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shadowednavi · 1 year

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Since I’ve stopped using twitter and turned back to tumblr as my main platform, I want to go back to using this as some sort of blog/journal to keep track of some of my daily life thoughts! I’ll tag these as “.tricia thoughts” and keep them behind a readmore if anyone wants to mute or scroll past :D

I had no idea how easy it was to set up Stepmania, and I wish I’d done it a long time ago, because playing DDR again has been so nostalgic. I haven’t played it regularly in uhhhhhh 15 years? Since I lived with my parents at least, though I do recall playing it a bit in my first apartment back in 2010. The hardest part about playing PS2 DDR on modern TVs is the latency between a component cable to HDMI, which required making weird timing adjustments, and that was such a pain in the ass, that it became obsolete and we eventually stopped playing altogether.

The other issue came from the fact we weren’t living on the main floor anymore, which meant dealing with neighbors below us, and my anxiety ass was always worried about bothering people. (somehow Camden never dealt with that, even though she started playing on her own PS2 back in London living in a 5th floor flat lmao. Maybe that’s just the difference between growing up in apartments vs. houses.)

Either way, now that bridal season has slowed down for the winter, I’m only in the shop two days a week, which means I’m home for the other five days and doing jack all. Even then, sewing is a pretty sedentary job, so I’ve needed to find some way of getting regular exercise in for a LONG TIME. I was going to the gym for awhile when I had a membership through my apartment complex, but COVID and policy changes completely rekt that.

Anytime I wanted to check out Stepmania, I was held back by hurdles of expensive setups, wondering if it was even compatible with my computer, and basically other excuses disguised as “I wish....”

So finally I sat down and said FUCK IT I’M DOING THIS. I bought myself a cheap ass USB plastic pad that looks like it came straight out of 2002. I found a site that had stepcharts for literally every DDR song in existence. I loaded up a bunch of songs I remember enjoying back in the day.

and boy howdy it’s been a humbling experience.

I was far from the best player in my immediate friend circle, but played very comfortably at a medium-hard difficulty. Now, I’m lucky to play some of these songs harder than easy mode lol. That first entire week I was literally locked on novice, with a couple easy songs mixed in for some spice. But after playing for a month, I’ve been able to graduate to several medium songs, and even a couple heavy songs!!

My biggest limiter at the moment is the jump steps. I don’t feel comfortable doing jump-heavy songs until 1) I no longer have neighbors below me, and 2) I have a sturdier dance pad that won’t slip around, potentially with a back bar for support. Thankfully that first one will change within the year, and I promised myself if I can keep this up, I’ll invest in a professional dance pad which will fix the second issue.

It’s so easy to get wrapped up in the materialistic side of hobbies, that FOMO mindset where if you don’t have the fancy tools, it’s not worth pursuing. I ran into that earlier this year when my old ass cintiq kicked the bucket. For six months I kept waffling on whether I should drop $800 on a tool I wasn’t even sure if I would use, when all I wanted to do was do digital art for fun. I ended up getting a regular mid-range huion and a second monitor for a fraction of that price, and I don’t even miss having a screen tablet anymore. I just wanted to draw, and holy shit I’m drawing!!

It’s not about the tool. It’s about the technique.

and I’m just happy to be drawing and dancing again.

#.tricia thoughts #stepmania

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professorllayton · 6 years

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WHERE does this story take place im gonna lose it

#if it takes place in mass..............#blabs #tsh #UHHHHHH should i do a live blog tag #tsh liveblog #ndjamsm

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aleximedicus · 2 years

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FUN OOC STUFF.

name alias: iris

nickname/s: nah

height: 5′1

nationality: american by birth, been living in the uk since 2015 (apart from spending a chunk of 2021 back in america due to covid shit)

favourite fruit(s): nectarines, strawberries, blackberries, apples, oranges, i’ll just take every fruit

favourite season: autumn!

favourite scents: cinnamon apple

favourite animals: cats, rabbits, birds

tea, coffee, hot cocoa: coffee

average hours of sleep: uhhhh 8-9, i like sleep

when my blog was created: originally made march of 2020, remade january 2021

random fact: uhhhhhh. the oldest book in my collection is from 1799.

favourite food: it fluctuates, but right now i’m really feeling anything with chicken and chorizo.

favourite t.v. shows: bbc ghosts, hands down

favourite movie: young frankenstein

favourite vine: 1: 'the doctor said i only have five days to live :(’ 2: ‘you’re sick?!’ 1: ‘no, he just doesn’t like me’ doctor: ‘I’MMA FUCK YOU UP ON TUESDAY! YOU—’

sexuality: lesbiannnnn

pronouns: she/her

favourite book(s): strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde, dracula, frankenstein, confessions of a justified sinner, the arsène lupin stories

favourite video game(s): ac3, red dead redemption 2, dragon age inquisition, fallout 4, vampyr, ac: valhalla, i’ve got a lot

favourite band(s): not a music person, don’t have one

favourite subject: obviously medical history lkdjfsdf

guys or girls: i mean. romantically, obviously girls, i’m not attracted to guys. but my best friend is a guy and i have other male friends, so guys can hang platonically if they’re cool.

last time i cried: last week

what i should be doing: research lmao

favourite fandom: the weird niche i’ve carved out for myself is grand tbh

TAGGED BY: stole it from @poetsung and @dutybcund

TAGGING: steal it

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amlovelies · 3 years

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rules: answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you are contractually obligated to know better

tagged by: @heartbrreak (thank you ☺)

tagging : hmmmm off the top of my head (and some newer mutuals who I don’t know very well yet) @lilyoffandoms, @pearlsandsteel, @southernvampire, @tuomniia, @mepheesto, @nerdferatum, @detectivewiseman @keybleminded and @wayhavensmasonsbitch (no pressure!) and anyone who wants to do this!

name/nickname: aml, it’s my initials. Fun fact I used to go by my middle name growing up, but stopped once I moved out on my own at 18. Bonus, it’s almost impossible for anyone from high school to find me now✨

gender: uhhhhhh let’s come back to this one in a couple months and maybe I’ll have an answer.

star sign: pisces sun, cancer moon and rising. I’m a watery bitch

height: 5′7″

time: 8:02pm

birthday: march 6

favorite bands: hmmm the maine, sleeping at last, all time low, florence and the machine, circa survive, fall out boy, fleetwood mac, (fuck it, I’ll say it) one direction, the gaslight anthem, thrice, dashboard confessional

favorite solo artists: hozier, niall horan, taylor swift, (oh wow I sound so basic), reba mcentire, pam tillis,

song stuck in my head: living dead girl by rob zombie

last movie: wonder woman 1984. yeah.

