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[ratwhsprs]

Would you rather fight one horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses?

Spill the Tea

"A hundred duck sized horses. My rats could deal with that no problem. I'm not dealing with a horse-sized duck., it would probably start trying to eat all my rats."

[newhologram]

WOOOOOOO! Grats on the surgery! Glad you made it through okay! 🎉🎉🎉

Thanks!! It's still sinking in that it finally happened.

[razorbeard]

☺ : What is your muse’s smile like? Do they smile often? For Cale and Gustav!

Cale usually has a slight smile on his face in most casual situations but when he's with people he actively gives a shit about he's a wide energetic smile, heartfelt and joyful. Gustav is much more subtle and usually laced with some kind of smug/playful energy to it. But if you're people he actively care about and look out for it's much softer and less filled with smug cocky energy.

[brutalscaled]

What's their most hated chore around the house?

Everyday Muse Questions || Accepting!

"The never-endin' cycle of dealin' with clutter."

[vrepit-sa]

How do they manifest energy, exhaustion, tension, or other strong emotions?

42 development questions / open

Most often rather aggressively. Sendak is highly reserved, and with the exception of frustration or anger, he doesn't often express how he feels, especially anything beyond displeasure. He pours all of himself into his work, so all of these things are typically work-related for him. If he's feeling angry, he'll channel the rage into the next fight, which is never too far behind. Everything else more or less gets pushed aside or snuffed out entirely if he can't make it useful to himself in the end.

As for things like exhaustion or tension — like I said, he's reserved. So if he can afford to, he will mostly just isolate. Sendak doesn't really need to do that often, though, especially if it's been recent since his last dose of quintessence. In such an instance, he can keep going for months on end without need of any true rest.

Mostly, there's always some work-related task to be doing. There is quite literally always something to organize or work out. It's not hard to keep himself busy, which is what he does by default, nearly all of the time. He's always doing something, planning or plotting the next step or fine-tuning something else. He likes to spend pretty much every moment of his time when he's armored up in his ship doing something, and it's extremely hard to get him to do anything he doesn't consider to be Empire-related. Rarely will he do anything truly self indulgent to cope with these things.

[oculusxcaro]

📔 a recent entry!

SEND 📔 FOR A JOURNAL ENTRY WRITTEN BY MY MUSE.

I'm starting to forget things.

April 25th. Today is mum's birthday, or at least I think it is? It's somewhere around the end of April but now I'm not so sure. I debated phoning her earlier, long distance call costs be damned but as my fingers trailed over the payphone numbers, I found I couldn't remember what our home number used to be. I stood there for the longest time but nothing came to mind and then I had to get out. It's been over a year since I last heard her voice. How could I have forgotten already? I'm struggling to remember what it was like, how she sounded. How she looked. I don't have any photos of her to remind me. Prometheus took my phone. All my photos were on there, contact details, the lot. No matter how hard I try to remember, trying to recall memories is like trying to catch fog. I hope they trashed the phone, thinking it wasn't important. I'd hate for them to have called, gloating about what they've done. ... Forgot the internet was a thing. Maybe I can go to the library, look up contact details online? It might be hard since I'm living in a different country now but I have to try, Even then, what can I say? "Hi mum, happy birthday. Sorry I didn't contact you for over a year, shit happened and now I'm growing eyes all over the place. Love you, bye!" She can't know. I can't go back. Not like this.

[ratctchr]

@phoenixtheseeker said

Otis is favored by an Old God associated with rats and that’s why he can do the stuff he does? 👀

I LOVE THIS IDEA AND MIGHT MAKE IT AN AU

[networkneighbourhood]

Hey, this is the main blog of frigidmusings. There’s a lot I could say about the old Staunton Mall. I can name quite a few of the stores that used to be there. I used to shop for school clothes at JC Penny’s growing up, I used to go into KB Toys, and when I got to my tweens I shopped at the Claire’s. There was a Books-A-Million, a food court with incredible pizza, an ice cream shop..it had a lot of stuff. A CVS, a nail salon, a hair salon..

As prices on things went up, and cheaper alternative stores like Walmart were built, and the advent of online shopping, people stopped going to the mall. More and more stores started closing, and it was only in the last few years that they decided to close it for good. I remember the last time I was in there, how quiet and eerie it was. I remember how packed it used to be.

I think I heard that it was just not in a good location anymore as well, with all the road development, but I can’t verify that.

It’s a pile of rubble now, only the Belk at the far end is still standing, last I checked, cut off from the rest of the mall. I think they’re still planning to build a strip mall in its place. Seeing the pictures was kind of like seeing photos of a friend who passed away. Thank you for keeping the legacy of old places like that alive.

Apologies for the late reply! It's always such a treat to learn of the special places old malls and buildings hold in people's hearts. Malls are a gross byproduct of consumerism sure, whatever, but at the same time so comforting and harmless in their decrepit current state; full of local history, hubs of socialization... Watching them fade is like friends who aren't with you anymore. A bittersweet feeling of loss mixed with the joy of having experienced time with them. (Is it weird to have happy memories of family shopping in a Sears long gone?)

