john doodle in my car this morning

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Hua Cheng shakes her head, and smiles. “You’re such a freak.” Her voice contains a mocking note of something near admiration. He Xuan rolls her eyes, then makes the mistake of glancing across across the board. Hua Cheng rests her face in a propped-up palm, and she pays He Xuan a knowing look. On anyone else, He Xuan wouldn’t pay it any mind, but she dislikes it on Hua Cheng; she already knows too much. “Really. You would have been wasted as a real heavenly official. You would’ve either usurped the Palace of Ling Wen or been bored out of your mind.”

i commissioned @sadfishkid to illustrate a scene from my fic and it turned out perfect, thank you so much :)

That new year's pecky peck was so cute and natural. Funny enough it could be my best kiss from sandray🥺

no but their pecks are my favorite 🥺😩

no one does it like them.

Steve in the middle of his sexuality crisis, his best friends in the whole wide world Robin and Eddie who also happen to be gay, trying to help him figure it out. Robin is like, “You know what? Just try and kiss Eddie then you’ll know.” They’re both like okay maybe that’ll work. And they kiss.

And kiss.

And kiss.

Robin is like, “You guys need me to leave?” And they finally separate. Eddie is like, “Was that good?” Trying not to give away how much he loved it. Steve is a fucking image, hair all messed up, lips puffy and pink and his eyes half lidded.

“One more time, just to be sure,” Steve says, and drags him back in.

Robin goes, “Okay see you tomorrow guys, use protection,” And leaves.

Robin who doesn't like touching people.

I mean, she's okay with occasional small pats on the shoulder and handshakes, but big gestures like hugs and skin on skin contact always felt iffy. The only people she's comfortable with touching were her mother and one friend in grade 3.

But the moment she's holding hands with Steve Harrington in the rain, she forgets she doesn't do touching. Well, they nearly got caught by the Russians, so maybe she was just in a panic.

Then after Starcourt, they are both at Steve's house and she finds herself cuddling him. It's weird, but there's no discomfort, so she's curious.

She gives hum a tight hug, and Steve reciprocates immediately, because he just loves human contact. That is so him, Robin thinks. They stay like that for a while, then move onto talking about dumb stuff while still remaining contact.

It feels natural, what Robin and Steve has. As Steve leans his head on hers, she thinks, Yeah, I could do this.

SCREAMS

She’s about to pop!

hello!!! do you think M falls asleep in her work? like he's embroidering something for fenris late at night, and xe kinda just conk out into their pile of fabric?

do you think Q hesitates before bringing them to a bed, trying so hard not to touch anything?

i am, shaking you, /aff /vpos

shaking them in my mind like a salad-spinner

Theory About Abstracting

long text below (the amazing digital circus)

I saw people taking the meaning of abstraction in TADC as "to remove certain parts of a program" and theorize that they get corrupted because they're losing parts of their virtual self, their sanity and stuff, but what I actually believe happens when one abstracts is you lose 100% of your original self to the virtual one.

Ragatha says going insane itself isn't what makes you abstract, but it's part of the process. It's when you reach your breaking point that you abstract. But what breaking point? If you're already insane it means your mind is already broken, right?

So let's look at Kaufmo, he's a clown, he likes to tell jokes, and according to Gooseworx he was a little bit too positive, like Ragatha, that fits his character within the circus, but apparently his jokes weren't good, and when people did laugh, they were faking it

We don't know how long Kaufmo knew about that, but it appears to hurt him badly, both by Ragatha saying he called her out for fake laughing and Gangle saying he got mad at her for not laughing.

So what am I getting at? I think Kaufmo only abstracted because he "gave up", like Zooble puts it. His room shows he was obssessing about the exit, but like, a negative outlook on it, like "I know there is an exit, but I won't ever be able to reach it, it's hopeless". I think the moment his spirit breaks and he gives up the last bit of himself to embrace his clown persona fully, he abstracts. The abstracted parts (that is, the removed parts) aren't the virtual ones, but the real part of his mind as a human. That's why he turns into a beast, he's not human anymore but just a jumbled code of what used to be a player

(basically abstractions are the source games error model lmao)

So when his mind is gone and he's just the avatar Caine made for him, he abstracts (probably not intentional since we know Caine isnt malicious, just incompetent). Caine is smart and knows how to make NPCs for the adventures like the mannequins, Bubble, the Moon and the Gloinks, but he can't comprehend fully how a human acts, so in his logic "humans are unpredictable, chaotic, so since Kaufmo is giving no player input anymore I'll just replace him with an NPC that is unpredictable and chaotic" which is the monster we see, and since he fails every time to recreate a human but can't really (isn't allowed or is unable) to kill or let the humans leave, he just throws them into the cellar

So in conclusion, I don't think anyone in the main cast will abstract because as much as their avatars do give away what they were probably like in the real world (someone who masks their sadness, a person figuring out their gender, a coward who is important in their ambient, a yes person, a troll, a person who likes to make people laugh and the person who is butt of everyone's jokes) as long as they don't give into being just that, but real people with depthful personalities, they will be fine. Probably miserable, but fine.

(TL/DR): Abstraction is AFK mode, Caine can't have a circus if the players are brain dead not doing anything after giving up on their individuality completely, so he tries to recreate the player as an NPC, fails, buries his mistake in the cellar and moves on

please i am BEGGING for you to drop the other roleswap champion designs,,, i had no idea how hard cynthia would slay in lance’s fit and my animal brain is now starving for roleswap steven and lance if you ever feel confident enough to post them,,,,,;

[insert meme of guy on his hands and knees offering a wad of fanned-out dollar bills here]

TY JUST FOR YOU ANON…. i redrew my old designs. I still cant figure out stevens design but this will do

Just for fun ill throw my old designs/brainstorming under a read more too!

This is a year old. Theyre so ugly. Okay

IMDB reviewer elis17, I am very respectfully kissing you on the mouth.

i love people so much. hopelessly starry-eyed about the whole thing

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