loooooooool but you're right, I don't know the ship name either, damn
people are tagging it with a boring mashup but i guess that works. Geraskier. Boring! Cmon can’t we have something fun like buttergrump or witchercup or something? only i guess they call him dandelion not buttercup so that’s less amusing. Fine fine fine we just do squishnames in modern fandom, I just won’t tag it, LOL. (I’ll use the AO3 relationship tags.)
magickedteacup replied to your post“god damn it”
>:D
I don’t think people will be upset, but I am a little self-conscious that I started the story off tagged with an & relationship tag for them. Whoops!
missbuster replied to your post “god damn it”
ONLY ONE BED OH NO
See and I started off the scene with Jaskier perfectly aware that there was only one bed and genuinely not being concerned because he and Geralt had shared beds so many times over the years, and being quite blasé about the whole thing. Here I thought I was subverting a trope!!
technicalflaw replied to your photoset “happy pride my lovelies!!!!!! go forth and live ur best life...”
Wtf, yer SO CUTE! Happy pride!!
misspaperjoker replied to your photoset “happy pride my lovelies!!!!!! go forth and live ur best life...”
YOU'RE SO ADORABLE I WANNA SQUISH YOUR SQUISHY FACE. You're also pretty af and HAPPY PRIDE SISTER
magickedteacup replied to your photoset “happy pride my lovelies!!!!!! go forth and live ur best life...”
Somehow I didn’t expect you to look like that; bc all I usually see is the Steve Rogers icon lol; nice photos 🙌🌈✨
❤️️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️️🧡💛💚💙💜
@technicalflaw IM GONNA CRY AHHH THANK U AND HAPPY PRIDE U BEAUTIFUL SOUL
@misspaperjoker HELENE IM FLYING OVER TO U RIGHT NOW SO U CAN SQUISH MY FACE AND I CAN HUG U TO DEATH!!!! I LOVE U!!!!!!!! 🌈
@magickedteacup do not be fooled, i may look like a tiny gay baby but i am indeed actually a bearded steve rogers in spirit 💪💪 lol thank u so muCH U LOVELY STAR
magickedteacup replied to your post: ok so yesterday i was approached with a...
Call in sick if you need to. Do what you gotta do for you.
well, right now i’m thinking about just outright asking how’s the hiring process going because i’d need help next week. they have to hire someone - my co-worker is a reliable girl but she is at university and she cannot work on tu-w-th, and we are employed in a way that allows the empoyer to organise our work hours in a more free way than 8-hours-a-day, but they can only employ one person for fifteen days a month and i’ll have 8 days by the end of this week. basically they really need someone else.
on the other hand we can freely organise among us which days to take (therefore I can take Flóra to the hungarian comic books festival on sunday!!!), so if there was a (reliable) third person doing this, it would be all fine. but there isn’t.
i might lie and say I have some kind of appointment on tuesday, or say what’s up, because... yeah. the past weeks have been bad because my coworkers have not been up-front and my empoyers couldn’t prepare for them leaving, which obviously meant that I had to save the day a few times. which is why they now love me. :D
I get paid based on the hours the ice cream stall is open, which means 10 hours every day, but it takes me about 45 minutes-1 hour to set everything up, for which i don’t get paid. if i gathered it well, it’s the same for the baristas - they don’t get paid for these “background” works. which is... i get it from a business viewpoint but i don’t like it either. on the other hand all tips are ours, which is not much for me, but on good days it’s more than my hourly pay (which is minimum wage: 650 Forints).
was just looking at your stargazer art again; it's so stunning! I love the color palate you use C:
Thank you so much! I’m still so proud of those! @jnwiedle helped me out with the color palette bc they have major skills. It’s based off of Yuuri’s free skate jacket! ^_^
magickedteacup replied to your post “I have been loving the comments on Basking this past week, even if I...”
in general you can leave an author's note about editing if you want I guess, but I personally don't see any problem with editing published works on Ao3; and I wouldn't sweat stuff like sentence editing, especially in this context; "sketchy practice..." :'D it's your fic, it's ok to go back and touch-up on stuff if you want :)b
I think you’re right. It’s kind of an ingrained old-fashioned blogging thing, though, like, if there’s a discussion gong on, I’ve had it ground into me that if you edit something you’d best note that it was edited and why, and like-- yeah! but. stories. that’s different.
