softness only zone

she/her | 20+ | canada/taiwan | writer hi, i'm bean!! *this is the sideblog of yaoyuandaydream* i aspire to be the softness of your favourite sweater. at the whim of my latest hyperfixations. drop me a kofi to support my writing!

[puddingcatbeans]

[ hi there!! just wanted to say thank u to everyone for supporting my writing!!!! i see u in my notifs!!!!! thank u!!!

i tag pretty much everything because if i can’t organize my room then at least i can organize my blog, but here are some personal tags that might make it easier for you to navigate for my original posts:

#beanfics - all my fics including ao3 links + ficlets #bean replies - answered asks! #beanstalks - OG textposts (read: shitposts) #bean translates - i translate my playlist sometimes

i do have a ko-fi here which u can support me or dm me to negotiate commissions!

sometimes i stream games on twitch.

and of course, my ao3 + twitter. i recently sneakily changed my user across platforms and unfortunately left a trail of broken links in the process. rip

edit: i used to be puddingcatbae and i forgot to save that url so idk what bot has taken over that user now, pls be careful...

do not fucking put my fics on g00dreads. do not fucking feed my fics into ai to "finish" them.

thanks again for the notes, that means a lot!! please take care and stay safe, everyone~~ ]

[mysteriousbean5]

Crawls out from the depths to sprinkle you with my contribution to the 2026 @promptisgiftexchange ! I had the honor of creating a gift for the wonderful Salamandersocks! It was so much fun to play with the prompts, I settled with “post-dawn domestic bliss” and fell back into my jam of making these two dorks happy. Come and join us next year and maybe I can draw one for you too!

Here is the link to the whole collection this year!

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Promptis_Gift_Exchange_2026

[titsay]

[conswayo]

the cowherd and the weaving maiden

[zetsho]

after drawing this, my brain started thinking abt the stupidest thing that could happen next

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[pigeonpyep]

LG: *exists*

CXS: :D

A cheeky illustration I popped together to selfishly put on some merchandise (unofficially) - can grab this one on t-shirts/sweaters etc over here.

[saaraofthesand]

shiguang make me so crazy because they are so so in love but lu guang is a bunch of secrets in a trench coat and has lived multiple lifetimes to save cxs meanwhile cheng xiaoshi doesn’t even know he’s bi yet

[electraslight]

Gladio is the "dad who didn't want the cat" meme but the cat is a guy 3 years younger than him

[kagihirapotato]

hello today I offer a shiguang redraw of that one parks and rec meme

[mini-moss]

Peachy skies 🍑

Tip jar | Wallpapers | Prints | Twitter | Bluesky

[decomposedmaw]

someone used to wait here

[decomposedmaw]

Pixel post dividers for everyone! It's not much, but feel free to use them if you'd like. I don't know the ideal size for these, so let me know if they're too tall. I can make them a bit shorter next time.

[seaeyri]

Quick Dissidea Duellum Lunafreya because I've been playing it a lot lately, and I miss her, and I wanted to design her outfit.

I really want her in game. 😢

[bat-bleed]

Give him a solo dc

[pepegle]

[teaboot]

Do you think Clark Kent's first few major articles were about the continued presence of lead pipes in parts of Metropolis' water system

[teaboot]

(Average Metropolis reader after investigative reporter C. Kent's 452nd article on yet another case of landlords/business owners/factories' continued use of lead pipes/paint/gas/glass knowingly exposing the public to dangerously toxic lead levels) what the fuck happened to this guy

[teaboot]

One day Bruce Wayne mentions in an interview that heroes like Superman are overrated, as the most effective way to reduce crime is to provide public resources and improve local infrastructure, then cites how neighboring city Metropolis has effectively lowered their violent crime by 13% after addressing their outdated water system and investing low income housing. the reporter conducting the interview suddenly starts looking a little uncomfortable

[teaboot]

To be clear, Clark is still a fantastic investigative reporter. He still has to track down the sources to prove all this shit

[teaboot]

"Who, Clark Kent? Yeah, we're pretty sure he's a Meta. Is he a superhero? Like what, "Lead-detector guy"? "Captain pipes?" Don't get me wrong, he's a great guy and it's a handy trick, but it's lead detection, not laser vision. He's not about to go running around in tights any time soon."

[sindri42]

I just love the idea of a cape maintaining their secret identity by pretending to be a completely different and less impressive kind of parahuman.

[roach-works]

everyone assumes that kent is so squirrely around superheros because he’s just desperately hoping not to be conscripted to the JLA to fix their plumbing

[teaboot]

Local Metropolis Reporter Publically Recognized For Contributions To The City; Awarded Medal Of Distinction

[championofdnd]

They tried to get superman to present the medal but he was offended at being called "overrated" in comparison to Clark so he declined

[teaboot]

Counter offer: Bruce Wayne disguised as Superman

[teaboot]

beating this dead horse with memes