#//literally none of this will probably be used in context of the rp but i still needed it out there

[ask-frater-imperator]

// now that I'm able to post spoilers, here's my thoughts on rite here rite now a few hours after I saw it.

First: a little context.

I went with my mother, my ghestie and my best friend who knew nothing about ghost besides the ranting she heard from me weekly.

They will probably be seeing this- so I'm not going to expose their accounts or anything.

With that, here were my thoughts:

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The post credit scene and mummy dust is just

Implanted into my head now

Mummy dust bc me and my friends went batshit crazy hearing and watching it

I LITERALLY PREDICTED KISS THE GO-GOAT

I'm like "oh yeah they better do kiss the go-goat I need to see that live." THEN THE INTRO STARTS

I had my ghestie friend and another of my friend that had no idea of any of the ghost lore

But

WE CONVERTED HER!! /j

I really hope they make a DVD version or something bc i would sell my soul for it

I'm kinda disappointed they didn't use the boxer fit for anything much..

TOBIAS THREW US FOR A LOOP BC WTF

We all saw copia get on the hot air balloon and is like WAIT WAIT FUCK. NO. NO. and then he wakes up

Seeing his mother die

Also if the new guy isn't terzo I

I may just die

Bc

WHO ARE THEY GONNA PULL OUT THEIR ASS AGAIN JUST LIKE

OH YEAH THEY EXIST NOW

NO WONDER TOBIAS SAID NONE OF THE OTHER PAPAS MATTER, MF COPIA IS THE HEAD OF THE MINISTRY NOW-

When the post credit ended everyone in the theater was like please wait, no-

AND ALL YELLED IN ANGER

honestly so funny and ppl were so nice

I don't like I've ever met a rude ghost fan tbh AND I DONT PLAN ON IT!!!

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And my thoughts after reading it again:

I honestly don't mind if the new papa isn't terzo, Yes, his album is my favorite with many good songs, but if the theory isn't right then oh well

There is a confirmed DVD and digital release. Just no idea when I will be getting the DVD, and I will be passing it down for generations to see/j

Me, my ghestie and my clueless friend were all holding hands for at least 3/4th of the movie, the reason I will remember mummy dust the most is because me and my ghesite went feral.. and my other friend was, well, clueless. TOBIAS LET MARY GOORE THE FUCK OUT. FINALLY!!!

The shirt I wore was literally copia being crucified with a crown of thorns, I WAS EXPECTING HIM TO DIE. but, I am very glad he didn't, I'm honestly stoked because now he does have the power he wanted, and I can totally rp that..

(The shirt I wore)

When mummy dust was done, we were all simping for copia.. (pls dont judge us. We are just little guys../j)

I had to hold back a scream when the mummy dust solo started, I love the ghoulettes..

I was so sad when copia was like: "no, no, no encore." Bc I really wanted to hear kiss the go-goat (it was one of my favorites when I first got into ghost)

THEN RAIN SPOKE. IM SORRY??!?!

Then I said over to my friends something like: "Yeah, i need them to do an encore.. NEED to hear, kiss the go-goat live, or I will sob." And of course, THE INTRO TO KISS THE GO-GOAT STARTED. Me and my friends and I just lit up with joy, trying not to cry from what I had just said and what happened.

I remember Square Hammer and the midair splits. The whole theater gasped at the same time. At that point, I was in tears for the 273673rd time. I saw copia do the pose he was meant to, and cried even more.

He went to the hot-air balloon, and everyone was silent. We all saw him wake up, and then sister on the floor.

I remember my friend (clueless one) commenting about copias dramatic crying over sisters' bodies. "Oh yeah, that guy knows how to act!" Joking in a good way, I laughed through my tears.

I don't remember when, but when Copia talked about taint tickling, she audibly, but quietly gasped and whispered something as I just nodded.

MARY ON A CROSS WAS BEAUTIFUL. THERE IS NO DENYING THE SCOOBY-DOO CHASE MUSIC NOW!!

It felt like you were there in the audience, like you were right there in the pit. I'm so glad that this movie is making so much in box offices. It was like an unholy experience I will never forget.

[goldenhypen]

hi em! i was gonna make this anonymous but ta heck w tht LOL okay so this is gonna b a long one js bc i wanna b as clear as possible for u but i jus wanna kno ur opinion on this n im sorry if this sounds redundant (given what ur whole acc is abt) but i saw this tiktok that was basically talking abt how ppl who read rp (real person) fanfics r weird , disgusting , and freaks (that one hurt ngl😭) and ig bc i never interacted w ppl who read them i had no idea this was such a controversial thing yk? so it kinda hurt and i got hella defensive bc these fics have helped me thru some hard times n r my safe space (esp ur acc i love it sm ur fics r quick n easy reads but so so good! and i love tht u write wholesome sfw fics i don’t like / can’t read nsfw rp fics) and r good when i need a quick romance fix bc i have none irl (tmi fr sorry!) but honestly it made me feel horrible abt myself bc im like damn am i sick freak for reading this even tho i read the sfw n wholesome ones?? n they were sayin the y/n , self inserts were even worse! 😭 n idk if this makes me ignorant but for the life of me i couldn’t figure out what made it weird! nsfw ones r different but regular romance or fantasy? esp since i never see this take when ppl mention they used to read one direction fanfics or mindless behavior & august alsina ones (these were popular among the black community for context!) like everyone laughs n reminisces i feel like ppl r a lot more critical n harsh on kpop stans tbh but i even thought abt deleting my tumblr bc i felt wrong for doing so it made me question myself for awhile just being honest anyways i’ll get off my soapbox im so sorry this is so long i jus wanted to give as much context and detail as possible! if this is too much please disregard but idk i just wanted an opinion on this take from a fix writer and i assume u read some too correct me if i’m wrong! thanks so incredibly much in advance and i hope we can b friends one day! 🧸🎀✨💌💕🫶🏽

this is so real of you omg ok first of all, thank you for going out of your comfort zone to do this! things like this make me so happy cuz you coming out of your way to do this (comfort wise and time wise since it must’ve taken you a while to write sm, esp considering the technical difficulties 😭) makes it all the more meaningful. and i rlly appreciate you coming to me of all ppl too! so thank you!

secondly, i agree with you on all the things you had to say !! i was once in your shoes, and if i’m being completely honest, a part of me is still navigating this as well. like some things i still question for example is if there is rlly nothing wrong with this, why do i feel the need to hide that i read/write? but for the most part, rn i am definitely set on there being absolutely nothing wrong with this! i can definitely see where these other ppl are coming from if they had never thought much of fanfiction or reader inserts etc. bc it’s probably similar to how i felt before being more exposed to fanfiction. but imo these are fantasies i just imagine in my head anyway and are almost like dreams to me yk? and so imo, they’re harmless. in fact, writing and reading ffs help grow my creativity, which is smth i value. cuz not only am i doing this for entertainment, i’m also doing it for the art (this is in terms of writing more so than reading but can still apply to both). however, similar to you, i do believe that imagines can be taken too far, as that is what aligns with my beliefs, such as nsfw fics (which is not anything personal at all to nsfw writers!). that imo can be harmful for the mind and spirit etc. (sorry if this is getting too deep and personal 😭)

ugh this is honestly so nice to talk about and have someone relate to on this cuz literally the things you are saying describe me !!! and dw, i have and never had any love life,, it’s non existent, believe it or not! so dw, you’re not alone 😭 like we can be delulu tgt 😭😭 and ahahaha yesss like i can’t tell you the amount of times i considered deleting this app or stopping writing/reading. it was challenging to process. but after doing so, i have come to the conclusions i mentioned earlier (how i think reading sfw fics are harmless). it’s literally just a form of harmless entertainment lol so i don’t see why ppl have to be so judgmental about it and can’t just mind their own business 😭 so dw, coming from a fellow reader and someone who has faced the same dilemma, you are not at all a freak 😭 and don’t let anyone let you think otherwise 😤☹️

also i can’t go without saying a huge thank you for all the kind things you had to say about my works :((( <3 that is so sweet of you to say and is so encouraging. it’s smth i’m finding i need a lot of, esp lately, so i rlly appreciate that and it means a lot. this whole ask and talking about this is rlly quite meaningful to me tbh 😭 so thank you for coming to me and being so brave to bring this up! 🫶🏻 also, yes let’s be friends omg !! i’d love that 🥹🫶🏻

[pixelated-moon]

I... Don't understand some people

I would say it's small but... It's not. It's really not.

Vent (? Is it a vent idk??? Probably??? Random thing that happened online??? Either way it's) under cut

Warning... It gets BAD -

Ok so notes before i start... I am a roleplayer, have been for a while now. Yes this involves that info and how this... Absolute hurricane of a mess starred.

I've talked three different friends (all three roleplayers themselves, so they know how this kinda thing is normally like)... Yeah they all had similar reactions to the info i gave them (I want to note that i kept the detail vague w/ all of them separately, and they all had similar reactions)... Yeah, none of their reactions were good, and I'm honestly glad bc i thought i was going crazy for a second

Ok now to the absolute chaos that happened...

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Ok starting off with the hurricane, I ran into someone who was interested in roleplaying with me, ok no problem. Thinking this'll be normal i was... Obviously wrong, very wrong

Well long story short w/o getting into to much detail bc they were BIG on g0re (which we DID talk about that before hand. Also yes surprise I'm shockingly ok with fake g0re, yes I'm specifically saying fake I don't f around with the real thing absolutely not)... The easiest to explain is that they DIDN'T read my rules (which i GAVE THEM MYSELF and SIMPLIFIED IT)

In the RP itself there was problems too was being FAR to overpowered (which i originally accepted bc their characters would be more powerful in canon but they were trying to RUN A MARATHON with it), was trying to k!ll my character every 5 seconds bc of said power imbalance.

OOC they stopped the RP bc they didn't like how i was using an OC (... Which they were using some too so double standards), was trying to literally beg me to be a character i can't be, apparently ships a very questionable ship (like... To me ( aka someone who rarely ships... well ships) side eye worthy), out of the fuckin blue said their hc that was NSFW (started off as a normal HC which i liked actually bc i haven't heard of it before... then quickly turned south), and that i didn't ask for, later boasting about how they found a RP partner who'll do 18+ RP w/ them (which I DON'T do btw, also i did not ask for that info they just... Told me for some reason????), and complained about my rules... To me (note: they did NOT have any of THEIR rules posted anywhere or gave me their rules.)

And now they want to RP again w/ me after stopping the OG RP bc i played an OC (reminder/context: they were also mostly they also played sone canon characters bc they wanted to, i didn't force them to at all an OC)????

Yeah long story short, both red flags and side eye from me to this person in particular... And i don't understand their thought process just... What????