Thank you again for sharing, I'll always be loving dead malls and retail archaeology and willing to share ♡

[n0v4-z3r0]

So hey, if we are mutuals (my main blog is @phoenixtheseeker ) you are 100% allowed to send asks and starters to me even if we haven’t talked before.

[cosmic-gemstone]

20. Wild card: The mun discusses any situation/problem they want.

Stalking and harassment, with mentions of suicide, so be warned.

Back on my blog @phoenixtheseeker, I dealt with a stalker and harasser. He was an individual who developed real feelings towards me, but I did not feel the same way so I politely turned him down. He began threaten suicide, sending tons of hateful anonymous messages with information that I did not share with many people, and generally giving me severe panic attacks for several months.

I later showed the messages he sent to my therapist, talking about how badly the situation affected me. She looked at me softly, and said, “do you know that this is what emotional abuse looks like?”

But this is a real problem in the RPC. Harassment, stalking, etc. And it shouldn’t be. Over a fucking HOBBY.

[ratwhsprs]

11. how often does your muse cry? do they cry silently, privately, or out in the open?

Random HC Questions || Accepting!

It's very VERY rare that anyone will see or hear him crying, no matter the reason. It generally happens when he's alone, and he's quick to mask up and act like he's fine if someone else does show up. 

[newhologram]

WOOHOOOO! Good luck with the surgery! Hope your recovery is swift! ^_^

Thank you!

[razorbeard]

✒ Cale?

He was sitting there changing the shirt he had been cleaning and working on his gear, so it had gotten a bit of gun oil and the like when he noticed the look he got at the large X shaped scar on his chest an laughed as he said. "This thing?..." His cybernetic arm reached up and rests his hand in the center of his chest as he had a cocky vicious grin. "Got captured on a job freeing some slaves, ya know how it is on Sigma. Free one ten more take their place but I wasn't about to tell the person asking for the help to fuck off." He laughed as he reached over to the table and grabbed the Kabar standard issue combat knife. The blade was black on black with the silver shine of the honed edge, the condition and wear on the weapon screamed that it was used heavily. "They got the drop on us, stripped us of our gear and then proceeded to try and work us over to get info on WHO hired us...." The grin only seemed to get wider as he laughed and said. "These dumb fucks were CONVINCED we were from some outside gang or syndicate, convinced we were trying to steal their shit, and me being the lil asshole I am kept stringing em alongggg...till their boss showed up and that's when the real torture began." He grimaced a little as he took the knife and dragged it across his chest, where the tip of the x started down and across to the other side. "They did this for a good....hour? I really don't know how I didn't break but I didn't give em the satisfaction of begging. All I felt was hate and when I FINALLY got free, I made sure to use that hate to break every last one of those cock suckers."

[brutalscaled]

what's your muse's niche interest that they could talk for hours about?

In-Depth Headcanon Questions || Accepting!

"Not sure I'd call it a niche interest, but I'd love a solid conversation with someone about French authors. Whether that’s storylines n’ symbolism or just favorites n’ least favorites, it don’t matter."

[vrepit-sa]

What does Sendak like to eat? What are his favorite flavors? (Sweet, savory, etc)

𝙼𝙾𝚂𝚃𝙻𝚈 𝚄𝙽𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙿𝚃𝙴𝙳 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙿𝚃𝚂. status:  always accepting!

Sendak actually doesn’t eat that often.  Unlike most mortals,  at least half of what’s powering him still is more or less just supernatural (i.e, quintessence) in nature.  He’s really not supposed to be alive naturally — many of the ‘rules’ of living (needing food,  hydration,  a certain amount of sleep,  etc) do not and have not applied to him the same for ten thousand years. This doesn’t mean he doesn’t need to eat at all per se;  he needs some form of sustenance,  and he is usually capable of getting it from alternate sources.  

Food wouldn’t necessarily keep him alive as much as it would just energize him briefly and give his body vitamins/minerals it cannot get elsewhere.  So when he does eat,  Sendak prefers to pick overtly healthy foods that have high rates of vitamins and minerals and preferably calories.  A lot of the time,  he doesn’t base the choice off of picking what taste he’d rather have the most,  since he tends to be rather indifferent in that regard mostly,  but rather whatever will serve his body the most.

He does have preferred flavors,  though.  When he’s eating for the taste,  he likes powerful foods — very spicy or very bitter tastes.  Something intense and unique and probably meaty.  I’m sure it was obvious,  but he very much prefers meat,  blood and bone* over fruits and vegetables.  It’s also a delicacy to consume something still alive,  which is something Sendak will indulge in from time to time.  The fear and agony does add a special kind of spice.

* Sendak does eat bone.  Enjoys doing it,  actually.  Either gnawing on them like a rabid wolf,  snapping them with his teeth or just swallowing them whole.  He’s got strong enough stomach acids for it.

He’s also eaten Galra before,  too.  Cannibalism isn’t a commonplace cultural thing nowadays (and thus his memories of the taste are outdated) and never was over the entire Galra Empire at large, but it was a common cultural practice in the area of Daibazaal specifically Sendak was born and raised in.  

[crownofwhispers]

@cosmic-gemstone​ 

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