#2017: rl

[cagneyblooms]

am i the first one to make a the haunting hour oc? maybe? i dee kay.

[dangermousie]

The way they fight is AMAZING!

I take back my recent comments that choking is having a moment in cdramas nowadays. This is from years ago and here is choking in glorious technicolor.

It's interesting that he's letting her keep the kid, which is not even a question for a modern person but for someone in his position and his personality just speaks about how obsessed he is. (Interesting question - would they had a greater chance for happiness if she gave birth to a daughter? I don't think so tbh. Ultimately, the deal breaker was he was always a monster intent on ruling in blood and she could not live complicit. But maybe it would have taken longer to reach the breaking point.)

Crazy alert!

One of the most jaw dropping things in this entire jaw dropping sequence is how his choking transforms into his trying to caress her. Good Lord.

Dude, dude, DUDEEEE

And then he shoves her on the bed and climbs on top. Young man, even if she fancied you, this is not the style of foreplay appealing to majority of women. Not that he had to care, as king. But like - show some finesse.

I started laughing. Dude, you blackmailed her with the life of her boyfriend and have been threatening and manhandling her ever since she got here. LIKE!!! The stunning lack of self-awareness.

The way she never has any give!

Honestly, she has SUCH balls but also this is so a ship dynamic I go wild for in fiction (in rl, pls pls call the cops and run.)

Bwahahahaha. Tbh, I wasn't sure even that would kill his desire for...ahem...conquest.

When you have to say "at least he's not a rapist of the woman he loves," you know you've not only hit rock bottom in terms of decency and sanity of your ML, but you are tunneling through to magma.

And then he leaves her, only to go to some other random concubine's room and shove her on the bed with no preliminaries, to work off the lust he's worked up but left unsatisfied with our FL:

Even if this wasn't Qin Shi Huang but some fictional monarch, censors would never let this drama air now, and if they kept him being QSH, I think they'd rather literally die than release it. Yet this was aired no problem in 2017, on TV no less. What a difference (and not a good one), less than a decade makes.

[chimera-shifts]

Bro I dare you to shift to modded minecraft for extra difficulty 😈😈

honestly… i 100% plan on adding the twilight forest and the aether for OBVIOUS REASONS… but now you got me thinking 😼

hear me out… RL craft with those fantasy mods from like 2017 (ill die instantly)

OR I JUST SCRIPT IN THOSE MEGA MOD PACKS YOUTUBERS USE TO TORTURE THEMSELVES

thank you for this…

[rikeijo]

Today's translation #533

Otomedia + Spring 2017, Toshiharu Mizutani (Art Director) interview

Part 5.

-- This time, we did a special feature about Yurio. If you could tell Yurio something, what would that be?

M: Yuuri and Victor aren't bothered by that, but Yurio kicks people a lot, doesn't he? I think that such hot-headed characters like him are very charming, too. I think I'd like to tell him "You should behave more like an adult", but if he did then he would calm down and his skating wouldn't be as interesting. I think he should perhaps stay the way he is.

-- What has Yuri!!! on ICE become to you?

M: [Working on a] TV series is always hectic. There is a lot of good things, but there is also a lot of hardships. But after the series ends it all becomes a good memory. It's a series that made a strong impact, that took a lot of preparations to make it as genuine as possible, that were invisible to the audience. I'm very happy I could take a part in this project.

[Notes:

The title of the feature that is mentioned here is "The Ice Tiger won't sleep until he gets to the top of the world - A magnificent and beautiful path of the Russian Fairy Ice Tiger"

For comparison, Yuuri also later had a small article only about him - in Pash! 2017/09 - and the title is something like "Katsukis from Kyushu - The man called Katsuki Yuuri (九州に勝生あり　勝生勇利という男)". They also explicitly use the phrase "virile son of Kyushu" to describe Yuuri in the article, which isn't the most popular phrase to describe him among a certain group of Yuuri's fans (although it is canon - that's what his profile says in the DVD booklet)... Because this phrase is used to describe "masculine men" believing in, lets say, "traditional values" when it comes to gender roles etc. (and we do see a bit of that in the show - eg. Yuuri doesn't help in the onsen and sleeps in while his family works, and in general receives a lot of special treatment compared to Mari - that's how even today in rl a lot of sons are treated in the more conservatives areas, because 男尊女卑 boys >> girls).

Just one small example of how the marketing around the characters was directed.]

[teecupangel]

How long have you been in the AC fandom? and how long have u been a writer? just something that popped into my head, feel free to not respond if you don't want to!