[in-inertia]

Rules

Hey. It’s Alexis, also found at @sophistprick, @expeditedschedule, @summisdesiderantes, @fringe-weaver, and a few other places.

Don’t be intimidated by the length, lmao, just be chill and don’t expect me to interact if you’re a minor.

TL;DR: All interactions are online. Literally just don’t be a dick, and we’re gucci. You don’t have to read this shit.

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I won’t interact with minors.

For those wondering, I am 26 years old.

There will probably be nothing sexual on this blog. I don’t think Gladiia is that kind of lady. Even if she was, I don’t intend to RP out sex scenes in any public fashion, on any character, and any overtly sexual discussions would be under readmores. Still, I like to cover my bases.

I don’t feel like curating the content of any of my blogs so strictly that I’d feel comfortable having minors around them. This is a principle I feel rather strongly about, so please respect that. If you don’t have something on your blog somewhere stating that you’re at least 18, I will not follow you.

If you’re a minor, please do not follow me.

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Beyond the above, none of this is that important, don’t take it too seriously. I just like having an OOC page to outline everything/act an an FAQ.

The key thing to keep in mind is just my preference for online-only interactions mediated in-character by the Tumblr (or Hyperbeam/whatever) platform. Everything else is pretty self-explanatory.

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I’m a 26-year-old trans lesbian. In case…any of that matters. I don’t like giving out too much personal information, but. I may sometimes write something concerning those experiences, and sometimes people want to know if that’s coming from personal experience or not.

I like complex storylines that discuss politics and sensitive topics. I’ll give a warning if the subject matter gets too heavy, but I’m not averse from covering heavy subject matter. 

I’m not interested in the game of internet telephone/fandom drama that dominated these spheres when I used to be here. I’m too tired for online disputes, and won’t be engaging with them. Please leave me out of it.

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The key rules are: show me some basic human respect, don’t be too impatient, and keep ic and ooc separate.

This blog is single-ship, single-verse. If you’re multi-ship, multi-verse, that’s fine by me.

I’ll RP with people of any fandom, as well as fleshed-out OCs.

I’m semi-selective, and will typically only RP with mutuals unless presented with an online (read: over the Tumblr platform in-character) greeting. I like to keep internal consistency with my character, so some conversations/situations just won’t be fitting, which includes nearly all face-to-face interaction that’s not been worked out ooc beforehand. It’s not an elitism thing, it’s just how I like handling RP.

Everything is online unless otherwise planned.

Remind me if I drop a thread, okay? I’m very forgetful, and I never mean to do it without notifying the other person.

Talk to me about any problems you might have regarding our interactions! Or just talk to me, for whatever reason. I’m pretty friendly. My discord is Unbreakable Alexis#1889. Just make sure you tell me who you are when you add me; otherwise, you’ll be ignored.

This blog can be NSFW. Violence or sexual content will be under readmores.

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A few things I won’t do:

1. Have sexual discussions with people I’m unfamiliar with.

I probably won’t be doing smut in the first place, but this is just here to let you know I wouldn’t be about it even if I were interested in doing smut. So please don’t ask. I’m vaguely sex-repulsed and get anxious easily in sexual contexts. This typically vanishes once I’m comfortable with the person, but don’t ever really expect me to write anything overtly sexual with you. If it happens, it happens. But it probably won’t. And if it does, it won’t be in public.

2. Ship my character with anyone and everyone.

Self-explanatory, it’s just here to let you know that any relationships my characters get into will have to be organic. Which…I’d assume is largely the case for most people, but I’ve seen evidence to the contrary.

3. Send you passwords or something to confirm I read your rules.

Is this even a thing people still expect? Whatever, if it is, believe me, I’ve read them. If I clicked the follow button, it’s because I decided to do so after scoping out your page.

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Thanks for reading!

[theoreprise]

Cecilia Frances Carter, née Camden  — mother.

Theo’s mom is her best friend and she doesn’t care who knows it. Theo is also fully convinced that her mom is the smartest person she knows, which is saying something because Cecilia doesn’t have a lick of common sense but boy can she do mental math and comprehend academic texts like no other. She uses the phrases “golly gee” and “what in the H-E-double hockey sticks” unironically all the time. Theo’s biggest motivation for academic success is so that she can one day buy her mom whatever her precious heart desires. She’s a weak little bitch for this woman, and while her mom loves all of her kids equally, Theo knows that their relationship really is something special. We stan Cecilia Carter.

Howard Elias Carter  — father.

The feminist part of Theo knows that she shouldn’t relish in being spoiled rotten and treated like a princess solely because she’s her dad’s only daughter. The spoiled rotten princess part of Theo doesn’t care about that one bit. Howard works in human resources and doesn’t understood a good majority of what Theo does or enjoys in life but that doesn’t stop him from being her number one fan to the point where he carries around wallet-sizes from her kindergarten, high school, and both college graduations to show off. He wore a giant foam #1 finger to all of her athletic decathlon competitions. When Theo came out to him, he bought her a milkshake and told the vendor to put three cherries on it in celebration. We also stan Howard Carter.

Camden Elias Zachary Carter — older brother, age 34.

Adopted at birth, Camden is the biological child of Cecilia’s half-sister. She became pregnant at 17 and knew she couldn’t raise a child. Cecilia and Howard were already looking in to adoption around this time and it felt like destiny. The entire family knows that their aunt Dixie is biologically Camden’s mother, but that’s as far as that familial bond goes, strained even more when the Carter’s moved from Arizona to New York and cut off most ties with Cecilia’s family.

When seven year old Camden was asked about name suggestions for his soon-to-be baby sister, he enthusiastically suggested Alvin thanks to his chipmunk suggestion. Mom and Dad shot that idea down, but it did spark the name Theodora. Despite his size, Camden is too much of a gentle giant for his own good and everyone knows it. He was totally convinced he’d be his little sister’s knight in shining armor, but turns out it’s the exact opposite. Even now, if they’re in the same room and Camden sees a spider, he’ll make Theo squish it. 

Camden has been married to his college sweetheart for the last ten years and they have three daughters: Penelope (9), Janine (5), and Heather (2). He works as a special education teacher. (fc:  Jason Momoa)

Donovan Isaac Thahn Carter  — younger brother, age 23.

Donovan was adopted from Vietnam when he was three, after a year and a half long process. Since Camden was the one who helped name her, little Theo was allowed to help pick out the new baby’s name. She wanted to go with Donny, since her favorite thing to watch was the Johnny Bravo Christmas Special, guest starring Donny Osmond. Hey, at least she didn’t name him after a goddamn singing chipmunk.

Donovan recently graduated from art school and currently works as a freelance artist (slash barista, slash dog walker… bills gotta be paid somehow). Theo tells everybody to remember his name, because one day Donovan Carter’s artwork is going to make history. Not that she’ll say it in as many words — as she likes to say, “he might get his work on a park bench some day, you should keep an eye out.” He came out to his family as gay when he was 15 and currently lives with his fiancé in Manhattan. Like with their older brother, Theo will trash talk Donovan 24/7, and promptly ruin the life of anyone else who tries to do the same. (fc:  Trần Phong Hào)

Penelope Marie (9), Janine Rose (5), and Heather Cecilia Carter (2) — nieces.

The brightest lights in Theo’s dark excuse of a life. Also the only kids that she can stand for more than a millisecond. She’ll fight any little rugrats on the playground who try and talk shit about her nieces. She puts herself through the torment of every dance recital, soccer game, and snot-filled birthday party for them. They love her; it’s her biggest pride in life.

Anna Katherine Carter (33) and Henry James Prescott (25) — in-laws.

Camden’s wife and Donovan’s fiancé, respectively. Theo loves them. She’s told them both on multiple occasions that if they ever decide to ditch her loser brothers, she’ll marry either one of them. 

[maliciouslycreative]

How I played damage control to an anti in a small anime fandom and may have led to her ultimate downfall

I know I had a really nice write up of this at one point but oh well. I’ll spill more of the tea in this one because honestly the tea was so hot.

There are a few things that I have to give context to first. Gaia online was like THE mega forum of the 2000s, you made a little avatar and through posting and doing other activities on the forum you made money to buy clothes for your avatar. There were forums for everything but the fannish portions were really what drew in most of the people. The anime I was into was Beyblade. It was a shonen anime about fighting with tops that were possessed by the spirits of magical creatures. The story was honestly pretty average but the characters were fantastic and the fandom is to this day still one of my favourites. The series had a primarily male cast and didn’t even have a female lead until the second season. This led to the fanfic for the English fandom being about 70% canon/OC, 10 % canon m/f, and 20% slash. The most popular character in the English fandom was by far Kai Hiwatari, the loner badboy of the team.

Also before we get started I would like to add that one of my best friends was neck deep in this and the two of us were more or less fandom married. This is the same friend that I fake dated, had feelings for, and she nearly got me into kpop in 2011 so like if you haven’t read that story please read it too because it will give you a good idea of how stupid I am and how much of a fanfic I have truly lived. 

To set the stage I was 16, soon to be 17 when I joined the fandom and it was 2004. In September of that year I wrote a humour longfic that became an absolute smash hit and I found myself somehow fandom famous. It was around this time that I joined Gaia online. I made my little avatar and immediately went looking for the beyblade thread so that I could make new friends. I found the main thread, made my little introduction and at the end of it mentioned that I was a slash writer but I supported all ships. This is where I met C. She had declared herself the authority on Beyblade in these parts and I had just committed the crime of mentioning slash which was very obviously not canon and we did not discuss in this thread because we only discussed canon things. I was like well that’s a bit severe but like sure whatever I just want to hang out and have fun. 

Oh boy did I have no idea what I was in for. 

C was a year older than me and unfortunately that made her older than the majority of the fans at the time. Her favourite character was Kai, and she was not shy about talking about this fact. She stanned Kai above all other characters, and often at their expense. She was also a fanfic writer of a popular canon/OC series. Actually, she was so full of herself that she didn’t even call herself a fanfic writer, no her stories were in fact novels and were apparently very good. I never read them. But more on that later. 

Eventually the slash fans got tired of her being rude to us in the general thread so we made a Beyblade slash thread. There was a core of like 8 or so of us and we honestly had sooo much fun. When C would be too unbearable in the main thread the people from there used to come over to our thread and we’d chat with them about non slash stuff because we were honestly all multishippers and just wanted to have fun. We’d get comments like “wow, I’ve had more pleasant canon het ship discussions in the slash thread than the regular thread”. We never worried about C coming over and getting upset about comments like this because she refused to be associated with anything related with slash lmao. 

