stardust and cookies

she/her. 22. i read. i write. i fangirl. sometimes I listen to songs and draw.

[thegirlintheblackdress]

The North Sea, by Patrick von Kalckreuth

[exhausted-electron]

Only Adam Parrish gets me 😩🥺

[what-even-is-thiss]

You know for the first 18-ish years of your life everyone your age is mostly doing the same things and then all of a sudden every year for the rest of your life somebody your age is getting divorced while somebody else just learned what a leaf is and you have no idea what’s going on or what you’re supposed to be doing

[papayajuan2019]

will you just let me be silly for a sec. there's this dread so ancient in me

[livingfandomly]

After watching the first half I’ve come to the very distinctive conclusion that all the help that works in the Featherington Household is very pro-Pen. Her hand-maid (I guess that’s what her role is??) literally left Penelope with Colin MULTIPLE times. They also probably KNOW that Pen is doing shady stuff, running around covered in ink and secrets, but they just sit back and watch. And we’ve gotta mention the MVP so far… the coachman. He saw Colin run to their carriage, STOPPED IT, let him get in with no protest and probably slowed the pace down so they had more time together to do whatever it is they were doing.

The Featherington Household’s servants are all pro-polin. I love them.

[danadelion]

Just finished reading the Hunger games trilogy.

I wanted to capture the book versions, but the film adaptations still have an iron grip on me, so you might see some similarities

[the-inner-musings-of-a-worm]

everyone has different opinions on whether or not neil and andrew get married. i personally think they do, but not for the medical reasons that i see a lot. i see people saying that they’d get married so andrew has access to neil when he’s injured, but there’s paperwork that could do that without them being married.

i propose a funnier solution. neil isn’t a citizen of the united states. his mother was visiting in the uk when she was pregnant and he was born early, and when she took him back to the us they never bothered correcting the paperwork or anything. fast forward to after baltimore and the fbi have done some digging, only to find out that neil “pain in the ass” josten is actually an illegal immigrant. needless to say, they gleefully hold this over his head, maybe as a way to make him more compliant with testimonies. neil, however, being the little shit that he is, proposes a green card marriage to andrew. andrew agrees to it without a second thought .

that’s how, to the shock and horror of everyone else, andreil ends up being the first married in their early 20s

below is part 2, kevin’s reaction (i added earlier but this is easier to see)

yes, they did have a basic ass courthouse ceremony. their one witness was kevin. he did not know he was going to be the witness. neil asked him if he wanted to go on a run, and he got slightly suspicious when andrew appeared with the car but neil told him andrew was taking them to a new location. so kevin is in his jogging outfit when they pull up to the courthouse. he’s confused but neil says they need to sort out a parking ticket really quick before. they go in and all of a sudden neil and andrew are getting married?!? the poor official is trying to get through the procedure but kevin is squawking like a chicken because what do you mean you’re getting married and im in my jogging sweats

after the ceremony neil and andrew have to listen to him rant for an hour about what is appropriate and what isn’t appropriate to wear to your wedding (neil you’re lucky i didn’t object you were wearing neon orange shorts)

they do go on a run after though and even andrew joins so kevin is satisfied and doesn’t blab. he really doesn’t care enough to, it just means neil’s exy career is even more guaranteed and he will play for the usa team in the olympics (and he wants to see his friends happy wait who said that-)

[angie-words]

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Very excited as I'm meeting some GO friends in a few days 🥳 This means meme-delivery next week might not be possible as I'll be quite busy! Hope these ones are enough to tide you over for a bit 💜

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[homunculus-argument]

A fantasy story starting with the protagonist minding her own business gathering firewood, when a demon appears out of nowhere announcing that she belongs to him now. The protagonist demands to know on what grounds, she's never signed no damn contract. The demon is kind of baffled by this, and awkwardly explains that just now her father had promised his firstborn for something, and she is his firstborn.

The protagonist digs her heels in and says no, she never knew her biological father and by the way the demon explained the situation, evidently her father also doesn't know that he already has a daughter, so therefore the man who had made no contribution to her life after he bred and fled has no claim to her as something he could barter.

Not giving a shit about the fact she's gambling her life in doing so, the protagonist makes contact with the local woodland fae, asking them to negotiate on her side. The fae think that this is fucking hilarious and go with her. So, having lawyered up and with a reluctant demon in tow, the protagonist heads off on a quest to find her father and do whatever it takes to wrangle everyone involved into unmaking the contract.

[homunculus-argument]

Sometimes it feels like you've lived your whole life in a house that's always a little bit on fire. Like it's usually just in one room and you make sure to wet the walls around it so it doesn't spread and that usually works. You were expected to take more responsibility over fire containment when you were like seven because it's not like you can expect your parents to always be 100% on guard about making sure the whole house doesn't catch fire, and you figure that's just how things are like.

And sometimes as a kid you visit your friends' homes and some of then whisper to you - grimacing with embarrassment - about how they're not supposed to tell anyone this, but there's a whole room in their house that's currently on fire. And you're like yeah it's ok I'm not supposed to tell people about the way our house is a little bit on fire all the time, too. And then you visit some other friend's house and there's no trace of fire anywhere, and you think "wow, these people are really good at hiding their house fire."

And one day you show up to work like "hey sorry I'm late, I forgot to wet the walls before going to bed last night and my whole house burned down", and you're startled by the way people react, acting like that must be the worst thing that has ever happened to you. And you're just like "chill, it's been years since the last time this happened, and it wasn't even that bad this time", and that just makes people more shocked, acting like that's the weirdest and most concerning thing they've ever heard anyone say, which only confuses you more.

