#ooc; out of history

[lemongogo]

why do i love the conflict more than anything else . the misery . the incompatibility that spreads like oil slick . wanting so desperately for resolution that never comes . hmmm

[jane-lynndrake-t]

I'd like to ask about your brother.

<3

Jamie is my half-brother. He loved creepy crawlies and flying things.

Mom would lock me alone in a room with him to 'bond'.

And I used to really dislike him because he ignored me for weeks. After about a month, I was so frustrated that I threw his book and deliberately got him in trouble.

As payback, he would talk my ear off about owls and insects every time he saw me.

Looking back, I was lucky my brother was, well, Jamie.

It's never a good idea to lock your 8 year old daughter inside a room alone with a 15 year old boy.

[piningpercussionist]

HELLLPP I WAS SHOWING MY SISTER STUPID FUCKING SCOTT PILGRIM MEMES AND I MENTIONED GIDEONSUGGESTIONS' "GIDEON X READER HEADCANONS" POST AND WE JUST:

"Gideon?"

Graves.

"Like. Gideon?" (Said with the inflection of Gideon from Gravity Falls)

Graves. Gideon GRAVES.

(She gives me side eye.)

GIDEON GRAVES. HE VAPORIZES YOU. I AM LITERALLY SHOWING YOU A SCOTT PILGRIM BLOG RIGHT NOW.

"OHhhhh! I'm sorry, I'm stupid today."

I can't with this fucking girl 😭

[tlgtw]

Man that DLC's final boss has got me feeling kinda fucked. I'm kinda depressed about it now that I'm done. Everything else is, was, so good. But I do not like that plot development. I honestly think it is bad. Why did they choose not to foreshadow this in literally any way? Why did Miquella attempt to resurrect Godwyn at all in the first place, then? Practice? Was this really what was originally planned? There's no actual evidence to the contrary so you gotta assume it must've been.

So yeowch...

[autisticcassandracain]

I dunno man I feel like most statements along the lines of ‘Batman isn’t REALLY x, he’s y’ don’t hold much water because usually, there’s a pretty good chance a number of writers over the years have written him as x, you just didn’t like it or think it doesn’t count for some reason.

For example ‘Batman isn’t REALLY a good parent, he’s actually a bad parent’, when Batman has been written as a good parent by a number of writers, and has, in addition, been written as realizing that he’s screwed up with his children and resolved to fix it by even more. At the same time, stating ‘Batman isn’t REALLY a bad parent, he’s actually a good parent’ is also incorrect, because Batman has been written as a bad parent by a number of writers, either intentionally or not; in addition, the pattern presented by the tug-of-war between writers who believe he should be a good parent and writers who don’t has, over the years, created an unintentional pattern that strongly resembles that of an abusive relationship. So, stating he is a good parent is inaccurate and dismisses a bunch of his canon writing, but stating he is a bad parent also dismisses a bunch of his canon writing and the intentions of the authors that wrote him.

The secret here is realizing that Batman has had so many writers over the years that it’s practically impossible to find a universal truth about him beyond the basic premise and maybe very, very basic characterization keystones. Writers with different beliefs about both the character and the world at large have written him in accordance to their worldview, and sometimes that worldview will align with yours, and sometimes it won’t.

Like, at this point, Batman is more an idea than he is a character. He is the bare-knuckled fight against injustice, but what ‘injustice’ is depends heavily on your worldview, as does what ‘bare-knuckled’ and ‘fight’ mean. Batman has been interpreted in dozens of different ways over the years, and singling out a few of those as the True Batman is largely arbitrary and dependent on your personal taste and belief in what the character should be. The only ‘objective’ measurement you could apply here are the old Golden Age comics, and I think most fans can agree that measuring modern Batman comics by how faithful they are to the Golden Age comics is, more often than not, a little ridiculous.

For the record, I do think that arguing about what Batman should be matters; if right-wing assholes use the character as a mouthpiece for their worldview we can and should critique that, but not because it’s ‘OOC’, but because the worldview espoused by those right-wing assholes is harmful and shitty. Batman should be a good parent, not because it’s ‘OOC’ for him to be a bad parent, but because having your paragon of justice be a child abuser is pretty shitty. Etc.

I don’t really have anywhere specific to go with this, I just think it’s a little strange when people try to view Batman as a character with a clear-cut characterization, rather than a concept that many people have approached in different ways over the years. Can that concept be mishandled? Sure. But it’s usually mishandled for reasons a bit more substantial than ‘a previous writer wrote it differently’.

