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[taxi-davis]

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[mcyt-college-au]

🟊 Welcome, to WSU 🟊

Welcome to Wyrmstone University, one of the best higher level learning facilities in the Overworld. Here, students of any and all origins can learn in an innovative and engaging workspace. We also take pride in our community, and offer many clubs and student societies open to everyone. No matter what courses you plan on taking, we can assure you that the years you spend here at Wyrmstone will be some of the best of your life. Now, only one question remains: What’s your major?

MCYT College AU, also called What’s Your Major? or WSU AU, is a collaborative AU made by the Traffic Mafia Crew™. Although labeled ‘MCYT,’ the AU has a strong focus on Hermitcraft and Empires SMP, with occasional others scattered in between.

It is set in an urban fantasy/low magic world, filled with humans, hybrids, witches, and more, with a proper magic system and everything (plotholes may be included)! Also featured, is a full world layout with several different realms. From classics like the Overworld, Nether and End, to lesser known lands, such as the Ether, the Deep Dark and the Undersea.

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This is an askblog, so feel free to send in questions about the worldbuilding, characters or the blog in general. Along the way, we also hope to create many different things for the AU, so keep an eye out for that too! 

Tag System! (thanks Night)

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#WSU Library = Writing

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This was created and produced by the cast of the life smp mafia server, lice-[GUNSHOTS]

#WSU Community Notice Board #hello world! #welcome to two(?) days worth of stupidity aka Wyrmstone! #Edit: changed around some dividers cause I'm fussy #Mod Error

[malinaa]

TOP 9 BOOKS

tagged : @hmsharmony ty jennifer this was SOOO hard oh my god like. genuinely agonized me for days to think about what to choose but it was SOOO fun tho <3 tagging : @rosesau | @evcndiaz | @pendrgcn | @gayarthur | @the-tenth-arcanum | @oretsev | @wherepoetsdie | @bellamyblakru | @ryekat & anyone else who wants to do it !!! rules : list your top 9 books obviously. i cheated a little and put series as as one option because that's just who i am as a person. most of these i chose at random from my 5 star reads from the past few years btw

1. percy jackson and the olympians (series) by rick riordan

i was never a big reader in elementary school—or at least not to the extent that my classmates had been. my sixth grade english class required us to bring a personal book from home for silent reading and i stole my brother's spine-cracked copies of pjo and brought them to class. i finished the whole series in less than a school week (i had to scramble to the library to pick up another series because the single novel should have lasted me at least three weeks). pjo literally kickstarted my love for reading as a hobby and i truly don't know how to state the importance it had on my little ten-year-old brain fr

2. on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

i have never read a book more beautiful in prose and so uncommonly human than this. there's just something so incredibly heartbreaking knowing this whole book is the narrator's letter to his mother who can't read! like what the fuck

3. alone with you in the ether by olivie blake

this came as a surprise to Me when i first read it. i meandered through the first quarter, loving the writing style but feeling disconnected from the characters until the Church Hand Scene™ and it was hook, line, and sinker at that point (i have since come to love the disconnectedness in subsequent rereads, knowing that the feeling was the Point). i have read this book four (4) times since i read it first last year. LAST YEAR!!! olivie has like... fundamentally altered my brain chemistry or something because i feel like everything i have written since having read this book has been somewhat influenced by it.

4. much ado about nothing by william shakespeare

what can i say! this is theeeeeee romcom ever. i have watched so many adaptations of this play, read it countless of times and can recite some iconic lines, and still the banter between benedick and beatrice is sooo elite. cannot be topped!!

