#this sideblog has been unused for a year and it is time to change that. unless ofc i forget about it in a week /hj

[artromanthur-lester]

A quick Gwendolyn Bouchard because i am feeling brave

[joelscruff]

joelscruff -> @pedropeach 🍑

so! this past little while has certainly been a dumpster fire of a situation! but if anything, something good that has come out of it is that this was the final push i needed to finally make a new blog.

i've been wanting to do this for a while; some of you may already know (because of the amount of times i've complained about it lmao) that joelscruff is and always has been a sideblog. when i first created it i hadn't used tumblr in years and wasn't anticipating using it very much again, so instead of just making an entirely new blog i decided to just make a sideblog attached to my very old (and unused) main. but obviously once i realized there was a whole ass community on here for pedro and pedro character fic, i ended up sticking around and - as a result - being stuck as a sideblog.

unfortunately being a sideblog on tumblr is extremely limiting. i can't follow from this blog, send asks, or even like posts. it was only very recently that sideblogs were even able to reply to posts. it's always been extremely frustrating and for the longest time i've toyed with the idea of just making a new blog so i wouldn't have to deal with the sideblog limitations anymore. but of course i was hesitant because making such a big change and leaving behind what i've done on this blog is a difficult decision to make.

however, after the shit that's gone on the past week, how it's affected me, seeing how it's affected the people closest to me, and witnessing the love and kindness from others because of it - a fresh start just sounded like a really good idea. the fact that i am no longer limited by tumblr's sideblog rules is incredibly freeing and, frankly, all of this stuff has just left an extremely bad taste in my mouth and has left joelscruff feeling like a shell of sorts that i'd like to leave behind.

so, you can now find me at @pedropeach

it's bittersweet to leave this blog behind, but i will be keeping it up as an archive - none of my fics will be deleted. at this time i don't see myself reposting them to the new blog, nor do i see myself posting any fic for a little while in general. however, when i do decide to start posting fic again, my current series will continue to be updated over there as well as on my ao3.

so yeah! whether you want to follow the new blog is up to you! if you decide to say goodbye or stick around, i appreciate you and the time we spent together on this blog all the same. it was truly an incredible experience and i will cherish it forever. i love you 💖

[four-color-words]

Bailey Adler - An Intro

((Notice: I wrote this while extremely goddamn sleepy, so if I need to elaborate or make something clearer or whatever, lemme know and I'll try my best after I get some sleep))

So, I try pretty hard to keep this sideblog restricted to canon-only stuff. But if I'm gonna start talking about my silly little fanfic on here, I ought to talk about the oc it centers around

Takeoff is the first arc of Bailey's story, and serves as her origin. The front half of it, I like to imagine, takes place in the background of a Flash comic. The back half of it, which I'm currently writing, is a backup or secondary story. Bailey's theoretical solo wouldn't start until she takes up the Golden Eagle mantle, passed down from Charley.

(fun fact: I came up with her around eight years ago, and she's actually what led me to learning about Charley -- but I decided it would be more fun (and achievable) to try and explain how and why Bales was inheriting a mantle, than trying to come up with a new, unused name for her)

Bailey's a complicated character, and it's hard to summarize all the stuff she's got going on. She's very emotionally-driven, and she wears her big bleeding heart on her sleeve. She doesn't exactly like this about herself, but she's been trying and failing to change this for two decades; it's in her nature. And, really, it's the fact that her emotions do run so deep and strong that leads to her becoming a superhero.

Bailey grew up in a small Oklahoma town, and as far as she's concerned, the less she has to talk about that, the better. She moved to Central City to try and not only start a new life, but to forget her old one. Helping her best friend with the rent was a bonus.

Unfortunately, the past won't let Bailey just walk away. Bailey lands a job at a local museum -- no, not that one -- just in time for a haunted suit of armor, a cold case disappearance, and a whole lot of mystery to cross her path. As secrets start to rise to the surface, Bailey finds her own family history might just be tangled up in this web. And untangling it all might mean facing the parts of her past -- and her relationship with her mother's side of the family -- that she really doesn't want to.

