Youre Gonna Love This~!

                   ａ  ｒ ｅ ａ ｓ ｏ ｎ

“Your flight’s in two hours.”

“Did you feed the monster under your bed?”

“[Name], you’re not going off to war.“

“Remember. If something chases you – run.”

“Why do you have to say things like that?”

“Can he/she/they slow down?”

“No one’s impressed by a dinosaur anymore.”

“We want to be thrilled.”

“Don’t wander off.”

“Seven years…seven, but y’know, close.”

“You’re not coming with us?”

“Where did you get that?”

“The key to a happy life is to accept you are never actually in control.”

“You should spend a day at the beach, get some sun!”

“Oh, he/she/they’re just being dramatic.”

“I like her/his/their spirit.”

“Hey! Don’t give me that shit.”

“Damn, you got them eating out of your palm.”

“Extinct animals have no rights.”

“Do you hear yourself when you talk?”

“This is going to happen – with or without you.”

“You the new guy?”

“No, [name] is not having a bachelor/bachelorette party.”

“All his/her/their friends are animals.”

“You were supposed to call me when you landed.”

“Wait, are you crying?”

“What do they want now?”

“Do you want to consult here, or in my bungalow?”

“It’s a relationship. It’s based on mutual respect.”

“What kind of a diet doesn’t allow tequila?”

“What kind of a man shows up to a date in board shorts?”

“They’re dinosaurs. Wow enough.”

“Probably not a good idea.”

“Is it in the basement? Is there a downstairs? Maybe it’s in the rec room.”

“What? Why would you say that?”

“There’s a point where you have to grow up.”

“You’re going after it with non-lethals?”

“You are not in control here!”

“You have an M-134 in your armory; put it on a chopper, and smoke this thing!”

“What do you think’s going to happen with you just staring at them?”

“Who authorized you to do this?”

“Fine, I’ll do it myself.”

“Dude. Off-road.”

“It’s killing for sport.”

“I am not one of your damn animals!”

“You’ll last two minutes in there. Less in those ridiculous shoes.”

“What is that supposed to mean?”

“Just like taking a stroll through the woods. 65 million years ago.”

“I know who you are.”

“Then you know why I’m here.”

“The solution to your crisis is standing right in front of you.”

“Okay, boss. What’s your next move?”

“Where did you go? Why didn’t you come back?”

“Son of a bitch.”

“Can we stay with you?”

“Do not shoot my raptors. Please.”

“You’re looking at him, kid.”

“Hold hands.”

“Your boyfriend’s a badass.”

“Raptors got a new alpha.”

“It’s okay to lie to people when they’re scared!”

“I can’t wait to tell mom!”

“I’m afraid that’s above your pay grade.”

“Why did you have to make it personal?”

“Run!”

“We should probably stick together. For survival.”

 2. Some days I struggle to write replies. When I do, when I skip over your thread to reply to another, it’s not something you have done wrong. My muse is not responding to yours at the moment, possibly for reasons neither of us have any control over.

 3. There is no correlation between a lengthy reply and a good one. If you can only type out two paragraphs and I’ve written five, you didn’t fail, and vice versa. Writing flows best when you free yourself from the expectations of verbiage, structure, number of words on the page. 

 4. I do this for fun. If I’m not having fun with our thread, I have a responsibility to tell you so, to try and fix it so that it’s fun for us both. Conversely, you have a responsibility to do the same. We both have the responsibility of ending things on a pleasant basis if our muses are incompatible.

 5. There are days when I doubt my writing. I think we all have these days. Days when every sentence comes out awkwardly and half-thought, when nothing seems to flow. Please, don’t be afraid to ask me to change a reply if I’ve sidelined the plot with my meandering muse logic.

 6. You will never upset me by talking to me out of character. I’m fully cognizant that behind each muse is a real person, and I would love to get to know that person.

 7. I have a ‘style’, a set way that I best enjoy writing. If you’re a brilliant muse and I enjoy your writing, I may stalk you relentlessly without ever replying to a starter you’ve done just because our styles do not match. This doesn’t mean that either of us is less of a roleplayer because of it - we’re just different.

 8. I will not belittle your character ooc. Each muse is unique, each muse is a precious creation of a creative mind, an entity of its own. I promise to respect that, and only critique when asked and then only for the purposes of helping your writing. I will never send you anon hate.

 9. I want you to plot with me. I want our muses to have a story so complex, so incredible, that everyone reads along. I don’t want either of us to know how it will end before it begins. I want to sit on the edge of my seat, waiting for your reply, just to shake my head in awe of the brilliant turn or twist you’ve come up with.

“We’re just…us.” “No. You can be way more.”

Bonus:

◣  Tadashi and Honey ◥

[TadaHoney maskings from my new video “Why Don’t You Love Me?”]