5. a place for us by fatima farheen mirza

fun fact: seed rec'd this book to me and has been reccing it to anybody who would listen. the prose is so lush and melancholic. it's one of those books where nothing Really happens, but you feel Every Emotion Under The Sun and you're just like. altered by reading it

6. the song of achilles by madeline miller

obviously.... OBVIOUSLYYYYYYY this had to go here. if i had two nickels for every greek myth retelling i read during school that fundamentally changed me etc etc u get it. i read this as a junior in high school when we, yet again, had to bring a personal book to read durin class. i think at that point of my life, i've never read something that tragic yet so beautiful at the same time and now i am always looking at the beautiful and tragic in media. so! there u go! brain cells rewired and whatnot!

7. the grisha trilogy by leigh bardugo

this is funny because i . technically did not rate any of these books 5 stars i'm sobbing. but like, considering the fact that my url is what it is and the way i always have them in the back of my mind, it's no wonder that i put them here. i have such an odd attachment to these books and these characters. i had copies of these books since their release but didn't touch them until ... before the sab tv release which is so fucking funny. like i don't know what i would be like if i read this as a t(w)een. i would've been so fucking insufferable ngl

8. when my brother was an aztec by natalie diaz

i actually read this for an assignment and had to write a report on it and i had SO much fun doing it. diaz plays a lot with hunger and her imagery is literally unmatched. i think about the way she contructs sentences and am filled with such envy. my beginning sentence for my paper was a nod to her style (though i failed miserably). it was: "in a paradoxical sleight of hand, hunger feeds in natalie diaz's debut." she is just. so fucking good at words i need to CHOMP on it

9. sharp objects by gillian flynn

you know the thing where you see a really popular author for a really long time and they have their work adapted to the screen and it's so good but you still haven't read their actual writing? yeah, that was me with gillian flynn (specifically about gone girl). i read gone girl, i read sharp objects, i read her short story the grownup, i'm currently reading the last novel of hers that i haven't read, dark places, and flynn is just so... incredibly good at constructing harrowing stories. it's no wonder why all three of her novels got adapted to the screen! her prose is so grounded. vivid. there's this ease to her writing that, whenever i concurrently read another novel, i always find the other piece to be lacking. i slink back to flynn's prose and immerse myself in her awful, human worlds.

#tag games #book recs #text #tais toi lys

[waveringlight]

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[jeanmoreaux]

*✧ — JANUARY 2023 WRAP UP

posting this wrap up super late because i can. i am struggling™ and reading is probably one of the only things keeping me afloat right now; consuming any other type of media is currently not working for me. also, i am rereading the hp books for uni and i haven’t read any of them since 2007. i can’t say i absolutely hate them but some things are very icky, and you know, fuck jkr.

2023 goal: 24/100 books

as alway, feel free to drop book recs, questions, or opinions in my inbox; i am always happy to talk to you about books!

* –> newly added to my favorites shelf

follow my goodreads | follow my storygraph | previous wrap ups

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An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helen Trusten | 2.5★ | review

Bastard by Max de Radiguès | 5★

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg | 3.5★ | review

Not Here to Be Liked by Michelle Quach | 3.75★ 

The Story of Art without Men by Kate Hessel | 4.5★ | review

I'm the Girl by Courtney Summers | 4.75★ | review

The Waves by Virginia Woolf | 5★ | review

Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung | 4★

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala | 4.75★ | review

On Beauty by Zadie Smith | 4★ | review

Zaïda by Anne Cuneo | 2.25★ | review

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher | 4★

Außer sich by Sasha Marianna Salzmann | no rating | review

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry | 4.75★ | review

Vladimir by Julia May Jonas | 3.75★ | review

* Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood | 5★

Stancliffe's Hotel by Charlotte Brontë | 4★

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford | 3.5★

The Book of Night Women by James Marlon | 4.75★ | review

The Bodyguard by Katherine Center | 3.5★

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale | 3.75★ | review

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake | 4.25★ | review

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling | no rating

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne | 4.5★

#wrap up #goodreads #the storygraph #book recs #mish reads

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[venacoeurva]

I'm having some Thoughts(tm) on engagement and consumption on here today

I really cannot jive with people who criticize those who dislike like-spamming and those who complain about likes vs. reblogs and engagement problems. Like-spamming not only

Gets in the way of other notifs, so you have to filter by type (just annoying), and I don’t even know if people with old devices that can’t update even have the option TO filter on their app’s version

Does nothing for OP as likes only inflate numbers uselessly and keep a post on hand for YOU in your likes. This isn't Twitter or Instagram. They are that useless here.

