Wordtober Day 6: Build 2.0
Yall, I cheated. And am also late. I couldnโt get anything done withย โhuskyโ, so I decided to prolonge my previous prompt, as the last one didnโt give me room to fully explore my idea. So... be warned that this is... quite long. Possibly veryย long. I leave that up to you.
Itโs a continuation of this one
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ท๐ฟ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ธ๐ถ๐ถ๐ท, ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฟ๐๐ฃ.
Dani and I had done this before, many times. Weโd had our fair share of paranormal investigationโsometimes just plain investigationโand most of the times, it even amounts to nothing, if not a slight disruption of a picture or the โmysterious noisesโ turning out to be either stray cats or a group of teenagers setting a horror movie set for strangers. But the Maduro case was peculiar to us. It was Dani who suggested weโd investigate the Maduro case, and she always did seem rather curious about the outlines of the case. ย
We did the needed investigation before we got there. Aside from some news articles, there was the original 1983 police report, which looksโฆ sloppy, rushed, and honestly, not like they were even trying at all. The majority of the photos vanished, supposedly lost in mishandling of paperwork, except threeโthe ones well knownโand both disappearances were chalked up under โrunaway childrenโ, despite the fact that Samuel Maduro was 15 and Aura 28 at the time of each of their disappearances.
We knew the house had belonged to Aura after her parents, and before that, to Amelia and Augusto Maduro, the grandparents, who used to own a quarry up until 1939, when they sold their part of the business to Mr Maduroโs partner. At the time, we couldnโt really find the reason why they sold it, though what we did conclude afterwards is nothing short of speculation, so we just assumed it to be some sort of financial strain. There was a civil war going on, though we couldnโt find confirmation on the Madurosโ political affiliations, nor is their village located anywhere close to where the war hit, butโฆ War always does bring about hard times, so it wasnโt at all that inane.
What was surprising was finding our first clue that contradicted the original 1983 report. Though Claudia Maduro, mother of both Samuel and Aura, suffered from a lifelong heart disease and eventually died four years after her sonโs disappearanceโa time spent between check-ups and several psychiatric consultationsโthe fatherโs death, Francisco Maduro, does seem related to the case.
He appears to have lived the last ten years of his life as a recluse, and the only visits he ever had were a gardenerโwho helped around with the backyardโ, a maidโmostly responsible for doing his laundry, some cooking and cleaningโ, and a man named Antonio. He was the last one to see Mr Maduro alive, though his name wasnโt even mentioned in the original report.
According to Antonio, when he arrived at the house that afternoon, Mr Maduro was in a state of distress. He had set up a ladder to go up the attic and was going up and down frequently, to fetch several items, all of which he recognized as being used for construction purposes: toolboxes, measuring tapes, rope, sandpaper. Of this, Antonio reportedly joked for a while, asking him if he was building something, or maybe fixing a piece of furniture, but Mr Maduro was majorly unresponsive, instead appearing focused on his task. He simply kept mumbling: โThe animals keep tearing it down.โ
It must have been shortly after he left that Mr Maduro fell off his ladder, approximately two meters high, hitting his head on a rock and being found hours later by the maid, who had him rushed to the hospital, where he died an hour later.
Hereโs whatโs so appalling about this. Looking at the original police records, there were no interviewed. It looks like the police simply asked no questions to anyone, no acquaintances of the family, no friends, no neighbours. Every evidence was gathered from inside the home, and every conclusion reached without taking into consideration the village itself. At first, we thought they had been carelessโridiculously careless, mind youโbut as our days went on and we tried speaking to others, it became clear just what the real reason was.
The villagers avoided the Maduros because they were afraid of them.
Overall, it seems neither Aura nor Samuelโnor their parents, for that matterโwere particularly hated, rather ostracized by what the villagers saw as a need. The priest at the time, one father รngel, even did his best to include the two children in his community, and we did find several photos of Samuel carrying the podium of Santa Marina during one of its processions. Both siblings appear to have been devout Catholics too: crucifixes and rosaries were found in both rooms, as well as prayer books and Bibles, they attended church regularly, got involved with the community and celebrated every day of the calendar. ย
The problem was not Samuel and Aura, nor Francisco and Claudiaโthe Madurosโ dark history was older than that.
There was one fundamental piece to their history that everyone completely overlooked, which wasnโt on records for reasons that, for a while, seemed mysterious enough, though it became clear as we unravelled the story. Francisco Maduro, grandfather of both Aura and Samuel, disappeared without a trace in 1939, immediately after selling his part of the quarry.
After searching through records, old newspapers and considerably angering the locals, all we found was one newspaper clipping, though not an article. It was an ad, an announcement, posted by the local police, asking villagers to please notify them if they new anything about Mr Maduroโs whereabouts. And nothing more. The only way to understand what had happened was by asking, and by now, we knew nobody would say a word about it, so we thought Antonio would perhaps collaborate.
