#& RE; ( starters. )

[ask-kei-machi]

This sucks.

Why'd he agree to this again?

Kei knew they're anti-social (social anxiety technically), yet here they were; facing different people from different houses like it was their brightest idea yet.

He faintly makes out some familiar faces in the crowd while he nibbles on one of the many items on his plate he knows would be left by the end of the night. There's Alli over there... His vice as entertainment... Even Subaru is here, which soothes his anxious fretting, but not by much.

Damn, his social battery is already low... Polite chatter with others makes him annoyed, especially with some trying to pry information out of him (what the hell's up with that??) or something of that nature. They squeeze the hand-warmers in his pocket, the warmth radiating from the small thing making his hands one of the few places his body was warm.

He wishes Towa was here, at least he'd have someone to talk to, and maybe he'd finally be able to tell him.

[goodnightmemes]

GLADIATOR (2000) SENTENCE STARTERS

❛ At my signal, unleash hell. ❜

❛ What we do in life echoes in eternity. ❜

❛ After two weeks on the road your incessant scheming is hurting my head. ❜  

❛ There is always someone left to fight. ❜

❛ The gods must have a sense of humor. ❜  

❛ A soldier has the advantage of being able to look his enemy in the eye. ❜

❛ Don't get too comfortable. I may call on you before long. ❜

❛ If only you had been born a man. What a Caesar you would have made. ❜  

❛ Let us pretend that you are a loving daughter and I, a good father. ❜  

❛ This is a pleasant fiction, isn’t it? ❜  

❛ I will not believe that they fought and died for nothing. ❜

❛ Will you accept this great honor that I have offered you? ❜

❛ With all my heart, no. ❜  

❛ You are the son that I should have had. ❜

❛ You are lying. I could always tell when you were lying because you were never good at it. ❜  

❛ Is it really so terrible seeing me again? ❜

❛ Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time I do what I have to. ❜

❛ I searched the faces of the gods for ways to please you, to make you proud. ❜  

❛ What is it in me you hate so much? ❜

❛ Your fault as a son is my failure as a father. ❜

❛ I would have butchered the whole world if you would have only loved me! ❜  

❛ Take my hand. I only offer it once. ❜

❛ At least give me a clean death - a soldier’s death. ❜  

❛ As your mother was there at your beginning, so I shall be there at your end. ❜

❛ Ultimately, we’re all dead men. ❜  

❛ As always, your lightest touch commands obedience. ❜

❛ Who are they to lecture me?  ❜

❛ It’s an idea, greatness. Greatness is a vision. ❜  

❛ I will give the people a vision and they will love me for it. ❜  

❛ Fear and wonder - a powerful combination. ❜

❛ He will give them death, and they will love him for it. ❜  

❛ ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?! ❜  

❛ I am required to kill, so I kill. That is enough. ❜  

❛ I wasn’t the best because I killed quickly. I was the best because the crowd loved me. ❜  

❛ Win the crowd, win your freedom. ❜   

❛ Do you believe you'll see them again when you die? ❜

❛ You will meet them again. But not yet. Not yet. ❜  

❛ I didn't know men could build such things. ❜

❛ All my desires are splitting my head to pieces. ❜

❛ They said you were a giant. They said you can crush a man’s skull with one hand. ❜  

❛ Go, and die with honor. ❜  

❛ We who are about to die, salute you. ❜  

❛ If we stay together, we survive. ❜

❛ Why doesn’t the hero reveal himself and tell us all your real name? You do have a name? ❜  

❛ I will have my vengeance in this life or the next. ❜  

❛ He shouldn’t be alive. This vexes me. I am terribly vexed. ❜  

❛ If they lie to me, they don't respect me. If they don't respect me, how can they ever love me? ❜

❛ I wouldn’t want to be your enemy. ❜  

❛ I knew your brother would send assassins. I didn’t know he would send his best. ❜  

