#I’m tagging these as well bc i think they fit well as regular headcanons

[flightofaqrow]

KNOWING YOUR PARTNER WELL CAN POTENTIALLY MAKE WRITING TOGETHER A LOT EASIER. ( REPOST DO NOT REBLOG ! )

✿ NAME:    Ray!

✿ PRONOUNS:    she/her/hers

✿ PREFERENCE OF COMMUNICATION:   tags on posts, tumblr IM moving to discord

✿ NAME OF MUSE(S):

[inactive]: Minako Arisato ( @orokana-riko ), Robin ( @invisibleimpossibilities ), Basilio ( @feroxiox )

[other active]: Robyn Hill ( @trickshottruths ), Briar Rieka ( @hopeandharmonizing​ )

✿ EXPERIENCE/HOW LONG (MONTHS / YEARS?): Since Sailor Moon was showing on Toonami in the USA and that was the only way you could see it. A long time.

✿ PLATFORMS YOU’VE USED: yahoo forums, other forum board, AIM, tumblr, discord

✿ BEST EXPERIENCE: I always talk about the Persona stuff, let’s do something different. I was part of a small group in the FE rpc that helped organize some comm-wide events including volleyball tournaments, masquerade balls, muse auctions, zombie invasions, hedge mazes. It was always a good time.

✿ RP PET PEEVES/DEALBREAKERS:  I’ve been waiting for the pet peeve word to come up, because it’s not a deal breaker or something I super judge, but just a little peeve? yes: too many memes that put the burden of writing/creativity on the sender (make up your own question, send a nightmare, send a reaction to x, etc) like ‘send a kiss’ things are fine because ship fuel usually has extra reserves, poking for headcanons/meta/ships sometimes is fine bc you just want to open it up to hear what people think. but for the most part you’re the one posting the meme, you’re the one with the drive, you’re the one asking for interaction. Make it easy. Like, I want to interact and indulge, but If I have to do more than send a symbol or copy/paste a phrase when I’m already working on other drafts or tired and lurking, that just seems unfair. Especially if there’s a bunch like that in a row or every day.

Dealbreakers are too much vagueblogging, constant negativity that vastly overtakes regular interactions, not respecting my headcanons/boundaries.

✿ FLUFF, ANGST OR SMUT:  Blood, tears, and orgasms fuel my soul. But I’m up for anything that helps the muses develop, explores some depth or expression of character. If you’re willing to do some development first, then fluff in between can be fun too. (Also fluffy/soft/slice of life topics can still have development, in which case I wouldn’t consider them “fluff” threads.)

✿ PLOTS OR MEMES:    both. usually the best comes from a meme that kicks off some plotting. I don’t always have the brainspace for big plots these days, but some context and tentative direction for the thread is always good.

✿ LONG OR SHORT REPLIES:  I’ve done both. One-liners are rare and usually silly bouncing with muses already developed together. I can’t do full rps that way. I can get up to 1000-2000 words in replies, but lately just been loving the ~300-500 word medium length.

✿ BEST TIME TO WRITE: When I have the house to myself, which is usually only a few days a week and about to get less once I start work again lmao. In an ideal world, I would wake up, watch/listen/read some stuff/ catch up on the dash for inspo then churn some stuff out. Maybe take a break then repeat the process. Rare are the days responsibilities don’t break that up somehow. Such is life. I usually have more writing energy when other people are around on the dash or discord. Keeps the juices flowing and feels less like screaming into the void. Gotta agree with Shrimpy that sometimes the opposite extreme of everyone being quiet the whole time can help focus, though (if I have enough mojo to start in the first place). 

✿ ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE(S): I think we all fit our perceptions, values, pieces of ourselves in our muses somehow. That said, I am not very much like qrow except for some of those shared values (dislike of mainstream and propriety, caring about people, depth of emotion/sentimentality, some empathy) and maybe some trauma responses lmao. I’m not a 40 year old unlucky alcoholic fighter uncle man who travels the world and works with secret clubs. Although, we Qrow muns seem to agree some extra Misfortune slips into our lives since taking on this muse. The Qrow Curse (affectionate).

tagged by:  @lupusmatra <3

tagging: @the-gray-maiden​ @slaughtermachine @clockwork---heart 

#* behind closed doors = ooc * #* it'd be a shame to lose your job before you even started = mun *

[xcziel]

