emotions are tough

art/writing prompt blog also some playlist stuff ykyk || 18 || he/they/she || internally screaming

[pnglove]

DONUT LOVE

[tropetember]

Friends To Lovers - Two characters have been friends for years and value their friendship above everything. Unfortunately, they’ve both also secretly fallen in love with each other - but are both too scared to confess because it feels like a betrayal of their friendship.

Secret Identity - Characters A & B have secret alter egos- they’re both in love with the wrong identity.

Whump - A character is comforted/cared for in the aftermath of torture, but the mental wounds take longer to heal than the physical damage.

Coffee Shop/Restaurant AU - Character A is waiting for a blind date and is stood up. Character B is just finishing up their shift at the establishment and, seeing the looks that A is getting, offers to stay and eat with them despite their own exhaustion.

Famous AU - Character A meets Character B for the first time and recognizes their voice as A’s favourite podcaster/radio host/voice actor.

Teacher AU - Character A is a single parent and Character B is their child’s teacher.

Historical AU - The characters are living through a historical war (WWI, WWII, etc). Their main means of communication is through letter-writing. (Epistolary fic with optional in-person scenes between/after letters.)

Time Loop/Coma - Character A is in a coma and keeps reliving the last day before they lost consciousness. There’s something they have to realise before they can wake up.

5 + 1 - 5 times Character A’s kid calls Character B Mom/Dad + 1 time Character B acknowledges they’re their kid.

Drunk Dial - Character A is obsessed with Character B and gets black-out drunk to deal with it. Someone should definitely have taken away their phone.

Business Partners To Friends To Lovers - Character A and Character B meet by chance and, realising they have compatible skills, decide to embark on a business venture together. However, they are not prepared for all the ramifications that come with working alongside each other.

Touch Starvation - A character has spent years building up a tough, strong, untouchable persona. What happens when someone finally touches them gently? (Can be romantic or platonic.)

Slice Of Life - The story of two characters written through scenes only happening in one room of their house. (A number of scenes of domestic life happening in the same room of the house).

Human/Monster Romance - Character A is a human and Character B is a sapient sea creature, and a storm washes them both up and leaves them stranded on a tiny, remote, uninhabited island.

Dating App - Character A’s friends sign them up for a no-faces dating app. Reluctantly, Character A meets someone. Character B is a bit worried about them meeting strangers so they tell their own dating-app friend all about it.  (Or: the Bantr app fic)

Reunions - Two characters reunite many years after a traumatic parting, but new information is revealed that puts everything into a different light.

Love Confession - Character A has been in love with Character B for a long time, and they’ve been trying to confess ever since, but Character B is oblivious to their attempts (or doesn’t believe they are serious). This leads to Character A making increasingly more elaborate and even ridiculous plans to prove their feelings.

Mind Reading - Character A is involved in an incident and can suddenly hear the thoughts of people around them - but only when those people are thinking about Character A. That’s unfortunately bad news for Character B.

Disaster AU - Character(s) get trapped under a collapsing building and have to wait for help without knowing if it’s coming.

Horror - Characters A & B reunite, but slowly Character B realises that Character A’s body is being controlled by… something else.

Age Changes/Future Fic - Characters A & B are old together. Some things change but some things always stay the same.

Major Character Death (maybe!) - Character A is dead. Everything reminds Character B of them. (Character death doesn’t need to be permanent.)

Mythology - Character A is an immortal being/god and Character B is the only mortal who’s interacted with them in centuries.

Accidental Baby Acquisition - Character A rescues a baby/kid, and is then made responsible for the child. Character B is unprepared when they bring them home.

Not Actually Unrequited Love - Character A is trying to move on from Character B by setting B up on a date. Unfortunately, Character B takes this as confirmation that their own feelings for A are not returned.

Fake Dating - Character B pretends to be Character A’s partner so they can stay together while A is sick/injured. The charade goes on far longer than either of them expect. Finally being apart should be a relief, so why does it feel more like a real breakup?

