It is December 15th, a mere 10 days before Christmas, when Nancy Wheeler gets yanked back to the small town of Hawkins due to some holiday flavored family bullshit or another. 

And sure, Eddie doesn’t know why, exactly, his best friend went back to the homeland. He wasn’t really listening to the why part, too busy hyper ventilating about it. 

See: Nancy Wheeler is a journalistic powerhouse. She’s big time going bigger, a girl on fire, a total shooting star--but she’s also been single for six months and feeling a little low, which makes her the perfect target for some small-minded small-town jerk to try pulling a Hallmark stunt on.

Nancy Wheeler, Eddie knows, was never intended to be some cow farmer's trad wife. 

(“I promise not to visit a Christmas tree farm or an open air holiday market. Does that make you feel better?” She asked him on December 14th as she meticulously packed her carry on, Eddie pacing a line in the floor behind her. 

“No it does not.” Hands flew in the air as he talked, entire body practically vibrating with worry. 

“You also need to avoid hot chocolate stands, any kind of Santa village, and for the love of God Nance if a small child wanders up to you and asks you for something you kick them!” 

He mimed a kick, arms swinging comedically with the force of his bad acting. 

“You kick them hard!” 

sometimes i feel like im climing up this incline again alone but thankully sisypus and the itsy bitsy spider and here with me

holy shit is that kate bush

Reblog to give mutuals a break from whatever they're been going through

I’m legally required to post this every Halloween

Hot Writers Don't Gatekeep

the writers REALLY liked my artist resource post, so I thought i'd give y'all my dragon hoard of things i use for writing

Reverse Dictionary, you type in the meaning of a word, and it gives you a bunch of words that mean that. (MY MOST IMPORTANT OFFERING IN THIS LIST)

Slang Dictionary, what it says on the tin.

Anglish Translator, Anglish is if English evolved without borrowing from other languages and it really itches my brain (Anglish is if english grown without borrowing from other languages and it truly itches my brain)

Incorrect Quotes Generator, Put character names in, and incorrect quotes come out. Really fun way to goof around with your characters' dynamics.

Handspeak, an ASL dictionary

Library of Babel, Odds are, the finished version of your wip is in here somewhere

The best fantasy map maker i have ever used

Glitch Text Generator is one I use A Lot, does ť̷̨̢͓̤͔̤̤̝̺̯̄̔̄̌̄͗͒͋͂͋͝ḩ̵̼̜͍͚͕̏̓͊̈̉̆̄͐́͗͒̈̃̊̚͜i̵̻̐̇̎̏̀̋̌̃̇̿͘̚s̴̮̔̂̇͒͑͝͝ͅ to your text

Totally not bootleg microsoft office

Emotions Thesaurus a guide for writing emotions and their associated body language

Mythcreants, has a whole bunch of stuff you can read to learn more about the technical aspects of writing

A decent article talking about what to think about when creating a language

Trope Talks, particularly good for beginner and younger writers or people who have a hard time reading. Honestly this whole channel is a fantastic format to get information into my adhd rattled brain.

FOR MY AO3 BESTIES! Postimages will host your image forever so you can embed it into your work

Ambient Chaos, sometimes the only thing in the world that can kick your brain into writing mode is nuclear sirens and lofi beats

Radioooooo, play a station from any place and year. Particularly helpful for period pieces.

Food timeline, when foods were invented

this is a highly controversial opinion, I have no doubt King Arthur was bisexual but I think he was one of the few people in Camelot not interested in fucking Lancelot. he wanted to retain him as an employee but it did not cross his mind that Lancelot was fucking his wife because Lancelot is such a weird little twerp that he did not perceive him as a sexual being. my interpretation.

So true. The Galehaut/Lancelot relationship was like a dynastic marriage to resolve the conflict between two imperial powers. I like to imagine Galehaut was like “I have decided to abandon my plans of capturing [what is now] all of southern England and surrender to you despite my military advantage, all for the love of my achingly beautiful and spectacular new male wife, Lancelot du Lac.” and Arthur was like “Okay. Weird. Not homophobic or anything but Lancelot? You’re in love with Lancelot?”

Co-signed. That’s some real shit you said. Also, unlike Arthur, he was willing to yield and share his lover for everyone’s benefit. And then he died for love. A real freak. One of the best freaks in 13th century French literature.

he’s the most interesting gay wifeguy in literary gay knight history

I started a mental sentence with, “well, when we diagram the Arthurian polycule-“

And then realised that would be such a good title for a paper. “Diagramming the Arthurian Polycule: Mapping the Dynamics of the Round Kitchen Table”

I feel like I've reblogged this before with the same point, but I would expand "deliciousness" to any sensory pleasure. Looking at a beautiful picture, listening to your favorite song, stopping to smell the flowers, cuddling up with a fluffy blanket, or napping in the shade on a sunny day -- these can be deliciousness as much as eating something tasty.