Bailey discovers her great-grandmother, Rachel Faulkner, was born Rashel Tavros, of Thanagar. And while this does explain a few things about Bailey's own life -- in particular, why she's always been stronger and tougher than she wants to admit, and why she's always overestimated other people's vision and hearing -- it also leaves her with a lot of questions, and a sense of duty she can't quite shake. She's forced to acknowledge that she's not a normal human. She has gifts and abilities that set her apart from the rest of the populace. She has power -- and we can all finish the old adage.

But she also made promises to her father and sister that, on some level, she feels like she's breaking if she starts being a superhero. Reconciling that and dealing with the guilt, however, are just things she's going to have to do. She does inherit the Golden Eagle mantle from Charley, though I won't say exactly how or why until after Takeoff's finale gets published. (because otherwise I'm not gonna ever write it)

A lot of Bailey's character and story revolve around the ideas of breaking out of cycles of abuse and neglect, what really defines a family, and a whole lot of stuff I'm struggling to put into words.

But while Bailey has, like, so much angst and emotional turmoil, she's also just a big ol' goober. She talks to random pigeons and sings along to the radio while she does chores. She gives her friends stupid nicknames as a form of affection. She offers the neighbor kid cookies because she baked too many at three am, and then realizes how fucking weird that is as a complete stranger. She flirts with people and then freezes like a deer in the headlights when they flirt back. She spent the first twenty-ish years of her life dreaming of being Space Indianna Jones. She's a history and literature nerd, and she will infodump at you about the similarities between art movements across three different planets.

She's a giant dork, and I love her

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

HOLY SHIT I FUCKING FOUND IT.

THANK AZAR

I have spent approximately the past 60 hours trying to find Srentha's old blog. It had so many silly and fun RPs and a lot of character building stuff!

I THOUGHT I remembered remaking his blog (the one that's a sideblog to this account), renaming the old blog so I could give the New Blog the Same URL, but I couldn't remember Exactly how I'd changed the old blog's url.

I originally thought it was just a sideblog of my old personal account, but I logged in and looked at the sideblog list and nearly panicked when I couldn't find it there. (Apparently I in fact have 3 emlog blogs, though??? Should probably consolidate those someday.)

Then I remembered that, way back then, a full decade ago, I had originally made Dove and Srentha's blogs as their own accounts! So I tried to log in to his!

It took me approximately 24 hours of scrounging around in my memories to remember what I used as "his" email address and password.

(It had been 3 days of Desperately Trying to Find This Blog, so the story gets even longer and even more frustrating.)

Then, when I finally remembered I made HIS OWN EMAIL ADDRESS, and what I THOUGHT I remembered the password (I swear to Azar, I had made it the same format as Dove's password, just altering the number and the name), Tumblr wouldn't let me log in without a verification email.

Problem is, Yahoo also wouldn't let me log in to his email. Even though, 10 years later, I still remember what his ID and password were because they were so Pretty and Poetic and Distinctive that they stuck out in my memory. So I couldn't find the URL by simply logging in to the account.

(Also, I "coded" the Yahoo Security Verification Question Answers for his account. Which was a stupid thing to do because then I had to Play Detective because I forgot how I'd coded them. One of them was "Where did you meet your spouse?" And I was like, that's Dove! That's Azarath, duh! Except that wasn't it. I had invented Seranath by then; maybe that's what I used? But no. It took me approximately 3 hours and several attempts using various capitalization techniques in case it was cAsE sEnSiVe to remember I had simply called it, "home." But then it asked me "What was your first pet's name?" SRENTHA'S BIRD HAS HAD SO MANY NAMES OVER THE YEARS. Fuck if I know which one I used! I tried Janellera, Sheera, and Sieara in case I used Dove's, but then it locked me out. Bleh. I might have used Survivor, which is what his name was meant to mean. But Yahoo wouldn't let me try again.)

So just as I was about to make an act of desperation: attempt reaching out to friends who had RP'd with him to see if they still had access to any posts his old blog may have liked/reblogged and maybe The Notes Section would show me His Current URL, I remembered something crucial.

