Love me dead.

so don't get too comfortable.

Generally you unbutton and re-button a suit coat when you sit down and stand up.

You’re supposed to hold wine or champagne glasses by the stem to avoid warming up the liquid inside. A character out of their depth might hold the glass around the sides instead.

When rich/important people forget your name and they’re drunk, they usually just tell you that they don’t remember or completely skip over any opportunity to use your name so they don’t look silly.

A good way to indicate you don’t want to shake someone’s hand at an event is to hold a drink in your right hand (and if you’re a woman, a purse in the other so you definitely can’t shift the glass to another hand and then shake)

Americans who still kiss cheeks as a welcome generally don’t press lips to cheeks, it’s more of a touch of cheek to cheek or even a hover (these days, mostly to avoid smudging a woman’s makeup)

The distinctions between dress codes (black tie, cocktail, etc) are very intricate but obvious to those who know how to look. If you wear a short skirt to a black tie event for example, people would clock that instantly even if the dress itself was very formal. Same thing goes for certain articles of men’s clothing.

Open bars / cash bars at events usually carry limited options. They’re meant to serve lots of people very quickly, so nobody is getting a cosmo or a Manhattan etc.

“Child…”

It began to speak, drawing me from the once consuming thoughts of my mind as the gruff disembodied voice came from the blankness in front of me, a form sitting in the midst of the blackened hole. It wasn’t human of course, my mind could barely process the hole being there in the first place, let alone a conscious being existing within its depths.

“You must stop staring into my depths..”

I decided to take step forward with something I’d like to do, and I’d love some feedback from y'all, being my first time trying something like this and all. I know not all feedback will be positive, so I’ll have to remain so, please let me know what you think!