honestly if ruralmeshi doesn't make you want to kill chilchuck with hammers i have failed my job

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honestly if ruralmeshi doesn't make you want to kill chilchuck with hammers i have failed my job
guys how do you post about an au
"ruralmeshi is dungeon meshi but in rural canada" alright so i should elaborate, huh? how much of the dungeon is preserved and how far are we taking it into rural canada?
my answer: pretty damn far. and we're getting specific too. william's lake is a barely-fictionalized version of my hometown that i've used for a couple other projects, mostly unreleased. this is where the bulk of ruralmeshi takes place.
it's ambitious to call william's lake a town. if we want to get technical, nova scotia only has 26 towns and william's lake would definitely not be the 27th. in all honesty, william's lake would not qualify to be nova scotia's 22nd village. these terms have governmental weight behind them. william's lake is not dead, and it has not been abandoned, but it is not alive either.
william's lake, much like other settlements in rural canada, is centred around a crossroads. bigger places have a downtown. here, the entire world is defined by which road you drive down to get home.
these roads have no names. of course they don't. well, they might have names, but people don't use those names. mostly these roads are specified by the first building you come to if you drive down them.
i'll start in the east and go clockwise, a choice i won't explain here or maybe anywhere. some things are for me to know and you to wonder about. the NSLC road breaks our naming convention immediately. william's lake is far too small to have an entire NSLC to itself. the road to the east starts you off with a grocery store that yes, has done the right paperwork and earned a corner with those four beautiful letters on the wall. keep going down that road and you'll find a motel with dreams of being a hotel, a lot of houses, and eventually the rez.
the south is probably the road you took to get to william's lake. the anglican church gives it its name, but if you're coming into william's lake you'll encounter the school first. elementary school? middle school? high school? all of them, until it gets shut down.
travelling west takes you down the hardware store road. you'll find the diner, the post office, and a few houses if you come this way. there are other settlements just minutes down the western road but it's not a road people take.
lastly we have the baptist church road. this is where things happen. the resource centre, the legion, the town museum, the range, the exhibition grounds, and the mechanic's shop are all on the baptist church road. if you're leaving - really leaving, not just going for a visit - you'll leave this way.
i love listening to songs and going "no actually blorbo does not fit in this situation"
i want to talk about my rural canada dungeon meshi au but like. what would i even talk about
finally returning to what god put me on this earth to do (write aromantic fanfictions)
goddddddd if you guys knew the chilchuck parenthood angst i was cooking up you'd hurl
ok so one thing about ruralmeshi is that flertom (chilchuck's middle daughter) is a trans woman. mostly out, except to her father.
to quote my own dms to adamantine, ruralmeshi flertom is "a flertom who's supposed to be his only son, the firstborn son, the one who should by all logic be his in some inexpressable way. maybe they can play catch in the backyard. but not only does his son look like his wife, he's not at all like chilchuck… a flertom who doesn't get top surgery, who keeps her lower register in use, who keeps her hair shorter than she'd like, who never wears dresses to events where there might be a camera, because that would be one more betrayal that she can't make herself do… a flertom who, just like her mother, puts chilchuck's happiness above her own for far too long…"