❛ I have been living in a prison of fear since that day. ❜  

❛ The gods have spared you. Don't you understand? ❜

❛ Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome. ❜  

❛ They oppose him, yet they do nothing. ❜  

❛ Forget you ever knew me. Never come here again. ❜  

❛ You have a great name. He must kill your name before he kills you. ❜  

❛ We mortals are but shadows and dust. ❜

❛ What am I going to do with you, you simply won’t die. ❜  

❛ Are we so different, you and I? You take life when you have to, as do I. ❜  

❛ I only have one life left to take and then it is done. ❜  

❛ The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end. ❜

❛ I will not make a martyr of him. ❜  

❛ I hope my coming here today is enough evidence that you can trust me. ❜  

❛ Let my men see me alive and you shall see where their loyalties lie. ❜

❛ I will not trade one dictatorship for another! ❜

❛ Because that was the last wish of a dying man. ❜  

❛ Do you remember what it was to have trust? ❜

❛ It’s a dream, a frightful dream… life is. ❜  

❛ You risk too much. ❜  

❛ I have much to pay for. ❜  

❛ I am tired of being strong. ❜

❛ Was I very different then? ❜  

❛ I have felt alone all my life, except with you. ❜  

❛ Sometimes royal ladies behave very strangely and do very odd things in the name of love. ❜  

❛ He was betrayed, by those closest to him… by his own blood … they whispered in dark corners and went out late at night and conspired and conspired… ❜  

❛ Tell me what you have been doing, or I shall strike down those dearest to you. You shall watch as I bathe in their blood. ❜   

❛ Are you in danger of becoming a good man? ❜

❛ As for you, you will love me, as I have loved you. ❜  

❛ Am I not merciful? AM I NOT MERCIFUL? ❜  

❛ A striking story. Now the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. ❜  

❛ I think you have been afraid all your life. ❜  

❛ Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. ❜  

❛ That makes us brothers, doesn’t it? Smile for me now brother. ❜  

❛ There was once a dream that was Rome, it shall be realized. ❜  

❛ Is Rome worth one good man’s life? We believed it once. Make us believe it again. ❜  

❛ I will see you again. But not yet, not yet… ❜

[huntershowl-moving]

old and new partners welcome! if you're new and/or i can't think of anything off the bat, i may reach out to plot first. <3 will most likely range from one-liners to multipara starters. don't be shy if we already have threads going, i'm a million-simultaneous-threads kinda gal. i'll find a new angle in the character dynamic or plot to pursue. kisskiss

[roleplay-evil]

Banned Footage Vol. 2 Starters

"Wake up and smell the shitty coffee, [name]."

"I wish we could have had a little more fun."

"Aww, that's the spirit, [name]!"

"Whoa! Lucky you, [name]!"

"You didn't really think you could win MY game, did you?"

"I'm gonna stay."

"What did I do? Tell me, what did I do?"

"[name]... what's gotten into you?"

"I'm so sorry, I don't know what's wrong with me."

"Thank you for saving my life. But please, forget all about me."

"Just pretend we never met."

"Don't you worry, it's a whole lot worse than it looks."

"This is insane. You can't do this..."

"You can't keep me out."

"No-no. Shut up! You ain't real!"

"No, no, no! You can't be serious! Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"

"[name], just give up! Stop being selfish and die already!"

"I found you. No more running around."

"What? You just gonna up and leave us?"

"What's the big idea, [name]? You ain't going nowhere!"

"What? You playing hide and seek?"

"You promised to let me go! Hey, you sick fuck! Talk to me!"

"You enjoying this, you prick?"

[spaced-out-muses]

Starter call!

Been feeling the urge to try and get more things rolling over here, so like this post if you’d like to plot something! Please specify your muse if you’re multimuse. Additionally, I do ask that you have at least a vague idea for a dynamic or interaction so we can go from there, but if not I’m always down to brainstorm! I tend to struggle a bit if I have nothing to bounce off of ahsjkdgsfdhgf.

[bluerevs-a]

ﾟ ✧  plot: joel just got d*mped and is trying to get sloppy drunk. any connection. open to: f / nb .

          “don’t look at me like that,” joel begs, “no judgement tonight." the amber hue of his whiskey neat was skewed in the bar's dim light, and he could finally begin to feel his head swim from the alcohol. “i’ll get over it. it’s fine.”