last show: finished season 4 of Big Mouth, and now we are watching Jeopardy for our dinner show. I don’t really watch much tv or movies anymore tbh

when did you create this blog: 2012 😬 and I’ve never changed my url (mostly because I’m too lazy)

what do I post: things that make me laugh, mental health stuff, in the last few months I’ve been actually posting my writing so that’s new and scary, but has been really rewarding. So much fandom stuff. lots of wayhaven some fhr and dragon age

last thing googled: lyrics to the song just fucking let me love you by Lowen

do I get asks: yes 😭 and I love you all so much for sending them to me

why I chose my url: it’s a handle I’ve had since high school. in art class we used to have to mark our pottery with our initials, and I started drawing a little heart after mine and that kinda morphed into amlovelies

following: 388, but i think like half of them are probably dead--I’m just too lazy to go through and unfollow

followers: 578 see above

average hours of sleep: It try and let myself get 8, but I have periods of pretty bad insomnia so sometimes it’s only 3-4/fitful tossing and turning type sleep.

lucky number: 6

instruments: I can do a little piano and guitar, but it never really clicked for me. I still find it relaxing though, and I should do it more often

what am I wearing: sweatpants and a t-shirt. I am always captain sweatpants when I’m at home.

dream job: who dreams of labor? But honestly probably writing or working at the aquarium

dream trip: a river cruise down the amazon

last book I read: the way to rainy mountain by n. scott momaday

favorite food: my grandma’s spinach quiche

nationality: american 😬

favorite song: when I was 18 I decided my answer for this would be Film Noir by the Gaslight Anthem which is what I usually go with because I tend to just go through intense phases where I listen to a song on repeat. This week it’s Vice by Miranda Lambert btw

top three fictional universes: middle earth, star wars, thedas

#thank you for tagging me!#here let me overshare on the internet!#anyways #tag games #heartbrreak

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lampmeeting · 3 years

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got roundaboutly tagged by @agaricales :D thank youuuu! hope you don’t mind that i stole your little idea to draw myself and my shitty hair hahah :3 i almost never draw myself so this was a nice reason

Questions to get to know you a little better:

1. What do you prefer to be called name wise? Kelly’s my actual name, but I also go by Murphy and I have zero preference which you use (also shortened versions of either like Kel or Murph are also lovely) :D and it makes me giggle when people call me Lamp hehe

2. When is your birthday? Nov. 5th!

3. Where do you live? Austin, Texas

4. Three things I am doing right now? Fixing to watch Hannibal, drinking root beer, being kept company by my tiny kitty Lib

5. Four fandoms that have piqued my interest: Well, Metalocalypse of course. Hannibal is a new one I’m dipping my toe into. Don’t think I’ll do any art or fic, but I’ve been loving what I’ve seen and read so far. Detroit: Become Human was a huge one for me and I still love checking in on the fandom from time to time and getting nostalgic. Also tonight’s news activated my Mass Effect lust. Give to me all the hot aliens.

6. How has the pandemic been treating you? Uhhhhhhh yeah not great. 8)

7. Song(s) I can’t stop listening to: “Rule of Nines” by Spiritbox, her VOICE!!!!

8. Recommend a movie: Darren Aronofsky‘s The Fountain, this movie just Speaks to me like nothing else ever really has. I remember leaving the theatre feeling like I had been irreparably changed, and one of the friends I was with was like “well that was fucking stupid” and I was like hmmm :) really now :) and then like the next month we weren’t friends anymore kjgkdfgf funny how that happened

9. How old are you? 35... stick a fork in me, I’m done ;0;

10. School, university, occupation? Um none of the above? lmao covid took my job, know anyone who’s hiring at-home receptionists? dkfgdk I keep thinking I could go back to retail but we’re not in dire enough straits for that yet.

11. Do you prefer heat or cold? Cold usually but it depends. I like feeling warm but I HATE feeling hot and it’s a fine line.

12. Name one fact others may not know about you? Actually I think probably quite a few people know this, but I suck really bad at coming up with random facts about myself - I’m a wrestling nerd. Fucking love wrestling. I’ve been to dozens of shows, Raw, Smackdown, NXT, Ring of Honor a handful of times, and a few local shows because my brother’s old high school friend is a local indie wrestler. My favorite guy in the business right now is Hangman Adam Page (and yes, it’s partially because he’s fucking gorgeous)

13. Are you shy? Depends. There’s a lot of things I’m totally fine with doing and it can fool people into thinking I’m almost extroverted, but then like phone calls and knocks on the door literally break me out in a sweat and make my hands shake, and if I hang out with people I need like a week to recover, so... lmao

14. Preferred pronouns: she/her

15. Biggest pet peeves: this is an IRL thing, but I have some audio processing shit going on, and then on top of that I fucked up my hearing in my right ear a bit at a Devin Townsend show a few years back (worth it? yes) and sometimes people’s voices can sound muddled if there’s other noises happening too. So it MAKES ME REAL MAD when people who KNOW THIS ABOUT ME will just go “no never mind it’s not important” when I ask them to repeat themselves.

16. What is your favorite "dere" type? Had to look some up and oh noooooo it’s a toss-up :O

The Hinedere (ひねデレ) type refers to characters who have cynical world views, are cold-hearted, and highly arrogant. However, deep down they have a soft side that may reveal itself after their love interest breaks through. (SOUND FAMILIAR LMAO)

The Byoukidere (病気デレ) type refers to a character who is kind and gentle at heart but has a serious illness. They might be confined to a hospital bed, or just simply weak and frail. (OH NO.... ;0;)

17. Rate your life 1-10? maybe a 6? 6.5?

18. What is your main blog? @gatsbygal it runs on a queue right now when i remember to fill it (I’m here too often to remember it hahah, but yeah if you wanna go look thru all my old bad art go right ahead)

19. List all your side blogs and what they’re for: ABSOLUTELY NOT LMAO i will admit to having a victor zsasz-related sideblog, a blog about a long-time fic i was writing where i’d answer reader’s questions and stuff, but uhhhhhh i have a few others that get to stay secret

20. Is there anything people should know before becoming friends with you? I’ve had people tell me I seemed intimidating at first and this has to be a problem with how I present myself online because people I know IRL consider me somewhere between a cupcake and an overcooked noodle :O maybe I say too many fuckworks and use too many exclamation marks or something haahha but I swear I’m not even remotely cool

#me #this was fun and now i have procrastinated enough #time to watch more hannibal hehe #BTW YOU'RE ALL TAGGED IF YOU WANNA DO THIS

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ohhalefire · 3 years

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@scribblesandsorcery tagged me because of course she did~

nickname: Morph, Morphie, Heels. zodiac: Leo... although I'm pretty sure with the recent shift I'm now a Cancer? height: 5'1 #ShortPeopleGotNoReason last movie I saw: Rewatched Pitch Perfect 2 with my partner last thing I googled: ...Whether or not I was a Cancer in the new Zodiac update :P Turns out, yes. favourite musician: I mean, does Virginia Zeani count? song stuck in my head: The Paper Kites - Arms other blogs: I used to be a gifmaker at harrypottergif, but now my only other tumblr is my RP one, @screamingwithlife. blogs following: I follow 1668. Not a typo, just a lot of enthusiasm with the follow button~ amount of sleep: HA what a joke. Do you mean four hours or nine and a half? #ChronicIllnessLife lucky number: Never had one what am I wearing: Pyjamas. Gonna go teach in a bit, though, so maybe I should wear pants for that or something idk dream job: ...Mine, tbh. Opera, producing, teaching and making YouTube videos. Just like, maybe in a different proportion? dream trip: World tour. languages: Fluent in English, comfortably conversational in German and French. Though I haven't used them in a while, so if someone were to come up to me and start talking in an even-slightly-unfamiliar accent I'm pretty sure I'd gape like a fish~ favourite food: Uhhhhhh. Tomatoes? Or like. Sushi? play an instrument: I sing and plunk melodies on the piano and that's it. favourite song: I mean it changes every few minutes tbh. I think one of the most consistent ones is 'Sunday' from Sunday in the Park With George, though? random fact: I'm a private singing teacher teaching entirely online and almost half my studio lives in a different time zone than me xD describe yourself as aesthetic things: Rose gold sparkly sneakers thrown haphazardly on a cream carpet; books organized alphabetically on a shelf completely surrounded by vined plants; glittery Minnie Mouse ears on a large smiling plushie; multicoloured ball gowns exploding from a closet in rainbow order; cheek kisses on everybody.

