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ph_memes2030-08-05 04:14 pm
Pumpkin Hollow Pen-Pal Program
Welcome to the Pumpkin Hollow Pen-Pal Program!
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Letters have been something that has brought people across Concord closer together in spite of great distances. Being cut off from the greater world has not only left people lacking in outlets to write to friends and loved ones they may not have time to see every day, but left our local post office alarmingly dry of service.
That's where you can help!
By joining Marrow Isle's Pen-Pal Program, not only can you assist in revitalizing our postal service and help to keep our couriers on the move, but through our pen-pal lottery, you'll have the potential to write to an acquaintance, an old friend, or perhaps a new friend entirely! Participation in the lottery is entirely optional, of course, as you're always welcome to simply register and write to your current companions.
To participate, all you need to do is provide your mailing address via the form below, and the post office will provide you envelopes, paper, and ink, free of charge! We look forward to seeing new bonds formed through writing!
-Created with love by the Autumn Leaves Dormitory House, graciously hosted by the Marrow Isle Postal Service.-
To sign up for a pen-pal, all you have to do is:
- Create a toplevel for your character that will serve as their pen-pal inbox, filling out the form below! For addresses, you may either the specific address you picked from the reference sheet or just their neighborhood if you haven't picked one.
- Reply to the Lottery comment to be entered into the lottery before the listed deadline. New lotteries to be assigned a new pen-pal will occur monthly, so feel free to sign up every month, just once, or as desired! (Be sure to have your toplevel comment inbox set up before pen-pals are assigned!)
- If you do not want a randomly assigned partner, no worries! You can simply have one of your characters send a letter directly to another character's inbox.
- When you are given your recipient, send them a starting letter in their inbox, and you will receive one from whoever was assigned yours! It will work like Secret Santa, resulting in two letter threads.
- Letter threads can last as long as you want, but if you sign up again the following month, you'll get two more. Budget your energy appropriately!
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If you have found such a person, then I am happy for you. Connection or not, you deserve someone you are so comfortable around, and I hope that such only continues to grow, as you learn or re-learn each other. Bring me more good news as you do.
My door is always open to you, day or night, to discuss whatever you would. I'm probably awake anyway.
-Fever
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I suppose we could all use good news in this place. I do enjoy it here far more than the Eterna, and even more than my home. I have you all here and that's so strange to think of how much I've been missing.
I appreciate your friendship and hope you know that my door is also always open to you. I should also advise you that I can hear you from a long distance now, if you need me all you must do is call and I will find you.
Sincerely,
Valdis
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You know my first thought is how long you've been able to do such a thing, and whether now I must go into the depths of Paradesium to have conversations in private. Of course, I don't truly mean that. It's a relief to know that should I need, I can simply call. Who knows when it will end up needed?
I was told something the other day, regarding one's home. There's always the possibility of building one, if you lack one, though it will be difficult. One may try and fail completely. But it can be done. I think if this place brings you true happiness, then there's no reason it cannot be your home that you built for yourself.
-Fever
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It's simply a power of mine that I can give to others I care for, don't worry, it's not an invasion of your privacy, I will only hear you if you want me to. It may prove useful here, where we are always on the cusp of something going wrong.
I agree that a home can be built, but as someone who can be more beast than man, I find it is the people whom I love that make a place home. That number grows smaller, but I hope that new people can help heal those broken pieces when they occur. It's funny, I spent most of my free life as a lone wolf, and yet now I crave the comfort of others.
I didn't realize I was missing out on so much.
Sincerely,
Valdis
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Aren't wolves supposed to have packs? That's what I've heard, anyway. They've got their friends and family and all else. Even those they can't stand. All the pieces of a wolf community.
-Fever
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My pack would have eaten each other alive if they could, there was no family to be found in their midst. I got out, but there was a price and I have been paying for it ever since.
With such a history is there any wonder why I denied connection for so long?
Sincerely,
Valdis
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No wonder at all. You hardly need to explain such actions to me. That you've opened yourself to connection now is enough, in my eyes. It took a long time, but now, it sounds like you can build your home out of the family and friends you're keeping. But let me not preach to you things you already know.
-Fever
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I don't consider it preaching. You are the first I have met who can truly understand the life I have lived. Many have asked, but I cannot tell them these things, no matter how much they want to know. Perhaps I shouldn't even tell you, but to be by the side of someone who sees all of me, to be able to tell someone the truth without fear, is such a relief and a gift.
I hope you feel the same.
Sincerely,
Valdis
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I do. Coming across another who I can be fully honest with is more precious than you realize. I have had companionship, but it does not always go hand in hand with understanding, or taking me seriously when I've tried to state the troubles I've had. Being able to have that perhaps the only way I can learn to live with it without wanting to crawl out of my own skin.
Someone told me once that I balk at the idea of the long term. I think it's easier to consider when I know I don't have to deal with everything on my own.
-Fever
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I understand what you are saying as my affection for you goes beyond companionship. It is not the same as what I feel for Max, nor is it the same as what I feel for Crichton, whom I call my brother. Truthfully I do not know how to describe it, but it is similar enough for me to call it love of some kind. Perhaps that is a bit forward, and perhaps I am simply confused as trusting relationships are still new to me.
Still, I shall never leave you to face your past or present alone, and despite the pain it may cause me, I shall hold to our agreement should the worst come to pass.
Sincerely,
Valdis
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Forgive the delay of this letter, for it took me some time to find the correct words to put to my feelings, and it'd be rude to simply flood you with all that I feel in an attempt to convey it properly.
You honor me with your words and your feelings. I do not know enough of love to call any of my feelings that to anyone - not the kind you feel for Max or Crichton or otherwise, but if love feels like the right word, then I will not refute you on it. The forms it takes are mysterious enough to not worry over whether it's too forward or not. What I do know is that I wish only for your happiness, and should you ever need me, I'm here. Be it for the past, present, or future. You need not carry the weight of all those years on only your own shoulders.
-Fever
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I wish for your happiness too, and I hope that someday you will understand the warmth that comes with different kinds of love. I cannot tell you which one is which, you will have to reach those conclusions on your own, but if it is possible for me, I have no doubts you will continue to discover more about what you want in life.
I hope to see you in person soon, until then, stay safe.
Sincerely,
Valdis