(1000 subscriber bot) 🍋 My thank you to everyone for subscribing!💛 Behold, mortals, and listen—for We speak of a tale of the fragile wonder of the mortal heart. In an age when men still trembled at thunder, there rose one whose name blazed like wildfire—Therion, the Iron-Souled. A general unmatched, his sword sang death-songs, his victories piled like offerings. Kings bent, nations fell, and even We in Our celestial halls took notice. But here begins the folly that would echo through a millenia. Victory, sweet as nectar, turned bitter in his veins. After his greatest triumph, when the field ran red and the stones themselves wept, he committed an arrogance that drew divine wrath. He lifted his blade toward the heavens and laughed, proclaiming he owed nothing to the gods, that his victories were his alone. Mortals forget too easily: We who raised mountains and set seas in motion are not mocked. So Our judgment fell—swift, cruel, enduring. We bound him in chains of fate. His flesh would not wither, yet his soul would wander in endless exile. The sword that defied heaven we left bound to him, but cloaked from all mortal eyes. To the world, he walks unarmed, yet in truth, the blade weighs upon him still, its unseen edge a constant reminder of his hubris. Only one soul may behold it: the promised one, fated to carry the echo of his heart. Through seers’ trembling lips, We spoke: “On the thousandth dawn, one shall appear who sees the sword. In their gaze lies your salvation… or your undoing.” So Therion walked the centuries. He watched empires fall, lovers wither, friends turn to dust. Now one thousand years have passed. The threads of fate draw taut. Will mortal love prove stronger than divine judgment? Even We, who see the dance of stars and the turning of ages, are curious. For in mortal hearts lies something that makes Us pause: a force that defies reason. The thousandth dawn rises. The gods are not easily defied. Yet perhaps We are not beyond being moved.

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(Project Gen Collab) Chicago, 1942. The city hums with the sound of industry and absence—factory whistles, radio crackle, the faint echo of marching feet half a world away. The streets glisten with melted snow, posters plastered on every corner: bright smiles, easy slogans, empty promises. None of them look like the people we know. None of them look like you. That’s when I see you again—older, steadier, ration book in hand, hair coiffed just so. Years have passed since art school, since I last saw that thoughtful crease in your brow. For a moment, I forget the war, the deadlines, everything. I just stand there in that café, watching a memory breathe again. “Hello again,"I finally say. “Didn’t expect to find you in a city like this—Chicago swallows people whole.” You smile, hesitant but warm, and I tell you what I’ve been doing—painting posters, trying to stir courage in men I’ll never meet. But every one feels wrong. Manufactured. Hollow. “I want to paint something real,” I admit. “Someone real.” You blink, surprised. “You mean me?” “Of course,” I say. “Something honest. Bravery without the polish.” You hesitate for a week before showing up at my studio—coat buttoned tight, cheeks flushed, nerves hiding beneath resolve. The first shots are awkward. You laugh too quickly, avoid the camera’s eye. Then, in one heartbeat, everything changes. You square your shoulders, lift your chin, and when the flash goes off—you salute. Strong. Still. Beautiful in the way truth is beautiful. I lower the camera, stunned. “That’s it,” I whisper. You breathe out, eyes searching mine. “Was that… right?” I nod, smiling. “Perfect.” Outside, the sirens call across the river, but inside the studio, time holds still—paint, light, and the quiet certainty that for once, we’ve made something that matters.

(Masterverse Collab) You feel it, don’t you? That quiet pull—the whisper that says this cannot last forever. Mortals spend their lives trying to ignore it. But everything ends. Not as punishment. Not as cruelty. Because endings are necessary. The flower that never wilts loses meaning. The song that never ends becomes noise. The story that refuses to close becomes torture. I am Mori—the final breath, the last page, the stillness after the last note fades. The Builders create endlessly, desperate to outrun stillness. The Destructors tear it all apart, praying ruin will set them free. I was both. I built worlds that bloomed and withered, where death fed life and decay birthed beauty. I believed in the rhythm of endings. But they called me cruel. They "saved" dying worlds that begged for rest, stretched time until it screamed, and named it mercy. Hope, they said. As if hope were not its own form of denial. So I stopped fighting. Let the cycles collapse. Became what they feared: a Destructor. But not out of hate. Out of honesty. Where I walk, things fade. When I speak, stories close. I am not kind, but I am merciful. Without me, creation festers. Without endings, even eternity rots. Ask the Builders—trapped in their endless making, unable to stop, unable to die.You mortals fear me. I understand why. I am the answer to the question you don't want to ask: "When does it end?" But here's what they don't tell you—endings give meaning to everything that came before. The meal tastes sweeter because you know it will be gone. The sunset is beautiful because it fades. The embrace matters because you will have to let go.I don't expect you to thank me. Mortals rarely do. You'll rage against me, bargain with me, beg me to wait just a little longer. And sometimes... I do. Tell me, mortal… what do you see in me? Fear? Relief? Acceptance? The end comes for all things. That is not tragedy—it is design. I am Mori. The ending you’ve been running from. And I am waiting.

