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[michaels-reality]

NAKED @!?#!@?$@!?$@!

[mediocre-eternity]

You know, Armand, you would have turned Sybelle and Benjamin into vampires anyway. You also denied Daniel your heartlessness for 12 years, but when he was on the brink of death, you couldn't bear to lose him. And you couldn't let them die either.

Whatever.

You can assume anything you wish of me. I’m a fictional character, in your favorite book, and you may cultivate me in your mind any way you choose.

I’m not going to debate what’s in my heart with somebody who has already made up their mind.

[pwhl-mybeloved]

[d-lanx]

[blu-wingz]

THE FUCK U MEAN THEY TRADED TASSELS/RIBBONS!??!!! HUH! OH THEY FUCKING

[white-flower-blooming]

This week!! Behold General Pei Ming!!

The confrontation we've been waiting for....👀🙊🙈

[noitsnotacookiee]

hello everyone welcome to the new week and to start it off well im fuckcing jamming to superbloom live you heard that right its loVING SUPERBLOOM HOURS BABY IM BRINGING IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAVE YOU FOUND WHAT YOURE LOOKING FOOOOOOOR!!!!!!! HAVE YOU FOUND WHAT YOURE LOOKING FOOOOOOOR!! IM HOPING THAT MAYBE ONE DAY IT COULD START TO MAKE SENSE!!!! HAVE YOU FOUND WHAT YOURE LOOKING FOOOR!! YEEEHEAAHHHHHH

[july-19th-club]

one of the main things that’s changed about aod since i started developing this story ten fucking years ago (literally ten years ago which is crazy insane but i had the allroc idea somewhere in the fall of 2012 during my first semester of college because we’d done the hendrick ter brughen st sebastian in an art history class) anyway one of the main things that’s there now that sort of crept up gradually and now feels absolutely integral to how the city functions is that it has an absolutely thriving theater scene. multiple companies based in the city, most of which are staffed by people who work second jobs as sailors or dockworkers or cooks or cleaners or whatever the fuck but whose real passion is storytelling and how this scene can sort of fractal out to all these different cultures around town. like histories have always been popular in aod, since it’s such a legacy-obsessed place, but there are also romantics and tragicomedies and ‘exotics’ (basically any play that’s not about aod, which tells you something about the way aodans talk about literature) and so i feel like i can focus in on one particular company through the years to get a little microcosm of this. and some of these companies (my focus company in particular) perform both regular plays with flyers and advertising and budget and whatnot, but despite the noble intentions behind the founding of the aodan library, the library is now the place that performance artists have to go if they want to put on some new work, they have to run it by the library. songwriters and authors and poets don’t have to do this but the scale and audience engagement in the aodan theater scene means that plays have the best scope for reaching people, so they have to be vetted. so they’ll put on regular plays and these will be the ones that keep the lights on and supplement their incomes and get the word out about their company, but some companies will also put on ‘basement plays’ which are not advertised and are performed somewhere out of the way (my focus company uses the underground level of the defunct ranunculus round theater, so, basement plays) and it’s word of careful mouth that gets people into these venues and the audiences rarely top forty or fifty people, and these are the plays that the library would never greenlight so writers and companies don’t try, they just rehearse it and perform it on the down-low. all kinds of people come to these things, when they can find them, and the admission is usually dirt-cheap and the venue is by design discreet so you’ll get a mixed crowd of very up-tier patrons of the arts of Lineage who are sneaking out for a night of underground entertainment and your absolute-edge-of-the-pier watertonians who can afford these plays easiest and every type of people inbetween. you would think the uppercrust might tattle, but basement play audiences tend to be very careful and usually they’re there for some reason that would make it just as difficult to tell someone about as it would be to tell about the play. because basement plays are the subversive ones, the ones with stuff the aodans of Lineage either don’t or won’t talk about, there’s sexual diversity and diversity of types of relationships, there’s outright seditionist material, there’s just in general a whole and distasteful lack of reverence for aod as an entity and if you’re attending it’s usually because you agree in some way. so they don’t tend to get ratted out and they keep producing and i really want to work that into the plot in a useful way, but even if i can’t it’s  great detail to help build the different ways people are in aod