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merry shiftmas!

⌗ 𝟏𝟏. tree skirt ; How did you find out about shifting? What was your first dr and what is your main dr now?

i found out about shifting the same way that most people did: through tik tok... but harry potter wasn't crazy interesting at first. my first DR was a HTTYD dr, where i had a crimson goregutter as my partner :) might rework this dr after looking at the script again, it looks so fun!

however, now my main dr is twisted wonderland or the station. now that shifting is a special interest, interacting with my special interest has become rough so i'm just gonna go there so i don't fixate on it anymore lollll

...trying to get through my backlog of shiftmas content this morning,, expect forty posts as i get all my thoughts together :/

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merry shiftmas! 🌟

⌗ 𝟏𝟎. icicles ; What is your occupation in your dr? Your coworkers? (Or if student, your classmates?) What is your favorite and least favorite aspect of your occupation?

in twisted wonderland, i am a member of staff, but only on a technicality. i’m actually a “special student” that’s trying to get their layman’s license, but in between the two or three classes i take i help crowley with all of his bullshit tasks paperwork!

my favorite class to listen in on is advanced alchemy. vil and azul are the best at potions and watching them work is incredible

my least favorite class to listen in on is enigmics. it’s mostly math and puzzles, but not being able to do it is boring :(

my favorite part of my job is student interaction! i manage the basketball and magift teams, so i travel for games, plus helping out as a TA in the classes i sit in on!

my least favorite part of my job is meetings with crowley. you don’t need to explain that we can’t siphon an allowance to my dorm for the fourth week in a row. I KNOW. I MAKE MY OWN MONEY. I PAY FOR EVERYTHING THERE

i love most of my coworkers, living and dead. i can’t say that i really don’t get along with any of them

i don’t get along with epel though, at least for a good long while :/

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merry shiftmas!

⌗ 𝟗. snowflakes ; What are some headcannons you have about people in your dr?

it’s strange to say headcanons about people that i’m going to meet, but as far as my twst friends…

deuce and ace started dating after leona’s overblot and are trying to keep it secret! unfortunately for them, they aren’t discreet at all

epel is one of the only people in this world who understands english without a translator spell (since it was the language his grandparents spoke) so we talk smack in english all the time

jack’s hair bristles when he gets mad. sometimes he looks like a puffball

vil is transfem! she’s the one who oversees most of my beauty treatments and she takes care of me well! (she’s also a lot more chill than she is in canon? like she’s still crazy ambitious but she takes time to slow down and smell the roses sometimes)

idia is a hellenic polytheist! probably one of the only religious folks at nrc, but you can often hear him mumbling prayers to cthonic deities

pretty much everyone is autistic. deuce, riddle, jack, azul, jade, floyd, rook, idia, sebek and malleus show it the hardest but everybody’s neurodivergent somehow

the ghosts in ramshackle dorm are only three of many! they’ve lost most of their identity over the years, causing that pillsbury dough boy appearance, but most of the ghosts in the dorm remember who they are, so they keep their living shape… with some minor adjustments

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merry shiftmas!

⌗ 𝟖. mistletoe ; Who is your s/o? What is your dynamic and how do you spend time together? Are you two doing something special for the holiday?

these are some seriously loaded questions… i have two people in my twisted wonderland dr who have caught my eye, but since i haven’t really gotten too deep into nrc yet, nothing is set in stone

if i were to date jack howl, it would be a really cute domestic relationship from the start. early morning runs, study dates, meal prep and the like would probably be our dates. no real christmas, but i made him a ceramic plant pot with a wolf on it!

for my birthday (12/31), he rushed back to school so that he could give me a gift. he found out from riddle’s magicam post (who was given the idea by cater), so he was a little angry, but the aloe plant he gave me still sits in my room :)

if i were to date jamil viper, we’d be a pretty lowkey pair. we’d probably spend a lot of time at my dorm making food (just for us and just for fun), dancing and talking major smack. since christmas doesn’t really exist in twisted wonderland, there isn’t much of a plan as far as that goes, but i’d probably give him something homemade just because

for my birthday, he was the first one who pieced it together without help— because i’m really secretive about my birthday in twst— but he didn’t have enough time to really make/buy me something. plus, with the overblot a few days before, he felt the need to pay me back. so he ended up making a little picnic and we went on a carpet ride :) he did get me a beautiful necklace after winter break ended

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merry shiftmas!