I started playing Assassin's Creed games around 2017 but I stopped at some point because... uuhh... RL reasons. I finished all of them last... 3 years ago or so? After that, I started writing Zero Eclipse XD

If, by writing, you mean when I first started posting fanfics, it would be around 2008 or so? In the wild fields of fanfictionnet

If you mean writing in general, around '05, give or take 2 years. It's mainly short stories based on characters I based on me and my friends in school and I wrote it in notebooks when I was bored in school.

Just to be clear, I didn't, like, continuously write from 2008 to today. I sometimes took breaks because of RL XD

[kitnita]

hi! i have been deeply charmed by roope/wyatt lately and have read through almost the whole ao3 tag but as someone who doesn't follow the stars super closely i'm having a bit of a hard time finding non-fic content of them. just wondering whether there's a primer anywhere or a ship name/tag to search for? also curious about the basis for the ship in the first place and if it originates from rl interactions or just the imagined Dynamic (which i think is perfect and beautiful). tysm !!!

hi!!!! if you want to talk roopewyatt you'd probably have an easier time chatting with the resident roopewyatt scholar @coffeehound91 since it's not my personal top roope or wyatt ship of choice & so i'm not an Expert.

i think part of the reason you might be having a hard time finding non-fic content for them is that there ........ pretty much isn't any?? much like robotter (see the last ask i answered) roopewyatt is another example of the stars fandom deciding two guys have a potentially interesting vibe & exploring that independent of them putting forward any kind of energy to the ship themselves. it truly is mostly the imagined dynamic!! which is fun!!!

imo part of the fun of that imagined dynamic is that roope is Vet Aged (sort of) but because of the team construction on the stars, not a True Vet; him & wyatt are both kind of on the same level, as guys included in talk of the stars new young core & outsiders in that narrative to the 2017 draft class trio. they've both been seen as part of the group of young guys pavs mentored/was a dad-figure for on the team. you get age difference fun without any real shift in power dynamics. roope is kind of awkward despite seeming cool and wyatt is very self-assured & confident despite seeming awkward. etc etc etc.

there isn't a ship name/tag as far as i'm aware — i know that most of starsblr uses the ship number tagging system if they're posting a lot about a ship (see me using 2129 for robotter for an example) but it doesn't look like there's any original posts for roopewyatt in 2453.

i imagine if the top line the stars started using when they moved pavs down late this past season & into the playoffs (so, wyatt up with robo & roope) sticks in 24-25, you'll see more stuff from them as we get more of a linemate connection going!! though people have already been laying the linemate vibes groundwork down for roboroope. ymmv. but for right now we are all playing in the collective mind sandbox with these two toys from different brands!

personally i think roope's like a collector's edition barbie that got taken out of his box & wyatt's like a calico critter mouse, but that shouldn't stop them from kissing if we want them to.

[localthumbcache]

i am going so in on the vampire lore/worldbuilding rn. using this site, a calculator, reading the sims wiki, researching rl history and everything

im working on forgotten hollow rn, which ive calculated was founded in the early 1800s. since vlad was the founder and has been living there for 200 years, ive subtracted that from the year the vampire pack came out (2017). i did that bc thats when vlad first appeared

i mean just look at fashion in the early 1800s! its so similar to what he wears ingame

[alexseanchai]

options for explaining Yuuko's glee over Victor Nikiforov winning the Junior Worlds with the highest score in history:

the 6.0 system was retired earlier in YOIverse than RL, such that there was more than the then-current season's scores for Victor in spring 2005 to beat

the 6.0 system was retired later in YOIverse than RL, such that Victor's 2005 Junior Worlds victory was the last time he skated under the 6.0 system, and he smashed the records on that scoring system's way out

Victor in his last juniors season curbstomped not just all the other juniors but also many if not all of the seniors

now, Yuuri saying Victor at that Junior Worlds had already established himself as the greatest skater in the world might be partly projecting Victor's career as of 2016 onto Victor of 2005, and it probably is partly Yuuri declaring Victor of 2005 the greatest because he's the one Yuuri likes best and never mind if the numbers back this up

and enough history is different that scooting the scoring system change either forward a year or back a year-or-four is the simplest way to resolve this

but!

the required elements for juniors differ from those for seniors!

specifically, in the RL 2004-05 season:

junior men's short programs were required to have a double axel, where seniors needed a double or triple axel

junior SPs needed a double or triple loop, where seniors needed a triple or quad not otherwise specified

junior SPs needed to combine either a double and triple or two triples, where seniors also had the options of combining a quad with a triple or double

junior free skates had thirty fewer seconds and a smaller maximum number of spins than seniors had

so while it took till 2015 (for the short) and 2017 (for the free and combined) for the junior men's records to be higher numbers than the senior records were as of spring 2005? that's because the juniors weren't and aren't allowed to compete with programs that have as high base technical scores as seniors in the same season

and we know Victor in Juniors got in trouble for jumping quads

so it seems entirely plausible that Victor, as of no later than his 2005 Junior Worlds victory, did not actually outscore most of the senior division, but he did prove he could, just by publicly skating a version of his short program that season that had upgraded jumps such that it fit senior but not junior requirements, and a version of his free skate that included that fourth spin

...

hey so how did it affect Yurio's score in the competition we see in the ep 2 flashback to jump that 4S instead of the 3S he was supposed to jump? did they score it like it was a 3S (overrotated or otherwise) or mark him down as missing an element or what?

