#ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴇᴍɪsᴛʀʏ; ooc.

[shapeshyft]

Can I just say, before I return to the shadows of my mind, that naming your child 'Mortimer Toynbee' is setting him up for absolute failure. That child had NO CHANCE to be anything other than a Toad. Raven saw his I.D. and knew without a doubt she could finagle him for the next four decades without issue.

#ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴇᴍɪsᴛʀʏ; ooc. #i keep telling people that words & names have power. its like no one's studied the feywild doctrines #i'm so sorry toad. I would've named you something else... probably just as bad tbh #You have mortimer energy maybe your folks were right

[shapeshyft]

Sorry I'm not on my very-active lately. I know it's not really something to apologize for, but i do feel a little guilt about not meeting (the insanely high) standards (I've set for myself, like an idiot.)

Thanks for sticking around, despite my nonsense.

#ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴇᴍɪsᴛʀʏ; ooc. #There's been a demon sitting on my chest for ages and i can't juke him #Take care of yourselves. And since I'm not active to say it enough: take care of yourselves

[shapeshyft]

Lengths will vary, and verses (under construction) will vary, but we're here.

#ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴇᴍɪsᴛʀʏ; ooc. #i think i understand raven and then i'll read her next issue and i'll recognize i didn't understand squat #but i'm running with it!

[shapeshyft]

you ever hear a song from a band you've never heard before that makes you fall in love her second you hear it?

So you spend all day listening to it, you've got the lyrics memorized by nightfall, you've got little choreo steps you can hit when you need to, already know which notes you can bridge and which you'll break trying to stretch toward, right?

You're obsessed with the fucking song and you don't know why, but that's okay, because it's a great song and music is the answer. But you're curious, so you go listen to some other songs by the band. Their most popular songs, older ones, newer ones, whatever they've got on the net! But 20 songs later you're disappointed and wondering 'how is it they only made ONE song I like? That seems like an anomaly... not even a chorus on one of these other ones??'

But you can't find whatever answer you were searching for, so you decide to leave the gift horse un-surveyed. Instead you go on streaming website (name redacted because they're not sponsoring this post), load the song up, and - wait, whats the first comment say?

[ God, I miss (seemingly unrelated musical act) already ]

??? What? I mean - I'll admit the sound is kinda similar, but - Well the vibes are alike too, actually. Very similar to a big song (unrelated act) released a few summers before this song... and I do love THAT song just as I do this one. Is - Mother fucker, did they copyright infringe (unrelated act)?!

Do a small google. Turns out (unrelated act) produced this song for the 'new' band, and as such this was their last musical act together before disbanding.

This song was their final auditory gift to the world, and it feels like them. It sounds like them. It's been in my mind all day, I've listened to it 3 times since I started writing this post.

I didn't expect to be actually tearing up a little about legacies & how music is the answer, but I'm so glad I'm here. This really brightened my whlle outlook on things.

#ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴇᴍɪsᴛʀʏ; ooc. #It really got me right in my chest that this was them both putting a new talent over but also going out with a phantom #'Our last song will be something beyond what it is... so let's give it to someone else. Make it their next one instead.' #Fuck you thats beautiful! Thats like actual literary trope shit but in my aural lifetime my god #cw long post #I'd write out what bands im talking about but i dont want any fans of australian electropop to come after me #Seriously i don't like any of their other songs. But they start strumming the bequeathal and oh baby! #I've mentioned before that music theory is my passion right? This hasn't come out of left field i hope

[shapeshyft]

Also, Hi! The reason I'm not super active over here (yet) is that I'm still trying to give my other blog some time in the sun (she's barely older than Raven) and also? I'm still not super confident with Raven yet. She scares me in a way I don't know how to articulate or write down, so its hard for me to put pen to paper for her.

But I am working on it! I'm trying! I'm doing my level best, swear down.

#ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴇᴍɪsᴛʀʏ; ooc. #i'm gonna figure her out eventually #i'll be watching an episode of gossip girl and it'll just click

[shapeshyft]

Turns out I still love writing Raven. Which I thought I didn't, but damn it, I really do.

#ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴇᴍɪsᴛʀʏ; OOC. #That's my MOM I am forced without second option to love her! #i think i might try to do something with this account. maybe make it plotted threads only. low activity just a writing exercise? #i'm not on the dash ever but I love getting back to people in threads #Hm. Much to ponder... where are my orbs.

[shapeshyft]

Coming down the pipe, eventually:

Superstar Verse: Mystique abandons super-terrorism (as her main job) and transitions into being a pop mega star. Singing songs, humanitarian aid, completely divested from the sins & woes of the world. 'Don't fucking talk me, I just sold out Madison Square, I gotta go do my breathing exercises'. (Built on the back of that time in the... 80s? That she - Y'know... did all that horrible shit to Dazzler.)

Suburban Verse: Baby Blue & Irene go to Xavier with a modified proposal. 'Don't erase the details of my son from my mind, just erase fucking all of it. Take my pain away, lock my soul behind a wall, make me happy, and ignorant, and painless, I want this all to stop!' So, who's left? Why, Melissa Corvin, of course. Mother of One, PTA Member, Local Housewife, and Harbourer of a truly Awful Secret.

#ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴇᴍɪsᴛʀʏ; ooc. #i say eventually because I am bad at updating pages / readable info #could be tomorrow. could be never. god i hope its not never that would be so typical of me

[shapeshyft]

My baby... my dottir, she's come back home !

#ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴇᴍɪsᴛʀʏ; OOC. #i already have Betsy (and Carol) so it seems only right to continue rebuilding the X-People with Anna Marie #Remy's here too but this isn't about him!

[shapeshyft]

i was gonna write today. But wrestle kingdom ended at 7am and i've only just woken up from crashing after watching it, so I don't think I'm worth it today.

#ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴇᴍɪsᴛʀʏ; ooc. #I have drafts here though. Like... 6 i think. They're all half done so this isn't a huge loss #I just gotta recover first so i don't post sleepy bullshit #Shout out to Naito though ofc. He finished his story

[shapeshyft]

THE VISION. TELL ME YOU CAN SEE IT.

#ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴇᴍɪsᴛʀʏ; OOC. #I love this so much i can't even articulate #its so... dumb too. its such a ridiculous connection to even make but #well we can't help who we love. and we can't help having our whole tummy & tiddies out in combat scenarios

[shapeshyft]

SMALL THREADS ONLY! Everywhere on Jeanne D'Arc's tumblr I see my soldiers lamenting the fact that their longer threads are left to languish b/c the time & effort it takes to really dig into those are just not readily available any more.

That is why going forward on shapeshyft.internet.edu i'm gonna be sticking to small threads only for a bit. Just to do my part in making y'all, the people that matter, less stressed.

#ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴇᴍɪsᴛʀʏ; ooc. #I typed this up w/ the conviction of someone who wasn't missing from this blog for a fortnight #most of my threads here are MASSIVE and languishing and I do not want my name to be on anyone's 'oh fuck i gotta do that' list

[shapeshyft]

I feel confident with the state of things here.

#ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴇᴍɪsᴛʀʏ; ooc. #i don't have graphic stuff yet outside of icons #but that feels fine for now

[shapeshyft]

turning into movie monsters is cool, and all, but when baby blue gets that power upgrade they've been teasing for ages now and starts shifting into the concept of entropy, or the light feeling of sorrow you get right as the sun sets on the twilight horizon, what then?

Hm?

What defences will you and yours have when a violent cloud of 'FOMO' descends upon ye and unshackles a storm of inscrutable yearning in your airspace?

#ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴇᴍɪsᴛʀʏ; ooc. #its okay. cereal already told me to go to sleep so i'm on it #I had to wax a little about nothing before I went though so I could artificially pad my blog stats

[shapeshyft]

Making the executive decision not to watch '97 until mother shows up anywhere outside of the intro.

#ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴇᴍɪsᴛʀʏ; OOC. #I don't need to scream and cry and yearn for simpler times rn. #but if i make it business related? if i make it about studying the character and learning? I can survive the exposure #there's a science to being ridiculous. i'm trying to put you goobers on.

[shapeshyft]

Hello? Is this thing on?

#ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴇᴍɪsᴛʀʏ; ooc. #bottom text. #do you guys still like me? or is now not the time to come back?

[shapeshyft]

How old do you think Mystique is?

Honestly, beloved, I think she's like 300+ I know most publications have her 'at, or near 200' to put her in the early parts of her development in the 1800s when she meets The WIFE and decides to make being a wife guy her entire personality.

I like that! I really do, but I think she's a lot older than that. At least a century older, so she could've gone through the stages of discovering her powers, trying to use them for flashy things, inadvertently creating a few local superstitions and myths and stuff.

She needed time to run around being absolutely foolish with her powers, her life and all so that she could build up a callous of 'man, i HATE humans, this sucks. What's even the point of li- Oh.' right on the build up to meeting the WIFE and, again, becoming a wife guy with her whole heart.

With that extra 100 years, as opposed to... i dunno, like a normal little 30+, it would give her higher heights to reach and then make the depths she hit just a bit deeper.

#ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴇᴍɪsᴛʀʏ; ooc. #Writer like me? I'd make her at least 400. She was born in pirate times and saw the high age of piracy end #and things were cool on the seas but then the puritans won out and things got reaaaaally bad #but that's- y'know we can get to that on another ask. sorry #she's forever 36 how do we feel about that?