#and there are probably other factors involved too like my age and whatnot but it still lowkey pisses me off what my brain hangs onto

[thatonerebelminiblind]

mornee, rune sorbees!

[shadowfae]

1- Not much tbh, just what you've posted, and 2- To be honest I quite like your long answers. It can definitely wait though, you should get some sleep.

Is your warpriest link a constant thing? Does it ever fade into the background? I'm contemplating forming a second link, something happier than my copinglink, and I'm not sure how to tell when to tell when the line of a link vs a persona is crossed when not worn out of necessity.

And the original ask so I have it on hand. I did take a look at your original context, and if you're cool with it, I'll edit this post with a link for those who may find this is a useful answer and need that on hand. Otherwise, it'll stay a mystery.

But yes, it seems like my Sabe experiences would be a useful thing to talk about here. And in order to do that, I need to go over four things: who and what Sabe is, why he exists the way that he does, what that does for me, and lastly what I think he is in terms of terminology and why.

To start, here is his toyhou.se profile, if you want to read more about his actual story and thoughts and whatnot. But I doubt you'll have the necessary context for that, so let me go into it. RuneScape (RS) is one of the oldest MMORPGs in existence. WoW might be older but I doubt it. Basically it's a medieval magic fantasy that's very long running and you the player end up the World Guardian, aka the guy that stops the gods (who are very powerful folks who just don't die of natural causes and typically stand for some philosophy) from blowing the world up because Guthix, the dead god of balance, asked you to. Well, he voluntold you. And that makes you a major chess piece, Elder Gods get involved, it's a big mess.

But before all that happened, back in 2006 when I was introduced to the game and very shitty at it, well. I liked the lore insofar that I've always liked the lore, it was interesting and I liked thinking about it. I didn't have membership and I sucked at playing so I just read the wiki and the God Letters over and over and sometimes the Postbag from the Hedge. Alongside my two friends, we played at being children of the then-triad of main gods: Saradomin, Guthix, and Zamorak.

I liked Zamorak best, but I didn't think his ideas would be the best for society as a whole, so I ended up playing child of Guthix. Eventually we grew up and grew apart but every couple of years I'd go back to RuneScape, read the lore, settle on what choices I'd make if I could play, and think about being the player character. In 2010 I discovered a fic - dawn by khayr, it's on Ao3 and dA - about Iban, son of Zamorak, right around when I was reading Percy Jackson. Cue him showing up as a soulbond and an older brother figure and guiding me right up until the end of sixth grade. Iban got me through the ruthless bullying that would later set the stage for all my major suicidal-ideation and self-hatred for the entirety of high school: even then, I was more stable than I might've been otherwise, because he interfered.

Saradomin stands for strength through order. Procedures and law and diplomacy and war strategy. He was originally kind of a ripoff of the Christian god, but he's grown to be more of an order-over-peace character and is quite well-written. Guthix stands for strength through balance, and has been all over the board in terms of what he's done and will do. He's kind of a dick, actually, but his heart's in the right place.

Zamorak, as you've heard, is strength through chaos and personal strife. It's no "the strong over the weak" or "the strong take care of the weak", it's flat-out "everyone is strong, and just need the right circumstances to tap into it to be the best they can possibly be". Now, his philosophy is kind of more for warriors and scholars, but if you tilt your head, it applies to everyone. Chronically ill folks will find their chaos in fighting to get up every day and maintain a life. Folks in traumatizing, abusive situations find that chaos in their very survival. Scholars challenge themselves and their fellows and their predecessors trying to find the answers they so need. Nobody in lockstep, no such thing as "we've always done it this way."

A lot of human Zamorakians and Saradominist propaganda says that Zamorak is simply absolute evil: and to be fair, when most of that was written, he kinda was because he was based loosely on the Christian devil. Later writing says that they're typically mistaken on that. Zamorak isn't evil. The very first thing he did upon becoming a god was fulfill a promise and lead a slave rebeliion. (The Avernic uprising, if anyone's curious.) He stands for the downtrodden and says "You are never going to get your dignity by going through the motions and trying to peacefully show you're worth respect. Burn some shit down and prove that you won't stand for this bullshit."

Zamorak in a Saradominist's eyes is someone whose banner you wear when you want to be a crazy murderer. Zamorak in a Zamorakian's eyes is the singing voice who murmurs "Get up, this isn't enough to kill you, you can still do this," when transphobic laws get passed or you hear a slur thrown your way on the street.

And as someone who grew up queer and nonhuman, yeah, that resonates, and the older I get the more I think "Guthixian philosophy is best for a society at large, but Zamorakianism for individuals is good." Because Zamorakianism can't really apply on a theocratic level. It really doesn't. It turns into American bootstrap culture and no social services and all that shitty stuff.

The funny thing is that Zamorak himself has no issues helping out if he thinks you need it. (If he didn't, he wouldn't be cool with asking for help, or giving it when he's asked. Which he does do repeatedly so. The man has more kindness in him than people want to admit.) What I do find fascinating is what he thinks of the actions of some of his longtime subordinates, who clearly support him, but I don't think support his actual philosophy. Because if you ask me, he'd side with the downtrodden humans of Meiyerditch, not the vampire lords that treat them like cattle. He's proven that he likes humans, and doesn't see them as unworthy. I do wonder if Jagex will show us what he might do about that.

Either way. Ahem. Over the course of a decade and a half, I keep going back to RuneScape, refining my philosophy and side, thinking again what I would do playing the game proper. About... I want to say five years ago, Jagex opened up the Sixth Age and I finally noticed, and they rewrote every god's philosophy because they wanted every single one to be actually playable. Not just "hurr durr evil" but actually have a logical line of thought. They probably didn't have pop culture paganism in mind, but the gods of RS are incredibly well-suited to it.

Well, I found that out, and immediately went through every god's philosophy, and reasoned my way through it. What does a worshipper of this god look like? What sort of life would they lead? If i apply this to me, what does that look like from that perspective? Do I understand this? Is it comfortable to exist in?