I also feel like "goofing" can be expanded from merely laughing at something to any kind of low-stakes play or experimentation, such as coloring in a coloring book, messing around with a new craft without holding yourself to perfectionism, trying a new restaurant just for the hell of it, etc.

a billionaire can never be held accountable, therefore a billionaire must never make a management decision

i have a suggestion

forcefemming the billionaires won't help

sorry I thought you were someone else

autumn/winter affirmations:

Just gonna drop these here as a starting point :)

How to identify, and then deal with, your emotions

Emotional regulation skills

Conflict resolution skills

Creating and enforcing boundaries

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy skills

Emotional intelligence ideals to aim for

Axes of self-care/wellbeing

Self-care self-evaluation (find out where you’re starting)

How to make a self-care checklist

How to start a self-care habit

Reparenting resources

Crash Course Psychology

KhanAcademy: Understanding the Self and Society (some units more relevant than others)

Emotional education activities for children and teens

Social-Emotional Learning activities for kids (information can be adapted for adults)

5 simple exercises to awaken dormant muscles

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I appreciate this video a lot--people don't realize how important it is to start slow if you're trying to come back from a completely sedentary lifestyle, and they get really hurt as a result. Straining your muscles too much, too suddenly can land you in the E.R. and the wrong joint injury can permanently affect your mobility, so please start with absolute basics and easy stretches!

reblog if you love archive of our own and how they firmly refuse to let censorship have any place on their platform

Emily Gwen, the nonbinary lesbian that designed the lesbian flag, is currently homeless and in need of help.

She has a ko-fi that you can donate to here.

all that “i dont wanna be on fleek…i want to be a soft little princess!” “i dont want a hot girl summer! i want a fairy angel dollette summer…” “dont match my freak! match my softness and intellect…” “my body not tea…im actually a little baby deer made of porcelain” “im not a savage! im a lady!!!” shit yall be doing is not subtle at all oh i hate the current culture we in yall needa be jailed

hi im not like tryna put u on blast here but ur one of over a dozen white people leaving tags like this on this post and im tryna make sure yall understand these phrases above are not inherently denouncing being soft or feminine or implying a higher level of beastness….like its the very opposite…..outsiders who are nonblack are assigning aggression or dominance and animalistic qualities to phrases like “on fleek”the proper response to that is not to go “yeah fuck that im a hairy monster in the swamp!” the proper response is “hey, these phrases are coined by black women and all they mean is feeling good about ones self and staying true to yourself / ur values and desires” when a nonblack assigns hostility and vitriol to aave u should not retort with “YEAH! i am nasty and aggressive!!!” bc they are only assigning such things bc they see blackness as inherently below them

these phrases are not in conflict with being soft or kind or thoughtful and sweet….they are not the opposite…they are treated as the opposite bc this is misogynoir and a underhand act of degendering black women under white supremacy, ur not a wild beast for identifying with hot girl summer, ur a normal person who likes to do the things that make you ‘you’……please reflect on how you respond to these things

i want to shake many young women and say you can grow in private. and what i mean by that is that you don’t have to publicly self-flagellate when you don’t know something or when you say something a little insensitive or whatever else. you don’t have to report your Bad Thoughts and Ignorance to the crowd who waits to judge you. you do not have to pay penance. you do not have to issue public statements. nothing more is gained from burying yourself in shame than you could gain by thinking “oh i don’t know about this” and looking it up real quick, or thinking “hm, that wasn’t how i want to behave, i’ll do different next time” and then moving on with your life. no need to choke yourself with it.

no such thing as too fat for a crop top

Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.

So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do:

In the url bar, type in about:config

It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.

One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:

Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy.

The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

Edit: This wildly broke containment for a post that was supposed to be me basically ranting and grumbling like an old man on my porch to my homies. If I’ve inspired you to follow through with this, peachy. That was mildly intended. Better yet, I hope I’ve spurred a buncha you on to do your own bit of digging and research.

If you were one of today’s lucky ten thousand to learn something new, I hope you keep doing it. I won’t be here to hold your hand through it, as I simply don’t have the time nor spoons for it, so I implore you to go down your own rabbit hole and chase knowledge with wild abandon.