Gazella's Things

my mom is horrible with money if she see it she HAS TO SPEND IT I'm trying to save (no even a big amount literally 10 bucks or smt) and she is ITCHING TO SPEND IT and like she's mom I can't say no to her. but I did now and it's so hard. she knows how to emotionally manipulate me and I'm doing my best to hold on lol. any tips?

let's switch things up ya'll. give me the juicy fics u like. if u don't have one then drop multiple. give us the literary masterpieces the world is sleeping on. or the horny shit the world is also sleeping on.
mine is From The Sidelines by suffocatingspring

I want a REALLY specific experience and I have no idea who to ask.
basically i want to watch/read smt that was not tagged as romance and i didn't know there's a romance in it. maybe it's fantasy/ adventure/ slice of life whatever it was. maybe it follows a set of characters or just two idk. and as the story progresses more I start to root for the two and bam they end up together. the thing is I was expecting it to be not a romance so this IS a surprise.
does anyone have any recs like this? books or movies or shows or anything really. ik i would miss the of element of surprise romance since I'm asking for it now. but if anyone has smt similar to what I'm looking for (romance that comes second to the plot and then two characters that seems unlikely to end up together BUT THEY DO) I'll be grateful

is anyone else tired of smut and pwp in manga/hwa?

for context. I was on it for a long time. without including fanfics on ao3. I consumed alot of filthy shit. I've always (and still am) open about it and accepting of this aspect of myself. I hate puritans and ppl who are judgemental. and love communities that are accepting and open to basically smut.

now fast forward to a few days ago. I started feeling icky about reading smut. I usually have these periods of time but they pass after reading smt plot heavy.

but now I don't even want to touch anything like that. I genuinely feel dreadful at the idea of reading any of it?
so I thought I might as well go all the way and stop it all together. an experiment of sorts. to see how would this affect me and my life.
is there other people like me? I want an outsider perspective I guess?

so for a while now I have logged off all social media. but lately I've been feeling some fomo creeping in and making me feel like logging in again. so someone fill me in on what's happening on those curced platforms plz