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Recommend a fannish or creative resource

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I'm in a bit of trouble with this but may as well be honest.

getyourwordsout doesn't come as a surprise, I guess, and it's a perfectly normal and valid resource. It's for writers by writers and gives you endless tips and tricks, articles, videos - basically anything you can imagine. The monthly check-ins make sure that I motivate my sorry ass to write at least a little, even if I'd rather procrastinate away into the sunset.
It really is the best!

I'm pretty sure I recommended this too last year, but it's still one of the greatest BL resources out there - many things a BL lover would want, Yaoi Otaku Forum has. I lurk there from time to time in search of novels and mangas, but wasn't really active on it this past year.

Okay, now to the trickier part. 2019 was eaten up by Mo Dao Zu Shi on main, then Guardian and SCI. And the content on Twitter out of all places pretty much consumed 80% of my phone's memory and a huge chunk of my freetime. And it turned my account into a Xiao Zhan-Wang Yibo-Mo Dao Zu Shi all adaptations altair I religiously retweet sacrifices on. Okay, I'm in a special kind of hell, I know, but Twitter guys, Twitter. I never would've believed but my fandom is primarily over there. Yesterday I just copied my saved pics to my laptop and up into the cloud. 6200, people. Just in the aforementioned three topics.
I can't even... >----<

But the most horrifying part comes now...
WATTPAD.
HOLY F*CKING SH*T
It's because of the danmei novels, sure, most English translations I found are over there and listen, it still gives me the heebie-jeebies but I HAD TO. My sanity was on the line but now I apparently have a library full of saved chinese BL novel-translations on Wattpad. It's nice and cosy and saved me from the closed ward, I think. SO. It's a win but at the same time feels like I lost my innocence or something.


As far as
Commit an act of kindness goes...

So, I work half the time as a barista (without the papers and the payraise, mind you, but I'm just a dumb bitch like that, okay), right, and yesterday I accidentally handed a customer a huge glass of pricey fresh orange juice instead of the cheaper, smaller, bottled one he actually ordered. We smiled big time at each other, me, an innocent bystander and him, who took the offered goods with satisfaction. My colleague was handling the register and the orders and one of our superiors was there talking to us a mile a minute about some inconsequential stuff like yearly tax return or so and successfully diverted our attention. She had even pointed out that an orange juice was missing from the tray (I was serving up the cappuccino, fancy leaf in the foam and all that). So I put an orange juice there. They didn't specify.
At least the dude's day started damn fine and I didn't care either way but we laughed a lot with my colleague after.

Also, yesterday after the closing shift (that means 9.30 pm, haha) we surprised one of our other colleague with cake and fancy hand-craft beer and atrocious singing and a round of playing cards as a birthday present. It was fun and he's such a sweetie, he didn't expect it at all! (You know, this is a rambunctious group of friends made up of youngsters mainly, and we're terrible at keeping secrects... He's just so good and innocent, haha!) :D (Damn did I feel old next to him and we're only three years apart)

Also, there's one more thing I have to mention. It made my year in advance and I was in such a state after I got home at 1 am that I ranted and raved for an hour at least about how I became the luckiest person alive.
SOOO

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE COMES TO HUNGARY IN JULY. I cried and prayed and stressed and painted my eyes red and listened to their albums on loop after I accepted the fact that I couldn't go to the reunion concert in LA. And now they're coming to this puny little country and I feel like I've been blessed by Life itself.
On another but similar note. An official Comic Con will take place in Hungary for the first time this year in August. I can't even... ugly crying but happily When you can't go to San Diego, bring San Diego to your doorstep.
Thank you deities for loving me, I love you too.

This year's gonna be the best of my life so far. I just know it.

Well.

I love my life.