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(this inbox is a choose-not-to-warn experience, please read at your own discretion.)
smudgy: (👐 113)

✉️ text — @GETJINXED

[personal profile] smudgy 2025-03-16 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
buzz buzz buzz
u sure are blowing up his phone
shadowheart 🖤
smudgy: (😝 105)

[personal profile] smudgy 2025-03-16 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
awwwwww
have a guess
smudgy: (💅🏻 129)

[personal profile] smudgy 2025-03-16 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
huh
didn’t think u would be boring

are u one of portia’s little groupies
or just some loner girl
smudgy: (👩‍🔬 026)

[personal profile] smudgy 2025-03-17 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
fancy
so u are a little rich girl like poppy
cute


[ feeling significantly less threatened by that class indicator alone. topsiders will never understand them — they can’t. ]
smudgy: (🤔 122)

[personal profile] smudgy 2025-03-20 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ so u admit it. u have extra funds. ]

just fancy things wealth can buy

hmmmm
okay
silco can play with u i guess
little miss nobody


[ for now, having decided the girl isn’t worth her time. ]
thirsted: (pic#17656009)

✉️ text — un: astarion.

[personal profile] thirsted 2025-05-01 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Sent at roughly four o'clock in the morning: ]

.. jh66svdd8jfbbbcclmm888bb7GBBBN jj. hg. a. lu7cjnxmm. m
thirsted: (pic#17656113)

[personal profile] thirsted 2025-05-01 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ From her perch, Shadowheart — the hen — allows herself a dainty sigh. The phone is a difficult creature to bend to her whims when her little talons aren't fleshy enough to make the screen particularly cooperative, but— ]

ggggg
thirsted: (pic#17655998)

[personal profile] thirsted 2025-05-03 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ For a good three full minutes, ellipses continue to dance on screen, and then: ]

thirsted: (easy breezy covergirl)

[personal profile] thirsted 2025-05-04 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ The fact of the matter is that Shadowhen can't read — but she has enough sense to know that the woman she's currently texting goes by the same name, and has seen the letters embroidered on enough ribbons to have a guess at what it means. A guess that, as it happens, has paid off. The selfie speaks for itself, as do the return emojis: ]

💓💞💖🎀💕
thirsted: (pic#17655981)

🎀

[personal profile] thirsted 2025-05-14 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Perhaps (finally) cognizant of the time, Shadowhen's next response is just: ]

💗🛌
longitudinal: (2007675_900)

text - un: q

[personal profile] longitudinal 2025-05-06 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I saw the swans again this morning, and would you know - they didn't even try to bite me.

I'm beginning to think you were teasing me.
longitudinal: (2006469_900)

[personal profile] longitudinal 2025-05-06 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, yes I see. Then that must have been genuine concern. I’m touched.

I’d happily accept clumsy seal, but not a goose. I don’t have feathers!
longitudinal: (2005452_900)

[personal profile] longitudinal 2025-05-07 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
I like to think I manage well enough on land. After all I lived most of my life on a ship. If solid, unmoving ground was difficult for me I think I'd be a miserable sailor.

I see one - four more of the clutch left.
longitudinal: (1990810_900)

[personal profile] longitudinal 2025-05-07 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
That's what I'm saying - if I can manage a ship deck then walking on land all by myself would be of little consequence! But this means I really must get you more accustomed to the water.

[ and he attaches an image - one of the eggs just cracked open, an ugly little shape of a small bird within. it's a little blurry, the photo taken from afar and zoomed in. ]

There. We should name it.
longitudinal: (1994014_900)

[personal profile] longitudinal 2025-05-18 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
You don't know many sailors then do you?

