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she was dead silent on the drive home, but that was okay. sometimes, after band practice, she was just out of words. it was a short drive to her house. the only part where it actually felt weird was after i pulled up her parentās driveway.Ā
after that, the silence stretched so far it smeared and left a weird residue. she kept looking at the car door like she wanted to leave, so i looked at the door too, then she looked at me, and i looked at her, and my first thought was that she was going to tell me that the door was stuck. i was used to that car always doing some damn thing. it was the car me and all my siblings had learned to drive in, and it was really beat to hell. there were dents all over the body, which weād unsuccessfully tried fixing up with spackle. it had looked nice for maybe a week, but then the sun wrecked it - the spackle cracked up like the mud on the bottom of a dry riverbed and turned a sort of off yellow-white that made the car looked like it had been molded out of chicken shit. it also had a bullet hole it through the cabin that whistled like a toothless old man whenever the car went above 40, so loud it could drown out the radio, and a cabin that smelled so strongly of bugspray that even the arizona summer we drove everywhere we could with the windows down.
(if you have kids one day, you will maybe, possibly, begin to understand how much i loved that car.)
anyway, i was thinking about what else could possibly be wrong with the chickenshitmobile, and she just kept looking at me, and then i wondered if there was something on my face, and she just kept looking at me, and then the penny dropped and i realized she was trying to work up the nerve to break up with me.Ā
now, iād seen her work up the nerve to do things like this before ā it could take quite a while. and knowing it was about to happen made the waiting immediately unbearable.Ā
so i said hey.Ā
and she looked at me, very startled, and said hey back real small. like sheād been caught. and in a way, i suppose she had.Ā
and i said itās okay. you can just say it. iāll be okay.
iām always okay.Ā
and she said: iām really sorry.Ā
i loved her, you know? it was highschool, but teenagers are capable of love. the way people love changes over time just as much as the way they stand, or the way they talk, but things donāt stop existing just because they're different. opposite really ā a thing only stops changing when it's fully gone.
and i said, nothing to be sorry for, and i meant it. she looked a little relived, and i was happy to give her that peace. then she left. i watched her make it through the front door, because that was just habit at that point, and then i sat there a while afterwards, checking how i felt. and the answer was not good, but good enough to make it home. good enough to limp on.Ā
so i put my car in reverse, took my last look goodbye, and immediately backed into her neighborās car.Ā
crunch.Ā
air bags didn't go off, which was good. i left a decent dent in the bumper of the other car. genuinely couldnāt tell if i did anything to my car ā anything wrong with it just kind of blended together into the general ecosystem of hand mottled, sun cracked, chickenshit spackle.Ā
i checked my glove box, and my car insurance info was, of course, out of date. my phone was dead too. as a teenager, my phone was less my lifeline to my friends, and more my tether to my parents, so i wasnāt particularly conscious of keeping it charged.Ā both my fault.
i sat there a few minutes, trying to think of the best way to handle things, and there was only one answer i could think of, and i hated that answer, so i spent a few more minutes trying and failing to think of a better one, and then a few more coming to peace with what had to be done.Ā
then i went back to knock on my now exās front door.Ā
her dad opened, which i was very relieved over, even if he seemed less than thrilled. he looked me over, and in a firm, but slightly apologetic way said: she does not want to see you right now.Ā
(i think he assumed i was going to try and talk her out of the break up?)
and i said not here for her. i just backed into your neighborās car, and i need to call my dad, but my phoneās dead. could i borrow yours?
and he looked at me, then back at his neighbors car, which sure enough was dented, then he looked at the chickenshitmobile, and if there was something wrong with it, it just kind of blended into the general Wrongness of the car, then back to me, and i could see him imagining the last ten minutes from my pov: getting broken up with, backing into a car, having to walk up to your exes door and borrow a phone, calling my dad to tell him that i just reversed into someone. Ā
and his expression shifted from stern and apologetic to truly sad, which felt more kind that i deserved. things only got here because i kept fucking up - forgot to look behind me, forgot to replace the insurance forms, forgot to charge my phone. it was my mess, but his sympathy meant the world to me. i probably wouldāve cried if he said sorry, or patted me on the back or called me sport, but instead he said
stay out here ā iāll bring you a phone.
and then he left. Ā
i found a nice spot on the lawn in the shade under a sycamore, then settled into his grass.i was trying not to freak out, and was doing an okay job. he came out a minute or so later, not just with a phone, but a juicebox and a jar of green olives, which really threw a wrench in the whole try not to cry thing. soon as i saw those, a few tears squoze out. i was still hoping i could pass them off as Manly Tears but then he told me that heād gotten the olives a few weeks before and had been meaning to hand them off to me, and that this was his last chance for that. then i made a sound like a horse drowning in a bog, and he patted my back pretty rough, four solid thumps, like he wasn't sure if i was crying or choking on an olive, and was trying to cover both bases at once.
