#three determinate states the cat could be in: dead. alive. bloody furious. | ABT: janet

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you'd think that the biggest silmhead* among my muses would be the middle-aged librarian, but you'd be wrong. It's the dubiously 20-something sideshow crust punk.

*silmhead, (n.) - an enjoyer of Tolkien's Silmarillion, esp. one whose enthusiasm verges on the rabid and/or encyclopedic

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what doesn't kill you makes you really weird at parties | IC: janet, three determinate states the cat could be in: dead. alive. bloody furious. | ABT: janet,  get it — see food | AES: janet,  dirtiest mouth this side of the mississippi | MUSINGS: janet,  but it waved its sadness like a battle flag | ST: janet, 

the gal with the muck rake | IC: bessie, the truth shall make you free | ABT: bessie,  all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses | AES: bessie,  but we fight for roses too | MUSINGS: bessie,  for the people hear us singing | ST: bessie,

hey there trouble! | IC: dyalla, big teeth. big arms. big hugs. | ABT: dyalla, a muscle the size of your fist | AES: dyalla, keep on loving! keep on fighting! | MUSINGS: dyalla, spit teeth，shut up，and sing! | ST: dyalla,

like pulling teeth | IC: pliers, time to learn to enjoy the apocalypse | ABT: pliers, the light from a city on fire | AES: pliers, the knowledge that the flames will burn higher | MUSINGS: pliers, there’s a scream in everything | ST: pliers,

take a gamble | IC: p.t., seventeen confidence schemes in a tacky overcoat | ABT: p.t., the ol’ razzle dazzle | AES: p.t., well... the stupidity is mostly feigned | MUSINGS: p.t., ‘‘what’s new pussycat’’ is a lot longer than i first thought  | ST: p.t.,

a reformed vampire | IC: mal, a bundle of suppressed instincts held together with spit and coffee | ABT: mal,    untidy，but with bags and bags of style | AES: mal, sleep on it，kid | MUSINGS: mal, the children of the night don’t do vinyl | ST: mal,

the new gay is a great big fish | RL: mal & polly a werewolf in the watch | IC: angua, a vegetarian who had to pick bits of meat out of her teeth in the mornings | ABT: angua, a friendly smile: her mouth turned up at the corners and all her teeth were visible | AES: angua, woman's intuition? | MUSINGS: angua, there’s more to a howl than you’ve ever heard | ST: angua,

who watches the watchman | IC: sam, ''my name is Sam and I'm a really suspicious bastard'' | ABT: sam, practically zen | MUSINGS: sam, cobbles under his cardboard soles | AES: sam,  | ST: sam,

and know you're enough to use me for good | RL: sam & sybil,

the woman was a city | IC: sybil, a species of woman who，when duty called，turned to solid steel | ABT: sybil, in her own special category | AES: sybil, non sumet nullus pro responso | MUSINGS: sybil, ST: sybil,

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out of all my muses, Lip and Janet are the most likely to drink water straight from the bathroom faucet. and let it be known that they are valid for this

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cup-style bras: Janet, Benita, Bessie (if she had to choose a modern undergarment)

sports bras: Jim, Dyalla

lingerie tops: Kizzie, Lip

freebird: Charlevoix, Pliers

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        my first post in a week and y’know what it’s gonna be about?  body hair

        Lip gets their body hair waxed (all of it), and often shaves their facial hair but sometimes lets it grow out into a stylish stubble.

        Janet shaves her arms, chest, and face, but not her legs or her armpits.  The most likely of my muses to show a tasteful amount of treasure trail on the day-to-day.

        Bessie shaves nothing, but then, shaving body hair wasn’t really in vogue in her era.  Bessie is AFAB, but as an Ashkenazi woman, she does have more noticeable facial hair than Eurocentric ideals of femininity would suggest.

        Jim shaves nothing.

        Pliers shaves her head (usually once or twice a week) and nothing else.

        The Marquis keeps his facial hair neatly shaved / trimmed to a tidy little goatee and mustache, which he’s very proud of.  He trims his pubic hair but never shaves it.

        Dyalla gets her body hair waxed except for the pubic area, which she trims.  She gets laser hair removal for her facial hair in modern verse, and whatever the fantasy equivalent is in DnD verse.

        Charlevoix shaves his face and nothing else.  He doesn’t even have any noticeable facial hair; he just likes shaving the peach fuzz.

        Benita shaves her legs and nothing else.  She just likes that slippery feeling.  She trims her pubic hair.  She’d be willing to shave her pubes if a treasured partner requested it, but it’s not her default.  She’s definitely not shaving for a first time with anybody.

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        janet making bizarre little drawings to wheatpaste up in whatever town the circus is traveling through

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        wishing a happy fathers day to Pierre Duchamp, Julian Grinberg, and Thunderdick Chad and his husband!  also wishing a happy fathers day to John Tanaka, but in a much more awkward and hesitant fashion.

        wishing a very unhappy fall in a hole and die day to Ford Benning

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WHICH OF SWID’S OCs SHOULD YOU FIGHT?

Janet Tanaka:  You could probably take Janet Tanaka in a fight.  Probably.  She’s not particularly strong or well-trained, but she does have a lot of pushed-down anger and a willingness to swing back.

Bessie Grinberg:  If you find yourself seriously fighting Bessie Grinberg, you’re probably already on the wrong side of history.  Also, she’ll stomp you.

Jim Duchamp:  There’s no reason for you to fight Jim Duchamp.  She just wants to drive her bookmobile and help some ghosts get their shit together.  That being said, if you are for some reason hell-bent on fighting Jim, she has a surprising amount of upper body strength (reshelving will do that for you) but most of her combat experience is limited to amateur wrestling holds and noogies.

Dyalla Durk:  She’ll kick your ass, but like, in a friendly way.  Could be some lighthearted sexual tension there if you’re both into it.

Pliers Mahoney:  IT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA TO FIGHT PLIERS MAHONEY.

P. T. Windsor:  Master of the little-known “hey what’s that over there!?” fighting style.  Has a baseball bat and is only a little bit afraid to use it.  Knows how to shoot a gun, but isn’t good with it.  You could maybe take him if you got the jump on him, but don’t underestimate his size advantage.

The Sideways King:  You attempt to fight the Sideways King.  Your punches don’t seem to connect.  Your weapon is a rubber chicken.  You know that it has not always been a rubber chicken, but the audience loves it this way.  Shakespeare is in the ringside seats, shouting lies you only halfway hear.  If you could only hear the other half, you are certain that it would make everything make sense- you are terrified at the thought of hearing the other half.  Things were never meant to make sense.  You realize that now, more sharply and more clearly than you have ever realized anything else in your entire life.  The Sideways King gives you a hamburger.

Charlevoix Plover:  Physically, yes, you could fight Charlevoix Plover.  But emotionally?  Imagine the toll.

Benita Jones-Oduro:  This is a luthier.  Do you know what luthiers do?  They sure don’t fucking fight people.  Quit bothering her and go home.

Lip Hennessy:  Sure, you could beat Lip in a one-on-one fight... but god help you when the polycule finds out what you’ve done.

Giuliana “Jules” Guzzo: You would think the worst part of fighting Guzzo would be the fact that she’ll sue you into oblivion when you’re done, but you’d be wrong. The worst part of fighting Guzzo is her right hook.

Bitsy Buonamico: You’ll have to find her first, motherfucker.

Kizzie Kitzinger:  Congratulations!  You’re fighting the only one of my OCs who has minions.  You idiot.

Dr. Blackwell:  I don’t give a shit.  Kick his ass.

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        this isn’t gonna be relevant yet bc I said Janet’s very new to being kindred, but imagine Monty and Python getting stranger and stranger the longer she keeps them as ghouls... bigger than any rat you’ve ever seen, their teeth too sharp, their skulls strangely misshapen so that their too-keen eyes face forwards like a predator’s, raucous squeaks and chatters that sometimes sound almost like human language... weirdly, one of the phrases you could swear you heard them almost-speak is “meowth, that’s right!”

        anyways janet still insists they’re both the cutest wutest lil things and she will smack you for saying otherwise

        VtM verse Janet found out she could make her pet rats immortal at the low low cost of her own blood and she was like FINALLY a silver lining

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        so in Janet’s main verse, her trip to fairyland and back was sort of the impetus for her acknowledging her own gender and starting her transition.  and in her VtM verse, her Embrace sort of takes the narrative place of the fairyland journey?  which... hm.  on the one hand, that’s sort of an awkward sub-in, bc it doesn’t provide any buffer time for her to start living into her identity the way that being in fairyland did.  on the other hand, it makes perfect sense as impetus to transition, bc [deacon wwd.its voice] when you are a vampire you become very sexy

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        out of all my OCs, Charlevoix is the most likely to get suckered into joining a cult.  Lip is second-most likely, but bc of their trust issues you’d have to finesse them a little more.  like, play on their insecurities, exploit the vulnerability of their position in society, prey on their desperate need to change their life and lack of clear direction as to what comes next, keep working on them bit by bit over time, etc.  meanwhile with Charlevoix you could just be like “here’s a group of people who are willing to be your friends!” and he’d go “okay!!! :D” and sell all his worldly possessions (except his concertina) to come live in the woods and wear matching outfits with you.

        Janet WOULD have joined a cult if it had come up like 7 years ago, but now she’s past that crisis point in her life and a lot more wary about that sort of thing.  Bessie, meanwhile, has the exact kind of iron will, self-confidence, and sheer power of rock-solid anchoring in her own beliefs and her own world that means she could infiltrate a cult, get all the dirt on them, and avoid ever actually buying into any bullshit.  which would be an interesting plot maybe.

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janet is a furry and this post is NOT a joke.

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SWID’S OCS:  CAN THEY DRIVE?

Janet:  knows how to drive but her license is expired and she does NOT wanna go to the DMV to get a new one.

Bessie:  Cars are pretty newfangled and she’s definitely not of a class to own one, but given means and a motive, she could probably figure out how to make one go.  Drivers’ licenses aren’t gonna be a legal requirement for like thirty more years anyways it’s fine

Jim:  can drive and is actually pretty good on long hauls.  Her vehicle is a mobile library, though, so she’s not really set up for urban traffic.  In cities, she takes public transit.

Charlevoix:  seems like he’d be a can’t-drive gay, is actually a Class A CDL gay.  but mostly he rides his bike for shorter journeys and hitchhikes for longer ones.

Pliers:  can drive, but she drives like someone who knows that traffic laws are only ever a problem for people with less money than her.

Benita:  legally blind.  uses public transit when available. if she’s going somewhere public transit can’t take her, she’ll ride with a friend and/or hire a driver.

Lip:  genuine can’t-drive gay. rides their bike a lot, or tags along with friends who can drive. will take public transit if they have to, but it’s not their first choice.

PT:  can definitely drive. yes that’s a real license.  no you don’t need to keep looking at it.  stop looking at it.

Side:  can & will drive... you insane

Dyalla:  drives a motorcycle.  also a comically small car but she’ll be on her hog any time weather permits.

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Janet Tanaka will be like.  This edible ain’t shit

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        janet will be like “are you in the right headspace to receive information that might upset you” and then tell you an unsettling fact about mushrooms

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Janet.... vapes :/