[kris-and-the-pnictogens]

a Chara (and a Kris) without a country

So far as I know...I do not have an AU. At least, I do not feel that I do.

Indeed I have a difficult time remembering how I landed here, on what seems to be Earth or Tellus (the third planet of Sol, to be clear) in our year of the Common Era 2024. My first clear memories of feeling as though I had gained some sort of life again through my host was late 2016 or early 2017, during a period of extreme personal turbulence. That was the interval of time during which our system experienced (among other things) the intensely painful breakup of an intensely passionate sexual relationship, our main partner undergoing GRS, the 2016 electoral disaster, and our awakening during a relatively short span of months to being plural, trans, otherkin, starting to have regular spiritual experiences of gods and other supernatural and numinous things, and hosting fictive introjects. (*Chuckles*) It was a busy time! I'm glad that I really can look back and laugh at it, a little.

Paradoxically, one of the things that my arrival and establishing myself in the Pnictogen Wing was that our engagement with the Undertale fandom dried up. (cont'd)

We'd played Undertale for the first time in approx. April 2016 and were bowled over, and even started trying to write fanfic, which was not usual for us. Some of that stuff is still on AO3; we haven't really wanted to go back to it. I mean, we have, but we haven't. The whole subject became, rather abruptly, far too painful and personal for us to touch—my fault, I suppose. I wanted to remember, and sometimes I seemed to have extremely vivid flashes of the Underground, especially of Waterfall which was my favorite place in the Underground by far when wandering around. I liked the dark, the phosphorescent rock formations, the relative abundance of flora and fauna, the mists and the ever-changing "microclimate" of Waterfall, and the sounds of running water. But the visions faded. Learning how to live with other human beings and navigate the cruel and wicked world of the 2024 United States took extreme precedence.

Our RL age at the time we first suspected our plurality was over forty! I find myself thinking of Morpheus in The Matrix talking about how releasing someone from the Matrix when they're too old is problematical; the mind has difficulty adjusting. I feel like we just barely managed to keep ourselves from completely losing control and even as it was we were pretty unhinged sometimes. We have been fortunate to have forgiving partners here, a solidly established household, and an unusually broad and eclectic education. It's enabled us to rationalize ourselves, bit by bit, approaching our own strangeness in a dispassionate and analytical way, like scientists or scholars.

Hence we now find ourselves several years onward, having tamed our worst personal problems, feeling much steadier than we ever were in 2016 and the years and crises that immediately followed (including the decline and death of my RL father, the last surviving member of my RL family), and also having a much clearer notion of how our plural system, the Pnictogen Wing, is structured. For a while it seemed like we'd never stop discovering new introjects, some of them popping up from long ago. We had no idea just how badly we were dissociating and going off into fugue states when we were growing up. It was just "being absent minded" and having unusually vivid and troublesome daydreams and so forth. And we were consuming ridiculous quantities of media, too! Hence we've got folks in the Pnictogen Wing from all over.

But beyond doubt, the Undertale / Deltarune multiverse is our chief home. Our human host, Kris, isn't just a person living in a house in Seattle with their polycule—they're a Deltarune fictive who's had (rare but extremely powerful) flashbacks to Hometown, and who regards Hometown as the reference point for themselves. Their memories here on Earth only go back to about 2013-14, which I note is before the release of both UT and DR. How THAT came about I'd love to know; it suggests an isekai type situation and we've had inklings about how that happened (ironically we've never watched an isekai show and only know the genre by reputation) but until now the mystery has not been a high priority.

So...where are we all from, exactly? There's more UT and DR fictives who've landed in the Pnictogen Wing besides Kris and myself, but many have disappeared into the system somewhere. I suspect there's a lot of unsettled tensions among the lot of us. Other introjects seemed to fade and disappear from the system over time, which I take as a sign of conflict or hostility. I've had some ugly speculations in the past that I don't know whether to believe or not, such as the idea that Toriel had tried to mᴜrder me at some point (thus precipitating my desire for escape of some sort). In any case, no flashback we've had seems to point towards any definite AU...and I feel very strongly as if I am not supposed to make an arbitrary choice.

