Razielim Baths

[razielim]

I have many thoughts about vampire baths, and they all stem from the fact that I’ve always interpreted the flooded area of the Razielim clan territory as a marble bathhouse, used prior to the genocide as a place to socialize, cavort, and otherwise relax while being oiled, scrubbed, fed, and serviced. Presumably, public bathhouses were common throughout the empire and there were several others even within Raziel’s territory, but no other in all of Nosgoth was quite so spacious and regal.

On the days when the oil would be completely replaced, typically in welcome after bloody campaigns along the border, only the top ranking generals and their lovers were to use the baths while the rest of the army celebrated in smaller bathhouses or the parade grounds.

The cavernous moonlit atrium, often a crowded, warm, and boisterous place, would feel spacious and soothingly cool during these times, echoing only soft shuddering gasps and the gentle rippling of oil against marble. The slick bathers and perilously slippery marble floors would gleam like glass in the reflected light of the moon.







In other news, interaction on DW is a lot more difficult to keep up with than I realized. It's a lot more like staying on top of my tumblr inbox than regular comment/reblog notifications, and boy oh boy do I have a history of letting poor anons languish in the inbox for entirely too long. I'm relieved to see I'm not alone, at least. I believe the law is "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging," so I've stopped making posts lol, but that's not a very sustainable solution if I still want to... actually use the site and... talk to people. I don't know how to solve the issue. Surely other people also have executive dysfunction and still manage to jot off replies once a week...

("Jot off (correspondence)" is a set phrase, right? I swear I've heard it multiple times, but googling brings up so dismally few results, it looks like I'm crazy. Am I thinking of some other phrase? "Dash off" exists, but I swear "jot off" does too.)

Comments

[dr_zook]

It's true, DW culture wasn't used to emojis, I think, but the (latest) influx of users from other platforms kind of changed that? I'm not averse to them, and now that I have a new laptop with a seperate key (zero idea how normal people include them, sorry) I start adding them to the more oldschool things I'm typing, haha. 🦑

Don't let the inbox intimidate you! I guess as long as you know what kind of conversation you want to keep going, and where you can entertain it, it's all fine?

[razielim]

WHOA, new laptops have emoji key integration?? Fascinating. I don't know why I'm so surprised, but still WHOA??

Yeah, I deadass open a new tab and type "blush emoji" or whatever in the search bar whenever I need one. Back when I spent a lot more time replying to tumblr comments/messages, I actually used the Windows sticky notes app with all my favorite emoji on it, kept it side by side with my browser window, and copy/pasted from there, which was significantly faster. I hope someday firefox will let us type emoji names to pull them up, like discord does.