#exlibrisfangirl

[exlibrisfangirl]

Life Update - 2/25/2026

Hi, friends. I know I've been really quiet lately. Things have been... A LOT... and I've been unable to participate in social media much.

I'm dealing with some really heavy medical stuff, most of which is due to the dysfunction of multiple cranial nerves simultaneously. My doctors don't know what's causing it yet. I'm losing my hearing (and getting hearing aids, wheee). I'm also losing my vision, and I don't even know what to do about that yet because it keeps fluctuating, which makes getting an accurate glasses prescription almost impossible. After losing my voice at the end of 2024 and spending most of last year in speech therapy, I'm fighting tooth and nail to hang onto the progress I made, as I still have an active vocal cord disorder. I've been in a massive trigeminal neuralgia + occipital neuralgia + migraine flare since November, and I am so fatigued and in so much pain that I spend most of my time in bed. I'm having episodes of vertigo that sometimes make it impossible to walk or even stand.

I can't do the things I love. I can't read a book or look at a screen for more than 10-15 minutes at a time without triggering severe eye muscle fatigue and headaches. I can't drive. I can't work. I'm losing everything, and I'm so scared.

I don't know how to do this. I don't know how to be this. It's just... too much, too fast, and I'm going out of my mind trying to process it while ALL OF THIS *gestures wildly at my dumpster fire of a country* is happening, no less. I'll survive this - I always do - but I feel like I've been fighting for my life on multiple fronts for so long, and I'm exhausted.

I don't know what else to say. Just... thanks for being here and listening and caring, I guess. I appreciate you all so much. If anyone would like to bless me with a new body, a million dollars, and/or an all-expenses-paid trip to the Greek Cyclades, let me know. 😜

[skinnyscottishbloke]

Tagged by @exlibrisfangirl to list "Ten Songs I've Had On Repeat Lately" - thanks friend!! =)

I actually just made a Summer Sunshine playlist that has all my current faves on it so these all come from there. I tried to stay away from older songs or ones that I have on a lot of other playlists so this selection is a lot more modern than usual 😂

Domicile Conjugal - Soleil Rouge

Offline - Lie Ning

So Far So Good - Great Good Fine Ok

Demons - Angele

Dance the Night - Dua Lipa

Fuego - Eleni Foureira

Love You to Death - Fickle Friends

Body Talk - Foxes

If Only For Tonight - Vacation Manor

Sunlight - The Magician, Years and Years

Tagging (only if you want!) @sunnyrosewritesstuff @lordoftherazzles @fandomcartographer @bisexualwvtson @iwillresthere @nelsonandspringforever @phantomessangel @mamajosrefuge @if-th3n-else @turniptitaness @tolkientrash @enough-effing-owls @shantismurf @conkers-theficwriter @evenstaredits @scullyseviltwin and anyone else who sees this and wants to do it!

[teenwerewoofs]

Tag Game

Tagged by the JR Bourne stan @exlibrisfangirl 😘

Time- 8:04 pm

Relationship Status- single

Favorite Color- To wear? Black or grey. In general? Maybe a deep green.

Favorite Food- pizza, garlic bread, pasta, steak seared in butter 🤤

Song Stuck in My Head- “Free” by Florence + the Machine

Last Thing I Googled- “my little pony cowboy hat” because I was trying to find the name of the one who wears a cowboy hat 😂 (it’s Applejack, in case you were wondering)

Dream Trip- Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I want to spend like 2 weeks there so it will take a lot of planning and arranging. Plus, for it to not be a pandemic anymore lol

Something I Want Right Now- for a new Steter or Stargent or Stetopher long fic that’s full of all the tropes I love and is well written to drop 😂 also for work to stop being so hectic 😅

Tagging: @midmorning-bomb @meggie-stardust @punchedbymarkesmith @lucky-bishop @bewarethesmirk @petersnarker @batwynn @aurevell and anyone else who is feeling it!

[shieldmaidenofsherwood]

End of the Year Asks: 14, 20, 22 <3

Ah thank you, love! Sorry I'm just now getting to this...

14. Favorite book you read this year? As usual I did a lot of rereading, so I'm gonna give a shoutout to the Sevenwaters series by Juliette Marillier! The first one is a retelling of the fairytale The Wild Swans set in ancient Ireland, and then the sequels continue the story. She's been one of my favorite authors for a long time but I hadn't read these particular books in a while and I love them!

20. What's something you learned this year? I did my first full-length stay-on-site historical reenactment in yeeeaaaars and learned a lot about historical laundry, because my friend and I were interpreting camp laundresses for our regiment! It was so fun!

22. Favorite place visited this year? I didn't do much traveling at all in 2022, but I did go back to the family farm in Montana not once but twice for funerals, my great-uncle's and my grandpa's--which I know sounds sad and/or macabre but honestly both times were just lovely. Lots of good family time singing, dancing, laughing, eating. I sure love it up there.

[end of year asks here!]

