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Happy Pride! I hope this weekend, and every weekend, and every week DAY you feel loved for exactly who you are. :) And if not, I LOVE hugs, high fives, fist bumps, whatever! You say the word, I have one for you. Also, come to the Enchanted Nook, where we have AMAZING stories that represent everyone. :) I read one at story time yesterday, Love Makes a Family, and it was SO good.

It's time for a snack review! Including rainbow snacks! Which, um, well, are sometimes just snacks with rainbow packaging, yes.

( Image heavy, also, Matthew loves everything, taster beware. )

In case you need to hear it from someone, I'm very proud of you! Drink lots of water this weekend and wear sunscreen!

Hello and good evening to you! It's Rogier Caria, this time neither actively dying nor writing in what I now know to be "haiku" form (that was a bit of a bear, wasn't it?). As it appears as if I'll be staying here rather than returning to The Lands Between (for the best, as much as I'll miss people), I've been trying to learn what I need to in order to live a productive life here. I'm sure I'm not the first person to come from a very different realm.

So for those of you who have been here a little while, I request one thing: one hint, one tip, one lesson, one bit of advice that might make someone who is wildly out of his depths (and frankly, a little homesick) have an easier go of it?

For example, yesterday someone taught me about hot chocolate and marshmallows, and that was rather lovely. Granted, I made my hot chocolate over the fire in the fireplace, but one bit of technology at a time. I'll get there eventually.

You know what's nice about already being dead? The fact that I don't gotta worry about being sick and sneezing up Cheeto finger covers or whatever the fuck people are sneezing up.

Gotta say this whole "never gonna get sick again" thing is pretty nice. Sucks to be the rest of you.

uhhhhhhhh

Something WTF is happening again guys so like... be prepared for that or whatever

KATE?? I think i'm SICK but like in a DEEPLY NOT COOL way

A sea monster interrupted Thor's yoga, and contrary to my expectations, one of his punches did not knock it clear to the Void.

It's got too many tentacles for New Asgard to take down easily; backup would be appreciated.

I thought we were cool, Vallo!!!

Took a few sessions but we finished it up last week so I get to show it off (thanks Brigitte for the pic):

( Cut for pic )

Ronan does good tattoo work, go pay him money to get some badass body decorations. A phoenix~ be cliche or whatever, I don't give a fuck, it looks rad, and it's healed in time for my photoshoot so double bonus.

Now that was a party. Had a great time, you two lovebirds. Cross my fingers and toes you aren't sucked into a hell dimension where some wolf-masked motherfucker hits on you and you have to summon rats to escape. Ain't love sweet.

In other news. I've been sitting on them but if anyone's feeling nostalgic, I woke up to a whole buncha records from home. Not all of them, but a chunk of the heavy hitters - the Sha Na Nas, the Read It and Weeps, and a chunk of Frank Spicer's back catalog. I even got me a old Louise Brighton B-side. Now, I know none of that sounds familiar to any of y'all uncultured swine, save maybe background music to your trauma, but me? I got me a complicated relationship with Blackreef's soundtrack. So I've been ~enjoying~ myself, been fucking around with my record player, making improvements, making it purr. It needed a new cartridge which was fun to find here in Vallo. Had me a nice little Sunday looking through the junk markets. No one shot me. If this is retirement, call me an old-ass geezer 'cause I fucking love it.

Still at Sofia's. Been waiting to get bored. Hasn't happened yet. Eldritch garlic knots have got themselves a way of preying on the mind.

Hello out there. New arrival here. You can call me Paige.

Not that any of you care, but the irony of this arrival really needs to be shared. I (literally) blew up my entire life and faked my own death to escape magic, and somehow get pulled into Magic City here.

Though they tell me demons attack here with far less frequency than I'm used to, so I guess I've got that going for me.

Where's a good place to grab a coffee?

[ FILTERED TO PRUE HALLIWELL ]

Hi there,

This is potentially super awkward, and I'm sorry for the random message. However, when I was working with the DOA to figure out if anyone I knew was here, I stumbled over your name. Before I go sharing way too much info with you, I just wanted to make sure you are who I think you are.

Were your parents Patty Halliwell and Victor Bennett? Raised by Gr Penny Halliwell?

Happy to report
that the Death Blight curse is gone
and I'm cured and cute.

My gratitude to
Sydney, Gilmore and of course
Blue for their research and help.

Good riddance to my
Inevitable demise.
(Those thorns were the worst.)

I've left the clinic,
am seeing my new flat and
Require a job.

I was a spellblade
at home, but I'd rather be
in research or teach.

...Was I cursed anew?
Of all the rotten luck, I'm
now doing... this. Damn.

