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[swamplatibule]

GREETINGS it is 9:25 PM on a Sunday as i write this. My hands are shaking rn but that’s probably a result of the energy drink that gave me heart palpitations earlier </3 anyway it’s time for

Lantern Eclipse!

Lantern Eclipse takes place in a world that ended a while ago! Roughly 100-odd years ago, a combination of weird mold creatures, magic nature spirits, and good old-fashioned nuclear radiation completely took over, resulting in the destruction of the vast majority of manmade areas! Most major cities have been completely overgrown with mold and megaflora, save for a few “havens” scattered few and far in between.

Don’t @ me i’ve lost track of how many apocalypse paracosms i have and that probably says something about my psyche that I’m not ready to hear

ANYWAY. Our story takes place in one of those havens, called Guardian City, which is mostly known for its massive size, wild amount of neon lights, and also the really intense military organization called the Shepherd Division that runs the place like the navy! Or like. Half of it. There’s also the violet district that takes up maybe a fifth of the city, which is mostly controlled by various mob kingpins, drug lords, etc. technicallyyyyy the Shepherd Divison is supposed to control the area, but they generally let the violet district remain as is in exchange for all their bullshit not spilling over into the “respectable” areas.

Also I feel like i should mention that Guardian City is huge. Like the size of Montana. There’s a massive wall surrounding its border to keep the plants out, but you cannot see that wall from the center of the city

ANYWAY. This is all basic background info. Now it’s meat time baybee

This is one of those stories where there are several separate plots with entirely different casts of characters going on at once, so I’m just going to go over one of them for now because it’s getting late and as previously mentioned my hands are shaking so bad rn

The first person we need to meet is Fairywren Merlo! She was a skater boy <3 Fairywren is my darling dearest who can do no wrong. She’s also a mercenary for hire and has most definitely killed before. She has a sniper rifle, roller skates, autism and a dream!!

^ that would be her in Normal WorldTM i still have yet to decide on her canon outfit

The next person you should know about is Eddie Duncan, who i described in my notesapp as “like if colonel sanders murdered people. Charming in a gross way, like a marginally more evil televangelist with a gun.” Eddie is an INCREDIBLY influential figure within the violet district - he’s rich, he has the Shepherd Division in his pocket, and he’s also incredibly dangerous, so everyone wants to stay on his good side. Do people like him? Depends who you ask. Everyone, however, is scared of him. To be more precise, they’re scared of his “hunting dog,” the silent, nameless masked man who follows his every command. we’ll get back to these two later.

now, fairywren is Good At Her Job. a bit too good at it. she gets a job to kill some random ass guyTM who she’s never heard of, so she does it! very well! EXCEPT turns out that was the son of a very important member of the shepherd guard, and the guy who hired her to kill him has now vanished, leaving her a) unpaid and b) being searched for by the shepherds. uh oh!!

the best solution she can think of is to get out of the city, but she doesn’t have any means of surviving outside the city until she meets Eddie, who brings her and a few other mercenaries along on some Top Secret Project that he’s working on which requires them all to venture outside the city wall and search for some lost artifact he needs. fairywren and the others are mostly just there to kill mold monsters and be human shields for him.

they go the first few days without seeing any trouble aside from the usual freaky wasteland monsters, and then uh oh! they get ambushed by a group looking for that same artifact! and this is where the “hunting dog” i mentioned earlier becomes Very Important!

he is what’s known in Neon Eclipse as a “terror” - an ageless, human-appearing creature that feeds only on human flesh and is nearly impossible to kill! they’re like vampires but. worse <3 I can go into SO much detail about them but i will restrain myself for now because it’s story time. but. anyway. everyone in their party watches him absolutely rip through all of their attackers!

obviously Eddie’s hired guns aren’t too pleased about traveling out in the middle of nowhere with a guy who would 100% eat them if given the chance, but Eddie assures them that he’s entirely under control. see, each terror has a “heart,” usually in the form of some small weird looking stone. If someone else gets their hands on it, then they can use it to force the Terror to do whatever they want! and Eddie keeps the heart of his nameless follower on a cord around his neck!

turns out Eddie and his older brother used to be in the business of researching terrors about 40 years ago! they stumbled upon the one that now follows him everywhere while he was asleep, and Eddie’s brother got a bit too close and. well. oopsie!

but hey he might be down a brother but at least he has Some Fuckin Guy on his side

some shit happens, and one by one, everyone else in the party dies in various terrible ways until it’s only Eddie, Fairywren, and the terror left. Then Eddie finds his artifact! yay! buuuuut he doesn’t want any witnesses so Fairywren has to die </3 alas! She manages to escape - barely - but it’s hard to outrun a terror for a few minutes, let alone forever. Eddie catches up to her within a few days, and things are looking Very Bad for our dear fairywren, who is now face to face with death.

