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IM NOT GOOD AT THIS

Dpxdc, danny and superman

So usually the story would be danny ending up in gotham and meeting the bats first, but what if he had meet superman first

So danny freshly half dead at 14 decides how long and how far can he fly? He ends up in Smallville where he encounters a 14 year old Clark Kent, high above the town in the clouds. Danny questions if the boy is also a ghost and Clark laughed and said he didn't know what he was, that he wasn't human and that his ma and pa had found him.

"So how did you die?" Clark spoke slowly not sure if this was a sensitive subject, danny gave a small laugh and looked at him

"OH uh from fixing one of my parents inventions, it's no biggie" danny reassured, bumping shoulders with Clark as they sat on a pile of hay barrels

Danny hangs out with him for a couple of hours and he likes the boy, an honest kind farmer's boy. So over a couple years danny and Clark would fly over and hang out, they were the best of friends and were inseparable. By then all of Danny's friends back at home have aged and moved on, his parents none the wiser never pointed out how danny was still so young looking and short, making it a lot easier for danny to play it off.

Clark had learned of his background, when his ma and pa showed him the crashed ship and the fortress showed him about krypton and the disaster, how he was the last one of his race, danny totally understood as he was the 2nd kind of his own race. when Clark became 20 danny encouraged his idea of moving to metropolis and becoming a news reporter, danny understood Clark wanted to do more, help more and he wouldn't put him down for that.

Danny had also became the ghost king of the infinite realms and the ancient of space. It was comical that a beef cake Clark would still hangout with tiny baby danny, they almost looked like father and son, which danny kicked Clark at that statement.

A little soon after superman had helped create the justice league and he couldn't stop telling danny everything! It sounded amazing, danny was mesmerized, super heroes with a tower IN SPACE! What a dream come true. Danny sadly wasn't allowed to be around Clark when he was supermaning it with his super group of friends, but they've started to noticing... things happening around superman👻

Maybe ill do some more idea writings? if you guys are interested.

#danny phantom #danny fenton #danny phantom au #ghost king danny #dp x dc crossover #dc x dp crossover #danny phantom and superman #superman #clark kent #batman and robin #batman #justice league

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sparrow-orion-writes · 2 years

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🍂 leaves: what does your editing process look like? how does your wip typically change as you work on it?

It depends on the WIP. With Neon Glow I wrote the first draft, Orion is doing much of the second draft, and we just sort of bounce it backwards and forwards until eventually we'll be happy with it. We don't really have any rush so, we just go through things, and see how it works out.

With things that I work on alone I tend to word vomit, edit that, re-write it, and then re-writ it again, and then rinse and repeat until it has a shape that I'm happy with.

👻 ghost: can you tease some wip ideas that have been haunting you/something you want to write in the future?

I have a few that I put down in that post where I wrote down all the WIPs I have right now. WIP is generous, some are actually not in progress at all. So I have Oak, Ash and Thorn, set in the same world as Cardinal Sins - this is about a man (Rain) who lost his father at a young age. His father was an archaeologist who went in search of a jewel that he believed was of some importance to an ancient civilization, and never returned. Rain wants to finish his father's work, and in the process employs the help of three people who have three pieces to a map that he needs. A thief, an archaeologist, and a sailor. And so he goes to find this jewel. Except one of them is very aware that this jewel is not what it seems and it becomes a race against time against A Bad Guy. This is one of the ways it ties back to CS because the bad guy in question is a devotee to a demon that wants the world to end so it can be his personal nightmarish torture chamber. That demon was also fairly instrumental to the end of the world in CS. Let's just say that jewel is not a jewel at all. - Then there's the Violin Boy, which is just a little cute short story about a man who falls in love with a faery. As a teenager, he kissed this faery boy in the woods and years later he's still not really recovered and starting to realise he is inescapably gay. So he runs away into the forest and plays his violin to try and bring the faery back. It's just a bit of a spin on a more traditional fairytale-type of story. - Lastly, Golden Dandelions, both a fantasy-romance and a tragedy. It's about a young woman who wakes up in a faery ring to a very curious and excitable faery. The two go on adventures as they try to figure out who and what she is.

Thank you for your ask :D

#ask game answers

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starlightspun-archive · 2 years

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Aspen and its dead pet human

#🌲 Deathless and Deceitful (Aspen)#👻 Ancient but never aging (Little ghost)#🎭 Visuals #Picrew

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starlightspun-archive · 2 years

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Well, it slipped my mind to make a formal announcement a few days ago when I decided to do this, but I guess late is better than never!

