#thank you and i love you

[blairelythere]

If I answer your ask 3 months after you sent it, please proceed as if I answered it right away and didn't just spend all that time letting it fester like a stale french fry between the car seats

#askdemonium #thank you and i love you #asks

[squorttle-pox]

A message from an AO3 author to fanfiction readers:

If you leave a comment on my work, then I love you.

If you go through my account leaving comments on all my works and every chapter that I update, then I love you.

You will never be annoying. You will never be the exception. I will never not love someone appreciating my work.

If you leave kudos, then I love you.

If you just read my fic, and don't interact, then I love you.

If you scroll past my works and never read them, then I STILL love you.

We are a community, we love each other.

Let's stop forgetting that.

#And if you bookmark something I write #then I love love love adore you #And please don't be worried about a silly note you add to your bookmark #I will laugh #I will not go “oh damn this person is crazy ewww” #or whatever else reaction you may worry about #there is no wrong way to appreciate art and creation #there is no wrong way to love #from the bottom of my heart and to quell your reader fears (because we all have them): #Thank you and I love you #ao3 #fanfic #fanfiction #open letter #fandom #author #writing

[edenfenixblogs]

Reminder! Antisemitic conspiracy theories are insidious! Here's a good reference from the Jewish Virtual Library to help you spot whether or not antisemitic conspiracy theories are influencing your rhetoric.

^source

#special emphasis on the use of the word zionist here #but my goyim homies are actually killing it this afternoon #thank you and i love you #antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #i'm seeing growth from the left! #hell yeah! #conspiracy theories

[cosmictapestry]

sorry. like i knew you were good at making character playlists, but i don’t think it really hit until i tried others’ and like. how do you miss the mark this much lol. i don’t think i previously had the proper respect for the art and what you do. thank you for your service

unfortunately i think you’re so completely correct about this that i have to plug my favorites about it

now. keep in mind that every playlist takes me like. months to make. because i take this shit so seriously. i’m not throwing stuff together. it isn’t just vibes. it’s flow and it’s lyrics and it’s narrative structure and motifs. AND. it’s Character Understanding. and i am cursed to wait for all eternity for everyone else to get on my level

#so so so so funny because Playlist Making IS the thing i think i am best at. #but the energy + time it takes to study just one playlist……. i cannot ask anyone to do this. #and so to hear that it has been done. i’m cumming #thank you and i love you #playlist

[wwwkissu]

what's done is done, but my love for you remains 💗 thank you all for making this a wonderful experience ;;

#ive been meaning to go for a while.. so this is a bit more conclusive #thank you and i love you #its going to be alright

[witchywellbeing]

So I've just gone through my followers on this account, making sure I blocked and reported any bots, and I am pleasantly surprised that you are all real! I only started this a few weeks ago, never really post anything, and yet I've gained quite a few followers and I want to say thank you!

I never expected Tumblr to be the place I'd gain a following for what I want to do, so I appreciate all of you for checking me out and following. And I guess I best start posting here more often

If you have requests please let me know, like my pinned post says I want to give this a proper go and earn some money on the side because being disabled is hard, so I'm happy to cater to you guys as much as possible

#thank you and I love you #witchblr #witch community #witchcraft #baby witch #magick #witch tips #witches of tumblr #beginner witch #wellbeing #witchy wellbeing challenge

[urmingirl]

#thank you and i love you #min yoongi #yoongi #suga #agust d #bts suga #myg #bts #bts army #bangtan #bangtan sonyeondan

[neonghostlights]

I got that blurb idea and it's amazing and it's turning into a little bit longer than a blurb and I'm posting it tomorrow <3

#thank you and I love you

[roosterbruiser]

update, besties:

I will actually not be posting the next part today!

it's complete--however the interactions on the last chapter of CS have been really discouraging :-(

I am forever grateful to everyone who reblogs, comments, leaves their thoughts! it is so sweet and never goes unnoticed!!

but it's discouraging bc I work really hard on this story and a lot of planning goes into it--plus so many people have asked to be added to the taglist and then do not interact with the post at all.

the next chapter will be posted sometime this weekend

#thank you and I love you #cruel summer #millie writes #my works

[softquietsteadylove]

Something New

"Hey."

Thena looks up with a smile. The rest of Sersi's party is having a perfectly pleasant time in the rest of the flat, mostly in their living room/kitchen/dining room. She's such a people person she makes a wonderful hostess.

Thena has been hiding in Sersi's study for 45 minutes, now.

"Hey," she smiles as Gil comes in and sits partially on the arm of the chair she's claimed.

"What're you up to in here?" he asks her with a smile, tipping his drink to the shelves upon shelves of books around them.

"My specialty, of course," she answers readily, and Gil hits her with an expectant look that screams that he already knows what she's about to say. "Avoiding everyone in there."

