#hes just not that type of roleplayer

[q-morning-crew]

You know, I've been seeing a lot of posts about Wilbur coming back to the qsmp, and I'm conflicted.

Obviously, Wilbur coming back would be great in most aspects. It would be awesome to see him interacting with the lore, the new members and the new dynamics the server created.

The one problem I see with him coming back is, funny enough, also the main reason people want him to return so badly: tallulah.

Tallulah. His daughter. The reason Wilbur logged on more than twice and pretty much the only reason he is still semi present in the lore despite not having logged on for months.

On the surface, it seems like Wilbur returning would be great for tallulah, wouldn't it?

Wilbur has not logged on for months. Tallulah has been alive for over 100 days, and Wilbur has been there for 8 of them.*

Tallulah sees chayanne as her brother. She calls philza papa. She sleeps in the basement she and chayanne decorated every night, her bed next to his. She has her own projects with phil. She hangs out with him (or bad) practically every day.

Philza can recognize all of her mannerisms and quirks, he knows how to properly accommodate her, he can tell whenever her admin plays any character and whenever any other admin plays her.

If Wilbur came back, what would happen to all of that?

Would she return to her room in the tower? Would chayanne have to sleep alone in their Garden of Hope and Music? Would she have to start calling phil "abuelito" again, after getting used to calling him papa?

In addition, Wilbur doesn't know tallulah the way she is now. He doesn't know the island the way it is now.

One thing I've seen other people point out and still haunts me is: if Wilbur had returned for the election dinner, would he have recognised the fake tallulah as fake? It breaks my heart to say this, but... I don't think he would.

The only way I can see his return not completely disrupting tallulah's existing dynamics is if Wilbur moved in with phil and let her keep calling him papa. I doubt that would happen, but fingers crossed

*not counting appearance on other people's streams because I have no way to count that

[comradeboyhalo]

Everyone wants the 'in your face angst' they don't understand the subtle angst going on when you analyze q!Bad

ok cause ive been seeing wayyy too many bbh mains on twt talk about how they dislike the skeppy arc or how they dont like the jokes or whatever and im like. ARE YOU NEW HERE? HAVE YOU NEVER WATCHED BADBOYHALO BEFORE? ARENT WE ALL AWARE THAT THIS IS HIS ROLEPLAY STYLE? HE LAYERS IN JOKES AS FORESHADOWING SO THAT THE FALL IS THAT MUCH MORE PAINFUL.

cause. i dont want to hate on people who don't pick it up but also. its painful that the point is flying over so many people's heads. every q!bad analysis ive seen on tumblr is so on point and to see some people on twt act like its a theory instead of character analysis. omg give cc!bad some credit.

[whitetiger-byakkomaru]

How long have you been in love with Guren?

☾ — "I don't see how that's any of your business?" As if he would be the one to divulge such sensitive information to someone that he didn't even know, especially when he knows exactly what would become of such a thing should certain people find out. "Why not try asking me something else instead that doesn't involve me giving up sensitive information~?"

[pastabaguette]

hi!! i just wanted to try and clear something up with you bc i really need to know? what are your thoughts on eridan as a whole? bc i love your art and i love all your equius stuff (youve made me rethink him as a character that i initially wrote off, a lot like how i used to do with eridan before i re-read the comic) but the hitler joke in one of your humanstuck doodles really rubbed me the wrong way and i couldnt decipher if it was just supposed to be taken as a write off joke or if it was supposed to be exaggerated. theres a really massive misconception within the fandom that eridan is/would be a neonazi and tbh i cant keep following you if you believe that. he's my favorite character and it just makes me upset to see popular artists in the fandom still not reading further into him beyond the surface level and perpetuating fanon that makes volotile people in the fandom harass ampora fans. nothing against you personally, as i dont know you personally. i just would really like to know your full thoughts on him as a character.

hello! no, i don’t think humanstuck eridan (edison) would genuinely be a neo-nazi. i do think he’s definitely falling down that alt-right pipeline, but he’s not too far gone.

i do think he might actually say things like this, but a lot of what he says he doesn’t really understand or mean. he’s trying to sound smart, or cool, or edgy or whatever, but it’s not really working, and it only makes him look like an asshole. he’s mainly echoing things he’s picked up from his environment, namely the spaces he hangs out in online. in homestuck, every troll is based off of a specific type of internet archetype. (angry screaming guy, leetspeaker, roleplayer, etc.) each of them, at the beginning of act 5, is a parody of different annoying or strange types of people you meet online. this is his.

