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PSA: Short Hiatus Until 4/30, Back Here 5/5

{out of paprikash} I'm suspending my rp schedule from 4/25 to 4/30 so I can take care of the end of my classes. I'll need time to grade assignments and exams, and to answer student emails regarding final course grades and makeup assignments. My regular rp schedule will resume on 5/1, so for this blog that means I'll be back on 5/5. See you then! =)

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{out of ammo} My Sunday muses are very quiet right now, so tonight I'll be over on multimuse again. Next weekend (4/28) I'll be on hiatus for work, since it's the end of classes and things are going to be crazy, heh. I am hoping to get back into all my Sunday muses again the following weekend (5/5). See you then! =)

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{out of the sahara} Ardeth and Vincent were still quiet today, so I still need some more time to get them back into shape. I am doing well with my surgery recovery, though, and I'm starting to get my writer's brain back as well. For so long, my health was making it almost impossible to focus, but now I've had a good chunk of my stress and anxiety lifted and the creativity is flowing again. So I hope that means some of my muses that have gone quiet will be back fairly soon. =)

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PSA: Hiatus Until After 4/2

{i am the caretaker of souls} Hey guys... So my surgery was moved up to 3/22, and it went well, but the surrounding hospital experience was unexpectedly anxiety-producing. More details here if anyone wants to know, but it was far longer and more harrowing than anticipated. The post-op pain is worse than they said it would be too, and I can't take anything for it but Tylenol, so I've just been sleeping and resting a lot. I've also got 240 forum posts to grade for work this week that unfortunately have to take precedence over writing here. I've been trying to work on it all day today, but I just don't have the focus.

In light of all this, I've decided to give myself one more week off my regular rp schedule (always available in my blogs' pinned posts, btw) to take a break and focus on recovery and work. So for this blog, that means I'll be back either on 4/7 or hopefully shortly thereafter, as muse allows. After one more week, I should be well into recovery, in less pain, done with follow-up appts, and ready to focus back here on writing. I'm so close to being back here with good regularity again, folks, just bear with me, heh.

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PSA: Hiatus until 3/26

{out of ammo} So that update I gave last night? Lol, just kidding. *sigh* Seriously, these people at the hospital and surgeon’s office have been all over the place with changing times, dates, and restrictions on me before my surgery. Suddenly today my surgery date was moved up from 3/29 to 3/22. SO… as a person with significant anxiety, I’ve decided to make things easy on myself and just take a week off from my regular rp schedule. My schedule will resume on 3/27 unless I say otherwise before then. So for this blog, that means I'll will be back (if muse allows) on 3/31. Thank you for your understanding during this crazy time. <3

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{out of the sahara} Hey guys. I'm sorry I have been here very consistently in a while. Work and family drama have been taxing lately, and my health has not been great. I'm having surgery on March 29th, and there's been a lot of testing and appts. for that. All of this together has made my anxiety extra special these past couple months. My creativity and muse have suffered a lot because of it, and some of my muses have gone completely quiet. I am hoping that by mid April things will calm down at least with work and my own health, and that I'll be able to be here with more regularity. Thank you for being understanding during this really crazy time, and I look forward to coming back here in a few weeks or so.

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{out of ammo} I won't be here this Sun (3/3) due to having grading to do for work, but also I need a break to manage my anxiety at this point. You can read about why in this post from my multi, but basically I just need some time to breathe and manage my stress levels about upcoming important/scary events in my life. I will update on whether I'll be back on 3/10 once I better know my schedule and I see how I feel. Thank you for your patience, I deeply appreciate it. ❤

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{out of the tunnels} Sorry for the quiet tonight folks. I'm actually having a problem with my left eye for some reason. I have no idea what's wrong with it, it's been hurting for like 4-5 days now. I just thought it was a little irritated, but tonight it started hurting a lot more, so I'm going to try to make an appt. to see my doc. I've been lurking, trying to see if it would improve so I can write, but looking at a screen and focusing on text makes it hurt even more, so I think I'm just going to rest it for tonight. My Sunday muses are a bit quiet right now anyway. See you all next week!

#{ out of the tunnels } ᵒᵒᶜ #{omfg i swear it's one thing after the other with my health lately}

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Vincent smiled at Tracey's sentiment. She didn't usually offer up genuine sentiments like that, not because she wasn't prone to having them, but because being emotionally transparent was a scary thing for her, Vincent knew.

He smiled at her. "I deserve no more or no less than everyone else, Tracey. I have been very thankful for for those... caves, as you call them. I might very well not be standing here today but for their existence. I am also thankful that there are people like you in the world, however. Those whose sight extends past mere aesthetic and instead sees through to the soul."

He chuckled lightly at Tracey's comment regarding Mary Shelley. "I believe Frankenstein is intended to be a sad tale. And a cautionary one." A pause. He loved Frankenstein, to be sure, but it was extremely depressing, as she'd noted. And so he added, "I am open to other more uplifting forms of science fiction, though."

It would be interesting to see this culture that she'd described to him, that which surrounded the whole comic convention and cosplay scene. Vincent could already feel himself becoming nervous, but he knew Tracey would never lead him into a situation that was dangerous. Well, too dangerous.

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"Trust me," Tracey grinned, holding the uniform up. "It's ComicCon. If you wear this, NO ONE will think twice. I've got one too, it's FINE!"

It hadn't been easy, but she'd found one in his size: a gold and black Star Trek uniform! It was even the same series as hers, the original 1960s version!

@flawed---by---design

Vincent... had his doubts about this, to be sure. But even if Tracey was a bit erratic at times, and sometimes had ideas that were... well... easily definable as unwise, he trusted her not to lead him into something dangerous. At least not deathly dangerous. "Alright. I will trust your judgement."

The last words of a man about to regret so many things...

Nevertheless, Vincent did his best to get the outfit on, hoping it looking good enough to blend in with other fans of this particular television show. Judging from how excited Tracey was, he guessed that he looked at least passable. "But did characters from this series have a face like mine?" he asked rather innocently, wondering how there was any chance at all that he wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb, even at a convention where one of the major pastimes was to dress up as all manner of odd characters...

#flawed---by---design #vincent rp

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Vincent listened quietly as Wanda explained how she felt whenever she was in the tunnels, smiling the moment she said she felt safe there. "I'm very glad to hear you say that, Wanda. That is what it is meant to be, a safe place for those who have been treated poorly by the world, or for whom the world chooses not to easily accept."

Was Wanda one of those poorly-treated people? To him, she was perfect. Intelligent, beautiful, sweet, loving... but what did the rest of the world see? He really couldn't blame her for feeling disenchanted with the world, after losing her brother and having been treated so badly in Hydra's laboratory. Maybe... she would enjoy living in the tunnels. Maybe she could come to call it home the way he did. Really, though, people like Father and Wanda were Vincent's home, regardless of where they happened to live.

"I will speak to Father about it, if you wish," he said with a nod, for of course the Tunnel Community didn't just let anyone in. It was more a matter of safety, the coming and going drawing attention to the entrances and causing people from the World Above to snoop around. But Wanda was more than capable of covering her tracks, he knew. "It would make me happy, having you here more often... but only if you were happy as well."

"I want to stay with you."

Vincent's head canted as he considered Wanda's words. He knew why she had said it, and yet he wondered if she truly knew what she was saying. "I know. But you would be happy here? Isolated from your friends? From all that you know?" As much as he would love for Wanda to live with him in his world, he worried that she would at best grow tired of it after a while, and at worst... come to hate it, and him. "I would never want you to feel trapped or lost in my world, Wanda. Even for those who can no longer live in your world, living here was a great adjustment. With all that you have been through, do you want to put yourself through all of that?"

#illbringthechaosmagic #vincent x wanda

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Vincent grinned - yes, full-on grinned - when Tracey said he was wasted. He didn't really know what that meant, or why it was funny, but Tracey was smiling and it sounded funny, so he grinned. Rather happily, too, at that.

The pizza smelled really good. Again, he didn't really know what it was either, since it was a food he'd never had before, but it definitely smelled like something he would like. He followed Tracey very enthusiastically to the cough, plopping down on his ass with a chuckle.

He didn't realize that he was purring, even as loud as it was. It wasn't something he thought about, since it was a natural function like breathing for him, albeit rare. He was just so damn happy right now. Everything was good. Life was good. The food smelled good. Let's watch Frodo fall down!

(LOL, for the funny!) Tracey hesitated when she saw the jar Vincent was investigating. "You might not want that one," she said. "I... That's catnip. It's a sedative, but... you know, I have no idea if it's safe for you."

Maybe it was. Maybe the suspicions she had about his biology were completely unfounded, and it would just be a nice cuppa for the man.

Or maybe it wasn't, and bad things would happen.

Perhaps it was unwise for Vincent to be snooping around in Tracey's kitchen, but... she didn't seem to mind. She had various spices and things, and he had gotten curious, opening one jar and sniffing the contents. It smelled... curiously good.

"It does not smell like a sedative," Vincent said, taking another sniff. It tingled in his nose and made him feel... a little more aware than he was a second ago. A little more jittery. "Are you certain?" he asked, because it was not the effect he might have expected from something labeled as a sedative...

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"I want to stay with you."

Vincent's head canted as he considered Wanda's words. He knew why she had said it, and yet he wondered if she truly knew what she was saying. "I know. But you would be happy here? Isolated from your friends? From all that you know?" As much as he would love for Wanda to live with him in his world, he worried that she would at best grow tired of it after a while, and at worst... come to hate it, and him. "I would never want you to feel trapped or lost in my world, Wanda. Even for those who can no longer live in your world, living here was a great adjustment. With all that you have been through, do you want to put yourself through all of that?"

#illbringthechaosmagic #vincent x wanda

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Vincent admittedly felt a little bit ridiculous, but he could tell that Tracey was very excited about it. For that reason alone, he was willing to step outside his comfort zone - way... way... outside - to indulge her in this hopefully fun and amusing endeavor. Father didn't agree with it, of course, and was beside himself with worry at the thought of Vincent going to a popular, crowded convention, but Vincent was an adult, fully capable of making his own decisions.

Upon hearing that there actually were characters on these television shows of hers who had feline attributes, Vincent's brow rose a bit. "Really?" he asked, very surprised by the notion that such things would be seen as positive things to feature in a television show.

Vincent smiled, then, watching her get so excited about this. "This is very important to you, isn't it...?" he asked, surmising as much from the way her feet barely seemed to touch the ground as she bounced from here to there, collecting the various parts of her costume.

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"Trust me," Tracey grinned, holding the uniform up. "It's ComicCon. If you wear this, NO ONE will think twice. I've got one too, it's FINE!"

It hadn't been easy, but she'd found one in his size: a gold and black Star Trek uniform! It was even the same series as hers, the original 1960s version!

@flawed---by---design

Vincent... had his doubts about this, to be sure. But even if Tracey was a bit erratic at times, and sometimes had ideas that were... well... easily definable as unwise, he trusted her not to lead him into something dangerous. At least not deathly dangerous. "Alright. I will trust your judgement."

The last words of a man about to regret so many things...

Nevertheless, Vincent did his best to get the outfit on, hoping it looking good enough to blend in with other fans of this particular television show. Judging from how excited Tracey was, he guessed that he looked at least passable. "But did characters from this series have a face like mine?" he asked rather innocently, wondering how there was any chance at all that he wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb, even at a convention where one of the major pastimes was to dress up as all manner of odd characters...

#flawed---by---design #vincent rp

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With Vincent's ability to climb and Wanda's ability to use her powers to levitate, this opened up a world of possibilities for them to observe the city from high vantage points. What was before for Vincent a solitary hobby was now something he could share with Wanda, and on nights like this, he deeply valued the ability to do so.

He smiled as she huddled against him for warmth, drawing part of his cloak over her as he held her. Chuckling at her comment about what they might get up to this year, Vincent lowered his gaze from the sky to her. "Are you planning to stir up a bit of mischief this year?" he asked with a playful cant of his head. Vincent knew the things he and Wanda could do together were limited because they lived in separate worlds for the time being, but... he did wonder himself what new experiences they might share together over the upcoming year.

"You look lovely tonight, Wanda. The fireworks, they... leave many colored strands of light in your hair, and they make your eyes sparkle," he observed. "You look happy. I wish you could stay that way, always." She had been through so much, and to see her so carefree tonight made his heart swell with happiness of his own.

"Happy New Year Vincent!"

"Happy New Year, Wanda," Vincent returned with a warm smile and a nod. His eyes held nothing but love for her as he took her hand and kissed it, continuing to hold it in both of his. "I am not sure I could find the worlds to properly express all that you mean to me, but know that I love you with all my being, and that you have made me the happiest I have been in my life. I hope that I have made you just as happy."

#illbringthechaosmagic #vincent x wanda

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PSA: Hiatus extended until 1/24

{out of the tunnels} As you may have seen over on some of my other blogs, I'm currently on a little hiatus because of the start of classes again, at least until my students get settled and activity dies down a bit. I didn't think I would need to skip my Sunday blogs this week, but I'm honestly so burned out from work being busier than anticipated, and I've got some family obligations this Sun (1/21) that are going to limit my time to be on here. So... I'm going to skip this week. My regular rp schedule will resume on 1/24, and I'll be back on this blog next Sun (1/28). If I write at all tomorrow, it'll be over on @tarnishedxknight, since I've been leaving that blog open during the hiatus, but I'm not expecting to get to a lot tomorrow. Thanks for you patience and I'll be back next weekend!

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PSA: Hiatus From 1/14 to 1/19

{out of ammo} Classes start again on 1/16. From 1/14-15 I'll be working on course prep, 1/16 to 1/18 I'll be answering student emails as they get settled and used to the course sites, and 1/19 their first assignments are due, so they'll need help with technical issues, etc. During next week I'll be suspending my usual rp schedule because I'm not sure how much free time to write I'm going to have. I'll be leaving my Thursday blog (@tarnishedxknight) open during the hiatus because that's where my muse is strongest right now, but I'll only be writing as time allows and may not be on every day. I'll see everyone back here on 1/21! =)

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Our world sleeps and she is near. Strange and wonderful and sad, this feeling rising in me like a tide. To have all I ever dreamed of so close and yet to know that… All I know is that she is here and that I must live for her, surround her easily, guide her out of suffering. While she is here, I must live moment by moment for her.

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