time is elastic

✶ introduction ✶

my name is river or riv, or you can call me any variation of my url. i'm not a minor and i use any pronouns. it’s likely you will find me posting about superheroes, atla, house md, the magnus archives, stranger things, and more. this is not an nsfw blog generally, but there’s a chance i’ll reblog something nsfw. if i do, i will tag it nsfw. minors enter at your own risk and stop posting your ages online.

any original posts of mine will be under the tag #riv rambles, including asks, which will also be under the tag #asks. feel free to send me an ask if u wanna i'm chatty idk. i'm also pretty annoying so keep that in mind. i post shitty edits and fanfiction on tiktok and ao3. i write fanfiction mainly, so i’ll talk about wips or published works under #riv writes. ficlets, plot bunnies, and just posts that im proud of are gonna be under #riv’s tributaries. if there’s one tag on my blog you scroll through, please let it be this one.

i have wrong opinions sometimes and that's okay, we can discuss, but please dont call me slurs, that kind of sours our working relationship, yk?

my new years goal is to watch 3 movies new to me every month and read 1 book that’s new to me every month, so i'll potentially post any thoughts or reviews of these required media under the tag #nyg book, #nyg movie or just #nyg.

PSA: i no longer use tiktok but if you do i will still have my tiktok linked

11. What is a childhood quirk you never grew out of?

this is a hard one to answer, since I was a neurodivergent child and I had to grow out of most of my behaviors. I guess as a kid I always used to imagine my internal monologue and 3rd person narration in a novel, which I do nowadays, although now I also sometimes imagine it as a podcast or YouTube video.

26. If you were a main character in a romance book/movie/show, what tropes would you want associated with you?

if my life could be a beautiful novel with non-linear narrative elements and a friends to lovers moment and lots of poeticism regarding mental health and philosophy, with allegations of pretentiousness, that would be the dream

31. What celebrity do you feel like you could realistically be friends with?

you’re testing my parasociality I see… no but this is an interesting question. I feel like there are plenty of friendly young adult actors, so I don’t imagine that I’d trouble with anyone a ton, but I do think I could be friends with olivia rodrigo lowkey, and it’s just because I have a friend who is similar to the personality she presents in interviews and stuff

thank you for the ask megan !!!

thank you soooo much for the ask!

29. What’s a line/story that’s stuck with you from your childhood?

I was a voracious reader as a kid, so it’s kind of difficult to pick a singular thing, especially a singular thing that wasn’t the Harry Potter books or the Percy Jackson books, but another series that I religiously reread were the Anne of Green Gable books. I think the ways that those books wrote about interacting with the world around us in such a natural way really helped me build my appreciation for nature, my family, and it helped me build a lot of my imagination. Anne had an imaginary friend, so did I. Anne believed in fairies, so did I. And it’s honestly hard to rid myself of that devotion to the mystical even as I’m an adult and I know for a fact that these things aren’t real. They still sometimes feel real in my heart. Idk if that all made sense, but you get it.

32. If you could time travel anywhere, where, when, and why?

I would absolutely take a ton of money with me, time travel back, and go to 1996, and id go on a crazy shopping spree, thrifting and retail, and then I’d go see Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, Mazzy Star, and Fiona Apple in concert, maybe see Nas or 2-Pac too. basically I’d get a fuck ton of authentic clothes and see a fuck ton of musicians that I can’t see today. and maybe I’d go stalk my parents on the way, just super briefly

hellooo thank you for the ask!!

6. Do you talk to yourself? How often?

well I have a constant running monologue where I’m talking to myself in my head, but out loud it’s only every so often when I’m alone. I have to be in a very specific high energy mood to be speaking my thoughts aloud to myself

9. Share a piece of gossip.

Okay so I just started a new job and there’s this one coworker who’s been there about two weeks longer than me and she’s constantly beefing with our other coworkers who have been there for years. They’re all just constantly passive aggressive and asking needless questions. One day she was being bitchy and we’re supposed to check out w her before we leave, and me and my friend like spoke to her but I guess we didn’t say the words “Hey can I go” so she got mad and every person on shift that night got written up for not checking out with her! Super fun…

25. How many posts are in your drafts right now? Post one.

204. and see the thing is. that when a post has interesting or important information, like writing advice or some kind of social advocacy or if it’s a fun game, I save it in my drafts so I can look at it later. very few of the 204 posts are my original thoughts but I can try and find some original thoughts and post them anyway…