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esoteric form of roleplay where instead of actually roleplaying you just make up characters together and discuss in abstract how they'd interact and how their story would go

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hey if u haven't. looked at my blog in awhile u should look at my blog owo 👉👈

this is totally not to also fish for someone telling me if there's Issues with the theme or pages that i have overlooked pshh whaaaat

i think i want. more on the sidebar (where the edit of her is) i just. don't know what yet. just more.

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Lucille Clifton, from The Book of Light; “Night Vision”

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Keira Knightley in THE JACKET (2005)

dir. John Maybury

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Send “brush” to accidentally touch one of my muse’s scars

Send “trace” to purposely touch one of my muse’s scars

Send either of these words plus “reverse” for our muses to switch places

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not to be cliché but I'm thinkin about scars

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GET TO KNOW ME : ABC's - MUN EDITION

a . age: approaching 30 b . birthplace: da Boot, sha (Louisiana, US) c . current time: 10:43 am d . drink you had last: coffee f . favorite current song(s): i don't have favorites i have songs that won't get out of my head (Golden) e . easiest person(s) to talk to: respectfully? no one. talking in general is hard. if we're having an extended conversation it's taking a lot of effort and if we have a short conversation that also took a lot of effort & it doesn't mean i like you less it's just a constant demand 🙈 social connection at any level is a Challenge i know i fall short of a lot of people's expectations/needs even at my highest level of function but i swear I'm trying

g . goals: I gotta get a job man. related but unrelated did u know i do art commissions sdlfkjghldkfjg h . horror yes or horror no: you know I used to think I was a horror movie coward but i have since learned several of my friends' tolerance levels for horror content and it turns out I think I like horror, actually? but I can be really picky about it i . in love ?: I love my friends but I get the feeling that's not what this is asking j . jealous of people: 🙃 k . kissed someone recently?: just my dog l . love at first sight or should i walk by again ?: this is so funny considering this has gone around in a fashion where there is no real "Asker" to this question and it's just floating in the middle of this like a wild hypothetical. m . middle name: this sounds like a joke but actually for legal reasons I will not be saying n . number of siblings: two + one in-law o . one wish: q . questions you’re always asked: I get asked if I'm okay/what's wrong a lot, just like. at random. apparently my resting expression makes people think I'm like, sad-upset? not resting bitch face but resting sad face. very strange. (i think it has something to do with like, having slightly downturned eyes? or. like. being depressed ;sdlkfjg;sdlkfgjs;dlkfgj;lksdfjg;lkj) s . song you last sang: this feels like a trick question. it's also Golden, obviously t . top 3 fictional characters: I think I'm physically incapable of answering this question without more context to it. Often my favorites are only my favorites within the context of their worlds and if you pull them out an isolate them and try to compare them to other characters from other things it's like. It doesn't work. What do you mean my favorite tapestry thread when I pull it out of the tapestry and put it next to other threads from different tapestries? Maybe one of those is like, golden and shiny and the other is a deep sea green that doesn't really compare to the gold except when you put it in the tapestry where it goes the green is what the tapestry needed to fill out the colors and complete the full piece and sew everything together. Y'know? u . unexperienced or experienced writer: Uhhh context informs this question? I have never been widely published (local paper for winning a contest as a child) but I've also like. Deliberately spent time working on my style and shoring up what I consider my weaknesses and I've been writing creatively, creating stories with friends, for. Like my entire life. I could probably look into publishing things but first I have to get over myself and the "what if they say no" fear you know. v . vacation: just got back! this isn't really a question and that fascinates me. Favorite? Dream? Plans for? We'll never know. w . when’s your birthday: November 26 x . x - rays: this is also not a question. I feel like there's definitely words that start with x that could have launched something here. Do you think this used to be an ask meme and then someone just answered it all in one whack and sent it around and then maybe some of the questions ("questions") got changed and we're playing dashboard telephone now? y . your favorite food: gotta be potato soup I think. z . zodiac sign: Year of the Rat! but since this was probably about star signs, Sagittarius and I don't actually like. subscribe to Thoughts about it but I do know enough of my chart for it to be funny. Which is to say Sagittarius Sun, Gemini moon, Sagittarius rising and I think also mars? there's another one in there somewhere.

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Tally, returning the favor. Starred items are things that don't come immediately to her, but she could get used to very quickly.

Bingo Time

This is. unrelated but that's the craziest star shaped stamp thing I've ever seen. ;slkgfj;sdlkfgj ANYWAY It's giving;;;; wingman. It's giving they're not dating but sometimes people ask if they are. It took months for them to decide whether or not they hated each other and now when people bring up the times when they both acted like they hated each other they're like "literally what are you talking about".

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Local puppy confused sometimes, but very fond of team cat. (Wibbly line in place of sword were ones I was less sure of, so we'll call it conditional bingo for Ollie?)

