#joops ask

[doodlejoops]

please post the rest of your Spike art here too 🥺❤️

Anything for you!

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[myymi]

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runaway

"I still don't get why I can't go find him." Sonic grumbles from his spot on the couch. He's slouching into the cushion, arms folded over his chest. "I can catch him."

"Because he needs space, Sonic." Maddie says from where she's sitting at the kitchen island, looking out into the backyard for any sign of the youngest. "He'll come back when he's ready."

Before Sonic is able to give her another reason why he needs to go find the little fox, a knock on the front door vibrates throughout the house. Knuckles whips around from where he's standing at the archway between the kitchen and living room, fists raised defensively.

x

[plu-mo]

*looks at you*

you’ve convinced me

here it is w no overlays

[on-a-lucky-tide]

Are you a sub?

On Anon as well, lmao. Fuck it, I'll answer.

I like to bottom. That doesn't make me submissive.

I think there is often a blurring of the two linked to how people think penetrating something is a dominant/possessive act. It can be and that can be hot, but it isn't automatic, and it does depend on the person and the energy they bring to the encounter.

I had to work through that hang up myself; being penetrated doesn't make me less of a man, liking it doesn't make me less of a man, nor does it impact my power dynamics in a relationship or encounter, unless I want it to.

In fact, by society's standards, I am more masculine and dominant than my six foot two, two hundred pound partner, who sends me kitten pictures with the heading 'kitteh' and gets cute aggression for British Shorthairs, squeals when nature touches him, and won't touch cold food on a plate because it squicks him.

Hope this, uh, helps?

[askthegoops]

has joop heard of therapy?

[realjoehours]

joop soup. joop soup doop. joop soup doop zoop. joop soup doop zoop goop. i could go on

little do you know you just named my whole extended family!

been a while since i’ve seen cousin goop wonder how they’re doing..

[germanpostwarmodern]

The Neoplasticist paintings of Piet Mondrian were among the earliest artworks I admired as a kid. In my teenage years the passion for his art intensified and at one point I wanted to study all of his works, from his earliest to his latest New York paintings. Consequently I asked my parents to buy me Mondrian’s catalogue raisonné in exchange for good grades. Luckily they agreed.

Compiled by Robert P. Welsh and Joop M. Joosten, experts on Mondrian’s naturalistic and abstract works respectively, the 1998 catalogue raisonné is a treasure trove for anyone with a passion for the backside of artworks: exhibitions, sales, owners and literature are listed for each of his works and add up to comprehensive biographies that are no less fascinating than the actual artwork. I particularly love the drawings and sketches included as they offer additional insights into Mondrian’s working process and the deep contemplation preceding each of his seemingly simple abstract works. Today Mondrian’s catalogue raisonné is also digitally available and can be accessed by anyone via pietmondrian.rkdmonographs.nl, a wonderful project that is much easier accessible and searchable than the present tomes of 7+ kilos.

[vhsdruid]

my most beloved joop and mason... i am taking the opportunity to info dump about my ocs (BEWARE OF CRINGE)

for those who dont know, goop and mason are my favorite original characters that i dedicate all of my daydreaming to. they originate from a fateful sims 4 session of 2019 wherein the name generator suggested "goopy" and i made him go do gay freak stuff with some npc named mason. now i think about them everyday and i cant turn it off!

they have relatively set personalities, certain themes and ideas, but i kinda just play Touys with them and insert them in a variety of stories/universes/scenerios/whatever because im unwell. they have to kiss in all of them

THE WORLD(S)

outside from various self indulgent one-offs ("one of us is a vampire" or "theres only one bed and we have to share...!!!" kind of shit), there are TWO primary worlds:

set in a modern (2000s?) colorado. a small town bartender, mason, meets goop, who is just a dragon and the only anthro animal guy thing. no one questions this, its not that important.

an original fantasy world. mason is a knight (in universe, these are more akin to an independent private eye or muscle for hire, rather than serving a ruler or anything like that). when sent to capture the sought and elusive beast of the woods, the dragon, they end up developing a relationship instead. this one is usually better for imagining AMVS to edgy music with blood and stuff

GOOP

a flamboyant stoner dragon man. reads confident, but actually extremely anxious and always masking. manages his anxiety with weed, probably to an unhealthy degree. impulsive and scatter brained. few if any friends. all he wants is to belong somewhere.

his hobbies include ecology, photography, daydreaming, collecting

i became really attached to joop over the years and sort of stumbled into drawing him to depict myself... so he just ended up becoming my fursona too. i consider his Fursona Edition and Original Character Editions to be separate entities with some overlap. i shant be elaborating further because i dont really understand either.

i have also spent significant time developing goops species and it's evolutionary development (re: im unwell) b ut i think that is a little outside of the purview of this ask...