I’m changing up a few muses’ tags: Aleksei, Ekaterina, Ghost, Penelope and Valeriya

#The new tags are:#🪔 Dreaming of lilies and blueberries (Aleksei)#🪆 The loveliest rose of Summer (Ekaterina)#👻 The years that pass will never make it grow (Little ghost)#🧜🏻‍♀️ A song of the sea; as enchanting as can be (Penelope)#🌟 Starlight; star bright (Valeriya)#The old tags were:#🪔 Lively as a Lily (Aleksei)#🪆 The rose that blooms in the frost (Ekaterina)#👻 Ancient but never aging (Little ghost)#🧜‍♀️ A soul like a lotus (Penelope)#🌟 Hair of gold; heart of gold (Valeriya)#Weaver of words; spinner of stories (OOC)#Blog update

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starlightspun-archive · 2 years

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“Happy new year!”

“New year? It’s February.”

“Lunar new year. It’s the year of the tiger!”

“There are two new years?”

“Yea, in a way. In Xuyen and Nagoya, they use a different calendar, and the start of their year is in February.”

“Why is it the ‘year of the tiger’?”

“There’s a twelve-year cycle in the lunar calendar. Each one has an animal attached to it.

“‘Back when tigers used to smoke, there was race between the animals. The Jade Emperor, who was the ruler of the heavens, asked all the animals to participate in his birthday on the ninth day of the first lunar month and held a great race. The first twelve animals that came would be given a place in the calendar.’”

“Oh! It’s a fairytale?”

“Yep.”

“‘Although the rat got up early and ran fast, he became worried when he arrived at the river bank as he was a poor swimmer. After waiting for the come of the ox, he asked the help from the ox to carry him across the river. With the help of the honest and helpful ox, the rat successfully crossed the river. However, he didn't jump off from the ox's back until they arrived at the door of the Jade Emperor.’

“‘Just as the ox was about to win the race, the rat leapt to the Jade Emperor before the ox. Thus, the rat won the first place in the race and the second the ox. Later came the Tiger, Cat, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, and Dog. The lazy pig arrived last and got the last place.’

“There’s a celebration at the park, and we’ll have fireworks when it gets dark. Who wants to come?”

🎉

#(Xuyen and Nagoya are the Origin of Stars world's versions of Vietnam and China)#🌒 The Shadow Weaver (Elias)#🧜‍♀️ A soul like a lotus (Penelope)#👻 Ancient but never aging (Little ghost)#🌠 Her Heart and Hopes as Vast as the Sky (Dyanna)#🪆 The rose that blooms in the frost (Ekaterina)#🌬️ Son of the Wind (Dmitri)#🌟 Hair of gold; heart of gold (Valeriya)#Faceclaim: Bucky Orson #Faceclaim: Peter Pan #Faceclaim: Briar Rose/Princess Aurora #Faceclaim: Jack #Faceclaim: Hannah Morgan #Muse chat #Lunar new year #💫 The origin of stars (Original story lore dumps)

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starlightspun-archive · 2 years

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What Brand of Stupid are you?

Smart until infected with stupid

You think you're safe don't you? You are probably the responsible one in the group, perhaps even the mom friend. You are relatively smart but all it takes is one little thing to suck all your braincells out. It could be hanging around your fellow stupid friends, it could be being left alone, it could be having a bit too much fun. The stupid lives inside you and it just takes the right environment for it to show.

Aspen - Confidently stupid

You think you are the smartest person on earth as you put your spoon in the microwave to make it easier to scoop ice cream. You give awful advice that sounds smart when spoken but terrible when executed. You insist on doing things yourself and are so absolutely sure you are doing everything right. Your confidence gives you charm, as well as the bravery to do the dumb things that you do

Dmitri - Himbo stupid

You're just an all around kind person who's a little too gullible. You are knowledgeable on weirdly specific trivia but a lot of common knowledge seems to have slipped you. You probably aren't the best at math but by god can you fix a flat tire. Everyone remembers you as a friendly person, you just might need to brush up on your reading comprehension again

Dyanna - Smart until infected with stupid

Ekaterina - Himbo stupid

Elias - BASTARD stupid

Swears are your language and crime is your profession. Your reason for doing just about anything is because you could, no matter how stupid it was. Why did you set that fence on fire? To watch it burn. Why did you put that bug in your mouth? To see what it tastes like. Why did you teach that kid to say fuck? Its funny. Keeping you around is like housing a cartoon villain but at least you know how to pick locks so that's a reason to let you stay

Ghost - Blissfully stupid

They say ignorance is bliss and by god you are living your best life. You skip merrily into a bear's cave to pet it as your friends scream at you to run. The world is beautiful and everyone is your best friend, nothing can possibly go wrong! You are incredibly curious and probably believe in magic. This isn't to say you're an innocent little baby, just that you see the world in a more positive light then most. You face danger with a smile, not because you are particularly brave but because you don't know there's danger to begin with.

