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evwuniverse · 1 month ago

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Creating a New Human Avatar - Best Time Christmas & The Holidays to Recreate Your Avatar

For those who don't know I recently got my old account back from when Second Life was separated into a Teen sector called the Teen Grid. There was a time when there was a teen section of Second Life and an adults-only section. When most of the Teen grid accounts were frozen due to not being of age for our accounts to be migrated to the adults-only side of Second Life I created a new account to continue playing. Recently I got an email about my older avatar and somehow obtained it back after paying $10 guess, there was a payment on it that I owed, but for $10 why not. Now the reason I was providing you with this back story. I needed to create a new human avatar. I started with a furry because it was easy to put together and didn't take too much money out of pocket to create. Plus it was cute and made my avatar look like I was there forever so it worked. But I always wanted to create a human avatar for this alternate account. What better time than the holidays to do this. Why? because everything is either on sale or there are shop events where things are given for free. The best time of the year to create a full avatar is during the holiday season for this reason. Read more below to find out how I made my avatar and my suggestions for creating a gorgeous avatar on a budget this holiday season.

As mentioned above, the best time of year to create an avatar is now due to sales, deals, and freebies from well-known and popular shops through creators who made items specifically for events for free.

The main event I suggest participating in is called "The 12 Days of Christmas" It is an event where stores collaborate together to provide free items just by joining their groups. I know for free members you only get a specific amount of group slots, so it's okay to join the groups and then delete once you get the items, I know a lot of people who have done that recently. What you do is you get the list of stores by going here - then once you have the list of stores, you click every landmark (I suggest going in order because there are a lot) and then find the group joiners in every location, join the group, and click the gift. A lot of shops have little icons leading to the gift but most of the gifts will be at the front of the store and are easily accessible and easy to find. There were only a few stores where I had a little bit of trouble. Sadly I don't remember them to place here but just know they are all on the first floor, check the bottom floor in the front of each store, if it isn't there then go searching. Most likely you will find a lot of people in the area where the gift is so just go where the group of people are as well and that's a tall tale sign that it is there. Tips of the trade from someone who just went through visiting all the landmarks.

Lelutka is currently giving away two free heads this holiday season. One for males and one for females, and let me say, this time around the free head is amazing! I could actually do something with it. In the past the head that was provided for free was called the Raven, I struggled to create an avatar with it. No matter what I did there was just something off about it. This time around there is a head called "The Camila Head" (females) and "The Camden Head" (males) The cool part this time around is Lelutka must have partnered with the store "~Cherry~" to have her make shapes around both heads there are two shapes available one for males and one for females at the "~Cherry~" store for these heads and I highly recommend picking them up. Currently, my new avatar is created with ALL the free items and skins from the event. You can create an entire avatar for almost nothing. The reason I say almost nothing is because if you don't have a mesh body yet you would need to invest in one so everything works seamlessly together. I have some tutorials in my past posts in my archives that you can look back at to learn more about mesh bodies and baked-on-mesh (BOM). Please look at the photo above if you want to see the shape, MILA Porcealon skin & lipstick, and the ~Cherry~ Shape for Camila. None of it has been edited I liked how it looked without further shape editing believe it or not. It's so easy to put an avatar together right now and get a lot of high-quality items for free or less than $10 Lindens at this time.

Lelutka 12 Days of Christmas:

For the Lelutka Heads you can see below for reference - apologies ahead of time, I couldn't get people out of the way, as you know all my photos are Raw and un-edited for a reason, I want people to see Second Life the way it is supposed to be seen, without edits in the photos. I find that important and it's what sets my blog apart from others. Anyway, I will also provide the link for this location here as well. This is a sandbox specific for the free heads for the Christmas holiday event.