Bingo Time

You know I would also agree I think he's pretty boy despite really being jock shaped? Inexplicable, yet true. Stacked pretty boy. Brick house pretty boy. She's into it but shut up don't worry about it.

You know in general it's very. There's a cuteness aggression factor, he's really cute and it makes her mad (positive.) It makes her want to annoy him on purpose. I don't know what else to say about this I'm just (vague hand motions) you know.

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why yes it IS easy to tell which direction this thought came from but i'm just. thinking about. tech largely being someone who tries to escape physical confrontations, because she is so often distinctly at a disadvantage. no matter how fast she gets, how much she works to be accurate and clever, there's just always going to be someone who has an advantage over her for no other reason than she is physically so small (and doesn't have the resources or natural ability to put on weight/muscle). and no matter how much she hates that it will always be true. and therefor when it comes to physical fights, she tries to avoid or otherwise escape them.

and yet also when she adopts someone she considers to be, in some way, vulnerable and in need of protecting, she can and will and does jump into a fight claws first and howling. probably aiming for the other guy's eyes. she may be a little guy™ but that doesn't mean you get to hurt Her Little Guy™.

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  The answer blows over her like breath on a candle, a light flicker of flinch, pain passing through not just her eyes but her face and front and fingers & toes, more plain than most of the dizzy whirlwind of inexacts that makes up her outsides. Such a common story. Who has parents anymore? Still, it pulls the wound.

  She catches a breath to settle with the news when the name whips from nowhere, a length of chain to the side of her face. Ringing, real. August. No colors or quantifiers, no decoration. Some chance it's simple for something else, but... no. No, she doesn't think so. “That your name, or what they call you?” She asks anyway, trying hard -maybe too hard- to hide her surprise. She shakes her head a little, dashing fragments, and it's all whirlwind again. “'Cause y'know..” ..jump before it steals your stars. “They used to call me Madelyn, but my name's Tech.” There's that breath again, the one that settles. A screen flickering to life, type line steady blink and waiting despite the dust and the cracks in the screen. “Techno Havoc.”

you’re not dyin’ t’day. (pay attention and you’ll witness the nanosecond his eyes flutter. momentary disappointment chalk lined into hollow, hungry expression.) living. enduring. in such a horror of a world? wake. fight. survive. repeat, repeat, repeat. but disappointment dissolves rattlesnake quick. caution substitutes it. the child flicks his knife closed. however, lethal tool remains lodged within tiny, timid hand.

“ my daddy was all the crew i had. once upon a time. ” mumble of facts. “ since he died, i’ve been fendin’ for myself. ” his drawl ain’t heavy with emotion. merely a summarization. the boy peeks toward the desert. rock ragged canyons, sand shimmer dunes. “ i, um – my name’s august. ”

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the zones has at least (at least) one fireworks based holiday but it's not the fourth. the fourth would be antiquated and coincidentally forgotten if not intentionally erased.

new years, however, definitely rings in with a multitude of KA-POWs and a veritable galaxy of sparks and glittering sulfers. i suspect it's still at the end of the year, though i imagine the BLi sanctioned 'christmas' isn't called that, and new years might also have a slightly different Official name, but i think both of those still happen. just,,, a little differently. you can probably find preserved christmas spirit in the zones though, and hiding in the houses of the city. it's just not talked about. just not Official. yes this has me thinking about holidays in general what about it

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🐇I know we haven't written here with my OCs but I you wanna skim Eira's bio, I'd be curious how she might fit!

If you drop a 🐇 in my inbox I’ll give you some ideas for how your muse might fit into the Dustverse!

ohhhh crazy curveball okay okay okay okay

The closest to 'princess' (+corrupt king of a father) we're going to get is definitely something in the city. and one option could definitely be center city of Battery City ...

......buuuuuut the way you've set up/presented the Keep reminds me a lot more of Empire City than Battery, which is on the east coast (and not technically where Tech is but it's continuous to her universe d;lskfjgs;dlkfgj). Empire is a little grittier, not so well polished. They've got a smog issue (to me Empire has more of the classic cyberpunk-noir aesthetic whereas battery city is a false utopia - shiny on top, proverbially rotten beneath the lacquer) and their wastelands are smaller than Battery City and its surrounding zones, but they're making the same kinds of efforts to reclaim what they can. Empire City's zones are just so hostile, environmentally speaking, and likewise their rebels are sharper, deadlier, so it makes expanding and perfecting things a lot more difficult. especially when you consider they didn't have the same pre-war footing that battery had. Empire was established after the wars, scrubbed of its radiation and made into a connecting point for external communications. this is maybe beside the point the point more like---

from that, Eira could be from the innermost of empire, where it's most likely she could have been sheltered from the truth of the zones but also the rest of empire city. it'd be very easy to think of the company and her father -some high rank of it, maybe empire's central lead? over some kind of committee, of course- as The Good Guys ((and he might even think of himself as a good guy)) but. better living is not the good guys