BUT. instead of attempting to fight the terror! fairywren shoots Eddie! she fully expects the terror to kill her after, but seeing as the guy commanding him is now dead, he takes his heart from Eddie’s body and leaves! and also starts laughing, which is the first noise Fairywren has ever heard him make. spooky

Fairywren is now completely lost in the cursed wilderness with no way back! BUT she eventually catches up with our terror friend (who can talk now thanks to not having Eddie forcing him to be quiet anymore) and they get to be friends <3 yippie <3 she also gives him the name Ford (she suggested harrison ford because he’s her favorite actor but our terror friend thought harrison was a dumb name) they’re still lost but at least they don’t have to worry if they’re attacked and she is mostly confident that he probably won’t murder her

n e way! that’s one major story thread written, who even knows how many left to go 😭 yay

taglist: @burningivy @shrimpnymph @diphtheria420 @parasdreams @dremieblur @acircusfullofdemons @daydreaming-memories (lmk if you want to be taken off the taglist pretty please!!)

[maladaptive-daydreaming-aphant]

Ohhh that makes sense. I think all my OCs are paras and vice versa in that case since I daydream about all of them in both of my worlds. My para worlds are exclusively original characters.

One more question: I keep seeing people talking about being in their own worlds as a self insert or even themselves. This isn't apart of my experiences , I am not involved in my para worlds at all. Is that normal? Is there a comprehensive place where I can read up on this more?

Not sure of any official sources for info about that (if any of y'all know some then please share!!), but anecdotally there's been quite a few polls around MaDDblr about these sort of experiences... From what I've seen, the *most common* MaDDer's situation is daydreaming through the perspective of a paraself, which tends to be an idealized or alternative version of ourselves (like an upgraded self-insert). However, due to the highly-individual nature of daydreaming itself, there's MASSIVE variety in how different people daydream.

Some people only daydream through the eyes of a non-self para (be it a fictional character or an OC), while others are only spectators/gods and don't "participate" as an actor in their paracosms at all, just like you! Most folks daydream in first-person POV, but there are many who daydream in third-person POV (or even second-person POV) or other perspectives. Some people stick to only one parame (the para they daydream through -- paraselves are also parames) and/or POV, while others switch around depending on any number of factors. Some have tons and tons of paras, while others have only a select few that they daydream about. Some have only one or two paracosms they've been visiting for years, while others are constantly making new ones or switching back and forth between a bunch of them!

Similarly, it's very common for people with MaDD to pace around while daydreaming, but there are plenty of us (including myself) who only lie in bed or do other forms of stimming! Most daydreamers like music with lyrics they can fit to their characters, while others prefer instrumental music that can act as a soundtrack for our scenes. Some of us utilize images (ie. pinterest, picrew, fanart, etc.) for inspiration or visualization purposes while daydreaming (I often need them due to hypophantasia), while others only use their mind's eye to daydream!

TLDR: There are innumerable ways to daydream, so don't feel like you're "lesser" for having uncommon daydreaming habits! Everyone's brains are wired differently and we all experience the world in our own unique way, so individual styles of daydreaming are highly varied. Unfortunately you might not relate to most of the posts about MaDD you'll come across because the posts that gain the most traction are inevitably aligned with more common daydreaming experiences, but you're just as valid as the rest of us! Welcome to the MaDD community 💕

[headinthecloudsagain]

oh wow i haven’t logged into this acc in like half a year? if maddblr or any of my old moots are still alive then hi guys :)

[memesforthemad-d]

y’all got blogs for your paracosms?

y’all got bios for your paras?

writing/art for your paras?

if you do and you’re not too self conscious aboht it you can share it all here ✨ literally dump everything and anything you wanna share with someone anonymously or not, and help keep maddblr alive a bit 🤸 thank youuu

[celestialmadd]

🥯🍕

🥯: what content do you like making/want to make for your maddblr?

I don't really post much content on here other than memes lol. But I do enjoy doing art and writing about my paras

🍕: would you like to have more interactions with your followers?

YES I love talking to you guys. It's really hard to have madd and not tell people irl but having people here makes it so much better

[multifaceted-musings]

maddblr wanna fill this in for any one para of yours and post??

does anyone have any character sheets type of thing, i want to really build on my paras

[sugarcoatedsadism]

HELLO FELLOW MADDERS! So I sorta revamped my old information page about my paracosm and it's paras. I had taken it down for a while because. Y'know. 👉👈 Insecurity and whatnot but WE ARE SO BACK BABY.

