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neurodiversitysci · 2 years ago

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I did do my own year in review. I finally figured out how to give an abbreviated, and less personally revealing, version here.

Year In Review

In 2022, I made 2 fundamental changes:

Switched from fanfiction to nonfiction,

Switched from the structure of daily prompts to the irregular rhythm of self-paced writing, and occasional client deadlines.

I lost my obsession with a fandom where most of my writing friends are, and could no longer think of things to write about it. We used to use daily fiction writing prompts, and I was generally the person who found the prompts and posted the prompt of the day every morning in Discord.

It took months to reconcile myself to being unable to continue using daily fiction writing prompts. I still feel kind of guilty for reducing the momentum of my writing group when I used to increase it. But when an intense interest/hyperfixation is gone, it’s gone.

However, I finally reached the point where I could stand thinking and writing about the interests I’ve had my whole adult life: disabilities, psychology, and neuroscience. A few years ago, in a previous career, I had some traumatic experiences, and I stopped wanting to think or write about these topics. Being blocked on nonfiction was one reason I threw myself into fanfiction in 2020.

During the second half of 2022, a trickle of ideas expanded to a continual flow. Instead of putting pressure on myself about what and how much to produce, I tuned into my own thoughts and feelings, and was pleasantly surprised with what came out. I took up blogging again. I deliberately refused to set a posting schedule, but I posted often, here and elsewhere.

I began seriously pursuing a nonfiction writing/editing career, and in the last three months of 2022, began building up a portfolio. I’m proud of what I’m creating. I’ve gotten positive feedback on my recent writing from everyone who’s read it. Someone even shared one of my blog posts with Susan Cain (the author of Quiet), who liked it and said thoughtful things about it!

At the very end of 2022, I started working with my first writing and editing clients. So far I’ve met all my deadlines, and they’re happy!

I now accept that my writing focus has changed. I made peace with giving up daily fiction prompts. I still read fanfiction avidly, but I haven’t written much in the last few months, and – finally – I’m fine with that.

I still haven’t figured out what to do about maintaining my old friendships, but at least I’ve been feeling more myself and making progress towards writing as a career. I hope to find more balance this year.

Word Count, Fanfiction

I thought I hadn’t written much fanfic at all in 2022, since a lot of it involved rewriting years-old notes and turning RP’s into cohesive narratives. Surprisingly, the word count was respectable, although less than in 2021: about 40,900 words.

(That’s an estimate, by the way. Because I had to assemble and cross-check drabbles and chapters across AO3 and Dreamwidth, which was an error-prone hassle, the actual word count posted is probably slightly lower).

Word Count, Nonfiction

My nonfiction word count for 2022 was 20,826 – not bad, considering most of it was written from October to December!

Total Word Count: 61,726 words. Not bad.

Writing Goals for 2023

I really loved the way I used daily writing prompts in 2021-2022: I could write whatever I felt like, using the prompt however I wanted, at whatever length I wished – so long as I wrote every day. I’d like to do something similar this year, only for nonfiction (so perhaps without the prompts).

The benefit of this sort of writing is that it’s unstructured: I start the words flowing and see what comes out of my brain. I need and want to focus on putting my ideas on paper, and perhaps experimenting with different styles, this year.

However, the main obstacle is this unstructured writing competes for my time and limited writing spoons with more structured writing, like freelance assignments, classwork, and cover letters for job applications. Here, I have specific skills I’m trying to learn and my goal is to create certain products.

I will face both internal and external pressure to spend ever more writing energy on the structured stuff – which I know can expand to fill whatever time you give it. But I also know that it’s the low-structure blogging I’ve been doing these past few months that’s giving me professional direction and clarity. In general, letting my mind wander and play creates raw material I can use for structured projects, and I can’t produce much for long without it.

So, I will need to make time to “play” every day – to set a timer for 30 minutes to an hour and let myself write freely.

Do you find it helpful to set writing goals? If so, what are yours for 2023?

2/21/23

2022: Writing Year in Review

This year I posted 19 stories, less than my usual, but that was one of my goals. I'm satisfied with what I wrote.

I'm most proud of posting The Last Envoy because that story had been in the works for years and it was time to figure it out and share it. Doing that was a great writing experience and a great fandom experience for me. I'm so grateful to everyone who read it and let me know what it meant to them.

[I also read a lot of stories this year and added authors to my list of favorites. I'll share those in another post.]

My writing goal for 2022 was to post less. Not because I am bowing out of the fandom, tired of writing, or hoping to become a 'real, published writer.' (*sarcasm: fanfiction IS real writing. Fight me.)

I wanted to post less because I needed to write differently and that required a new mental attitude. According to my Scrivener writing history, I actually wrote as many words in 2022 as I have in past years; I simply haven't posted them all. (They are steeping, or ripening, or whatever first drafts do when you leave them be for a while.)

One of the ways I learned to write was simply by writing a ton of stories and posting most of them. This is the Just Get Over Yourself and Do It School of Writing. I've been in the Sherlock fandom on AO3 for five years now, and I've written far more than the 133 stories and 1.6 M words I've posted. I'm proud of some stories, and I cringe at others. They all stay up for anyone to read because in writing them, I became better; they are a record of progress.

But writing well isn't the only goal of writing. Nor are numbers the goal (words, stories, hits, kudos, comments). As I consider where I'm going with my writing this year, I remind myself why I write:

To tell a story I'm excited to tell.

To try out something new that might not succeed, but I just want to see if I can do it.

To thank someone who's been supportive by writing something they will love.

To start a conversation with readers.

To get something out of my system.

To have fun writing a story that's just fun to write.

To work out feelings about something that happened, either in RL or fiction.

To imitate something I admire.

It's a new year! I've got stories in progress, but I'm not making goals. Working on goals implies that "done" is more important than "doing," that "being a writer" is more rewarding than "becoming a writer." For me, goals do not produce joy. If I have to make a goal, it is to carry on becoming a writer, and (I hope) never actually arriving. Being is not as much fun as becoming. Well, if I have to have a goal, it will be to have fun writing in 2023.

As Ao would say (quoting Ursula Le Guin): "It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."

I'd love to hear your reflections on the year just ended or goals you have for the new one. Tagging a few; probably not all I should tag; consider yourself tagged.

@totallysilvergirl @thetimemoves @discordantwords @therealsaintscully @shiplocks-of-love @sherlockwatson-holmesblog @jobooksncoffee @keirgreeneyes @raina-at @7-percent @a-different-equation @shelleysprometheus @helloliriels @blogstandbygo @jrow @mydogwatson @momma2boys @thegildedbee @copperplatebeech

#reblog #writing #my life #fandom #fanfiction #nonfiction #creativity #goals #writing goals #life goals

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cosmosfated · 5 years ago

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Only A Second

For thematic inspiration, muns of both muses suggest to listen to Ouroboros - Infinite Circulation for the first half and Who We Want To Be for the second half.

A world that had fallen into ruin, so far and so fast that it made the drop of a rollercoaster from the top feel like walking down a slow hill. All because of a failure to communicate, a simple mistake that could have been avoided if only people would listen. All of this, the chaos and the bloodshed and the destruction─ everything could have been avoided entirely if only they would have listened! But they never do. Never have and now never will.

She never wanted these abilities. The fire and brimstone that burned in the back of her throat every time she would get angry. The glowing acidic green eyes that made the rest of her eyes turn a slow inky black. The way her nails would curl and bend, painfully at first but then she got used to it, every time she felt the need to defend herself. The sensation of power rising in her that made her head swim, and she would grin and catch the glint of light against the knife edges that replaced her old dull human teeth. She never asked to be like this, she never wanted to be chosen for this outcome within fate’s design.

To them, she always was and now always will be a monster.

She’s much inclined to believe them, at this point. After all, what sort of person would enjoy the slaughtering of their own kin? What sort of person would enjoy the screams of agony and terror brought on by them and them alone? What sort of person could do that? No, there was no human that could do that. Monsters did that.

History is made of and by many things. She would be one of them.

It’s a shift in weight that disturbs the ground behind her that forces her to turn towards the sound, hands raised and catching ablaze with a bright green flame hazed with a black outline. In the ashes and rubble, in the falling dark from dusk, there stood someone who looked so miserably out of place and yet right where they belonged. Face hidden by the shadow of one of the pillars of an ancient cathedral left barely standing, the gloom of another red stained night reaching for them in desperation or perhaps celebration.

“Who-- who are you? If you take another step, I won’t hesitate to c-cut you down! I will make you regret ever coming close to this place!”

No response, but the person doesn’t move. Not towards her and not away from her. Nothing is said for a while, but she can feel eyes on her and it’s this person staring at her. Who else could it be, after all? It’s unnerving her. How can someone look her in the eyes, look at her like this and not be terrified enough to take a swing?

And then, “behind you.”

Reflexively, she turns and closes her eyes as a green shield contraption appears before her as she raises her arms. Something clangs loudly against it and the green flames incinerate the person who was trying to attack. The girl sighs and steps away from the charred corpse of someone who was only trying to cleanse a monster of the world... hey wait a second why is that person not attacking yet?

She whips around and takes a few steps forward brazenly, trying to see if she could get them to move or take a swing now that she’s closer. Nothing. A few more steps. Nothing.

Then the person opens their eyes as they take a step forward into the moonlight. A vivid and clear purple, with marks of green and sky blue within. This person─ he?─ steps into the open air with one hand on a the shaft of a cane and the other in the pocket of what are clearly jeans. He looks no older than her cousin did when she last saw them. His brows raise a touch at the prolonged staring and apparently the look she didn’t know she was wearing. “why are you looking at me like i’ve insulted everything you hold dear?”

Huh? “You’re... not going to attack me?”

He double takes at the question. “no? gods, why would i do that?”

She shifts somewhat nervously, the flames that were curling protectively around her hands and shoes dying down with a hiss against the ground. Her claws however tap nervously against each other as she looks down at the ground with remorse and nostalgia for a time better than now. “Everyone attacks me. Why would you be any different?”

“well, i’m not everyone, so take that into account.” His rumble of laughter causes her to look up again, shocked and confused from this ... relatively normal exchange. “i’m not going to attack you because you’ve done nothing against me. to attack a scared person because they’re scared defeats the whole purpose of trying to see what’s wrong wouldn’t you say?”

“B-But you’re standing in front of a monster! One who killed all these people! Surely you want to take down the monster...?” She doesn’t know what’s wrong with this guy. He’s acting so calm for someone standing before a murderer.

His brows furrow, lips pursing for a moment. His eyes look around in confusion, actually leaning forward to presumably check areas that are otherwise out of his line of sight, then leaning back to do the same. Looking back at her, he tilts his head curiously. “i don’t see a monster around. perhaps you scared it away before it could do any more harm?”

“Me!” She shouts, voice cracking. “I’m the monster! I killed everyone here! This is all me! Why aren’t you trying to attack me?!”

“ah,” the sound is monotonous. His hand in his pocket moves to allow his pink painted nails to scratch at the side of his jaw-- which she can now see is slightly covered with stubble. Something he seems to notice from the brief look of disdain on his face before he addresses her again. “i see a kid who now more than ever could use someone to listen to her, someone to protect her so she can finally rest a little bit. i see a kid who was forced into something she wanted nothing to do with, something she didn’t even want to acknowledge existed. i see a scared kid who didn’t want to do all the things she did but was only reacting to the world’s reaction to her, a kid reacting to the terror in everyone’s eyes with terror of herself in kind. someone who looks absolutely famished if i’m being honest. you look absolutely ghastly, kiddo. when’s the last time ya ate? christ on a bike, let’s get some food in you before you collapse from usin’ too much of that ability you got there. feel free to talk at me, rest assured i’m willing to listen.”