I've heard the name - maybe we have met.
[ he can recall the name and the face from the game of werewolf, but that's not a good judge of anyone, is it? ]

Why a chicken?
ripher: (pic#17850191)

text

[personal profile] ripher 2025-05-15 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello, I believe I owe you a drink.
ripher: (pic#17850208)

[personal profile] ripher 2025-05-15 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
To both the house and to being publicly embarrassed on the internet, I'm afraid.
ripher: (pic#17850216)

[personal profile] ripher 2025-05-17 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
Very pleased to meet you. I'm Rupert Giles. I'm afraid I don't have any animals named after me, as far as I know. Perhaps that's something to aspire to.
ripher: (pic#17850191)

[personal profile] ripher 2025-05-19 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
Not as far as I know.

I'll leave the choice to your no doubt excellent skills at the coconut shy. But that's a yes to a drink?
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[personal profile] ripher 2025-05-22 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
The Hex Club? You're a bartender? Or perhaps a watiress?
ripher: (pic#17850216)

[personal profile] ripher 2025-05-26 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ah. ]

Well, I'm sure you're a very fine one. I can come by tonight, if that would suit?
thirsted: (pic#17656007)

📫 delivery.

[personal profile] thirsted 2025-05-20 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ Inside an envelope upon which is written, in neat script, from Astarion: ]



[ ooc: there won't be a main log for the movie-watching (at least this time around) but folks are obviously free to icly respond, send their allotted invites, and/or play out their experiences if they so wish! welcome to the rebooted astarion's movie club! 🥳 ]
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📦 delivery.

[personal profile] powerhungry 2025-05-20 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ The morning before Shadowheart's first shift at the Hex Club, an envelope finds its way to her door. Inside is a gold pin in the shape of a hexagon, as well as a note: ]
Shadowheart,
Welcome to the Hex Club.
I look forward to working with you.
— Silco

* For clarity's sake: The pin is merely a gift, not an expected part of your daily dress.
interpersonally: (close up attention has spanned)

@stefan

[personal profile] interpersonally 2025-05-21 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
( Gale recommends Shadowheart. Stefan's not usually a vampire who jumps from witch to witch, but he recognizes allies and friends. If Shadowheart is recommended, then he takes Gale's word for it. He likes Gale. And Damon likes Gale, he thinks.

It's late and he knows Damon will wake up in the morning, but he'd like to take care of the bite before Damon wakes up.

It's weird to be getting in touch with a number he's just been given. Usually, someone is just physically sent. But, this is a small manor and the network works differently.
)

Shadowheart, my name is Stefan Salvatore. Gale pointed me in your direction. I know it's late, but he told me you might be able to help my brother, Damon. Until tonight he was dying of a fatal bite. I was able to reverse the fatal part, but he still has an infected bite leftover. I know you don't know me, but I'm willing to do something in return if you helped him.
interpersonally: (🥃 | tanked gulp)

[personal profile] interpersonally 2025-05-24 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
It was a werewolf bite. Gale had been helping Damon and I, or trying, because it acts like a venom. Long story short, he was a vampire. I am a vampire. He's no longer a vampire.

As far as I can tell, it's only an infected, untreated bite now.

I'd rather him not wake up with an untreated bite.

The venom is no longer fatal
interpersonally: (🩸 | seeing red)

[personal profile] interpersonally 2025-05-28 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm saying a cure from my world called the cure cured him of his vampirism, which cured him of the venom, but left him with an infected bite. It's a long story. I found it in this house.
thirsted: (pic#17656307)

✉️ text — un: astarion.

[personal profile] thirsted 2025-05-22 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Yoo-hoo. Out of the boundless goodness of my heart, I mentioned to someone else that you might be willing to take a look at an injury. Be a dear and don't make a liar out of me, would you?
thirsted: (pic#17656007)

[personal profile] thirsted 2025-05-25 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, here, you'd make a killing.

But, more to the point: @ doublebluff , on the network. Something about a wonky shoulder.
thirsted: (pic#17656049)

[personal profile] thirsted 2025-05-29 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
I'm choosing colors already.
blooded: (🌙|224.)