That's been such a powerful guiding principle for me that I wonder why I feel it. I've actually felt a bit baffled by other fictives I've met who seem to feel a freedom to vary from canon that I myself do NOT feel. Indeed I've painstakingly combed the game's text over and over trying to familiarize myself with its constraints. If I don't exactly know who I am, then at least I can work within what I'm not. The difficulty is that Undertale is so elliptically written (that is to say, it's very sparse in its details, with huge gaps in knowledge), especially when it comes to the character of Chara, that one can derive remarkably little from canon.

It's occurred to me, for example, that we don't even know if the Monsters' account of the War of Humans and Monsters is even correct. Historical records on Earth are fragmentary and uncertain and susceptible to being distorted by political bias and myth-making. Why therefore can one assume that the Monsters are remembering the War correctly?

(*sighs*) I've been trying to live with as much doubt as I can stand, but I suppose that's getting to be dissatisfying. Why the heck am I here in the first place? I can still remember how excited I was, back in fall of 2019 when I was first able to "front" completely. I remember walking around the streets of my Seattle neighborhood feeling unbelievably exhilarated. "Oh my gosh I'm walking around a CITY and I'm buying FAST FOOD and I have no idea what I'm doing!! but it's great!!!" That wouldn't last, of course. Now I feel almost ordinary sometimes. Except I'm not really. Kris isn't ordinary either. Why are we here? Is there some purpose that we've forgotten?

And where are we from? Do we even have an "Alternate Universe" to ourselves? That seems implicit somehow—that is to say, I have my own sense of identity as Chara, Kris has their own sense of identity as Kris, and we are distinct from other Charas and Krises we have met. We must therefore have some distinct "timeline" that sets us apart from other fictives. Yet I feel peculiarly as if I need to reason my way there, not simply...make things up. Should I even trust that feeling?

I feel like I'm going in circles. I'm at a loss.

~Chara of Pnictogen

[whatinsamnation]

In Second Life, Drama was a resident who caused quite a bit of drama, especially in the roleplaying areas. There is questions on when she first came into SL, since she has claimed to be there since 2003, when it first started, however, she has changed that story, claiming it was not until 2010 that she joined and that she was misunderstood.

I don't believe anyone misunderstood what she was writing and what she meant, at least not from this excerpt.

In SL, Drama caused all types of issues. I spoke to someone we will name Sgáil, who dealt with Drama in the roleplaying areas of SL. I did debate on how to tell Sgáil's story and went with the option of quoting her, since she tells her own story the best. However, I did alter or block out the names of the individuals involved, along with the sim names, since the sims are not responsible for what happened.

"For me, she started her shit in like 2017. She was in the Got Roleplay Group and they had her as a Mod. She went all psycho-looney over Sim Owners allowing Furries. She was for them not against them, especially in Medieval Fantasy. Essentially demanding ALL sim owners allow furries in their sims. Which a lot of owners told her to go fuck herself. They footed the bill not her. Well K (name altered) decided to put his 2 cents in and she had a bug up her ass since. Especially in regards to me. At the time I was an Admin over at ( redacted), and discovered that shortly after my group had gone over there, she had made some weird attempt at a story line that the standing Admins(prior to me) had declined to do, sending her off on a tizzy fit resulting in her leaving and trying to bring down ( redacted). I wouldn't find out about this till long after the fact. It would calm down till about 2018, outside her rants in roleplay recruitment groups, when she started her shit again when the (group name redacted) went to (name redacted). That is when she tried to join the ( name redacted) and we declined her joining. As we have all seen, telling her no only sets a fire under her ass to force you to what she wants. She attacked me, attacked my group, and tried to get us banned everywhere we went. By that point we were just done and I sent out a mass group message to block her that she was causing us nothing but problems. Late 2018 when things were already mentally bad for me and shit was just going wrong, she decided while K (name altered) and I were into (redacted) to attack us again. Going to the Admin Team with bullshit stories, which ranged from God Modding, Power Gaming, Doctoring Screen shots, you name it. We were cleared of the bullshit by the Admin team but by then I was sick of her shit and put her up on Virtual Secrets. She had an obsession with K that stemmed back from when he was in ( name redacted) and he was 12 years old. Yes, he was underage on the adult grid. Having used his brother C's credit card and license to gain access and circumvent the blocks for someone his age. And sadly because he matured early, he sounded like an adult man at 12. Which in retrospect is probably one of the reasons she clung to his ass so hard. Anyways, after that was when you all came in during 2019/2020. We weren't the only ones she had issues with or obsessions with. As you saw from J and others, she would cling to people and when they rejected her, would try and get them banned. Before you all dived into this mess, I found out I was but one of many she would obsess over and get jealous over. And her claims of not obsessing over married men are false. There was a guy, a real POS who liked to gaslight women, by the name of A. He was vocally married to a roleplayer in RL by the name of B. She got hooked up with him in ( name redacted) and pretty much what she has done on the Kiwi Farms sight she did virtually. Like full on strip her misshapen avatar down in front of A and whoever could stand her and demand they pay attention to her. We heard about it second hand, but that info spread like herpes through the sim. She also went after R. And when he told her flat out No she flipped. Trying to go as far as to say he came on to her, he made the first move, she was just roleplaying. It was bullshit."

