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☠ ― Send "🌷" and the MUSE will tell you whatever the hell they want.

(Alternatively, send 'muse musings!' if you cannot see the emoji. Based on this meme.)

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"I will specifically change my gender from now on so that any possible relationship will be gay when around a homophobe."

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Send 🎂 for my muse (receiver) to bake your muse (sender) a cake!

-requested by anonymous

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send me " outside perspective " + a situation, and i'll write a short drabble from an npc's perspective seeing my muse in that situation

ie. a civilian seeing a superpowered muse use their powers, or a passerby seeing a crime centered muse committing a heist, etc.

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In these hard times we could all use some positivity!

So send 💖 with a positive message in someone's inbox! Let them know what you enjoy about their blog, portrayal, writing, graphics ect!

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send me anons about my muses family

ask about relationships, events or send your headcanons about their parents, siblings or kids.

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Reblog this post if you ARE okay with other muses commenting on your Asks/ Shenanigans /Posts

As an Roleplayer in the Tumblr community, I’m fine with other muses commenting on posts my muse makes or reblogging asks I’ve been sent with their own take on what was posted about. In fact, I LIKE IT! It’s fun! But I’m not sure who else wants that interaction on their RP blog like this- so if you reblog this I’ll know it’s okay to interact with your character this way.

(Just remember don’t re-blog RolePlay threads that aren’t yours! Usually those are between specific people, and outside people reblogging them makes it difficult to keep track of when their partner has responded. But re-blogging general posts and asks with in-character shenanigans? Do it! Let’s have some fun!!!)

If you do NOT want other Muses commenting on your general posts reblog THIS link instead.

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[closed starter for @blooddrinkingbartender]

Galaxy wasn't the one to go to bars often, especially not when they had so little money. But the stress of trying to make ends meet was starting to get even to her and the abandoned train yard was cold and lonely, especially during the evening. She had made a smaller fire in the stove before leaving, to let Laila have something to keep her warm, but that did little to help the woman.

At least the bar she was in kept the cold out. It was warm enough to make her take off the old leather jacket and even older woolen sweater she came in with. She knew how to make a drink last, so even the one glass she bought with the little money they had was enough.

But she talked to nobody all evening, when otherwise she would have attempted to find a companion for the night. She simply didn't have the energy or mental capacity to, opting to simply stay at the bar quietly and make sure nobody drugged her drink or rob her of the little she had.

She was lost in thought of nothing in peculiar for a long time, being pulled out from that train only by the absence of sound of other customers. That's when she looked around to find the bar empty, and a glance at the clock revealed how late it was

"Ah- Goodness gracious, I 'ave lost track of time- I dinae' mean to hold ya so late" she apologized before she even saw the bartender that served her drink, which she still had about half of. Even though she came in very late, she had been around for a much longer time than just one drink would hold.

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"Life's a beach and I'm eating the sand."

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calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.

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Question to folks: a bit ago there was a really accurate plant quiz that had like 4 questions. Does anyone have a link to it?

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Send "Let's go home." to find my muse out in the rain, alone and freezing

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But the thing I will never admit to anyone who's met me is how desperately I want to be loved, I don't think I could say it. How I want someone to hold my wrists and kiss my palms and smile at me, and want me, I want to be wanted and I don't know how long poetry or songs will substitute for being wanted.

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Updated both the rules page and post about misgendering Witch. I do feel that being more lenient and allowing it in character can lead to some interesting points.

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Can't sleep, so I'll talk about how I write my male muses' genders. This will reference both of my blogs, be posted on both and each will have an @ to separate one half from the other, although I highly encourage for the entirety of the post to be read. Very long post ahead.

TW for abuse and self hatred.

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Cyrian

One thing that I wanted to explore with Cyrian was embracing the "standard" for masculinity. As I mentioned in a post about how he approached his own gender and sexuality, Cyrian was created rather than born and later chose the labels of 'cis' and 'hetero' for himself. While I do plan to explore Cyrian's attraction as possibly not being hetero, that is another subject that I might talk about in the future.

What I want to focus on here is the fact that Cyrian basically chose to and continues to follow what the general perception of the [americanized] world sees as 'masculine', a perception that has been set [by my knowledge] by the patriarchy - which, as a politician, Cyrian would have technically been a part of. However he comes from a background where the toxic beliefs and mentality that usually comes with being masculine in the way that he is and has avoided and pushed back against those beliefs and mentality.

This also ties into the theme of 'embracing the monster' in his character, as his specific kind of masculinity does focus on being threatening, imposing and dangerous [e.g. soldiers]. He has no problem with taking advantage of his stature, previous status and the "natural" weapons he has in forms of claws.

