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incorrectselfaware · 6 months
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Mell: I wasn't THAT drunk.
Kai: You colored my face with a highlighter because you said I was important.
Mell: but you a r e
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gingerbreton · 2 months
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only nearly a month late i'm finally posting the step smooches from oc kiss week! Thank you for letting me steal your lovely steps, they were all an absolute delight to draw!
Caleb - @mihqorio
Antoine - @punkranger
Cynthia
Gigi - @askweisswolf
Theo - @eskcl
Riley - @kittlesandbugs
Kai - @the-rebel-archivist
Dawn - @eydika
Mallory - @griever-receiver
Levi - @lazyvoyager
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heyhellohihowareyou · 5 months
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My ocs in picrews since I’m still too lazy to draw some of them.
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Links: PC 1 PC 2
Characters’ flags and pronouns (in order):
Kat: Bisexual (She/Her)(May go by Kit/Kitself too)
Ruby: Bisexual (Technically bi-curious) (She/Her)
Melody: Asexual (She/Her)
Penny: Lesbian+Trans (She/Her)
Makayla/Kay: Genderfluid+Bi (She/They/He)
Cameron: Demiboy+Aromantic (Aroallo to be more specific) (He/They)
Matt/Matty: Genderqueer (They/He/Any) (Also is there a term similar to achillean but for someone who’s genderqueer/agender or anything like that? Matt’s attracted to guys/masc presenting people but idk if it’s okay to put them down in the achillean label yet and I can’t find anything on it.)
Lucas: Gay mlm (He/Him) Jake: Trans+Bisexual (He/They)
Parker: Demi+Bisexual (Demiromantic Bisexual to be specific) (He/Him)
Feel free to ask me questions on them^^ (<- She’s begging you)
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cardboardfeet · 2 years
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draw a stupid amt while vibin in vc 🤗
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aspenhanyuu · 2 years
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anyways. we as a society need to look at this chapter of self aware. read it. read it again. im posting my favorite bits but i am begging on my legs that u at least glance at this chapter. i didnt rmbr tbe majority of jamies arc so reading it while looking for a specific quote destroyed my brain in one hit. JUST
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KAI HUGS. (sorry for quality) LITERALY BESTIES YOUR HONOR
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HELLO???? his sense in fashion is PEak im so mad rn
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this scene is very relevant!!!!!!! u can hear it from the page. explodes forever and ever
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AND. THEIR BANTER!!!!!!!!! WHERE will u find a character intro as lovely as jamjes. im waiting. thats right theres none that can compare.
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ADDITIONALLY (not from the same chapger as the rest): he smells like fruit. on the money!
if theres any reason to read Self Aware its for hottie mc thottie over here juries of the court. ty and gnight [tips hat]
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Today (now)
Drink Your Villain Juice! CH5 (pt 2) available on Patreon!
18k new words on top of the existing CH5's 30k, taking the game to 160k!
Learn what mission lies ahead for the Altruists, and learn more about how the Zone came to be.
Hunt for secret insights into your targets. But be careful.
Share a moment with Wil, and perhaps even a little more?
Report to Control Group. Which secrets will you keep? Which will you tell?
Bond with Control Group?
Drink Your Villain Juice!
…unless.
Some additions/fixes, also!
Further choices with Wil added at the debriefing, including one rather tsundere choice if that's been your dynamic.
New option to look into the fate of AdVenture.
Restored an inaccessible option allowing you to claim to Dion that checking on the Patrol was part of a personal code of conduct.
Teddie getting pissed off at you for endangering Kay now routes properly to the rest of the scene.
The public build has also been updated:
Added the ability to skip to Chapter 4.
Restored missing branches to the nodes/mutations routes through the Surpass fight. Unfortunately they're failure states, so have fun!
Restored a missing branch with crushing on Prii; now you can tearfully confess your feelings as they die in your arms! Wait.
Added new code/flavour text to restrict certain pseudonyms, including Dime.
Asking Hypothesis about the earbud now actually tests your skills as it's supposed to.
Added a reaction for abdominal maw MCs if they show off to Mallory.
