#quite recently

[gnzma]

4, 6

salty munday ; ACCEPTING

4. What are some things you are tired of seeing in the RPing community?

[ girlies (gender neutral) it's almost 2024 and there's still problems with female characters. like. i'm not saying YOU HAVE TO PLAY THEM but yknow. playing with them and being at least open to the idea of shipping. maybe treat them like human beings. dont immediately consider them as annoying as soon as they're powerful or not perfect. yknow. ]

6. Your view on Mary/Gary sues?

[ okay starting with saying that i HAAAAAAAATE those terms. Especially Mary Sue, I've seen it thrown around against female characters who just happen to be, again, Not Perfect or god forbid more or just as powerful as other male characters, or oh my god have a perfectly good relationship with a man and therefore becoming The Enemy. it's an archaic and mysoginistic term that i hope people will stop using.

now. this said. let's answer this ask as it should've been put, so talking about. overpowered characters. i have 0 problems with overpowered characters. i have a few very overpowered muses myself that i tend to neuter for balancing reasons - be it by making them obnoxious like Green, or too emotional to win consistently like Silver, or giving them actual weaknesses in combat -, but if your muse is super powerful, that's cool!! i love strong powerful muses!! the real problem, for me, is that very small, yet INCREDIBLY loud minority of people that aren't playing them with the thought of "they're likely going to win", but thinking "they ARE going to win and there's nothing you can do about it". as i said in colress' blog, roleplaying is about compromising and talking to one another first and foremost, and you can't expect things to always go smoothly for your muse only because you made them "the most powerful character ever", and you can't expect to not deal with consequences if they act rudely or, ironically enough, too friendly with someone!! just like you won't be liked by everyone in your life nor will live perfectly and achieve everything ever at the first try, neither will your muse.

we're playing in a fandom where someone with a level 5 rattata and a lot of patience can take down entire leagues. if you want to write a power fantasy where everyone will always love your character, don't involve others ]

[catostrofiqu]

Turns out you read it in a fanfiction

schrodinger's chekhov's gun. a detail in a story that looks like it should have some big payoff but it's too early to tell if that's relevant or if the author just has a passion for lovingly describing guns.

[pineapple-frenzy]

Book 2 au with Zuko and Katara Lee and Huamei

Katara is separated from her friends, and so she's left to travel the earth kingdom on her own. She stumbles across Zuko, who is similarly travelling on his own. They decide that pairing up and travelling together would be best

[doctormori]

I love this book to death, so here's some things I noticed <3

[technically-human]

St. Hilarion's ghost story

[theabigailthorn]

"Good" Acting

i have a theory that a lot of people say acting is "good" when they're emotionally moved by it, and a lot of cishet white people have a lifelong habit of not listening or empathising when minoritised people speak, so minority actors get called "bad" even when they display some pretty fucking amazing technical skill

[twinstxrs]

so much happened in this whole episode but i’m still on fig infiltrating ruben’s dream, making it look like the place where his friend was murdered, and then disguising herself as kipperlilly & repeatedly saying different variants of “somebody needs to take the fall for this, and it’s not going to be me. it’s going to be you.” while adaine as the elven oracle shows up next to her. can you imagine waking up from that, the idea of a horrible truth being pinned on you by your friend to save her own skin while the personification of fate and destiny stands there, almost as a promise that this is GOING to happen to you. we don’t even know if this kid is guilty. my god.

[jomeimei421]

Felt a bit nostalgic watching RT shut down…Here are the og faves again for old times sake 💙

[senoleaf]

here's UTY Starlo, Martlet, Ceroba and Dalv in fancy clothes!

finally as separate images! from that one undertale yellow fashion animation meme thing i did lol

[azatas]

"we need more complex female characters" you couldn't even handle her

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I want it back / I drag its dead weight forward.

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts Union χ - Daybreak Town

[anbaisai]

Imitating the tweels sounds fun until you get caught by the real deals themselves, oops

(With @umichipearl's OC on the right!)

[skradio]

the crane returns on the wind

[skunkes]