Sudden Epiphanies

[obsessive-procrastinator]

Since it's Valentine's Day I'm posting some of my favorite Solangelo fics!

Give Me a Reason to Connect, Be Near by Escapism_Part_2 (Trial_and_Error) - this fic isn't completed, but it holds a special place in my heart as the fic that truly got me into Solangelo. I think about it almost daily. Link

Will Solace and The Socialites of Olympus University by @sarcasmandships - this is one of my favorite fics of all time, and I reread it so much. The smut outtakes are also some of the best I've ever read. Link

august by @cordeliaandthecocoapuffs - you can't mention Solangelo fanfics without mentioning august, and it's definitely one of my favorite fics. The writing is absolutely phenomenal. (Also, august (will's version) updated today which is also super exciting) Link

Healing Takes Two by rabbit_soup - this series is one of my favourites, especially considering it has some excellent disabled representation. I just finished another reread of it and it's still that good. Link

Poetica Crescente byDJBeatz - this fic is so so so fluffy and super funny too. It also contains shenanigans from the rest of the seven. Link

Wildest Dreams by @rosyredlipstick - this fic lives in my thoughts. It's part of an amazing series of different Solangelo AUs, all of which are good, but this one takes the cake for me. I read it during an all nighter where I managed to read over 1 million words of fanfiction in one day. It's vaguely creepy, and it's stuck with me ever since I finished it. My bookmark even contains the words "emotionally changing" in it. Link

what if there were two (side by side in orbit) by @2nd2ndalto - this fic is by one of my amazing mutuals, and I actually have previously made a whole separate post about how good this fic is. It's an X-files AU, and is unfinished at the moment, but is extremely good. Everyone needs to read it. Link

the things that i lost here, the people i knew by @imminentchaos - also by one of my amazing mutuals, and this was his first Solangelo fic. He actually wrote it for me because I asked him, and that's why it's so special to me. Link

Hands Cupping Sparklers by @rosyredlipstick - Another one by the same author, but this fic also mentally changed me, and introduced me into a new rare pair that I ship (Mitchell/Connor Stoll). Link

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!!

[obsessive-procrastinator]

Reblogging this because I have more recs

Dolce Dissonance // "Sweet Dissonance" by @wordsofasarcast - this fic is so so so good. I'm a sucker for a good band AU, and the writing in this one is immaculate. I reread it so often whenever I'm bored or don't know what to read. Link

its the end of the world (and i love you, darling) by @waningg-star - this is a really good zombie apocalypse AU, and even though it's incomplete at the moment, it's still super super good. However please mind the tags. Link

I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it by Bagelswlove - probably one of the funniest fics I've ever read. I reread it probably once or twice a month. Link

Raspberries and Black Coffee by @all-the-gays-are-d3ad - such a good fic. It's not finished yet, but that doesn't take away from how amazing it is. It's so so so fluffy too, with a good amount of angst mixed in there as well. Link

Chances are I'll add more later but who knows

[wordsofasarcast]

aww, thank you for the rec! I'm really feeling the love today <3

So many fics that I love on this list, and a few I'll definitely be adding to my tbr!

[the-camp-half-blood-library]

HI I was wondering if you had any Solangelo fic recommendations :)))

We have many! Heed the warnings as always, but enjoy! Make sure to leave a kudos/comment too!

august by @cordeliaandthecocoapuffs

Somehow, Nico's life only gets more confusing after he defeats a primordial Goddess. Will Solace accounts for about 90% of that confusion. (A journey through August, and all its ups and downs.)

what if there were two (side by side in orbit) by @2nd2ndalto

Reyna drops a file on Nico’s desk. “Are you familiar with Agent William Solace?” Nico blinks. “Doesn’t ring any bells.” :: It's an X-Files au!

Dolce Dissonance // "Sweet Dissonance" by @wordsofasarcast

Nico di Angelo, is a busy man. Don't get him wrong, he loves his job, he's good at it. He loves to write, he loves to sell his songs and hear them come to life with so many talented musicians. And now he has ANGEL, he can release his own music without any of the nepotism allegations. Because the last thing his father would do is give him extra attention - but if he keeps winning awards, maybe he just might get his attention. That's what he used to tell himself, and then he won a literal Grammy and his father still didn't care. But by that point, Nico had worked himself up the DOA Records ladder first as a musician and then becoming an award winning artist and he loved it enough he could forget his father's opinion (or lack thereof). Nico wasn't blind. He could admit that Will Solace was easy on the eyes (read: super fucking hot) but they were both young artists competing for the same awards and Nico didn't have the luxury of supportive, knowledgeable parents to help him out. So sue him, if he doesn't love Will Solace who seems to be trying separate himself from everything Nico ever wanted...