Tagging @greyhavenisback and anyone else who thinks these things are a good time!

#tag game #text post

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incomprehensiblelentils · 3 years

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@dollsome-does-tumblr does this and opened it up to anyone and I am feeling chatty today SO!

Because I co-write a lot with my lovely wife, I might answer some questions including those co-written stories, or I might not, depends on how I feel when I get there.

name:

Megan but I go by Lentils most places on the internet, Shadowcrawler over on AO3

fandoms:

at the moment: MCU, especially Agents of SHIELD and Daredevil; Terminator: Dark Fate; Halt and Catch Fire. Oh and I wrote Dollhouse fanfics a thousand years ago. Sometimes I will watch a movie/show and think “those two girls should be gay” and bang out 2k of fic about it and then never write for that fandom again. (I THOUGHT this was going to be HACF but as it turns out, no, it’s not done with me yet.)

where you post:

AO3, at Shadowcrawler. I also have a tumblr @lentils-writes where theoretically I post links to fics/advertise them in the tags, because I used to be real precious about not putting porn on this blog, but fuck it.

most popular multi-chapter fic:

Co-written, it’s definitely mallverse, which is I think the reason most writers definitely hate us because it’s very long and there are a lot of tags lmao. The problem is that every tagged character HAS shown up in a significant fashion at some point so we can’t just...untag them! It doesn’t update weekly anymore because we’re exhausted by life lmao so at least there’s that???

As for a multi-chapter fic that was just me, I don’t tend to do that so much, so actually it’s say you will, my 3-chapter Endgame fix-it where Clint dies instead of Natasha and Natasha and Laura have a past. It actually has over 1000 hits which is very exciting! I feel like it’s...niche in a way that is frustrating but understandable lol. I put a lot of my heart into it and some people really liked it, so that’s gratifying.

favorite story you’ve written so far:

Co-written, I think our SHIELD Dollhouse AU is very underrated for the amount of work we put into it. Author bias evident here because I love Dollhouse warts and all, and it’s a lot of fun translating episode plots as well as the general trajectory of the show into stuff that will work with SHIELD characters. We don’t just rewrite episodes, we really try and rework them as needed. Also it features both Skimmons and my beloved rarepair Bobbi/Kara, though of course they won’t get together until later.

Of my own stuff, I’m still really really proud of the AU where Kara Palamas didn’t die. I think that was a pretty severe misstep of the show and I think I did a good job of fixing it. (I haven’t forgotten Kara, promise!)

fic you were nervous to post:

lolololol I wrote some uh. Terminator pornography last year and. They are very porny! I had co-written a bunch of smut obviously, but that was the first time I’d posted like, PWP all by myself on purpose??? and that was TERRIFYING. Also I was very nervous to post the Engame fix-it because that was my own personal goodbye/tribute to Natasha.

how you choose your titles:

They are always either song lyrics or jokes (such as Three Lawyers and a Baby, my Daredevil Accidental Baby Acquisition fic). My WIP docs are always titled either obvious shit like “RoseJannah horse girls” or memes like “what if we belonged to a fire cult and we fucked haha just kidding unless...?” or “Morgan has two mommies.”

do you outline?:

B and I typically outline for the co-written fics, although it’s more often chapter-by-chapter outlines since that’s how we write them. On occasion we’ve fully planned multi-chapter stuff out in advance but that’s less common. Oh and the one-shots are nearly always outlined as well, just to keep ourselves organized.

When I have written planned multi-chapter fics in the past I have used outlines - particularly for the Kara one and I had to do that for the SHIELD Kill Bill AU because I was trying to follow the format of the movie. For things that are allegedly supposed to be one-shots I almost never outline, which turns out to be a terrible idea when they inevitably balloon beyond my control and become 45k like say you will. That one, I wrote out a list of scenes I thought needed to be in it and then I wrote about 75% of those scenes and then I wrote a bunch more scenes I hadn’t planned for. Don’t be like me, kids!

complete fics:

According to AO3, 89 as of right now. Uh, you do not want me to list all of them, here’s a link, I guess!

in progress:

I don’t understand what the difference is between this question and the WIP questions lmao help????

posted WIPs that I have active plans to continue at this time:

Cowritten: mallverse as I said, and its femslash smut oneshots spinoff and character flashbacks spinoff and older characters/teachers spinoff (these get updated, uh, irregularly), the first half of a Piper/Snowflake SHIELD s7 fic that we are planning on finishing the second half of soonish, SHIELD Dollhouse AU, SHIELD Teen Beach AU, SHIELD Buffy AU. You may notice a pattern!

By myself, I have: Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas, a Terminator Hallmark Christmas fic that I ambitiously posted the first chapter of in 2019 and then lost steam immediately (I am going to go back to it sooner or later bc I had some cute ideas for it); the SHIELD Fate of the Furious AU that has one chapter to go and which I do intend on finishing eventually; Three Lawyers and a Little Lady, the Daredevil Accidentally Baby Acquisition AU that is literally just cute kidfic and poly avocados and which I have a bunch of ideas for and just need to buckle down and finish some.

posted WIPs that I have given up on:

Lol so there’s a Dollhouse Caroline/Bennett Doctor Who AU that I wrote purely as idfic and which nobody ever cared about except me, and I think that ship has sailed! RIP darlings. I also had an ongoing Skimmons series waaaay back when where I posted oneshots that were like missing scenes or gay readings for each s1 episode, and I just feel like it would be inauthentic to even try and finish it at this point. (It does include the first ever Skimmons fic to be posted on AO3! Really truly, there’s one fic that shows up as older but it’s an ongoing fic and was updated with the tag way after I posted mine.)

exchange fics due soon/unrevealed:

I haven’t done an exchange since like 2015 lololol I am so bad at them. I am currently working on finishing up my MCU Femslash bingo card, very late, and I do have plans for almost all of the remaining squares!