Fixed the choice to bluff Dion at the end of the briefing so you can actually fail it as was intended.
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bookofmac · 2 months
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okay okay okay, thinking thoughts
So I find the concept of Names really interesting in Camlann, reading into the extracanonical stuff put on the tumblr is giving me food for theory crafting. The Catacylsm seems to be some kind of return of magic to the world (possibly heralded by the return of The King of the Britons in their hour of need?) and thus people with significant Names have access to something because of it. they fall into the stories of their namesakes; Perry, Gwaine, and Kay are Knights, Morgan is Morgana Le Fay, and we now have a Gwen in Shújūn.
Based on Kay's dicussion with Perry if more people can fill in the roles of their stories to more 'to plan' the stories will go, Of course this is not good news if you know the general end point of Arthurian legend (Betrayal, muderer, war, most everyone dead, the 'Glory' of camelot gone). It's inherently kind of a doomsday cult if you stay in those stories, you know where parts of this are going (i'll get back to this)
it also seems like there may be some, for lack of a better term, kin drama going on. There are 900 members of the court and Kay mentions that Peredur is a really uncommon name outside of Wales, meaning there are certain knights who are more common, i assume Lancelot's, Kay's, maybe a few Talisin's, a bunch of Gareth's, and like 50 Elaines like in the legends lol
We also dont have the context for how Names work full yet and neither do our characters. I think theres a lot of answers to be had with Shújūn/Gwen with how it works, how you know other than the buzzing in you're head and desire go through the motions and Follow the Story
Now, where does Dai fit in all this?
Dai doesn't have a Name, and I think theres going to be a point where he changes his name in a major way, but not to a Name, but a Bardic name. In welsh poetic and story telling tradtions Welsh poets, THE OG Bards, will take on pseudonyms tell their stories. This practice stems from the medievil era, but goes forth to today, and many modern Welsh and welsh heritage poets have connections to this tradition (Dylan Thomas' middle name was his great uncles bardic name, Sarah Williams published her work under the name Sadie), I believe it's also a requirement to have one if you intend to perform in the major Eisteddfod, (I am Australian so my experiance of Eisteddfods here is very different so if i'm wrong on that let me know)
Why would he do this? I think Dai is going to, at least try, to write him and his friends a way out.
Much ink is spilt over how Arthurian legend doesnt have an 'orginal text', and as such there are lots of stories that are inherently contradictory; Bedwyr is the best knight, but so are Gwaine, Lancelot, and Galahad. Mordred is some random king until his Arthur's son. Arthur has a sister, no he has two, actually he has three and one of them is an Elaine. This could be used to explain any doubles (are you my Gwaine), as well as why we see a few different spelling varients which are, the very welsh Peredur as opposed to Percival or Parzifal, the anglisised and more boarish Kay as opposed to Cei or Caius (this last one might just to keep Dai and Kay distinct tho). These variations are no more or less 'canon' than any other telling of the story, and so often the writer of a given telling of Arthurian legend is going to have their own bias. But things dont HAVE to end the way they always do, and sometime you need to have someone outside the story you're caught in to tell you a new one.
You are not locked into that ever looming cloud of Thomas Mallory and Le Morte d'Arthur.
Other evidence I have for this is that Dai sings at the begining of each episode, and sings in welsh at that. He also is, to a point our narrator, existing both in and out of the current narative. Also his name is an a lyric of Sosban Fach (a song i would be surprised if it wasn't in the show at some point) 'Dai bach y sowldiwr' which is also not from the text the song was based on. Tangential yes, but i think it's worth thinking about.
