#i oops

[mushroom-madness]

Worry not mushy friends, I’m still alive. I was out of town and forgot to bring my iPad so I couldn’t make new graphics for the next round 😓 At the very least the updated bracket will be out showing the matches this week. Hopefully the actual polls won’t be far behind

[onebluepebble]

A rare normal Pebble for you all.

[girls4etho]

wow listening to the scary music and reading the super tense book at night when theres unfamiliar people in my house and im prone to hallucinations is seemingly backfiring! who couldve known!

[cass1x1]

“  i want you here.  ”  | maia x eden

The pressure had been mounting, like walls closing in. Like adding weights to hold something down. Like a migraine. Maia could tell; she felt herself becoming hot and clammy all at once, though she couldn't have pinpointed why. It was like that sometimes for her, as though she weren't really in her own body. The sort of person who could afford help might think something of that. Maia was not that sort of person, so she tried not to think of it at all.

Everyone here was likely that sort of person, though. Or, at any rate, some sort of person. Eden had the sort of job that brushed them up against rooms full of anybody who's anybody. They weren't all the kinds of people Maia had read about in checkout line magazines, but they were all the kinds of people that were important enough to go somewhere just to be seen. People worthy of seeing.

Get out of my sight.

Surely, it showed. In the way she tucked into herself, trying to become invisible, surely, it showed to anyone who bothered to look. Hopefully, no one bothered to look. Maia had found that to be a very effective trick for most situations: to become unworthy of notice so no one noticed that you did not belong.

Why do you think you're here?

She stepped back slowly, in incremental steps, sliding passed conversations between important people and more important people, until her fingertips could feel the cool stone of the wall behind her. She'd picked her spot instinctively--she'd noticed when she first walked in where the waiters were circling with their plates of appetizers and booze, and thus the spots where no one was--and hit that mark perfectly.

No one else would take you.

The hiccup in the plan--wasn't there always a hiccup in the plan?--came right as she was pressed into that wall, looking for her exit route. Footsteps, downright jogging toward her, much to her surprise. "Maia, I've been looking everywhere for you. I--" Eden had a good eye, an eye for details. Of course they noticed right away. "What's wrong?"

"I--I should probably, y'know, head out." Where the false calm came from, she wasn't sure. Survival instinct, perhaps. "You've got, like, people to meet, and everyone's seen the outfit so..."

No one else wanted you.

Eden grabbed her hand, loose enough that Maia could still pull away, but the surprise alone kept her from trying. "I want you here. Stay?"

Maia pulled her hand back and rubbed it on the fabric she'd watched Eden painstakingly pin to the exact right shape. "Sweaty hands," she said, not an answer. "Sorry."

"It's okay," Eden said. "I get nervous too."

Maia didn't argue--it wasn't nerves, but she didn't have the kind of smarts to say what it was instead. But she didn't leave, either. "Yeah." A beat passed. She opened her mouth to say something, right when Eden did too, but then a waiter appeared and they both got quiet. Eden was someone to notice, here, so of course the staff would divert their paths for them. Well, to be fair, so did Maia.

"Can I get you two drinks?"

"Yeah, uh." Maia tilted her head, wondering why she'd answered at all. "Two glasses of that bubbly I've seen you passing around, please."

He smiled, giving absolute customer service face. "Right away, Miss."

[itslate-solate]

Has anyone ever worked any accidental magic?

I ask because I tried to make a manifestation box, but instead I now have a very pretty and highly effective banishing box. I have a pretty good idea of what happened. I just want to know if anyone else has ever had this happen.

Thank you!

[shownus-biceps]

I just spent 40 dollars for Thom's Crack magazine issue haha

[ppoiyo]

WRONG BLOG

[granpuff]

That feel when no buttboob