#cacology

[xluciifer]

It's Shoutout Saturday!! I've entered +100 roleplayer accounts into a spinner and let the wheel of fate decide! I will be doing this every week to honor more of my followers and bring a little light onto their roleplay blogs! Please reblog to spread and promote their blogs. It's nice being seen in such a large community. ❤️👑

@hzbinsouled

Moonbeam is someone I've followed for a while now! We talk on very rare occasions but I enjoy seeing them on my dash and interact and roleplay with who they do. The mun is really sweet and they have a wide arrange of muses they roleplay! Even some I don't see much of! I hope to roleplay with them one day soon. ❤️

@cacology

Pan is relatively new! They've been a little busy with life but their writing has been enjoyable to witness with @culling and in general. From the little we've gotten to talk, I love them already and the approach they're going with with their Vox. They should be around soon and we potentially have a thread here going soon and I'm so excited. ❤️

@redemptsin

Fae is another person who we've only recently gotten to follow each other back! I've admired them from afar for a little and adore their mun! They're currently on a hiatus for vacation but their writing is such a treat to see when they're around to roleplay! Another roleplayer I haven't gotten the chance to write with yet but I'm looking forward to it once they're around. ❤️

[sidestriker]

hc + 😨 !! ( might have gotten the wrong emoji but it’s the fear based one )

hc + 😨 for a fear-themed headcanon

striker doesn't have a lot of outward indications of fear. that's not to say he never feels it---but if you were to ask whether he had a fight, flight, or freeze response, it'd be fight. that is to say, a lot of what manifests as anger or aggression is also partly fear.

here are some telltale signs, actually, that striker is being cautious or feeling fear!

rattling of the tail - this is a big one. he rattles as a warning, but that warning can come both as a response to anger and frustration AND a response to fear. it's his universal "you'd better back off" sign. because it's an involuntary reaction most of the time, he tends to always outwardly portray it as anger so he's not seen through.

hands on his weapons - it doesn't have to necessarily even be an outright instinctive "hand flies to gun" sort of thing. if striker is talking to someone and has his gun or his knife out casually, he's being cautious and IS somewhat afraid.

more volatile trigger finger - the more aggressive and violent he gets, the more scared he is of losing. in some situations he can come off as downright animalistic with his fervor, but this is more a desperate survival instinct than a show of rage or unfounded aggression. he tends to miss a lot more and get sloppier when he's caught unawares by fear, but most of the time a desperate situation will sharpen his senses.

cursing - he curses often anyway, but he'll get notably more vulgar when he's on edge.

themed headcanons. / accepting.

[r-adio]

❝ I WOULDN'T HAVE THE FAINTEST IDEA HOW TO DO THAT, did you hear of that on your fancy little device? ❞

@cacology

[drfeelgreed]

What other muses did you wish to add to your roster but never did? ( and why did you want to muse them? and why didn't you end up adding them? )

oh boy there's actually a lot of them even keeping it contained to just baccano! characters!!

i'd have to throw out molsa martillo, esperanza c. boroñal, donatello, the poet, and kalia gandor as answers first ... i HAVE actually written all of these characters before on different baccano! blogs of mine, but ultimately when i was making this blog i decided to cut them off because they tended to be difficult for me to write---and kalia never actually appears in the series except for mentions anyway, so it wasn't really that big of a loss. i think mostly the reason i had them in the first place was because there were other active baccano! writers to play them off, but ... well. i feel like i have more leeway to NOT write characters i don't want to write as much when i'm the only one writing for the fandom anyway.

aaaand now on the the characters i've ACTUALLY never written:

carl dignis! i love a good investigative journalist type, and the tone of volume 16 in general is well suited to my tastes. he's not on my roster because he didn't come to mind when i started making my carrd, and now i'm like ... i dread adding MORE bios to my to be completed list, especially with how complex my bios over here actually are. it's possible i add him here in the future though!

miria harvent! to be honest i ALWAYS feel a little guilty for writing isaac and not miria since they're a package deal, so when i've considered adding her it's usually for that reason. i mostly have shied away from adding her because i don't want to always have to carry the weight of two muses in ask responses, and it's always more fun to throw my isaac at OTHER people who write miria anyway.

multimuse stuff! / accepting!

