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annakie · 5 years

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Thoughts on a DW Rewatch & Mass Effect replay.

So I’m in the Eleven / Clara half-season now.

Also I’m now replaying Andromeda. I have thoughts, about both. I’ll start with Doctor Who then label it when I get to Mass Effect stuff.

Oh my God this gets long and rambly. Apparently, I have a lot of thoughts.

So, season 702... I’m ready for it to be over. I miss the Ponds. I felt like most of the first half of this season was pretty great, honestly. I’d forgotten how fun some of those episodes were, I think at the time we were anticipating a new companion so heavily that it was harder to appreciate those episodes? I feel like there was a lot of criticism levied towards them that now I felt like was a bit too much. The western episode was kinda meh but still not bad.

I’m not sure what exactly it is about these Clara / Eleven episodes that I’m still not connecting with but I’m in the middle of the Crimson Horror episode (which is a Vastra/Jenny/Strax heavy episode and enjoying it more than anything else so far this half-season.

*edit later* NOPE NOPE NOPE I’D FORGOTTEN HOW THE DOCTOR FORCES A KISS ON JENNY. GROSS. SUPER GROSS. SHE’S A MARRIED WOMAN, A LESBIAN AND DID NOT CONSENT TO ANY OF THIS. BAD DOCTOR, BAD.

Honestly even with some excellent guest start acting, the Russian Submarine episode was STILL a slog and the ghosts in the 1950′s episode no better. Like they still weren’t ridiculous and unwatchable but... just didn’t feel fun or interesting at all? The Journey to the Center of the TARDIS episode was decent, and I felt like that wasn’t nearly as cool as it should have been..

I remember reading a criticism of these episodes early on where they said that the biggest fault is that they failed to give Clara any real characterization or solid personality other than “girl the Doctor is obsessed with”. She’s SUPER IMPORTANT but not only do we not know why at this point but it really doesn’t feel... earned? I don’t recall it ever feeling earned that Clara was supposedly always so important? “The most importantest companion EVAR!”

And as someone who stanned the hell out of a character who was hated in the fandom for “replacing” a previous companion I’m checking myself to make sure it’s still not because I Miss the Ponds. Like, I don’t HATE Clara, I just, at least at this point in the rewatch, can’t find any reason to really LOVE her? She’s there, she’s fine, Jenna-Louise Coleman is doing a great job with what they’re giving to her but... I don’t know. It all feels... off.

I had forgotten all about the “the Doctor rides a motorcycle up the side of a skyscraper” moment and something hit me in that moment that made me remember that wow people hated that moment. It felt really... shark-jumpy somehow.

I love Eleven, but this half-season isn’t connecting with me, AT ALL. It feels like the writers just went and dug through a bunch of rejected script ideas, polished them up and were likle “let’s just do this until Matt Smith is gone.” I’m anxious to get to Twelve.

Mass Effect Stuff

OK TECHNICALLY I haven’t finished ME3. I still need to do the party and the goodbye scene, (Citadel Epiloge Mod installed) but I’ve gotten all the Stuff and done all the missions in the arena. I just wasn’t quite ready to say goodbye yet, so I started Andromeda a bit early.

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OK look I had a point I wanted to make and never quite got where I wanted to go with it right here. I’m too tired of trying to fix it, so this stands as written.

This playthrough had me ruminating a lot on Kaidan and Garrus. I really love both of those characters, though in my heart I’ll always primarily love Kaidan, I’ve done the Garrus romance and wouldn’t mind playing that character again to see the romance one more time. In ME1, I bring Kaidan everywhere all the time, and pick which other companion I bring to the story-based missions based on what I know is gonna happen like I’m sure most people do. Wrex for Therum, Tali for Feros (though I REALLY wish you could switch before going to see the Thorian), Liara for Noveria, Ashley on Virmire, Garrus for Ilos/Endgame. I rotate through all five for sidemissions.

In ME2, Garrus is my always-bring companion, with Garrus + Miranda being my favorite team. Except after the Omega relay, where characters with Throw really shine with all those husks running at us, Jack holds the bubble, and Miranda and Thane, who both have Warp to help take down the Reaper Baby, are the preferred team. Also so Miranda can tell TIM to fuck off.

