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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

// Old posts didn’t retroactively get the thread numbering, that’s surprising. Torn between relieved because I kind of dislike the clutter it adds and disappointed because “solos” like that aren’t as apparent when reposted

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

( But do you remember the faces of your kin, the scramble of their tiny hands clutching for yours as you climbed, reaching and grasping for the way out and light above? Could you? Could you, the last and only one out, remember them, left behind broken and dark in the pit below? )

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

← Just learned about marimo and is overcome with maternal fondness

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Swaying where they stand. Without fully meaning to, they haven’t slept in days. The cold has crept slowly back in. Instinct over conscious logic has rooted them to the spot at their outpost in some attempt to benefit from the remaining warmth for as long as possible.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

(What better place for a beast of void and purpose than the dark?)

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

// Surprising no one I got my shins kicked in by poor health again. I'm not claiming to be back to normal just yet but I will certainly be trying. And if I continue to do nothing but flounder like a dying fish then it's not that I lied it's that I failed

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

// Everyone’s been talking an awful lot about it lately(?) so unfortunately I have neither a proper writer tag nor enough accounts to make a starter pack with. But I do tend to manually list my other guys somewhere in my pinned, so there is at least that

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

[ Solo ] The economic and agricultural independence of Snowside moves apace. Lantana stands at the fringes of new fields in the process of being dug and tilled and sown with seeds from some far-flung place, sure to grow into plentiful crops that will serve as a new culinary staple and export.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

// Yes and no. It isn’t from typical motion sickness so much as unrelated biology causing a miserable domino effect. Being a tree-based nature deity thing and 100% disconnected from solid ground is a terrible combination, and in their case causes what is best described as intense vertigo.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

// Unfortunately for everyone involved, since I have un-parodied Lantana for real for real, it means I will now go back to inflicting as much narratively thematic damage as possible. As is my way apparently, when not handicapped by writing for the bit™

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

@sunsetsol.bsky.social It's a bit of a gamble, visiting Lantana unannounced. If they cannot be found outside at their post, one runs the risk of entering to find them asleep at the hearth or farther in in a state not fit to describe in polite company—if not elsewhere entirely, often for worse.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

@thescarveteran.bsky.social While those within their snow-quiet home are quick to notice the suffering of their beloved guardian, the feeling of isolation is an inescapable, inevitable companion, brought on gradually by the modest seclusion of their outpost's location. Near, but not near enough.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

// Anyway starter call for mask-down-by-default Lantana as they were always intended please maybe 🫶

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

// I've been struggling with this for a while, but it's reached a new breaking point recently, so I need to do something about it for real. This isn't drama or anything, so I would appreciate anyone who has/is interested in interacting with Lantana taking the time to read this.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

They need a whole week to be mask-down. Maybe even a month. No more thoughts, no careful empathy, no heightened sensitivity. Just comfortable quiet in mind and would-be speech both, and no expectations. Let them be the one guarded and soothed and doted on, for a change.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

[ Solo ] There is poetic irony, too, in knowing they can't often see the expressions of others. To a vessel-in-part, everyone 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 may as well now be the easily-misread would-be hollow thing, if only the criteria to be were so simple.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

// I am so completely out of the loop with UT/DR but know I am looking at all your guys with so much wonder and fondness from a respectful unobtrusive distance (maybe some day I’ll play)

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

(Making a noise that sounds suspiciously like a cough—)

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

// If “Thigh Thursday” is a thing now I might have to draw something to have ready for next week’s. For definitely no reason in particular that implies Lat is built like a goddess or anything

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

They miss Greenpath, in a way. Their stay there had been a short one, and blind as they already were, they never knew it for its sights. But they had come to know its verdant scent, its rounded leaves, its moss-covered stone and the shadow-cooled temple they’d recovered and self-nurtured in.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

// I choose today specifically to be silly. Otherwise the horrors

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Human holidays get another rare pass. It’s national Be Nice To Bugs Day. You legally have to be nice to her.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

