#unitlead

[driftvoid]

💔 — i ship our muses, and i’m worried that’ll upset you. :(((

WHY AREN’T WE INTERACTING?

So it has been Eightkate all along?! I KNEW IT! You only followed me for the McGann!

[freezegirl]

Tessa my buddy my pal, this is just a lil message to remind you that you are a shining light in the rpc ✨️ you are always so nice and welcoming to everyone and have always been so supportive of others, always cheering everyone on! & ofc who can forgot your commitment to brown girl rep. 😊 ILYSM. KEEP BEING AWESOME.

raniiiii <3 you absolutely live up to your name!!! tysm for your kind words, they mean a lot to me! ilysm also @unitlead!

brown girl rep (and asian girl rep) is super important to me and that goes all the way back to my childhood, teenhood and young adulthood and is now a pivotal part of my adulthood as well.

that said, there's more than one way to tell a story and therefore i want to shout out some characters of color that i absolutely hold near and dear to my heart and a handful of blogs that people should follow if they don't already:

@enchaentales: aurora is so creative and it shows. truly, from characters like venus conejo to sistine chappell, i'm always just in awe of aurora's creations and i immediately want five movies and eight books about them. that's how much i love those characters. they just take you away and pull you in and you know what? good for them. it's their world now, i'm just living in it.

@silencedrage: arrow has a gift for creating characters that stick with you long after you've read about them or interacted with them. because yes, i love kevin ma and i want the best for kevin ma and i would fight the entire world for one (1) goofy person who works at the arcade (even though i'd probably break my hand). but it's not just kevin ma, it's other ocs too like austen herrera and daya ray and kai tamaki and jacqueline feng. like, oh my gosh, just ten out of tens, a+, no notes across the board forever and i mean that so sincerely.

@dulcetbloodmercy / @heroicxvixen: mercy is canon in my head and heart and would have made btvs so much better, just because mercy as a character pushes the envelope; she's exactly the kind of slayer who would get the plot moving and not only that - she fits within other shows of that genre (think tvd et al) as well. truly, i would have loved to have seen a character like mercy on my screen while i was growing up. i think it would have been tremendously positive experience for me as a person. that said, i'm glad to have her in my life now, though.

as for medina: she gives me quiet and contemplative energy and reminds me of those beautiful botanic gardens and i can't wait to get to know her better!

@daemondaes: you know what? ragdoll is one of my favorite heroes ;) no but seriously, i would love five movies, three seasons and a podcast about one (1) cherry as well as the other muses on that blog and in cherry's life. it would make for such good tv, i know it. everyone knows it. cherry as a whole is such a breath of fresh air and i love reading all the shenanigans that she gets up to. plus: you can never go wrong with cherry colored hair, yeahhhh!

@escapedartgeek: i love zora andrews. actual loml right there. z is so cool! so effortlessly cool. and they slot in anywhere, too. partially because of the powers they have, but also because z just feels like one of those characters that's able to be the missing piece in any piece of canon and slot in accordingly. they fit in sci fi threads, they fit in superhero threads. they fit in slice of life threads. they are like a kaleidoscope of a character in the best possible way. atp, i'm manifesting a comic book adaption for z: they deserve it and so do you and i love their story so much <3

@bewitchingbaker: chris feels best friend coded but he also feels friends to lovers coded and i love him very much indeed. i feel like he gives the best hugs. i also love that he just gets pulled into so many shenanigans - not all of them by his own making - and just rolls with the punches as well as he does. i want the world for him, genuinely.

@yearnstarved: so many great characters on this blog but elly!!! my dearest darling elly!!! i see so much of my younger self in her. i just want to wrap her up in a fluffy blanket and give her hot cocoa and a hug. i also love the different variations of elly that you've got on your blog but throughout all the au's, elly's core stays the same and i think that's a testament to your writing.

@thrownsoul: alice agamah has been a constant on my dash(es) since pretty much 2015 and i'm so glad to see you back on my dash(es) again. alice as a character feels so much like someone who welcomes you back home after you've made a long journey but also someone who would make the journey alongside you. i love alice a bunch and i can't wait to see where you'll take this character next!

@soulmissed: august collins? more like auggie, the bestest and brightest! he is so near and dear to my heart. not just because he's a kid but because he is one of the few characters i came across who's got dyscalculia as well so i'm very familiar with some of his school related struggles. ruben balances auggie's innate sweetness and his grit very well. it's a delicate thing but ruben absolutely manages.

@starfoam: i need everyone to know that i adore lorelei snow! i also need everyone to know that i wish that lo would slow down sometime but i don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon. anyway, i would let luminous save me anytime and esme, i hope you're so, so proud of yourself and what you've created because lo is such a shining star of a magical girl and such a main stay on my dash.

@moonaffair: virote srisati! the man of the hour! vi is genuinely one of my favorite oc's because he's not what most people would expect and i love that. i would say he's like someone you would run into on the streets but idk if he'd ever come to rotown lmao. all jokes aside, one of my fondest rp moments will forever be vi having one (1) convo with udyati and him just changing her entire outlook. sidenote: i think vi might've changed my outlook as well that day. i carry him with me. i've literally thought "what would vi do?" in real life during tough moments. i'm forever hoping and manifesting a happy ending for him. i hope he gets the man of his dreams because if anyone deserves that, it's vi. diren writes this moon god splendidly and with a lot of verve.