After this blog/account became my Permanent Residence, I went to check my old blog and couldn't find it. Which was Distressing, don't get me wrong. But I quickly found out Tumblr changes the URLs of blogs on old, inactive accounts (ones that aren't Fully Deleted, just unused for a period of time) by adding "-blog" at the end of the URL.

So, fairly quivering with desperation and hope, I tried that. His regular, default, years-long URL.... with "-blog" at the end.

And it came right up!

It loaded beautifully! It's all there! The old patchwork theme with silly fun pictures and all the RPs I remembered and then some, and headcanons lists I don't even remember filling out! Everything I hoped to find and more!

(If you're curious, it's at @highpriest-in-training-blog. There's a lot of Random Fun and RP Fun to go around there, but I can't log into his account At All, so it won't ever be updated, unfortunately.)

I'm so incredibly relieved, you have No Idea. It really shouldn't have been this frustrating to try logging into something WHEN I KNOW THE EMAIL AND PASSWORD! But it WAS.

But now I'm just so relieved I'm a bit emotionally exhausted. Whew,

[stage-select-hub]

Alright so I got some splain'n to do.

I have had the login info for this page for the past year. I have known I have had the login information for the past year. I have not used the login information in the past year.

And I'm gonna be honest that's just been to a complete and utter lack of wanting to write anything on Tumblr at all.

And then I started an IRLPokemon blog. And for some reason did not use this blog to be the main blog for that. Probably because I realized if I did, I would never actually use it.

But now, I have a new computer, and one that has only one browser installed. And that browser only has this Tumblr account linked to it.

I may be turning 22 this year, but I don't think it's too late to get back into this.

However... There's some changes.

More than a few of my sideblogs, I never use. I have never used them, and I have no real desire to use them. To be frank they were just there because I Started writing the characters in an RP server on Discord, and I never actually considered writing them on Tumblr outside of "new blog go brrr."

Because of this, I will be doing some pruning.

This is the state of all my current blogs.

grim-grinner, mini-manakete, fer-ma-fer-glory, and loving-nightmare are defunct as of today. I still write them, but they're all connected to my Heroes Summoner already, so having their own blogs makes little sense. Henry, Nowi, Donnel, and Freyja will be moved over to gun-summoner, where they belong.

monado-iii is, if I'm being honest, an extreme roadblock to actually getting back into writing on Tumblr. I don't write Shulk near as much as I used to. I grew to love the character, yes, but it is always in the back of my head that the only reason I wrote him to begin with is that there was no one in the Smash RP community writing him and I was just filling a gap. This blog will be archived. If I feel the muse for him again off of discord, I will bring him back, but he is not a priority as of right now.

My "Laytonverse" blogs look-at-my-badge, rhythm-king, and no-puzzle-unsolved will be consolidated just under one blog. Given that look-at-my-badge is the only one that actually has any writing on it, that will be the blog that Layton and Raphael are moving to. The blog's name will be changed to reflect this, but I don't know what I will change it to.

duwang--gang, txtris-king, redmont-ranger, pxinted-hero, and dash-and-slash are defunct as of today. There are reasons for all of these.

I don't write Okuyasu, Koichi, Rohan, or Jotaro. The only Jojo characters I actually write are Josuke (rarely) and Jonathan (even more rarely). So the name already makes no sense. It's also gone unused since 2020, so it's not like it's gonna be missed.

I write Tee very rarely, and if I'm being honest there is like, no Puyo Puyo RP Scene I can find.

Will is a very passive character, so him having his own RP blog makes no sense. Also, there is literally no Ranger's Apprentice RP scene out there, and trying to get people to interact with a book character in general, much less a YA protag, is a Sisyphean task.

I don't really write Link on Discord anymore, much less Tumblr. He's like, a nonary muse at best now.

I have not seriously used Specter Knight as a muse since before this became a hub blog instead of an RP blog, which I wasn't even out of high school. No one is going to miss him.

OC Crew time!