Penelope - Smart until infected with stupid

Valeriya - Smart until infected with stupid

#I think Ghost's is the most accurate sjgshs)#🪔 Lively as a Lily (Aleksei)#🌲 Deathless and Deceitful (Aspen)#🌬️ Son of the Wind (Dmitri)#🌠 Her Heart and Hopes as Vast as the Sky (Dyanna)#🪆 The rose that blooms in the frost (Ekaterina)#🌒 The Shadow Weaver (Elias)#👻 Ancient but never aging (Little ghost)#🧜‍♀️ A soul like a lotus (Penelope)#🌟 Hair of gold; heart of gold (Valeriya)#Dash games #😜 Crack

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starlightspun-archive · 2 years

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Which Roman Goddess are You?

I’m doing this for everyone except Aleksei, Dmitri, and Elias

Aspen - Fauna

· · ─────── ·🌾· ─────── · · Goddess of the countryside

Fauna is the female companion of the god Faunus and is an example of the characteristically Roman tendency to form gender-complementary pairs within a sphere of functionality. It is unknown what Fauna's relations to Faunus is: she's either his wife, daughter, or sister depending on what source you read — and sometimes more than just one.

Fauna's name has been regarded to be derived from faveo and favere ("to favor, nurture"), because she nurtures all that is useful to living creatures. She also has the ability of prophecy and can foresee future events, which come to her in a madness frenzy.

Dyanna - Bellona

· · ─────── ·⚔️· ─────── · · Goddess of war, destruction, conquest, and bloodlust

Bellona is the goddess of war. One of the earliest etymologies of her name translates to "action of valor, war." She was worshipped by a number of cults in Rome, one of which was lead by priests who would cut their own limbs as blood offerings to her. In another militaristic cult, Bellona is often depicted alongside Virtus, the personification of valor. Considered a noble virtue, linking Bellona with valor implies that the Romans — although they recognized that Bellona oversees the destructive and bloodthirsty side of conflict — viewed her as the noble and valiant aspect of warfare as well. In poetry, the goddess represents the destructive and belligerent aspect of war. Shakespeare describes her as "the fire-eyed maid of smoky war." In art, Bellona is commonly portrayed wearing a plumed helmet and dressed in armour. In her hand she carries a spear, shield, or other weapons, and occasionally, she sounds a trumpet for the attack. Victoria (the personification of victory) frequently accompanies her, ensuring her success in battle.

“What?!”

“... I don’t buy that.”

“Me neither.”

Ekaterina - Pomona · · ─────── ·🍎· ─────── · · Goddess of fruitful abundance, plenty, the harvest, orchards, and enchantment

Pomona is a nymph-goddess who features eponymously in the first original Latin myth: Pomona & Vertumnus. The story is romantic, full of seduction and deception, and follows the wooing of Pomona by Vertumnus, the god of changing seasons. She is very shy and determined to focused on her gardens, but Vertumnus loves her from afar and sets in motion a plan win her. I won't spoil the ending for you, and you can read it yourself here. It's only a five minute read, give or take.

Pomona herself is a bit of a minor goddess but very important since she is so distantly Roman. While most Roman deities where adopted from the Greeks, Pomona is an original Latin creation. She is described as a enchantingly beautiful, sunny young maiden who is extremely dedicated to her work, but appreciates praise and comments from passersby. Her symbols are apples (the French pom, meaning apple, comes from her name), fields of wheat, gardening tools, and fruitful abundance.

Ghost - Flora

· · ─────── ·💐· ─────── · · Goddess of flowers, youth, and spring

Although a relatively minor figure, Flora gained prominence in the springtime and a festival was held in her honor each year to celebrate the renewal of the cycle of life. She was depicted quite frequently in art during the Renaissance and enjoyed more fame in that era than she ever did in ancient Rome and has remained a favorite of artists and scholars ever since.

Penelope - Salacia

· · ─────── ·🌊· ─────── · · Goddess of the sea and salt water

Salacia the wife and consort of Neptune, lord of the seas. Their romance is actually quite sweet: he wished to wed her, yet she was in awe of his position so she hid in the Atlantic. Neptune, greatly distressed by this, enlisted the aid of a dolphin to search for Salacia with the message that Neptune loves her and wishes to share his throne with her. Salacia readily accepted, and Neptune rewarded the dolphin by being immortalized in the heavens in the constellation Delphinus.

Salacia was the personification of the calm and sunlit aspect of the sea and the wide open waters. She is depicted as a beautiful nymph, crowned with seaweed, and enthroned beside Neptune, dressed in queenly robes with nets in her hair. Her name is derived from Latin sal, meaning "salt", and is sometimes literally translated to mean sensational.