@chimugukuru: ushi and kamado higa are so beloved by me and lilac handles them so tenderly. every word that's being written on the blog, you can feel. you can feel the love and care, compassion and sincerity that lilac puts into their respective stories, backgrounds and personal growth. they're like sunbeams to me. i love both of them very, very much.

[killedllove]

𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐚 𝐭𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞, trying to make herself as small as possible. There were, naturally, procedures for security breaches at UNIT. These, however, usually had high ranking personnel in designated secure zones. Not leaving them stranded in the exposed hallways. Let alone two, although Martha was nowhere near as high ranking as the person she was hiding with. Kate Stewart, head of UNIT, was by orders the top priority while they were stranded out here. She liked Kate, and knew that the other woman could more than handle her own. Martha, herself, was not someone who enjoyed carried weapons, as a Doctor and Scientist. Yet, she had been working for UNIT long enough to know she couldn't be completely unprepared. Non-lethal, that had been her non-negotiable. Items designed to restrain without harm. At present, with the danger level high and the cause still unknown with communications cut across the tower, she had to hope that would be enough.

" Do you think you can get a look ? " she whispered as softly as she could. Her own angle detrimental for catching a glimpse of whatever (or whomever) was the source of the sounds at the end of the hall. Ones that were getting uncomfortably closer. Her fingers rested on the handle of her stationary ray. ( @unitlead )

[eldritchsign]

Questions // Still Accepting @unitlead asked: When did this start? For Brian.

As his finger traced across the faded ink scrawled within a leatherbound journal, Brian Barnaby couldn't help the shiver that ran down his spine. He could still feel the indentations and scratches left behind by the author's pen, even after all these decades. It felt ghostly, almost mournful in a way.

Brian swallowed hard as his gaze lifted from the page, his ever-wide eyes focusing on Doctor Stewart instead. For a moment, he was unsure of how to answer the question. While there was an objective answer, his aching heart told him to wax poetically. In the end, he settled for something in between. He wasn't good at detachment.

"February 29th, 1912. Our young author noted the serendipity of a new visitor on such a noteworthy day. He'd hoped they'd become friends. The illnesses began on the following day."

[artificialnocturnc]

@unitlead asked: You're shaking. Here, take my jacket. - for Mel ?

The voice grabbed her attention, sat on the low wall as she tried to wrap her head around everything that had happened. 

“Oh-” The jacket is warm, like it’s just been taken off and Mel isn’t going to refuse it. The breeze is cold…and she’s left in the aftermath of whatever the hell it was that had happened here. 

If she is going to be honest, Mel doesn’t understand what has happened. She had just been in the park and all hell had broken loose. It sounded odd to her, to say that she had been in the right place at the right time, but for the people who had been hurt that was very much the case - for her, it was a nightmare. 

Strange, Mel wasn't entirely unaccustomed to such events, she just usually was an active participant in the aftermath rather than the actual incident itself. Now the place is crawling with people in uniforms and…they’re not ones she recognizes entirely. There’s just enough context for Mel to figure out they are military? Or something military adjacent?

“Do you know what that….thing was?” She asks, bypassing just about all pleasantries but she figures they are something she’s not good at so shes not going to try under these circumstances. “One of the patients said it was….dinosaur like? Maybe they had a head injury…” 

[plutomused]

like mother ( @unitlead ) like child-

[moonsymbols]

🌙 : a mutual whose aesthetic you adore

💎 : a blog whose content you treasure

🌟 : someone who always motivates you to write more

❪  🐺  ❫　⸻　@unitlead.

🌙 : a mutual whose aesthetic you adore. @vulpesse ! bunnie's graphics, the way she formats her posts, even her tags are pretty, and it all blends in so well with the way that bunnie writes ahri as well.

💎 : a blog whose content you treasure. @gospul + literally all of dru's blogs. they are a staple on my dash, and i always get excited whenever i see posts from them or they add a new blog / muse to their roster.

🌟 : someone who always motivates you to write more. i have to give this one to @freewillds / @brutalwillds. kit always makes me think so much deeper about my replies than i normally would, and i love that.

[saturnmused]

@unitlead said: “ we’re outnumbered. and surrounded. ”

𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐀 woman of astute observational skills, & the precarity of their predicament is something she obviously notices. so much so that she makes mention of it, as if it might help their odds, & the former rookie can only give the other a look of firm resignation, unable to give words of comfort. leon, once upon a time, had been good at talking people down ; but it's been years since those days, & he believes he deals with much more bullshit now than ever before. like dealing with this situation that they've gotten themselves in. if he's lucky ― & he generally is with these things ; he is here after making it this far ― they'll get out of here relatively unscathed. but it's good to prepare, just in case. he reloads as their enemies amble along, taking their time with their approach, though kate isn't wrong ; they are surrounded. but, as leon often likes to say to himself, ❝ i've had worse odds. ❞ former rookie snaps metal back into place & then readies his arm for shooting, taking aim at the closest zombie. ❝ stay with me, & you'll be fine. ❞