My OC blogs are children-of-valm, wyverntribe, redeemed-professor, gun-summoner, yiga-banana, and mxdern-mage, and I have... things to say here.

children-of-valm will stay. It is a blog with characters near and dear to my heart, as all of these characters (sans the canon ones obviously) were created by both myself and my now-girlfriend. So I will not be removing this blog.

WyvernTribe is in the same boat, though without the "Girlfriend helped make her" part. Erix is a character I have strong passion in writing. The one thing keeping her from being moved to another blog to cut down on blog space is because her story doesn't really work with either Kiran or the Awakening muses.

Byleth... I don't know how I will handle him. His blog will stay for now, if only because he's an actually original take on the character, at least compared to the game.

Kiran will stay. Obviously. I need him to host the other FE blogs, he couldn't go even if he wanted to. Man's one of my primary muses.

Sasha, my Yiga OC, is on thin ice. The person I wrote my Yiga Shenanigans with has since deactivated, and she's got a very tight-knit Yiga Clan to work with made with myself and some friends. So I will have her blog archived, on the chance that an opportunity presents itself to actually let her be used again.

Kyla... Kyla... I do not know about Kyla. She was once one of my main muses, back when I was a kid and didn't have the confidence to write characters that had canon personalities. She's been with me my entire RPing journey, even before I had a Tumblr account, much less this Tumblr account. So there is a large part of me that does not want to let her go. But at the same time... I know that she's evolved far past how she is here. She's evolved so many times over the years, it's hard to go back to how she used to be. She's gone from an Undertale OC, to a general OC, to now being a party member in a story for a game I hopefully will get to make one day, with an entire character arc from there. I think for Kyla... The best option is for her to be retired. As a character, she just does not match who she once was, and if she's going to experience this volatile of a change between her interpretations I can't justify keeping her on an RP blog, especially not one to herself. It's not fair to me, and it's not fair to writing partners.

Now. Those of you who know how many damn blogs I have know that this isn't every blog I have. I still have yet to mention Steve, the Mega Man Killers, Shantae, or Kaladin. Well, I will now mention Steve, The Mega Man Killers, Shantae, and Kaladin.

Steve, over at @rocks-the-block, will stay. I will not back out of my promise just because I need to do some trimming. Steve's a riot to write, and he's my sole Tumblr-exclusive muse. Not to mention due to his mostly lighthearted nature, he's extremely easy to write asks as.

Shantae, over at @halfgeniefullhero, is also staying. She's one of my personal favorite characters to write, but she's a bit more high energy than some of the others.

The Mega Man Killers Enker, Ballade, and Punk over at @mega-man-hunters will be staying, but will remain low activity. To be honest I have no idea what the Mega Man RP community is like anymore due to my extended hiatus, so I need to stay back a bit, and actually watch and see before throwing them in again.

Kaladin, over at @stormblessedknight, is not only staying, he will be getting friends. Turns out I like writing a lot more Cosmere characters than just our eternally depressed bridgeboy. Who knew reading the rest of the books would make me want to write more characters from the books? I will reveal those characters at a later date, but just know that among them, there is at least one Mistborn character, and at least one Elantris character. Unlike Will, I do not care that there is next to no Stormlight RP scene. I will make one if I have to. They're also open to Multiverse shenanigans!

TL;DR up to this point, I am keeping the following blogs.

@gun-summoner (Henry, Nowi, Donnel, and Freyja are moving here as well) @look-at-my-badge (Layton and Raphael are moving here as well) @children-of-valm @wyverntribe @rocks-the-block @mega-man-hunters @halfgeniefullhero @stormblessedknight

The following blogs will be archived and potentially brought back at a later date

@monado-iii @redeemed-professor @yiga-banana

The following blogs are defunct. The characters have either been moved to another blog, or have been scrapped.