Lelutka 12 Days of Christmas Sim for the Free Heads - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LeLUTKA%20Xtra2/122/135/23

What about the hair and clothes you ask? Well on the marketplace it is super easy to find clothes that are promo, free, or 1 Linden for the Maitreya shape more often than the others but there are a lot of free clothes and low-cost clothes on the Second Life Marketplace for the Ebody - Reborn shape which I did look into. However, where I feel you can get the most bang for your buck for clothes is by spending $250 Linden and being part of the Scandalize Group, which has well-made color HUD clothes that will always look different due to the color HUD so if you're just starting out in Second Life, you don't need to have an extensive inventory yet. Just enough outfits that look good and up to par with today's community standards. I did this and there were 115 outfits as "gifts" through the group I could obtain, now I have 115 outfits and 4 pairs of shoes just by joining that group. I'm telling you it's worth it for newer players and I 100% recommend it if you're just starting out. For hair, my recommendation is to join the TRUTH Group. They are a popular Second Life hair creator here in Second Life the group costs $350 Lindens to join, but is worth joining. There are about 25 "group hair gifts" that you can get right off the bat. Then as you continue to stay a member of the group there are more group gift hairs every month. Each group gift hair comes with a style HUD and ALL the color HUDS it is definitely worth the cost of the Lindens if you are new to Second Life. It's important to note I'm also not being promoted to provide you with this, this is strictly my opinion and recommendation from my experience recreating a new human avatar.

Scandalize Store - $250 Lindens to Join The Group - "Group Gifts"

Above are photos of the Scandalize store for reference you can visit the store by going to this link

Scandalize Store -http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Scandalize/115/198/19

as you can see if you join the group by clicking on the "Group Gifts Teleporter" it will bring you to a skybox with all the "Group Gifts" from the very beginning. This is also the "Area 99 - Promo" Section where everything is 99 Lindens which is a steal nowadays for well-made textured and mesh clothes for all body types.

~Cherry~ Shapes:

Better late than never but I just learned after 13 years in Second Life, I can de-render avatars in the area so they don't show, and was able to get a photo of the shapes at the Cherry Store for reference. Above are the shapes you can get, they were made to go specifically with the Lelutka holiday heads there is a shape for the Camila head and a shape for the Camden head.

~Cherry~ Shape Store Link - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hyades/234/114/2006

You Will Need To Buy Your Own Body:

None are free during the holidays - they used to in the past.

You can't go wrong at this time of year, the only thing you would need if you don't have it yet is a body and there are a ton of different ones you can go with. It's all based on opinion and what you're looking for. If you want more of a curvy body and shape Ebody - Reborn is the way to go. If you want form-fitted and somewhat skinny the go-to and the body with the most appliers and outfits is the Maitreya body because it has been around for so long. With the Maitreya body, there are two to choose from the Maitreya Petite or the Maitreya LaraX. I have both but personally, I prefer the Maitreya LaraX. However, there are the Belleza bodies and you get three for the price of one which gives you more bang for your buck and comes with a skinny shape, curvier shape, and an average body shape. The only downfall is fewer clothes and appliers for that body compared to the Maitreya bodies. Again this is all based on preference and these bodies will run you about $2,750 Lindens (in-game currency) to obtain this is around the equivalent of $15-$20 USD. A lot better than $50+ for a well-made avatar up to the standards of everyone else in Second Life.

12 Days of Christmas Landmarks - Where can you get them?

You can get the landmarks by clicking the sign next to any of the shops you go to. For example, the one for ~Cherry~ Shapes has one of those signs next to the shapes click it and it will provide you with a folder with all the landmarks for the events.

Conclusion:

So there you have it! If you are new or trying to create a new avatar on a budget now is the time to do it. The holiday season always comes with its perks and "The 12 Days of Christmas" shopping event has pleasantly surprised me this year I'm glad I was able to partake In it and I hope you will too. I hope this post was helpful in your search for creating your best virtual self.

Until Next Time, Signing Off.

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abbyanne-sari-sari · 1 year ago

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Sari-Sari - 3-Tier Corner Shelf & Sweets Original mesh and textures, 1-3 li each (6 li when linked), copy/mod Assortment of sweet treats for the October round of The Warehouse Sale. 🍪🍁🍫 20% OFF for event duration! 🍂 EVENT TIMELINE: October 23 - November 18