WIPs that live in my fanfic folder and are incomplete and who knows when they’ll be finished:

“RoseJannah horse girls,” which has been put on hold temporarily but is literally just Rose and Jannah being gay while riding orbaks

half of a Daisy/Gwen fic from Marvel Rising because I know they’re not making any more of those but I stg those two were really gay

multiple fics about Elise Nelson-Page including: avocados Halloween with smol Elise, Aunt Elektra very reluctantly taking smol Elise shopping until she realizes smol Elise also likes weapons (she buys her a fake katana), Uncle Frank is a pushover and spoils the shit out of Elise, and baby Elise has a high fever and everyone freaks out but then she gets better and smile at them for the first time (inspired by baby me lol).

coming soon/not yet started:

“Morgan has two mommies,” yet another Endgame fix-it where Maya Hansen did not die in Iron Man 3 and she resurfaces and she and Pepper kiss and eventually she adopts Morgan

Claire and Colleen go on a nice date to get coffee/tea where Danny doesn’t interrupt them goddammit

Bobbi/Kara Warehouse 13 AU which is sort of like “For the Team” but gayer ft. grappling hook

X-Men: Evolution Tabby/Amara fluff

Cameron/Donna character study disguised as smut

Grace proposes to Dani with a ring made out of the metal from her power source and Carl officiates the wedding

Dani gets horny watching Grace eat a peach and jerks off and Grace ends up hearing her and then they fuck (I have been calling this “the peach fic” in my head but I gotta stop being delicate about it lmfao it is just porn)

B and I have plans to do a Nico/Karolina Jasper in Deadland AU but we keep forgetting

I MUST WRITE FOGGY AND KAREN SADLY FUCKING IN A CHURCH WHILE THEY MOURN MATT THIS YEAR I STG

do you accept prompts:

uhhhhhh I have on occasion written a prompt for someone before but it’s pretty rare and I have enough trouble writing the shit I come up with in my own head lol. but never say never?

upcoming story you are most excited to write:

I’ve got a bit of the Bobbi/Kara Warehouse fic written and it’s nice to go back to that world. Also I’m weirdly excited about the Cam/Donna smutty character study I mentioned above, I have a lot of what I think are good ideas for it and it’ll be fun.

tagging @unwind-myself @swiftzeldas @swashbucklery @loved-the-stars-too-fondly and, if you want to, you!

#sometimes I write things

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fluffyapathybunny · 3 years

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Teeeechnically tagged by @finnishermit

I'll place it here, to make it easier for me, actually.

Twenty questions

1: What do you preferred to be called (name wise)? Nix, I suppose

2: When is your birthday? 10/28

3: Where do you live? USA

4: Three things I am doing right now? talking to people, doing this, about to play some acnh

5: Four fandoms that have piqued your interest? fandoms can be pretty toxic so I keep myself out of them, but it's mainly fnaf, animal crossing, pokemon, uhh....

6: How has the pandemic been treating you? not too good for my mental health, but at least it gave me an excuse to quit walmart (again)

7: Song I can’t stop listening to? I don't.... have one, but I guess it's whatever song that's in my mind currently so... Fireflies by Skyhill

8: Recommend a movie: Uhhhhhh..... Godzilla REsurgence/Shin Godzilla

9: How old are you? I will be 39 this year 💀

10: School, University, occupation? I have a useless Associate's Degree and I'm currently doing home care to take care of my mom

11: Do you prefer to be hot or cold? Cold. Being able to bundle up is amazing

12: Name a fact others may not know about you? Uhhhhhh......

13: Are you shy? Introverted with social anxiety so....yeh

14: Preferred pronouns? any. Apagender is a thing that I am

15: Biggest pet peeve? people that call leopards cheetahs and stuff like that.

16: Favourite dere type? Yandere and Bakadere

17: Rate you life 1-10? Uhhhhhh...... my mind perceives it lower but probably a 6?

18: What is your main blog? Korppitukka - my aestheic blog based on an oc of mine. I'm sorry I lied to you all ;_;

19: List all your side blogs and what are they for? This blog (fluffyapathybunny) - the blog I use the most for shitposting and memes and general stuff. GoblinsandTieflings - my DND content OCbyfluffy - mostly reblogs that remind me of my ocs gengarsfluffybutt - Gengar appreciation plus other Pokemon windraizou - reblogs of discourse-like stuff. Opinions that I'm afraid to share on this one because I'm afraid people will hate me for them. I've been tumblr canceled once before for an angry post I made after watching a documentary about how Asexuals are treated like they're broken. That post ended up going around and I was called homophobic and I deleted. And for a while I just... didn't want to come back.

20: Is there anything people should know before becoming friends with you? People want to be friends with me? I'm amazed anyone tolerates my existence.

#once again the end of these questions tends to bring me down #doesn't help that I'm currently menstruating and also suffer pmdd #I'm a mess #about me

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enduringsea · 3 years

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( rules: you can usually tell a lot about a person by the kind of music they listen to! put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people! no skipping! ) / tagged by @yellowcrumpet ╭( ･ㅂ･)و )))

Thanks for the tag! I LOVE these things-- I don’t rlly have a playlist either though, just a mess of music files on a device I haven’t updated so I’ll be checking my YouTube history too lol. There’s a uhhh.... pattern to be found, mainly relating to Code Vein or other OCs.... which isn’t surprising ._. ;; I made it a separate post bc I knew this was going to get long and rambly with lyric snippets and crying about fictional characters, sorry :D

1. Repeat Until Death - Novo Amor don’t go / you’re half of me now / but i’m hardly stood proud / i said it, almost oh i’ve been low / but damn it i bet it don’t show / it was heaven a moment ago oh i can’t seem to let myself leave you / but i can’t breathe anymore This one gives me Loubeth vibes ok, partially bad end route ;-; While Elizabeth is a very strong person, her friends are the most prominent reason she tries to do anything at all & isn’t living day-to-day in a monotonous grind to survive without a solid purpose other than ‘help random ppl bc it’s the right thing to do’. If she loses them, it’d ruin her & hammers into her head how everything she’s ever done has been a failure. She suffered a major betrayal by her boss before the Collapse, she was unable to fully participate in proj. queen despite her incredible test results, she failed to defeat Cruz and take her blood during Operation Queenslayer, and if she fails to protect the people she’s finally found meaning with? She’d break down completely & destroy herself to save them. She’s always had some level of abandonment issues, and without her family around it’s so much worse, even if it isn’t the most obvious because she’s generally seen as very well put together-- I really can’t express how much it would hurt her to lose Louis, Yakumo, and the others. She’s just not one to show just how bad it can truly get for her mentally and emotionally-- she’s resilient as hell, she’s been through hell repeatedly and survived it all, so it’s easy for others to assume she’s fine all things considered. It makes her feel weak and ashamed of herself if she shows any level of vulnerability, so she doesn’t; she swallows it down and is afraid of disappointing those who look up to her as a fighter and friend-- of course, no one at Home Base would blame her for being vulnerable, they all have their moments, Bethy just sets herself to such a high standard it’s difficult for her to talk about her own suffering in spite of how well-versed she is in getting her thoughts and feelings across otherwise. Louis is the one most keen to how deeply she’s hurting, but he doesn’t understand just how deeply until she finally does fall apart. The final swell of the song and its desperate lyrics really relays the pain they both feel-- Louis too would not fare well if something happened to Elizabeth, because he blames himself she was even involved in Operation Queenslayer for a long time, I honestly did so bad in explaining coherently, this song just has so much emotion and hurt behind it adklfjdfdff </3

