You Can Pry Starting Sentences With 'and' Or 'but' Out Of My Cold, Dead Hands

wips + no effects under the cut ^^

It gets worse when you don't even know what it is!

are u ever sick w longing. and i don't just mean romantic longing. i mean longing for a place you barely get to see, longing for friends you no longer have, longing for feelings you might have left behind in your childhood, longing for creativity, longing for a rich and more expansive life, longing for less inhibition. longing for more passion. longing for ur life to be so incandescent w something it thaws all the frost in ur bones. are u ever so consumed w it it rends ur heart in two. do u understand me

And her opposable thumbs

Trying

Leaving the house for any reason, for any amount of time. If you don't want to be outside, libraries are really nice, since they're quiet, warm, and have comfy chairs or couches

ive been wanting to get into living what do you guys recommend for a beginner

You have my sympathy.

Though I will say it gets worse when you have several stories in the same universe, and then two completely separate universes, all in your brain at one time.

Im on vacation right now and my brain is so loud at this point it's just incomprehensible screaming.

I wish my brain could focus better:

Hey, this would be an emotional scene! Just need to figure out how the heck to get to it.

Hmm remember that one scene you finished months ago? I don't like it anymore, change it.

Maybe you should try writing smut set in your world. Why? No clue.

You should post some random worldbuilding bullshit on tumblr!

No! You have a paper due in just a few days! Its time for smart brainy time not sad queer time!

Ahhhh!

I have no room for isotopes and assemblages in my brain rn, just bi giants and murder.

The Rat Plague is very pleased at the sheer amount of teamwork done to make @tothechaos suffer.

Im saving this as a note to the fellow children of Lorda-this is how you praise the plague.

glad that im not popular enough to have an evil shadow version of my blog that exists just to make contradictions on my posts

So, unfortunately, I don't have visuals of the uniforms at the moment, but I can describe them well enough until i get visuals.

Some context: im giving y'all the uniforms for the Ojalana Empire, since that is the main setting for my story. Since the rulers of the Ojalana Empire are more paranoid than is strictly healthy, and the Empire is not currently at war, most soldiers are stationed in or around the capitol-Jackal Quartz- so their uniforms are less combat uniforms and more formal/dress uniforms.

All of that out of the way, I'll start from the top down.

The top begins wit a simple black undershirt with puffed sleeves and cuffs that close with gold buttons. Layered on top of this is a waistcoat with a turtleneck. This waistcoat is also boned all the way around with slim bones made from stripped feather quills. The waistcoat is gold with 13 black fabric buttons.

The bottoms of the uniform are knee length black shorts that are built like slacks, with pockets in the normal position and of normal construction. These are paired with black and gold riding boots with red laces.

Where the uniforms really shine is in how they distinguish between different ranks of the military. Different ranks are distinguished by tie on skirts or capes of different colors and embroidered with patterns chosen by the wearer. The tie-on skirts are built like half aprons, just more full.

There are 3 main ranks of the military:

Pawns, which have sky blue skirts/capes with gold embroidery. These are the shortest skirts/capes

Knights, which have rich maroon skirts/capes with silver embroidery these are a bit longer than the pawn skirt/capes

Rooks, which have white skirts/capes with silver embroidery. These are the longest skirt/capes.

The military is incredibly fastidious, to the point where a single wrinkle can get you dress coded

@nerdexer there, my matchy matchy uniform ranty.

Once you get this, you have to say five things you like about yourself, publicly. Then you have to send this to ten of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool~)

well, it's a shame that I took this long to come up with 5 things that didn't make me sound like a braggart, but here we go:

1 -my gift giving abilities

2- my ability to pull things together last minute

3- my lips

4- my ability to stay calm under pressure

5- my public speaking abilities (this one is more of a recent development though)

since I only have 5 followers, I'll just ask this to them and 5 of my following

oooh, I wanna join in.

I did both C's and Shed's:

no bingo here, but I did get one with Shed!

and here's the one I made for Seigmun, what I am calling my world:

gently poking @nerdexer and asking if he wants to play.

Writing Trope Bingo!

I was tagged by @simonnebethel, I tried my best but no Bingo unfortunately

Tagging @illarian-rambling (getting you back), @peresephones, @abalonetea, @patternwelded-quill, @foragedbonesblog and open tag to anybody else who would like to join!

Bingo for Testaments of the Green Sea Book 1 and 2

You sew on the cuffs

THE INVISIBLE MAN directed by J. Whale | 1933