hello, darlings✮
welcome back to trench. here's my current quarterly playlist. fic requests are open right now - for ships listed below. dividers by @saradika-graphics.
spotify || ao3 || pronouns page || writing masterlist
✮ you can call me ellis, ells or el. close mutuals can call me elmo. ask about other nicknames, but nine times in ten i'll adore you forever if you nickname me.
basic info ✮ he/him, trans, pansexual, ambiverted infp-t, type six, sagittarius, australian, dog person, romance reader, writing is everything to me, winter>>, glasses wearer, headphones on twenty-four/seven, cd collector, spotify premium user, aspiring author, regular oversharer, real-person-shipper and rpf author, ginger cat, ao3 addict, anti-monarchist, socialist, lacrosse player, pwhl enthusiast, seattle seahawks supporter, theatre nerd, night owl, revolutionary, linammon roll, moderator of the be my valentine challenge, high schooler, green is the best colour talk to the hand, i like weird science podcasts and emergency-drama shows, tote bag owner (to a mildly concerning degree), im an eyeliner kind of guy, i don't keep my mouth shut for anybody. free palestine!!
music ✮ one direction, conan gray, olivia rodrigo, twenty one pilots, maddie zahm, caity baser, dylan gossett, sabrina carpenter, alexander black, megan moroney, xana, kelsea ballerini, noah kahan, ed sheeran, billie eilish, five seconds of summer, cavetown, maisie peters, finneas, taylor swift, queen, hozier, girl in red, luke combs, phoebe bridgers, gracie abrams, miley cyrus, adele, sixpence none the richer, morgan wallen, birdy, renée rapp, the beatles, abba, robbie williams, ashe, blackbear, dyl dion, chappell roan, luke combs
books ✮ little women, red white and royal blue, osemanverse, jane doe and the cradle of all worlds, nevermoor, boyfriend material and husband material, afterlove, the meaning of birds, the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, i kissed shara wheeler, the fault in our stars, they both die at the end, song of achilles, girl in pieces, you'd be home now, a semi-definitive list of worst nightmares
musicals ✮ come from away, hamilton, in the heights, high school musical, hsmtmts, dear evan hansen, tick tick boom, wicked, disney musicals<3, the greatest showman, the addams family musical, matilda, tina: the tina turner musical, mary poppins + returns, six, miss saigon, rocky horror, west side story, funny girl, chicago. moulin rouge
movies & tv ✮ little women (2019), barbie (2023), dunkirk, don't worry darling, my policeman, julie and the phantoms, rwrb, heartstopper, 9-1-1 (and lone star), doctor who, clouds, love simon and love victor
my characters ✮ amy march, nina rosario, henry fox-stuart, nick nelson, christopher eccleston's doctor, achilles, ezra squall, regulus black, augustus waters, john laurens, evan buckley, carlos reyes, allen from barbie.
my ships ✮ larry stylinson, firstprince, tarlos, buddie, nick&charlie, wolfstar, jegulus, amy&laurie, morrigan&cadence, hamburr, laurette, hobama<3, eddie diaz with literally anyone
goals and dreams ✮ i want to study abroad, publish my writing, adopt or foster kids, travel to every continent someday, volunteer with lgbt+ homeless/support shelters/charities, attend 5/5 1d boys' concerts, learn at least two languages
my sideblogs ✮
my poetry blog: @thelostboyschapter
1d lyric keywords: @onedirectionandblank
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I need to gush about my upcoming game
[Alt text: A graphic with floral corner borders in the bottom left and top right corners with Chefs de Partie written in the center. Above the title reads hashtag Chefs de Partie. Below the title reads served on January 24th 2024 only at DriveThruRPG.]
Chefs de Partie is a co-op minigame for your ongoing RPG campaign that runs on Iron Core. Gather your party and cook a meal together, narrating your successes and failures with either heavenly or disastrous results.