As he’s saying this, he’s starting to walk up to and then past her.

“Ah--! Sir, uh--” She pauses for a moment, as does he, to address her with a curious look. “I’m Anne... do you have a name?”

His smile is the warmest smile she’s ever seen, and it makes her actually believe that he means well. He has a smile that she’s sure would make God’s favorites be jealous of him. It makes her want to stick around this one as long as possible before he attacks her too, even if he says he won’t.

“t’is a pleasure to meet ya, anne. my name’s fleur. what do you say to a good ol’ fashioned burger? know any good spots around?”

Anne had been with him for a while now. Were there uncomfortable and even angry looks from other patrons here, oh yes indeed there were. But this man, Fleur─ he stood up to all of them and said that if anything were to happen, she is his responsibility. She would not be harmed while he takes breath into his lungs, or there would be more than just hell to pay.

She thought he had the sort of voice that makes people not just want to talk to him but also want to listen to him, or so she said. She had that feeling when he first started talking. Maybe everyone else got that feeling too, because they backed off really quick when it came to what he told them and with him standing his ground in the way he had. She saw him as brave, though in the back of his own mind he hardly saw doing what’s right as a banner of his bravery. Not that he’d speak up against that when this kid, Anne, looked so pleased with it. At least she’s smiling.

They’ve been talking for a while. Mostly about her story, how she had gotten there. Tears were shed and secrets were given in shaky hushed tones. Whispering of hobbies that she could no longer do thanks to her claws tearing everything apart, of friends who she could no longer see because she accidentally hurt them, of a potential love who ratted her out to the world and made her tear her hometown apart from the grief and the rage of the situation her crush put her in. Speaking about a sister who gave her the world and tried to offer her a home when everyone else told her she was a monster. Speaking so highly of someone who... this poor child had to watch die because they wouldn’t listen to her. Nobody listened. Nobody even tried, after her sister.

As he had promised, he had listened. Occasionally, he would make small commentaries. Referencing his own family, his own hobbies, showing her hints and tidbits about how to get back up when the world insists that you stay down. Adding another layer to the word ‘perseverance’ and showing her his roots in ways she had no idea about. Hearing him speak so softly and so gently, he could see in her eyes that she didn’t think this would last. And... even if she’s right about it not lasting, that wouldn’t stop him from giving someone hope as it was given to him.

And then she asks that question. “So what’s your story?”

Fleur chuckles. “i’m afraid there’s no enough time in the world for my whole story, but i can tell you about where i am, and where i would like to be. is that alright with you, kiddo?” She nods rather enthusiastically, and he leans back in his seat, arms crossed over his chest. Where to start? How to end? Ah, he could always begin with that...

A look of utter admiration crosses his features and one hand moves to grasp at the necklaces hanging around his neck. A silver sun with a rainbow center, a sky streaked golden feather, and a bottle of four leaf clovers half filled with some of them having petals turned grey. “i live among the impossible made reality. my parents, well too many have adopted me... but each and every one of them are so very important to me. my papa, a powerful magic user─ the history books and fairytales would deem him a monster but to me, he is home. my mother, the one i wished i always had─ she’s not your average missus, and that’s just how i like her. her stories of her days before meeting me and my papa are something i could listen to forever. my mom, a knight and someone who has walked the past with me so i could get through it with someone to pull me back to the present. she reminds me of how to be brave even when i can’t muster anything heroic or selfless. my soulmate─ words cannot do him justice and i could go on for ages about how i adore him so. he has given me the world and i intend to return the favor. my girlfriend─ she has been there through so much, and she continues to remain even when i am weary of everything else. one of these days i intend to propose to her, to make her my wife, and hopefully i will have overcome it all and i can finally, truly, go home to her. my siblings─ four older and the rest younger, they are my light, my everything. i would fight and die for them, while also claiming to not know them in the slightest. my uncle─ the crazy kook could give me the run around all the live long day and still have energy to spare to talk about his fluffy husband, someone else i hope i get the chance to properly know. and then there is my brother, if you can call him that. by all technicalities, i was another mission. another thing to get rid of or at least get to understand. we ended up bonding. he listened, when i didn’t think anybody would listen to me anymore. i couldn’t think of a world without him in it. without any of them in it. they are my life. and i can only hope that they are going to be there when i can finally live my life the way i want to live it. it’s a work in progress, but with them... it doesn’t feel like work. it feels like dancing, like laughing, like smiling. it feels so easy. even when it isn’t.”

He takes a breath and looks at Anne again, smile turning sheepish. “i went off on a tangent there. i apologize.”

“No, that’s cool. You sound like you really love them.” He’s seen that look before, so he waits for her to speak again. Waiting is something he’s gotten much better at, along with being semi more tactful. “...how do you know you can trust them? Like, they haven’t known you your entire life, how do you know they won’t... hurt you?”

“huh.” He uncrosses his ankles, feet now firmly on the floor, and looks up towards the ceiling for a few moments. He wasn’t expecting that. Maybe he should have been. Maybe he made himself not expect something like that.

Whatever the case, he leans forward onto the table and looks at its checkerboard design for a short time. “...i don’t. i don’t know that they won’t hurt me, or they won’t betray me, or they won’t leave me when i really need them to stay. that thought scares me every single day of my life, kid. every breath i take, every move i make, everything that i do or think or say, i’m worried that they’ll leave me. i’m worried that i’ll do something wrong. that this is it, this will be the final nail in the coffin. i don’t ever know if my next sentence will be the last one i ever say to them. i don’t ever know if their next sentence will be the last one they ever say to me. i don’t know.”

“Then how can you say that you want to be around them, when you doubt that so much and so often?” Her voice shakes and trembles, confused and scared and trying to understand but she doesn’t know how. He knows that tone well. It was his, once. “How can you say that they’re your family if you can’t trust that they’re going to be there for you when you really need them, when everything is falling apart and you need someone to just listen, or sometimes just to stay...?”

Fleur continues staring at the table for a while. Not a word uttered, aside from the mindless murmurs from the patrons around them whispering terrible things thinking neither of them were listening. Not a sound made, aside from the rain that was beginning to fall outside. Not a breath taken, aside from the ones given to keep the chest rising and falling despite it aching to rest for a few moments in blissful stillness.

And then, he looks up.

“that’s just it.”

There’s that smile again. That smile that told the world to stop on its rotation and tell everyone to look, look at the creation of the sun and moon and all the stars in the sky, look at the cursed angel who cared not for feathers but for who those feathers would be carried by. That smile that could tell you that it was going to be okay and you would believe it because it gave you the impression that it knew things would indeed get better, from experience or simply knowing you couldn’t know. That smile that you could see being the one to greet you when your time in this life is finally up and you wouldn’t mind if it meant you would get to see that smile every day after. That smile that you could see on the worst day of your life, and it wouldn’t feel so awful. That smile that has seen war, that has worn blood, that has felt agony, that had the choice to be death but chose to be life. There’s that smile that could bring the world to its knees if he hadn’t chosen to use it to bring it back up to a stand.

“that’s the risk you’re taking, anne, when you love someone. to love another person is to give them a part of yourself that is always so fragile and so easily broken but you want to believe that they’ll handle it with care. no matter how many walls you put up, no matter how many wars you wage in its honor, it will still be weak and fluttering and the easiest way to destroy you if you made the wrong move. but that’s the risk you take when you choose to love. love isn’t easy. and that’s what makes it great and terrifying and beautiful and ugly all at once. love is what keeps us alive.”

Not hearing any lie in his voice, Anne slumps back down in her seated, wavering in conviction but not yet seeing what he does. He supposes he can’t blame her. She’s been alone for so long. It must feel like forever, to her. “... How can you know that you’re safe with someone?”

“...kiddo,” he chuckles and shakes his head, eyes closing as he cranes his head upwards. An action that looks like he’s praying, or perhaps waiting for an answer. Still he speaks. “i knew i was safe when i could no longer stand my ground and they did not bury me beneath it. i knew when i felt the ground crack beneath me and they caught me before the earth could swallow me up. i knew when i could fall asleep next to them and wake up with them asking if i slept well even when they know i rarely do. i knew when i smiled and it didn’t feel as if i was playing a part in some gaudy show, when it felt i was truly happy. it was reckless and careless, scary and world shattering. i thought i was going to be sick when i first showed them i trusted them. sometimes, being safe means stepping out of your comfort zone. sometimes, learning to control the fire,” he gestures towards the window as the rain puts out the last hissing embers in the not-too-far-off distance. “means stepping into the flames. it’s not pretty, it’s most certainly not fun. i would be lying to you if i said that it was. but,” and he looks at her properly again. “the best choices we can ever make in our lives are sometimes the hardest. can they also be the worst?” He shrugs. “undoubtedly. but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and see. sure, that also doesn’t mean that there’s a diamond in every rough.”

Lightly, gently, Fleur takes one of the girl’s hands in both of his own.

“sometimes, the only way to know the truth is to first listen to the lie.”

She can feel the light tremors to his touch, now. Before, his hands never looked like they were shaking. Even when they were at his side, on the table, crossed over his chest. His hands always looked so steady. Now she can’t not see the small twitches and strain to every bend to every one of his fingers. Some look easier for him to bend and move, and others look like they have worse conditions. But he made them all look as if they were in perfect condition. Through the pain, through the aches, through everything and anything that moving them put him through, he still managed to smile in such a way that the sun would look cloudy in comparison.

Anne remains silent for a while, as the white noise of rainfall hushes the anger and makes the sharp claws and razor blade teeth go back to normal. Glowing green eyes go back into a normal and otherwise unnoticeable hazel with flecks of green around the pupils, the whites of her eyes returning to proper color. He smiles at her with what she can only read as pride, though for what she can’t possibly fathom right now.

She takes a breath and stands up, back to him.

“...okay. Fleur, one last question... before I go to try and fix things.”

“yes?”

“What happened when you told those you love the truth, when you tried to make things work? What happened when the world caved in, when everything went to black and you didn’t think that the world would get any better? What did you do?” She wrings her hands nervously. “...What should I do?”

A pause. “you have to be willing to wait forever.”

“I don’t have forever, Fleur. Nobody does.”

She hears a chuckle from him. She can hear his smile in it. “ah, but that’s the thing. sometimes, forever is only a second.”

“What does that mean─”

When she turns, she’s met with a simple sight.

A fully bloomed yellow rose, a bandana adorned with strange symbols.

And a note that says: 00:00:01.

#a drabble version of that rp I did on discord #it has to be canon #it's too good to pass up #would tag the other muse but the dear's only on discord and she agreed to let me create this as a sort-of summary #since we've been at this roleplay for some time now #* testimonials. \ receipts for being a sappy idiot.#* drabbles. \ they're more like fics than anything.#* important. \ don't forget.

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highseaskxng · 3 years ago

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completely unprompted // always open

@withagentleheart asked: RATE ALL OF SINBAD'S DJINN/DJINN EQUIPS!! GO!