And then someone tries to explain to you that people aren't supposed to have an ongoing house fire. Most people actually never experience a house fire in their lives. Like not even once. Not even a little bit. The normal amount of having your house be currently on fire is zero.

[corviiids]

was talking to a coworker and realised i could not for the life of me remember his name but i was too embarrassed to ask because we've spoken multiple times so mid-conversation i started concocting a plan to nudge the conversation towards the ID photos on our building passes so that i could be like oh my ID photo is awful haha the camera they use to take these has a real talent for making me look as unphotogenic as possible and then he would say oh yes me too haha everyone says that (because they do) and then i would be able to say well let me see yours it can't be as bad as mine! and he would show me his ID because we are coworkers and why wouldn't he and this would allow me to see his building pass which of course would have his name on it and then i would be able to say well yours is perfectly nice it must be me that's the problem! and then we would have a polite chuckle about it and i would have his name without needing to ask for it and he would be none the wiser and all would be well but then before i could execute this fine plan a little voice in my head went "so this is some light yagami bull shit you are about to pull" which was such a violent reality check it shocked me completely out of my embarrassment and i went "hey im so sorry your name has slipped my mind could you remind me" and he did and it was fine.

[corviiids]

i wanna be so clear: the moral of this story is NOT that i discourage coming up with overcomplicated schemes. i fucking love an overcomplicated scheme as you can clearly tell from the everything about me. the moral of this story is that i encourage us all to collectively get normal about sometimes forgetting people's names and be brave enough to ask stupid questions as part of the human experience so that we can all be more comfortable in our own skins because having the guts to tackle an awkward social situation with either real or apparent confidence is a critical skill for being a person in life and also this allows us to redirect the overcomplicated scheme energy to other more scheme-worthy pursuits, examples of which i shall not share lest i stop getting away with them

[kaity--did]

The problem with having a child with an attorney that has spoken to the child like an adult since birth is that she's 4 years old and she's negotiating the order in which we're going to complete tasks as a family to best suit her idea of an ideal day.

[kaity--did]

Penny: We go home, we play the mirror game, we have dessert, we play more games, we have fun deal?

Me: Okay well actually we're going to go home, have dinner, then dessert, then we can play your video game, then tubby then bed

Penny: Okay no tubby, games first, deal?

Me: This is not - what is happening right now?

Penny: Dada?

Dada: Arbitration?

Penny: DEALS!

[kaity--did]

Every single thing in our lives has become a negotiation and it is frankly ridiculous as it is hilarious.

Penny: I want to use bare foot when we go outside

Me: I didn't know we were going outside but you have to wear shoes girl

Penny: okay but what about I use bare foot's but at Penny's house? This deal?

Me: you know what yeah fine if you agree to not fight about shoes when we leave the house you can be barefoot in the back yard, deal.

Penny: -sticks her hand out expectantly- we deal?

I think I just made a verbal contract with a 4 year old.

[kaity--did]

She's attempting to establish evidence I think

Penny: but I want to go shool pwease

Dada: okay well it is 8pm, so you have to go to sleep now

Penny: okay but I see my fwiends at shool now please, deal?

Dada: Darling no one is at school, all your friends are asleep as well.

Penny: all Penny's fwiends are sweep? What about we... get in Dadas car and check to see watch them sweep, yes deal?

Dada: I cannot begin to explain to you why that can not happen

[kaity--did]

The great thing about being beholden to Penny the Deals Warlock is that she is also beholden to the art of the deal

Me: (watching Penny scoot her step stool over to where we keep the candy jar): hey honey we're literally walking out the door to go get dinner, maybe we wait on the candy okay?

Penny: Oh but I will have some candy?

Me: Why don't you come have some mac and cheese and then when we get home you can have some candy, deal?

Penny: (running out the door) oh, yes this is deals!

[kaity--did]

We are visiting my family and Papa has quickly had to pay patronage to Penny the Deals Warlock

Papa: (yesterday morning, when Penny was a little grumpy) What about you come downstairs and we'll have some waffles and then tomorrow Papa will take you to the Diner in town for breakfast?

Penny: (extending her tiny hand to a VERY confused man) this is deal?

Papa: (not knowing hes entering a literal contract) uhm yeah deal.

-smash cut to 6:30 AM this morning-

Penny (running down the hallway in bare feet) 👹BREAKFAST DEALS👹

[ahotknife]

the thing is that childhood doesn't just end when you turn 18 or when you turn 21. it's going to end dozens of times over. your childhood pet will die. actors you loved in movies you watched as a kid will die. your grandparents will die, and then your parents will die. it's going to end dozens and dozens of times and all you can do is let it. all you can do is stand in the middle of the grocery store and stare at freezers full of microwave pizza because you've suddenly been seized by the memory of what it felt like to have a pizza party on the last day of school before summer break. which is another ending in and of itself

[clearestbluest]

<3

[shining-bewear]

[thoughtsickles]

people in books and tv shows are always getting so upset they throw an untouched meal in the trash. that would never be me. i'd receive the worst news of my life and still be like Let me put this in the fridge.

[c-dragon-art]

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[brightlotusmoon]

[theonewhopoops]

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[naamahdarling]

I don't remember what you said but for the rest of my life I will remember the car window was rolled down when you said it.

[maidthings]

"this is unbecoming of me" is genuinely a useful thing to have in your mental toolbox