I tried my best to keep the peace between C, myself, and the rest of the fandom because ultimately I hate being in fandom drama. I just want everyone to have a good time. I’m a people pleaser. Unfortunately my newfound fame put me in the awkward position of being the most fandom popular person in our small community aside from C. Virtually every fan that read fanfics that came into our thread knew one of us or the other by reputation and C HATED this. Especially because people would come in to the thread, recognise me and go “oh my goodness I love your fanfics!” and I’d be super sweet with them and it’d lead into “I can’t believe how nice you are, I love you” which would lead to us crying at each other. This was not the kind of fan interaction that C got, no her fans were more kind that were there to praise her and worship her like a deity that had blessed them with some gift. Rarely did they tell her how kind she was. 

Back in the mid 2000s there were really commonly those commercials (usually by Christian organisations) asking people to sponsor say children in Africa or to help build schools or provide drinking water. You all probably know the ones; know the language that they used in those commercials. My fandom wife, who I suppose I shall call wifey because yes we were THAT couple back then, once said that C described her fics like those people described donating money to save the lives of Children in Africa. So we used to joke that her fics were so good they’d save lives in Africa. Looking back at it all, she almost had a very fundamentalist Christian approach to bringing people into her fanfics. She of course tried to get all the slash people into reading it. None of us read canon/oc fic mostly due to our poor treatment at the hands of their fans and creators. Getting fed up I one day told her that if she would read any one of my fanfics that I would read the entirety of her novels. Yes, I was willing to commit to read a couple 100k of canon/oc fanfic that I’d never touch normally if she would even read one of my 1k 1 shots. Heck, I had a fic even that shipped 2 minor characters so she didn’t even have to sully herself reading about one of the main characters. It was honestly a good deal in her favour. I kept this up until the day we all left the fandom. Sometimes I do wonder if her fics were even ¼ as good as she claimed, but I will never know because she refused to read my fics. 

She wasn’t all bad and a tyrant all the time. As long as people kept the conversations on track and didn’t come in to the thread saying things like “KAI IS SO HOT ND T3H BEST N I AM GUN 2 MARRY HIM” she stayed mostly civil. It was always hilarious watching InuYahsa or Naruto fans try to come in and bad mouth Beyblade because they’d unleash the dragon and C was great at chasing off undesirables in the thread. 

The real apex of goings on though on Gaia was the guild drama. So guilds were like exclusive themed mini forums within Gaia. Anyone could buy one and run it however they want, as long as it still adhered to Gaia’s ToS. C of course was the owner of the only Beyblade guild. The fandom wasn’t really big enough to support 2 guilds so we just kind of let it go. Technically she allowed people to post slash fanfics but like everything had to be explicitly tagged and there was absolutely no slash RP. Wifey and I controlled a handful of minor characters together in the forum RP and definitely used to try to push the boundaries a little bit. Some ambiguous flirting here, a stray comment there. It was such a fragile balance though because C was heavy on the ban button. The active portion of the guild was just people that were in the cult of C and worshipped her writing. 

Understandably the other slash fans and myself were getting disheartened by this. So we pooled our funds together and decided that we’d open a second guild that though it was run by slash fans we would welcome anyone into our ranks. We just wanted to have a fun place for everyone to hang out, and to hopefully run a few events out of. In hindsight, we should have seen what would happen. When we opened the guild, with me as the guild leader, it was like somebody blew up the whole dam protecting the delicate ecosystem we had cultivated. Every single person in the Gaia fandom that was not a zealous follower of C applied to be in our guild and left her guild. We of course figured that we’d attract some of the gen population but we did not expect to accidentally poach all of it. All of the moderators were getting messages from people thanking us for giving them a place where they could say whatever they wanted without fear of getting their faces ripped off or banned. 

C lost her shit. She was so mad that we went behind her back to ruin her guild. We literally had to show her posts in the very public slash thread that we had been planning this in public and that it was not to ruin her life. We just wanted a place where we could freely post slash. The two of us had some spicy comments back and forth and then she dropped an absolute bombshell on me. Since Gaia’s mail system is terrible I unfortunately no longer have exactly what she said but it was something along the lines of “Ok, you win. I’m going to close my guild.”. Us slash fans had never been doing this to win anything. We had never been competing. We just wanted a safe space to be ourselves. 

C never joined our guild. The fandom slowly faded out within the next year anyway. We weren’t getting new content so naturally people just drifted into other fandoms. C kept up with the main Beyblade thread for a lot longer than most of us but eventually that eventually faded into obscurity too. 

I learned a lot about fandom bullies from those days. But honestly the thing that stuck with me the most out of everything was that if you provide a positive safe space for people they will flock to it. It may seem like there are so many hostile people out there, but there really aren't. They're the minority but they just make sure that their voice is the loudest. The best way is to ignore them and just do your own thing. The bullies just want attention and if you don’t give it to them and prove to them that their opinion doesn’t matter to you then they’ll move in and find something else to yell at. 

[of-fire-and-light]

Headcanon: origins (for... all the muses, I guess!)

[Oooh okay anon, thank you! This got long so it's under a cut...

OKAY SO. My muses are from original G1, so the canon for their origin is that Galvatron, Cyclonus and Scourge, and the Armada and Sweeps were created by Unicron from Megatron and the dead or dying remains of various other Decepticons - including but possibly not limited to Skywarp, Thundercracker, and either the Insecticons themselves or a handful of spare Insecticlones. The Dis, canonically unnamed at the time, was pulled from somewhere in Unicron's pockets and given to Galvatron as his flagship. Anything beyond that is open to speculation.

So, for my guys whether in fic or RP, this is just how I personally fill in the details. First of all, Unicron deciding to make himself a Herald and a strikeforce was an impulse decision when he found some of Primus's creations conveniently floating in his path; my theory is that Unicron didn't actually know much about making people, having never considered spawning creations of his own before. So he had to reverse engineer Primus's handiwork to figure out how, and he lied to, or certainly tactically misled, Megatron in order to get hold of his body, his power, and his blueprints intact. He would've told him anything, and meant none of it; he just wanted to persuade Megatron to concede access to all that information, rather than risking him self-destructing or similar if Unicron had tried to forcibly take it.

That much achieved, Unicron then harvested data, blueprints, and materials from all the 'Cons he'd gotten his claws on, used the inspiration and information from the gathered files to design his new strikeforce, and then the salvaged raw materials plus whatever else he had on hand to actually build them. Thus, fandom discourse notwithstanding, my headcanon is that Cyclonus, Scourge, and their corresponding drones cannot meaningfully be said to be "made from" anyone in particular. Sure, you could take them apart down to their molecular structure and identify which atoms were once part of whom, but there'd be no obvious pattern or purpose in the results. You might be able to trace bits of Cyclonus's flight coding back to Skywarp if you compared them line by line, but his cruelty and talent for psychological manipulation could equally well have been ripped out of Bombshell. Unicron just broke the dead Seekers and Insecticons apart like old Lego kits, and built his own custom designs without thinking twice about what he was taking from whom.

But those other 'Cons were dead anyway by then, nothing but useful scrap. Megatron was alive and talking and his mind, if not his body, was still fully functional. So in order to extract maximum value out of this one incredibly powerful and strong-minded individual, Unicron put all of Megatron's memories and files into a set of backup databanks, and installed those in parallel with the new directives, databases, and personality coding he created for Galvatron. Galvatron would thereby receive what amounted to a cognitive jump-start: immediate unfiltered access to all Megatron's experience, judgement, cunning and drive, and, of course, pathological hatred of Autobots.

But he couldn't continue to be Megatron, because that would require him keeping Megatron’s spark. And Unicron couldn't very well leave a shard of Primus lodged in his Herald's chest to conflict with his own power and directives... and so his final betrayal was to rip out Megatron's spark and throw it away. Galvatron, Cyclonus and Scourge all then received new sparks: tiny offcuts of Unicron's own, just as Cybertronian sparks are little pieces of Primus, aligning their core instincts and emotional paradigms with Unicron’s and cementing his control over them on the deepest possible level.

And then he gave them the Dis, designing and building it on the spot using assorted ship blueprints he'd found in the 'Cons' memories and the reserves of raw materials in his own holding tanks and internal furnaces, and sent them all out to go and do their thing for him. Cyclonus and Scourge were pretty much blank slates at this point, just accepting the reality they'd awoken into and largely controlled by Unicron's slave-coding; but Galvatron initially had a bit of trouble separating himself from Megatron, because while he could intuitively feel the difference, he also remembered "being" Megatron and there were a lot of those memories. Of course, he immediately started archiving new memories under the identity of "Galvatron" - and the trauma of having Unicron's control ripped out of his mind at the end of the Movie, followed by his time in a hot tub plasma pit on Thrull, was a sufficiently defining set of life experiences that by the time he was found again by Cyclonus and Scourge, he was certain that he was Galvatron, and had a sense of self completely disconnected from Megatron's residual identity. (He still has Megatron's memories if he needs to refer to them, but he doesn't do so except in desperation because he really hates feeling even briefly like someone he knows he isn't. Besides which, he has some pretty major ideological and emotional differences from Megatron, and the cognitive dissonance is uncomfortable.)

Random consequences of all of this include:

- The Unicronians kinda have... opposing spark polarity to Cybertronians. In mundane contexts it doesn't affect anything much, but, eg, if Galvatron entered a consecrated temple of Primus he'd feel like a demon trying to stand on holy ground - he might be able to do it, but it really wouldn't be comfortable for him. Regular Cybertronians instinctively feel creeped out and uneasy around the Unicronians even though they usually can't articulate why, and anyone with significant spiritual affinity or training would outright recognise them as Unicron-spawn pretty much on sight.

- They're simultaneously violently allergic to the Matrix because it was created as a weapon against the very power their sparks are made from, and magnetically drawn to it because Unicron programmed them to hunt it down and it radiates "this thing is delicious, try to eat it" to their instincts on a literally spiritual level. In most of my 'verses, Galvatron has managed to precariously but effectively resolve this conflict of interest by nibbling on Rodimus Prime whenever he gets the chance. Rodimus sees no downside to this.

- The sparks of Megatron, Skywarp, Thundercracker etc have all returned safely to the Allspark by now. If anyone were to attempt to summon or contact their spirits, it would be possible to do so, and there would be literally no collateral effect on the Unicronians other than them probably freaking out about ghosts if they heard about it.]

[luckyladylily]

Ok, so here is a hot fucking take.

I love Dune because it is exceptionally shit. Yes, I mean the Frank Herbert Dune.

This is a story where the author has his head shoved so far up his ass that he invents two new science fiction words for ‘lamp’ within the first 700 words just to make sure you know that it is ~science fiction~.

Here, look at this bullshit paragraph:

“Paul fell asleep to dream of an Arrakeen cavern, silent people all around him moving in the dim light of glowglobes. It was solemn there and like a cathedral as he listened to a faint sound - the drip-drip-drip of water. Even while he remained in the dream, Paul knew he would remember it upon awakening. He always remembered the dreams that were predictions.”