I think there is also something to be said about choice in what your name is and how it feeds into the overall theme of identiy, and how that plays into other themes at play in the story, like Transness, Imperialism, and Predestination
TL:DR; While he doesnt have a Name, Dai's gonna give himself an epic bard name and save them all by writing a killer hook to get them out of the story
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thatbiologist · 11 months
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G’eth Character Name Bank
First Names
Masculine Names
Alfred, Andrew, Arlo, Arthur, Balthazar, Barry, Ben, Benedick, Bernard, Burchard, Cedric, Charibert, Crispin, Cyrill, Daegal, Derek, Digory, Drustan, Duncan, Edmund, Edwin, Elric, Evaine, Frederick, Geffery, George, Godfreed, Gregory, Guy, Harris, Harry, Horsa, Hugh, Humphrey, Iago, Jack, Jeremy, John, Kazamir, Kenric, Lawrence, Leoric, Lorik, Luke, Lynton, Lysander, Madoc, Magnus, Maukolum, Micheal, Miles, Milhouse, Mordred, Mosseus, Ori, Orvyn, Neville, Norbert, Nycolas, Paul, Percival, Randulf, Richard, Robert, Roderick, Stephen, Tennys, Theodoric, Thomas, Tristan, Tybalt, Victor, Vincent, Vortimer, Willcock, Willian, Wymond
Feminine Names
Adelin, Alice, Amelia, Beatrix, Beryl, Bogdana, Branwyne, Brigida, Catalina, Catherine, Claudia, Crystina, Deanna, Desdemona, Elaine, Elinora, Eliza, Enide, Eva, Ferelith, Fiora, Freya, Gertrude, Gregoria, Gueanor, Gwen, Gwendolyn, Hannah, Hegelina, Helen, Helga, Heloise, Henrietta, Igraine, Imogen, Jacquelyn, Jane, Jean, Jenny, Jill, Juliana, Juliet, Katie, Leela, Lettice, Lilibet, Lilith, Lucy, Luthera, Luz, Lyra, Malyna, Margherita, Marion, Meryl, Millie, Miranda, Molle, Morgana, Morgause, Nezetta, Nina, Novella, Olwen, Oriana, Oriolda, Osanna, Pamela, Petra, Philippa, Revna, Rohez, Rosalind, Rose, Sallie, Sarra, Serphina, Sif, Simona, Sophie, Thomasine, Tiffany, Ursula, Viola, Winifred, Yrsa, Ysabella, Yvaine, Zelda, Zillah
Gender-Neutral/Unisex Names
Adrian, Alex, Aiden, Arden, Ariel, Auden, Avery, Bailey, Blaire, Blake, Brett, Breslin, Caelan, Cadain, Cameron, Charlie, Dagon, Dana, Darby, Darra, Devon, Drew, Dylan, Evan, Felize, Fenix, Fernley, Finley, Glenn, Gavyn, Haskell, Hayden, Hunter, Jace, Jaime, Jesse, Jo, Kai, Kane, Karter, Kieran, Kylin, Landon, Leslie, Mallory, Marin, Meritt, Morgan, Nell, Noel, Oakley, Otzar, Paris, Peregrine, Quant, Quyn, Reagan, Remy, Robin, Rowan, Ryan, Sam, Samar, Sasha, Sloan, Stace, Tatum, Teegan, Terrin, Urbain, Vahn, Valo, Vick, Wallace, Waverly, Whitney, Yardley, Yarden, Zasha
Surnames
Surnames, Patrilineal - First Name (Patrilineal Surname)