Then in ME3, once the game opens up, Garrus is back on the perma-team, with a preference towards bringing Liara along... until we get Kaidan back. And then I realized I didn’t bring him to a single thing except a side mission or two until Earth. Mostly, this is because I’m following the Kaidan Banter guide and it turns out Garrus is a real banter hog for most of the missions. At leat he’s not James, who I literally never use unless I’m going on an N7 mission and feel bad that I haven’t taken him off the Normandy in awhile. I mean, even Javik gets more play. Also EDI doesnt leave the Normandy til near the end when all of a sudden she gets real important.

But Garrus is always on the team for Priority Earth. And that always felt like the way the main game should end, with your two favorites. (Also what kind of monster wouldn’t bring Wrex to the combat-centric areas of Citadel DLC? I keep thinking I should have runs where I bring other people but... Wrex is my other fave and we don’t get him with us AT ALL since ME1.)

I love Garrus, so much. And I was thinking with this whole parallel DW rewatch / Mass Effect replay think I’m doing right now how both Rose Tyler and Garrus Vakaraian are characters that were ruined for me for awhile due to their respective... overly enthusiastic fanbases who a small percentage of were dicks to people who loved other characters. The Kaidan tag (and from what I understand Thane got some of this too, but not nearly as bad) was a pretty hostile place for awhile (and yeah I used to check the Garrus tag too and there was a small amount of tag-invasion there but uh, like 5% of what the Kaidan tag got) which made loving the character of Garrus a lot harder for awhile. But when actually watching seasons 1 & 2 / the end of 4 of DW, or actually playing the games, those characters are awesome.

Fanbases can be amazing or terrible, and time and time again I think you start to realize that no matter how great a fandom is, there are going to be a few people who can only enjoy themselves by feeding on drama, or on lifting up what they love by stomping on other people/characters/plotlines. Going back through my blog reminded me that even the TAH fandom had some of this, with a small percentage of fans being real dicks to two prominent female characters in favor of their favorite ship, which soured even that just a tiny bit.

It’s not fair to characterize everyone who loves a popular thing as someone who does this. It’s also hard to avoid completely because there will always be jerks, or young/new people who don’t realize what bad form they’re showing. I did learn by trying to fight it for a year or two, that responding might help that one person not do it again, but it’s not going to stop overall. Maybe yelling a lot about Martha Jones did change some people’s minds. It still isn’t that good of a look now, even knowing that in general I was pretty polite and logical about it. I might respond to an odd comment now and again in some favorite character tags, but in general, turns out that kind of fight just isn’t worth it.

And those fights seem so stupid in the light of everything else happening in the world today.

Anyway, don’t be a dick about the things you don’t like.

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I also wanted to say, and I know I said it in a few other posts about this ME3 playthrough, but seriously I cannot believe how much ME3 is a changed game because of the modders. I cannot imagine ever playing ME3 again without these mods. There were so many small things that I kept thinking I should take note of to talk about and I’m sure I forgot 90% of them, but there’s things like... adding in mentions of the Andromeda Initiative, closing a few plotholes, mentioning Emily Wong, adding in many more Spectre console options which end up having their own plotlines, adding in an entire plotline about the VI civilization that had previously only been talked about in like, social media or Cerberus News Network posts, having the Normandy be so much more populated, seeing so many more other species on the Citadel with more variety in clothing for those species that have clothing / could have more variety, way more female Turians.... every time I play ME3 the game is more and more like the game we wanted when it came out.

I am kind of itching to go back and replay it even now.

But hey, instead, its time to talk about Andromeda.

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So first of all, yes, mods for Andromeda. A few appearance mods, a lot of convenience mods.

After having recently played DA:I and I think Andromeda and DA:I are a lot more similar than Andromeda and the previous trilogy, I had decided it was time to cut down on the stupid stuff Andromeda does, like “Oh, you want minerals? Spend 10 minutes in each mining zone finding the PERFECT place to gather materials or you’re fucked” No, thanks. I’ll mine but give me that “one probe placed anywhere and you’re done” mod.

Make the modifications and crafting materials I use actually matter. 2% damage increase is nothing. Make my squadmates not suck because I remember doing 90% of the work myself before and that got exhausting with the number of spawns.

I tried to not go overboard so things feel like cheating, but there’s enough out there to just get rid of the stupid stuff, and it’s nice. And works together a lot easier than the DA:I mods did.

