#commonpeoplerp

[ammapreker]

samson rhys ballard — twenty two, pre-law student, holden lower.

tropes — the ace; renaissance man; parental neglect; affably evil; the chessmaster; genius bruiser; insufferable genius; lack of empathy; lonely rich kid; man of wealth and taste; neat freak; the stoic; tall, dark, and snarky; screw the rules, i have money!; wicked cultured

parallels — daniel arlington (ninth house); henry winter (the secret history); sebastian valmont (cruel intentions)

playlist — i. black mambo, glass animals; ii. real boy, lola blanc; iii. oxford comma, vampire weekend; iv. devil like me, rainbow kitten surprise; v. didya think, arlie; vi. cringe - stripped, matt maeson; vii. vienna, billy joel; vii. social climb, i don’t know how but they found me

[commonpeoplerp]

member groups preview

hi hello! this is the final preview before we launch our soft open tomorrow via our discord: the member groups! aka, a loose theme to help firstly add colors to the board, secondly to tie the whole !vibe together. see you tomorrow <3

[obeisants]

 spencer anaïs van lith  —  22 years old, dancer with the royal ballet, anouchka gauthier

tropes  —  loveable alpha bitch / damsel in distress / good bad girl / in love with love / horrible judge of character / looking for love in all the wrong places / it’s all about me / drama queen / all girls want bad boys / ethical slut / really gets around / the perfectionist / black sheep / always second best / break the cutie / freudian excuse

parallels  —  serena van der woodsen [gossip girl] / molly gunn [uptown girls] / sally bowles [cabaret] / hanna marin [pretty little liars]

playlist  —  i. bellyache - billie eilish ii. strong - london grammar iii. somebody else - the 1975 iv. it’s all in vain - wet v. fake empire - the national  vi. take yourself home - troye sivan vii. door - caroline polachek viii. sober ii (melodrama) - lorde

[the-eve-codes]

anna owen-phillips

5 recently played songs : exits - foals ; retrograde - james blake ; sheila take a bow - the smiths ; look like you know - royal blood ; harold bloom - cold war kids

[lagavuling]

alias: nathan

timezone: us cst / gmt-6

favo(u)rite plots/tropes: boy next door / country boy in the big city / honor struggle / unrequited love / this chaming man / I thought I was straight but for you i’ll be gay / stuck up schitts creek / cowboy take me away / sad girl suburbia / lo-li larry / college prepster / tragic rich boi / i just want daddy’s approval

favo(u)rite british slang term you’ve ever heard: bloke, closely followed by the fact that brits call cookies biscuits. that shit is wild

what you’re reading/watching/listening to right now: the sum of small things by elizabeth currid-halkett

your favo(u)rite cursed image:

[cindymellos]

Alias: evie Timezone: eastern Favo(u)rite plots/tropes: found families, real families, yanderes, break the cutie/haughty, idk!!!! i love drama Favo(u)rite British slang term you’ve ever heard: i don’t know any slang im so sorry........... knackered cuz thats how i feel right now What you’re reading/watching/listening to right now: currently reading madonna in a fur coat / watching a million kdramas in a row / listening to drivers license on repeat as u all should be Your favo(u)rite cursed image:

[ckimberlys]

Alias: katie

Timezone: est

Favo(u)rite plots/tropes: uhhh give me big families, found families, anything that will make me cry t b h,

Favo(u)rite British slang term you’ve ever heard: wanker

What you’re reading/watching/listening to right now: reading: the cousins by karen mcmanus!!!

Your favo(u)rite cursed image:

[cascassettes]

Alias: bean

Timezone: gmt

Favo(u)rite plots/tropes: pining, enemies to lovers, anything that involves secrets but for all the right reasons, found families for those who didn’t get their own

Favo(u)rite British slang term you’ve ever heard: just... roadman slang. all of it. proper class way of chattin fam. also see nicked and dickhead (apparently this is brit slang??) 

What you’re reading/watching/listening to right now: reading cemetery boys / listening to k-indie study playlists 

Your favo(u)rite cursed image: 

[chelsrps]

Credence “Chase” Stormchaser Wilcox

26. ex-commune kid. “between jobs”. guitarist & vocals for primordial fiasco.

[ammapreker]

alias: megan

timezone: pst

favo(u)rite plots/tropes: pretentious assh*les / codependent siblings / actually, codependency in general / complex relationships of any kind / knight in sour armor / anything crime or murder-y related i’m so sorry in advance / drama of all kinds i love to torture myself and my characters / Mean Girls

favo(u)rite british slang term you’ve ever heard: anything said in love island i won’t lie..... especially love the way proper and banter are used, as well as “doing bits.” and also uni is so much cuter than “college.”

what you’re reading/watching/listening to right now: reading the entire bridgerton series because the show left me with an obsession that can only be cured by delving deeper into said obsession / watching the queen’s gambit (late, i know) and also in the midst of a lord of the rings marathon / listening to taylor swift probably

your favo(u)rite cursed image:

[commonpeoplerp]

Skin Preview

You asked very kindly and we delivered! Here’s a sneak peek at our skin (though to anyone who cracked our code and managed to suss out our very cryptic URL some of this might look familiar ;) )

Lots of people ask about large font skins. At the moment we don’t have one, however, lots of sweat and tears and maybe some blood went into making the whole thing wholly responsive, and viewing your window at 125% or 150% will give you a very similar viewing experience to the skin at size. (& to boot, no font is less than 12px)

EDIT: images viewed in the tumblr theme appear blurry for some reason, but in the tag look fine. Either way you can view here: header / boards / post row / top half of profile

Graphics will resize & center out accordingly, but if you’d like your images to fit like a glove:

Avatar - 300x500 px

Main profile - 640x450 px

Gif or icon - square; idk bigger than like 150x150

[obeisants]

alias: holland

timezone: cst

favo(u)rite plots/tropes: emotionally unstable girls who love emotionally unavailable guys???? / defrosting ice queen, stepford snarker, bitch in sheep’s clothing..... u get the idea

favo(u)rite british slang term you’ve ever heard: idk the way they pronounce everything is just fun....

what you’re reading/watching/listening to right now: i’ve been sitting in silence for 2 days straight idk what to tell u 

your favo(u)rite cursed image:

[the-eve-codes]

Alias: eve Timezone: gmt Favo(u)rite plots/tropes: friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, for some reason i love cute parks and rec type employee group plots? also love a good old slow burn Favo(u)rite British slang term you’ve ever heard: this is more an accent thing, but i’m obsessed with how one of my old managers would say “are you alright?” like “are you oarwright?”. on a more cursed scale, wanker. also a personal fan of mardy and naff. also i know a more cursed one but it needs a tw i imagine so if you wanna know the Really Cursed One idk hmu? What you’re reading/watching/listening to right now: currently reading (well listening to on audible) “sapiens: a brief history of humankind”. tbh though, i’m mostly playing video games a lot rn, namely no man’s sky. music wise, i’m lowkey kpop trash and i’ve been listening to taemin’s two part album “never gonna dance again” non stop since like october ooops. Your favo(u)rite cursed image:

[in-door-kites]

Alias: joss

Timezone: cst

Favo(u)rite plots/tropes: my whole gimmick is characters whose best traits are simultaneously their worst; creating & subsequently destroying something beautiful; enemies who at some point decided to refer to each other as their last names for no real reason; friends who call each other names but would lie in traffic for each other; stunted familial mishaps; idk idk

Favo(u)rite British slang term you’ve ever heard: gotta be "chockablock" just phonetically, but I also love "know your onions" to mean being very knowledgeable about something

What you’re reading/watching/listening to right now: reading this article on the medieval feast of the ass (it's about donkeys)

Your favo(u)rite cursed image: 

[chelsrps]

Alias: chels

Timezone: est

Favo(u)rite plots/tropes: sandbox love, slow burn, friends to lovers, jerk with a heart of gold, street rat

Favo(u)rite British slang term you’ve ever heard: “damn squib” but also bloody hell

What you’re reading/watching/listening to right now: been listening to a podcast called something was wrong. highly recommend!

Your favo(u)rite cursed image: 

[commonpeoplerp]

Sub-plots preview (the rest)

The second half of our site sub-plots can be found below the cut. (Check out the first half were posted yesterday)

& if you haven’t joined our discord yet you’re missing out iajs

STONINGTON UNIVERSITY

Stonington University, affectionately called "Old Stony" was founded in 1912 in east Belgravia. In many ways, Stonington embodies the stereotype of priggish, pretentious English academia. But nothing stereotyped survives without complexities and contradictions, and the university also has a long history of mystery, scandal, and intrigue. 

Stonington is known for unconventional and occasionally radical approaches to education, having at various times offered students pass/fail grading and controversial lecturers or guest speakers. It permits the existence of divisive student groups and lecturer-developed courses such as Techniques for Subverting Capitalism. 

There are worlds within worlds and violently clashing ideologies. Stony's living mythology includes Hollingsworth, the charismatic (some would say dangerously so) political professor who is beloved by many students but has been accused of "radicalizing" them; Perry, the English lecturer accused of plagiarizing a deceased student with whom they are said to have had an inappropriate relationship; a cryptic secret society; and an infamous Shakespeare Club (you're in it for life, they say) known for obsessive tendencies and outlandish, theatrical pranks. 

STRANGE INHERITANCE: (content warning:  cult involvement/scripture; allusion to suicide pact)

If it weren't for the last will and testament mailed to a government office in London, years might have gone by before the remains of The Risen were found. They were living outside the law and society's eye in a remote cottage a few kilometers south of Wotton, almost completely self-sustaining and independent.

Missing persons and runaways turned messiah mouthpieces and scribes of a mythos spanning the cosmos, The Risen slipped away from society around 2010. Investigators and experts are still chronicling the cult and the demise of its members, but a few things are supported by evidence: it began simply as a spiritual retreat away from the material world's distractions. When the original leader died, her right hand Oliver Greer assumed the role, and The Risen became his will and imagination made manifest.

Their Ascension ceremony concluded with twenty-two neatly-arranged, black-robed bodies and a cleansing pyre. Greer's life work was found nearby—pages by the thousands of philosophy and fiction, from grand parables to perverse fantasies. His will instructed his work to be dispersed to nine individuals in London, chosen (unbeknownst to them) for their openness to Greer's beliefs, their ability to spread them, and whatever other reasons can be deciphered from his strange gifts and teachings.

UTOPOS 

There are fashionable words, like sustainable, alternative, and organic. And there are slightly older, wearier terms like free love, expanded consciousness, and commune. At least one of these words lured in everyone who stays on Savoy land, a farm near Hampstead Heath that became a co-op community in 2005. The polyamorous triad owners aspire to be self-sufficient, to escape stale words like bureaucracy, imperialism, consumerism, and commodification. From weekly farmer's market sales to artisan jewelry websites, their income goes into an increasingly independent society of mobile and tiny houses, flourishing vegetable gardens, shared bathrooms, and communal bonfire dinners.

But there are old, older words, too. Words that still live deep in minds and bones. Words like the Greeks' utopos, which they used to describe two things. The perfect place, and the place that can never be.