Ace, Allaire, Appel, Arrow, Baker, Bamford, Barnard, Beckett, Berryann, Blakewood, Blanning, Bigge, Binns, Bisby, Brewer, Brickenden, Brooker, Browne, Buller, Carey, Carpenter, Carter, Cheeseman, Clarke, Cooper, Ead, Elwood, Emory, Farmer, Fish, Fisher, Fitzroy, Fletcher, Foreman, Foster, Fuller, Galahad, Gerard, Graves, Grover, Harlow, Hawkins, Hayward, Hill, Holley, Holt, Hunter, Jester, Kerr, Kirk, Leigh, MacGuffin, Maddock, Mason, Maynard, Mercer, Miller, Nash, Paige, Payne, Pernelle, Raleigh, Ryder, Scroggs, Seller, Shepard, Shore, Slater, Smith, Tanner, Taylor, Thatcher, Thorn, Tilly, Turner, Underwood, Vaughan, Walter, Webb, Wilde, Wood, Wren, Wyatt, Wynne
Surnames, Townships in G’eth - First Name of (Location)
Abelforth, Argent Keep, Barrow Springs, Barrowmere, Bedford, Brunhelm, Bumble, Casterfalls, Dunbridge, Falmore Forest, Folk’s Bounty, Frostmaid, Fulstad, Heller’s Crossing, Hertfordshire, Humberdale, Inkwater, Little Avery, Marrowton, Mistfall, Mistmire, Morcow, Necropolis-on-Sea, Otherway, Parsendale, Piddlehinton, Port Fairwind, Redcastle, Ransom, Rutherglen, Saint Crois, Tanner’s Folly, Tavern’s Point, Wilmington
Surnames, Geographical Locations in G’eth - First Name of the (Location)
Cove of Calamity, Deep Woods of Falmore, Eastern Isles, Eastern Mountains, Foothills, Frozen Peak, Lakes, Maegor Cobblestones, Northern Mountains, Southern Isle, Tangle, West Coast, Wild Wild Woods, Woods of Angarad
Surnames, Nickname - First Name the (Something) 
Bald, Bastard, Bear, Bearded, Big, Bird, Bold, Brave, Broken, Butcher, Bruiser, Careless, Caring, Charitable, Clever, Clumsy, Cold, Confessor, Coward, Crow, Cyclops, Devious, Devoted, Dog, Dragonheart, Dreamer, Elder, Faithful, Fearless, Fey, Fool, Friend, Generous, Giant, Goldheart, Goldfang, Gouty, Gracious, Great, Hag, Handsome, Hawk, Honest, Huge, Humble, Hungry, Hunter, Innocent, Ironfist, Ironside, Keeper, Kind, Lesser, Liar, Lionheart, Little, Loyal, Magical, Mercenary, Merchant, Messenger, Old, Orphan, Pale, Polite, Poet, Poor, Prodigy, Prophet, Proud, Reliable, Romantic, Rude, Selfish, Sellsword, Scab, Scholar, Shield, Shy, Singer, Sirrah, Slayer, Slug, Small, Stoneheart, Swift, Tadde, Talented, Tart, Tenacious, Timid, Tiny, Tough, Traveller, Trusted, Truthful, Viper, Wizard, Wolf, Wyrm
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artisticlegshake · 10 months
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RADIX NATIONALS RESULTS 2023
SENIOR SOLOS (TOP 4 RE-COMPETING):
Emma Mather - MATHER OTE!
Kaitlyn Tom - NOR CAL OTE!
Carly Thinfen - NOR CAL OTE!
Emily Madden - MATHER OTE!
4th Jesse Detroy - DANCEPLEX OTE!
5th Siena Saure - MATHER OTE!
5th Alexis Schueller - THE DIFFERENCE OTE!
6th Makenna Miller - MATHER OTE!
6th Mallory McKenna - MATHER OTE!
7th Kai Javier - NOR CAL OTE!
7th Kennedi Sandige - MATHER OTE!
8th Ronnie Lewis - MATHER OTE!
9th Mandy Boaz - MATHER OTE!
10th Keoni Guerrero - AVANTI OTE!
OPEN SOLOS:
1st Joe Jr Cruz - THE TALENT BOX OTE!