Livna - Bellona

· · ─────── ·⚔️· ─────── · · Goddess of war, destruction, conquest, and bloodlust

Shani - Salacia

· · ─────── ·🌊· ─────── · · Goddess of the sea and salt water

#Dash games #Muse chat #🌲 Deathless and Deceitful (Aspen)#🌠 Dulcet Durast (Dyanna)#🌬️ Son of the Wind (Dmitri)#☄️ Beloved Baby Brother (Ieronim)#🪆 The rose that blooms in the frost (Ekaterina)#👻 Ancient but never aging (Little ghost)#🧜‍♀️ A soul like a lotus (Penelope)#💎 Snow White (Livna)#🌹 Rose Red (Shani)

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starlightspun-archive · 2 years

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Where Will You go When You Die?

Aspen - You go to the shore

You reach the afterlife already standing, feet half-buried in the shifting sand, the stars wheeling overhead. One foot is planted in seawater, and one on the sand. The shore is empty, as far as you can tell, just endless stretches of dark sea and tide, dunes and starlight. The horizon is distant, if there is a horizon, and the air is clear. Eventually you pick a direction and start walking.

The sun comes up, and you keep walking, and your feet never hurt, and you never get hungry, and you never get tired. You find other people who are also walking, and you walk together. You find strange landmarks, stone and bone and wood, relics from other adventurers. You find deep pools.

You write your name in charcoal on the vast ribs of a creature unimaginably large. You tell stories. You sing. Eventually, though, you always end up walking on. You have infinite freedom, but what are you searching for? What will you do when you find it?

Aleksei - You don't go anywhere

you stay inside your flesh and bone. it is not that you are tethered to your body, it is that you are your body and only your body. you decay, as all things decay, and you become bone and earth.

you become the worms. you become the apple tree that tangles its roots through the gaps between your bones and feeds upon the earth that you became. you become the bird that eats the apple of the tree. you become egg and nestling. you become egg-eating fox. you become a laughing child stealing sour apples from the tree above your grave.

Dmitri - You go into death's arms

You do not wake up anywhere. You meet death with eyes open, and death smiles at you, wordless, knowing. You take its hand, and are drawn under the sweep of a vast dark cloak. Death takes you home with it. You are cradled in the embrace of a vast and incomprehensible lover.

You are safe. You are loved. You are known, and you are tended to like a flower in a garden, like a beloved child, like an exquisite rarity. You doze in the curl of death's cloak and you help to soothe its melancholy, and for that you are rewarded endlessly.

Dyanna - You go into death's arms

Ekaterina - You go to the shore

Elias - You go to the shore

Little ghost - You go into death's arms

Penelope - You don't go anywhere

you stay inside your flesh and bone. it is not that you are tethered to your body, it is that you are your body and only your body. you decay, as all things decay, and you become bone and earth.

Valeriya - You go to the shore

#🌲 Deathless and Deceitful (Aspen)#🪔 Lively as a Lily (Aleksei)#🌬️ Son of the Wind (Dmitri)#🌠 Her Heart and Hopes as Vast as the Sky (Dyanna)#🪆 The rose that blooms in the frost (Ekaterina)#🌒 The Shadow Weaver (Elias)#👻 Ancient but never aging (Little ghost)#💎 Snow White (Livna)#🧜‍♀️ A soul like a lotus (Penelope)#🌹 Rose Red (Shani)#🌟 Hair of gold; heart of gold (Valeriya)

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starlightspun-archive · 2 years

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Aleksei - You speak kindly

You recognize the power of words and you choose to use them for good. You're attentive and give good compliments. People come to you for comfort because you seem to always know what to say.

Aspen - You speak obscurely

If you got this result, you either have trouble expressing/explaining yourself or you use highly specific/technical words that most people don't know. You tend to think you're speaking clearly until you see the annoyingly bewildered look in the eyes of the person talking with you.

Dyanna - You speak carefully

You always consider what you're about to say before saying it. This makes you both a very considerate person and an over-thinker. You take your time when talking with others, which might try people's patience, but those willing to listen to you are glad they did.

Dmitri and Ekaterina - You speak kindly

You recognize the power of words and you choose to use them for good. You're attentive and give good compliments. People come to you for comfort because you seem to always know what to say.

Elias - You speak confidently

Formally, you're a great orator because of your confident presence. Informally though, you talk quickly and animatedly and like to play around with words, which sometimes results in you using a word in the completely wrong context. you also probably have a great sense of humor :)

Little ghost - You speak enchantingly

When you speak, people listen. You are expressive and passionate and great at storytelling. You are also quite convincing and can bring people under your spell with your words.

