#this is literally just a starter call in meme form so it's easier to find all the responses when you come back to it later

[crownmemes]

Send 🎲 and I will write you a random starter!

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[heartsdefine]

⋆ NAME?: Bean / Bee

⋆ PRONOUNS?: they/she, in that order of preference

⋆ MOST ACTIVE MUSE(S)?: oof, uhh...it's hard to say when i have so many. probaby elspeth cousland or vasilisa here atm, along w/ anais evernight @thiefscant

⋆ RP PET PEEVES?: probably just...not being given anything to work with in threads or in plotting circumstances. i try to come to people with ideas when i reach out for plots myself, and always put a lot of effort into ensuring my replies haves something for my partners to respond to and build upon, so it's frustrating when someone hits me up to plot with no idea what they're interested in exploring or gives me a reply that's just their character reacting to mine with nothing new to build from.

⋆ EXPERIENCE / HOW MANY YEARS?: oh boy i've been roleplaying since i was a kid lmao. i originally rped primarily on forums. first, it was a hp forum (rip) and then years later i joined a dragon age forum, then a multifandom crossover forum that was a lot of fun. from there i decided to try out tumblr and it really stuck. tl;dr: i've been roleplaying on and off since i was about eleven years old, so that's like...22 years of experience???

⋆ FLUFF, ANGST, OR SMUT?: it truly depends on my mood tbh! i can write all three under the right circumstances, and i enjoy them all in their own way. i guess i lean more towards fluff and angst over smut, but i have been known to discuss the sex lives of our muses with my partners (as long as everyone is comfortable with it), and then occasionally write it out with them in thread or meme form.

⋆ PLOTS OR MEMES?: both! it helps me to keep a thread going if i have a general idea of where we both want it to end up. but i also love getting memes and replying to them and continuing them into threads spontaneously. it works a bit better for me than starter calls, which i am notorious for never finishing (sorry!).

⋆ LONG OR SHORT REPLIES?: again, both! shorter replies are easier for my brain these days, but i love a longer thread as well. it just takes me a while to get around to replying to longer things, as i want to give my partner plenty to work with (even if i can't always match their exact length).

⋆ TIME TO WRITE?: literally whenever the muse strikes, which is unfortunately highly sporadic and constantly bouncing from muse to muse.

⋆ ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE(S)?: all of my muses have a little bit of me in them, i think. that's one of the joys of writing. finding parts of yourself in others and exploring or processing your own experiences through fiction can be liberating and cathartic (though i think it's also important to see and work with characters who are different from you). so yeah. there might be more of me in my ocs than my canons, but i like to think there is a little shard of me in all of them. <3

tagged by: @lunawish <3333 tagging: @ghosttsar, @avrorean, @gggno, @wayan9an, & anyone else who wants to!

[sozotohakai]

HOW I RUN MY BLOG.

SPEED: I call myself fickle rather than slow or fast. My speed is fully dependent on my energy, but also what else I might focus on. For all I might be super energized one day, I might choose to focus it elsewhere. The trick with myself is to just not force myself, and chances are, I end up having some form of regularity, as long as nothing else piles up on me. In short, unless things demand more attention or I need to rest more, I do tend to write replies at least once or twice a week, although it’s gotten rarer for me to find the energy to do more than two or three replies at once. So I’m doing replies at least once or twice a week, but depending what inspire me, some threads take longer.

REPLIES: I can do short replies, but it’s very easy for me to develop inner thoughts or details of the environment, especially as technically, there’s three NPC always with Allen: Nea, CC and Timcanpy. I don’t always do it, but often, there’s just logic in writing out what Nea, CC and/or Tim is doing or feeling, as it can affect Allen himself. I also love to leave cues for my partners, like a glimpse of Allen’s left hand or a spike of energy, things can be used, your character seeing or sensing things, or not used. I do tend to match reply too, since what you give me will give a base structure of what I can give you, and sometimes inner stuff just take more words.

STARTERS: I found myself loving to do them. I think it started when, in my efforts to feel more at ease approaching people, I would offer to do starters too, especially as I noticed people often took that offer. There’s a part of me that does like to be able to set things up, and in general, I just feel a love for writing starters, and the fact almost everyone seems to enjoy leaving it to me just keeps this cycle of enjoying it. They’re 99% of the time plotted, as I do admit I don’t really  think of starter calls. I do some opens at time, and tend to make new threads out of replies, so notes remain clean, and people can ask me to make a starter out of the idea if the starter itself doesn’t quite work. But, yes, while I don’t often do starter calls, I enjoy doing starters.

INBOX: I’m just as fickle with inbox stuff as with threads. Some inbox stuff are very easy to reply to, and tend to be replied quickly. But some will be like short thread and so I don’t necessarily have the energy to write my muse to reply to the message. I love memes, but I don’t handle well to see a meme on my blog that never got used, so I tend to remove a reblog if I didn’t get a meme. I’ve tried to leave memes and tag them, in the past, but it’s still a work in progress, to reblog memes and leave them here. This is also a big part because I’m fickle enough with everything, so for me, memes are stuff to have fun on the moment, but a day later? I probably don’t have the energy anymore for it. So it just feels too weird to keep memes up, as I mostly use them as “this is the fun I’m okay doing today!”.

SELECTIVITY: I’m both selective and not? I am open to anyone and everything, but I have preferences, so I can be open but choose to not interact, if I can feel I’m not going to have enough inspiration. I look at people rules and about and the general layout of blog, as well as take a quick look around archive to get a feel of the speed, so I always base myself on both what I feel out of the blog, the mun and the muse. As I say in my guidelines, I use follows to show interest, so if I follow you (first or back), you know I have seen your blog, and decided I could see myself interacting with you. I remain open, meaning that you can still approach me and ask for interaction, no matter the follow/mutual status between us! Sometimes I’m just uncertain rather than not interested, and it can help growing certain.

On another note, I’m currently mostly interested in MDZS, which is very ironic but I don’t think I’m the first person who had their muse not be interested in their canon. It’s partly because DGM rpc has been very quiet, I do happen to love when Allen can interact with canon muses of DGM, but I’m not actively looking for them. Meanwhile, I love so very much throwing Allen into other worlds and having people not realize the mess that will follow him eventually (because sometimes even I forget he’s literally part of the core part of a war with the whole world at stake). And MDZS my other fave fandom, ergo: mostly interested in MDZS interactions.

WISHLIST: I have a wishlist tag, which... isn’t on my tag page. That will be corrected very soon. It’s here in the meantime. But yes, I have general plot ideas, which tend to be in headcanon posts, it’s easy to see some that shows up often, but often as I can see these pop up at some point, I don’t make an actual wish out of those. Still, I’ve made a few posts out of some that really made me go “that’s a fun thing to consider” and there’s maybe more I could grab from my hcs post and make proper wishlist post. In general, you can expect I’m always curious to include Allen’s dreams/nightmares, his Innocence, Nea’s presence, CC, Timcanpy, the Ark, or people he knows from DGM.

