The arc of your face turned to the wind, tongue flitting out to taste the possibilities offered on the horizon; every day is a new mystery and a new challenge on offer to savor; What adventures does today hold?

Between a loose clutter of colorfully completed schoolwork pages and a tamagotchi—currently blinking needily & making an itty bitty hungry roar as it briefly illuminates the space—a little zip pouch filled with a compass, ruler, square etc, all in the shapes of variety of prismatic plastic dragons

Most of the oddly shaped erasers are less ground down, due to smearing and smudging, but the most interesting and eye-catching ones nonetheless have a special place on the pencil rail—the ones shaped like yummy little treats have more chew marks and experimental little nibbles taken out of them...

BANGING my paws on my hinge-backed school desk holding all my supplies.

YEAH

It's all about inhabiting that liminal space between kink & regression where the wordless feeling of longing exists and filling it out with whimsy and comfort & new exciting paint until its a home and playground you love

Here's a cute little fact too!! I have a set of jammies these are based on! They're really worn down now, but I love them to bits and that kind of striped pattern has always been really special to me—it reminds me of the pet cat I had when I was very little :>

Ty ty!! I had it based on my favorite set of jammies :> I'm always weak for this kinda white-grey-black shark/tiger stripe; it's a pattern I deeply love

I think, like a lot of things, it just depends on whether you find it meaningful enough to spend the time with it to get better at it, you know?

Even if the audience doesn't yet exist, I always think it makes sense to try to interpret them or at least vent, if only to yourself or in a journal!

Being able to untangle the aches in your heart and follow it to a conclusíon is a good skill to have, I think!

On the other hand, you can trust them to ✨color coordinate✨

Nod nod nod nod nod!!

It's a good combo... A while back I got held down, snarled at, & chomped on the neck by a pile of padded critters until I passed out from fear+sensation, then woke back up cycling between giggling & sobbing and it's so hard to explain the feeling & how it affected me ✨

Yeah... It's hard! Personally, I love the idea of it, but I always want to make characters with big personal conflicts and defects, and the stories my DMs wanted to play were very much not about that x)

I'm a little more hesitant about starting sessions anymore!

Would that make it into a swiss cheesecake? *Peering into your little munch-tunnels* :>

Yes! Yes! Yes! Bring on the nightmares 🌑✨

Yeah a lot of folks see them as unbearably invasive and uncomfortable and don't seem to have a conception of how others could just be used to it :9

Tbh I really like wearing one on really cold days in particular because it helps keep my snout nice and warm!

It's the SLEEPY ZONE for you!!

Sleep is helpful, even if it doesn't fix everything! Sleep well!

Yeah!! It's hard to think about, but considering it always makes me appreciative of the time and effort people do put into spending in the moment, since every time that happens it's someone choosing to spend that time with you...