarune au #let ralsei have a parent 2k22 #alternate au title.......... hmm #soap seam au #okay that's a good au name im keeping it #ralsei going to school would be the weird kid in the front of the class who answers enough questions to make people think he's smart #but not enough to make people think he's annoying #he doesn't have any friends but he's polite to everyone and always happy a d stuff #his only true companions are those two weirdo moss eaters and his parents #so sad!!! #anyways i made weird talksprites of ralsy a while ago do you guys want any

[queenlucythevaliant]

I got some great feedback on my Inklings Challenge story from my sister this evening, but probably the most thought-provoking thing she said was, "It's so interesting to see you write from the perspective of a younger sibling."

#lots of other good stuff too though #thanks babe if you see this #siblings are the best #but like. also. i wanna psychoanalyze myself now #pontifications and creations #inklings challenge 2k22 #no one will ever walk the earth so close to you #inklings challenge

[waterfall-ambience]

tried experimenting with a sona design

#my art #auri vs tumblr tags 2k22 #<- might try posting quicker sketches & such until my stuff appears in the tags bc wtf #it'll be good for me to loosen up regardless. #i want to do thinky-metaphor pieces but i want people to see them :( #also before anyone comes for my ass: im not a venti kinnie i swear i just think the teal braided hair is cool

[tundrakatiebean]

I was really excited because we were getting Thai food and I was gonna get some vegetables in my curry but they ordered from the one that doesn’t do the vegetables in the curry :( want veg.

#katie is rambling 2k22 #shipping stuff and all the world stuff #means we haven’t had good vegetables up here for a while #and I miss them #I want veeeeeg

[angelnovus]

beating the aviophobia allegations

#I did like a meditation and stuff today #literally almost faint every time I go on a plane but not this time!!! and without my silly good luck charm!!! #snark 2k22

[koushirouizumi]

Just DouxWata Things

Me, watching Holic 2k13: ... Domeki: {Unlike (Haruka)} I can't save people mE: Domeki: I live by saying goodbye. M E: Yuuko: {However} YUUKO: Because, YOU have a Bond {Enishi} with WATANUKI M E: {BANGS FISTS DOWN}

#koushirouizumi holic 2k13 #koushirouizumi holic #koushirouizumi holic react #koushirouizumi react #koushirouizumi douxwata #douxwata #otp: some things are worth caring about #otp: i live by saying goodbye {i want to help you} #holic theme: domekis choice #holic 2013 spoilers #holic spoilers #holic 2k13 is fun #(immmMMM YELLING @ C.L.A.M.P SO MUCH) #(OK GOOD NOW WHY CANT YOU GIVE DOMEKI THESE LINES IN THE MAIN TEXT ITSELF) #(C.L.A.M.P came CLOSE with some stuff in Rei by ACKNOWLEDGING Domeki reacting to Events more often But) #(BOTH 2K22 AND 2K13 VERSIONS ARE SAYING IT EVEN MORE STRONGLY J U S T) #(DOMEKI YOU LITERALLY JUST MET WATANUKI COME ON) #(Holic 2k13 is way condensed but it covers SOME of Early sequences and Hi Hey I Want These Domeki Lines Main Canon) #(Aaaand they parallel the Egg + {DOMEKIs} CHOICE Theme using Other items in this version hHHHHHH HHHHHHH C.L.A.M.P)

[homemaderaspberryjam]

squared my first fabric today  😠

#it's not easy peasy #it's actually difficult lemon difficult #sewing #squaring fabric #sewing technqiues #yeah my waistband looks so good #but at what cost? #my lower back that's what #the big yellow skirt of 2k22 #<---trying a new tag to organizing my sewing stuff #sewblr

[expatesque]

Do you have any advice for the days / weeks / months after you’ve decided to blow up your own life? It’s feeling very scary to have abandoned everything I was working towards (career / relationship / flat etc) all at the same time…

Blow up your life 2k22 (or 23?)! What a throwback, love this!

Blowing up your life is 2 parts terrifying, 1 part exhilarating. And once you've actually done the blowing up, you enter the deeply scary part of rebuilding. I'm proud of you for doing it! You're on your way to making something better.

But how does one actually do that...

So to start, give yourself a week or a few days to be a puddle person. Just totally shrug off productivity expectations and sink into your laziest self. Watch a whole season of a show in a day. Get all meals delivered. Sleep, any time you want, with abandon. Revel in your unproductivity.

And then it's time for routine. Wake yourself up at a consistent, pleasant but not too lazy time (for me, that's 7:00 but I'm a morning freak). Start your day with something that gets you on the right foot (read: not scrolling for an hour). I recommend a stretch and a tea. You might be a roll straight to the gym person or a walk for a delicious coffee person. Whatever works, as long as it gets you moving and out of bed.

You're going to need to structure your days or you'll get terrified facing into the maw of empty time. I would recommend putting aside a few hours a day for 'productive' time. I mean productive in the widest sense, but with an eye on future goals. So spending an hour learning Spanish would definitely go in here, but at least some of the time should be things directly related to your 'how will I feed myself' future. If you are going to be applying for jobs, that would obviously be in this bucket. But if you're taking some time or doing a major career switch, consider doing something that will get you closer to what you want, even if you aren't sure what that is yet. That might be picking up a new skill like learning SQL, it might be setting up/attending networking coffees, it might be baking cakes if you want to be a pastry chef! Whatever it is, spend some time forward looking so that you make sure you're getting something out of this experience.

But it shouldn't all be work related! You blew up your life for a reason, so now is a good time to work on areas of your life you always wanted to improve on. Cooking yourself a beautiful meal definitely can be in the productive category, as can going for a walk, doing some sketching, volunteering, going to the gym... Whatever areas of your life you want to improve on, spending some time on them is productive. I would allocate 3-4 hrs a day on this productive stuff, and at least an hour per day of that should ideally be future looking.

And then the rest of the time is yours! Wander around where you live, explore. Meet your working friends for coffee near their offices. See the museums when they're empty. Bake cookies and bring them to your friend who's studying for an exam. Read books, definitely. Do things that are fun, but do them after you do your productive time. Oh and definitely make sure you're seeing people, it's easy to feel really isolated during this time, especially as you're coming out of a relationship too. Pick up friendships and acquaintances that fell off your radar because you were too busy, see if they're worth reviving.

And lastly, I recommend having a deadline for the career part of blowing up your life. Sometimes this exists naturally (e.g. you have savings for only 6 months) but when it doesn't, deadlines really help bound your time. You want the outcome of this period to be tangible changes in your life, and having a deadline can make sure that happens. So set yourself one - by 1 June I will have a new job or I will have applied to PhD programs or I will have moved out of my parents house, whatever that is for you. But without a deadline, I feel it's easy for this to just be a lazy time vs an intentional, reset your life time.

Good luck! And enjoy! This should be fun, if scary. It's a great time to reset the foundations of your life, so make sure you're being intentional about that while still giving yourself time to recover and enjoy. Have a great time babe.

#blow up your life #truly blow up your life 2k19 was such a time #but it led to so many good things for me! #going to bermuda is like a mini blow up my life tbh #i hope you get what you want from this #excited for you! #correspondence

[1000-directions]

good stuff 12-10-22

my friend invited me to a pet adoption event today and we got to pet some pups :) i also hadn’t seen her in like a month because we have both been melting down at work, and it was so good to chat and catch up, i didn’t realize how much i’d missed her until i was talking to her again

i had suuuuuch good coffee today, new holiday flavors at the coffeeshop were on point, and two of my three favorite baristas were there and they were super friendly and chatty

i’ve been getting a lot of compliments on my nails, multiple people asked if i went somewhere to get them done and i got to tell them i do them myself. i know it’s kinda silly but like...there are so many parts of my body that i feel shitty and self-conscious about, but i do like my nails, and i’m happy that they look good

#good stuff 2k22 #little victories #coffee #nails #body image cw

[rhaegarblackfire]

What life could have been like by Alex_Stark (me.Ao3.)

Sneak Peek:

“By the Old Gods you are so beautiful.”

“Thanks, Jon.”

“No. I’m serious. You are really stunning.”

“This is good stuff,” giggled his wife, pulling him back down and saying between the kisses, “I want you to keep this up.”

But Jon pulled back up again. “I mean. You have always been a beautiful girl, even back in college, but this… you really grew up in a beautiful woman.”

“How can you do that?”

“Do what?”

Jonerys Winter Wonderland 2k22

Thank you @snowxstormworld for hosting this event.

Day 1 (12/12) Christmas Magic

Day 2 (12/13) Family

#jon x dany #jonerys #jonerys fanfic #young jonerys #moden setting #snowxstormworld

[limerental]

it's finish my abandoned wips 2k22 and today, I have a brief modern au yen/geralt/jaskier ficlet

*

Geralt met some guy in a bar. 

Triss tells her this over fishbowl margaritas at the new Mexican place in her neighborhood, lips tinted slightly blue by the vibrant slush of her drink.

"We're meeting in a bar," says Yennefer.

"We're not having sex." Her voice dips low over the word sex as she spares their fellow happy hour restaurant goers a furtive glance. 

"Geralt had sex with some guy in a bar?" 

Yennefer is sure to emphasize the word sex more loudly than need be and is gratified by several patrons looking sharply in their direction. Triss huffs, cheeks pinking up.

"Well no," says Triss, "or maybe. I don't know. I heard this from Coen. But I don't know, Yen, it sounds… They've moved in together. The guy picks Ciri up from daycare most days. He goes to family functions."

Yennefer suddenly feels a little burst of anger. Not at Geralt. She doesn't care who Geralt is having sex with. She doesn't care who he's met in any bars or who he's living with. She's pissed that Triss thinks this is the conversation she wants to have over margaritas on a Friday night.

"Why are you telling me this?" Yennefer asks, softening her anger because Triss has been her close friend forever and sometimes she just tries to care so hard stuff snaps under the pressure of her forced attention. She means well enough. "Triss, Geralt and I are done with each other. We've been done for years, and you know it. The only thing we have in common now is–"

"Ciri, yes, that's why I thought–" Triss shrugs and loses her straw, fishing with her mouth for it around the swirl of the bowl. "If it's serious, he should have told you. For Ciri's sake. If this guy is going to be a part of Ciri's life, you know, you should have some say."

She sounds so earnest and naive. Yen pities her. Pats the hand that rests on the table.

"That's not how divorce works, Triss. That's not how anything works." 

"Well," she says, "I think you should have a say."

Yennefer wants to tell her, I needed to have too much of a say in Geralt's life, that's why we ended things. I tried to hold too tight to control while everything fissured, and that's why Ciri chose to live with him and not me. I didn't know how to be a good enough mother and lover and wife and homemaker and working woman all at the same time without getting ornery and antagonistic and impatient and sabotaging it all, even as Geralt was doing the same.

It's like she'd blinked on their honeymoon or in the sticky-sweet months after adopting little Ciri, and suddenly woken up bringing every stereotype of a nagging, hostile missus to life. Spiraling into somebody she didn't recognize, fighting loud with Geralt over stupid shit. Cheating, sometimes. Blaming it all on their own nature. Some shard of ice lodged in their chests that no passion could fully melt. Cold and unchanging. 

Geralt should have known from the start that she was too broken to fit right into his own jagged pieces, and thing is, she thought that's what they'd come to learn from the mess of the past few years. The long, grueling, furious divorce that ripped their little family to nothing. Both of them too broken for any kind of lasting love. Damaged by the traumas of their youth beyond repair.

But Geralt's met a guy in a bar, and they're serious and living together, so maybe it's just been Yennefer alone who's been broken all along.

"I don't care who Geralt's having sex with," Yennefer lies, having drained most of her margarita with a blur of drunken humming settling around her.

Triss looks at her in that bambi soft pitying way of hers, and Yennefer resists the urge to be unkind, to snap, to taint the well-meaning care of a good friend with cold words. It sours something in her stomach, and she purses her lips against the feeling, pretending at disliking the syrupy tang of her drink. 

Triss hasn't done anything wrong in bringing it up. She has her own traumas and scars and only the best intentions. She understands what Yen's gone through and just wants to help.

No bitter barb or flared up argument could soothe the gnawing, empty feeling that has always existed inside her, so Yennefer cannot say why that seems like all she returns to again and again. Like an animal in a trap, ready to draw blood from any impassioned rescuer. 

There's something wrong with me, she wants to say to Triss and doesn't, knowing her face would soften and voice warble into a coo of reassurance, and Yennefer could not handle it and end up spilling over with vitriol and hurt and unfairness.

There is something wrong with everyone, some darkness in every person's past, but Yennefer thinks that maybe in her that frozen wasteland has been hiding something rotten. To melt the shard of ice meant exposing the decay.

It's all very melodramatic to think about such things on a crowded bar out with a friend on a Friday night. Triss hails the bartender, and he snags her empty and skips back to their table with a brimming glass of vivid slush. Triss' smile is stained with the dye as she thanks him, and the bartender grins in return, his teeth very white and eyes very blue. He fishes several shot glasses out of his pocket and sets them before Yennefer, brandishing a bottle of tequila from some other mysterious pocket to fill them.

"I didn't order this," says Yennefer, and the bartender waggles his eyebrows.

"Pardon my eavesdropping," he says, voice smooth and charming with the touch of a flamboyant lisp, "but your ex-husband had sex with a man in a bar and is now parenting your child? Do tell."

Yennefer stares at the gold tuning fork dangling on a chain at the open collar of his shirt and says something cutting that she will not recall later as the rest of the night ripples into the gelatinous, amnesiac spin of drunkenness.

In the morning when she wakes in a familiar bedroom beside an unfamiliar man with her ex-lover standing at the foot of the bed, all six feet of a miserable, grimacing sad sack still in uniform from his security guard night shift, and his only response upon finding his ex-wife and current lover in bed together is to grunt and undress and nudge the sprawled out, snoring man beside her until he rolls over enough to make room for him, Yennefer is forced to think that maybe she has been overcomplicating things this whole time.

"Hi Yen," says Geralt sheepishly, "you met Jaskier?"

"We had sex in a bar," she deadpans. The bartender grumbles in his sleep, grasping weakly against the blankets pooled around him, looking like the most ordinary man in the world, and yet Geralt, who has too many thorny, shattered edges to measure, looks at him so softly Yen's teeth ache with a memory of last night's sugary drinks.

"Yeah," says Geralt with absurd fondness.  "He does that."

"And you're OK with that?" She asks. "OK with this?"

Geralt shrugs, his cheek smooshed against the pillow, his hair spilling loose. The sun is coming up to track across the wall beside the bed. When she lived here, a framed painting of a lighthouse hung there, brought with her when she left. Now the wall is blank and the sun covers it.

"People don't change," he says simply and reaches across the sleeping man to touch her waist, his palm hot through the thin sheets. He is looking at her the way he never stopped looking at her. Like she could flay him open and he'd let her. Yennefer doesn't want to. She doesn't want it to be like that anymore, never really did at all.

"Do you want me to go?" she asks. She knows she should go. Before Ciri wakes up. Before her inevitable ugliness rears its head again. Before this sunlit morning bleeds into stormclouds.

"Don't go," Geralt says. "I'm sorry." And it splits her in two, the impossibility of it. To love somebody for the black, oozing parts of them, the flaws and schisms. To accept the things that will never change. It can't be as simple as that after all these years. But for now, it is uncomplicated.

"I'm sorry too," says Yennefer and settles down to sleep.

#the witcher #my fic #geraskefer #idk man

[descendantofthesparrow]

sea three-monsters~

Uma the sea witch/goddess

Harry the vampire

and Gil the monster hunter-oh shit wait thats a werewolf. 

some lore! Harry wasn't born a vampire, that shit ain't genetic. he was born of the ex-navy captain James Hook, and then was extremely neglected, he was on the brink of death at only six months old when Dracula swooped in and killed/ate James. taking pity on the baby, he nursed Harry back to health and then turned him when he was old enough/started revealing some health faults (extreme asthma, really really high metabolism (to a point where he never has any energy because his body consumes so much of it) and anemia) his turn wasn't out of ‘oh he’s weak’ it was to give Harry a better chance at living a full life without being capsized by his heath. Harry doesn't remember his real father, nor does he care. (Harriet and CJ are there, they are all half siblings, same dad different moms, CJ n Harry are 15 months apart) all three were adopted by Dracula (Harriet at the same time as Harry, CJ after the mom came searching for her baby daddy only to learn he was killed by the infamous Dracula) 

Gil, son of famous monster hunter Gaston. he also wasnt born a werewolf. Gaston, a viscous man who hunted monsters only for money and fame; he was cursed with all his offspring to become monsters, the exact type he hunted for glory. werewolves. but instead of turning around and coming to care for monster's, which was the intended effect, Gaston uses his sons impeccable hunting and tracking abilities to hunt down more monsters. Gil is the ‘best’ of the three, though no one realizes that. under the full moon his brothers turn to horrific wolf-human beasts that kill on sight. Gil, however, has full control of his werewolf side, turning to a large, fluffy, and dangerous wolf instead. he keeps near his chosen pack on full moons, just in case he loses control. but he has yet to. 

Uma is a descendant of a long line of powerful sea witches, who are thought to be connected to gods of the sea. her skin has a slight scale texture/reflection at the corner of her eyes/tops of her hands/her hips/tops of shoulders. her eyes are just slightly pointed as well, and she has the ability to breathe underwater with no problem, along with being able to communicate with aquatic animals. 

i dont know how these guys became friends, other than maybe Dracula got some stuff from Uma’s fam one time and babe Harry just-latched onto Uma, he’s her’s now, try and stop him. Dracula didn't, he’s just happy someone is there to unVelcro his son from him. “good luck, he’s your problem now. no caffeine he has an iron deficiency. have him back by 6pm thats when dinner is.” Gil was maybe one time sent to hunt down a family of vampire's, saw them (Harry and Uma) and was like “nah, mine now” and lied to his dad about them getting away (that lost him some light in his dads eyes but boi don't care, he has his pack now)

Ursula’s still kinda a shit mom but Uma has lots of aunties n uncles to keep her happy, her moms less of a mom and more of a teacher. Harrys bio dad very much sucked, his dad on the other hand, rocks. man always makes sure Harry is taken care of, and took his sisters in without a second thought. Dracula is a good adoptive dad 2k22 

#disney descendants #harry hook descendants #uma descendants #gil descendants #harry is a very awkward bean #tol boi with lots of love to give #Gil is alot more...studious than in his canon self #his wolf side is VERY smart #Gil is extremely protective of his pack #gil almost kills his dad when gaston tries to kill Harry #werewolf gil #vampire harry #sea witch uma

[glimpsesofeuterpe]

been glancing at 2023's stuff for a moment, now wondering if it wasn't as bad as it seemed or was it

...did anything even happen at all? gotta try to take a look at bites

- have realised i have developed an ability to experience romantic interest or mb it was always there, failed to notice under layers of trauma and denial

- nearly every night i cried my eyes out about my ex friend in question (we broke up in the end of 2k22)... first weird exp or not, by now i know i should have known better and escape earlier. tbh it's been a struggle to move on fully, i still kinda miss that attention x ignoring combo and blunt wannabe guru "lessons", at least thanks to him i know what one shouldnt be doing if they wanna be a better friend

- i managed to make more friends and met one irl ... all just to fail later and avoid almost all interactions esp personal chats as apparently i am really scared of getting abandoned again, it's way easier for me to avoid and stay mostly alone... besides i still don't have enough energy to provide new ppl with anything more useful than basic enertainment

- despite stuff mentioned above, i figured out i love talking to ppl and i really wanna do good, i wanna love and be loved even even if it could be too much to wish for

- finally became a massagist!

- somehow nailed to help some ppl (wat)

- learned how to bake without setting everything on fire

- computer's video card died, so had to deal with a very laggy ol laptop

- fixed computer parts, switched from windows 7 to windows 10

- improved drawing skills, started to figure backgrounds out

- started to discover clip paint studio

- lots of rp madness was going on! felix and pals my beloved <3

- started to return back to actual writing

- spent most of summer in parks

- kinda started listening podcasts again ... this reminds i should resume woe dot begone, ty popping up in person when

- simon petrikov and elliot stardew valley taking the top spot on my list of comfort muses

#blahblah #oversharing #conclusion: i need actual therapy #how do you find a decent ru professional who won't blame you for things you got no control over #not sends you to a local ol soviet hospital where they punish ppl and feed them with drugs instead of helping idk #will i ever afford something more effective than free medicine #likely i will #but humane psychiatry stuff? no idea #russia still sucks a lot regarding this #yes stuff is getting improved #but holy shit there are so many wannabes by now #esp american style uwu ones who brainwash kiddos into thinking they are always right #needless to say trendy shit does not fit in with russian reality at all but only creates more illusions about the world #eventually this will backfire with crazy outcomes and randomness knows i want to stay as far as possible no need in a frying pan #i sure love complaiining every now and then #could have made a twitxter career lol

[21st-century-flapper]

Chaotic All Out notes, y'know, stuff that went through my mind while watching yesterday:

All the kudos and congrats to Swerve in Our Glory and especially Keith Lee for managing to turn themselves heel. Keith Lee. Heel. Dude.

Dax's daughter. So cute. So dangerous. Did you look at her face? She was enjoying herself. I hope she goes into wrestling, and her and Negative One become a tag team.

Intergender tag teams rock.

The return of arrogant show-off heel Bryan Danielson. We missed you! Please keep it up.

Jade vs Athena destroyed my ovaries. Lord have mercy. They both looked amazing and really brought the fight. Be still my bisexual heart.

House of Black. Just... House of Black. I know he's on Tumblr, and on the very off chance he finds this: Malakai, we love you and will miss you. No matter what the future holds for you, I hope you'll be the happiest, most content you have ever been! Take care & be well!

Trios belt match was top notch and I'm really really sad the Dark Order didn't win. I just hope that for them and Best Friends this will be the start of finally being a constant presence in the main event scene. Oh, and Hangman and Kenny dragging their barely conscious guys over to the corner and tagging themselves in was peak petty bitch behavior.

This was the first time I saw Kip Sabian wrestle, and he got me well and good with his abilities and unhinged anime villain persona.

Daniel Garcia grow a spine 2k22. You're a grown ass man, start acting like one.

Ummm do I even have to mention it? MJF! MJF! The devil from Long Island got a bigger pop than CM Punk and boy did he deserve it. What a brat. I hope his reign of terror lasts for years, with or without a belt. Shifty little fucker. Still laughing at how it was his thicc ass that gave him away.

...oh yeah there was a title match aka foreplay for the devil's glorious return.

#aew #all out

[asknarashikari]

Hiiro: Parado, where's the pediatrician?

Parad: That's the thing.

Parad: He was about to come here.

Parad: And his Chansey sang.

Kiriya: Which means he is fast asleep.

Hiiro: Was he up all night?

Parad: playing against me *rubs head sheepishly*

Kiriya: no wonder

Kiriya: I swear, that Chansey of his, beats him in terms of mother henning people around them.

Hiiro: Why weren't you affected?

Parad: Teleported away as soon as the first note was sang.

Hiiro: Go back there and make sure the pediatrician is on his bed and make sure none of his things are on the floor and make sure to feed all of his pokemon.

Kiriya: What are you? His dad?

Parad: Hiiro would make a good dad unlike Emu's

Kiriya & Hiiro: What?

Parad: teleports away.

Kiriya: Tell me I did not just imagine that.

Hiiro: I also heard it.

I think most of the CR is aware of Emu's personal history, just because so much of it is tied up in his medical history- in particular the part about him being Patient Zero for the Bugster Virus. They just don't talk about it because, ya know, propriety and confidentiality and stuff.

But yeah #Let Emu Sleep 2k22

#kamen rider ex-aid #hojo emu #ask #askrikkaiandhyotei