And yet. I left a little author’s note, because it seemed disingenuous to not ever acknowledge it happened, but I’m not going into specifics because there’s no point repeating the thing that was hurtful.
I also admit that part of me is super-dismayed because the thing is, I’m not a particularly popular author (I’m not complaining! I do fine! but.), so the vast majority of hits I get on a story are pretty much right when I post it-- I don’t tend to get included in rec lists or roundups or whatever-- so the vast majority of people who were going to read that story did so before I even realized that line was Bad and Not What I Meant, so like. Welp! And of course most people are going to see something gross and just back-button or whatever, and so I’m like... embarrassed, I guess. I don’t know, I can’t seem to explain it without having it come across as super-whiny. Maybe it is super-whiny of me so it’s a sign I should give up, LOL.
So I guess it’s partly so if any of those people come back and are like “was this the story that...” it just seems like good practice to have a note up there, and just in general, I feel like edits post-publication should be acknowledged. I don’t know what I’d advise someone else to do in my situation, though.
I’m mostly done venting about my domestic situation, and I like to think I’ve kept it funny, but I’ll cut it because that’s enough bitching for the general uninterested public. However.
I’ll also state for the record that he did my taxes last night, which is something he struggles through every year because about a decade ago the last time I tried to do my own taxes I lost my entire shit and he realized that he couldn’t just let me do that. My taxes are, for the record, pretty easy. But I also, for the record, have a pretty bad undiagnosed learning disability that makes it Literally Impossible for me to do them. So. As dudes go, he’s among the best, but that doesn’t mean he’s not a complete asshat in the kitchen.
My quest to wipe down the kitchen counters at least once a month is a lonely, lonely one.
ms-daphne reblogged your post and added:
“…using a dish towel to wipe the cast iron...
EXACTLY! Is there some kind of masculine conspiracy against nice dish towels? More generally, against putting things where they fucking go??? I too have entertained this fantasy of owning nice dish towels and fucking hiding them. I actually have a small stash of towels that friends have given me that are pretty and that I like, and someday I’ll use them in some fashion that will keep his grubby fucking mitts off them.
Mine is also constitutionally incapable of things like making decisions about whether the drapes should be open or closed. (My advanced scientific decision-making process about that is: is it dark and cold? Closed. Is it bright and warm? Open. Is the sun in your eyes? Closed. None of these criteria seem to be anything he can evaluate independently. I know he knows they open and close because he watches me operate them, but I come back from a week away and they’re exactly as I left them regardless of the weather. Last time I came home it was a sunny day and he’s fucking sitting there next to the window with all the lights on and the drapes pulled. What the fuck bro.) The other big thing is putting draft stoppers back under doors he’s opened. Nope! He’s just gonna wade through the draft and trip over the thing in the middle of the floor four thousand times per day, because kicking it back where it was apparently will trigger some kind of curse that will unman him in some way, I guess.
sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “[[MOR] He just turns the water on full-blast full-heat and points it...”
Why do so many people (I don’t know why it should be gender-based, but my only examples are men) completely fail to comprehend the concept of wringing out a sponge or washcloth? My husband is college educated in microbiology and still cannot wring out a sponge or segregate stuff that touched raw meat. WHY.
ARGGGGGHHHH
Or like. Not making unnecessary messes. Like, we had ravioli, and some of them burst in the water so the water was crazy oily and cheesy, and instead of dumping it through the strainer in the empty half of the sink, he drained this oily cheese water directly onto the pile of dishes that were sitting in the sink waiting to be washed. So that they were coated in cheesy grease. That didn’t have to happen, those were already-rinsed dishes just waiting for a little bit of soap and some, well, cold-ass water as it happens, but. Not if I washed next. I could have basically just wiped them down. But no, that made them need to be scrubbed instead. That didn’t have to happen. Zero part of that had to happen. (And then he did the dishes by pointing the hot water down the other half of the sink so it wasn’t even like he was rinsing the filthy cheese mess! no that was still there when he was done doing dishes! he has never wiped down the sink in his life let alone emptied the strainer basket! I actually reached over his shoulder while he was in the middle of doing dishes, pulled the full-ass sink strainer basket that was holding nasty cheese water so everything in the sink was marinating in it, dumped it into the garbage, and put it back in, and said “Maybe that will help!” because I could not help myself, and he just sort of sulked at me. THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE also you have an engineering degree which implies some awareness of physical reality??? What do I know, I’m just a flighty creative type with her head in the clouds who empties the fucking sink strainer jesus christ.)
