September

still not 100% post covid, and it's easy to fall into this trap of "well if I can't do ALL the things, then can't do any!!!"

That is such an easy trap to fall into

IT IS, for both RL and RP aaaaaa

*1. Billie & Jod. he didn't think this one through

2. Obi-Wan. this either

3. Michael. there, there

4. Jun. if anybody's ever stuck in an event because they need help talking about their feelings, Vyng actually makes a pretty good sounding board for those kinds of characters, I think

5. Makoto.

man, idk why, but I feel weirdly anxious about my tags lately ;; like wondering if the other person is having fun, stuff like that

hhhh just gotta push through it

I always enjoy your tags, if that helps

^^^^

^^^^^

I do too. <3

gently grips. i've frequently felt that way myself so i know exactly how hard it can be to tag through it, but i will tell you that every time I've gotten a Vyng tag i've been excited to see it in my inbox

oh man, all y'all's tags are treasures in my inbox It's just so easy to psyche myself out sometimes sdflskdf A lot of us have probably been there

ok ok ok /SLAPS CHEEKS did 6 tags yesterday. wrote drafts for 7 today, and I will shoot for at least 8 tomorrow. gonna get that momentum going in time for the weekend

Thanks for the encouragement, everyone

1. Michael. he's spent nearly a year thinking of himself as a Trenchy, really embracing this place as his home, making sacrifices for people. July was actually pretty jarring for him 😬

2. Obi-Wan. "really?" lmao he hears that one a lot

3. Obi-Wan. talking about ya boy greenlantern

4. Jun. he never wants to diminish the weight of loss and grief. at the same time, I think he definitely skews toward framing things in a more positive way to build stronger resilience

*5. Luca. NO killing sea monster children featuring silly-dramatic one-liners

6. Reaper. just remembered omens don't like being called pets lol

*7. Maul. Vyng prefers turning other people's own violence against them if he can swing it, rather than landing his own blows. even when he's afraid, he usually keeps a pretty good head on his shoulders during a crisis

not that it really matters here. because owl mom

would vyng ever let him know he knows this tidbit?

greenlantern: hmm, good question. After that memshare thing in May, he def. gets the sense Anakin doesn't like talking much about his past

So it's prob more likely he'd try relating to him with that info in mind (i.e. the fact Vyng lost his own mother and had trouble letting go)....rather than outright being like "hey your dad told me stuff behind your back"

but it's not outside the realm of possibility, either

i don't think he'll be too upset obi-wan said anything and instead be more upset that now he understands better where those two stand with each other and no one thought to let anakin know

and vyng is definitely not wrong he doesn't like talking about his past

or at the very least his life started at age 9-ish

nothing happened before at all :|

greenlantern: not labeling a relationship isn't very conducive to informing other people about it! They're friends, and he assumes Anakin knows that lol

but yeah, him aggressively acting like the first 9 years of his life didn't happen is such a vibe that Vyng can understand, so he leans more toward creating space for it, and letting the other person decide how much to share

there's friends and '''''friends'''''

one does not cancel out the other!

lmao this sure is going to be a convo

anakin's a romantic he doesn't believe in fooling around!

then you don't gotta fool around problem solved, right??

but he's met obi-wan's one true love so hands off >B(

Boga was the one setting him up with people!!

1-2. Jun. he is not phased by petulant teenagers

3-4. Michael. he can't fault anyone for getting psychologically triggered and defending their homies in a fit of corruption. trench things, man

5-10. Obi-Wan. More anakin chatter

10 - 15. Obi-Wan. date-night bar chatter

tagging bgm for nightmare log:Bee and Puppycat Soundtrack (Loop) - Discovery

16. Illarion. whenever he senses someone reaching for him, he always reaches back

17. Sansa. That's my dad. at least he's self-aware

18. Luca. channeling his mother, let's fucking gooooo

19. Shiro. more reaching

20. Nara'a. after over a year of no shapeshifting, it feels so good to finally bring it back out

even if it's technically different

Might have gotten distracted by videos of cats getting spooked by cucumbers while writing that one, though lmao

21. Ruby. you show 'em, rubles!!

22. Billie & Jod. he rarely passes over the opportunity to make a pun. I'm sorry

OKAY. Responded to everybody in the nightmare log. I am soooo stoked for these threads, ya'll. thanks for everyone's patience

I've had meta and plotting I wanna kick around. but whenever I'm behind on tags, I feel like I lose the right to show my face on Plurk LOL

but I feel like I'm starting to get the ball rolling again

that's rough buddy

1. Sansa. dad wolf is a dick, but at least vyng has an ally this time??

also, the fact a group of druids is called a "clade" in this world...is such a delightfully nerdy detail lmao. I think this is the first time I've gotten to us it in a tag

AS AN ASIDE...Gonna make note of first-draft tags as I go for now, so it'll help me get that dopamine hit (even though I still wanna go back and polish a lil more)

I've had a small pile of drafts accumulated over the week. And then was feeling like I was hopelessly behind because I wasn't acknowledging the writing I had gotten done

I. Obi-Wan draft done.

2. Nara'a. sounds about right in a dreamscape. also, bumble-snek at the defense!!

II. Tuck draft done.

3. Michael. squid fight, squid fight!

III. Solokin draft done.

4. Luca. oh man, I've actually really missed incorporating animals into threads

IV. Luz draft done.

5. Jun. I'd legit laugh if a serious, emotionally-stifled character just whipped out a letter they wrote the next they time they got caught in a "talk about your emotions" event

"I'M ALWAYS PREPARED"

"FOR ANYTHING"

V. Obi-Wan draft done.

6. Shiro. a good time for everyone here

VI. Raven Sight draft done

7. Oscar. when you "yes-and" and are also like ????

aaand that's all I owe for the nightmare log atm

VII. Oscar nightmare draft done.

8. Tuck. bird just mirrors what it hears, sorry man

VIII. Jun draft done.

9. Michael. he knows he kinda had a hand in all that monstering-out business :x

IX. Michael draft done.

10. Luz. lord knows he makes plenty of Druids uneasy back home, so it tracks that at least a few Disciples would similarly be like

X. Nara'a draft done.

11. Obi-Wan. between the sass and snark and philosophy, these two can be so sweet sometimes

XI. Black parade network post draft done

12. Obi-Wan. still talking about Anakin

like most people in or involved with the SW cast lol

1. Obi-Wan. cat cat kloudy cat

I. Tuck draft done

2. Oscar. he can't be the only one, right??

3. Tuck. I imagine it sounding like a kenku

fuck, is Never Mind a kenku?

II. Luz draft done

III. Shiro draft done

4. Nara'a. elemental u say

IV. Michael draft done.

5. Jun. he just owns the word "stupid", tbh

1. Obi-Wan.

I. Billie & Jod draft done.

2. Michael.

II. Sansa draft done.

walk of shame where I start wading into September backtags

3. Solokin.

III. Sansa draft done x 2

So far I'm liking this new system. If I miss a day or 2 of tags, it's easier to fall back into it if I've got a small backlog of rough drafts that just need a lil extra polishing

I keep them saved using Vivaldi's note system

so hopefully no more wipe-outs like what happened in July, where I lost like.....12 tags, rip

*4. Network Post finally

1. Billie network. He is always willing to hear his son out

Also, Vyng & Tuck assuming it was "Gays district" when they first got here will never not be funny to me, I'm sorry

frolicking over there expecting a good time with accepting people, and no. it's just a big library

2. Shiro network. I left that prompt intentionally vague, I kinda wanted to see what people landed on lol

3. Ryouma network. The communal aspect of Trench has always really appealed to him, tbh. even tho July kinda soured that view a little bit

4. Anakin network. he's just like "OH YOU" :>

5. Manabu network. missing the point, as always

6. Michael. he worded that poorly, but you know what he means. right??

7. Jinx network. lmao I'm sorry

8. Ruby. so many good chickens, tho

9. Sansa network. he will absolutely knit a dog sweater if he must

10. Jinx network. it might turn into a game of 20-questions

11. Manabu network. Being helpful in the laziest way possible

*1. Usagi. painfully on brand, and also incredibly stupid. let's fucking gooooo

2. Sansa. he is convinced she's a druid. (I am 95% sure "greenseer" is the name of one of the druidic clades, too, although they're aligned with ungulates)

yeah she has picked up on the similarities from adaine

actually when she reads adaine's book she just tells her friends she's a druid who got stuck trying to help adaine

