give your immortality to me;

hi, i'm mala. 30+, she/they // primarily fallout, shitposts, and writing. also, maul is king blorbo at the moment, so brace yourself. sorry for what i've become while maul shadow lord is airing

[taffingtons]

Original Character Selection ...

it occurred to me i haven't properly introduced my OCs on this blog yet. and, sure, i could reuse stuff i've made before for my RP blogs... or... i could take the opportunity to make some fun stuff for myself (instead of for work or volunteering) for the first time in ages...

so here's a quick intro to my crew -- including elle's fallout 4 AU, which my fic series is centered on, and my non-protagonist-role OCs. now i finally feel like i can reblog ask memes and point people towards this post for options 😅 and, of course, if anyone ever has burning questions about any of them, you don't have to wait for an ask meme. feel free to shoot 'em into my inbox any time!

since i'm going to be pinning this post, here are also some quick links for blog navigation:

about mala (aka taffy) taffytalk (stuff i make, replies and rambles, etc.) taffywrite (stuff i write) taffymake (graphics/moodboards i make) taffystamp (analysis posts i want to be able to find easily) taffycraze (blorbo hyperfixation tag, for your blocking and browsing purposes) OCs supply line (reblogs of other people's cool characters) taffy aesthetics hour (vibes for my cast and fave games) fic: but i can't stop (snippets from that series i keep talking abt) blogroll: @gwinnetts - mostly fallout multi-muse RP blog elsewhere: casinolights @ dreamwidth and pillowfort taffingtons @ neocities malathyne @ bluesky CHARACTER TAGS: oc elle days oc zetta reynolds oc riley reynolds oc bellamy rook oc xavier zellweger

[pansyfemme]

if you squint you can see that the penis is actually quite phallic in nature

[sirpuntine]

Not only did mama raise a quitter, but she also raised a procrastinator, people-pleaser, doormat, coward, and liar, and you can’t put a price on that

[oneheadtoanother]

[the-uss-premise]

Console buttons from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-69)

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Culturally significant forbidden candy

[longseasons]

let's all go out and buy pink refreshing citrusy fruity sexually arousing drinks

[mumblesplash]

last year i started taking little walks around my neighborhood for enrichment and whatnot, see, and i’ve been more or less keeping up with them barring those 3 months i couldn’t walk. and there’s some pretty big hills around, so there’s some stairs on this route i like to take. and even though i know stairs are a bit of a workout, deep down it was a little embarrassing to me at first, realizing i’d let my cardio fitness slip so badly that i needed multiple breaks to catch my breath on a single staircase. it got better as i kept at it, of course, but i would still internally wince a little at the fact that i’d get so winded on those stupid stairs. they’re just some rickety old hillside stairs by my house, i thought, they shouldn’t take it out of me THIS badly

it was only within the past few months that i got to a point where i was like okay, this is reasonable. they’re not EASY, but if i pace myself i can take the stairs all at once without gasping for air. that’s not too bad. there’s room for improvement and i still get a little winded but that’s a reasonable amount of tired to be, i reckoned, it’s one staircase but it’s kind of a long staircase. i’d always known it was kinda long.

except i recently found out i was underselling it a bit, there. turns out it’s a VERY long staircase. it’s ‘appears in tour guides and news articles’ long, actually. it’s ’annual citywide step challenge event’ long. it’s ’i can’t tell you the number of steps without doxxing myself’ long. and for almost a year i had no idea, because it’s nearby and not very fancy looking and i thought it was just Some Stairs and i was really badly out of shape. but no, i’ve accidentally been doing insane superhell cardio this whole time. i’m pretty sure i’m currently in better shape than i was running cross country in high school. the big hill by my parents’ house feels like flat ground to me now.

i don’t even know where i’m going with this. i guess the point is sometimes you are not uniquely ill-equipped for a thing, sometimes that thing is actually just really difficult. and sometimes you don’t realize this and end up holding yourself to insane standards for no reason. but also this can end up benefiting you in the end? idk. maybe i should participate in that step challenge this year or something

[shmreduplication]

There's some guitar riff that is very fast and my brother thought he'd never be able to match it because the original guitarist is a virtuoso and my brother is just some guy

He was warming up for band practice one day and played it and the singer was very impressed and was like 'oh you're doing a speed challenge of that song' and my brother said no, he's trying to match the original speed but it's impossible because the original is too fast. They relistened to the song and it was slower than how my brother played it

[shmreduplication]

Takeru Kobayashi, the man who revolutionized competitive food eating contests, deliberately never looked up the world record while training for his first big hot dog eating contest in 2001

In 2000 the record was 25.5 in 12 minutes. In 2001, Kobayashi ate 50 hot dogs, almost doubling the record. The judges ran out of pre-made signs to track how many he had eaten and had to start making handwritten signs on the spot

There's a lot of positives with SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant/Realistic, Timely), (i really recommend it for things with work/school or things that have a natural deadline that isn't set by you) but the flip side of that is Godhart's law: when a measurement becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measurement. If OP or my brother or Kobayashi had specific goals and checked their progress against it, it would have inhibited their ability to achieve what they ended up achieving

[dykearchived]

Chloe Atkins’ portraits of lesbians at San Francisco’s Club Q featured in her published collection Girls Night Out (1998)

[komainucomplex]

power washes half of you

has anyone noticed the rain in these days is hard as fuck and all in one place or is it jus tme

[pangur-and-grim]

look at her beautiful smile!

[teaboot]

I think that if you had enough daughters AND played your cards right you could spring Mambo Number Five out at the EXACT right gathering and shatter your entire family's trust forever

[teaboot]

The secret is to name them out of order with the lyrics so by the time anyone catches on it's too late

[teaboot]

For me personally the ideal gathering would be my funeral

[dunmeshistash]

Izutsumi is aroace, you agree with me, happy pride.

[malinaa]

what if we all explode

[derring-do]

This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.

[were--ralph]

U 34 and a furry

ill be 60 and one too

[furry-fey]

[pangur-and-grim]

what isn’t captured here are the spit droplets raining down on me

[stoned-ratpack]

I captured some of my favorite frames of The Beast and her activities

[pure-sea-salt]

scrolled through the pangur tag for over an hour to find this specific post because i couldnt stop thinking about it, hence why ive been liking and reblogging a bunch of pangur

[konoko]

[beardedmrbean]

perfection

[florianflux]

sniles so sneetly at you