The new year is fast approaching, and Stede’s desperate to cross at least ONE thing off his very old bucket list so he can prove to himself that the last five years (and by extension his entire life) haven’t been a complete waste. The mission? Learn to French braid. The complication? The salon he chose for his mission is closed because it’s New Year’s Eve. The unexpected solution? A beautiful stranger with kind eyes and the most insanely gorgeous hair offers to Teach (heh) him.

This is a New Year’s AU for those who hate New Year’s. Or, rather, have some rather messy, complicated feelings about how all the twinkling lights and period of reflection emphasizes feelings of inadequacy and unfulfillment that leads to an annual period of existential dread, but that doesn’t make for as catchy a tagline.

Read On a Clear Day (16K, explicit) on AO3 here.

every time you make freezer food for dinner instead of buying takeout like you actually want you should earn two hundred dollars cash and a round of applause

ppl who hate chihuahuas are nothing to me

this is my chihuaua Pee Pee he sleeps on a bed of Amoeba he has no morals and he eats cytoplasm

y'all what is a movie from the 80s that is YOUR movie? like for whatever reason. it's incredibly nostalgic, you love it a lot, it just makes you feel good, you connect deeply with it. basic answers welcome

they traumatized a man with big brown doe eyes and a slutty waist and they want me to be normal about it ?

downloading a fic when ao3 dies (when you have the link)

looks like ao3 is down again and i was in the middle of a multi chapter fic when it died on me.

and if that happens to you, this is what you can do to download the fic:

• copy paste https://download.archiveofourown.org/downloads/00000000/fic.html in your browser url
• replace the pink bit with the number right after /works (that's the work id)
• for instance, in https://archiveofourown.org/works/44970790/chapters/113154673 the highlighted bit (44970790) would be the number you swap for the 0s
• the download link will look like https://download.archiveofourown.org/downloads/44970790/fic.html
• if you want the fic to be downloaded as an epub instead, use .epub at the end of that link
• it should start downloading on your device

i'm sure a bunch of people know this and use it but in case you don't, hope this helps

And what did he look like?
All of you. You all look the same, you know.

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

there should be more options than suffering via employment and suffering via unemployment

being on doxxing terms with a tumblr mutual is kinda funny like we met at yaoi university and now an year later we both know each other's exact locations

mutuals. c'mere. this is a checkpoint. i am checking in. i am wrapping you in a blanket and giving you a nice warm drink. also some pretty flowers. it will be ok.

i cannot emphasize how necessary it is to have a buddy to participate in fandom with. completely elevated experience. don't have a buddy? find someone you like and message them and be their friend. gush over every sketch and drabble and insane headcanon they have. live life to the fullest.

thank u to all my fandom buddies

Hnghf Ed with a bow in his hair 🩷