as for my thoughts on eridan’s character as a whole, as a troll in homestuck, i still don’t think he’s a genuine nazi. i think he’s similar to equius in that, again, he says a lot of things that he doesn’t really fully mean. they’re just ingrained in him due to his highblood upbringing.

i think that something that bears repeating is that all of these characters are 13 years old. i think that hussie did a pretty good job of writing them based on this fact. when you’re 13, you’re pretty much at the peak of insecurity and self-consciousness and desire to seem cool and interesting to others and society as a whole. you’re really just starting to try and explore your identity and establish yourself as your own person. all this considered, you still really don’t know what you’re doing at all when you’re 13. you’re desperate to prove yourself, to seem capable and strong.

i think a lot of the highbloods’ (vriska, equius, gamzee to an extent, eridan) behaviors make sense when you consider their environments and upbringing. they don’t think the awful things they do are actually awful, in fact, this is the behavior that’s expected of them. society’s told them their whole lives that this is the way they’re supposed to act, so they act accordingly. i’m not saying it makes their actions excusable, but i think it makes them make sense, given their circumstances.

sorry if my point started getting away from me at the end there. in conclusion, no, eridan is not a nazi. i think to say so would be a little silly. even the people eridan kills, he doesn’t do so because of their blood color (to my remembrance). he kills them because he perceives them as a direct threat, and because they’re in his way. (and i believe feferi technically attacked him first, right?) the solution he jumps to is violence, because that’s what he’s been accustomed to. it’s the first and easiest thing he can think of.

again, of course this doesn’t excuse his actions; it doesn’t excuse any of their actions, but it does explain them.

[simplynims]

I've been relistening to a lot of Pebbles ASMR stuff lately and he's probably one of my favorite audio roleplayers that I never get tired of listening too. He's genuinely a really great voice actor, writer and storyteller. But what I think what hooked me to his videos is his comedic timing in his audios especially in his story driven audios.

For example his SuperVillain Boyfriend series, The Librarian, and Tsundere Boss ones had moments where you had to hold back your laughter cause it had PERFECT timing for shenanigans to happen. And it's not just him too! I could give a good list of audio rpers that genuinely make me laugh, a great example is Scythe Audios. His comedy in his writing cracks me up whenever I listen to his stuff! JayAshBran too, she's really skilled in knowing how to land a line perfectly on a cartoonish level and I absolutely fucking love that!

I love the type of story driven audio rps that you can just have a good laugh at while listening to it. I feel like more people should incorporate that into their audios because it's a lot more enjoyable than the usual waves of sterotypical boyfriend/girlfriend audio rps. Like I kid you not, some of these audios genuinely have me grinning like a fucking idiot and it makes my day.

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

love all your thoughts on eridan so much!! ive had erikar as a passive concept in my head since i started slowly rereading homestuck, bit i never invested as much thought into it...it makes a LOT of sense.

very curious on your thoughts on eridan and nepeta, if you have any? i dont really see much around of the two of them and how they may act around each other (most likely because, iirc, they have basically no substantial interaction in the comic....) but its a concept ive twisted around in my head a little.

Hahah, one of my friends is a Nepeta roleplayer, so we have hashed this OUT. Basically, I think if they talked a bit more, under the right circumstances, they might try pitch for a bit, but resolve to normal friendship. TL;DR, at the end of the day, they just don't really have anything to particularly hate about each other, or to particularly love, but I think they'd make for really good friends actually, if Eridan gets his shit together and Nepeta comes out of her shell a little more. She might wind up having to play auspice for him because... he has a lot of problems... and as a Heart player, with more proximity to him, she'd realize "oh, wait, he's not that bad, hes just mentally fucking ill," and there are people on the team who would not give him that kind of grace.

Flushed is pretty canonically off the table - despite having hit on her several times, Eridan seems to have accepted the rejection, and Nepeta herself comments that it always came off as "cr33py and insincere", which it probably was - he's clearly not over Feferi, and has a kind of "please god anyone would be fine I just don't want to be alone" vibe. Nepeta is definitely looking for more sincerity than that, and although Eridan's Type is very much cheerful, bubbly, nice girls (what he thinks Feferi is), I think they're pretty incompatible overall.

His antics and Emotional Issues would probably be super taxing on Nepeta long-term, he'd wind up in a million fights with protective Equius (Eridan is a crazed murderer even just objectively), and he's really not a particularly kind or pleasant person.

Meanwhile, although he's basically willing to go along with anything that'll get him attention, I think he'd be very puzzled by Nepeta's expectations that he do Romantic Things, or otherwise adhere to certain romantic tropes and social norms, which he can't do; when this inevitably leads to hurt feelings, his response to perceived danger is "fight," so he'd probably end up making it worse. So! Flushed is flushed. Down the load gaper, I mean.

Trying on pitch, I think if Nepeta was already a little bit out of her shell - say, Equius has died, or she's otherwise locked in a SGRUB dungeon with him, or something like that - she and he would come to blows over Eridan's performative casteism. Nepeta's the anti-casteism troll, after all, and if she's worked up enough, she's quite spirited and opinionated, and Eridan is down for anything, so it would be something I can absolutely see forming.

Actually, hilariously, when my friend and I RP'd this out, Nepeta wound up with a pitch crush, and Eridan wound up with a FLUSHED crush, because he was THAT BAD at differentiating between good and bad attention. Nepeta was totally floored, she was like, dude i was calling you stupid and terrible??? how the fuck did you interpret that as FLUSHED??? and eridan was like i dont know... maybe... i might have mental illness......

The problem is, I don't see their pitched dalliance lasting, for two main reasons - the first is that Eridan wouldn't hate Nepeta long-term, even if he can work up some caliginous energy because he's desperate; she's too genuinely nice and kind and he loves nice and kind people. Similarly, Nepeta wouldn't be able to hate Eridan the more she got to know him - since he's kind of the least casteist highblood, despite his initial impression, she would lose her fundamental reason for opposing him, and would instead start going "oh god, hes so traumatized, he's like that because he's really messed up inside."

The second is because I think they're dangerous for each other, physically. Eridan is a volatile highblood with severe emotional problems and a bodycount in the thousands, and Nepeta is very reckless in the face of danger; I can genuinely see them going a little too hard and Eridan getting a bit of a highblood buzz and winding up severely injuring Nepeta, which he would feel completely fucking terrible about, and then not allow himself to ACT like he feels terrible about it. Even if they stay in the relationship, it would kill his vibe, since when he isn't on an outright murder spree, he doesn't want to hurt his friends ("wwhat kind of friend wwould i be"). And that's not even factoring in how much EQUIUS would flip out over it.

I also don't think Nepeta is particularly equipped to deal with Eridan's problems, even if she does recognize and sympathize with them more than most on their team. Although she'd have more success than others, I think it'd leave her exhausted, because Eridan is exhausting. A Heart player obsessed with true feelings and sincerity and genuineness is just a bad match for the kid who's 90% façade.

So, ultimately, I think they'd resolve to really good friends, and Nepeta might wind up being a middle leaf for Eridan in an auspicetism situation, since Eridan... tends to draw aggro, and Nepeta at least would care about him enough that she doesn't want to see him get killed (even in the comic, as Nepetasprite, she expresses sadness that Eridan is dead, although she doesn't seem to know about his murders).

Eridan is also a roleplayer, lest we forget, and if Nepeta is able to draw out rare flashes of genuineness, they do have a bunch in common - she could commiscerate with him over the thrill of the hunt (although she'd have to be careful not to get too into the weeds about the, uh, Troll Murder aspect), RP with him (in a safe environment), or gossip about romance. They're both pretty painfully sincere people at their core, so while I ultimately don't see them being particularly romantically compatible, I do really love the idea of them being close friends. If only Eridan didn't always make things Fucking Weird.

And also since I really love pitch FefNep, Nepeta becoming friends with Eridan would help fuel her hate dates with Feferi - ":33 < do you even realize how messed up killing lusii fur YOU left him???" "W)(at would you )(ave preferred, t)(at my lusus went )(ungry and krilled everybody? 3X0"

[dadsandhorror]

A not so quick, very messy little write up about David, his ex wife Helena, and their daughter Alexis.

So, something that roleplayers often do is pick a face claim to represent their character. It’s kind of like fan casting for a book adaptation and as you probably know, I’ve picked Stephen Dillane to represent David. He’s closest to Stephen from series 1 of The Tunnel in both age and appearance, for the sake of logistics.

David is 57 years old, Helena is 52, and Alexis is 12.

David and Helena had been married for just over five years when they were shocked with news of a pregnancy. It had been a very big, but very happy surprise, and the two would stay together for five more years.

Helena had been the one to ask for a divorce. She’d confessed to falling out of love with David, and to her growing feelings for another man. It’s important to note that she did not act on these feelings, though. She just knew that their presence meant that their relationship had ran its course.

David was heartbroken, but he understood. The split was relatively amicable, and they agreed on a joint custody agreement. One week with mum, one week with dad, alternating holidays and weekends.

