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30s. loves to read, cook, & obsess over tv shows.

[beardedmrbean]

[feyspeaker]

where are my Shakarian girlies at 🥺 WIP for print club this month!!

[jakeperalta]

autumn in stars hollow through the years

[incognitopolls]

If you work with children (childcare, education, etc), what's your favorite age group to work with?

Infants (1 year or younger)

Toddlers (1–3)

Preschoolers (3–5)

Kindergarten to first grade (5–7)

2nd–3rd grade (7–9)

4th–5th grade (9–11)

Middle school (11–14)

Early high school (14–16)

Late high school (16–18)

No preference at all

I don't work with children, show results

Voting ended onSep 19, 2025

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[foxmagpie]

Hello, I was curious and had been debating if I should ask or not for a while , but I’ll let my curiosity win over my anxiety lol. Did you stop writing for Brio? Did you abandon I will collect you and capture you? It’s by far on my top 3 favorite brio works ever and I’ve been reading their fic since 2020😭😭 I loved your work that you wrote for them and was just curious if you planned on writing for them still?💕

ah, thank you so much for the lovely compliment! it means so much to know how much you love it!

i guess you could technically say that i stopped writing for them since i simply haven't in SO long (checking my last WIP doc shows i haven't made an edit since october 2024) but in my heart, it's more of a hiatus.

there are a few stories i do really care about returning to, whether that's tomorrow or in the vague, undefined future. so unfortunately i don't feel like i'm in any position to offer up an idea of a timeline or anything, but i can say the door is definitely not closed, and that there are some stories i am particularly eager to return to.

unfortunately, i'm not sure capture makes the list, which genuinely bums me out. i really love what i have written for it (although i don’t remember the last time i read it!) but tragically, i simply do not remember what i had planned for the third chapter and i've never been able to find any notes or brainstorm something that felt like it would be a satisfying final installment. i would genuinely LOVE to work out how to end it, but i don't have much confidence that i will without being in the thick of hyperfixation.

so, never say never, but i don't want anyone to get their hopes too high because i'm not sure i can deliver, haha.

still, it's truly so nice to hear what it means to you and i'm very flattered that you pushed past your anxiety to ask!

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Taggeth Thyself.

[what-even-is-thiss]

It’s interesting to me. In our house it’s always been the rule that the person who cooks picks last and gets the worst portion. The cook gets the broken yolk and all that. The idea is that if you’re the one cooking you’re doing a service for everyone else and it also incentivizes you to make better food. Everybody else pitches in later by clearing the table for you and doing the dishes.

My brother’s friend that’s living with us now though told me that in his house growing up it was the opposite. The cook did all the work so they get the best bits. They get to serve themselves first.

I think that both make sense. I just think it’s interesting the different ways that different people go about the same things.

[youhavewonme]

I'm neurodivergent as well as disabled and "10 minute blocking" has changed my life.

I find completing tasks really challenging because I either get super overwhelmed, distracted, or my pain/fatigue levels rise too much and I get defeated.

So I recently introduced the 10 Minute Block rule. It's super simple. I simply pick one thing I need to do, set a timer usually for 10 mins (+/- 5 mins depending on fatigue/pain levels) and then go go go! And I try and do as much of that one thing as I can within the time limit. The rule is that I have to stop after 10 minutes.

If I feel spurred on after the 10 mins is up, then I'm free to start another 10 minute block (either to carry on with the same task or start a new one) and do this repeatedly for as long as I wish, but I absolutely must stop after each block and assess how my body is doing and finish blocking when my body tells me to.

If I am feeling defeated or tired or whatever after 10 mins, even if the task isn't finished, I stop. I rest, congratulate myself on doing those 10 minutes, and then find something fun/restorative to do instead without feeling guilty.

It's really improved my perception of productivity as well as taught me how to pace my body better.

I don't know if this will be helpful to any of you, but it's something that I wish I'd known about sooner and has helped me so I thought I'd share it.

[sandersstudies]

I know it can never happen due to privacy issues but I wanna know who tf the other 17 people waiting for this Libby ebook are. I want to start a group chat.

[skeilig]

i love when you just click the share link on a picture on your phone and you get a bunch of batshit insane options. yeah let me email this selfie to the periodontist office. let me send this to my boss on teams. perfect suggestions.

[hamletkin]

not a fully formed idea but something about a modern hamlet using AI to talk to his "father" and slowly succumbing to very real and true madness as he loses his grip on reality in favour of clinging to this last remaining piece of his "father" that isn't real at all...

i've toyed with the idea that maybe, instead of having them be royals, hamlet's father started a tech company and was a ceo and the AI is still something discovered by security guards + horatio. maybe hamlet sr created it himself as a prototype or safeguard. maybe claudius made it for funsies or more nefarious purposes i.e. using his brother's voice/image for evil

i just think it would be a lot of fun... and painful. i'd probably have the AI be ever present in all of hamlet's scenes. maybe he wears a bluetooth earbud the whole play through which his "father" speaks to him and now and then the audience can hear what his "father" is saying to him. sometimes it's urging him to act, sometimes it's berating him, sometimes it's playing ads

[connorwyndham]

F.R.I.E.N.D.S (1994–2004) 2X19 « The One Where Eddie Won't Go »

[foxmagpie]

are you watching big brother this season? would love to know who your favourite houseguests are.

i am! and i am having a hard time with it to be quite honest!!! mostly in that i'm having a hard time rooting for anyone for too long because they all keep irritating me, haha (lowkey feel like will sometimes like--am i old? is this why i can't relate??)

i'd say my favorite houseguests are kelley, keanu, & will. i cannot stand rachel (is this blasphemy? idk) or ava and obviously riley (i was so glad when he got voted out).

who are you feeling, anon?

[foxmagpie]

Hi! Do you plan on continuing with any of your brio fics? I miss your writing so much! Hope all is well!

hi! you may have sent this a million years ago (accidentally got busy with other life stuff and sort of disappeared for a long, hot minute!) but yeah, i actually do! i haven't written anything in a while, but recently i've been feeling the beginnings of a creative itch to get back to delinquents (i think i'm about 50% done with the next chapter, but we know how slow i am). i'd also really like to complete i'll fall if you do!

[lasaraconor]

[valkugo]

I know how fun this night will be. I'm gonna go home with Dad.

Sirens (2025)

[insistonyourcupofstars]

One thing I love about Netflix's Sirens (2025) is that they actually explore the hard choices that are made to escape poverty and dysfunctional families. I felt so much for Devon when she said that she knew what was happening to Simone, but she chose to stay away because she was so desperate to be free from the situation. Even Simone and the ending, without her job, she literally had nothing. She would have to go back to that house, her dad, and know what it's like on the other side but be forced to stay below the line.

It's refreshing to have such a true reflection of what poverty does to people and how it can feel impossible to escape it. So of course, when the opportunity presents itself, it truly feels like your one chance to get out, and to turn it away? It feels like a true death sentence.

Anyways, I just appreciate the story Sirens was going for, and it really spoke to me in regards to how impossible it can feel to leave a bad situation - family or living.

[medusas-daughter]

Yes this! It really explored the way sexism trauma and poverty intersect. Like Simone was fully aware that being a Mrs Someone is not a safe path. She was so excited for her job. But when forced to go back to not only poverty but the very place that traumatised her the most she ran blindly to Peter's arms. When she was running I honestly thought she was about to kill herself ngl and I'm sure in that moment that's the option she saw for herself death or Mrs Kell and she chose Mrs Kell