@fer-ma-fer-glory (moved to @gun-summoner) @loving-nightmare (moved to @gun-summoner) @mini-manakete (moved to @gun-summoner) @grim-grinner (moved to @gun-summoner) @rhythm-king (moved to @look-at-my-badge) @no-puzzle-unsolved (moved to @look-at-my-badge) @duwang--gang (scrapped) @txtris-king (scrapped) @redmont-ranger (scrapped unfortunately) @pxinted-hero (scrapped) @dash-and-slash (scrapped) @mxdern-mage (scrapped)

Now. This leaves me with a total of 8 RP blogs. Which is a normal number to have. Feels a bit small but I also was making an RP blog for literally every character I could.

However, I will not only have 8 blogs. I will be adding one more.

I've been... really into Persona lately. Like, making infographics for a potential Chuggaaconroy-style Persona 5 Royal LP into it.

I will not disclose who the blog will be for, or if it will only be for one character or not. I will say though, that having an announcement of a new blog when I just had to remove a ton of the others sounds a bit delusional... maybe I just need to... Face Myself.

[razanartuk]

about me tag game thing

i was tagged by the wonderful @nothingunrealistic! thank you very much ily <3

under read more bc i was not capable of keeping my answers brief this time around

why did you choose your url?

this...was supposed to be a short explanation but it turned into quite a tale so strap in i guess because we are going on a ride. back in 2017 i was just getting into musical theatre rp and i was still feeling too shy to really talk to anyone ooc so i would just wait for people i wanted to interact with to post starter calls so i could just do things in character with them the easy way. So i did this with my friend cam, who posted a starter for me using a lyric from If I Could Tell Her. she linked the song so i could listen to it, so i did and i went ‘wait a minute, is that Ben Platt from Pitch Perfect?? (and other things too, but i only recognized his voice at the time bc of the acappella girl movies)’ and yes it certainly was.

i had zero idea what the plot of Dear Evan Hansen was about at that point, and for some reason based off Just That One Song and the poster art of who i assumed was Some Guy in a Polo Shirt i started to think it was about some jock guy who broke his arm and had an emo/goth friend who had either died or gone missing under mysterious circumstances. also i intuited that Evan had a crush on his friend’s sister but he couldn’t tell her that directly or his emo friend would kick his ass. so i was like mostly wrong, but a little bit right.

oh and i knew jared and alana were characters from the show bc cam said that they were i think?? but i had no idea what their role was. so after listening to if i could tell her, i listened to good for you and all i really got out of that was that evan the apparently not-jock guy had done...something... that really hurt jared and alana. and at that point i finally decided to go look up a plot synopsis and i found out i was waaay off base. but honestly this is why cast recordings should include scene dialogue in the songs bc otherwise you just get soundtracks like dear evan hansen where the songs have like. zero context. we really just go from waving through a window to for forever to sincerely me without like. any reason as to what is happening huh. It’s honestly not a surprise anymore that all those people on twitter had no idea the plot isn’t about gay teenagers.

anyways. cam was writing jared and she made a post at one point about wishing somebody would write alana and i was like ‘oh i could do that!’ (after i had actually Seen a bootleg and finally knew what the whole story was, of course) so i made a multimuse rp blog featuring alana beck, nabulungi hatimbi, chloe valentine and some other characters, and cam started sharing her headcanons with me that alana is trans, jared and alana were close friends when they were little kids but they sort of drifted apart as they got older and their priorities in life changed, jared was the first person alana came out to when she realized she’s trans, etc.

one night i started talking about wanting to pick a more theatre-relevant url for my blog and trans-[character name] urls were getting pretty popular, and at least 3 of the friends i made through rp had changed theirs to coordinating trans-[character name] and i think it was cam suggested i should make mine be trans-alana so i did. eventually i realized the unhyphenated version was available so i changed it to transalana with no hyphen and i have lived here ever since. sometimes i think about changing it but i feel like transalana has become a part of My Brand and i am not so great with coming up with cool names for things.