HONEST NOTE: I’ve realized I’m not as social as I believed myself to be. I’m open, I love to chat and meet people, I adore my friends, but being social is draining to me, never recharging. Any amount of chatting can be draining to me, of course small things are way easier, but the general thing is that I need energy to interact directly with people, be it face to face or chatting online. So you will easily feel like I’m full of energy when I speak ooc with you, because I am always happy to do so, but at the same time, you’ll easily see me be fickle about ooc interactions. Chances are, I indirectly interact too, with ooc posts and my simple presence by any activity I show. There’s just no going against the natural way your energy drains and recharges, so I’ve grown to make sure everyone who interacts with me are aware that’s a thing with me. That, and the knowledge I write both as hobby and as career, so I’m simultaneously always in potential free time and potential creative time. I’m good at handling myself, I’ll know day to day what I can do or cannot do, and it’s just that others can’t really see it for themselves and can only see when I do something that is visible. I could have a very productive day, and no one knows because it’s all offline stuff. Sometimes you’ll know what I’m doing by seeing updates on my fics or my fic blog; and same thing with my original writings. I can only explain all that, both how my social energy is low and easily drained, and how my creative energy cycles between creating and recharging, and has multiple outlets. And then trust anyone that interacts with me or know me to understand all this and know I’ll be back, be it ooc or ic.

On a final note: I’m very, very bad with remembering how long I’ve talked to someone, or a thread has been replied to. My mind goes from “today” to “yesterday” to “a few days ago” to “days ago” and then just... “it’s been some time”. Today/yesterday feel like “its okay, I still have time” and after that, my mind just goes “ngggh when I can!”. Only thing that helps a bit is notification, as without them, I easily forget who I replied or didn’t reply to. To my mind, either I was the last to say something and so I’m waiting a notification, or I have a notification. Because I barely have energy for socializing, I have next to no energy to notice who I haven’t seen a notification from. Sometimes I get my butt to check on people, but I just... my mind just wants to believe people are doing okay or having their own life, and so especially if I can see them on dash, my brain just does not process who I talk or doesn’t talk to on regular basis. It’s narrowed to the notifications I have, and when I have plot to discuss, or see an ooc post. 99% of the time, if I follow you, I am totally aware of you, and I’ll see any ooc stuff, and mentally wish you the best, but I just... never process how long we have or haven’t been talking.

TAGGED BY: stolen from @shuoshuzhe​

TAGGING: Anyone who wants to!

[hellyeahrpmemes]

※ JENNA MARBLES SENTENCE STARTERS, PT. XVI ※

starters from jenna’s 10 most recent videos! feel free to change names/pronouns/zodiac signs/etc.! more jenna sentences

MR. MARBLES IS TOOTHLESS

“Alright, so here’s the deal.”

“He has a small, tiny mouth.”

“This has been a very intensive recovery process.”

“It’s just been a lot.”

“He needs hugs and cuddles.”

“I don’t know what else to say.”

“I feel particularly guilty about this.”

“Life happened, you know?”

“A dog with no teeth is absolutely hilarious.”

“It just felt like the right thing to do today.”

GIVING MY DOGS A BATH WHILE THEY LISTEN TO ROYALTY FREE SPA MUSIC

“Is that too loud?”

“My dogs smell like butt.”

“You are the nastiest of them all.”

“Do you feel relaxed?”

“Yesterday, I racked a 20 pound dumbbell onto my own finger and it basically blew up.”

“I thought I had actually severed my finger.”

“Tough shit, you’re still part of the team.”

“It hurts really bad.”

“Why are you laughing?”

“Do you like this music? It’s royalty free. But it did cost $25.”

“Are you hiding from the problem?”

“Is it $25 worth of nice?”

“I’m actually really glad I’m wearing a rubber glove for some of this.”

“Don’t disturb him, he’s sleeping.”

“You screaming is not part of the royalty free spa music.”

“Do you know where you are?”

“I aspire to live my life the same way.”

“That was some nice, wholesome, selfish fun.”

I WANT TO BE TALL

“I wanna be tall…”

“What are you doing?”

“I wanna be taller than I am.”

“Stop - stop doing that.”

“Turn that off.”

“I’m gonna grow, like, seven inches this year.”

“My plan is to just sleep a lot.”

“They said I could do anything, so I’m gonna grow seven inches taller.”

“I can do anything I want.”

“Can I get a hell yeah?”

“What’s the matter, you don’t like Fur Elise?”

“There’s a lot of room for opportunity to improve in my life.”

“It’s physically impossible, but go off…”

“They said flying was impossible, and here come the Wright Brothers…”

“There’s a robot on Mars right now and you’re telling me I can’t grow seven inches?”

“Not that I leave this house, but, like, if I did, I’d want it to be like, wha-bam!”

“The doctor said I was gonna be 5’7” when I was a baby, and then something fuckin’ happened and now I’m 5’5”.”

“I worked out for the first time just the other day.”

“There’s no shortage of adult stores.”

“I’m gonna need you to do a lot of it for me.”

“Here we are, at the place where my dreams are gonna come true.”

“This is a bad idea.”

“You look very surprised.”

“Is this some form of torture that the universe gave me that I can’t think about things that matter, I can only think about things like this.”

“No no no no no, you put that sentence back in your mouth.”

“You either feel me or you don’t, and if you don’t, get out.”

“Part of being tall is constantly being on the phone.”

“You know what the cruel joke of the universe is? I’m 5’5” and my brother is 6’5”. Tell me how that makes any fucking sense!”

“Tell me how that makes any fucking sense!”

“Keeping things down here is biased against tall people.”

“Being tall equals power, everyone knows that!”

“There’s some sort of energy power here that I didn’t sign up for.”

“I’m a very athletic, intimidating tall person.”

“How dare you expose me! I thought you were on my team…!”

LET’S ABSTRACT PAINT

“I already decided oil paint’s not for me.”

“The only tool that you use is a knife.”

“We can’t really see what you’re doing.”

“I feel like I can do it.”

“I have art fear.”

“It looks easier than it probably is.”

“It’s kinda difficult to get the hang of this.”

“It is definitely much more difficult than it appears.”

“This feels really fun and good.”

“Uh-oh, I think I ruined it.”

“I take back all of my confidence.”

“My too much gene kicked in.”

“Isn’t this part of art, though? Figuring out when to stop?”

“I was gonna say I don’t hate it, but, you know what? I fuckin’ hate it.”

“I feel like I need to trust myself and not do this thing where I try to make it better.”

“I at least salvaged this into something that I don’t completely, viscerally hate.”

“I’m already feeling a little defeated, but I’m not gonna let it stop me.”

“I can do better than this, I know I can.”

“Why is it so relaxing to watch someone else make art?”

“It’s almost like I would do this to relax.”

“I’m jealous that yours is working out.”

“Watching you have success gives me confidence that I can be successful.”

“I’m not sure it’s because I have more confidence, but I’m pretending that I have more confidence.”

“I can do it, and I can stop.”

“My confidence is building, and building, and building.”

“I don’t know what I’m doing.”

“This one is called… Stop It.”

“Speaking of stop it, I should probably do that.”

“I feel so in control now.”

“I’m not used to this feeling.”

“I think you need to stop it.”

“Goodbye, I’m very tall, I have to leave.”

I FILMED MY DOG WHENEVER HE CRIED OR WAS NASTY FOR 24 HOURS

“To our credit, we actually did attempt this.”

“If anyone critiques my tacking-slash-sewing skills, I will cry.”

“I don’t think that my ego can handle that so if you would just please back off, I’d appreciate that.”

“We were up for a treat tonight, weren’t we?”

“Can we just drink our coffee real quick?”

“That’s what I use to wash myself when I shower.”

“You sat on my foot.”

“There’s two ways to go through life. One: you could just sit back and enjoy the ride, or two: you could just scream the entire time the whole thing is happening to you. Both are gonna end up the same.”