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 1 year ago

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Truth and revenge is best served cold.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #xue yang #song lan #This comic was another 'almost cut' one but I previously cut out xue yang bartering (threatening) for potatoes so I felt it was justified #episode 2 is so sad and miserable. I am going to do my best by making it a little funny.#Xue yang really committed fully to this new life of his! Don't threated him by trying to ruin it!#I love how he takes the blame here too. Yes he purposefully set up events to cause a divide between them #Yes he attacked SL because it would hurt XXC the most #but hey: that only hurt because he loved SL so much (in whatever form they have)#and SL hurt XXC in turn by sending him away #Xue Yang set it up but Song Lan dealt a blow on his own #XY is still the *most* at fault here but contrasting this with how strongly he justifies his actions to XXC later is very interesting to me #also he did NOT have to villain monologue about all the stuff he made xxc do. He could have just shut up about it #but nah he needs to cause hurt because HE'S so hurt and can't make other people understand him in any other way.

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angeart · 1 month ago

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Howwwww did you angst the world tour?? 🎀

this question made me giggle so much oh i'm glad you asked :3c there was so much yummy grian angst in the hc world tour!

it's all about grian and his penchant for destruction. he doesn't even mean to! he's not trying to be pesky; quite the opposite. he's curious but restrained, trying to be good, trying to follow instructions. he's not malicious at all! he's just there to see what people were up to, open and friendly and curious, eager to look and learn and praise. not a bad intention in sight... and yet things seem to break wherever he goes. everything he touches goes wrong.

the guilt churns, acidic and overwhelming, and grian's miserable. why is he like this? he's trying so hard, why is this the only way he can ever be? why can't it stop?

spoilers for grian's world tour video below <3

plantie pointed out to me how, during the tour of scar's train, when grian got rid of scar's arrows—the glitched ones that doc put there—he was so desperate to point it out after scar just glossed over it. as if he wanted to show that he can do something good. he can be helpful, he can fix things instead of just breaking everything.

but then we have all the other things, right? grian can't escape it.

when he was with etho and the mushroom farm exploded, he sums it up in a wretched if confused apology: "i'm so sorry. the two times i tried to use it, i broke it :( and created a water source floating— which i don't know how it happened— and flung the TNT, which i really don't understand—"

they move on, but it's so clear it lingers.

etho isn't blaming him. he's amused and brushes it off and moves along, unbothered, but grian himself can't wrap his head around it. about that propensity to breaking things, even unintentionally. the way nothing is safe around him.

he tells etho: "i can't stop thinking about your mushroom farm. why does everything i touch break, in new and unexpected ways?"

(not to mention when etho's showing him frogger and grian plays, almost instantly etho goes: "uh-oh, the game's broken", with a little huff of laugh. it wasn't exactly tied to anything grian did, but still something i wanted to point out, since grian was there for it <3)

and then grian goes to zedaph, right?

the very first game zedaph shows him. the very first. grian plays the way he was told to, the way he was meant to, and— he breaks it.

zedaph just laughs and moves them on.

(just sprinkling in a side note that zedaph's furnace minigame also didn't seem to work the way it should've—)

by the time grian gets to pearl's, it's starting to be a pattern that's so clearly eating away at him, making him anxious. he doesn't want it to happen again!

and yet.

pearl invites him to play her wordle game, and grian mindlessly goes and pushes the wrong button trying to start it... instantly stepping away with a quiet groan of a dread-filled "...oh-" followed by: "i just— ruined it already."

there's something about the mood switch. the way he seems more restrained and tame, silently upset with himself, trying so hard not to mess things up further. questioning why this is happening again. why he can't stop making it happen.

he walks over to the reset game button and asks, carefully: "can i press reset? is it gonna hurt? 🥺👉👈"

pearl reassures him he can, with a sigh noting that it'll just take a while.

there's an almost hysteric laugh from grian, followed by an exasperated, upset scream. "everything i touch breaks! when i went to e— i broke etho's thing when i went to— not frogger, his— his mushroom farm i— it blew up."

"you blew up his mushroom farm?? how? what did you do?!"