And as it turns out, I understand Zamorak the most, followed a close second by Armadyl, which was quite surprising. Zaros remains incomprehensible and I don't trust like that. (That's another story.) So I thought about it more, and it stuck even when I wandered off to different fandoms and interests. But what happened was that I ended up internalizing it, unknowingly and without meaning to.

It meant that when, two years later, I ended up in a horrific and traumatizing situation, the anchor I hit that held me together was a mixture of being a Devil - I am a fucking God you will obey me and recognize my power - and Zamorak's core philosophy: this cannot kill me, this cannot stop me, this is pure fucking hell and I am going to laugh in the face of death because people are forged in hellfire and I will walk away knowing what I'm made of.

And I was right. Honestly, out of everyone who was there with me, I think I'm the only one that was that deeply entrenched and walked out without trauma. I do not believe I could have done that had I not internalized Zamorak's philosophy. (That isn't to say if the others had that philosophy they wouldn't be traumatized, because there were absolutely other factors I wouldn't know about and some that I do and didn't do them any favours; but I am saying that it saved my ass and without it, I might not have been okay.)

I walked out of that with zero regrets. Zero. Even now, I don't regret a thing. Because it doesn't matter what happened or how much I was lied to or if he deserved my kindness. I know what I perceived to be happening, and I know how I reacted, and when the pieces were down I was stronger than steel, gave kindness without considering the cost, and I walked away unscathed.

How many people can say they've looked death in the eye and laughed? More than there should be, not too many that knowing what I'm capable of when put into pure chaos isn't somehow impressive. Because it is. And Zamorak's words proved themselves, or rather, I proved him entirely correct.

And when I last went back to RuneScape, and thought about it with enough time to put it all into hindsight, well. Aw, shit, he was right. Then vaguely around that time I went back and read Dawn, which was unfinished, tracked down the author and demanded to know how it fucking ended. (She told me and we're still friends like three years later. xD) Then I went back and found my old OCs, and decided fuck it, I'm making my own World Guardian.

So first thing I did was log in and jump over to the Makeover Mage and make myself into a boy. Kept the plateskirt though, I wanted to have the RS equivalent of a limp wrist to prove I'm Very Queer. Then I went about remaking my character. I wanted to make a self-insert, I was old enough to know it wasn't cringey, it was just fun, but I didn't want to use my default avatar with the black hair over one eye and the Chaorruption. I wanted to make a new self-insert based in nothing I was already using.

So I made the most beautiful man I could! Long, dark brown hair, pretty semi-dark skin, looked Kharidian, and then I said fuck it and made him Zamorak's youngest son. Originally, he was adopted when he was young by Iban and Clivet, and suffered serious imposter syndrome when being WG meant he'd never get demigod powers. But as I grew more confident in myself, he ended up getting powers? And then eventually I rewrote his backstory, and then wrote about his mother, and her relationship with Zamorak, and then he had friends like Blaire and Icthlarin (who was also my furry awakening, rip me).

Then with the most recently questline I've been getting a bit more into RS magical theory, and I've been mulling it over lots, and Seanan McGuire's Middlegame definitely helped; and I figured out how I wanted him to handle being World Guardian: it didn't make sense for him to be openly Zamorak's son, the other gods would just target his family to manipulate him. So I had him play neutral openly and Zamorakian to his friends, effectively living a double life.

Then he just looked up one day and said "Oh, by the way, my father won't acknowledge me to keep me safe but I don't know that so we have a very unsteady relationship because I don't know if he loves me", and then Children of Mah came out, and he was all "Oh and I think I just got disowned (I didn't, Zamorak was protecting me, but I don't know that) so my relationship with Zamorak is Fucking Shitty" and he was stuck that way until I figured out how to save their relationship.

It culminated in Sabe not knowing how his Mahjarrat powers worked and guessing, and hating himself for being half-and-half, and missing everything about being a Mahjarrat, and literally you couldn't have gotten more obvious in order to tell me I was having Fucking Issues coming to terms with the fact I didn't have any understanding or knowledge of my own heritage, but whatever, eventually I noticed that.

And as I've been working to understand myself and my heritage, so too has Sabe been doing that with his Mahjarrat heritage. But for the longest time, no matter how I put him and Zamorak in the same room in a scene to try and get them to talk it out, it wasn't working. Something wasn't right. Sabe resented being World Guardian, hated having to betray his family, didn't know if he was wanted, and hated himself for having to kill Mah, the mother of his species.

Not that long ago, a few months actually, he informed me (which is my shorthand for 'I suddenly figured out this happened, and it genuinely feels like remembering that one fucking word you have on the tip of your tongue, I always knew and just forgot for a while') that no, he'd been ripped in two by a hope devourer, brought to his father's stronghold, and Zamorak split his magic between mortal and divine in order to get around his godproofing and heal him. Zamorak's intense worry for his youngest son was what caused Sabe to break down and tell him honestly what was going on and how he was feeling, which caused Zamorak to do the same, and they finally, finally made up.

A week later, I noticed the connection between Sabe's Mahjarrat issues and my Irish issues, and started to wonder if he was a linktype.

I mean... he's a self-insert. He makes the choices I would, the me in the here and now, that I think are best. He's not a person I was and still know myself to be, he's not someone I grow into, he's not living his life beside me like a shadow. He's me, choosing the things I do, because I say so. But he's also me in the things he reflects, the things he struggles with, and things I had zero fucking conscious input on.

Sabe is the person I am when a crisis hits and I have to deal with the chaos. Sabe is the person I am when I need to lead. Sabe is the person I am when I am desperate to be known and loved by those I consider family. Sabe is the person I am when I want to be sure in where I came from, where I will return to, and the things that I will always be. Sabe is a man of darkness who knows the light as an acquaintance and nothing more, who is cruel and careless and kind.

Sabe is a warpriest of Zamorakian philosophy, because it took me twenty fucking years to put into words how I see the world, and now that I know, I will argue them to death and use them to help others. Drakath may have wanted a messiah to share the hivemind with others. Sabe is a warpriest, spreading the word and calling home the broken and the damned. He is the Last Rider, not the last of the Ilujanka but the one who keeps riding towards the chaos and never falls, no matter what.

