A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

The beta reader/editor for the ff-ii book project. I am always open for conversation! I like books and stories and am always willing to talk about anything. I am also an socially anxious mess!

[swordmaid]

brienne in zendaya armor dress 😳😳

[filmnoirsbian]

Obviously there are many things to dislike about adulthood but as someone who grew up in an abusive household for whom adulthood offered the only chance at an escape, it's incredibly important to me that i romanticize adulthood whenever possible because i know there are kids and teenagers like me out there who are seeing nothing but complaints about rent and taxes and the loneliness of living on your own and i know they're going to internalize all of that and assume it means that adulthood won't offer them the freedom and safety they've been dreaming of. So while i never want to minimize the difficulties of being an adult, i also want to highlight how incredibly nice it can be to finally have ownership of your life and your body and your time and money and food and everything else in a way that you never had before. You can choose when you wake up! You can choose what you have for breakfast! You can choose when to go to sleep or if you want to (inadvisably) stay up all night watching tv in the living room! In the living room! You can choose what to watch! These are little things, but they are worth taking pleasure in, and they are worth looking forward to.

[stitch-n-time]

Oh. Man. I'm in my 40s now, but can STILL remember the first apartment I lived in alone. The first week, I had nothing. NOTHING. I slept on the floor wrapped up in curtains, until a friend came to visit and was like "welp. This ain't keepin' on" and gave me a folding bed and a couple of blankets. There were part of it that were just... not fun. You know what I did, though? I made cookies. Because I wanted them, and nobody could keep me from using the kitchen. I got a cat, because nobody could tell me "no". I took long, hot bubble baths because the bathroom - and the bathtub - were MINE and nobody else's. I turned MY music up and danced around MY living room all day (but was aware of the family with children downstairs, so shut down the one person party before it got too late). I bought a cast-off couch for cheap and had friends help me bring it in, and sat on MY couch and sewed. And crocheted. And started to teach myself to knit. The only one there to tell me "no" was the kitten, and she loved playing with the yarn. There were things about it that were exceptionally hard. I was a pregnant single waitress truly struggling to pay bills and put food on the table. But that's not what stuck. What stayed with me, and what was important, was those little things that made being an adult worthwhile.

[cwicseolfor]

You will get out and you will get free and it still rains, sometimes, but you get to decide whether to stay in or put up your umbrella or just let it pour down your face while you stomp puddles. You get to choose. It's not paradise, but it is, in the end, yours, which is such a relief. And all the things they say about the best of life being free - that's true. You will have happiness of your own making.

[betareaderj]

Jaime Lannister is the fictional embodiment of the lol jk.... UNLESS meme

[betareaderj]

Exclusionist Bull Shit is so fucking stupid and a waste of time.

Spend five minutes of your day crossing out all the Spanish on a dual language form for what? To announce your a racist piece of shit? Good job, goal accomplished.

[macrolit]

“I love humanity but I hate people.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay (b. 22 February 1892)

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

[moki-dokie]

AAAAAAAAAAAAA IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT ALL MY LIFE

[dear-ao3]

hold on a fucking second. delaware is a state?? i thought it was a river? or is the river more important than the state? why don't i know this? (i should mention i don't like in america, i'm just confused)

there is delaware (state) and delaware (river) 

both are equally strange

the state is a tiny little cryptid thing

the rive is a monster that spans new york, pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. also washington crossed it once and that was like kinda a big deal i guess. like crossing the rubicon in rome.

the state tries to me more important with its “im the first state!!!” bs (seriously its even on the fucking license plates) but we all know. its the river.

[dear-ao3]

THATS TUPPERWARE

[sobutmermaids]

i thought delaware was a place in ohio? why are there so many things named delaware?

[dear-ao3]

delaware is too powerful

[uncertaininnit]

what the fuck

[dear-ao3]

[skaktusposts]

Wait what? I thought Delaware was a store with building supplies. Like paint, wood, nails and stuff?

[dear-ao3]

THATS HOME DEPOT ???

[skaktusposts]

I know home depot, but dude I don’t know anything about America mad have never been there. Are you sure there is not a some sort of store called something close to Delaware!?!

[dear-ao3]

…..ace hardware….?

[uncertaininnit]

this post has only been around for a few hours but could very well be a world heritage post

[betareaderj]

WHY IS THERE A SUDDEN EXPLOSION OF RPF IN A FICTIONAL SHIPS TAGS?! GODFUCKINGDAMMIT.

[betareaderj]

I miss being able to put a plate on a table and not have to jealously guard it.

[cundtcake]

[chibisquirt]

58 seconds to demonstrate EXACTLY why professionalism requires manners.

[digitaldiscipline]

For those of you who do not speak Corporate, this is just:

“Fuck you.” “Fuck you, too.”

[weaselle]

amazing.

also, accurate.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[betareaderj]

No, they didn't! That's not what happened! They just made it possible to bring the relief bill to the floor without the GOP filibustering it to the point of death!

[sandmandaddy69]

[angelinajoliesbottom]

[squeemez]

[sighinastorm]

COW NAP COW NAP COW NAPS COW NAP

[swordmaid]

but I would like to see the gowns 🥺

[whitepeopletwitter]

[betareaderj]

Anybody else on Ao3 see that the tags in the story description field are about fifty times longer than the synopsis and think to themselves 'absolutely not' or is that jist a me thing?

[megan-renee]

obsessed