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⊰ & . dialogue prompts ;; ⊱ // @roscvcins

HE BARELY MANAGES TO TILT HIS LIPS INTO A SMILE, even the smallest exhale feels exhausting as nagumo clumsily tries to press against his side. what was initially a small gash was the target of his opponent's attention, causing the wound to expand and worsen. nothing he hasn't recovered from, but he didn't expect to run into such a familiar face when he was trying to appease his injuries. how had amuro found him ? were their targets of interests nearby each other again ? or was it just the strange work of fate ? if nagumo wasn't bleeding out he'd find it almost romantic.

« really ? i could've sworn i lost some weight after avoiding your sandwiches - you've always been heavy on the mayo, y'know ? » he hadn't expected amuro to go out of his way to carry him - is it to safety or is it to dispose of his body once and for all ? « where you taking me anyway ? you definitely could've tried attacking me when you first saw me, but instead you're manhandling me ? sheesh you could've just asked if you wanted to hold onto me ! »

oops - maybe he was a bit too chatty as he feels a rush of lightheadedness alongside being carried is giving him an unfortunate case of motion sickness - « you could be a bit gentler when you walk too, i'm more delicate than i seem ! »

Very Specific (if not a little belated) Munday Asks (very very happily accepting !!!)

🌱What was the last book you read? 

Devils by Joe Abercrombie! Highly recommend if you’re into DnD vibes and prose that’s injected with a lot of dry humor, sometimes the kind that’s a little fourth-wall-breaky. Next on my list is The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig, the lady who wrote the One Dark Window duology!

🪻 Do you prefer sending memes or receiving them? 

For sentence starters, I think I prefer receiving them? Cuz I really do like setting the stage for most threads, plus I find that people dont usually like starting, lol, so I feel like it helps ppl. out a lot. 

If you know this blog beyond this year (and if you’ve been here since early 2013-2016, I really, sincerely love you lots), then you’ll know that I normally don’t chat a lot ooc. here or reblog non-sentence starter stuff like these memes… mostly because I always operate under the assumption that I’m gonna annoy the shit out of people. lmfao. So in that way I do prefer sending memes, even if it’s caused by my own sad unwillingness to take up space. I’m trying to get better at it tho, and the fact that everyone’s been so kind about my return and all the new connections I’m making is super, super motivating!

💕 Say something nice about your own writing. 

shdfbsdhf. I think I’m decent at tailoring the way I write exposition to match my characters. For Phillip, I try to always put a fairytale, dream-like quality to it rather than just straight descriptions.

Whether I succeed at this or not, though, is entirely up to you, heh.

There’s always a reason why I describe one thing over the other; it all contributes to the vibe I’m trying to curate. I think that’s just it, prolly. I think my narration style is pretty decent at curating the vibe I want my characters to give off? 

That’s partly why I really don’t like using icons. I truly, madly, deeply love the 100% theater of the mind experience, like the books I read. It relies completely on my imagination and I think that’s so, so special and my favorite way to narrate. This isn’t at all an idictment on graphics or icons in general (yall can tell by now I love a good promo, pinned post, and theme — plus I made all my graphics up until this point lol), so please don’t take it that way. I’m just explaining why I have a preference for iconless roleplaying when I write for my characters, same as why people who do use lots of icons — minimal, maximal style, whatever — have their own reasons why they prefer it.

🍑 What is something you hyperfocus on in your portrayal? 

I’m obviously, like, not a man first of all. Lmfao. I’m not 6’3”, I’m extremely NOT a white European LMAO… I’m not masculine or a nature lover or remotely physically strong and reckless the way Phillip is.

I’m a 5’3”, ultra high femme, small, extremely cautious, Muslim, South Asian, who was born and raised in DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN (the most movie-theater NYC of NYCs), had literally no guy friends or boyfriends or crushes my entire life, is horrible shit at flirting, and is afraid of pigeons and not being around millions of people and being in nature freaks me the fuck out (you can ask @jimseung, who’s known me over the last 13 yrs and was in my wedding party lmao).