One thing I did do was install the Multiple Romance Mod. I enjoyed it in DA:I, even though ultimately I only did 2 full romances. I am **NOT** romancing Gil or Cora with the mod, I just wanted to experience all the content available for female Ryders at once, since I’m not going to have the energy to replay this 100+ hour game enough times to see every romance on its own. So I am poly-romancing Liam, Jaal, Vetra, Suvi, Peebee, Keri, and if it lets me, Reyes when it’s time.

I’ve only gotten all the way through Andromeda once (where I romanced Liam) My second playthrough was right after my first and stalled out about halfway through (was romancing Jaal.) It was one of those “I’m totally gonna get back to this! (She didn’t.)” things. I’m gonna be honest, I enjoyed the Liam romance and was enjoying the Jaal romance, I’d done a fling with Reyes but not the full romance my first time through and the fling with PeeBee on my second. Reyes was probably my favorite out of all of them. So this time I decided.. let’s see which I love the most, all at once. I don’t know if I’ll do this in the future, but this game is too long to not see all the content I wanna see, TBH.

And you know, I still really do like Andromeda. It’s a GOOD game. And I’m forever going to be mad that we’re not going to see how this story ends. This story deserved to finish being told. Like, there are a lot of very legit criticisms about Andromeda, but it didn’t deserve the harshness it got. And the worst thing about it, and DA:I both is that... there’s just a little TOO MUCH of it. 100 hours is an amazing amount of game but... it’s also just too much. For now I’m not trying to 100% this playthrough. My plan is on each planet to get the planet to 100%, take out the Kett or whatever major base, the Remnant Architect, and yeah probably clear out the sidequests that show up on the map, but fuck quests that are like “visit random Kett camps until you find the right datapads that don’t show up on the map!” or “scan random blobs in the forest that don’t show up on the map!”

So like, do the content, not the filler.

I still hate the vaults. The first one is cool. The rest are tedious. But they’re mandatory.

I love everyone on this spaceship though. They did the Tempest stuff SO WELL. All the companions I think are... good? There’s no one I don’t like, even the non-squadmate shipmates ship have so much interaction and so much to do/say. It’s not like “a bunch of randos and Joker, with occasional appearances by Chakwas and the Engineers” There’s no randos, it’s just a few people you have real interactions with, and its great.

The lack of enough beds in the bedroom will never not annoy me. There’s 4 beds for... Lexi, Liam, Cora, Suvi, Kallo, Vetra and Gil? Even if Liam slept on his couch, and Vetra put a bed in her supply room... still doesn’t add up. What, do Salarains not sleep or something? Does Lexi sleep in a medical bed?!? Peebee sleeps in the escape pod, Jaal brings a bed with him, and Drack’s like “Eh I’ll just sleep in the kitchen”. WHAT? THE KITCHEN?

I mean sure there weren’t enough beds, even with the sleeper pods, on the Normandy either, but somehow that was less disturbing.

Also, I know you’re supposed to HATE Director Tann but I love Kumail Nanjiani so I find it hard to be a total dick to him, even if he usually deserves it. If he wasn’t an anti-Krogan racist I think it’d be easier to like him. He was thrown into a pretty shitty situation and... did actually hold things together for some time. He’s not doing anything out of malice. He’s a dick, but also doing what he needs to do to keep the Initiatiave going. Oh, except for being a anti-krogan racist. (Honestly, I also think “until he turned Cerberus Udina was just doing his job pretty well” too, so...)

Taking some screenshots as I go. I mostly just take screenshots for me now. I have a few thousands screenshots from a dozen or more games rotating through my desktop background, and I keep adding to it, and love it.

Anyway, I’ve gotten Eos, Voeld and Havral to 100%. Time to go save the Moeshe. I’m having fun.

*edit from later* I’d forgotten that... idk if the dialog they recorded for Jaal was the first thing they recorded for him or they used a different VA or what but on the Save the Moshe mission his voice is VERY DIFFERENT and oh man, that is still bad.

Might take a break for when Onslaught comes out for SWTOR, though. I haven’t really played SWTOR in months. Oops.

#personal post tag thingy #annakie's mass effect stuff #doctor who stuff #hey this gets REAL RAMBLY sorry not sorry

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firebirdscratches · 6 years

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slightly invasive gay asks I decided to do all of them :D If you’re in the alphabet soup and you wanna play along, consider yourself tagged.

1. what’s your gender? I’m a cis woman, even though I’m also intersex. (I was raised female and identify that way.)

2. what are your pronouns? She/her. I’m fine with they/them, especially from online peeps.