[heartsdefine]

a random starter from eleven for ylfa / @stormlit

        elle isn't stupid; she knows there's a potential for anything coming out of the upside down to be dangerous. that's why she doesn't wake hop when she has the dream she knows is actually real. that's why she grabs a flashlight and heads out into the woods to investigate on her own. because she also knows, somehow, that this being won't be dangerous to her. eleven feels as if there's some invisible thread connecting them, some sameness that she doesn't understand. and that's why she decides she needs to find them.

        so she picks her way through the woods in the drizzling rain, scanning the trees with her flashlight, squinting as the narrow beam of light cuts through the darkness. that's when she hears it; the sound of someone approaching. elle stops, frozen and listening. above the light sound of raindrops on the leaves, she can hear twigs snapping. an irritated growl. she swings around, leveling the flashlight on the space between two trees where she's pretty sure the sound is coming from.

        “hello?” she calls, uncertainly. “i'm here…” she's not sure if the person she saw in her dreams saw her back.

[jga-dumpster-blog]

mfw someone brings up the "starter horse dies" audio...

[yo9urt]

Pokémon Fushigi no Motherfucking Dungeon !!!!

(i would put a screenshot here but my deck couldn't upload them for some reason.)

thoughts & comments on pmd in japanese below (VERY LONG)

28 new flashcards!!

uncountable new words that i did not add for various reasons!!

observations:

blessedly, the game is so far not using a lot of formal language. the personality quiz did use formal language but the actual characters themselves are speaking very casually (i’m actually really excited to see how the npcs speak in the future, i want to see how they’re characterized via their speaking styles)

one thing that really interests me in japanese is the 2nd person pronoun system and how people (or characters) choose to refer to each other and this was super fun to watch for in the game. in the first chapter, i counted 1 use of あなた (only in the “what’s your name?” menu input), several uses of きみ (most of which occurred during the personality quiz, but some of which were used by the partner pokemon prior to learning MC’s name; every time, it was written in katakana), 1 or 2 uses of おまえ (used by zubat towards the partner), and i noticed that after learning MC’s name partner exclusively refers to them by their name and does not use any kind of suffix. my guess is that this is either 1. because they are not human / this is standard practice in the pokemon world or 2. hinting at the fact that they end up having a very close relationship and that partner trusts leader immediately. i’m half expecting wigglytuff and/or chatot to be referred to as 先生 or something like that so we’ll see in chapter 2!!

speaking of expectations, i had a couple going in: 1. that there would be a lot of onomatopoeias, because they seem to have a huge amount of use in creative writing, & 2. that i would see a lot of the little stylistic bits & bobs i’m already familiar with in japanese that tell you more about a character. both of these came true! i’ve already added some new onomatos to my flashcards AND i noticed some fun things about the characters:

male partner uses ぼく (sensible - it’s either that or おれ, and he is NOT an おれ character at all) (funnily enough and perhaps somewhat embarrassingly i did name the partner in this game majima and in hindsight i’m thinking wow they are literally not like each other at all but it’s ok i’m just choosing to ignore it i cba to redo the entire save anyway. plus i customized it so he's gastly and i'm clefairy which is already the cutest duo ever and i don't want to change that especially because i also had to give them custom stats and movesets so WHATEVER majima is just going to be different in this universe and he can handle that. also the partner is written very cutely and giving him that name made him even cuter to me so its no big deal really)

speaking of cutely i literally can’t explain this because i don’t remember it being the case in the english version but genuinely there is something REALLY endearing about how the partner talks in the japanese version. i guess thats another reminder that things really do get lost in translation like im sure the TL team did the best they could but english partner and japanese partner already feel different from each other and the latter is so cute, in a way it does feel like he has a fuller range of expression here

i think male MC also uses ぼく? i swear i remember a “ぼくじしん” in there but who knows

ぼく and ほんとう (spelled ほんと by the partner but ほんとう in MC’s thoughts) were almost entirely in katakana (i think ほんとう might have been hiragana), also for some reason なぞ (“riddle” or ���enigma”) was in katakana too???? just for artistic flair, maybe? おまえ was as well but that makes sense

zubat and koffing (zubat in particular) both had a rougher, more masculine speaking style, which is exactly what i expected from them. lots of sentence-ending ぜ and ぞ (male partner uses さ from time to time, but not ぜ/ぞ), and they called partner 弱虫くん which made me so mad on his behalf! so rude!!!!!!!