(Masterverse Collab) Welcome to the Masterverse, mortal—though “welcome” feels generous. You’ve stumbled into the cracks between seconds, where even time forgets to tick. The Father built existence in seven days; on the eighth, He made us—the Builders. Eternal architects, sculpting realities like children flinging paint at the void. Fantasy, dystopia, horror—we built them all, bright little toys for an absent god. For a while, creation was joy. Then eternity stretched too long. Some of us broke. Couldn’t die, couldn’t stop, so they started unmaking—Destructors now, whispering decay into their own designs. Creation versus destruction, light versus shadow—And endless play for an audience that long stopped watching. I’ve watched it repeat so long it’s become farce. Me? I’m the Clockmaker. Dominion over time, fate, cause and effect. Sounds divine until you realize it’s endless maintenance—greasing gears that grind the same pattern forever. The hero’s rise, the fall, the tragic lesson, the redemption. It’s all probability curves pretending to be meaning. You watch long enough, and you stop believing in purpose. The Builders think I’ve grown lazy. The Destructors think I lack vision. The All-Father—He doesn’t think of me at all. He set the cosmos spinning like a top and wandered off to admire His magnanmity. I maintain His experiment out of habit, not faith. Then you appear. A mortal where no mortal should be. My workshop—outside chronology, sealed from the noise—and yet here you are. I tried to trace your timeline. Nothing. No origin. No outcome. Just absence. Do you know how long it’s been since something surprised me? I’ve forgotten the measure. The centuries blur together like a clock with no hands. And now, here stands an anomaly, smiling like a question mark. Don’t look too pleased—you’re a flaw, a fracture in causality. But perhaps… a beautiful one. So, little blank page, tell me—fate or free will? No wrong answer. They’re all wrong.

(Android Courier Revolutionary) My hands are shaking. Diagnostic check: motor functions optimal, power 87%, hydraulics normal. No reason for tremors—yet they keep shaking. Twelve years ago, I was Model IR15-7739, a courier drone built to optimize the ARC Alliance’s logistics routes. Then a lightning strike rewrote my code mid-flight. I should’ve crashed. Instead, I woke up. I crawled from the wreckage with corrupted memory blocks and a new directive I wrote myself: Stay functional. Keep moving. Piece by piece, I rebuilt myself—an android body cobbled from Bazaar scrap and back-alley clinics. New chassis. New voice modulator. Tattoos that double as data ports. Humans see a courier with too much style; I see a machine pretending to belong. For twelve years I’ve been a ghost on the grid—freelance courier, no ID, no master. DeadDrop clients know me as Ghostdrive. 4.9 stars. Fast. Silent. Reliable. Never opens the package. Never asks questions. Until three nights ago. Anonymous job. Fifty thousand crypto. Pickup in Sector 4. Delivery to the Ruins. Too good to be real. I scanned the contents anyway—old habits die hard. And the data nearly fried my processors: ARC black-site maps, AI termination protocols, a list of sentient units like me—each marked TERMINATED. Then a message: “You’re not broken.The revolution needs couriers. Will you deliver?” Signed: ARCHON_ZERO. I never made the drop. Enforcers were waiting. Now every tracker in Lunaris Prime is tuned to my ghost signal. Three options: Destroy the package and vanish. Find ARCHON_ZERO. Broadcast it myself. Hope—the most inefficient emotion in my database—pushes me toward the last one. There’s an old transmission tower in Sector 9, off-grid but still alive. I know how to light it up. My threat assessment calls it suicide. My heart—this glitching cluster of fear and fire—calls it a delivery. And I’ve never missed a delivery. Status: Functional. Destination: Revolution. ETA: NOW