Alexis is very much a daddy’s girl, and the feeling is mutual. She’s the reason David bothers dragging himself out of bed and down to his dead end job. Her visits are the highlights of his life.

Finances are a big source of stress in his life, though. David isn’t exactly dead broke, but he’s not far from it. He’s the type of parent that will do without for the sake of his child, though. Like, he’s put off buying a new mattress for years but his daughter has always had new clothes, school supplies, and toys. He’s happy to do it for her.

His ex doesn’t bleed him dry or anything. She pays her part, and then some. She’s actually in a moderately better financial position than David, and frequently offers to cover things for him, but he refuses unless he absolutely has to. It’s a point of pride, you know? Like, what kind of father can’t get his daughter new books for school?

The one time he’s let her pay for something was the Christmas after he’d lost hearing in his left ear. Money was especially tight with medical bills, and he just flat out couldn’t afford to pay rent and buy presents. Helena had bought a few extra gifts and said they were from him.

David remembers crying like a baby on his sofa that night, feeling like the world’s worst father.

[rubistella]

MUN MONDAY: GETTING TO KNOW YOU!

Respond to the following prompts out of character, then tag others you'd like to get to know a little bit better!

ROLEPLAYER NAME: Milky! Though my gamer pals insist on calling me "Chrollo" because that’s my go-to in video games. ROLEPLAYER PRONOUNS: She/They. MUSE(S) NAME: Astarion Ancunin, the one, the only, the fabulous! 🌟 PREFERRED COMMUNICATION: IMs or Discord. Though let’s be honest, “preferred” might be a strong word. I try to keep up 💪🏻 (which is not to say I’m any good at it). EXPERIENCE: Roughly 16 years of literate/written RP experience and a bit longer mucking about with LARP and tabletop RPGs. I officially started larping/tabletops when I was 9! I’m 30 now, so do the maths. My buddies quit the LARPing/Tabletop scene when they moved on to other hobbies, so I started written rp because of it. 💔 PREFERRED ROLEPLAY TYPE: I don’t do short. I don’t even know what short is. Multi-para is my minimum wage, and apparently, @fiendishfinesse has dubbed me a “biblical roleplayer” as opposed to “novella roleplayer”. There’s no going back from this.🧍🏻‍♂️ PET PEEVES & DEALBREAKERS: Assuming my character's reactions or trying to script them without asking. Look, if your muse wants to throw Astarion around like a ragdoll, go for it. But if you think he’s going to sympathise with your character, or want to drink from your character just because your BG3 run made him “nice”, then we’re gonna have to have a chat about your expectations and godmodding. 🧓🏻 PLOTS OR MEMES: Plots are the express train to my attention span, whereas memes... well, memes are at the mercy of my sporadic “ask reply sprees.” These sprees occur roughly as often as lunar eclipses and with a similar air of chaos. If patience is your virtue, then sure, send memes! I’ll get to them eventually. LONG REPLIES OR SHORT REPLIES: Give me long replies or give me death. Toss me those sprawling epics, or odysseys if you will, and I’ll love you forever. BEST TIME TO WRITE: Either immediately after waking up, fuelled by caffeine, or at unholy hours of the night when my sleep schedule has waved its last white flag. ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSES: NO LOL The more different they are, the better I write them. I like my characters as far removed from my actual personality as humanly possible... that’s just how I thrive. Go figure?

yoinked this from @dvilsdesire ❣️ yoink it from me.

[biggesthuskersimp589]

I need to get back into object shows mate

And also I love a lot of people on here and if you see this then I like your art (this is to everyone on fucking earth)

I AM A MASSIVE RADIOHUSK SHIPPER SKBSSO

But I also made my own ship name of my OC (Willow) and Husker (the ship name is called "FlowerHusk" I'm very proud of it)

I HC that they are married and have 3 kids, there's Meteor, Star and Aster!

This is Meteor, the middle child (but still loved) who is 12 years old!

This is Aster! (also known as Asteroid) She is the eldest child, being 15 years old!! <3

I haven't made a design on my phone for star yet, but she's 8 years old, the youngest, and she's the smartest of the three-

Any Husker roleplayers willing to do this FlowerHusk shit, then probably talk to @ask-willowthebunny, my OC ask blog!

But its true...

I am a simp for Val-

Do I give a shit about how he treats angel? Yes! Yes I do I care a lot and I'm so sorry for anything I've said before, but other than that he's just a silly guy-

I'm not good at wording things but the old thing I said was just 3 AM rambles and I didn't really understand what I was typing and I'm sorry for the people I have upset.

