Mokona's posts
Posted in Sold out Please Lock
Posted 4 years ago
@star2000shadow: Whee thank you, glad you like the way I used it! I think the butterfly looks pretty fly sitting at the parting of the bangs.
You can go ahead and pet her
your avatar is looking very pettable too! Kumiho ears!
Posted in Tarot Parlour (PWYW)
Posted 4 years ago
@Edelaen: I just followed you on Insta! I love your art, especially the Odin one.
I write fanfic as well as original fiction. Right now I'm writing K-pop fanfiction. As well as a retelling of Andersen's Snow Queen, which is going to be my final master's thesis; we had an option to do a creative thesis and I decided to do this.
Posted in CycloneKira's Mood Checker + Chat
Posted 4 years ago
@CycloneKira: I feel like the RP forum here is pretty decent, but if you want a forum with lots of RPers, maybe a roleplaying forum website would be best? Not an avatar forum but a site focused on play-by-post roleplay. Like IwakuRoleplay or RPNation.
You could check forums like that out. One word of advice though, avoid the group RPs, they can get overwhelming pretty quickly since they tend to include active RPers that might be posting huge detailed posts everyday. At least with 1x1s you and your partner can adapt to each other and pace yourselves to suit each other.
Posted in [IC] Strange Familiar (Dragonlet & Whimsy)
Posted 4 years ago
Shasta was relieved to hear that there would be no magical messes to clean up if the spell failed. It was rare that a spell didn’t have backlash when it failed, especially when the spell involved another party. Shasta’s mother had a favourite saying she used to repeat when she taught Shasta about spells involving others, whether human, witch, fae, demon, or any other kind of being: “Wishes and curses are like old hens. They always come home to roost.” All magic had consequences, and not necessarily the ones the caster predicted. But you had to be especially careful when you involved someone else in a potential magical mess, not just yourself.“Thank you, I’m glad to hear that,” said Shasta, nodding when the shopkeeper told him to wait. Shasta watched him go, his movements drawing Shasta’s attention to the chain in his ear. Pretty. It was a delicate piece of jewellery, and maybe he imagined it, but Shasta thought it glowed- maybe because of a magical aura. That wasn’t surprising in a place like this.
Shasta waited, looking around at the shop in the meanwhile. It was a fascinating place, stuffed full of magical materials and artifacts and piles of tottering spellbooks. The shopkeeper returned and apologised to keep Shasta waiting. His small laugh was endearing, and Shasta smiled, “No problem.” If Shasta had to run a place like this he wouldn’t remember where anything was kept. He was the last person to be judgy about something like this.
Shasta watched, fascinated, as he charmed the book registry to find books on familiars for him. It was an excellent piece of everyday magic.
The shopkeeper reworded to narrow the focus of the charm, and that brought up more memories: Shasta as a small student, copying out into his grimoire that “The will of the spell is the statement made during the spell that represents its objective. The focus of the spell is what the statement means, represents, or manifests according to you. The will and the focus together make up the intent of your working. It is important to sharpen will and focus so that your particular intent aligns with particular results, to reduce risk of unintended ones.” And then there had been stories of the ‘be careful what you wish for’ variety, that warned of asking for things without pinpointing how exactly you want them to manifest.
The shopkeeper asked Shasta to follow him to the back. “Sure,” said Shasta, although he wasn’t sure if he’d know which book would be most useful as the shopkeeper said. So far it had definitely seemed to him that the shopkeeper knew more about familiars, and about magic in general, than Shasta did. Shasta hadn’t exactly been a brilliant student.
As he followed him to the back, Shasta asked, “Uh, by the way, what’s your name?” He knew he’d be visiting the shop more frequently now and it was probably time he got better acquainted.
@littlewhitedragonlet:
Posted in Tarot Parlour (PWYW)
Posted 4 years ago
@Edelaen: Ooh, do you upload your art anywhere? What mediums do you use?
