DramaQueen

"Uh..." Tuncay hesitated. "Harvest...each others'...minds." Don't really want a complete stranger in my head, but I guess it's unavoidable if I want to be a Mind Harvester...ugh.

Oh that's a different version than the one I know.

The one I know goes:

Oh, I once knew a man
He lived each day the same
Safe and sane and swell
And when they told me he died
I didn't cry
All I could say was, "how could they tell?"

I wonder if it's Broadway vs off-Broadway or something...

Edit: I found your version, it's the 1972 original Broadway cast recording. The 2013 revival is the one I know, and I think it's the more popular version, at least, it's the only one I knew existed.

Your version: https://youtu.be/n7UsfwetiLI
My version: https://youtu.be/LjqYqhq9xsk

Now that I've listened to both, I also think the 2013 revival version is more impressively sung.

Yes! All my recs so far are just in the first post.

I'm not the type

Who loses sleep

Over the size of the compost heap

When you're extraordinary 

You think about extraordinary things

"Oh." Nice, I didn't have to ask someone. "Sure."

"Oh. Yeah. That."

I also thought you were a lot younger.

Tuncay opened the door, staring at Anmil with bewilderment--and a trace of fear. "What do you want?" he asked, more harshly than he meant to.

...hrmm should i finish inktober late?

7 hours ago, Potato's Wit said:

HAHAHA!!! Now that I am done laughing at all you adults, I will go outside. Enjoy the world! Climb a tree! Do stuff you are all too large to do! 

HaHAHAHahaHAhAhaHAhaHAHaHa!!!!!!

joke's on you i'm still tiny enough to play a ten-year-old boy in a play and i climb trees faster than anyone i've ever met

just because i'm legally an adult doesn't mean i have to look or act like one

The voices of the shades' shattered minds broke through into Tuncay's thoughts. Guess I'll have to bond a shade before worrying about finding a partner. He let out a breath. Should be a bit easier.

It was overwhelming to have hundreds of voices that weren't his own filling his thoughts. All the different minds blurred together; it was hard to separate one from another.

I couldn't help her, and suddenly she--

I'm sorry, I didn't want to bother you, but--

--the dog? No, I never saw--

--if you hadn't--

--I only--

--k at this, you can see I never--

NO! LET GO, HELP--

--was just a hug, that's all he said it--

Not all of the shades' thoughts were composed of words; some were simply emotions. Frustration, sorrow, fear, anger, suspicion, desperation; fragments of a being, and nothing more. From the fragments, Tuncay grew nervous to even try to learn more. How was he supposed to choose a shade? How could he sort through the terror and trauma and pain without it tormenting him forever? But if he didn't sort through, if he just chose the nearest one, it could be the biggest mistake of his life.

Squeezing his eyes shut, Tuncay reached out mentally for the nearest shade, gently prodding it to directly tell him its story, but still couldn't understand it entirely.

I...alone, and...oil spilled, ...water on it, but it...everything on fire--

Tuncay could see flashes of the shade's memory. A blast of flame, spreading and closing in, until--

He broke away, reeling from the memory, though he knew that couldn't be anything close to the worst that these shattered minds had experienced.

They're all dead. They wouldn't be here if there wasn't a reason for them to stay, and the reasons always seem to be horrible.

Tuncay, overwhelmed, stopped trying to hear any in particular, simply letting their voices blend together in his mind. No stories, no specifics, just unassociated words and emotions, almost like a wave washing over him - feeling like one thing but made up of countless parts.

One voice, nearly lost in the wave, caught his attention, and he latched onto it. The shade it was connected with was a young girl, and as soon as Tuncay reached out to her, he could sense her innocent, pure, childishness, and a burst of bubbly, happy, child-like emotion washed over him, as if she was saying hi.

Hey. Why are you here?

She sent him an uncertain feeling, almost like that of a shrug.

Did someone hurt you?

Again, uncertainty

He prodded her mind, trying to uncover something more. A small giggle from her seemed to push him away from the memories stored in the back of her mind.

Surrendering–for now–Tuncay let out a sigh. D’you wanna help me out? Keep me company, I guess?

Her ghostly shadow bounced, sending him a confirmation, then…latched onto him, in a way.

…is that it? Are we bonded?

Another bounce.

I can’t hear the others anymore.

More bouncing. Tuncay smiled. Alright. Time to talk to a living person.

@NerdyAarakocra

On 10/23/2022 at 7:36 PM, NerdyAarakocra said:

Alright...

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Sorryyy I'm not going to have time today, but if I don't have it by Saturday afternoon (MDT), we can time-skip it.

@DramaQueen

13 hours ago, That1Cellist said:

Do you get notified if you summon yourself?

I'll find out for you

Update: no notif

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Zkkzjxjjsx I'll try to do that tomorrow

pshhhhh you think I'm registering to vote???

Oh dang impressive lol

3 minutes ago, The Wandering Wizard said:

You summoned yourself 17 times.

Pffft of course he did

I didn't bother counting but that makes me laugh cuz @Knight of Iron's favorite number is 17 so he probably did it very specifically on purpose and that 100% checks out lol

And here's today's: Ocean/Ponytail

I drew another mermaid but it's okay cuz this one's a smol child

...she was initially cross-eyed, looking at the starfish, but I instantly screwed up inking her eyes and I couldn't fix it so I turned her into Spook whoops lol

Mweheheheh they're the pan pride colors :))

I was initially just doing pink and blue but then I realized that I had 2/3rds of the pan pride colors and figured I might as well full send :P.

Thanks!! It took me way too long to get the perspective on the skates to look alright lol

For yesterday: Dizzy/Scrape

Yes I know she's not super anatomically correct but I'm proud of the perspective so

13 hours ago, Ta'veren Kaladin said:

Why am I following this thread? That seems like a bad idea...

I'm following it cuz it helps me remember to summon people to lose

@Knight of Iron @Tesh 

5 hours ago, Mist said:

@DramaQueen hello there @Condensation @Vapor

Aww thanks!!

@Frustration @Channelknight Fadran join me

And it once again is only letting me tag two people lollll

On 10/5/2022 at 0:50 AM, DramaQueen said:

Dunno if I'm gonna ink it ever, so it's just pencil for now

But have a scallop/chain drawing

...she's really prettyyyyyyyy

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Oh I also did end up inking my pretty mermaid girl

...honestly can't tell if that was a bad decision or not, what do y'all think? Does the pencil sketch or the inked version look better?

I think I've been on an actual sailboat but I'm not entirely sure what qualifies as a sailboat lol

I just like boats in general tho