diable jambe!

every spelunker should go in with a cyanide tooth capsule so if they get stuck they can take the gentle way out instead of being tortured by the earth for 72 hours and then dying anyway

Sometimes having an OC is like "this character is an outlet for my insecurity and trauma" and sometimes it's like "this character is an outlet for my love of vampires :)". Sometimes it's both

Sometimes you think it's "this character is an outlet for my love and nothing more :)" and then you look it over later like "shit. product of the deepest depths of my soul again"

Your 20s are not about getting your life together they're about learning to escape the self imposed torture labyrinth you've built inside your own head

"Does Rocky hate Stratt" I think it's more complicated than that. On the one hand, Eva Stratt did what she had to do to keep Earth safe, there was hardly any time for her to sit and think and do things more ethically. She did what was necessary and Rocky can respect that. On the second hand, he doesn't think saying a lot of if not outright mean then definitely psychologically damaging things to Grace and putting him in the Eridian torment nexus was really the best way to go about it, she could've been more humane about euthanizing him. Now he has to deal with a traumatized leaky space horse who thinks no one loves him and needs so many medical procedures and can't do any of them without having a panic attack and also if he dies from any of the five million things he could die from, including the aforementioned "not thinking anyone loves him" thing, then Rocky is going to fall into an endless pit of despair so that was. Rude of her. On the third hand, if she hadn't strapped Grace to a rocket and chucked him into space, he would've never met Grace, so really, how much can he complain about it? On the fourth hand, the only reason that even happened was because Stratt is at least 54% liable in a major engineering disaster, so now he has beef with her from a professional standpoint and he can't just let go of that until she faces the Eridian justice system which isn't happening. On the fifth hand, Stratt is human, and that means she's every bit of a leaky space blob that Grace is and really, how mad can you actually stay at a gooey alien care bear thing, long-term, and how much energy is Rocky willing to put into finding out when Grace doesn't seem to be all that mad at her, just really sad about the whole thing?

saw a post letting people know that your ao3 bookmarks are viewable on your account unless you make them private, which suggests that the median ao3 user does not use ao3 in what i will call 'the optimum fic-finding treadmill' where you find a fic author you like and look through their bookmarks to find more fics that are good and then look through that author's bookmarks for even more good fics. like a conga line of great but extremely specific tastes. or one of those chessboard rice doubling analogies and oh no that is a LOT of ao3 tabs.

One day ur a suicidal 15 year old and then suddenly you wake up and you're 22 years old and genuinely debating the merits of iceberg vs romaine lettuce in the salad ur making. Life goes on ig

Dealing with burnout is sooooooooooooooo easy all you need to do is operate at 40% indefinitely and be kind of mad at yourself the whole time.

i also used to go for this hc butttt after working in the industry for so long i really struggle to believe that sanji would want to give up being a personal chef for his best friends who love and appreciate all of his meals and leave no crumbs while going on whacky adventures so that he can open and manage/own/work 80 hr weeks at a restaurant a job which famously sucks extreme dick and ass for ungrateful shitheads just because it's at his dream location. AND i think luffy would rather stick a gun in his mouth than let it happen to be so honest