Sexuality Crisis - A repressed character in a homophobic society finds themselves thrust into a city’s underground gay scene, where they meet someone they never expected.

Holidays - Character A’s family is expecting them to bring a date to the annual holiday family reunion. They choose to bring Character B (dating optional).

Regency Style Romance - ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single person in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a spouse.’ (Feel free to change gender as needed.)

Optional:

Hanahaki Disease - Character A is not good at expressing their emotions - this time it might just kill them.

Cowboy/Wild West AU - Character A wants to leave the city. They answer to a newspaper ad for a spouse/farm hand to live on a remote homestead owned by Character B.

Free Space - write the wildest thing you can think of!

Link to main Prompt List

Link to Rules & FAQ

[timidsketch]

Diet culture is fucking wild.

I just learned that Trader Joe's labels some of its food as "Reduced Guilt." There's a brand of popcorn called "Lesser Evil." I had to see an ad on Tumblr for a popular yogurt brand with the tagline of "Less sets you free." I read the back of a food product once that described the food as "sinless."

People literally choose a bag of carrots based on the calorie count. I've had to hear multiple people claim that fat people shouldn't be allowed to eat fruit. There was a water brand at the grocery store that advertised itself as having "zero calories." A woman saw me next to some diet culture smoothie products and made small talk with me about how she didn't understand why the diet culture smoothie made out of fruits and vegetables she was using to replace an entire meal with had a whopping 300 whole calories.

A man talked to me at the store about how he was there to buy a snack, which consisted of two hardboiled eggs and a packet of black pepper. He then told me about his weight loss dreams while being average-sized and thinner than I am.

I saw a post on Tumblr of someone praising a "bread" made out of tree bark that ancient Finnish people ate as a last resort during times of starvation, and they praised this "bread" because it had a fourth of the calories of regular bread—calories that would have saved the lives of countless Finnish people during those famines who instead had to die.

People on here passed around a video of some diet culture soup that promised a loss of 15 pounds in a matter of days, and all of the comments were people laughing at how it did so by making anyone who ate it shit their brains out for a week, yet the people who did were still satisfied with the diarrhea-induced weight loss.

There are so many accounts fat people can give you of thin people who did nothing to obtain their skinny person genetics physically taking food out of the fat person's shopping cart because "You don't need this." And what the thin person decided a random fat stranger didn't need was a fucking melon.

I've talked about this stuff before, but diet culture has legitimately become a cult that destroys lives and kills people by the hour. And yet public outrage isn't about all of this. What people are so worried about is the fact that fat people merely exist. And that is apparently so horrible that we gotta make sure to tax sodas until us fatties go away, which people genuinely think will work.

What really adds insult to injury is how we have known for decades and decades that dieting has never worked from the beginning. But that doesn't make corporations billions of dollars nor one group of people higher on the social hierarchy, so none of that research makes headlines like the next fruit that causes cancer or the new diet that pinkie promises it'll work this time.

I want to scream.

[archive-on-jpxfrds]

Sparring prompts:

Teaching them how to hold a weapon properly by standing behind them and guiding their hands, when you notice that their face has turned red

Saying something flirty mid-fight which catches them off guard, giving you the perfect oppurtunity to strike

Somehow, their training session turns into a full on tickle fight

They wince in pain and you frantically start apologizing. As you get closer to check for any injuries, they attack suddenly, calling you out for falling for such an old trick

Or they do end up actually getting injured, so you clean off their wounds

You want to ask them out after a match, but you keep getting nervous and postponing it, and they're confused as to why you keep coming back eventhough they've defeated you everytime

Their weapon gets damaged after a fight, so you make them a new one.