2. Looking Out For You - Joy Again this is a love song for a girl who will never know it’s about her she's beaming that smile / all the while i’m all tripped up on my own throat i guess there is no hope This song reminds me of Elizabeth & my friend’s character Takashi Fujioka, who gets-- vERY...FRIENDZONED, for lack of a better word, by Elizabeth in his story, it’s really summed up best as tragic (;﹏;) Before the Collapse they were hitting it off, then the Collapse happened, they were separated, he lost his sisters, Mido happened, he was experimented on + became a revenant, etc, etc; years have passed since then & she’s gotten her life together as much as one can in a world like Vein, but for Takashi it’s like no time has passed at all. Elizabeth is subtly older in appearance, she’s been working w Lou & Co. for a long time; Loubeth blatantly have a connection, & rather than bringing up his feelings + making it awkward bc he values their friendships, he just kinda. chokes on them & does his best to help out the team. It doesn’t help he can’t even be jealous bc Louis is a really solid friend to him too, IT’S JUST A MESS OF A SITUATION & the death of what could have been if things were different.

3. Closer - Teagan And Sara ( no lengthy explanation for this one thank goodness, I’ve just been watching BoJack Horseman again and I really like some of the songs they add in, I like listening to this one on loop when mindlessly coloring something )

4. Brutal - Olivia Rodrigo all I did was try my best / this the kind of thanks I get? they say these are the golden years / but I wish I could disappear ego crush is so severe / god, it's brutal out here I have it on a playlist for Elizabeth somewhere, not all of it applies to her but it reflects some of her struggles she has both before & after the collapse. She’s-- always kind of been a mess while under immense pressure + has serious self image issues, this song hits that side of her well. She’s been held to humanly impossible standards by both herself and her family bc frankly? She can reach them, she’s NOT exactly human. She was born into her position as a hunter & intends to keep it for as long as she lives (like revenants, her kind is very much ‘either gets killed or lives 5ever), even if some days she really feels how heavy the burden can be. She didn’t have a normal childhood and she’s fine with it for the most part, but it alienates her from most of her peers-- she never got to date anyone, never had a close group of friends, never went to parties that weren’t formals, etc., while she feels a little childish about it, she does envy ‘normal’ and understands the pressure she’s lived under her entire life has caused damage-- she has been exploited for her abilities, there’s just not much she can do about it but to keep going, rlly.

5. Freaks - Surf Curse don't kill me / just help me run away from everyone i need a place to stay / where i can cover up my face don't cry / i am just a freak / i am just a freak UhhhHHH this song really makes me think of Oliver Collins :D;; thank TikTok for showing it to me. It makes me think of how scared he was, of both the world and the revenants who captured him. The song’s use of the word ‘parasites’ really makes me think of Revenants and the BOR parasites XD I’m hoping when I poke my video editor again, I can record some Oliver footage to make a short video to this song. Oliver deserves so much better, I wish you could save him, but that’s what AUs are for, hahah.... The second half of the lyrics make me think of the AU I have where he lives and has to grapple with the guilt of surviving and the things he did to other revenants to get by too.

6. All Eyes On Me - Bo Burnham you say the ocean’s rising / like i give a shit you say the whole world’s ending / honey it already did you’re not gonna slow it / heaven knows you tried got it? good / now get inside I haven’t seen the Netflix special yet but I’ve had this song on repeat since my move started. The lyrics hit too hard & resonate with my existential dread, covid exhaustion, and extreme burnout in my 20s, but bc I have Damage I can also relate it to CV ._. ‘you’re not gonna slow it, heaven knows you tried. got it? good now get inside’ makes me think of--;; the bad end route again, and Elizabeth’s desperation to keep her found family together. It’s not like her to completely stop caring about an issue, but in the moment she realizes what’s being taken from her? She doesn’t want to save all of revenant-kind if it means she’s going to wind up alone all over again, her world is effectively over if she’s forced to be alone again. The MC frenzying means the only immediately identifiable hope she had of saving everyone else is gone, so why not just go home? If they’re all doomed, she wants to at least be together for a little while longer, it’s fine if they use her blood to survive & everyone else in the mist is out of luck, it’s soul-crushing bc I’ve never had her in a situation where she’s been this reckless, despondent/hopeless, and thinking irrationally where it’d impact more than herself-- especially when she’s normally goal-oriented, organized, meticulous, so on so forth: she’s not one to act without thinking something through first, but that last breath of light just got sucker-punched out of her. All she wants is home, comfort, and family, and ultimately in the bad end route she does manage to preserve their lives, maintain the mist, and supply blood beads, but her own condition leaves her on the throne-- it’s a mix of the bad, neutral, and true ending rlly ldkfjdf BUT YEAH enough rambling on that :D;; This song’s really good and touches a lot of different thoughts and ideas both in real life and my ocs, kind of embarrassing--;; thank u bo burnham for ruining me with this beautiful song

7. Yellow - Coldplay look at the stars / look how they shine for you / and everything you do your skin / oh yeah, your skin and bones / turn in to something beautiful do you know / for you I'd bleed myself dry Does this song make me think about JackEva? Yes. Yes it does. Star / night sky symbolism? Bam. Sappy lyrics about love and finding the person you’re with absolutely mesmerizing and worth dying for? BAM. If JackEva were capable of using their own blood to save each other, I can see it-- hJNGn they just care about each other so much, Jack cries for her even though they both knew that eventually one of them would succumb to their duty, and if the roles were reversed I can see Eva doing the same, I adore them beyond human language. On my CV RP blog, my Jack’s not shippable bc-- Eva, my friend even have them looking after his nephew (an oc--) at one point. I should seriously drop some headcanons down eventually....

8. Louder Than Thunder - The Devil Wears Prada are we meant to be empty-handed? / i know i could, i could be better i don't think i deserve it / selflessness, find your way into my heart all stars could be brighter / all hearts could be warmer