"Ah, come on," he laughs faintly, nudging her bare shoulder with the back of his hand.

Thena shrugs, taking a sip of her sparkling wine, which she's barely touched since arriving. "You know it's not really my thing."

"No, I know," Gil nods, and he knows entirely too well that it's not really her scene--the whole party thing. Because he usually manages to find her hiding away, ending up spending his time with her instead of socialising with all that natural charm of his. "But your friends are here."

That is true. Makkari is here, being her usual charming self. And Druig has allowed her to drag him out of his cave to talk to the occasional person, although firmly planted at her side all the while. Kingo is being the life of the party, as he is wont to do. Even Phastos is here, although clearly only to be a good partner to Ben.

"Yes, and I can see them tomorrow," Thena smiles into her glass as she takes another minuscule sip, "without the presence of several strangers in the mix."

"Fair enough," Gil sighs, standing up from the chair and taking a sip of whatever brown liquor is in his glass.

Thena eyes him as he drifts towards the door and watches the bubbles in her glass, preparing to be left alone with her own thoughts again.

"Some of them are pretty nice," Gil says instead, drifting around the shelves and letting his eyes wander over the books arranged in no particular order.

Thena tilts her head at him, "they're nice to you because you're nice, Gil."

"You say that as if you aren't."

"I'm not."

"That's not true," he shakes his head at her. And true, he tells her this all the time. But really, it's that she's...selective about who she's nice to.

"It is," she mutters over the top of her champagne flute. "Not that I need them thinking they can come over and talk to me, anyhow."

"Well, maybe not that guy who keeps asking you to brunch," Gil snickers, as if it's so funny to watch her be hit on by some idiot who works the front desk at the museum.

"He keeps insisting other people would be there, but I haven't seen him speak to a single other person here," Thena shakes her head. "Is he even still out there?"

"Yeah, trying to convince Sersi to get you go to brunch with him."

Thena laughs, at least, because she can always tell Gil about this kind of thing. His presence is the only reason she is here at all. "You'd think the poor boy would be able to recognise disinterest, working at the museum."

Gil sets his drink down on Sersi's desk, drifting back to her with his hands in his pockets. "Maybe he's too used to being around works of art to recognise a masterpiece way out of his league."

Thena shakes her head at him. Gil is good at saying stuff like that. She doesn't know how, since he can be kind of shy about this kind of thing, but sometimes he'll say something that she swears could melt even the frostiest of hearts. "I think the Trojans were wrong--it's you and those lines that could launch a thousand ships."

"I don't know about that, but it's good to know when I've got a line right."

Thena sets her glass down next to his before standing from the chair, joining him in front of the desk. The window is letting in enough light from outside that she can make out his features nicely, despite the dark in the rest of the room. She's always liked Gil's features in soft light--it brings out how handsome he is. "And who are these lines for--that you're always testing out on me?"

Gil just raises a brow at her, and for a second she wonders if she's missed something somewhere along the way. But he smiles, never one to let her sit in silence for too long. "Who do you think?"

"Well, the older woman from Sersi's department does seem to have taken a liking to you," Thena grins, and there--Gil's shyness comes out as he gives her an eye roll and a bashful smile. "I daresay she's ready to consider leaving her poor husband in your favour."

"Well, I'd tell her I'm flattered," Gil chuckles, leaning closer to her, "but I'm...a little taken."

"A little?" Thena asks this time, letting him lean into her space like no other could ever have such a right to do.

"A little," Gil confirms, shrugging his wide shoulders and pulling a hand out of one of his pockets just to tap the top of the desk. "Maybe?"

"By whom?" Thena asks, still somewhat teasing but now also genuinely asking.

"Well," Gil starts and then sighs, and now she knows she's missed something. He looks at her, and the look in his eyes is one she's seen a few times before. It makes her feel...something--a kind of clench in her heart, or flip of her stomach. "It depends."

"On what?" Thena blinks as he walks his fingers closer to her, and her hand comes up to meet his, their fingertips just barely crossing into each other's territory.

"How she feels about it," he smiles gently, and she realises they're so close that she's still looking up at him, even with her heels on.

"Oh?" she utters vaguely, distracted by their proximity and how her eyes have to travel from the open collar of his shirt all the way up - over his lips - to his eyes.

The party outside the study begins the countdown.

"Ten!"

"See," Gil whispers, drifting even closer, "she's this friend."

"Nine!"

"I see," Thena breathes, her heart starting to beat faster, and faster.

"Eight!"

"And she doesn't seem to realise," Gil moves their fingers closer.

"Seven!"

"Realise what?" Thena whispers as their fingers thread together.

"Six!"

"That she's the most beautiful woman in the world."

"Five!"

Thena's eyes travel down to Gil's lips, "have you...told her?"

"Four!"

"Well," he grins at her, "she doesn't always listen to me."