3. is your family accepting? Happy to say yes, they are. They could be better on some fronts, but that’s okay. They love me and they’re trying. That’s what matters.

4. what do you wish you could tell your past self? Don’t marry him.

5. what is your sexuality? I’m pan and gray ace.

6. favorite color? Blue

7. sun gay or moon gay? Hmm...that’s a toughie. I’m probably Moon gay because I’m such an insomniac...but Sagittarius is a fire/sun sign...and I am excited about summer....hrm...maybe I’m a Twilight gay. The sun is juuuuust about to set, and in the other side of the sky, where it’s darker already, you can see the moon and a few stars. <3

8. when did you find out your sexuality? LOL buddy, when I figure it out I’ll let you know. There were signs even when I was a kid, but it took me forever to find a label I liked. I was basically questioning clear through college, and then settled on bi, and then pan, and then figured out I was ace, so...in five years who knows?! Basically, by senior year of high school I had serious suspicions that I was Not Straight™ and by sophmore year of college...yeah there no room for doubt anymore. X,D

9. how was your day? OMG thank you for asking??? It was okay. I went to work....then heated up some leftovers and watched the West Wing. Nothing to write home about, but most of them are like that, when you’re an adult. “This is water,” and all.

10. do you have any gay friends? LOL yah we tend to congregate

11. what’s your favorite hobby? I sing and act and write fanfic :D

12. who’s the best gay icon in your opinion? Janelle Monae. QUEEEEEEN.

13. which pride flags do you like the most design/color wise? The original rainbow flag has to be a fan favorite, right? And I like it with or without the pink, and I especially like the recent edit to include black/brown. As far as the aesthetic goes, I like the sapphic flag. It’s sooo pretty. The butch lesbian flag too! Also I think it’s weird and hilarious and perfectly fitting that no one can agree what the Queer flag is, there’s like, twenty different versions and that’s honestly just so queer and great. XD

14. are you openly out? Unfortunately, you can still get fucking FIRED in this day and age for being queer, which is cruel and ridiculous and makes me so furious. So I am not out at work. I am out to my friends and out to my family. (And to my partners, obviously, when I have them.) Truthfully, you’re never 100% out, no one walks around screaming their sexuality constantly so every passerby is AWARE, you can’t inform the entire planet at once...you continually come out throughout your life based on the situation in which you find yourself. I do resent that I can’t be out at work...but I think I would resent unemployment even more :/ Bitch gotta eat.

15. are you comfortable with yourself? LORD no LOL. But I’m comfortable with my queerness.

16. bottom or top? Switch. But this question overly simplifies the power flow in a sexual relationship, I find? It’s fine to get a general idea, but the answer’s always more delicious and complex.

17. femme or butch? I define my aesthetic as “Lazy femme.” It says “I like looking womanly, but do not have the money, time, or skillset to constantly tic all the boxes of Femininity.™" In other words, I don’t shave my legs and I wear jeans and clunky comfortable shoes, but I also wear dresses and dye my hair pink, and some days I go whole hog and do my make up. So...Futch? :/

18. do you bind? Nope, only for a play once. And I did it with ace bandages like a moron. Stay safe kids.

19. do you shave? Nah. I have very light/scanty hair anyway. If I didn’t, I’m not sure if I would or not.

20. if you could date anyone you wanted, who would it be? Drew Barrymore and Chris Evans. Both. Happy lil’ triad. (Maybe hook up occasionally with Aidy Bryant or Chris Pratt, just for funsies.) Oh! no wait! Mark Ruffalo. I bet he’s terrific in the sack. And I love his brain and his politics. WAIT Janelle Monae? Tessa Thompson AND Gal Godot.......okay being pan is difficult. -_-;

21. do you have a partner (s)? Alas, no. :( I had a girlfriend for a bit, but it didn’t work out.

22. describe your partner (s)? Tender lesbian, black, musician...insecure, can be kind of passive aggressive. :/ I still think she’s a really cool person and we’re trying to do the friends thing.

23. have you ever dated anyone of the same sex? Yup

24. anyone of another sex? Yup

25. pastel gay or goth gay? Goth

26. favorite dad in dream daddies? I dunno, it seemed kinda fetishistic to me, but most dating sims do?...not passing judgment on folks who like it, it’s just not really my bag. I guess I like the design of the bear Dad.