@salvatore; shortly before the end of the month

[personal profile] blooded 2025-05-22 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I hear I have you to thank for not waking up with gangrene.
blooded: (🌙|097.)

[personal profile] blooded 2025-05-25 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
I'm at the bar now, if you want to join me.
blooded: (🌙|132.)

🎀

[personal profile] blooded 2025-05-29 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Works for me.

[ more bourbon for him, yay ]
corporeity: (262)

text — @waterdeep, early july.

[personal profile] corporeity 2025-07-06 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ gale can’t be certain which shadowheart he reaches out to, only that he feels the need to speak to her. to ensure she’s safe, even as he plasters himself to astarion’s side. ]

Astarion and I have returned from whence we came.

[ if shadowheart has joined them on the journey, she’ll understand. ]

How are you faring?
corporeity: (307)

[personal profile] corporeity 2025-07-07 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It’s something of a sliding scale, in this place.

Oh, are they all doing all right? I enchanted them, to be sure, but my magic’s faltered here before.


[ see: the entirely of june. ]
corporeity: (255)

[personal profile] corporeity 2025-07-07 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ relief floods him, at proof of his use — his worth — however small. ]

I do. Well, up until Baldur’s Gate, as previously discussed.

[ though he knows she refers to the alternate history that overtook them. a temporal distortion. yet more illusory magic foisted upon them without a whisper of consent.

he swallows hard. ]


For what it’s worth, I had forgiven you long ago. Or he had.

[ for the pain of heartbreak. such is the way of love and youth both. it’s almost a novelty, to have experienced it young enough to cope with the pain, far better than he would when it came late in life. and, although a fondness for those he knew and loved in the other world remains, none can lay claim to his heart but the one who coaxed it back to life.

it makes it easier to sit at a remove, fingers entwined in astarion’s hair, even if his boyish fumbling seems no less embarassing from this distance.

(and if he doesn’t acknowledge their most recent encounter, their reflections changing in the night — well, one needn’t rush to unspool all at once, lest they entangle themselves anew.) ]
corporeity: (126)

cw grooming

[personal profile] corporeity 2025-07-09 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ as they navigate this newfound knowledge of each other, the last thing he expects from shadowheart is a compliment. you were a good boyfriend, an assertion at odds with the other astarion’s clear outline of his failings. a strike against mystra growing bored and then frustrated with him, too. he doesn’t linger in it for too long, thinking instead on the significance of being shadowheart’s first in that world and this one, with her memories stolen from her.

and even if she still possessed them — she speaks true. shar does not allow for sentimental attachments. for softness. for love. he feels impossibly touched, to have given her that (and be given that in turn, when mystra came to him as a boy; there were others after her, but none so all-consuming). ]


Oh.
Thank you.
I’m glad it was you, too.


[ and not another, with privileged knowledge of him when he was young and vulnerable and oh so gangly. ]

And I hope you know you can always unburden yourself with me.

[ that hasn’t changed. ]
corporeity: (212)

[personal profile] corporeity 2025-07-10 10:57 am (UTC)(link)
You know, I can’t recall having many, either.
After my folly, only a few tried to visit me, and I suspect that was largely to see how far I’d fallen.


[ in fairness, the old gale had been self-aggrandising and prideful. he wouldn’t begrudge them the satisfaction now.

since shadowheart seems open to talking, he pushes a bit further. ]


I imagine this is all very difficult for you.
interpersonally: (seated and joined alight)

@stefan

[personal profile] interpersonally 2025-07-07 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Due to the month everyone spent as other people, I was never able to properly thank you for making sure Damon didn't die of rabies. So, thank you.
interpersonally: (🥃 | standing after a long night)

[personal profile] interpersonally 2025-07-08 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
You could say my investment into your... business might have counted as thanks.
interpersonally: (seated i'll take one)

[personal profile] interpersonally 2025-07-09 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
They survived the baptism. There might be a joke in there somewhere about it being a religious experience.

( But, he's far too STEFAN to make one. )