#lila goes melatonin mode

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crack theory incoming.

you know how djinn can shapeshift? presumably into objects if they really want to, because if Nadakhan can just spawn a teacup out of nowhere he can probably play IRL Prop Hunt?

what if Korgran's talking axe is just a djinn that shapeshifted into an axe one time and just... liked being axe-shaped?

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I was gonna let the conversation end here but just tonight I realized a decent addition:

Nya lets it slip that Nadakhan did not bother to dress up for his own wedding/coronation/power trip of all time. This incenses Kai possibly more than anything else.

“Nya and Jay both never say a word to the other ninja about Skybound” are you telling me Nya doesn’t TELL KAI THAT SHE DIED. ARE YOU TELLING ME NYA DOESN’T SEEK OUT HER BIG BROTHER AFTER A NIGHTMARE OR MENTAL BREAKDOWN OR IF HER CHEST IS A LITTLE TOO TIGHT THAT DAY. ARE YOU TELLING ME KAI CAN LOOK AT THE PERSON HE CARES ABOUT MORE THAN ANYONE IN THE WORLD AND NOT INSTANTLY KNOW SOMETHING IS DEEPLY, HORRIBLY WRONG??

THESE TWO RAISED EACH OTHER. NYA WOULD NOT KEEP THIS FROM HIM I AM PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE OF BELIEVING THAT

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not gonna say it again.

THIS is lettuce

THIS is spinach

THIS is green fabric

Any questions?

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Tonight, while I was brushing my teeth, I realized why Dragons Rising feels so bittersweet to me now: we're finally seeing that vision in the ice. Those images of everyone as masters are being realized. I'm probably not the first one to have realized that, but it's just.... wow. It's so not what 2015 me ever expected, and I love that.

(And their outfits are cooler, to boot!)

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friendly reminder aimed at nobody in particular except the whole ass fanfic chapters that get reblogged and cross my dash: there's a handy lil wavy line symbol called a READ MORE when you're making a post. please use it when applicable (as in when your post starts getting long!) sometimes Tumblr does it for you with a similar expansion thingy, but not when someone throws a comment on the end!

TLDR: do I love the color of the wall of text? No!

thank you! bonne nuit!

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@ whatever anon just came by my inbox with a Skybound message: I'm going to get to eventually, I just need to dream up an answer, but if you're seeing this please know that you're very very correct. and that I low-key wish I had anon disabled so I could know who you were

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Currently playing a fun game called Did Blocking Exactly Two People Help My Dash Not Be Full Of Highly Specific Trash? It's a pretty passive game - in fact, Tumblr's really the one playing it, and I'm just in the corner with a water bottle and a towel.

Then again... I may be winning. Maybe this isn't a boxing ring. Maybe the blocks are just marble chess pieces and oh, have I nudged those suckers well enough to reap the rewards now in the endgame. (May I find my opponents in the fireplace ash tomorrow morning, iykyk.) Granted, it's very early in the game, and this is the first of an unknown number of rounds - but after Operation: Get That Vent Poem Published succeeded, I'm feeling rather confident.

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Current emotional state: on the cusp of rediscovering the raw power of "you're not invited to my birthday party" as the best way to cut off a bad dynamic

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lying in bed trying to use Facts And Logic to talk yourself out of a panic spiral is so last year. instead I am going to try reading as much of OSSAS as I can in one sitting before I remember that I have work tomorrow and finally go to sleep

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thinkin bout "27" by fall out boy again tonight, besties

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note to self: need to make myself a gif of that moment where Gayle Waters-Waters leans over and does that fake exaggerated puke. unfortunately I can't remember what EP that's from, and I'm going to bed, but like... it would be awesome for my arsenal

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having a totally normal moment where I'm like "I should keep myself up til midnight by working on the WIP" except it's DONE. It's been done for TWO WHOLE DAYS. I've been watching my numbers on AO3 like this

since I put c5 out. I should KNOW I'm done, but i worked on that so long that I'm like, oh, we're still in writing mode? cool.

And I do have another writing project I want to work on, a non-fanfic, personal one, but my toddler of a brain does NOT want to play with THOSE words. Only Skybound! Only menace Nya!

please send help. or fic feedback to chew on, idk

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had a bit of a Moment tonight and wrote a four page poem. formatting and everything. disappointment is one hell of a drug, and apparently when I overdose, I end up with a submission-ready vent poem

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back in Ye Olden 2010s I would have called this nightblogging and used it as cover to post insane stuff. but it's 2024, and I'm up late for no reason, and I don't need cover to post uhhhhhh this guy.

Latin Percussion LP1-5 Standard Flex-A-Tone. AKA the Doohickey. I never had the guts to mess with it in band class at the volume it deserves, and I regret it frequently.

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it's always fun when I get an isolated notification that someone has kudos'd ADA(DP), because sometimes that means they're about to binge read OSSAS, except for sometimes it doesn't. currently waiting to see what this incident develops into...

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okay fess up. this is anonymous and will not help. but I like pressing buttons and you do too, I'll bet.

I've gotten two guest kudos on IICT in the past week. WHOMST