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munday no-no and yes-yes list (still accepting!)
🐶 - a role play related pet peeve.
Please note that this is NOT me banging on about people not writing enough, ‘cos I DO NOT CARE ABOUT LENGTH. I care about substance. The actual quality of the words you write, not the quantity, not the word count.
Anyway-- on to the pet peeve: Something that’s last happened a while before I started this blog, but RP partners who don’t write enough in their reply for me to go on and write my own. Like-- I write a paragraph or two that moves the plot along, right? And then they go and write, like, a single sentence of diaogue. Now, I’ll grant that sometimes a single sentence of dialogue is enough for me to go on, if we get lucky and Lady Fortune just so happens to be smiling on our RP that day. But other times... it’s just nowhere near enough. Give me a reaction, give me your character’s thoughts, give me a plot twist, give me something of substance!
☠️ - something that will result in a instant unfollow from you.
I’m a pretty forgiving guy, honestly. I’m willing to give everyone a second chance, when it comes to doing wrongs against me. And the things that other people believe and/or post about are their business and no-one else’s. They can post and say whatever they want on their blogs, far as I’m concerned.
But if someone’s always posting drama and starting stuff on the dash, inciting arguments and flame wars and things, that’s where I’d have to draw the line. ESPECIALLY if you’re starting stuff just to start stuff, just to be a provocative little troll and giggle at the mayhem you’ve gone and caused.
That’s gonna be a hard NO from me. More than an instant unfollow, honestly--an instant block. I wouldn’t want anything to do with that sort of crowd. I come to tumblr to relax and have fun. If I wanted to get into arguments, I’d be on facebook and twitter, or else I’d wait until the family’s together for Thanksgiving.
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Jack stayed silent for a moment in response to his question, and he had to look himself into for such an answer. Why would he just want to abandon everything that has been set up for him since middle school?
Why throw all of that potential for supposed greatness in the world. Then, it came to him like a ton of bricks.
“Everyone else has a semblance, a drop of an idea of what they want to do when they get out of here.” Jack began, leaning a bit against the wall as he collar magically drooped back down.
“But me, I…don’t know what I want. I don’t want to go to college, and once again be above my peers, once again the smart guy you go to when you need homework help, or help cheating. The know it all.” He frowns at the thought of getting out of one place that made him feel confined and go to a new confinement.
“And I certainly don’t want to be tied down to just…ONE thing. One career that I’ll be doing for the rest of my life….it’s…too constricting.” He momentarily clenches his fist and teeth even grit at the thought of it all.
However, all of that ire dispels quickly and his shoulders slackened as he looked towards with Legoshi with a soft smile once more.
“But being a biker, there’s so much…freedom ahead. The open road and the people I’m riding with, is all I have to think about, and…that’s why I want to do this.”
“....”
The more Jack spoke, the longer he listened, the more sense his best friend’s sentiments made.
It wasn’t his place to judge, anyway. Jack had every right to do whatever he wanted. It was his life, ultimately, and the only animal who could decide how Jack lived it was Jack himself.
Legoshi was still concerned, though; the world beyond Cherryton Academy, beyond even the city of Denko was tough, harsh. Unforgiving and uncaring. Indeed, if there was anything that recent experiences had taught him, it was that the real world was harsher even than he’d thought. He didn’t want to see Jack struggle and he certainly didn’t want to see his best friend hurt--or even worse.
But...
But hearing Jack speak about how it felt being him, being one of the smartest students, being tied down to, essentially, what was expected of him... it was a blunt shock. Jack had never said anything, never hinted even any slight displeasure towards plans about his future. Always the listener, never the speaker, him.
“If... that’s what you want to do after high school...” Legoshi replied to Jack’s soft smile with one of his own. “I think you should do it, one hundred percent. Forget college and forget what the teachers a-and things think, Jack! Your happiness is what matters, a-and if you want to get a motorcycle and ride through the country - i-if that’s what’d make you happy, you should do it!”
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“...That is the craziest thing I think you’ve ever said in the entire time we’ve known each other, Jack.”
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“No No it’s perfectly cool, hear me out!” Jack contested, hands splayed out in front of him as to make it seem he had reached a sense of enlightenment.
“The guys are always talking about how the cookies in the cafeteria are ALWAYS sold out before any of them can try any of them.” Jack began with a leisurely pace across the dorm room now.