27. tell me a random fact about yourself? I am blowing on my nails right now so they dry. Indigo-for-it by Essie Treat Love Color, kind of a cornflower grayish blue. (See, I’ve got some femme rattling around in there).

28. do you own any pride flags/merch? Yes! I bought them at Target last year. And I ordered some custom T-shirts for my parents and my best friend.

29. have you ever been to a pride parade? NOOOOO AND I SO WANNA GO I think this year might be the year!

30. any advice to someone who isn’t out or who is exploring themselves? It’s okay to be questioning, you don’t need to have it all figured out yet. It’s okay to be closeted, you aren’t lying to anybody and you aren’t a bad person, some things are private. When it’s time, you’ll know. Don’t let anybody rush you, either to pick a label or to come out. Also? If you wanna say you’re [label] then go for it, there’s no registration fee, if you feel like that you are like that. And you can always change your mind later. People who say differently are called “gatekeepers” and are to be avoided. The gay experience, like all of life, is messy and complex and way too weird and wonderful to be overly simplified. You are you. Just listen to your heart, listen to your body, and trust what it’s telling you.

#pride #gay pride #pansexual #asexual #gray ace #questions #questioning #closeted #coming out #sapphic #quiz thingie #play along if you want to!

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belxmont · 7 years

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★ FILL IN THE QUESTIONS AS IF YOU ARE BEING INTERVIEWED FOR AN ARTICLE AND YOU WERE YOUR MUSE.

TAGGED BY: @adrianfarenheightstepes TAGGING: @lily-of-the-night @bloodxinxthexshadows @jxachim @petitlionfidele @consiliarium @showmethehotpods @monochromaticoccultist @anubisienpw && whoever else wants to do the thing.

Disclaimer: All of these answers are based around the main verse I have with @lily-of-the-night‘s Adrian!!! So that’s where most of these answers come from!

1. WHAT IS YOUR NAME? "Jesus of Nazareth.”

2. WHAT IS YOUR REAL NAME? "Jesus of Nazareth... fine, bloody Christ, it’s Belmont. Trevor Belmont.”

3. DO YOU KNOW WHY YOU’RE CALLED THAT? "Well Belmont cause it’s my Clan’s name, obviously. And Trevor? Probably some biblical meaning I don’t care to learn.”

4. ARE YOU SINGLE OR TAKEN? "Taken. Very much taken.”

5. WHAT ARE YOUR POWERS AND ABILITIES? "I hit things. In the face. With my whip. Very hard.”

6. WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR EYES? "Blue. Got them from ‘m mom...”

7. HAVE YOU EVER DYED YOUR HAIR? "Nope, but the dirtier it gets the darker it gets. Does that count?”

8. DO YOU HAVE ANY FAMILY MEMBERS? "... Next question.”

9. DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS? "Does a werewolf count?”

10. TELL ME ABOUT SOMETHING YOU DON’T LIKE. "How much time you got? Cause I’ve got this list.....”

11. DO YOU HAVE ANY HOBBIES OR ACTIVITIES YOU DO IN YOUR SPARE TIME? “I like to fight. And drink. And fight while I drink.”

12. HAVE YOU EVER HURT ANYONE BEFORE? "Probably, yeah.”

13. HAVE YOU EVER… KILLED ANYONE? ”I’ve killed a lot of someones. Nature of the job.”

14. WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL ARE YOU? "I’ve been called a filthy rat bastard and a damn dirty dog before. Personally, I see myself as more of a wolf, you know? Lone wolf, hunting my prey. Wait, why are you looking at me funny? I’M BEING SERIOUS!”

15. NAME YOUR WORST HABITS. "Apparently ‘excessive drinking’ is a bad habit? And here I thought keeping the taverns supplied with coin was a good thing. Oh, and according to Adrian I snore and hog all the blankets.”

16. DO YOU LOOK UP TO ANYONE? ".... Yes. Though I sincerely doubt it matters, he’s long since been dead. Probably rolling in his shallow grave as we speak.” (He may or may not be referring to Leon here.)

17. GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL? "Technically I like ‘em both, but I got a strong preference for that dick game. Can’t be helped. Men are gorgeous and I like cock.”

18. DO YOU GO TO SCHOOL? “Nope.”

19. DO YOU EVER WANT TO MARRY AND HAVE KIDS SOMEDAY? (verse dependent) "I..... hadn’t really given it much though, I mean. Not until I met Adrian. And then.. a lot of things sort of... changed, I guess. My perspective changed. I wouldn’t mind getting married, and I wouldn’t mind having kids, but how do you do that, when your soulmate is not only male but also not entirely human....”

