#out and about { open starter }

[bixels]

In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.

He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!

You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).

Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!

But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!

[grimowled]

MUTUALS !! give this post a like if:

we haven't interacted yet (even if it's just with another muse), you don't know how to approach or are just bored or, you can't get enough of stolas and want MORE

and I shall send the creepy birb your way with something short maybe and sweet :>

reminder: by default you will get canon divergent creepy stolas BUT ... if you want canon compliant, just say 'give me the sad prince!'

[huntershowl-moving]

old and new partners welcome! if you're new and/or i can't think of anything off the bat, i may reach out to plot first. <3 will most likely range from one-liners to multipara starters. don't be shy if we already have threads going, i'm a million-simultaneous-threads kinda gal. i'll find a new angle in the character dynamic or plot to pursue. kisskiss

[pipedreams13]

loving aftg means seeing the words, "You know, I get it," and knowing some real shit is about to go down

[scatterpatter]

Feeling normal again

[noah-atwood]

OPEN STARTER for @aurorabaystarter

“Oh, this?”

Noah steps back from the bulletin board in the library with various postings for events around the community. From yard sales to sales, his laminated paper is for as it says: 

Local D&D Players New & Experienced Looking for 4 - 6 people

And his discord information for contact along with silly graphics put around it to make it eye catching. He looks at the person, “It’s been something I’ve wanted to try, and I figured the library would have some people who would like this kind of thing. Might be stereotyping, but it's between this place and the comic shop.”

[pohlepen]

my muse needs a little jump start, so like this for a tiny starter! ♡

[cricketcampbell]

NOW POSTED on community bulletin boards and telephone poles near you!

@aurorabayaesthetic

[sunday-arch]

" i'm surprised more people haven't heard of the all blue. a life near or on the seas and it's been reduced to a myth ... a far-gone legend that most laugh at. ---well, that could be all it is. " there's a melancholic edge to his tone, but it recovers quickly, blue eyes tilting up to meet the other's. " but, i'm determined to prove that wrong. it's out there. i know it. "

open starter, sanji.

[chaosfindsaway]

Open Starter

"I don't want to talk about her right now, I'm fine."

[bwaybaby]

tag dump.

[huntershowl-moving]

OPEN TO MUTUALS ————

setting: a rooftop; a city. heroes & villains ( marvel/dc, mha, etc.) but can be adapted for "heroes" to be a figurative term. time: 3 A.M.

❝ WOULDN'T TAKE ANOTHER STEP if i were you. ❞

hellhound does not turn to look at the intruder as she calls out to them in warning. instead, she sinks down onto one knee next to her mounted rifle, peering into the scope with a low, slow exhale. sure, it was likely a bad idea to pick such an open spot as a vantage point, but it was the only option – the clearest shot. this is why they elected to make their move in the middle of the night. most people aren't awake at three A.M. — but persephone is. her target is. and clearly, so is someone else: either someone who shares the territory of urban rooftops, or someone who was looking.

yeah, it's trouble — but tough shit. she is not about to let this opportunity be fucked up by a stranger.

the target, dozens of feet below her, laughs as he addresses the throng of hero-groupies pressing in on him from all sides. music from the rooftop party pulses up into the sky, barely muffled by the incessant noise. this city is crawling with the vermin that call themselves heroes, and over the last three years, her infamy as a villain has only grown as she picks them off without explanation. idiots. they stand on the shoulders of self-satisfied virtue and call themselves tall. but they are no different from anyone else — not the common folk they posture for, not the villains they hate. they all lie, cheat and kill just the same. ( and none of them are spared from her claws and teeth when their time comes. turns out, they all bleed the same, too. )

a slow, quiet breath is drawn into her lungs and held there, chest flared, heart rate dropping to maximize steadiness. the crowd is so close — one wrong move and an innocent girl dies. a pang of anxiety sparks; flashes; is snuffed out.

[starsmuserainbow]

There is a doll lying on the floor. Had she been forgotten by some child?

It did not seem like anyone was coming back to look for her, though.

[motherlymonster]

What do you call a storm that's raining cats and dogs?

A furricane!"

[chaoskalo]

i finally made tags.

— ❛❛ // AKECHI. ¦ hurling down to the house of death so many souls ・ 「 in character ! 」

— ❛❛ // PERSEPHONE. ¦ deeply unwell about goro akechi ・ 「 out of character ! 」

— ❛❛ // AKECHI. ¦ the blaring that won't let you sleep in peace ・ 「 visage ! 」

— ❛❛ // FUNCTION. ¦ i've got loose ends to tie up ・ 「 answered ! 」

— ❛❛ // FUNCTION. ¦ we always knew it would come to this ・ 「 promo ! 」

— ❛❛ // FUNCTION. ¦ i am my father's lost son ・ 「 self promo ! 」

— ❛❛ // FUNCTION. ¦ i'll admit i've had my doubts ・ 「 starter call ! 」

— ❛❛ // FUNCTION. ¦ justice is what i seek ・ 「 prompt ! 」

— ❛❛ // FUNCTION. ¦ tracking your moves like a hound on my trail ・ 「 open starter ! 」

— ❛❛ // FUNCTION. ¦ a bird in cage ・ 「 closed starter ! 」

— ❛❛ // AKECHI. ¦ you asked for this; heavy is the crown ・ 「 headcanon ! 」

— ❛❛ // AKECHI. ¦ ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves ・ 「 musings ! 」

— ❛❛ // AKECHI. ¦ don't wait for me- it's not a happy ending ・ 「 aesthetics ! 」

— ❛❛ // VERSES. ¦ your past will follow you and wage war on you ・ 「 main. ! 」

— ❛❛ // VERSES. ¦ drowning out all the lies i might have told instead ・ 「 post game. ! 」

— ❛❛ // VERSES. ¦ will i ever be something with feelings to hide? ・ 「 pjm. ! 」

— ❛❛ // VERSES. ¦ pretend like it's the first time ・ 「 pt. ! 」

— ❛❛ // VERSES. ¦ nobody's innocent now that the chips are down ・ 「 arcane. ! 」

[fvrsaeken]

The main thing she remembered, aside from the now searing, burning pain in her shoulder, was that she was trying to save her aunt Maggie. Everything else was a blur. That morning, the previous day, all of it was just blank. Fading in and out of consciousness, Judith looked up at the ceiling, or was it the sky? It was definitely bright outside. Was she outside? "Ow..." Was all she could manage to say at first, then the panic set in. "What happened? Where am I?" // OPEN!!