The fact that the Boston transit system has been a garbage fire for so long that our mascot is a sad little man who is literally stranded on the train until the end of time due to a fare increase. Charlie’s desiccated corpse has been riding this train since the 1940s and everyone just sort of rolls with it it this point
Back in the 40s the T installed a fare to get off the train as well as to get on, because the system has always been that broken. So a song was written about the mythical man of Charlie on the M.T.A., who doesn’t have the extra fare and becomes stuck there. Forever. Riding around in a never-ending circular nightmare because the city is corrupt and everyone else in Boston is a cheapskate who won’t lend him a goddamn nickel. Adding insult to injury his wife throws him food every day but not money, probably because she’s better off single.
The T responded by saying “to hell with it, he’s our mascot now.”
Playing the role to the hilt (heh…) so well done that man. It’s absolutely the flourish and sheathe that does it. Chiburui and noto, sort of, ish.
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Those are a formalised / symbolic part of an iai exercise: chiburui = shaking the blood off; noto = resheathing. Other kinds of chiburui include the more familiar sideways swipe, and thumping the sword-hand wrist with the other fist.
Writer Note: despite the impression given by movies, chiburui won’t get a sword-blade completely clean. That would involve a thorough wipe-down as well; IIRC samurai carried sheets of special paper for that purpose.
being a dom is only cool if people like you. otherwise it’s super embarrassing. if you’re a sub you can be like “ahhh i wanna get fucked superrr hard >w<” and it’s kind of endearing. if you’re a dom and you say “i want to FUCK someone.. who will be mommys little KITTY today ..” and no one actually wants to have sex with you, you may as well kill yourself. because there’s no coming back from that
callback to the time I wrote literal pages of lore and worldbuilding, including a universe with a creation story, afterlife metaphysics, and a timeline featuring the rapture, a divine astral plane turf war, and the introduction of gods and magic to the modern mortal world
for a kink scene where I roleplayed as a sexy demon lady
I workshopped my character’s name, voice and personality and wrote an entire universe to hold her. for a scene that lasted about an hour. if that’s not DMing but for sex I don’t know what is
your honor ive been murdered
Good news: At that level of prep I don’t think it’s improv anymore.
Bad news: turned on by amateur theater
Good news: there are so many of us amateur theater nerds in the world
btw last night I had a dream that I was being chased by a killer. as he finally caught me I saw he had a rainbow bracelet so I said “wait you’re gay?” and he replied “it’s diverse”. then he murdered me
ID 2: a google search result: Bring Me to Life: “Bring Me to Life” is the debut single by American rock band Evanescence from their debut studio album, Fallen. Wind-up released it as the album’s lead single on April 7, 2003. Wikipedia. end IDs.]