Baal: His first, arguably you can say Sinbad’s bias when it comes to this djinn because this was the one that started everything. It was the djinn that helped him believe he was different helped him believe that he was special and as for me I’m digging the dragon aesthetic and just the overall raw power. So I give this a 8/10

Valefor: Arguably Sinbad’s most prettiest form. Honestly at first like when I first saw it in the anime I had little care for Valefor until I literally understood its abilities. I mean my buds can attest to how many times I’ve had sin go Valefor in rp because strategically it’s his best in-slot. Not to mention the design grew on me. ALSO it looks like a middle-eastern version of Yu yu hakusho’s Yoko Kurama, so that’s a win. 7/10

Zepar: This was another djinn that grew on me, okay first of all in the world of roleplay this djinn is just god moding (I think that’s what they call it) and I never really use it unless I’ve got consent from my writing partner OR i’m having him do something to an NPC. Whilst I don’t often use the full Djinn equip in my discord drabbles I DO use its ability to have Sinbad use his falcon (which I call Senu in AU verse after my boy in AC Origins) to scope out an area, or act as a sort of midieval whatsapp DM, have them speak to him and Sinbad gets the message through its ears. Good stuff. 6/10

Vepar: The one for me that’s misunderstood. We haven’t really seen THIS djinn in action until like the final arc and how could we? There’s really no reason for Sin to really pull these bad boys out on these scrubs. From what I understand my homegirl gives Sin the abilities to conjure up bladed projectiles so I’m guessing It’s kinda like Fate’s Gilgamesh’s gates of babylon. (where he just tosses sharp things at you in high speed). The ‘younger’ look it gives him is a plus for me because I honestly missed Sin as a 14 year old and it would have been fun to see him full djinn equip at that age. Giving this a 6/10

Focalor: Who I swear is Sinbad’s past life. Like screw him being like David or Solomon for that fact. Sin is definitely Focalor’s reincarnation. Aesthetically this djinn is pleasing to look at and considering it uses wind magic I really think THIS is his strongest djinn. Cause think about it, if they can recharge their magoi by using the elements at its rawest form, all my boy has to do is breathe. There’s air EVERYWHERE. This djinn equip’s just loaded with drip so it gets a 8/10.

Crocell: Truthfully this was the one I disliked the most aesthetically. What can I say I never was one that dug Centaurs but seeing the boy in action in the final arc made me admit that it does look pretty awesome, so you know I had to put some respect on his name. I just wished he did something flashy..unless I missed it and he did. Feel free to link me to the panel where Crecell did something magic-esque. So i’m giving him 5/10

Furfur: Last but not least it’s THE BOY, Furfur. The name might sound ridiculous but this djinn to me is the best in aesthetics, and power. I mean it’s a Djinn of LIGHT that looks like the devil. You know what that means? Our homie Furfur LITERALLY took a look at Sinbad and said ‘you remind me of what christians call Lucifer’ and there we go. And honestly it quite fits him, Sinbad is a man that aims to bring light into the world and if it means he needs to be branded as a devil, well then he’ll do it. And have I mentioned that this djinn just looks badass?? Cause it does, this djinn is the GOAT of all Djinns and it gets the perfect score of 10/10

#◤ : ❛ ANSWERS ━ it doesn't surprise me i am the one #◤ : ❛ MUSINGS ━ here i thought the cat had your tongue.#withagentleheart #tw long post

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thememcry · 4 years ago

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THE POSITIVE & NEGATIVE; Mun & Muse - Meme.

fill out & repost ♥ This meme definitely favors canons more, but I hope OC’s still can make it somehow work with their own lore, and lil’ fandom of friends & mutuals. Multi-Muses pick the muse you are the most invested in atm.

My muse is: canon / oc / au / canon-divergent ( potentially ) / fandomless

Is your character popular in the fandom? YES / NO.

Is your character considered hot™ in the fandom? YES / NO / IDK.

Is your character considered strong in the fandom? YES / NO / IDK. (apparently there are youtube comments circulating about how boring or weak aerith is. if an explanation needs be provided for how strong of a woman, character, and fighter she is in her own regard then the point of the character is missed entirely.)

Are they underrated? YES / NO.

Were they relevant to the main story? YES / NO.

Were they relevant to the main character? YES / NO / THEY’RE THE PROTAG.

Are they widely known in their world? YES / NO. (the big baddies know of her, the little baddies know to look for her and the heroes just learned of why she’s important).

How’s their reputation? GOOD / BAD / NEUTRAL.

How strictly do you follow canon?

it depends entirely on the person / character i’m writing and what verse they’re in. when someone approaches me and doesn’t specify a verse i give them main verse (ff7r) and follow canon as closely as i’d like. but most of my threads diverge from canon for exploration or other purposes. i’m not concerned with how close to canon my aerith is ------obviously i’d like people to hear her voice when i have her speak, or see her performing the actions i have her commit to but i’d also like this interpretation to be my own. so when someone reads a piece of my writing they say oh yes, that’s kay’s aerith definitely.

SELL YOUR MUSE! Aka try to list everything, which makes your muse interesting in your opinion to make them spicy for your mutual.

i could make an entire post about all of the things i love about aerith gainsborough on its own, so i’ll try not to let this be too rambly.

she is such a three-dimensional character and she always has been. people expect just to meet the damsel in distress, to rely on cloud and company to help her out at every twist and turn. square even did a good job selling her appearance: soft pinks, gentle features, and when she was given a voice actor the first few times they always went the route of someone who had a lighter lilt. to the first glance she is very much all of those things. except it’s not all she is.

aerith wears masks to cover the horrendous things that happened to her as a child: experimentation, the shocking loss of her mother after escaping it, crushing loneliness, an awareness that she was different and nobody around who understood the properties of that difference to explain it to her in a way that didn’t terrify her. she heard the planet, could tell when people passed away and rejoined the lifestream, surrounded by all of these voices yet so fucking alone. and did she let it make her bitter? did she become angry or cold, jaded or cruel? no. aerith is kind and giving without being too self-sacrificing and without making her boring. she’s not as innocent as people are made to believe.

look at her first interactions with cloud. she flirts mercilessly with him, and then you discover she did it to zack, too. she’s not afraid to express herself in any fashion and she’s unapologetic about how forward and positive she is. despite all of the shitty things that happened to her, she’s still all of these great things. she’s scrappy, she can be a brat (ask the turks!) and she blooms under the cover of oppression that she lives. sure, she’s in a beautiful house with a loving mother figure but she’s in the slums and she’s being watched constantly by some part of the company that wants to see her dissected or worse.

and she’s divine. no, literally. of course it takes her death for the realization of that divinity to really be understood by the fan base and even by her own party, but once aerith dies she becomes an actual deity. it’s sad that you don’t get her in your party any more but it’s obvious how much she affected everyone she worked with (and even those she didn’t). they spend the rest of the game avenging her, they spend the rest of the game explaining their grief over her loss, promising her death won’t be in vain. and once that’s done? there’s an entire movie where cloud deals with his grief over everything, but mainly his self-appointed guilt over her death. as if he could have changed it? i mentioned to @seraphicwiing in a conversation (an au one) about sephiroth and aerith ------he didn’t kill or break her. he gifted her divinity.

so this sweet flower girl goes from a first appearance damsel in distress to an actual conduit of the planet, watching over her friends and everyone else from the spiritual plane of it. controlling the lifestream itself to rise up and crush back meteor.

if you don’t like her by this point, it’s a lost cause. honestly, just go play pacman or something.

Now the OPPOSITE, list everything why your muse could not be so interesting (even if you may not agree, what does the fandom perhaps think?).

maybe strong female leads aren’t your cup of tea? perhaps you really wanted aerith to maintain her softness and have none of the bite or edge that i argue make her interesting?

some people want a strong woman to be something like paine in ffx-2, or lightning in ffxiii, or even lulu in ffx itself ... dark and perhaps a bit brooding, angry with someone or something. they can be gentle but they’re mostly a razor sharp edge threatening to slice anyone who tries to get close to them. aerith is arguably a hot take on the stronger female leads ... even compared to tifa. you don’t doubt that a woman who fights with her fists is a tough, bad bitch ... but aerith isn’t physically strong. she’s the image of a princess honestly and that’s just not what some people want to see or deal with.

arguably her personality can come off a bit strong. she’s snarky and, as i said, a tease. she can be bratty from time to time and that can absolutely be read as irritating, especially to someone whose looking for negative personality traits to focus on at a first glance.

and a lot of people just see her as a love interest to cloud. and she is, i won’t deny that. it’s been further addressed in the remake with her dream sequence that cloud absolutely has feelings for her. it dredges up the age-old argument from 1997 of: tifa or aerith. why does it have to be or? why can’t he love them both in different ways? or the same way? it’s not like aerith has a lot of time to be the love interest, anyway. we all know how disc 1 ended, by this point.

perhaps people see her end-game divinity as a deus-ex mechanic. sure, it kind of it. but the game never hid its intentions of why aerith was there. she was always special, we just didn’t know how. she always had holy, we just didn’t know what it meant at the time. but it does seem a bit convenient that right as the meteor is going to crush midgar ------here comes the lifestream, holding it back so holy can stop it! wow, amazing! darn that aerith and her connection to the planet. how awful. maybe cloud could have just braver’d it.

What inspired you to rp your muse?

i love her. it’s just that simple. she’s so complex and so different from other characters i tend to gravitate toward. she has a darkness but she’s good, genuinely. i usually go for people who are deeply seeded in some kind of trauma, or are just generally a piece of shit. and aerith certainly has her trauma, but she’s risen above it. she chooses to live her life as much as she can before the ultimate doom clock ticks to 0, you know?

i admire her beauty. not just her physical beauty (and she is), but the beauty of her as a person. i wish i could be as endlessly positive as she is, even faced against such awful odds. i wish i could be the kind of person who surrounds themselves with people who love them, despite their flaws. but i am very much the opposite of aerith.

i consider myself endlessly lucky to be a mouthpiece of some kind of version of her. this is a character i’ve had a connection to since i was like, 7 or 9 (and i’m 30 now). the very fact that i get to log in every day and express some form of this wonderful character keeps me connected to her. she has a loud voice in my head, and i think she always had. i think that remake just re-lit the flame for her.

i wrote her a long time ago, during myspace rp days. but we all know how myspace ended. so i choose to write her now because it feels right. and i really do enjoy having someone who shines so brightly in my head.

What keeps your inspiration going?

the same as everyone else, i think: music, clips of the character, art of her ... but mostly? my writing partners. i wouldn’t be anywhere without the people in this site who come to me every day with an interest in my interpretation of aerith. i never expected so many lovely humans to want to see what i can do with her. but i have people dm’ing me on discord every day with ideas or thoughts, with musings or what-if’s ... and it really just keeps this muse so alive for me.

even though i have a backlog of drafts and inbox things to answer, i can know that they will get done ... it’s just up to me as a human to write things out.

Some more personal questions for the mun.

Give your mutuals some insight about the way you are in some matters, which could lead them to get more comfortable with you or perhaps not.

Do you think you give your character justice? YES / NO.

Do you frequently write headcanons? YES / NO.

Do you sometimes write drabbles? YES / NO. (i’d prefer to write out a reply to a solo drabble).

Do you think a lot about your Muse during the day? YES / NO.

Are you confident in your portrayal? YES / NO.

Are you confident in your writing? YES / NO.

Are you a sensitive person? YES / NO.

Do you accept criticism well about your portrayal?

in the proper context. i don’t want someone coming on here and telling me i play aerith wrong because it’s not what she would do canon. that’s cool, i don’t write her strictly canon. but if i’m having doubts and i ask for the feedback, i’m open to it.

Do you like questions, which help you explore your character?

always. i am 100% always accepting development questions.

If someone disagrees to a headcanon of yours, do you want to know why?

nope. i don’t care if you agree with my headcanons or not. i’m sure there are people who don’t like that i have a ship with a sephiroth, or a reeve, or that i’ve had her mess around with rufus or biggs. i’m sure there are people who despise the way i make her speak to people ... and that’s fine. they’re allowed to. but this is my interpretation of aerith and so far i’m loving everything that i’ve gotten to do with her. especially those things that include character building with others.

If someone disagrees with your portrayal, how would you take it?

they’re allowed to disagree. they’re also not beholden to follow me. i won’t be upset if they unfollow me. it’s their comfort, after all. and i’d rather spend time on here enjoying myself than either having someone voice their dislike of my interpretation or get vocal about how they’re uncomfortable.