any side blogs? if you have them, name them and why you have them

in theory, i have sideblogs... i don’t really use them, but of the ones i do have, there is:

emsbookblog - this was supposed to be where i would post excerpts of the book that i’m working on, but i think i did that maybe one time roughly 2 years ago and then promptly forgot about it/got nervous about my writing and was scared to share anything else. the rest of the stuff that is there is assorted writing tips. i don’t really know what to do with it now. i probably should post all my little thoughts about em and anita and caleb there instead of infodumping on my main from time to time, but if i do that then i have to promo a sideblog and direct people over to it which is always annoying to me when i could just do it on this blog which is much easier

dearnovelhansen - this is basically no longer used, but was a sideblog i made specifically to talk/complain about the novel adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen which was about 3 years ago?? maybe? i can’t be trusted to understand the passage of time. but to summarize: i thought it was an honor just to have the story be made more accessible since many of us couldn’t see the stage performance, but i hated a lot of the creative liberties that were taken. my main grumbles are that everyone who isn’t evan or connor is done so dirty in the novel. connor’s still kind of done dirty in the book, but not as much as like. heidi, alana, jared, and zoe are.

horseisle3 - this one was meant to be a place where i could just enthusiastically post screenshots from hi3, but instead it turned into a blog where i occasionally reblog other players’ hi3 content and bitch about how bad the game admins are bc hi3 is the tumblr famous (infamous?) homophobic horse game. the game where it was once okay to call your club store the gulag bc according to their head of hr, ‘it’s just a russian word for prison’ but you can’t say ‘im gay’ without somebody accusing you of corrupting young children who play the game. unfortunately there aren’t very many good interactive horse games out there, so this one is still about as good as it gets. it’s either that or star stable and i don’t care about star stable.

mlaenie - i’ve had this url saved for i don’t even know how long. way way way back in the day when i wanted to escape from the clutches of the onceler fandom i abandoned my first blog where i basically had an alter ego i guess?? and i decided to just be myself on the new blog. i don’t fully remember who came up with it, but one of my sister’s mutuals suggested that if you scrambled the letters in your name you could come up with aesthetic-looking urls. so lauren’s url became lrauen, and to match with her mine became mlaenie, which i abandoned on tumblr after about a year or so? but have continued to use as my main username on twitter, reddit, youtube, xbox, steam, and discord. i barely ever use any of these accounts aside from twitter, steam, and xbox, but yeah. so i’ve decided to try and turn this empty sideblog into a place for video game thoughts maybe. we’ll see how long it lasts this time around.

how long have you been on tumblr?

i made my first tumblr account in december of 2010, but i didn’t understand how to use it at all or how to customize my theme to look cool and unique so i quickly abandoned it. i made a new account in september of 2011 after some kids at school and my sister told me i should and i have been trapped here with varying degrees of activity/inactivity ever since. i have witnessed the rise and fall of the lorax/onceler fandom, hyperfocused on lord of the rings, star wars and back to the future all at the same time, and for the past 4 years i’ve mostly been a musical theatre blog with assorted other fandom stuff mixed in. i feel i have seen everything and nothing, but mostly i’m just tired and bored.

do you have a queue tag?

no bc i don’t use a queue. i’ve tried using it in the past but i irrationally feel pressured to sustain a coherent theme to queued posts and my brain simply does not vibe with that so i just don’t use it at all anymore. Instead i instantly reblog or post several unrelated thoughts in succession and then don’t post again at all for 3 days. the way god intended

why did you start your blog in the first place?

my very first blog was intended to be a place for me to post all of my petz 5 animals’ profile info, but i didn’t have any understanding of how coding worked at all and i don’t think i really wanted to learn, either. so it just sat there, unused. my second attempt at blogging was as a classic rock fandom person, so as you can probably imagine i was pretty pretentious about ‘modern pop’ vs the beatles, the rolling stones, the who, the monkees, and so on. and then i slowly devolved into a lorax fandom blog and everything went to shit so i made a new blog for lord of the rings/the hobbit which later evolved to include star wars and back to the future blogging. and then for the past 4 years i’ve been mainly a musical theatre blog with other random stuff i like thrown haphazardly into the pot. wonderful.

why did you choose your icon/pfp?

because my url is transalana and two of my most prominent lgbt headcanons are that alana beck is trans and a lesbian. i gotta be shouting out @kinqmike though bc she’s the one i adopted the trans alana beck headcanon from in the first place!

