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"You're losing blood" no I know exactly where it is. The floor. Don't ever underestimate me.

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Old TV, being reclaimed by nature

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going to someones blog and they have their pronouns listed as "dey/dem" and youre like "oh ok neopronouns i havent heard of before" but then you start scrolling through deir blog and dey exclusively post in an exaggerated mafia goon voice and now you're genuinely unsure if dey use they/them but spelled it funny as part of the bit or if dey use neopronouns which are an extension of the bit

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since i've released the profiles for the secondary characters, it feels right i also drop the more condensed profiles i made for sprout and magni

i intended to add them to my character profile page but i'm feuding with the tumblr custom theme controls and making a nice looking page, if i keep suffering i might just have to make a post and link to it instead

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Meet Emery Gori!

For those who follow my Fictober entries, you may not be surprised that Emery comes into his own as a secondary character. Of course, that's after he stops getting trauma heaped onto him (whoops). He is also the last of my first OCs for Power Payback, which may explain the heaps of heavy backstory.

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i actually love going back into old drafts because i find exchanges that really just show how character dynamics have shifted over time like

the idea of red calling magni dude in like the draft i'm writing now would be so wild. they're too annoying to do that now

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Meet Vanya "Red" Wolanski!

Our favorite slightly sketchy cryokinetic and the newest addition to this line-up, the role Red plays is not as straightforward as it seems. One thing is certain... they will have their time in the spotlight during this series...

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i had to go back to a proto-draft when power payback was planned to be one novel and man i forgot emery was catching strays from magni in early drafts too...

og power payback draft

first draft of silver spade

menace to society

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Meet Haley Coello-Sterling!

As one of the OG characters I made that predates Power Payback, it's only right she should be the first of the secondary characters to get a proper profile (and this time, she doesn't even have to share with Red). A fun fact is that she has changed the most from her abilities to her aspirations in different iterations, but the one thing that has never changed is her name.

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snippet sunday

i promised i would do WIP wednesdays, but i decided snippet sunday is probably a little more fun! here's ur first lil glimpse of what i'm currently calling draft 2.5 lol

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As Sprout dictated her number to Haley, she could hear Magni talking on the phone with Vanya. "Yes, sorry, I didn't mean to wake you. I'm Magni Quinn, with Quinn and Marotto Investigative Services." There was a beat of silence before he responded. "Yes. I'm a private investigator looking into- Hello? Mx. Wolanski?"

Magni set the phone back onto its cradle firmly. "They hung up on me."

"Not everyone likes a private investigator sniffing around," Sprout reminded him. "Give me the phone, let me try."

He slid the landline closer to her. Redialing their number, Sprout leaned against his desk.

"Hi. Vanya Wolanski? I'm looking into the Misty Valiente case and I was just wondering-"

"I can see this is the same number, you know," the voice on the other end drawled. "Stop calling me."

They hung up. Again. As she put the phone back, Magni raised an eyebrow.

"Don't say 'I told you so,'" Sprout said.

"It's 2023, about 95% of everyone with a phone number has caller ID," Haley pointed out.

"You should have called from your own phone," Magni added.

"Thank you, peanut gallery," Sprout said.

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My morning glory doesn’t like the wind chime

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fun fact, for my character profiles i originally had an idea to have snippets of artifacts i felt related to sprout n magni in a sort of collage format. however it wasn’t until after i made things that i decided to scrap it n change my format to condense things

i’m not so proud of the burnout pamphlet i made for sprout’s (tho i may go back n release that on its own) but i am proud of the one i made for magni after having to spend so much time reading papers for work

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so a lil peek into the next chapter of 'stolen from the spade' is that it features sprout's first fight n so obviously that means red gets to give their lil introduction to the night. and the way it was so hard not to quote my favorite gender-inclusive way to address a crowd,

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Ok but did u do the sims portraits 👀

i did do a little sims photoshoot all the way back at the beginning of 2024 but i haven't been able to go into the game since the summer for life reasons (my chromebook doesn't run it lmao) so here's some with those older pictures!

i also got in over my head n made a lil collage which i also think is cute. so yeah have this too

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power payback characters n their attitudes abt weed

sprout: took ‘say no to drugs’ too seriously n has never nor will ever ate a weed

magni: smoked weed once thinking it would make him more chill… it did not

haley: won’t go out of her way to smoke but if offered a hit is 100% down

emery: says he takes edibles for pain management, which is 25% true

red: not easygoing enough for weed they prob do coke or smth

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back on my chapter summary writing journey and some exchanges are just too good to be translated into easy summary

like $13 dollar oatmilk mochas and pulp romances is just simply a hilarious image of what sprout imagines magni does when she's not there but the guy who overhears this whole exchange n sprout going it's #justsisterthings like primrose did not just storm off from this exchange... this is so not plot relevant but it's important to me

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actually it Does suck to be summarizing a very serious scene and then phrase smth in a comedic way like no that's supposed to be serious stop that