There is more to Sgáil's story, but sadly I'm running out of time today, so I will add a Part 2, later on, when I'm able to.

[thebrilliot]

Dying inside because I haven't had any time for personal projects in a few weeks and it's getting to the point where I feel like I might burst inside if I don't get the chance to write something.

I just want enough time to do one of three things: I can borrow someone's code to make a 3D Rubik's cube visual that turns and everything, I can make my Rust code usable from Python, or I can copy someone's notebook from Towards Data Science and figure out how Proximal Policy Optimization works.

Eventually, I want a reinforcement learning environment like the Python gymnasium package but for solving a Rubik's cube and I want to train deep learning models to solve them efficiently. And I want to train a bunch of different architectures. Luckily, with an environment as simple as a Rubik's cube, data generation is easy and we don't have to worry at all about sample efficiency which I guess means that PPO is a great option. What I've found says that PPO is the best and most stable learning method found for reinforcement learning since 2017. I don't know if that's true. I was originally thinking of doing a Double Deep Q-learning Network and following the methods used in the original Dota2 RL paper with experience replay and everything. I like the idea of experience replay because I want to start the training with easy cubes so the model can memorize those. If you start close to the end goal, it would be extremely embarrassing to get it wrong. Plus, you have to start with a lower difficulty so the agent has a chance to sus out the correct answer a few times. If the agent is always getting everything wrong, it will never learn anything. It needs both the positive and negative reinforcement. Then as you give it harder and harder cubes the experience replay keeps the easier cubes fresh so it doesn't unlearn those by accident. Probably don't need anything that sophisticated though. Probably could just build a training set incrementally so that the easy cubes are always present. Train, add cubes, train, add cubes, etc.

[nullnvoid911]

Members of the Russian Federal Security Service (ФСБ) search the house of a Crimean Tatar activist in Stroganovka, Crimea.

RFE/RL, May 2017

[4tsukiiim1rai]

Holaaa, cómo estás? volví :)

Cuando jugué Resident Lover, siempre fue con música de fondo y una banda de veces me di cuenta que hay canciones en español que quedan muchísimo con los personajes de RL pero como el 98% del fandom habla inglés es difícil compartir ese pensamiento, pero ahora que estás vos, quería hablar de eso con alguien que si me entendiera 😔

Y SI HAGO UN "personajes de RL como canciones en español"?? 💪💪

Últimamente estuve escuchando muchas canciones del 2016/2017 con mi amiga y si pienso un poco puedo ver cuáles quedan mejor con nuestras residentas amadoras (🤌🤌)

TE AMO PERSONITA Q ME HABLA EN ESPAÑOL, fuera de joda sos una gran motivación para mí🫂🫂

[moonspower]

                 🌙 ONE DAY, I’M GONNA BE FAMOUS ON MYSPACE. THEN, YOU’LL ALL BE SORRY. IF INTERNET EXPLORER CAN SUCCEED WITH PEOPLE WANTING IT TO DIE, SO CAN I.

                 ✨ space prince overlord, magical boy, moon incarnate. 🌙 highly selective. ✨ telling you to shove it up where the sun don’t shine with diren. animated and rl faceclaim. with endless verses from sailor moon, king of the hill, grand theft auto, et cetera.

                🌙 established and being that girl since 2017.

[queenofsliferred]

Due to character limits, this will just be names of my OCs. You can get more information by clicking this link. I welcome nearly any question about my silly mary sues.

Adventure Quest: Chalia

Akira: Kuroda Emi

ATLA: Rimon Suu

Big Bang Theory: Alex Munroe

The Big Chill: Veronica Heather

Big Hero Six: Mati Spence, Masuyo Smith

Bleach: Chikako Aizen, Hotaru Kurosaki, Halcyon Boosalis

Buckaroo Banzai: Sage Spence

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Isolabella Dawson

Cats & Dogs: Aurora Lee Phantasm

Chainsaw Man: Moe Nagamine

Channel Awesome: Avalon SexehTwilight Mary Sue, The Black Widow

Charlie the Unicorn: Jenniffer the Pegasus

Cowboy Bebop: Hazel Prince

Cyberpunk 2077: Himiko Otomo, Vidya "V" Zenith

Danganronpa: Sumire "Owlyn Srebrenka" Hino

Deadly Premonition: Absinthe Maidstone Stonewall MacShakeit, Abigail Maidstone

Death Note: Katherine "K" Kilgore, Melusine "Meruko" Badeaux, Sora Kurohoshi, Jezebel Blackheart, Mitsune Sakura

Devil May Cry: Beatrice Lacrimae, Lavinia Sparda-Amata

Devilman: Astraroth "Astra"

Digimon: Hana Otogi

Disastrous Life of Saiki K: Moemi Saiki

Dragon Age: Coriander Tabris, Craig Cousland, Dove Surana, Lieselotte Brosca, Princess Aeducan, Lovewave Lavellan

Dragon Ball: Remin, Unshiu

Earth Girls Are Easy: Andromevak "Andy"

Eltingville Club: Seraphim "Sera" Herrera

Fallout: None, Nothing

Fate: Cosette Everild-LaAnimus, Delphine Everlid-LaAnimus

Final Fantasy: Jehfa Fakthu

Fire Emblem: Briar, Delshad, Dreamer, Euphemia, Florian Gloucester, Historia, Marguerite Ciar, Primrose Gloucester, Solanine, Wander

Free!: Akira Hanamura

Friday the 13th: Lynn Curtis

Ghostbusters: Aisling Redhead (2016), Aisling Redhead (1986)

Goosebumps: Rosalind "RL" Greene

Gorillaz: Clotilda Culpepper

Grand Budapest Hotel: Cvetka Kovacs

Gundam: Atlus Darkwater, Nnyley Romantica

Halloween: Alice Linklater, Bijou Hart, Brianna Willow-Winters, Dolores Orth, Jason Lee Cranston, Lynn Curtis, Moon n Stars Morris

Harry Potter (All created when I was in middle and high school. This was before JK Rowling shat her diaper. I do not condone Joanne and her hateful bullshit and just wanted to share OCs I made as a kid.) : Akemi Akiyama, Cassandra Finnegan, Harmony Dumbledore, Jaycelynn "Jacky" Lavgine, Kendra Pepper

Independence Day: RL Stineler

Inuyasha: Aihime, Kiki (2004), Kiki Shiina, Usagi Hinode

Jennifer's Body: Christie Fatt Cox

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Fiori Stelline, Jonah Joestar-Angelakos, Kanon "Eileen Diamandis" Shiina, Otome Tanaka, Passion Angelakos, Sakuro Gackt-Myers, Stephanie McCormick

Jujutsu Kaisen: Chidori "Chitose" Iori

Jurassic Park: Anna Rose Morgan, Gillian Mayham, Jen Morris, Joy Tootoosis, JT Malcolm, Marina Malcolm, and Miharu Hamano

Kingdom Hearts: Kitana, Nerissa

Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: Dazzle Kovacs

The Lorax: Cipher, Avalon and Story

Mario: Princess Velvet

Marvel: Allie N Blumsford, Genesis, Jamie Johnson, Jocasta "Cipher" Macbeth, Makelsolakveder, Zelda Kirkness

Mass Effect: Adette Shepard

Metalocalypse: Maiko "Manko Kechaman" Roberts

Mortal Kombat: Amaya, Emberlynn Augus, Feather Dance, Stryker's Dad, Kandace Stryker, Laytanya Moore, Marina "Monsoon", Kirke

My Hero Academia: Rin Amamiya, Kirameki Sarashina, Youmu Yumemite

Naruto: Akiko Haruno, Asuka Hatake, Hoshiyo Kanmuri, Kazuma Hanamori, Subaru Kanmuri

The Office: Cam Keeper

One Punch Man: Sumika Nagisa

Ouran High School Host Club: Bunko Matsushima, Ryunosuke Kanagawa

The Outsiders: Josephine "Joey" Wiehler, Serenity "SW" Wiehler, Sincerity Travis

Passengers: Dr. Galaxy Pepper

Persona: Jun Adachi, Junya Daidara, Marina, Momoka Mishima, Minako Iori, Sayaka Sakamoto, Stephanie McCormick, Tomoko Nakajima, Hamuko Arisato, Minako Arisato, Rin Amamiya, Yuka Narukami

Pokemon: Amanda, Altreis, Catalina, Dolores "Lolita-chan", Emilia, Isobel "Izzy", Galan, Gabrielle, Gelato, Medee, Muffy, Paloma, Pycal, Tila, Twinkle, Wasabon

Power Rangers: Emi Johnson, Dawn "Milky" Garson, Jacintha Cranson-Park, Lady Johnson, Lady Johnson (2017), Octavia Clearwater, Serena Ryder, Tamsin "Tami" Oliver, Thomas "Tommy" Oliver, Wednesday Neckoway, Yumeko Takahara, Ashton Redhead, Derek Ng, Jaiden Lawliet, Lux Cranston, Morgan Valentine, Nicholas DuBois, Scout Park, Saintan