I did some story writing over the weekend so it was nice, too
Posted in Sold out Please Lock
Posted 4 years ago
@star2000shadow: Thank you. Trade completed! Nice doing business with you
Posted in Tarot Parlour (PWYW)
Posted 4 years ago
@Edelaen: It's painful when that happens. I can't even go back and read the RPs because I feel sad when I do!
I hope you both reconnect at some point. It's a pity to let a friendship like that go.
How have you been? How was your weekend?
Posted in Jabberwocky Junction (come chat!)
Posted 4 years ago
@Totalanimefan: Yeah I'm glad there's change coming, although it still breaks my heart that babies are born without basic immunity and digestion boosting bacteria- they're literally starting out with a disadvantage, so even if they grow up health-conscious they have to reckon with that, you know? They've been dealt damage from the start and that's so sad to me.
Poverty is a menace to health too because if you're poor you'll more likely buy cheaper food, which isn't always better. I had a friend on another forum who said she literally couldn't afford fruits or veggies often and so she kept cooking meat when she was hungry. And it was messing with her health. I suggested that she cook oats. Because that was the only other alternative we could think of which would be as cheap and filling, and have carbs for energy.
Posted in Sold out Please Lock
Posted 4 years ago
@star2000shadow: Yay! I've updated the trade!
Posted in [OOC] Dragonlet & Whimsy
Posted 4 years ago
@littlewhitedragonlet: OMG thank you for saying you love it
that's so sweet of you and I really love your reply post too. I feel so immersed in the RP already this is amazing I'll write out a reply to it tomorrow!Aww happy birthday to him :violet-celebrate: I hope you had fun! And you don't have to apologise; the reason I like avatar sites as places to RP on is because I and my partners always know that we'll be around on the site, and even if we poof, we'll be back eventually, since we do other things here besides RP/multiple things bring us back, y'know? So it's cool, as long as we know we're around
we don't need to tell each other about being away for a few days unless it's a full-on hiatus, and we don't have to apologise for our brief absences either.
Posted in Jabberwocky Junction (come chat!)
Posted 4 years ago
@Totalanimefan: Oh, absolutely; I think even the people who love to cook don't tend to use all the ingredients from scratch though (among white Americans). There's sure to be exceptions but this is a general pattern I noticed. Asian Americans have their own food traditions so for the most part, they're good. I expected white Americans to adopt European and British cooking properly since those are roughly around where they came from to settle. But they haven't really. An Italian would probably balk at what passes for pizza. The one time I visited the US with my family, we went to Seattle and tried pizza in multiple places and they were godawful.
I think your veggies are fine though. But the US is the only country I've heard of where the meat is cheaper than the veggies. And where the dairy industry is so messed up- milk isn't supposed to last that long and most people who have regular dairy from the grocery store develop an intolerance to it.
Apart from animal products it's not that bad I think. Especially as with increasing immigration you have Indian and Asian grocery stores and have the chance to adopt some of those food traditions. And you have the farmer's markets. It's just that the bad is more easily available/accessible to most people. The way American food, and I mean food that's quintessentially American, is known to be burgers and hot dogs (fast food).
Posted in reintro / coming back!
Posted 4 years ago
@spinda: I casually listen to BTS, but I'm a multi, of both boy groups and girl groups like you. I like EXO, The Boyz, Seventeen and in girl groups I like After School (and Orange Caramel) and Brown Eyed Girls the most. I casually listen to anything in k-pop though just to give it a try.
I do like soloists. In the R&B ilk I like BIBI, Chungha, Corbyn, Jung Jin Hyeong. Baekhyun's City Lights album was excellent too.
Interesting. Stuff from China isn't shipping to my country unfortunately, those would be my cheapest options. I tried to learn to sew and of course it's difficult and it'll be a long time before I'm adept enough to make my own clothes, but baby steps.
Posted in reintro / coming back!
Posted 4 years ago
@spinda: I love k-pop and lolita and mori fashions too! I don't own any fashions but I'll afford them someday for sure.
Posted in Sold out Please Lock
Posted 4 years ago
@star2000shadow: Hi! Could I buy 1 Unique White Knight Bangs and 1 How You Doin'?