By all means, it must be said: Antonio had a bit of a drinking problem, and we might have bargained in that sense. Iโm not terribly proud of it, but in my defence, he looked desperate to talk, like he had kept something buried so deeply he waited years to finally speak up. Though I wasnโt expecting a confession exactly. After all, Antonio was, in his own words, Franciscoโs best friend, though the two werenโt as close in adulthood as they had been in childhood. And like the Madurosโmaybe because he appeared to be the only one in the village who didnโt fear going near the houseโhe was a bit of an outcast.
He told us that Amelia Maduro was far from being a heart-warming woman. He recalls her posture from childhood, which I think can be seen in the pictures found inside one of the locked rooms of the house: haughty, stern, impeccable. She seldom smiled, and her face bore something grievous to it, a chiselling of austerity that made children everywhere tell stories of her beatings and whippings. She was very pious too, at times too severe in her belief, and her doctrine was an imposing one. Antonio recalls an event from childhood, after visiting Francisco one afternoon: she had stopped a maid on her tracks, taken a step back and inspected her outfit; then, she had asked why was her skirt three fingers above the knee, to which the maid, flustered, replied she had to borrow her sisterโs, who was younger, considering she had found a hole in hers that morning. Then, without warning, Amelia slapped the young woman across the face and said: โI will not have whores serving me.โ And she fired her.
This might be explanatory to what truly seems to be the reason behind the quarry issue. Shortly before, Francisco Maduro became romantically involved with a supposed worker at the quarry, a woman who would bring refreshments to the men on the field every afternoon. It turns out, however, the woman was Pilar Deocampo, niece of Alfredo DeocampoโFranciscoโs business partner. She became pregnant and decided to plan an escape with the aid of Francisco, who was supposed to meet with her after dealing with some logistics as to not leave his family with no support, but the plan failed when Amelia discovered their affair. When Pilar gave birth to baby boy in 1939, things took a grim turn.
From here on, Antonio swears, the story has become folklore, but the vast majority of the villagers strongly believe it to be true, and stands as the reason for them to stay away from the Maduros and their home. Amelia, without her husbandโs knowledgeโwho was away for a few daysโinvited poor Pilar for some afternoon tea, under the guise of friendship and empathy before her conditionโunmarried and with a son borne from a married man. How it happened differs, since nobody was present if not one maid who left the house immediately after, but on one thing all tales are consistent: Amelia killed the child in front of his mother, proclaiming that her act was justified before God because it was in Godโs plans to cleanse the earth of sinners, and that the child was impure and shouldnโt have been born either way.
In a fit of rage, Pilar Deocampo attempted to injury Amelia, but failed to. As a result, Amelia inflicted several wounds on the grievous mother, who bled out in her living room. Many say Mrs Maduro watched, untouched by her very own gruesome actions, and in her dying breath, Pilar Deocampo uttered one last thing, something the village now chants as much as a curse as a reminder: Mi sangre marcarรก tu tierra, y mis huesos serรกn tu mausoleo. Por cada uno que pierdas, un otro quedarรก en sofrimiento, y como las รกrboles de tu finca, vosotros marchitarรกn lentamiente.
My blood will mark your land, and my bones will be your mausoleum. For each one you lose, another will stay in suffering, and like the trees of your property, you will wither away slowly.
Amelia then proceeded to force her very own maids into taking the body to the nearby forest, dig up a grave and bury them; then, she placed the two pillars with the chain to forbid anyone from going into the area, and never spoke of the subject againโuntil her husband arrived home the next day. Seeing the maids scrubbing blood from the wooden floorings, he inquired his wife as to what had happened. Amelia didnโt spare any details; in fact, many agree she was quite assured in her grim account, believing hers had been a righteous act.
Francisco Maduro then, in a frenzy of grief and despair, ran into the woods to see it for himself, to see the grave of his beloved and his childโand he crossed the space between the two pillars. He was never seen again.
Amelia would die less than ten years later, and despite everything, many agree she was incredibly grievous of her husbandโs disappearance and entirely devoted to her faith. The Maduros then became a cautionary taleโitโs unclear to me whether or not Francisco witnessed this event, considering he would be around 18-20 at the time, but the tale became part of the villagesโ folklore so much he became a person they willing avoided. Antonio swears, however, that both Aura and Samuel were entirely unaware of this past.
From the story came a legend, one the villagers believed to be real, from the case of Samuel and Aura Maduroโs disappearance. Anyone who crossed the space between the two pillars would find the secret burial place of Pilar and her child; keeping her promise, it seems a Maduro would always be bound to find the place in one way or another, and it was none other than Pilar who called them, leaving someone else behind to suffer for their absence, until no Maduros were left.
It seems Pilar achieved her goal, then.
This also explains something about the house, something Aura herself spoke of in her last journal entry: that there was an overwhelming sadness to it, something bittersweet that didnโt seem to belong there. If the path itself sent a shiver down our spines, and there always seem to be something lurking between the trees when we looked, inside the house we feltโฆ safe. Dani even recalled feeling this sudden pang of sadness which she described as being โlike a mother losing her childโ. At the time, I laughed it off, told her she was just missing her cat, but after Antonio told us the tale, weโฆ froze in dread, to be honest.