If someone really hates your character, how do you take it?

people have really hated aerith since 1997. they’re allowed to have their silly opinions of her. and i’m allowed not to entertain them.

Are you okay with people pointing out your grammatical errors?

please do. i’m human and i make mistakes. i’d love to fix them.

Do you think you are easy going as a mun?

yes, but i’ve had people mention that i seem a little unapproachable. please approach me. if you want to write with me let me know. if you want to chat ooc with me talk to me. i promise i’m an absolute dimwit on my side of the screen. i’m spacy but i try to be as nice and welcoming as possible. somehow i’ve conned a few friends out of this rpc already with my idiocy, so please please please come chat with me.

That’s about it, congrats for filling out!

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scendant · 4 years ago

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THE POSITIVE & NEGATIVE; Mun & Muse - Meme.

tagged by: @zhrets aka THE stinky boy, Thank 4 teh Tag-desu uwu *glomps* tagging: @foxcharmed / @heroeth / @garuvusu (do it twice i dare you gabby) / @icarise

My muse is: canon / oc / au / canon-divergent / fandomless / complicated

Is your character popular in the fandom? YES / NO / KINDA

Is your character considered hot™ in the fandom? YES / NO

Is your character considered strong in the fandom? YES / NO

Are they underrated? YES / NO

Were they relevant for the main story? YES / NO.

Were they relevant for the main character? YES / NO

Are they widely known in their world? YES / NO.

How’s their reputation? GOOD / BAD / NEUTRAL.

How strictly do you follow canon? / I follow canon as much as I can, but it’s important for me to note that Elesis has many versions of herself depending on exactly which time I write her. For the most part, for panfandom interactions, I go for a more general approach incorporating canon into her story (as she did travel solo across dimensions for a hyper-extended period of time), but making it so that it wouldn’t have a tremendous effect on the actual canon of the story (by making her forget every world where she’d traveled, which gives opportunity for plots to revolve around that). I try to follow canon but, the game was a 2008 KMMORPG that was a patchwork mess and character identity is left highly to fandom and individual interpretation. My Elesis is nearly an original character at this point. I’ve thought about what made sense for her for a long time. She is a childhood character that had a significant impact on why I decided to rp, the kind of person I am today, and liking her and maining her in the original game inspire a lot of my love for similar characters.

SELL YOUR MUSE! Aka try to list everything, which makes your muse interesting in your opinion to make them spicy for your mutuals. / Elesis Sieghart provides a lot of introspection. She is interesting because she is multifaceted. She is a leader---a Savior, going by the way canon sees her. But she’s not. Several times in canon, namely in her background and in an implied alternate dimension, she leans towards revenge over justice. Her goal has been, and always has been, to enact revenge on the villainess who took her father away from her. Her reaction to seeing her father die in front of her is anger, and then a desire for vengeance. In the alternate universe mentioned, she is so overtaken with rage that she transforms into a shell of herself consisting of her determination and her desire to kill----something that isn’t common among characters like her. Likewise, all throughout canon, she forced her way into a leadership position that, gradually, she begins to doubt and resent. She was brash, had an ugly personality, trampled over others’ opinions and yet---she cares about them so much. She’s a leader because she treats everyone she meets as equals, but she isn’t a leader-type because she’d rather seek anger in her friends’ name rather than protecting them in the present. Elesis always, always, looks towards the past for her actions rather than the present and she is fundamentally flawed as a protagonist. Not to mention, she is selfish and she takes her enjoyment of battle to extremes. Rather than being a forgiving and kind protagonist, she is ruthless and nearly totalitarian in her desire to fight over doing the right thing. She would rather die than retreat for the safety of her friends. She is angry, but it’s kept inside. She is lustful for violence, but she has to keep up the image of a good leader. She’s constantly on a breaking point one way or another, and I love that about her and I hope my interactions can spark some of that curiosity to go beyond what she is on the outside.

She’s a character that has a lot of potential for relationships. She has so many experiences that have changed her over and over again that she cherishes and is referred back to often. She’s a lot of contradictions in one woman, and to weasel your way into that takes a lot of effort and it’s rewarding. That’s how I want to portray her.

Now the OPPOSITE, list everything why your muse could not be so interesting (even if you may not agree, what does the fandom perhaps think?). Elesis isn’t digestible. She’s kind of basic looking and her words are far and few in between. I think she’s a very difficult character to love----she’s an easy character to gloss over because she’s not bombastic like a lot of others are. Speaking not so much from a fandom perspective (because she is very loved in the fandom, namely GC’s Korean fandom, where she’s one of the most popular characters) but from the perspective of roleplaying and seeing the kinds of characters people tend to prefer----Elesis is just not it. She’s not that consumable, and threading with her (and me in general) takes a ton of time and back and forth before she gives way to cuter threads or in-depth things. She’s not really defined by anything outright. It can easily be said that she isn’t anything. Her character doesn’t seem consistent----she’s a lot of things at once, rather than being “a good girl” or “an evil woman” or “a villain” or “sweet and candy-like” or “a sultry femme fatale”----she’s none of the easily definable. She’s a lot of everything, but she isn’t any one of those descriptions. She’s a protagonist but she doesn’t act like one. She’s a warrior but she longs for something more normal, something more regular. She’s a knight but she has never been knighted. She’s not easy to take in and it can seem very pretentious, to make one character absolutely nothing. It’s off-putting and it turns people off. Also, I don’t tend to talk about her until prompted to, nor do I talk on the dash a lot about her, nor do I have many followers in the first place. All of those things make her a character that people might just not want to write with, and that’s 100% okay.

What inspired you to rp your muse? / She’s important to me. After leaving tumblr for 2-ish years following a lack of interest and seeing how toxic the dashboard was and how toxic the rpc twitter community was, I left and I didn’t look back until now. In the end, though, I want to write. Writing makes me happy. rping Elesis makes me insanely happy. I never brought her to tumblr because I didn’t want her to be ruined for me, and I’ve reached a point in my life where I’m confident enough in my own identity and my love for this character that I’ve been thinking of in silence for years to put it out in public and start writing with old friends again.

What keeps your inspiration going? / I love one (1) beautiful titty redhead sword woman. 8+ years in my lil’ brain still going strong 3:

Some more personal questions for the mun.

Give your mutuals some insight about the way you are in some matters, which could lead them to get more comfortable with you or perhaps not.

Do you think you give your character justice? YES / NO

Do you frequently write headcanons? YES / NO (though I want to)

Do you sometimes write drabbles? YES (all of my replies tend to be drabbles 3:>) / NO

Do you think a lot about your Muse during the day? YES / NO

Are you confident in your portrayal? YES / NO

Are you confident in your writing? YES / NO

Are you a sensitive person? YES / NO

Do you accept criticism well about your portrayal? / Truthfully---no. Not about Elesis. About any other character, or rather---about every other character besides Elesis, I will accept criticism. But I’ve thought about Elesis for way too long and for way too many years of my life, changing her as I go, so much so that it’ll feel too personal to me to accept criticism. But if it were any other character, I’d readily accept it.

Do you like questions, which help you explore your character? / Absolutely please please please please---it’s so hard to talk to people one-on-one about her as is, as it is for everyone about their own muses. I love questions. I love answering them.

If someone disagrees to a headcanon of yours, do you want to know why? / I’d be curious, truthfully. But it’s not bad. Anyone can disagree and if that’s the case, but ultimately, my headcanons for Elesis are my own and that’s not going to change even if someone else told me it was “wrong” or “bad”.

If someone disagrees with your portrayal, how would you take it? / I don’t really care. I’ve thought about this stupid meathead woman for far to long to feel offended at someone else’s disagreement of how I write her. Plus, Elesis Sieghart, as well as every single character of the Grand Chase, can have many, many interpretations due to how vague and up in the air their canon information is. It’s just how it is...

If someone really hates your character, how do you take it? / The only situation where I’d feel upset would be if it were a close friend telling me this after a while of talking about her---and it’s happened before. But overall, it made me sad for a minute and then it was “whatever”. They love her now, and things are good and right in the world. Someone else’s dislike of Elesis doesn’t really effect me outside of close friendships.

Are you okay with people pointing out your grammatical errors? / Absolutely! If something is off, please tell me or correct it in the reply <3

Do you think you are easy going as a mun? / I’d hope so. I don’t view rp as my life or as a main hobby, so I don’t tend to be here often and I write as I feel like it. As a mun I kind of just write here as I please because I know the people who are interested will continue to be interested and those who aren’t, I’ll know with time. In terms of friendships and rp, I do like to be talked to if I share my discord because I don’t share it often. I want to be able to develop and write and do all of those fun things I never got to do in the past due to the fact that when I used to rp as a main hobby, I was a minor---shipping back then was difficult for me, as a minor. 3: But now that I’m a lot older and, well, Legal, I can do a lot more things and explore more dynamics that I felt like I just wasn’t mature enough to do in the past. I guess, in that case, I’m a bit more higher maintenance. I hope I come off as easygoing, but I do get very intense about writing, I like it so much.

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deivorous · 4 years ago

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THE POSITIVE & NEGATIVE; Mun & Muse - Meme.

My muse is: canon / oc / au / canon-divergent / fandomless /

Is your character popular in the fandom? YES / NO. Is your character considered hot™ in the fandom? YES / NO / IDK. Is your character considered strong in the fandom? YES / NO / IDK. Are they underrated? YES / NO. (he is overrated as all hell, fuck this dude... but i love him so...) Were they relevant for the main story? YES / NO. (In the grand scheme of it all? He’s really irrelevant. But I’m glad Kubo didn’t kill him off like was originally planned). Were they relevant for the main character? YES / NO / THEY’RE THE PROTAG. Are they widely known in their world? YES / NO. How’s their reputation? GOOD / BAD / NEUTRAL. (I think its pretty neutral post canon?) How strictly do you follow canon? — I prefer not to RP canon events. There are a few exceptions though. though i will write a lot of post canon (which I have free reign to do considering Kubo never even let us know if he survived Askin!) I’m very headcanon based and I try to fit as many of my headcanons into my writing as possible. That being said, I do use canon to support my hc’s.

SELL YOUR MUSE! Aka try to list everything, which makes your muse interesting in your opinion to make them spicy for your mutuals. — Grimmjow comes from a life of continuous unrelenting trauma and horror. He’s a survivor and will never feel ashamed of the things he needed to do to ensure he stayed alive. The most important thing about my Grimmjow is that he is not a good person, but he wants to be. Becoming an Arrancar gave him a lot of agency that previously eluded him and he’s trying to use it to carve a place for himself in this world. He’s aggressive, rude, and downright mean sometimes, but he’s also curious, and willing to make a connection with other people if they give him a chance.

Now the OPPOSITE, list everything why your muse could not be so interesting (even if you may not agree, what does the fandom perhaps think?). — They guy is an asshole. He’s hostile. Stabs as a warning. And once his trust is broken its nearlly impossible to build back up. He’s naturally suspicious and it can make it very difficult to get past his mask of contempt. Furthermore, he canonically not a very involved character. He’s had very few interaction with others. He’s NOT a romantic and shipping with him is incredibly difficult and I keep my foot down about it.

What inspired you to rp your muse? — He’s the only bleach character I really relate to. I started making a whole bunch of hc’s when I started writing fanfiction and decided to use them in rp (after I struggles to get an OC onto the scene. Grimmjow is much easier to work with.)

What keeps your inspiration going? — I’ve been in the fandom for over a decade. I’m not leaving now. All of the wonderful people I write with keep me motivated!

Some more personal questions for the mun.

Give your mutuals some insight about the way you are in some matters, which could lead them to get more comfortable with you or perhaps not.