always gonna be an uphill battle by langatism

"Do you wanna ditch the party?" Nico asked him, not sure where the confidence came from. "I don't have a car." "We'll walk." If he was happy to spend more time with Will —and he was—, his voice didn't betray it. Will Solace's life has just taken a 180-degree turn: new city, new school, new friends and new fears mingle in his mind as he reduces his hopes to passing 11th grade, fitting in and getting along with his father's side of the family. Nico di Angelo is bored of the monotonous pace he lives in, constantly going from home to school and from school to work as he waits for something that makes him feel alive again or helps him guide his future. Whether it will be his little sister encouraging his passion for art or the blonde basketball player his friend Leo keeps bringing up, he can't tell, but Nico can't shake off the feeling that something about this year will be special.

Dear reader by @wrongcaitlyn

“Keep telling yourself that,” Will says quietly, because even though the door is closed, speaking any louder would seem wrong. “You’re too harsh on yourself. If you wrote songs or something, you’d easily get on the Billboard Hot 100. Dad would help you. I would, too.” “Promote it to your seven followers?” “Yes!” Nico laughs, and then Will is joining him, and they’re closer than before, but it’s nothing unusual. It’s been this way since before stupid feelings and stupid crushes, and Nico would be damned if he let it change just because of that. or a celebrity au ft. childhood friends to lovers, a bit of trauma, and a famous friend group (plus leo).

healing takes two by rabbit_soup

“You’ve got micro-pieces of glass in your skin, and I can’t in my right mind let that stuff just fester in there.” “Glass…? Where—?” He racked his brain, slowly glancing up at Will. He didn’t remember breaking any glass on the quest. “Strangest thing,” Will said, pulling an orange container out of the box. On its side, it read Arm and Hammer, Baking Soda in thick white lettering. “Both Annabeth and Percy swung by a few minutes ago, talking about the exact same thing—glass in their hands! The both of ‘em! Isn’t that interesting?” The glass beaches in Tartarus...Nico thought.

- Mod 3

[faemorrigan]

Realizing new Jayjon fans wouldn't have seen their entries from the DC book of pride by Jadzia Axelrod, so here they are out of my copy. My favorite details are the lack of dislikes for Jon, as well as Jays love of farmers markets.

[wondersmark]

Things Matt Fraction confirmed irt Tim in the CBC Interview :

He believes comics are just as collaborative with previous teams as the current one and is taking all of that into account

Referred to Tim & Bernard's relationship as being serious and Tim as being in love

Bernard does know Tim is Robin, but isn't telling him or pushing him to reveal (This means his involvement in TD:R #10 & the valentines special are retconned but everything prior is still in tact)

What he wants for Tim to experience he knows he doesn't have page real estate for in 'Batman', but he believes Tim earned this break in the name of happiness. His night life and personal life are clashing and he just needs to figure that out and reach a resolution.

The break is not an end to Tim's story by any means

Said he likes how Tim & Bernard's relationship has been shown so far

The hospital scene between Bernard & Bruce was Bernard purposefully trying to let Bruce know that he knows and that he's not happy with it because he's about concerned Tim getting killed on the job.

Liked creating that tension because it's a problem Bruce can't punch and has to find a way around.

He knows that this moment in Tim's life needs more space than can be given in this run for now but doesn't want to just lob it off somewhere else.

He has plans and if he gets to do them it won't be a B or C plot because Tim's story deserves more.

Tim's break is giving respect to the story that's been building before, giving him a moment of pause, and queuing up what he hopes to do in the future. He has zero intention of anything big happening off panel, says it should be a story.

We're not going to see Dick's reaction in this run because the Nightwing ongoing is by someone else (but this doesn't mean it can't happen elsewhere), Steph will be in issue #9 (May's issue) and her moment will be about Tim's break. He reached out to the writers of 'Batgirls' to get their thoughts on the ideas he had as he was still trying to figure her out and they were very enthusiastic about it.