then he went back inside, and i made a few more bog horse noises while finishing off the rest of the entire jar of green olives, and then i called my dad.
he was about ten minutes away that day, and luckily was home. he drove over, and we went to the neighborās house, and from there things actually went quite nice. the neighbor was a retired man who actually said he could fix the dent himself, no need for insurance. he said he appreciated that i didn't just drive off, and i said i was really sorry about his car, and he said he was really sorry about my car, and then he gestured to the chickenshitmobile and i laughed because it really was a disaster on wheels.
then we left.
i thought we were going to head straight home, but instead we went to a gas station, and we both got several slim jims that we folded into thick enough coils that we could put them on a hotdog bun because the growing up mormon equivalent of having a sad brewski with your dad is just choosing to make bad decisions sober. then he took me to the canals and we watched the sun turn all orange and pink, and he looked over at me and said:
brains are good at remembering bad days. so you gotta make sure that a bad day has a good part in in, so you can remember that too. remember that when you have a kid. try to do a good job on days like that - they're going to be a big part of how they remember you.
and then he gave me a big hug and said he was never going to eat another slim jim again.
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the year after that i went to college, which kicked my butt in new and exciting ways. and on a lot of those bad days, after a test that went sour, or a faux paus that was particularly embarrassing, or some other hardship of my new adult life, iād stop by the gas station and pick up leathery, half jerkied hotdog before heading to the canals to watch the sun set. iād take a bite and imagine my dad next to me, grimacing through the slim-jim wad, asking what good thing i was going use that time to remember.Ā
and in my head, iād say you, dad.Ā
iām going to remember you.
#babylon-lore#dad lore#stories#breakups#gas station hotdogs#i really like green olives okay#i dont have a sense of smell so if food isnt like WHAM in the flavor department it just doesnt do a lot for me#in my sophomore year i ate so many homemade pickles that i actually got a wee bit of scurvy#major autism L
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#a-yuan#wei wuxian#lan wangji#This is my 666th post and *boy* has it ever lived up to it's cursed number. That's a story for another day though.#I might be the only person who finds this punchline funny but I'm commiting to it anyway.#Yes - it is plot convenient timing to have there be a character who happens to have fast transportation when disaster strikes.#It's also something I appreciate writers doing because sometimes you want your scenes to move along.#Cultivators zoom around on swords and it's basically a fast travel system.#I don't think we get a lot of information about how far apart places are-#-except in that one scene about the distance between Lotus Pier and Xuanwu Cave.#What...*is* the speed of sword transportation? I have to imagine it can't be too much faster than a moderate jog.#Or maybe cultivation magic also runs a current to your feet that creates a magnet like effect to the sword.#Okay. Out of this mind pit. I'm changing the topic.#I like to imagine that the real reason A-yuan is there is because he has an incredible sense of smell. And WWX's olfactory senses are weak#A-yuan is like a earthquake detecting dog - but for smoke.#Wait they have dogs that help detect smoke too...#Okay he's like a dog that detects smoke. But for a necromancer's experiments going berserk.#...Did they tell a-yuan about this talisman or has it happened before? Oh no...another mind pit....#EDIT: NO WAY THE CURSE CONTINUES AND I FORGOT TO ADD THE PAGE NAVIGATORS....
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who do you think would deal better with being isekai'd into omegaverse, marc or vale? alternatively which is more compelling
most beautiful ask. in the world. so funny. ummmm i think. vale is maybe more compelling because his issues with it would be. perhaps unsolvable and endlessly complex. guy who is a lil weird about gender, not terribly into the concept of marriage, and is pretty fundamentally adverse to being. shall we say emotionally legible/vulnerable. exposed. and omegaverse as a genre is all about exposure. its all. giving into the base instincts of your body and those same instincts giving you away to the object of your affections. its going into heat and the person youre in love with is the only one available to help you through it. its scenting someone and that being a crystal ball of their emotions and bodily state ESPECIALLY ie how much they want you specifically. its needing someone so bad you are literally insensate. its getting bonded 5ever and ever irrevocably, OFTEN in the heat of an instinctual moment without the relationship negotiation that happens irl. a genre centered around a betrayal of the body/heart to the mind, in many ways
now imagine you didnt actually grow UP in an omegaverse so you have no toolbox to DEAL with all that. sensory input off the SHITS. and. like suddenly and without WARNING now vale can feel in his CHEST exactly how distressed marc marquez is about every one of their interactions. and how much he wants his ass. like truly every part of his hind brain is like jesus christtttttt i should be inside him right tf now im a terrible alpha. and then the higher part of his brain is like what the fuck. what the fuck. i am not responsible for marc, what the fuck. and oh hey theres a bump on my penis i need to ask people about this right the hell now. thats vale. so i see this as a somewhat fraught comedy of sex errors where his ADHD ass is treading horny water trying to learn alpha manners and also. much more complexly. not fall into all of the traditional alpha expectations/roles. that little trap of gender. because at heart vale is a little trickster who loves to buck expectations!!! and maybe his journey here is realizing that he can just be himself comma sex freak. and that leaning into those "alpha" traits doesnt mean he is conforming lmao he can still have his own unique version of his family. learning the norms of a society and what makes sense to him and what still doesnt. sorting through the weeds of it. and that being vulnerable rules sometimes. and that marc loves him. because that last one is kind of hard to ignore now... again because of that emotional and physical vulnerability that comes with the genre... honestly him knowing all of that about marc without having to actually TALK about it may solve some of their problems tbh. like why work through all that verbally when you can sniff them and then fuck them. kind of the omegaverse fantasy in quite a few ways
marc. jeez louise. i think would HATE it more. at first. control freak 9000. maybe has to miss races for heats. suppressants arent legal. experiencing weird omega sexism if we want to go that route OR. my favorite. has been lying to the press about his status since he presented. tiniest 15 yr old youve ever seen: im an alpha ! :3 uh sure bud. sure. i bet. SO actually maybe he falls into a world where hes just been white-knuckling it for the last billion years during race weekends and most of the paddock kind of KNOW (scent blockers only go so far...) but are lowkey afraid to call him on it dlkjdfljldsfd... similar to vale in this scenario, he sort of has to learn how to omegaāĀ and when his heat hits during summer break and his ass start leaking in the middle of the spanish equivalent of walmart, he finds a psycho little ziploc bag of sweaty vale shirts under his bed and he genuinely is like girl what the hellllllllllll.... wiggin out. and his next heat he turns up to race with truly NO practice managing it all, so its way more obvious than normal and the farce is growing thinner and vale literally pulls him aside to be like hey are you GOOD ? but in that valentino not that i care about your ass kind of unspeakably divorced way and marc is like woag. bc a pheromone truck just ran him over. eyes glassy face flushed sweaty as hell mouth a little open.... and he opens his mouth to make an excuse and nothing comes... and then obviously they fuck like its the end of the WORLD
and like i DO think marc pulls out of it more cleanly than vale overall, bc something in HIS lizard brain would be deeply soothed by like. excelling at being an omega. getting an A + in being a bottom. doing that for vale, specifically in the context of pushing his body to the absolute LIMIT to do it.... hes locked in. its go time. and then theres the insane possibility of vale putting his mouth on his neck and them getting basically soulbonded forever where they have to have crazy sex every few months ? hes like ummmm okay. i could get used to this for a while lmao
#huge thanks to dante who worked some of this out with meeeeee#motogp#callie speaks#asks#rosquez#marc is also a noted smell diva. so i think he would really hate/enjoy all that...#meanwhile in another universe vale sniffing arounfd the paddock like. what smells like sexy gasoline. is anyone getting that ? just me ?#and uccio is sitting there like. you KNOW thats marc what the hell#vale as always much harder to solve in a given scenario. dont even know if it makes sense or i agree with it...#like its the new gendered expectation of a REALLY traditional family structure and i mean his family structure NOW isnt really that untrad#but i think coming into NEW gender/societal expectations would be weird ! especially concering the underpinnings of classic abo stories#and a lot of stories are about rebelling against those and i think it could work with vale ! is all im trying to say. badly.#idk send me some asks maybe im working through it
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(Not) Lonely SANTA's Mission - Track EP
Seasonal Event: Christmas 2024
Finally, the nagishuu chapter... If possible, do try to read the translation alongside the in-game chapter so see Nagi's expressions change in real time.
Location: HAMA House - Living Room
Tao: *sigh* Iām backā¦Ā
Nagi: Welcome back, Tao. Thank you for taking the time to help despite the cold outside.
Raito: Oh? Whereās Kuguri?
Tao: Donāt ask me. I left him behind.
Tao: I tried contacting him through the headset but got no response. We handed the present over to Murakumo-san with no problems, though, so rest assured.
Liguang: You must have been troubled, Kinouchi. But I appreciate it all the same.
Tao: I mean, heās always like that.
Nagi: With this, we can finally say Mission Santa: Complete.
Nagi: I wouldnāt have been able to pull this off by myself. Please accept these bath bombs as a present from me.
Nagi: Tao, thank you for lending me your strength as part of Team Noel.
Tao: Ahaha, youāre welcome.
Nagi: Kuguri-san might not be here butā¦ Iām happy he helped out too. Iāll make sure to give him his present later.
Nagi: Raito-san, you had to run around HAMA for my sake as part of Team Ginger, thank you for your help. HAMA Nice Ramen.
Raito: HAMA Nice Ramen, too! Feel free to call me anytime you need my help, or my cooking.
Liguang and Nagi: ā¦ā¦Ā
Liguang: (The night felt long, and yet it passed in the blink of an eyeā¦)
Nagi: Liguang-san, about what you wrote on this cardā¦Ā
Liguang: Hm?
Nagi: āNo man is a failure who has friends.ā I think I wouldāve given up again if it werenāt for this.
Liguang: āAgain?ā
Nagi: Iām used to not having my wishes granted. That Iād dare wish for something beyond my reachā¦ Itād only be natural that it would slip through my fingers.Ā
Liguang: Beyond your reach, huhā¦Ā
Nagi: I was lucky to have you advise me. Having such admirable people whoād lend me a hand is the best gift of all.
Nagi: Since you helped me out yet again, Iāll redouble my efforts to repay you starting from tomorrow. Iām willing to do anything from wake-up calls to shoulder massagesā
Liguang: That wonāt be necessaryā¦ Iāll admit, I enjoyed myself as well.
Liguang: Hachinoya. Itās not so bad to have more people to treasure.
*Liguang leaves*
Nagi: Ahā¦ I can feel it.
Nagi: (The arrival of happiness.)
Location: HAMA House - Terrace
*winds blowing*
Nagi: Brrā¦Coldā¦ Good, this is exactly what I need.Ā
Nagi: (First, Iāll sit down on a chair covered in snow.)
Nagi: (And nowā¦ to dump some of this snow down my shirtā¦)
*Nagi shivers*
Nagi: ā¦! ā¦!!
Nagi: O-O-OkayāĀ
Nagi: (That should keep the Yajirobe in balance for the time being.)
Nagi: *sigh* ā¦My sinuses hurtā¦Ā
Nagi: (Ohā¦ There are lights on in the mansion across from hereā¦)
Nagi: A Frame of Happiness: āHouses Lit Up at the Dawn of Christmasā... Card captured.
Nagi: ā¦ā¦Ā
Nagi: āThe Department Store on Christmas Day.ā
Nagi: āFamily Car Packed Tight on Christmas Day.ā āChristmas Trees and Ornaments that Reappear Annually.ā
Nagi: (I love this season. Everyone gets to experience a Christmas miracle, just like in the movies. I canāt help but share in the happiness, even if itās just leftovers from other people.)
Nagi: āA Family Crossing the Road, Huddled Together Like Penguins.ā āA Baby Swaddled in the Backseat of a Car.ā
Nagi: āBreaths that Mist Together.ā
Nagi: (In the space between myself and the scenery in front of me, I can see an outline of what could have been, if I had a family of my ownā¦)
Nagi: Yep. As I thought, I canāt help but feel uneasy when I donāt have someone I can impose my excess happiness onto.
Nagi: (I should try and remember how I got by before I met the Chief, instead of just sitting around and tracing the patterns formed by other peopleās families.)
Nagi: Phewā¦Ā
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???: Nagi-kun?
Nagi: ā¦Chief?
Chief: What are you doing out here, so early in the morning?
Nagi: I could ask you the same thing. I thought youād be arriving later since you were with your family.
Chief: Ermā¦Ā
Chief: (I canāt very well tell him that I regretted not making sure of what his plans were for Christmas Eveā¦ And that I cut my plans short to come back earlyā)Ā
Chief: My brother had something come up, so we decided to part ways sooner than expected.
Nagi: I see. I guess that can happen some years, since you know you have the next year, and the year after that toāĀ
Chief: āSo, what brought you out here now?
Chief: (I was worried whether Nagi-kunās past might cause him to have mixed feelings about this seasonā¦ Is that why heās awake so early in the day?)
Nagi: I couldnāt keep up with my debt of happiness, so Iāve been using the cold and the snow to keep my Yajirobe in check.
Chief: ā¦So that means youāre not out here because youāre sad, or lonely, right?
Nagi: Huh? Yeah.
Chief: Thank goodnessā¦! That means youāre happy enough that itās actually turned into a debt, huh!
Nagi: ā¦Yeah.
Nagi: Oh, right. Welcome home, Chief.
Chief: Yeah! Iām glad to be back!
Nagi: ā¦ā¦Ā
Chief: (Iām relieved. He looks like heās in a good mood.)
Chief: Right! Iāve brought you back a souvenir as a Christmas present!
Nagi: This isā¦ A huggable koala doll?
Chief: Yeah! These were handcrafted by an artisan, each and every one having a unique face!
Chief: So I splurged and got one for everyone at HAMA Toursā¦ I couldnāt help but think this little one here has a face that kinda looks like yours.
Nagi: Thereās no way I look this prettyā¦Ā
Chief: Here, Iāll put it on your finger.
Chief: Merry Christmas, Nagi-kun!
Nagi: ā....
Nagi: (āThe Reassuring Feeling of a Koalaās Hug.ā ā¦This is the strongest card.)
Nagi: ā¦This is dangerous.
Chief: Huh?
Nagi: If I didnāt already have a gift on hand, Iād be worried that HAMA House would explode on the spot. Bombed, even.
Chief: A bomb?
Nagi: Merry Christmas, Chief. This is my present for you.
Nagi: Itās a bath bomb. You can use it next time you take a long soak in the bath.
Chief: Oh wow, thank youā¦!Ā
Nagi: ā¦ā¦Ā
Nagi: (Wait. What if my shoddy handicraft is making her cringe on the insideā¦ I mean, thatād go for everyone else too.)
Nagi: (Maybe I should just take them all back before everyone wakes upā)
Chief: The smell of flowers and soap is really comforting, just like you, Nagi-kun!
Nagi: ā¦!
Nagi: Oh, um, I tried choosing flowers thatād suit everyone individuallyā¦.Ā
Chief: What! Thatās really impressive!!Ā
Akuta: WOOOOAHHHH, WHAT THE HECK IS THISā!! SANTA!? IS SANTA ACTUALLY FOR REAL!?
Ushio: SO FUCKING LOUD!! Can you NOT shout right in my ear first thing in the morning!? How has your throat not gone to hell by now!?
Chief: ā¦Huh? Whyās it so noisy inside?
Chief: Letās go back in for now. We should ask them what happened!
Chief: Cāmon Nagi-kun! Christmas is about to start!
Nagi: ā¦Ah, yeah.
Nagi: (Does this meanā¦ I finally get to peek into the other side of āHouses Lit up at the Dawn of Christmas?ā)
Nagi: (What a wonderful Christmas this turned out to beā¦)
Note:
The flower used in the bath bomb Nagi made for the Chief are red tulips, which in flower language can have the meanings "love's confession" and "gratitude for family."
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Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did š
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#18trip#18tlip#18trip translation#nagi hachinoya#momiji hamasaki#kaede hamasaki#seeing shunin's speech bubble for the first time makes it feel like Nagi really was the protagonist#of his own christmas movie#once again he blushes when shunin laughs#and please observe how his eyes slowly light up when shunin puts the doll on his finger *coughs* engaged *coughs*#nagi's admitted he doesn't really know how to live without shunin in his life anymore#and shunin actually cut their holiday short just to be with nagi#it's not kafka or yukikaze they thought of this christmas but nagi#his tcg he created based on little moments of happiness and he says the koala hug is the strongest one (most memorable)#shunin blew his doubts away in an instant by saying his gift smelled as comforting as him when he was worried they'd be grossed out#also he used red tulips for his personalized bath bomb to shunin enough said#which makes sense considering his card story happens before this where shunin unambiguously calls him family#I have many feelings#if you read the tags thank you for indulging my insanity#lu liguang#raito kitakata#tao kinouchi#event story translation#NOT lonely santa mission
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first draft of āpremonition of loveā has officially begun <3
#itās Been beginning for months but i made an outline for the plot that i think actually makes sense now š#this is very bare bones & is subject to change esp in terms of adding descriptive imagery & atmosphere & dialogue#but itās a starting point!!!!! and iām proud of starting it :ā)#BLACK IS THE COLOR!SUGURU X READER MY ULTIMATE BELOVEDS THIS ONE IS FOR YOU āš¼š«#iām happy w the calligraphy canvas line šāāļø need to fix it up a bit but :3#also iād like to thank my haikuuu!! playlist in advanceā¦ the summer love of it will hopefully inspire a lot of the story#suguru smelling good is canon and reader sniffing the air like an aardvark is also canon#just wanna put that out thereā¦ā¦ā¦. reader is the realest āš¼#snippets#personal
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my babies ... they're fighting again ... its hurts me so .... I mean I know the makeup sex is going to be spectacular, but ... I hate it when mommy and daddy fight š¢<-says the dumbass crybaby making them fight
#one of my weaknesses as a writer#apart from an abysmal sense of setting#is that i hate conflict#and so i feel like i'm not great at writing it#and then when i DO inject some genuine conflict back into my stories#i feel so guilty about it#writing#yslt#you smell like trouble#karl heisenberg#karl heisenberg x reader#karl heisenberg x you#lord heisenberg#lord heisenberg x reader#but yeah karl's back from his family reunion and he's being a little turd#he and reader are about to lock horns again#and i think i've come up with very a satisfying way to bring them back together :3
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a while ago on the discord i brought up the "which desk at the station is forrest's desk" question when the answer should probably have been obvious. he's been at the job for approx. one week, so it's the desk with all the unpacked boxes. it just didnt occur to me because thats Frankly A Lot Of Boxes and my first thought was this is where all the storage and junk are piled on, but no. it's all stuff forrest brought (/hc). he's a heavy packer. he spite packed all the stuff he didn't want his old job to keep even if he doesnt need or even like them all that much but now that he's blacklisted then no one in the entirety of chicago can have them
#killer frequency#forrest nash#i'm also half convinced tbh that the bulk of what he brought in are station supplies lmao#so to disingeniously bring up a further point in the tags again instead of sensibly adding to the main post#the game has this narrative tension btwn audio storytelling vs visual storytelling#especially in regards to forrest's character/impression vs the impression we the viewers have of The Town#environmentally- this town is Filthy lmao i'm so sorry everyone but like#forrest bringing up A Smell after we are Surrounded the whole game by dead bugs left everywhere#and both inside and outside the station just Looking Like That#like he's Not just being mean but he is absolutely not being gentle about it either#this touches on the town being in disrepair perhaps bc of local officials not doing much to promote/maintain upkeep#as well as clive the station janitor being BUSY with other projects lmao#but in the protag's POV where he's been upended from his life and then finds himself in a building infested with bugs#also with a brand new sleep schedule. ok he is going to be A Bit Grumpy About It (better or worse depending how you RP him lol)#but yeah i do like that very subtle tension bc this is largely an audio driven story#and in that sense it's easy to just brush off all of forrest's pettiness to him just being a mean person full stop#ALL THIS TO SAY that i think forrest packed five or more boxes of bug repellent ty for coming to my ted(dy) talk#and also more music/soundbites & tech bc KFAM is a bit lacking from what he's used to#\o/ UNCALLED FOR CHARACTER BUILDING!!
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Merfolk
Merfolk are not human. It is absolutely vital to surviving an encounter with one that you understand this.
Whether or not they are people is as confounding a question to humans as whether or not humans are people is to mer.
They appear to have feelings, they seem to be capable of rational thought and the ability to reason, but their philosophical framework is so different that even with the language barrier removed, we still wouldnāt be able to understand each otherāand that is without trying to account for different perspectives shaped by individual experience.
Merfolk culture is no more homogeneous than human. One mer is as likely to think drowning a sailor is the morally correct action as another is to help them back to shoreāanother may very well drown a human trying to save them, meaning no ill but lacking an understanding the differences in their respiratory systems.
Whether or not mer were once human (or humans once mer) is equally debatable; whether or not one can become another, or if they can produce offspring, likewise depends largely on what stories you believe.
The busty, long haired beauties sailors tell stories of bear little resemblance to the biological reality; yes, mermaids are very pretty by human standards, but as they arenāt mammals the only reliable visual indicator of whether one is male or female is the size and shape of their adipose fins, and as their hair isnāt hair at all, but a sensory organ that serves more as a sense of smell (they breathe water through their mouths, to their gills, and air through their noses, to their labyrinth) than anything else, it doesnāt grow much longer than their shoulders.
And they look far less human up close than they do from a distance; they have teeth similar to that of a shark, webbed fingers, their skin, where it isnāt scaled, is still iridescent, and their āhairāwhile it feels to the touch more like human hair than their skin feels like human skin, is animate, moving in response to what they smell (though their sense of smell is much diminished out of waterāand if they are out of water too long it is this tissue that begins to die first, long before their skin begins to crack or their tails to flake).
(Some do however like to weave things such as seaweed and jewelry into their hair, which could account for some illusion of their hair being longer than it really is.)
Their pupils can dialate much larger than a humanās but cannot constrict as well, so one is more likely to see a surfacing shoal at dawn or dusk, when the light isnāt blinding, and while their vocal cords are much longer, allowing them to produce sounds both higher and lower than audible to a human, their tongues are too short to make the sounds produced by touching the tongue to the lips, teeth, or front of the hard palate (ss and zz, th, d and t, j, n); their language is mostly tonal, akin to whalesong.
(All this to say Biter is probably going to need some ye old steampunk sunglasses once he gets legs, and is going to be extremely fussy about keeping his hair wet.)
(And also merfolk purr for their young because I will shoehorn in purring to every non-human species I ever write ever always fiveever.)
#tpq#mermaids#mer#merfolk#worldbuilding#sunny writes#more like sunny collects which mermaid stories/theories she likes best and wants to use for her story#no claims of originality#except the hair as a sense of smell thing I THINK I came up with thatā¦
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Question: if I were to listen to an entire album from The Crane Wives for the very first time, which album would you recommend? :0
(I havenāt listened to many of their songs but really recently Iāve been wanting to! Figured Iād ask an expert lol)
OOO! OOO! OOO!!! Ok itās between The Fool In Her Wedding Gown and Coyote Storiesā¦
The Fool In Her Wedding Gown is more folky and acoustic, itās got a lot of anger and energy in it in the best way possible. But itās also got How To Rest which is such a gentle heart achey song that everyone should listen to it RIGHT this second!!
Coyote Stories is when the electric guitar comes in. Itās songs are sooo lyrically beautiful, Unraveling, The Moon Will Sing, NEVER LOVE AN ANCHORR!!! Lots of feels in this one
So yeah i recommend one of those two (both ideally since they sound so different from each other but do whatever you want. Forever)
#I kept wanting to describe them through metaphors dkdhdj#oh yeah The fool in her wedding gown feels and smells like wood.#coyote stories is foggy and feels like walking in a running stream of water. watch the rocks! some are sharp and will cut you#<- sentences that only make sense to me#Ty for the crane wives ask hehe#I love the crane wives all my homies love the crane wives#rozu asks#ghosts and blue sweaters
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somebody shoot me with a gun until I am dead before I write the first chapter of that pirate thing for like. Genuinely the eighth or ninth time.
#i have versions i like the vibes of#i have versions i like the pacing of#i have versions i like the writing of#i have not a single one that manages to hit even 2 out of those 3 criteria#Like. I think part of the issue is the setting is dreamy its soft and floaty and things arnt Right#but the first thing that happens is a guy loudly boasting about how much hes going to enjoy sexually assaulting his deuteragonist#hes lying. but Toi'uhla doesn't know that. The people ze is choosing to sacrifice zerself for dont know that.#the child whos experiencing the fear of death for the first time doesn't know hes bluffing either.#and the entire time theyre on a boat thats floating in empty nothing in a universe that has no stars left.#So much of making a tangible Threat like that hit is slowing for a moment and describing the ugly details of like#existing. as a physical person in a physical world. This horrible thing is happening and while it does the wind is messing up your hair#That sort of thing.#But there is no wind. there is no water. or rain. Toi'uhla's sense of smell is almost non existent. so ze cant think about the body oder#of that many people in that close of quarters.#And all while this is happening. i have to set up that these are two alien species with distinct cultures and Very different perspectives#on what is happening. Lordakai Senior is the one who lead the raid that killed Toi'uhla's sire and zer siblings.#But ze only knows the name Lordakai. bc for Zer it is completely reasonable to assume that the two Lordakai's are the same guy#Koita are long lived. Toi'uhla has never had reason to learn how to tell how old they are#Lordakai jr is absolutely riding on his dads name. but he doesn't know his dad was a privateer#So like. Theres a lot of shit happening in a weird setting#With two characters that need to Mesh while both putting up complete fronts.#and it needs to set up the stakes and themes for the rest of the damn story.#qnd its just a lot man. I love this project. i love these characters. but there's so many moving pieces bc theres had to be to make enough#Stuff to fill out the long spaces where they're just. on a pirate ship. being bored.#im probably over thinking this#blehgh
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my mom: i feel like you don't even like pasquale, it's just that the spite and the complaining registers at the same frequency as your own
me: *speechless*
#yeah. that person who just HAS to bring that one thing up and ruin the vibe. also the way he does it#i brought this up before but i love it when expressing your opinion isn't this Epic Moment. no emotional music no drum roll#because that's how that actually feels like. saying something you think is important. there's no music#there's just someone clumsy at being a person so you can smell that sense of inadequacy on them#but they know how to do that one thing. and it's cool and memorable if it happens once.#but spending time with that person is hell#this is also why i like lila. i just. know she's a person the whole time.#act 2 isn't followed by act 3 because there are no acts. there's just existing.#but i also love how mbf tries to give those acts to the story but... it can't. we will never know#who killed don achille. and the illusion that it all starts there is also a narrative device#because elena and lila see that as act 1 for a long time. but lila slowly demolishes that concept. one of the first cracks being#hearing about the past from pasquale. i love the battle between the paper and the actual...#nothing can fit in there nothing can be contained in a book but that doesn't stop us from trying to capture it... and that's so cool...#and it's sooooo marvellous how ferrante manages to accomplish this message as a writer...#she caught something that shouldn't be caught... and in-universe it's elena who does that#this post went everywhere lol#ferranteposting#letters from stephanie*
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You're mine now, old man.
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#a-qing#xiao xingchen#A-qing's story kicks off so strong. You really get a sense that she feels strongly attached to xxc during the pre-empathy scenes#and that she has a strong sense of loyalty and perseverance with strong survival instinct#but then you see her before all the tragedy and you *immediately* learn she is a clever trickster!#She follows xxc not out of gratitude but out of a sense that this guy is her meal ticket.#xxc is kind and strong but most importantly *noble*#she can smell the self-sacrificing bright eyed hope on this stranger. She knows the mere fact she's a young blind girl means#he will protect her. The fact he gives her a little money doesn't hurt her justification but tbh she would have followed all the same#a-qing is *the* catgirl of all time actually. Follows you for the fact you provide food and shelter. Opportunistic. May grow to be loyal.#That's not even getting into the parallels here between these two characters and wwx (who is seeing these events play out)#the yi city trio are arguably the three split aspects of wwx: who he feels like (a-qing the opportunist) who he wants to be (xxc the noble)#and who he feels seen as (xy the vengeful).#one day I'll write a more robust analysis on that. prob in the tags though#(His a-qing parallels are also tied with the fact they both were street rat orphans who learned how to code-switch to be whoever#they need to be to feel safe. I have a lot more thoughts to share but augh another time...another time)
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Hi Pia
Hope you don't mind me asking but would you ever write a story with a human/nonhuman pairing?
Most of your works, from what I've read so far, are either nonhuman/nonhuman or human/human. Never human/nonhuman. Is there a particular reason for this?
And would you ever write a story that has a main human/nonhuman relationship?
I've written it! You might not know about my other account (it's where I'm posting Palmarosa and A Stain that Won't Dissolve currently) but you can find this more than once over at my fanfiction account: thespectaclesofthor
Anon, you might want to read Stuck on the Puzzle which is a human and a humanoid - The Iron Bull, who is qunari, and not human. Human/nonhuman pairing right there! :D
You might also want to read Eversion which is a human and an android! So another human/nonhuman pairing.
I would say All the Loose Threads (the original Flitmouse/Anton fic) also covers this (human + unconditional immortal being, but it was abandoned after a chapter. You can still read about their side relationship in The Golden Age that Never Was though! Series link is here.
It's definitely something I've tackled before, and might again in the future if the base concept interests me enough! So yeah, I've written it, and there's no particular reason I don't write it, because I do. Some of my longest fanfics are human/nonhuman pairings.
#asks and answers#thespectaclesofthor#also they're two of my favourite fics so if you read them i hope you enjoy them!#the focus on human vs. nonhuman stuff is probably most evident in Eversion#for a lot of reasons#but it's still evident in Stuck on the Puzzle too#from the kind of horn balm/liniment Bull needs#to his sense of smell#to a completely different culture and connection to emotion#i hope you enjoy the stories :)
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i wish i wasnāt capable of physically feeling the presence of someone in a building even when i canāt see them. i know i sound insane but theres like 4-5 people i have a psychic connection with whether i like it or not. im sitting in a cafeteria with like 100 ppl n im by a hallway that leads to a door on the side of the building n someone will go in or out every 5 minutes or so n you know bc its a loud squeaky door. n like the 7th time i heard it open the guy i had planted myself here specifically to say hi to i had the impression it was him before he even like emerged from the enclosed area. and it was of course. its almost annoying i dont want to be so aware
#i heard it n my body language started shifting n i was like oh it must be him bc im having an involuntary response n it wassss#happens with a guy i work with too heās never consistent on when he shows up but i still can feel whether or not hes in the building#or ill get like. this is REALLY strange but sometimes i close my eyes n i get flashes of visuals or sound#like im seeing or hearing from another persons perspective#so one time i was in the shower n i got a flash of a certain song that i only hear in the store n i saw a bit of the freezer section#n i was feeling bold n strange so i texted the guy like are they playing this song right now#n he said . yes why n i just ignored it i wasnt about to explain i had a brief experience where i could see through his eyes.#smells too the smells are the most intense indicator that my mind is recieving input from someone elses senses#idk if ive told all my psychic smell stories though#ofc reading the story its more likely that the song just popped into my head as a random thought bc i am familiar with every single song#they play in the store and i know what time he stocks frozen stuff#but its more fun for me to believe i can briefly look through the eyes of another person. for some reason i find this enjoyable
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