The problem is that if I clean up messes like that, then he thinks magic happened, and if I don’t clean up messes like that, then we live in fucking squalor, and if I say something, I’m a nitpicking harpy, and if I don’t say anything, well then I get to fume.
Hence, Tumblr posts.
(Of course I scrubbed the remaining cheese residue out of the sink while I was making coffee this morning. Of course I did. I can’t fucking live like that.)
thesacredreznor replied to your post “[[MOR] He just turns the water on full-blast full-heat and points it...”
well my dad consistently loads this dishwasher in the least efficient way possible (at least as far as putting the maximum # of dishes per load) But my sister also spends about 1 minute rinsing each dish individually when washing by hand (and we're from california! it's infuriating!) so maybe it's just my fucked up family lmao.
Living with people is universally terrible, that’s just how it is. I know that’s how it is. Even people you like. And I’ve fought way worse with every other roommate I’ve ever had before this dude. So. I guess. That’s just how it is. I know I have habits that drive him nuts but I am not him so I can’t really guess. But OH MY GOD WRING OUT THE SPONGE.
I can’t live on my own, I would be a hag monster in a bog and either eat nothing or only terrible things at unpredictable intervals. I would probably be dead. So this is what I have. And it’s great, it is, but I have to bitch about it or explode.
magickedteacup replied to your post “[[MOR] He just turns the water on full-blast full-heat and points it...”
D: this whole situation would drive me nuts
It’s all terrible. Always. And yet. Somehow. I’m better-off than I would be in any other context.
magickedteacup reblogged your post “hey i hope this isn't too intrusive of me, but have you ever researched ADHD? Specifically, ADHD in women. I have it,...” and said
I don’t know if this is going to be helpful to comment, but how you described the way all of this is affecting you, especially in the tags, makes me think of something we’ve been talking about in my communication disorder class, but about how like, a lot of these conditions, ADHD, disabilities related to autism, all these various learning disabilities and so forth, aren’t generally “cured” they’re managed. And some people have access to better managing systems or treatments or so forth than others for whatever reason, but that doesn’t mean their conditions magically go away. But anyway I thought about how you commented more than once that you’d resigned yourself to never getting cured and just getting on with things to whatever degree you can, and I think it’s admirable that you really have always shown determination to do what you can with what you have. And honestly you always sound like you’re always getting piles of things done that are also important to you, between the writing and raising a million baby chicks and driving between farm and work and all kinds of things :)
Aw. It’s sweet of you to note that, really it is. Yes, I do do a lot of things in my life, I don’t sit around miserable or anything, and I’m overall just fine.
And I know it’s not a thing you can cure-- a lot of it is literally just how I am, it’s not a disorder per se, I’m just like this, and if you changed that you’d be changing my personality.
But it’s also something that can be treated and managed. There are resources available, strategies and therapies and, yes, medications. I know that there are. If my mother had gotten me a diagnosis she might be right in that it would have labeled me and possibly held me back, maybe colleges wouldn’t have admitted me whether that’s legal or not, maybe I would have been hurt by thinking I couldn’t because of my diagnosis.
But it also would have gotten me access to resources, would have let me talk to people who know coping strategies instead of trying to piece them together myself out of tortuous research and contradictory quackery. And I could have tried medication, maybe, or at least evaluated whether it would help me, instead of being antidepressants that I think have permanently harmed me.
I’m angry, furiously angry, because I’ll never know. Because so many people who sound a whole lot like me speak so fondly of the work they’ve been able to do on themselves with the right guidance, and all my attempts to get that kind of guidance have been condescendingly rebuffed.
Maybe there isn’t really help! But I’ll never know, because I can’t get it anyway.
magickedteacup replied to your post “So. I’ve been in the yurt a lot because it gets dark so early and i...”
Wow Kes lol
He usually has a much better filter than that and doesn’t say things out loud like that, but he’s on a lot of medication and very tired and has had an attentive audience that has not in any way discouraged him from saying more and more outrageous things.
He knows what he likes and also has been alone for like twenty-five years at this point so maybe he’s gone a bit nostalgic too.