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selfsabotaqe · 6 months
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hi everyone! it's been a while & finally i'm making my comeback. work has finally left me some room to breathe so i'll be reappearing on your dash and hopefully getting back into the swing of replies. down below there's a full list of everything currently in my drafts. please let me know whether you'd like to continue or drop these threads. whichever scenario is completely fine and understandable (it's been a hot sec after all), just let me know. if you'd prefer to start something new, we can also do that. feel free to message me or reply to this post anytime. there's no rush at all to make up your mind, but just to start off i'll start with replies for threads people do actively express interest in. so if anything from this list is something you're still excited about, let me know and i'll prioritize. we can always waitlist the other stuff while we feel it out. anyway, let me know, come chat, let me love u down and can't wait to continue writing together. love u all! 💗🥹
with @persephonyed. carlos x lorenzo marley x camille
with @silvrmoon. nadiye x milo axel x kadri zehra x sierra
with @lilacwiine. drew x felice amara x maya
with @invcntions. alec x lucas mateo x saxon devrim x leo beau x koa emre x noah luca x jaiden (smth new?) jesse x finn peyton x vance soren x lincoln
with @horrorphase. dominic x percy milan x kendall
with @slumpcd. max x theo kendall x nolan jinny x gwen
with @gcldcnhour. eden x mathias rhys x bodie isabel x tate alina x priya zoe x knox ethan x violet marisol x miriam
with @temptedfates. emmett x aydin noor x solana
with @spectraled. maddie x rory tbd x dallas (thought abt replying if u would like replies <3)
with @vacationeyes. marco x conrad julian x callum emre x frankie xavier x tyson jude x forest
with @lovecharged. jonas x antonio aleksei x drake bridie x quilo tbd x amie jonas x antonio (part two) julian x zayn felix x robin nadiye x rasim tatum x uziah carlos x gabriel
with @fruitpoem. ambar x joel
with @inkiidreams. aera x selin davika x esra carlos x mallory merve x yaritza robin x aurelia lais x nova casper x knox lachlan x olivia
with @wutheringdevotion. lachlan x oliver rowan x ginny connor x evan meera x monique carlos x gabriel gwen x jonah margot x adrian
with @gardenwalls. meera x paloma alec x mack naiyana x nadine daniel x minako laura x andrea fabien x mei li nazli x rhys
with @felteverywhere. alina x rowan
with @sunstvne. santiago x constantin
with @gvngsigns. gabriela x lucas kai x mateo florence x liam tobias x zuri andrea x cruz ricardo x vincent
with @scbrvght. all of our formula one threads (don't think i owe u the replies but let me know if you'd like to continue them <3) lale x finley soren x everly
mAYBE im missing things. if there's anything i owe you that isn't on this list, feel free to point it out to me! and also vice versa, if you owe me something & you want to discuss continuing or dropping it, just come message me and we can chat about it!
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iceflwers · 23 days
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𝓴𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓲 “𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓲” 𝓱𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓪 !
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˚✧ ₊˚ʚ THE BASICS !
— ❥ FULL NAME: Kelani Maile Halia.
— ❥ NICKNAMES: Lani (most commonly used), Keke, ipo, kaikamahine, Slugger, Halia, baby (by Luke only), Fiesty (by Luke only).
— ❥ DATE OF BIRTH: January 3rd, 2003 (Capricorn).
— ❥ BIRTHPLACE: Lansing, Michigan, United States.
— ❥ CURRENT RESIDENCE: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
— ❥ SPOKEN LANGUAGES: English, Hawaiian, Spanish (not fluently), American Sign Language (not fluently).
— ❥ ORIENTATION: Biromantic, bisexual.
— ❥ GENDER IDENTITY: Cisgender female (she/her pronouns).
— ❥ OCCUPATION: Right winger for PWHL Minnesota.
— ❥ FACECLAIM: Auli’i Cravalho.
˚✧ ₊˚ʚ PERSONALITY !
— ❥ HOGWARTS HOUSE: Gryffindor (brave, chivalrous, daring).
— ❥ MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE: ENTJ - The Commander (energetic, confident, stubborn).
— ❥ ENNEAGRAM TYPE: Type Three - The Achiever (charming, self-assured, authentic).
— ❥ MORAL ALIGNMENT: Neutral Good.
— ❥ LOVE LANGUAGES: Quality time for receiving, words of affirmation for giving.
— ❥ SKILLS: Hockey, speed skating, singing, calligraphy, sketching, switching quickly between languages, makeup, distance running.
— ❥ LIKES: Winning, going on runs, true crime podcasts, skating early in the morning when no one else is around, blasting music and dancing around her room, parties, cute dogs, hanging out with her friends and Luke, warm weather, oversized shirts.
— ❥ DISLIKES: Assholes, sudden changes, the people she loves getting hurt, wearing leather, being forced to dance at parties, tight hairstyles, coffee with a lot of sugar in it, backstabbing people.
— ❥ FEARS/PHOBIAS: Failure, snakes, being held down, wasps, never achieving her dreams, tight spaces.
˚✧ ₊˚ʚ RELATIONSHIPS !
— ❥ FAMILY: Alana Halia (mother), Akoni Halia (father), Kai Halia (older brother).
— ❥ FRIENDS: Trevor Zegras, Brooke Bryant, Maggie Flaherty, Taylor Heise, Grace Zumwinkle, Liz Schepers.
— ❥ ACQUAINTANCES: Remainder of the PWHL Minnesota roster, Jack Hughes, Quinn Hughes, Nico Hischier, Jasper Bratt, John Marino.
— ❥ ROMANTIC INTERESTS: Mallory Keller (first crush), Zach Song (first boyfriend), Holly Collins (brief fling), Aimee Pryor (ex-girlfriend), Luke Hughes (current romantic interest).
˚✧ ₊˚ʚ FUN FACTS !
— ❥ Lani was born at almost exactly midnight, and as such her parents like to make jokes about her being a superstar and “their little star”.
— ❥ In addition to all of her hockey training throughout the years, Lani also has a little bit of training in figure skating, which allows to be quicker and more graceful on the ice than opponents and teammates without it. She’s tried to teach Luke some techniques more than once, but he has yet to master any of it.
— ❥ Lani is a big fan of older movie musicals, a love stemming from her mother and all the ones she watched with her as a child. One of her favorites is the old version of Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, with Julie Andrews, and she loves to sing the song “Impossible” and dance around her room to cheer herself up.
— ❥ Her first pet was a little black corgi named Princess that the Halia family had had since before she was born. She died when Lani was nine, but ever since then she always wears a silver charm bracelet with a paw print charm to remember her.
— ❥ Lani is a big fan of anything grape-flavored - grape soda, grape candies, grape juice - but she doesn’t like the actual fruits themselves; she finds them too sour.
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tagging @lovings4turn, @hiya-itsamber, & @theopenlocker !
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incorrectselfaware · 2 years
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Mell: Elliot is out of town for a few days, so while he’s away I’m gonna cut the sleeves off of all my shirts!
Kai: What? Why???
Mell: He's 98% of my impulse control!
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cookie-crumblr · 23 days
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Kai Mallory
OC CHARACTER SHEET
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Sex/Gender:
AMAB/Male
Relation:
Your villain
Age:
Same year, Late November
Dom/Switch/Sub:
Switch-Dom leaning
Height:
200cm 6’ 7”
Likes:
Theatrics, being dramatic, and attention
Dislikes:
Being ignored, being alone, the taste of alcohol
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Brief Mental Description:
Has a great relationship with his parents but is embarrassed by them. a great big dork<3. Loves magic the gathering and D&D, likes the theatre. shy, quiet, and awkward. hates his super powers.
Brief Physical Description:
Stylish, always dresses on point, African American, deep brown eyes and mid length dreaded black hair. wears mostly black or pale blue. Loves jewelry, has a lot of piercings. Mostly on his ears, both nostrils are pierced and he likes to wear a little chain attached to them over the top. slutty little waist
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aniron48 · 1 year
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Love Letters - Day 4
I don't know how it's possible, but we're already almost halfway through! You all have made this so much fun, and it's been an utter delight for me so far. 💜 If you're joining for the first time, you can catch up as follows: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
As a reminder, there will be a post around this time (9pmish EST) every night through 2/14. And for those who are all caught up, welcome to day 4 of Love Letters, a 00q choose your own adventure! Congratulations, fellow nerds, you've unlocked the library. Day 4 starts below the cut.
His next stop should probably be to the library.
“Can I help you find anything?” A librarian with bright pink hair and a beard to match walked up to where Bond lingered in front of the new acquisitions shelf, trying to get his bearings.
Bond opened his mouth to decline, but he only had an hour and a half before he had to be back at MI6 for a meeting with the Budget Office, and not much idea where to start. Besides, he’d made sure nothing he borrowed could be traced to him, anyway. He’d taken out the library card in Mallory’s name.