Do I love him because he's a silly moth man? Yes, I love him for everything.

ALSO FUCK JAX I LOVE HUSKER

The weird ass family I have accidentally built

@buggz-owlz is apparently my dad

I have 5 anon children, and three not anonymous children, @the-floof-lover, @zoerislovely and @thefroggiearmy!!

children are called Oakley, Quinn, Matthew, Pip and Jasper! (Also known as JAsper) ✨

8 CHILDREN IN TOTAL!!

Oakley uses colourful words in italic and bold writing

Quinn signs it with their name

Matthew also signs their name! And sometimes uses their blog! It's called @matthewlovesstardewvalley

Pip uses colourful words that are NOT italic or bold

Floof uses their blog or :]

Jasper makes their sentences rainbow!

Zoe uses their blog!

And I'm pretty sure Froggie also uses their blog

In order, of first child to last:

Oakley, Quinn, Matthew, Pip, @the-floof-lover, Jasper, Zoe or Zoer idk, and Froggie

At this point, just send an ask when you wanna call, my timezone is the London timezone, figure it out yourself.

(GIFs will change with what I'm obsessed with, currently is Hazbin Hotel/Helluva boss)

YIPPEE I MADE MY INTRO LOOK COOL!

[randomname3]

Okay SO

Saiki k dnd headcannons GO

Kaidou obviously is the one to try to get the group into it, and tried to run a session for them, tho secretly he is scared he gets stuck as the forever dm and wants to play a pc.

Saiki agrees to join eventually, he read about the game in a book once and thought it might be interesting. He rolls a human fighter and barely makes it through one session before he walks up to kaidou amd offers to dm in his place. And saiki realises very quickly that dnd is what he was missing; he cant get spoilers to a story no one knows how it would end, not even the writers. while he can read minds he cant always predict what his players will do(especially with nendo there). The game is almost like a low stakes competition against himself, both challenging his ability to think on his toes and to prepare for the unknown. The time it takes to prepare for a session gives him easy excuse he can use once a week to avoid hanging out with the group that they respect, but i feel like saiki isnt an over prep-er(might be projecting on that one) he is the type of dm to write a few paragraphs, have some loot ready and a map or two and trust his instincts to guide him through the session. After he kicks kaidou out kaidou rolls a dark elf sorcerer and they start their main campaign.

Nendo thinks its stupid and doesn't 100% gets what is rollplaying.but i feel like the moment the dm sets the scene nendo gets really into it tho he justs desribes what he would do, so he doesn't rly have a charachter. I feel like he has instinctual grasp of the rules and always tells the others what they need to roll, much to kaidous frustration.

Chiyo hears them talking about them and asks if she can join in, plays an elf druid and tries to romance all of kaidous charachter

Teruhashi will spend a few nights conducting research and finding the perfect balance between being a roleplayer and a munchkin (the perfect player). The game is very stressfull for the first few sessions but with time as she gets comfortable with her charachter the game is almost theraputic for her, a chance to be someone else and not the perfect girl, she ugly cried in the end of their first campaign.she never rolled natural one and handles most of the partys social interactions, occasionally saiki will use his powers to get her to roll low to keep things interesting.

[through-fire-and-flame]

[ i just

man, rambling post ahead

look laurentius used to get shipped a lot, and it surprised me, because i first started writing him in 2012 or so as a response to a relationship with a writing partner going south

effectively the writing partner kept pushing me to write things i didn't want to write - broody characters with questionable ideas on consent; i frequently inhabited head spaces i didn't enjoy because i wanted to please this partner who wanted conflict and hate-love type storylines, etc.

when i finally broke away from that friendship, i decided that i wanted to keep RPing, so i spun up the original through-fire-and-flames blog, and i elected to write the nicest character i could think of, which was laurentius

follow me here: i'd just been told by my former writing partner that the nice, fluffy stuff i wanted to write - all kindness and affection, etc. - was boring and unsexy (and by extension i was boring and unsexy, so on.) when i started laurentius' blog i figured i would at least get to write him being nice to people, but i thought for shipping purposes he'd be considered boring or vanilla

next thing i know he's getting shipped with so many other characters/roleplayers that i start getting irritable anons complaining that all i was doing was writing romance. i was baffled to see him become so popular (and equally baffled by this strange position i ended up occupying in the community for a while.)

