#sunshineandviolets

ask me about the books i've read this year! <3

ty!! <3

6. was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?

there are several books i own that i'm super excited about but haven't had a chance to read yet: tell me i'm worthless by alison rumfitt, the left hand of darkness by ursula k. le guin, and seven devils by l.r. lam and elizabeth may to name a few!

12. any books that disappointed you?

yeah, one of my book club's picks--which is also a big prize winner and hailed as genre-defining etc. etc.--was a letdown for me personally: a psalm for the wild-built by becky chambers. it's hope-punk but i didn't realise that that meant 🧍didactic. the narrative spoon-feeds all of the meaning to readers via a conversation in the last few pages and i s2g i never thought i would say this about another book but it was giving me horrible flashbacks to the structure of atlas shrugged for that reason. i enjoyed it enough but i think it's a combination of over-hyped and stylistically Not for me so it didn't meet my (very high) expectations

24. did you DNF anything? why?

@sunshineand-violets;

“Hey, Jill.” Unlike himself, Jill took a bit of searching for before he found her in the crowd of the Firefly Festival. He tried to keep his presence minimally invasive to the other people gathered to mourn and remember, but there was only so much a 231lb man at 6′5″ could do.

@sunshineand-violets;

[🐎] — Georgia’s face is twisted up in intense concentration as she looks down at the bundle of flowers in her lap, legs crossed as she sat in the middle of a meadow, trying not to focus on the way she felt Jill’s eyes boring into her, as she tried to figure out the difficult task of---

---weaving flower crowns.

Just how was she supposed to weave all of this together without it falling apart!? It would be too embarrassing to ask for help, and she sure as hell didn’t want to give up. This should’ve been simple to do! Plus, it was rare that she got to spend time with Jill like this, and she wanted the experience to be nice and memorable for the other girl.

@sunshineand-violets;

What started as a desire to immerse herself in flowers quickly turned into a rabbit hole that Molly didn’t know how to get out of. Talking with the mystery girl at the dance (because of course she had forgotten to get her name) reawakened Molly’s love for plants, made her think of the days working at the plant nursery and all the wonderful people she met at her lowest point. She wanted that feeling back. She wanted to feel loved, to feel useful and wanted. 

So how was she now here at the Explorer’s Guild on Arcadia with a red rose and a box of chocolates in hand?

Maybe she had been thinking of that girl while she bought them. Molly still had the flower she was given. It could use a friend. But she also thought that... it would be nice to give the flower to her. As a thank you for a fun night. 

And the chocolates? Well... no one said she couldn’t eat them, right? Sit and enjoy some nature with—

“Oof!” Molly looked up. “Oh! Ah!” It was her! Molly didn’t know her name but it was the girl she met at the dance.

Right, she should say some thing more.

The wheel of ocs choooooosssseeeee.....LAYLA? MY HIGH SCHOOL STORY MC FROM WHEN IT WAS AN APP? Okay? Lets go?

questions about blorbos

19. What’s something childish they still do? Do they do it openly?

She carried a teddy bear with her until college. She never told a soul as it was stuffed deep in her backpack (Koh probably found out though). She also slept with it every night.

30. What’s something they wish people noticed about them?

Her intelligence. Her student type was Prep and she was definitely a stereotypical cheerleader type. She isn't the most academically gifted, but she definitely has a lot of smarts that she feels gets overlooked.

34. Are they afraid of growing old?

thank you <3

headcanon questions

🕰️ If they could relive one day of their life, which would it be?

Phoebe: The first time her, Nate, and Bryony had a sit down family meal. She spent forever trying to find a recipe that would accommodate all of them and cooking with Nate while Bry was in the living room playing a ds game....she wants to live in that moment forever

Aurora: Her first actual date with Farah! The one where she got pizza and the projector and the mass of blankets. Although she would say that any day with Farah is one she wants to relive.

⚰️ What do they want written on their gravestone / what do they want people to remember them for?

Phoebe: She wants to remembered for her love. Her love and compassion for her daughter, for those in her community, for everyone she comes across.