Energy like this is nothing newโthe spirits of those who died inside the place always leave some speck of it behind, and we feel it like something external. We thought it strange at first because no Maduro had died inside the home that we knew of: Francisco at the hospital, Claudia at the local market, Samuel and Aura vanishing, and as far as we could tell, with Francisco also vanished, Amelia died while in mass of a heart attack. But it started making sense then: the only people who had died inside the house were not members of the Maduro. It was their pain we felt, and consequently, that Aura felt.
Dani and I werenโt sure what to expect of this, but it certainly explained why all those who had tried finding the clearing described by Aura never didโbecause they went around the two pillars, not through them. We had come all this way to find answers, so we figured there was only one thing to do.
I think we were naรฏve. We believed the tale was only a tale, and if any of it was to be taken for truth, it was certainly aimed at the cursedโthe Maduros, not us, mere wanderers. Butโฆ we were wrong.
I took a recorder and a camera with me, while Dani took a photographic digital camera. For a while, we stood before the two pillars in silence and tried telling ourselves it was fine, perfectly fine, it was just a piece of local folklore based on Catholic devotion of two women, one a sinner, the other scorned. Weโd heard many like that, and it seemed improbable the clearing even existed in the first place. So we held our handsโthough why, I canโt exactly tellโand we leapt over the chain.
Every single one of Auraโs words travelled back to me. She was right. It wasโฆ daunting. Shapes hovered about, escaping my sight constantly, caught only from the corner of my eyes, and the dense vegetation closed around us. There was a horrible silence all aroundโmore of an absence of soundโand we couldnโt even hear our own heart beats. The sun struggled to transverse the heavy foliage, and the air was thick and prickly. Dani snapped a few photographs as we trod on, but it was clear she was aiming at nothing specifically, just frantically moving her camera with a gasp and a jitter, frightened by a sudden movement from which came no sound. Even the snapping twigs and crunching leaves beneath our feet seemed muffled.
After thirty minutes, we stopped. Before us, the space opened widely, and trees sprouted from a bald batch of white and brown earth, entwining together above our heads like a gable roof. Dani stopped, her camera frozen between her hands, but her eyes were glazed into a sort of mania I had never seen before. With a shuddering finger, she pressed the shutter, but didnโt look into the screen, just aheadโcontemplating, focused. Her arm lowered then, and I called her name; Dani jittered, blinked and looked down at the photo she had just snappedโfrozen and pale.
When she showed me photos, my heart sank to my feet. Every single one of them was so corrupted almost all of them were unusable, but a few of them showed something buried beneath the static corruption. Shadows, figures, silhouettes. A pair of baby feet. Faces, hollow and daunting, frozen into a scream.
I pressed my recorder, but it didnโt seem to work; Dani pressed some buttons on her camera but suddenly halted, and her eyesโglazed once moreโcast curiously all around. She gave a step forward, and another, and a few moreโall considerate and cautious, though they grew, and unexpectedly, she took her backpack off her shoulders and threw it on the ground; she dashed ahead, her hands diving deep into a bush, rummaging through meshes of thorny foliage, and a faint yet vivid laughter escaped her lips.
I called her in screams, but she did not react. At this point, I was terrified and could not move; all I could see was Dani dashing back and forth, stacking sticks under her arms and wiping the centre of the clearing clean, hands covered in white and brown dustโuntil I realized what she was doing.
I remembered Auraโs account. She was building something.
I shouted again, telling her to stop, as loud as I could, but this time, I couldnโt freeze. I ran to her, wrapped my arms around her when she began to struggle, and with all my might, held her steady, face buried against my chest. She smacked her fists at me, but I persisted, desperately trying to keep her still. I thought then that all it mattered was that she wouldnโt see, she wouldnโt look at the clearing, at that spot where she was feeling somehow compelled to build. I closed my eyes shut, and wind gushed pastโno sound still. And I waited.
I opened my eyes first, didnโt let Dani move, and froze again. Before me was a houseโsmall, no higher than a meter and a half tallโmade of something white, polished and scraped to precision. Bone.
Stood in a moment of suspension, my arms relaxed, and my fingers stopped gripping Daniโs clothes. Her body shuddered against mine, and her breath raged louder than the gushing wind around us, louder than any sound in that deathly and hollow clearing. Then, she screechedโa gasp that grew in timbre, a rising cadence that somehow seemed to come far slower than I took notice of, and she jolted herself. In a motion faster than I could have anticipated, her body escaped my grip, and she ranโshe ran away from me, towards the bone house that rose before us, without really having actually seen it before turning her head with resolution and dashing away.