20. DO YOU HAVE ANY FANS? "Don’t know. Don’t care.”

21. WHAT ARE YOU MOST AFRAID OF? "..... never having been good enough. For my family, for my country. For Adrian.... For myself.”

22. WHAT DO YOU USUALLY WEAR? "Clothes. The warm kind. The floofier the better, honestly, even though SOMEONE dislikes my cloak.”

23. DO YOU LOVE SOMEONE? "Irrevocably. Undoubtedly. Passionately.”

24. WHAT CLASS ARE YOU? “Upper-middle class. Well, at least I was. Haven’t checked since, I don’t know, my entire Clan was killed off and my home was burned down. I don’t have much bearing in society as it were.”

25. HOW MANY FRIENDS DO YOU HAVE? "Oh, plenty! Wait, you mean friends that wouldn’t sell me out for a few silver? A few, then, perhaps. Who knows.”

26. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON PIE? "... Depends on the pie. We talking a fruit pie, a meat pie? Gimme specifics here.”

27. FAVORITE DRINK? "Ale, by far. Though I’ve been known to enjoy wine whenever I can afford it.”

29. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PLACE? "Anywhere outdoors. Further up north the better. I enjoy the cold. There’s a spot I used to train at, when I was younger. First venturing out alone, I... visit there when I get a chance. If just to think. I’d like to take Adrian there one day, but I do not think he enjoys the outdoors as much as I do...”

30. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SOMEONE? "I’m... not interested in anyone other than Adrian, if that’s what you mean. I’m kind of a one-lover kinda man. Boring, I know.”

31. WHAT’S YOUR DICK SIZE? *Snickers* “Want to see for yourself?”

32. WOULD YOU RATHER SWIM IN THE LAKE OR THE OCEAN? (verse) "I’ve never seen the ocean, but I’m familiar with nearly all the lakes here and I enjoy swimming in them when I can.”

33. WHAT’S YOUR ‘TYPE’? "Tall, dark and dangerous.”

34. ANY FETISHES? "No.”

35. TOP OR BOTTOM? DOMINANT OR SUBMISSIVE? "Top. Dominant. Primarily. Though I can be persuaded to... switch... if the mood should ever arise.”

36. CAMPING, OR INDOORS? “Camping is fun. I enjoy it. It’s better at night, though. Keeping warm by the fire, watching the stars...”

37. ARE YOU WAITING FOR THIS INTERVIEW TO BE OVER? “Seven fucking Hells yes.”

#⚔: Stats #{LMAO I HAD WAY TOO MUCH FUN ANSWERING SOME OF THESE F U KC.}#{blblblblbhbh thank you for the tag bby!!!! <3}

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stylesmyth · 7 years

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Hi guysss, Lauren @showingthroughtome tagged me to do this otp tag for #hastrid from Fallen Stars! this should be very interesting...

Warning: things with ** next to them mean they aren’t canon

rules: choose a couple of fave photos/gifs/manips/etc of your ship! copy and paste the questions down below! answer as if you’re the characters that have been tagged! then tag some more of your fave ships/characters to answer next!

i wanna tag @harrystyluhs with Rory and Harry, and @allison0446 with LEAH and Harry (when times were easier lmao) <3 alsoooooo @showingthroughtome with Briar and Harry!

WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO:

Make breakfast: Harry has more experience cooking things, Astrid would burn the eggs**

Cuddle the other for no reason: harry harry harry

Sleep on the couch after an argument: Astrid would stomp off and sleep somewhere else even though Harry would beg her not to**

Drive and who is most likely to ride shotgun: Astrid definitely has more knowledge of driving, but she’d teach Harry so they can switch every so often**

Choose the music in the car: Harry, always Harry**

Get jealous: Oh definitELY Harry, Lord have mercy! Astrid would laugh at the desperate attempts of anyone trying to get with Harry

Break the expensive gift rule: Harryyyyy because Astrid follows the rules more often than not (or at least worries about it)**

Sneak sweets in the shopping cart: Astrid wouldn’t admit it, but sometimes a Colin the Caterpillar sweet will end up in the cart mysteriously...**

Hog the covers at night: Astrid because she’s not used to sleeping with anyone!

