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3, 22 and 23!

3. Favorite musical artist / group you started listening to this year?

I think MCR misses the cutoff by a few days I listened to them the first time on like December 30th 2023 or something like that.. very late to the party ik. they count in spirit tho. I feel like this has been a big year for me in music bc my taste has really shifted like. over half of my playlist I added this year and it's 1.3k songs and I've been adding stuff since like 2019 tho tbf a lot of the old stuff I've removed now but still. really fond of sleeping with sirens who I discovered a couple months ago even tho I've only listened to one of their albums because I like it so much I dont wanna listen to anything else. the struts as well I really really love them I was obsessed with two of their albums for a couple months this summer.

22. Favorite place you visited this year?

answered here!!

23. If you could send a message to yourself back on the first day of the year, what would it be?

tia of january 1st 2024 listen to me boy there will come a day in june when you are in london with a friend and she will say hey let's get boba and you will say yeah sure. do not go to the place she points out it is seven great british pounds for a thoroughly mid drink which is just ridiculous. go somewhere else.

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🎭 Welcome to our system blog 🎭

Quick view: plural blog | diagnosed traumagenic DID system but very pro all system origins as well as self dx | no DNI

Follows from: @tennisthemedhatesex

✂️ More about us under the cut ✂️

Collective Names: Crow, Hal, Joule / Joulean, and Howl. For this blog, Twenty is also fine.

Fun fact: the only names out of these that were not chosen by me are also the weirdest. My mom almost named us Joule (double pun because she's a jeweler, and my dad is a physicist and chemist, so it's the name Jewel but spelled like the unit of energy) but my dad vetoed it. I'll die mad about that. Howl has a WHOLE TON of lore behind it, but in short: because my ex-girlfriend tried really hard to assign kin Howl Pendragon to me and because I was mostly raised by a wolf.

Collective Pronouns: fi/fien/fiend/fiends/fiendself, they/them, any neos our alters use

This blog is Twenty Faces themed for ~reasons~

There's 20 of us + favorite character of all time + why is he me. like why are we so similar fr + I think 20 is plural coded. there's so many reasons for this. watch trickster.

Alters: (I apologize for how long this is)

Miyuki: Sign-off: - Miyuki | Emoji tag: ⌛☔ | Pronouns: any | Identifies as: butch lesbian | System roles: gatekeeper, caregiver | Main system

Keiko: Sign-off: ~K | Emoji tag:🧸🌈 | Pronouns: bon/bonk/bonks/bonks/bonkself, fizz/fizz/fizzs/fizzs/fizzself, strawb/strawb/strawbs/strawbs/strawbself, joke/joke/jokes/jokes/jokeself | Identifies as: a kid | System roles: child alter, euphoriamate, battery | Main system

Jezebeth: Sign-off: - Jez OR 🦇🩸| Emoji tag:🦇🩸| Pronouns: ve/vamp/vampself | Identifies as: an omen | System roles: ex-host | Main system

Gracelynn: Sign-off: ~G | Emoji tag: 🏰🪐 | Pronouns: he/they | Identifies as: questioning gender, definitely aroace | System roles: peacemaker | Main system

R/Rei/Ray/Rachel/Ryo: Sign-off: - 🕷🌀 OR - [current preferred name] | Emoji tag: 🕷🌀| Pronouns: any | Identifies as: genderfluid aroace | System roles: inconsishost, jack of all trades | Main system

Light: Sign-off: - Light | Emoji tag: 🍎✒️ | Pronouns: He/Him | Identifies as: a man | System roles: fictive, masker | Main system

Jokul: Sign-off: ~J | Emoji tag:💄⛓ | Pronouns: he/she/it | Identifies as: faggot | System roles: ex-persecutor, memory holder, sexual alter, ex-survivalmate, catalyst | Main system + Jokul-Shogo subsystem

Shogo Makishima: Sign-off: Probably will not. Tag only. | Emoji tag: 📕👻 | Pronouns: any | Identifies as: does not care about labels | System roles: fictive, ex-persecutor, exposurist, apathy holder | Main system + Jokul-Shogo subsystem

