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[sylvia-forest]

[CN] Shaw's 2024 Birthday Event - Prologue

⚡Warning: This post contains detailed spoilers for a content which hasn’t been released in EN yet!⚡

[Released Date: 17 June 2024]

MC: The train is about to arrive. Let's meet at the exit in a bit.

Shaw's text message: 1 MC: Why did you only reply with "1"? That's way too sloppy...

I muttered a bit unhappily as I picked up my luggage.

Shaw had been visiting an old acquaintance of his master here recently, who was said to be researching ancient Chinese magic tricks. Shaw had been collecting academic materials along with him.

If it weren't for his upcoming birthday, I would have suspected he had completely forgotten about going home.

MC: But if his birthday is going to be celebrated in this town, I have to make good arrangements…

As I pondered Shaw's birthday plans, I moved slowly towards the exit along with the crowd. Soon, I noticed something conspicuous at the exit...

Two giant candied haws?!

MC: Hahahaha!!

I finally understand why Shaw could only reply "1" just now.

Shaw held up these two bunches of exaggeratedly large candied haws, and his eyes wandered among the crowd. Soon, his eyes locked on mine, and he smiled at me and raised his chin.

The joy of meeting reached its peak at this moment, I couldn't help but quicken my pace and jump to his side.

MC: Which one of the candied haws is mine?

Shaw: ...Tsk, why is that your opening line? MC: So what should I say? Shaw: Shouldn't you express your thoughts first? MC: I've already shown it through my actions~

Shaw raised an eyebrow, acknowledging my statement. He handed me one of the candied haws and took my luggage.

As the candied haw melted in my mouth, I savored the sweetness and playfully tugged at his arm.

MC: Then shouldn't you also express your thoughts?

Shaw: Isn't a candied haw enough of an expression? MC: That's not enough. On the way here, I felt that you were very happy and in a special mood these days.

I hummed thoughtfully and bit into a strawberry.

MC: Seems like you don't need me anymore. Shaw: What nonsense are you guessing now? Shaw glanced at me, then turned his head and thought for a while.

Shaw: But I'm definitely in a good mood lately. MC: Is it because your birthday is coming soon? Shaw: No.

Shaw tilted his head slightly, the silver stud on his ear reflecting the sunlight, his voice tinged with a faint smile.

Shaw: Hard to say, hard to explain. MC: What's so hard to explain about having a good reason to be in a good mood?

Shaw shrugged his shoulders and made an expression of "Who knows?”

MC: All right…

After all, it was just casual conversation as we walked along, so I didn't push for details. Instead, I started chatting with Shaw about recent events in each other's lives.

He and I turned a corner and suddenly ran into several children wearing cartoon masks.

I didn't think much of it and was about to continue saying something to Shaw when suddenly, these few kids exclaimed in surprise.

They rushed in front of us like a small whirlwind, and one of the children pointed at me.

Child: Great King, who is this enchantress! MC: ??!

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MC: Although it was customized hastily, the quality is still pretty good.

Although the birthday venue was temporarily moved from Loveland City to this town, I found that the effect was better than planned.

After all, this kind of dreamy setting is my specialty~

These quaint pavilions and towers, adorned with charming decorations, and then when the dry ice machine starts...

Hiss——a misty white fog billows up, instantly transforming the scene before my eyes into a fairyland from Yaochi.

MC: Humph, I don’t believe that this time, everything I did was within his expectations.

I checked the lights and gifts one last time, ticked off everything in the plan, and finally only…

MC: I hope this gift is what I guessed it to be.

Although Shaw hasn't told me, I think this should be a small dream hidden in his heart.

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R&S

Date

[akanemnon]

Yeah, Kris is definitely NOT alright.

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[post-it-notes7]

Didn't Mir Falspar imply long ago that whatever news he was sharing was something dark "might've actually wanted to hear"? How all is his own job promotion meant to be exciting for dark, or am I missing something?

Mir Falspar hasn't quite told the whole story

[amebelladonna]

thinking about how these three were all connected to manuela, those are her biggest fans, your honor!

[dailymanners]

If you live in a place that gets snow, always kick the snow off of your shoes or boots as best as you can before entering any homes, businesses, vehicles, or anywhere the snow could make a mess.