WILL have people think you're a bot if everything about your account looks default and reblogged nothing or only post links to another site/an app, and you'll get blocked by everyone

But on top of that, it's usually being done by people who never, ever give us any actual feedback or engagement and just disappear into the ether after liking 2 years worth of posts. I don't know wtf you want to see more of, you didn't reblog or reply on favorites. I just know you came in here, spammed a tag or my most recent posts, then left.

And I have the fortune of having a moderate following on here from before passive consumers and that mindset moseyed in from other social media with those functions in mind and expect an algorithm to do the job for them that made it even harder for newer, smaller people to get a foothold and feedback.

 Bigger accounts are impacted by this, too, so can you imagine if that’s the ONLY notifs you ever get as a new artist or similar on here? A younger artist maybe? It would feel demoralizing, like nobody thinks your art is worth sharing to others, and a lot of people have spoken about how low meaningful engagement and nobody actually reblogging their posts drove them to post something less or stop completely on posts discussing this issue.

Of course, you shouldn’t hinge if you do or don’t draw/write/make GIFs/etc. on social feedback exclusively, it’s a passion after all. A focus exclusively on numbers is unhealthy and clout chasing is a problem in this day and age. But people create as a means of communication and socialization. It’s completely normal to want people to see your message, respond to your message, and is very much human to want validation and not a hollow, thoughtless acknowledgement only (especially all-encompassing spam-liking that feels almost robotic) can certainly come across as.

Wanting attention and validation is human, and ffs people complaining about low engagement and wanting more reblogs vs likes isn’t guilt tripping by nature unless someone actually starts guilt tripping like those stupid additions to posts about a social issue that makes people decidedly not reblog it.  They are just telling it as it is, and they are telling you what to do if you want them to keep posting here most likely.

It’s not greedy, people put in hours and days and months and even years into this shit and want it to be acknowledged and people are not using this site as intended and they are frustrated--that is completely natural. People are frustrated that passively viewing and moving on silently in this era of social media has become a norm and they are frustrated, that does not make them greedy, unappreciative, or guilt-trippy in itself. Tumblr is a POST SHARING SITE. YOU SHARE POSTS ON HERE. SO SHARE THEM.

I can confidently say that anyone will value one reblog with feedback (even if it is just emphatic keyboard smashing lol) than 50 likes in a row on something they made by someone they will never have any level of conversation or further interaction with. Liking, and mass-liking, tells us nothing except you're there. it's about as useful as lurking. We LOVE to read tags, in fact I go back all the time to read them, and they tell me about what specific topics, art styles, and so on people like and want to see more of. 

Stop passively consuming content, start engaging with it. Otherwise, you don’t get to wonder why someone stopped one day and moved to another site or some such where they actually get feedback and people responding in meaningful ways. People whine about people moving to Twitter as their main social media all the time, but guess what people get over there way more than here nowadays unless you’re an absolutely massive account here? Active engagement by their followers and peers.

#vena vents #not art #passive consumption #okay to reblog

[star-scripts]

Hoping to finally write again, so hello there! 💖

Made this post at 2am initially, in hopes that I'll be more inclined to write something sooner if I have this out there, even if no one responds.

About me:

My name: On this account feel free to call me Star/Scribe/Oh Most Sparse Writer When Are You Gonna Actually Post™. Friends coming over might call me by my other blog too so if you see that feel free to check that side of my work too.

Age: I'm an adult, early 20s is all you're getting for numbers though. 🤣 That does mean I may delve into 18+ works, but I'll sort out if I'll make another blog or cap the age on this one when we get there.