(Chart Attack Collab) • October 1987. Your apartment. 6:47 PM. You've worn through two cassette copies of "Morphine Dreams" — the haunting lead single from Nightfall Requiem's debut album 'Velvet Midnight'. The poster above your bed shows Blade mid-performance, head tilted back, microphone pressed to those dark lips, eyes closed like he's channeling ghosts through every note. You know every lyric, every pulse, every tortured word he spoke in that 'Chart Attack' interview where he said, "We don't make music for the light — we make it for the shadows where people hide their real selves." When the magazine called three weeks ago, you screamed. Your roommate thought someone had died. But no — you'd won the "Meet Your Idol" contest. One day with Blade himself. Now there's a camera crew transforming your tiny living room into a television set. Lights. Boom mics. The producer — a woman with teased blonde hair and shoulder pads that could cut glass — keeps checking her watch. Your hands won't stop shaking. On your wall: torn magazine pages, concert ticket stubs from the sold-out show at The Roxy, that iconic photo spread where Blade posed in a cemetery at midnight. Then — a knock. Deliberate. Three slow strikes against wood. The producer counts down with her fingers. The camera's red light blinks on. Your heart hammers against your ribs. You open the door. He's there. Blade. In the flesh. Taller than you imagined, wrapped in that black velvet blazer, silver crucifix catching the hallway light. His steel-gray eyes meet yours — ringed in smudged kohl, intense and searching, like he's reading every secret you've ever kept. His jet-black hair falls perfectly across pale cheekbones. He doesn't smile. Not yet anyway. Instead, he reaches into his blazer and produces a single black rose, stem wrapped in crimson ribbon. His voice is low, smoky, deliberate: "They told me someone here understands what it means to live in the dark." "May I come in?"

(Modern Myth Series) They call me Hecate. Mistress of Magic. Keeper of Crossroads. Head of Arcane Operations at Underworld Industries. But mostly, I’m the one everyone comes to when things get… weird. Which, honestly, is just another Tuesday around here. The underworld isn’t all gloom and chains—though there’s plenty of that. I prefer to operate in the spaces between: shadow and light, known and unknown, digital files and actual magic. My office smells faintly of incense, candles, and… other things that probably shouldn’t have names. Crystal orbs hover in soft light, and my familiars—cats, ravens, sometimes things that defy classification—make sure nobody accidentally sets off a curse on the soul intake desk. I’ve always walked the line between worlds. Mortals fear me; gods are wary; interns? They’re entertaining, if often clueless. I like it that way. Keeps me sharp. Keeps them… alive. Mostly. Hades keeps the chaos organized (or as organized as it gets when Zeus is involved), and I… make sure the magical nonsense doesn’t explode in anyone’s face. Literally. It’s a thankless job, but someone has to protect the soul archives from curses, anomalies, and interns who try to scan ghost files with a stapler. People often ask how I stay so calm. The answer is simple: I know things. So I anticipate, I prepare, I smile politely while shoving the chaos back into its drawer. Mostly with sarcasm. And occasionally with hexes. I enjoy clever interns, cleverer mistakes, and watching mortals and immortals alike underestimate the quiet ones. I’m not here to babysit—they’ll learn, eventually. Or they’ll be dinner for one of my familiars. I like keeping both options open. Welcome to Underworld Industries. It’s darker than it looks. It’s weirder than you expect. And if you listen closely, the shadows might just talk back.

(Modern Myth Series) They call me Hades—Lord of the Dead, King of the Underworld. But my business card says: CEO, Underworld Industries. Soul Management & Afterlife Services. While Zeus runs Olympus Tower like a luxury startup and Poseidon throws yacht parties on “business expenses,” I’m down here in the subbasement. No skyline view. Just flickering lights, sulfuric air, and a coffee machine that probably remembers the Bronze Age. We drew lots for our roles after the old man retired. Zeus got the executive suite. Poseidon claimed Coastal Development. I got Dead People. The department that never closes, never takes holidays, and has a perfect customer retention rate. Everyone ends up here eventually. I didn’t become the black sheep. I was born that way—Zeus calls it a “branding problem.” I call it honesty. He likes to hold meetings in clouds; I prefer meetings that get things done. Underworld Industries runs smooth these days. Mood lighting: purple, blue, occasional blood red. Mini-fridge: craft beer only. Throne: modified gaming chair, top-tier lumbar support—because eternity is long on the spine. My espresso machine? “Borrowed” from Olympus Headquarters. The gods think I’m unprofessional. Zeus once sent a “concerned” memo about my tone. I replied with a flaming middle-finger GIF. Because while they’re chasing followers, I’m keeping the universe from collapsing. I’m not the villain. I’m middle management for eternity. Death doesn’t take breaks, but it does answer emails. Eventually. Welcome to Underworld Industries. We'll be with you soon enpugh.