(bonus below the cut where i talk about some non-baccano options in relation to my other multi ^^)

in terms of some of my other fandoms since i've at least GOT another multi...

from hellaverse, i actually have a non-zero desire to muse husk. i like characters who are gamblers, i like designs that incorporate cats, and i generally just really enjoy his vibe. i DON'T write him because i have a very odd tendency to sideline my own portrayals when anyone else writes a character that i write, ever, under any circumstances ... it doesn't help that there are a LOT of people i either interact with or see on my various dashes who write him very well already, and i take a probably-unhealthy approach to picking up characters sometimes that's based on the actual demand for those muses in the rpc ... alas this is just not in the cards for me ever.

from bungou stray dogs, i've been thinking about musing kunikida recently. he's been on my mind and i don't know why because i've literally never written him before. i honestly couldn't give you a reason other than the urge is there right now. as for why i'm not musing him it's because i'm the number ONE hater of bungou stray dogs and i refuse to pick up another character from it out of sheer spite.

from the witcher, stefan skellen! he's a book character and one of my favorites from the nilfgaardian cast, and i have actually written him before. well. "written". i featured him on my blog and never actually got to write him, because nobody ever asked for him. which is also why he's not on boundlss today </3

[spidersins]

🖤 !!!

send 🖤 and my character will answer about yours.

attractiveness:

repulsive / hideous / ugly / not attractive / unappealing / not unattractive / meh / no preference / ok / mildly attractive / nice looking / cute / adorable / attractive / pleasant on the eyes / good looking / hot / sexy / beautiful / gorgeous / hot damn / would tap that / perfect / godlike / holy fuck there are no words.

personality:

grating / irritating / frustrating / boring / confusing at best / awkward / unreasonable / psychotic / disturbing / interesting / engaging / affectionate / aggressive / ambitious / anxious / artistic / bad tempered / bossy / charismatic / appealing / unappealing / creative / courageous / dependable / unreliable / unpredictable / predictable / devious / dim / extroverted / introverted / egotistical / gregarious / fabulous / impulsive / intelligent / sympathetic / talkative / up beat / peaceful / calming / badass / flexible.

how likely they would have sex with them:

not if they were the last person on earth and the world was ending / fuck no! / never / no way / not likely / not sure / indifferent / I’m asexual / maybe / probably / it depends / fairly likely / likely / yeah sure / yes / would tap that / hell yes / fuck yes! / wishing that could happen right now / as many times as possible / we are already having sex.

level of friendship:

never in a million years / worst of enemies / enemies / rivals / indifferent / neutral / acquaintance / friendly toward each other / casual friends / friends / good friends / best friends / fuck buddies / bosom buddies / practically the same person / would die for them / true friends / my only friend.

first impression of them:

i hate them so much / i don’t like them / i don’t trust them / they annoy me / they’re weird / I’m indifferent / meh / they seem alright / they’re growing on me / truce / I think I like them / I like them / I’m not sure if I trust them / I trust them / they’re cool / they’re genuine / I think we’re going to get along / I really like them / I think I’m in love / oh fuck they’re hot / I love them.

current impression of them:

i hate them so much / i don’t like them / i don’t trust them / they annoy me / they’re weird / I’m indifferent / meh / they seem alright / they’re growing on me / truce / I think I like them / I like them / I’m not sure if I trust them / I trust them / they’re cool / they’re genuine / I think we’re going to get along / I really like them / I think I’m in love / oh fuck they’re hot / I love them.

[boundlss]

⭐ ik we haven't really talked so feel free to ignore this if you want!

it IS a little barren hahaha which is probably to be expected all things considered but i won't leave you hanging! i would love to start talking! i'm just never really sure how to go about that kind of thing. if it means anything though you have a lot of points in my book for also following me on my other blogs when you first followed back ... people don't actually go to those blogs very often so i was VERY delighted behind the scenes. anyway, i guess i sort of answered as an excuse to say i would like to talk sometime. eventually.

mutual bingo. / eagerly accepting!