Does everyone hear animals speaking words today, or is it just me? A bird just yelled "back the fuck up, motherfucker!" at me when I got too close to its nest, an alley cat rubbed against my ankle and said "I own you" right to my face, and I'm not getting into the disaster that was fishing this morning.

Wait, did I hear right? That not only can people show up but also pets can show up?

Is there any rhyme or reason to that?

I'm missing my actual best friend, Backup.

( Cut for friends pages, not filtered )
Private to Dr. Strange

You seem to know a lot about this place. And you can jump to different places. Does that mean you can leave entirely and choose not to? Or that you can just move around this world?

Private to Kate Bishop

I know this is weird because we basically just met, but any way we could hang out and I can cuddle your dog too?

My thanks to all who have already volunteered to assist with the Outlanders and Animals Calendar project. The window to volunteer is not yet closed. If you wish to participate in any capacity, please use the sign-up sheet at The Art of Expression.

[Filtered to Volunteer Photographers, Designers, Dressers, Managers, etc. for the Outlander Calendar Project]
Good morning, all. Thank you for your interest in this project, and for your willingness to meet with me, show your very impressive portfolios, and begin the process of this great undertaking.

I would like to bring all of us together for a design meeting as soon as possible. Would you be so kind as to indicate your availability over the coming week for a discussion of artistic concepts?

For your future reference, here is the current list of animal models who will be joining our people; I have transcribed notes on names and descriptions where I have them.

[Identical list to the one for the Models below]
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[Filtered to Volunteer Models for the Outlander Calendar Project]
Good morning, all. Thank you for your interest and participation in this project. I have received the final list of animal models from the Sanctuary and the Shelter, and I would like to offer you all the opportunity to make special requests to be paired with specific animals. I cannot guarantee that these requests will be honored, especially if more than one person expresses an interest in a particular animal, but I will do my best.

Also, as we have had a great deal of interest in modeling, please drop by the sign-up sheet at The Art of Expression to indicate if you would be willing to be paired with another human model for your shoot.

( Animal Models )
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[Filtered to Lan Wangji]
Will has invited me to live with him and A-Xiang at the Dragon Covert. I have not yet had the opportunity to ask A-Xiang for his formal permission to court Will.
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Good morning, fellow Outlanders!

You are all invited to participate in this year's Outlanders and Animals calendar! Be your best sexy sexy self in a photoshoot with all the cutest and coolest animals at the Vallo Wildlife Rehabilitation Sanctuary and the Vallo City Animal Shelter, and help us to repeat the incredible success of last year's effort.

[Wei Wuxian's favorite photo from last year's calendar, which involves much male nudity and bunnies]

We are also seeking volunteer photographers, makeup artists, stylists, set dressers, and others who are skilled artisans/artists comfortable with and respectful toward a variety of people and animals in varying states of undress.

Please express your interest as a volunteer model or artist in the comments here, and I will follow up with you accordingly.

My thanks and respect,
Lan Xichen
Acting Director of The Art of Expression

So if everything I've been told is true, I've managed to find myself in a completely alternate realm than the Lands Between, along with the rest of you. ...I confess, I didn't see this twist coming. Perhaps Grace hasn't cast me off entirely.

Name's Rogier. Sorcerer. You'd probably have guessed it if you'd seen the hat (I very much like hats. Large ones. Otherwise what's the point?). Got here a few days back; having a bit of a bad week but I believe I might have gotten a good chance at help. A rousing thank you to Adam, who got me out of the forest and into civilization; believe I might've talked his ear off in a bid to stay conscious. Anyhow, I was told I'd need to pop in here, and say hello - what a wild system this is; they said it wasn't magic but I promise, the network looks like magic to this dolt. I like libraries, clean fights, being a cautionary tale told over campfires, and never saying never. Who are you lot? Tell me some good stories; I think I'm stuck here at this healing facility for a little while so I'm not going anywhere quickly.

[ Filtered to Sydney Clarke, Shaun Gilmore, and Blue Sargent ]
Hello there; they said that you'd already been contacted re: my thorny little situation (I'm not sorry; this is the kind of nonsense you're going to have to expect from here on out). At any rate, I hope this message isn't a surprise. But if it is: I've run into a little death curse, and I was rather hoping that some of you might be able to assist me with ridding myself of it. The sooner the better; it's unpleasant and I don't get to wear my fanciest trousers.

I cut my own bangs.

You know those nightmares you get where you can't remember much after you wake up but the feeling sticks around without context? I have never felt so tightly wound in my life like I have the last week.

Anyone calls me uptight, I'm wishing whoever that guy was on you.

Oyster season is over. Any fresh oysters you get from Earth to Rain - that's May to August here, more or less - are watery garbage. I'm telling everyone this because the next idiot to ask me about oysters at the market is losing a finger.

Still alive, Syd.