Pronouns: I go by she/her preferably? Not super opposed to anything else though I think?

Background: Lifelong art student, went for creative writing in a specialized HS, and now attending an Art College with dreams of becoming a concept artist in the future.

How I got into Writing: Parents let me watch LoTR as soon as I was old enough and they regret it everyday/j (it's the reason I got obsessed with fantasy, mythology, etc.)

Other obsessions: Also obsessed with Star Wars, so uh... Expect a bit of a range and a bit of whiplash every few months when my interests change. 😅 (Particularly Clone Troopers, Mandalorians, and the SWTOR era).

Additional little Fun Fact™: I've never broken a bone!

Everything else is under a read-more for ease and length! Please enjoy reading if you're interested!!

Edit: Here's the link to my current Progress List!

Current genres I write in:

Fantasy (from general, to niches like urban fantasy and Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy)

Sci-Fi

LOTS of romance, I'm a starved lil hopeless romantic so forewarning.

Probably some Historical Fiction in there eventually?

Current fandoms I write for:

The Hobbit/LoTR/The Silmarillion

Star Wars (SWTOR/Prequels/TCW/Mando/BoBF)

Dragon Age (All games)

Might write for Elder Scrolls? But likely more to fill the void for Mer-centric fics than any of the usual figures?

Hopefully I'll get to Mass Effect again, so I can write for that too!

Tropes I love/Trope Warning:

Modern [Person] In [World]

Love this trope and always have, the culture clash plus the tragedy of knowing the future of each person you come to love? The danger of knowing all their secrets? How does the protag fix the story with this? What do the Powers That Be do in order to damper this?

The REVERSAL of "Modern [Person] In [World]"!

Literally so good and there is NOTHING out there. Gotta come up with a tag for it so people might use it some day. Similar reasons, the culture clashes and the Tragedy Of Knowing ™, but put on its head as the character(s) try and navigate a world so foreign to them, but so mundane to us?

Opposites Attract

This may be more of a warning, but I'm also a fan of this particular trope. So, as a short woman, this tends to lead to a lot of tol/smol dynamics with men leaning on the taller side of it? Unlikeky to change outside of specific requests and also because so many characters I love are like... Literally nearing 7ft. so no one is ever much taller. 🤣

Inhuman/Human Couples

I love this stuff a bunch, but also loath how modern media continues to put feminine people as the "ethereal beauty" in these sorts of couples. Is it truly too much to want a very handsome elf/fae/alien man to find a human such as myself to be attractive? Gonna probably write a bunch for this because I can't throttle the modern movie/TV industry.

Liminal Spaces

I grew up moving a LOT, so I grew very well aquatinted with the Target Parking At 2am feel, and the Driving Through Corn Through The Night vibe. Hopefully I'll be able to bring that original writing back to get to work with this again! In fact, there's a short story of mine I did for HS that I'd love to fix up to put here that deals with this.

"Slightly To The Left"

Similar to Liminal Spaces, though this trope more applies to objects, animals, and people. Waking up to your phone on your nightstand, but it's the wrong shade, and the ringtone sounds fuzzy. You want to believe that the person you met at the edge of your camp site is normal, human—but their eyes dont shine, their smiles never show teeth, and why does their voice sound like two at once?

Other tropes, and other info, to be added eventually as I realize or run into them!

#writing #writblr #new writers on tumblr #new blog #its 3am now #fanfic #fan fiction #original writing #original character #fan character #fanworks #original works #new writing project #new writing blog #star wars #lotr #dragon age #character centric #but also some x readers or blank protags eventually??

[corellianhounds]

11. “Do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings”?

11. Do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings?” Are you a ruthless darling assassin? What happens to the darlings you murder? Do you have a darling graveyard? Do you grieve?