“So I simply skipped math class, to dress up as one of the employees who brings the inventory for the lunch room in, because luckily one of them is a labrador, and I told the lunch ladies that the shipment was contaminated and I would take it back for testing. Boom! Free Cookies for the whole dorm!”
He happily goes over to the huge box in their dorm now, like a sore thumb, and pats it happily with a proud grin for a second, before melting into a rather bashful one.
“I do have to admit…out loud it does sound kind of convoluted.”
Honestly?
Legoshi is not one bit surprised, not even a tiny bit. Not surprised that Jack came up with such a scheme nor surprised that Jack ended up being successful.
Was he mad? Nah, not really.
Was he exasperated? A little bit, maybe. Was it kind? Yeah, at least towards their dormmates. Was it clever? Certainly. Was it well-thought-out?
...
Frankly, Legoshi couldn’t find it in him to be mad at Jack. This mad plot of his had been much purer than it otherwise could have been.
Plus.
Free cookies.
“Only you could come up with and pull off something like that,” said the wolf, simply choosing to accept that this had happened. “You know that, right? And... well, at least you got them for the guys, I guess...”
Never mind that his tail was wagging because free cookies.
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“And you’re one of the guys.” Jack gently added in with an amused chuckle, giving Legoshi a little nudge with his elbow as the box popped open, a dozen wrapped cookies assorted and columned by three.
“There’s dog friendly chocolate chip, oatmeal rasin, and of course sugar cookie with the cute crystals!” He grabs one of the sugar cookies before lightly shoving the box to Legoshi.
“Feel free to dig in! There’s like probably at least 100 in here?” Jack said with a non-chalant shrug, smiling as he focused on his cookie and took a bite from the cookie.
That single bite proving that many domestic dogs have a generally gentle mouth due to evolution.
In contrast to Jack’s gentle muzzle, Legoshi’s teeth snapped shut and easily three-quarters of the sugar cookie that he’d similarly picked disappeared behind them.
“Mm... Juss’... promish me one thing, Jag,” Legoshi said around the bits of cookie in his mouth.
He paused, swallowed, and looked Jack directly in the eye.
“Please, don’t do this again,” he begged, reaching for another cookie--a chocolate chip one this time. He held it in his hand and waved it around while he gestured as he went on:
“Cookies are great and all, don’t get me wrong... but the stomachache’s not gonna be worth it. And you know how Durham gets when he gets on a sugar high...”
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certainconviction replied:
Legoshi VC: ….. O///w///O
“You’re my forever babe!”
“...Jack... Oh my gosh...”
...
“.......you’re my forever babe too, but oh my gosh...”
"Legoshi, I would like to formally apologize." He comes to the wolf with a head lowered in shame, almost bowing. "I DID actually cheat in that one shooting game we played against each other. I had just learned about modding with unlimited bullets, and the power got to my head. Do you think you could forgive me? We could play a co-op instead of a versus game?"
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...What??
"Jack. Jack Kibou."
Oh no, what is the towering wolf going to say? What scathing words is he going to use to convey this act of shame and brotherly betrayal, surely the most deepest of disappointments?
...
"...Absolutely I'd love to play a co-op with you!!"
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“Jaaaack...”
...
“...Hey.”
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A certain Labrador was currently writing his own personal fanfic in a journal; his attention preoccupied within the pages.
“There he was…..he loomed over me like a great oak…his features diginified as ever….He was silent…always the quiet type, he didn’t say a word until we were near face-to-face and he finally uttered-”
And Legoshi came in the fill in the gap, a short gasp and he fumbles with the book quickly shutting it with a wide grin.
“O-Oh Hey! Sup? Need some quality hanging out bro time?” He asks with a enthusiastic tail wag.
The wolf just nods, planting himself down on the floor beside the Labrador with a little huff. There would never ever be a moment that he’d say ‘no’ to such a suggestion from Jack.
“Too many tests... just wanna chill for a while. For a day.”
He flops backward to sprawl out on the floor like a furry starfish exhausted from answering question upon seemingly-never-ending question. Jack didn’t have to mind Legoshi much, he could work on whatever he was working on. Legoshi just wanted to be near Jack, was all.
“For an eternity...”