Finding it difficult to focus because this is the first time you've seen them with their hair tied up

You aren't well, but you don't want to skip training and make them worry, so you continue on as usual, thinking it's not that serious. But that's proven wrong when you faint right in front of them mid-fight

They've been avoiding you a lot, and after every training session, they leave immediatly without saying a word. One day you decide to pin them to ground during a fight and ask what's wrong

Dialogue:

"You've gotten better!" || "Tsk, can't say the same about you"

"I think that's enough for one day"

"...can you get off me" || "S-sorry"

"You hold it like this and- why are your hands trembling?"

"I really look forward to our next match!"

"Oh god- I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to hit you that hard-"

"Didn't know you liked being pinned to the ground this much"

"Is that all you got?"

"I won't go easy on you" || "I don't want you to"

"Let's do it again!" || "Hell no. If we train any longer I'm going to pass out"

(X)

[traulisms]

outfit ask meme!! but catered only to the things i like to draw a lot

send an ask with a character, letter, and a number and i’ll draw them in that outfit!! ^_^

[atusion]

🌼 Filipino Nature Vocab 🌼

here’s a few nature related words i’ve learned recently :-)

1. kalawakan - outer space

2. bituin - star

3. ulap - cloud

4. hangin - wind

5. ilog - river

6. isda - fish

7. bulaklak - flower

8. langit - sky, heaven

[reclaimingpinay]

Learning Tagalog #1: Greetings

Maganda -> “beautiful”

When greeting someone in Tagalog you can use “magandang” to describe the time of day

For example…

Magandang umaga -> “Good morning” Magandang gabi -> “Goodnight”

…hapon -> “afternoon” …tanghali -> “noon” …araw -> “day” Adding “po” to the phrase adds a sense of respect when speaking to elders, etc. For example: Magandang umaga po

Kumusta? or Kumusta po kayo? -> “How are you?” Oo or Opo -> “Yes” Hindi or Hindi po -> “No” Salamat or Salamat po -> “Thank you”

[minty-bear]

anYWAYS-

I wanted to do an outfit meme for the longest since i’m free and wanna practice clothing- I could have used the ones on tumblr, but i didn’t find a specific one i like so–

Send in my inbox any MCL character(s) or OC (Can be mine, yours or the both together since i added duo ones!) and the outfit(s) you want me to draw them in!

[lorilanda]

some concept playlists

because i’m bored and when i’m bored, i create playlists. those are mostly indie song collections, with some exceptions. languages may vary, but most songs are in english or german.

1. ghost lights | post-apocalyptic masterpieces. imagine walking through the ashes of the city you once loved, danger not yet lost, just trying to survive amidst death and destruction.

2. transcends dimensions but only at 4 am on wednesdays | for when you need to distance yourself from everything that seems way too real during daytime.

3. raindrops on your window | sometimes there’s warm summer rain and everything is perfect for a moment.

4. last stop before nowhere | when the train drifts off into nowhere and you stare out of your window, trying to imagine where you might end up when it stops again. but raindrops fall against the glass and the next station feels an eternity away.

5. s c h w a r z w e i s s; | i’m trying to catch a very specific vibe with this but i’m not sure which one. maybe something noir-ish?

6. hammock season | for those lazy summer afternoons when you are just content lying in your bed with some music and a glass of sweet lemonade.

7. sun, stars, moon | the sappiest love songs you could imagine, for you and your significant other to slow dance to.

8. roadtrip songs |

for hours of driving through some fields and abandoned streets in the sunsets. sappy and happy, but also uplifting and kinda comforting.

9. hoodie season | if october and november were fused into one playlist.

10. serotonine season | all the good things about spring.