the killjoys may not be either but that's maybe a different conversation we can have

her little loyal knight would be some kind of designated body guard, because even if her dad believes he is the good guy, there are Many bad guys who would happily target his daughter both inside and outside of the city, she would absolutely need the protection

now. this is the thought that makes most sense to me and really the,,, best option i can see? with the info i have. but the trouble is, as you may have noticed, this doesn't actually put her in contact with. any of where all my characters are located, so while it's definitely an AU i'm not sure how helpful it is as a plotting tool 🙈 all i can say is surely there is some way to pop the bubble and get the girl out of the castle tower and into the sand but i do not.... immediately know how to do that in a way that she lands allllll the way in battery city(/'s zones) in order to be in plotting distance to my characters ;dslkfjg;lsdkfgj;lkj

...unless. something something the Rail? which is a train that goes between the three better living settlements in north america at stupid high speeds. but that's not a whole idea just the notion that. wow it sure does connect the places

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🐇 for some plotting. :D

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Excellent news! August is already soooo Dustverse shaped. Unfortunately his detailed specifics don't quite directly transfer, but the overall shape and tone and texture is so immediately in the right zone. 3/4ths of the way already here. As for those details though:

i really like the idea that his family was never part of any of the Better Living settlements. meaning he would be desert born, but not necessarily Killjoy-born, so he's got an 'old world'/'city' name, and wouldn't necessarily have been raised directly embedded in killjoy culture. i would even say it would be really cool if his family had been living somewhere outside the known zones, and that they only ventured in for supplies or some other extenuating circumstance, which put them in contact with The Desert and its tendency to chew up families and only take half

if you did want him to be from one of the settlements though, i think the Fort. Fort FISK is in the south central and very isolated. it's responsible for the most food production (my brain says this connects to the grocery stoker job his dad has in canon) and it is currently impossible for anyone to leave the fort and travel over land without specialized equipment, making escape from the fort very difficult, but not technically impossible — it'd be really cool if that's where he & his dad escaped from, and then they aimed for battery/it's zones to try and find somewhere to land, or just to resupply and keep going

his dad could have fallen to better living agents. but also just as likely could have been gunned down by desert-types; the selfish kind. the hateful kind. either way sticking him on his own, and making him wary of one or both 'sides' of the whole situation — if he wasn't already (which, if he was raised beyond it's reached, he may have already been taught to be)

....and if you don't like either of those or they lean too hard on lore you're not sure of because i haven't written it down anywhere, he could have come right out of Battery City's outer district or the neon slums, and much of his story would be entirely identical (except, of course, the location). running for the zones, then, make make the most sense to a kid already completely on his own. it's not easy to do, but it is possible. (and could well have been motivated by: if his father pulled him out of school, and the wrong official got involved, city security forces could have been the one to kill his father, likely in a situation that did not need to escalate that badly, which might motivate august extra to get out of the city altogether instead of staying mobile within the wall (which would, technically, be the safer option))

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Not to low key cheat but I did actually answer this for Ceej once so many of my starting place ideas aren't dissimilar for obvious reasons, which is to say

his dad is (or perhaps more realistically, was)a horrible bastard man running a horrible bastard roving crew, the kind that attacks both city types and desert types indiscriminately, looting and killing for no reason but to get up and do it again the next day. no grand cause, just the power of fear

but while i think ceej is zone born i think there's some chance harry might have been born inside the city? and likely would have wound up in the slums if that's the case. but he could also be zone born the possibility is there and it would just come down to which side of the wall you feel matches the story better? i could see both

and then obviously harry would have broken away from his father's crew a number of years ago and, depending on if you wanna loop more of his canon in/how literally you want to do that, he either joined a crew or made one, but either way is making a name of his own, separate from whatever legacy his father might have stuck him with --- or else usurping it. which would be very fitting to the setting.

this is up to you (obv) but i could see his crew also being a roving crew, but one more sided with the general killjoy movement™ than outright raiders; still focused on their own goals and interests, the way many of the outer zones crews are, but not completely hostile to other killjoy groups. though they may be neutral-hostile(?)

if he grew up more in the city than the zones i could see him having broken out in those years leading up to the fab four's big moment, when the city was losing a lot of their youth to whatever cracks were in the system and the boys were making such a Visible fuss about it even being possible to live (and Live so Brightly!) outside of the city

regardless of how he got there/how long he's been in the dust harry is on a wanted list now. not quite top ten, i fear, but certainly somewhere fairly high. lots of big red warnings show up when you open his file.

....mmm i referenced events on this timeline btw sometimes my brain assumes if you send the rabbit you've read everything but maybe i shouldn't assume that ;slkfjg;sdlkfgj

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Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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you can't just do this to me like this

hi I just saw delirium from the preview for the new season of sa.ndma.n