[duckbunny]

don't infantilise yourself. you are not a child who needs an adult to make your decisions for you. you are a splendid and magnificent autocrat and you are consulting your trusted advisors. you are exercising great wisdom by inviting an expert to give their opinion before making your ruling. often the path of wisdom is to say "good morning, I'm trying to [perform task] and I have a question about [aspect], can you tell me who I should speak to for advice?" before you do it. sometimes the path of wisdom is to hire a plumber. there are times when you cannot do things for yourself but that doesn't mean you are not an adult. you don't need a grown-up. you need a specialist.

[duckbunny]

this has come up a couple of times so let me be really really clear:

the path of wisdom is sometimes to hire a plumber.

the path of wisdom is always to hire an electrician.

[ruinedchildhood]

[likorys-shimenawa]

Wanna get even agriers, this is furoshiki. Origami gift wrapping, but with fabric.

[sanyamoloko]

Will Solace was more like a lankycat stretched out in the sunshine

Lazy studysketchtime with sleepy, tired Will somewhere between writing term papers

[chibird]

What’s your current shiba status? 😅 I may or may not be working a little too hard to finish my second book of comics coming out next year, but thankfully I’m nearing the end! Let’s get through this and build ourselves a more sustainable life after! 🙏

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[only-tiktoks]

[kawree]

Y'all for real please do these. Even if you're certain your posture doesn't suck. One day you will wake up with impinged shoulder pain like I did and let me tell you it fucking HURTS. Do these exercises even just once a week and it will make such a difference. Especially my fellow creatives out there, stop shrimping over your work and go do these right now. RIGHT NOW.

[busket]

hey. listen. when you use too much detergent in your laundry you aren't making your clothes cleaner, you are making them degrade faster. the machine isn't able to rinse out the entire cup of soap you put in, so some of it is left in the fibers of your clothes. when they dry this makes the fabric stiffer and more brittle, so the fibers are more likely to erode and break. over time this makes your clothes wear out much faster than if they were properly rinsed with minimal soap. you are wasting money by overusing detergent, not just on the detergent itself but the clothes you are shortening the lifespan of.

[busket]

you are also ruining your clothes by cramming too many into the wash at once. the machine washes them by agitating them and rubbing them together but if they're crammed in there there's more friction. so they're less likely to get clean and they're wearing each other out. don't use tiny loads of laundry bc that's a waste of water but focus on medium sized loads with only a tablespoon or two max of laundry detergent.

you can also hang up your cotton shirts to dry to prevent them from shrinking in the dryer, and to maximize the lifespan of printed graphics on your shirts or sweatshirts. this saves electricity and keeps your clothes nicer for longer.

fabric softener is a scam, you don't need it because most detergents come with a softening agent already. dryer sheets are handy to minimize static in the dryer, but you can get a reusable wool ball that does the same purpose so they're not necessary either.

use bleach detergents sparingly, only if you notice your whites becoming stained or dingy. using bleach on every load of whites will degrade them.

also most of the time you really only need to wash with cool water. unless something is really soiled, (especially with something greasy, remember heat melts and removes grease,) cold water works just fine for day to day dirty clothes.

that's all

[sashayed]

i keep wondering if i should watch "wicked" but i actually don't have to because i already saw that time kristin chenoweth's life was changed onstage by the voice teacher she pulled out of the audience to sing "for good" in 2013

[sashayed]

[dsmsix]

[dsmsix]

[naamahdarling]

"In the same way that your heart feels and your mind thinks, you, mortal beings, are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares. If you don't, then it doesn't." -- Brennan Lee Mulligan, D20, Fantasy High

[only-tiktoks]

[rainwasheseverythingaway]

The blue effect is also how Tide works, so if you can’t find the bluing products shown in the video, you can try using Tide. Regardless of what you use though it works because the blue helps color correct for yellowing that whites easily pick up. (Save Dawn for non clothes things though) (also if you have sensitive skin and use Tide, be sure to set for an extra rinse)

Vinegar is also really good for getting pet smells, including accidents, out.

Adding in a little borax powder to the drum is good for a detergent booster, especially if you have hard water issues.