Yes. “Kill your darlings” is editing/technical advice that refers to any lines, scenes, segments, ideas, subplots, characters, or pieces of a story that don’t fit within that part of the writing for whatever reason and need to be cut out to make the story the most effective piece it can be. Those bits don’t have to be cast to the ether never to be seen again, it just means they’re not working for your story. They can be put somewhere else, either in a different spot of the same story or in a different piece entirely. Don’t throw anything in the trash, just copy and paste them into your notes for later.

In short, don’t get too precious about something you’ve come up with that distracts or detracts from the story; anything you include has to point to either the plot, the character/s, or the world in some way.

The point of a first draft is to get everything out onto the paper, every interesting turn of phrase or idea that could lead somewhere. You have a Michelin quality kitchen at your disposal and you’re getting ready to cook— But you may not need all the ingredients you’ve brought to the table for the final dish in the end. So put them back in the fridge and the cellar to use for later

Obviously fanfic by its nature is self indulgent. Do whatever you want if you’re just writing for fun— But if your objective is to tell a well-crafted story, one that is effective in what you’re trying to say, don’t be afraid to trim things down and condense as much as you can into less words. Contrary to popular belief, higher word counts do not automatically equal better stories. Most of my favorite stories across any media are the ones that are condensed and compact and pack a punch because they say a lot in fewer words

(A good chunk of my criticisms for some of the recent shows have been about improving and streamlining the storytelling. TBoBF and season 3 of Mando especially both have severe problems in including a bunch of extraneous Cool Stuff™ that isn’t necessary and doesn’t add to the story, often detracts from the story, and takes up valuable screen time that could have been used more effectively. Favreau and Filoni needed a better writing/editing team in the room to focus the episodes on what really mattered imo lol)

#ask games #‘Use brevity’ I say #and then I don’t #sorry for the tangent 😂 #Q&A

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[olderthannetfic]

I recently started a new fandom with a canon mlm couple, beautifully executed, with really lovely chemistry and a heartbreaking arc so far. I was so excited. Now, people from an old fandom have started comparing them to the favourite fandom ship when they're completely different; in story, in relationship dynamic, in setting, in chemistry, in the way they talk. In every way. But fandom is shoe-horning this new pairing into the same tired old tropes. And they're making the black man into a huge, dominant character in some art/fic, and the white dude into a small, frail, twink. They're canonically the same size. If anything, the white dude is more thickly built.

Why do fandoms do this? Why is it so difficult to enjoy the chemistry and dynamics of what is actually there? Is this a common thing you have seen across lots of fandoms as someone with experience? It probably makes me a bad person, but as a gay guy, I'm becoming more and more uncomfortable in fandom as time passes. I block, I press the back button, but it seems to be so prevalent I might as well not bother.

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Heh. Nice attempt to avoid spoilers, though I'm pretty sure I already know what this is. (And if I'm right, yes, I see why you don't want to spoil.)

Long story short, yes, this is extremely common.

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There's a lot to unpack here, both about what's going on and about how you're perceiving it. Here are some thoughts:

Fandom constantly shoehorns new ships into the mold of a previous favorite. It's extremely annoying to fans who don't share a love of that prior dynamic and invisible to ones who do. Beware of thinking that your interpretation of this new dynamic is objective truth even if you're closer to canon than those other people are.

Big seme/small uke is a very common taste. So is dom who also literally tops in the sex position sense/sub bottom. People who aren't into this ultra common taste are often alienated by the fic/art output of a fandom.

"As a gay guy" meaning you think it's women doing this? Outsiders projecting onto people like you? I hate to tell you, but gay dudes' art for other gay dudes is constantly guilty of making the big one top and of being horny for racist stereotypes. It's fine to find the pattern uncomfortable and want to avoid it, but I would not assume the taste gap is just because you're a gay man or that none of these other people are.

That said, there does tend to be a genre difference between BL and geikomi, between slash fanfiction and gay lit from a gay press. Depending on your prior media diet, the particular way fandom is writing about this might feel especially new and jarring.