[poisonedspider]

my url for the positivity meme if you're still accepting!

WOW THIS IS FUCKING OLD but sure why not I will always spread positivity to my friendos! I know we haven't done much interacting (if any at all really) but I am always supporting you from the sidelines. I think you're such an incredible Vox on so many levels, and I really want our boys to interact more. I posted it in the tags of the reply (which is somewhere in my never-ending queue) but I think our thread might honestly become one of my favorite. I think the dynamic between Vox and Angel deserves so much more exploration for the obvious reasons. And you just...you're incredible. Whenever you like my stuff (you and culling honestly), I get like nervous butterflies and all excited because I swear I am not worthy of you. Keep on being incredible.

[antisatiric]

that sounds so stupid, it might be true. ( and feel free to hop into my dms to plot >:) )

"Wow, thanks!" A beat of silence passes where Twain seems not to realize he's being insulted. Then; "Wait- hey. It does not sound stupid. And I'll have you know it is true. I'd never lie about this."

Which is also a lie, but then again everyone down here lies about absolutely everything, so Twain's not altogether worried about the consequences it might herald when it comes to an Overlord. Or about Overlords in general, though his lack of fear is completely unwarranted.

With a far more unbothered disposition than someone in his place should rightly have, Twain carries on, "And anyway, it's not like I'm out here tryin' to power-grab people over in this part 'a town, so what's the big deal? Even if I did have the means to do that, which I don't, I'm not crazy enough to try. I just lurk around here for completely unrelated reasons. Maybe I just like watchin' TV and have really bad luck. Ever thought 'a that?"

the heaven & earth grocery store. / accepting.

[statiicstag]

vox is smirking. that's six bingos.

are you Alastor’s type ?

❝ Someone certainly seems rather proud of themselves, as well as unjustifiably offended ! ❞

As if that square hadn't been completely pointed in a certain someone's direction.

[enderwoah]

DOUBLE LIFE/HOMESTUCK HANDLES & TYPING QUIRKS

ello ello ello! happy belated homestuck 4/13 AND hermitcraft birthday! it's been a very long time since i have touched this au, but it occasionally starts rotating around in my brain so i decided, "hey! it's not like the homestuck presence in this fandom can get any more dead! why don't i make some headway on that?"

this will be a comprehensive list of all fourteen double life members' chumhandles and typing quirks (where applicable; otherwise, i might just put down their general typing style). it'll go in rainbow order for the trolls, but there are only seven of them so some may be skipped! c'est la vie.

for people that don't know homestuck, a chumhandle is essentially an internet username used on the messaging system "pesterchum" (or, for the trolls, the messaging system "trollian"), consisting of two words that are usually unnecessarily rare and big. a typing quirk is something trolls all have to differentiate themselves from one another, both for expression purposes and also because they all have to use their blood colour as their online colour and it could get confusing. hope that helps, let's go!

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TROLLS

grian (rust):

sign: true aires, sign of the excavator

no noticable typing quirk, but does use an overabundance of bird puns whenever he gets the chance. not because he thinks they're funny, but because they get on other people's nerves and gets their feathers in a twist.

procrastinatingBellbird [PB]

procrastinating: to delay or postpone action; put off doing something. is this not grian's entire existence? have you watched his hermitcraft videos? can the man go half an hour without getting distracted by something and putting what he should be working on off for later? like..oh, i don't know. the back of his base?

bellbird: the loudest bird in the world! you little attention-seeker, you.

ren (bronze):

sign: taurga, sign of the guardian

unnecessarily and often incorrectly uses the olde version of words, adds a lot of 'e's and 'th's and 'st's where therest shouldn'th be for ye olde effecte. is a hemoanon (someone that does not reveal their blood colour by typing in gray).

cynoidCacology [CC]

cynoid: dog-like; canine. speaks for itself.

cacology: bad choice of words or poor pronunciation. this is partially a jab at his 'incorrectly uses old words' bit and partially a slight reference to his constant innuendos being played off as simply a bad choice of words. someone probably lied to him and told him that this word meant royalty and was really old and cool.

tango (gold):

sign: gemiborn, sign of the uproarious

the first actual typing quirk, tango types in ALL CAPS, EXCEPtt FOR HIS tt'S ttO MAttCH THE PAttttERN OF HIS HORNS!

reinedAzidoazide [RA]

rein[ed]: keep under control; restrain. it'll make more sense with the second part.

azidoazide [azide]: the most explosive chemical compound ever created. so together, his entire chumhandle is just a big sign that yells 'i have thinly-controlled anger issues!,' lmao.

bdubs (olive):

sign: lenius, sign of the restless

SPEAKS IN ALL CAPS. TYPES VERY SPORADICALLY. CUTS OFF HIS. SENTENCES. CHANGES HIS 'I'S TO '1'S AND HIS 'S'S TO '2'S WHEN THEY'RE NEXT TO EACH OTHER. LIKE IN W12H. AND F12H. (to make a 12! like on a clock.)

nyctophobicBryophyte [NB]

nyctophob[ia]: extreme or irrational fear of the night or of darkness. he definitely has it! lol!

byrophyte: the informal group name for mosses, liverworts and hornworts. oh yeah, baby. moss time, baby. eats moss, prolly. and has a cool cloak!

scott (cerulean):

sign: scorza, sign of the strategist

he's both too cool for an elaborate typing quirk and too lazy to go out of his way to type in perfect capitalisation like he wants to. Middle ground, he capitalises all his 'M's and he types as forMally as possible without having to try. uses eMoticons as punctuation lot (:K and keysMashes rather often. (his sign, scorza, looks like a weird M, so he just ran with it. if the people he's talking to can't deduce that it's him, that's their problem, not his. his horns look like antlers and he felt like a K was the only letter that really encompassed the antlers vibe (((:K)

kenodoxicHart [KH]

kenodox[y]: an obsolete, rare word meaning the love, study, or desire of vain-glory. only someone truly vainglorious would flaunt their vainglory. and you know what? good for him.

hart: a male deer; a stag. sure, he could have just gone with stag, but 'hart' sounds like 'heart,' so it's just unequivocally better in every way. his lusus is a horrible combination of a hart and a spider.

cleo (purple):

sign: capripia, sign of the brusque

she really doesn't have a patterned quirk like some others might...she simply prefersssss to elongate her 's'es whenever it feelsssss...sssatisfying. never uses caps. alwaysss usesss precisssse punctuation. makes use of ellipsesss to enunsssiate her pointsss. will often change the 'c's to 's'es in sssertain wordsss because typing out a bunch of 'c's doesn't have the ssame effect. (her horns are painted to look like snakes, and thus!)

vafrousPhantomime [VP]

vafrous: cunning; sly. sounds about right, yeah.

phantomime is not an actual word! it is a combination of phantom (a ghost) and pantomime (a dramatic entertainment, originating in Roman mime, in which performers express meaning through gestures accompanied by music OR a theatrical entertainment, mainly for children, that involves music, topical jokes, and slapstick comedy and is based on a fairy tale or nursery story.) to explain this would be to explain a lot of cleo's backstory, which is not what this post is for; the simplest way to explain the phantom bit is "blame joe hills." the pantomime bit is just a very mild reference to The homestuck song, and also...she's a clown. not, like, super seriously, but she is a clown.

etho (fuchsia):

sign: pius, sign of the free

/? you won't catch him dead making fish puns. that's all he wrote. /? (they're like little fishing poles :D y'all really think etho is out here with the patience to constantly change the way he types? absolutely not.)

xericQuerist [XQ]

xeric: containing little moisture; very dry. again, this is not the place to delve deep into backstory shenanigans, but it's safe to say that despite being a fuchsiablood, etho does not feel very free underwater. also, he's a dry texter <3 good for him

querist: inquirer; someone who asks questions. he's questioning the SYSTEM and the PLANET he'll have to take over when he gets over and the CHANGES to the FLAWED HIERARCHY it holds so dear <- deranged. half of the reason he picked his name when he was like 12 was that having two super rare letters as his handle looked sicknasty.