[yanxi]

playlists i made on spotify that are really just different genres but with a fancier title

songs you’d hear in a store after it has closed but someone’s still in there cleaning (mostly lofi hip hop with lyrics)

when you’re with your friends looking back and thinking of the memories you’ve made in school

slow dancing w your s/o in the kitchen at 2am

soft love songs, yearning

soft classical music to wake up to on a spring morning

sad songs (has both pop & classical music)

angry classical music (featuring tchaikovsky, prokofiev, and bach)

songs i’d sing with my friends, songs i’d sing to my friends because i really cherish them

secksi tunes, slow but very good bass

it’s 12am, you want to sleep but there’s still stuff to do, you’re half awake

songs that lull me to sleep

it’s 3am and i still want to work but it’s also too late to be productive. i am taking naps every five minutes

springtime (featuring any music with a ukulele)

it’s the last day of school and you’re on the bus thinking of what you will do during the summer holidays (featuring indie/ rock/ 80s music, who knows)

lofi hip hop (instrumental)

[ifyouregoingtakethemoon]

it’s high time i posted some more of my playlists on here honestly

sitting back with popcorn and simultaneously crying and laughing at your own loneliness

huge pump up playlist. shit’s good. life’s going well. (has a little 80′s vibe going on won’t lie)

kind of a mystical, pensive vibe? kind of like you’re stuck at the train station on a cold night as the sky turns a kinda purple shade, yk general life things

[princess-core-deactivated202111]

concept playlists

you are a spy who is constantly competing with another from a rival agency, but the sexual tension between you two is growing stronger and stronger with each battle and you know that one of these days you’re just gonna snap and kiss that bastard

you were a part of “those meddling kids” back in the day, but it all came to a halt the day a close friend of the group (and your secret crush) went missing and couldn’t be found, not even by you guys.  now, years after the gang separated because of this tragedy, you hear rumors of her ghost haunting your ex-buddies and know that you guys have a mystery on your hands.

you got sent out to space so long ago you can’t even remember when, and at this point you’ve adapted to alien culture, but that doesn’t stop you from longing for home

the person you trusted the most, had the best and craziest times with, opened your closed up heart to, loved confessed their love to someone else…..  you’re not taking it well, to say the least

[playlistcenter]

types of people // coffee

espresso: dark eyes, cynical smiles, smirks, loud ideas, a newspaper in the morning, taxis, the rush of traffic, satisfaction, bitter words, burberry jackets, no breakfast, living on adrenaline, paperwork, bruised hands, watches, sharing an umbrella with your crush.

cappuccino: paintbrushes, confusing paint water and coffee, knee socks, overalls, tangled headphones, charcoal-stained hands, poetry, sleeping in, arriving late, borrowing your crushes jumper, instagram, taking photos of your cat, cassette player, retro music stores.

latte: morning rush, meetings, cigarettes before work, minimalist fashion, BANKS music, sudden kisses, a different outfit every season, fog over the city, waking up to watch dawn, silver rings, biker boots, brooding, note-taking, writing down your feelings.

mochaccino: knitted sweaters, the crunch of leaves underfoot, nude flats, calligraphy, walking through the park, poetry books, youth, growing up, shining eyes, waving, fresh baking, stickers, tartan skirt, folk music, holding hands, loving greek and roman mythology.

iced coffee: spray tan, mustard yellow, late afternoons, energy fix, boyfriend jeans, leisurely stroll, converse, snapchatting funny faces to friends, bright blue sky, lipgloss, calming voice, hand on a shoulder, sunbathing, summers breeze, reading comic books.

filterless coffee: old diners, outdated magazines, denim jackets, loud opinions, protest pamphlets, bagels, friends with young and old, messy hair, shrugged shoulders, dropping off at gas stations on trips, air fresheners, cars from the 70s, postcards.

based off of this post by @rosepetalphilosophy

[desultory-suggestions]

some playlists part II.

songs for September

a funky jazz playlist for when you wanna slide around in your socks while it’s raining outside

Feelings of lost childhood, yearning for a future, wishing for happiness, waiting for your life to begin once you move away from your family.

you’re pissed and frustrated but mostly just really damn tired after everything. You’re angry at first but then it mellows out into something a bit more comforting, you don’t know what to do, so you just take breathes and wait for a better day. (Listen in order)

calming a significant other after they have had a nightmare.

