Being able to sleep in almost any situation or position
Irresistible urge to chase squirrels and rabbits
Hating the vacuum cleaner
Wanting to do everything with friends
Loudly and repeatedly announcing to housemates that someone is at the door
Long, shouted conversations to other werewolves across the neighborhood (bonus points at 2am)
Taking advantage of any and all free food
Werewolf-vampire solidarity
Fighting any animal that trespasses into the backyard
Boundless energy
Too much energy
Eating out of the trash if it smells tasty
Being bad at sports because you don’t want to let anyone else take the ball from you. Then destroying the ball in front of everyone because you want to make a point
Trying to fight things 10x your size like a fucking idiot
Being unable to hold a grudge for more than a few hours
Trying to make people feel bad for you over mundane things that aren’t actually that bad. And somehow succeeding.
Snoring
Needing to try a bit of your friends’ food, even if you’ve tried it 5645674 times before and have never once liked it
Getting way too friendly with random strangers
Being in a love-hate relationship with water
Digging. For no reason.
Thinking you’re a badass despite being a hyperactive ball of emotions and hedonism
Loud sobbing while pressing yourself up against the sliding glass door at your friends who locked you out because they were tired of your bullshit and wanted some goddamn peace and quiet
Okay this one is a gem:
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Loudly and repeatedly announcing to housemates that someone is at the door
Hello! Your vcsecretgifts mods have been discussing internally when to get the 2018 Exchange going *u* Hopefully we will begin advertising it soon, signups in Nov., so that we have time to assign gifters/receivers, and then give you 4 weeks to make gifts.
Louis de Pointe du Lac! Wanted to draw something similar in feel to the Armand picture I did recently. The two are vaguely in line with the Seven Deadly Sins with Louis representing Sloth (which is where ‘sadness’ also falls).
I don’t see Louis as a sad-sack, I think he represents being stagnant either because of grief, powerlessness, whatever the case.
please, keep writing. keep drawing. keep painting. please keep making your art no matter how many may try to push you down. the world does not have nearly enough artists.
I Do Not Trust Anyone Who Says ‘Let People Ship What They Want’ I Simply Do Not Trust Them And With Good Reason
What it should mean: “weird” but otherwise decent
What everyone usually means: pedophillia/incest/abuse/etc
No. It means Ship What You Want Because We’re Supposed To Be Adults Here With Free Will and Freedom of Thought and Speech Able of Critical Thinking, and If You’re Not Able to Comprehend That Maybe You Shouldn’t Be Here In The First Place. Ask Some Adult To Monitor Your Use of the Internet I Think You Should Not Be Here On Your Own.
Shipping Harms Absolutely No-One and You Should Mind Your Own Puritanical Narrow-Minded WitchHunting Business. You Don’t Get To Dictate What Other People Do In Their Spare Time, Not To Mention You Are Helping No-One and You’re Actually Diluting The Real Meaning of The Words Paedophilia, Incest, and Abuse, While Making This Place Unwelcoming and Unhealthy and Hostile To People Who Want to Explore Their Sexuality and Their Identity and Maybe Their Trauma in a Safe Way.
I Do Not Like People Who Think They Get To Police Other People’s Hobbies and Passions With Damn Good Reason. They Harm Real People and They Are A Blight To Fandom. They Prey on the Weakest and Most Vulnerable In the Small Corner We Have Managed To Make for Ourselves. They Are Bullies.
I Ship What I Fucking Want, and I do not owe anyone explanations or justification.
“The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book – and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction manual or a textbook – in private, unsupervised, un-spied-on, alone. It isn’t like a lecture: it’s like a conversation. There’s a back-and-forthness about it. The book proposes, the reader questions, the book responds, the reader considers. We bring our own preconceptions and expectations, our own intellectual qualities, and our limitations, too, our own previous experiences of reading, our own temperament, our own hopes and fears, our own personality to the encounter.”
past me: canon is sacred I must carefully fact-check everything to make sure it is canon-compliant
present me: canon is a box of scraps in a cave I’m gonna tear that shit apart throw away 90% of it and out of the good bits build something absolutely beautiful and amazing
Please, keep looking. Not for a person, but for your passion, your love, your courage, your goals, your dreams, your happiness, yourself. Keep looking. Explore yourself before you explore another. Know your worth, know yourself. Only then will you know what you need over what you want. You need yourself to become your own.