I Love That You Included The Pink And Green Helmets Loooll

I love that you included the pink and green helmets loooll

Jesse Ellie and Dina find a skatepark au

This is actually a great preview of the next chapter of As Long as You Follow.

Also, good to know I'm not the only one who apparently looked up "sturdiest late '90s trucks that probably would still run 20+ years after the apocalypse" and was also greeted with Google being like "let me tell you about the Toyota Hilux" looool

TOYOTA HILUX TUESDAY

Chapter 16 (out of 18) is up! With this chapter, As Long as You Follow (247,126 words) has officially surpassed its predecessor, Go Your Own Way (233,279 words) in length, and I have also officially posted more than half a million words to AO3 (in just 14 months, which I feel like I should be more concerned about, oop). It's been a wild ride, ya'll. Still (hopefully) more to come, though.

I am obligated to share this since it mentions MCR.

ho said she like my chemical romance

I remember that there used to be a LJ community dedicated to making fun of people - like, that was it, "look at this loser dressing weird," or whatever. And I got posted in it, once - someone went through my photos and reposted a bunch of them while making fun of me and calling me ugly and picking apart my clothing. LiveJournal was...quite the time.

Remember how LiveJournal let you have several icons (or avatars or "pfps" as you might call them now)? And you'd carefully choose an icon to fit the subject matter, your tone, and the blog on which you were commenting or posting?

And it could make your argument look that much snarkier if you used a rude one? Or you could use it to add a multiplier to a joke?

And icons, alongside banners and wallpapers, were a whole genre of fanwork with its own design language, conventions, and norms, including carefully crediting people for them?

That was neat.

Feeling a little manic, the last couple of days. Not sure why that is. I had to stop taking my meds because of my cognitive issues (since we can't be sure it's not the medication, rather than long COVID, until we do some more investigating) so it could be related to that. The last time I was manic I wrote about 2/3rds of GYOW embarrassingly quickly. And I've written about 8k words since yesterday, so...at least I have that going for me?