other thoughts:

i was worried about the lack of kanji but honestly it’s not impeding my reading at all. a lot of the words are words that don’t need kanji, and if they are kanji-based words then they’re either ones i’ve never seen before (and i can just look them up online) OR they’re ones i can recognize by their reading/the context/just generally being familiar with them after seeing them a bunch in other places. i definitely feel like my intuition for like…word boundaries and that kind of thing has already gotten stronger and will probably improve from playing this game lol

HOLY FUCK, READING PRACTICE. you would not believe the amount of reading i did. when i got to beach cave (literal very first dungeon in the game) i sat in the menu for maybe at least half an hour just straight up muddling through the 700000 words the game was putting in front of me. some of them i looked up, some i grasped from context, some i gave up on (but the last category was pretty small)

i was reading the entire menu and i got to the “hints” section and it was so long that i just gave up. a treat for future me

speaking of context, playing a game i know by heart was ABSOLUTELY the right decision. i could largely figure out what moves my boys have without knowing what the names of the moves meant by reading the descriptions and going “hmm…ghost…physical…low power…this is astonish!!!!!” or “normal…no damage…always lands…YAWN!!!” etc.

i also think i’m playing this at the right stage of my learning. just beginner enough to heavily benefit from the mass exposure/immersion aspect of it, but learnéd enough to recognize a great deal of what’s put in front of me, and already knowing the game really well makes it SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (X1000000000) much easier to bridge the gap between what i do and don’t know. i got a tiny bit mentally exhausted from all the reading lol but it was soooooo worth it, most of my studying right now comes in the form of kanji/vocab + grammar/structure + listening to music so i’ve been sorely lacking in the “just straight up reading things normally” department and this game really fixes that up for me :)

keeping it real my speaking is definitely shit because i never practice (unless you count singing…) but i found myself reading out loud as i played to help figure things out and i do feel like i improved a tiny bit by the end. the partner pokemon in particular was really fun to read for because they gave him a fairly emotional/heart-on-his-sleeve speaking style (not dissimilar to the english version, but it feels much stronger here as previously noted) so i got to have fun reading his lines :P i definitely felt like i was hitting the consonants much better and keeping everything flowing well

im trying to upload screenshots but it wont work, so for personal recordkeeping: SENTENCES THAT I READ AND UNDERSTOOD ALL BY MYSELF AND AM REALLY PROUD OF

いちどきめたことはさいごまでやりとおす？ roughly = “once you’ve decided to do something, do you see it through to the end/do you stick with it?” (lit. “one time decided thing TOPIC end until carry through?”)

「はどう」とは　きみのからだがはっするみえないエネルギーのことだ roughly = “[aura] is the energy your body gives off” (lit. “[wave motion] QUOTE TOPIC you POSS body SUBJ emit energy NOM thing is”)

オレンのもをたベると　HPがかいふくするぞ！Xボタンでメニューをひらき　「どうぐ」コマンドからたべてみよう！ roughly = “if you eat an oran berry, your HP will restore! try eating it using the ‘item’ command after opening the menu with the X button!” (lit. “oren NOM/CLASS fruit OBJ eat.NP IF ‘HP’ SBJ restore do EMPHATIC! ‘X’ button MEANS menu OBJ open(NOUN) [tool] command from eat-and-see-VOL!”)

why is the tutorial using ぞ???

is it because i picked boy during the quiz? is it trying to be manly with me??? am i reading too deeply into this? (probably)

i was surprised to see 道具 here because i just recently learned it and i was like “tool? there’s no tools in this game…” but i could tell from its menu position that it was item/inventory so i was like, huh, interesting use of the word…

この　かけらが　はまる　ばしょを　いつか　はっけんしたい！ roughly = “someday, i want to discover the place that this fragment fits into!” (lit. “this fragment SBJ fit place OBJ someday discovery do-want!”)

i did have to look up はまる but i knew all the other words on my own!!!!