Now there is a lot to unpack there, so lets break it down by sentence:

“Paul fell asleep to dream of an Arrakeen cavern, silent people all around him moving in the dim light of glowglobes.”

Ok, starting off ok, decent writing to evoke atmosphere. The stupid name for what is functionally a lamp distracts from the primary purpose of establishing atmosphere, bit of a rookie mistake honestly, but decent overall. Next sentence:

“It was solemn there and like a cathedral”

Ok, hold the fuck up. “It was solemn and like a cathedral”. What the fuck is this? This is the type of shit that would be in a rough draft as a note to self of what you want to write but were too lazy or got stuck on some word so you skipped it.

Anyway, lets finish out that sentence:

“It was solemn there and like a cathedral as he listened to a faint sound - the drip-drip-drip of water.”

Cool, water on a desert planet, and the author chose to highlight this in a highly specific way, with reverence. The description was deeply unsatisfying, but we get that this imagery is probably going to be very important, better take special note of it going forward.

Next sentence:

“Even while he remained in the dream, Paul knew he would remember it upon awakening. He always remembered the dreams that were predictions.”

Jesus christ, for fucks sake.

HEY READER, THIS IS GOING TO BE IMPORTANT LATER! HEY HEY READER, MY CHARACTER CAN PREDICT FUTURE EVENTS! THERE IS LITERALLY NO WAY TO DEMONSTRATE THIS WITHOUT OUTRIGHT TELLING IT TO YOU!

Frank ‘tell don’t show’ Herbert here decided that this tepid bullshit was good to publish! Within the first 700 words we have this atrocity of a paragraph.

And the most damning thing of all is that he was probably right that he needed to beat you over the head like this because his writing is so dense with self important nonsense that it is literally impossible to figure out what actually matters without explicit sign posting. His own shitty writing clogs the flow of information so completely that he has to throw out one of the fundamental rules of quality writing - show don’t tell - just so we can tell the difference between stuff that actually matters and Frank Herbert masturbating to his own world building.

The first 694 words introduce a whopping twenty three proper nouns or made up words (just say ‘lamp’ for Christ’s sake!) and at least twice as many ideas, none of which we have any context for their relative importance except for when he beats us over the head with THIS MATTERS!!!

Anyway Dune won a Hugo and the first Nebula Award so don’t you dare think that your prose isn’t good enough to put out into the world. This shit is inspiring, no matter how awful your writing is remember that Frank Herbert created the best selling sci fi novel ever on the back of prose that sounds like it was lifted unedited from a forum RP written by 15 year olds that just discovered what a thesaurus is.

[eorzean-tale]

Prompt #16 Bond

This is part 2 of my lore series, where I try and analyze some of the tidbits of info we got from Encyclopaedia Eorzea, volume II. This series only focuses on the Seeker of the Sun M-tribe lore, particularly four of its characters that were highlighted in the book and shared in the BRPN Discord. For this part, I’m going to look at the bond between a nunh and his tribe.There will be spoilers from the lorebook below the cut, so be warned.

Part 2 M’rahz Nunh

From Encyclopaedia Eorzea, volume II:

“There was a time when I was the weakest of the males in the M Tribe. It wasn’t easy, but through rigorous training, I eventually grew to become the man you see before you.” M’rahz was only three and twenty when he bested his predecessor in a duel and replaced him as nunh, a breeding male. While that was an impressive feat in its own right, the Seeker of the Sun would be the first to acknowledge that the harder part was still to come. In the early days, it seemed as though he could please none of the womenfolk, but pain proved an effective teacher and he quickly honed his sensitivity to the needs of others. Over the next twenty-seven years, he has protected his people as both a husband and a father. A challenging task at the best of times, it was only made more difficult when the Empire invaded two decades ago. With their hunting grounds shrinking and food growing scarcer by the season, many hard decisions had to be made. And the hardest one of all was that which saw his dear friend and fellow nunh, M’aht, leave the village behind. Owing to their history, he harbors a fondness for M’zhet, M’aht’s spirited son.

Let’s talk about his quote first. It seems that Rahz refers refers to his own people as ‘the M Tribe’ and not the Marmot Tribe. The use of the word ‘tribe’ also suggests that they are the only group of Marmots out there. In RP, we often speak of septs, sects, pacts, or whatever else, to indicate that there isn’t just one group of that tribe and everyone can play their Seeker Miqo’te as they like, even if they share the same tribal letter. As this is not done here, one might wonder if all M Tribe Miqo’te can only be from this particular group.

I personally do not think that is the case, and that they used these terms to not confuse people. Not everyone might know that the M stands for the Marmot totem, and not everyone will realize that tribes might have split off into different groups at some point in their history. I would like to see more acknowledgement of these different groups of the same tribe at some point, but I suppose we should be happy about getting any kind of lore about Seekers at this point :P

Note that he also uses the terms ‘males’ and ‘man’, indicating that, yes, some Seekers will refer to men as males. It’s an easy term to pick up if you want to give your character that extra bit of ‘tribal flavour’.

Next: becoming nunh

They then focus on him beating his predecessor in a duel at the tender age of 23 and that that was a pretty impressive feat. So the weakest male managed to climb to the top of the combat ranks at the tender age of 23… That training must have been really rigorous indeed.

It makes me wonder how the runt became the master in such a relatively short amount of time, and if the other tia didn’t train just as hard. It doesn’t seem to be normal to be able to defeat a nunh so early on, as they make a point out of calling it an impressive feat. I suppose they want to show how hard he had to work for it, but personally I wouldn’t have minded it if they had made him a little older. 

It’s followed up by this quote:

In the early days, it seemed as though he could please none of the womenfolk, but pain proved an effective teacher and he quickly honed his sensitivity to the needs of others.

Uh, pain? As in.. physical? Did they beat him up? Or did he hurt a lot of the women by just being an insensitive dick? Or did they hurt him? While I like that they emphasize the need for a nunh to be sensitive to the needs of others with this quote, it has some weird implications when you think about it more. Mostly, that apparently the tia of the Marmot tribe don’t receive any sort of training on what is expected of you once you do become nunh. They only focus on training to defeat the current nunh, and supposedly learn the duties that come with it after that. So what happens when a nunh doesn’t learn? It just seems odder and odder to me, the longer I think about it. Like having an archery competition to determine the best huntress of your tribe, and once someone wins, they’ll go on their first actual hunt. The M Tribe could have used a ‘Nunh for dummies’ book back in Rahz’s day.

Luckily for the M Tribe, Rahz learned well:

Over the next twenty-seven years, he has protected his people as both a husband and a father.

Personally, I hate the use of the word husband in this sentence. It’s very confusing as to what it means. I think they might mean in a general sense, as ‘husband to his people’ and not one woman like the term suggests to the average western reader, but that might just be wishful thinking on my part, as that is the better out of two unpleasant options for me. Let me explain.

Husband to one (or multiple) women

If he is literally married to one woman of his tribe, or even several, it would mean he values this person above the others. Even if the marriage is political or symbolic, it means this woman is favoured by this nunh for whatever reason. This level of favouritism might be very difficult in a culture where he literally has to father all the children of the tribe and raises a lot of questions:

Does he live with his wife, or wives? 

If not, what is the point of the bonding?

Does that mean he favours his children by this woman?

Do other huntresses or his other children never get jealous?

Of course they would, so how do they deal with that?

Why specifically the term husband, and not something a bit less city-folk-like such as mate for example?

Can tia get married as well? 

Can women to other women? 

You have to keep in mind that female Miqo’te vastly outnumber the males, so what then happens to the women who are, for lack of a better term, leftover and not inclined towards other women?

Who is his wife, or wives?

What is the ceremony like?

So many questions, and we probably won’t get any answers from SE, so we have to decide for our own tribes. I just hope people do ask themselves these questions, when they next write love-stories for their nunh characters.

What I truly despise about this option though, is that his wife, or wives, aren’t named. It reminds me of DBZ or old Disney, where the spouses were often so ‘background’ that they weren’t even given a name. The huntresses deserve their spotlight as well, dammit :P

Husband to the tribe

I like this option better, but once I started writing down why, I realized it has its fair share of flaws as well. If he is a husband to the tribe, how does that work when he’s defeated by a tia? Is defeating and becoming nunh quite literally tearing a family apart and inserting yourself into it? If that’s the case, then I understand why he had trouble pleasing the women of his tribe at first, as that sounds rather traumatic.

For me, personally, it’s still the better option though. I hope they meant he does husband-like duties, just like he does fatherly duties as mentioned in the same sentence, without him literally being someone's husband. It also makes me wonder what counts as husband-like in Japan, and I even tried to look up if ‘husband’ could mean different things in Japanese, depending on context. The only thing I could find, is that the most common character for husband in Japanese is the same as ‘owner’, or ‘master’. Yikes.

Anyway, enough about this one word, as this wall of text is getting quite long as it is. It’s just interesting to speculate about. The rest of the description talks about difficulties stemming from the invasion of the Empire 20 years ago, with hunting grounds shrinking because of it. I’ll talk about Aht and Zhet in their own posts, so that’s it for me, for now.

If you made it all the way down here, then thank you for reading! If you have your own ideas and speculations about this bit of lore, let me know in the comments below. I’m always eager to discuss people’s interpretations.

[mxdpat]

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Mad insists on some level of privacy as he works on Google. They won’t let him take the defunct droid into any of the other rooms, but they agree to stand back while he works. The last thing he wants is a distraction from this once-in-a-lifetime, literally-never-going-to-come-around-again opportunity.

Mare pops over once or twice and says something but Mad is just consumed by the high level of technology that’s stuffing this chassis to the brim. He’s got his notebooks and writes down everything he sees, everything he finds. He’s got to find the problem but that’ll be impossible without the proper context!

It’s at least two hours later when Mad beckons them over. Silver, Bim, and Red walk up as Mad spins round, tossing a burnt out component to Silver who barely catches it.

“Good news is, I found the problem and it’s not a virus.” he’s wipes down his hands as he speaks and watches as they examine the part. Silver holds it up and turns it around, Bim looking at it in confusion while Red merely glances before turning to Mad

“So what’s wrong?”

“That,” Mad indicates the burnt-out part, “is Google’s emotional processor. Takes situational input, runs it through and produces appropriate emotional responses. Happiness, sadness, anger, outrage, despair, blah blah blah.”

“It isn’t supposed to look like this is it?” Bim asks.