“Too bad you don’ talk.”

;‸;

“Aspen!”

Penelope - You speak enchantingly

When you speak, people listen. You are expressive and passionate and great at storytelling. You are also quite convincing and can bring people under your spell with your words.

Valeriya - You speak confidently

#🪔 Lively as a Lily (Aleksei)#🌲 Deathless and Deceitful (Aspen)#🌠 Her Heart and Hopes as Vast as the Sky (Dyanna)#🎎 Birds of a feather (Ekaterina and Dmitri)#🌒 The Shadow Weaver (Elias)#👻 Ancient but never aging (Little ghost)#🧜‍♀️ A soul like a lotus (Penelope)#🌟 Hair of gold; heart of gold (Valeriya)#Dash games #Muse chat

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starlightspun-archive · 2 years

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Who will You Dance With at the Starlight Ball?

Aspen - A being from the forest

The gardens call to you, away from the music, the gossiping, the cramped dancehall. The fresh air, the bubbling fountains, and the fragrant flowers welcome you. It is there, among the trees and the overgrown rosebushes that you see it, tending to the flowers. Skin like tree bark, hair like ivy, and eyes like warm soil after rainfall. It tells you it has cared for these gardens for many years for they extend into the enchanted forests behind the palace.

It takes your hand and shows you around the gardens, the hidden groves, the bluebird nests, the hidden pool that the nymphs have made their home. It says the nobles barely visit the vast gardens anymore because they think there is a monster dwelling in them that comes out during nights with no moon. You ask if there really is one and it just smiles at you.

It takes your hands and you dance in the middle of the clearing, to the sounds from the forest, to an old tune they hum under their breath. The skies open and it starts raining but you don’t mind as your feet glide over the grass. As you make your way back to the palace, hair sticking in front of your eyes, they will ask you to come back again, in three days. During the new moon. Will you come to see them again?

Aleksei - A masked stranger

In dark clothes and a full face mask, this stranger gives you an elegant bow and extends her hand. The dance is swift and leaves you breathless, and she is gone as suddenly as they appeared. When you wander away from the ball you run into her and hear a loud clatter as a sack falls onto the floor and spills its contents. In the low candlelight you can see the crown jewels glimmering as she picks them up and shove them back in the sack.

She looks at you, her expression unreadable behind the mask. She raises a finger in front of her mask and disappears back into the shadows, without a trace. Later that night, you find in your pocket an obsidian and gold bangle and a note thanking you for your silence. After this ball, you will catch glimpses of her in the street, at other events, late in the night.

One night, you will find her in your room, going through your possessions. Still wearing a mask, their clothes the same as the ones from the ball, now ragged and worn. No signs of riches from the jewels they stole. She will playfully claim She did not know it was your house. She will then mention an ancient palace, full of traps, the vengeful spirits of the royal family that used to inhabit it, and immeasurable riches. She will offer you to come with them. You have never seen Her face. Will you follow her into danger?

“GET OUT!”

Dmitri - The court mage

You enjoy the ball but wander away in the early hours of the morning, losing yourself in the corridors of the palace. Your steps take you up a spiral staircase and into the tallest tower. There, you find the court mage deep in research of a spell. Her fine clothes tell that she was at the ball at some point, but her sleeves are now rolled and her face deep in concentration.

You speak softly, and the spell flashes out, as she rubs her eyes, clearly tired. She invites you to stay and you sit next to her, sharing tea and conversation in the candlelight. She tells you about the magic that comes from the heavens, shows you how to turn starlight into a spoon or a teacup, and talk about the ancient tunnels buried under the palace, filled with arcane secrets. Near the end of the ball, the music is so loud that it rises up to the tower.

You take her hand and offer a dance, spinning across the room, stumbling upon books, and catching alembics before they crash on the floor. When she opens the door back to the palace and you descend the first steps, her hand will linger on yours for a few seconds. In your hand, you will find a note with a hastily scrawled map of the palace, and a secret room marked on it, along with a delicate earring made of starlight, that will light your way down the stairs. Will you meet her on the next new moon and uncover the secrets of the palace?

Dyanna - The heir to the throne

He stumbles onto you while walking away from a crowd of suitors. With a swift movement, he spins you by your hand and ask you in a whisper if you would like to dance with him, to save him from the proposals. The dance is fun and bubbly, full of twirls and spins, and laughter.

The crowd opens around you, more out of annoyance at you accidentally bumping on them, than out of admiration. You will then run into the gardens and watch the stars disappear from the sky as the sun rises. There you will talk about your lives, books, music, adventure.