1. What do you do when the other is upset?

astrid: my first reaction is to run away because I never know to handle emotions that don’t come from an eight year old, but I’m slowly learning to talk it out

harry: I let her know it’s okay to talk about anything with me. I stay there for her, hold her, let her cry into my chest until she’s able to get everything off her chest, and then I say a corny joke to make her laugh :p

2. Who is more romantic? Give examples.

astrid: *side eyes harry*

harry: ppfttttt me, hands down. She’s never been romantic towards anyone (for obvious reasons) so I do everything I can to show her how it’s done. We lay under the stars, super romantic, I say something poetic and kiss against a tree until she’s light headed

3. What do your families think of your relationship?

astrid: nothing at all, they can’t know anything. Niall (who has the smallest of ideas what’s happening) thinks it is a horrible idea

harry: my mom is very happy and wishes us the best, she loves Astrid even though they haven’t had too many encounters

4. If you had to wear a couples costume for Halloween, what would you go as?**

astrid: oh God, why did you have to bring th--

harry: couplE COSTUMES?! DAPHNE AND FRED

astrid: absolutely nOT, harry, no, I will not wear a wig!

harry: you’d be a great red head! just look!

5. Are you both earlier rises? Or do you both sleep in? Or is there one of each?

astrid: I usually get up early for work

harry: if I could have her in my bed every night, I’d stay in every morning, but alas work calls my name at 5am

6. Do you have any routines at night? Before bed, in bed, etc.

astrid: it’s become quite regular to sneak out...

harry: in bed...*smirks*

astrid: *glares* don’t play like that, you’re teasing them too much

harry: I have been told I’m a great tease

7. What nicknames do you have for each other?

astrid: is bastard acceptable?

harry: i’m not a big fan of nicknames, but the occasional babe slips out

8. Say you had a child, who is the strict parent and who is the lenient parent?

astrid: kids??? I’d rather not think about that right now

harry: *whispers* she’d be strict, I’d be lenient *is smacked on the arm*

9. Would you rather go to a fancy restaurant for a date or stay at home and watch movies with pizza?

astrid: considering there’s none of that in Hull...a simple dinner in the mess hall without all eyes on us would be nice *tunes out as Harry answers*

harry: I’d sneak some food from dinner and we’d go to the playground and eat under the same tree I fell in love with her at

10. What first attracted you about the other person?

astrid: he kinda just kept showing up everywhere, and eventually I realised he cared about me more than anyone else. also the curls are a rare feature in Hull, so there’s that

harry: she’s hard to miss, honestly. after she paid for my first meal, I was intrigued to know more, and fate just so happened to give me the opportunity to see her more. She’s 5′3″ of pure spirit not a lot of people get to see, and I’m a very lucky man

#fs #fallen stars #hastrid #harry styles #danielle campbell #astrid benson #1dff #things im tagged in

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kbunburyhelps · 7 years

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Thank you for the shoutout. Would love a review please!

Yo, yeah no problem, I don’t mind giving you a review and you’re welcome for the shoutout. Keep in mind this is just my opinion and it’s not meant to harm you in any way, shape, or form. If you would like me to take it down, just inform me. If you would like me to expand on anything, please inform me. If you would like anything please inform me. The review is under the cut. Also, I’m still sick so if things don’t make sense please just IM me(your ask will probably get lost if you message me rtn, I’m just being terrible at getting things done this week so far).

Icon, header & url: I’m honestly not a fan of your icon, I think it’s too basic. You can have a simple icon and still make it look good but yours is too plane. I think you could have gone something like a school building or a faceless school kid and then put a shortened version of your url in it but just the name isn’t drawing attention because we can easily assume that from your url already. You don’t have a header, which is disappointing because there’s no clue on what kind of school rp you have but also it’s another chance to show people your graphics. Your url is fine, it’s kind of long but it’s telling. Your description is also just honestly super basic also, it still gives no further idea to what kind of rp this is. You also don’t have a mobile nav, I’m not sure if it’s because you haven’t updated it since you opened or what but you should include that. Honestly because this is the first look, if I was looking at your rp I wouldn’t want to find out more about it. Your first look should give people an idea of what your rp is about but also show off your graphics as simple or great as they might be but honestly people just like looking at graphics when rp hunting. So I’d give this a very low score of like 3/10. I’m sorry but it just feels like a lot of the essential things here are missing, at least when comparing to good well-run and lasting rps.