This one page game includes the core rules (written by me) and six recipes that demonstrate how the game interacts with four different systems: D&D 5e, Blades in the Daek, Fate Core, snd Lasers & Feelings. The recipes are written by some of TTRPGs rising stars (literally my dream team!!!):
Austin Taylor, of Secret Mysteries of Nerd Histories fame whose game design you'll have seen in Deimos Academy and Til the Last Gasp
Basil Wright, a Storytelling Collective 2023 Creative Laurette and game designer of Pelegos
Danny Quach, author of Digital THICCNESS, AP superstar, and Roll20 angel
DT 'Honey' Saint, whose food based TTRPG contributions I've admired since she DMed Spice of Life at Roll20 Con three years ago, and whose charity work "Honeybunches of Hope" is incredible
Erin Roberts, a game design role model of mine whose name you may know from Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel
Poorna M, one have of Weave Games, who recently made one of my all time favourite games, a Christmas rom com duet called Love is on the Cards with her design partner Armaan Babu
As if that wasn't enough, we've got the one and only Nala J Wu on graphic design (they have perfectly brought to life my vision of a restaurant menu for the layout) and Marielle Ko from Tales of Sina Una as our editor!
Biggest one page RPG? Maybe (it's A2 dimensions)
Most designers on a one page RPG? Possibly
But cooking is best done with friends and I've implemented that philosophy throughout the creation process. I'm so freaking hyped to bring the world this game (the recipes range from brioche cinnamon rolls to podi masala dosa) because the dish descriptions are something incredible!
My hope is that we reach 51 sales* in the first month. With royalty split and $3.95 per sale, my writers should make $0.10 a word if we reach our target goal. I've priced this so everyone gets paid fairly.
*at full price. There will be options in the game description to buy the game for 50% or 100% off because games shouldn't be gatekept by disposable income.
This game is a little silly downtime activity and I love every contribution with my whole heart. I'm so excited for it to release next month and I hope you consider buying it if you can!
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919, F. Richard Jones) / Love (1919, Roscoe Arbuckle) / The Grocery Clerk (1919, Larry Semon) / High and Dry (1920, Jack White)
An older man with a skinny face and eagle nose, Hayes joined Keystone in 1914, and until 1918 was seen playing various irritable fathers and Keystone cop chiefs in more than 40 Keystone and Sennett comedies.
Born in San Francisco, Hayes debuted on the stage in 1918 and appeared with Harvey Cook and Laurette Taylor, before entering films. Hayes left Sennett to become a member of the Fox Sunshine company in the late 1910s, and worked in Fatty Arbuckle's Comique comedy Love (Par 1919). In 1920, he appeared with chimp comedians Joe Martin (Prohibition Monkey for Universal) and Snooky the Humanzee (A Trayful of Trouble for Chester). Sometimes Hayes played roles in drag — usually as frighteningly ugly harridans. Hayes' drag appearances included Sennett's feature Yankee Doodle in Berlin, Larry Semon's School Days (Vitag 1920) and the Mermaid Comedy Sunless Sunday (Educ 1921). He appeared in features up to his death, including A Hoosier Romance (Selig 1918), Cupid Forecloses (Vitag 1919), The Lure of Egypt (Federal-Pathé 1921), Souls in Bondage (Sanford 1923) and Greed (M-G-M 1924).
His daughter Venice Hayes worked as an actress at Keystone circa 1915, and his son Ward Hayes also worked at Keystone and later become a director. Frank Hayes died of pneumonia at 52, in his home not far from the Sennett studio. He left wife Lottie H., sons Ward and Chris, and daughter Venice, and was buried in San Francisco.
-Walker, B.E., 2010, Mack Sennett's Fun Factory, McFarland&Company, Inc., Publishers, p. 513
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Sword Girls, Prose, Laurette/Mim
Laurette/Mim is probably Joe by AJR, it's basically about the singer being like "LOOK AT ME AM I COOL YET??" after blowing up and becoming a successful artist to their old bully.
Prose could be Forgive the Children We Once Were by Delta Rae because they both were very different people when they were younger and were complicit with a lot of shitty practices, but it seems they both are aiming for redemption now :))
Sword Girls is a toughie bc I don't have many platonic songs on my list lmaooo, I will go with No Body No Crime by Taylor Swift. Bc Rose is rehabilitated (ish) but if Eilonwy was murdered she would avenge her lol
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