Do you think you give your character justice? YES / NO. (My version of him, yes. Canon? Meh, not so much) Do you frequently write headcanons? YES / NO. Do you sometimes write drabbles? YES / NO. (I have many fics - find me on ao3 lmaooooooo) Do you think a lot about your Muse during the day? YES / NO. (im im in the zone and not doing other shit) Are you confident in your portrayal? YES / NO. Are you confident in your writing? YES / NO. Are you a sensitive person? YES / NO. Do you accept criticism well about your portrayal? — No. My characterization is personal to me and I very explicitly stated that I don't write Canon Grimmjow. If I did I would happily take feedback, but because eat this point hes very much my character I don’t appreciate criticism. Y’all are welcome to criticize my writing though! I love that and it helps me grow : )

Do you like questions, which help you explore your character? — YES YES YES! I absolutely love head canons and questions that make me think about what my character would do or think. I welcome them all the time and I don’t care how silly or obscure they may sound so send them my way!

If someone disagrees to a headcanon of yours, do you want to know why? — Hmmmmm, yes! I’d say so. Everyone has different hc’s and I love hearing other peoples thoughts, and often I’d liek to be able to incorporate some of them. That being said, some of my i will not change under any circumstance, so as long as you are happy to compromise I’m happy!

If its a hc on your character though, that's all you! I’ll never pressure you to use a hc that isn’t your own for your portrayal.

If someone disagrees with your portrayal, how would you take it? — I mean, everyone is entitled to their opinion and I certainly don’t believe everyone has to like my way of writing Rukia. If they don’t like it, I would probably just say they can ignore it or unfollow (because why would you follow me if you don’t like what I write? I mean, come on.)

If someone really hates your character, how do you take it? — Just... don't follow me? If you make your dislike really know I’ll probably block you. RP is fun for me so I don’t want people putting me and my muse down.

Are you okay with people pointing out your grammatical errors? — Go for it I guess? If its an error I make consistently It would be nice to know that I’m doing that wrong. If its a one of thing and your confused about what I meant also go for it! If its like... a typo? I probs wont change it lmao.

Do you think you are easy going as a mun? — Yeah! But I can be a bit shy on tumblr and I really only use my Grimm for ooc friends of mine, so It can take a while to get to know me via tumblr. Ask for my discord tho and Ill chat your ear off!

That’s about it, congrats for filling out! tagged by @rukia-kuchiki-divided Tagging: @ivory-insanity @heavenxpiercing, @shambledsurgeon @its-captain-hitsugaya

#[ Repost Games || OOC ]#[ About the Mun and Muse ]#ooc; this was fun! thanks for the tag lovely #and I loved readign your answers too~#[ ooc || plou's edits ]

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daawons · 5 years ago

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new york city is a dangerous place to be, daniel yeoh. i heard that your resistance friends are going to be meeting in a bar at the corner of broadway and 42nd in twenty four hours. i guess it’s important for you to be there. ( welcome sam ! henry golding are now taken ! )

( henry golding, cis male, he/him ) · you know, the gossip in new york city is insidious and gossip about a half-blood like daniel yeoh seems to constantly be afloat. what i know for a fact, though, is that they’re a thirty-three year old senator from colorado who graduated as a wampus from ilvermorny. apparently that inclines them to be a bit competitive and confident when he rolls out of bed in the morning. as a member of the high council, i feel bad that they’ve resorted to taking up the moniker DAWON. ( torn between two lives, two versions of who you are and who you could be. not believing in luck, but rather one’s own sheer force of will. the fire that burns in his heart, one’s soul, one’s entire essence. there is no off switch on a tiger. ) sam, 21, est, she/her, no triggers

hiiii everyone !! my name is sam and i’m SOO PUMPED for this rp!! this is my perfect boy DANIEL and he’s my baby. if you would like to plot or chat or anything hmu on discord !!

CW: parental divorce, attempted murder

basic info

NAME: daniel yeoh NICKNAME: dan / danny / you can call him anything, as long as you don’t call him late to dinner MONIKER: dawon AGE: 33 ETHNICITY: mixed malaysian and chinese NATIONALITY: american BIRTHPLACE: denver, colorado HOMETOWN: superior, colorado SEXUALITY: bicurious STAR SIGN: aquarius CHINESE ZODIAC: tiger PATRONUS: also tiger lol i’m uncreative and it feels right OCCUPATION: united states senator

personality traits

( + ) confident

( + ) charismatic

( + ) persistent

( +/- ) competitive

( - ) obsessive

( - ) neurotic

( - ) touchy

history

daniel’s parents are the well known, bestselling author irfan azmi and an auror named rose yeoh

he was born almost destined for greatness, with a private school education for his first few years, until he got a letter from ilvermorny

he grew up between a combination of a classic muslim malaysian upbringing from his father’s side, and a magical upbringing from his mother

rather young, however, his parents divorced after not being able to work out, as they said, “the differences between their lives”, and daniel went to go live with his mother in the suburbs outside the city

despite that, he had a rather uneventful childhood

he went to ilvermorny, and did very well in all of his subjects

after graduating from ilvermorny, he tried to give the muggle side of education a try, and went to the university of denver, graduated with high marks, and then went to the university of denver school of law

despite his place in the non-magical world, though, he always felt that he was meant for the magical world

it wasn’t until after he graduated law school, things got a little.... weird

simply said, he fell in love. he met a girl through his work as an intern of a senator, a job he was gearing his life towards. long story short, the girl was harassed.

he would do anything for this girl. so he confronted the harasser. one thing lead to another and the harasser attacked him, and in a blaze of fury and self defense, daniel almost killed him.

it was a complicated situation, and after a lot of hush money, the person he almost killed decided not to press charges, and daniel, as well as the senator he worked for, who was his closest confidant, worked to have the victim relocated in a remote part of the world.

idk i might wwrite a drabble about it because there’s a lot more to it but that’s the basic gist lol

when things with the girl didnt work out, he basically secluded himself from the world and focused on his work. that seemed to work out well for him, though, because his political career started booming

he ran for governor and won

blah blah blah political life that i’ll fill in later

now he’s a senator very cool

of course now that he’s back in public and things are going well, though, the president is killed and he is forced into hiding

he was lucky enough to be very sick that day and survive, and feels endless sorrow for those that can’t say the same thing

he puts on a strong front, though, and does everything he can to make life better for those around him in hiding

character inspo

wallace (what if?)

ernie (sesame street)

calvin (calvin and hobbes)

fox mulder (the x-files)

other facts i want to include

despite his parents’ divorce, daniel is a hopeless romantic. in fact, his parents not working out may have influenced that a bit

he’s a bit cynical about love, but all the hopeless romantics who havent met the one kinda are, right?

he’s a very feeling person, but tries to hide his feelings to maintain the idea that he is unbreakable

he’s always in fear that his dark past actions will always haunt him, and will come back up to bite him in the ass

he’s a big believer in fate, despite everything

as with everything else, i’ll add more as it comes to me

infodump

favorite food: pho or chicken wings

favorite movie: the princess bride

favorite show: the office

hobbies: poetry, reading (fiction and nonfiction), cooking, exercise and sport (tennis in particular)

#macusahqs.intro

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agirlinhell · 5 years ago

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my blog: [reaches 100+ followers]

my eyes: ey yo look like i’m goin for a swim

HOLY SHIT IT’S BEEN A BIT OVER A YEAR AND Y’ALL ARE STILL HERE?? jfc I LOVE YOU GUYS. in all seriousness, though, i met just the greatest people ever while i’ve been here and uuuuuuuugh, I LOVE interacting with each and every one of you, i love seeing you guys on my dash and I JUST AGLGGALJGAGALJGAGLAJ so thank you all so much for sticking with me through this. i probably don’t deserve it and you’re all here anyway<333

before we get real deep into this: thank you. whoever you are, if you’re reading this, i’m thanking you. for being here, for following this trash ass blog and loving this muse as much as i do. also i’m thanking you for waking up today, for drinking water and eating your food, for doing your chores, for taking a shower, brushing your teeth, for taking a nap, for getting through yet ANOTHER DAY OF THIS BITCH OF A PLANET. and even if you did none of those things — thank you. stay with us. this world needs you. all of us are unique. there’s no one like you,

thank you for existing - i love you.

NOW LET’S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS TO DEFEAT THE HUNS

i hope you’re all ready bitches bc IMMA SHOWER Y’ALL WITH LOVE:

@keptmanners / @morefinesse / @worldendured : I’VE SAID THIS SO MANY TIMES BUT UUUUUUUUUGH, this person right here, ande, is one of the people responsible for this blog being what it is today. no joke. when i was at my worst (activity wise) ande was always here, replying to our shit, plotting and discussing concepts and screaming about our muses and just being nice and kind and understanding to me whenever we talked. the relationship we built between clem and ruby/louis/your muses was one of the things that kept me from leaving this blog altogether, so thank you so much - i honestly really appreciate and admire you.

@taggedbastard / @paulklee-guild: listen to me YOU LITTLE SHIT AKJAJGAGLJGA no jk, i love you so much and that’s so crazy because we haven’t even been talking for that long - we deadass started talking like two-three days ago? like, we fell in love with each other bc we’re cancerians and with the OTP in like 0.2 seconds and it was beautiful??? UGH I LOVE YOU BITCH AND I AIN’T NEVER GONNA STOP LOVING YOU BITCH.

@prctecthem : TSUKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!! i got you, okay? but seriously, thank you for becoming such a good friend and great person to talk to these last few weeks. i am so glad to have met you <3 AND I LOVE OUR THREADS WHAT THE FUCK?? like we should have hundreds of them, honestly. no jk <3 bUT MAYBE???

@weprevail : BABEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY !!!!!! I LOVE HOPE SO MUCH??? A VALID LEGEND IN THE RPC!! SHE SPOILS ME WITH LEE, DUCK, MITCHENTNE AND VIOLETINE CONTENT AND I CR Y!!! i love when we talk about stuff!! you can do it, you can accomplish your dreams, i believe in you - i’ve got your back okay??<33

@rcdhccdie : IRL BESTIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! I’M SO HAPPY YOU’RE GRADUATING AND THAT YOU’RE ABLE TO KICK SCHOOL RIGHT IN THE ASS!! ILY ILY ILY ILY - I’LL SEE YOU SOON, OKAY??<333

the bad bitch brigade:

@dcadrct, @stillgcod & @mortuism: MY HOMIESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. no seriously like, artie, merc and jude are the some of the bestest friends on tumblr/discord that i could have ever asked for and i can’t imagine my life without them anymore. i mean, lmao, i have more verses with them combined than anyone else in the world, artie and merc are just ALWAYS THERE WHEN I WANT TO TALK TO THEM AND I JUST !!!! <#3333 AND JUDE IS DOING HIS BEST AND I LOVE AND SUPPORT A LEGEND!! artie destroys my ass with marlontine / clouis angst/fluff, merc has me crying up in the club about sophietine and jaiko and jude makes me cry like a little bitch with his lee, carl, violet, brody and lilly content i am truly honored and glad to share this muse with such wonderful people ( or at least formerly in merc’s case ALGJGAAGLAGALJ ) and to just be your friend???? y’all have always been there to call me out on my shit if i ever fuck up and i get my shit together accordingly so i really appreciate it - y’all are also some HILARIOUS ASF PEOPLE

the gay juicebox squad

(or people i love interacting with and want to interact with/talk to even MORE &&& people that i JUST started interacting with and WANT TO KEEP GOING BC YOU’RE PERFECTION – &&&&&&& PEOPLE I HAVE PLOTTED WITH BUT I STILL OWE A STARTER / REPLY TO BC I SUCK, BUT I’M EXCITED TO RP WITH AAAAAAAA ):

@twdgdeadmanwalking, @rcdhccdie @creolejesus, @corpsepaintd, @zombeam, @pyrrhaeic, @weprevail , @crackinthewhip, @youngshct @we-are-strcng @livesrot @reekcd @corpsepaintd��@forgedvalor @goldenngore @emsorcism @thecomplication @sympaheart @almostskylight @agirlofwinterfell

the SENPAIS

(bc i stalk you from far, far away and we either don’t talk much/at all and never interacted and i want that to change but i’m too intimidated by your everyday PERFECTION AND FLAWLESSNESS ON MY DASH):

@killthebxy @sevenbled @plannedahead @zaldrczes @highhking @creaturologist @dracharenae

IF I FORGOT ANYONE: i am sorry. i occasionally suck. plus, it’s deadass late. but i suck. yeah. love y’all <3

now let’s do the giveaway thing!!!

