#skiddle has told me before.

[snickeringdragon]

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When I say I want to live in a cottage in the woods I don’t mean it in a cottagecore way I mean like that autistic bitch from inscryption

#goals

[sin-esthezia]

📃 📌 please talk about your ocs i will cry

i’m going to answer the question of how i got into this first because it’s shorter. basically one day skiddle and another friend of hers invited me to role play with them on starbound. the first rp character i made is kinda scrapped now but ever since then we kept just making new characters and starting new role plays and before i knew it i was obsessed. now the three of us combined have like 60+ ocs total and i could list them all here for you right now (i’ll refrain for now though).

most of the role plays also don’t have much of an overarching plot, there’s just stuff going on based on the backstory of each character that merges all together. so i can try and briefly talk about some of my own oc backstories with FULL KNOWLEDGE THAT NO ONE IS GOING TO READ ALL OF THIS! (warning: many of these are filled with a lot of death and physical and emotional abuse. i won’t be detailing too much but you still may want to proceed with caution)

pepper- lived on earth with her twin sister sugar (skid’s oc) till it got destroyed by the ruin. while they lived there they were bullied by some bitchass named rachel. she managed to escape earth with her sister (but her parents are dead) and now they’re just floating in space. her relationship with her sister is kinda toxic, they love each other but bicker a lot and end up saying some pretty hurtful things to each other. it’s mostly due to the fact that they both have an immense amount of trauma that they don’t know how to cope with so they take it out on each other. the planned character arc is that they learn how to healthily cope and heal their relationship (i think. i assumed this was an unspoken agreement).

rachel- the bitchass who bullied sugar and pepper on earth. she managed to escape earth as well, unfortunately. though her entire family is also dead. she stabbed sugar and pepper in the back when they were all young because she wanted to avoid getting bullied and blahblahblah. she grew up to be a Mega Asshole with a severe inferiority complex. she basically insults and brings down everyone in sight to feel better about herself. 

willow- when he was young he was kidnapped by some evil science lady named mira who was looking for “lost children” to use as human test subjects in her lab. he suffered there for a while with mira’s short temper and occasional violent tendencies. he was assisted in escaping the lab and he made it out alone. he met amber (skid’s oc who i have posted drawings of before) and a couple other friends and they protect him while mira tries to hunt him down and take him back to the lab. i’d love to detail more about her as well but at this point if i go into any more detail we’ll have a ten page willow essay on our hands.

jasper- before i say anything about his personal backstory i need to give some background info about this fictional species i made. caprians are like half human half goat half sheep half demon people. they live in a separate society from humans and such with separate societal rules, standards, and values. in their world it’s everyone for themself, and you usually have to fight to get what you want. people will duel each other regularly and killing people in duels is perfectly legal. being stronger and better at whooping people’s asses puts you at an advantage in society. with that out of the way, jasper is a teenage caprian boy who’s not super gifted in combat. his father and some of his siblings bully him for not being strong enough or able to conform to societal standards and ideals. his dad only wants the best for him and thinks that the best way to “toughen him up” is to like, actually fight him. as you can imagine jasper’s self worth has been completely run into the ground. after some drama and a bit of legal trouble jasper was essentially disowned and forced to leave home and the city altogether. he’s now just wandering around aimlessly pretty much.

edith- older sister of jasper and five other siblings. (yeah i forgot to mention jasper has five siblings.) unlike jasper, edith is a very talented young girl who is able to whoop your ass and bury her emotions deep inside her like a pro. one day she dueled her mother over family issues and then ended up killing her by accident. she told no one about this and lied about the cause of her mother’s death. she was fifteen at the time and is now eighteen, so she’s been living with the soul-crushing guilt for three years. when jasper was banished she was faced with the choice of leaving one of her siblings out in the wild alone or leaving the rest of them at home alone with their abusive father. she ended up following jasper because she knew he still needed somebody to take care of him. 

