#but slime rancher is so colorful and beautiful so I wanted to give it my best shot.. 🥺🥺

[readypanda]

pspspsspsp tell me more abt ur stories. gives you sad wet pathetic cat eyes

OK so I literally just added this story to my pinned post and you might not have seen it but Imma tell you about my Y/A trauma story since I've been working on it lately

Here's the general description:

This story is about an upbeat goody two-shoes protagonist taking a dangerous and magical job she believes only she can do. In the story, she navigates life as an adult for the first time, makes friends, has crushes, fights great evils—all while her experiences change her more than she wants to admit.

This story is strange because the main character, Myla, has more superficial similarities to me than any other story I've written. I took details from my own life (my highschool, home town, friends, interests, etc.) to basically dress the early parts of the story with in-depth descriptions. However, I actually find that out of all the main characters from any of my stories, I think I relate to Myla the least. The further into the story I get, the less the superficial similarities matter as the real story unfolds. I guess all that is to say "the author's self insert" isn't as cut and dry as people tend to think it is.

In terms of the actual plot, a bulk of the story has Myla astral projecting into these strange and dangerous "otherworlds". I have fun describing the otherworlds, since I can kinda put whatever on the page. Some of them sound really beautiful and like places I'd want to visit (I described one in particular called "the glass beach otherworld" which sorta looks like a more colorful version of the dry reef from slime rancher), other sound kind of horrifying (like the Otherworld of Deep Shadows, which has, you guessed it, nothing but an abyss of smoke and shadows).

One thing I'm still working out in this story is whether or not it's ethical for Myla and these other characters to actually go into these otherworlds and risk disturbing the natural landscape (which is basically what the villain does). Only one character really seems to care much about this, representing the sort of environmentalist equivalent for these magical worlds, but I have yet to expand this idea to the other characters. I haven't written the finale of this story yet, but I think that's a question I'm going to examine when it's time for Myla to make her final choice--stay in the otherworlds and with this job or return to Earth and attempt to regain some normalcy.

OUT OF CONTEXT LINE TIME!!!!

"Cressida reaches to the floor and starts scrounging around for her precious dice like a scavenging chipmunk."

"Whatever, nerd."

"One colorful feature interrupts the gray cohesion of the place: a bike stand spray painted an uneven, flower shop worthy pink."

"I’m thinking...a curtain cut. Maybe like, Leon S. Kennedy, but more feminine.”

“They’re not movies, Mom, they’re playthroughs.”

"For a long second, I stare at the thing, everything else in the room falling to static background noise. Something about this feels uncanny. It’s like when I’m playing Minecraft and a chunk doesn’t load properly, making it appear as if the void swallowed that section of the world whole."

“What’s the sun like?”

“Nah, I’m breaking in.”

“Like doomguy,”

"It’s salty. Why is it salty?"

"Not quite the emotional kind. More like the hot-water-bottle-when-I-have-bad-cramps kind."

"I’ll admit, what I did next, I’m not the most proud of."

"She waves enthusiastically as she walks down the steps and to her car—a frankly quite hideous cybertruck."

"You would think I had just announced I’d be joining a nudist colony."

"This boy is insane!"

“Some people are nice to bugs,”

"So I'm ugly in other, more complex ways?"

"I don’t know how many fingers it has, but it’s the wrong number. Too many, or too few, I can’t tell."

"So you can cry in the otherworlds."

"Nellie jumpscares us."

"It’s like walking into the office of President Barbie."

“Why am I white?”

"I drink some root beer and form a tylenol plan of action so I can at least get a few hours of playtime in before I crash."

"She’s probably planning something, but I can’t be bothered to imagine what it is. I just hope it’s not another intervention."

"What the heck is Covid?"

Thanks for the ask and thanks for reading!!!

[kerikaaria]

Borahae Slimes Haul #2 Review!

Dean ( @eternalseokjin​ ) restocked with some new slimes, so of course I had to snatch a few!

Full disclosure, Dean is my friend and knew my birthday recently passed so he gave me some extra goodies (a free full slime, extra candy, and I’m pretty sure the amount of photocards and stickers were extra too lol. Dude gave me 3 Yoongi photocards because he knows how soft I am for that man) with this because he’s just amazing and sweet like that ^-^ Thank you, Dean!

First, here’s the link to Dean’s Etsy store, so if you would like to purchase some BTS-themed slime, definitely give his shop a look! And check out the store’s tumblr @borahaeslimes​

I was lucky for the order to come really quickly, especially during this time of year. And once I started opening up the package, I got so excited! He didn’t tell me he had added Until Spring for free as a birthday gift, so it was such a pleasant surprise! (And a surprise blessing with the extra containers as well, for reasons I’ll explain later). Keep reading for a detailed review with pictures!

