#surprise ask

[silenzahra]

BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD. Once you're given this award, you're supposed to paste it in the ask of eight people who deserve it. If you break the chain, nothing happens but it's sweet to know so. I think you're beautiful inside and out, never forget to love yourself!❤

Hi zahra! Don't feel like you have to reply to this. I just wanted to let you know how lovely of a person I think you are!

Also, I wanted to thank you for your writing being a huge inspiration to me trying writing for the first time myself (admittedly I'm not very fast)

Hope you have a lovely day! ❤️

Aww you too, Muffin!! 🥹 OMG you're so sweet!! 😭🫶

I'm so so touched by your lovely words 🥹 I know that I'm not too active lately (which is also why I've taken a while to respond 🙏), but it truly means the world to me that you see me this way and that I can even be an inspiration to you!! 🥹🥹😭😭 OMG I'm just so blessed. I really couldn't be happier and of course I'm encouraging you to continue writing your own stories and enjoy the process to the fullest!! 😄💪

(Also welcome to the slow writers' club hehe 🤭 No worries at all about that! We all have our own pace and what matters most is that we enjoy what we do 😊 You can't just rush art, am I right?)

Thank you so so much for this beautiful ask and even if I can't return it right now, please know that you, too, are more than deserving of this award 💖

Wishing you a lovely day as well!

[silenzahra]

BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD. Once you're given this award, you're supposed to paste it in the ask of eight people who deserve it. If you break the chain, nothing happens but it's sweet to know so. I think you're beautiful inside and out, never forget to love yourself!❤

I know you were already tagged by Jay, but I couldn't not include you. My twin sister deserves to know what a beautiful person she is❤️ My sunshine, my best friend, my biggest treasure. I also decided to play by the rules for once and actually send an ask to exactly 8 people, but keep in mind that you don't have to do anything in return. I know you don't really have time for playing any games these days, but I thought maybe reading this in a free moment would put a smile on your face. Always very proud of you, sis🫂🌹☀️

Mugi, my beloved twin 🥹😭🫂 I hope you know that I totally wasn't expecting this ask and you certainly put the biggest smile on my face and made my heart feel so warm 😭💚❤️ You totally succeeded and I really wish I could give you a bear hug right now 🥹🫶

I'm just very sorry that I took forever to respond and that I can't continue the chain right now as you know, and I appreciate you taking this into account 🫂 But it doesn't make me feel any less honored and blessed to receive this ask and I hope you know that I feel the exact same way about you and that I cherish you dearly, and also that you'd 100% be the first person I'd send this ask to if I could 🥹💚❤️

Always so incredibly proud of you as well 💚❤️

[happyrunawayangel]

Hmmm, how about "cheri" and/or "pecha"?

Uhhh ok kinda funny to immediately fail. BUT, while I may not have THOSE specific berries, I DO have Nanab berries soooo:

Emmet sighed, a bit upset at the failed nanab bread. 

It was still fine. However, it didn’t end up how he expected it to. The bread had sunk into itself, meaning the bottom was still a bit wet and thick, creating a noticeable dark spot. It was safe to eat, however Emmet was able to make it perfectly fine before, and he has no idea how to correct his mistake or what he did wrong in the first place. 

Ingo walked into the kitchen, clearly lured by the smell of fresh cake. 

“Is that the Nanab Bread?” Ingo asked, pointing at the slightly dark pink cake. 

“Yup.” He said, lacking a lot of the enthusiasm. 

“It looks wonderful!” Ingo exclaimed with a smile. “Bravo!” 

Despite the glowing compliment, Emmet still pouted a little, still a tad upset at the state of it. 

“It sunk a little.” 

“And?” Ingo had picked up a knife, cutting a new piece.

This section is from an upcoming Novembas section I really need to post, and this section was entirely inspired by my own frustration at baking banana bread. Every single time I bake it, it always sinks. My family still devours it which I'm happy about, but I HAVE managed to bake it perfectly before. It's a bit frustrating but whatever.

I do also cut WAY back on the sugar whenever I bake too, by at least half. Which is funny since I do have a big sweet-touth.

Thank you for the ask!

[happyrunawayangel]

Doest thou knoweth yokai watch

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Buddy.

Buddy.

Pal.

My good sir/ma'am/whatever the gender neutral term is.

Yokai Watch was my childhood.

I used to religiously grind that Infinite Tunnel for *fun*

(Yokai watch 1 is 8th with 90 hours on it)

The only reason I never played Yokai Watch 3 was cause my 3ds literally doesn't have the space for it (and also my laptop was a potato that would explode at the thought of 3ds emulation).

I will forever be a Venoct/ Shadow Venoct stan, and also a Blizzaria / Damona stan cause those to are LITERALLY YUKI ONNA

(This game got me into yokai/Japanese mythos, and I will say my one disappointment about Venoct is that he's based on Yamata-no-Orochi, an 8 headed serpent. We could've had Venoct with a scarf made of 8 snakes, not just his two. HIS SOULTIMATE LITERALLY SUMMOMS MORE OF THEM IT WAS RIGHT THERE-)

I will forever stan aroace Katie Forester. I don't care, her interactions with Kyubi in the anime was too funny.

