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Something I gotta do at some point: Go through this list and check if there’s a singer that better fits Emil as a singing voice claim:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_contraltos_in_non-classical_music

Her current one is on the list but she’s not exactly singing the type of songs Emil would xD

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I gave it a quick go and that’s how it looks like so far. I kind of like the looks but on the other side the entry boxes are a bit meh.

https://someidioticurl.carrd.co/

I’ve reworked the guideline and it’s much shorter than the old one. It’s on AO3 at the moment but I think I’ll copy it into this carrd but only once I’m happy with the wording.

Any suggestions what to add?

New version: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30937025

Old version: https://archiveofourown.org/works/24022408

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I gave it a quick go and that’s how it looks like so far. I kind of like the looks but on the other side the entry boxes are a bit meh.

https://someidioticurl.carrd.co/

I’m reviewing my guidelines and Emil’s bio page to update it once I move Emil to the new blog and I’m tempted to see how this carrd thingie would work out with it.

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Reblog this if you’re okay with people sending unexpected IC asks to your muse at any time! No meme prompts needed!

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@keirstory​ / @postmortemlullabies​ / @sxlverswan​ / @magneticbitch​ / @trafalgar-bleedingheart-law​ / @themercsadventures​ / @bucketfullofocs​ / @submarineofhearts​

Put in a couple of people into [this height comparison] site

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chucking it here too cause it would make for an interesting devil fruit :p

Funny addition is that technically, they wouldn’t need food or drink. At least not to survive.

Their body might stop functioning properly once it runs out of nutrients and energy but it wouldn’t ‘die’. The cells would still be there in perfect condition but they just wouldn’t function unless provided food.

I got a random idea and now I’m pondering how - realistically - would someone with ‘indestructible body’ superpower look like.

One thing that gets me scratching my head the most is strength development. On one side, one grows muscles by tearing the tissue during a workout so it regrows stronger. Indestructible body would result in an inability to tear and regrow the muscle tissue, what would suggest the user wouldn’t be able to get stronger.

On the other side, muscle tissue tears because it has a limit that we are pushing through but if it can’t tear, the user should be able to push through as much as they want to.

So the question is: would this power deactivate pain receptors?

If it does, then you get a never aging, never tiring human with musculature exactly the same as the day they gained their powers (muscles shouldn’t deteriorate either) with a perk of having inhuman strength.

If it doesn’t, you have a  a never again, never tiring human with musculature exactly the same as the day they gained their powers, with a perk of having inhuman strength but it hurts as hell each time they pull out the superhuman strength feat because all their muscles are at the very very brink of tearing apart and the pain receptors are flaring up left and right.

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@incinerating-aureate-tora replied to [this]

Explain it to me =)

Okay -tugs up sleeves- the difference between pointless and purposeful epithets, here we go:

An epithet would be any phrase used to address a character other than their name or pronoun: the brunette, the teacher, the man, the insufferable asshole, the puppy.

The main difference between pronouns, names and epithets is that on top of them being used as a tag to signify what character we are referring to, they hold extra meanings.

Pronouns are pretty much devoid of any extra meanings (assuming no misgendering). You just gloss over them to know what character the narration is referring to next and that's it.

Names have some extra meanings. If a mother calls their child by their full name, you get a sense the child is in trouble, with no need for the narrator to spell out she's irritated. It would be weird if a mother was playing around with her baby and called them by their full name, wouldn't it?  If you're writing from the POV of a teenager talking to their friends' parents, it can tell you what kind of relationship they are in whether they address them by Mr/Mrs Last Name or their first name.

Names are used to point at characters and are often as 'glossed over' as pronouns but can show what kind of attitude the POV character has toward them.

Now, epithets hold even more meaning. They point at characters, they show what kind of the attitude the POV character has toward them but also shows what feature the POV focuses on when thinking of them.

While you're writing, you might be tempted to use an epithet to 'spice things up!' but here's a secret: people don't count how many times you've used a pronoun and name in the last paragraph. They gloss over them and carry on and that's a good thing. Unless you're writing things like

She got up from the bed. She yawned. She stretched. She scratched her butt. She wobbled to the kitchen.

People won't notice. And that's exactly what you want. If you thought the line above is weird imagine that:

She got up from the bed. The blonde yawned. The Marine stretched. The green-eyed one scratched her butt. The woman wobbled to the kitchen.

Are we still talking about one person or five?

I admit that was a ridiculous example here's the thing though when you're using an epithet, you're pulling the reader's attention toward this specific feature.

The brunette yawned.