siren- terraria rp character. the basic lore of this is that we made it so that the corruption, hallow, and crimson can infect people. if you get corrupted or hallowed it slowly takes over your mind until you become nothing but a mindless killing machine. one day siren was on a little stroll and then he was mauled by a corrupted girl and ended up getting corrupted himself. for a couple weeks he stayed at home until he overheard his parents discussing the possibility of having him killed for everyone else’s safety. the day after that he ran away from home and eventually met a hallowed boy named atlas (a friend’s oc). now they’re dating and trying to discover a cure for their infection.

felicity- another terraria rp character. when she was young the corruption spread dangerously close to her home and ended up killing her entire family. she didn’t die because the corruption spares little kids. she fled and ended up in an abandoned town in the hallow. she spent the majority of her life alone, her only interactions being with hallowed people. she is quite literally a descendent of the hallow (long story), so she’s immune to being hallowed or targeted by the hallow at all. with all that she’s developed a rather warped perception of the world, the corruption, and the hallow. 

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Funraising has covered a lot of Manchester’s reaction to the incident that affected it in mid-May. Although months have passed since tragedy struck, just as we have willed it to, people have continued to remember and care. Manchester refuses to ignore crisis, and continues to respond to it. This Friday, Micron are hosting a night at Joshua Brooks (now renamed Versions) to continue to aid the Manchester Emergency Fund.

Micron spawned in Manchester in 2006 and has been active in the city ever since. A child of the North West, Micron has now been enjoyed all over the UK and Europe. The award winning events group have always looked after their home-city and have brought Manchester the incredible likes of Heidi and Ben Klock. It only makes sense that they would continue to look after it in the face of tragedy. This Friday they are bringing it Hacienda house legend John Da Silva and techno and house pioneer Josh Wink in the name of the Manchester Emergency Fund.

Micron DJs Ronny Gill, Bodidily, Kerouac & SMILE, Jack Barton and Tommaso are led in promotion by Gaz (which I am told is ‘mainly because he can’t deejay’). They had booked Josh Wink prior to the incident that occurred on the 22nd of May. The incident occurred at the MEN Arena and led to the deaths of twenty three innocent men, women and children. In light of the loss of so many, the brand told me that they felt ‘useless’. This was before ‘acid house heroes’ Josh Wink and Jon Dasilva helped them get involved in aid of the tragedy. Hearing about the incident, Josh Wink offered to significantly drop his booking fee, and Jon Dasilva volunteered to DJ free of charge. This way, Micron were able to dedicate themselves to the Manchester Emergency Fund, and to raise as much money as possible for the friends and families of those affected.

Micron have been active in Manchester for eleven years and have seen its acid house scene evolve. ‘Some of us are born and bred in Manchester and the others moved here for uni (a long time ago now) and a big part of that was for the music scene. We were just too late for the Hacienda so Sankeys Soap was where we spent most of our weekend for a good few years’.

It’s safe to say that the brand has close physical and personal ties to the city. Their appreciation and love for their community shines through:

‘When everything happened we knew we had to alter exactly why we were doing the event. The people of Manchester have been incredible since everything happened and we need to show that we’re not scared to live our lives’.

It’s clear that Micron supports and appreciates the city’s resilience in the face of great loss. And they practice what they preach in this very locality. ‘Manchester will always be our home and the home of many of our friends, even if some of us have gone away. We always return to Manchester and party like we have for the last eleven years’

Micron’s event is tonight at 11pm at Versions. Tickets are £11 and are available on Skiddle here:

https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Manchester/Versions/Micron-Fundraiser-with-Josh-Wink–Jon-Dasilva/12973186/

If you can’t make it to the fundraiser, please remember that you can still donate to the Manchester Emergency Fund here:

https://www.justgiving.com/campaigns/charity/redcross/ManchesterEmergencyFund

It’s been a while since the incident, but the suffering of the friends and family of victims continues. If a little more financial support begins to aid those affected in any way, it’s surely worth our time, thought and money. #WeStandTogether