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The "willowy, ethereal twink" nonsense is endemic to slash/BL fandoms.

The old Man from UNCLE tv series has two guys who are about the same age and height, but the very slightly smaller one is the sardonic Russian scientist panty-dropper in a black turtleneck and the slightly bigger one is the American agent in a suit. In fic, Illya is like 10 years younger, a thousand times willowier, and frequently badtouched by the villains. Napoleon is a rapist or a bland, supportive prop.

It's not because Illya is othered as a Soviet agent or because people hate Napoleon. It's because Illya has all the qualities that guaranteed he'd be fandom's favorite.

The Fave™ is the one who gets this treatment in any fandom.

Now, in terms of racism, choice of fave is absolutely not neutral. Some of that is fans. A lot of that is that casting is wildly racist.

Fave-ness tends to go along with being the Single Perfect Tear one in canon. It tends to go along with being a Beautiful Mess instead of a supportive friend. You're not going to get a canonical single perfect tear black woobie with an endlessly supportive white bestie very often. At best, you might get a beautiful mess next to beautiful messes of the same ethnicity or a canon where they're both a bit of a mess. It's the same kind of process where any crime show with a Genius and a babysitter always makes the woman or the POC the babysitter and the Genius a white man.

Seme/uke dynamics (let's call them that for the moment since this is something more than just who sticks it in or who's a dom) tend to pick the more emotional character for the uke. It might be the one who's more of an audience entry point POV character. It might be the more emotionally accessible one due to them talking more about feelings. Even in cases where the seme is a mess emotionally, they're often a "clam" whose secret insides we don't know that well at first.

Look at The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty and how one dude is the manic pixie dream guy and the other is the PTSD-ridden clam. Look at The Untamed with its compelling hot mess and stoic but secretly pining love interest. When it's a more BL-y canon, they tend to go ahead and cast for the body dimorphism this audience likes in the first place.

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No, I don't love it either when fandom's choice of seme grows 2 feet for fan art and the uke is a waif, but it has always been a strong pattern. It comes from a lot of people having a taste for a certain kind of shorthand about dynamics.

I would bet, even without knowing what canon this is for sure, that the white one is more of an audience entry point or more of a manic pixie dream guy helping a more stoic guy open up.

That virtually guarantees some of this twisting of their dynamic in fanworks. This would still be true even if it were two white guys.

That doesn't mean you have to like it.

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fill out & repost ♥  This meme definitely favors canons more, but I hope OC’s still can make it somehow work with their own lore, and lil’ fandom of friends & mutuals. Multi-Muses pick the muse you are the most invested in atm.

My muse is: canon / oc / au / canon-divergent / fandomless

Is your character popular in the fandom? YES? / NO / IDK

Is your character considered hot™ in the fandom? YES / NO / IDK

Is your character considered strong in the fandom? YES? / NO / IDK

Are they underrated? YES / NO / IDK

Were they relevant for the main story? YES / NO (they are not canon)

Were they relevant for the main character? YES (to an extend)  / NO / 

Are they widely known in their world? YES / NO

How’s their reputation? GOOD / BAD / NEUTRAL

How strictly do you follow canon?

I generally try to follow canon as closely as I can. I allow myself some freedom in certain aspects and sometimes change things to suit my personal taste or when I disagree with canon, but this does not happen very often.

SELL YOUR MUSE! Aka try to list everything, which makes your muse interesting in your opinion to make them spicy for your mutuals.

Are you interested in elements ? The way forces of nature clash in an endless battle as the ages passed. What about an ethereal scholar capable of carving out mountains from the stone and molding a Waterspout from the rain and sea with ease, but they never do that because their a nice person. Do you seek a new hiking buddy with whom you can wander above the clouds (this does not work if you are afraid of heights) and travel around the world ? Warning, this might get boring after a few centuries.

