#losttobefoundyet

Hey 😊

Why do you want it to go away? 👀 Isn't it better to indulge and soak it all up like a sponge, to end up all squishy and happy? 😂 Because, I am the wrong person to ask for a remedy against shipping them, since I am definitely still going crazy over those two together 😂 (the amount of long WIPs I have accumulated at this point is unreal in this short amount of time) it already started with the webtoon, but I felt so bad when I shipped them, since back then only Weak Hero Class 1 was out and I loved Si-eun/Su-ho. Felt like betrayal. That kinda flew out the window when S2 came around though 🤣

The brainrot is real and personally I decided to just go along with it 🥰

Things that do take the edge off: posting about them, reblogging, commenting. In my case: writing, making art or gifs. Still working on an edit rn.

1) Pakeezah, if you don’t mind a little melodrama. Has some of the most devastatingly beautiful lines in the history of Hindi cinema, methinks. It’s from the 1970s, and the female lead is one of those great tragediennes with haunted lives (this movie has a happy ending, rest assured!)

2) The Lunchbox, from the 2010s, has impeccable actors and a story which affirms against despair. Brilliant in an understated way. There’s a line in there that goes something like “sometimes the wrong train takes you the right destination.”

3) Lootera, again from the 2010s. Picturesque, gently romantic, with a lovely score to boot. Set in feudal Bengal. And there’s a wonderful allusion to O. Henry (I won’t reveal which story, because spoilers)

All are romantic movies, but the romance registers in varying degrees. Happy watching!

Oh! Hello! Wow, usually it’s the other way around–people know Shikako Nara and then find me and my recursive fic–so this is cool! I’m pretty pleased that those recursive ficlets are compelling enough to read through even without knowing who Shikako is, so thank you!

Shikako Nara is the main character of Silver Queen’s “Dreaming of Sunshine,” an SI!OC Naruto fic in which the author is Shikamaru Nara’s twin sister. You can read it on FF.net here–or if you’re more the podfic type, you can listen to it here on MixCloud. I also help run the tumblr page for it, @dosbysilverqueen, which includes a multitude of resources for fans.

hello! you are certainly not crude and forgive me for responding after a long time; a lot has been happening lately.

regarding your question: you refer to this world as ‘terrestrial world’ and i think it is safe to assume that you believe in a different existence aside from this one we have right now, is it not? i do not know if we have the same beliefs, but i do believe that this world is not my home; that i was meant for a kinder, softer, better world—in the presence of our Creator. i long for it often: the concept of a better place, a perfect refuge, and with that self same knowledge, sometimes i find it meaningless to exist here in this fleshly world we have right now.

so, for the days that seem like it is hard to survive, i keep in mind:

1. “…the Present is the point at which time touches eternity,” says C. S. Lewis in The Screwtape Letters. this means all the power to change, act, move, are concentrated in the present moment, the now, the today. the future is not yet, and the past is already come, but the present means endless possibilities. however, this does not mean that i do not think of the future; it just teaches my heart that i do not live neither in the future nor the past. so my goal is to always always be mindful of what i have in the present, which leads me to my second point;

2. anything that i can enjoy for more than one day is blessing from God. i was meditating about Matthew 6:9, that specific line in The Lord’s Prayer that says: “Give us this day our daily bread,” and i understood that everything that we have today is daily ‘bread’ from God—daily patience, life, love, hope, faith, purpose, provision—and everything that can last for more than one day is a gift. this teaches my heart to be grateful, and to not overlook the blessings i was only praying for before that i am now currently enjoying.

3. failures/mistakes do not diminish our worth/dreams/life. this is hard for me to embody because i am always very hard on myself, but i am slowly learning that every morning, God gives us a new slate to work on, to be kinder, to serve, to love, to dream. this teaches me that it is alright to fail, without removing accountability (i mean, my belief that God gives me new grace/mercy every morning makes every morning more precious because everyday i am loved; everyday i am forgiven).

4. lastly, whatever happens, i have faith that God is sovereign; that all things work together for the good. this is the hardest for me to understand as of now, because my family and i are going through a hard season, and the state of the world is beyond comprehension most of the time. however, i still believe in the goodness of God, as i have witnessed tiny little miracles in my life before. i have faith that i will arrive in a softer, kinder shore.

as i have said, i do not know if we believe in the same things, and i do not know what you are going through, but i pray to God that you’ll have hope and love and joy in your heart always, especially in times when it is harder to have them. thank you for dropping by my inbox.

standing with you in prayer,

janyn