Some of who Sabe is I have conscious input on. A whole lot of him was unintentional and perfectly reflects me.

So when it comes to terminology... I don't know what he is. A self-insert, yes. A linktype, maybe. A kintype, also maybe. Sabe doesn't feel like my past linktypes, because Sabe isn't always catharsis and comfort. Until he made up with his dad, Sabe was brutal and hurt a lot and constantly yearning for his foundation and slowly going mad. It wasn't fun. I just refused to do anything but see the story through. I was going to get it right. I wanted to see it to the end. I wanted to be the Last Rider, even though I didn't phrase it that way.

But to answer your actual question, of what he feels like when I'm not actively being him out of necessity, desire, and active thought. If it fades into the background.

And like... it can? Sabe as he is, recognized for what and who he is, is kind of a new thing. Sabe as a concept is very old, but Sabe as what he is right now is new, and confusing, and honestly I'm still trying to figure out what to make of it.

Like, seriously. Sabe is Zamorak's son. Am I Zamorak's son? Is he keeping an eye on me as I am? Would he be proud of me? Would he offer his approval of my progress? Does that make me, in some way, the World Guardian?

I have not a clue, buddy. Not a goddamn clue.

So what it means is that I've been paying attention, really. I don't just become strong in times of crisis. I've been trying to do better. Be better. Learn, and listen, and rethink myself. Break out of lockstep, of doing things the way I've always done them. Try to always do better than I did, build habits I like, stop waiting for things to change and just do it. Become the chaos, instead of waiting for it to hit me.

It means I need to live up to what Guthix told Sabe to do. It means being gentler, being kinder, not burning bridges when I'm not sure. It means keeping an eye out for any sign Zamorak's listening, in case I am his son, in case I really have to decide what I'm gonna do about being the son of chaos incarnate.

But other than the questioning, what it feels like is just... what I was already dealing with, just a little more at arm's length and easier to deal with. Once I recognize that his issues are reflective of mine, if I solve his, I have a pretty good idea of how to solve mine. Some of it won't work exactly right - Zamorak will always forgive him for not being the son he expected he might have had, my own parents may not, yay I'm queer and pagan - but it's a good rule of thumb.

It's also just comforting to know that when in doubt, nothing can kill me, because I simply refuse to die. I am World Guardian, I am a demigod of chaos incarnate, all the hellfire in the world can do nothing but strengthen me. And if I present those to myself as unshakeable beliefs, because for Sabe they are, then I'll be okay. It probably couldn't stop most disasters or tragedies, but I got hit by a car, broke five bones, and walked away with a record recovery time, so I mean... I can't prove that I can't die by some accident or tragedy, but you also can't prove that I can. (Trying to do so usually falls under what we call 'murder', and I personally believe I can't be murdered. Only assassinated.)

But really, I think the worst that could possibly happen with a new linktype is that you learn what not to do. It's new, it's scary, it's chaotic, and from where I'm standing, that's the best way to learn.

[feysooah]

HIHI ! 

I go by Fany & she/her -- it’s been a looong time since I rped so honestly pretty excited to be here and get this muse on the road :> no lie it’ll probably take me a bit to adjust and get in the groove of things so forgive my extra slowness but I’d love to plot n chat with all of you peeps like actually please lets !! do have a profile page up you’re free to check ( still being worked on shh ), and a rules page that’s really just more an info dump about rping with this mun & muse and some stuff about me in general if you’re curious ye

don’t have any plots up for grabs sadly, yet, but brainstorming is much welcome

here’s some tidbits about muse that might be helpful in the meanwhile tho ;

to start off, where she actually comes from;

From where her lineage diverged the Gwan bloodline has notoriously been known as very powerful divination magick practitioners within the Kyegeum house

alongside being super cordial with other houses and often the other genera as well, but generally aloof in matters that did not strictly concern them. this extended to the normal world and society as well

this was especially true for her grandpa, Gwan Youngchul

who ended up being turned in a surprise attack from a werewolf when the man had been out with his familiar companion -- Seok -- who despite best efforts could not save the witch from this sudden fate, could not stop their treasured bond severing

and despite managing to keep Youngchul alive through the whole ordeal, it would not take long ( if anything, suspiciously quick ) for a certain group of hunters to get whiff of the circumstance and swiftly rid off the ex-witch

Perhaps one bright side to look at was that he was able to communicate last wishes, some of which had already been written on letters hidden for the chance of an unlucky situation such as the one they were currently in arising. one of the wishes being a plea to protect his only daughter Jiyeong

At a tender age of seventeen Jiyeong took the news with surprising grace, not to say she wasn’t devastated and cried but what seemed to be request of her father to bond with his familiar was accepted after a moment of thinking it over, and bonding ritual decided to take place within the week

Jiyeong’s mother had been the one to mainly oversee her training once abilities started manifesting, a Kyegeum witch herself, with very different abilities compared to her husband

It was perhaps no surprise then that Jiyeong became very adamant not long after father’s death to focus studies and abilities on what her father had been so revered for; divination

something his older sister, Jiyeong’s aunt, was known for as well and gladly helped the girl with alongside taking the widowed family under her wing and protection

Jiyong followed after her father’s footsteps in many other things, most notably making friends and upholding favorable relations to the other houses, other genera as well

was endlessly fond of nature magic too, had an abundance of flowers and plants in every nook and cranny, a beautiful garden she tended to with care

many would even say she was touched by the sun itself, vibrant and warm soul she was, nurturing not with only plants but people themselves

eventually met a man who slowly swept Jiyeong off her feet, and not but a few years later they had a child, naming her Sooah. my muse. we’ll get to her in a bit I promise ._.