SO, Click here if you want to read the plot synopsis for my paracosm- Gestalt. From there you will be able to click on information blurbs about my paras, look at pictures of them, be linked to their character playlists, and all that jazz.

I am very passionate about my paracosm and it's rabbithole runs deep. I mean, it's a real humdinger let me tell ya. This plot is twistier than a crazy straw. Twistier than my paras psyche's. And believe me those are TWISTED!

So yeah! If you feel like checking it out let me know what you think! I doodle my paras a lot and post short stories and am. Working on a sort of ongoing Gestalt series even. Sorta kinda. Uh. I'm still figuring that part out.

I'd be super appreciative of any comments questions etc., and if you have a super involved paracosm too, I'd love to check it out! I LOVE seeing stuff like that!... Seriously where did everyone go we need to revive maddblr

[doomdaysdecays]

maddblr is small

When you are stalking someone's madd account and you see that they reblogged one of your posts

[swamplatibule]

this is technically a para post about stuff with extreme plot significance but also it’s low effort and i’m not giving any context BUT.

nameless para theme songs/nicknames!

⚰️ Cecelia De Luca - The Reaper ⚰️

Lithium by Nirvana

💋 Jack Finch - The Wraith 💋

Love Shack by The B-52s

🦌 Artemis Page - The Huntress 🦌

Girl Anachronism by The Dresden Dolls

⚡️ Sylvie Page-Hidalgo - The Sidewinder ⚡️

Whatta Man by Salt-N-Pepa

♠️ Austin Suo - The Magician ♠️

Labyrinth by Miracle Musical

🎵 Allegro Vogel - The Bard 🎵

Somebody To Love by Queen

🐍 Malik Hidalgo-Page - The Kingsnake 🐍

Terrifyer by AJJ

🎬 Colin Moritz - The Shapeshifter 🎬

Give ‘Em Hell, Kid by My Chemical Romance

🔱 Lillian Lai - The Oracle 🔱

Ancient History - The Crane Wives

🗡️ Tobias Crofton - Nameless 🗡️

Head Like A Hole by Nine Inch Nails

[swamplatibule]

cecelia de luca, death incarnate, the speaker of the crows… and also the pigeons apparently

this was supposed to be a 15 minute shitpost (hence why her hand looks like that) and then I wound up spending 2 hours on it when i was supposed to be cleaning but fuck it we ball

[swamplatibule]

attention madd community. the horrors are unending but I am doing my best to keep slaying. anyway if I were to finish up a beginning episode of the starwritten society who would be interested in beta reading the script 👁️👁️ pretty please

[swamplatibule]

i’m gonna do all of these eventually but i’ll do whatever yall wanna see most first <3

taglist under the cut!!

@shrimpnymph @diphtheria420 @parasdreams @dremieblur @daydreaming-memories @acircusfullofdemons @sillycyan

[swamplatibule]

also lmk in the replies on this post if u wanna be tagged on whatever it is ‼️ when it eventually gets done

[swamplatibule]

MAY I PRESENT TO YOU….

DUN DUN DUNNNNNN….

KILLIGAN!!

A.K.A a paracosm of mine that I haven’t talked about literally ever because due to The Horrors i have been unable to daydreampost. Sorry.

Anyway! Fair warning for a little bit of fucked up shit! Mostly murder and cult stuff and some graphic violence. One of our dual protagonists kills people for a living so I’d say that’s to be expected, yknow? But we’ll get to that guy later- Allow me to introduce you to John.

Johnathan Parse is nobody. People simply do not notice him, and he goes about his life as a background character to everyone else. This anxious wreck is a private investigator who usually takes up missing persons cases. He’s good at his job, but there’s one person he was never able to find - his daughter, Kyrie. She vanished nine years ago and was presumed dead, but he knows she’s still out there somewhere and he’s been searching for her ever since. He’s still no closer to finding her than the day she went missing. Sad!

However… he does have one lead. A ludicrous, unreliable lead, but a lead nonetheless.

We’ll get to that in a bit.

Now let me introduce you to our OTHER protagonist- Vic Killigan, the titular character.

Killigan is a hitman with a very fortunate name (even thought it’s not his Real Name but we are not delving into that today). He’s terrifyingly good at his job, and impossible to find unless he wants you to. This weird little freak has been running circles around the law for years.

