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One thing my character finds "attractive" about yours.

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If I’m doing this exercise, I want 7-10 questions to get the character feeling real in my head. So I thought I’d share the ones that get me (and my students) good results: 

What is the character’s go-to drink order? (this one gets into how do they like to be publicly perceived, because there is always some level of theatricality to ordering drinks at a bar/resturant)

What is their grooming routine? (how do they treat themselves in private)

What was their most expensive purchase/where does their disposable income go? (Gets you thinking about socio-economic class, values, and how they spend their leisure time)

Do they have any scars or tattoos? (good way to get into literal backstory) 

What was the last time they cried, and under what circumstances? (Good way to get some *emotional* backstory in.) 

Are they an oldest, middle, youngest or only child? (This one might be a me thing, because I LOVE writing/reading about family dynamics, but knowing what kinds of things were ‘normal’ for them growing up is important.)

Describe the shoes they’re wearing. (This is a big catch all, gets into money, taste, practicality, level of wear, level of repair, literally what kind of shoes they require to live their life.)

Describe the place where they sleep. (ie what does their safe space look like. How much (or how little) care / decoration / personal touch goes into it.)

What is their favorite holiday? (How do they relate to their culture/outside world. Also fun is least favorite holiday.) 

Their first impression of your muse: Autism2autism communication. Kind of butch? They were grateful Deogee kept Rowan away when he obviously wanted to bother them.

Current impression:  About the same.

Are they attracted to your muse?:  Nooooo, im fairly sure?

Something they find frightening about your muse:Deogee's very intense and it can be a little alarming.

Something they find adorable about your muse:  Their propensity for dressing up.

Would my muse sacrifice themselves for yours?:  No

Would my muse go on a date with yours?  platonic/romantic:  Yes! either tbh. Amanita likes deogee and spending more time with someone who struggles with verbalness would be nice.

One word my muse would use to describe yours:  Fierce

Would my muse slap yours if they could?: No, no desire to hit the deogee. That's a rowgie game.

Their first impression of your muse: 🧪

Current impression:🧪➕

Are they attracted to your muse?: 🐾  

Something they find frightening about your muse: 🍄

Something they find adorable about your muse: 🧪❤🧪 

Would my muse sacrifice themselves for yours?:🤔  

Would my muse go on a date with yours?  platonic/romantic: ✔ 

One word my muse would use to describe yours: ✔ 

Would my muse slap yours if they could?: ....✔

Send a 💝 and my Muse will ramble on about how they presently feel about yours.

"I."

Silence. They grow pink.

"Many people--of those aware of the creature--believe lichen to be a singular organism. It is, in a sense, but it is more accurate to describe it as two. Every single one of the thirteen-to-fifteen thousand species of lichen are engaged in a mutualistic relationship between fungi and algae, or occasionally cyanobacteria. These relationships are so common that nearly 20% of all fungal species seek them out. When a lichen forms, these two component individuals become enmeshed.

"They act in perfect harmony: the algae provides carbohydrates via photosynthesis, nourishing them both, and the fungi provides protection and structure. It roots the algae to its substrate, and provides nutrients and water it collects from its environment. Many component species can survive alone, but together they thrive. They create something entirely new, with many novel properties not found in their origin species. It is estimated that 6–8% of Earth's land surface is covered by lichens, and yet new discoveries are made about them every day.

Especially my mutuals. Can you dig out your Wastelander OCs? And tell me all about them in a reblog?

For science?

Write it into the reblog not the tags, pleaaaase

Jax. I love Jax. He tries so hard. Everyday he fights. For the Citadel. For Respect. For himself. Against himself. But everyone knows he’s not going to make it. He can’t, and he doesn’t, at least not in the way he wanted. A warboy at the end of his half life, so far away from the gates he’s desperate to reach.

Enter Ellus. Ellus is a defective glitch of a shifter, broken technology that should have been destroyed. Not limited by their programming, they can take any form, any shape. Do anything, be anything.

And they decide to be an ass.

And why not. They were labelled a problem the second they where born, and they are determined to prove everybody right.

Now in their defence, Earth was supposed to be a dead planet, a nice place to hide out while the heat died down a little. It’s not their fault that five minutes in they encounter a death cult. That worships chrome, of all things. With their silver blood they are practically being handed this opportunity on a plate.

So they come up with a plan. It’s a good plan. Get to the Citadel. Become a war boy. Climb the ranks. And when the time is right? Declare the Almighty Imortan Joe a fraud, say they’re the one that can open the gates. Watch the whole thing come crumbling down and then skip off home to dinner.

Easy.

But then there’s Jax. Fucking Jax. Tiny, useless, pathetic waste of space. It’s stupid how hard he tries. He’s going to fail. Doesn’t he know he’s going to fail? Then why is he trying so hard, why does he keep fighting, trying to prove them wrong. It’s pointless. Why does he keep doing it. Why, why, why.

Better not to think about it.

Especially my mutuals. Can you dig out your Wastelander OCs? And tell me all about them in a reblog?

For science?

Write it into the reblog not the tags, pleaaaase

We got Jax, the tiny, mediocre warboy who tries like hell to get to Valhalla. Alas, him and his driver, Lugs, have a vehicle with long-range weapons that keep him far from battle.

Tick and Leech, the warpups! Clingy! Bitey! Fiercest of all the babies!

Muralist: Mona Caron

Mona Caron is a San Francisco-based artist, engaging in muralism & street art, illustration, art-ivism, and photography. Her focus is on community-informed and site-specific public art. She has created murals in the US, throughout South America, and in Europe, creates stop-motion mural animations, has freelanced as an illustrator, and engages in art-ivism with social and environmental movements. Artist website.

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[ id: shiloh, happy, and xander, confused, stand next to each other. someone offscreen is saying “choux pastry”, and both of them are thinking of shoes. ]

[ id: a doodle of deogee hiding in a box labeled violence store. ]

[ id: a doodle of sofi gesturing to ellus, who is standing around making some toast, and demanding of sky, asking, “why are they THE WORST?” /end id ]

[ id: a doodle of shiloh going “hey pretty boy~” while blanket monster cyrus hisses from under a blanket /end id ]

[ id: a halfbody doodle of ellus in sunglasses and a sparkly FUCK YOU shirt flipping off the viewer. /end id ]

[ id: a four panel sketch comic featuring sky and sofi. in the first three panels, sky stutteringly asks for a kiss, growing increasingly pink, while sofi looks on bemused. in the fourth panel, sofi tackles sky in a hug, yelling, “of course!” /end id ]

snippet by @norikwrites

Sky had kissed Sofi a million times, in a million different ways. Then why did standing here now, in front of her ridiculous little kissing booth, make her heart beating so fast? Turn her cheeks a brilliant shade of red?

“Sofi…”

She felt her cheeks burn hotter, knew Sofi was smiling wider. She was going to make Sky say it.

“May I…”

How could this be so hard? She knew it was because the only thing in the world that she truly wanted was to love Sofi, and be loved by Sofi.

“…have a kiss?”

post apoc designs!!! knocked another off the bucket list. also relative heights. (12/26/21)

first 4 are mine, last 2 belong to @hellonorik