I tried to grab her, but she escaped; her hands smacked open at the door, and on her knees, she crawled; her panting, heavy and desperate, came like an omen. She was famished for whatever exited beyond it, and I tried to stopโI screamed and ran after her, but she was elusive and fast and set on getting through that door and into the darkness that sucked her in and in and inโand I was too slow. Inside the door, nothing but blacknessโswirling, consuming blacknessโand as Dani entered the daunting absence of it, she evaporated from her very being. It was like watching someone being devoured by an invisible mouth that swallowed her into nothingness, and her every gesture came with so much reassurance I finally understood what Pilar Deocampo had warned: one always stays behind to suffer.
It wasnโt just meant for the Maduros; it was meant for anyone who desecrate her grave.
When the door slammed shut with a hollow thud, I collapsed to my knees and screamed her name, over and over until nothing existed inside my throat but the soreness of my efforts and the saltiness of my tears. There was not a sound. The entire space around me was engulfed in nothingness. I couldnโt see nor hear Dani anywhere, and before me, the house made of bone appeared far too small for her body to fit inside.
I curled up, and though the terror that had consumed me and made my heart pound so harshly my chest hurt, I couldnโt move. I grabbed the camera, but was unable to turn it off. By my side, Daniโs backpack laid forgotten, tossed aside in a rush. I had studied the Maduroโs case to the smallest detail and I knew she wouldnโt come back. And I finally understood what it was that had consumed Aura in such overwhelming grief, enough to make her leave her home and never come back, until her father passed away and she realizedโshe must haveโhe too crossed the space between the two pillars. I finally understood what madness had possessed Amelia after her grim crimes.
It was knowing they werenโt dead, but sentenced to absolute nothingness, left to hover in a sea of absence and non-existence, spiralling down to possible madness. It was knowing they were better off dead.
I blinked my teary eyes open, cold and trembling, hands gripping the camera, and saw something. The house was still there, but next to it, someone: sitting on the ground, back turned to me, legs crossed and shoulders slouched forward, clothes ragged and torn, and in their long auburn hairs, small leaves and twigs were caught in the slender threads. Instinctively, I turned the camera and snapped a quick pictureโbut the figure didnโt move.
My eyes didnโt move away from the strange figure in front of me, and as I put the camera down, I realized it could only be one person.
โAura Maduro?โ
Her head rose slowly, as if she tried to have a look at the skies, hairs swaying behind her, but she said nothing. Then, I felt it againโthat same pressing sadness we always felt inside the house, like a mass of air that swarmed around me, emanating from the spectre before me.
โWhere is Dani?โ My voice was low, considerate; I looked at the figure and I still saw who I had seen in Aura Maduro the moment I had arrived thereโa victim, as much as I was now. โCan you please bring her back to me?โ
Immobile. Time passed, though I couldnโt measure, couldnโt tell how long it had been, if it was night or day though the sun existed somewhere in the skyโof that, I was sure. Then, her voice floated in the air, a ragged tune, husky and dragged, but frayed by an overwhelming agony that consumed me like a gust of wind.
โShe has to stay.โ
My breath rose and whipped the back of my throat; I moved restlessly, but couldnโt leave the small batch of earth on which I knelt. โPlease,โ I pleaded. โPlease, just let me take her home.โ
โEl sangre marca la tierra,โ she spoke, โy sus huesos son nuestro mausoleo.โ
โI know what Pilar did to your family.โ Every word seemed senseless to me, as if I read from a book: reciting a prayer in order to save myself, though unsure I was there was any salvation left. I wanted to say more, let her know that I understood that misery that encompassed us both, that exuded out of her like a cold windโbut every word died.
โOne always stays,โ she said, โand the other feels pain. But I look after them.โ
I felt my chest tear open in that same sweeping sadnessโit was something carved deep into her words, something instilled in the worn-out tone of her voice.
โI look after them,โ she continuedโand in between her words, a dissonance came: of a woman that wept in silence, the distortion of a throat filled with swallowed tears, โso they donโt feel so lost.โ
Defeated, I looked down at the earth beneath me, at last understanding what never-ending horror Pilar Deocampo had cast on the world, that projected grief that would never cease, a continuous cycle of pain and terrorโmeant forever to steal and burden those who lived, who came out unscathed, to unfathomable pain.
I thought there was something I had to say, though I sincerely donโt know what my reason was: โWhat can I do?โ
Her hand waved in the air, and from the ratty long-sleeves of her jersey, a slender finger, bony and pale, pointed to her left. I noticed there was a watch, glass cracked and black bracelet, with gold rims around. โTake him,โ she said. โLet Sam rest.โ
The order was immediate, and somehow, I understood. I stood, paced slowly towards the area she had pointed atโbelow a tall tree, at a small mound covered in pine needles and dried leaves, a batch of golden-brown amidst a soft green. I knelt, pushed the leaves aside, dug my fingers into the earth, and shuddered at the touch of something cold, harsh and angular. A hand, made of bones entirely, no flesh left, emergedโand when I understood at last what she demanded of me, I nearly vomitedโsure I was completely incapable of completing the task.