“Bingo.” Mad snaps his fingers as he gives a wink. “See Cyberlife kind of hold the monopoly on the simulated emotions market. Google really made a good go of it but probably canned the IRL project before they could refine it. I’ve had my hands in a few cyberlife droids in my time, and let me tell you, this,” he points to the processor, “pales in comparison. Best guess, something happened that’s overloaded the processor and since it’s just spurting out nonsense, it’s been causing a series of errors that led to a critical shutdown.”

Red snatches the component from Silver’s fingers, not appreciating the display of such a private component, wrapping his fingers around it and scowling at Mad.

“So fix it.”

Mad chuckles. “Love to, big fella, but it’s not that simple.”

“What do you mean?”

“Fixing it is simple. Hell, I could even steal your processor and use that instead.” Silver goes to move forward but Bim holds him back and Mad chuckles at how easy it is to rile these idiots. “The problem is with the design of the processor. A straight out replacement will just burn out again and as much as I’d love to draw this out, I am not a one for repeating myself. But,” he raises a finger to silence Silver as he goes to speak, “if I get my hands on a cyberlife droid I can construct a better processor. one that can process whatever has happened without self-desctructing and your little problem is over.”

They all share glances. None of the egos knew that Cyberlife droids were a thing, why would they? They had the Googles. So getting a hold of a Cyberlife droid is easier said than done, though Mad himself is in no immediate rush.

Silver looks to the prone form of Google behind Mad. “So Google’s out of comission?”

“I never said that.” Mad calls over his shoulder. “Wake up, Google.”

Google’s eyes snap open, glowing blue before fading as he pushes himself up. He seems a little groggy as he sits up, turning to see everybody staring at him with shocked faces. Except Mad who looks smug as anything.

Google frowns at all of them.

“What?”

[artcanary]

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oh my god dude 

im gonna put this under a cut bc this is a lot. this is a ride, have fun i guess

1. Your first OC ever?god. its got to be Super Kitty. when i was like … an incredibly small child I used to draw comic strips about this feline caped crusader, who was friends with everyone in the city, and the comics always involved him stopping an evil banana man from stealing money from the local bank. He was paid with donuts for his service to the city. i still remember how to draw him. 

2. Do you have a personal favourite among your OCs?i’d get arrested if I didn’t answer this with Bronze, probably… but really, they’re very important to me

3. Have you ever adopted a character or gotten a character from someone else?man, i cant remember! i really dont think i have… P:

4. A character you rarely talk about?there’s loads of characters ive never even posted a single picture of on tumblr, i wouldnt even know where to start asdf

5. If you could make only one of your OCs popular/known, who would it be? bronze is the easy answer, but… i guess that could also go to Servant or Westrin. Servant has a comic project in the works that basically stars him, sort of a series of one-shots about the things he’s experienced, i feel like that would be a good thing to take off and run with. Westrin’s just fun as hell, i love the guy.

6. Two OCs of yours that look alike despite not being related?real talk now… there’s at least five different characters that i refer to as a whole as “bronze-tangential”, who started out as, “what would bronze be like if they were in this world?” and then becoming their own thing within said world because i just get stupid attached 

its an epidemic

7. Are your OCs part of any story or stories?nearly all of them, actually. that’s the main reason i make characters, after all! too many to really go into specifics here, again P: 

8. Do you RP as any of your OCs? If you do, introduce one of your RP OCs here!not often, but i think Bronze and Westrin are the most common ones. unless playing a character in dnd, or running an npc in dnd counts… then a whole lot more hahaha

9. Would you ever be willing to give any of your OCs to someone else?it depends on the circumstances. i don’t really like the idea, though. 

10. Introduce an OC with a complicated design? Westrin’s old getup is a pain to draw, and there was one other design i did that I cant find anywhere… whichever way, i dont often tend to draw super complicated things often 

a couple fakemon ive designed though… heheh those can get pretty finicky

11. Is there any OC of yours you could describe as a “sunshine”? hmmmmmmmm my immediate thought was Eric Silverdale from a comic i was working on a few years ago. hes a darling, i want him to be my friend irl

12. Name an OC that isn’t yours but who you like a lothow could you do this to me i love each and every one of all my friends ocs GOD the first one who comes to mind is @d20-official‘s Smith, whos Bronze’s friend… everyone in that DND party actually

13. Do you have any troublemaker OCs? Rated on a scale from “harmless” to “honestly somewhat frightening”: -Baromet (charming and quite friendly but definitely a kleptomaniac),-Westrin (demigod of bards and travelers), -XEN09 (a nonsense hacker), -Conny (needlessly contrarian and dumb as HELL), -Enza Colie (long fucking story but hes a good-for-nothing), -Hemlocke (mad scientist, chaotic evil), -Iris (AI and hacker, VERY bad), -The Terminus (glitch-in-the-matrix demon, chaotic evil), -and Sydd (the Queen of the Faeries, hopefully the danger there needs no explaining :’D)

14. Introduce an OC with a tragic backstory Mmm… there’s a few of them, most obviously Lent (whose background I did a short comic about). Basically his entire town got eaten by ghosts and turned into zombies, he only barely survived with a sliver of his soul left. 

15. Do you like to talk about your OCs with other people?yes, i often discuss storylines and such with friends

16. Which one of your OCs would be the best at biology (school subject)? Probably Bronze’s dad! I don’t talk about him much, but his name’s Devon Reed, and he was a biotech developer specialising in android design. 

I often describe him as being something of a reverse Arthur Weasley - a very fatherly scientist fascinated to the moon and back with the concept of magic. 

17. Any OC OTPs? having trouble thinking of a lot of them right now, but there’s Eric + Lent & Naiadine + Tailias from Emerald Sigil, Avken + Baromet from my space campaign world, Sydd + Wyvv from my unnamed campaign world, and I’ve been considering Westrin + Servant as an interesting dynamic in Servant’s story

18. Any OC crackships? My character Bismuth and @autistictimeknight​‘s oc Eros. Theyre so fucking in love, I love it. Its been awhile but I do still think about them sometimes.

As I recall, Eros is an empath, she can read other people’s emotions. But Bismuth is a robot, and Eros can’t read her. Because of this Eros can let go of her fear of unintentionally manipulating the emotions of her date, which would hold her back from most other relationships. 

19. Introduce an OC that means a lot to you (and explain why)Hey, meet Bronze! I definitely do not talk about them every five minutes, why would you say that. 

Bronze was with me through two of the hardest years of my life so far, and being a DND character they grew with me, both as a fighter and as a person. They were non-binary before I started using those pronouns, they were the first character or person or anything who I fought someone about using the right pronouns for, they make a great icebreaker for if I want to see how someone reacts to non-binary pronouns … 

One funny anecdote about Bronze is that when I first made them, their “gimmick” was that they would sometimes glitch out and mess up their speech, mostly because I wanted an excuse not to engage in the roleplaying (which I was very bad at). The interesting thing is that as I got better at interacting with the group, we both grew out of needing it very quickly. 

I’m very proud of Bronze. 

20. Do any of your OCs sing? If they sing, care to share more details (headcanon voice, what kind of songs they like etc)?Westrin is a bard! His singing voice sounds like Bill Wurtz and these are his theme songs.

21. Your most artistic OCProbably Westrin again, he writes a lot of songs… and Hallux is a game designer?

22. Is there any OC of yours people tend to mischaracterize? If yes, how? I honestly dont know… no-one talks to me about them, haha! 

people use all manner of pronouns for bronze, though. 

23. Introduce OC that has changed from your first idea concerning what the character would be like?I’m gonna go with Enza for this one. Enza Colie was originally written entirely because I wanted an antagonist for a short starring his sister, Jane Colie. But the more I fleshed out his reasonings for acting how he did and explored his character, the more I realised he’d make an even more interesting character if allowed to have a redemption arc, too. 

I just want to state for the record that I was very reluctant to the idea, and he basically dragged his way out of the villain pit entirely of his own accord. I am dubiously proud of him, and also a bit scared. 

24. If you could meet one OC of yours, who would it be and why?Probably either Eric (Big Man, Best Friend), Crocus (Mother figure), Reed (Father Figure), Westrin (hed just make a good friend u kno??), or Bismuth (she makes good conversation!)

25. The OC that resembles you the most (same hobby, height, shared like/dislike for something etc?)probably the homestuck fan-troll Hallux, but that’s mostly because they were based on a troll-sona I made awhile ago. They’re a hope/prospit game designer who is small and full of rage and love

oh, and there’s dave! dave’s a superhero speedster, existing in a modern-day superhero version of seattle. theyre idiot, just like me,

26. Have you ever had to change your OC’s design or something else about them against your will? this is an interesting one… i don’t think ive ever had something Bad in a design ive done called to my attention by someone, but I did create my character Servant at around the same time I was first really expanding the diversity of my casts. (since i don’t talk about him often, a little context: he’s a magic spirit creature bound to human form to serve the royal family of the land and follow their orders.) 

somehow, younger-and-more-stupid me managed to have the revelation that making this “eternal slave” character literally anything other than a white man, especially as a white author, would be Pretty Not Good. im … thats really, really not something i should pat myself on the back for, but i do consider it one of the biggest bullets dodged in my artistic career so far that i realised that not all representation is good representation so quickly, before i could make that incredibly, incurably stupid mistake. 

after that, trying to make sure my characters and their presentations don’t harm anyone pretty much has become a paranoia. i don’t seem to have stepped on any toes yet, but when it inevitably happens, please let me know - i didnt know, and i want to fix it! 

27. Any OCs that were inspired by a certain song? None that I can think of, actually! I don’t really do that often. 

28. Your most dangerous OC? god damn it i have no idea!!! is it the terminus? glitch in the matrix god of chaos motherfucker?is it sarle? terrifying calculating scientist with the power of the soul at her fingertips ??? is it ares??? is it athena????? is it petra?????? the gatekeeper???? 

… actually, the gatekeeper might be it, if “dangerous” just refers to “the amount of raw power it can wield”. the Gatekeeper is a titanic entity that exists in interdimensional multiverse space, and its implied to have the ability to create and destroy entire universe bubbles at will. for what cosmic purpose, no-one knows. 

at a more personal scale, though, literally all of the aforementioned characters are pretty bad to run into too. 

29. Which one of your OCs would go investigate an abandoned house at night without telling anyone they’re going?god. Mina or Tawn. Tawn is the Indiana Jonesy type and probably dumb enough, but also competent enough not to get into too much trouble there. Mina would probably drag her friends along. 

30. Which one of your OCs would most likely have a secret stuffed animal collection? XEN09. No-one knows, because no-one knows xir personal identity. Xe absolutely does, though. It’s less of a secret if you know xir in person, but good luck finding out about it otherwise. 