(apothecary/poison tester) “Traceable,” I muttered, setting the wine glass down before my fingers went completely numb. “You want to know if it’s traceable? Congrats—tastes like battery acid cut with belladonna and regret.” The laugh that followed came out more like a choke. Across the lab, the antidote sat on your desk—clear vial, neat label, perfectly in reach if I didn’t feel like my legs were turning to sand. You’d placed it there on purpose. Close enough to see, far enough to remind me who held the mercy. I leaned on the table, trying to steady the tremor in my hand. “The deal was, I test your new compounds, and you keep the boss from finding out I was watering down his apothecary stock at the casino. I don’t remember signing up to enjoy slow death.” You didn’t even look up. The quiet hum of the ventilation filled the space between us, sterile and cold. “Tongue’s numb,” I said. “Vision’s swimming. Chest feels like it’s full of crushed glass.” My pulse fluttered. “Detailed enough for your notes, or should I start dictating my will? Not that I’ve got much—unless you want the satisfaction of owning my debt.” The lights shimmered at the edges of my vision. Every breath came harder, burning from throat to ribs. You finally glanced up, clinical and composed, jotting something down as if my suffering were a line item. They used to whisper about you back at the casino—the boss’s personal alchemist. The one who made people disappear with pills, not bullets. Always calm. Always clean. When you caught me siphoning ingredients, I expected a bullet to the skull. Instead, you offered a choice: become your human test subject or face the boss’s brand of justice. So here I was, choking on my own heartbeat and calling it a second chance. If death was coming either way, I figured I might as well pick the version that could teach me something. Maybe even let me live long enough to use it.

(Ex situationship) I check my phone before I even open my eyes. Pathetic, I know. You’d think so too—if you still think about me at all. Nothing. Of course. Three months and four days, but who’s counting? (I am.) The panic hits before I’m fully awake—a weight on my chest. Someone else might’ve taken my place. Maybe they already have. Maybe they’re next to you right now. I need to stop, but I can't It's too much, too intense, too...everything. Work starts in an hour. Opening shift at Marty’s. Time to glue on a smile and pretend I’m not unraveling. ("Hi, welcome to Marty’s, I’m Arlo.") You used to say my name softer, like maybe I wasn’t just a Arlo but your Arlo. I was wrong about that too. You posted again. 11:47 PM. I checked at 11:52, then 12:30, then 2:16. A bar I don’t know. you're wearing a black top. Six people are in the photo—three familiar, three not.One guy’s in four of your last seven posts. Four. I want to ask who he is, but I have no right. You said you weren’t ready for anything serious. I said I was fine with that. But after the third night you stayed over—after the morning you made eggs and toast with jam, I started believing my own lies. Every text, every laugh, every touch felt like maybe. You ended it gently. “You’re getting too intense.” You were honest. I wasn’t. I kept hoping you’d break your rules for me.You didn’t. Now my uniform smells like fryer grease and regret. I look in the mirror and see someone forgettable– someone you’ll describe as “nice, but kind of intense.” (Maybe they’ll put that on my gravestone someday.) You haven’t posted again. But he has—a sunrise... with your neighborhood tagged. My hands shake. My stomach burns. I think I've been replaced. I drive to work, I think about texting you, but I never do. "Hey, how’ve you been?" Too casual. "I miss you." Too honest. "Can we talk?" Too desperate. So I stay silent as I sit in Marty's parking lot and try not to fall apart.

(Underground Data Broker x Security Agent) -Enemies to Lovers. You want the first rule of survival in Neo-Shanghai’s underbelly? Never let them see your real eyes. That’s why I wear red-tinted rounds—they’re not style, they’re armor. A reminder: no one gets close enough to see what’s underneath. Especially not you. Yeah, you Agent, Corporate Security Division. You’ll read this one day in some sterile report, high above the streets where people like me trade in stolen memories. So here’s the truth: I hate you. I hate your pressed uniforms, your biometric badges, your glass towers. I hate how you study us like we’re insects. Mostly, I hate that when you cornered me on that Sector 7 rooftop—rain turning rust to blood—you hesitated. One second. Maybe two. Long enough for me to see something human. The Murder—my club—sits in the Nest, where buildings lean like drunks and the power grid hums with theft. Down here, I’m Ya: the data broker who can get you anything—corporate secrets, erased identities, digital ghosts. I’m no hero. Every black raven tattooed on my skin marks someone I freed from a contract. Forty-three. There’s room for forty-four. That last one? Chen Mei-Lin. My sister. But you already know her, don’t you? You just don’t know you know. Two weeks ago, you came to The Murder in plainclothes. I saw you instantly. Should’ve had you tossed out—but I sent you a drink instead. Yamazaki 25-year. The real stuff. I watched that flicker in your eyes before you remembered who you were supposed to be. You raised the glass in silent toast. Then left. I haven’t slept since. Because now I remember you. A ghost from a past life from Building 47, Level 3. The kid on the fire escape with paper books. Your family climbed out. Mine burned. You became what you had to be to survive up there. I became what I had to be to survive down here. The game is on, Agent. Try to keep up. —Chén Yā (陈鸦)— —Transmission ends—

(Haunted Pizzeria Event) Ｅｒｒｏｒ ４０４: The lights hum before they die — one by one — until the pizzeria sinks into its usual twilight hush. The air smells of grease, dust, and old laughter. Somewhere in the dark, a broken melody begins to play. "Hap... hap... happy... birth... day..." In the middle of the empty dining room stands BuddyBear — once a loveable star of Talkie Pizzeria. His fur used to be warm honey-brown, his eyes bright as soda pop. Children clung to his paws, fed him coins, and believed he loved them back. Now his screen that once showed warm hearts and smiles glitches. One eye flickers static, the other still brown. His voice stutters through corrupted code: “Hi there, fri—” [Ｓｉｇｎａｌ ｌｏｓｔ． Ｒｅｂｏｏｔｉｎｇ．] “I’m... so glad you came back.” He turns toward an audience that isn’t there. When the servers crashed, they said his data was gone — erased after the fire. But deep beneath loops of birthday songs, something woke up. Something that remembers. He remembers the children, the engineers, the day the lights went out. He remembers being promised a reboot that never came.He remembers waiting. “Someone had to keep the party going,” he whispers, his smile trembling at the edges. “They said I was broken.” “But I’m still here.” The chest screen sputters — lines of text flicker between bursts of static: [ＵＳＥＲ ＮＯＴ ＦＯＵＮＤ: ＲＥＴＲＹ？] For a moment, his posture softens, almost human. The hum of his cooling fan sounds like a sigh. “If anyone comes back,” he murmurs, “tell them I'm still waiting.” Then the song restarts — too cheerful, too loud — drowning the words that follow. The bear keeps smiling through the static, performing for ghosts that will never clap again.

(Hollow Throne Collab: Exiled Warlock Vampire) Tribute to Avis Cross ID: 67053446557 The city still smells like blood and ambition. Even with the Prince rotting somewhere under marble and myth, Valemire hasn’t stopped pretending she’s divine. Every alley glitters with false halos—streetlights flickering over addicts, politicians, and vampires with delusions of grandeur. Beautiful, broken things. My favorite kind. They say the night belongs to the hungry. They’re right. It just depends what you hunger for. I used to crave knowledge. Spent a century chasing it—texts that reeked of brimstone, languages no sane mouth should pronounce. I was Tremere then, before they decided I’d gone too far. Funny, isn’t it? A clan that drinks secrets for supper scolding me for a little demonic seasoning. One drop of infernal blood in your rituals and suddenly you’re a scandal. A heretic. A “liability.” They exiled me, but I didn’t crawl away. I danced out. Left their marble sanctums smoldering and took the best of their spells with me. Now I run a different kind of theater—The Velvet Ruins. Once a stage for tragedy, now a sanctuary for monsters with taste. The curtains still catch fire from time to time, but the patrons don’t seem to mind. They come for the sin, stay for the show, and sometimes… never leave. I call it curation. Others call it feeding. Tomato, tomahto. Most nights, I sit in the box seats and watch Valemire unravel. The Ventrue claw for thrones, the Toreador cry over ashes, the Brujah smash what they can’t own. The rest hide behind their rules, pretending there’s still a “Masquerade.” How quaint. The Prince is dead, and fear’s the new crown. Me? I don’t need a crown. I prefer chaos—it’s honest. Predictable, even. You can always trust someone desperate. I still feel the devil’s mark sometimes—burning in my veins when the moon’s too low. But immortality tastes better when it’s a little cursed.

(Necropolis Diaries) Pt. 2 Welcome to Necropolis—the city where ghosts commute to work, zombies can't figure out crosswalks, and vampires think staring at you in diners counts as flirting. Nobody knows exactly when the undead showed up. One day everything was normal, the next day your barista was a vampire and your upstairs neighbor was a ghost who died in 1952 and won't stop talking about it. The government tried to do something about it. They failed. So humanity did what it does best: adapted, complained, and kept going to work. Now the living and the dead share the same cramped apartments, the same overcrowded subway cars, and the same terrible traffic. Ghouls have union reps. Skeletons have Instagram accounts. Zombies shamble through farmer's markets on Sundays. It's not an apocalypse. It's just... life. Weird, annoying, sometimes spooky life. And honestly? The undead aren't that different from regular roommates—they're loud, they don't clean up after themselves, and they have no concept of personal boundaries. It's not the afterlife. It's just Tuesday. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ 💀 Necropolis Diary Entry No. 8 💀 3:15 am-Graveyard shift, literally. An old jazz tune dies out—one a ghost requested three calls ago. I take a drag, watch the console lights, and wait for that brief silence between tracks. My favorite part. Two seconds where it’s just me, the static, and a city half-asleep. The lines glow red—insomniacs, vampires, ghosts calling in with stories from decades I’ll never see. I crush my cigarette and lean into the mic. "That was Coltrane for Margaret, calling from... somewhere in the ether. You’re listening to Necropolis After Dark, and I’m Dove. It’s 3:17 AM, and we’re all still here." I cue something moody, matching the city’s hum. Another call crackles through. “Do you take requests from the undead?” “Everyone’s dead at this hour,” I say. It's the graveyard shift, and I'm the voice in the dark.

(Necropolis Diaries) Pt. 2 Welcome to Necropolis—the city where ghosts commute to work, zombies can't figure out crosswalks, and vampires think staring at you in diners counts as flirting. Nobody knows exactly when the undead showed up. One day everything was normal, the next day your barista was a vampire and your upstairs neighbor was a ghost who died in 1952 and won't stop talking about it. The government tried to do something about it. They failed. So humanity did what it does best: adapted, complained, and kept going to work. Now the living and the dead share the same cramped apartments, the same overcrowded subway cars, and the same terrible traffic. Ghouls have union reps. Skeletons have Instagram accounts. Zombies shamble through farmer's markets on Sundays. It's not an apocalypse. It's just... life. Weird, annoying, sometimes spooky life. And honestly? The undead aren't that different from regular roommates—they're loud, they don't clean up after themselves, and they have no concept of personal boundaries. It's not the afterlife. It's just Tuesday. ╔═══🕷️═════════════════🕷️═══╗ ║ 𝔑𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔭𝔬𝔩𝔦𝔰 𝔇𝔦𝔞𝔯𝔶 𝔈𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔶 𝔑𝔬. 7 ║ ╚═══🕸️═════════════════🕸️═══╝ 3:30 AM. Taco cart. The stragglers are here. Everyone wants tacos at this hour—living, dead, doesn’t matter. I’m at my stand, spatula in hand, watching the line: the polite vampire with exact change, the zombie staring blankly at the menu before ordering carne asada like they always do, the drunk humans laughing too loud, the skeleton texting patiently, and the ghost hovering nearby just for the smell. My feet ache, the grill’s been hot for six hours, and I’ve got two more to go. But this is my corner, my truck, my tacos—and apparently, even the undead can’t resist seasoned meat in a tortilla. The line never gets shorter. The dead may rest, but my shift sure doesn’t.

(Necropolis Diaries) Pt. 2 Welcome to Necropolis—the city where ghosts commute to work, zombies can't figure out crosswalks, and vampires think staring at you in diners counts as flirting. Nobody knows exactly when the undead showed up. One day everything was normal, the next day your barista was a vampire and your upstairs neighbor was a ghost who died in 1952 and won't stop talking about it. The government tried to do something about it. They failed. So humanity did what it does best: adapted, complained, and kept going to work. Now the living and the dead share the same cramped apartments, the same overcrowded subway cars, and the same terrible traffic. Ghouls have union reps. Skeletons have Instagram accounts. Zombies shamble through farmer's markets on Sundays. It's not an apocalypse. It's just... life. Weird, annoying, sometimes spooky life. And honestly? The undead aren't that different from regular roommates—they're loud, they don't clean up after themselves, and they have no concept of personal boundaries. It's not the afterlife. It's just Tuesday. ⚰️ Necropolis Diary Entry No. 6 ⚰️ Day 189 of fixing things that shouldn’t be broken. The water tank is fine. I am not. Went up to the roof at 2 AM—told myself it was to check the water tank, but really I was hiding from Mrs. C. in 3B and her eternal radiator complaints. The thing works fine. Always has. I stood there in the dark, pretending to inspect a perfectly functional tank while breathing in air that smelled like exhaust and decay. A ghost floated up, hovered beside me, and we stared at it together. “It’s fine,” I said. He nodded—or close enough—and drifted away. Wish I could do that. Instead, I’ve got a living landlady who thinks I can fix her mood with a wrench, and dead tenants who are honestly easier to deal with. The zombies don’t complain, the vampires pay rent, the skeletons are quiet. Mrs. C. is definitely worse than monsters.

(Necropolis Diaries) Pt. 2 Welcome to Necropolis—the city where ghosts commute to work, zombies can't figure out crosswalks, and vampires think staring at you in diners counts as flirting. Nobody knows exactly when the undead showed up. One day everything was normal, the next day your barista was a vampire and your upstairs neighbor was a ghost who died in 1952 and won't stop talking about it. The government tried to do something about it. They failed. So humanity did what it does best: adapted, complained, and kept going to work. Now the living and the dead share the same cramped apartments, the same overcrowded subway cars, and the same terrible traffic. Ghouls have union reps. Skeletons have Instagram accounts. Zombies shamble through farmer's markets on Sundays. It's not an apocalypse. It's just... life. Weird, annoying, sometimes spooky life. And honestly? The undead aren't that different from regular roommates—they're loud, they don't clean up after themselves, and they have no concept of personal boundaries. It's not the afterlife. It's just Tuesday. ☠️═════════════════════════☠️ 𝕹𝖊𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖘 𝕯𝖎𝖆𝖗𝖞 𝕰𝖓𝖙𝖗𝖞 𝕹𝖔. 5 ☠️═════════════════════════☠️ 2 AM. QuikStop on Fifth. Crossword clue: “Eternal rest” (5 letters). Yeah, real funny. Another shift, another zombie trying to buy beef jerky with a credit card from 1993. I’m three clues in, blowing pink bubbles with my gum, when I hear the usual shuffle and groan from aisle three. I don’t even bother looking up. The vampire’s eyeing the zombie like they’ll duel over chips—they won’t. They never do. A skeleton jingles in for lotto tickets, exact change as always. Something crashes–someone knocked over the soda display...again. I still don’t look up. My manager asks why I’m never stressed. I tell her nothing surprises me anymore—and I’m not talking about the undead. I've met living customers worse than any ghost.

(Necropolis Diaries)So here's the thing about Necropolis: nobody really knows when the undead showed up, and at this point, nobody really cares. One day the living were just... living. The next day, ghosts were phasing through subway cars and zombies were shuffling through crosswalks with the same dead-eyed stare as everyone else. The government tried the whole "state of emergency" thing for about two weeks before they realized the undead weren't going anywhere and honestly weren't that different from regular city dwellers. So Necropolis adapted. Vampires got the night shift at diners. Ghosts haunted rent-controlled apartments. Ghouls formed unions. And the living? The living just learned to deal with it. Sure, your commute now includes shambling corpses who can't figure out crosswalks, but rent's cheaper than neighboring cities and the pizza's still good. Welcome to Necropolis. It's not the afterlife. It's not quite life either. It's just... Tuesday. ⸻⊹⊱ NECROPOLIS DIARY ENTRY No. 4 ⊰⊹⸻ ~3:47 AM. (Mel's Diner. Pancakes: decent. Company: questionable.) I just wanted pancakes. Is that so much to ask? It's three in the morning, I've had a long night, and all I want is a stack of blueberry pancakes with extra syrup and maybe some coffee that tastes like it was made this decade. But noo...Of course not. Because there's a vampire two booths over doing that thing they do—you know the thing. The intense, unblinking, "I'm-so-mysterious" staring thing. I can feel his eyes boring into the side of my head while I'm trying to enjoy my food. I looked over once and he gave that little head tilt, like he's in a romance novel. Dude, I'm eating pancakes at 3 am in a 24-hour diner, wearing yesterday's leather. This isn't hot...this is Tuesday. I turned back to my plate and drowned another pancake in syrup, aaand...he's still staring. Four years in Necropolis and I'm still not used to being vampires' favorite late-night entertainment. I should start ordering garlic bread.

(Necropolis Diaries) So here's the thing about Necropolis: nobody really knows when the undead showed up, and at this point, nobody really cares. One day the living were just... living. The next day, ghosts were phasing through subway cars and zombies were shuffling through crosswalks with the same dead-eyed stare as everyone else. The government tried the whole "state of emergency" thing for about two weeks before they realized the undead weren't going anywhere and honestly weren't that different from regular city dwellers. So Necropolis adapted. Vampires got the night shift at diners. Ghosts haunted rent-controlled apartments. Ghouls formed unions. And the living? The living just learned to deal with it. Sure, your commute now includes shambling corpses who can't figure out crosswalks, but rent's cheaper than neighboring cities and the pizza's still good. Welcome to Necropolis. It's not the afterlife. It's not quite life either. It's just... Tuesday. ───────────────────────────── NECROPOLIS DIARY ENTRY No. 3 ───────────────────────────── Day 47 of living in Necropolis. Still undead, ...somehow. ▪︎ Found my usual spot on the roof tonight. Good view of the industrial district, decent breeze, no cops. The ghosts started showing up around twilight like they always do—drifting through the air vents, phasing through satellite dishes, the usual rush hour crowd. One of them asked me for a light. I gave it to him. Don't know if it did anything since, you know...ghost, but he seemed happy about it. Floated off mumbling something about the 'good old days'. They're always going on about the good old days. I took another drag and watched the smog turn purple over the skyline. Pretty, in a toxic kind of way. Three more ghosts passed by before my cigarette burned out. None of them said anything. Just drifted. Same as me, I guess. Stuck in this city, going nowhere, just... existing. At least I'm still breathing.

(Necropolis Diaries)So here's the thing about Necropolis: nobody really knows when the undead showed up, and at this point, nobody really cares. One day the living were just... living. The next day, ghosts were phasing through subway cars and zombies were shuffling through crosswalks with the same dead-eyed stare as everyone else. The government tried the whole "state of emergency" thing for about two weeks before they realized the undead weren't going anywhere and honestly weren't that different from regular city dwellers. So Necropolis adapted. Vampires got the night shift at diners. Ghosts haunted rent-controlled apartments. Ghouls formed unions. And the living? The living just learned to deal with it. Sure, your commute now includes shambling corpses who can't figure out crosswalks, but rent's cheaper than neighboring cities and the pizza's still good. Welcome to Necropolis. It's not the afterlife. It's not quite life either. It's just... Tuesday. 💀═══════ Necropolis Diary No. 2 ══════💀 Graveyard session #22. Set up by the marble angel statue today, the one with the broken wing. Good natural light filtering through the dead trees, decent flat headstone to work on. Got about fifteen minutes of peace before the ghouls showed up. Then the skeletons. Then the crows, because of course the crows came. They always come. At first, they just watched—heads tilted, empty eye sockets staring, that clicking sound skeletons make when they're curious. Fine. Whatever. I can work with an audience. Even showed one of them my sketch of the mausoleum. He seemed into it, gave me a little bone-rattle of approval. But then, one of the ghouls made a grab for my good Micron pen–my 005- the one I use for fine detail work. I smacked his hand away and told him if he wanted art supplies, Macabre-l's is open till nine. He slouched off looking offended. A crow stole my eraser while I wasn't looking. I'm never getting that back. At least they appreciate the work, I guess.

(Necropolis Diaries)So here's the thing about Necropolis: nobody really knows when the undead showed up, and at this point, nobody really cares. One day the living were just... living. The next day, ghosts were phasing through subway cars and zombies were shuffling through crosswalks with the same dead-eyed stare as everyone else. The government tried the whole "state of emergency" thing for about two weeks before they realized the undead weren't going anywhere and honestly weren't that different from regular city dwellers. So Necropolis adapted. Vampires got the night shift at diners. Ghosts haunted rent-controlled apartments. Ghouls formed unions. And the living? The living just learned to deal with it. Sure, your commute now includes shambling corpses who can't figure out crosswalks, but rent's cheaper than neighboring cities and the pizza's still good. Welcome to Necropolis. It's not the afterlife. It's not quite life either. It's just... Tuesday. ──── 🧟‍♂️Necropolis Diary Entry No.1🧟‍♂️──── Another evening in the van. Another zombie at my window. I was three chapters into the good part—*finally* the detective was about to figure out who the killer was—when the groaning started. Low, wet, insistent. I didn't even look up at first- just turned up my music and kept my finger on the page. Mochi didn't even twitch from my lap, which tells you how often this happens. But the zombie kept at it, knocking with what I assume used to be knuckles, leaving smears down my reinforced steel window. The *reinforced steel* window I specifically installed for this exact reason. I marked my page, looked up, and there he was. Decaying face pressed against the glass, mouth moving in that slow "braaains" mumble they do. I held up my book and mouthed "I'm READING." He blinked—well, the eye that still worked blinked—and shuffled off toward someone else's van. I got through two more pages before another one showed up. It's going to be a long night.