You will discover in him the soul of a storyteller and one that yearns to explore haunted ruins, enchanted forests, and mysterious caves. The sun rises as faint voices call for him from the palace. Years later, in another city, maybe another kingdom, you will recognize familiar laughter from a hooded stranger in a tavern. Will you lead him into another dance?

Ekaterina - No one... Maybe?

The night passes in a flurry of music, conversation, and light, but you do not dance even once. You wander the halls, and the corridors and come back to the dance hall once all the revelers have left and the music has ended. Motes of dust float in the air, shimmering in the first rays of sun after dawn.

A faint tune rings in your ears, an ancient melody, a soft song in an unknown language that has not been sung for centuries. Your feet seem to move of their own accord, and you dance and twirl to this ethereal song. A hand holds yours, incorporeal, soft, and warm as a summer breeze.

This presence, old a the palace itself, sings the song and leads you in a dance whose steps you do not know. When the morning sun pools into the room and blinds your eyes, the song will end and you will be left completely alone in the hall, now silent and cold as the grave. In your hand, you will find a thin golden key that was not there before. Will you come back and find what ancient door it opens?

Elias - A sun deity

Not that you know at first, not really. She wears a golden mask and a sunburst crown. She stands tall and proud in her fine clothing. Yet despite her regal aura, guests keep their distance. They whisper about the enemy kingdom which worships the sun, instead of the stars. They wonder how someone dares dress like that at the starlight ball. You approach the stranger and she takes your hand, leading you into a dance.

Soon, the crowds open and stare in awe at your dance. Your dance has presence and elegance, and soon the room is filled with golden light like the first day of spring. You spend the night dancing and talking. She tells you about her home, about palaces of gold and fire, fields of citrine flowers, days of eternal summer.

Once the sun rises and all the stars have faded, you will step into the gardens and her dark hair will glow with golden light. She will offer her hand, and welcome you into her kingdom. She will say that you deserve to be adorned with gold under the light of the sun rather than the stars. Will you accept her invitation?

Little Ghost - A royal guard

They are guarding one of the gates, in full ceremonial armour and helmet. You try to strike a conversation with them, but they reply awkwardly, no expecting anyone to speak with them. You stay close to them, leaning against the wall and wondering how they manage to stand for so many hours in full armour.

You speak with them and find out they have an amazing memory for epic stories. They tell you about dragons, princesses, and humble stable boys who became heroes. You listen for hours, enthralled by stories both old and new. When you ask them to dance they say they cannot leave their post, but after some insisting they will step outside into the corridors with you and dance to the muffled music from the dancehall.

Their steps are a bit stiff, as if they had memorised the dance but never practiced it with anyone else. When you ask to see their face, they say they are not allowed to remove their helmet. As the night comes to a close you will say your goodbyes and they will hand you a note folded to resemble a flower, asking to see you again.

When you ask the other knights the next day, they will tell you that no knights are posted during balls, that they are replaced by magical automatons, powered by silver cogs and arcane magic. Will you search for them on the next ball?

Penelope - A star deity

Not that you know at first, not really. She comes to you wrapped in silver gauze, a brilliant sparkle in her pupils. You dance, and share a pleasant conversation, then swap partners. Yet you find yourself walking into her as the night goes on, recognizing her voice in the crowd, her laugh against the music. When you step into the gardens, they come to you, and you see that the glow in her pupil matches that of the stars above.

She leans on the marble railing, staring in wonder at the ball, rather than the starry night. She tells you that this is the one night every year she takes mortal form and come to enjoy the music and the dance. She tells you about their realm in descriptions you can barely understand, about cities made of starlight, the nebula nursery she was born in, worlds adorning fingers and crowns as jewels. In turn, you tell her about your home, about fields of flowers and sunlight-speckled autumn forests.

She leaves before the horizon starts to lighten. The next year you attend the ball again, and your hand immediately meets hers. You step out into the city, looking up at the candlelight behind windows as if they were constellations in the night. You dance to the sound of a street musician, under light summer rain, gracefully twirling over the cobblestones.

When the night is over, she will ask you to come again next year, and if you wish she will take you to their starlight realm. Or she will stay here and leave her kingdom for good, just for you. Will you attend the ball again, once the year is passed?

Valeriya - The monarch

The crowds part and whispers fill the air when the tsar approaches you and bows his head, extending his hand. His hair coils around the golden halo that crowns his head. Rings cover his every finger, and sparkle in the light when you take his hand, just as his warm, brown eyes. The music is slow, solemn. The dance steps stiff, lethargic, almost ritualistic. This is clearly an attempt to keep appearances and decorum, which ends in a polite bow and a look into your eyes that lingers for far too long.