the man aka Dad is a human, just plain ole’ human. orphaned at a young age so while they wouldn’t know for certain if he has any sliver of witchy magic in him it’s unlikely

insists he fell in love with Jiyong at first sight pretty much. which is frankly understandable she was such a lovely person ;u;

was surprisingly chill about all the, well, witch stuff and whatnot, very curious too but also did want her to be careful and if possible not be that involved with that world

for about next 10 years things went on fairly normally, ya know, living the happy family life, going to work, mingling with the magical side of society

then she started getting sick every so often, out of the blue, however nothing even remotely seeming serious. though it was odd for a witch to be affected with flu so often

she didn’t think it was serious itself, and had a habit of hiding it in the beginning too when it wasn’t even noticeable

until it got to the point it simply could not be ignored, could not be just a passing small thing, could not be cured by any means she knew

and the next thing anyone else knew she was gone. almost like someone had reached and snuffed out her flame, just like that

where in the story we get to Sooah, so;

her early life wasn’t that special in honesty, if you don’t count all the stories her mother told about the secret magical world she too would be part of one day, and the lineage she was to inherit, abilities she would discover, all to be learned together

she had been a deviously curious child, daydreaming every other moment and next begging to see if even take part in what her mother was doing with her own magick

Sooah was quite interested in the guy sometimes accompanying her too, a friendly face she’d grown to know as Seok who she had learned eventually was mom’s bonded familiar, a fact she was entirely too excited about. but who also was before bonded to her grandpa that the girl never got to meet herself

would not fail to mention to him many times how she was going to one day find a familiar to bond with too, someone who was fun and kind and wanted to go on adventures and they would be the bestests of friends ever. and definitely cooler than him

she was always eager to understand and practice the power inside her in general, which she was starting to more and more by the days, before the sudden passing of her mother

it broke her :<

dad too, for a while he was nothing but basically a walking shell. she’s sure neither of them really truly recovered

backtracking just a lil because one very, very important notion was the familiar was of course bound to die soon along with the mom, Sooah was well aware of the fact by then and while she was stricken by grief at the time she was dedicated to finding him, no real plan in mind but urgent to know he was okay, like it would somehow make the situation any better

she did end up meeting him, understandably shaken himself but apparently already accepted own fate-- which at the moment did not sit well with her at all and Sooah, not even yet 14 years old, decided she was not going to let him just wither away and die alone how horrible would that be, how sad for that to be the end when her mom had exuded everything opposite, she was not going to let that happen no matter what

which meant the only thing she could actually do was to bond with Seok and by sheer force of will and maybe some tears - definitely some tears - did manage to convince for him to agree to it

a whole mess

she doesn’t regret it one bit, absolutely refuses to, yet does occasionally wonder if it was the right thing to do or even fair to him

but ultimately she’s glad he is in her life, aiding in any matter she may require, definitely now seen as a big brother she never had-- if she’s not too busy calling him grandpa bc seriously he’s old as all fuck. it still surprises her from time to time

( okay but it is hilarious to think Seok going from being as old as he was, looking about 40 to then having a 14 year old’s body lmaoo )

bless the grandma tho she was really a rock in this emotional time, even though she was dealing with the loss of her daughter, after having lost her husband so early in their lives too !

she kinda took over seeing to Sooah’s teaching and helping in any other way as well, more than welcoming to having her stay over for however long she needed or wanted to

she’s still thankfully alive and has a good relationship with both Sooah and Seok ;u;

Dad on the other hand.

they have both moved out of the house the family used to occupy with mom, into their own places

also have a somewhat strained relationship nowadays, more to do with his insistence on getting her to quit all the witch stuff cause it’s dangerous yadda yadda and she’s obviously not going to do that

not to say she’s not paranoid herself, and knowing how both her mom and grandpa died barely halfway into their lives even more so

it’s not only made her fearful of same fate but made her swear to stay away from any sort of divination magic if she can help it, somehow convinced that to be a factor in all of it

does have randomly prophetic dreams though, but nothing that has been major or necessarily that important so she’s.. okay with that. kinda. does keep a dream journal just in case

It’s coming up 10 years after the mom’s death, so I’m sure there’s been some rumors or other witches wondering if the Gwan family was just cursed or something, probably mostly from older and the more traditional types. doesn’t help Soaah’s dad being a plain human. or that she’s not sure if that might just actually be the case oof

as thus she’s definitely a lot more withdrawn when it comes to the other houses, or even Kyegeum themselves, doesn’t exactly feel like part of the community if you will

but is friendly to everyone and usually can be outwardly seen as having nothing weird or unusual going on beyond what you’d expect of a typical witch in this day and age

designs and sometimes makes jewelry for The Gem Lab actually, or if an individual knows to ask her personally Sooah does take custom work too ! and yes they all have very carefully picked gems or crystals, often imbued with enchantments of basic protection or if one wants something very specific she can probably do it

is kinda rich?? like grandpa was very up in there and left part of his inheritance to the mom, who of course left part of hers to Sooah. who doesn’t really like using that money as it is so it’s just sitting in a whole separate account. probably partly also because she’s not exactly the best when it comes to handling finances so. yeah.

uhh

this is so long already god I’m not gonna get into her personality or any of that now, yall can figure it out along the way or read up what I have on her page -- which isn’t much yet but it is something !! I’m def figuring her out myself too as I go haha

so ay if you wanna plot drop by my ims please ;; I do have a discord if you feel that’s easier too just ask for it !

also go show some love to Seok  ouo

[nightslain]

SHIPPING INFO !! Answer the following for your muse so people know how shipping works on your blog.

WHAT IS YOUR OTP FOR YOUR CHARACTER[S]?:

Leon has been alive like 3 days he has nobody yet ya’ll LOL but I am definitely interested in the potential the fandom also sees for his relationship with Mathias, even if that is inevitably destined for failure one way or the other, but I don’t mind that? I enjoy exploring not only successful and long lasting relationships but those that crumble down the line and end in tragedy or even with the two becoming enemies just as much, and you know I’m Weak As All Hell for villain/hero ships. It’s ripe for the exploration of tragedy, complexity and emotional gravity. Obviously his canon ship with Sara is one thing too, and he clearly loved her very dearly if he was willing to take on a vampire with theoretically his bare hands for her LMAO SO WE CANNOT FORGET THAT and I wish a little more time could be spent devoted to their relationship as well in the series for us to measure it more tactfully. But she’s also dead af now so tbh it seems Leon is just not fortunate in the romance department you guys. He put all his stats into combat skills. 

WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO WRITE WHEN IT COMES TO SHIPPING?

The standard stuff you’d expect I guess. I am willing to explore and stretch my wings as it were in a ship in search of more interesting dynamics than just being blissfully in love, which is why I have a leaning towards more dramatic scenarios as listed above lmao. But I do just as much enjoy a couple who can just be happy and have an easy-going relationship with NO DRAMA LOL WE NEED BALANCE. But it is a firm rule of mine that everything that happens regardless of the context or dynamic needs to stay consensual and of age.

HOW LARGE DOES THE AGE GAP HAVE TO BE TO MAKE IT UNCOMFORTABLE?:

If the character is underage then it is unacceptable regardless of any other contributing factors, simple as. In a more general sense, I prefer ships where everyone is at least in their twenties or above, but apart from those hang-ups though? Age gaps of any size after that cap don’t much bother me, given all parties involved are willing, informed and consenting adults.

ARE YOU SELECTIVE WHEN SHIPPING?:

Somewhat! I don’t just ship with whoever comes along, that’s for sure. I like to build some rapport and chemistry between myself and the mun as well as our muses at least for a while before the possibility of ship is going to be explored. It happens quicker sometimes more than others and really does just depend how well I gel with a person as a whole. I usually know quite soon if I would entertain a ship with a person albeit, just based on their personality and conduct.

HOW FAR DO STEAMY MOMENTS HAVE TO GO BEFORE THEY ARE CONSIDERED NS/FW?:

As soon as the moment is actually steamy enough to warrant hitting up that NSFW tag pretty much. All the preamble of kisses and wandering hands and whatnot doesn’t really qualify for that as far as I’m concerned. It’s not until things take a turn for the truly graphic that I tend to bust out the read-more’s.

WHO ARE OTHER THE CHARACTERS YOU SHIP YOUR CHARACTER WITH?:

Nobody right now! I haven’t really seen any potential for ships even in the plotting stages with other muses just yet or any chemistry bubbling under the surface that suggests there might be. We’ll come back in a few months and see if that has changed at all. And we’d be here for ages if I delved into all my other muses and their potential other ships LOL but needless to say, ships come from the funniest and most unexpected of places, so it’ll be interesting to see if anything similarly wild brews over here in the coming times.

DOES ONE HAVE TO ASK TO SHIP WITH YOU?:

Yes! Hints will probably either fly over my head or I’ll just assume you’re not serious about it if they aren’t upfront enough to express a desire to ship and we will just go in circles for eternity lmao. All my ships have come about just by one person or the other expressing it in plain terms that hey, these two are great together and I think it could work, and I’ve almost always been inclined to agree! With my very close friends though, it’s pretty much a given I’ll say yes to giving a ship a whirl and signing away another fragment of my dying soul to them forevermore.

HOW OFTEN DO YOU LIKE TO SHIP?:

With my friends? Any amount of time, any amount of ships; given the muses involved are multiship and available or otherwise just inclined towards having relationships in the first place. I love exploring ship dynamics with my partners since they make the experience such an utter joy and always surprise me with the things we end up brewing together. With newer folks I tend to err on the side of caution when it comes to shipping in general.

ARE YOU SHIP OBSESSED OR SHIP MORE-OR-LESS?:

Ya girl is very ship obsessed and I treasure all my individual ships very deeply. If I feel that you’re cool with me spamming songs or quotes or whatnot to your DMs all the time, boy I sure will, and a good amount of my time online is spent discussing the various relations my muses have built with others. They’re such a fulfilling and rewarding thing to have and I cherish them all, as well as the people that have given me the pleasure of being their shipping partner in the first place. I love ships, I love my ship partners, I love the magical things we can create when we put our heads together. Just a whole lot of love, you guys.

ARE YOU MULTISHIP?:

Depends on the muse! Some of my muses are singleship, some are only single ship in their main verse, but most of them are still very much on the multiship market and staying there for the foreseeable future.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE SHIP IN YOUR CURRENT FANDOM?:

I HAVENT CHOSEN ONE FOR CASTLEVANIA YET ACTUALLY LMAO. Actually Drac x Lisa makes me cry real tears but we all know how that ended. And pretty much all my fandoms except VKC have like no fodder for ships I’d be interested in backing. Robehira is forever though.

FINALLY, HOW DOES ONE SHIP WITH YOU?:

Approach me! Talk to me, plot with me, laugh and joke with me, just make friends with me in the most general of senses. The more approachable we are to one another, the more likely there will be room for something to start bubbling in our muse’s relationships too. As I said before, pretty much all my ships come from people who I spent a lot of my time talking to, plotting with and making friends with, whereas ships that came from more casual acquaintances always fell through because they simply lacked the magic and depth that my other ships carried with them. My friends at this point by contrast only have to say the word and I’m probably already aboard, and that’s because I already know they’ll make it a truly wonderful experience. In short, communication is key!

Tagged: @pennadus ❤❤

Tagging: whoever has not done it yet LOL

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MUTUALS, EXCLUSIVES, GRAPHICS. You do not need to be a mutual to send me asks, memes or plot / thread requests. The background, ads, icons & banners etc. for this blog are made by me. Please do not take things that I have made for this blog – they match the aesthetic and I would prefer to keep them only for my use. If you would like the bases for the icons you can feel free to ask me and I will be happy to send them to you and if you would like them personalized, I am usually very happy to do so, though it might take me a few days / week or two (sometimes more) to actually get any graphic requests done depending on life!

MY ACTIVITY! If you’ve ever written with me before then you know the drill. My real life is absolutely crazy between three kids (each in a different school with different after school activities) and my numerous health concerns which tend to keep me away from rp sometimes just because of sheer pain levels or sometimes because of frequent doctors visits etc. Stress is always a huge factor in whether or not I feel up to doing any actual writing, but I am almost always available for plotting or talking or the occasional sk.ype roleplay. I tend to make graphics, banners, backgrounds and the like when I can’t actually write for whatever reason, so never feel like you’re being a bother if you ask if I can make something for you just - as in all things on this blog, patience is definitely key. If I feel pressured or if I start to get anxious about not being able to keep up activity then I tend to panic and just push the whole blog away for a while. Not the best coping mechanism, but it is what it is and this is above all else FOR FUN.

