I am. . . so proud of us. We’re still here, despite everything. I hope the magic stays in your eyes and your hearts. May the cruelty of the world only strengthen the goodness of your soul. May you find refuge and santuary, when the world is at it’s coldest.

You are loved, you are loved.

Hey Hazel! I'm the anon from that last ask about wanting to start a writing blog! (https://www.tumblr.com/witch-hazels-musings/727938192040411136/)

I just posted what I had recently written (I do write some stuff but they're usually left to be for my eyes only, though that's exactly what made me wonder if it was okay to let others read it) and I did get 3 likes instantly and here I am rolling on my bed and kicking my blanket like a dork haha

I really do hope others like what I wrote, but nevertheless, I feel glad I posted it

Just, I'm back to say thank you! I did want to let my drabbles out from google docs, but it was mainly your encouragement which allowed me to do so! Once more, from the depts of my heart, thank you!!

YAYAYAYAY!! I'm so happy to hear this!! You did it, friend! You did the hardest thing - you should absolutely be kicking and rolling in your bed. Hold onto that feeling, keep it close because that'll be the catalyst to keep you pushing!

I don't know what your aspirations are but this moment is a core memory - you did something a lot of people don't - I was almost one of those people - but we broke through and, gosh, I'm just so thrilled you made your blog ♡⁠(⁠>⁠ ⁠ਊ⁠ ⁠<⁠)⁠♡

^ an image of Hazel sending you the love she feels for your accomplishments

PET THE CAT PET THE CAT PET THE CAT

You wouldn’t let us pet him so I took it into my own hands

oh yeah

ANYWAY CELEBRATING 2000!! THE BESTIE HERSELF!! GO BUG HER<333 @ohlookanothercartoontofallinto

happy new year!! :)

all of you did absolutely amazing last year and you will continue to do absolutely amazing this year. all of your days were worth it, you didn’t waste any of them. you got through all of your bad days, and you can make it through the bad days that may pop up this new year. you made it through last year. you can make it through this year. you’ve got this. i believe in you <3

AHHH RYEN I SECURED TICKETS FOR 5/6 IN CHICAGOOOO!!! (congrats to those who also got tickets!)

Bro, oh my god. I’ve only ever done ticketing one other time for PTD in Vegas and I didn’t have a membership back then, so I was kind of a newbie on the whole thing…. and let me just say, what a brutal. fucking. nightmare. I was so anxious all day I couldn’t eat any food, and then during the sale, I bit all my nails off it was so bad 😭

I was initially hoping for floor seats but when I got through the queue they were basically all gone, and so I had to keep trying and trying different seats and LET ME JUST SAY THAT MY LEAST FAVORITE THING IN THE WORLD RN IS THE STUPID ASS MESSAGE THEY GIVE YOU WHEN SOMEONE ELSE ALREADY PURCHASED THE SEATS 😭 LIKE UGH SERIOUSLY?? I got the same notification like 20 times on BOTH my devices. Not to mention how the ticket prices went up in the middle of the sale (I saw a tweet that said their tickets went up in price while they were in their cart…)

Anyway, my mom also loves BTS so I was buying tickets for both of us, and she told me that my limit on price should be $400 per ticket (since money’s been tough lately), but like because of the rising prices, and the constant messages saying they were taken, the cheapest ones I could even find were for like $560…. so now she’s mad at me because I didn’t wait to buy cheaper resold tickets. But she doesn’t understand that like, there’s no guarantee that there will be 2 resold tickets seated together? or that they won’t all get bought by waitlisted fans before I get the chance… it’s just frustrating because she doesn’t understand that I didn’t want to risk waiting when I also already had the code and didn’t wanna be rude and waste it.

BUT despite all of that, I am still SO RELIEVED now that I know I have the tickets and I’m SO EXCITED… I need to start planning my outfit 😫😫

(also sorry this was so long, i just needed to share my excitement/also frustration w/ someone!!)

Oh holy dang, Abby😳😳 YOU DID ITTTT also this totally reads like the whole ticketing experience in a nutshell💀 apparently PTD vegas was the worst thing ever but I guess I got out unscathed because it went relatively smooth for me. But maybe it only felt that way bc MOTS was more of a battle in my case✌️😀 to have those vip tickets washed away definitely wasn’t the coolest news to hear lol

Listen. Once your mom is at the concert and experiencing all that?? She won’t mind a damn thing LMAO I think life is just too short to always err on the side of caution. You just gotta say screw it sometimes and deal with the aftermath later😂

Excited for you! I happen to have some test shirts coming in tomorrow so if you need some fit ideas I may be able to help👀👀

LOL Tumblr really trying to prevent us to get our shipping 's crumbs, huh? Seriously tho, I've been waiting your reply and that got me anxious xd . The voice bank comes with video form that I've found from web named bilibili 哔哩哔哩 ( it's like YouTube here). The video called:「Persona Q2」女神异闻录3主人公结城理全语音(cv石田彰)(附字幕) . Hope you find it

FOUND IT ANON! Thank you so much!!

I'm on my way to a work meeting right now so I have to wait a few hours before I'm able to listen to it, but I wanted to let you know it worked this time!

I'll make a post about it as soon as I've heard it! 😭

edit: You were right he does imitate her! They really are the cutest 😭

Hey all, you know how internet searches suck now? When the results are awful, full-of-AI, death-of-the-internet levels of bad?

Start appending date constraints to your searches - "before:2023".

My results have gone from 90% AI bullshit to ~60% usable - which frankly at this point is a huge improvement.

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

the worst part about being an adult is thay its no longer socially acceptable to just roll down a really big hill and then run back up it and roll back down again. "oh is this a syphilis metaphor" passerby would ask. "is this for a tick tock". no i just wanna come home covered in dirt and scratches and bask in the the solace of childlike mirth

how to explain to non-americans that the better call saul ads aren’t exaggerated for comedic effect they are super normie

i went to get my t-shot yesterday and it took me an hour and a half to get to the clinic and as soon as i got on the bed the nurse dropped my t-shot and it broke and now they're trying to make me pay for the replacement. i think the fuck not lmao

Y-you were thinking of me too? What a coinkydink! And no rush on the event fic; there's still plenty of time before the deadline~

Just the other day I reached 900 followers and I'm just so grateful 😭 Now to figure out what I want to do for another event! Any new or exciting news from your end?

Of course of course, I always wonder how you doing! (And thank you 😭😭 I need all the time lol)

900 followers?! Congratulations!!! You did it and I'm sure 1000 is just around the corner ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️(do what will make you happy, and don't push yourself)

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

things haven't been great but i think they will be. eventually 🌻🌼🩷

advice i think we should tell children is that when adults say stuff like ‘now that i’m an adult i get really excited about stuff like coffee tables and bathrooms and rugs etc’ they don’t mean ‘and now i don’t care about blorbo and squimbus from my childhood tv shows anymore’ bc your average adult still loves all the same pop culture stuff they always did; they just have a greater appreciation for the mundane as well. growing up just means you can enjoy life twice as much now. you can get really excited about a new stuffed animal AND about a new kitchen sponge. peace and love