I didnโt look back; short of breath, lungs collapsing at every sweeping movement of my hand, I didnโt rest. When I was done, a putrid smell filled my nose and I covered it with one arm; I ran back then, to Daniโs abandoned backpack, and rummaged for something useful enough for the rest of the deed. We had both brought our sleeping bags, expecting to perhaps spend the night to collect some evidenceโso I unrolled Daniโs, pulled the zipper open, and with a force I hadnโt felt before in my life, unsure still where it came fromโan urgency of survival, perhaps, or something outside of myself, cast upon me by Aura MaduroโI grabbed the pile of bones and put them inside the sleeping bag.
She was still there when I was done, her hand resting on her lap again. I stopped, stared at her with a cold shudderโwhether of dread or something else, I canโt say anymore. Aura Maduroโwhat was left of herโsimply sat in contemplation, her head still raised as she stared at something ahead, and only then did her words echo in my brain in full meaning. I grabbed my backpack, put the sleeping bag carefully on Daniโs, and stared at her. I had almost forgotten about the bone house.
โDo not return,โ she said. โYou wonโt resist next time.โ
Somehow, there was an unpronounced message in the air, something that wafted by like a tune carried from the distance, something you only notice when you stop and listen carefully: I am sorry you will have to suffer like we all did. I am sure that was it. Somehow, the precision existed in the tone of her voice, exuding out of her like a radio wave meant to be captured; somehow, I knew.
I walked backโran backโand once I leapt over the chain, almost instantly, the air was weightless, soft and comforting. But everything elseโmy entire existenceโbegan to press against my shoulders into a burden that was only now beginning to emerge. Guilt. Terror. Sadness. Crushing, overwhelming sadnessโand Daniโs inexistence, her sentence into nothingness, collapsed over me.
It goes without saying I never saw her again.
I buried Samuel Maduro in the backyard of the house, and with nothing to mark his grave, I simply left, on the mound of earth, a framed picture I had found in the houseโof Samuel and Aura. In it, she was wearing a wristwatch, black bracelet with golden rims.
I left and never went back. Though sometimes there is a burning wish to grab my things and drive until I see them again, the two pyramidal pillars with that creaking chain between, I never did. I think of Auraโs words, her blooming sadness, and something about it breaks my heart to pieces. The last of a cursed family, unknown of what she carried. On the night she had finally returned to her brother, in 1983, she had sacrificed far more than I could have anticipated. Cast into nothingness forever, sentenced to exist in a limbo of non-existence, forever imprisoned in the blackness of the bone house, she had willingly become a guardian. A watchful soul over those who fell victim to Pilarโs treacheryโunable to put an end to it, she had at least given herself to the chance of easing their burden, making that consuming nothingness a bit more bearable. The core of it is, however, what it means to the two last members of the Maduro family.
I was never religious. I still am not. But they were stark Catholics, born and raised between catechesis and Saturday mass. For them, being sentenced to a limbo that is neither death nor life, neither Heaven nor Hell, and something far worse than purgatoryโฆ It must be horrifying.
I destroyed my camera and the footage, as well as the tape recorder I took with me, though there was nothing in it. I couldnโt bear, however, to destroy Daniโs digital camera. It was a piece of her, and every little thing that attested to her existence, I justโฆ held on to it.
It was only months later that I turned that camera on again. To my surprise, there was a picture I had never seenโthe last one I had taken, of Aura Maduro herself.
I canโt describe it. I will leave it to your eyes to see what lacks words entirely. Perhaps you can understand what it that I felt that afternoon.
I wish I could tell Dani how sorry I am.
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๐ป๐๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐ถ๐๐, ๐ธ๐ถ๐ถ๐ท. ๐ท๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐. ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฟ๐๐ฃ.
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1. Would you have sex with the last person you text messaged?no way man sheโd probably dom the fuck out of me
2. You talked to an ex today, correct?nope.
3. Have you taken someones virginity?n o p e
4. Is trust a big issue for you?YEAH
5. Did you hang out with the person you like recently?like in terms of romantic??? no. like in terms ofย โwe have a really weird relationship and idfk how i feel @ youโ? yeah.
6. What are you excited for?april 19th!!! my friend and i are going to go see phoebe bridgers in madison!!!!
7. What happened tonight?its 10am so ill roll with last night: i played nv and got killed in a beautiful cacophony of deathclaws and the legion :) and then my game crashed.
8. Do you think itโs disgusting when girls get really wasted?no bc id be right there with them
9. Is confidence cute?very
10. What is the last beverage you had?i think some water? okay not the last but: hot water is so good with wildflower honey pls just drink some its good for your soul okay???
