howdy hey! i’m astrid :D

[tenyai]

(Part 1? lol)This got more ridiculous than I intended but here we are, a little rujinu aquarium date shenanigan inspired by @galaxyspeaking ‘s great aquarium date concept! I have a part 2 sketched out that’s more romantic and sappy but we’ll see if and when I get to it 🐠

[lesly-oh]

HUNTR/X 💥

[sakura-astrid]

“man i love having autonomy.”

that is the thought i just had, and it’s not even about anything profound or funny. i was just getting ready for work, about to put on my glasses, when i realized that, damn, they were really fucking dirty! so i used my sweater and my hot breath to clean them. normal stuff, right?

well, the sweater i’m wearing has a lot of tiny pearls on it, which makes it very hard to find a spot big enough to rub against both sides of my glasses lenses. at first, i figured i should just get another piece of clothing that wasn’t as bumpy to clean my glasses with, since that was probably the right or proper thing to do. but immediately after that i went, “fuck that, there’s a piece of sweater right here i can use!” and used that to clean my glasses.

it felt really good to make that decision on my own. if i was still living with my parents, i would have just asked my dad to clean my lenses for me, since i wouldn’t have trusted myself to clean them “properly” or with the “right” material. i likely would have gotten a passive aggressive remark about my glasses-cleaning habits, or how i should’ve just done it myself with soap and water.

i’m out of that house now, though, and i get to decide how i clean my glasses. it’s a really small thing, almost negligible or insignificant, but it’s big and important to me. making my own decisions is still foreign yet exciting for me, so i think i should celebrate it whenever i remember i’m doing it.

so yeah. i love having autonomy.

[sakura-astrid]

my friend is taking his driver’s ed course and this is how it suggests to say no to drinking

[oddarette]

Howl’s Moving Castle lava lamp with emo Howl as the lava

[sakura-astrid]

so i just pulled off a mildly impressive achievement?

see, around 12:30 AM (so like 3 minutes ago as i’m writing this) my friend’s little brother comes knocking on my door. at first i assume it’s like the house making noises or something but when he knocks again i assume something is actually happening, so i open the door and head over to his room.

apparently his steamdeck’s charger—or at least the cable he was using to charge his steamdeck—had suddenly broken. the main metal charging bit had somehow snapped kind of in half, and part of it was wedged into the steamdeck and he couldn’t yank it out.

here’s an after pic so you can see the state of the charger:

the metal part was the part inside the charger, and the cable was already outside. he has no idea how it broke off. he only noticed it was charging only in one direction a day before this happened, and sometime today it broke.

so we both take turns trying to yank it out of the steamdeck. the little prongs next to the wire bits kept biting our fingers, so we couldn’t pull it out with brute strength.

i suggested using something like those clamp clip things with a loopy metal part (the fuck are those things called anyway); he looked in his drawer, but couldn’t find anything like it. he did, however, have a few rope-like cables, so hooked them to the prongs that were hurting our fingers to try pulling the stuck part out. it didn’t work, so i went downstairs to see if i could find the clamp clip thing.

i also couldn’t find it, but i found a stapler remover and a nail clipper, and thought, “oh yeah, one of these might work!” so i went back up. my friend’s brother tried the stapler remover, and i tried the nail clipper. lo and behold, the nail clipper worked! the metal part was out!

now i’m writing this relaying the tale to the interwebs because my friend’s brother said i should. so if you enjoyed this story, thank him :D

[ac0531]

RUTHARI REUNION!!!

[sakura-astrid]

JUMPING FOR JOY RN

[m4rs-ex3]

OK HOW HAVE I NOT SEEN ANYONE TALK ABOUT THIS STELLA WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK 😭🤚

[sakura-astrid]

SHE REALLY SAID “HIPPITY HOPPITY YOUR HEAD IS NOW MY PROPERTY”

[no-cinnamon-for-synonym]

Queer Eye: Startouch Edition

[wingzoffeather]

I laughed so hard I cried oml!! The animator that did Calllum's face here deserves all the awards! In front of her dads!!! LOOOLLLL

[sakura-astrid]

the way i CACKLEDDDDD

[bird-freakk]

THE SNORT I SNORTED.

[sakura-astrid]

SAME 😭😭

[world-of-theories]

Let this be a lesson for those who thinks their built different when facing

A LITERAL DEMIGOD

[bird-freakk]

THE SNORT I SNORTED.

[sakura-astrid]

SAME 😭😭

[writingandwitching]

Imo in order to finish your writing project you need to be unhealthily obsessed with your characters to a point where you question your sanity

[sakura-astrid]

are. are cowboy fae a thing. asking for a friend

[i-have-a-thing-for-brooms-too]

Honestly I am confused by my sexuality rn. I think I am aroace, but I do also find women attractive. But like I don't want to be romantically or sexually involved with a woman. It's like reading about someone slaying dragons, interesting to observe but not something I want to do myself.

[sakura-astrid]

aghhhh i went through a similar thing but with men.

so far i’ve been comfy categorizing my attraction to them as aesthetic attraction. i admire some guys’ character design and would love to stare at them all day, but the thought of getting involved with them disgusts me.

another term i use is oriented attraction; to my understanding, it’s a blanket label that describes any secret third kind of attraction that isn’t romantic or sexual (like aesthetic attraction!)

maybe either of those? would work to describe your feelings?

[roberttaylorsleeps]

What do you mean that starting with smaller projects is an easier way to build my skill with writing. You mean to tell me I can't just write an amazing novel as my first ever work?

Blasphemy.

[o-writers-woes]