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Has a fic ever made your face hurt from laughing so much?

HI FRIEND!!! Oof sorry for the late reply I was out for the most part yesterday eating junk and what not XD 

I’ve been reading mostly Chinese fics recently and I love Chinese fic writers hahahaha but anyway!! Here are some of the English ones from across several fandoms that I find hilarious af:

MDZS:

yeah it’s true (that I fell for you) by thirtysixsavefiles the one where meng yao gets hit by a car by thefaceofno

Trapped:

A solid plan by FlorBexter Intruder Alert by minacmins

I haven’t seen a lot of humour stuff on AO3 since I usually go for the serious fluffy stuff hahahaha but the above made me laugh quite a bit. I’m easily entertained XD

Hello!

On garden news: Things are going okay! The initial kabocha squash have yielded some fruit and are now dying. Alas. Perhaps next time if I give them more fertilizer, they’ll live longer. Or if I get rid of the bunny running rampant. Everyone has to eat, but I don’t want it to eat MY garden. I’m not gonna hurt it. I’ll just use some urine or something to scare it off. And maybe some chili powder. The chili plants are yielding fruit now too and the taro plant is still going strong. The butternut squash are now growing like wild though so it’s only a matter of time before they yield something too.

How old was I when I started baking? Tough question. I mean, I’ve been involved in baking since I was little and my mom could rely on me to mix things for boxed mix. I think I started baking by myself in earnest around high school and towards the end of undergrad. Like that was my full entrance into baking just for the sake of how much I liked it and such.

Other than Biology and science in general, what other subject/career/domain appeals to you? Ooo there were and still are quite a few. Although my love of teaching slowly dwindles, there’s always something that makes it spring back up. I also spent a good... 8 years being interested in art. Like all former weebs, I wanted to draw manga and tried to get into the illustration major at my college. Never did pan out. But I’m okay with that. I’m fine with my limited ability to sketch and doodle and paint. I also did, and still obviously do, enjoy writing. Although I’ve long since given up on wanting to write an original novel. The thought comes and goes, but it never gains any traction. I don’t have time for NaNoWriMo now either. And of course, there’s baking. I jokingly tell everyone that opening a bakery is my retirement plan and/or my plan for if I don’t make it as a scientist. (I’m not joking thaaaat much though.)

hello my friend! the procrastination went well, i still got my work done though which was very surprising for me fhsnfh but thank you for this one!! i adore kenji :’)

favorite thing about them: 

his enthusiasm! i love how he’s just an overgrown puppy and how genuinely excited he is to come home and eat whatever shiro’s cooked for him and how he gives such detailed thoughts to him as well. he’s just so excited about every single little thing in life and it’s adorable!

least favorite thing about them: 

i don’t think i really have a least favourite thing about kenji... hm. i don’t believe so! maybe that he’s a bit naive sometimes, but apart from that... i really do adore kenji :’)

favorite line: 

“shiro-san bought these all for me. i’m very, very loved.” i remember watching this scene and hearing this line and i swear something shook loose inside of me. it’s simple, yeah, but just... their relationship means so so much to me and this line just hit!

brotp: 

this is purely just for the absolute chaos but him and wataru would be so so funny together, they just seem to have such opposite yet same energies and i think wataru would warm up to him once he got over himself. shiro is endlessly amused by their shenanigans but never divulges this secret.

otp: 

shiro x kenji!!!! they’re my absolute favourites, they have such a pure relationship and love each other so much and make time for each other and i’m just... so soft. kinou nani tabeta is such a wonderful show :’)

notp: 

anyone apart from shiro hsnfhs i just cannot picture kenji with anyone else and i genuinely doubt that people ship him with anyone else.

random headcanon: 

i love the idea of him learning how to cook for shirou... we saw some of it in the show but just the idea of him looking up recipes and experimenting with certain ingredients and making a meal for shirou to come home to is so heartwarming! they love each other so much :’)

unpopular opinion: 

hmmm i’ve seen a couple of people say he’s a bit annoying in the first few episodes and i’m here to say: absolutely NOT kenji was adorable from episode one.

song i associate with them: 

it seems to be a recurring theme that i don’t think about songs and characters lmfaooo but i can improvise again! i will follow you into the dark by death cab for cutie. that’s very much something that fits with kenji in my eyes, especially the lines “if heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied / and illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs / if there's no one beside you when your soul embarks / then i'll follow you into the dark” just... that hits when it comes to shiro and kenji!

favorite picture of them: 

ahhh i just love this picture of him, it captures his personality so so well and it’s just... such a nice picture! i love kenji so much, he’s so underrated :(

20. What story that you have written makes you the happiest to re-read?

Path of the Star-gazer. Someone told me it's like a soliquoy and while I am not sure I agree it is so much fun to just read aloud. I edited it by adjusting and tweaking most of the phrasing to match how I would deliver the lines. Turning points in NHS's life weaved into a fun to say dramatic burst of lines.

Really try it. Here are some short snippets that are fun to say.

