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HEAR YE HEAR YE

After almost two months, I finally posted the second chapter to Two Sides of the Same Coin!

That's all-

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my girl maggey is blogging from prison in a maid dress

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Tee hee

Snippet based on the story of how JRR Tolkien and his wife used to throw sugar cubes into people's hats uwu

Alia struggles not to giggle like a school child as she hurries her way onto the catwalk, box in hand. It's been *so* long since she's done anything like this! They just had to *not get caught.*

"Got 'em?" X asked, barely able to hold back his own glee. The navigator holds up her box, opening it to reveal a *hundred* (supposedly) coffee stirrers. The blue clad reploid *grins.* And now Alia *really* isn't able to hold back her own giggles. ~~This is so bad!~~

"Who's first?" she challenged, putting the box on the ground after having grabbed a handful of the thin sticks.

"Try to get some in Signas' hat," X replied, causing Alia to nearly choke on her own laugh. That was *ballsy,* but they're high enough he shouldn't be able to figure out who.

Not unless he *thinks* to look up.

Aiming for the tall, uniformed reploid, Alia carefully tosses one of her sticks.

*Bullseye.*

She and X struggle to contain their laugh as they watch Signas look around. It was just a hat, but... well. Reploids had better awareness than their human counterparts. He would have felt *something.*

But just as she thought, he doesn't think to look up behind him.

"Your turn," Alia grinned. X's eyes flash at the challenge, before grabbing his own stirring stick. Aiming *just* as carefully as she had for the black clad reploid's hat.

Which results in *another* bullseye.

But they have to duck this time in order to avoid detection.

Alia can't remember the last time she had so much fun...

"Oh! Zero came in!" Alia then whispered, right as the blond reploid indeed enters the room below them. "A thousand zenni if you can get one in his hair without him noticing!"

"Oh is *that* how we're playing it?" X teased. Alia just smiles back at him in response.

"Unless you're *chicken,*" she taunted.

And once more, the blue clad reploid's eyes flash. She watches, giddy, as he takes careful aim once more and-

"I SWEAR TO ASIMOV, IF YOU TWO DON'T STOP-!"

Alia *wheezes.*

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two siding the issue

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Brilliant- (/gen)

rewatched madagascar 3 so here's a chantel dubois inspired mapleshade

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tips to get your life back on track after a breakdown™

sleep. your body needs to rest. the average panic attack takes as much energy as running a half-marathon. let yourself rest. take a 20 minute nap. any longer and you’ll hit your REM cycle, and you’ll wake up worse off. after, you’ll feel so much better.

clean something. literally anything. a plate, a drawer, the whole mf bathroom. it doesn’t matter how much or how little. it’ll make you feel more in control, and it’ll make your surroundings more appropriate for recovery.

get some fresh air. even just opening your window for a few hours will help. if you feel up to it, take a walk. take your dog. pick some flowers. cloudgaze. even just sit in your garden for a bit. your body will thrive off of non-stale air. 

eat and drink. I know for some people, myself included, this is Hard. it’s alright if all you can manage is a granola bar, or some cereal. anything is progress and will fuel your body. drink water if you can, but anything apart from alcohol will hydrate you.

take a shower. I have clinical depression. have done since I was 12. I know how hard it is to take a shower. but it fucking helps. if you don’t do anything else off this list, do this. it’ll help more than you know.

talk to someone. I can’t stress this enough. humans are social creatures! we crave interaction. even the most introverted introvert needs to talk to someone. call your mom. text a buddy. skype your brother. chat to your local cashier. anything !! you’ll feel less alone, and hopefully get some good serotontitty flowing.

do something fun! same as above, it’ll make u feel so much bette, and provide a distraction. some good options are writing, drawing, watching a movie, dancing - anything you enjoy!

be kind to yourself. it’s okay if you relapsed, or if you had a bad day, or anything else. treat yourself gently. you wouldn’t so harsh to a friend in your situation. it’s gonna be okay.

if you can’t do all of these, it’s okay. there are better days ahead. this, too, will pass.

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Rock Light

reason: I haven't watched Madoka Magica but I know what happens and he's the most madoka coded non-madoka character ever methinks

spoilers for the Archie megaman comics under the cut

[Spoilers] Here's him sacrificing himself again

submitted by @dogbound1128

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Know that potential wiki I was talking about a while ago? I’ve been working on it for a bit and I believe at the moment it is publicly accessible. I’m slowly learning CSS and HTML as I go kinda… lol

It’s all still rather blank, save for some key components i implemented to hold the site together.

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Social experiment: if you know what this is don’t say anything just reblog

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the whole 'nobody would miss me if i were gone' line of reasoning is so completely and mindblowingly false, it's almost laughable if you take a couple steps back. there's a lady at work who has been there for maybe two or three weeks and has only talked to me a handful of times, ask where the necklace i usually wear went. another person asked where i was cause i wasn't scheduled for about a week. i regularly think of friends who have deactivated their accounts or who i've lost contact with and what id tell them. i still think about people i haven't talked to for years even though i didn't know them well. people still think about you even if you're a passing specter on the street. and that's not even holding a candle to how much the people who are personally involved in your life care. people do notice and care. all the time. it might be hard to see it or remember it but people do care. ily.

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If I ever dm you just know:

You're getting snippets of writing like a cat bringing home mice.

I do not understand the importance of keeping things secret, and showing interest in my projects will ONLY encourage me.

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I made another animatic

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US state borders but they are based off rivers and mountains