So i was re-reading network effect while the power was out and also trying to catch updates to the liu sang AO3 tag and it just struck me that those two together are such a similar vibe

like the way fandom writes liu sang (thinking of @foxofninetales' intersection and especially the beginning scene of @kholran's i will go now to my pyre is what sparked the comparison for me) it's frequently as someone who's experienced a lack of personhood in his life: he's been trafficked, kidnapped, treated as an unwanted burden by his parents, left to die, treated as a thing, often as a kind of human tool, if not in the present in the fic then in his past

what people want him for is for what he can do for them, his own feelings on the matter irrelevant. that's part of what makes him prickly, cynical, and remote

and his attitude (in the beginning of the show, in fics) just reminds me so much of murderbot, of murderbot's internal thoughts. the same resignation to people not really seeing them as a person, the same attempted emotionless facade, the mental eye-rolling when dealing with clients who don't respect or acknowledge their expertise, the very idea of letting their walls down enough to make a friend *scoff* or entertaining the thought that others could care for them, trust them, allow them to trust in turn, and in the end the same ultimate dedication to assist and protect the people they've chosen as their own

literally - with murderbot's background of being used as a toy soldier, sometimes as an amusement (friendly fire), witnessing awful things its clients did, unable to do anything about it, being used as a murder weapon against its will, all the things that made it hack its governor module so it couldn't be used that way again - murderbot basically is fanon liu sang, that drive for independence that marks 'grown-up' liu sang in fics is one of the main recurring tenets of his character in most of the english-language stories - even in just the smutty ones it's written into his background, nodded to in headcanons

and so also what struck me was just how well dmbj would translate into something like a space adventure: instead of tombs they could easily be exploring abandoned planets, colonies, space stations a la network effect or a ton of video games. searching for legendary treasures, facing twisted puzzles, deathly traps, and bizarre monsters, only their gear would include spacesuits and it would be raiders of the lost ark in space instead of raiders of the lost ark in 21st century china. the nine families would be powerful corporate entities like basich-estarza or political entities like preservation (wangs as graycris?)

bc this comparison makes me want liu sang in a situation like he is in the show, like murderbot is in the first book - brought in by clients to do specific work and then trying and failing to maintain a personal distance and semblance of self-preservation when things start going off the rails (just like in sound of the providence, just like in all systems red)

and something in me doesn't want him as a construct, a secunit, but as a regular human - even better: an augmented human, but his hearing isn't a result of augmentation, it's natural, but he lets people think that's what it is bc explaining that he has implanted extra memory storage or a system feed processing augment or something instead would be too much to explain, clients don't need to know unless it will affect him doing his job. maybe he's a 'corporate asset' (property) kind of the same way @foxofninetales' "huli jing" is in the fic

and then the iron triangle - like, i could easily see zhang qiling as a "rogue" secunit - missing pieces of his memories from when his owners decided they were too incriminating? from repeated 'catastrophic failures' while rescuing wu xie over and over again? wu xie as the "innocent, naive" scion of a prominent family in a preseservation-like planetary system. and pangzi as always his boon companion, maybe born in corporate space? from a family that's part of like one of the academic entities like art's university research crew, except he likes adventures (and new profit streams) too much so he hooks in with wu "never met a trip that couldn't go explosively sideways" xie to do salvage and exploration

i mean, i'm just loving the thought of it, prickly liu sang being dragged both physically and verbally by pangzi as they bustle through crowds and holos of a brightly vibrant station hub to meet wu xie who's dining with wu erbai, as xiaoge drifts anonymously behind them in bodyguard mode, expressionlessly accessing the station secsystem and drones while listening to wu xie wheedle his uncle in the feed

haunted space stations! creepy alien tech remnants! nine family infighting and sabotage! smuggling and trafficking and illicit body modification, corporate espionage and betrayal! it all fits together so well it's amazing!

idk idk i just really love the idea of a liu sang who's always been treated as a tool, a piece of property, falling in with an iron triangle team so similar to the preservation crew (seriously, if you can't just picture bai haotian or li cu as pin lee or raathi ...) (does this make hei xiazi or zhang rishan art? discuss) falling into friendship, into companionship, "like a cat falling into a bath" as someone said

i'm just nerding out right now over the character similarities! you should read the fox's geometry (or just go through the whole liu sang tag really, if you haven't already) and also the murderbot diaries (the first four are novellas - they're like 30-35k word fics) and appreciate both with me!

#liu sang #dmbj #murderbot #i just had the thought and had to get it out #ugh i just love the people writing liu sang fics #but mostly they're in canon #and this just grabbed me so hard #like remember the ruined temple in guardians of the galaxy? #that vibe #like doom or resident evil in space #you can get that same feel of closed-in traps and puzzles #as in the tomb parts of dmbj #it just maps so easily!