With entering homes and business you can just kick the toe of your shoes or boots on the ground until you get off as much snow from your shoes or boots as you possibly can.

With vehicles it can be a little more tricky because there's often snow on the ground around the vehicle, but quite a few people don't like having their car kicked. So what you can do when entering vehicles is sit first, while keeping your feet outside the vehicle, then kick your feet together until you've gotten all or most of the snow off.

When snow melts it makes an awful and miserable mess. Anyone who's worked in a store or restaurant over the winter in a snowy place will tell you how miserable it is to have to constantly mop up all the dirty slushy water all day.

And most people aren't going to want their home or car to have a dirty slushy mess all over the floor either. The snow stuck to our shoes and boots often has other debris in it, like dirt or salt.

Give people the courtesy of minimizing how much they'll have to mop up the floor over the winter by minimizing how much snow / slush / dirt / salt you're dragging into their home / workplace / vehicle.

[emotsper]

brain has been beaming me with the visions of partially deaf airi. i'm deaf so i know what im doing HEAR ME OUT

[pokimoko]

Hello!! i just discovered your blog and firstly i wanna say that your art is gorgeous! <33 and secondly, if youre still taking requests could i get a lesbian/non binary cheetah? /nf

Thank you! Cheetahs be upon ye!

[finemealprompt]

DP x DC Prompt #85

Bart was told he could run track as long as he didn’t break any records and didn’t win all the time. And he isn’t! But this is the first race where he’s running against a fellow meta! He’s just gotta not lose control in the heat of the competition. And he won’t … probably.

[bitchfitch]

Do y'all ever see a post that just like. Haunts you forever? And which consistently comes back up when you're trying to get to sleep

Anyways, if you do comms the whole "2+ characters in a single piece costs less than if they were bought as separate commissions" thing Isn't supposed to be a buy one get one x% off type situation.

Your commission prices should be accounting for the time you spend communicating with the client, the time you spend on file storage and prep, and the time it takes to properly document your communications and the transaction. Those things all take time and it Really adds up when you do enough comms. And the time they take? doesn't usually change much based on the number of characters.

That's why the second, third, etc, character can cost less. Not because you're giving a discount. Right. Right? Y'all aren't cutting yourself a bad deal, right? You're Not paying yourself less than an exploitative boss would pay you for that time and skilled labor, right?

[brainrotcharacters]

Have a romp in a Honda Odyssey now and fix your marital disagreements today!

[faaun]

we sang in the aeroplane over the sea tgth ☆

[batcavescolony]

Left: Jason making Bruce chose between killing him or the joker in UTRH.

Right: the trolley problem

[justinegreenpie]

does anybody else feel like a lot of sso's features aren't fully implemented lately? for example the championship season pass thing, I think that was so hidden. for no reason. i've had multiple people tell me they didn't even know it existed until somebody told them about it. and that seems like such a big flaw for a timed event and brand new feature?? i also felt very thrown into the deep end with the collections lately. both gm bee's bees and erissa's dolls didn't tell you anything about what you had to do! i loved the stars, i adored the spiders, this would be right up my alley. but all the confusion ruins it for me! why doesnt sso tell us how many things we have to collect? what's the diary even for if they don't add the new collection quests to it? i loved it as a way to keep track of your progress and get hints of the areas of the collectables you're still missing. the way it is right now it just incentivizes looking up guides instead of trying :(

[cinamun]

I'm interrupting your regularly scheduled programming to let you know that I can't stop thinking about how they covered up Donny Hathaway's death by officially calling it suicide. He didn't jump, he was incapacitated and pushed, and it was all because his music and skill in composition was unmatched and white music producers wanted his music, hence his last words.

No one has ever come close to this man's vocal range which is in its own category; Deep Soul.

He was considered the most prolific Deep Soul artist of his time having major influences on modern music. You can't think of soul music without thinking of this man. He was a brilliant musician and created the most beautiful love song ever recorded.

[aerophone-amphibians]

Goddamn, MTMTE goes hard on the third readthrough

[rabbiteclair]

do other fields have this thing where 80% of people who are, in theory, mid-career experienced professionals are barely capable of performing fairly basic tasks without personalized guidance, or is software development just suffering under the curse of an entire generation being told to go into the field if they want to earn enough money to pay rent