why did you choose your header?

in 2017 i was hyperfixating on Dear Evan Hansen (and Be More Chill, but there weren’t many gif-able videos then considering it ran for a month in New Jersey in 2015 and there was only one yet-to-resurface 35 minute bootleg) so i just grabbed a random gif off of google. i really should get to replacing it with a new header of my own though. i just don’t know what i should do for it.

what’s your post with the most notes?

i have lost track of how many notes it has (i think it’s somewhere around 200 now?) but when Will Roland and George Salazar performed Two Player Game on Good Morning America, i posted a screencap of their Jeremy and Michael along with that one quiz answer meme that says stuff like ‘i want to see it grow up healthy’. i didn’t tag it with any ship names or anything because i was anxious about having it show up in the tags, but somebody who reblogged it from me did tag it as boyf riends and i firmly believe it took off because of that. i don’t think i make posts that are relevant enough to amass thousands of notes, even by accident. which is probably a good thing bc if i did i would have to block so many of them.

how many followers do you have?

on this blog? 175 according to the counter. how many of those are still real people and how many are bots and abandoned accounts? i have no idea.

how many people do you follow?

i try to keep it somewhere around 200. i think i’m sitting at 180 right now but i kind of need to go through and clear out the really inactive blogs.

have you made a shitpost?

let’s think about this for a second. i’ve been on tumblr for nearly 10 years. you might even be able to say i’ve made more than one. they’re just not what you would call...popular shitposts.

how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ post?

that stuff makes me so incredibly anxious that i have to fight the urge to want to yeet my laptop or mobile device through the closest window whenever i read it, so i try very hard to avoid any sort of ‘if you don’t reblog this, i’m judging you’ posts. i find them very manipulative and not particularly helpful

do you like tag games?

yeah babey!! i just frequently forget to do them, but please know that if you have ever tagged me in a tag game i felt incredibly touched by the gesture and the @mention even if i completely forgot to do the thing afterward

do you like ask games?

i do! but also rip to literally anyone who has ever sent me an ask meme bc it takes me so long to answer them. i’m still working on a micro fic prompt from a few weeks ago. also, horrified to realized that it has in fact been a few weeks and not 3 days anymore.

which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

i don’t know that any are tumblr famous as a whole. but probably @neverheardnothing

do you have a crush on a mutual?

in any sort of romantic connotation? no. not that i’m aware of. there are mutuals that i have friend crushes on where i want to be friends with them but i get so anxious when it comes to meeting new people that usually nothing ever comes of it. i’m really not good at small talk or other casual conversation either which, as you may or may not be able to imagine, sucks. i just wanna skip over all of the awkward introductions and ‘hey how are you, how is life, what are you doing with yourself?’ stuff. not because i don’t care about it. i do, but i think most of my friends/the people i want to be my friends are also depressed and anxious so asking these basic questions about life tends to uh. make us all nervous. and i don’t do much with my life so i always have the most boring answers anyways.

i’m not tagging anyone officially bc the @ thing has just completely given up on me at this point, but if you want to do it, go for it. and then say i tagged you so i can read it c:

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1. how many muses, do you think, have you had in total while on tumblr?

Easily over 30. Most of them I have as unused sideblogs still, but I know there are a few shorter lived ones that are no longer with us. 

2. are there any tropes that pull you in or that you realise are reoccuring in your muses?

I tend to write a lot of mentor type muses. I also have a thing for writing mercenaries and Russians that I didn’t realize until I’d had a whole bunch and a friend pointed it out to me.

3. do you often get ideas when watching new media? do you end up wanting a canon character, an oc in that world, or just things involving current muses in the world / with those characters?

Oh all the fucking time. Pretty much any media I consume at least gives me new concepts if not a whole ass muse. Plenty of them honestly end up just living in the discord dms of whoever I chose to scream at about them, but sometimes they actually make it on site. I rarely, and I mean rarely, get the urge to write canons in anything. It’s typically OCs, either wholly separate ones or ideas I can apply to some existing one.