Anyway. I’m almost nothing like Phillip, except for some inward stuff. I have a really strong sense of justice and stick up very loudly for the underdogs. But other than that? Not much else to relate to. I write Phillip not cuz I resonate with him, but because I'm just enamored by these types of characters.

I hyperfocus on trying to nail the tender yet hypermasculine parts of him because I love to study it, for some reason. Maybe cuz I’m so the opposite way and had no guy friends or boyfriends growing up so it’s more of an unknown and therefore a subject of study for me? I truly don’t know. Like I literally took Medieval Masculinities courses in undergrad just for fun.

And honestly I think I do a decently convincing job at it by now! Although I cannot explain to you at all how or why. Maybe one of my friends here can idk sdkfmsd since they Observe Me.

@roscvcins for Bai Feng Jiu (cause we all know I love her from Zhao Yuanzhou

"This isn't a place for foxes to be playing." He mused, lifting the jug of Jade Wine to his lips and taking a swig of the bitter liquor. A taste that he'd long grown accustomed to since drinking it helped him control the malicious energy that he carried within.

Lowering the jug, his gaze slid to her, one brow arching as he added. "What brings you to the Wilderness? Shouldn't you be in Qing Qiu?"

@roscvcins said: 7, 8, 17, 20, 21

7. What’s the best thing about the canon you are writing?

The variety of which can be found here when it comes to the sci-fi genre; it can be the silly goofy fun kind for a spell and then next moment you're being hit with horror monsters under your bed about to eat your face.

8. What’s the worst thing about the canon you are writing?

The negativity surrounding the canon if it's not always the exact way someone expects it to be. I'm still new to writing this canon but it's hard to wade through sometimes, especially with the character(s) I write. Thank goodness for the EU, though.

17. Are there any ships you can’t stand, why?

I don't think I have any that I can't stand as far as I'm aware of right now. Actually, no, I take that back: D.onna x the D.octor as anything that isn't best friends / platonic soulmates. Sorry, I can't get on board with that ship. Throw me into the sea.

20. If you could sum up your character with one sentence, what would it be?

Compassion and love learned through the most confusing and hardest of times had a more lasting impact than mundane, every day moments as Mels did.

21. Which song do you feel describes your character the most and why?

Do I have to explain? -whines- No.

@roscvcins a starter for Bai Feng Jiu!

"This is sacred space where only the Moon Goddess is meant to walk." He said softly, slipping out from behind the shimmering white peach trees, gaze watching the young immortal for a long moment before looking behind her. Sensing traces of the demon realm upon her like a haze left behind when one walked through smoke. "Are you seeking shelter?"

“ How do I know that? ” What could he say that she would believe? The reality is - odd. He could say that he went back in time to one of his happy memories, and that exact date and time coincided with the day the hotel that was downtown in Insa-dong, collapsed, causing more than twenty people to die.

“ It was five years ago, and I guess my memory was jogged with the advertisement that I saw on tv, I remember seeing the person that the police had been looking for. ”

It could be possible, it might sound like the truth. And if she didn’t believe him, he would need to figure out how to bring her to where the man was. And if nothing works, he could show her that he is capable of going back to the past and hope that she doesn’t freak out or use it against him.

The villages surrounding the city of Chicheng have seen many cloudy, sunless days ever since the ancient dams had broken up north. Dams built by the Bull spirits had held up for centuries, why were they suddenly broken? What forces plagued the area? It has forced the farmers and loggers to seek refuge in the illustrious city, leaving behind their verdant farms and all the livestock they couldn’t take with them, laid to waste by dirty floodwaters.

Erlang had heard the prayers of the people to the Goddess Yaoji, praying for her mercy to soothe the floods. Unbeknownst to them ( and the Celestial world ) that this role had been succeeded by her only surviving son, Yang Jian, the notorious Erlang Shen. The harbinger of war; wherever he goes, the demons flee in his sight.

Sometimes, the best remedy is a greater offence. That’s something the Impartial Lord of Justice can do, along with teaching people how to build a new dam, in time ...