"yeah, i— i broke zed's game, instantly, pretty much, it's—"

"oh my gosh :("

"sorry 🥺"

pearl is quick to reassure him, though. "well, luckily for you, this is— you doing that (pushing the wrong button) does not break the game. it's just, you now have to wait for it to reset."

she makes sure grian knows that he didn't mess up anything terribly here. he didn't break pearl's game. it's okay! it's fine!

and then grian right clicks to open the book, and instead makes bonemeal pop out of a composter.

i think at this point pearl is a little bit taken aback by how wrong everything really seems to be going around grian. she makes sure to say, "it's fine," again, just so grian won't start worrying about it all again. "you're clicking on everything that people do not usually click on today. but it's okay. it's still not broken! it's not broken, it's alright, it's okay— i've got failsaves for people like you."

it's so sweet how she really tries to soothe him— and yet she can't help but let out that last remark.

people like you.

those few words surely lodge in more than all the reassurances. they're like splinter, proving grian right.

eventually, he gets to skizz.

during the tour of skizz's base, skizz shows him a horse statue and starts talking about how he lost his first horse at an event that grian was also a part of. and grian's stomach instantly sinks.

he asks hushedly, a bit confused, trying to remember: "was i there?"

skizz laughs. "you were absolutely there, dude."

which leads grian to ask, uneasily: "did i do it?"

skizz waves his hands, quick to easily reassure that no! that's not it, grian didn't do it!

grian lets out an oh with such palpable relief, and goes on to explain about how, "i remember witnessing it, but sometimes it's hard to disentangle whether i did it or not. coz i tell you what, on this tour i've broken everyone's stuff."

nobody was upset with grian when things broke, but here he is, several hermits down, still unable to leave it to rest. because it's him. it's him who did all of that, somehow, and he didn't mean to, but it doesn't matter. it happened anyway.

and now he can't even tell what is and what isn't his fault anymore.

the guilt is deep rooted, leaving anxious assumptions and dark, jagged precipices. how much did he destroy? what else should he be feeling guilty about? how far does this go?

he keeps breaking things, and it's such a blur that he can no longer tell what is and what isn't his fault.

the tour continues, and he delves into skizz's pyramid. and it's just— it's just a tunnel to swim through. nothing to mess up, besides potentially dying to suffocation, right?

and yet you can hear skizz shrilly exclaim: "oh he's going to end up breaking something!!"

and, (plantie's words: ) grian hearing that and just wondering, is that all i'm good for? is that all i'm known for? is that all i am?

there's no room for doubt; not really. that is what grian does, all the time, whether he wants to or not. he breaks stuff. he just— he doesn't mean to. and this tour is one big show of how powerless he is against it. (how everyone expects it from him anyway.)

despite it all, grian perseveres, trying out skizz's game, stubbornly dedicated and trying to win. (to pass; to have something to be proud of, at least—) and he gets to the powdered snow section.

there, he jumps across to a pathway that he was meant to circle to through the snow instead.

it's not breaking anything, not really. not even the rules. it's not cheating! he's just— he just did something skizz did not expect, but that was entirely possible within the game's design, even if not intended. he exploited it to his advantage; a risky, tricky shortcut.

and yet skizz remarks with a laugh: "this is what grian does! he breaks games!"

no matter what grian does... is that all he'll ever be?

is that all they'll see?

he fails getting through skizz's game, is thanked for play-testing, praises it all, they talk it all away, and...

and then grian goes to tour mumbo's base.

and fails to even die properly to his llama—

and then mumbo shows him his archive machine, and instantly panicks when grian gets curious about it, begging him not to touch anything. and grian says: "your stomach just fell through didn't it?" and after mumbo's immediate agreement, he adds: "and rightfully so. coz, almost everything i've touched on this tour has broken."

there's not a sliver of surprise to mumbo's anxious rushed: "yeah, yeah yeah! please stop now." because, of course things have broken. of course what grian touches is bound to go wrong. of course—

and then mumbo very carefully tells grian what to do with the machine.

grian does as he's told.

mumbo looks up and pauses, a frown crossing his face as he takes it in. he notes that grian probably did it too fast—

(something went wrong)

(something broke)

mumbo says: "i can't believe you come along and every single thing in my base starts [going wrong/breaking/malfunctioning]"

and then grian mysteriously ends up with an extra book from mumbo's machine, much to mumbo's dismay. grian's confused, cogs spinning as he tries to figure out what did he mess up this time to result in this.

it's clear mumbo wants grian away from his machine. it's not safe. (grian isn't safe.)

