#pale prose

[basilpaste]

traditional fretka doodle that i digitalized real messily. its been my guinea pig for sketch stuff recently because of a silly little rp blog i run with xem.

im tryin to get better at muscles and stuff! it seemed like a pretty good candidate for working on that ;^^

(the character in this post uses it/any pronouns! thank you!)

[skullfuckasswhore]

Sun bleached.

[derangedrhythms]

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

David Foster Wallace, from ‘The Pale King’

[europasage]

humans. humans and their feigned epiphanies at jokes they don't understand, their held-in breath when they look at the moon in any of its phases, the way they make little trinkets for each other's birthdays, or simply as a thank you for being alive. their wonder when they catch their first glimpse of the untouched snow in the early hours of the morning, or how they stop just to pet a cat when walking home. they paint and they cry and they dance. their poetry, their frustrated sighs, their laughter. all of it.

[okyo-girl]

-grace crnojević, Intimates, 2023.

[birchbow]

I am so so behind on price of forgiveness but your pinned has kind of become a comfort read for me and I have a clown scripture question (sorry if this has already been answered in the text)

Is there an equivalent of the book of hot shit for the other quadrants?

lololol it's enormous and very time-consuming to read so tbh that's super fair. To be very transparent about my thought processes; I somehow didn't think of having Hot Shit address other quadrants, and as very much a Moiraillegiance Guy I'm now kind of mad I didn't think of it lol.

....ALTHOUGH if one book of a GHB's raunchy letters is going to be canonized, I see no reason to think that they wouldn't have written raunchy letters in other quadrants that could therefore be canonized as well--the fact that the main three trolls we've seen who would quote scripture at each other are Gamzee, Kurloz, and Halore, whose mess is all tangled up in hearts, would probably give me plausible deniability if I just casually dropped at some point that there are chapters of Hot Shit in other quadrants that one could quote....

This process of "oh man something just occurred to me (or somebody just suggested/inspired a fun idea), how can I justify that into this ridiculous fic" happens about ten times an hour while I'm writing, lmao, welcome to the mind of the author.

[invertilluminate]

Also: The most talented, beautiful and bigfat Everlux who everyone wants carnally but she mostly just wants to quit her job and get out of the Sunbeam Ruins

[nieceofshakespeare]

Allow me, by me <3

[basilpaste]

did someone say pale prose lineup!!! no? well! here it is regardless!!

in ascending order, this lineup includes: Chasse Valzer (she/her), Jabber Pobble (they/them), Charle Jitter (she/they), Fretka Neogal (it/any), Alouis Pavone (he/they), Sunett Whilom (she/her), Mukkuk Guhack (he/him), and Onette Loutka (he/him).

[skullfuckasswhore]

You are the only thing that matters.

[cbk1000]

Listen. Nabokov had a fine ear for the musicality of language; but if people had been less afraid of that crabby old man and his sharp tongue, they definitely would have accused him of purple prose.

[outstanding-quotes]

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

[lacewovenoleander]

𝑜𝒷𝓈𝒾𝒹𝒾𝒶𝓃 𝒷𝓁𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝓈𝒾𝓁𝓀𝓎 𝒽𝒶𝒾𝓇, 𝒹𝑜𝓁𝓁 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝓈𝓅𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝑜𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀@lacewovenoleander

[okyo-girl]

-grace crnojević, Intimates, 2023.

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[theanoninyourinbox]

Thea Villager Adventures - off screen adventure

CLEARING THE WOODLAND MANSION

After leaving her home village to find a new, safer home (and days upon days of trekking, mining, and fighting monsters), Thea made it to the biome that stirred her heart - The Pale Garden. She built a house atop of a nearby tree, and as she stood back and admired her handiwork, she saw through the trees…an enormous house?! Big enough to fit her whole village AND some guardians!!!

But there were Illagers afoot.

Her battles were fierce. Employing three-block stacks to defeat the Vindicators, and bows and running as fast as she could for the Evokers, she cleared the Mansion in a week. Then she trekked all the way back to her village to gather her friends.

Thankfully the long walk back was peaceful (her villagers all stuffed into dirt houses overnights was a trial itself), and they were very excited at their new home. And at the already provided Golems (Thea had SO much iron in her bundles it was crazy).

And then Thea found the cavern beneath the Garden…