"Three!"

"What?" Thena's jaw drops as she looks at him, "I always-"

"Two!"

"Thena," Gil cuts her off, pulling her closer by the waist.

"One!"

Thena's eyes flutter closed as Gil pulls her in for a kiss. His arm fits around her waist as if they were carved out in the shape of one another from the same marble slab. She moans gently as she wraps an arm around his neck, and then his shoulders. Her other hand slides up his chest until she can tug at the lapel of his jacket.

Gil is soft with the kiss. Gil is soft about everything, at least when it comes to her. He kisses her gently and lets go of her gently, pulling away as slow as he wants. He opens his eyes and they find hers as soon as they're open again.

Thena looks at him. Gil is...everything--her oldest and dearest and in many ways best friend. He's the one to whom she can tell absolutely everything and at the same time is the one who would never require her to do so for their trust to be maintained. He accepts her--every part, every highlight and every shadow, every shred.

"Well?" he whispers, his thumb tracing little circles in the small of her back. "Am I?"

"Taken?" she whispers, and he nods, waiting for her to have the final word. Because if she were to say no, he would accept it and turn right around, never mentioning it again.

He would just love her...quietly. She knows plenty about that.

Thena just nods, not entirely sure of how to voice all she feels for him in this moment. It's way too much to just...blurt out. And she can hear the distant screaming and celebration of those present in the next room over. All their friends are out there. Druig and Makkari and Sersi and Ikaris and Ben and Phastos are probably all lip-locked.

Thena came in here to hide from the need to watch them do so--again.

But now she's here, in Gil's arms, wanting nothing more than to bury her face in his big, warm chest and never emerge. She nods with a smile.

Gil leans in, kissing her again, more softly, less climactically. But even without the drama of the moment - underscored by the countdown to a calendar page turning - it's just as incredible. Because it's her Gil, kissing her. "Happy new year, Thena."

"Happy new year," she grins against his lips. He kisses her again, and again, small but sweet, and eager but gentle. Her hands rise up to his cheeks. "Should we go back out there?"

"Not yet," he whispers, leaning in because he just can't get enough of her. "I want you all to myself for a little bit longer."

Because now she's a little bit taken too.

#Happy new year! #Thenamesh AU #probably connected to the Christmas one where she bakes him cookies #but doesn't have to be #this year has been rough #but you all have made it so much better for me #so from the bottom of my heart #thank you and I love you #I couldn't have done so much of this year without you #this is for #this is all for you #from your local Bird #Gil and Thena are in that room #not even making out #but just trading small cute little kisses #under the light of the moon #above the city glittering outside #eventually their friends notice they're missing #Sersi noticed Thena slipping away as soon as it happened #and she also noticed Gil noticing #trying desperately to end his current conversation so he could go after her #and that's when Sersi knew #she had to stop anyone from going looking for them #because it's finally time #it's Thenamesh time

[newwave-lesbian]

what if i told you..... i was a little lonely and bored.........

#send me asks please #thank you and i love you

[blood-teeth]

howdy y'all <3

really quickly i just wanted to say that i'm sorry I haven't been super super active here - i'm getting ready to go back to school and have been training for my first marathon (which is tomorrow augh) so i've been pretty tired.

thank you to everyone who tagged me in a post i promise i will get to them!!! thank you so so much <3

also i'm releasing some character shorts soon, too!

hopefully will be releasing the last frontier route shortly as well.

#thank you and i love you #thanks for putting up with my bullshittttt

[misswoozi]

san x seonghwa x yeri hc in which yeri is being an absolute brat who needs a good spanking and a fucking on both ends !!

THIS IS SO INTERESTING TO ME BC IN ALL OF MY TIME SPENT THINKING ABOUT SAN/YERI/SEONGHWA, I have never once pictured bratty Yeri. I've never pictured spanking either??

BUT I LOVE THE CONCEPT because I really really really love this trio and so anon pls pls come back and tell me more, gimmie a plot, tell me what happens, pls ruin my life with this

#thank you and i love you #san smut #seonghwa smut #yeri smut #sanhwari #new tag bc for some reason i never gave them a ship name or a tag

[laughyoudrecognize]

So proud of u!!

Thank you!!! 🥹

#I’ve been really struggling so this feels like a big win for me even though there’s still giant messes around me #i really appreciate you 😭 #thank you and I love you #asks #willyouhaveme

[flysafepapi]

Hi darl!! Sending you some beautiful Isaiah inspo for your fics!! Omg, the boxing tho 🥵 💕

The boxing gif is a thing of beauty.

I’ve gotta work that into the sin factor somehow, it’s too good not to 👀

#my eyes have been blessed #thank you and i love you #😘

[crumcatx]

your blog is so pretttttyyy O.o I could stare at it on and on and on

#thank you and i love you #ask