31. Pick one OC of yours and explain what their tumblr blog would be like (what they reblog, layout, anything really)dave just reblogs memes all the time tbh. they like to keep tabs on the ridiculous superhero news going on, and they show human jokes and cat videos to their alien gf. they dont really post or add to posts, but they talk in tags a lot. 

32. Which one of your OCs would be the most suitable horror game protagonist and why? i want to say tawn because i literally just realised ive been imagining their voice as sounding like luigi this entire fucking time and i never realised until this exact instant

33. Your shyest OC?probably baromet. they prefer to keep to themself in their hideout, with their collection of shiny things. they don’t really enjoy trying to communicate much, mostly because they expect to get yelled at. 

34. Do you have any twin characters?Yes! At least two sets; 

- Crocus and Sarle. (x) (x) They don’t exactly have a very well-developed relationship, but they are both quite important to the plot of my campaign world, and they are both very interesting. Crocus is a motherly figure who just exudes friendliness, while Sarle is .. very much not that, a researcher studying very gruesome things and pushing the boundaries of reality. 

- Jane and Enza Colie. I haven’t talked a whole lot about either of them here, but I’d rather leave their story to do the talking whenever I get around to it. Essentially, the both of them were intended to do the dirty work for their crime boss family, but Jane ditched to study medicine. Most of the conflict between the two of them comes out of Enza not understanding why she made the choice she did, and coming to understand how he’s been manipulated. 

35. Any sibling characters? I can’t really think of any off the top of my head, I should … I should really work on that. 

I can talk about Westrin, though. Westrin (a demigod of many things, but namely bards, travel, travelers, and people who are lost) often becomes close friends with mortals, sometimes practically adopting them. These people who consider him family, and people who have received his blessing, are able to use his surname, Brilanta, as their own if they choose. So I guess all of the Brilantas are siblings, at least in spirit. 

Oh, and XEN09 has like, seven siblings. Xe is the second-oldest, and least remarkable. 

36. Do you have OC pairs where the other part belongs to someone else (siblings, lovers, friends etc)? I already talked about Eros and Bismuth up there a ways in question 18, but I’ll talk about another relationship here. @autistictimeknight​‘s character, Nova the Alchemist, is mentor and adopted parental figure to my character Munna. Munna … Munna isn’t a very good apprentice. She tries very hard. 

37. Introduce an OC who is not quite human That’s most of them, I’m not quite sure what to say here. Bronze is an android? Bronze again? Westrin? All the aliens ?? 

38. Which one of your OCs would be the best dancer? man. uh. westrin or jean. or perhaps valencia. 

39. Introduce any character you want ??? uhhhHHHhhHHH Lord Brillium is the reigning deity of the Cloud Kingdoms in the other campaign setting I’m working on. They represent light and the quest for knowledge, and spend most of their days in the Cathedral Observatory watching the stars. 

40. Any fond memories linked to your characters? Feel free to share!one time bronze flew a hover-bike through the stained glass window in a cathedral blaring all star by smash mouth on their iguana

also one time bronze rickrolled a rakshasa demon and then pulled updog on it like, two minutes later

another time bronze scared off an entire army by pretending to be an automated security system 

41. Has anyone drawn fanart of your OCs? If yes, maybe show a picture or two here (remember sources & permissions!)ive got a whole little folder on here from all you blessed people !!!! right now ive got a drawing quinn did of one o fmy characters as my lockscreen

but i think the one i’ll really never ever get over is this piece of Jane, by @rabendraws​ / @owoltron​: 

(i bet you thought i forgot about this, dude. dude. think again.) 

42. Which one of your OCs would be the most interested in Greek gods? this is kind of a weird question, m, I feel like Bismuth would find learning about the mythos utterly fascinating, as would Tawn. 

43. Do you have any certain type when you create your OCs? Do you tend to favour some certain traits or looks? It’s time to confesshaha. uh. i might. 

aside from the entire “bronze-tangential characters” thing i mentioned awhile back, I tend to really like designing characters with hair color lighter than their skin color. it just looks so cool man. i love drawing freckles but dont put them on enough characters. i like really curly hair, but also really long and flowy hair. i like drawing triangular body types, and pointy/prominent noses. 

44. Something you like about your OCs in generaluhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this is a really vague question. m. m. 

45. A character you no longer use?there’s old versions of characters, but a lot of my older ones have been somehow repurposed. I guess there’s Turien, my first-ever DND character, who’s just kind of sitting dead now. Haven’t really done anything with him other than a pretty recent tangential character. 

46. Has anyone ever told you that you treat your OCs badly?Not that I can think of.

47. Has anyone ever (friendly) claimed any of your OCs as their child? Im certain it’s happened, but I can’t remember any specific instances. 

48. OC who is a perfect cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pureSpring. spring knows nothing of th dangers of the world who is letting them into fights someon eneeds to stop this

(spring roll, hehe.) 

49. Which one of your OCs would most likely enjoy memesim not sure what this question is asking since many of my ocs actively enjoy memes including but not limited to westrin, dave, bronze, xen09, iris, and doctor archersen

50. Give me the good ol’ OC talk here. Talk about anything you wanti think. i think im going to pass on this one. i gave you the good old oc talk. your damn turn, yall: 

if you have any questions about any of these guys feel free to shoot one at me!

thats all from me im tired and its one am. techskylander you absolute madman 

[kusunokihime-a]

     [ Okay y’all, I think it’s about time I got a few things off my chest and onto the dash. This isn’t anything personal, nor directed at any one person. Just my feelings about my dash and how things have been going the last few months for me. There’s some important info under the cut, but I’ll try to summarize at the end for a tldr for those in a hurry.

     First off, admittedly, muse has been hard to come by lately. I’m sure a lot of you have noticed that I’ve slowed down a lot in activity. Life has been a lot busier than I’m used to due to my summer job (aka raising five orphan calves). It’s been a far cry more of a juggling act than having only one last year, and it’s honestly made keeping up muse hard due to it being very time-consuming and tiring. Add in that it’s the pits of Summer, and my room where my desktop is regularly reaches 90+ degrees Fahrenheit for several hours a day, and that leaves very little energy/mojo for sitting in the heat and trying to write when I’m tired. The last straw is that my mental health has been in a fairly steep decline lately (none of which I can afford to treat). Put those factors together, and you have a very drained individual who is all the more depressed because her one outlet is less enjoyable due to those very factors.

     I’ve been trying to get back into things: revamping my blog design, new icons, even new blogs! And though I want to be doing these things, I still lack the energy for them for the above-mentioned reasons. My drafts and ask replies are still slow, and I feel bad for making everyone wait. True, this is a hobby, but one I love dearly. I don’t like to disappoint those who help make it fun for me.

     So, to try and make up for my lack of activity, I’ve done my best to make a regular habit of having inbox calls! All it takes is a like, and I’ll hop into your inbox and give you an ask to reply to from whatever muse I’ve got inspiration for. Seems simple enough, and all of the regulars have been using them frequently, which I’m glad for!

     But admittedly, I’ve gotten a bit...frustrated lately. A few months ago I started making a point of clearing out inactive blogs of 4+ months. And even with that in place, I still follow over 160 blogs, probably which 95% are RP blogs that I’m mutuals with. And yet my efforts to reach out and interact are only met by the same five or so people, with the occasional rare exception.

     No one is obligated to interact, of course. I’m not begging for that. What I am trying to convey is that I’m reaching a point where it seems largely pointless to be following 90% of the blogs I follow. Admittedly, I don’t read others’ posts hardly at all unless they’re meant for me. I just don’t have the time, and I often lack context to make them as enjoyable for me to read as they do for those they’re intended for. And while I understand people do so themselves, and sometimes follow blogs just for reading their writing - without intent to interact - I guess I’ve just reached a point where I don’t see much reason to follow many of the blogs I follow. There’s no interaction despite me both reblogging memes, and having open calls.

     Like...forgive me for sounding short, but all it takes is a simple click from a blog on my open posts, and I’ll bring the ask to them. It takes literally a moment. And while I, with abundant social anxiety, understand that sometimes that’s too much, there’s not much else I can do besides just doing things of my own volition. Which, again, given my lack of energy and time, I just...can’t do. Especially not for as many blogs as I follow.

    So, what’s my point? My point is, I’m considering a sizable purge of those I follow. Mainly those I’ve never interacted with despite having been mutuals for a good share of time. Maybe even those who very rarely interact. Because at this point, I have so little energy to be here properly, I don’t want to squander it on those who won’t reciprocate. Which may sound harsh, but this is a hobby. And if I’m to enjoy it, I have to do it in a way that lets me get the most out of it.

     This, I suppose, is a heads up that in the coming days, when I have time to sit and do it, I’m likely going to go through my following list and unfollow a great share of people. It won’t be personal. It’ll just be because interaction - the reason I follow people back - just isn’t happening, and there’s not much point for you to be on my dash. You are, of course, in no way expected to keep following if you’re among those I unfollow - I know many people only like to follow mutuals. That’s how I operate, after all. So if I unfollow, feel free to do the same.

     If you’re someone who follows just to read my stuff, good on you! Keep on following - I appreciate you, even if we don’t interact. But given that I don’t read things that aren’t intended for me, there’s just not much purpose in me following you back. If I’m to be mutuals with someone, then it’s because I want to write with you. And I want you to want to write with me. Given that my numerous open posts over the last several weeks have only been taken by a regular group of people, then...I see no point in extending my dash beyond those who make the effort.

     I know this might sound harsh, but I’m tired of having so much...emptiness in this hobby. I only really have time and energy for what directly involves me and my muses. Which might sound a bit self-centered, but that’s how it is. I know you’re all wonderful writers. And I’m not booting you off my dash because I don’t like you, or your writing. I just want to condense things to what I personally want to see. And for me, that means what involves me, and the people who have taken the time to bond with me and my muses. So again, it’s nothing personal - I just have to clear my dash and following a bit. 

     IF we’ve yet to interact and you’d like to start something before I go through my list, PLEASE just let me know. I promise I’m a very approachable person. But I can only make opens so many times and have them be ignored before I get tired of trying. Hence doing a little cleaning house, so I can enjoy this hobby a bit more. Thank you all for your understanding <3

     TL;DR - I’m going to clear my following of people who aren’t interacting with us, because limited time/energy mean wanting to condense my dash and following pool. Feel free to also unfollow, but I won’t softblock just in case you'd like to remain following. This probably won’t happen for a day or two, so feel free to talk to me OOC before then if you’d like to discuss anything. But it’s personally time for me to clear out those who aren’t meeting my offers for interaction so my dash is filled more with those who are willing/able to write with us. Thanks to everyone who’s followed regardless - y’all are great <3 ]

[munchix-home-cooking]

RP Log: Munchix and Rayena continue their journey to Yanxia

(@rayenaray​ :D)

Munchix Bogbelly - After the pirate attack, the rest of the voyage was smooth sailing...though it wasn’t free of the usual woes of ocean travel. Sea sickness, sunburn, and what have you. So when the ship finally pulls into Onokoro, Munchix literally leaps off and lands on the dock, thankful to be on solid ground again. He turns to the ship and waves.