Right. Okay. I want you to ask yourself why are you directing the reader's attention toward her hair colour. How is it relevant in this situation? Is the POV referring to themselves as the brunette? Why would anyone refer to themselves by their hair colour? What impact does their hair colour have on their yawning?

If we assume it's not the POV that's yawning but they are watching someone else yawn, again, why are they referring to them as the brunette? If it because they don't know her name and her hair colour is the most obvious signifier to differentiate her from other present people? Ding-dong. Congratulations. We have one good reason to use someone's hair colour alone as the epithet!

Another one I can think of would be that the POV has a kink for the given hair colour and finds it more important than their name.

Please note: hair colour alone. Things like 'the stupid blonde' can be used as an insult or a stereotype shorthand.

The next example: the teacher. Again, ask yourself, why is POV singling out this one characteristic? Because the POV is the schoolchild and they are always thinking of their teacher as 'the teacher' and it would be weird for them to call them by their name? That's a good reason, that pretty much renders the epithet invisible. Good work.

Is it because POV is the teacher and you need a replacement for their name? I'm not a teacher, nor am I you but how often do you think of yourself as your profession? I could see it happening when they are hyping themselves up to face a particularly difficult class, or being proud of the success of their pupils but on a day to day basis? Possibly not even at work or doing anything connected to the work. It's a pointless use of an epithet, use something else or rework your sentence. 

The insufferable asshole is a wonderful epithet. It's flawless. Please, always use it on each and every occasion xD

The thing is that roleplay might be written from the third-person perspective but it's a close one. Everything that happens is from your muse's perspective, not some nebulous narrator spirit floating behind their shoulder and describing everything in purple prose. If you approach it like that: that's fine, ignore everything I've just written and carry on on your way. I read roleplays as happening from the muse's Point Of View and it makes no sense to me when they think of themselves as their eye colour. They can't even see them!

If you read a roleplay and imagine the mun literally typing the description of what their muse does instead of those things being perceived and thought by the muse, more power to you. Our writing styles will clash but there's nothing wrong with that; not everyone has to share and like everyone else's writing/reading preferences.

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Ask me about advice on writing epithets and whether the use is ‘pointless’ or ‘purposeful’ because this thing is still sitting at the back of my head.

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@sxlverswan​ 

/to me epithets or words like woman/man or even a job make sense in lieu of a person's name, as identifiers, so you don't repeat he/she and so on again and again. Hair colours make sense sometimes, even more so if this description comes early in the thread. Like when you read a novel and are getting acquainted with the characters. but to constantly use hair and eye colours is not enjoyable to read. If I already know your character, I do not need to be reminded every time. Like with Morgan I like to use lady, in particular, or woman but the idea of her being "the brunette" is redundant. You know how she looks. And it's not her hair color that defines her.

That’s why I make a distinction of it being a ‘pointless’ epithet.

If your character is in a hospital and talks to their doctor about their illness, it makes sense they keep on referring to the doctor as such, even if they know their name.

If your friend is a doctor and you’re out in the town, getting drinks and having a party, it makes no sense for your character to refer to them as ‘the doctor’.

If your muse doesn’t know someone’s name and the only identification they can really make is the other’s hair colour, it’s good, go with the brunette or whatever (but please don’t use things like bluenette).

If your muse knows someone’s name but has no respect for them, they may think of them as ‘stupid redhead’ instead of using their name and it makes sense, it serves purpose.

Having your muse refer to their friend as ‘the blonde’ while just talking with them in a park about books or something just to not use their name or pronoun is weird. Unless you actually use ‘the blonde’ while thinking of your friends.

Throwing in ‘the captain’ when referring to your own muse while they have to make some hard decision that would impact their crew is *chef’s kiss*.

Throwing in ‘the captain’ while they are just sitting in their room and enjoying their hobby and doing absolutely nothing that has anything to do with them being the captain is as obnoxious as someone randomly, out of the blue, announcing their profession. Like, thanks, no one asked, no one cares, you’re weird.

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[ omg literally same?? ALSO this reminds me that in the past i used to use stuff like "the raven", "the one eyed" ect instead of nnoitra's name in rps but THANKS TO YOU i don't do it anymore. you were the one who made me aware of how bad it is and i'm forever thankful!! ]

One person converted!

Seriously, tho, I used to do it myself. I can remember, back when I started rping here, on tumblr, I would refer to Emil as ‘the blacksmith’, or ‘the woman’ in places that made no sense and I should have gone with perfectly invisible ‘she’ or ‘Emil’. Then I read on writing advices and it was the mistake: once I went there and saw what was off about this approach, I could not go back and use those without a slime-y feeling at the back of my head that those were wrong words.