[weaselle]

i learned so many things so quickly! and that, friends, is one of my very favorite feelings

[hunter-rodrigez]

tumblr’s aging user base yadi-yadi-ya…

[liones-s]

a big lesson for me was learning that most things are not as fragile as I’d believed. missing a class, or turning in a bad assignment, won’t instantly destroy your professor’s opinion of you. accidentally saying something harsh won’t make your friend want to end the friendship. it takes work to repair these things - it takes effort and research and sometimes a sincere apology - but you can do that because they’re not irreparably broken. what you’ve worked to build, in academia and in relationships and in life, is stronger and more enduring that your mind may teach you to believe. don’t let imagined fragility lead you to giving up

[kiefbowl]

here's some more unsolicited adult advice as someone in her 30s who knows there are a lot of twenty somethings and teens that follow her: if you're trying to build a new habit you really want, and are struggling, you have to break it down to the smallest building block possible. If you're failing, you haven't thought small enough. I know it's possible to hear stories of people who just snapped into new life mode one day by "just deciding", but truly what's happening there is a confluence of events and experiences that force the brain into some sort of epiphany. You cannot will an epiphany. It'll never work. For most times of your life, you will need to build habits intentionally, and that means not working against yourself and to set micro goals. like laughably tiny goals. because once that easy tiny goal is met, you can build off it, tiny goal after tiny goal until you reach your big goal.

so for example, if you want to be a morning person that gets up at ass crack dawn so that you can work out, eat brekkie, shower, and get to work at a leisurely pace, and you're not that person because you will hit your snooze button 800 times, you have to get the big picture goal out of your head. think smaller. "I want to get up 15 minutes earlier than I normally do." If you can't do that, make it 5 minutes. "I want to cook breakfast every day" hell no too big. "I want to eat something, anything, before I leave the house" hell yeah, fantastic. When you go to the grocery store to make sure there are things in the house for breakfast, if you keep buying bagels and microwave sandwiches that you ignore, you gotta think smaller. SMALLER. What's something so easy to eat that you'll never say no to. Is it a yogurt? Is it a handful of grapes? Is it a hostess ho ho? is it hot cheetos? FORGET the big picture of the fantasy put-together woman preparing a full nutritious meal that you'd be proud to admit to. Think only of the smallest goal you can achieve. If you know you can't say no to an ice cream sandwich, put a ton of ice cream sandwiches in your freezer and have one for breakfast every day until it's so instilled in you that you gotta get up to eat something you can start diversifying.

It sounds like, from the lack of habit place, that must take forever. But really it doesn't take too long to form the habit once the discipline kicks in. the trick is that you have to give your brain something easy to become disciplined to. If it's too hard, think easier and smaller. No one has to know. Literally no one in the gd world has to know that for 4 weeks when you were 22 you had an ice cream sandwich for breakfast every day. who cares. If it gets you eating oatmeal with fresh fruit in a few months who cares. you did it, yay. smaller, easier. if you can't do it, think smaller and easier. smaller!! EASIER!!! You are not thinking smaller and easier enough. break your brain thinking how small and easy you can go. SMALLER. EVEN SMALLER, SIS.

[cacodaemonia]

I was telling some friends about how useful the archive feature on Tumblr is, so I went to find an old post I'd reblogged and added to a while back. I wanted to update a couple of things in my reblog of it, but I kept getting an error message about the original post's reblog settings, so I then discovered that reblogs have been turned off. :( Anyway, here's the OP if you want to check it out, and my addition, which I hope is useful to some folks:

I highly recommend using your Tumblr archive on desktop (or mobile browsers)! Without it, Tumblr is kind of a black hole that eats anything you share, and I would never be able to find things I've posted or reblogged.

For folks who don't know how tags work in your blog's archive, you can search for any tag you've ever used and the archive will show you all those posts and reblogs in a handy grid format. For example, if I want to see the fics I've recommended, broken down by month, I go to (remove the spaces after the periods):

cacodaemonia. tumblr. com/archive/tagged/fic rec

Once the page loads, the url will read 'fic%20rec' at the end, but you can enter tags normally when you're searching for them. In other words, use spaces and don't worry about the %20.

You can also use the archive with other people's blogs, assuming they have 'enable custom theme' toggled on under blog settings (there's some disagreement about this in the OP linked above - possibly, you can see anyone's archive if they have certain visibility settings toggled? idk). So if someone you follow uses consistent tags for their art, fics, gifs, meta, etc., you can use the same url format above—just replace my username with theirs, and 'fic recs' with whatever tags you want to search for.

This probably seems super basic for a lot of Tumblr users, but it's something I figured out on my own after ages of being frustrated with the site's 'search function,' so hopefully this will be helpful for people who don't know about the feature.

[egberts]

one of the most fucked up aspects of being an adult is really how life-goes-on everything is. like you can be dealing with the most fucked up trauma-drama-grief and still have to sleep and eat food to survive and like. poop. pooping while you're really sad shouldn't be a thing but it is. we don't have a say in the matter. life goes on