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Please Allow Me to Introduce...

I...I didn’t introduce myself? Why didn’t I introduce myself?

Ahem

Call me Tea or T. or Opi. Or even that weirdo with the reference to a narcotic liquid that possibly predates Sumerian times in his name. I don’t mind anything you come up with.

I don’t take myself too seriously and I consider myself a writer of sorts. In that I write stuff. What do I write? Fanfic. The occasional novel. Thought experiments. I’ve written too much to recall it all, and too much to count by now.

I’ve been told my writing’s too weird, problematic, explicit, overwrought, in your face, inaccessible, unrelatable, fetishy, and did I mention weird? But I’ve also been told it’s like a gentle hug just when you need it and has invoked both joy and tears. So...who knows what to think of it, really?

Some More True Facts:

-Wears nothing but t-shirts and pants. Hats are a thing too. All of it usually has some pop culture or dumb ref that only 3 people will recognize.

-Over-thinks everything

-Books. Writing. More books. I can be the epitome of Tsundoku

-Coffee and pizza snob

-Loves sophisticated wit, but definitely not above trashy and scatalogical humor. Grosser the better. Just know when to quit with it.

-Cartoon/animation addict

-Trivia of all kinds. As long as I can skip the sports, bible, and mathematical categories.

-Italian horror and Giallo, exploitation/B-movie, noir, silent, arthouse, vintage BDSM films

-If I listed all my musical tastes, this would never end. But if it tends to lean goth or is full of tasty electronic noise and/or beats, I’m already listening.

-On artistic expression: please express yourself openly in any medium, thanks

-Favorite show(s) of all time: The Twilight Zone and Star Trek TOS

-Video games with immersive and provoking narratives. I don’t mind a dumb or bad one as long as the characters are appealing or well written (coff, Borderlands)

-According to the interwebs, I’m neither Gen X or Millennial. I don’t technically exist. Guess that explains some things

Oh, that’s probably all for now. If I haven’t scared you off yet, take a seat, select beverage of choice, and feel free to stay awhile.

memewhore

bananahomo

I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.

dude.

$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.

vaspider

Get it done QUICKLY if you can. Once the debt is sold off, this doesn't apply - filling out the forms before it goes to collections is totally a thing you can do for yourself to make your life easier. (You can, I believe in you.)

dyscomancer

hating tiktok is not a "back in my day" type thing. tiktok is objectively affecting other social media platforms in detrimental ways. ux elements are being stripped and everything has to have a fucking short video clips function. it's rampant homogenization and it's a problem

philosophiums

everyone on here always worried about “oh im a different person around different people so what’s my actual identity?” bitch take a drink of water and listen to brennan lee mulligan saying “people are like gems, right? they have facets to them, and some of them only get exposed within certain relationships” and maybe you’ll calm down

kinklock

when spock is bent over the science station and jim just fully stands with his crotch against spock’s butt and asks “are you worried about your dying dad”

kinklock

i literally wish i was joking

autisticandroids

many problems are caused by the mindset that the world is divided into good people and bad people and the bad people can be "found out" and removed, eventually leading to a utopia containing only good people.

an-drom-eda

"It was much better to imagine men in some smokey room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told the children bed time stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, then what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things."

--Jingo, by Terry Pratchett

sharkodactyl

i’m obsessed with this painting called tomato king and i’m even more obsessed with the man who drew it. his name is stuart dunkel and he is a classical oboeist and he also paints tiny little oil paintings of mice living their best lives. he looks like this.

HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

raevenlywrites

Is this the jelly bean guy???

icajax

@raevenlywrites the WHO???

raevenlywrites

The guy who does the mice with jelly beans

And dreidels, apparently

petermorwood

The paintings are very cute, and Mr Dunkel has a great smile.

krudman

someone paypal me 2000 dollars, so I can buy this masterpiece

rosslynpaladin

Needed to remind myself that once you can art a little you can just like do whatever you want

fireflywitch

there’s this rush and this pressure, sometimes, for huge, mind-blowing numbers on ao3. thousands of kudos and comments and ppl obsessing over ratios, but like - there’s something so incredibly wonderful about, idk, even ten kudos. ten? you mean ten people, TEN total strangers, found something I wrote and clicked on it and read it and liked it? ten comments: you mean ten people took the time to tell me what they thought about my work, took the time and energy to write about MY WORK in their little comment bubble? ten people?? fifty?? one hundred???

but even just one - if one single person took the time out of their day to tell me how much they appreciate the little bit of my soul I just put out into the world - idk, it just means everything, doesn’t it?

gamchawizzy

i used to be too shy to interact w fanfic authors, but after i finally started to do so, that i realised they’re the same @ me

xhuth

also like in all seriousness furry hate is 10000% a warning sign as a sort of garden-variety expression of homophobia and transphobia. call me insane or delusional, and pardon the animal metaphor, but furries are consistently one of several common canaries in the coal mine when it comes to Acceptable and Reasonable hatred of Degeneracy. it almost always snowballs from there, too!