One: A life changing realization that seeps into NHS.

My sect is one of stars chasing glory and honor only for each strike of our saber to send us tumbling closer to the ground.

No.

No, my sect is one of falling stars where life is a prayer that one hangs so high in the sky that the ground will never come.

How had I never realized that all our elders are young, that all our leaders fell in battle long before other cultivators chose to let their hairs turn gray.

Perhaps my shixiong, like I, never thought to ask. Perhaps without catching those whispers, I would have never understood the nature of our sect's path.

That not only are my father and ancestors falling stars, but that they are willing.

Two: A poetic set up for the Sunshot Campaign.

Qishan Wen calls itself the sun but they forget the sun is just a star. This earth may revolve around it, but not other heavenly spheres. A constellation may not cast as much light on this world but together the sky glows. The sun is just a lone star.

Three: An extended metaphor turned into an angry promise.

My sect is of stars falling. But I am not a star, I am a stargazer. For the one who stole my brother out of the heavens, I will wait for their peak and tear them from the sky. More than rip them from the heavens, I will ensure that their crater makes the Yiling Patriarch's impact into a footprint. That honor, dignity, and prowess can never be mentioned in the same sentence as their name except in ridicule.

This was actually really hard to not just quote the majority of the fic because it is just really enjoyable to monologue in an unembarrassed, childhood play way. I can't help to mouth aloud.

Ahhh! So lovely to hear from you!

Just saw you talking about watching this show this morning, but I didn't manage to react on mobile!

Happy you enjoy wdyey so far, it is such a good show! Beware that my gifsets might contain spoilers (although the series is pretty spoiler proof).

And no, I don't know how to watch it without drooling about the food. I usually eat while giffing, but yesterday it was too late and my stomach was growling while I watched the New Year's special.

The recipes I've tested so far are amazing!

@somewhatavidreader tumblr ate your ask when i wanted to save the draft so here goes! And also i just realized i forgot to post it before soooo *shrug emoji*

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Can takes a deep breath and pinches his nose, exhaling deeply before answering Ley’s question. “Because I am already seeing someone, Ley, that’s why.”

He can picture Ley’s face as clearly as if she was standing in front of him. She’s going to scream at him any second now, and Can holds the phone away in preparation.

“What?! Since when? Why didn’t you tell me? Can!! How could you hide this from me?”

“Ley, shut up! I can’t answer twenty questions at once!” Can says as he leans against the hall’s vending machine. Students are passing by and giving him weird looks, maybe because he’s pulling at his hair and shaking his fist at the sky, who knows.

“Okay, okay. Is she pretty?”

“Uh…” Can looks wildly around him, at a loss. “Look, it’s private, okay? I don’t wanna talk about it yet,” he says, as if this is a valid excuse where Ley is concerned.

“So you’re lying to me and she doesn’t even exist, I knew this was too good to be true,” Ley says with her sweetest, evilest voice. “You’ve spent so long complaining about not having a girlfriend, if you had one you would have rubbed it in my face already. You don’t have a girlfriend, admit it.”

“Fine,” Can sighs after it becomes clear that Ley will let him simmer all day is she has to, “I don’t have a girlfriend, I lied, but I don’t want to go on a blind date with another friend of yours!”

“Uh-uh, that’s now how it works big brother. I have an obligation to your happiness, and it will come out of one of the dates, I just know it will,” Ley is saying, when someone steps right in front of Can.

Can recognizes him as Pete’s friend from the IC department, and he wordlessly hands him the phone when he thrusts his hand out with a confident smile. This can’t go any worse anyway.

“Hello, Ley?” Pete’s friend says, and how does he know Can’s sister’s name?

“This is Tin. Listen, Ley, I know Can has kept me a secret but it was because I asked him too, I wasn’t ready for… Mmh? Yes, that’s right,” the guy named Tin continues, batting Can’s hand away when he tries to get his phone back. Tin presses his finger to his mouth to shush Can as he continues humming and agreeing to whatever Ley is saying.

“Alright, now I trust you won’t try to set him up again? Thank you so much for your kindness. Oh, and please don’t blame Can for not telling you sooner, I made him promise… Yes, he was upset he couldn’t share it with you right away, but he’s been ever so patient, he’s been very good to me.”

“What the hell are you doing?” Can whispers furiously, not trying to get his phone anymore because he’s too focused on the sheer level of absurdity occurring right before his eyes.

“Alright, will do. Thank you, Ley, and I look forward to meeting you in person,” Tin says before ending the call and giving the phone back to Can.

“There you go, now she’ll leave you alone,” Tin says with a satisfied smile.

“What the fuck was that? Who are you? How do you know my sister’s name? What was that? I know I asked that already but it’s worth mentioning twice!”

Hi, there. I actually just mentioned it in the discord, and I’m almost done gifing the uniform scene (great minds think alike). I will keep the ending credit shots in mind as well! Also the most awesome Xia’s subbing ep 18, and I’m in the discord to support him <3.