MY APPRECIATION FOR THE GOOD, ACTIVE (some inactive bc i’m trash) & TALENTED PEOPLE THAT I FOLLOW & THAT FOLLOW ME, CATEGORIZED.

THE WALKING DEAD

@twdgdeadmanwalking, @crackinthewhip, @keptmanners @prctecthem @morefinesse @stillgcod @dcadrct @victuus @weprevail @mortuism @shitbircl @ofstonerisms @worldendured @childtroubled AND SO MANY MORE

A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE/GAME OF THRONES

@killthebxy, @longmayshereignxcersei @reekcd, @zaldrczes, @dracharenae @goldenngore @mcsttrusted @bcarexiled AND SO MANY MORE

HARRY POTTER

@creaturologist

NARUTO

@bitiing @cursemcrked

GANGSTA.

@taggedbastard @paulklee-guild @forgedvalor

FANDOMLESS & MUMU & OTHER FANDOMS & FANDOMS I’M NOT TOO FAMILIAR WITH

@emsorcism @ncvabcrn @illicios @corpsepaintd @creolejesus @xendure @sevenbled @bonezone @bloominghands AND SO MANY MORE

;& PERSONALS

YOU’RE LIKE THE BEST? i have no idea why so many of you follow me, but i’m super happy to know that you like this blog for some reason. thank you for being here with me. you ROCK!!! ALL OF YOU!!!

a few honorable mentions: @aesthetic-survivor-of-twd @thewalkingclementine @rascet and @twdgjames!!<3

____________________________________________________________________________________________

As for the giveaway, I offer the following prizes: one drabble, one edit/promo, five to ten icons, or an aesthetic / moodboard - the choice is entirely yours.

-None of the art unless otherwise stated that will be used in aesthetics and edits are mine.

-I will mostly be doing individuals for aesthetics/drabbles/promo’s/icons, but if you want me to have it ship related, and if i can find the right pictures for aesthetics and icons, this will be done, too.

-If a winner desires a drabble for a prize, I will write any genre you want me to, but you must tell me what exactly you want. The genre, the characters, the settings, the events, canon or alternate universe, what happens in a plot ( if there is any ), whether or not there’s a ship. Lengths and verses may vary. Oneshot, only, no multichapters.

-For aesthetics, the programs I use are ipiccy because unfortunately I don’t have nor use photoshop at the moment. You must tell me exactly what you want.

-My drabbles / aesthetics / icons DO NOT HAVE TO BE THE WALKING DEAD RELATED. I’m perfectly happy with doing prizes in relation to our muses and in other fandoms / alternate universes / crossovers.

-I can show you previews of icons, drabbles, aesthetics and edits while I am doing them, but once I am done with the results, I will not be doing a second version or an update.

-THERE WILL BE FOUR WINNERS.

-We MUST be mutuals - meaning you must be following me in order to have a chance to win.

-Feel free to like and reblog this as many times as you want - it increases your chances.

-However, I must warn you that, due to time restrictions on my part, your prizes might possibly come in a bit slower, I apologize, but it’s the constraints that bind me to this.

-The winners have until tonight at 8:00PM EST, approximately TWELVE HOURS FROM NOW, to be exact, due to time constraints on my part, to contact me. If you do not contact me after tonight is over, you will not earn your prize and it will be given to someone else at random, just as it is with the chosen winners.

#IF WE'RE GONNA DIE WE MIGHT AS WELL HAVE FUN FIRST. ( FOLLOW FOREVER. )#( yOOOOOOOO THIS IS CRAZ Y )

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blazc-ignitixn · 6 years ago

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Rules

1. This blog is:

Semi-Selective: Everyone is welcome to follow, however I might be a bit choosy about follows back (it's not you, I promise, just me being careful). I'd rather RP with mutuals (easier for me to keep track of replies, nothing more), though IM and Inbox are open for anyone, so feel free to drop by.

Multiship: I’m shipping trash and open to any sort of relationship, from platonic to romantic. I'm biased towards Touya x Hawks and Touya x Tomura, but I'm up to give any ship a try as long as there isn't a too big age gap (no more than 5-6 years) and the younger half of the ship is at least 18-20 (16 and no older than 17 in the Hero Student Verse) , so ask away (no, seriously, I work better knowing if you want to ship in advance, shipping with chemistry is all good but don't be afraid to ask me to ship straight away, I love planning a ship). Respect Touya's sexuality (homosexual) and in the off-chance I say no to a ship, DO NOT try and force it; I can guarantee I won't do the same. Pre-established (platonic) relationships are okay too (meaning Touya met them as a student or sidekick and is already familiar with them as a pro hero), if there's a good base to it, though it'll depend on the muse (Touya isn't exactly the social/trustful type). Absoutely no shipping Touya with any of the UA students and people who are minors in canon.

Multiverse: Interactions with different muses are to be considered to take place in a different verse unless discussed between muns. Same goes for shipping, so there will be no cheating involved (it’s a big no-no for me and makes me really uncomfortable, so don’t even ask).

Multimuse-Friendly: If you have a multimuse blog, feel free to interact with me, just make sure to specify which one of your muses you want to use, especially if we've just started interacting.

Sideblog-Friendly: I'm perfectly alright RPing with sideblogs; you can reblog my promo (tag This Is Our Call [Self Promo]) so I know where to find you, just please send me a message / IM from your main blog if I follow you so I know it's you.

OC-Friendly: Pretty self-explanatory, if your muse is an OC and you want to interact, you’ll be more than welcome. No Mary Sues or Gary Stus though, please (I had a bad experience in this regard). Also, I'd rather if you had a decent bio page so I know as much as I can about your OC, and I'm perfectly fine if your OC is related to a canon character.

AU-Friendly: Your muse is an AU/Canon Divergent version of a canon muse? Fine by me, as long as you have a bio page where you explain said AU/canon divergence so I have an idea about what's different from canon.

Crossover-Friendly: Your muse belongs to a different fandom? That’s perfectly fine! Though be forewarned that I might not follow back quickly (or at all) if it's a fandom I'm not familiar with unless we've been friends for a while (like, from before I joined the BNHA fandom), you have a BNHA AU or I see potential for interactions. It's mostly to keep my dash clean and for my own comfort, nothing against you, so please don't feel bad. For fandoms I’m familiar with, see rule #20.

Duplicate-Friendly: If your muse is another Dabi, you're more than welcome to interact, I love multiverse mayhem! Time travel, alternate dimension, twin verse, anything goes.

NSFW-Friendly: Both mun and muse are 21+ and open to roleply smut, though it’ll only happen with muses that are at least in their twenties (Touya is 25 in the main verse and I won't RP smut in verses where he's 17 or younger), in which case it’ll be tagged accordingly as Too Hot To Handle [NSFW] and put under ‘read more’ if necessary. I will only RP smut if the other mun is 18+ and comfortable with it as well.

2. I accept interactions with underage muns, but the relationship between our muses will remain strictly platonic. I don't feel confortable writing romantic ships with underage muns due to past experience. Platonic ships are more than welcome though. Thank you for your understanding and patience.

3. No godmodding (controlling my muse yourself) and no metagaming (using knowledge of someone’s muse that a character has no way of knowing).

4. If you don't follow me back when I follow you but are still willing to RP, send me an ask or IM or tag me in a random starter to break the ice. I usually don't approach blogs I follow if they don't follow back for fear of bothering.

5. I’m open to RP via IM and Discord as well, so if we’re mutuals, feel free to ask for my Discord-ID (though I might be selective with giving it).

6. I don’t care about reply length, just write whatever you feel like. I’m perfectly okay with one-liners, para, multi-para and drabble-length replies, whichever floats your boat, as long as you give me something to work with for my own reply.

7. Don’t reblog OOC posts, Rules, Headcanons or threads you’re not taking part to. Seriously, it’s annoying as hell so. Please. Don’t. Do. It!

8. Feel free to tag me in dash games (no seriously, I love those so the more the merrier) and, if we're mutuals, random starters as well.

9. Triggers might be present (Touya's backstory does include child abuse and domestic violence and he's prone to having panic attacks), but will be tagged accordingly as TW: Trigger (ex. TW: Blood), even if mentioned (in which case it'll be tagged as TW: Trigger Mention), just to be safe. If you want me to tag a specific trigger, just let me know. I don't have any triggers myself, but please tag cheating (in a relationship), animal abuse, torture, rape/non-con and eye-related gore, as they're topics which make me uncomfortable.

10. I’m more than happy to turn asks into threads, as long as we're mutuals. I don't mind either reblogging said ask or starting on a different post, whichever you prefer.

11. Since this blog is based on the 'Dabi is a Todoroki / Touya Todoroki' theory, which includes details of latest manga chapters, spoilers will be present, though they'll be tagged accordingly as Darkest Fire [Spoilers]. In general, I'll tag spoilers from the Internship Arc onward (let me know if you want me to tag earlier spoilers too).

12. I don’t really like to RP angst. Hurt/comfort is okay, though, and my go-to type of thread. Other things I prefer avoiding are dub/non-con, gore, and torture.

13. No hounding / pressuring for replies / answers. I won’t do the same with my RP partners and ask the same courtesy from them. If I haven’t replied in a while, you’re welcome to ask me (gently) via IM. Chances are I’m busy with real life (I’m an university student on my last year), my phone doesn’t work or I need more time to come up with a proper reply.

14. Please keep drama, discourse and anon hate away from me. I’m here to have fun and relax, so don't try and get me involved in stuff like this (it's lowkey triggering for me so please respect it). Much appreciated.

15. Don't be rude. I’m a very kind, considerate individual, I always do my best not to disrespect other people and I hate it when people disrespect me. I’ll gladly accept critiques as long as there’s a good, well-explained reason behind them, but gratuitous rudeness is a big no-no.

16. I don't accept M!A (Magic Anons) so don't send them in unless I request it by writing a post or reblogging a meme (which will happen rarely, if ever). M.A. sent without prompting will be deleted on sight.

17. I won't take part in or join affiliated RP groups. Last time I did it wasn't a pleasant experience so I'd rather steer away from it for the time being. My activity might be spotty due to IRL stuff so I don't wanna feel pressured to be active at all time. I might make exceptions, but rarely so.

19. For PSAs, look for the Let It Burn [PSA] tag.

20. Regarding crossovers, here’s some of the series I’m into and know very/decently well:

Persona Series

Ace Attorney

Yuri!!! On Ice

Fairy Tail

Pokémon games

Harry Potter

Artemis Fowl

Marvel Cinematic Universe

X-Men Movie

Danganronpa

Ouran High School Host Club

Villainous / Villanos

Saint Seiya (Classic Series, Lost Canvas, Hades, Soul of Gold)

Time Hollow

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Fruits Basket

Mystery Skulls Animated

#Hero's Code [Rules]

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yuureighostcop-blog · 6 years ago

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Rules

1. This blog is:

Semi-Selective: Everyone is welcome to follow, however I might be a bit choosy about follows back (it’s not you, I promise, just me being careful). I’d rather RP with mutuals (easier for me to keep track of replies, nothing more), though IM and Inbox are open for anyone, so feel free to drop by.