Yahto: Sign-off: - Y | Emoji tag:❤️‍🩹🐦‍⬛ | Pronouns: he/him | Identifies as: questioning all of it | System roles: ex-protector, anger holder, bitch, catalyst | Main system + Yahto subsystem

Yahto (Original Flavor): Sign-off: - Y | Emoji tag:🔮🔪 | Pronouns: he/it | Identifies as: straight male | System roles: protector, mortician, ex-survivalmate | Yahto subsystem

Cedar: Sign-off: ~ 🪰🍖 | Emoji tag:🪰🍖 | Pronouns: he/him | Identifies as: aro bisexual man | System roles: sadist, urge holder | Yahto subsystem

Silvanus: Sign-off: - 🐺🌱 | Emoji tag:🐺🌱 | Pronouns: wolf/wolf's | Identifies as: bisexual…man? maybe? | System roles: naturalist | Yahto subsystem

Art: Sign-off: -Art | Emoji tag:🫀💉| Pronouns: he/they/it | Identifies as: gay man | System roles: fictive, caretaker/ameliorator | Yahto subsystem

L: Sign-off: ~L | Emoji tag:🐸🍭 | Pronouns: any | Identifies as: dislikes labels | System roles: fictive, insomnaut | Yahto subsystem

Philip (generic): Sign-off: - Philip | Emoji tag:🦝❓| Pronouns: they/them | Identifies as: genderfluid aromantic (sexuality depends) | System roles: inconsishost, untamed one | Yahto subsystem + Philip subsystem

Wigstan: Sign-off: -🪦 | Emoji tag:😈🪦 | Pronouns: sleu/sleuth, detect/detective, crime/scene, eye/eyes | Identifies as: genderqueer, aro, gay | System roles: protector | Yahto subsystem + Philip subsystem

Erebos: Sign-off: - Erebos | Emoji tag:🐍🕸 | Pronouns: he/she | Identifies as: a problem :) | System roles: persecutor, agressor | Yahto subsystem + Philip subsystem

Madhu: Sign-off: 💫Madhu | Emoji tag:🐝💫| Pronouns: she/her | Identifies as: aroace girl | System roles: therapist, sister figure | Yahto subsystem + Philip subsystem

Taniel: Sign-off: - Taniel | Emoji tag:☕🔎| Pronouns: they/them | Identifies as: nonbinary aroace | System roles: gatekeeper, order keeper | Yahto subsystem + Philip subsystem

Augustin: Sign-off: - A | Emoji tag:🧀🎮| Pronouns: any | Identifies as: yes | System roles: flux of all trades | Yahto subsystem + Philip subsystem

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requesting adonis or midori💕

my favorite girlboy boygirl

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TIA LOOK IZUMI SUFFERING CARD

this is the best possible thing I could wake up to 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

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happy birthday tia!!!🥳🥳🥳

thank you ray!!!

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do you have any switch story recs? i read element and pleiades night recently and now. mugi is in my brain :killu_down:

im actually so bad with recs bc I never read the important stories I'll read really short ones bc I'm so slow at reading that any of the longer and more important ones take me 509799 years I still haven't finished element.. 🥲🥲 I can give you a few recs tho

fortune banquet - it's one of my absolute fav stories switch and knights hold a live together and there are so many sorakasaisms and it's just so good mugi isn't really that much of a focus but he's there 💖

book fair - fun and silly story they hold a book fair... natsume gets jealous that mugi is working with knights for the event.. it's mostly focused on tsumugi izumi and makoto

there's also bouquet of desire which is pretty short but cute they go work at a flower shop and naru is there.. if you haven't read next door yet go do that literally changed me as a person.. and uhh there's also magical halloween which I haven't read (I live in shame) but it's a switch halloween story and they have cute witch cards so it's probably good 💥

anyway I'm the world's worst switchp lmao but I love them very much 💖

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4,10, and 14 for the artist asks

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

himeru I swear he hates me specifically because why is his hair so hard to draw. friendship ended with himeru ‼️ (also rinne and kohaku give me hell when trying to draw them that's 3/4 of crazyb...)

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw

those white shirts with the poofy sleeves that make you look like a gay pirate slash vampire ykwim. also I enjoy drawing corsets

14. Any favorite motifs?

idk if this means motifs in my art or in other art/media.. regardless I really enjoy clock motifs and flower motifs

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omg tia do youuu perhappss. have leo story recommendations (<- also an invitation to infodump)

HI. ok I haven't read that many stories I'm a really slow reader jdhfjfj but I can recommend a few 😋😋

obviously there's checkmate//lionheart//king's horseback ride//requiem which are the main knights/leo ones, there's diner live which I liked a lot, it has wataeiisms and izuleoisms and ig the other characters are there too... and it has the best eichi cg in the entire world.. blue filament which is pretty short but super cute and has leo sora interaction and they become friends and aaaaa I love them, dance on ice which is also pretty cute and has izuleo being izuleo and kaoru and rei show up for whatever reason I kinda forgot...

aaaaand next door which I read a couple days ago and it made me insane. leo my beloved knights my beloved switch my beloved. next door is soooo aughhshuagjsjkahja it took all my favorite characters in enstars and put them in one story and gave me like three whole lines about the sena family which I was eating up bc I need to know more about them and it gave a flashback to leo's whole depressive episode and that also made me insane and it had natsumugi who were being very gay. and it had naru saying omg izumi are you proposing to leo??? and izumi being annoying and its very very good and I love it a lot.

I don't read ahead so the only !! stories I've read are the ones in en and I haven't read that many ! stories either gjjfjfkg but. hopefully this helped somewhat!!!

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gintama for the dashboard osmosis ask game!

ok so!!!!! there's these three guys gintoki kagura and shinpachi(???) and uhhh they go around having adventures and stuff. I think gintoki is loser father figure and kagura is weirdgirl daughter. and there's also a cool nonbinary character with a sword. anddd they have fun and do silly things but it's also kinda deeply sad and also there's some parody episodes of other shows I think

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koga from "the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all" (long title but it's really good lmao)

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🧵 midori!!

favs:

love this one. get him out of there!!! it also has a special place in my heart because I love love love love dollhouse it made me emotional and also midori mika friendship is everything

the eternal dilemma... is it too cute to eat?

super pretty. love her

forever crying that I started playing after the sanrio collab I want the cards so bad... anyway he looks so happy I hope he gets every plushie in the whole entire world

all the jiangshi cards are literally spectacular

SO CUTE SOSOOOOO CUTE look at them right now.

least favs:

hate this one it looks so weird. girl what

bonus:

everything about this is just a masterpiece. big fan of the little keito in the back

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⭐️!!

I'm like 3 months late on answering this 😪 but anyway I assign you tsubaki from d4dj love her so much forever

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meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow 💖💖💖💖💖💖

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i havent read uhhh Any knights stories so am i good to start with lionheart or should i read other ones first? your posting has convinced me

HELLOOOO hi. knights. hi.

definitely do not start with lionheart, it requires context of both izumi and leos characters and previous events to have the Full Emotional Impact (aka ruining your life like it did to me)

I think which one you start with depends on how much you know about knights as a unit and if you want the plot stuff or an overview of them and their dynamics as a group

for plot, definitely read checkmate first, it's the pre ! story for knights and makes me unwell!!! lionheart comes chronologically after checkmate so you can read it then if you want or wait till you've read some of the other stories for more context, after checkmate there's king's horseback ride and then requiem (I'm pretty sure this is the right order? I haven't read requiem yet tho so you better not read it before me 😭)

but yeah as long as you read checkmate before lionheart you're good <- read them the other way round 🫣

I also recommend the meowsketeers scout story as an overview of knights as a unit and also bc it gave me ritsu feelings and also bc there's a kitty cat!!

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💖💖💖💖 LOVE YOUUU

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIAAA🎉🎉🎉

thank you ray!!!! 💖💖💖