YOUR ACTIVITY! I will never pressure you for replies, though I may bombard your inbox with memes and poke you to plot or chat but never ever feel obligated to reply to anything, be it posts or memes or chats etc. if you aren’t up for it or just aren’t feeling it. Please do let me know if you are dropping a thread just so I know, you don’t need to explain or apologize for taking forever or dropping an interaction or wanting to write on a different blog or for a different character than one that had a lot of interactions with mine. Do always feel free to let me know if you start a new character or blog and would like to plot something with me, I can almost guarantee if we already write together (or have in the past) and you go somewhere new I will be happy to write with you! I may love the characters and plots but the muns behind the characters are the most important things to me. And, as a side note, I don’t care if you take an hour or a year to reply, I will always be happy to see you & it!

FORMATTING. My preference is some very light formatting and icons (of a consistent size - I might, at most, bounce between 100x100 and 200x100 depending on my mood). I don’t care if you format a lot or only a little. If you format a lot I may try and match your formatting but if I am actually pumping out replies at a steady pace I probably will skip it - it’s pretty but my brain only cooperates so often so I want to take advantage of it when it’s actually functioning like a normal human being brain and not a whirlwind of chaos and mini nuclear disasters.

My main turn offs when it comes to other people’s blogs / formatting … I do really really prefer the small font BUT I can work around it. I will probably take the quick second to make your text small when I reblog your reply in order to keep the aesthetic the same on my dash / theme as much as possible. My really big turn off though are using images that are way above the average icon-ish size. It throws everything off in terms of my visual perception and I don’t know, it just. Bugs me. It’s honestly one of the main reasons I can’t join rp groups on tumblr anymore. I don’t know when it started bugging me, or why it bugs me so much, but it just does. I am doing my best to work around that so as not to miss out on the wonderful writers out there so just bear with me!

NSFW & TRIGGERING CONTENT. I will straight up warn everyone now, I love writing dark themes, horror, murder, torture, graphic violence and angsty smut are all like my favorite things ever. However, I am WELL aware that not everyone shares those interests so please note that I will be tagging pretty much anything that I think might bother someone with the simple ‘tw triggernamehere’ tags. Self-harm, drug use, potential noncon/dubcon, mind control, alcoholism, domestic abuse, so on and so forth are likely to appear here. NSFW will always be tagged with just the simple 'nsfw’.

GODMODDING. This one is pretty simple. No godmodding. Don’t write for my characters. Even if you are writing a god, writing someone with the ability to control and puppet others, if you are attacking my character with a miniature nuke and they are standing there in their birthday suit with no way to defend themselves and you know they’re going to be annhialated … you still don’t get to write my character. You write what your intentions are, what you command them to do, how you are influencing them to do something, how you are manipulating their emotions, etc. but I will handle writing the effects of that in my reply! I am always happy to discuss plots and actions before hand, if that would make things easier for you, but I am happy to wing it and work things out as the thread develops too, in terms of harm done, effects of spells or influences etc. so please, just be respectful about handling this and we’ll get along perfectly fine!

DRAMA. Flat out simple: keep it in character. I have been roleplaying for 20 odd years now. I promise you I’ve seen it all and I have always had zero interest in being involved in it. You can always come talk to me if you are experiencing a problem, ic or ooc, with me or someone else, in the sense of I will be happy to try and offer you advice, but in general I can promise you I will not be inclined to throw myself into the middle of anything going on on the dash etc. Please do not assume that this means I don’t care about you at all, I will discuss matters privately when possible, but what it all boils down to is that I am here to have fun and I don’t like poking bears with sticks, pointy or otherwise. Confrontation makes me literally ill, and if this blog becomes a not safe place then no one gets to have fun with it … especially me.

SMUT! As I said a little bit ago, I love writing smut. It is not however the only reason I am here though, at times I’m sure the blog might seem to disagree. I get in moods where it’s all I want to write and then other times I’m just EH SURE. All of that aside, I will not, have not, will never write smut with anyone that is under the age of 18. I understand different states and countries have different age limits where that is concerned but my state / country dictates 18 is the age of consent and there is no smut in the world that is worth the potential and genuine risk of legal actions up to the possibility of incarceration for engaging in sexual content with a minor. Please, please, please do not send me NSFW related asks if you are under 18. Do not like my NSFW starter calls if you are under 18. If we are in a thread that is leading towards potential smut, I will ask you if you are 18. Please do not lie. Legally speaking, it doesn’t matter if you tell me that you are 18 and you aren’t, I am still responsible and they can still prosecute - just like with physical interactions. They really do take this stuff seriously guys and so do I, for a number of reasons, and not just legal concerns!

If you ARE 18+ and would like to do something smut related with me, by all means, let me know. Even if it’s the first interaction, I don’t care. And don’t feel like you can’t make a suggestion regarding kink or interactions out of fear of kinkshaming or anything of the sort. I will write pretty much anything except for pedophilia (again for a number of reasons) and anything involving washroom related functions. Of course, anything NSFW / triggering / explicit etc. WILL be tagged!

GENERAL. Please do not reblog my rp posts if you are not my rp partner in that thread. If you want to promote me you can reblog my promos etc., but please don’t repost my in character interactions. Please reblog your posts as TEXT. When you reblog as link it cuts off a good portion of the text and adds a bulky box to the dash. Please CUT your posts. Two or three replies at most are all that’s needed to keep the feel of a thread / interaction going. Any more than that and one: it takes forever to scroll through the dash and two: i’ve seen it go so far as to have one letter of text per line it’s so thin and thirty lines from the ‘reblog’ function. It’s bulky and generally just not necessary. Each person will have their own tag. This will be simply your URL (minus any dashes) so that you can search my page by /tagged/url for our interactions. (If you want to read someone’s interactions in order, just add /chrono to the end of any tag search!)