Theme/Graphics: I hate to say this but I honest to God really like really dislike your theme. Well first, you’re theme credit isn’t showing and I know one exists for that theme because I searched the page long enough to know it exists. I don’t know if you did or didn’t do that on purpose but I’m going to assume you aren’t rude and didn’t do it on purpose. There’s no color scheme going on at all. I wouldn’t call what you have going on a color scheme at all. There’s absolutely no graphics going on which, even since you have no graphics this is an extremely terrible theme to choose since half of the theme is essentially supposed to be a graphic. Your description is too short to make the main portion of your theme look nice. Your text is big enough to read, which is good and it’s a good color to be able to read. Personally, I don’t mind 500px gifs all that much but if you are trying to get the attention I’m sure you want, you’d have better luck if you switch to 250px gifs. Your links are pretty straight forward for the most part, I do wish that they had the “title” part in the html so I knew exactly what I was hovering over without having to look at my bottom of the page to see where each link led to. I would recommend getting a good theme makeover person who will also maybe make you an icon and header if you don’t feel comfortable or like you could do graphics well enough. 2/10.

Plot: I’m honestly not sure if this is as much of a plot as it is a guideline to how the rp works. It essentially seems like a way of the world sort of thing. If you’re going to do that, fine, but be consistent with it. The first paragraph seems a bit plotlike and then as you go down it’s more guideline/rules sort of thing. Also, not I’m just more confused on what your plot is, is this plot based on all these schools, on one school, is it not based on schools, like whats going on? If you’re going to have a plot like this, you should follow a timeline and like plot it out. Maybe one way to go would be to have the first paragraph be a general like this is the world we live in kind of thing. Then the second para be like okay now that you’ve heard about our world, this is how dom’s experience the world then third how switches or whatever experience and fourth how subs. You should also have like a glossary or something for people who might be interested but don’t normally do smut rps or something I’m not sure. Also, do you have a test that people applying will take to decide whether their characters will be or because it’s glee do you already have that figured out? I think you’re plot is short which is good, it’s not fully clear and it doesn’t seem like there’s a general story you’re making with your plot. It’s getting there, I can sort of see where it’s going but you essentially are not there yet. 5/10.

Rules: Rules are straightforward and short which is good. The first thing you have is the 18+ rule, personally I’d just bold that just to make sure people catch attention to it. Your inactivity rule isn’t clear, you say “If you don’t respond to the message or post something“ but what’s the timeframe you’re giving them to respond or post. I don’t think “You can have up to five with a week in between the initial two.“ is written as clearly as it could be. I think it should be more like the maximum amount of characters you can have is up to five but after taking up your first character you must wait a week before taking up a second. Also, I think you should probably do like a week between all characters otherwise your rule leaves openings for people to just take all their favorites and hog characters without leaving room for new or other people to take up characters they might want. I also think “Trigger warning stuff that needs it. There is a tag page for stuff you need to tag, that can be found here.” isn’t written clear. It should be more like please tag trigger warnings when needed. We have a page for triggers right here, so please respect others and tag accordingly or something like that. Your tone isn’t exactly coming off as nice with these rules so far. And last just “After your initial starter, reply to two before you post your starter.” isn’t clear at all. So is it that once you’ve posted a starter on that character for the first time, for any other time you want to post a starter, reply to two people before you can do so or what? It’s not clear what you’re trying to say. I like that you have a chemistry based rule though, it’s a nice change of pace. Also side, why don’t you just put school rules and all the dom/s/s or whatever on the same page because that’s literally just easier for everyone involved. 6/10.

Characters: N/A since it’s oc I think.

Misc: You have no app up that I can see. Your nav is simple and easy to get around. I like that you have school rules and all your other whatever thingy rules. I like that you have the school layout too and the about the town (though if you’re going to do an about the town I think you should have gone more detailed). Your class list is nice, though I’m really not liking this shade of blue. Your school layout is very nice and detailed (I’m really not a fan of this shade of blue though.) 9/10.

Overall, I give you a 25/50. Honestly, there’s just so much you guys should work on that I can’t summarize but most importantly depending on what you think will be getting the most attention I’d either focus on fixing your plot or a graphic makeover, personally I’d first say don’t promo yet and fix both before you open again/promo again. There are many people out there who’ll do promo graphics, I don’t know if their rules differ for smut rps but you’d have to check. So I can’t recommend you but good luck on your rp!

#review #glee rp #glee roleplay #smut rp #school rp #mountannepreprpg

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