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Devsei, the Halloween Noodle

@drdev.bsky.social

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Hail/Dev, she/they. 34. Often dragon, always queer. JD, MFA, PhD. Writer/Poet! Will ramble character lore if given the chance. Eager tabletop player~! Cap Hill wanderer. Under 18? Begone! Art: @sunsetaria.bsky.social

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Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · Dec 4

I'm a few days late but it's that time of YEAR: #Devcember~! I'm gonna post a thing per day* with art of a certain noodle and a fact/bit of lore accordingly~!

(*or forget and do them in a sprint to catch up <3)

First, the wonderful, current-model Dev by @sunsetaria.bsky.social

A reference sheet for Dev. They/Them, a black-scaled eastern dragon with blue eyes, mane, and glowing insides. Hooves and dewclaws. Rightside has details of horn corona, blood, internal, and eye color, and color swatches. Bottom has different expressions!

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Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 3h

Also: fun weekend! Just hitting the end of a full re-playthrough of all the GW2 story through current before next xpac. Gan and I went through as twin sister charr, Rulla and Ceres, a thief and ranger, and it's been lovely.

Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 3h

Shoutout to @ganelon.bsky.social for being a fantastic friend where, as the world's most ace man, hearing someone jokingly suggest I'm into a kink and immediately pipe up with 'I know her and what she's into just well enough to know It's definitely not that'

lmao

Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 10h

It's also backed up by how many hypnodoms I have crossed paths with that are *tremendously jealous folk* whenever attention expands past exclusively for them. It's a fun space, I've met and have wonderful friends for it, but it does provide a conduit for some of the most rotten personalities.

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Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 10h

It's definitely a person-to-person thing, I suspect-- I would still attribute a part of it to 1. being mostly a problem on the hypnotist side, and 2. probably related to having absolute control over *exactly* what they like, so there's no interest in things that no longer fit that mold.

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Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 10h

Incredible

Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 10h

It's one thing to not be in the mood, but if you *assume malice or ulterior motive* if anyone's cheerful and thinks you're cool and have good taste, then maybe you've got stuff going on that it's not my responsibility to have to navigate on the daily.

Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 10h

Both of which are just... 'Alright man I guess I just *won't be nice to you anymore???*' vibes?

And then I realized 'If this person is so antithetical to how cards-on-the-table and positive I want to be with folks I like, then they're just incompatible with me'

Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 10h

It is also funny every single time I have someone I've been chatting with get aggro over the fact that I legitimately *enjoy* just paying people compliments and that I *consistently mean them*? I have had people either:

1. Freak out and insist I am being dishonest
2. Immediately assume I'm flirting

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Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 10h

It exists only as a realm of extremes, I would never recommend it to anyone, and am still very happy for the good I've extracted from it (like you!!!)

Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 10h

You were, as I have never stopped championing, astoundingly kind and patient with me as I anxiously started to dip my toes in the pond. <3

Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 10h

I mean, there's a tremendous amount of clear-in-hindsight evidence, but for folk *not* experienced with transness in my life who I do legitimately think know me to my *soul*, plenty of them were surprised, but I do look back often and go 'wow that was really on the nose, past me, jeez'

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Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 10h

It is such a *considerable* outlier of a space for it in my experience, it's wild.

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Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 11h

I think @caudlewag.bsky.social and I ended up friends specifically because after enough time liking art the other got, it was just 'Friend I think we're both rabid for tails, you seem just like the neatest person and I wanna talk to you about how cool your eye for design is'. (He is a *delight*).

Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 11h

This is also entirely apropos but given how many lovely people it has brought into my orbit over my life: I freely encourage others to just go and say *hello* to the people you think are neat! You don't need an ulterior motive other than 'you're cool and I'd like to chat with you sometimes'!

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Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 11h

And also tigers

Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 11h

Also lmao I remember in college getting dunked on for preferring written smut over visual stuff and quietly getting to go 'mm, but there is no visual media that can approximate the eldritch corruption I crave. I am horny for things as unknowable as magenta and the terror it wreaks on the soul'

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Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 11h

I guess I could speculate 'people obsessed with everything including the way their partners think had a hard time with someone making a surprising choice' but I just think it is some of the old 'subset of dudes repelled by even the company of non-masc folk' vibes I remember from my time as 'an dude'

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Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 11h

I do, however, wish the particular axis of hypno-fur stuff wasn't the one where I had the *most* immediate departure of common friends post-transition. Every other kink axis was pretty great, I still chat with the same folk and tease the same things, but hypno?

*Instant* ghosting by so many.

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Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 11h

Related re: F-list but shoutout to the dom/deg space I came up in and being told hypno was cheating.

Cowards, I'm just efficient and getting my playmates to dom eachother while I make dinner, they even degrade themselves of their own accord

Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 11h

It also is a continuous delight how many lifelong, foundational friends I've made from old days on F-list.

It's slightly more than the ones I've made from old sonic forums!!!

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Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 12h

Also secondarily, I have kinda worked her saying that into being a *big* part of the reason they go withdraw from the world. It was good and narratively poignant!

Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 12h

It was wonderfully brutal and a *legitimately* very accurate needling at the character given where they were in their life. The horrible expanse between 'well, good' and 'I never knew either'

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Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 12h

I was reaffirmed in the fact that our friendship would be timeless when you *came alive* at the table when you got to play the *walking consequences of your own actions, happy to dunk on their progenitor*

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Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 12h

Possession arcs are *also* really good--

Devsei, the Halloween Noodle @drdev.bsky.social · 12h

Also get you someone with whom your shared custody of the braincell is harmonious enough that you both laser target each other with absolute efficiency over *years*. I'm lookin' at you, @tinyicecat.bsky.social !!!! Still the only person I've really ever paid to write smut for me, always a treat. <3

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