it was so fun seeing words i recognized especially higher level (higher relative to where i am, at least, i.e. more recently learned) kanji words like 場所 ＆ 発見。noticing them in kana felt kind of like seeing your friend at a costume party and knowing it’s them without them telling you or something lol and i always get so excited seeing vocab words i know in the wild!! it feels great to recognize them naturally like that :)

[devon-sinclair]

Location: The Outpost

"If you order just a beer or a shot right now I'll give it to you on the house. Two on the house if it's just these bud light bottles," he told whoever had just sat down at the bar. It was only his second day taking over and his bartender had called out on him. As much as Devon drank, he was hardly a bartender and though he was looking up as many recipes as possible, he wasn't exactly learning them all quickly. "Unless you're willing to wait like an hour for me to get a few things down," he admitted, re-arranging things behind the bar to make more sense for his brain. He wasn't going to let Beau down. "What you say?"

[jannwrites]

film ask meme : RE-ANIMATOR (1985) directed by STUART GORDON.

a selection of lines from the 1985 film re-animator. modified for rp purposes.

you idiot! you'll ruin my notes.

of course he's dead.

i gave him life.

your optimism is touching, but a waste of time.

don't know why they keep locked doors around here.

nobody wants in and ain't nobody gettin' out.

i'm sorry, [name]. i didn't mean to scare you.

i just didn't know anybody was here.

what were you researching?

i'm afraid the place is still kind of a mess.

you'll never even know that i'm here.

you didn't say why you left.

the brain can only survive an additional six to twelve minutes.

we all want to retain our personalities in some idyllic afterlife.

perhaps it takes desire. an obsessive desire.

these people are here to learn and you're closing their minds before they even have a chance!

look, it's not you, really. it's just a lot of little things.

do you ever see him?

i told you. he's a little cracked.

i certainly didn't think you'd want to find it like that.

i was busy pushing bodies around, as you well know.

i knew you were fond of it.

you killed him. i know you did.

all life is a physical and chemical process, correct?

i've conquered brain death.

do you agree that he's dead now?

i think you're being blinded by your emotions.

let's go. we're not going to find anything.

something should have happened by now.

i followed you here, and i'm gonna follow you until you listen to me!

it listened to me. it made a conscious act.

i want you to think of me as someone you can come to with your problems.

i don't have to talk to you.

oh, it is not the appearance of life. it is life.

i had to kill him.

i guess i'm just getting paranoid.

i tried to hate you. i wanted so much to hate you.

[roleplay-evil]

Resident Evil Survivor Starters

"You... You look familiar."

"[name], you are a murderer. A murderer!"

"Put that down. I won't harm you. I promise."

"Tell me the truth. You're a spy, aren't you!?"

"I know you think that I'm a murderer, but you're wrong."

"I promise. Don't cry anymore, [name]."

"What are you talking about? Answer me! Who did I kill?!"

"I may have been a bad person, but that was before. That's not who I am now."

"What are you talking about? It's not your fault. [name] is the one who caused everything!"

"Wait, please don't kill me! I didn't know anything about you then!"

"I can't believe you're not dead yet."

"Liar. You'll kill me if I drop it. I'm not stupid!"

"Whatever. I don't have time for your pathetic games."

"What are we gonna do, [name]?"

"Where am I? I-I don't remember... anything..."

[heckyeahponyscans]

I want to add Pokemon merchandise to my Mercari shop but . . . I decided I want to add them in the order they appear in the Pokedex, without skipping any. Which is easier for some Pokemon than others, but I'm sure I can at least find a sticker or something for the less popular Pokemon.

Bulbasaur is #1 in the Pokedex and was my first Pokemon too! Sort of. I actually chose Charmander first because I had Pokemon Red and I thought that was the one I was "supposed to" have, but I kept thinking about Bulbasaur and I reset the game and chose him pretty quickly.

[aston1sh1ng]

Gonna be on Adam for the day but hit the heart and I'll log on to send a few memes in tonight!

[heartsdefine]

a random rook starter for @radiaking bc of reasons

        “i will not go back without doing what i came for, no matter how hopeless it may seem.”

[shouga-nai]

"Please don't use empty cans as ashtrays. If you do it again, I will kick your butt into next week. ♥️ "