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hi hi! I understand your scepticism, but I lived Here for half a decade:

and nnno we don't call it "winter" when it's december even though we're TECHNICALLY in the northern hemisphere. because it is 35+ degrees during december and 35+ degrees during july and 35+ degrees every other time of the year as well. so it doesn't really make sense to reference the typical northern/southern seasons when you live right on the equator!

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

Excellent ask. However I'm in an 'exhaustive explanation' headspace not a 'chuuni' headspace so I cannot answer this in the most correct way.

To start, I tend to be interested in 'doll' not as in ballroom culture but as in empty spaces. Simply different words.

I wasn't there for 'the moment' that was empty spaces. I also never used twitter, nor cohost, and I really don't want to use bsky, but I was in discord servers and I talk to plural girlthings with it/its pronouns and so I watched from a distance. And, I think necessarily to really talk about 'doll' I have to talk about it.

By my knowledge, ES was a few twitter users personal trauma metaphors drawn up in evocative language that metastasized in the microfiction environment of twitter. And 'doll' was one of the key recurring elements of these metaphors.

In the classical empty spaces sense, a 'doll' is a victim, an object, a transfeminized husk, a punching bag, and various other images. Something that fawns and finds peace in inaction. Something that is acted upon and passes from owner to owner. Something that was made to be like this.

There is no 'one' answer to 'what is a doll in empty spaces' because empty spaces is not 'one thing'. You will not receive a straight answer because the space was antithetical to wikipedia summary analysis. It wanted you to engage with it as art, not as canon.

(This is one of the many things that many people did not like about empty spaces, and you'll see some "Post-ES" movements act to correct this. You can argue about how successful this has been.)

Broadly, I find the current cultural understanding of 'dolls' kinda funny. In context, dolls were contrasted vs angels (how does purpose become stillness?) and vs witches (what shapes do we contort ourselves into such that we may act upon the world?). Now, these seem gone, but they were the raw material.

And thus, born from the intertextuality between varying trauma metaphors, you get 'doll'.

But none of that matters anymore, because that's in the past.

The idea of 'doll' that I see now is as a kind of 'transfeminized porcelain creature that is an object and not a human'.

Every girl who is a doll or who has a doll headmate that you talk to will tell you about its personal relationship with the language. How 'doll' describes its own experiences and its own trauma responses. How it feels 'empty' or 'still' or 'fragile' or like an 'object'. In almost all cases, this draws from the above 'deeper lore' and 'history' in countless ever-so-complicated ways.

But, as I see it, 'doll' in all senses are related to kink not as a 'kink role' so much as a 'shared metaphor for the underlying substance that generates an affinity for a certain category of kink'.

So, to finally use my own language, I've talked about how an ill-formed sense of self can produce an attraction to identityplay. How trauma can condition someone to believe they are unable to take action and exist, and how kink can provide an outlet for this. How you can become not just subject to abuse but be conditioned to see yourself as enabler of it, to the point where 'being a victim' becomes 'something that i can give'.

This is what 'doll' means, I think, as an identity and a space.

I could SWEAR you’ve made this post before, or perhaps this is such a characteristically “you” concept that I already imagined a world in which you had

Errata and Clarifications for Goncharov Second Edition:

Players can no longer have a hit put out on themselves.

Players are allowed to have hits put out on party members, but only if said party members have at least two Betrayal Points.

Stealing resources from other party members to buy off Betrayal Points gets you a Betrayal Point.

No weapon on the Long Gun table can be concealed.

The Tommy Gun is on the Handguns table due to an editing error; it is a Long Gun.

Trying to conceal more than two non-holdout weapons makes you Conspicuous.

The Getaway Driver advantage only gives you a bonus on opposed rolls versus law enforcement while operating a car or boat; it is not applicable to piloting an aircraft.

The penalties from the Wanted status and the Conspicuous status stack.

SWAN 🦢 ✈️  (Strategic Wyvern Aerial Navigator)

"The “SWANS” are biomechanical lifeforms that after years of mimicry adapted to resemble combat jets. Their wolfram-like skin not only is resistant to the toxic and parasitic dangers of the ‘false ocean’ but is nigh impossible to penetrate. While not a real bird they present many similar features and behavior. It's not all too rare to spot them flying in flocks and engaging in courtship

Swans are known to jam signals and strike airborne carriers since they’re an extremely territorial and violent species. First it will race against the enemy (it should be noted their structure allows them to reach enough speed to break the sound barrier) as a sign that they dominate the air space before they plunge the foe into the ground. Competitiveness amongst the species in a similar fashion has been observed to uncertain ends. In spite of all the gathered studies their intelligence and physical feats are still under research but paired with their enormous size and aggressivity is more than a difficult task. 

Narwhal art that I forgot to post before pride month ended </3