[lilolilyr]

Fandom ask: 3, 5, 7, and 9 for DS9 =)

TV ask

- A character I want to carry around in a little jar and study like a bug

Kira but also Odo. And Julian. Honestly, the entire DS9 crew is so strange in such different ways I want to study them all xD

- The character who gives me the greatest gender envy

Jadzia Dax My Beloved <3

- A character who feels like home

Ummmm I think I'll also take Jadzia for this one... also Lenara but mostly from KiraDaxKahn fanon xD

- The character I'd most enjoy feeding to a pride of ravenous lions

Dukat. No question. I mean, Quark would also be annoying as fuck to know irl, but him I'd just want to punch in the face lmao

Thanks for the ask, this was fun! Btw, do I know you from another blog/ have you changed your url recently? Sorry, don't recognize you at all :}

Personal post - don't reblog!

[mahoushojoe]

Naruto and 3, 5, 7, 9 for the ask meme =)

ask meme

omg hi!!! muahaha thanks for all of these questions!

3. a character i want to carry around and study like a bug

neji obviously, but also! kakashi. he is one of the biggest victims of the konoha system and yet he is one of its staunchest defenders. at this point he's just a superrrr interesting analysis of indoctrination by the state and *slaps the hood of the car* this bad boy can fit so many traumas and complexes into it. each aspect of his trauma feeds into a different aspect of his complicated relationship with the state which is really neat

5.

nobody laugh. choker era neji was a look. but on a side note, my gender feelings really fluctuate so i dont have a solid answer for this but i do want to be an ethereal long dark haired androgynous bitch like neji is

7. a character who feels like home

...........neji LMFOAIEJDIDJEIDIS he hits a lot of my buttons okay!!!!! OKAY!!!!!!!!!! but actually really all of team gai feel familiar and comfortable for me

9. the character i'd most enjoy feeding to a pride of ravenous lions

HIASHI'S CRUSTY ASS

thank you for the asks!!!

[seven-oomen]

I've been thinking about Grimm/Supernatural/Teen Wolf crossover AUs pretty much nonstop since last night, and now I want ALL the Hank/Wu/Stilinski buddy cop fic. Also, Sheriff Donna from Spn needs to be in it, too. Can you IMAGINE the snark and general grumpiness? 'Cause *I* can... and it's GLORIOUS.

Also Jody Mills. Because hell yes!

Oh my god, I need to write a fic for that. Just all the sheriff’s/officers come together and bitch about what the hell their hunters/kids/supernaturals have done now and they’re so sick of it. It would be GLORIOUS indeed!

-

“So what has your hellhound been up to, Stilinski? Has he been a good boy?” Donna asks as she sips her coffee.

Wu snorts into his and smirks as he looks up. “Well I will never look at deputy Parrish the same, thank you for that.”

“You’re welcome, sweet cheeks.” Donna laughs.

Noah sighs, long-suffering, and rubs his forehead with a groan. “It’s not his fault but-”

The others around the table lean in, the cafe around them keeps bustling, the other patrons not paying attention to what’s being said at the table filled with police sheriffs, a detective, and an officer.

“But?” Jody presses on. Hank has a look on his face that clearly reads; well out with it!

“But deputy Parrish did manage to set his desk on fire after my son and his friends startled him with their shenanigans.”

“That doesn’t sound so bad.” Hank tries to comfort him, he gives him an unamused look in return.

“It wouldn’t have been if that fire hadn’t reached the armory. How do I even begin to explain the explosion that occurred? The mayor wants to start an investigation.”

“Ooof...” Wu grimaces in sympathy and gently pats him on the shoulder. “Sounds like a rough day, buddy.”

Hank shrugs but gives him a sympathetic smile. “At least you didn’t have to deal with Nick trying his usual bullshit. Do you know how many times me and Monroe had to talk that man out of doing something stupid in the last three days? Jesus...”

Jody and Donna simply share a look and take another sip of their coffee. “Least you don’t have to deal with angels and demons.” Jody pipes up.

“Or the vampires.”

He looks around the table and shakes his head. “Werewolves, hellhounds, banshees, and Wendigos I can handle. Please keep the angels and demons to yourselves. I do not want my son to find out about those. I will never hear the end of it.”

Donna pats him on the shoulder and offers him one of the cookies they ordered, he takes it gratefully and gives her a friendly smile.

“Don’t worry handsome, we’ll make sure our two idiot hunters keep those bad boys away from your jurisdictions.”

Jody nods along with her companion. “Believe me, we also don’t want Stiles to find out about those.” 

Her eyes widen a little as she remembers the one time she met Stiles Stilinski. He was a sweet kid but lord she could not handle that boy. And she’s raising Claire and Alex. But the Stilinski boy has more energy than her entire police department combined and she does not have the patience for it. Noah Stilinski, for all of his faults, is a saint for staying so patient with the boy.

“Nobody wants that...” Wu softly agrees and even Hank lets out a breath.

He realizes with a sigh that Stiles is just someone they need to get to know a bit better. He raises his coffee mug and his cookie. “To our respective dumbasses like my son, our kids, our hunters, and everything else. May we survive all their shenanigans...”

There’s a rumble going around the table in agreement and mugs are raised in harmony.

It’s just another Wednesday afternoon for all them.

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So that was super quick and out the top of my head. But I would write something like that I guess.

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

Dude, I don't even remember how I found your blog? Was it the BBC Robin Hood fandom? 2012-2014 is such a blur, lol.

That's fair.

I think that sounds right. It was definitely our first topic of communication. And I'm so glad of it. 😊💙