MASON

a rather sociable man in his early to mid 30s. partially raised by his neglectful father and partially raised working on a ranch. well liked in his local community, but struggles with actual intimate relationships and understanding his own emotions. so deep in the closet he doesnt even realize hes gay. usually acts as a straight man to goops dragon nonsense. feels nice and warm to be around...

his hobbies include journaling, hiking, athletics, video games (he likes animal crossing), trying different beer and spirits

canonically he's a human, but occasionally i will depict him as a dog furry bc humans are hard to draw

there are other characters that exist in these universes (lawrence, avery, holly, eden, etc.) but they are not as well developed currently.

MUCH MORE THAT COULD BE SAID BUT i am already supremely embarassed so imjust gonna stop here. tldr gay people in my head i like them a lot :)

[vasyandii]

Hiiii here I am bothering you ❤️

🖊 ballpoint pen

💤 sleeping sign

🤔 thinking face

🤍 white heart

Nak we love you!!!

(Jumping up and down) YAYAYAYA IM BEING BOTHERED :DD YIPEE LOVE YOU GAMERGIRLBONES!!!

[Ask Game]

🖊️ BALLPOINT PEN — does your oc have any tattoos? do they want any (more) tattoos?

Nak does have tattoos! She has Sak Yant Tattoos on her back and shoulder; she got them (Naga's choice) when she was 16, right before she joined the LPAF for protection since both her and Naga are superstitous. I don't think she'll want to get anymore tattoos though, since it hurt alot, she cried.

💤 SLEEPING SIGN — is your oc a light sleeper or a heavy sleeper? how are their sleeping habits?

On the field, Nak is an extremely light sleeper, she can't relax, that's just how she grew up since Naga's "occupation" means danger is always lurking. One little sound could wake her up and have her be alert.

Off the field however, She sleeps like she's making up for lost time, lots of naps sprinkled throughout the day if the housework is done.

🤍 WHITE HEART — what are three of your oc's neutral/questionable traits?

-Dry texter, it's not like she doesn't care, she just doesn't know how to respond- so she prefers voice messages, phone calls, or video calls

-5 second rule doesn't really exist to her?? She'll eat off the floor if she thinks its worth it.

-Slight addiction to shopping, technically being a former rich kid (Naga) she often buys herself things when she's bored, (often little trinkets or stuff she doesn't need)

🤔 THINKING FACE — what are some of your oc's quirks/mannerisms?

- chews the inside of her mouth, bad habit, she does it without thinking

- parrots noises or phrases when she's focused on something tedious

-Terrible hand writing; She thinks so fast her hands can't keep up to write, Krueger has to ask her to type their grocery list out if she writes it down

(Joop joop= Lao version of "Mwah mwah" but Romanized)

Thank you for asking :D!! This was really fun to write and think about :3!!

[tommyshelby87]

if all three of you (so tommy, jackson and jonathan) had to change their names to something else, what would it be and why?

Jackson: Something that is easily overlooked. John Smith or something. So I could move even more invisible.

Jonathan: Dr. Jekyll. For obvious reasons.

Tommy: Joop van Buren. Mind your business.

[ Fun ask! ]

[doodlejoops]

Ahh, what about BakuShin?

I have feelings

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[franknorbertrieter]

The history of the Dutch table top rpg 'Queeste'

A couple of days ago Joop Oele passed away. He was a Dutch tabletop rpg pioneer. I guess outside his hometown in the Netherlands hardly anyone has heard about him. To honour him, I send out this bit of rpg history about his game 'Queeste' out into the world wide web. Please reblog ( @vintagerpg ) This is an abridged version of a Dutch article I helped put together last year for fantasywereld.nl

Guided fantasy

It was 1979. Joop Oele and a few of his friends had never heard of anything like Dungeons & Dragons. They were experimenting with all kinds of games and role-playing games. At that time role-playing was used in therapy sessions. Joop and his friends turned it into games and a fantastic journey. In a group of people, there was one leader who initiated the game. They all started lying on the floor in a darkened room. Usually, Joop initiated the game by visualizing a landscape. There were no attributes or rules for the game.

Somehow a story always emerged in those sessions, a story created by the people who participated. It was like moving the magic glass in a spiritist session. The glass is moved by many hands without anyone knowing which way it will go.

Joop used this setup of the game for many years to come. Also, in game sessions with his son when he was about seven years old. Usually, they started in an air castle where they used a flying mattress to visit all kinds of places.

Another path that led to the development of Queeste was a line of wargames Joop developed called Dukes game. It was played on a large board with wooden units that had all kinds of abilities, represented by blocks of wood with coloured pins in them. For example, a unit had a certain speed, which could be increased by giving it a horse.