Very few people have been brave enough to try hunting Vic down, and none have survived.

Unfortunately, he is the only lead John has.

You see, Vic was raised in what is essentially an elite child soldier death cult known as the ROSE Order. At the ripe old age of 19, he escaped ROSE, faked his death, and proceeded to capitalize on murder since it was the only life skill he had. John has reason to believe that this “Order” is responsible for his daughter’s disappearance, and that Vic has some sort of connection, but if Killigan is hard to find, ROSE is out of the question.

Let me pause for a second and explain ROSE. It’s an underground paramilitary organization that is comprised of highly efficient and ruthless assassins, most of which were kidnapped as young children to be trained. ROSE has a foothold in most governments, puppeteering from the background, but they also work in providing private military services to their many sponsors. If you’re raised in the Order, there’s like a 50% chance you’ll become a ROSE spy/assassin, and a 50% chance you’ll get shipped off to go do shady murder shit for some rich fuck.

The only people who know how deep the Order runs are those in charge - or those who find out too much and are subsequently killed. Of course, there’s a slim percentage that manage to escape ROSE, but even most of them don’t have a clue.

Vic Killigan does.

If John has any hope of finding his daughter, Killigan’s his man- which leads him to spend months fruitlessly trying to track him down until a ✨potential informant✨ makes contact, and John winds up roped into attending a big gala. His informant doesn’t show, but the host of the gala is murdered by none other than Killigan himself. John manages to get a tracker on him in the form of a very fancy pen and, because he’s allowed to be a dumb bitch occasionally, breaks into his house without a plan to try and find a lead.

Clearly that does not go well, and not long after, John wakes up ziptied to a chair with the man the myth the legend Killigan interrogating him as to how the Fuck he tracked him down. Great first impressions <3 John, being scared shitless for obvious reasons, tells him everything immediately. Killigan just stares at him for a minute, and then… he leaves the room without a single word. You’ll notice he does that a lot.

It takes John a somewhat pathetic fifteen minutes to break free from his ziptie prison, and he walks out to see Vic sitting on the kitchen counter staring off into space. He’s beginning to get the feeling that this was a very bad idea, and that this Killigan character is in fact extremely fucking weird. Too late now!

(^ a gorgeous commission by @/ratt-teeth !!! :])

Killigan very politely informs him that there is no way in hell he’s going to mess with the Order because while he might have a death wish that is absolutely not the way he wants to go. He also advises John to stay the fuck away from ROSE if he doesn’t want to get McMurdered. However! After some small deliberation, Vic goes “ugh. god. fine.” and agrees not to help him get to ROSE, but connect him with some friends who might be willing to.

First stop: Anastasia Cruz and her team.

faceclaims are lovie simone and diana silvers

Anastasia Cruz is, like Vic, an escaped ROSE agent who then decided to put her skills to use. She runs a syndicate of thieves known as the Sapphires, which Vic never stops making fun of because he thinks it sounds like a band (and he’s not wrong). Ruby Garnier is Anastasia’s far less charismatic second-in-command.

Vic is a close friend of Anastasia’s. They might as well be siblings! And yet, when he arrives at the Sapphire’s base of operations, he and John are immediately attacked, knocked out, and taken prisoner. Well, shit!! That’s not good!

Anyway this has been in my drafts for a few weeks so I’m just going to post it and I’ll write out a part 2 later lmfaooo

Taglist: @sugarcoatedsadism @diphtheria420 @parasdreams @dreamyblur @daydreaming-memories @acircusfullofdemons

[swamplatibule]

SO.

I’ve been discussing a Wicked Wheels ttrpg campaign for a while. I’m nearly done with working out the mechanics. A few details:

Would be run over Discord, either text based or in scheduled calls, I haven’t decided yet (but it’ll most likely be text based since I’m weird about being on camera)

It would be using an original system, so it wouldn’t have the same mechanics as D&D 5e - but it does have a few similarities with the Kids On Brooms system for reference

I’ll be running it over the summer, likely starting mid-June or early July, so that’s several months from now.

I need six players to form one team! I’d prefer for said players to be fellow madders, but I’m not super picky about it!

feel free to DM me if you’re interested or have any questions!!

The TaglistTM: @sugarcoatedsadism @diphtheria420 @parasdreams @dreamyblur @daydreaming-memories @acircusfullofdemons

[swamplatibule]

Hey apologies for radio silence recently BUT i am alive and well and also wondering if any of my darling dearest tumblrinas know how to make a wiki. i wanna make one for TSS and another paracosm but also um. Idk what i am doing