a 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓮𝓻 for @flcrdemaga based on this.

the idea of improving his baking skills for the sake of little yerim had been going through his head ever since she had gotten into her own class, all excited about cookies and muffins that haesol had no clue about. he’d taken the task of learning it himself, but it had been proved fruitless many youtube tutorials later. so there he was, friday night, nervously pulling on a loose thread of his sweater, worrying about the new babysitter he’d gotten and waiting for the last couple of people on the bakery to leave. “ thank you for doing this, for helping me. ” he told the girl on the other side of the counter, a small smile on his face. he was still working on talking to other people more, on being more casual, and dabin having accepted to help him with his baking quest had only made it less burdening, easier. “ you have no idea how much yeri loves what you do here, your day is her favorite day of the week, really. ” he recalled her excited voice and big smile while retelling the latest thing she had learned and felt affection rise up all the way through his chest. “ i feel like i am failing her as a father when i tell her i don’t know how to make a cheesecake the way she likes it. ” not the best at jokes, he knew that, but figuring the ice needed to be broken, trying to make her laugh was worth the shot.

hihi pandora! can i ask 2. 3 things I love, 16. Meaning behind my URL, and 54. My top 5 blogs on tumblr for your ask game :D hope your cramps get better soon 😣 ~ann:>

HI ANNNN it’s always nice to hear from u mwah mwah <33 i’m currently ab to start reading the akaashi angst so my spiral on that will appear on the fic rec blog LOL

this got p long but >:) i only included mostly sfw blogs i could think of bc i didn’t know if you were comfy w anything other than sfw!!

ask me questions!

2. 3 things i love

UM UM UMMMM color meanings and associations!!! in my brain everything is assigned to colors and i get meanings or things i think would be that color!! like to me, spontaneity is a lime green and joy is red!!! and music!!!! literally any time you wanna tell me a song you’re listening to or want song recs, i’m your girl i’ve got 7,652 songs on my spotify liked rn LOL 💀and ummmm oh!!! COFFEE! hot coffee cold coffee bitter coffee sweet coffee i love it, i like trying out new ones or new creamers too bc it just means i can figure out what i really like instead of just liking what i’m used to!!

16. meaning behind my url

every time i get asked this question it’s a riot. tell me, ann, what do you think stars taste like? genuinely asking!! this is the question i asked that started it all LOL. i was in a discord gc w the very first round of mutuals i made, and even now i still chat with most of them often but few only rarely due to life!! and when i asked that question the entire chat had been spamming and firing off chatter and they all just stopped and everyone said . what. why would you ask that LOL and some said spicy (you’re still wrong months later@jupitersmiles) and some said bitter and some sweet, and i said i think if given the opportunity to taste a star (excusing it would burn me alive duh) it would be sour. like a warhead, specifically. and lukas (prev @) went head to head on it for a while LMAO! but from then on i had already been wanting to change it and so i came up with tons of names and when i thought of sourstars i was like oh that’s it. that’s the one. and when i saw it wasn’t taken i nabbed it >:)

54. top 5 blogs on tumblr

LISTEN. i have a million right so i’m doing more than five just for the love but from who i can remember, some are

@/yutari + @/tetsuphobia — who have just gorgeous writing btw, sometimes i reread their works on a warm night

@/sunkeiji — sayu has the cutest ideas change my mind

@/neoheros — just. just rue. it’s rue of course xe’s on this list

@/sungie — i reread everything from time to time <33

@/applepiekyuu — gwen’s just got a gift too LOL

@/shinomiis — who i still chat with but is not longer on tumblr! her blog is still up!

@/k-atsukidayo — who was my first ever mutual, but isnt active on her blog and hasn’t been for a long time! has multiple extremely long and beautiful fics that are still most of my all time faves

@/kentoangel — haven’t fully caught up w the masterlist and recents but trust me, i’ll get there >:)

@/sumine — who’s on an indefinite hiatus but also has good and adorable works!!!