If you have read all of this, kudos! I really do appreciate it. You don’t have to send anything in letting me know or whatnot but if you do want to send me an ask with your url & faceclaim – and maybe your name too so I can get to know you! – I will be happy to make you a few icons or a simple graphic of some kind just as a general sign of appreciation for the follow and the time you spend reading all of my rambling!

I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone that has supported me, that has put up with me, that has followed me from blog to blog, that I have dropped threads with and been so sporadic with it has to be like a whirlwind. I appreciate each and every one of you and without all of your support and continuous patience, I know that my experience here would have fallen flat and I would not still be here in any capacity so, know that you will always have my gratitude.

[scriptautistic]

Hey, this is a bit of a silly question, but I have two autistic characters, let’s call them A and B.

A is the main character of the story, she’s 19 years old, she loves puzzles, mysteries and music and panics when she feels too warm.

B is more of a minor character, he is about 10, he’s nonverbal, he has no arms (it sounds strange but no characters are actually human in my story) so he usually communicates by nodding shaking his head to questions.

My question is, there’s a part in the story when they’re gonna interact/bond and I don’t really know how an interaction between two autistics work because I’ve never really met another autistic person.

So how would they do it? What would they do?

Draw? Build a lego castle? Solve a murder case?

I honestly have no clue! I would love some suggestions?

(And I would also love some feedback on the characters themselves, if they see. realistic and whatnot, but that’s optional)

Hi there!

I think this is one of those times where it is useful to try and step back from the “autistic” part and just look at your characters as people.

How do two people interact? Well, it depends a lot on a lot of factors. Let’s think about a real-life setting and allistic characters to make things simpler.

What is their relationship? Are they strangers? Friends? Family? Lovers? Teacher and student? Staff and customer? Coleagues?

What is the context? Are they just stuck together in a room for a few hours/days due to outside circumstances? Do they live together? Did they meet in the street? On the internet?

What is the goal of the interaction? Is it profesionnal? Romantic? Are they here to have a good time? Are they working together towards a common goal? Are they just trying to pass time?

Given the suggestions you’ve offered, i’m going to assume we’re talking about a friendly, let’s-have-fun context. Let’s get back to our hypothetical characters. What they will choose to do together still depends on a variety of factors:

How old are they? What is their age difference? You’ve already answered that one: the chosen activity will have to be appropriate for a 10-year-old while, ideally, not being boring for the young adult.

What are external constraints? This will depend on their physical environment (Are they in a house? Outside? Do they have access to means of transportation? Is there a city nearby or are they in the middle of nowhere?) and on other factors (if they want to play soccer, do they have a ball or the money and possibility to buy one? If they want to go to the cinema, do they have money to buy a ticket?)

What do they both enjoy doing? What do they feel like doing?

How are they feeling ? If one or both of them is very tired, for instance, a high-energy activity is not appropriate.

So all of these factors will be the most important things to keep in mind when writing your two characters interacting to choose what they will do together. Now, a few autism-specific things to keep in mind:

How will they communicate? If Character B only communicates by nodding and shaking, this means Character A will have to do a lot of communication efforts (asking more and more precise yes/no question) to understand what Character B means. This might be very tiring for Character A, and if that is the case, they may choose an activity that involves little communication (eg. just chatting or playing word games might be between tedious and impossible).

Do they have sensory issues? You mentioned character A being very sensitive to heat, so they probably won’t choose to go sunbathing on the beach. Ideally, the chosen activity should accomodate both characters’ sensory profile.

Do they have conflicting needs? For example, one character might stim in a way that sets off the other character’s sensory issues. How would that affect their interaction?

Do they have sensory things they both enjoy? Do they have special interests in common ? Engaging in a sensory- or special interest- related activity is a common way for two autistic people to bond, though of course they’re not limited to that. This might be, for example, using the swings together in a playground, making diy stim toys together, or, yes, solve a mystery if that’s something both characters like.

Keep in mind that most of these factors are important to take into account if you want the interaction to go well -which, as a writer, you may not! It is also entirely possible that one of them chooses an activity that the other doesn’t like or that sets off the other’s sensory issue, etc.

Hope this helps!

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@mackledberries (because the post was getting a bit too long). I didn’t address everything you wrote, I’ll come back and do it later and just post this for now............. cause it’s after 4am...... *dies*. Thanks for chatting with me

“In Miracle on Evergreen Terrace and Future-Drama, off the top of my head, she also strangles Bart.”

In Miracle on Evergreen Terrace, she does not seem to be strangling Bart at all, if this is the scene you are referring to. Homer is the only one doing the strangling:

In Future Drama, both future Lisa and child Lisa strangle Bart for causing her to lose her place in college... Something she had been (and is) working towards for her whole life, which is practically the most important thing for her, losing this, as Lisa herself says, is basically losing all her prospects and ruining her whole future. Strangling still isn’t cool, but she was pretty justifiably upset. And also, she has seen her dad strangle Bart so many times it’s very normalised for her at this point, wouldn’t you say? So it’s sort of the natural thing she’d go for, and that normalisation would lessen the ramifications. She’d know strangling is bad but, with her dad doing it so often, I doubt she’d see it as being as bad as you or I would.

“Lisa is eight… but that doesn’t really change anything when her mentality is that of an adult, to the point where some people like Quimby assumed she was a “midget” and not a child. She’s certainly more mature than Homer too.”

I don’t think this argument really holds water at all. Regardless of how old she might act or seem, she is still canonically 8 years old, and many aspects of her personality are based in that age, she is just intelligent way beyond her years, but that does not magically make her more than eight years old. I honestly don’t understand it when people use this argument... They want her behaviour looked upon with just as much harshness as if it’s an adult perpetrating it but it doesn’t hold up for me... because for all intents and purposes she is still eight. She does not have adult burdens, she does not have a consistent job, she does not pay taxes, she does not have a mortgage, etc., does not need to make her own meals etc, and the life that she lives is an eight year old’s life (attending primary school etc.), and she is (mostly) treated as an eight year old by others. Can you really say it doesn’t change ANYTHING? Anything at all? Even if she’s not the exact equivalent of an actual 8 year old, she’s still not the exact equivalent of an adult either, therefore her age still needs to be taken into account. Her canon status as an eight year old counts for SOMETHING and cannot be completely neglected, if you wanted to neglect her status as both a minor and a child completely, then you would be fine with people...... Ignoring that with the kind of art they draw and ships they have. But I’m assuming stuff like that would make you uncomfortable because she is, in fact, an 8 year old child. This is just one example where that status cannot be ignored. But it’s easier to ignore her age in other situations when it’s convenient in order to hate on her more, when maybe if you factored in her age her behaviour would probably be a lot less abhorrent. And here’s another way of looking at it: if you’re hating on her for a particular action, but think that, were she actually an adult in that situation then maybe she would have behaved differently, it’s probably best to take her age into account.

