heya i just wanted to tell you how genuinely important your arospec scarian thing is to me
the line "He's not sure what he wants, what's expected of him here" has just helped me solve a tiny crisis i've been having for the past month+ and on one hand i can't believe a fic about blockmen kissing is helping me figure this out but on the other hand im thinking of course it was your writing that helped me realize what is happening in my little feelings hole
anyway, just wanted to say thank you for how real and beautiful your writing is
sincerely, an aro/ace person who's feeling a little more okay about their crisis because you're an awesome human
HEY ANON,,,,, THIS IS SO SWEET WTF..... holy shit im literally speechless. I dont even remotely know what to say to such a genuine and heartfelt message, except that i am so, so happy ive managed to help you like this with my writing
Writing the arospec stuff was really interesting for me, personally, because thats an aspect of myself ive never really... set out much space to think about??? Ive known for a while that im probably demiromantic, considering how close i have to be with people before i can even begin to catch feelings, but ive never truly and consciously explored that within my writing before until now. And the fact that finally doing so has helped someone with a personal crisis really makes me so teary-eyed like hello...... oh my gods.
Thank you for taking the time to tell me this, and im so glad ive managed to help out despite being a virtual stranger. That novelty is never gonna wear off for me. I hope you're having a good day, anon❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ take care of yourself!! :]
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how's the job hunt going? would you ever relocate for a job love?
Oh wow what a question lol! Honestly i dont expect to be able to find anything new till this strike is over, the competition is insane right now. In the meantime my plan is to teach myself faster hard surface sculpting in z*brush using hockey gear \o/ mostly because i dont want to pay the $150 a month for maya, that shits insane. Like a fucking health insurance payment.
For the second question - i dont think i've ever experienced love like that. I think it would take a lot of devotion and sacrifice to give up your dreams for someone else. Admirable, for sure. And also a sacrifice that historically women are the ones expected to make. Every time. :( For a job? Lol, i would move in a heartbeat. I stayed in pittsburgh 6 years after college for my dream job - i only left when i lost it. Knew the next dream job wasnt going to be there, so made my way to LA. And now im having to come to terms with the idea that the dream job doesnt exist as i imagined it - or only exists for a very VERY select few.
And actually, thats not totally true about me and love. I think if i thought for one second that nick could love me back like i diid him, id already be in new england. When i applied to this one job, that sounded like a dream come true it listed the salary, and brian and i just read it and gaped. We looked at each other and i was like i dont even know what the fuck i would DO with all that. And of course the first thing that popped into my mind was i could buy that sailboat nick always talked about. When i was writing my programming textbook a decade ago, and really going through it, and nick and i were up until 3 or 4am every night painting theater sets, he'd talk about his sailing adventures, teach me rope knots, that sort of thing, basically a mental escape. And so last week i texted him like 'hey no promises but what if im suddenly actually making good money. Do you still want that boat?' Because, nick's worked so long and so hard and all he's gotten to is the point of still working on boats other people own, and its just not fair how devalued physical labor is, you know? And his immediate reaction was to launch into our very old daydream - the whole 'yes and you're coming with me, sail off into the sunset' stuff. And that hadnt occured to me - my idea was just- id give him the boat, and he'd fix it up, and id maybe demand photos or a visit or two every so often. Because i think finally -finally- im at a point in my life where being in love isnt enough - i want the other person to love me back. And lol definitely not someone who declares love one minute and then stops talking to me for weeks or months, and the cycle repeats over and over. I think its possible to love someone enough that you recognize you arent the one for them, but still want them to be happy? Happier than you could make them.
So long answer is yes, i would relocate for love, but i have learned the hard way to know when i shouldn't.
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This is an actual conversation, reproduced nearly verbatim, between me and a friend recently:
"Look, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of people outside my family who I feel comfortable going up to and talking to!"
*friend counts, getting to both hands* "No but you're forgetting some. Me, [the boy's sister], my parents-"
*stops her* "I think you're misunderstanding me. I said comfortable. Like sure there are the ones who I can feel comfortable talking to, but not going up to."
"So who's on your list?"
"You, [the boy's sister], [his younger brother], [the boy himself]. That's it."
*friend is, apparently, shocked into silence*
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still thinking about when i had to explain fandom to my favourite cousin (enby adhd solidarity) who's only six month's older than me, all about fandom and what fanfiction was. which was baffling to me, and had to explain fanon to them so people could easily understand fanfiction, specifically for comics as i was reading batman fanfiction. and THEN later when the family was playing a guessing game, my cousin had to describe batman to their team and CALLED ME OUT on reading fanfiction for it in front of half my entire family. man i love them but WOW.
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since all the people i can talk to about cql are not available i get to make a post. anyways i remember seeing someone say a while ago that the real found family wei wuxian has is with the wen remnants and it’s not found family if you force his relationship with jiang yanli and jiang cheng and like... obv i have a shit memory so who knows maybe i’m very much selectively remembering that post, but a general sentiment i don’t agree with is that wei wuxian and the jiang siblings are not their own found family. cause like, when i’ve seen that attitude pop up, it’s usually revolving around the fact that they all grew up together and thus the jiang family operates like wei wuxian’s ‘original’ family (? idk the exact logic but it reminds me of people whose idea of found family are people who didn’t know you growing up/people you met only recently). but the problem with that is that who’s “forcing” the yunmeng siblings to be family? definitely not yu-furen for starters and ig people can have different opinions but it never really read to me that jiang fengmian was taking wei wuxian truly as a “son.” like by all accounts, the yunmeng siblings’ relationships probably should have been worse. but they weren’t. they all chose not to be worse and they genuinely all care about each other. they try really hard to protect each other, and even when they’re not around each other, it’s obvious that that love still exists. see the (re)building of the lotus ponds where they’re living post sunshot, wei wuxian missing his shijie, jiang yanli wanting wei wuxian to see her in her bridal outfit and jiang cheng arranging that... like, they’re the yunmeng siblings lmao and idk to me, they certainly do count as found family.
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