“Sometimes I feel like screaming my way through life.”

MAKING FACE FRECKLES ~*WORK*~ FOR ME

“Sometimes I feel like y’all just want me to do something to watch me fail.”

“I’m not gonna fail.”

“That’s not gonna happen. Not on my watch.”

“When you live in a sunless void like Rochester, New York, no one would really make fun of your freckles, because it means you actually saw the sun for a little.”

“I did work at a tanning salon for quite a number of years.”

“Don’t tan your skin.”

“I’m down for whatever.”

“I really know what I’m doing, basically.”

“I’m really not very artistic, even though I try.”

“I’m just gonna sit here and space out for a while.”

“I’m making such a mess.”

“We’re really just gonna go for this one.”

“I might just fuck around and get some sun damage.”

“This is a lot of work.”

“I know when I’m being trolled. Except for that one time when I did a face mask that was just mostly turmeric and my face was very orange. I got got that time.”

“That’s overkill. There’s no way you need to do that.”

“Welcome back to this isn’t fucking working.”

“Even though I live in a place where there is sunshine, it doesn’t mean I’m gonna go in it.”

“When is it time to stop?”

“I wanna look like one of those cute outside people that goes outside.”

“What the fuck is the point anymore…?”

“It only took literally all day and night.”

“This is so impractical, I’m sorry.”

“I love it, but this is stupid.”

TURNING MY BOYFRIEND INTO A BRATZ DOLL

“I just wanna see if I’m capable and able.”

“What if you could hear out of your eyebrows?”

“Well, that took altogether way too long.”

“Worst-case scenario, you ruin it.”

“Don’t, don’t, don’t, whatever you’re doing, don’t.”

“I only fucked up, like, seven times.”

“This is the no-complaints zone.”

“That looks kinda good, though, right?”

“Why did you stop breathing?”

“If anyone makes fun of this, I’m gonna cry.”

“I feel like I’m just ready to disobey my parents.”

“Look at what I’m looking at right now.”

“I don’t know what to do…!”

“It took so fucking long.”

“What the fuck? Julien, what the fuck.”

“I wanted to give in to peer pressure.”

“I’m gonna need to take the longest shower of my life.”

“You did great, you can’t sell yourself short.”

REACTING TO YOUR MEMES (MEME 👏 REVIEW 👏)

“You’re just, like, chaotic energy.”

“He’s such a good sport.”

“So talented. She is so fucking talented.”

“Now you’ve been warned, too.”

“I like this. This song’s a bop.”

“It makes me laugh.”

“You are so much all the time.”

“So many people are enjoying them.”

“You do your thing.”

“This is fucking talent.”

“You’re all really funny and talented.”

“It’s genuinely fun and enjoyable.”

“It’s a happy, happy good time.”

“I will see you guys next week for me doing something stupid, probably.”

“Did you? Did you do that to me?”

BUYING MY DOGS EVERYTHING THEY TOUCH

“To be honest? It’s kind of boring.”

“I guess we’re just gonna try.”

“We got a plant on the way here, because I have a problem.”

“This is racking up very quickly.”

“You’re not gonna be able to fit that in your mouth.”

“It can’t cost much, it’s a sticker.”

“You don’t even know what you just did.”

“Damn, is that what you’re into?”

“Touch something else.”

“Yeah, feels a little wasteful.”

“What the hell was that?”

“Why would you do that?”

“You really just went for it, didn’t you?”

“Thank you for contributing.”

“Well, what do you think?”

“I love my new necklace.”

“He hasn’t moved.”

“I didn’t know that was a thing.”

“It’s too bad I don’t know what in the world that is.”

“Honestly, what is going on?”

“I want 700 Fruit Roll-Ups and Coco Puffs.”

“Don’t make me look bad.”

“They just… wanted it.”

“They just want the biggest thing they can find.”

“It’s just really cute.”

“Are you pleased with yourself?”

“I just got got.”

“That was that. I hope you enjoyed yourself.”

“I’m being attacked. I’m being attacked. I’m being attacked. I’m being attacked.”

I MADE THAT AWFUL JEANS CHAIR

“What are you watching?”

“We’re this for the long haul.”

“You know I will make it.”

“This craft assumes you have four identical pairs of jeans.”

“You can’t just staple everything together. It doesn’t work.”

“I know for a fact that this is not really going to work.”

“Who is this chair for?”

“I’m the only person I can think of who this chair’s for.”

“I just want to talk.”

“I feel like we would get along.”

“As horrid and terrible and awful as it is, it kind of fucking rules.”

“I know we shouldn’t make it, but I’m gonna make it.”

“This is the best I could do.”

“This much money, you could buy a chair.”

“Literally no one I’ve ever known has four pairs of jeans period, let alone ones that they don’t want.”

“I have two pairs of jeans and resent both of them for being uncomfortable.”

“How are you allowed to just post make believe things on the internet?”

“That’s not gonna work, it’s gonna fall apart.”

“I’m getting hot and angry.”

“Don’t touch it, it’s very delicate.”

“They probably started off with something simple and just turned into absolute madness.”

“Yeah, I’ve got 30 pounds of Poly-Fil, said no one but Jo-Ann Fabrics.”

“Did you check the pockets? You’ve always gotta check the pockets.”

“Alright, well, maybe we’re onto something.”

“It’s coming apart already…”

“Here’s our semi completed circle of hell.”

“$140, this cost to make.”

“It’s so sharp I’m gonna cut myself.”

“It’s ugly, it’s stupid, it’s infuriating, it makes me so angry. That’s why it belongs in my house.”

“It’s not a chair. It’s a bunch of jeans stapled together.”

“This is really getting up there with one of the more frustrating things I think I’ve ever done.”

“Everything keeps falling apart.”

“This is a fraud, this is a lie.”

“Mathematically, it makes no sense.”

“I don’t think I’ve ever been more angry.”

“I hate it. It doesn’t even work.”

“If we breathe on it right now, it’s gonna fall apart.”

“It’s the worst thing in the whole world and it cost $140.”

“I’ve never seen you in a physically relaxed position less relaxed than you are right now.”

“You know why I’m so mad? ‘Cause this is fucking comfortable.”

“It’s honestly kind of sick.”

“Why did they have to staple it?”

“Don’t you sabotage me like this.”

“Where will I sit now?”

“You can’t handle this butt.”

“You are doing that on purpose…!”

“I have a great idea.”

“I didn’t appreciate it as a chair, but I appreciate it as art.”

“We had a pretty good time here today.”

“You can’t just staple denim.”

“It was $140. It wasn’t worth it.”

[glorywaited]

PERMANENT RELATIONSHIP / PLOTTER CALL

all the cool kids are doing it so i figure i hop on the bandwagon n throw out one for cass !! && this is open for isola && indie too !!

i really like forming bonds && building meaningful relationships n i do take it pretty seriously since it makes rp much more fun to build toward things. n i’d prefer if u will have idea of what kind of relationship u’d want with cassandra since it make things easier to plot with !! so you can like this and/or reply / dm me with the preferred relationship u’d want n we can go from there but,

first things first, if you like &&/or reply this you’re giving permission to:

im yall to plot

send each other memes && unprompted ic asks (  literally i’m not kidding always send me unprompted things n i love u forever !!  )

do starters for each other when we get the muse for any (  with permission ofc  )

yell to each other about ideas or anything at all

build relationships and bonds with our muses

the courtesy extend to anyone who likes / replies to this or ims me -- u can always im me, send as many asks as u want whenever u want, throw starters my way when u feel them, etc. i’m very serious about this

FRIENDS she isn’t the easiest to get along with right on first meeting unless u really make a good impression or respect her boundaries -- but once she warms up to someone she’s a great && loyal friend who will have ur back no matter what. she needs friends since she’s not great at making them -- she never had any growing up at all -- so if ur muse is willing to stick it out despite her tough exterior they’ll gain a great friend

ENEMIES she makes these pretty easy -- there’s a possibility of regaining a friendship after becoming enemies with her but she’s stubborn && holds grudges very, very well. if u want to go this route u’ll find urself with an enemy that’s skilled && relentless. she won’t back down && she’ll never be the one to bridge the gap && try to make amends on her own.