You will catch him looking at you several times during the ball, but with no time to approach you again. As the ball draws to a close, he will come to you one last time and press a kiss to the back of your hand. The next day, you will receive an invitation to come to the palace, and find him near the gardens, a flower in his hands. No finery, no crown, no jewelry, no guards, but the same look in his eyes. Will you accept a second dance, now that you are alone?

*Cheers*

#🌲 Deathless and Deceitful (Aspen)#🪔 Lively as a Lily (Aleksei)#🌬️ Son of the Wind (Dmitri)#🌠 Her Heart and Hopes as Vast as the Sky (Dyanna)#🪆 The rose that blooms in the frost (Ekaterina)#🌒 The Shadow Weaver (Elias)#👻 Ancient but never aging (Little ghost)#🧜‍♀️ A soul like a lotus (Penelope)#🌟 Hair of gold; heart of gold (Valeriya)#(Valeriya is most certainly beautiful enough to catch the eye of the tsar)

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starlightspun-archive · 2 years

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What Tarot Card Are You?

Swiped from @sins-of-the-sea

Aleksei - The Empress

You are only independent insofar as you have others to care for. This makes you dependent in your independence. They want your knowledge, your skills, your talents, your affection. What can they give in return?

“Teeth” is not an acceptable answer, nor is “keeping the shadows to the corners”, nor is “glory”, nor is “love”. There is no acceptable answer, no gift of a magnitude which can match the thing you know, which is that they are taking from you.

They are stealing from you. You should stop them from doing that, darling. You only have so much to give. You are not infinite, and when they have taken their last they will remind you of that. My advice is this: give enough to keep them at bay, but be careful. Their teeth can turn on you too. There is no easier way to make an animal dangerous than by feeding it.

Aspen - The Hierophant

The plan is perfect in every way. Everyone where they need to be, at exactly the right moment, with exactly the right smile. You have moved and manipulated the situation, but did you remember to put yourself in the correct position?

You, after all, are still a player in the game - whoever thinks they control the pieces still has to make the next move eventually. Whoever is playing the game is playing against an opponent. Ensure that they have not played better than you.

Dmitri - The Empress

Dyanna - The Moon

You avoid corners and doorways - do you know why? Have you looked inwards recently? Do you understand what is happening there? Your mind is muddled and dusty, a mirror you haven’t been able to clean properly.

Smudging the nervousness just leaves streaks on the glass, which makes your face harder to see, which makes you nervous. What are you nervous of, darling? What keeps you up at night? Why haven’t you confronted it? Do you know what it is? Can you answer my questions? Are they making you nervous? Am I frightening you?

Ekaterina - The Devil

Restriction is not so terrible a thing as you think it is. One must not always be shackled to be prudent. You could use a set of handcuffs in your life, my love. Shall I forge them for you? We could be tied together, you and I. Maybe then you would not want for so many things.

Maybe if you were drip fed what you wanted, you would only focus on the next drip, instead of the wide world of things there are to want. You consume what you love, you terrify the things you want.

You have chewed your way through your life and you are still hungry. The old woman holds out a key. The iron around your wrist is so very heavy.

Elias - Wheel of Fortune

Examine the luck, good or bad, that you have experienced over the past 6 months. I don’t speak of the luck of the world, or of others, but of your own. Would you like it to change?

The question won’t affect the change, but it must be asked regardless. If you passed a crumpled 20 dollar note on the street, would you pick it up? If you passed a small child? If you passed a 10 cent coin? Throw the coin into the ocean and make a wish. Would you like some change?

Little ghost - The Hermit

It’s a skill, to look inside yourself, one you have mastered. The endless corridors and shifting thoughts are mapped to very carefully. This all takes time, of course. And those twisting hallways are so very difficult to map. It would be so easy to get lost. You know this space so well.

Wouldn’t it be a lovely place to stay? So well-known and comforting. Why go back? How nice, how easy, to dissolve, to hide from the rest of the world and all the people in it. Why bother, when you are so good at looking inside yourself. Like enlightenment, the self.

Retreating this far inwards is like retreating just as far out, into the vast ether. So comforting. The thing that was you looks at the thing that was the old woman. There is no you anymore. Goodbye.

Penelope - The Lovers

Your lover’s back does not look quite the same this morning. No one else would notice the difference, if there even is a difference, but you could swear they have more vertebrae than usual. Something in the breathing, as you stare at them in the morning light.

The light in the kitchen is just as warm as it always is, the coffee just as hot, but you cannot meet your lover’s eyes. They kiss you on the forehead, go off to work, shake their keys on the way out as they always do. Did they eat anything this morning? Did they speak? Of course they did.

You’re probably losing your mind. You would call your friends to ask, if you had any friends left. You don’t, of course, haven’t for months. You only need each other. You only need them. You haven’t spoken to anyone in months. You count the notches on their back. You watch them breathe. You pray they don’t turn around.

Valeriya - The Hermit

Retreating this far inwards is like retreating just as far out, into the vast ether. So comforting. The thing that was you looks at the thing that was the old woman. There is no you anymore. Goodbye.

#Dash games #🪔 Lively as a Lily (Aleksei)#🌲 Deathless and Deceitful (Aspen)#🌬️ Son of the Wind (Dmitri)#🌠 Her Heart and Hopes as Vast as the Sky (Dyanna)#🪆 The rose that blooms in the frost (Ekaterina)#🌒 The Shadow Weaver (Elias)#👻 Ancient but never aging (Little ghost)#🧜‍♀️ A soul like a lotus (Penelope)#🌟 Hair of gold; heart of gold (Valeriya)

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starlightspun-archive · 2 years

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Puppies!

#👁️‍🗨️ Dash comm #sins of the sea #👻 Ancient but never aging (Little ghost)

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starlightspun-archive · 2 years

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Muses that can screw up your life

(Whether it be in combat or otherwise)

Swiped from @altsmultimuse

Aspen - Eight feet tall with three rows of jagged teeth and no moral compass...

... ‘Nuff said.

Dmitri, Soldier of the Second Army, No Place like Home, and post-By Light of the Moons and Stars verses - He could asphyxiate someone, collapse lungs, or just straight-up burst them.

Ghost - Could possess someone and make them do whatever the hell it wants, up and including jumping off a bridge. Be glad it’s a pushover and would almost neevr do something like that, because unlike all my other muses, you can’t hit back!

Valeriya - If she really wanted to hurt someone, the first thing they’d see would be a bright flash of light. The next thing they’d see would be nothing at all because she’s just evaporated their retinas. And it’d take her about the same amount of effort as doing five pull-ups; difficult, but very much possible.

#🌲 Deathless and Deceitful (Aspen)#🌬️ Son of the Wind (Dmitri)#🗡️ Soldier of the Second Army #🏡There’s No Place Like Home #👻 Ancient but never aging (Little ghost)#🌟 Hair of gold; heart of gold (Valeriya)#Blood tw #Dash games

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starlightspun-archive · 2 years

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He’s makin’ a list, he’s checkin’ it twice. Gonna find out who’s naughty or nice!

Swiped from @summonshadows (But I was saving it specifically for today :3)

Well, Aleksei, I don't know how you pulled it off, but you actually made the Nice List...

“Yay!“

Aspen, you REALLY put ex-lax in Santa's cookies?! Don't expect to see your name on the Nice List anytime soon!

*snickering*

“Where... Where did you even get that stuff?”

“That’s my little secret.”

“Whatever you say, I guess...”

“Dima! your turn!”

You better start making some room for the huge lump of coal you’re about to get, or either start cleaning up your act, Dmitri!

“What did I do?!”

Dyanna, do you kiss your Mother with that mouth?! Santa puts kids on the Naughty List for cursing, and frankly, you've got a mouth like a Sailor!

Naughty List for you.

“блядь!”

*cackling*

“Alright, my turn!”

In the words of Larry David, you've been "pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good" this year.

“Yay!” ~❤

Now, Elias. Santa knows you're trying, but it still doesn't make up for last year. You're on the Naughty List.

...

The world could use more people like you, Penelope. Keep up the good work, and you'll make the Nice List every year!

There's a reason Santa created a Naughty List. And you're just one of those reasons, Livna.

Shani, treating kittens like that is getting you coal in your stocking this year.

“But... But... I haven’t done anything to any kittens all year!”

Little Ghost, shouldn't you be working, instead of surfing the web during office hours...?

NAUGHTY LIST FOR YOU!

;-;

“Are you tripping on CRACK, you fat old coot? Ghost! Doesn’t! Have! An! Effing! Job!”

“Careful, Aspen, don’t you remember how Dyanna got on the naughty list?”

“I’m already on the naughty list, so I might as well be really naughty now that I have nothing to lose. Time to swap that ex-lax for arsenic sauce!”

“ASPEN!”

#Poison tw #Dash games #Muse chat #🎄 Merry Christmas!#😜 Crack #🪔 Lively as a Lily (Aleksei)#🌲 Deathless and Deceitful (Aspen)#🌬️ Son of the Wind (Dmitri)#🌠 Her Heart and Hopes as Vast as the Sky (Dyanna)#🎎 Birds of a feather (Ekaterina and Dmitri)#🌒 The Shadow Weaver (Elias)#🧜‍♀️ A soul like a lotus (Penelope)#💎 Snow White (Livna)#🌹 Rose Red (Shani)#👻 Ancient but never aging (Little ghost)

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