LMFAO throwback to my middle school playlist, I’m old-- I’ve applied this song to a lot of things back in the day, but I really connect it to Loubeth now, especially Louis. Lou & Bethy are both functional idiots who are too hard on themselves & have trouble recognizing their worth beyond what they can do for others. They’re trying to be better-- to make up for what they perceived wrongs they’ve done, but it’s hard, they don’t believe they’re worthy of the love and support the other gives, but they still yearn for that sense of security. After Louis’ memories are returned, he finally understands the guilt he’s felt since he became a revenant and it really skews his self-perception; he blames himself for so many things & Elizabeth, who has always been able to kill when necessary, sets it straight-- “It’s not your fault”, and it takes Louis some time to properly absorb that message. He thinks she’s just trying to comfort him, which she is tbh, but she’s not wrong: “It’s not your fault you couldn’t kill someone. It was never your job to kill anyone.” It’s up to people like her to do those sort of things-- Elizabeth may not have been present when Cruz frenzied, but if she had been? It would have been over before it started, that’s something she has regrets over, even if nothing could have been done since she was already on the field. Actually, she’s actually really quite angry that security failed to monitor Cruz properly and has a few select words for the ones there who could have actually done something before it got out of hand-- civilians and doctors are exempt from her shtlist bc they’re not meant to be killers (so don’t worry Artorias, she’s not ready to bite your head off!), but they had to have some kinda security detail rite o-q??? They’re probably hiding from her wrath-- BUT ANYWAY, she insists she’ll never blame Louis for not being able to do something as serious as killing another person. He was a normal human being who cared about his friend, not a failure, and he couldn’t have been expected to do something that shouldn’t have fallen on his shoulders in the first place. As many times as it takes, she’ll reaffirm that it wasn’t his fault, she’s not angry, he’s always done his best and her opinion of him hasn’t changed. He’s a good person and she loves him through all the hurt, though she doesn’t drop the word ‘love’ for a long time. It just-- takes Louis a while to accept she views him as someone worthy of the love and respect she has for him. It’s kind of ironic she’s so adamant on Louis not blaming himself considering she’s the one privately blaming herself for-- wow there’s too much to unpack, she feels guilty she was even born?? im so broken over these two. I love them and yet they SUFFER...

9. What I’ve Done - Linkin Park i'll face myself / to cross out what i’ve become erase myself / and let go of what i’ve done today this ends / i'm forgiving what i’ve done

I have Louis Amamiya brainrot and I’m so glad I’m not the only one who thinks that this song fits him super well & it needs to become an AMV dsjfkldsfd. I’m a near life-long Linkin Park fan and this fits with Lou so well thematically. As much as I’ve gone on about Louis’ guilt, he does steel himself to keep going forward in spite of it and make things right, for everyone. Maybe it wasn’t really his fault, but at the end of the day his inability to kill Cruz in that moment left a disaster in its wake that got a countless number of people killed-- the MC included with Karen and Aurora. He doesn’t want to run away from the truth, doesn’t want to make excuses, he wants to take responsibility for it and he’ll work himself to death if it means things will be better-- it’s both admirable he’s got a strong resolve and VERY concerning with how willing he is to die for the cause, please don’t overdo it, Lou, you’ll break mine and Bethy’s hearts ._.;; It won’t always be easy, there are moments the grief gnaws at him, but in the end he does overcome it (and uh. as in the bad ending, we know he can actually do it this time). I know we can’t see everything, but I would have loved deeper character interactions, especially with Louis with an emphasis on grieving + forgiving himself properly-- but this song really is nice with the whole ‘I’m going to face my mistakes head on, forgive myself, and keep moving forward’. It’s what Louis deserves: self forgiveness and a damn break ‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )‧º·˚

10. Call of Silence - Hiroyuki Sawano you will know you're reborn tonight / must be rough but i’ll stay by your side even if my body's bleached to the bones / i don't want go through that ever again so cry no more / oh my beloved ngl idk if those are the correct lyrics, buuuuuuut....... im a weenie and am internally weeping abt loubeth after midnight, what else is new lmfao- i’ll at least try to be brief :D I also used to really like Attack on Titan when I was in high school, I dropped the anime years ago because I was waiting for s2 and never got back to it once it started airing again, I thought I’d finish it once the anime was complete since I eventually caught up with the manga, such a good series BUT ANYWAY-- I think it’s a really pretty song and Loubeth fit with the tender lyrics. IT’S LATE, idk what to say about them other than what I’ve said already dsklfjdslf im sorry I really ramble a LOT and I’ve been so busy lately I haven’t had the chance to >w>;;

#i do not know how 2 b quiet #long post #personal text #yellowcrumpet

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max--phillips · 3 years

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30 questions

I got tagged by @mandoinevarro and @hdlynn!!!

1. Name/Nickname: We’ve talked abt my “real” name but Tori is technically a nickname?? But honestly I’ll respond to whatever

2. Gender: the concept of hot, fresh bread in a small local bakery

3. Star sign: scorpio !

4. Height: 5′10″! I am tol

5. Time: 8:45 pm and it feels like the middle of the damn night

6. Birthday: November 19th!

7. Favorite bands: uhhhhhh do I listen to music? The Chicks is the only band coming to mind right now

8. Favorite solo artists: Lady Gaga, Sara Bareilles, Jewel

9. Song stuck in your head: the main theme from The Mandalorian and this has been the case for the past week

10. Last movie: Triple Frontier 😞✌

11. Last show: The Mandalorian!

12. When I did create this blog: This specific blog was made in 2018 sometime, but I’ve been on the website in some capacity since 2012

13. What I post:

14. Last thing I googled: “justin mcelroy its trash gif”

15. Other blogs: @dirtypedrocharacterconfessions, @onehellofanaskblog, and my (more explicitly) nsfw @spacegaynsfw!

16. Do i get asks: ye!!! Quite a few tbh, mainly for the confessions blog but yknow I take what I can get sdklfjg

17. Why i chose my url: idk its just some name I picked out of a hat /s

18. Following: oh god. 1,967, but who the hell knows how many are inactive

19. Followers: uhhhh 1,083 here, 173 on the ask blog, 464 on the confessions blog, and a whopping 24 on the nsfw blog sdfhgsdkfj

20. Average hours of sleep: well lately it feels like 0 but usually 8 or 10

21. Lucky number: I don’t really have a lucky number per se but my favorite number is 23 (which is, coincidentally, my age)

22. Instruments: I can play flute!

23. What I’m wearing: baby yoda socks, fleece pj pants, some random t-shirt, and my max phillips was right sweatshirt

24. Dream job: I simply do not dream of labor (idk probably a curator at some museum or something, but I would also love to own my own shop of some kind)

25. Dream trip: one of those crazy, multi-month cruises that stops at ports all over the world

26. Favorite food: Yes? All of it? Food? I love pasta tho

27. Nationality: American :/

28. Favorite song: uuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhh do I HAVE a favorite song??? I listen to too many podcasts

29. Last book: fuck me I haven’t read a real book in so long I just don’t have any idea. Probably one of the TAZ graphic novels if that counts

30. Top 3 fictional universes I wanna live in: Mass Effect, Star Wars, and probably Prospect tbh

I’m not gonna tag anyone BUT you should do it if you see it!!!

#tori says things #about me #tag games

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hopeandharmonizing · 4 years

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RP Plotting Sheet : Briar Rieka

Want new-and-exciting plots for your character? Long to reach out to more of your followers, but don’t know where to start? Fear not! Fill out this form and give your RP partners both present and future all the of juicy jumping off points they need to help you get your characters acquainted.

Be sure to tag the players whose characters YOU want more cues to interact with, and repost, don’t reblog! Feel free to add or remove sections as you see fit. Template here.

tagged by: stole it from an old blog

Mun name: Rachel or Teceraca OOC Contact: Start with tumblr IMs. I have discord as well. Talk in the tags.