MENTOR / FAMILIAL BONDS for those younger than her that gain her trust, she’ll be the tough older sister u’ve always wanted -- even if she’ll tell u the hard truths, she’ll always be there to have ur back, protect u && give u much needed advice in a blunt way. 

she’d also be an excellent teacher for those who want to learn to fight -- she’s a skilled warrior who train toward being in the royal guard of corona since she was six. she has immense skill in just about every weapon from her era as well as hand to hand combat, detective work && tactics. she’ll be tough but she’ll teach u everything she knows if ur willing to learn && earn ur keep. she also has skills outside of just training due to her life of servitude && lady in waiting duties.

ROMANCE as much as she’ll say she’s adverse to love there’s a part of her deep down that might not mind it. this would be a tough road to go down && she’d need reassurance because she doesn’t exactly think she’s worthy of love or that anyone would love her. again, she’s tough && adverse to letting herself be vulnerable but if u put in the work with her she’ll be someone who would die for u && will open up to u like she’s never done with anyone else. she shows her love in subtle ways but she’s passionate && intense && with protect the ones she loves. this route also include things like friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, flings, etc. && things along those lines. my cass is bisexual/biromantic, could be poly for the right price, && is only open romantically for those OVER the age 18.

if u want to go this route u can definitely send me shippy types memes n asks to further the relationship after we’ve talked in dms n agree on it !! i absolutely love shipping && building these types of slow burns it’s my weakness, so u won’t bother me with it n i’ll definitely scream about it a lot !!

OTHER if there’s any type of relationships u’d like that aren’t listed here feel free to let me kno or dm me on tumblr. i’m honestly open to any sort of relationship, even nonconventional type of things -- run it by me i’m pretty open minded n fluid n the most i can do is say no  ♡

&& as always if u having any idea for plots or relationships never be afraid to approaching me i will always welcome everyone with open arms !! i really, really love building relationship && having meaningful interactions it rly does make writing so much fun         [  temp  ]

[agirlinhell]

just a casual reminder that:

THIS BLOG AND ITS MUSE CONTAIN PRETTY MUCH ALMOST EVERY MAJOR TRIGGER. THIS BLOG IN ITS ENTIRETY IS EXTREMELY TRIGGERING. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

If you proceed to read this blog’s content after the multiple content warnings that I present in the blog’s rules page, you are responsible for whatever happens. I informed you of what is present. Do not try to claim I did not give you an adequate warning.

I write a lot of “horrible” shit. I literally write a sweet and innocent girl turned assassin and killer in her own right in the apocalypse for a muse - there’s very little I have an issue with writing in detail. This blog is riddled with mature content. With that said, I won’t be roleplaying with anyone under the age of sixteen. This should be obvious but just because I write disturbing content DOES NOT MEAN I SUPPORT IT.

On the topic of Clementine, she is a very morally grey character - she is neither good nor evil. She will not always be kind and sweet to your muse. She won’t always do the morally “right” thing. She will not hesitate to resort to murder, manipulation, blackmail and torture if it means getting what she wants.

Please don’t have your muse presume to know what Clementine is thinking, unless if your muse is some kind of telepath. Just because you know what going on OOCly, it doesn’t mean your character knows. Characters who seem to know more than they would is irritating and really annoying. Clementine is very charismatic, persuasive and secretive and as such, it is difficult to know exactly what she’s planning or thinking.

My Clementine has been - and still is - very lonely, and did not have friends or family for most of her life, as everyone else had either betrayed her or died, and even with her friends and accomplices, most of her friendships were merely for survival purposes. It’s fairly easy to forget that the timeline of Episodes 3 through 5 of Season One lasts only about four days. In the space of less than a week, Clementine has lost everyone she’s ever loved. She finds her parents infected, Lee is either dead or infected, and every single other person Clementine has come to rely on and know in the past three months — everyone, from Duck to Lily to Kenny to Ben and everyone in between — has died systematically over the course of a few days. Omid and Christa are the only ones who survived, but she had only met them during that four day timespan. It gets even worse as the seasons progress and this is no understatement in the slightest.

Clementine is age eighteen-nineteen and over in her default verse, as it is set post-The Final Season. With that said, most asks will be answered when Clementine is an adult, unless if the ask specifies for a specific verse.

For the love of all that is good and holy, DO NOT STEAL MY HEADCANONS FOR CLEMENTINE.

There are people I have a lot of threads with. It's inevitable that sometimes it'll appear as if I only reply to one person or the same 2-3 people simply because they're the only ones I have a lot of replies from. If you can't handle it looking like I've only responded to so called "faves" all day, when I owe you less than 5 things, don't follow me.

While Clementine in the majority of her verses is a human, there will be alternate universes where she is a vampire, werewolf, crossroad demon, shapeshifter/druid, deity, etc. and because of this, she will be very powerful and in some scenarios, even overpowered in the case of her deity verse. However, I do not powerplay/godmod/whatever else. It’s hard for some people to grasp, but for example, in my vampire or deity verses, Clementine does not give a shit about yours enough to waste her energy on them. For example: I have a verse where Clem is a goddess, and yes, she could know everything about your muse, but trust me -- she’s not going to act like it or even acknowledge what she could know. She doesn’t care to go through your muse's brain to figure out what they’re thinking. The only real metagaming you’ll see is deity!Clementine knowing your muse’s name when they haven’t given it out. I will IM the fuck out of you before I do some crazy shit with her anyway. I only ask you don’t act as if she is not a powerful goddess in said verse - because she is and she will destroy a muse that pisses her off.

Have a rules page and an about page for your character. I don’t care if your character is canon. I will not follow you if I can’t find an about section. Linking to the wikipedia/whatever page of your canon character does not count.

I don’t follow people who post ooc a lot. Blog updates, headcanons, activity notices, etc are not ooc per say but an excessive amount of them can be.

I have a really big issue with people who post super negative stuff all the time. I’d rather not have to deal with your problems on top of my own, thanks.

I absolutely will not follow you if I have to put in a ton of effort just to make it so I can actually read your information. I don't give a fuck about the "aesthetic" - just give me something to work with.

I do not follow every single blog one person has. It feels like you’re taking up a ton of my dash/followers, and it drives me insane.

I don’t follow people who are only here for shipping. If you're here just because you want to ship with Clementine, you came to the wrong place. My Clementine is not just a shipping facet.

If we do not interact within three months of becoming mutuals, unless if there’s a hiatus on your part, I will softblock/unfollow you. Interaction means a starter (or ask) and a reply. If I write you a starter and you never respond, it is not interacting.

The more we talk ooc, the easier it is for me to reply. It makes me more comfortable writing with you, and I often chat about our muses, making it a lot easier to come up with ideas and giving me a lot of muse and inspiration for our threads.