[deus-ex-mona]

i miss her…

[byanyan]

something something byan fracturing a rib in a parkour accident and stubbornly refusing to go to the hospital about it for like an entire week even though they are in agony

[iriysse]

🚢 just for funsies, what with mordú being genuinely villainous to varying degrees :')

send 🚢 or ( 'SHIP' ) if you ever considered shipping our characters romantically and want me to fill out the following form for our muses

oooh interesting...

do i ship our characters together?: yes | no | not yet but maybe soon

would i like to ship with you?: yes | maybe, i'm willing to try | no

type of relationship i could see: childhood or high school sweethearts | exes | engaged | married | long-term relationship | crushes | unrequited love | fling | long distance | online relationship | just dating | new relationship | toxic lovers | friends with benefits

tropes i'd enjoy writing for them: friends to lovers | enemies to lovers | exes to lovers | fake relationship / dating | forbidden love | grumpy and sunshine | star-crossed lovers | surprise pregnancy | second chance | soulmates | amnesia / mistaken identity | forced proximity | secret relationship | slow burn relationship

would i rather plot first or jump right in and see where it goes?: develop their relationship first | jump right in | something in between

what now?: let's plot something | send me shippy memes | i'll send you shippy memes | write me a random starter | i'll write you a random starter

anything else i want you to know about me / my character / my shipping habits: basically if you ship with me, expect 1. Lots of poking you for random reasons, and 2. Lots of angst. I like to talk things out ooc (aaand by talk I kinda mean screech and ramble about dynamics)... i am nerdy af. This is your warning.

[pvremichigan]

I see a bunch of people doing shipping guides for their muses so here's one for Mich:

Good luck. <3

[aluckiicoin]

me, picking up a pencil after almost two years again: time to once again start from almost 0 apparently

[that-one-paintbrush]

-Proceeds to throw lightbulb out a window-

She’ll be fine.

What the-!?

Wh-... why would you do that?!!

[roscvcins]

@diivineray asked : ❀ ! - Salty Af Munday Meme (accepting)

❀ What has made you completely lose your chill?

I don’t lose my chill a lot since I tend to process negative emotions later by myself! However, there’s definitely a couple of things that I have spoken Firmly (tm) about and I will likely do again.

1) Godmodding, and I include situational and making assumptions as such. If I have repeatedly stated my character would not end up in a situation bc xyz and someone continues to try to maneuver my character into that situation, I get kind of annoyed. If someone assumes my character would act in certain ways based off their own interpretation of canon and then plot with that assumption or write with that assumption without first asking me if I would write the character that way in portrayal, I get annoyed.

2) Steamrolling over me and my suggestions during plotting, or talking about their muse/fandom interests not really relevant to me or or my muse ONLY and nothing else. I care about your muse! I do! I want to find out about them, and I love hearing your thoughts. But plotting doesn’t work if someone only treats my muse like a prop while expecting me to hear all the ins and outs of theirs! It makes me feel like they’re just talking at me / not really listening to me and there’s no point since there’s no real communication when there’s no listening. Rp is a two way street.

[magnusmodig]

||. finally going to bed thinking about lore - keeper asgardians . thinking about how intelligence and wisdom are one of their favored traits. thinking about how thor is the best of every asgardian ideal . thinking about how he is wise . thinking about his street - smarts . thinking about how he is also knowledgeable in legends , lore , and folktale. he is adaptable . he takes this knowledge , adapts to it , and crafts himself into something stronger. he is ever growing , and one of those ways is how he seeks out knowledge , and knows well to keep a sharp mind on the tales told by word of mouth or written on a page.

[ask-wren-zhang]

For your ask post:

If they were ever granted one wish, what would they wish for?

Sighs in wistful lactose intolerance, "to eat a cheesecake." 😔

[dcviated]

I swear this isn't targeted at anyone in particular but an observation how I handle.... uh... threads? Asks and threads?

I don't expect nor do I encourage turning every ask you send in into a thread! Especially if we have active things already going on.

However.

...if you frequently send asks/memes in, but don't reply to any, and don't keep active threads going ... don't be surprised if my level of effort goes down.

[sigilsongs-a]

𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐑𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞 " 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔍𝔢𝔴𝔢𝔩𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔖𝔲𝔪𝔪𝔢𝔯 "

House Turnberry  is a noble house from the  Westerlands. They blazon their arms with nine strawberries on a white saltire, on green and red vairy in point. Their lands are below Golden Tooth, the seat of House Lefford; whom they are sworn to. House Turnberry's seat is Sweet Ravine, so named for the hilly & fertile lands on which they grow their sweet berries. House Turnberry are particularly noted for their strawberries and elderberries, though they also grow blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and both red and black mulberries.