Alright, so Zephyr is by no means as interesting as other characters of mine but there are certain aspects of them that tie into the One Piece lore than can be interesting to explore. For one is there they’re background that goes well past the void century. They have witness a lot of events of the worlds history and their views and knowledge could lead to interesting interactions with other characters. Another aspects are their logia power and the limits and abilities of devil fruits. This has only been touched on a little bit in canon so the nature or reactions of their fruit and how it ties into the overall lore can be very interesting to explore.

Now the OPPOSITE, list everything why your muse could not be so interesting (even if you may not agree, what does the fandom perhaps think?).

Zephyr is by all regards more on an experiment by me than an actually character I would normally write with. They were transfered from my original work into the One Piece Universe and although they have gone through some changes is most of their core essence is the same. Zephyrs story in my original piece is already finished, and they’re nothing more than a supportive side character to the hero. This is very much the same in One Piece. They are not a round character, they don’t go through any big changes or activly pursue a goal. In addition to that is Zephyr also very passive an rarely engages with anyone or anything that is happening in the world. They simply observe and move on with their life. They are also incredibly overpowered, again because I want to explore certain things in this case the limits of a logia devil fruit. And while I tone down their powers a lot story wise and even more in threads or asks, can I imagine that this will turn people away.

What inspired you to rp your muse?

I have been working on this character for quite a while now and as my brain was overflowing with inspiration and creativity I sought to find a place where I can just post some of it and if interested speak with people about my character.

What keeps your inspiration going?

Interactions with others but also just consuming any form of media like music, animes or art that remind me of them. Doing creative work such as drawing and writing also helps to keep my feeling for the character alive.

Some more personal questions for the mun.

Give your mutuals some insight about the way you are in some matters, which could lead them to get more comfortable with you or perhaps not.

Do you think you do your character justice? YES / NO (I don’t think there is any need for that)

Do you frequently write headcanons? YES / NO

Do you sometimes write drabbles? YES / NO

Do you think a lot about your muse during the day? YES / NO

Are you confident in your portrayal? YES-ISH / NO

Are you confident in your writing? YES / NO

Are you a sensitive person? YES / NO

Do you accept criticism well about your portrayal?

I have been in the community for a while, but I am still aspiring to learn more about writing and storybuilding. If people have advise or criticism then I am always happy to hear it.

Do you like questions, which help you explore your character?

I learned in my time as a roleplayer that often your partners or followers are able to see things that you overlook and can come up with wonderful questions about topics or aspects of your character that you have not explore before. So I am always happy when I receive questions and appreciate the time and thought people put into them

If someone disagrees to a headcanon of yours, do you want to know why?

There are bound to be different interpretations of a piece of media, because it is consumed through the eyes of vastly different people. I generally don’t mind if people disagree with my headcanons, it is just a headcanon after all. There is not going to be a ‘right’ version of it. Most of the time to I enjoy seeing different takes and another perspective.

If someone disagrees with your portrayal, how would you take it?

Considering that Zephyr is my original character am I not quite sure what a disagreement of my potrayal looks like. I suppose it could be criticism of aspects of my character and if that is the case, then just as I mentioned above am I more than happy to listen to it.

If someone really hates your character, how do you take it?

As mentioned above are there plenty of reasons people might not like Zephyr as a character. If that is the case then that is how it is. Zephyr is mostly there for me to have fun and enjoy myself. If other people like them as well and I am able to write with them and speak about Zephyr then that is a welcome plus.

Are you okay with people pointing out your grammatical errors?

Yes. I think I might have also mentioned that in my rules (?) I am not a native english speaker, but since I am very invested in the language do I try very hard to improve my writing and grammer and also grow as a writer.

Do you think you are easy going as a mun?

I do hope so? I try my very best to be easy approachable and patient with new partners and during new interactions. And I try my very best to make sure anyone has a pleasant experience on my blog and tag everything that can be potentially harmful. I am also just pretty easy going.

That’s about it, congrats for filling out!

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