Another inspiration for Queeste was a game Joop had designed in 1978, the Labyrinth game. That game consisted of 49 rooms, laid out in a matrix of seven by seven. The middle room contained a rose, and was the final goal of the game. Each of these rooms contained a variable number of doors, some of which could only be opened from one side, and a person who asked a multiple choice question with as many answers as there were doors in that room. The correct answer led to a door that provided access to the room that led most directly to the rose. By giving correct answers, and imagining the labyrinth, you had to try to reach a final goal as quickly as possible.

Many elements of a TTRPG began to form from various sources of inspiration.

Queeste

Because Queeste was developed in isolation from other well-known role-playing games of the time, it had its own look and feel. Joop was also a graphic artist. He envisioned that you would have a picture of every location and every place you visited in the game. You could put those little drawings together to form a complete overview map of the area. It gives the first adventures an unprecedented eye for detail and focus on where you ended up as a player.

Instead of the familiar set of versatile dice, Joop didn't have much more at his disposal than the regular six-sided dice and coins you could toss. He developed a system where for a test with a property you could toss as many coins as that property counted points (+1D6). This immediately gave the game tactile value. Some players just love to have their hands full of chips (or dice) and throw them on the table with a dramatic gesture.

The setup Joop had in mind was not future proof. Drawing so many pictures was time-consuming. The detailed focus on the environment was also less necessary after the first few adventures. Most groups gradually switched to a more verbal dynamic. The casting with the many fishes also proved a bit clumsy. An auxiliary program was soon developed, for the Synclair ZX Spectrum.

The influence of guided fantasy can be seen strongly in the first quest stories. The players step into a world unknown to them: it is true portal fantasy, and with the way it happens it symbolizes how you descend into the more creative and intuitive part of your consciousness: The land of dreams.

Guilds and magic system

The game developed while playing with his group of friends, and not long after that came the guilds and stories. Joop did not develop these on his own. Joop came up with a number of guilds; including the Temple Knights, Sun Riders, Wolve Women and Druids. Of course, there also had to be Mages, but the game system for that was devised by Rob Meijer, who based it loosely on Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea. As players, you could weave your own spells using words from a magical language. All the guilds are beautifully and eloquently elaborated, and especially the magic system is unique. The players of Joop's first group had a lot of influence on the development of the game; both on the stories and the guilds.

Joop started a game publishing company he called Knossos in 1979 with the material that had been created, and he marketed Queeste in a box. In it were the game rules, loose cards with the accompanying illustrations, a set of simple wooden chits and a die, and the first adventure Tocht naar de Onderwereld (Journey to the underworld). They were sold throughout the Netherlands, but particularly in the Nijmegen region, where Joop himself lived.

Not long after the first box, the second adventure, Grint, a charming booklet appeared in A5 format. A little later, the third adventure Tigris appeared in A4 format. This was the format in which Joop published the magazine Queeste. The magazine contained Queeste adventures, as well as background information and additional game rules. The adventures Oosterterpe, Sardon and Slotmar appeared in that magazine.

It soon became apparent that publishing the game was not a great commercial success. And drawing all the pictures and publishing the magazine was time consuming. In fact, each group played much faster than Joop would ever be able to publish adventures. Every group that had bought the Queeste box, without having a direct line to Joop themselves, had to make up their own adventures to continue.

In the 1990ies all the rules and storybooks for Queeste were re-edited and published to make the complete campaign and ruleset available for future players. The pdf’s are still available as online download.

[plu-mo]

By law of having a TADC oc, you are to tell us all about it.

i will do exactly that

Pez | 6’2 | it/its (sometimes he/him)

its full design. intended to be a mime like creature. legs fold the same as a deer’s back legs

it doesn’t like to speak but on the occasion it does- it sounds like this

bonus relationship chart

how to interact with pomni (6’2 mime edition)

small interactions

[salt-is-a-terrible-currency]

Another brick in the wall

Written for day 13 of the Narcos fandom smut alphabet over on @narcosfandomdiscord

Fandom: Narcos

Rating: Explicit, 18+

Words: 812

Pairing: Javier x OFC Aurora

Prompt: "make me forget (all about him/her/it/them)"

Warnings: smut, angst, past domestic abuse, past sexual abuse

She won’t ever forget about them, she knows that. But Javier can help her make so many good memories that when she tallies them all up at the end of the day, the good will far outweigh the bad. Each time he kisses her, dances with her in the living room, shares a beer with her, it’s another brick in the wall which keeps the bad from overflowing and leaving her to drown. It’s padding, protecting her psyche and sense of self from the punches of nightmares and unwelcome advances at the bar. She provides it for him too though they don’t speak about it in the same explicit way. Try as she might, there are some things Javier just won’t talk about.

