#mandeelew

[kiah-storms]

Bus ride to Seattle almost killed me, felt so car sick.

BUT! Now I am at the Seattle airport only 4 hours away from my first flight ever! REALLY HAPPY BUT SCARED!

 AIMEE I'M SO CLOSE TO SEEING YOU!

I'M GOING TO GREAT YOU LIKE THIS...

[kiah-storms]

[kiah-storms]

SOON, VERY SOON! TOO SOON ALSDKJHFLKJAHKJSHDLKJHFAS

[kiah-storms]

  A VERY SWEET AND LOVING FRIEND! 

[yoshi-09]

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I HOPE YOU HAVE A FAB FAB DAY :DD <3

[yoshi-09]

mandeelew replied to your post: Right? There’s a depressingly small amount of gifs going around. MUST BE FIXED.

I imagine on Sunday and Monday we'll be getting a lot more. *crosses fingers*

sunblades replied to your post: maybe people are avoiding “spoilers” like a plague? (though honestly i don’t see the point of this habit whenever there are new releases. -_-)

Ugh. That doesn't sound like the Arashi fandom to me. Only like a handful of people are like that, everyone else is like: "RAWR LEAK EVERYTHING" lolol~ I'm really hoping there will be more all next week.

Someone brought up though that Arafes is so huge and people are still taking awhile to download it. I guess that's a valid point haha. 

[yoshi-09]

mandeelew replied to your photo

I read your tags and immediately thought: ‘someone understaaands me!’ /treehugger alert ❤

Can I just smush your face with love? *smush* *hug*

[yoshi-09]

imma go with Sophie. just cause.

Sophia is the name of my boyfriend's little sister, but everyone calls her Sofi. I don't think I've ever heard anyone call her by her full name except when I first asked her what her name was. We both are naturally introverted people so we don't talk that much, we usually just hug each other gently in greeting and if she has artwork, she'll show me. She always does it with a flourish that's equal parts humble, shy, and nervous and I am always unabashedly generous with positive and encouraging commentary. But she makes it easy.

You see, Sofi is a really talented young girl girl. She picked up the violin when she was 10 and in one year sounded better than most high school students. She learned how to animate her drawings, by herself, on the computer, and for her birthday her parents gifted her with a tablet where she's drawing more original fanart for Steam Powered Giraffe than that fandom would possibly ever know about because she doesn't really share it outside of her family and myself. She is painfully, awkwardly aware of what people might be thinking of her.

I was taking a drawing class for fun at the time and she really took to anything artsy I did. Whether that be origami, drawing, or fashion taste. One day when I came and visited my boyfriend's family, she was working with clay. She said she wanted to make a coral reef but wasn't sure how to do it. So I sat down next to her and in thirty minutes we made this: