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life update to explain my absence: moved, have no internet, finished a year of my uni, etc. etc. had a rough patch, but still working on nocturne’s canon. might be pulled to write when I have reliable internet (currently at my parents, fyi, which I’ll be leaving this friday). not sure tho since I’ll be getting a job and figuring out how to balance life’s responsibilities with a jobs, my hobbies, astrology studies, prepping for some summer university work and writing my novel will be something that takes time. sending good vibes to all and to all a good night xx

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ask the mun about writing. 

What does your writing process look like? 

What is something you think you need to work on? 

What is something you’re proud of regarding your style? 

Do you believe you should always listen to the muse or reign them in? 

How important is backstory and lore to you? 

What kind of research do you put into your writing? 

What do you wish people would take from your writing? 

What do you look for in a thread? 

What would make you drop a thread? 

What’s the most challenging thing about writing replies for you? 

Do you prefer making or receiving starters? Sending or receiving memes? Why? 

What do you do to get in the mood to write? 

What do you look for in an RP partner? 

Do you think it’s important to know someone OOC in order to rp? 

Have you ever written a reply that made you emotional? Will you share it?

Have you ever written a reply that made you angry? Will you share it? 

Does writing energize or exhaust you? 

What is the most important thing to you in receiving a reply?

What is the most important thing to you in writing a reply? 

What inspires you to write? 

What inspired you to make this muse? 

What genres do you prefer to write? 

Do you think you write a certain type of muse? Can you describe it? 

Does your writing style change when you write different muses? 

Do you put parts of yourself into your writing or muse? Can you give an example? 

How long have you been roleplaying for? On which platforms? 

What makes you want to engage with other muns?

What makes you want to back away from other muns? 

When writing a thread, do you have an end goal in mind? 

Do you have any unspoken rules that might not be on your page? 

How different is your muse now compared to when you first wrote them? 

How different is your writing now compared to when you first started? 

Do you write things other than roleplay? Can you share something? 

Do you prefer to plot or improv? 

How many ships do you have? How would you describe them? 

How do you prefer to be approached for roleplay? 

How do you prefer to be approached OOC? 

Do you have a wishlist? Can you share what’s on it? 

Have you ever looked back at a reply and wished you could write it differently?

Do you have favourite phrases, words, or metaphors you use in your writing a lot? 

#prompts

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cat lesbian vs bird bisexual @divinedance @destructiveglitch

#a tempestuous dynamic #abysm

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destructiveglitch​:

—- “Back off… … …

                    The cat ears are staying on…”

She’s absolutely terrified... albeit, trying to hide it. Nocturne’s face only betrays the slightest inclination of revulsion. “Do they... have to? You are much better than a... cat.”

#why would he do this toher #destructiveglitch #ode to the nightingale #v: behold! a man! #my crack tag...

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I do think it’s interesting that Munday is a thing here, when Mondays are associated with the Moonー nurturing yourself, becoming comfortable, etcーwhich could show that Mondays in the RPC are about taking a “day off” as it were from writing, focusing, etc, and instead focusing on yourself and getting to know and getting comfortable with the surrounding people. 

#fate and circumstance #abysm #also for the record just because I was thinking about this earlierー #the 5th house in your chart likely rules your role-playing because it's a hobby #and it's something you do for fun #while also being a creative outlet #so I wonder how people's 5th house impacts their role-playing :)

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The temptation to write in-character updates ／ threads in alignment with the current transits in Nocturne’s hypothetical chart is... very present. Or at least, write something along those themes. I’d probably limit myself to luminary transits, usually solar because it’s easier to keep a track of, for the sake of ease and not driving myself up the wall. So for instance: the Sun (Aquarius) transiting Nocturne’s 4th house currently iircーmight be about to shift into Pisces season soonーwhich brings a focus into her past, her family, privacy, etc. So I could write something to do with those themes. 

#abysm #astrology brainrot astrology brainrot astrology brainrot #anyway happy Moon Day

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TERROR STARES THROUGH THE EYES OF BEAUTY.  ／  independent original character and canon.  influenced by cosmic horror, space opera and astrology.  a prophecy by daphne (with love).  18+ ー writer is 22.  semi-selective, minimal formatting and iconless.

ー profile.  ー  ‘verses.   

#self promo #:)

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hayatkırığı  /haja:t kɯɾɯˈ‿ɯ/ | (𝓃 ) .                          𝟏.  𝖠 𝗌𝗎𝖻𝗌𝗉𝖾𝖼𝗂𝖾𝗌 𝗈𝖿 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗆𝗈𝗋𝗍𝖺𝗅 𝗋𝖺𝖼𝖾 𝖿𝖺𝗇𝗂 whose 𝗌𝗎𝖻𝖼𝗈𝗇𝗌𝖼𝗂𝗈𝗎𝗌𝗇𝖾𝗌𝗌 𝖼𝖺𝗇 𝗍𝗋𝖺𝗇𝗌𝖼𝖾𝗇𝖽 𝗂𝗇𝖼𝗈𝗋𝗉𝗈𝗋𝖾𝖺𝗅 𝗉𝗅𝖺𝗇𝖾𝗌 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅 𝗎𝗉𝗈𝗇 𝗁𝗂𝗀𝗁𝖾𝗋 𝗉𝗈𝗐𝖾𝗋𝗌 𝗍𝗈 𝗂𝗇𝗁𝖺𝖻𝗂𝗍 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗆.        ©

#*chanting* betul! betul! betul! #blog rec

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got so caught up in re-vamping the blog and doing stuff I totally forgot my laundry was done lol. Inspiration! it is an all-consuming beast of a bitch.

#abysm

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When starting out in RP what’s something that took you a long time to understand?What’s something you still don’t understand about the rpc?

How to make graphics!! And certain graphics trends... I’ll never understand where certain things just become The Norm(tm) or when it did, especially since I tend to take long hiatuses. So sometimes I’ll come back after a few months to see everyone using a particular icon layout (very small, certain adjustments, etc) or all of a sudden very similar thread formatting etc. That’s not to say I have qualms against it, as long as there’s no expectation for others to follow suit or there’s a willingness to adjust for the sake of accessibilityーthe RPC can be very inaccessible in its standards, and even on a mundane level it’s kind of silly to expect everyone to adhere to the same aesthetical standard because everyone has a different approach, taste, or even different schedules of time where sometimes they can’t afford to spend hours in Photoshop making a very precise layout for a hobby. I do admire the exceptional range of skill within the RPC though! There are a lot of super talented folk. I still can’t get the grips of Photoshop lol, maybe someday I will, but I do admire the sheer skill there is. I just hope it doesn’t affect people’s perceptions of whether someone is a good, valued writer based on their compliance with RPC social norms.

#abysm #ty!!!!! #the27percent

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【 🌌 MYTHOPOEIA V. 】

TLDR: A lore/world-building headcanon that focuses on the chronology (in this case, Epochs or definitive eras) of the in-universe of Nocturne’s canon. Also has some information, vaguely, regarding the mythology of divinity and important figures.

An era is defined by the most significant factor of its time. While planets and countries may have their own eras, defined by the reigning monarch or a particular age of change, the Bright Star System, as a whole, follows the timeline of Epochs, which denote significance of a grander scale. As of Nocturne’s position in the chronology, we are in the Sixth Epoch, which would be known by her people’s descendants as the Age of Anarchy. In-universe scholars will argue about the true beginning of the Sixth Epoch, as they argued about the Fifth before it, and the Fourth, and so-on; it is the Epoch’s nature to be debated, discussed, analysed and re-interpreted to fit whatever narrative is best to be served. Epochs are not limited by a particular stretch of time—there is no mandatory “limit” of days, months, years or centuries that permit a new Epoch being determined. Rather, it is determined by a time of significant change that alters how the denizens of Bright Star understand or adapt to their environment. For example, while the Genesis Migration was a significant cross-system event, it did not, on its own, cause enough of a cosmic upset to earn an Epoch-level importance to begin an era. Rather, it was but a mere instrument in the grander scheme of the Age of Champions, the Fifth Epoch.

This headcanon exists to give a context towards the chronology and a greater understanding of the world Nocturne is a mere part of. There will be references towards the in-universe mythology and other significant events that took place far beyond our hero’s birth, but there will be no in-depth description of those events, as I want to keep everything that could reveal too much—or is unnecessary in understanding Nocturne—under wraps. However, hopefully there will be enough information to provide a better grounding of the world Nocturne lives in, particularly if you are interested in combining universes or developing deeper threads with her character.

Despite the fact Nocturne exists in the Sixth Epoch, truthfully there are Seven; the first of all Epochs is known by scholars as the “Zero Epoch”, a time before time, a space before space, where the original Primordial first willed itself into existence. Here is where Essences, the foundation of all life, magic and matter in the Essential Universe, first came into being. It would not be until the First Epoch that actual physical space began to take form, as the Ancients—Gods comparable to the Titans of Greco-Roman mythology, who were more a physical embodiment of the things they ruled over and interpreted to be “carriers” of the Primordial’s divine will where it could not directly enact on its wishes—came into being. These Ancients are also comparable to the incomprehensible deities of the Cthulhu mythos, with titanic, unbearable bodies and minds so alien to us that they evade description or empathy. They are more like machinations of cosmic law, unkillable and undestroyable, for on their shoulders rests the entire Universe.

The Second Epoch is when the Divines, Gods who created “bi-essences” that combined the Primordial Essences into Lesser Essences, came into being as “children” of the Ancients that possessed a sentience closer to the realm of comprehension. They are capable of whimsy, of want, of ire and of fondness. Here, they would be most comparable to most pantheons of deities, with inter-relationships both within the circle of the Divines and with their creations, the Kinetics, pseudo-mortals who co-existed with the Divines and were taught their magic in return of being subordinate with them.

The Third Epoch is the first Epoch marked by a war of tremendous proportion, that resulted in the death of Divines and the weakening of magic that is still felt to this day. Here, the Divine Nolu, the God of Secrets and Mystery, prompted the Kinetics into rebelling against their deities by telling them forbidden secrets of mortality, encouraging them to upheave the heavens and take their power by storm rather than tolerating watered down lessons that kept them under their benevolent Gods’ thumbs. Nolu would abandon the Kinetics during this war, leading to slaughter on both sides, only to return at last moment to assure the death of all Divines—aside from themselves. The Third Epoch was solely this war, though the duration of it is unknown, and the true extent of the damage and knowledge of what the pre-Divine War world was like is knowledge lost, perhaps for eternity. All that is known is that likely it was a time of Edenic bliss, where magic flowed like wine and mortals were cared for by Divines. After the trauma of the War, the Fourth Epoch was birthed: the Age of Ruin, the Age of Loss, the Age of Abandonment.

Kinetics, now scorned by the Ancients whose children they had revolted against and punished by the Primordial who hosted them, suffered the punishment of agelessness. They were removed from the life-death cycle that promised reincarnation and forgiveness of the soul, forcing them to live an eternity of repentance and grief as they watched the world they knew rot into a mere husk of its former self. Magic weakened with nobody there to teach them, and without Divines to create Kinetics with such innate skill, they were condemned to physically reproduce until there were only Mortals.

Mortals lacked the intimate tutelage that gave Kinetics their mastery over the Primordial Essences, or the Divine Essences, and so their powers weakened too. Magical knowledge was not lost completely, but it would take lifetimes to achieve a level that most Kinetics had earned in adolescence. Over time, the era of bliss and magic that had once been an undeniable reality would fade to myth across the Cosmos, with the division of the New Way (the belief that all of this was purely mythology) and the Old Way (the belief that all of this was fact) separating mortals across the Universe, severing some from their magical heritage entirely to make way for man-made scientific advancement devoid of spiritual attunement.

The Spider Star System was a System that followed the New Way, forcing the less-magically repressed mortals—known as Undanes—into hiding lest they be rejected or destroyed for their absurdities. This System would also become the grounds for one of the greatest calamities recorded, with the Genesis Collapse marking a potentially unrepairable wound in the very fabric of reality whose effects are still present today, giving way to the Paroxysms that blight the Bright Star System in the Sixth Epoch. The Bright Star System followed the Old Way, however, and magic is still understood and studied with varying levels of skill and mastery across the System. It was the Genesis Migration that introduced the Genesse people, Undane and Mundane alike, to the cohabitation of magic-repressed and magic-expressive people, though not without duress. It was this discovery for the Mundanes that contributed to the genesis of the Ametsuchi, forged out of hardship, exile and sacrifice brought on by a primal rejection of this magical nature.

The Genesis Collapse was the locus of the Fifth Epoch, the Age of Champions, where it became apparent that Divinity could be reached by mortalkind should the Primordial bestow upon them the capability. The nature of Champions is debated among scholars; some argue that Champions, of which there is only one certainty and one other heavily contested, are the Divines reborn, returned from their celestial graves, while others argue that the Champions are entirely new in spirit as it would be disrespectful to the Divines to ignore the devastation they had suffered at the hands of men. Unfortunately, the effects of the loss of Divines is still felt to this day, as the sole Champion of the people, Genevieve (the sacred figure of the Holy Order), is absent. Whether she perished after the Genesis Collapse or otherwise went to another System or was killed by the Goliath in some unseen battle of tremendous proportion, is completely unknown. Mortals can only emulate what they think she would have done, such as the Divine Right of Kings applied to the Boucher imperial line on Neo, or the Holy Order’s fight against Paroxysms.

The Fifth Epoch is potentially the shortest of all Epochs, having spanned only several generations, perhaps not even a millennium.

The Sixth Epoch, then, is the playground for the plot of this blog and its attached extended canon. It is the Age of Anarchy, the Age of Monsters, of all things Eldritch. It is uncertain when the Sixth Epoch came into play, for some argue it was with the formation of Spider’s Eye as it tried to awaken the Spider-God Goliath, the destroyer of Genesis and the foe of the Champion Genevieve, or with their first use of Chaos manipulation and Paroxysm invocation as a weapon in the assassination of the Green-King Eoin of Namana. It is potentially even incited by the Ametsuchi Massacre, which was tied to the actions of Spider’s Eye and the High King Kazumi Ametsuchi, resulting in Chaotic manipulations and mutilations of all remaining Ametsuchi. The onus of the Sixth Epoch may be debated, but the end of the Sixth Epoch is entirely unknown: some fear that it may never end, others fear that it is the end, but hopefuls pray for a better, kinder Seventh Epoch, just on the horizon of what may be the most horrifying Epoch to exist in.

#winks @ the db

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Munday stuff!

What little things do you do special when writing your muse(s) that you wonder if anyone has noticed?

If you have more than one muse are there differences in your writing style between them?

When explaining a worldbuilding/magic system/etc do you prefer rationalizing concrete rules, or leaving it vague and make it do whatever to suit the plot?

Has your muse ever gotten very emotional and ‘taken over’ for a reply in a way you didn’t expect?

Do you use different psds/borders/icon styles for your muses?

What made you choose your mun faceclaim? Who are they? Why did you choose them?

Do you do creative writing outside of RP?

What are other formats you’ve written creatively in (poetry, prose, script, etc)?

Do you like writing and building up background or NPC characters to your muse?

If you have multiple muses who are two you’d choose to interact together if you could RP with yourself?

When starting out in RP what’s something that took you a long time to understand?

What’s something you still don’t understand about the rpc?

Do you like making promos?

Are you a big fan of AUs?

What is the oddest muse you’ve picked up that you didn’t think you would?

What’s an obscure or unusual hobby/interest of your muse?

What do you do when faced with a canon muse that very much goes against your own interpretation/reading of the character even if you don’t play them? Do you treat them as an AU and still interact or avoid altogether?

How long would you say your “green” stage of starting out RP lasted?

Explain something on your blog that has a metaphorical/symbolical meaning or is a reference to something else (URL, a tag, blog title, etc)

#prompts

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》 blog updates!

・ updated blog theme. 

・ created a verses page (verses as of yet include: mundane ‘verse, final girl ‘verse, skyrim ‘verse alongside the canonical timeline) with availability & cross-compatibility. can be found under the link titled “alternates”.

・ updated dossier to include power-listing. can be found under the link titled “archetype”.

》 replies due! 

・ 3/4 active threads.

》 upcoming changes!

・ navigation / tagslist.

・ intelligences stats for dossier.

#abysm

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galaxynar​:

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      “Forgive me, I’m still a little woozy. I’ve been stuck under that statue for a decent while.”

It’d been at least thirty minutes as he did nothing but bang his little hands, the only part free from being crushed, on the ground to get anyone’s attention. Not fun times.

“You’re forgiven,” she deadpans, dusting off her grit-ridden palms. Her aspect was one of vague repulsion, for her imagination had led her to envision the statue’s fragments as a sort of entrail. In a blink, her day-dreams summon the image of viscera on her palms; the statue’s limbless bodyーher rather careless disposal of it had sufficiently amputated its once surely graceful designーa mutilated corpse. The moment passes, however, and she turns her apathetic cyclops’ gaze on the... little creature. “That was quite stupid of you, wasn’t it? Do you often get into such... predicaments?” 

#galaxynar #[noc vc] I'm built different. A statue put/fell on me and I would simply lift it off of myself. #but also hellow thank you for the starter!! #v: now is the time of monsters #arc: 003 #ode to the nightingale

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In violence we are torn away from each other, and this world into the next… but BECOMING is always an agony.

Stephanie Dray, A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii  (via tesstingyou)

#am become death destroyer of worlds #metamorphosis #Stephanie Dray #A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii #language: the eternal ache

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I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the bird must have felt like being touched by a god. For a moment I knew what it would be to feel at the mercy of love, small-scale, the kind shown but not spoken of. I was afraid to touch you. I was afraid of the lesions you’d described to me over the phone, their locations and the measurement, in centimeters, of each. Jesus-marks, you called them. All so I would be prepared and unafraid or less afraid but still I was afraid of dying like you were dying. When I first arrived I looked so long into your eyes you shivered and ordered me to look away. You were imperious in your dying and yet courtly about my fear, you understood, as if I were a child afraid of lightning storms, which I am, having at age ten been struck. Out of the blue you said that  once you were dead I’d never be able to listen to Blue again, Joni Mitchell’s Blue, not just the song but the whole album. It was a minor curse you lay across my shoulders like a fur dyed blue, and so I listen now in defiance of you. In the listening the pronouns shift. We are listening. There is no death.

Dianne Seuss

#a rage which never quite slaughters #you're the heartwall #Dianne Seuss #language: the eternal ache #favourite

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hannibal buys an alexa and has philosophical debates with it when he can’t get it to work because he’s old

#excellent post #but also #bird-watching goes both ways #bc she'd also do this