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January tag plurk WHILE PLURK WORKS!!
I have lots of December tags I've gotta dust off, but I know I am far from alone in that so I shall endeavour not to be self-conscious about that
Ethlyn > Levi welcome to Ethlyn's Crash Course on medieval power politics
(yes powerful women do this too and those women also exist in FE4 but ETHLYN'S OPERATING UNDER A CERTAIN SET OF MEDIEVAL ASSUMPTIONS. also all the lordly douches in her generation are actually men.)
"do you get along with my family"
"my brother is a reckless idiot ^_^"
"my brother is a reckless idiot ^_^"
Ethlyn > Ange EMBRACE THE WHIMSY, ANGE
NEVER!!! FIGHT HER!!!
IT'S GOOD FOR YOU THO
okay that's all the mainline tags that are a couple days old, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS IN ETHLYN'S INBOX that need addressing also!!
I shall return to those in a bit :>
okay time to dust off Visas tags now
Visas > Aloy I feel like it must seriously be weird for Swars characters to talk to people who are like "yup we only have the one planet to work with"
I think it is also time for Ethlyn to make her regular HI I'M ETHLYN JOIN THE ARZTENRITTER post :>
"I think Paine is going to get along well with Sephiroth" not a sentence I expected to say BUT TRUE LOL
Also looking at this, it seems that I took a couple of snow days off of tagging lol
Ethlyn > Ange "I HAVE A JOB" lmao
Ethlyn > Zekarion she really can't hide that she's from the nobility
Paine > Noel she's so helpful
Ethlyn > Ange wisdombitch TALKIN ABOUT YOUR LAD
Ethlyn > Beta everyone answering "how do I be a good sister" with "be supportive, be there for her, unconditional love"
Ethlyn: make sure to torment them a little. for their own good.
Ethlyn > Vincent just suggesting surgery on his inner monsters
also her network ID is now ethlyn@willowclinic because why else does she talk to people on the network :'D
AWWWWW
HIS FAVOURITE LADIES
HIS LADIES!! DOIN A LIL AFFECTIONATE SHITTALKING
It's almost halfway through January (incidentally: wtf) so I need to start counting tags
Visas > Root chirality did you know that Wookieepedia has an article on alcohol. and it takes a HECKIN LONG TIME before it actually starts talking about alcoholic effects on non-Humans
EVERYTHING BEFORE THAT IS JUST. NORMAL STUFF ABOUT WHAT ALCOHOL DOES
LMAO I'm sorry I caused you to dive into Wookieepedia
LOL I'M USED TO IT... IT'S WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU PLAY A SWARS
official writers and stuff have used it to check on stuff :'D
that's just smart of them
also thanks for the perfect flirting set up
LOL np Root :|b
I immediately decided she's getting her a sherry cobbler which is a bunch of fruit in a glass with sherry. very delicious, not too sweet (the sherry is dry and interestingly woody against the fruit) and low ABV
YES that sounds like a good choice for her - I figure that being so reliant on the Force, Miraluka are naturally very light drinkers and/or teetotalers
makes sense to me!
they probably don't get actually drunk faster than humans (as in judgment/coordination) but if their Force connection gets muddled, they will seem it because their sight will get correspondingly fucked :'D
Visas > Spock the non-party people having a bash
Visas > Root WHY DOES SHE WINK
WHAT DOES THE WINKING MEAN????
I've also just closed some tabs for plotting posts and the dreamshare till I'm ready to tag in LOL that helps to feel less overwhelmed...
okay I HAVE 20 MINTUES FOR TAGS before online seminar (if it's about something I don't understand then I'll prolly just. keep tagging LOL)
le's do it
Ethlyn > Spock nudging the fourth wall a bit
Ethlyn > Ange I love all of their conversations
(I've always thought that chess bishops look like baby birds or something with big open mouths)
ANYWAY NOW I FEEL FREE TO TACKLE DREAMING
Ethlyn > Claude show her the BEASTS
Ethlyn > Mel this seems like a good way to meet
Ethlyn > Spock Ethlyn in a science / medical dress uniform
sometimes your friend asks a simple question about a thing that strikes at the core of your being and you just SHORT OUT
Paine > Aurora she's already being a p... a p... a pa i n............
chirality IF U WANNA NPC DREAM SIGURD A BIT here's some dialogue from the very start
@inkycompass on Plurk
@inkycompass on Plurk
I was gonna let you NPC him LOLLL
LOL SOUNDS GOOD!! preview of coming attractions then :'D
cracking me up that Ethlyn was immediately like YES THAT'LL WORK
Toph just like god okay your brother is an idiot but that means this'll be easy
HE IS IN FACT AN IDIOT!!! :')
actually the really tragic thing about sigurd is that he is SO CLOSE to NOT being one
like when people from Chalphy's rival houses join his army he's the one who brings up "hey uhhh your dad is going to be super mad if you do this ARE YOU SURE"
Visas > Fandaniel so I know that the numerical is not the thing that Endwalker's story rests on but it is the first thing that comes to Visas' mind as a person who has actually traveled in a Galaxy
"you can't possibly have surveyed ALL of them."
(that's not the point of this particular element in EW AND SHE'LL GET THERE I'M SURE but that's just the first, most basic reaction)
Visas > Echo "what makes food and drink fun"
"UHHHHHH"
"UHHHHHH"
I'm totally canonblind to Pandora Hearts (it's one of those things that blends in my mind with stuff like Dr. Gray Man and Tsubasa) but I love how much these two have in common...
okay I HAVE 5 4 AND 5... just need one more and I can stop worrying about VIsas
okay now I just need to do my 15th tag for Visas and I'll only need one more tag for Ethlyn 
(I have actually more than 15 tags but not in the correct proportion)
ETHLYN AC DONE NOW.
I can finally stop worrying about that lmao. Also if you're wondering why I picked up a sencond character at Expi and later joined Etraya there's two reasons
1. I'm an ecologist, which is a field that is both disregarded and disrespected, in a subfield that funders do not care about. SO, MY LIFE CHOICES ARE SOMETIMES,
2. I was already plenty stressed about making Ethlyn's AC on its own every month. So it's not like I'm giving myself that much more stress by taking on more sword girls
All of which is to say for the next three days it's Paine Time
(THAT SAID IF YOU ARE IN EXPI AND RELYING ON ME FOR AC, LMK AND I WILL PRIORITIZE bc we all gotta support each other!)
WORKING ON A TOPLEVEL TOO but that'll take a bit longer, probably tomorrow tbh
and that's two for lunch break tags!
LAST TAGS OF JANUARY
Paine > Aurora thanks mom
Paine > the Custodian she's getting some Measure of a Man vibes here LMAO