⌗ 𝟕. candy canes ; What gives you dr euphoria? (like gender euphoria but for your dr…)

ah man everything! hearing about my drs, talking about them (with my ONE bestie who talks about manifesting/shifting with me), and SCRIPTING OMG SCRIPTING

i love to script it makes me so happy lol

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nah can't help but fantasize...

bro my twisted wonderland dr is perfect in every way but also jamil exists and i have to make him the most beautiful and shimmering creature in existence

so here's what i scripted for our meeting :D

i fell out of the gate a week early (time to get my bearings and figure out my housing situation yk?) but the evening before the entrance ceremony i went to the kitchen and i met him

the upperclassmen come to the dorms a day before the first years do in order to make sure everything's ready at the dorm, and jamil was cooking

he had no clue who i was and he was way too suspicious, but the ghosts vouched for me so i could get some food. we accidentally brushed hands (so romantic!) and we accidentally totally entwined our magics for a moment (spooky but also kinda romantic? i guess?). we kinda just stared at each other like "wtf was that why do i feel like i've known you all my life"

and then we don't talk again until late september before the magift tournament but still

AAA I LOVE HIM LEMME HOLD HIM ID TREAT HIM SO NICE

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merry shiftmas!

⌗ 𝟔. stockings ; What is your family like? What are your relationships with different members? Any extended family? Who is visiting for Christmas?

in pretty much all of my drs i don't have family. i'm an amnesiac who just pops up in most of them, but i have had some ideas for my twisted wonderland family, if i do eventually decide to script them in...

in my twisted wonderland dr, which is frankly more complicated than it should be, i have two moms and a dad who are in a poly relationship. my moms are my bio parents, dad's just kinda there lol

the mom who gave birth to me has a family magic that takes the kid away to learn from other realities (mostly bc i wanted a shifter parent lol), then returns them a few years later. it's happened through the generations, so my momma wasn't worried, but when i vanished it caused a big enough rift that all three of my parents separated

eventually my dad moved to sage's island and we met totally by chance! i had no clue who this forty-something guy was at first but he ended up being really cool

we're in the process of trying to get in contact with my moms right now but it's a lot of confusion hehe

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The "imaginative little kid" to "little girl who's in her own little world" to "shy girl with no friends" to "oc lore writer" to "weird kid" to "social recluse" to "reality shifter" pipeline is real

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merry shiftmas!

⌗ 𝟓. snowman ; What is your OOTD? (outfit of the day)

this is my airport outfit at the station! abir (the tiger) is usually in her tattoo form while we travel, but she’s still around :)

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merry shiftmas!

⌗ 𝟒. sledding ; What does a hang out with you friend group look like? Where do you go? Who is your friend group?

hoo boy i’m all about friends when i’m in twisted wonderland. i’m around people pretty much all the time, so of course i have a lot of friends, but here’s a breakdown of some of my relationships with them…

the first years come to the dorm on thursdays (at least ones that there's no basketball game) and do their studying. i'm not really a student but i absorb as much info as i can from the classes i help with to try and help them out

every monday i go to pomefiore to get my beauty treatments done. haircuts, face masks, chemical peels and massages are common. if there's any product anybody in the dorm doesn't want, it generally comes to me

i manage the magift and basketball teams since i can't join a club. both of them are super territorial, so i have to divide my time wisely so there's no throwdowns

crewel and the staff are technically my coworkers, but crewel and i have a mentor/student relationship. he was the one who found me in the beginning and he's helped me ever since

the second years aren't as close as the first years, but you'll generally have them visit every now and again. floyd and silver are pretty common to see in the house

i go to all of the housewarden meetings, so we have a decent relationship between all of us. still mostly professional/coworker like relationship, but once they overblot they're generally a lot more chill with my existence

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so were we all underestimating the power of gamifying manifesting? or was it just me?

genuinely so much comes to me when i see if i can get so many affirmation reps in before i finish my lecture or something stupid like that

this is supposed to be fun?? i’m having???? fun????????

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merry shiftmas! 🌟

⌗ 𝟑. eggnog ; What is some drama going on in your dr?

currently at the station, all of the assistants are getting ready for my arrival (as i’m still on the plane) so here’s some of their interpersonal drama before my arrival…

⭐️ hugo and emry (dog and cat assistants respectively) are deep in a prank war. they exploded the soda fountain at the café and lolly is PISSED

⭐️ hugo and hazel don’t get along at all because he said her coffee tasted like dirt one time. he still can’t enter the coffee shop

⭐️ hazel spilled sable’s coffee onto sable’s outfit, so mable has to go get coffee for both of the able sisters…

⭐️ lily fell into the aquarium again. fortunately, she’s a frog, so she was all good. teddy was NOT as all good bc he freaked out and jumped in to save her

⭐️ emry is trying to take care of both abir (my tiger) and momo (my dog that went missing in the cr) as well as run the train station. fang is… not as helpful as he thinks he is.

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merry shiftmas!

⌗ 𝟐. gingerbread houses ; What does your house look like in your dr? Who do you live with? What is your favorite aspect of your house?

in my station (something akin to my waiting room) my house is honestly incredibly confusing? i dont have it mapped out, but exploring will be the fun part! here’s some bits that i have scripted that i really like…

⭐️ my bedroom is two stories; upstairs is my bedroom and plant room with floor to ceiling windows across most of it. the downstairs is the dressing room where i can change my appearance :)

⭐️ i have animal crossing characters as my assistants through the house, but the house mostly cleans itself and they have homes in the town, so i guess i technically live alone?

