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Discovered in its drafts"

"Witch whose witch hat is a wide brimmed version of the multicolored propeller hat."

This one thinks that it was for the best that the post was abandoned. It could not handle the responsibility of bringing the concept of a witch with this much whimsy into the world

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knight symbolism in chronic pain save me. armor metaphors for the unseen weight on your limbs. hidden wounds you must hide from your companions. the soft groans when you try to get to your feet. collapsing as soon as the door shuts behind them. knowing that you have to get up, you must get up — you have to be brave and strong for them but god does it hurt. craving the touch of the beloved on your forehead while you see them in dreams. wounded knight symbolism in chronic illness save me save me please

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also have this doll Renée, I got bored idk by ValvalisQR

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Im sorry but polyamory is the only natural way a relationship can work, a princess needs both a knight and a maid depriving her of one or the other is a fate far worse than even hell could conjure

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hey you wanna watch maids gone wild with me?

*puts in vhs tape, as the cheesy music begins to play we see a maid sipping tea, but a single lock of hair falls out of her braid*

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Angel Harvesting For Beginners

I still see so many people online paying far too much for angel parts. Obviously they are incredibly useful, and I won’t pretend that any of them are trivial to get (there’s a reason you can’t pick up angel liver at the butcher’s shop), but I should not be seeing any of you bragging about getting a single feather for “only” $50. So today I’m going to walk through how you can get yourself some angel feathers and tears without breaking the bank. We won’t be getting into butchery here, since it’s a much more complicated topic. There’s many guides out there that are much better written than I could do anyway. However, with my method, you avoid killing the angel, so there’s no need to worry about the lingering sin.

I think most people by now know how to attract an angel. Dangle some bit of repentance for them to chew on, and something physical to force them to fully manifest. I won’t get too specific with the former since it varies between everyone, but I will say for the latter that I have found apple juice to work well. Just be sure not to use a glass cup, or it will shatter when the angel reaches for it.

Once you get the angel, you’re going to need to keep it there. Be sure it’s fully on our side, and then quickly reach out for something to hold it with. What tends to work best is Hope and Empathy. Love and Compassion work well too, depending on your bait and the kind of angel. If you’re not quick enough here, there is a chance the angel will escape, so be prepared to treat any burns you receive.

Once you have a hold of it, you’ll need to properly bind it so that you can get to work. The popular trope is to tie the angel with a rope, starting from those handholds you got, but in my experience that’s just more trouble than its worth, and half the time you lose all your nice rope. I prefer a hammer and nails, though obviously this requires you’re in a place where digging a few nails into the ground is both possible and won’t cause any issues. It’s important to remember here that, as flashy as they are, the physical bindings are actually less important than the verbal component. Binding the angel with your words is not only possible but very necessary for keeping it trapped as fully as we want it. You have to be determined and believe what you say. Always keep in mind the aspects you’re holding it down with, and center your dialogue around those. I promise it sounds a lot harder than it is. When you get to it, half the time you can just listen to the buzzing of its halo and that will give you enough to work with. I can’t explain it, just trust me.

So now you have your angel. Angels can’t spend too much time in our world at once. It’s going to start burning up, which means we do have a little bit of a time limit for what we can take from it. Remember that we are not trying to kill it. If it dies from overexposure, you have way more problems on your hand than two few angel tears or whatever. Don’t be an idiot. First, you take some feathers. Then, we can catch its tears, and then we let it go.

It’s not hard to take feathers out of their wings. You’ve probably seen people do it to a fresh angel corpse and it’s honestly not that dissimilar. Scissors work really well for getting them out, but that tends to damage them a lot more. You can also literally just reach for them and yank them out. It’s really not too hard, and the feathers turn out better, but it is absolutely disgusting so be aware of that, and take a long shower afterwards. There’s all sorts of tools people will sell you for harvesting angel feathers, but I’ll tell you right now that they’re all useless. Those tools are for corpses, and again, we do not want that. They’ll just be clunky and get in the way when you have a celestial being begging and thrashing in your backyard.