She might be considered one in some fashion back in his world. It's more of a philosophy than an actual school of magic (you technically don't need powers to call yourself a druid), but they're not a monolith either. Schools of thought vary by culture

I. Nara'a draft done

II. Luca draft done

3. Billie & Jod. har har

III. Oscar draft done

4. Michael. "WELCOME TO HELL, SORRY"

he says to the literal demon, not knowing it is a demon

IV. Ruby draft done.

5. Shiro.

V. Maul draft done.

6. Luz.

1. Obi-Wan. do you ever inflict emotional damage on yourself with a tag

2. Sansa network. it's only polite to ask nicely for a little fur

3. Ryouma. Trench is a lot of things, but at least it's not a capitalistic hellscape, amirite

4. Shiro. does he have big sword energy?? he has no idea

5. Michael. the roomie who does it all

6. Keith. he is so helpful here

7. Maul. intent seems to matter for plenty of things in Trench (and also some druidic practicse & rituals), so no reason not to apply that same reasoning here

8. Oscar. dun dun dun

9. Manabu. virginity is a social construct

and yes, Tuck believes there are that many virginities

like hugging and kissing and hugging and kissing at the same time

10. Anakin. a questionable token of friendship, but vyng isn't picky

lmao I think some of my drafted tabs disappeared, but THAT IS A-OKAY because those mfers are saaaaved on vivaldi

1. Sansa. Getting back to stuff from before October. Thanks for your patience bitterends

I. Luz draft done.

2. Ruby. Man. So many sympathetic druids here tonight! he's not sure what to think

II. Anakin draft

3. Maul. "hello, soft-spoken devil man that somehow lives in my and also my mother's repressed memories, it's nice to meet you"

III. Shiro draft.

4. Oscar. that's a great thing to say in a dreamscape that moulds itself based off your worst memories/deepest fears

especially if you're an ozbin, but of course vyng doesn't know that here

IV. Michael draft.

5. Luca.

V. Jun draft

6. Nara'a. you become corrupt and then you become a senator, makes total sense to him

VI. Shiro draft.

7. Obi-Wan. dead mentor-parent vibes, he feels ya'

VII. Michael draft x2

8. Obi-Wan. sweeties ;_;

VIII. Ruby draft x2

9. Michael. This explains everything and nothing

10. Luz. shenani-banana-gans

IX. Sansa draft x2

blitzed through most of my network tags today, friends

Low back's been locked up since the covid struck, so it's hard for me to sit for long stretches of focused computer time

I took a salt bath, did some stretches, and more walking today though. Gonna hit the hay with some salonpas gel and hope it's better tomorrow

I was actually doing a lot better on Saturday, but then I lulled myself into a false sense of security and slack off on stretching x.x

1. Michael.
I. Vi draft

2. Shiro.
II. Vi draft

now for my ice pack break

3. Anakin.
III. Luz draft

4. Jun.
IV. Michael draft.

stretch break

5. Oscar. tuck's war on nature continues, and also vyng is a hypocrite, news at 11

V. Nara'a draft

6. Fakir. he just doesn't think things through enough, lbr

living in the moment

VI. Oscar draft
VII. Shiro draft
VIII. Ruby draft

7. Sansa. fuck yeah dreamwalking stuff

8. Shiro. the black hole originally came from vyng stabbing himself in the chest :x maybe he'll think twice before doing that again

9. Michael.

Have You Ever Had A Dream

sometimes he just teeters on losing his own thread while in the middle of a winding sentence and it is frustrating for anybody listening

10. Nara'a. featuring some light airbending he learned at the end of

11. Luca.

12. Oscar. it's a whole-ass zoo in this family

hrrf, okay, gotta make myself stretch again

I had no idea covid can just wreck your back a month after you get it, but it apparently is super-common