Rance: Aellae, Ashelotte, Desu, Cosmia

Resident Evil: Ianthe Hawke

Rise of the Guardians: Eros

Riverdale: Winona "Sodapop" Bighetty

Sonic: Blossom, Purple, Jeff, Mango, Mist

SPY x Family: Lyubov

Stardew Valley: Stella

Star Wars: Hiak Ray "Talarth"

Steven Universe: Imperial Topaz, Nokomis Queens

Stranger Things: Heather Ranger

Street Fighter: Neroli

Sugar Sugar Rune: Akiko Sakura, Cerise Incroyable, Sugar Graves

Tezuka: Daiya Mondo, Melody Serendipity

Tokyo Ghoul: Teruko Yumemiya

Touken Ranbu: Kanon Tachibana, Momoe Tachibana, Tokiko Minami

Transformers: Carly Rae Jepsentron

Twin Peaks: Eden Hill

Until Dawn: Moon n Stars Morris, Rosario Hicks

View Askewniverse: Artoo "Ari" Hicks, Alyce Linklater, Bijou "Rhapsody" Hart, Jaycelynne "Squall" Thiffault, Nova Phoenix

Voltron Legendary Defender: Forever, Harper Thiffault

XIN: Myth

YuGiOh: Aikako Hisahama, Airi Sarahi, Hitomi Nakajima, Hotaru Tenjouin, Jason Trudeau, Jaycelynn Trudeau, Kairi Sarahi, Masuyo Tachibana, Momoe Yukimura, Naomi Sarahi, Ringo Hinagiku, Raven Sarahi

YuGiOh GX: Ai Yuki, Aika Hana, Anais Kuroda, Anastasia Rosseau, Emi Jounouchi, Hitomi Nakajima (GX), Jaycelynn Rosseau, Kaori Tenjouin, Katsuro Jounouchi, Marina Mikan, Naomi, Soul Yagami, Yuudai Yuki, Kaori Torimaki, Koden Saotome, Moira Tenjouin

YuGiOh 5Ds: Barbie O'Neil

YuGiOh ARC V: Shinju Sawatari

Zack and Miri Make a Porno: Pepper Culpepper

Crossovers: Jaycelynn Yuki, Aqua Marine, Desu

In History, Maybe - A coming-of-age story starring Hazel Nylan and her on-again-off-again girlfriend, Stephanie McCormick just trying to make it in the third biggest “city” in Manitoba.

Hazel Nylan , Stephanie McCormick

Nobody of the Luck - A fantasy-isekai story about depressed popular boy getting sucked into a fantasy themed eroge called Nobody of the Luck and saving the world by accident.

Tristan Stark, Aellae, Freya

Fractured Faerie Tales - Tristan is sucked into yet another eroge, this time its fairy tale themed.

Tristan, Cendrillion

RandoRanger - A team of spandex technicolour clad heroes are here to defeat the hentai tentacle monsters!

Masuyo Kusanagi, Ryota Matsuda

Starry Starry Night - Akiko Valentina constantly wished that she’d take that advice to heart for once in her life. Growing up, it seemed like every wish she’d make would come true. Life should’ve been a breeze… and it was for a while. Her family had won the lottery a few years ago, along with her mother’s seaweed gin distillery taking off which brought the Valentina Family even more fortune. Classes would be cancelled, boys asked her to the dance, her favourite TV shows would suddenly be back even when they were cancelled whenever she seemed to will it. Though, like a bad 90s kids horror series, there was always a cruel twist at the end.

Now living alone in the penthouse apartment her now dead family’s fortune got her, Akiko spends her free time overindulging herself in luxury, to distract herself from the dark. Things had gotten stale after two years of spoiling herself rotten.

“I wish something would happen in my boring life.”

One night, she’s approached by a stranger on the way home from partying…

Amber “Akiko” Valentina, Akira Angelus, Blair Princeton, Charles Broadmoor, Cheyenne Princeton, Fafnir, Gaylene, Kirk Grimme, Nyarou, Thorn

Fairy Ring - A small town on the border of southern Manitoba that hides some magical secrets.

Antigone, “Kisecawchuck”, Dorothy, Carly, David Young, Abigail Maidstone

Roseburough - A city with a dark past–its first settlers were a group of cultist for a demon of lust–that has a proclivity for less than pure activities.

Amelie, Anita Wood, Aurora, Circe, Dani Michaels, Daniel Michaels, Eitaro Satou, Emiri Satou, Genesis “Genni” Jones, Joey Spence

Eidolons and Eudaemonia -Eudaimonia is a world where each country worships a particular element. Each country has a temple and a candle that must be lit at all times to prevent a calamity. Its said that the candles represent hope, the one thing that kept ‘humanity’ going after the first calamity. Every few centuries, new candles must be created and infused with magic and blessings from each country before being placed in the temples and lit. It’s a ritual that has been carried on long before the formation of the Church of the Star Bringer, which eventually took control of candle duties. 