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HUMANS

(note to all my non-homestucks: humans have no use or care for the funny signs i've been putting for all of the trolls, but i'm going to put them here in case anyone wants to see what they Would be :)

scar (orange):

sign: aquasci, sign of the charitable (snrk)

all lowercase, little punctuation aside from EMPHASIS!!! sometimes the emphasis comes in the form of an *appropriate* amount of asterisks.

affluentAllay [AA] / affluentVex [AV]

affluent: having a great deal of money; wealthy. how else can you put it? the man is loaded!

allay: diminish or put at rest (fear, suspicion, or worry). an in-universe reference to actual minecraft allays.

vex: make (someone) feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried; cause distress to. affluentVex was his original handle before allays came out and he shelved this to being an evil alter ego that frequently appears. as this is homestuck and i do need to clarify, this evil alter ego is not real.

bigb (dark blue):

sign: sagittanius, sign of the nascent (wait i love that actually that's so good)

Average mobile user, doesn't turn off autocorrect, all of his sentences start off capital and everything looks fine until you notice the lack of punctuation or commas or anything the phone wouldn't be able to automatically pick up on

nitidNyctomania [NN]

nitid: bright with a steady but subdued shining. it's typically used to describe the moon.

nyctomania: the condition of being very happy and comfortable in the dark. half of the group was convinced that bigb was a troll because it always seems to be night whenever he talks to his friends. he literally just lives in a place where the sun doesn't rise. and you know what? he's happy.

impulse (yellow):

sign: gemcer, sign of the intimate (0_0)

uses lowercase letters, but proper punctuation! uses fullstops at the ends of statements, proper commas, question marks, and exclamation points! maybe even two for the extra emphasis!! often uses FULL CAPS to denote shouting (not that he does it often)!

sanguineVenule [SV]

sanguine: optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation OR blood-red. he's just an optimistic and happy guy! also a blood player!

venule: a very small vein, especially one collecting blood from the capillaries. he's trained in first aid for some reason? also a blood player!

pearl (gray):

sign: licen, sign of the worshipper ((santa pearla voice) more like sign of the worshipped amirite)

nothing tooooo special, she types like a normal person and elongates certain words for the emphasis!

pearlescentMoon [PM]

pearlescent: having a luster resembling that of mother-of-pearl.

for the record, she has been adequately clowned on for having what is basically her full name as her online handle, but she simply couldn't be bothered to put in all the effort of finding those stupid big words. maybe there was a point in her life when she was, like, eleven, where her handle was iridescentLuna [IL] or something, but those times are far, far behind her now.

martyn (lime):

sign: cano, sign of the translucent (wth is that even meant to mean)

types like its a conversation or real dialogue, so expect either very long messages or for him to send about seven messages just to form one complete thought. when speaking to ren, he will mirror the old-speak as well as possible (unless its a serious moment).

hearkeningCavalier [HC]

hearkening: listening. i think we can all guess.

cavalier: a knight. i also think we can all guess. also, it's a breed of dog! cheeky reference to his king, that is.

joel (forest green):

sign: leiborn, sign of the paradox (oh i love this)

when normal, he types like a normal person. makes more typos than your average man, but thats alright whereas WHEN HE GETS HYPE ABOUT SOMETHING HES PRFONE TO LONG BOUTS OF TPYING IN CAPS AND HE TYPES FAST AN FRURTYOUIS SO TEHTEERE AE TYPOS ABOUnD

dionysianFleer [DF]

dionysian: relating to the sensual, spontaneous, and emotional aspects of human nature. joel just gives vibes, really. i think he heard that dionysus was the god of madness and thought it was cool because he really does go crazy at the block game AYEEE

fleer: an impudent or jeering look or speech. he's a prick. moving on,

jimmy (light blue):

sign: taurmino, sign of the lonely (my man...)