“I don’t suppose you have any books on love letters?”
“Books about love letters? Or with examples of them?”
“Yes. Both. Either.”
“Well, you’re in luck. I pulled a few things that might be of interest for our Valentine’s Day display. It’s just over here.”
Bond followed the librarian, whose name badge read “Kai,” to a table decorated with construction paper drawings of candy hearts. They picked up a book called Indelible: Queer Love Letters through the Ages. “This just came in last month, and it’s gorgeous. Give it a look and see if it’s what you need.”
Bond took the book to one of the nearby tables and began to page through.
Before he knew it, nearly an hour had gone by. He wasn’t sure what he’d expected, exactly. Perhaps that love letters from real people would be somehow less than the fictional letter Austen had written for Captain Wentworth—less profound, and more prosaic. There were mundane bits, to be sure, but somehow even they were suffused with light; enhanced, rather than diminished, by the love that brought them into focus.
“I just miss you,” Vita Sackville-West wrote to Virginia Woolf, “in a quite simple desperate human way…I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.”
And there was profundity, too, a humanity that banked itself like the embers of a fire against the darkness that threatened to overwhelm it. Near the middle of the book, Bond found the letters of Wilfred Owen to Siegfried Sassoon. 
“And you have fixed my Life—however short,” he wrote, almost a year to the day before he was killed in action, barely a week before the end of World War I. “You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.”
“What do you think?” Kai asked, returning to Bond’s table.
Bond cleared his throat. “It’s perfect,” he said. “Could I check this out?”
“Of course. I’ll meet you at the circulation desk.” 
Kai took Bond’s library card and scanned it, saying as they did so, “You know, the editors of this anthology are putting together a companion version of contemporary letters. They’re asking people to send in copies of letters they’ve received, to show what love looks like now. If you’re fond of love letters, you should think about sending some in.”
Bond looked down at the circulation desk, rubbing ineffectually at a scuff mark with his finger. He thought of a flooded building in Venice, and all the hopes that had collapsed with it; of the dozens of married women and the handful of married men for whom Bond had been an excuse to pretend, for an hour, or an evening, or a week, that their lives were something more than a string of indistinguishable, empty days. He’d been happy to let them, at the time. He’d been using them for the same thing, after all. But there had been no love letters for him, either, even if he’d never felt the lack until now.
“No,” he said after a moment. “No, I don’t have anything I could send in.”
“Well, you never know,” Kai said, handing over the book. “Valentine’s Day is coming up. You might get lucky.”
“You never know,” Bond said, slipping his library card back in his wallet. “Thanks again.”
As he walked back to MI6, the book safely wrapped in his jacket, he thought, finally, that he might have everything he needed to write Q a proper love letter.
I made up the title of the book Bond looks through, but the love letters (and many more like them!) are real. You can find the letter from Vita Sackville-West here, and the one from Wilfred Owen here.
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cardboardfeet · 1 year
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elk art feat. stickbug nd his dragon (and a kai) @razu IG 🤨🤨
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aspenhanyuu · 2 years
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gggood mornin!! its the SA marathon: PT 2 BAYBEEE (split bc reading one thing too long is horrors to my brainsO)
sofar weve gon thru 47 updates ! holy fuck ! thats over a hundred pages!! so what were the arcs, then? (abvriviated titles)
The Beginning
meet your new for-lifer !
Being Hired? (gone wrong)
pretty men, basement time, qna!
side story : hip n pip edidition
The Intern (nd why this is so illegal)
getting caught (gone right?)
Mell, Dont Diss My Trauma You Dickwad, the movie (2013 mo5nochrome)
Alien, the movie (2013 limited colorized)
ART DUMP!!!
annnd, thats where we continue! (specifally, stopped at #47)
after we finish this, ill most likely get started with s402 (webnovel), and then s402 (physical copy] to conpare notes. afger that...? well. perhaps going back and relearning the coded messagez.
have some highlights on some of my favorite panels btw . and read it here urself. on webtoons. and maybe perhaps comment on everythin <3
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