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[burnlikeme]

do you dance like this forever?

indie, selective 2D of Gorillaz

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[burnlikeme]

IT'S OFFICIAL:

Stu and ALL of his lore is migrating to my multi, @niratias

This blog will stay up as-is in case I ever change my mind and want to separate him off again! You don't have to keep following me.

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[burnlikeme]

IT'S OFFICIAL:

Stu and ALL of his lore is migrating to my multi, @niratias

This blog will stay up as-is in case I ever change my mind and want to separate him off again! You don't have to keep following me.

My multi is R rated and contains unsavory dead dove content. If you are not game for what you see there, please do not follow me, as I do not tag anything beyond "rape cw."

All existing dynamics remain untouched as is unless you'd like to start fresh. Thank you!

[burnlikeme]

IT'S OFFICIAL:

Stu and ALL of his lore is migrating to my multi, @niratias

This blog will stay up as-is in case I ever change my mind and want to separate him off again! You don't have to keep following me.

My multi is R rated and contains unsavory dead dove content. If you are not game for what you see there, please do not follow me, as I do not tag anything beyond "rape cw."

All existing dynamics remain untouched as is unless you'd like to start fresh. Thank you!

[burnlikeme]

IT'S OFFICIAL:

Stu and ALL of his lore is migrating to my multi, @niratias

This blog will stay up as-is in case I ever change my mind and want to separate him off again! You don't have to keep following me.

My multi is R rated and contains unsavory dead dove content. If you are not game for what you see there, please do not follow me, as I do not tag anything beyond "rape cw."

All existing dynamics remain untouched as is unless you'd like to start fresh. Thank you!

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all of which makes me anxious, at times unbearably so.

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[iobartach]

@burnlikeme asked; ✐

send me a ✐ for a random sentence starter from my muse

"Something has happened, hasn’t it?"

[burnlikeme]

For once, those dark eyebags aren't from lack of sleep or drugs. Mind, they're not helped by either factor, but this time...?

"I got mugged." Embarrassing. Pathetic, too. He drops his face into his hands and lets out a heavy sigh. Maybe gouging his eyes out would make the pressure go away...?

"Noodle told me I shouldn't go out alone. Suppose I should listen n-next time. Go ahead- you can laugh. I already got one in myself."

[burnlikeme]

"I thought we'd lost the last of these boxes years ago." Lost, or had repossessed, or had destroyed- hard to say, given the history of the various incarnations of Kong Studios. These particular ones are sealed with yellowing tape and written on crudely with permanent marker, the scribbles near-illegible. The dust on top of them is thick enough to draw in, if one were so inclined. "Any ideas about wh-what could be inside? I hope it's not old food, or...ehm...half-finished taxidermy, from Russ, or that...that femur Murdoc used to have hanging above his bed, in the Winnebago. I was never sure if that was human or not."

It was.

When the key to this storage unit showed up in the back of a junk drawer, it had taken quite some time to puzzle out the ancient paper tag attached to the keyring. A self-storage- and one none of them seem to remember renting out.

The facility's been paid for years now, apparently out of band funds, and 2D wonders how much money's been thrown away on storing things the lot of them failed to miss enough to chase down or mention for the better part of fifteen years, give or take. And so, here they are- in a dark, damp corridor staring at detritus from another life- a pre-plastic-beach-life.

[burnlikeme]

how old do you feel, on the inside?

Stu's spent an inordinate amount of hours in front of cameras and microphones over the years. It's difficult to ask him a question someone hasn't brought up on a press tour or on television before, and yet they've done exactly that. It short-circuits him for a moment, forcing him to move off script and instead react in real time.

Smoke might just start pouring out of his ears if that trend were to continue.

"...19," he decides. The age he was back in august of 1997. "Dunno if I've ever really gotten older than that, heh..."

vanished

[burnlikeme]

i didn't realize you had a degree. - From Jaime

"Yeah, I've got one of them Bachelor of Laws and everything! I passed the, ehm, Solicitors exam too." Stu's a lot of things, but stupid isn't one of them. Sure, he might struggle to retain information, but there are tricks, accommodations, and some brute-force methods to get the information to stick. He's found framing it as music helps, letting little songs float through his head to lock the information in for future reference.

"I n-never thought I'd actually practice, but after Murdoc and I broke up, I h-had some things I wanted to prove. To myself, really, heh."

miscellaneous prompts

[burnlikeme]

i was there, remember?

From the way he winces, brightens, and then frowns, it's clear he doesn't. For a second there, it's possible it came back to him, but now...? Nope. Didn't stick.

"You're sure...?" He can picture Noodle there, can remember a few of the faces that whirled in and out of his orbit during the single release party. As he remembers it, however, Murdoc claimed a migraine and saw himself out long before the night was done- with some cute groupie on his arm.