Multiship: I’m shipping trash and open to any sort of relationship, from platonic to romantic. Muse is bisexual and of age, therefore romantic shipping will only happen with other 20+ muses (so no shipping with any of the high schoolers in canon) and in the off-chance I say no to a ship, DO NOT try and force it; I can guarantee I won’t do the same. Pre-established relationships are okay too, we can talk about it.

Multimuse-Friendly: If you have a multimuse blog, feel free to interact, just make sure to specify which one of your muses you want to use, especially if we’ve just started interacting.

Sideblog-Friendly: I’m perfectly alright RPing with sideblogs; you can reblog my promo (tag At Your Service! [Self Promo]) so I know where to find you, just please send me a message / IM from your main blog if I follow you so I know it’s you.

OC-Friendly: Pretty self-explanatory, if your muse is an OC and you want to interact, you’ll be more than welcome. No Mary Sues or Gary Stus though, please (I had a bad experience in this regard). Also, I’d rather if you had a decent bio page so I know as much as I can about your OC, and I’m perfectly fine if your OC is related to a canon character.

Crossover-Friendly: Your muse belongs to a different fandom? That’s perfectly fine! Though be forewarned that I might not follow back quickly (or at all) if it’s a fandom I’m not familiar with, unless we’ve been friends for a while (like, from before I joined the BNHA fandom), you have a BNHA AU or I see potential for interactions. It’s mostly to keep my dash clean and for my own comfort, nothing against you, so please don’t feel bad. For fandoms I’m familiar with, see rule #20.

NSFW-Friendly: Given the nature of the series, NSFW elements like gore, violence, body horror, etc. might be present but will be tagged accordingly. Both mun and muse are 20+ so smut might be present as well, although it’ll always be under ‘read more’ and tagged accordingly as Not For The Weak Of Heart [NSFW]. I’ll only RP smut with 20+ muses and 18+ muns, and only if the mun in question is comfortable with it.

2. I'd rather not RP with muns under 18. It’s not you, I promise, just me being uncomfortable with it due to past experience. They’re still welcome to ask RP/HC-related things if they’re curious, but at least for the time being I’d rather keep interactions with underage muns to a minimum for my own comfort. Thank you for your understanding and patience.

3. No godmodding (controlling my muse yourself) and no metagaming (using knowledge of someone’s muse that a character has no way of knowing).

4. If you don’t follow me back when I follow you but are still willing to RP, send me an ask or IM or tag me in a random starter to break the ice. I usually don’t approach blogs I follow if they don’t follow back for fear of bothering.

5. I’m open to RP via IM and Discord as well, so if we’re mutuals, feel free to ask for my Discord-ID (though I might be selective with giving it).

7. Don’t reblog OOC posts, Rules, Headcanons or threads you’re not taking part to. Seriously, it’s annoying as hell so. Please. Don’t. Do. It!

8. Feel free to tag me in dash games (no seriously, I love those so the more the merrier) and, if we’re mutuals, random starters as well.

9. Triggers might be present given the nature od the series and the people the muse might interact with, but will be tagged accordingly as TW: Trigger (ex. TW: Blood), even if mentioned (in which case it’ll be tagged as TW: Trigger Mention), just to be safe. If you want me to tag a specific trigger, just let me know. I don’t have any triggers myself, but please tag cheating (in a relationship), animal abuse, torture, rape/non-con and eye-related gore, as they’re topics which make me uncomfortable.

10. I'm more than happy to turn asks into threads, as long as we’re mutuals. I don’t mind either reblogging said ask or starting on a different post, whichever you prefer.

11. Spoilers might be present, though they’ll be tagged accordingly as Cheaters Never Prosper [Spoilers]. In general, I’ll tag spoilers from the Internship Arc onward (let me know if you want me to tag earlier spoilers too).

12. I don’t really like to RP angst. Hurt/comfort is okay, though, and my go-to type of thread. Other things I prefer avoiding are dub/non-con, gore, and torture. Mentions are fine, but not graphic RP. Also, don't kill off Rei, please.

14. Please keep drama, discourse and anon hate away from me. I’m here to have fun and relax, so don’t try and get me involved in stuff like this (it’s lowkey triggering for me so please respect it). Much appreciated.

15. Don’t be rude. I’m a very kind, considerate individual, I always do my best not to disrespect other people and I hate it when people disrespect me. I’ll gladly accept critiques as long as there’s a good, well-explained reason behind them, but gratuitous rudeness is a big no-no. If you’ve got something to tell me, do so in private.

16. I don’t accept M!A (Magic Anons) so don’t send them in unless I request it by writing a post or reblogging a meme (which will happen rarely, if ever). M.A. sent without prompting will be deleted on sight.

17. I won’t take part in or join affiliated RP groups. Last time I did it wasn’t a pleasant experience so I’d rather steer away from it for the time being. My activity might be spotty due to IRL stuff so I don’t wanna feel pressured to be active at all time.

19. For PSAs, look for the Tips To Survive [PSA] tag.

20. Regarding crossovers, here’s some of the series I’m into and know very/decently well:

Persona Series

Ace Attorney

Yuri!!! On Ice

Fairy Tail

Pokémon games

Harry Potter

Artemis Fowl

Marvel Cinematic Universe

X-Men Movies

Danganronpa

Ouran High School Host Club

Villainous / Villanos

Saint Seiya (Classic Series, Lost Canvas, Hades, Soul of Gold)

Time Hollow

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Fruits Basket

Mystery Skulls Animated

#((Rules))

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naturesloopholed-a · 6 years ago

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Introduction

welcome to my private, selective hope mikaelson from the originals and legacies.

Mun

mun is 20 years old (6/21 birthday). jennifer. eastern timezone.

Contact

discord is a very good option to contact me. You can ask for my discord information or skip to the discord section of the rules

ims are generally for people that I roleplay with but I will not rp in the ims feature.

ask box is also a good way to contact me if the other two options don’t work

Tagging

triggers are tagged with the trigger first and then tw. abuse, for example, is abuse tw.

all interactions are tagged with my interaction tag, a tag for how for the kind of thread it is (one para, novella, one-liner, etc), the verse, your url.

I do not comment in the tags as it makes me really anxious but I read all of your comments in the tags.

please tag all your mentions of overdose and drugs. my uncle passed away from drugs and ever since then, I have a habit of crying and becoming a mess when I see things about it when I am already on edge. my therapist says it sounds like a trigger for me.

if I do anything with someone one that mentions drugs or overdose, I will be doing it will someone that I can talk with and they know that replies can take a while. the drug that makes me a crying mess the most is heroin. weed is a different story and if you character is a smoker of weed that is okay to mention in replies.

Face Claim

danielle rose russell is teenage/young adult hope

alexandra daddario is alt adult hope

elena saltine is Hope’s adult fc

Sophie Turner is Hope’s alt fc

summer fontana is child hope

Exclusives

I do have exclusives and mains. you can find them on mains and exclusives

Smut

I am an adult in all countries meaning it is legal for me to smut.

I will not do anything with minors in this area. sorry, not about that life. do not lie about your age

I have not done a lot of smutting so I am new to it (just a heads up).

NSFW (Other than Smut)

other not safe for work content is likely to be on this blog. hope’s backstory is traumatic. her parents are dead (in canon), she watched her mother be tortured, she has thoughts of suicide ((i will talk to you before i put anything like this in our threads as this is highly triggering)). she has ptsd, anxiety, and struggles to control her magic and isn’t afraid of the darkness inside of her

blood, killing, murder, all of the things that generally are in supernatural are present. hope is a tribrid of three different creatures (vampire, werewolf, witch)

Memes

you can send memes in to start a relationship off with hope if that is easier. please try not to send in romantic ones though without at least talking to me first.

if you want to continue the ask meme reply of mine please move it to another clean text post or I will not reply.

Canon Divergent

there are some things that I will not be following in canon. I will let everyone know what that is.

hope has an abilities page that I made up with my own headcanons and tidbits and I will not shy away from them.

nonplayable characters that I make up are really for me to enhance the story of hope mikaelson. she has had teachers, friends, family all that make an impact on her and if one is mentioned that isn’t from the show(s) it is likely a nonplayable character in that nonplayable character tag.

Non-playable characters

do you see a character mentioned in my blog that you like and would want to make as an oc? need help with it? come and ask me about playing them and I will likely say yes. these characters are my babies, made to enhance my version of hope but if you do make one, I will not say you can’t interact with other hope’s as well just note that part of the character is mine in terms of the idea of them etc.

any questions on nonplayable characters? just ask! want to hear more about them? see if they are open for you to nab as an awesome oc? my ask box is open always for that

Hate

any and all hate will likely be deleted unless I have something sassy to say. most of the time though you will just be blocked right on the spot and that will be the end of that. I am not here to spread a hateful environment, never have sent anything hateful and believe that it is a pointless thing to do.

I will not vague blog about someone on this blog, this is something that so many have anxiety over.

Ask Box

at any time I post something you don’t understand, you are free to message me. you can ask questions on or off anon. (do not send hate as mentioned above).

Personal Blogs

drabble requests? questions on something? requests on gif sets for hope? feel free to send them in!

do not reblog my threads with other people!

stealing my headcanons or reblogging them will get you blocked. it makes me uncomfortable.

do not reblog my ooc posts!

Duplicates

anyone that loves hope like I do and makes a muse for it? I will support you. we can do twin threads, talk about hope, share headcanons, and more.

Queue

my queue is something I use often when it comes to hope’s blog. a lot of my replies go straight to my queue! if you are unsure where your reply is, just ask me! don’t badger me though to reply or post straight away

Connections

I am really open to original characters and things that have a connection to hope so feel free to bring me all your amazing ocs without shame. have a bio page though or at least some stats as that is something I look for.

Following

have a rules page, an about page! rules are a big one for me as I want to read over things and be comfortable knowing when I am crossing a line

a clean tagging system. need help creating one? just ask me!

if I see our character’s interacting

Unfollowing

lots of negativity, hateful messages sent to people, ship bashing are all things that will get you unfollowed.

if we haven’t interacted or talked at least once in the first like three months that I followed you, I will unfollow

inactive blogs (for three months) without a hiatus notice. if you come back, feel free to message me and I will refollow you.

if you constantly are changing your muse (as in once every two weeks) and show no steady sign of keeping to a character. this does not count on multis as that is a different story. I want to build relationships with characters.

Shipping

shipping with me is based on chemistry. we can have a trial run though if anything.

I ship hope with landon, josie, lizzie, rafael so far in legacies.

Replies

I can be slow as a turtle at times. a lot of my time is spent rewriting things as I do not always like how it was written when I first did it.

things tend to go on into the queue as I have mentioned before or straight into my drafts for me to write a thousand times.

I don’t really do fancy formatting. small text, some italic for thoughts, some bolding sometimes, and an icon that I made is generally how things work. if you are looking for hope icons, send me an ask over here and I will lead you to where they are.

double small text will be resized if I notice it so that others can read it on my blog. nothing against your formatting but I want to be readable on font sizing.

I do use a generator for the first line of text that isn’t mobile friendly but if you need me to change it because you are unable to read the text for your threads, just let me know. 𝐈𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐂𝐀𝐍'𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐂𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐑𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐋𝐄𝐓 𝐌𝐄 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖!

Discord

Username / id on discord is thingsmissed#4353

I do rp on discord as well and have a room set up with my tumblr url. You can enter the room and I will give us a few channels that only you and I can see. Want to enter the server to rp there? Click here!

Extra

I love to get to know my rp partner’s. I do find it easier to write with them if I talk to them even just a little.