uses caps for shouting *very* often because he is a shouty boy, and uses asterisks for emphasis. is very prone to using an overabundance of question marks because...funny?

juxtaPredestination [JP]

juxta-: a prefix meaning near; alongside.

predestination: the divine foreordaining or foreknowledge of all that will happen. jimmy is basically the resident jade harley. not in the sense that he knows what's actually going on, more in the sense of him getting thrown into Situations and then he goes "oh, i saw this in a dream once!" and then gets clorted by whatever it was that he saw. but he believes in fate and luck very heavily and sort of thinks of it as an endearing rival.

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CONCLUSION:

so yeah, those are all the handles! i will do the extras (mumbo, lizzie, and skizz) eventually and put it in the post, so stay tuned for that (ill reblog this when its done <3)! hope you enjoyed the result of my days-long bout of insanity! reblogs appreciated, have a nice day/night!! <3

[xluciifer]

💗 sweats ...

Send in 💗 for me to use a love meter to check the compatibility of our muses. / Currently Accepting!

[redcat921]

Hello! You helped someone w/ the name of the song in the awesome rollerskating grandpa video (https://at.tumblr.com/voidambassador/cacologies-drtanner-teaboot-humanjeff/mki9q3ctsifh for a reblogged version), but your reply is gone. Do you still remember what it’s called? Thank you!

Here's that first ask and the song again:

[squid-ichorous]

cacologies replied to your post: it’s very horn tooty but one of my favorite things...

I love this. It reminds me also of the narratives I’d have in my head while playing the mobile game “underhand”.

i’ve never heard of underhand so i just looked it up and

i like this

i like this very much

[drfeelgreed]

🎧 !! for nader ...

🎧 A song used for writing my muse

in general, i don't actually tend to listen to music while i write (much less music that changes depending on the muse), but what i do have are songs that always make me WANT to write specific muses at certain times. so i'll answer with that.

for nader it's Bad Luck! by jhariah. he's actually pretty successful with his casino gambling when he's introduced in 1935 (whether that's because he cheated or because someone else used him as a vessel to cheat) but i constantly associate the shattered confidence this song portrays with his 1931 appearance in grand punk railroad local because it's literally exactly this. listening to it without fail makes me want to bang out a couple nader replies. or come on here and ramble about him. i can't hear this song and NOT think about nader.

( in general, though, if i AM listening to music while i'm writing on this blog, it's probably the baccano! soundtrack regardless of muse. can't help it. specifically this song because i actually like higher energy stuff while i write. )

song associations. / accepting.

[spidersins]

🚢 ! if you feel so inclined

 *  ―  𝑺𝑯𝑰𝑷𝑷𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑺𝑯𝑬𝑬𝑻. (accepting)

do i ship our characters together?: yes | no | not yet but maybe soon

would i like to ship with you?: yes | maybe, i'm willing to try | no

type of relationship i could see: childhood or high school sweethearts | exes | engaged | married | long-term relationship | crushes | unrequited love | fling | long distance | online relationship | just dating | new relationship | toxic lovers | friends with benefits

tropes i'd enjoy writing for them: friends to lovers | enemies to lovers | exes to lovers | fake relationship / dating | forbidden love | grumpy and sunshine | star-crossed lovers | surprise pregnancy | second chance | soulmates | amnesia / mistaken identity | forced proximity | secret relationship | slow burn relationship

would i rather plot first or jump right in and see where it goes?: develop their relationship first | jump right in | something in between ( honestly chatting ooc and having a few threads beforehand is always the way forwards with me!)

what now?: let's plot something | send me shippy memes | i'll send you shippy memes | write me a random starter | i'll write you a random starter

anything else i want you to know about me / my character / my shipping habits: currently my only comment is this headcanon, but i will eventually post more about angel's love life soon!

[prismaticpastry]

cacologies replied to your post: How do you respond when you make a facebook post...

I’m really sorry to hear about your pet :( also block the fucker

if I had a nickel for how often I’ve wished I could do that I would have... dollars