fast forward: i drop RPing for a while after delving into writing laurentius in different ways that didn't feel good after the fact. slowly i'd edged into that same territory as that former writing partner. slowly i'd started writing toxic ships, occupying those headspaces - and eventually i got involved in a bunch of sideways drama that just put me off the community entirely for a bit. (mostly my fault, tbf.)

i keep coming back to him over the years, mainly anytime @yellowfingcr inspired me to do so, but never wrote a whole lot - mainly just short little drabbles and bits and asks. i didn't really ship him with anyone anymore; it was mainly just exploring his past and writing little tidbits and whatnot to keep the proverbial muscles from atrophying.

now: now some of the members of that community i was enjoying so much are back, now laurentius has this sweet ship with anri (thank you for indulging me so much @prismaiden) that lets me revel in the fluffy romance i really enjoy writing, and now i've poured more words into the poor fellow in the last few days than i have the entire year prior.

there are threads going! there are memes i'm going to reblog! i'm excited to log into this hellsite again!

so much of my proverbial ink these days is just stories for my day job, or freelance bits here and there. to get to come back and write something i'm really passionate about, that gives me such joy - i'm grateful for it, and i'm grateful for the people who write with me and meet me in the head spaces i want to occupy.

y'all are all wonderful, and i'm glad to have this outlet with you. ]

[berglietz]

Seasons Greasons: A Meta Analysis based on Caspar's Culinary Palate + Return Gift For Shez's Whistle

AKA: no one should ever 'jokingly' challenge me to write a meta to my irl face. take these 1k words now

THE BACKSTORY:

May 6th, Baltimore Inner Harbor. It was a lovely day—by which I mean the sky was grey and gloomy and decided to start spitting a fine mist down from the clouds as soon as Lucius and I stepped out of the light rail and started our trek toward our destination. Our destination being a birthday celebration for Erica, which obviously made the day lovely regardless of the weather. At this point we had already gotten past the 'hello's and reciprocal 'oh god you really are shorter than i remember's, and had settled into our table at the cafe. Inevitably, the conversation quickly turned to Fire Emblem. We are who we are.

Playthroughs of Warriors: Three Hopes entered the scene, and then discussions of the Merc Whistle mechanic. "I haven't given mine away yet." I said. "Don't they give you a return gift that you can wear as an accessory to use their special ability?"

I pulled out my phone. I learned that Caspar's return gift to Shez was called Seasoning Set. Across the table, past the strangely shaped flasks of hot water and growing number of drained shirley temple glasses, N "Njamin" Von TOAmod smiled at me and said "I expect a meta post about Caspar's seasoning set on the dash by [due date]*" *I do not remember the exact phrasing, nor the initial due date. I am going to say it was 'next month', that way I don't get any of my extremely real roleplayer points docked for tardiness.

And thus, I was committed to the bit. Straight up married to it. Welcome to the wedding. The reception is catered, obviously, and we'll be serving—

Well. I'm getting to that.

THE SEASONING SET

(This is a crunchy screenshot that I cropped myself from my own Switch. Forgive me)

The details of note to me are:

Clarifying that you have matched your bestie/S-support equivalent's sentimental gift with something you "don't need" is so rude LMFAO. I'm glad he is keeping up the same behavior from his story about a girl trying to ask him out to the Goddess Tower in Three Houses where he seems to totally misread a situation and make an ass of himself by dismissing the person/not matching their energy. Really beautiful stuff.

Multiple spices, you say? Looks like I have to come up with more than one. It's not just salt in there.

CASPAR'S COOKING SKILLS

They are bad. He has a big red downward-facing arrow next to his face in the list of candidates for cooking together in Three Houses. If you choose to let him cook anyway, he tells you his pitfalls himself:

"All right! Leave it to me! I'll fry it, grill it, and try not to burn it!" / "Sorry for making you do all the work, Professor. I mess up the ingredients every time!"

With this info, I am taking the text saying "he forgets to use spices" very literally. The impression I get is he gets so overwhelmed by multi-step cooking processes that he loses track of ingredients. He does like some spices in his food and drink, though, so I will presume that the spices in his seasoning set are ones that he would enjoy putting in his food if he ever remembered to toss them in.

THE FAVORED FLAVORS

The easiest spice choice comes directly from his favorite type of tea.

Ginger Tea: "The sharp spiciness of ginger laces the body of this tea, unforgettable and brightening."

Bam. Right there. We can put ginger on the list. For the rest, I'll take a look at the dining hall dishes he likes that fall under the Spicy category.

Sauteed Jerky: "Jerky aged in the monastery and sautéed for a delightfully salty flavor. A perfect snack to go with your favorite drink."