11. How many people of the opposite sex do you fully trust?opposite is bullshit but i guess like,, 3? half my friends are nonbinary so counting EVERYONE regardless of gender and shit id say 6 people
12. Do you own a pair of skinny jeans?im a proud supporter of boys in skinny jeans and i own 2 or 3 pairs
13. What are you gonna do Saturday night?my main ho @thebonerfoy is coming up to visit me and were probably gonna pack all my shit in her car and play cards against humanity
14. What are you going to spend money on next?ย lmao probably my student loans. unless i can get the hours i asked for at work or a sugar daddy, then im gonna buy a proper lid for my fishtank bc my poor kid has a piece of cardboard rn.
15. Are you going out with the last person you kissed?no
16. Do you think youโll change in the next 3 months?yeah. even in a state of stagnation were changing somehow.
17. Who do you feel most comfortable talking to about anything?probably amanda, but im working on trying to be better with everyone
18. The last time you felt broken?my dude, im broken right now. its okay though. like i said, im working on it. were all fckn broken somehow.
19. Have you had sex today?not unless a ghost and i got in on in my sleep. which would be pretty cool ngl
20. Are you starting to realize anything?on a deep level: i deserve respect and a lot of my issues relate directly to my upbringing, including my inability to receive praise or speak well of myselfon a not-deep level: kinda hungry.
21. Are you in a good mood?i think i just heard fedex or ups outside so my mood just skyrocketed
22. Would you ever want to swim with sharks?maybe like. nurse sharks. theyre really cute.
23. Are your eyes the same color as your dadโs?yeah
24. What do you want right this second?to take a day to go into the city with all my friends that i cant see on a regular basis
25. What would you say if the person you love/like kissed another girl/boy?probably be upset unless we discussed it beforehand. then id be fckn cheering for them like you go get some!!!! do it man!!!! in general tho: if i wasnt with them and they didnt show interest in me and showed interest in someone else id just move tf on.
26. Is your current hair color your natural hair color?half of it is bc my roots are growing out
27. Would you be able to date someone who doesnโt make you laugh?no. too boring.
28. What was the last thing that made you laugh?okay so i went to renew my library books and one of my favorite youtubers is on the library website dressed as one of his characters and i completely flipped because i watch his gaming channel and now hes interviewing authors for my library??? he doesnt even live in my town!! hes in madison!!
29. Do you really, truly miss someone right now?no? im enjoying my solitude atm
30. Does everyone deserve a second chance?depends on the person
31. Honestly, do you hate the last boy you were talking to?no! hes my friend and gives really good advice!
32. Does the person you have feelings for right now, know you do?i think so. i mean, were kind of a thing.
33. Are you one of those people who never drinks soda?yeah.
34. Listening to?killer - phoebe bridgers
35. Do you ever write in pencil anymore?only if im doing a rough journal spread, which i dont normally do
36. Do you know where the last person you kissed is?hes probably in class right now.ย
37. Do you believe in love at first sight?love at first sight? no. some sort of mutual infatuation/attraction? yes.
38. Who did you last call?my mom
39. Who was the last person you danced with?dancing with as in both dancing at the same time? probably amanda or my mom.
40. Why did you kiss the last person you kissed?we were dating and he was cute lmao
41. When was the last time you ate a cupcake?ย a couple months ago?ย
42. Did you hug/kiss one of your parents today?no bc she leaves for work before i wake up
43. Ever embarrass yourself in front of a crush?constantly.
44. Do you tan in the nude?lmao no.
45. If you could, would you take back your last kiss?no. as previously stated, i liked the guy and he was cute. why would i take that back?
46. Did you talk to someone until you fell asleep last night?yeah
47. Who was the last person to call you?my mom
48. Do you sing in the shower?sometimes
49. Do you dance in the car?yEAH
50. Ever used a bow and arrow?yes i love my bow :โ) its so good and wow i love archery
51. Last time you got a portrait taken by a photographer?picture day junior year of highschool, and if that doesnt count: my mother took me in at jcp to have pictures taken when i graduated 8th grade and theyre awful bc my hair is so long and its so not me
52. Do you think musicals are cheesy?excuse me, how dare you,, in this house we ask for war and peace for christmas because npgc1812 is so good and then get addicted to ghost quartet (@ anyone reading this: pls listen to ghost quartet it is so so so good)
53. Is Christmas stressful?depends on the year, but i hope in the future i can spend it with my friends :)
54. Ever eat a pierogi?i just had some last night for dinner and im probably going to eat the leftovers in a couple minutes. also, my mother is polish and we see her family for holidays, so yeah. lots of pierogi in this house.