Memes can be awkward and harder for me to answer if we’ve never interacted before. I understand that a lot of people prefer memes as a means of getting things started, but I would really rather plot if you’re trying to get a thread of any substance going. I don’t mind starting with a meme, but I can almost guarantee you it’s not going to go very far if it’s our first thread.

Don’t pester me for replies. Feel free to remind me about a thread by liking my last reply to it or sending me an IM, but I will be really annoyed if you remind me more than once or twice within a month.

If I don’t like the post, I didn’t see it. Please tell me about it.

I’m a part time college student with shit mental health and confidence issues. I can be slow as hell some days and fast as fuck on others.

Once a thread is longer than two paragraphs (medium sized), it sometimes takes me 948728923660700 years to gain motivation for it. It will literally exhaust the hell out of me, but I am not against longer threads, in fact, I totally encourage them. It just takes me way longer to gather muse, time, and motivation to respond to them. If we have a longer thread together, I expect you to be patient as hell. Obviously, I will not mind waiting forever for your reply either.

I'm not going to bother with a million poorly slapped together ships for the sake of the muses involved "being cute" together. Most ships will need to be plotted, yes, even canon ships like Louis/Clementine and Violet/Clementine. My muse is not going to like yours without special circumstances and an extra push from me, especially since Clementine is demiromantic and demisexual.

I almost always answer asks in the form of a starter (questions are the common exception). Don't feel obligated to continue every ask I respond to.

Please, for the love of god, like a starter or ask response if I post it for you. I hate not knowing if you saw it or not. I will send it to you if you haven’t liked it within a few days of being active.

I have discord if for whatever reason mutuals want to speak to me outside of tumblr’s IM system - I also RP on discord - it's for mutuals only and you must let me know who you are beforehand.

[fapangel]

foxtrotalpha jalopnik com/-1544383008 But why?

… not sure, actually. The theory presented in that article (which I’ve seen before) as to the F-117 being used as a benchmark aircraft for testing new anti-stealth/counter-stealth radars confuses for one reason - the F-117′s stealth is based on a rather different concept than the stealth in use on all subsequent aircraft. The F-117 was based on the Have Blue program, whereas the B-2 Spirit, and every aircraft that followed (including the F-22 and the F-35,) have utilized the designs pioneered by the Tacit Blue program. You can easily see the big difference between the designs - whereas Have Blue had those funky angles all over to redirect and scatter incoming radar energy, Tacit Blue accomplished much the same, but with shapes that were a hell of a lot easier to make aerodynamic. Hence why the F-22 and F-35 now use that design - they allow for a great deal of stealth without steeply compromising flight performance. An anon has asked me to do a rundown of stealth tech and I intend to, so that’s all for another post, but suffice to say that with the Chinese stealing a goodly chunk of F-35 related research - enough that their J-20 stealth fighter clearly shows the inheritance in its lines - and the Russian PAK-FA clearly taking the same approach - it begs the question of just how much value the F-117 would have as a testbed aircraft for modern radars.  I don’t know nearly enough about the relevant engineering to say for sure - perhaps Tacit Blue really does just accomplish the same scattering of radio waves with smooth curves rather than sharp angles, and that’s it - but somehow I doubt it’s that simple. 

To wit, Tacit Blue is - from everything I’ve seen and read - truly a different technological approach to the challenges of reducing radar cross-section, compared to the Have Blue method. (This fascinating article on the origins of the RQ-170 covers this pretty well -  in addition to the much better aerodynamic performance, the article notes that Tacit Blue’s “curvilinear” design is far better for “all-aspect” stealth; i.e. it reduces RCS against radio waves hitting the plane from almost any angle.) Again, I might be wrong on this, but I’m pretty sure that has consequences past just “smaller effective RCS.” Radars - and computer algorithms both controlling their beam-forming and analyzing the received data - would be carefully designed to account for just how radio energy is scattered off an aircraft. This’d be especially important when you take radar networks into account, for instance, radar A could pick up radio waves bouncing off the stealth aircraft at a 45 degree angle, because they were actually emitted by radar B, forty to sixty miles away from radar A. Again, I’m no physicist and I might be completely wrong here, but just looking at these aircraft, I’d expect the Tacit Blue “curvilinear” approach to scatter the radio waves less discretely. Imagine taking a high-pressure fire hose and blasting an F-117s skin with it, and then a B-2. Before you were ripped limb from limb by screaming, weeping ground crew, you’d notice the water stream hitting the flat angles of the F-117 tended to deflect in a more coherent stream, but the constantly-curving surface of the B-2 would diffuse the deflected water more evenly. Now swap the water hose analogy for radio waves, and you can get an idea of what I’m saying. That’s why curvilinear is better for “all-aspect,” I think - because those angled facets on the F-117 deflect that energy somewhere, and if you happen to have a shit-hot radar set and you’re in the right place when that plane makes a turn, you’ll notice that smaller beam of energy as it crosses your dish - if your radar’s software is coded to recognize that kind of signal and pick it out from the background noise. Radars pick up everything, and the software - and the operators - have to make a lot of judgement calls on what is a legitimate contact and what needs to be ignored. A ton of what radars do rely on this - for instance, look-down/shoot-down ability requires a radar to ignore the radio waves bouncing off the ground itself (congratulations, you found the planet,) and focus on stuff with a high Doppler shift; i.e. those radar returns that are clearly moving at a few hundred knots. So it seems unlikely to me that they’d find the F-117s of much value as a theoretical “stealth aggressor” aircraft for testing next-gen radars - unless they’re simply testing stuff from a head-on detection standpoint against single radars, and the F-117s extensively-studied RCS characteristics make for a useful standpoint. It’s possible… but as another FoxtrotAlpha article notes, the rarely-espied playdates between B-2 Spirits and a highly-advanced radar aircraft stationed at Tonopah with the F-117s is much more likely to be advanced radar/stealth testing.

The other possibility suggested by the article - that they’re being used for Red Flag aerial exercises (where the highly directional nature of their stealth would be of less import, being pitted against modern fighter aircraft radars at closer ranges,) seems more likely to me - and their further assertion that said program is just an excuse to retain airframes, personnel and experience for more direct uses of the airframes seems very plausible. For starters, the Air Force has already directly confirmed that the F-117 fleet is being maintained for possible return to service. But what kind of service? 

Now it’s no secret that the ChairFarce keeps a massive boneyard of mothballed aircraft in Arizona just in case we get into another serious shooting war where quantity gains a quality all its own - in fact, a B-52 kept in that same “Type 1000″ storage as the F-117s was recently returned to service. As that article notes, even in “near-flyaway condition,” restoring a military aircraft isn’t easy. My neighbor, a mechanic by trade, once told me that old cars are like old men - they retire, they sit down in an armchair, and they die. When something full of moving mechanical parts sits still, it degrades - seals stiffen, gaskets dry out, lubricants stagnate, parts stick, etc. And then it all has to be replaced. So the USAF rotating their Nighthawks out to take walkies every now and then make perfect sense. 

But I still doubt that the F-117 will be sent into combat - at least, with pilots aboard. This National Interest article (yes, I know) does a fairly succinct job of comparing the F-117 to the F-22 and F-35. The F-22 and F-35 benefit from tremendous advances in computer, sensor and software tech that make them much better at steering around radars - the computers can quickly re-calculate the probability of detection in X airspace against Y detected radar signature, and quickly re-route the pilot to keep him out of “red zones.” (Gathering the empirical data used for this is exactly why the B-2 and that nifty super-secret radar plane would be playing tag over the Arizona desert.) Combined with the all-aspect stealth of the curvilinear design (which lets you turn - i.e. alter course - much more freely without flashing some radar your skirts) this gives the F-35 a big advantage. In other words, the F-117s design isn’t just compromised after the Serbian shoot-down… it’s also obsolete. 

In other words, it’s expendable. 

“Expendable” isn’t a word used lightly with any combat aircraft, much less a hideously expensive stealth aircraft covered with sensitive and temperamental RAM coatings that need to be carefully swaddled in environmentally-controlled hangars. The dated stealth characteristics, low performance and above all, the significant superiority of more modern stealth fighters are all fine reasons against risking pilot’s lives flying the F-117 against a near-peer opponent like China or Russia. 

But those exact same reasons - especially the compromised and obsolete nature of the tech - mean that if you remove the pilot from the equation, you stand to lose little if an F-117 is shot down. You’re not losing a modern aircraft that can penetrate modern air-defense systems, you’re not losing highly-classified tech that will fall into enemy hands, and it’s one less quirky, expensive aircraft thirty years old and falling further behind the curve (literally) every year. Moreover, the F-117 is still well-optimized for stealth against high-frequency fire-control radars from the frontal aspect. In other words, it’s still a much better option for attacking a SAM site than an F-16, F-18 or F-15E (unless you’re going for BALLS TO THE WALL CLUSTER BOMBS IN FREE FALL HEY IT’S WILD WEASELS Y’ALL which was never sane or safe against farmers with hand-trained eyeball-aimed AA guns, much less modern SHORAD.) And then there’s the numbers - we only have 20 B-2s, which is why they’re jealously guarded, not enough F-22 Raptors and the F-35 won’t be serving in high numbers for many years yet. Moreover, the F-22 has limited payload options - despite some amazing things being accomplished with the Small Diameter Bomb program, it’s still a small bomb. Until the F-35 shows up in force, there’s a shortage of aircraft that can sling big, heavy Mk-84 based PGMs and bunker busters - and lo-observable standoff attack weapons like the JASSM and SLAM-ER, while fantastic, are expensive, and even our copious stockpiles must be judiciously used…. and their standoff reach greatly increases the utility of old aircraft like the F-117, since instead of being tasked with “penetrate airspace pumped with so much radio energy it practically glows without being detected” it’ll be asked to “get within 100 miles of this border without being detected and drawing sixty fucking Flankers down on you, so we don’t have to assign half our escort fighters to hold your hand.” 

“The F-117 is being turned into a drone guies!!1!” has been a meme/rumor for a while now, I know - but there’s a few good reasons to think it has merit. For starters, you don’t just slap a computer into the pilots seat and hey presto, drone! It’s difficult, time-consuming and fucking expensive to re-wire electronics, especially purpose-built fly-by-wire systems dating from the pre-COTS era… but they’ve already done it with the F-16, and I’ve both seen mention of F-18s turned into drones, and seen that the government replacement program for the F-18 has called for “manned, unmanned, and optionally manned platforms.” The AIr Force has openly stated they want autonomous fighter jets  - not just Global Hawks flying circles in permissive airspace, mind you, but autonomous fighter jets - to work in concert with the F-35. And I quote: 

“You take an F-16 and make it totally unmanned,” Work said. “The F-16 is a fourth-generation fighter, and pair it with an F-35, a fifth-generation battle network node, and have those two operating together.”

Battle network node. That’s not just a buzzphrase, that’s an indicator of how they hope to translate that massive information advantage into a force advantage. The F-16 fleet is really showing its age (as are our original F-18s) and even if we bought brand new souped-up conformal-tank hauling F-16 Block-Eleventy-Billions, the old aircraft are plain worn out. Traditionally we take old fighter planes and convert them into radio-controlled target drones till they’re all blown up, which is where all our F-4 Phantoms went. As long as we’re blowing them up anyway… this isn’t the first time someone realized that something built to be difficult for our own pilots to hit might be difficult for the enemy to hit, as well. But these aren’t purpose-built wee target drones that can only carry cameras - they’re fully-functional warplanes that can carry almost any modern munition you want to put on them. Even if the enemy shoots them all down, you’re only out aircraft destined for the scrapyard anyway - and they still have to deal with the goddamned F-35!

The Navy seems to agree with this approach - they’re already practicing integrating their new XB-47 carrier-capable drone into flight ops by having it land on aircraft carriers alongside manned aircraft. The Navy has also invested heavily in the “swarm” concept. First seen with their little pushy robo-RIGs meant to drive off Dinghies of Peace getting too cozy, they’re now applying it aggressively to aerial applications, like the much-publicized swarm of minidrones launched out of an F-18s flare dispensers. Swarms like this serve two purposes - one, they are much harder to kill (quite literally swatting flies one by one, if you can even see them,) and two, the software required for a “swarm” to work is by nature a “decentralized network,” which means it’s much more capable of thinking - and reacting - without centralized command and control. This means that “swarm” style logic - which is all about communicating with the fellow swarmers and making decisions for itself, and in accord with The Swarm - is inherently quite capable even if their communications are jammed. Even if it can’t phone home for instructions, The Swarm is fairly autonomous, by its very nature. The Swarm provides each member with sensor input from all platforms, “brain”power from each member, and if one gets swatted, they still have the rest of The Swarm. In fact, the military is now focusing on ensuring each node of The Swarm can operate independently of even its fellows if the jamming is so heavy they can’t even talk with one another, as they openly stated recently: 

One thrust will be equipping drones and other autonomous systems with bigger brains and better networking so that they can function even when an enemy jams their ability to radio back to a human controller for direction… "When you don’t have bandwidth, when you’re under cyber attack, when you’re being jammed. That’s the problem we’re trying to address.”

That’s Cool Planefag, but what does this have to do with F-117s? 

This big thrust towards distributed drone networks - using older, even obsolete manned aircraft as reworked drones - applies specifically to the F-117′s case because the driving impetus behind these efforts has a lot to do with our old friend: 

Triumf-chan is just the latest evolution in the constant battle between ground-based anti-air and air-based long-range strike that began in earnest in WWII and has never let up. On the left, we have the reigning champion, the rich-as-hell Free World who need to project tons of FREEDOM into the bitch faces of the dictator of the week. On the right, the challenger, who’s lost every round so far but has made the champions victories horrifically costly anyways and has driven the champion to the ropes so many times he can taste that maddeningly elusive victory. It’s an arms race that hit the ground running in 1945 and hasn’t slowed since… 

… and the Reigning Champion’s current efforts in that direction are turning more and more to unmanned weapons. There’s of course the plethora of standoff weapons, that began with the Shrike in Vietnam and is now evolving into crazy shit like radar-frying Masers mounted on cruise missiles.… but the most interesting thing, to me, is that they’re mirroring the Navy’s effort to, ah, distribute lethality by presenting the enemy with more threats - for instance, the MALD-J standoff jamming drone, already an amazing anti-IADS weapon, is being upgraded with an optional home-on-jam kamikaze attack. Since they’re expendable drones, they’re not coming back anyway, so they may as well finish the day by executing steep dives into some Triumf operator’s bitch face. This is being enabled by the addition of a datalink which lets them - stop me if you’ve heard this before - be tied into the combat network the rest of our aircraft and weapons use. This would also let them work in concert with their fellows to coordinate jamming and terminal attacks even if their communications back to base were disrupted by any means - jamming, “cyber attacks” or a whirlwind MILSTARS-meets-killsat romance. Now the enemy can’t simply dismiss them once they figure out they’re flying a pre-mapped path that’s not responding to pop-up threats - not only do they move, but they might fucking come after you. Or… they could release a swarm of those nasty little mini-drones that navy F-18 dropped - think of them as affectionate, self-aware sub-munitions. Or don’t - I’m sure the Russians stay up at night thinking about them enough for all of us.

This is an example of the ultimate ends all this network-swarm-drone shit is being aimed at - saturating, flummoxing and defeating the modern Integrated Air Defense Network. Now when you consider the obvious utility of using older, worn-out 4th generation fighters as pawns in this game - pawns you can afford to lose, but usually come back after a mission, unlike million-dollar-a-shot missiles - and apply it to the F-117, which actually has an RCS smaller than a freight-train flying broadside, and you can start to see the real potential here. If an aging multi-role fighter makes a good drone gunman, than an aging stealth bomber makes an even better one. The F-117 can get closer to SAMs than 4th gens of similar age, the drastically improved communications and battle management nodes make it possible to very quickly and cohesively react as a team to developing situations and threats, allowing them to cover their weaknesses, and as an obsolete, unmanned platform they can be risked further forward than much more expensive and valuable modern, manned fighters, or even very expensive unmanned platforms. 

So that’s Planefags Rambling Explanation of Shit Everyone Knows Anyway If They Read Defense Blogs Instead Of Dating. For those looking for the tl;dr: the F-117 is basically the Terminator. 

“The F-16 series had aluminum skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look like interference… radar ghosts, diffused returns, everything. Very hard to spot. I had to wait till he opened his bomb-bay doors before I could zero him.” – Kyle Radoslav

“The Nighthawk’s an infiltration unit - part manned aircraft, part autonomous machine. Underneath, it’s a titanium-alloy combat airframe, microprocessor-controlled. Triple-redundant, very tough. But outside it’s faceted aluminum: RAM coated ,designed for the stealth bombers.”   – Kyle Radoslav 

All right. You stay down by day, but at night, you can move around. The F-16s use FLIR so you still have to watch out. But they’re not too bright. Dani taught us ways to dust them. That’s when the infiltrators started to appear. The Nighthawks were the newest and the worst…– Kyle Radoslav

“You’re spiked, motherfucker!” – Sara Cveta

Hey buddy, did you just see a real bright light? – KC-135 pilot over Bosnia

“These were taken by a SA-6′s TV camera in Belgrade, in 1999. It killed sixteen TV techs that night. Men with families, children.”

[the cop lays two new pictures on the table.]

“These were taken near the Macedonian border… today.” 

“I’LL BE BACK.” – Nighthawk

[stormwithskiiin-a]

HOW I RUN MY BLOG

SPEED.

Whenever I have inspiration and time I’ll be here. Me being a college student literally attending two colleges and working two jobs while also loving video games and upholding some form of a social life, that doesn’t mean it’d be as much as I’d like. Sometimes I stare at my drafts and dash for a full hour before I can finally write a single word. I do my best and I’ll get to everything eventually! I may reply to people I talk to OOC a bit faster because inspiration just comes easier... idk it’s strange.

REPLIES / DRAFTS.

Every single reply I get goes straight to my drafts and stays there until time and inspiration allows. Sometimes I spend too much time with so much muse but debating which one to do so I throw the amount of drafts I have in a number generator and let chance pick for me LMAO. I think of potential things I could incorporate into replies while I’m bored at work and eventually I find the right word vomit to get something out there.

STARTERS.

These I’m fuckin slow as fuck with. When I see my drafts are slimming, I’ll usually put a starter call and finding inspiration for those damn things take me forever. I need an insane amount of muse to get them out. Going through starter calls are definitely the ways I start my interactions, though. So I suck it up and get them tf done eventually!

INBOX.

I’ll reblog ask memes here and there. Usually when I need something to jump start my muse for bigger things (i.e. longer threads, starters). When I get an ask, I toss it right in my drafts so I don’t accidentally lose it or forget. They take priority over the other stuff in my drafts, though. I like my inbox to be clean always. Anything in there will be yeeted out within minutes of me getting it. If I’m online ofc.

SELECTIVITY.

I am pretty selective. Not in the way of I want fancy formatting and icons. No, it isn’t like that at all. I love seeing everyone loving the same stuff I do and their creative characterizations. The only thing I’m selective over is I have to make so sure that if I follow you, people I used to RP with won’t be on my dash. In all honesty I was in a huge fandom and got a lot of followers and it was the most hellish thing I ever went through. I hated logging on and I hated the people around me. I stopped being on tumblr for a couple years because of it and this is my second attempt of getting back into writing since then. I’m being sneaky, guys.

WISHLIST.

I always want to explore how Larxene interacts with other people. I’m a slut for just seeing how two muses interact and since Larx is so uh........ unique I really, really love seeing how she reacts to other people. Tbh I don’t have any specific plots or AUs I’m feeling yet because I’m still kinda settling in here but someday I’ll probs actually make a wishlist!

HONEST NOTE.

Girlfriend has been through too much on this site. I’m just here to write and make a couple of friends. I won’t tolerate feeling pestered at all around here. I did for too many years and it led to.... way too much. If I feel uncomfortable, I’ll pull the plug without hesitation. Honestly, I am really damn chill and got a big heart especially for my muse and I wanna make her as real and as fun for y’all to interact with as I can!

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[amorremanet]

10 facts about meme: Lucy? And Adelaide, if you don't mind doing two?

send me one of my oc’s and i tell you ten facts about them

This is the shitty, “I fell asleep instead of doing this last night, and then, when I was almost fucking done, trying to make tumblr instant messenger stop doing something made it decide to click over somewhere else, and Firefox apparently doesn’t let the Lazarus extension work anymore, so I lost everything and am completely skimming out of frustration because the original was detailed and cool, and I lost basically all of it” version

LUCY

1. Has never completed a Pokémon game with a grass or water starter. She just doesn’t bond with them as much as she does with the fire starters, and any time she tries to pick a grass or water starter, she inevitably gives up, restarts, and picks the fire starter instead.

2. Since she turned 18, she’s made a point of giving blood as often as possible, because she’s type-O negative (the universal donor), and the Red Cross is pretty much always running short on blood, which can leave a lot of people totally screwed when they need to get transfusions.

3. Doesn’t believe in astrology and dismisses most of things in that vein as a cold-reading scam that’s based on exploiting people’s ability to project themselves onto anything…… but she does have an interest in dream interpretation.

4. She finds recipes confusing, and is even more befuddled by the Food Network and, “how to make [x baked goods]” videos on youtube, to the point that she finds them more stressful than getting a, “We need to talk” text from her parents. And yet, she is not confused by instructions in a chemistry lab.

5. She loves her red hair, but hates being called, “ginger.” It’s not that she thinks the word is offensive or anything; she just thinks that it sounds weird and slightly disgusting.

6. One of her favorite forms of, “teenage rebellion” was watching televangelists (or more accurately, having them on while she did other stuff because it’s really easy for Lucy to tune them out), which Lucy wouldn’t have liked so much if she’d actually paid attention to any of them (because of how televangelists exploit their viewers’ pain and suffering, get rich off of it, and don’t have to pay taxes on most of that money because they call it, “religious donations”) — but it did successfully annoy her very Catholic parents and very Catholic, “he’s a legit priest and everything” uncle.

7. A horror movie can be as political or politically coded as it wants. Unless it does something truly novel with the genre, like Get Out, then Lucy will probably just roll her eyes, complain about how many people value, “edginess” over quality, and then go watch The Great Mouse Detective for the umpteenth time. It’s not even that she gets squicked by horror movies, because she stops at dismissing all of them as edgelord garbage and doesn’t give them a chance.

8. She has even less patience for the films of Christopher Nolan, and literally the only one that she doesn’t go in too hard on is The Dark Knight, which only gets any consideration because Heath Ledger died not that long after making it, in ways that were pretty heavily associated with the movie in popular culture.

Not that she really cares about Heath Ledger, or even about the taboo on speaking ill of the dead, but she figures that he isn’t Ronald Reagan levels of terrible, or worse, so it’s easier to just not get into it with people over Heath Ledger when all that she wanted to say was that The Dark Knight isn’t actually that great

She will, however, talk shit about Ronald Reagan pretty much any time she’s given an opportunity, and especially if her Mom and Dad are around (because they were big Reaganites, back in the day, and annoying them with her hatred of the Gipper keeps them from paying attention to things like how her, “best friend” Sara Grace is actually her girlfriend)

9. Her answer to the question of whether she prefers cats or dogs will probably be something like, “iguanas” because she hates the assumption that it’s not possible to love cats and dogs more or less equally, but she also has better things to argue with people about.

10. She can’t whistle, she’s not really a very good dancer, and the last time she tried to tie a cherry stem in a knot with her tongue, she wound up swallowing it.

ADELAIDE

1. At 5’11”, Addie is taller than her big brother and their Mom (who are both 5’10”), and when standing up as best man when Max and Linda got married, she didn’t try to make him feel short, but she did wear a nice pair of heels and didn’t really go out of her way not to make him feel short, either.

2. By all rights, Addie probably should’ve been diagnosed with ADHD a while ago, but because her childhood and adolescence lasted from about 1986-2000 (when she turned 18), and because in 2017, ADHD is still badly misunderstood and under-diagnosed in AFAB kids, Addie got missed and made it to 33, thinking that all of her ADHD symptoms are just personal quirks or failings.

3. Her favorite color is purple. The darker the shade, the better.

4. Her ability to interpret song lyrics is often questionable. Like, on one hand, she’s totally made the mistake of hearing, “There’s a bathroom on the right” instead of, “There’s a bad moon on the rise” during the chorus of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising”

—and on the other hand, she completely missed that most of Missy Elliot’s “Work It” is explicitly about cunnilingus until Pete asked her what the Hell she thought the lyric, “Go downtown and eat it like a vulture” was referring to, especially given its proximity to Ms. Elliot talking about shaving her chocha. (All Addie has to say for herself is that she got caught up on the, “Girls, girls, get that cash / If it’s 9 to 5 or shakin’ your ass” verse.)

She also thought that Spice Girls were singing about group sex in “Wannabe,” rather than singing about making sure that your significant other can get along with your gal pals, and she kept thinking this until mid-September 2012.

5. As far as her family knows, Addie almost got arrested on her 18th birthday and had to run from the cops while she and a few friends were kinda drunk and screwing around in New York City. What really happened was that her birthday was on a Saturday, so they signed themselves out of school for the weekend, went to NYC, and saw the revival of Jesus Christ Superstar because her parents bought them tickets.

Then, they used fake ID’s to get some alcohol and got kinda drunk. Then, while they were screwing around in Brooklyn instead of going to cousin Jeremy’s place and crashing for the night, they wound up going by a gay bar, where Addie tripped over her own feet and got caught by a cute butch lesbian who happened to be dressed as a sexy cop for a themed party at said gay bar and had gone outside for a smoke break.

Then, one of Addie’s friends mistook this poor woman for a real cop and insisted that they run, and despite putting it together in the cold, sober light of day that there had been no actual danger, Addie told Sebastian the, “We so totally almost got arrested” story because she thought it sounded cooler, and at this point, it’s been 15 years, and she doesn’t see a point in correcting her family when her younger cousins get the, “Don’t get too rowdy on your 18th birthday or you may end up running from the cops like Adelaide” cautionary tale.

6. She would probably try to play real-world Quidditch, if she could get anyone to play with her, but that’s not going to happen, because everyone who knows her also knows that Addie is competitive as fuck, and that playing “muggle Quidditch” with her is a good way to get at least mildly injured.

7. She can see where the dislike that a lot of people in her life have for the All-Stars comes from, but personally, Addie doesn’t buy into it herself. She doesn’t really care to defend them, either, but at this point, she feels like most of the world’s problems can’t be solved with super-strength or heat vision, and they’re more complicated than the All-Stars’ image would allow them to handle, so it’s best to see the All-Stars as entertainers, rather than actual heroes.

Not that she begrudges anyone their annoyance with the fact that the All-Stars make, “we are actual heroes” a cornerstone of their so-called “brand,” but if you ask Addie, it’s not all that much different from how U.S. politicians lie up one side and down the other about basically everything, and how much of U.S. politics is increasingly little more than a theatre spectacle to cover up what’s actually going on

Oddly enough, Addie is accidentally on to something with that, because a lot of the supervillains in this universe are not truly participating in any shadowy conspiracy…… but they are being manipulated by members of one, and alternately being used as a source of talking points, or as distractions, so that the folks in said shadowy conspiracy (who are a mix of mutants and not) can push through their own agendas and try to secure their own power at the expense of anyone who gets in their way

Not that it’s really here or there at the moment, but this is totally going to bite them in the ass, partly from the people they’ve been exploiting and screwing over for decades putting shit together and pushing back, and partly because they decide to bank on installing a puppet who isn’t as easily controlled or as easily made to serve their agendas as they think. Anyway, as I was saying.

8. If Adelaide hadn’t gone into the family business and started vying with Max to see who’s going to become CEO when their Dad retires, she probably would’ve gone into advertising. If not that, she most likely would’ve gone to law school.

However, despite the fact that her Mom and several of her cousins are lawyers, Addie’s notions about how being a lawyer works are mostly derived from Legally Blonde, Ally McBeal, and Law and Order: SVU, so it might be a good thing that she has no idea what she’d actually want to do at law school.

9. Popular wisdom holds that she only isn’t the worst driver out of her siblings because Sebastian is the one who should’ve racked up multiple DUI charges by now, by all rights shouldn’t have his license anymore, and rarely uses it these days anyway because he, “doesn’t have PTSD, he just doesn’t like driving okay, it kinda freaks him out” (…which it does because of the PTSD that he allegedly doesn’t have but that’s another matter)

Addie holds that this popular wisdom is misogynistic bullshit being passed off as familial teasing, because actually, she’s a much better driver than all three of her brothers (with both cars and motorcycles, though only she and Seb have ever driven one of those, so it’s a little unfair to Max and Ambrose)

—and she may not know how to fix more complicated car problems, but she can at least get a better grasp on what might be wrong than, “I don’t know, it keeps making a thunka thunka thunka sound if you go above 60 mph” and she has more than once fixed something for her brothers that turned out to be something like, “You were driving with the parking brake on, dumb-ass”

10. Her go-to karaoke night songs are Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl” — the latter of which would be funnier to Adelaide if she’d intended to sound hella bi when she first started doing it, rather than picking it because she was kinda drunk and knew all the words, then getting really into singing it and having no conscious idea where those emotions were coming from