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Ethereal Oblivion

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Multimuse indie & selective Penned by Gabriel Est. 02/23/2017. read rules before interacting
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revivedlegend asked:

“You look like you need a hug.” (Let Sara love her stepson)

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      God knew he would never admit it. He hadn’t admitted to needing or wanting hugs in… he didn’t even know how long. He had shrugged his mother off whenever she tried to hug him, and when he was struggling, he never came to her nor his stepdad nor his actual dad for comfort. He dealt with it himself. The only hug he had accepted was one from Lincoln, when they had the chance to reunite. He hadn’t accepted one nor given one since.

      And after everything… he was tired of pretending. He had thought that, with the knowledge he had always held about how wrong his life choices had been leading up to this, that moving on would be easy. But it wasn’t. There was a lot to be happy about: he wasn’t in prison anymore, neither was his dad, who had someone in his life he was happy with.

      But sometimese LJ couldn’t help but think about the coping mechanisms and the company he had kept for the last few years, and it weighed on him.

      He didn’t respond to what Sara said, but he didn’t push her away and move to leave. Instead he quietly let his head list sideways until it was resting on her shoulder, eyes fixed on a distant point across the room.

#rp#M: I will not bow; I will not break; I will take your breath away (lj burrows: threads)#bethewhitecanary#lj connection: please put the doctor on the phone cause I'm not making any sense (sara lance)#lj verse: forgive me someone for I have sinned and I know not where I should begin (delinquency)#[yooo]
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PSA

I have a lot of asks in my inbox over on both here and one of my lesser-used DC blogs asking me repeatedly, not always kindly, why I’m not roleplaying over there as often and harrassing me to answer threads and things that I told them I dropped.

So this is just a PSA: please do not try and force someone to write a muse.

This doesn’t just apply to ‘I know you don’t have this character as a muse but you should’, it also applies to ‘I know you used to play this muse why aren’t you anymore’. 

Yes, I do have Spike from Buffy The Vampire Slayer on this multimuse, and yes, I do have Maui from Moana here. That doesn’t mean I’m going to play them as often as you want me to. Same with Leonard Snart. 

I love the muses. I do. But there are so many underlying factors as to why I or anyone else might not be writing certain muses.

Maybe out mental state is less than good and we can’t focus. Maybe our muse for that particular character is faltering. Maybe life has gotten too busy. Maybe we’re tired. Maybe our mind is hyperfocused on other plots or muses or threads. Maybe we simply do not know yet where to take the threads we have going.

Or maybe we simply need a break from those particular muses. It doesn’t mean forever, but it might mean for a while.

I get what it’s like to really want to roleplay with a certain muse, or really want to continue a certain thread; there are dozens upon dozens of threads and asks I adore and would love to have continued, but if my partner isn’t feeling the muse or the thread or the ask, then they’re not feeling them, and that’s that.

Please do not guilt trip or shame or bully someone - or attempt to - into writing something or someone they currently aren’t of the mind to be writing. Be patient, be understanding, and if you’ve a severe problem with all of it, take it up with the person politely in private, don’t send anons being a dick about it. Don’t be a dick about it off anon either. Understand that things happen, muse falters, and life goes on.

This has been a PSA from your friendly neighbourhood leprechaun.

#Misc: can you hear it (PSAs)
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