4. what’s the weirdest muse you’ve ever had?

One that’s never made it to tumblr, for sure. Weirdest one that has? Probably my Fae OC, Rosson. He’s...off, let’s say, even among other Fae. 

5. who is / was your favourite muse of all time to play?

That is tough. Purely from a how fun they’ve been to write and not so much about the events I’ve written/who I’ve written them with: probably Gideon. Sparknotes- He’s a relatively young but immortal mage who just has like no freaking filter. He’s a wise-cracking, pop culture spitting, always says what he means and has no shame ball of fun. 

6. is there a muse you’d add or bring back if you didn’t have to worry about whether others are interested in them or not?

If I wasn’t so worried about them coming under scrutiny I would bring over several of my muses that are part of a world I came up with years ago. So any of one of them, really.

7. what age group, gender and ethnicity do you most often end up playing?

Often 30 years old or older cis white men. That’s not the goal, but a quick onceover of my multi (the highest concentration of muses I have on site) shows that as the consensus. I don’t so much set out to have it that way, but it’s how things have shaken out so far.

8. who is your latest muse? can be someone you’re only considering / not planning to play at all, but is tempting you.

Working on bringing one of my Dragon Age: Inquisition Inquisitors to tumblr. Just gonna replay the game first to refresh myself on the story and such.

9. have the types of characters you play changed over the years?

Oh yea. Since joining tumblr I tend to be marginally more grounded with characters. I used to deal pretty much exclusively with fantastical powers and such-and I certainly don’t shy away from them now-but I’m far more willing to write muses with more toned down abilities, or no powers at all even. 

10. if you play original muses with canon roots  ( like oc siblings, coworkers, etc. )  or someone who’s been either just a name or a few lines of dialogue in canon, how do you build that character? do you pick the muse first and build from there, or do you need have the muse ready in your head and only then pick the connection, or a combination of the two?

So it’s rare that I make OCs that are like super directly related to/are underutilized canons. I might have them tangentially related, but typically in a way that if you pluck that canon out, the story/muse still works so I’m not reliant on it by any stretch. There have been a few occasions where I did do something to this affect, but they’re typically special cases. The 3 that come to mind are Dmitri- My OC Harley Quinn child that was the product of a magic anon years ago, Sully- A Gotham City Rogue that I built up to be very much woven into the fabric of Gotham and familiar with/to its various players, and Boris Turgenov- the very first Crimson Dynamo from Marvel comics who died in the same issue he appeared in. I got the idea on a while to flesh him out because I was like ‘they bring back like every bit character at some point why not him’ because as I researched, he’s hardly even been brought up and never revived since that initial appearance/death. I pretty much just made up what I thought ‘made sense’ at the time to explain his survival/continued existence.

11. have you ever built or picked up a muse because you wanted to use a certain faceclaim? how did it go?

I rarely make a muse solely for the sake of an FC. Typically, in OC creation in general these days, I’ll have an idea sorta just floating around unattached and then I’ll see a face and go ‘that’s a good face’ and keep it in mind, then at some point the idea and the face will link up in my mind (maybe I’ll see something the FC is in and it exhibits characteristics and mannerisms that line up with the idea) and go from there. It’s going pretty well so far.

12. what’s the weirdest thing that has ever inspired you to make or pick up a muse?

The song Between The Bars by Elliot Smith. The muse has never been finished, but it did spark an idea.

13. have you ever not gone through with playing / adding / making a blog for a muse because you’ve feared no one would care about that specific muse?

I’ve never held off on it because I thought nobody would care, but there are a few I’ve held off on because I thought people wouldn’t like them.

14. if you see that a friend of yours has just made a blog for a muse you were planning to play, will you still make the blog?

Yea, probably. One person’s portrayal of a character doesn’t take away from another’s. Hell, depending on the muse/friend, I might even suggest we figure out a way to make our versions of the character interact and see what hilarity ensues.

15. which muses of yours have currently very dead fandoms?

None right now. As it stands, all my muses are either OCs in fandoms that are still thriving or unaffiliated with any fandom at all.