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@despairforme​ said: [ ✧ Do you agree with reblog karma or is it forced interaction? ]

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As with plenty of divided opinions: I prefer the middle ground.

If I dig an old old meme from a meme archive and two minutes later someone reblogs it from the same archive, I don’t feel happy that they avoided adding activity to my notifications page. I feel like they tried to be - and flailed - sneaky and pretend they don’t know me and it was them who found this meme. No. If you’re going to reblog a meme you saw on my blog, then have the guts to look me in the eye and admit to the world that yes, you’re taking it from me.

The idea that you HAVE TO send something in if you reblog a meme from someone is obnoxious. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t and it’s fine. You can reblog it now without feeling the guilt of not sending anything but you might send something next time.

On the other side, treating someone as a meme archive and NEVER sending anything in is assholish. IC interactions can be hard and unfitting but it’s an extra WTF if the meme one reblogged is OOC or headcanon.

So yeah, somewhere in the middle. If I’m bringing out sweets to the communal table, you don’t have to give me something back each time you take; you don’t grab the plate and move it to your table, acting as if I was never there, but if you take, you should give at least from time to time or I might stop bringing in sweets.

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@despairforme​ said: [ ☀ What's your rp pet peeve?]

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Wonky punctuation, line cutting in weird places and lack of capitalization.

That would be it really. I might bitch on pointless epithets and be dramatic that I would have my muse react to floating globes should anyone write ‘sky blue orbs looked up’ one more time but those don’t annoy me. They make me roll my eyes. Those are taste and preference and I might consider ‘the raven’ used instead of one’s OWN muse’s name bad writing but there’s certainly someone out there who prefers those.

wonky punctuation though , as in adding spaces

in front of punctuation symbols that should not

have them ; line cutting so it looks like poetry ,

not prose and a general lack of capitalization

peeve me out enough to straight out refuse to

roleplay with a person who does that . you can

use those in poetry but roleplaying is more akin

to prose - something you would find in a novel 

and I would yeet any book that has those out 

the window rather than read it . from time to time

as a mistake is fine but if that ‘ s your ‘ style ’

then I want nothing to do with it .

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-whispers- go play pokemon sage

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You called it upon yourself :P

Yessss, I’m proud of you and for once I shall post it as an ask post, not text.

[in reference to this]

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Me: -copy-pastes a meme into the askbox and removes blockquite from it because what even is this???-

Me: heh, if someone uses the new askbox formatting feature to send me an ask in tiny text, I will temporarily block them

Also me: if someone disliked tiny text as much as I do and posted this ^ I would totally go into their inbox and send a tiny text ask that would be just ‘tiny text’ in tiny text

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I usually remember anything of my dreams only when an alarm wakes me up and today was such day and the dream touched on One Piece by the end so here it is because there's an interesting bit:

I was reading a published, paper comic with Emil and Heart Pirates. It started with Emil and one unknown female HP sparring. Some more came in to watch and spar between each other and it grew enough they decided to go to an outside boxer rink to have some official matches.

Now, here's what is interesting: Law was pulled along to be the judge because - according to this dream created comic - had a history of being sports events judge. He took off his top and along with his regular tattoos, he had scripture similar to poneglyphs across his chest and down his arms. One of Heart Pirates nudged another (newer one) and said something along the lines of 'oh, look at that, this is why he became 'The Law').

The scene then went to Emil and Law doing a synchronised dance facing each other and Emil commented he must be glad she can replicate his movements at ease, without actually knowing the routine. He agreed, that it gave unpleasant side effects when done wrong.

Here's the thing: the further into the dance they were, the brighter his scripture tattoos shone.

And my dream ended.

Have a headcanon based on one silly dream:

Each Will of the D person has invisible tattoo like scripture covering their body since birth. The scripture becomes visible when they partake in certain activities and once that is done, can switch it on and off at will. Its powers are activated by performing a synchronised, traditional dance with someone else. It can be an ordinary person, but the stronger the partner is and more precise the dance, it gives more power to the Will of the D person, allowing them to force their will onto others. Not conqueror haki style, but the Force style, where they tell something someone and they follow the order.

A synchronisation dance with an ordinary person gives only enough power to force unruly combatants out of a rink, no matter how strong physically they are.

A perfectly synchronised dance with another Will of the D, gives both users power to inact their will of the fabric of reality itself.

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Law/Homesick

Can we go back to when we were young, 

And didn’t care if we messed up?