update: i got the leftovers
55. Favorite type of fruit pie?idk??? apple? im basic okay i dont eat pie
56. Occupations you wanted to be when you were a kid?1. teacher2. ballerina3. both 1 & 2, simultaneously4. paleontologist5. archaeologist6. both 4 & 5, simultaneously7. librarian8. game designer9. author/illustrator
57. Do you believe in ghosts?yeah
58. Ever have a Deja-vu feeling?almost daily
59. Take a vitamin daily?im supposed to ;) vitamin d deficiency like a real champ
60. Wear slippers?real talk i never liked slippers but then i bought these cute pig slippers @ walmart for $10 and i love them so much i tried wearing them to sleep last night. also im wearing them rn theyre so cute
61. Wear a bath robe?i live in a dorm, so yeah. to the bathroom and back when i take a shower. sometimes im lazy and i just run around in a towel but so do half the people on my side of the hall lmao were all lazy and dead inside
62. What do you wear to bed?fluffy pajama pants or sweats, tshirt or hoodie, socks, sometimes slippers.. once i fell asleep with a beanie on. when im being an Adult i wear my actual pajamas!!! like a legit shirt and pants that match
63. First concert?none that i was old enough to remember :โ) apparently my mom took me to the rodeo when we lived in texas and saw some country group but i was like 2 so idfk
64. Wal-Mart, Target or Kmart?TARGET I AM A CERTIFIED TARGET GAY
65. Nike or Adidas?adidas bc my feet are too wide to fit in nikes
66. Cheetos Or Fritos?yall real talk i used to love cheetos but i think im allergic to them now? last time i had them my throat got all swollen and hurt for like 3 days so im gonna have to say fritos. plus theyre really good if you put them in chili
67. Peanuts or Sunflower seeds?sunflower seeds bc im a slut for anything i can have a spitting contest with
68. Favorite Taylor Swift song?lmao i used to like her when i was like. 11. not my scene anymore
69. Ever take dance lessons?i dont think so?
70. Is there a profession you picture your future spouse doing?anything that makes them happy, but also something fun!!!! like wedding photographer or a baker or maybe zookeeper?
71. Can you curl your tongue?idk??? kinda????? i can tie a cherry stem so i want to say yes.
72. Ever won a spelling bee?no i always got out bc my anxiety made me stutter/rush and miss letters, so i never even got past the classroom levels to the real thing
73. Have you ever cried because you were so happy?a lot!!! i laugh so hard i cry and get a stomach ache more than id like to admit
74. What is your favorite book?eleanor & park by rainbow rowell :) OR aliceโs adventures in wonderland by lewis caroll
75. Do you study better with or without music?depends on if i can get into hyperfocus mode or not. if not, then i pick one song and put it on loop and blast it until it fades and is just loud background noise, but if i can focus then silence is best
76. Regularly burn incense?i used to but no burning anything in the dorms :( then i came home for break and it started giving me a headache
77. Ever been in love?i think so
78. Who would you like to see in concert?kesha, against me!, my chemical romance (rip), bigbang (also rip)
79. What was the last concert you saw?the one i mentioned earlier @ a rodeo
80. Hot tea or cold tea?hot tea
81. Tea or coffee?i live on coffee but i love tea too so both
82. Favorite type of cookie?mmm snickerdoodle. or just sugar cookies. chocolate chip is good when theyre hot and melty but not as good when theyre cold
83. Can you swim well?yeah! i love swimming!
84. Can you hold your breath without holding your nose?yeah?
85. Are you patient?hahahahahahhahahahhahahhaa
86. DJ or band, at a wedding?oo. oooooo. okay so dj would have more variety of music but im a sucker for live music??? idk i feel like a band would be more memorable, but what if they fuck up your favorite song??? but what if they make it more special???????
87. Ever won a contest?yeah! i won an art contest once and got my drawing printed on christmas cards for a nonprofit that did things for cancer patients!
88. Ever have plastic surgery?im 17 i dont have that kind of money
89. Which are better black or green olives?depends on what theyre in?
90. Opinions on sex before marriage?good. live your life fuck the rules
91. Best room for a fireplace?bedroom!!! i love fireplaces in bedrooms its such a Look
92. Do you want to get married?idk. if it happens then it happens. im not planning on it though.
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MANATAGGED! by Cozymochi
Tagged by the amazingย @cozymochi
1) Name/nickname: Mana or Ginga if you found me via YouTube Idol
2) Gender: Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurl (but I consider myself fluid)
3) Star sign: Sagittariusย โ โฅโฅโฅ( proud of it)
4) Height: 5โ1ย (I am fun sized ok? o-o)
5) Hogwarts House: Gryffindor ~*~*~*~*
6) Favourite animal: Manta Rays (or as I call em MAJESTICAL FLAPFLAPS)
7) Hours of sleep: Ranges from 6-10 if Im lucky (because Iโve gotten sick lately I try to have as much sleep as humanly possible cuz I wanna strengthen my already weak immune system.Getting sick forces me to sleep longer.BUT it takes me EONS just to get to sleep cuz my mind is racing 24/7))
8) Dogs or cats: KITTIES =^w^=! But huskies are cool
9) Number of blankets: 3 ...I get cold easily hush
10) Dream trip: Definitely Japan, I just wanna go to the anime cafes & Nakano Broadway & Akihabara like the weeb trash that I am. But I wouldnโt mind seeing England, Egypt, Hawaii or Bolivia (again) in this lifetime.