List of favorite yokai:

Venoct, Blizzaria, Kyubi (and their alts), Zerberker (because of trauma I'm never jaywalking again-), Shogunyan (the absolute carry), Count Cavity and Eterna, and Dr. Maddiman and Gutsy Bones are my favorite bosses (Gutsy Bones especially, he's LITERALLY JUST Gashadokuro DOWN TO THE POSE and I love that about him. Other than than the classic yokai, all of them are mostly inspirations/take a lot of artistic liberty, but Gutsy Bones is just a copy of any Japanese art of the terrifying skeleton and I find that hilarious)

I have no idea what prompted you to ask something so specific and I hate that you clocked me so accurately.

Thank you for the ask!

[happyrunawayangel]

oh I love your choices! I had a breloom that ended up being my strongest pokemon in emerald and I've loved it ever since. but now I wanna follow up: fave regional bird pokemon? (ie pigeot, staraptor, etc)

Hehe I have a soft spot for Breloom. No Emerald or ORAS playthrough feels complete without one (just like how any gen 5 playthrough is incomplete without Chandelure for me. Did i mention i love Chandelure?). Also I remember grinding a full month for an Technician Breloom in BW2 Hidden grottos, so yeah.

My favorite regional bird is Corviknight. Rookiedee is just a small ball and I love him. And Corviknight is so badass, especially the Gmax form which is my favorite. Also just Steel Flying is a really good type combo. Staraptor is a close second for obvious reasons.

Thank you for the ask! (And sorry for calling u a bot 😅)

[silenzahra]

hi zahra!! i just needed to pop in here to let you know that your fic, "biggest fear" absolutely WRECKED me. i adore stories that expand upon how the bros would cope after the events of the movie, and your portrayal TORE ME APART!! (POSITIVE) (BUT STILL CRYING!! 😭) the way you write luigi being so strong for both of them, taking the role of "big bro" and giving all his love and comfort to such a struggling mario, who isn't used to letting it all out like that, being vulnerable and unable to control it... augghhh 🥹 you write them so sweet and soft, it warmed my heart as much as it broke it. i love it so deeply, especially as someone who struggles with nightmares and PTSD as well. i could really feel mario's feelings through your descriptions, and it felt like weegee was hugging and comforting ME, too. thank you for writing such a lovely, heartwrenching story. 💕 ❤️ 💚

OH MY GOD!?!?!? 😭😭😭 AAAAAAAHHHHH I totally wasn't expecting this and it completely MADE MY NIGHT OMG 💖💖💖 THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!! OMG I don't even know what to say, I love this ask SO MUCH and I swear I even took a screenshot of it and I'm gonna be rereading it over and over again because it made me so freaking HAPPY 💖💖💖💖💖

Dreamy, oh my God, where do I even start!?!?!? I swear your words made me so freaking emotional and I can't even express what it means to me that you've enjoyed "Biggest fear" so much!!! I'm so WEAK for vulnerable Mario and emotionally strong Luigi, definitely one of my favorite things to either read or write. So I really LOVED writing this fic and having Luigi comfort his big bro and exploring their feelings and emotions after what happened in the movie, because OF COURSE both of them were gonna have some sort of trauma after everything they went through 🥲💔

And uuuugh knowing that you enjoyed it so much and that you liked the way I wrote them, what if I CRY 😭😭😭 And Luigi taking his "big bro" role is such an adorable concept!!! I had never thought of it that way and now I just LOVE IT 👌👏

And this line: "and it felt like weegee was hugging and comforting ME, too." THIS LINE. THIS. FREAKING. LINE. This is, like, the highest praise EVER????? The fact that my writing could make you feel like the character was hugging you????? HELLO????? If this is a dream I NEVER want to wake up, oh my freaking GOD. I know nothing that I say will be enough to thank you for this but THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'm so moved right now I can only scream and cry and say "thank you" over and over again 🥹🥹🥹

Seriously, oh God, this ask made my entire night and week and month. I'm going to sleep with the widest, stupidest smile on my face and it's thanks to you. I'm so so SO blessed, and beyond HONORED that you enjoyed my story so much 💖💖💖

I'm so sorry about your nightmares and PTSD though 🫂🫂🫂 I don't know if there's anything I can do to help but by all means, please know that I'm always here for you 🫂💖💖

[astrumocs]

hey julius do you have a type?

"I don't know, I haven't really thought to consider it. I'm not exactly looking, though, so I'm not sure it really matters if I do or not."

"I feel as though my past partners or 'crushes', for lack of a better term, have all been fairly different people regardless."

^ He has some types but doesn't care enough to notice them.

[moonshinemagpie]

Happy STS! Do you hide any secrets in your writing that only a few people will find?

Nope! I'd love an example of what this would mean because it sounds like some Da Vinci Code stuff.

I will say that I write a lot about the cultures that I have lived in, and readers are very quick to say when they don't understand a cultural reference. I don't see that as secretive, though.