"maybe just give that to me and maybe just step away from the contraption. and then— maybe just leave me to—"

grian's upset and bewildered voice cuts in: "i didn't do anything wrong this time :(("

he's trying so hard.

he's trying so hard to be good and do things right and not mess anything up.

(it isn't working.)

(it's never bound to work, is it?)

mumbo ushers him away, and ends up showing him another cool invention—an elevator. except the second mumbo hits the button, a creeper shows up and explodes it. (it's midday.) (it wasn't even meant to be there.)

this one isn't grian's fault at all, but with everything that's happened— well, it's easy enough to link it to grian's presence. like a bad luck omen.

apprehensively, grian asks if the elevator broke, and mumbo—a bit bewildered by the reality of it—says that no, it seems to still work. "amazingly," he tacks on, disbelieving.

grian's relieved. "ohh, i thought we were in big trouble there!"

besides himself, mumbo anxiously agrees: "augh. i was like, if every single creation that i show breaks in some fashion, i'm just gonna quit."

because this isn't normal. none of this is, least of all everything at once. it simply doesn't happen.

(not when grian isn't there, anyway.)

mumbo notes that he needs to work on his lighting, and grian nods wisely saying it's a perpetual issue, but the anxiety is digging its talons in now, unrelenting. (what else is going to go bad in grian's presence? what else will he mess up? what else will he break? why is he like this?)

another remark that comes after this is mumbo's nervous: "i've actually just built up the automatic sorter which does this—which you're not gonna touch. we're banned from touching any redstone contraptions!"

and what can grian do but oblige? (but he can at least look, right?)

but does it ever change anything?

does it matter?

at the end of the day, the others don't think too much about it.

they all say their part, pass their judgment, wave their hands, dismiss, move on. it doesn't keep them up at night.

... i think it might keep grian up at night.

a cacophonous collection of word snippets, aimed at him or woven around him, digging under his skin until it bleeds. a noose of inescapable fate, a tightening band around his chest that promises he can only ever be one thing:

a vessel for destruction.

it doesn't matter if he wants to be.

shackles and chains and a cosmic inevitability written into his skin, etched into his bones, tangled into his bloodstream. and an ever-rising guilt like stormy sea, far above his head now, drowning him.

(maybe he's not meant to be near other people and their things.)

(maybe he's not meant to touch games that were constructed with so much effort and love and passion poured into them.)

(maybe he shouldn't—)

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bonus screenshots from discord DMs (with extra sprinkles of hmtb mentions):

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bonus hmtb quotes because i kept thinking about it:

He always destroys the things he loves most, after all.

and:

He destroyed everything he touched, and when there was nothing left, he destroyed the only remaining thing: himself.

#ange answers #ribbon anon #grian angst #i might've gotten a bit rambly - this wasn't meant to be so long it just sort of kept snowballing the further i went. oops #anyway grian's such a good vessel for guilt #because he internalises it and holds on #even if nobody else holds a grudge #even if nobody else blames him #(and yet in all the little remarks - do they really not hold it against him? isn't there proof enough that clearly it matters to them too?)#(so how could he ever be absolved?)#for them these are just some random events #but for him it piles up and piles up and piles up #into an undeniable pattern that stains his hands like blood #and he can't wash his skin free of it #he can't escape it #no matter how hard he tries #(and yes it does tie beautifully into hmtb grian and his own perspective on things and struggles and how he deals with guilt)#(the keyword here is: badly) (he deals with the guilt badly)#i also went to think about other things like the tunnel bore incident and SL mumbo and WL zombie skizz and-#just so many instances of grian guilt you know?#it builds up until it's indisputable and inevitable #and grian is cornered by the reality of it (with nowhere to go)#think about it:#grian feels guilt over things he feels he has no control over (because it doesn't matter how hard he tries)#and we know grian thrives on having control #(just throwing that out there)#something about how grian keeps wretchedly confessing it to everyone - that he already broke many things #like tacking a warning sign on himself so they'd know to step away and save themselves #(and he's so scared it'll happen again. so scared that it'll keep happening. so scared that it'll never stop—)

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immortalsins · 6 days ago

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COACH BOOKED HOSTEL RESERVED IM GOING TO LONDON TOMORROW AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#STRESSED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#i've stayed in this hostel before (when meeting a wonderful mutual) and taken this coach route before (for manchester sl/eep t*ken)#so at least some of it is familiar #i feel like i understand the tubes now or at least we have an understanding #and i know never to trust the arrivals board in victoria coach station #the coach isn't at a crazy hour of the morning like last time #so it should all be okay!!#the only properly stressful part is the event itself #if my mother knew what i was doing ... JHGDCYHUKJDB #luckily for me she doesnt know i'm going away and probably will never know i went #will tell my housemates where i'll be in case i die #... maybe #and the return coach is at 2pm so i've got a whole morning to vibe around :D will find something interesting to do #will have to try not to walk around for hours like i usually do because my boots are NOT broken in yet #regardless #yay <3 #lets goooo

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giggly-squiggily · 1 year ago

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HELLOOO I SAW THE CANDY HEARTS EVENT AND GOD I LOVED IT!!! So what about soukoku with "Oh, Is someone ticklish?" sentence starter with ler chuuya and lee dazai or lee chuuya and ler dazai it doesn't matter actually.. thank you already! <3

{Candy Heart Prompts: OFFICIALLY CLOSED!}

AHH! *happy crying* You're too sweet anon! Thank you for the kind words! :D God I love this so much jkajkrjkarjkeakjrjke some Soukoku for the event never fails to get me happy! I've gotcha covered, anon!

@intheticklecloset Soukoku! >:D

Sweetheart: "Oh? Is someone ticklish?"

“Tch-knock it off!”

“Oh? Is someone ticklish?”

“What do you think? Grr-ehhhe, Dazai!” Chuuya squirmed in Dazai’s arms, pushing at the arms wrapped tightly around his waist. No such luck- the brunette was adamant on hanging on to him. As were the lips pressing tickly kisses into the back of his neck. “Lehehet me go!”

“Never! I wanna hold onto you forever, chibi!” Dazai nuzzled the back of his neck, biting gently just to hear Chuuya yelp. “I could listen to you giggle all day long~”

“Oohoho, thahahhat does it! Yoohohou’re ahahasking for it nohohohow!” The redhead growled as he reached out, fingers connecting with Dazai’s leg. Quickly, he squeezed, making his boyfriend jump and loosen his arms. “Gohohotcha!”

“Whoa- chibi hang oohohohoohn!” Dazai spasmed as Chuuya twisted in his lap, digging his fingers into his armpits. “Ahehahahah, nohohoohoho! Wahahhait, whahhahait hhahahang ohohoohon!”

“Oh? Is someone ticklish?” The redhead mocked his earlier tease, making faces at the brunette as Dazai wheezed and snickered. “Not so bold when you’re the one getting tickled, are you?”

“Ahhahahhhaha! Chiihihihihbihihiihi pleahhahahahse-Ehehheheh nhoohohooho!” Dazai tried to sink away, but Chuuya was like a fly paper to him- sticking close and worming his fingers into all the bad spots along his torso. “Nohohohot thhehhehhere!”

“Aww, are your ribs too ticklish? Fine, I wasn’t feeling like barbeque anyway.” Chuuya pulled his hands away, giving Dazai a small window of breathing. “Though I hear in some places, people like to eat necks! Weird right?”

“Eheh..whahat are you-” Dazai froze, eyes widening as realization hit him. “Oh nhooohoh, dohohoon’t you dahhahare- CHIHIHIIHIHBIHIHIHIIHIHIHI!” Dazai all but howled when Chuuya attacked his neck, pressing tickly kisses and bites into it and leaving the taller man a hysterical pile of goo beneath him. “WHAHAHAHIT NOOHOHOOHT THEHEHEHHERE!”

“Hm. An acquired taste. Maybe I’ll grow to like it the more I eat it.” Chuuya mused, snickering when Dazai let out a high pitched squeal. “Time for a second helping!”

#Candy Heart Valentine Event #chve2k24 #tickle #tickle dabble #fluff #soukoku #chuuya nakahara #dazai osamu #I had to go with Lee!Dazai I am a sl-fan of him! karkekjarkjejkar

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