Rayena Corsano exits the ship more gracefully, adjusting her bag a little and looking around. "Alright, should we pick up any supplies here or go straight to looking for your tree?" she smiled.

Munchix Bogbelly shakes his head no. “We’re not close enough to where the tree is, supposedly. So unless you want to try out some of the local faire, I’d say let’s be on our way.” He pauses. “There IS good seafood ‘round here though.”

Rayena Corsano: "Are you hungry? We had sandwiches on the ship and I have a couple more for the trip home as well as a couple snacks for the trip. I am personally not hungry yet but, we can get some around supper." she smiled.

Munchix Bogbelly: “I’m good for now. If anything I hunger....for ADVENTURE!” A wide grin spreads on his face, though he’s quick to correct himself. “The safetysort of adventure though! Don’t want anymore haphazard surprises.”

Rayena Corsano: "I'll make sure to keep my healing on standby." she smiled. "Do you know what direction we should be heading?”

Munchix Bogbelly: “We head easterly, to Yanxia. Which is...uh.” Munchix spins around, glances directly into the sun, and then turns to the right. “That way. Times-a-wastin’, let’s get racin’!”

Munchix Bogbelly hefts ALL the bags onto his back and begins speedwalking. He looks a bit like a snail from a distance. A very large, and hobbling snail.

Rayena Corsano: "You want help with some of those bags?"

Munchix Bogbelly: “No, no! I’m fine. Can never be too prepared.” He says, as a pinwheel and two hammers fall from his cargo. Munchix continues eastward, none the wiser.

Rayena Corsano picks up the pinwheel and two hammers before following him at his back, keeping an ear and eye open to anymore of his cargo falling out.

Munchix Bogbelly - Everything that falls out is like, pretty clearly junk. Or at least questionable in the context of hiking/adventuring? Like, what use does Munchix have for a spray bottle? Anyway, this strange train of things dropping and being retrieved continues into Yanxia...

Rayena Corsano comes into Yanxia, huffing a little as she's carrying various things in her arms, some of it in her bag, which looked like it was stretching it's limits. "Let's pause a moment so, we can put all this back in your sacks." she said gently placing the pile on the floor.

Munchix Bogbelly had, as things were dropping from his pack, been increasing his pace with the lighter load. He turns to Rayena, surprised. “You mean to say, that’s mystuffs, and not yourstuffs?”

Rayena Corsano nodded and started pulling things of out her bag that belonged to him. "Yeah, it's all your stuff. Maybe we need to move at a slower pace so, it doesn't fall out again, or secure your sacks somehow..."

Munchix Bogbelly kneeled down and started examining the recovered objects with great interest. His backpack was relatively secure...given the sheer quantity of stuff he had shoved into it. It really seemed a problem more with overpacking, if anything. The fact that he had even managed to fit so much into so little a space was impressive, and a little frightening. Any uneven hitch in the road would knock the topmost object loose.

Rayena Corsano made a frown. "Granted, you're carrying an awful lot, maybe we should leave some of it behind. The stuff you really don't need anymore."

Munchix Bogbelly gasps, turning to Rayena with a devastated look. In one hand, he’s brandishing what looks to be a fork attached to a drill, and when he turns it on, the fork spins rapidly. “WHA. The stuffs I don’t need anymore? But what if we need the spaghetti-twister 1400, muchly? There’s no telling what challenges await us.”

Rayena Corsano looked towards the spaghetti twister and raised a brow. "I honestly don't see if eating spaghetti here but, if you really want to keep it all..." she said and rummaged through her over-sized leather bag before pulling out a brown sack, about the size of a potato sack. "Suppose you can put all that into this, and then if there is still some left, I can slip it into my leather bag."

Munchix Bogbelly: “Heftyhead thinking, Rayena.” Without even a pinch of care, he shoveled all the scattered objects into his arms and dumped it into the potato sack. After smashing it in a bit, the sack could /just barely/ close. A good job.

Munchix Bogbelly - There’s a soft honking sound, followed by a squish as this happens.

Rayena Corsano smiled softly, blinking a little at the sound coming from the sack before taking in a breath. "Well, that is sorted then, shall we trek on?"

Munchix Bogbelly: “Yes, yes! Onwards we go, my stalwart companion.” Potato bag in front, massive backpack behind, he (carefully) totters forward towards Namai.

Munchix Bogbelly can barely see where he’s going, which isn’t the best when there are ravenous tigers and other territorial critters about.

Rayena Corsano looks around.

Rayena Corsano: "Is this the right way?" she asks, looking around.

Munchix Bogbelly - Drawn in by the smell of dried food, wafting from Munchix’s bag, a tiger stalks the two. For now, it stays in the perimeter, waiting for the right time to strike. Meanwhile, Munchix ambles along. “Hm, it must be. Ground looks the same as the last time I came.”

(Munchix Bogbelly) this is like, every terrible escort mission in videogames )) (Munchix Bogbelly) an I'm the terrible escort xD )) (Rayena Corsano) oh no lol (Munchix Bogbelly) or escortee?? what are words ))

Rayena Corsano nodded. "Alright well, stay close me to. Those tigers can probably smell the food we're carrying though, mines pretty sealed up."

(Munchix Bogbelly) accidentally aggros a tiger and dies )) (Munchix Bogbelly) AHAHA )) (Munchix Bogbelly) this is the most perfect timing )) (Munchix Bogbelly) I'm surprised it didn't 1-shot munchix actually )) (Rayena Corsano) lol i was trying to click it and it took a minute

Munchix Bogbelly - Like a big, slow katamari ball of clutter, Munchix follows Rayena with the best of his ability. It’s precisely at this moment that the tiger strikes, slapping Munchix twice and sending the gobcat rolling down the hill.

Rayena Corsano takes out her chakrams, throwing them rather close to the tiger as an attempt to scare it away before checking on Munchix. "You alright?"

Munchix Bogbelly - A rock in the path has stopped him from snowballing, and miraculously, his belongings remain in his hands. The tiger, having swung at his backpack, did no real damage to Munchix. He looks dizzy though. “Whuhough ouughh hggh huh?”

Rayena Corsano: "I asked if you were alright, you look a little dizzy but, you don't appear to be bleeding."

Munchix Bogbelly: “Hhhh...ohh...” He wobbles back onto his feet, the world still spinning. There’s at least ten afterimages of Rayena, blurred and hazy, and he talks to the one on the far left. “Hearts beating, but that means I’m alive? Think I’m still apiece. Must’ve lost my footing there.”

Rayena Corsano: “You didn’t see the tiger swipe at your pack?" she tilted her head.

Munchix Bogbelly: “A TIGER?! WHERE?” He would jump in shock if he could, but he’s anchored down by his cargo. “N-No! I just felt myself go flying forward!”

Rayena Corsano: "It's gone now, managed to scare it off with my chakram. And yeah, it came out and swiped along your back, you got to be more careful."

Munchix Bogbelly: “Know full well that I’m grateful for your aid.” He sighs, with a shake of his head. Being chased by monsters was a regular occurrence for his outings, and he just didn’t know why...Munchix picked up his conspicuously large bags with a frown. “Right, careful. Let’s make haste to Namai.”

Rayena Corsano nods to you.

Munchix Bogbelly - Munchix’s roll had covered a great deal of ground, and so it wasn’t much further until the two made it to Namai. The first thing he does is rent a room for the two, and dump all his belongings there. With a sigh, he exits the building while rubbing his shoulders. “We’re here! The land of...tree. The land of /the/ tree.”

Rayena Corsano places a few things from her bag into the room they rented before looking around once they exit. "Alright, you want to try looking for the tree now? Or rest for a bit?"

Munchix Bogbelly: “Resting doesn’t sound half bad. Sounds /full good/ actually.” He eyes the display of permissions that a vendor has out. Without any delay, he grabs one of the fruits and leaves a handful of gil in its place. “Not dailyday that I find myself this far east.”

[kyoxsohma]

Mun & RP Tag

PLEASE REPOST, DO NOT REBLOG! Feel free to add to any of your answers!  The purpose is to tell your partners about the way you write!  For the multiple choice ones,BOLD all that apply and, if you want, italicize if it’s a conditional answer!

– B A S I C S –

NAME: Robyn

ARE YOU OVER 18? Yes / No (I am at 18 lmao)

IS YOUR MUSE? Yes / No (depends on the rp. but mostly his age at the end of the manga so about 18 as well)

WHEN WAS YOUR BLOG ESTABLISHED? Jul. 2017

ARE YOU SELECTIVE ABOUT WHO YOU WRITE WITH ON THIS BLOG? No  / Semi / Yes (some people) / Highly (few people) / Private (mutuals only)

ARE YOU SELECTIVE ABOUT WHO YOU FOLLOW ON THIS BLOG? No (anyone) / Semi (most people) / Yes (some people) / Highly (few people)

IF YOUR MUSE IS CANON, HOW MUCH DO YOU ADHERE TO CANON? Not at all / A little / Some / Mostly / Strictly / NA (O.C.)