#LONG POST TW #long post for ts #long post #** Because sometimes a dash view of things is easier than looking at it through your themed blog ❪Dash Only View❫.

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elfwreck · 3 years ago

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publishing a work of fiction is not the same thing as clicking ‘publish’ on AO3, it involves actually releasing a work commercially (even for free!) and claiming authorship.

NO THIS IS NOT HOW IT WORKS.

Putting fic on AO3 is indeed publishing it. It is releasing it to the public. The authorship claim is right there - your username is attached. It is no different, legally, from publishing it on Smashwords for free, or putting it on your personal blog, or itch.io, or drivethrufiction. It is only a sliver's different from posting it on Kindle Unlimited, because there's profit involved in that one... but the "publishing" part doesn't require profit, or a profit motive. There is no list of "posting your fic on THESE websites counts as publishing and THESE OTHER websites does not."

Publication, for copyright purposes, is:

...the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.

You could, I suppose, argue that public blog posts & archives are not sold, not transferred, not rented, leased, or loaned. They are, however, distributed, in a way that's identical to a the licensed release used on paid digital content sites. (If AO3 works are not "published," then neither are any free ebooks at Amazon, and I have doubts that'd hold up in court.)

The rest of the points have similar flaws.

The accurate bits: In 2024, Tolkien will have been dead for more than 50 years, making his works public domain in Life+50 countries. These include Canada, much of the Middle East, some of Africa, and some of Asia, among others.

The Hobbit will be in the public domain in the US in 2033. That may seem like a long ways off... but an org that's had a near-hundred-year monopoly sees a 10-year-deadline as a looming shadow. (Look at what the Holmes Estate has done in the last 10 years.)

They're going to try hard to do what the Burroughs Estate did with Tarzan: Sure, some of the content is public domain, but it's trademarked, see, and we're gonna pretend that trademark law has the same kinds of protections as copyright law and we can tell people not to make stuff that refers to our content.

(That is not how trademark law works.)

TL;DR VERSION

1) Nothing has changed. This is a new announcement of existing policies.

2) Copyright law is fucking complicated. Hentai fans rejoice - if you wanted a real-world example of a multidimensional tentacled beast that fucks people, endless study materials await you.

3) Copyright law was designed for corporate purposes, not individual use, and it's been on the verge of collapse since the first photocopy machine. The law assumes that copies are expensive and hard to make, which is why the penalties are so ridiculous.

4) Listening to amateurs (like me) expound on copyright law is fine, but don't take any of our words for it. FUCKING COMPLICATED and packed with CONTRADICTORY LEGAL RULINGS. Look things up yourself. (Sorry for the headaches.) Or don't - but don't believe randos on the internet about "how copyright really works." I absolutely promise you that the career experts don't agree on how copyright really works.

5) AO3 was created with the awareness that, someday somehow, one of the major IP holders was going to actually crack down on free fanworks. And they're ready to shield us. (Cross)Post your noncommercial fanworks to AO3, because they are the one site that's not going to cave to "actually you cannot host X fanfic anymore" demands from any estate.

5b) This includes tumblr ficlets. There is no quality requirement for AO3. Feel free to post comment fics, drabbles, back-and-forth RP excerpts from Discord, "incorrect quotes" dialogues, and so on. Save our fannish history.

so the thing about the Tolkien Estate’s updated FAQ is that all of this is the exact same as it was prior to the update, it’s just easier to see now and placed front-and-center without you having to go digging through their Permissions page. since nothing has changed, I’d advise not freaking out too much. the Tolkien family and Tolkien Estate have historically had some serious issues with copyright, and their careful approach stretches back to the Professor getting burned by Ace Books in the 60s.

but I have had some requests to give my thoughts, so here they are, I guess? I am not a lawyer/IANAL, but as I’m looking at this, I don’t see anything super terrifying.

a quick breakdown:

“you can’t publish fanfiction!” you couldn’t publish fanfiction before, you could post it noncommercially on sites like AO3 or other archives. publishing a work of fiction is not the same thing as clicking ‘publish’ on AO3, it involves actually releasing a work commercially (even for free!) and claiming authorship. the Estate is responding primarily to the issues they’ve had in countries like Russia, where historically, a lax copyright law meant you could publish fanworks (things like The Black Book of Arda and Beyond the Dawn are available as printed books in Russia and not just electronic fanfic)

“you can’t make commercial fanart!” first off, fanart has always been in a legal grey area, one that most corporations and rights holders have chosen not to litigate rather than not being able to. second off, that’s not strictly true - the site’s FAQ specifies that you can’t use the name Tolkien, the JRRT monogram, Tolkien’s signature, or his artwork (including maps of Arda and Middle-Earth, the One Ring inscription, heraldry, etc) in your artwork if it’s being sold. people who steer away from that are on much more solid ground.

“you can’t publish fanzines or host cons!” you can’t publish fanzines with the name Tolkien on the cover, and you can’t host a con or a conference with the name Tolkien in it.

“you can’t stream read-alongs!” that’s another legal grey area, but it’s also never been strictly okay. they’ve looked the other way a lot and will probably continue to do so, but unauthorized audio books are, as always, still existing solely on the goodwill of the rights holder.

“you can’t set his works to music!” this has never been allowed as something you can make money off of, because the poetry is under copyright. the Estate has historically looked the other way on noncommercial fanworks, but they might stop. fan music that doesn’t make use of Tolkien’s poetry, like Lind Erebros and Oonagh, is in a different legal space, though if you reference specific names directly you might be in hot water.

“you can’t use his languages!” you can’t use his languages commercially, you can’t make money off them, but that’s never not been true.

okay, but the ultimate question is ‘why is this update happening?’ why are they centering issues of rights on the FAQ and not underneath the Permissions page? and the answer is that in less than two years, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings will be in the public domain in so much of the world that enforcing copyright on them will be intensely difficult. also, Priscilla Tolkien died, which means that there will be a new approach taken to policing fanworks, possibly by someone who’s significantly more invested in getting rid of them.

I’m going to echo what others have said - the answer here is to champion noncommercial fanworks and fan projects. in less than two years the whole landscape is going to change drastically, and that’s going to throw open the doors and rob them of a lot of their power.

#copyfight #ao3 #tolkien #fanworks

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nxllificr · 5 years ago

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Rules

1. This is a sideblog, follows back will come from @blazc-ignitixn.

2. This blog is:

Multiship: I’m shipping trash and open to any sort of relationship, from platonic to romantic. Muse is bisexual and of age, therefore romantic shipping will only happen with muses close to his age (let's say from 18 to early-late twenties) and in the off-chance I say no to a ship, DO NOT try and force it; I can guarantee I won’t do the same. Pre-established relationships are okay too, we can talk about it.

Multimuse-Friendly: If you have a multimuse blog, feel free to interact, just make sure to specify which one of your muses you want to use, especially if we’ve just started interacting.

Sideblog-Friendly: I’m perfectly alright RPing with sideblogs; you can reblog my promo (tag Have You Seen This Person? [Self Promo]) so I know where to find you, just please send me a message / IM from your main blog if I follow you so I know it’s you.

OC-Friendly: Pretty self-explanatory, if your muse is an OC and you want to interact, you’ll be more than welcome. No Mary Sues or Gary Stus though, please (I had a bad experience in this regard). Also, I’d rather if you had a decent bio page so I know as much as I can about your OC, and I’m perfectly fine if your OC is related to a canon character.

NSFW-Friendly: Given the nature of the series, NSFW elements like gore, violence, etc. might be present but will be tagged accordingly. Both mun and muse are 18+ so smut might be present as well, although it’ll be under ‘read more’ when possible and tagged accordingly as Not For The Weak Of Heart [NSFW]. I’ll only RP smut with 18+ muses and muns, and only if the mun in question is comfortable with it.

3. I accept interactions with underage muns, but the relationship between our muses will remain strictly platonic. I don’t feel confortable writing romantic ships with underage muns due to past experience. Platonic ships are more than welcome though. Thank you for your understanding and patience.

4. No godmodding (controlling my muse yourself) and no metagaming (using knowledge of someone’s muse that a character has no way of knowing).

5. If you don’t follow me back when I follow you but are still willing to RP, send me an ask or IM or tag me in a random starter to break the ice. I usually don’t approach blogs I follow if they don’t follow back for fear of bothering.

6. I’m open to RP via IM and Discord as well, so if we’re mutuals, feel free to ask for my Discord-ID (though I might be selective with giving it).

7. I don’t care about reply length, just write whatever you feel like. I’m perfectly okay with one-liners, para, multi-para and drabble-length replies, whichever floats your boat, as long as you give me something to work with for my own reply.

8. Don’t reblog OOC posts, Rules, Headcanons or threads you’re not taking part to. Seriously, it’s annoying as hell so. Please. Don’t. Do. It!

9. Feel free to tag me in dash games (no seriously, I love those so the more the merrier) and, if we’re mutuals, random starters as well.

10. Triggers might be present given the nature of the series (Setsuno’s backstory does include depression and attempted suicide) and the people the muse might interact with, but will be tagged accordingly as TW: Trigger (ex. TW: Blood), even if mentioned (in which case it’ll be tagged as TW: Trigger Mention), just to be safe. If you want me to tag a specific trigger, just let me know. I don’t have any triggers myself, but please tag cheating (in a relationship), animal abuse, torture, rape/non-con and eye-related gore, as they’re topics which make me uncomfortable.

11. I’m more than happy to turn asks into threads, as long as we’re mutuals. I don’t mind either reblogging said ask or starting on a different post, whichever you prefer.

12. Spoilers will be present, though they’ll be tagged accordingly as Cheaters Never Prosper [Spoilers]. In general, I’ll tag spoilers after the Internship Arc onward.

13. I don’t really like to RP angst. Hurt/comfort is okay, though, and my go-to type of thread. Other things I prefer avoiding are dub/non-con, gore, and torture. Mentions are fine, but not graphic RP.

14. No hounding / pressuring for replies / answers. I won’t do the same with my RP partners and ask the same courtesy from them. If I haven’t replied in a while, you’re welcome to ask me (gently) via IM. Chances are I’m busy with real life (I’m an university student on my last year), my phone doesn’t work or I need more time to come up with a proper reply. I’m either very fast or slow af, with rare bouts of in-between, according to my mood or how busy I am with real life.

15. Please keep drama, discourse and anon hate away from me. I’m here to have fun and relax, so don’t try and get me involved in stuff like this (it’s lowkey triggering for me so please respect it). Much appreciated.

16. Don’t be rude. I’m a very kind, considerate individual, I always do my best not to disrespect other people and I hate it when people disrespect me. I’ll gladly accept critiques as long as there’s a good, well-explained reason behind them, but gratuitous rudeness is a big no-no. If you’ve got something to tell me, do so in private.

17. I don’t accept M!A (Magic Anons) so don’t send them in unless I request it by writing a post or reblogging a meme (which will happen rarely, if ever). M.A. sent without prompting will be deleted on sight.

18. No need to send in passwords, I know it can make some people anxious. I myself have no problem sending them in if requested, and in any case I always make sure to read the rules before following/interacting, so I assume you did the same. If you feel like it, and only if you do, send me an ask with ‘Everyone Runs’, as more of an ice-breaker than anything.

19. For PSAs, look for the Survival Of The Fittest [PSA] tag.

20. Regarding crossovers, here’s some of the series I’m into and know very/decently well:

Persona Series

Ace Attorney

Yuri!!! On Ice

Fairy Tail

Pokémon games

Harry Potter

Artemis Fowl

Marvel Cinematic Universe

X-Men Movies

Ouran High School Host Club

Villainous / Villanos

Saint Seiya (Classic Series, Lost Canvas, Hades, Soul of Gold)

Time Hollow

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Fruits Basket

Mystery Skulls Animated

#Rules

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