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[everytimewetouch-dot-mp3]

my cat deserves a raise for holding the literal entire weight of my life on his teeny little head

[vandalizedheart]

a lil late night reminder: no matter how you choose to run your blog, or how you may write your muse, you have a place here. as long as you're having fun and finding joy through having a roleplay blog, that's all that matters in the end. <3

[the-composer]

to get an idea of the activity here, can you like or reply to this post if your muse wishes to interact? new followers and long-time mutuals, everyone welcome !!

[gynandromorph]

It's wild how often people talk about your comics on little corners of the internet. I am saying this bc I was trying to find the old NofNA forums where Zachary explained scent codes (to no avail) and I found instead some middle-of-nowhere forum where they were talking about NofNA being their favorite comic, recent enough to have an opinion on emancipation

[metanarrates]

Post structuralist anon here TYSM that was a very interesting perspective, I also don't know much abt post structuralism tbh, its a new thing I discovered while rereading Orv and looking at meta posts lol. Anyways you mentioned LHS in the post too 👀 can you elaborate cuz ngl it's kinda hard to think of any meta abt him. You don't have to answer this rn!

sure!

i was talking about how orv adults frequently have very gendered arcs, and lhs is a standout example imo. yjh and ysa have the more overtly Gendered Fictional Role stuff (male action hero and female heroine respectively) but lhs has a comparatively more grounded arc that deals with real life highly gendered stuff. his entire thing is that he's a soldier. and not just that he's a soldier, but that he was drafted and could not figure out a better place to exist outside the military. despite the military being a source of trauma for him, despite it crushing any individuality he could have, he still felt like he could not act as an agent of his own destiny without someone giving him orders. when you consider that in south korea the military draft is mandatory for men, that's a really highly gendered background!

[dalishborne]

not me realizing that light-plotting actually helps w/ writing motivation and muse connection

[lemoncholy-stars]

i shouldn’t be allowed to have internet access past 10 pm bc my adhd suddenly leads me to believe that i can do anything and everything

[tadpal]

reblogged the foundational girl+dog posts so that everyone can understand what's going on

[lctibule]

tried to do some writing but i got all of like three sentences out before i got frustrated and gave up, so 🤷

[mindsmade]

here's my two lazy ass edits again to introduce you to my big idiot druid, aerendyl. carrd can be found here – it's a bit of a wip and i still need to add the choices made so far, but it'll do for now ......

[voidedgear]

what strangely specific scent do you give off?

coffee while sweets are being made.

you're the sort of person who shows up exactly when you need to, no sooner no later. you don't stay for long, moving from place to place, but when you are there, when you actually stick around long enough to truly meet a person, it's something that changes you for the rest of your life. you're the soft touch on someone's shoulder when they're crying, you're the rest of the drink that hasn't gotten cold, you're the savory taste on the back of their throat when they've forgotten what something good actually feels like. all while you sit there and remain, in silence, while they talk about their day. and you wait. (and you wait.)

tagged by: @13nth AYEEEE tagging: @vibraea, @empxrical, @corderis, @madeimpact (Sora!), @furiaae, @perditos (Xion~)

[shxfting]

@babyitsmagic gets an emilia

“yeah, mhm, that seems like a great idea. terrific. zero flaws.”

[impossible-rat-babies]

depending on how beastmaster is handled there is a strong case for it to part of eyrie’s lore, but also please get it far away from them

[quillheel]

patch . help my muse patch up a wound . - Shinji or Ken!

Shinjiro had always been able to handle pain. To him, it was second nature. Growing up with Akihiko being the rough-and-tumble type he is even before learning how to box, in the Orphanage they both were raised in, meant there was a level of necessity to be able to roll with the punches, rewarded when you could, punished when you couldn't. a skill he'd learn repeatedly, endlessly, the necessity of during his time away from SEES. ━ the second you were on your ass, or you froze up, or your arms were tied, it made you easy. easy to hurt. easy to kill. ━━ Shinjiro never liked making things easy for anyone.

SEES had always been an exception, though : or rather he should say it'd always been to those he considers friends, which might be why for all the way he twitches; arm in Takeba's grasp as the muscles seize & he can't help the way the overzealous pang of nerves make him want to rip it away outright; he does not pull away even as he draws a sharp breath through his teeth, ignores the way the smell of antiseptic makes him feel more than slightly lightheaded, clenches his hands into fists before; in a moment of surprisingly animalistic single-minded worry; thinks that shit, he'd rather not look like he's about to hit her when she's helping him out, and lets his rough hands go limp again.

Still, his fingers twitch as the burns are cleaned, nerves overworked and bitterly loud in this fact. He'll have to jab at Akihiko later to aim his Zionga's better next time they're in Tartarus together, just for the fun of starting a fight, even if he knew damn well it wasn't Aki that kept lighting him up like a Christmas tree this time...

" Damnit... " the curse writhes between his teeth, bruised jaw grinding. his eyes linger, intense, at Yukari's hands as they work & he sits on the first floor of Tartarus; bones aching; staring as though in judgement ( even as he attempts to make himself as pliable to work with as possible. ) " Those annoying Maya did nothing but cast Zionga the whole damn time... "

a piece of Shinjiro recognizes that Yukari might be helping him in the first place because of this fact, but as it is not the one cussing wildly ( and he can't pretend he knows her all that well to begin with ), he elects to ignore it.

a well-worn sigh escapes him, gazing at the burns littering his hands & arms as the roughest parts that had to sustain the damage; melee be scorned, his axe like a lightning rod. it deepens into a light scowl, stare flicking to Yukari's face. it stays there a long few moments, before he speaks again.

" ... I'm lucky it's not bad enough to get Mitsuru in a twist about it, but you don't gotta do this, you know. " Shinjiro studies her, meticulous, which always ends up feeling like he's trying to scare you out of something when it was him doing it. maybe he was. " It's some burns. It'll heal fast. Besides, you were carrying my ass most of the way anyways. "

[soulsxng]

@arcxnumvitae replies to your posts:

Mhoirbheinn double opts out. Zhaohui joins him in fact. …You already know the drill.

Luckily for Zhaohui, they're both too distracted with Mhoirbheinn to torment him today. Well, aside from a brief, likely shudder-worthy little smirk from Enoch. Just so the dragon knows he was noticed.

"Opts out? That's no fun, Mhoirbheinn. You don't want to play at all? What about just eating together, if nothing else? That's easy enough, especially if you haven't taken a break to eat yet, today."

"Don't pester him too much, Baet. If he wants to spend some time around us, I'm sure he'll have no problem making the choice on his own. After all, he's here now, isn't he?"

[fissions-chips]

…necromancer Valentine and zombie Jon…