WHAT POST LENGTHS DO YOU WRITE? One Liners / Single-Para / Multi-Para / Novella 

DO YOU USE ICONS AND/OR GIFS? No / Gifs / Icons / Gif icons (I mean icons if I’m not lazy to get them)

DO YOU WRITE ON OTHER PLATFORMS? No / Yes (umm I did write on facebook but i don’t really do that anymore)

WHAT LEVEL OF PLOTS DO YOU WRITE? Unplotted / Open Ended Plots / Semi-Plotted / Fully Plotted Epics

HOW QUICKLY DO YOU USUALLY RESPOND TO THREADS? Very Slow (more than a month) / Slow (3-4 Weeks) / Average (1-2 Weeks) / Fast (Less Than One Week) / Very Fast (Less Than Three Days) (this will probably change because of college)

WHAT TYPES OF THEMES DO YOU LIKE? Fluff / Angst / Smut / Action / Tragedy / Domestic / Family / Hurt-Comfort / Dark

WHAT GENRES DO YOU LIKE? High Fantasy / Supernatural / Science Fiction / Historical / Horror / Comedy / Romantic /Drama / Action / Adventure / Espionage (honestly gimme anything as long as the context makes some sense)

ARE THERE ANY THEMES YOU’RE UNCOMFORTABLE WRITING ON YOUR BLOG? No / Yes

DO YOU HAVE ANY TRIGGERS?  HOW DO YOU REQUEST IT TAGGED? No / Yes

– S H I P P I N G –

WHAT TYPES OF RELATIONSHIPS ARE YOU OPEN TO? Romantic / Platonic / Familial / Toxic/Flawed / Rivalry / Enemy

WHAT TYPES OF PRE-ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIPS ARE YOU OPEN TO? Romantic / Platonic / Familial

DO YOU HAVE OTPS? No / Chemistry Only / Yes

DO YOU HAVE NOTPS? No / Yes (none of the older adults and not particularly kagura cause he’s established how he feels about that)

WHAT IS YOUR MUSE’S SEXUAL ORIENTATION? Heterosexual / Heteroflexible / Bisexual / Homoflexible / Homosexual / Pansexual  / Demisexual/ Asexual / Sapiosexual

ARE YOU COMFORTABLE WRITING SMUT? No / Highly Selectively / Yes

HOW EARLY IN A RELATIONSHIP DO YOU SHIP ROMANTICALLY? Autoship / During Plotting / A Couple IC Interactions / Several IC / Slow Burn (It depends on the ship and how the roleplay starts and goes)

ARE YOU OPEN TO TOXIC SHIPS? No / Selectively / Yes / Never Tried It

ARE YOU OPEN TO PROBLEMATIC SHIPS? (canon history, age difference, etc.) No / Selectively / Yes

ARE YOU OPEN TO POLYSHIPPING? No / Selectively / Yes (highly depends on the characters)

ARE YOU AN EXCLUSIVE SHIPPER? No / Sometimes / Yes

DOES CRACK SHIPPING EVER HAPPEN? No / Yes / Never tried (idk if it was crack shipping but it was a kyoxharu one and it got real kinky real fast)

DOES CROSSOVER SHIPPING EVER HAPPEN? No / Yes

– T A G G I N G! –

tagged by: @yukixsohma the nerd who got me to make this account tagging: i literally don’t know any rp blogs except for @brighteyes-bravehearts who I am rping with on my other blog at the moment

[samcatthorne]

I'm adding Tony now 'cause your answers for Loki & Bucky made me curious

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would banghogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff (more like a Slytherclaw, tbh. But if I had to pick one, I’d say he falls more under Slytherin, but only slightly.)best quality: He’s the one you go to for a killer party worst quality: Like Loki, that pride and mouth of his will likely get him killed ship them with: Pepper TBD brotp them with: Bruce (SCIENCE BROS!!!), Loki (see Loki’s ask meme for reasons why) needs to stay away from: alcohol, former mentors, the subject of his dad, thinking about his mistakes, missile shrapnel, people who place WAY too much blame on him for collateral damage during battlesmisc. thoughts: Yes. Pepper is crossed off the ship list, and for two reasons.

REASON NUMBER 1: The ending scene of Spiderman: Homecoming where (spoilers) she shows back up after the “break” with Tony that left him feeling empty and depressed at the mere mention of her, immediately scolds Tony for something beyond his control, then kisses him and essentially says “Let’s get engaged to give the press something to obsess over.”

(1 contd.)To be fair, Tony probably should have warned Peter about the upcoming press conference LONG before literally right before it was supposed to happen. Give the kid time to make a decision, think of a speech, or even, ya know, get dressed in the new suit. That way (again, spoilers), when he inevitably says no, Tony can just cancel the press conference instead of having to make up something on the spot. And Civil War did technically take place in 2016, while S:H takes place in 2020, leaving a 4-year gap for the two to get back together and work out their problems.

(1 contd.) Except there are three issues with this: the first is that Tony’s never given a shit about the convenience of the press before and has actually left them straight up hanging in a previous movie, so why should he care enough now to give them something to talk about other than having a convenient way for the writers to throw Pepper back into Tony’s life and anchor her there with a ring? 

(1 contd.) Second is that they’ve had a (very rocky) on-again-off-again relationship since the first movie. The reason Pepper always left was because she never felt like he respected her unless he felt he was going to lose her. And that’s totally within her right. Except she also infantilizes him and is extremely condescending, even toward an--admittedly misguided--attempt at a romantic gesture that is still obviously wholehearted and done with the best of intentions. Tony gives her the run of Stark Industries because he believes she has the will, the drive, and the ability to keep it successful. Yet she yells at him because she “gets blamed for his mistakes,” which had already been happening anyway, since she’d previously been his personal assistant so she was still in charge of his public image and therefore responsible for his fuckups in the eyes of the public.He basically gave her the biggest fucking promotion an employee of a giant corporation like Stark Industries could ever get, and she blames him for this new job--which most likely tripled her salary, maybe even more than that--having the exact same faults has her previous job. She was basically running the company before, Tony just made it official so that she could actually get the credit. As for the strawberries thing, if she had known Tony for that long and actually knew his personality previous to that meeting, she would have known that he was right and that it was actually progress that he remembered there was some sort of connection between her and strawberries. He had paid enough attention to realize there was a connection, but didn’t have the reminder post-”the moment he started actually paying attention” to know what the connection was and so obviously assumed that it was a positive connection because who wouldn’t? She is miserable enough to look for new career opportunities in rival companies in basically all three of the Iron Man movies, but not so miserable as to actually leave. Why? She is aware he has a problem with alcohol, but doesn’t actively discourage him from drinking until he’s already had too much. In Iron Man 2, he gets so drunk he wets himself in the Iron Man suit, so he clearly has a problem, yet by The Avengers, Stark Tower has a fully-stocked bar for casual consumption. She points out his faults when he fucks up, but doesn’t try to help him (or doesn’t try very hard/for very long) to fix his fuckups, even when it’s clear he needs help from someone else--usually someone close to him--to give him the push to fix it. Yet, for all of the dysfunction, for all the yelling and the fighting and the arguing and the anger and the tears and the drunken mishaps and the godforsaken strawberries (yes, I’m fucking salty), she doesn’t leave. If she really gave a damn about him or their relationship, she’d have either gotten help in fixing their relationship (i.e. counseling), or she would have left.

(1 contd.) My third issue is this: if she really loved him, if she really gave a fuck about him, wouldn’t getting fucking married be a bigger deal than a last-minute publicity stunt? And it’s not just a stunt for the sake of the cameras, either. They have a long kiss before going out there, so their renewed relationship is obviously real, not just for the sake of the MCU public. Yet, she has basically no reaction to Tony going, “Hey! Let’s get married!” I’ve been in relationships before. I’ve had romances with various levels of commitment. And in none of them was getting engaged a small matter, even if it was partially for the public. (Yes, I’ve had a mildly similar situation. It’s a long story.) Popping the question is a HUGE FUCKING DEAL in our society. Ladies (and I assume gentlemen as well) are ingrained with the idea that a proposal is a humongous commitment. It’s a promise that isn’t to be taken lightly. But there wasn’t even a pause from Pepper. Yes, I understand she was under a lot of pressure by the press. But a) that should be something she’s used to by now, and b) she wouldn’t even stop to question her years-long on-again-off-again boyfriend offering to propose purely as a last-minute bit for the cameras an emotionally appropriate “WTF”? Where is the reaction? Where is the delight? Shouldn’t she be just a little bit happier that he’s proposing? Or at the very least be a little bit peeved that he’s choosing now of all times to propose? There’s just so much wrong with this scenario that I cannot even comprehend it.

And, finally, REASON NUMBER 2 that Pepper has been crossed off the ship list: I’ve recently started a FrostIron RP with a friend and, while I only ship it in the context of our RP (meaning I don’t really accept it as MCU canon), my inner Loki did get a little salty (read: jelly) that Pepper was kissing Tony.

Yes. I am trash. Deal with it.

(also, Emma, please don’t hate me. I know they’re an MCU OTP of yours. >.

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Alright, I actually spotted this from my Chrom but I mainly know the person in the fates fandom so here we go. I’m going to try and avoid names/URLs.

This isn’t on my rules page but maybe I should damn well add it. I assumed we’d be more mature than call out posts but apparently not. Now if only it was that.

Why the hell at the top of my awakening dash did I see a post that actually stated they were trying to run somebody out of the fandom? I don’t really care what the issue is. I do not care if they’ve been stealing, or catfishing or whatever.

To people reblogging this: have you ever been the victim of call outs posts? Whether actually guilty or not? Because I remember one of my closest friends having a screenshot taken out of context because she tried to defend me against somebody who was outright bullying me after a fight. I saw the rest of the conversation and yeah I’m biased but literally the most debatable part of her argument was taken and cropped to make her look like a terrible person.

Is that’s what’s going on here? I don’t know. I’m fairly certain the victim of the theft doesn’t follow me on any of my blogs (they can correct me if I’m wrong and are welcome to respectfully tell me the issue in private if they so desire) and I don’t really talk to them so I can’t know their side of the story. On the other hand, the person being called out hasn’t gone into detail but has already abandoned at least one blog due to being attacked by the fandom.

Did they steal? I admit those themes look familiar but I don’t know who made theirs first. Even if they did, and they hadn’t stopped when asked to apologise, this is not a court. None of us are judges. How dare you outright try to kick somebody out of the fandom. Block them if you’re so offended. Yeah stealing is wrong but it’s not like they’ll be making money out of that theme unless you find outright evidence that they’re selling it. If they were sending hate anons that’s another matter entirely but a stolen theme is not the worst thing somebody can do.

Nobody should get to decide who gets ignored/attacked and who doesn’t. Don’t like a person, then don’t rp with them. Notice a theme being stolen? Tell the owner and ask the person to stop. If that fails, block.

Why would you take pride in running a person off their blog? Do you not see how nasty that is? Two wrongs do not make a right and bloody hell nobody is forcing you to interact with them! Imagine if you’d been misunderstood about something and then we all ganged up on you and tried to chase you away. Be honest, if it happened to a large enough extent you’d probably end up in tears. Maybe this person isn’t misunderstood but nobody can damn well know that so how about you just let them go about their business.

I am not condoning stealing. Or catfishing. Or so called racism as we don’t actually know their race. All I am trying to explain is that public vilifying and trying to kick people out of a community is not the way to go about this. If anybody on either side wants to pm me about what’s going on, and explain sensibly without insults/general rudeness, I am willing to listen. But when I see somebody bragging about running another human being run off their blog, I suddenly feel an urge to go protect that person because damn have I had bad experiences with callouts.

I’m sorry if this seems incoherent or aggressive, I just came back from work and haven’t rested yet. I don’t want to start a fight, but please if you have any respect for your fellow rpers, do not reblog that thing. If you’re concerned, pm the people involved because if this person is so bad, then they’ll probably be willing to explain privately.

Now is anybody willing to tag this thing? I personally tag things tw: *insert problem her* but if y’all are tagging please tell me what to block. I do not want to ever have to see such problematic posts again.