A lot of ink has been spilled on the topic of angel tears, but really it’s not that complicated. Just remember that angels are not like us, and they don’t think like us. They are simpleminded beings that can’t really be related to. What you’re going to want to do once you’ve gotten enough feathers is stop, take a step back, and apologize. I know it sounds dumb, but that’s really the secret. For some reason that makes them completely reset. They don’t understand that you’re the one that trapped them here. So you apologize, then you say something about recognizing their pain, how much it hurts or whatever, and then you can go back towards them. At this point, your angel is going to start to cry. It can look different for different angels and go at different speeds, but you’ll recognize it when it happens. What you’ll use to catch the tears is going to be some old doll. Maybe grab something from the thrift store. It doesn’t really matter what it is, just go for something that a baby might play with. With that doll, go be close to the angel, maybe wrap an arm around it, stroke its hair, whatever. It’ll cry as much as you want it to.

Then, once you’ve gotten enough, you’ll need to let it go. I’ve seen some people worry that the angel will try to get back at you or punish you or whatever, but in my experience any sort of retribution is completely accidental. They don’t know how to connect you as a human to what happened to them. The two concepts are completely disconnected in their bird brains. Just unbind whatever you used to physically tether it, tell it that it’s free to go, and it’ll go. It will be happy to go back to the celestial realm because of how much it hurts staying here.

Of course let me know if you have any questions, I’d be happy to answer them and maybe even make a followup post if there’s enough that people are curious about. I promise it’s really not as hard as it sounds. I made it sound like you have to be really careful, but honestly you can mess it up pretty badly and the only thing that will happen is maybe a couple things will burn and some weird gravity. Do it in a safe area and it’s really not too hard.

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trying to explain the concept of a revolution to a princess but every time i think she's understood it she pauses for a moment, deep in thought, then does a little twirl and says "like this!"

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summer on Kepler-452b means painting rainbow stripes on the side of your medium enforcement mech and supplementing the Willy Pete with glitter.

you're new. you were a stationer, an orbital kid raised on scant oxygen, and you fuss about operational efficiency. "don't worry about it," everyone explained. "it's tradition." Command authorizes it every year. a company mechanic read you the bulletin for this local year. the bulletin says the same thing she did: it's a chain of tradition stretching centuries and thousands of light years back to a holiday on the motherwell. Old Terra herself.

"but why? what does it all mean? why rainbows? why glitter?"

"don't worry about it, kitten. nobody really knows."

"Handler!" you gasp. you didn't hear him come in. you're so lucky to have him here. he's always so busy, but if he's willing to make time for you despite your silly questions, maybe your secret goal isn't as unrealistic as it seems sometimes.

he gently ruffles your hair. "all we know is, for as long as mankind has been settling the scattered worlds, in the summer, we wear rainbows, and we say the words. it's a celebration of everything we have to be proud of. happy pride, kitten. just say it with me."

"happy pride," you say, smiling, as you fall into his warm and comforting lap and get comfortable with a bit of strategic wiggling.

you still don't know what the deal is, but if he doesn't care, you suppose you don't need to either. you'll pack your incendiaries and tracers with sparkly multi-hued foil bits and have the maintenance crew update your paint scheme, just like everyone else does. whatever gets you through your tour in his good graces so you can settle down to the real work: getting out of the cockpit, bearing the next generation of pilots, and raising them to someday work with handlers nearly as good as yours.

you briefly look over, smug, at the mechanic. this is your handler, not hers. mechanics don't have handlers; how would that even work? whatever the hell "happy pride" means, you're almost certain you'll be having a happier pride than her. □

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abandoned doll that thinks it's a prince

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*kicks your door down after the "what other smush should i draw" post*

DOLL SMUSH DOLL SMUSH DOLL SMUSH

i heard the calls for doll smush and i had no choice but to answer

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A handy illustration of wind-up doll vocalizations

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I’m picturing a girl (loser) who is also a legendary sword master (unbeatable in combat, none who draw steel against her live) but who remains unemployed (came out, got on estrogen, lost job) and vaguely wandering from city to city every few years (bad polycule drama, mostly her fault) and who (most important part) remains a huge loser with baggy black clothes and perpetual subway mayo stink and painfully negative riz despite, again, being literally god-killingly good with six feet of cold steel.

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a deckhand is a subspecies of maid that is also a pirate. if deckhands acquire enough booty, they have the ability to transform into a pirate cook, or other type of pirate maid. it's somewhat similar to the hive behavior of maids and knights around a princess, except instead of a castle and a princess, the hive revolves around a captain as queen and a large boat as a living space.

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Maid cleaning a massive chateau surely belonging to the richest people you’ve ever seen, and as she’s walking from room to room you notice that every single portrait is of her

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Hatsune Miku and Kasane Teto as Land of Lustrous characters❤❤❤❤

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Summoner is more of a cat person