@/chimielie — i don’t even have to say anything bc lia just knows what i think of her writing. she knows. and if she doesn’t... ahem taps mic.... LIA HAS A FUCKING GIFT AND THE ONE SHE WROTE FOR MY EVENT REQ WILL HAUNT ME UNTIL I DIE BC ITS SO GOOD

and YEAH. i have waaaay more but either i don’t really remember their names rn or they’re no longer active or their blog has now been deactivated :’)

#EQUILIBRIA

As someone who had been wanting to pursue my passion, but wasn't able to because of certain circumstances, I am very thrilled to deliver this good news.

First, I am still a chemical engineering student. I wasn't able to shift but I am glad because finally...I learned to love my degree!

I don't know how it happened. Last midyear was really a turning point but it is still not clear to me when and how exactly I had a change of heart. The first weeks had me crying every single day - thinking about what could have been if I just simply shift out and pursue what I love to do. I was also in much pain and devastation whenever I come to realize that I might not be able to pursue architecture, ever - that I will never be happy because I would be doing something I have no interest in for the rest of my life.

But then miracles do happen in real life! Towards the end of the midyear term, I found myself falling in love (finally, after four years) with chemical engineering. And now, here I am!

Okay that was a long introduction but it was, nevertheless, a needed backstory for my second good news.

So the second good news is that - I may be able to check off one of my ultimate life goals this very semester! Can you guess what it is?

Yay okay another backstory. (Sorry)

So I have this lecturer in one of my majors - Stagewise Operations - who is currently in the last stages of completing his master's degree in Philosophy. He is a summa cum laude graduate of our department way back 2011 (?). Anyway, so he evidently and admittedly, intentionally and unintentionally, assert and relate philosophy to each and every concept of stagewise operations. He incorporates his philosophy in our class! Imagine that. You are discussing about leaching and single-stage solid-liquid equilibrium yet he managed to discuss David Hume's theory on senses!

Anyway, since he always reminds us to take a step back and reflect on the meaningfulness of everything around us, our final project is a bomb.

It is basically anything. Any project. It can be a paper, a film, a music, anything. The catch is, it must be something related to chemical engineering (and stagewise operations) AND preferably something close to our heart, something we are passionate about. His rationale and philosophy as to why that is our project? - Because there is nothing greater, to test one's understanding to something, than have him relate it to something he is most passionate about.

GOING BACK, can you guess what I will do for my project?

I AM GOING TO HOLD AN ART EXHIBIT.

There are a lot of graphs and diagrams in chemical engineering courses which I see as perspectives of buildings. Hence, I will draw and paint architectural sketches on graphs which I have encountered or will encounter during my roller-coaster journey in this degree.

IMAGINE. Few months ago I was crying and depressed because of my decisions in life aka staying in ChE. But now, ChE is the very first one to give me opportunity to fulfill one of my ultimate life goals!

So that's all. The exhibit will be on first week of December (hopefully). I don't let people see my works yet. They have to wait hihi. But I will post my works here since no one knows about this blog lol except if they bookmarked this when I shared the link (twice, maybe?) before. Wish me luuuck and Godspeed my creativity. Mwah.

ADIOS!

PS: Oh no I forgot to tell you why it is #EQUILIBRIA

1. Of course, even if someone is not a ChE student, we all can infer that it has something to do with balance. Yes, balance on my passion and my profession.

2. My tagline or how do you call these motto and words they put after a title, whatever, goes like "EQUILIBRIA: A van Gogh heart underneath a van Laar mind".

3. I always believe that van Gogh is my alter ego chz. And van Laar is a chemist who was one of those who modelled activity coefficients for non-ideality of solutions, particularly applicable on systems with liquid - x equilibrium (blah blah chemical engineering stuff). Anyway so my centerpiece would be (not an architectural sketch, but) a replica of van Gogh's Starry Night rendered on a Solid-Liquid Equilibrium diagram, which van Laar has something to do with.

Mmmmkay so that's it! Without further ado, I will now post my works!