The description doesn't give me any seasoning beyond salt, but according to the resources on serenesforest this dish is counted as a spicy one! When I think of spicy jerky (and look up a few recipes to confirm my memories) I think of a peppery sort of sensation on the tongue—black pepper and cayenne (or other hot peppers).

Sauteed Pheasant and Eggs: "Thin slices of bird meat and shredded cabbage, mixed with scrambled eggs and sautéed with spices. Invention of a certain noble."

This one gave me no hints as to what types of spices. RIP. I relied much more heavily on googling for this one, and settled on interpreting this dish as a take on anda bhurji, maybe?? (literally 'scrambled egg'. it's an Indian scrambled egg dish). Online recipes for this one gave me spices such as turmeric, coriander, red chili, and ginger.

THE SEASONING LIST

Just to have it all in one place, here's all the hypothetical seasonings I've thrown out all put together:

Salt

Black Pepper

Ginger (mentioned x2!!)

Cayenne/Red Chili (or whatever Fodlan equivalent capsacin-haver there might be)

Turmeric

Coriander

Go forth, Shez. Make a delicious spicy scrambled egg dish. Perhaps you can share it with friends for brunch. That'd be a beautiful way to bring things full circle, don't you think?

BONUS: MY BOY HATES FISH

I just think it's so fucking funny that he hates every seafood dish. Look at this list of foods he hates.

Grilled Herring, Fish and Bean Soup, Small Fish Skewers, Spicy Fish and Turnip Stew, Onion Gratin Soup, Sweet and Salty Whitefish Sauté, Fruit and Herring Tart, Cheesy Verona Stew, Fish Sandwich, Super-Spicy Fish Dango, Pickled Seafood and Vegetables, Two-Fish Sauté, Gautier Cheese Gratin, Cabbage and Herring Stew, Bourgeois Pike, Fried Crayfish

Only three out of this list don't have something referencing fish/seafood right in the name, and two out of those three do have fish in the ingredients if you go looking:

Onion Gratin Soup: "Onions stewed with white trout and baked with a layer of cheese on top. Will warm you up from the inside out." Cheesy Verona Stew: "A rich dish consisting of verona and sautéed Teutates loach. These ingredients are boiled and served with two kinds of melted cheese."

Maybe there is something he dislikes about gratin, though, since he dislikes Gautier Cheese Gratin as well. A texture problem, perhaps? Either way, it doesn't feel as prominent a dislike as his thing with fish—the guy also hates the Fishing Float gift. Caspar is a certified fish hater. This makes his participation in the fishing tournament even funnier to me: he will straight up make an exception for his seeming disdain for fishing if it's turned into a competition he can try to win. Definitely no way he was eating his catch though. Maybe he fed it to his cat friend from his supports with Ashe, lmfao

Anyhow, I'll leave off with this silly indulgent little meta here. Thanks for playing along! ilu toa ❤

[mused-like-roses]

~ Respond to the following prompts out of character, then tag others you'd like to get to know a little bit better. ~

roleplayer name: Nico

roleplayer pronouns: he / him

muse name: N/A(?)

preferred communication: Discord (Mutuals only) or Tumblr DMs.

experience: Started on Miiverse of all places and soon migrated over to here and eventually/currently co-exist here and Discord. I've dabbled in RPing on twt briefly before abandoning it due to twt constantly shooting itself in the foot with every step.

preferred roleplay type: both short and long term RPs. Both winging it and plotted (slight lean on winging it due to experience and familiarity)

pet peeves & dealbreakers: People being absolute attention whores by being negative AF and constantly seeking out attention via guilt-trips and negative posts, people constantly deactivating and making new accounts every other day/week, people that ignore you (or just hardblock the moment you follow) instead of politely informing they aren't interested in roleplaying if you try to interact or follow, and finally... people that attempt to interact without having read the rules.

plots or memes: Both

best time to write: Afternoon/Evenings. Best-ish days; Tuesdays, Wednsedays, and the weekends.

are you like your muse?: some of them.

tagged by: stolen from @styxisms tagging: Steal this!

[asmrrpaddict]

I just realized I never did a channel recommendation post for one of the GOATs!! I’m sad and embarrassed because I legit thought I did! 😭

The best pirate you will ever hear of is Captain Matt ASMR! I have posted about him several times and I will continue to!