"I thought you w-were gone by then. You weren't there for-for the speech, so I let Russell give it instead."

pre-established connections

[burnlikeme]

[burnlikeme]

you look like an artist.

"I am!" Stu brightens immediately. "I do all sorts of things, b-but music, mostly. That's why, ehm, I'm hoping you have the new, ehm, Spinal Tap book, from earlier this year? Usually I go w-with audio, but I want to see the pictures in this one." It's also nice to have physical media as a trophy on a shelf. He still collects CDs for a reason, and he's unashamed of it. Kong has a big library, and he can easily add the volume to it when he's done. Someone else will get more use out of the tome than him at the end of the day, and that's okay.

vanished

[burnlikeme]

i don't want to go home yet.

"Then don't!" Stu steps away from the Pac-Man machine in Kong's well-furnished basement arcade to grab another snack. He's in the mood for sour candy, and there's an entire pantry stocked with junk of the kind for a reason. Sure, he could stand to balance his diet more- especially at his age- but it's not happening. There's a joke to be made that it won't be the drugs that finally do him in, but the junk food.

Stu picks some sour gummy worms. He silently signals to ask if she'd like something, too, and tosses the treat over if requested.

"You can sleep, ehm, in here if you w-want, but there are tons and tons of empty bedrooms. W-we used to have collaborators stay over w-while we worked." Some still do stay, but the chaos their hard-earned reputation suggests means many are more reasonable and seek alternative lodgings.

The house is a wreck- like a permanent frat party- but it's safe enough.

Outside of the ghosts, anyway.

the girl in the flammable skirt

[burnlikeme]

❝ I don’t go shopping I get and retrieve. I have a narrow focus, unlike some people. ❞

"Then how come you're already coming back 'round from the store with all kinds of things that weren't on the shopping list?" He's not fully convinced Murdoc ever reads it, truth be told. When it's texted, it's about 50% correct upon delivery. When handwritten, that rises to about 60%, so a battered, alcohol-stained notepad by the fridge it is. "Like last w-weekend, when you came home w-with a cart full of keyboards- and-and you kept the bloody cart! Still in the backyard," he adds. It's holding the pool floaties and the remains of a tarp they once used as a slip-n-slide setup.

That ended up in a concussion. (His own.)

obscenely domestic

[in-character-memes]

'Move My Muse' Prompts

add '+ reverse' to reverse; bonus points for context clues

[drag] my muse by their arm

[lead] my muse by their hand

[hurry] my muse, prodding their back

[guide] my muse, holding their shoulders

[tackle] my muse, knocking them to the ground

[bear hug] my muse, staggering them

[yank] my muse in, by their clothes

[pull] my muse in, by their hands

[draw] my muse in, by their hips

[provoke] my muse closer, with a vulgar gesture

[signal] my muse closer, with a hand wave

[plead] my muse closer, with frantic arm movements

[lure] my muse closer with a smile and a look

[drop] down with my muse, in cover, under fire

[settle] down with my muse, in a hug, by a fire

[lay] down with my muse, in a cuddle, sparking a fire

[notmorbid]

vanished.

dialogue prompts from vanished: stories by karin lin-greenberg.

bad supplies make bad art.

we're going to be all over the internet.

we're all friends here, right?

life is about discipline and dedication, not about being the loudest and boldest.

i guess what haunts you always haunts you.

what percent of the internet do you think is taken up by animal videos?

i'm self-sufficient. i'm like a cactus.

of course i'm here. where else would i go?

why would you automatically assume i screwed up?

i can't stop watching _____. i don't know why.

i always thought i'd be the one who would get out.

if adults misbehaved every time they got bored, the world would be chaos.

you exude sturdiness and good health. like a race horse.

i feel like i should have done something.

i don't know if i'll ever feel better.

i miss those days, too. i miss you.

i don't think you're in any position to be asking questions.

one day you'll regret always wanting to be alone.

you look like an artist.

this kind of feels like being in a horror movie.

do you want to go on an adventure? live a little?

it's not appropriate to go outside in pajamas.

i don't know what i'm going to do, or what i'm good at.

how about you pull over and let me drive?

i was once a girl scout.

i don't know what's wrong with me.

what were you hoping to accomplish?

you play ____?

i don't want to do anything unless i can be the best.

please don't do anything terrible.

i won't be tricked into talking about feelings.

i might not go to college.

you looked like you went to another planet, for a second.

it would be good for you to get out of the house.

sometimes i forget how small this town is.

how old do you feel, on the inside?

i don't particularly like you, but i love you.

salt doesn't count as a spice.

i can't believe you know _____.

hold on. let me take notes.

you look professional. in-charge.

the more conflict there is, the better the ratings will be.

i didn't mean to tell you. it just slipped out.

i hate social media.

people are always telling me their secrets.

is your family difficult?

they're gone. they're all gone.