“Lisa’s been shown to be strong enough to knock Bart out with a single punch (The Simpsons Movie, The Great Wife Hope)”

Your citation of both of these episodes implies that Bart was knocked out cold in both of them, which is untrue. This was only the case in The Great Wife Hope. In The Simpsons Movie, he is up on his feet again seconds after having been punched. He was knocked to the ground for sure, but he was not knocked out. And in The Great Wife Hope, Bart actively invited her into the pentagon to fight him; he WANTED her to fight him; he wanted them both to fight each other; she merely takes him up on the offer, and they are clearly both ready to go at it full-force - she is higher up in the air giving her the advantage, and manages to land a fatal punch.

“And… I can sorta see the Sibling Rivalry aspect being a thing but again, I don’t think that cuts it. After all, it’s meant to be a rivalry. In other words, it’s reciprocal between two siblings of likely similar or equal power. Problem is, we’ve never seen Bart, say, cause severe tissue damage, knock her out, deck her in the face or smash a dollhouse over her head. Often Lisa is the only one getting violent and she always wins, it’s no longer a sibling rivalry if one sibling holds 100% of the power.”

But that’s the thing... I am pretty sure they are of similar and/or equal power here. I don’t think you can really say Lisa is stronger than Bart, because there is not enough evidence to support that, and we haven’t really seen Bart all-out trying to hurt Lisa... When they do physically fight, they seem to be pretty evenly matched (Lisa on Ice).

Here is how I think the sibling rivalry seems to go, btw: Bart annoys her constantly, defaces her dolls and whatnot, etc. Lisa occasionally retaliates. (?) So yeah, the stuff she does to Bart might be more severe but it happens a lot less often, and the annoying stuff Bart does is much more frequent and it would build up over time. So I’m not saying Lisa’s violence is acceptable, but it needs to be put in context, I think she has a lot of built-up frustration that just explodes out at those violent times. I wouldn’t say she always wins either. She wins when she retaliates and dishes out disproportionate retribution I guess, but what about the rest of the time when she doesn’t have some devious plan up her sleeve to get back at Bart? He just does a lot of little things to annoy her that build up over time, and she grumbles and tries to ignore it, or tells him to stop but he will probably continue doing [insert annoying thing]. Those are all points in Bart’s favour cause during that time he gets away with annoying her. And we have seen this happen at times, we have seen Bart be annoying to Lisa, and given their personalities and some lines/structures of the show it seems it’s the status quo most of the time. We just tend to see a lot of the exceptions (when Lisa does something to Bart) because they are not really the status quo.

“she’s the favourite of the kids so she’d have her parents on her side (especially Homer)”

Yeah so Bart will do something to annoy Lisa, notice she is annoyed by it and so continue doing it. Lisa will tell Bart to stop. When he doesn’t, she usually yells out “Mum! Bart’s [insert whatever he’s doing]!”, and then Marge will halfheartedly tell Bart not to do that. That’s how it usually goes. You make it sound like Lisa totally controls everyone, and can have Homer and Marge arrest him at any moment. So why doesn’t she? All Marge can really do is tell him to not do what he’s doing, that doesn’t stop him from continuing to do it, and then maybe Marge will punish him somehow e.g. “no x for a week”. Marge absolutely loves Bart, Bart is her special little guy, and also Marge is the one who is really in control when it comes to deciding things related to the children, and Homer will listen to her. If Homer deems Bart to be acting out of line then he may intervene and start strangling him, but it’s not like Lisa ever commands him to do that, or has any influence over Homer’s decision to strangle his son. He would strangle Bart regardless of whether Lisa was present or not.

“And for power dynamics, that doesn’t work. Not only does Bart not have power over her, he has even less over her than he does Homer.” “she wields whatever power her parents do by proxy”

Sure, Bart is able to manipulate Homer in ways that he can’t with Lisa because Lisa is smarter than Homer but... I don’t think you really understood what I was getting at. Homer is an adult, Homer is Bart’s father, and he is much more stronger than Bart. Even if you think Lisa is stronger than Bart, Homer is much stronger, he is much more imposing. You said that “Lisa is more mature than Homer” but that doesn’t negate this. If a thirteen year old is more academically intelligent than a 27 year old, that doesn’t make the 13 yr old more accountable. The 13 yr old should not be tried in court as an adult even if they are smarter than a 27 year old - if the 13 yr old and the 27 yr old committed the same crime they’d still be tried differently regardless. Homer is an adult, who lives an adult’s life, and is often involved in very adult situations. Lisa is not. the power dynamic that exists between father and son is different and more pronounced than that which exists among siblings. Lisa SOMETIMES lashes back at Bart. Homer strangles Bart ALL THE TIME, it is a staple of the show, Homer strangling Bart is iconic - I’m not using that word in a positive sense here because it’s not a good thing, but it just is iconic, any Simpsons fan could tell you that. Non-Simpsons fans would probably at least know that the yellow dad strangles the yellow son, that’s just a thing, that’s just a part of the show. Bart gets strangled a lot more often than he gets hurt by Lisa, which is why I don’t think Lisa is the more abusive one here, or the one that is more harmful towards Bart. It’s easy to not take Lisa seriously when she is (not excessively) angry, but when Homer is angry it can be very scary for him if it means a strangling session is immanent.

As for wielding her parents’ power by proxy... I’m not really convinced, and we haven’t really seen that much in the show. Marge and Homer trust Lisa more because she does tend to be the better-behaved one; it’s treatment based in experience.