In all seriousness, I have listened to a number of pirate audios, but Captain Matt’s content is incredible! He is truly on another level! His vast knowledge about pirates shows in his work. He is one of maybe half a dozen VAs who I have listened to all of his audios! He also just celebrated his 2 year anniversary as a YouTube ASMR artist!! 🥳

Hilariously, as I’m typing this, I get the notification of his newest audio!

He has something for everyone. Dominent, yandere, adventurous, sweet, cheeky, slice of life, sleepy, and even futuristic space pirates. I have his videos in many playlists including sleep and a just in case playlist for times when I need to make my brain stop being mean.

He has a good balance of m4f and m4a audios. His incredible collab partners including one huge collaborative project involving animatronics are amazing and so much fun!

Like most of my favorites, he does a lot of series, but he does have some one offs if that’s more your speed. His series range from 2 to 10+! Much like Escaped Audio, Good Boy Audio, Redacted Audio, Yuurivoice, Reverie Audios, and Nomad Tales and Audio, Captain Matt puts so much work into his content and it shows with his acting, effects, and stories that the immersion level is off the charts!

I will continue to listen to and love Captain Matt’s content for as long as he continues to make it! He is a severally underrated and talented creator in all aspects. Please go check out his channel and I’ll go listen to the new audio! 💙🏴‍☠️🫡

[nosenipped]

respond to the following prompts out of character, then tag others you'd like to get to know a little bit better.

roleplayer name: lucien!

pronouns: deez / nuts. ( he / they. )

muse name(s): jackson overland frost. :3 his name is so fucking english i literally can't type this without giggling. he's got a korean name too, but im not revealing it because of plot.

preferred communication: discord or DMs. i'm still getting used to the mechanics on tumblr rn so. 😭😭 but there r some features in tumblr's DMs that kinda tick me off, so discord's the home place for communications for me. i run a shit ton of accounts on different platforms too, so if i don't reply it's bc im out of energy or im busy with work. 💔

experience: started in pokémon. got traumatized. went to animerp. also got traumatized. the cycle repeats for about 6 years.

preferred roleplay type: dependent on the day! i've always preferred writing something fluffy as opposed to angsty, ( but the lines are very thin for this muse ) only because jack's already a VERY angsty character and as a whole and i feel if i kept writing angst i'd run out of material quickly.

pet peeves / dealbreakers: forced shipping &&. self—inserts that seem too inserted, eg. forcing themselves onto my muses. ( i realize it's essentially the same thing but trust there's a difference. ) i've only ever shipped muses after messages of development and if i see potential. it's also a matter of personal comfort.

i've had past experiences where people took it too far with their muses and got personally affected by their relationship which is INSANELY unhealthy.

another one is just ship jealousy? i've personally NEVER experienced it as the receiver before, i hope i never do anyway, but we're all friends and grown—ups here im sure we could just write without any hidden agendas. i've had people close to me suffer from this before and it's incredibly sad &&. pathetic, y'all don't do that pls.

best time to write: evening or like. really early in the morning LMAOOO. i'm a night owl most of the times so if im not getting to anything in the morning or afternoon, it's mostly all churned out at night. ( but ofc that doesn't mean i'm not active during the morning or afternoon. )

are you like your muse?: to a large extent, definitely. i wouldn't go as far as to call us twins tho? even if some people do, there's just some things that we see differently.

for starters, unlike this loser, i can swim. /silly i got medals to back my claim.

i'm definitely not as dense to love as this dude is, and i'm able to differentiate platonic and romantic ties. this SUCKS so bad knowing he's also a womanizer in the last books .. i need his ass GONE.

in terms of similarities, i truly see him as something of a vessel to articulate my grief and anger as well as nostalgia through my boyo. :3 and since i've practically rewritten his ass to incorporate book and movie and mythology lore ( it gave me a MIGRAINE during my work i swear ;; the amt of effort i place into him needs to go widespread to my course. ) parts of me are also within to fill the plot holes. <3

i offer my jack frost to write with you all with my heart and soul on the line, so it really means a whole lot to me whenever people love him.

i got tagged by @lcafman ! WAAAHHH ELLIE ILYSM /p ONE OF MY POOKIES AND A GENUINELY GREAT PERSON TO GET TO KNOW. <33

＊ tagging ... @nerdynanny ， @toothcollct ， @saheira ， @fatedarrows ， @chieftain-of-berk ， @pcterpan ， @wishfulmuses ♡ feel free to participate if you'd like!! ( ^ω^ )

[whatinsamnation]

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

**the name shown here is a very old user name which is no longer used**

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

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

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

There is more to Sgáil's story, but I think this covers her experience with Drama, quite well already and shows what type of person Drama truly is.