You’ve been going about your life normally, but for a couple of weeks, people have been acting weird, ignoring you, crying for no apparent reason. When you finally confront your friends, they look right through you. A year passes before you realize, you’re a ghost.

You’re baking a cake with your partner. Sitting and watching it to make sure it doesn’t burn, there’s soft music coming from your phone on the counter. They stand, dancing to the music. They grab your hands and pull you up to join them. You sway back and forth with your head on their shoulder.

songs to dance around your room to

Two girls in a maid cafe, talking about lyric ideas for their new song. Happy music plays in the background, and they both exchange papers. No one else knows, they’re magical girls. They’re actually exchanging plans and costume ideas for their next villain showdown. 

You’re running, you’re not sure why, but you have to getaway. Living in the wild, glad you learned survival skills as a scout when you were young. It’s worth it, just keep going.

The morning after the resolution, you’re the first of the group awake. The sun is rising over mountains shrouded in mist, your hands grip the porch railing and you focus on the slow rise and fall of your bruised ribs. You ache from the running, hiding and occasionally the tussling. But you’re safe.

[princess-core-deactivated202111]

concept playlists 2

you’re a manic pixie dream girl who’s gotten tired of crying over boys who use you to grow up and then leave.  now the only person you’re loving is you.

you’re the city’s so-called “super villain”, which is a real tragedy because you’ve gained a crush on your “superhero” enemy through rooftop fights and witty comebacks.  you know they’ll never feel the same though because it’s against their stupid moral code.

you’re a love angel who only has two brain cells that don’t know anything about trajectory, so you accidentally struck yourself with love magic and now you’ve fallen in love with your target.  oops.

you’re at a party bathed in neon lights, dancing with those you know and don’t know, feeling light as the world is right for a moment.  but as the party dies down, you’re reminded of reality and how difficult and confusing everything really is.

[conceptplaylist314]

quarantine playlists

missing your friends because you thought that the last time that you saw them wasn’t going to be the LAST time that you saw them, and having to keep in touch online isn’t satisfying and hurts your mental health

getting annoyed by everyone you live with, even if you love them, because you have to see them  every second of every day and sometimes you just need to be left alone

having so much free time that you start to think about all of your past trauma and fall back into unhealthy habits and coping strategies that you thought you had overcome a long time ago

feeling like this is the end of the world and things will never go back to the way they were, that you’re forever stuck in this limbo and it looks like nothing will get better

using this time to try to better yourself and take care of yourself, even though it is the worst possible circumstances you are going to at least take advantage of the extra free time to make sure you’re as mentally healthy as you possibly can be. it may not be easy but by god you won’t let it get to your head.

[lantern-hill]

some playlists for your quarantine listening convenience

bedroom pop - music to braid your hair to at midnight; music to make you want to stick to your skincare routine, music to do a face mask to, music to waltz around your room to. waltzable beats, soft vibes, mxmtoon, Powfu and lauv. powder pink and pastel blue. 

echinacea & chamomile - the playlist equivalent of evening tea. slow, slow beats. music to dissolve to. the melancholy of a sunset, the bittersweet of a goodbye as you leave for better things. Billie Eilish, Vera Lynn, Lorde. 

golden pop. pop music to go feral to from the 2012-2013 era of pop. Lorde, fun., Janelle Monae, Gotye, Bastille, The Neighborhood. 

make me feel something - for when you need a good cry but the tears just won’t come

nothing is real - music that’s just a little bit off….

o u t   o f   b o d y  - pop that makes me feel like i’m Buttercup Catnipsnitch in that one scene where Tilda Swinton punches him in the head

soft bangers -  soft songs to get stuck in your head. feat.  cavetown, mxmtoon, jack stauber, conan gray

soul balm - lip balm but for ur soul 

take the plunge - music that hits different but hits g o o d 

unhinge your jaw and gape at the sun - for it is so bright and beautiful that it sears your eyes and boils your brains like shallots within the bowl of your skull