all you need to know about me as a person is that it is 10:11 at night right now and i’m dancing very badly to Hieroglyphs by The Oh Hellos while gathering ingredients to bake cookies
i really respect the oh hellos dedication to ending sets with trees bc like. it's one of the first songs they wrote together and every song since then has just been finding a new and more beautiful way to tell that same story. climbing trees like we did when we were children. shaking limbs tend to end up bent and broken. but heartache pales in comparison to love.
actually im not done i think it's so fire that the oh hellos started out by writing an ep about the walls we build around our hearts and the act of running, like a restless child, away from "fire and brimstone" and scaling walls that took years to build and they end that ep by saying "you'll never know" and concluding that while the process of leaving those walls was very painful, heartache pales in comparison to love.
and then they wrote an album about life outside the walls, which is much like leaving the garden of eden, with both the shame of realizing what you've done and that first human connection that wakes you up like the dawn
and then they wrote an album about how outside the wall the sun is rising, and a sleeper should wake up to meet the dawn, and learn to love without consuming. and they'll be waiting, looking for this sleeper to join them outside the walls.
and then they wrote FOUR eps about someone who's still building that wall, out of "broken canon and prose" and brushing at their fingers hoping they'll come around. and how their love is still sleeping. but you don't know what you don't know yet. and it's gonna hurt like hell but we're gonna be well. i'll give you my best shot. anyway.
maybe i like pulling out my debit card instead of using apple pay. maybe i like untangling my wired headphones. maybe i like typing something into the search bar instead of using siri or whatever. maybe i like curating my own social media feeds over an algorithm. i just don’t think everything has to be perfectly streamlined and efficient i like it when things feel tethered to the real world.
A list of my favorite fics I highly recommend, sorted by rating and pairing! Specifics (i.e. whichever character(s) the POV follows) will be listed in parentheses after the creator!
Part 1 (Gen, Rated G) / Part 2 (Gen, Rated T) / Part 3 (Gen, Rated M & NR) / Part 4 (Percildan, G) / Part 5 (Percildan, T) / Part 6 (Percildan, M & NR)
Finally, let me know if any of the links aren't working, and:
---------------Remember to mind the ratings and tags!---------------
Percahlia
G
Who Dies - troubleinmind (Percy-centric)
A Curious Beginning - joyfulsongbird / @joyfulsongbird
I Love You Will Still Sound The Same - romeoandjulietyouwish / @romeoandjulietyouwish
8th Level Enchantment - romeoandjulietyouwish
Terms and Conditions of Endearment - CBlue / @corancoranthemagicalman
Maybe he’s born with it - umwelt
echoes on her skin - EssayOfThoughts / @essayofthoughts
Flip A Gold For It - ThatOneAceCryptid
spelled out on skin - EssayOfThoughts
T
Of Needles and Near-Misses - vex_populi
The Things That Bind Us - scatteringmyashes / @scatteringmyashes (Vox Machina-centric)
The Words - Clever_Girl
Time and Hearts Will Wear Us Thin - TheWholeDamnTime
oh, you caught me come to life (the moment that your eyes met mine) - exhaustedwerewolf / @exhaustedwerewolf
Their Last Words Are Always With Us - sockablock / @sockablock (Vox Machina-centric)
The Ghosts Of Whitestone - clericofthebalance
the self is not so weightless - quantumoddity
Marked - CaptainTi
The Haunting of Whitestone Castle - ThatHCWriter / @thathcwriter / @ghostofwhitestone
What Mother Sees - ThatHCWriter
A Story Through Time - ThatHCWriter
M
And burn for us right through the fall - deweydecibelsystem / @deweydecibelsystem
Resting in Dignity - ThatHCWriter
Tethering - dragonpyre
Not Rated
gratuitous violence: unnecessary, satisfying, heartbreaking, and so like everything else you love. - fauchevalent
this is going to sound like such a little sibling ass take but i genuinely believe that being a little bit annoying is actually a greater sign of maturity and self awareness than being universally likeable and on good terms with everyone
if some people find me annoying and can't stand me because of how i think and act then that means i'm a fully realized human being with my own personality and opinions and free will and not just a reflective surface for other people's desires, which is in fact a good thing despite what people who want you to just be a reflection of their own opinions and desires will tell you, and why being considered "cringe" or whatever doesn't bother me at all
also it's really funny when you're confident enough in yourself to know that people not liking you isn't always a sign that you're the problem. like there's something undeniably hilarious about being aware your mere existence has the power to piss someone off and ruin their day and i recommend embracing it.
[ID: A screenshot of a tumblr post from user kermitlesbian. It reads: "hm. I think every time I feel an impulse to people please, to be unproblematic and likable and charming and feel the safety that comes with universal adoration, I need to remind myself that I want to be loved like a person, not like a dog."]
realizing with horror that i’ve once again started a giant fic project that will probably take me more than a year to finish about two characters maximum four people care about
btw “there’s a life to be had here helly. a life to be had?” “you’re not coming with me? i can’t watch you leave. of course you can’t.” “i know you don’t want to be here but i’m glad you are, and i’m sorry this is the best i can do right now.” “the work is mysterious and important. that’s good it sounds just like me.” “you pretended to care about me pretty well. you’re easy to pretend to care about. thank you, as are you.” “do you think we’re about to meet our spouses? maybe. maybe it’s each other. that’d be a hoot. yeah like, mid-argument over car wash coupons. honey, you’re cutting them wrong.” “in case we don’t come back, or i don’t know, in case we do?” “i didn’t like who i was on the outside. i was ashamed. i don’t care who you are out there, i care who you are with me.” “you want to take me home to dad already? you’d be the first.” “she’s like you. or you’re like her? i don’t know who you are, i guess. yes you do.” “it’s helly, actually helly. she’s the person i’ll lose if i do what you say. she’s the person i’m in love with.” “at least you’ll have a chance to live. yeah, but i wanna live with you.” “i just wish we had more time.” “but i’m her mark. i’m her.” “they give us half a life and think we won’t fight for it” “see you at the equator. see you at the equator.” ..and the autumn leaves are turning the color of her hair… if you’re even listening. if you even care.
tearing up thinking about the fact that Mark was only able to save Gemma because of innie solidarity. Because Helly stole Milchick's walkie talkie and trapped him, giving Mark the opportunity to escape. Because Dylan got back to the severed floor and saw some shit going down and without question threw his body on the line too. Because Lorne was exhausted watching her beloved goats sacrificed to the corporate machine and wasn't willing to stand by and watch Drummond kill one of their own. Because the entire Choreography and Merriment department responded to Helly pleading for help in a scene straight out of Norma Rae
Not a single one of them had ever met Gemma Scout, but they knew Ms. Casey was one of them. An injury to one is an injury to all
it's all very well to say "friends are just as important as romantic partners" but in practice this simply is not the case lmao. you can share a flat with a friend but it's expected that sooner or later that friend will meet someone and will move out to go live with that person instead. if you're hanging out with friends you can bring your partner along but your friends can't come on a date night with you because that's third-wheeling and it's weird. you can know somebody for most of your life and still be second-best to some guy they met on tinder 6 months ago. you're meant to just accept without question the fact that your friends will prioritise time with their partners over time with you. being single is treated like a problem that needs to be fixed. we casually use expressions like "just friends" or "more than friends". everything we read and watch reinforces the idea that romantic love is what gives life meaning and therefore your life is meaningless without it. i try to keep my chin up but my god it is bleak out there
In regards of the Trump government scraping all trans inclusion in its queer information portion of its websites I have made this thing. Spread the word. Don't let them pretend we never existed.
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