Who the heck is my muse anyway:

Creeping up on middle-age, part-time Happy Huntress, part-time musical performer, wolf faunus lady who occasionally plays with gender presentation, mostly on stage. She has a painful past, but it only hardened her into a stronger, kinder self who wants to help everyone else to never hurt that badly, or at least not have to shoulder the pain alone. All she wants is to empower people, and yet all she seems to do it make them weaker and intimidated in her presence. Regardless, she continues to try and inspire through words and music, and protect through fists and claws.

Points of interest:

black and white wolf tail, thorny vine tattoos wrapping most of her body, a semblance which cancels out others’ semblances, skilled in Aikido, guitar, keyboard/piano, and vocals. Graduate of Sanctum and Atlas Academies. Her huntress license lapsed after its first expiration date and remained that way for ~10 years until she reinstated at the behest of Robyn Hill. She will love you if you love yourself, and likewise do her best to truly scare the shit out of you if you mistreat others.

What they’ve been up to recently:

In mainverse, she’s living her best life in Mantle city, trying to bring hope to the masses and occasionally going on stake-outs for Robyn Hill or acting as entertainment or security detail for her rallies.

If you want to meet her somewhere in the past, you can find her either just looking to survive, mastering her music, or completing combat training followed by huntress training. then, trying but failing to work effectively as a licensed huntress, and slowly feeling like she’s lost herself before she finds music again.

Where to find them:

In chronological order:

Morkmani Village Anima forests Argus Sanctum Academy Atlas Academy Mantle city - wherever the work was - performances at nightclubs, bars, street venues, coffee shops, etc - libraries, cafes, anywhere she can sit and work on her stuff - her apartment - supporting other people’s shows! having fun in the crowds. - out shopping, especially to add to/update her wardrobe with cool shit

Current plans:

make the world better! or at least feel like less of an oncoming storm. continue to be a badass? love as many people as she can. from a distance, usually.

Desired interactions:

WHEEZE. A lot of this is similar to the associations bit in my page but here we go.

Robyn recruiting her to join the huntresses, any and all shenanigans that may follow. Fraternizing with fellow huntresses in general, or missions together.

Qrow and/or Clover semblance shenanigans and training. Also her and Clover generally giving each other shit bc it is just So Much to have those two egos in one room.

Bitching at Ironwood about what trust and loyalty REALLY means or maybe just her venting to someone about him, but this requires her getting to know him somehow in the first place, or at least to hear from others what he is like. idk. this muse has meta feelings about micromanagement, I would love to thread them.

Giving Weiss vocal training classes when she was a lil’ girl. and/or catching up in current verse.

Briar getting to meet Blake and absolutely gush about her speech at Menagerie bc she saw it from some scroll recordings.

Basically anything with Jaune. I still have no idea what is going to happen when these two semblances meet each other. I do know hers can basically act like a spiritual resistance weight to help his get stronger. It probably goes both ways. Semblance arm wrestling is what I’m sayin’. But also she just.......... she has a lot of feelings. It’s like a Qrow/Clover thing too where she looks at him and sees everything she could be, but isn’t. She’s too proud. Help her work through this and question herself a little bit so she can come out better for it, and realize they are both different yet who they are supposed to be.

Silver eyes training with Ruby!!!! She doesn’t know anything about them besides what she’d find out from the crew, but she does have plenty of skills and pep talks that can probably help Ruby focus and/or project her power. Briar's semblance color is silver for a reason.

Semblance/aura training with anyone in general. But when I say that I also mean “learning not to rely on your semblance” training. She’s good for that. She may get being a professor for it added to either her history or her future, idk yet.

This also leads into being able to have a discussion with Oscar/Ozpin about a different take that can help her fully realize her semblance abilities. If you’re interested, we can chat mun to mun so I can let you know my ideas and you can decide how your muse wants to guide her through it.

Other OCs idk who what where when why how but that’s exactly the point. the whole verse is our oyster, let’s see what happens. come @ me. let’s let our muses help develop each other.

Offered interactions:

Briar’s actually pretty easy to have interactions with villains? She probably won’t know any better if she runs into them and they aren’t immediately stirring trouble. For better or worse, she’ll give them the benefit of the doubt if they are trying to confide in her about something or just chatting.

Also I haven’t made one yet but she’d be damn good for a villain herself AU.

She will listen to you! She will sing to you!! She wants to make you happy and help you grow, plz come to her with whatever. (Or vice versa! She’s not difficult to get to open up and she will talk with you about her own doubts and demons if u want).

Anyone can watch one of her performances and/or come find her hanging around the venue afterwards. I’ll probably make some opens for this kind of thing.

Are you another performer character??? Duets??? duets.

Faunus mentor!! Music mentor!!

Sanctum or Atlas Academy student days can be a thing. Likewise for her more interspersed street performances during those times.

future volume interactions if you’re comfortable with hcs of what goes down until we find out canon. She can go after Robyn/Qrow in the immediate timeframe, or run into any of the kids in the process. I like to think she joins up with the main cast to head to Vacuo when that happens. Whether to just bring her music along for them and/or to start spreading it to more reaches of the world bc hopefully Atlas/Mantle is under control at some point and in good hands with Robyn and however that leadership shakes out, and damn the whole world needs hope right now, so it is... Time To Dream Even Bigger.

Current open post/s:

here’s the open starter tag!

Anything else?:

I thought there was a shipping section on here but uhhhhhh i’m too much of a wuss to make one myself right now. maybe a bias list in the future. I feel like I should get some general interactions going first.

Tagging: I’m not making anyone commit to this beast. If you want it, take it and most certainly blame me and tag me so I can read it.

#( you just crossed a borderline || ooc )#( can you keep up? is that all you got? || wishlist )#long post

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twistinghearts · 4 years

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I wanted to do the ‘About the Mun’ thing going around. Unfortunately, I’m not sure who originally made it but thank you for doing so~ Not tagging anyone but I love seeing people’s answers and learning more about those in the fandom.

1. What do you prefer to be called name wise?

I go bye Sango~

2. When is your birthday?

Late June

3. Where do you live?

California [USA]

4. Three things you are doing right now?

Watching critical role, drinking coffee, plotting

5. 4 fandoms that have your peak interest right now?

Twisted Wonderland and Uta no Prince-sama... I do not have the focus to have that many interests

6. How has the pandemic been treating you?

It has had little effect on me... Everything is just more ‘effort’ now. Like I already didn’t like going to the store but now there’s the extra legit anxiety that comes with the extra steps.

7. A song you can’t stop listening too right now

Imagine (Brunch)

Back To Earth (Steve Aoki ft. Fall Out Boy)

8. Recommend a movie

The Labyrinth

9. How old are you?

25 in June. I feel old, a lot of people didn’t answer this.

10. School, university, occupation, or other?

I work at a craft store and have an office job. I also cosplay.

11. Do you prefer heat or cold?

Cold! It’s already hot here and I don’t like it

12. Name one fact about you that others may find unusually

Uhhhhhh... I don’t like nuttella (chocolate hazelnut spread)

13. Are you shy?

At first, just because of the fear of scaring people off.