// I’ve been referring to the settlement Lantana lives in as “Snowside” as a placeholder for literal months now because I thought for sure it was already used by a certain indie game or something, but apparently not? So to hell with it that’s canon now

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

// The demons finally won. If you want another (and hopefully the last) of my sad niche bugs: @tarnished-crown.bsky.social exists now

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The plant growth in nearly the entire village has doubled since the start of this “spring”. They might’ve overdone it. Just a tad.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

There’s a steady trickle of water from the short cliff beside the road of their outpost, leading down into a shallow pool at its base. There may not be snow to faceplant into at the moment, but sitting in this little pond is the next best thing, they suppose.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

// Lantana may be the type to thrive in this heatwave but I certainly am not. Rattling the bars of my cage let me go outside!! That’s where I write!!! I Guess if I can’t go outside I can finally draw them in “full bloom” like I’ve been meaning to for weeks now but RAAAAAAH

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Too polite and well-trained for their own good. Just once, they wish they could justify going on an absolute rampage to vent some of this abstract frustration. If they can’t be “normal”, if they can’t live the life they need, then they may as well become the beast they were expected to be, no?

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

// I’m not brave enough to be the funny guy bc I always worry it’ll come off as “if you mention this I Have to respond to it because hahah get it guys they’re a bug too” but just know any time someone mentions bugs IC I am looking at it with this specific meme response in mind every time

guy pointing at himself with a dumbfounded expression meme

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Tripped. Did not bother to stand back up. It’s no moss, but it’s warm, and smells like dew. Fine then, they can have an impromptu nap right here. (It’s the least they’re owed after someone left their supplies in the path of a blind bug.)

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

// There’s a joke to be made here about how I have a full-void bug (Hallow), a more-Root-than-void (this one), but somehow don’t have a more-Wyrm-than-void one. I do. And it’s this idiot I’m still thinking about making an account for. One of these days the demons will get me and I’ll do it for real.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

(Shame they’re blind. Their feed today would have them acting decidedly un-knightly.)

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Punished (had a million and three nightmares) for crashout crimes (doing literally nothing but having completely reasonable feelings about their circumstances). But at least they’re normal again.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

← Guy who is having the politest crashout of the century (standing very still and refusing to look at anyone)

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Next guy who looks at them funny is getting yeeted over the cliff.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

They’re having a normal one. Normalest bug in the village actually. Never mind the seething, the shakes, the wilted leaves.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A rather large number of children have come from the city on a school trip. Nearly half of them have decided to place flowers somewhere directly on or in Lantana’s immediate vicinity, leaving the guardian heavily decorated with petals of myriad colours. Decent day, all things considered.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It’s been raining for hours, and they have not moved an inch from their post outside. They’ve changed their mind. Awful other-world holidays be damned, today is maybe not so bad.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A hanging head to match an utterly foul mood, this day. They have decided other-world holidays are better left unknown, actually.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Bring back the soup wars. They want a whole pot of cream stew.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

// Every day this week so far has been some variation of: “I will not make an account for another Hollow, Bsky has enough of my sad niche bugs” (5 seconds later) “But what if I made it anyway and it was just an easter egg to find instead of something I invest in making super public like this one”

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

(Well, they can’t all be so lucky. Still, what a sad scene, in its own way. One gruesome sight to match another.)

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

(What pitiful children the Pale King has made. One melted, the other two prone to should-be impossible illness.)

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

How pitiful, to miss a mother who was never there. And how childish, to lament the ways in which she could have been.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

// (voice of a guy who can’t consistently write lately due to medical hell) (Looking longingly at the feed) I need a multiverse-compatible muse who isn’t inherently based out of the HK verse so I can bug some of you guys more often

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒶 🌱 @branching-paths.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

A visit from their sister today. She’s brought blueprints for a prosthetic arm. They can’t see or read it. She knows, and presents prototypes for the pieces meant to fit along their shoulder, and the articulated joints of what might one day make up their new hand. They can’t stomach the thought.

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