What keeps him from falling into the toxic stereotype is the fact that, to him this was, in fact, something he chose to adapt to rather than something he was indoctrinated into. In the post about glancing into his memories, I made a reference to a church. He was part of this church and had entirely different ideals he was taught. I will not go into them here either, I may do so at some point. The point is, his masculinity is something he grew into as an outsider.

There was nobody to talk to him and ease him into it with talk of 'oh, you are not a monster' and later on radicalize him. He saw this as something monstrous and decided that what this image created was the best fit for him. Another important aspect of his belief is that this embrace of being monstrous should apply to himself and others that have clearly chosen to do so. It is a self conscious lean into what could very well turn a person toxic and hateful, if not for that self awareness.

This is why Cyrian also struggles with being genuine and vulnerable. This masculinity does not allow for it, as it breaks the image of what a powerful man is supposed to be. He is trying to come to some kind of conclusion that would allow him to be masculine in this "monstrous" way while also being genuine and vulnerable.

Nox

Nox is supposed to have the viewpoint of somebody who is terrified to become what Cyrian has rejoiced in. He is AMAB and while he does consider himself gender-nonconforming, he is still very much cis.

Being raised by a single mother, one with a situation as unstable as Emi's, he saw very well what people that were victim to this sort of belief dealt with. He saw men hitting on and just outright hitting his mother. He's heard her complain, when she taught he wasn't around, about all kinds of assholes and creeps. He even knows that Emi forcefully worked for Cyrian.

Due to this and the fact that Emi has raised him to be much more open about his emotions and allowed him to be more vulnerable, he stays away from the "standard" of masculinity. Especially what is shown to the masses

After already dealing with a lot of shit in the Feywild as a child, he never saw the adventurous and righteous in the stories he was shown in books and television as models, but as something adjacent to what his mother was dealing with, just put in a twisted light to show them as being 'good'.

Nox does his best to be as non-threatening as possible. He doesn't carry weapons, not even for self defense. His hemocraft, jinxes and magic are all that he has gotten and even those are very hard for him to use - the only edge case is using them to subdue animals that are too aggressive or dangerous to be handled without any form of restraint. He does not know how to fight, just barely able to defend himself.

While not an outright people pleaser, he does put the comfort of others way above his own and changes himself regularly to make this criteria happen. He does not want to be seen as a threat, he does not want to fit the patriarchal view of what 'masculinity' is and he is actively working to tear it down by being as gentle and caring as he can be.

He is still very much developing his own view with his gender and has to develop in that aspect still.

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WITCH

For this one, I will stick mostly with Blake as I believe I have the most to say about them. They do identify as nonbinary, but are AMAB and their relation with being perceived as male is something important enough that is still worth talking about here.

Carter and Torrid do lean into the 'protector' and 'hothead' stereotypes respectively, which are mostly seen as masculine. But they are alters that have only relatively recently become part of the system and their sense of self is something I am working on still.

Rune, on the other hand, is technically genderfluid. The only reason Rune has went strictly by 'he/him' so far is that the body itself is AMAB, and Rune attempts to have as little internal conflict as possible. Thus Rune chose to go by he/him while fronting.

Whereas Nox has seen the effects of masculinity forced by the patriarchy and has fought against them, Blake has directly suffered from it. Both at the hands of their father and the leader of the coven.

Blake does not identify as nonbinary because they do not feel male or feel as if being nonbinary is 'right'. Blake identifies as nonbinary because being perceived as male seems to only bring negative things. Blake is constantly worried about seeming like a creep, seeming like a danger, but at the same time they are worried about the possible other dangers out there - which, to them, are also most commonly male.

It came in the face of their father, who was physically abusive and had anger management issues. It came in the face of the coven leader, who was manipulative and mentally abusive. It came in the face of every single boy the same age as them that ridiculed and marginalized them for not being the same.

Where Nox simply didn't want to become 'monstrous' in the same way Cyrian did through his actions, Blake saw themselves as such purely because of something he was born as. So they chose to identify as nonbinary to at least have some sort of agency and feel as if the ridicule came from something they chose, at the very least.

Unlike Nox, Blake was not given a space to be vulnerable in. He was not able to be coerced into toxic masculinity or the role of a sacrificial lamb not due to having a set of belief that morally opposed either but due to the self hatred. Blake hates seeing themselves in the mirror, they hate not being able to always pass off as nonbinary, they hate their height, body shape and face shape giving away the fact they AMAB, they hate being perceived as anything close resembling masculinity.

Thus, Blake chose an identity that doesn't fully encompass them. They basically forced themselves into another way of making people perceived them, just to not be perceived as male.