Also. my apologies for the pictures not being more condensed. Every time I attempted to adjust them on mobile, tumblr decided to give me an error so... ugh lol.

I’ll Show You

I’ll Show You is themed after the song ‘Magic Shop,’ and has such a lovely, relaxing scent. It comes with little iridescent flakies (if you’re a fan of Simply Nailogical like Dean and I, you’d probably call it Unicorn Skin) that are optional to put in, as well as a key charm. The flakies do somewhat poke your hand while you play with it, but it’s not hard at all so unless you have very sensitive hands I don’t see it being a problem.

The color is a gorgeous iridescent cream, and the flakies add another really nice layer to it as well. It’s a very beautiful slime, and I easily see myself taking it out when I’m having a rough day because of how lovely and calming the chamomile and lavender scents are.

Anpanman

The slime is themed after the song of the same name and comes with a  custom-made clay charm with a comic-style onomatopoeia (recommended to NOT store inside the slime). The version I bought is the Bingsu one, since I didn’t know if I’d enjoy larger blocks being in my slime.

There is an option to leave it unscented to keep the clear slime from getting cloudy/tinted by it, but I really LOVE the blue raspberry jolly rancher scent and am so glad I opted to keep it! I enjoy the soft crunchy texture to the Bingsu, and this slime is just jam packed with them so it’s super satisfying to play with!

Until Spring

This one is themed after ‘Spring Day,’ and comes with 4 individually packaged colors which you can mix as you please, and a snowflake charm. One is a thick white snow fizz, the pink a bingsu (not quite as packed as Anpanman), and the blue and purple are clear-based slimes. The metallic shimmer of the blue is GORGEOUS, and I almost feel guilty for blending it all into the overall mixture.

The end result is this beautiful pastel purple, with the sporadic snow fizz and pink bingsu adding a unique texture. The smell is also very soft and lovely.

Sweet Life

Sweet Life is themed after BTS’ recent single, ‘Dynamite!’ The clay donut and record charm (again, recommended to NOT store inside the slime) are both handmade by Dean, and it also comes with a small bag of fake sprinkles. The donut came wrapped in plastic wrap and inside a smaller plastic tub than the slimes. And the slime itself is a very sweet scent - a little too strong to me personally, but nothing I can’t handle.

Alright, now this is the only hiccup I had in the order, so I’ll explain what happened. 

While I did think something was a bit odd when I tore the donut in half, I didn’t pay enough attention before I started trying to mix it with the slime. It turns out, the container the donut was shipped in ended up getting cracked during shipment, and the clay had half dried by the time it got to me. So it was rather hard trying to mix that part into the slime. You might be able to tell in the second picture above, that there are chunks hardly mixed, if at all, into the slime.

Knowing that it was because the container ended up cracked doesn’t personally make me too concerned that others would have the problems I did. I spoke with Dean about it, and he helped me figure out what to do. The part I already started mixing with the slime started to absorb moisture from it and became softer and easier to work with as I let it just sit for a bit. The other half, I put into a (not cracked, airtight) container and poured just a bit of water on it. I let it sit while I was working with Until Spring, and periodically went back to it to mix up the slime or knead the water into the clay to help it along.

It didn’t take too long before it was able to all mix together and I ended with my final slime! I really love the texture. It’s really thick, almost like a putty and super satisfying! Also a side note, Dean said he isn’t quite sure how the slime he used for making his shop post ended up so brown, because his personal slime of this also ended up a similar shade of a blue-gray to mine. I do really like the color though, it’s a neat muted, almost teal color.

And this is where the extra containers due to the four individual slimes for Until Spring came in handy, since the tub containing the donut was cracked. I was able to use the little 2 oz containers for the rest of the slime that wouldn’t fit in the big container after mixing in the clay, so I didn’t need to go finding something else to put it in. What a happy little coincidence!

Extra Slime - Anpanman Block version

The extra slime I got this time was a sample of the block version of Anpanman, probably because Dean knows I’m new to exploring different types of slime and wanted to let me try it out. I can say that I’m glad I got the Bingsu one in my purchase, but I also don’t hate the chunky blocks as much as I thought I might. It’ll still be a very nice one to fiddle with here and there.

So overall, I’m incredibly happy yet again! I don’t blame Dean for the hiccup with the clay donut, since the tub getting cracked most likely happened in shipping - and everything was very well packaged, wrapped in bubble wrap and then tissue paper, and in a padded mailer so he did everything he could to try to keep it safe. And besides, although it was extra work, it still blended into the slime in the end so I’m happy :)

If you want to support small shops, Dean’s is a great one to go to! Unfortunately because of shipping prices being crazy, he can only sell in the US, but if you do live here and are interested, then definitely give his shop a browse! Here is the link one more time. --> Borahae Slimes on Etsy