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Sam, I just adore Polk's nose freckles. If you can (without causing her upset), would you please boop the snoot for me? If that is too great an injustice, please just give her a scritch from me.

She loves to cheek-mark, so it is very easy to boop the snoot! I booped it twice just to be sure. 

It’s so funny to watch the freckles grow -- I think eventually they’ll take over her nose, but she didn’t have any when she was a baby, and I have like, photo documentation of them as they slowly spread. 

bubblelounge on this post: 

Ok I’ve seen some weird shit on tumblr in my days, but never did I think I’d see a post about my profession (mf’ing development) and fandom.

(And Nate would drive major gifts crazy…all that capacity, apparently inclination and no big dollars 😂 disqualified!!)

If they did peg Nate’s capacity accurately, he’d be like that one guy every new gift officer wants in their portfolio, sure that THIS TIME they can crack him. Prospect Resarch just rolls its eyes, updates the bio for the ten millionth time (it WAS very exciting when they found out he was in prison!) and leaves them to their folly.

aeternalegacy on this post:

Ooooh, I love this!

My headcanon for Eliot in particular is yes, he’s definitely anonymous but I say he has set up trust funds for the kids of fallen army buddies. If he hears through the grapevine that one of his army buddies has fallen on hard times, mysterious cashiers check appears, when they need it most.

In theory he could probably just set up a nonprofit specifically designed to help out his old army buddies and their kids. It’s a legit thing for a 501c3 to simply make cash gifts to those in need. Their database is made up solely of names he’s given them of people they should keep an eye on and help out if needed.  He could call it A Very Distinctive Foundation.

freakierthanthou on this post:

Okay, but as someone who is in the middle of the gift processing from the giving day, consider: Hardison uses increasingly confusing fake names, sometimes names of real people, just to be a butt. (This past week I easily caught “Derek Awesomeballs”, “Spots Monarch” almost got me, “Semen [redacted]” was, unfortunately, actually a real person.) Hardison has a bit of a competition going with the gift processor at a certain children’s cancer charity who keeps tying his gifts back to the alias he first gave under. (If she ever goes into prospect research, he may just have to recruit her.)

One time someone caught Parker dropping off her bag of cash and managed to get her into the system as Alice. This led to some poor gift officer having the most baffling donor meeting of their life.

HAHAHA I love the idea that the gift processor handling Hardison’s gifts has like, a whiteboard in their cube with all the fake names he’s used. 

Nowadays I think they just spill tea (ie. gossip) on the couch for fun. I mean, Frain was always the type of friends who, even when they didn't see each other for a long time, the moment they got back together they would tell each other everything they had done, heard, seen. Especially since Francis is Europe's gossip central and Spain forgets 90% of things that don't matter to him, this means Francis can get the satisfaction of talking to someone without the consequences of them remembering. Of course, the thing that amuses them the most is pooling their blackmail and roasting Arthur and co. behind their backs (and to his face) -- they're like the mean girls if the mean girls were hot dudes and 2000 years old.

tell me about it. paying for air conditioning that only sort of works also sucks

I’m a little early, but it’s the 2nd somewhere...

Happy KagaKuro Exchange, champagnesly!! @kagakuroexchange @bubblelounge 

Name: Juli, SharkGirl on AO3 Rating: Teen and Up Audiences Prompt: Top Five Ways to Beat the Summer Heat and Find Fun Things to Do Inside Message: I want to apologize in advance for not having any actual smut in this fic. I had originally planned on incorporating it, but it just didn't seem to fit with the mood and overall flow. I hope you can forgive me and enjoy your gift, anyway!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko's Basketball Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kagami Taiga/Kuroko Tetsuya Characters: Kagami Taiga, Kuroko Tetsuya, Kagami Taiga's Mother Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Cute, Fluff, Implied Sexual Content, Heatwave, Comedy, Competition, Summer, Aged-Up Character(s), College, Los Angeles

Summary:

Los Angeles was currently in the middle of a heatwave with record highs. Even at night, the baked sidewalks radiated heat, keeping the temperatures from dipping to a comfortable low.

And even Kagami, who should have been used to it with his thinner blood, was struggling. He could only imagine how Kuroko felt.

I’m still lol’ing to find a post so accurate to development here on the tumblr.

I know. It makes me so sad. Wedding is one week away and we’re Currently looking at rain

hi! <3

3. what order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favourite scenes first? something else?

I write in layers mostly--start out with a scene around which I build a rough outline, then add layers and move things around until I am happy with it. Usually over three or four drafts, depending on the story :)

10. write in silence or with background noise? with people or alone?

I like playing movies as background noise while i write (lately I’ve been saving music for work). And I do love writing with company (when that was still a possibility) or while talking to a friend. It really helps to have someone to talk things through with, especially when I write myself into a corner (or into a tangle outright).

20. do you write in long sit-down sessions or in little spurts?