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Happy New Year my lovebugs! I hope everyone has just the most amazing 2024 and treats themselves with the compassion and love you deserve. 🩵🩷

I had some pesky writers block and then had to sort some stuff out in the good ol’ personal life, but I’m excited to keep working on Memento Mori in the new year!

Sending y’all love now and throughout the year!

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Hi lovelies!!

I’m still writing hehehe I wanted to make sure I pop on here to at least give a lil update so y’all know I’m still around and everything is coming along 💛🩷

I hope y’all are doing well!! Sending you love!!

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just tried one of those Panera charged lemonades for the first time and I’m tweaking the FUCK OUT. my heart racing

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Zero is everything I need in this life fr fr 🙏

he’s so sweet and supportive of MC but ALSO!! Zero’s no doormat and there is an opportunity to piss him off a bit in this first part…

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Memento Mori Chapter 2 Mini Sneak Peek!

I love writing Zero’s romance arc and friendship with MC because he’s one of the only characters that completely accepts MC for who they are.

They can be shy, abrasive, humorous, spiteful, awkward, seductive, or full of rage and Zero will love and respect them all the same.

Since it’s taking me a while to write Chapter 2, here is a sneak peek of one of the variances in MC’s conversations with Zero. (Dependent on MC personality)

~small details subject to change as I edit~

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read the new update here!

it's been a long time coming but here it is for your enjoyment! chapter one of the phoenix is out for everybody <3 this is practically all slice of life running around a new city vibes, your first official fight will come next time :D

in this update, you can:

take a flight over to kathmandhu

meet some people on the plane. totally not relevant right

do a press conference

meet the final few RO's

see what the public think of you

quality of life changes! new fonts + dark mode

some notes under the cut !

i have no clue if starting from old saves will work or not. please lmk what happens if you do

there's a bunch of QoL changes that should hopefully make the experience better in general - dark mode, fonts, size, etc

lack of jamie in this update - he'll be back and kicking next time don't worry jamiemancers!!

media relationship stat scrapped, as it didn't really serve any purpose. replaced with a public relationship stat!

brand names changed to generics/new name. dont know why felt like it lol!

i deleted my buymeacoffee - won't really go into why, just personal reasons :] nothing too important

i will be getting back to answering asks again :] so go wild!!

please give me feedback!! leave a rating, drop a comment, send an ask. i really want to make this project the best it can be and your help in doing so would be greatly appreciated

hope you enjoy !! now i'm off to start chapter two lol

lots of love, sahara ♡♡

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My favorite ship dynamic is "they're both extremely stupid in completely different ways and extremely smart in completely different ways, but rarely is any of that useful because they just get extra double stupid when together"

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I’m looking in a mirror and repeating “you WILL write 50k words for November” so I can speak it into existence

There’s one section of ch 2 part 1 that’s been giving me grief for the longest time 🤨 and of course it’s a section that influences other parts so I need to finish it before writing the other stuff. UGH!!

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Pls don't be a MC abuser. 😭😭😭

to be fair, everyone is having a terrible time, it’s just from MC’s perspective 😭

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Lmaooo you say MC is having a terrible time in chapter 2 as if they haven’t been having a terrible time in the prologue and ch 1.

AHHHH okay you got me! caught red handed!

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MC is having a TERRIBLE time in chapter 2…but hey it’ll get better eventually! Just gotta add some emotional decimation first

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Memento Mori MC after experiencing the horrors (but look how cute they are! I wanna snuggle them!):

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Now that there’s a weight off my shoulders, we shall be full steam ahead for chapter 2!

Thank you so so much for all the lovely messages and support my loves!!! I’m gonna answer them in a staggered manner as to not clog up y’all timelines HEHEHE 🩵🩵🩵

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OUR GIRL’S A DOCTAAAAA AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

YOU KNOW THE FCKIN VIBES

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I GOT ACCEPTED TO MEDICAL SCHOOL RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRFRJKENFERJFNEKJFNERKFJERNFKJFNERKJFNE WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK

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Happy Halloween, lovebugs!

I hope everyone is at their peak spookiness today 🖤🎃

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many people have said it but bears repeating again:

Palestinian liberation calls for a 1 state solution under which all people are equal under both under the law and in practice.

In order to have peace the genocide, apartheid, and occupation must end. Settler colonialism must end. Second class citizenry must end. All Palestinians imprisoned must be released. Reparations must be made to Palestinians who have been affected by both current events and historical, from the Nakba in 1948 to today. Everyone who participated in the facilitation of the apartheid, and the violence of the apartheid and occupation required to maintain the oppressive regime, must be held accountable. Palestinians must be granted the right to return to their homes.

The idea that Palestinian liberation = carrying out a genocide on Israelis is nothing more than baseless, racist, orientalist fearmongering (and, to an extent, pure projection) that serves to justify the current genocidal regime and the apartheid having been maintained for decades. One people's freedom does not threaten another people. People are fearmongering over a hypothetical scenario (the same fearmongering used in South Africa; both during the reconstruction era following the abolition of slavery & also against abolitionists while slavery was still legal in the United States; in regards to the North American indigenous population; and so on) while an actual genocide is going on.

the only way to real actual peace, safety, and security is through the complete liberation of the Palestinian people, not the continued maintenance of the current regime or the apartheid that led to this current moment in time. apartheid is inherently violent; oppression is inherently violent. colonialism is inherently violent. if YOUR 'safety' is dependent on the oppression, displacement, and murder of OTHER PEOPLE then your conditions are not and will never be safe.