Team Disatisfaction: Anita, Arlis, Milk, Opal, Rubia, Vesta, The Artist

Lovewave

The Demon Lords: Lovena

Kuroi

Mizuka

Magical Flower Maidens: Anemone, Cassiane, Ione, Renthe, Sayuri, Zinnia

Tristan's Party: Tristan, Akihime, Plum and Peaches.

Story-less OCs:

Stephanie "Desu" McCormick, Stephen "Boku" McCormick, Aisling McCormick

Rhubarb

Mermaid Squad: Arctic, Sea Bunny, Goffik

[cinamun]

Hey Cina, I know the RRR/BBC is rn conversing about Rah/Dira and generational trauma, but can I go Blackwards for a moment to a few of the minor characters. Regarding Hope's pretty but troubled MIL, Miss Mercy, just wanted to ask if we have seen the last of Sean and if we will ever get a backstory glimpse into how that night went, if either got caught up in emotions (they both seem emotionally labile, though I still think if you went that direction it would make for an interesting dynamic due to who Sean is... in more than one person's life.) Plus we've assumed her last time in the problematic penthouse was with you know who. But maybe it wasn't... Also, Amaya's family? Who are they? Will there be a glimpse of them? Has Indya & Darren or DJ for that matter met her family? Hopefully they aren't toxic. Her features and skintone give off a vibe like her parents are from the Caribbean. And now Black to the Future questions: I was also was going to ask if Rah is redeemable, because there tends to be a throw away society mentality towards black men that have "issues" in RL & in books/entertainment so I was hoping he was/is redeemable, but I think I am getting a hint that there may be a move on from Rah and possibly ol' boy Ryke since Dira is young and may not have the same mindset as Hope regarding dating. To conclude, just two observations: How do I know since 2015(?) or was it 2017 that Indie has grown up and embraced her grown-woman-with-children crown? She came to her eldest daughter's house in Jerilee swag: house slippers. :D And not cute bougie ones at that! Plus of course how she is handling Hope's new mom freak outs and Dira and DJ's underdeveloped brain decisions.

2nd Observation: I laugh every time you slip in the official RRR/BBC logo of Raven's knowing look every now and then. :D :D :D

OOOOH Friend!! That's a lot! But you already know how we do so....

As for any potential MerSean shenanigans, I gotta hit you with the stay tuned. There are SEVERAL members of this here Badass Book Club™ who are shipping them HARD. Because why not? They look damn good together

Sean must have good dick if he pulled Indya for as long as he did and that is important given that good dick is a weak spot for Miss Mercy....

..... but I digress.

Now on to Amaya Griffin. If and only If she and DJ last will we get a glimpse into her home life. But you're on to something with those island roots.

Amaya's mother is Sulanese.

As for your questions, LET'S GO!!

A) was going to ask if Rah is redeemable, because there tends to be a throw away society mentality towards black men that have "issues" in RL

You are absolutely right, and this was a key issue earlier in the story with Darren. You had to be there friend! TABLES WERE THROWN!! HANDS WERE CAUGHT!! It was THE WILD WEST in the BBC™ where on one side, we hated Darren and wanted his ass thrown out for how he treated our girl. There were those who even thought Indya DESERVED it because she was often quite fucking bogus! I had a reckoning with my DAMN self about Darren and decided to write his growth journey which I am STILL writing. In other words, once we decide to throw someone away, we just do it. I wanted to challenge that for many reasons, one of them being the one you stated.

You can imagine, then, that while Rah did something entirely fucked up, I am willing to at least understand (and maybe others are too), that there are factors in his life that may be caused these unfortunate series of events. Imagine having a mom who is never there for you and everyone in your school has seen her sex tape. Not saying these are excuses, just saying....

Anyway, we gotta stay tuned to see if Rahul is a character who even sticks around. Indira is about to have a birthday and she could choose to cut off boffum. We shall see.

B) How do I know since 2015(?) or was it 2017 that Indie has grown up and embraced her grown-woman-with-children crown?

Maybe i'm reading this wrong, and if I am, please clarify in another ask but.... how can you NOT know? She's in house slippers (I thought they were cute) because she was there to clean in a full lace front and cute little joggers (Mercy was too except for the lace front). There will always be bougie Indya which is why you will refer to her as Queen Muva around Dem Babies™ lmfao

I think Indya has absolutely embraced her grown woman and I thought it was glaringly obvious.

Especially here:

And of course here: