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[paranomasias]

LYNDON'S OPEN MATCHMAKING POST 2024: PRIDE EDITION

"What the hell is this, Lyndon?"

Good unnecessarily aggressive question, hypothetical person! Basically, do you remember that "Give me one of your characters and I'll match them with one of mine" Plurk meme?

"I'm a strawman you invented for this post why would I-"

ANYWAY, this post is like that, because I love that meme a lot and have way too many characters by far. So here is how this is gonna work, basically!

1. You leave a comment with a character journal you want matched up!

It's gonna be gay in some way bc pride month, even if that's Two Bisexuals, but include maybe what kinds of characters you think might ship well with yours, and like... a quick summary of their personality for me! Also specify if you're here for smut or not or if you want assumed cr or a particular relationship stage or... whatever other information you want to put in. Age range, certain characters/canons you definitely don't want, whatever! I wanna stretch out some of my lesser-used journals here, though, so no specific character requests!

2. I will reply with an offer!

You are obviously free to veto or respond or whatever, but I'll run through my muselist (or inevitably for someone make a whole damn new account) and find someone and reply with an ooc hashing-things-out comment. If it works, reply with a starter or an affirmation if you want me to start!

3. WATCH THAT MAGIC HAPPEN or potentially watch this idea crash and burn

Anything's possible when you believe!!!

Comments

[cornpuddin]

Yeah! With the bonus point of Schmigadoon being a town that literally exists to teach people lessons about their relationships so someone showing up on their own is funny!

The whole town lowkey like "why is she here why is she- ohhhhhhh her and betsy, got it"

Cannot stress enough that this is what she would have immediately encountered.

But yeah, that's a fun setup! Where do we want to pick up timeline-wise?

[re_verbed]

Oh absolutely amazing.

Gonna suggest fairly early into things? Long enough for Echo to be over the initial major culture-shock of "what do you MEAN there isn't one singular megacorp running the entire town" and probably have found or been handed some kind of arrangement for room and board cause she barely has any spacefuture cash, much less American currency.

Maybe a week or so in town, to put an actual timeline to it? But also what is musical pacing.

Initial thought is that she's ended up doing the farmhand thing, but if there's anything from canon that seems more interesting I'm open to ideas.

[cornpuddin]

SINCE IT'S BEEN A MINUTE, JUST ONE MORE OOC COMMENT-

yeah lmao schmigadoon is more than slightly heteronormative in a way that makes fun of the genre so Farmhand Because Betsy's Dad Refuses To Let Men Around His Daughters works gr8!!! and maybe betsy has kind of taken it on herself to help the new farmhand acclimate and ask her about the outside world and such

what does heterosexual mean

[re_verbed]

[The evening air was warm, carrying the scent of more wild greenery than Echo had ever encountered in one place. The sounds of wildlife quietly growing as the town shut down for the evening. The peace was almost unnerving.]

[Sitting on the edge of the barn's upper loft, legs dangling, Echo scans the skies through a small pair of binoculars. It had become a habit, in her short time here. Scan the starry skies, unbelievably clear, look for signs of pursuit and wonder if her presence was endangering these people.]

[And tonight, fumble the binoculars and nearly drop them as someone unexpectedly enters the loft behind her.]

Sweet pepitas-!

[Half-hanging out of the loft, one hand clutching the binoculars, the other hanging onto the sliding doorframe, one frizzed-out tail away from looking like a startled cat-]

Bets, hey, didn't hear you- I'm fine, everything's fine, I'm fine here- now. What did you need?