⭐️ there’s a catio for the stray cats! most of them are fixed but sometimes one slips through the cracks and we get a litter of kitties…

⭐️ my favorite part of the house… aaa i can’t choose! i have an aquarium, an underground swimming pool, a planetarium, a home gym, an art studio… four notes and i’ll talk about the station /j

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merry shiftmas! 🌟

⌗ 𝟏. christmas caroling ; What are a few songs that remind you of your dr? Why?

i don’t have a playlist for my twisted wonderland dr, because pretty much everything links back to that one, but here’s some that specifically jump to mind…

⭐️ binary data iv by alfonso peduto - an instrumental song that reminds me of idia!

⭐️ general release by mike klubnika - is this buckshot roulette song or is this leona having a strategy moment?

⭐️ strangeness and charm by florence and the machine - pretty much my theme!

⭐️ anthems for a seventeen year old girl by yeule - this plays in all of those bittersweet moments where you know it’s a happy moment but all you can think about is how much you’ll miss it when it’s over

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Trying to hype yourself up while shifting be like:

I know I keep making these but they’re just so fun :(

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literally assuming i’m in my dr right now bc if i do not get my grimy little hands on my boys im blowing up a building

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𝟐𝟓 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐅𝐓𝐌𝐀𝐒. ❆ ⋆⁺₊❅ .

a series of questions for the days leading up to christmas for shifters!! Some of these questions are Christmas specific and others aren’t, feel free to answer what you want and how you want, ex. moodboards, short answers, longs answers. And if you’d like, you can reblog so it reaches more shifters. Merry Christmas and Happy Shifting :) post tags are #shiftmas #shiftmas2024 tagged: @arishifter

⌗ 𝟏. christmas caroling ; What are a few songs that remind you of your dr? Why?

⌗ 𝟐. gingerbread houses ; What does your house look like in your dr? Who do you live with? What is your favorite aspect of your house?

⌗ 𝟑. eggnog ; What is some drama going on in your dr?

⌗ 𝟒. sledding ; What does a hang out with you friend group look like? Where do you go? Who is your friend group?

⌗ 𝟓. snowman ; What is your OOTD? (outfit of the day)

⌗ 𝟔. stockings ; What is your family like? What are your relationships with different members? Any extended family? Who is visiting for Christmas?

⌗ 𝟕. candy canes ; What gives you dr euphoria? (like gender euphoria but for your dr…)

⌗ 𝟖. mistletoe ; Who is your s/o? What is your dynamic and how do you spend time together? Are you two doing something special for the holiday?

⌗ 𝟗. snowflakes ; What are some headcannons you have about people in your dr?

⌗ 𝟏𝟎. icicles ; What is your occupation in your dr? Your coworkers? (Or if student, your classmates?) What is your favorite and least favorite aspect of your occupation?

⌗ 𝟏𝟏. tree skirt ; How did you find out about shifting? What was your first dr and what is your main dr now?

⌗ 𝟏𝟐. ornaments ; What are some objects you have in your dr that you don’t in your cr? Why do you have them in your dr?

⌗ 𝟏𝟑. sleigh bells ; Are there any priveleges you have in your dr that you don’t in your cr? What are they?

⌗ 𝟏𝟒. cookie cutters ; What are some smells that remind you of your dr? Why?

⌗ 𝟏𝟓. elf on the shelf ; who is your main wingman/women/person? What is your dynamic? What do you guys do when you hang out?

⌗ 𝟏𝟔. wrapping paper ; What is your favorite way to script? Why is it your favorite way?

⌗ 𝟏𝟕. gift tags ; What is your camera roll like in your dr? (photos or just describe it)

⌗ 𝟏𝟖. snowballs ; What is a silly scenario you are looking forward to in your dr?

⌗ 𝟏𝟗. mittens ; What are your hobbies in your dr? How do you usually spend your down time?

⌗ 𝟐𝟎. ice skates ; What is your ideal date in your dr? (friends or s/o)

⌗ 𝟐𝟏. coal ; What is something unpleasant you have/have to experience in your dr? Why are you not looking forward to it?

⌗ 𝟐𝟐. tinsel ; What is something fun or random you have scripted? (ex. Thundersnow is more common, you have a ring that allows you to read minds, you have good luck with thrifting, you’re good at gambling.)

⌗ 𝟐𝟑. fir tree ; What are some traditions you have in your dr but not your cr? Why?

⌗ 𝟐𝟒. hot cocoa ; put together a moodboard of your dr or you in your dr

⌗ 𝟐𝟓. christmas ; How are you spending your christmas? Who with? What might be some gifts you are giving and to who?

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