14. Do you have preferred pronouns?

She/Her

15. Biggest pet peeves

When people bite into tomatoes like apples. Important information not being easily accessible.

16. What is your favorite -dere type?

I am too lazy to research -dere types right now, but I will say that I am a s|ut for kidnapping and prince/princess shit.

17. Rate your life 1-10

Objectively 9... subjectively 6-4 depending on my mood

18. What is your main blog?

This one now

19. List your side blogs and what they’re used for

I have some other blogs for Utapri roleplay

20. One thing people should know about you before they become your friends

I’m sorry and I can be pretty blunt and straight forwards with my opinions.

#about #long post #dash meme #House Edge #shut up sango

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ardaaman · 5 years

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The Trident’s Return

Novel Prep Tag

FIRST LOOK

1. Describe your novel in 1-2 sentences (elevator pitch)

Petryn Alenyath, disgraced former governor of the island nation Azmarin, suspects her political successor in the theft of the island’s greatest treasure, a powerful enchanted trident once belonging to Petryn’s ancestor. The only hope she has of reclaiming the governor’s seat lies in recovering the trident and proving her rival’s guilt... but, as every Azmarin native knows, there is always something lurking just below the water’s surface.

2. What is your novel’s aesthetic?

Political intrigue layered with high adventure on the high seas. Pirates and merfolk and magic and creatures from the darkest depths of the ocean.

3. What other stories inspire your novel?

As with The Alchemist’s Curse, everything here originated in D&D. Petryn was a PC in one campaign, then another, then a major NPC in another, and finally she landed here. Arda’aman and its history originated as a campaign setting. Even the plot was modified from a campaign idea I had. Despite all appearances, in a story so rooted in D&D and elemental magic, Princes of the Apocalypse had very little influence on this project, since I’ve never played that module.

The Hobbit, specifically Lake Town, influenced the look and feel of Azmarin’s Serenity District.

Surprisingly enough, I’m also drawing some inspiration from the Princess Diaries movies, since I realized the dynamic I was aiming for with Petryn and Galen was very close to what Queen Clarisse and Joe had. So I bought both movies on Amazon. For research purposes.

4. Share 3+ images that give a feel for your novel

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MAIN CHARACTER

5. Who is your protagonist?

Petryn Alenyath, descendant of one of Arda’aman’s greatest heroes and disgraced former governor of the island city-state, Azmarin.

6. Who is their closest ally?

Galen Glaucus, the son of a dock worker and an undine—an elemental spirit from the plane of water—and the current druidmaster of Azmarin.

7. What do they want more than anything?

She wants to live up to the Alenyath name, to the legacy that carries with it. She wants to do right by her people.

8. Why can’t they have it?

She did have it. For exactly eight years. Then Remora beat her out in the polls and destroyed her reputation, and Petryn... This was Petryn’s whole life, the governorship. She wants it back, and the only way to do that without stooping to Remora’s level is to prove Remora stole the Namoros Trident.

The trouble is, Remora didn’t.

9. What do they wrongly believe about themselves?

In her original incarnation as a PC (and again as a muse on this blog), she wrongly believed that fencing and swordfighting were interchangeable skills, and she still believes that in The Trident’s Return. She’s a champion fencer, and her first instinct after Remora “ousts” her is to run away to someplace where she never has to face the shame of failure and become a wandering adventurer.

She loved adventure stories growing up, and the archetypal action hero in any D&D-based story is a wandering adventurer. The problem being, “real” wandering adventurers tend to be trigger-happy bounty hunters who think they’re above the law and take every available opportunity to abuse it. In short, murder-hobos.

Petryn is not a murder-hobo. Nor is she a swordsman.

10. Draw your protagonist! (Or share a description)

What, you think I can write and draw? No way. Credit: (x)

PLOT POINTS

11. What is the internal conflict?

There’s the whole “the only reason she’s still on her feet after Remora beats her is her conviction that Remora stole the trident and the subsequent burning hope that she can regain her career and exact revenge all at once, when the truth of the matter is that Remora had nothing to do with the theft, the real culprits are trying to undo everything Petryn’s ancestor worked to achieve, and Petryn has to come to terms with the fact that she’ll never get the governorship back, nor can she ever return to that time in her life, and she now has the daunting task of rebuilding herself from the ground up.” But I don’t know how to word that succinctly at the moment.

Then there’s Duty vs Desire: Petryn has a duty to her family name, her ancestor, her city, and... herself? Nah, that sounds fake. Basically she always puts duty—her work obligations—before her own desires—in this case, Galen—and that doesn’t change just because she didn’t get reelected. Before, Galen was her adviser and subordinate, and a workplace relationship of that nature would be inappropriate, and now, with her reputation the lowest it’s ever been (thanks Remora!), she can’t afford the barest hint of a scandal if she’s to have any hope of winning the revote she’s trying to force.

On the other hand, he’s sexy and compassionate, and she’s madly in love with him.

12. What is the external conflict?

There’s the rivalry between Petryn and Remora. They’re both cunning and relentless, but where Petryn holds herself and her people to a high moral standard no exceptions, Remora readily takes advantage of more, shall we say, underhanded tactics. So basically Man vs Foil

There’s also the massive, underground religious cult bent on bringing about a second apocalypse to keep everyone on their toes. That counts as Man vs Nature, right?

13. What is the worst thing that could happen to your protagonist?

Uhhhhhh pretty much someone stealing the closely guarded weapon that her family has kept safe for generations and using its magical powers to open a rift to the Water Plane to unleash the angry genocidal monster that her ancestor personally imprisoned. No biggie.

14. What secret will be revealed that changes the course of the story?

Yeah, Remora’s not the bad guy here. Sorry Petryn, you’ve got bigger fish to fry. You probably should have seen that coming.

15. Do you know how it ends?

It’s kind of a bittersweet ending, because on the one hand, she fails in her personal goal to get her job back. On the other hand, she saves the world! On the other hand, there’s still three more chapters of this cult trying to destroy the world. On the other hand, at least she’s knows they exist now and can’t be blindsided again! On the other hand, they also know she exists now.

On the other hand, she and Galen finally get together!

BITS AND BOBS

16. What is the theme?

Uhhhh something about... legacy, and... you can’t always get what you want.. and........... but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need oh yeah.

It’s a lot easier to spot themes once the story’s already written.

17. Where is the story set? (Share a description!)

The Sovereign City of Azmarin, the Floating City, home of Port Serenity. Situated smack dab in the middle of the Marized Ocean, halfway between Sylanta and Haolong. The great cultural salad bowl of Arda’aman.

18. Do you have any images or scenes in your mind already?

It’s near the beginning. Petryn is slumped in a seat in the Rat ‘N a Barrel Pub and Lodgings with a brandy in hand. All around her, sailors are singing off-key shanties and celebrating their brief stint on solid ground, while Petryn quietly drinks herself into oblivion. As she nears the end of her third brandy, Galen slides into the seat next to her.

19. What excited you about this story?

It’s a swashbuckling adventure full of magic and fun worldbuilding!

20. Tell us about your usual writing method!

Outline first, put on a playlist that fits the mood, then start writing.

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