11) Dream Job: Has changed over the years but I feel in my heart I was born to perform & entertain. I want to keep pursuing singing/acting/voice acting as my top priority, music, theatre, & VA is such a big part of my life, I would love to do it as a career. Even if I do it as a youtuber or something at first. But If drawing is an option I wouldnโt mind storyboard artist.
12) Time: 2am...woops
13) Birthday: December 20th
14) Favourite Bands: Abingdon Boys School, JAM Project, Daizystripper, STARISH/Quartet Night/HEAVENS, DOLL$BOXX, One Ok Rock, OldCodex, Choutokkyuu, FoZZtone, SHINee, Got7,U-KISS,BACK-ON,Psychic Lover, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas,Rookiez is Punkโd, Man With A Mission, Asian Kung Fu Generation,Scandal, Linkin Park, Big Time Rush, The Beatles I know I have more but this is what I could muster from memory
15) Favourite Solo Artists: T.M. Revolution, Aoi Shouta, Miyano Mamoru, Maaya Sakamoto, Kana Hanazawa, Amber from f(x), VALSHE, LiSA, Celia Cruz, Shakira, Mayโn, Nano, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, PSY (do my friends count? if so Ceonn, Phoebe & Kiba Walker)
16) Song Stuck In My Head:ย โCHANGINโโ by Nona Reeves FT. You The Rock
Its the 4th ED Theme from Getbackers & by far its the greatest thing Iโve ever heard in my life. Itโs just a PERFECT song. I can play on repeat forever.
17) Last Movie I Watched: The Mummy (2017)ย
18) Last Show I Watched: I just watched Kevin Probably Saves the World. It has slowly become one of my new fave shows of all time. Itโs such an original & brilliant story, the acting is superb & heartfelt. Such a good comedy. I HIGHLY recommend it. Itโs a good thing I watch The Voice cuz it came on after it & that made me wanna check it out XD!
19) When Did I Create My Blog: My first blog @manadarkmagiciangirl has been here since May 2012. But this one has been up since February 2015
20) What Do I Post/Reblog: Well this is supposed to be my art/singing/hobby blg where I share all my projects & life. But I also tend to trickle some fandom posts. Usually memes,abridged projects, ZEXAL, Darker Than Black, Utapri, Takanori Nishikawa (and other artists I like), & tokusatsu or whatever else I am in the mood for that day
21) Last Thing I Googled: Brown & Auburn wigs for me &ย sis cuz for Holiday Matsuri we wanna go as CardCaptor Sakura & Syaoran from Tsubasaย
22) Other Blogs: @manadarkmagiciangirl (Fandom Blog), @okudairagalaxypalaceย ( ESPer Robin fan blog)ย @pendantposse (abridged)
23) Do I Get Asks: Itโs a rarity even though I do wish to talk with you guys. But usually if i reblog some kinda interactive meme it happens. Or if I give any big announcements
24) Why I Choose My URL: Itโs a combo of Mana (my fave YGO character) & Yuma Tsukumoโs catchphrase from ZEXAL -ย โKattobinguโ. Kattobingu meansย โto do your best & challenge yourselfโ. So I am Mana & Iโm doing my best ^_^b
25) Following: 45 but I should check who is active or nah XD
26) Followers: 418 but on my other one Iโm at 1,368
27) Lucky Number: 83,39,20 I think XD?
28) Favourite Instrument: Electric guitar but have yall heard electric CELLO? That shiz is BADASS! But my fave instrument to use is my voice ^^โฅ I luv to sing!
29) What Am I Wearing: Long Gundam Wing tshirt, pj bottoms & socks XD?
30) Favorite Food: GREEN TEA. Give me matcha flavored ANYTHING & I will be groveling at your feet. Especially matcha ice cream ;W;o
31) Nationality: Bolivian
32) Favorite Song: BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I may be a jrocker....BUTย My favorite song of all time is โThe Blue Danubeย Waltzโ by Johann Strauss II. I grew up listening to a lot of classical music & BESIDES recently Yuri On Ice (the song). No piece of classical music has come to being as perfect as that song in terms of taking me on an emotional rollercoaster. I love songs that can take me on a journey. But if I had to pick a MODERN song, I would say itโs a 3 way tie (all sung by Takanori Nishikawa) โVestigeโ by T.M. Revolution, & โWE aREโ +ย โHowlingโ by Abingdon Boys School. Those songs always resonate with me.
33) Last Book Read: Tsubasa World Chronicle
34) Top Three Fictional Universes Iโd Like To Join:ย I wish Heartland from ZEXAL was real cuz honestly I would LOVE to live there. Tokyo Mew Mew because I wanna be a magical girl that protects endangered species, Pokemon FOR SURE cuz who WOULDNT want that? A fourth choice would be Saint Seiya because I want that cool armor tbh.
Iโm tagging: @crystalwoodsartย @marcosatsu @magishine-dance @masked-paradox @rosey-ballerina @pandaloverwwf @tyrestgwa @ahsimwithsake @laurathia @t-chan @rainbow-galaxy-supernova
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