#The Magpie Project

[projectmayhem-stims]

What are some of your friend’s and/or family’s hyperfixations or special interests that you love hearing infodumps about, but aren’t into personally?

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[forged-in-stardust]

Prominia hiii ily!!!! *Throw u bouquet of flowers*

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[swingstep]

weird feaking bug... oh and also [CENSORED] is here too ^_^

(af attack on @e-melanorhynchus!)

[madamjayde]

We love a good Magpie

[slashmagpie]

“Here’s what happened, okay. We were on a date with Clebert—”

“It’s not a date.”

“—and, and Etho walks by and she, she looks at him, she’s like whoa.”

“She just catcalls him, like woohoo!”

“Woo!”

“I’m out, yeah!”

“You got it wrong, me and Etho are besties! We’re not—we’re not—it’s not romantic.”

They’re not sure why it feels so important. 

It’s not that Cleo has ever really—well, that’s not quite—they’ve never argued about it before, is the thing. Like—with Bdubs. With Bdubs, right, people had—they’d assumed. It’s what people do. Even Scott, and Scott is—Scott is Scott. He knows about these sorts of things. And even he…

“Bdubs is your ride or die, Jimmy’s mine, he’s my husband, and he’s with them, so I’m kind of—but I don’t ever want to fight you.”

“If Bdubs betrays me—if our husbands die, yeah?”

Husband. Because that was the word Scott had been using, for Jimmy, and Bdubs had been Cleo’s Jimmy, in a way, so it had—it had made sense. Use the same words for the same thing. And then—being married is kind of a funny bit, isn’t it? So later, when Bdubs and Impulse had been lying to them—

“Bdubs, I know we’re divorced and you’re with Impulse now, but did you really think you could lie to me?”

And whilst Cleo’s not sure they put too much stock in Ren’s claims as to what he’d caught Bdubs and Impulse doing in the woods, they know that whatever those two had going on wasn’t quite the same. They’d said it was, but they hadn’t really meant it. Not really. Marriage—marriage is a funny bit, really, is all it is. 

After all, last season, with Etho—being divorced is also a funny bit. 

“I’m not calling you wife.”

“You can call me Cleo!”

He still doesn’t call them wife. Still calls them Cleo. Calls them bestie, now, too, ironic grin beneath his mask. Etho’s not too big on PDA, either, which is—nice. Not that Cleo doesn’t like it, it’s just—

“It’s platonic,” they insist to Tango, to Skizz, and see their eyes sparkle. They don’t get it. They don’t get it, and it makes Cleo’s skin crawl, because—

Cleo’s loyal, is the thing. When they say ride or die, when they say allies, when they say husband or soulmate or my boys—they mean it. If you’re theirs, you’re theirs, and that means everything. 

But it doesn’t mean—

Romance is a funny bit. It’s a like a costume, really. Pull it on, pull it off, kiss and hold hands and sleep in the same bed and say your vows for the fun of it. Then shrug it off at the end of the day and go back to being friends. There’s no—they don’t feel any of those sappy things, really. It’s not them. Sure, Cleo loves people, loves their friends, but not—like that. They don’t want anything to do with any of that. The aesthetic of it, the performance of it, the drama of it? They’ll take it. But they’ll leave the rest. The mushy, goopy, complicated feelings soup part of it—that’s not theirs. Other people can deal with that. Cleo will be off dealing with better things.

It’s—it’s like being a woman, really, in that Cleo doesn’t really mind that people see them that way—plays into it, really, loves the aesthetic, has fun with the performance—but they don’t really feel it. And they don’t mind that other people don’t exactly understand—

Until they step too close, say something Cleo really doesn’t like the sound of, and then they’re snapping, “I’m not a woman,” with such force it makes the perpetrator flinch.

It’s the same thing, this, Tango and Skizz stepping too close to their toes, getting in their personal space, and it bubbles up out of them before they can stop it. It’s platonic. We’re platonic. And the fact that other people aren’t seeing that—

It itches. Prickles. Stifles. Hugs their bones like an ill-fitting coat.

It’s one thing to wear a costume, to put on a show—but Cleo will not be stuffed into a suit without their permission and put up on a stage to read a script they never had any intention of performing. 

“We’re just besties, we’re not in a romantic relationship,” they tell Tango. He blinks at them, and they can see that the words don’t quite go in—

It itches.

Maybe if Cleo makes being besties the new bit, the itch will stop bothering them quite so much.

[imaginepans]

Starlo but i made his eyes fuckin big and sparkly

was bored during class and decided to limit myself to one layer

took like 20 min

[dawn-arts]

A lil thing for a project I'm working on...

[piepiepiemag]

i feel like this is a crime against humanity and a personal attack on me

[bloomingnewwrld]

Ruinene Week Day 7: Tanabata | Vega and Altair

[many-gay-magpies]

sucks when you can feel your obsession with a media subsiding but you haven't yet seen to fruition all of the ideas you had for it. they are just sitting in my brain forever now

[ebony-farside]

Figured I'd share a few older OCs of mine and stuff from other projects that I'm proud of!

[annasbowlerhat]

"You have been canceled."

The stories just mixed up in my head so one have to wait for its turn. So, gonna go with the magic one for now. =) for my own sanity and let the creativity rest for a while... It feels like it needs it. D=

[vexcraft]

I hc cub as having eurasian magpie wings!!! either as elytra or as a hybrid

They're his colour scheme and just like magpies hes very smart, very good at figuring out puzzles, like to ''borrow'' things from other hermits (the museum..) and loves pranking 😊

oh you're so right about all those things... they are his colours... magpies are such silly birds, that really fits him well! :D

[madamjayde]

He gets his own Solo post because I just love him so much

[actualblanketgremlin]

What's your 'tarot project' tag about?

Hi!

It's a collection of (probably, I haven't checked) public domain images that at some point I'm going to print out and glue onto tarot card backs!

There's this concept of a magpie deck (sometimes called a trash tarot, the first one I saw with this concept was The Alleyman's Tarot) that's cards made up out of either things that weren't designed to be tarot cards or a bunch of different cards from different decks that I absolutely love. It's a really good way to learn how to read them too, you figure out what the meanings are and you find a bit of art (or the side of a box, or some junk mail, or an old postcard) that you cut down to size and paste on the front of a tarot card!

My current deck has something like 280 cards, but it's far too much fun to just stop collecting, so I'm looking into just. Getting more card storage. I want to have different decks for different purposes in with my giant general purpose one.

[magp1e-starl1ght]

Hello??? First post

Hey. I’m brand new on the site. I’m bigger and also on Tiktok ( xx.sp1d3r_p4wz.xx ) so you can see me there too ig. I like The Cure, David Bowie, Blur, Skelanimals, Nirvana, gorillaz, and of course, Spiders! I use She/her and They/them. And really idk what I’m doin here

Some of my fave songs rn

This is just a basic introduction post. I’m just here cuz I thought it’d be fun :)