⁂

They decide to visit Steve. Meaning: Chucho chases them out of the house with the words ‘it’s your anniversary, if I see you working like it’s any old weekend I’ll get the gun’. The first two days of the visit go well. Aurora didn’t realize how much she missed talking to another woman that’s not a cashier at the grocery store or pharmacy, and it’s good seeing Steve a little less miserable than last time they met. The man is perpetually tired, his daughters apparently being in the middle of a refusing to sleep-phase. It’s not until day three, when Javier and Aurora venture out from the Murphy house for dinner - just the two of them - that things go wrong. Standing on the sidewalk, waiting for Javier to lock the car and join her for the short walk to the restaurant, she catches a familiar face across the street. Time slows, sounds distort.

“Aurora.” Javier’s voice comes to her from a great distance. Muffled, like he’s behind a closed door. All she can see is the back of Lucas’s head as he continues down the street, talking animatedly with another man. Javier steps in front of her, seeks out her eyes.

“Aurora, talk to me,” her husband begs. She comes back to the present, or at least part of her does.

“We have to go.” She looks over his shoulder at the corner where Lucas just disappeared. There’s a physical pain in her eye like he’s punched her all over again.

“Please, let’s go.” Javier’s brow furrows but he doesn’t question it. He scans the streets around them, probably trying to identify what’s triggered it this time but finding nothing obvious. His gaze returns to her then he nods and opens the passenger door of their rental car, keeping a steadying hand at the small of her back as she gets inside. She focuses on the feel of his hand, first at her back and then covering her hand as he maneuvers the car back to the hotel where they’ll be staying for the night. The elevator ride passes in a blur, his hand still around hers, and before she knows it he’s sat her down on the bed and climbed in beside her. 

“Want to talk about it?” he asks. She shakes her head.

“Alright. What do you need?” He always asks, knowing that the answer might vary. Sometimes she needs to be left alone, other times she needs to talk about it, or to be distracted until the dread has faded into something manageable. She twists to look at him over her shoulder, leans in so their lips almost touch.

“Distract me,” she murmurs. Then she kisses him, quick and soft, before retreating again to let him make the next move. Javier’s hand pets at her waist.

“I can do that,” he breathes. “You know I’ll stop if you tell me to.” He settles her onto his lap, lets his hands wander up the back of her shirt and pushing her close. Aurora clings to him, kisses him back as though her life depends on it and breathes in his scent until it overrides everything else. Milk and honey soap, not lemon like Lucas. Woody Zino, not Joop. They shift onto the mattress, Javier gently laying her down. She always has her eyes open during these times, watching him intently to remind herself that it’s Javier on top of her. Normally, he doesn’t talk a lot during sex but when it’s like this, he finds things to say. Uses his voice and his words to keep her focused on him as he helps her out of her clothes. She sighs through her orgasm and he pauses, still hard inside her.

“You good?” he asks, running his thumb along the hinge of her jaw. He won’t keep going unless she says it’s okay, will end the moment content with the fact that she got to cum and that she’s a little less sad if that’s what she wants.

“Mm, I will be.” She raises her head, bumps her nose to his. “I love you, Javi. Keep going.”

[askthegoops]

EDIT: there are otps we will elaborate on later THE PEOPLE YOU CAN ASK! (Note, these aren’t their real names)

JOOP

💜He/Him

💜Chill

💜Had around 300 hours in totk before the game was a month old

IMOGENE

🩷She/Her

🩷BFFs with Tree

🩷 Has bad taste in men but good taste in fashion

TREE

🩵 She/her

🩵BFFs with Imogene

🩵 Gets addicted to mobile games easily and quickly

LINT

🧡 They/Them

🧡 God tier at smash bros

🧡 Tries to convince everyone to do marathons with them

WIZZ (admin)

♥️He/Him

♥️ Short homestuck king

♥️ Kins Ryan Akagi from infinity train (it’s him fr fr)

POLE

💛He/Him

💛2000s Highschool Sitcom main character

💛 Avid Rodrick Fanboy (#notourrodrick)

BERG

🩵He/Him 🩵 Quirked up white boy in every sense of the phrase (can even play piano)

🩵Unironically wears bath robes to school

MEEP

💛She/her

💛Token furry

💛 Really funny but only to a certain type of people

ECTYPE (admin)

💚She/her

💚 Addicted to drawing, literally cannot stop

💚Cut open fingers from playing emo county music on guitar

[chisaharu-chiha]

Journaling May 16, 2024

Yesterday was emotional for me. Talking about worst case scenarios about the dogs health while we brought him to the vet. Weighing options with the veterinarian and seeing where to go from there. I guess with the info presented to us my mood changed.

To be frank, life changes and things happen. Death is an inevitable thing whether we like it or not. Prepared or not it doesn't make it less sad or more happy. It's just feels like the time on earth with a beloved pet isn't as long as you want it to be. Face it, pets leave us far sooner then you anticipate or want and it's hard.

Yesterday my dad went on talking about morbid things that felt upsetting bc man was trying to help us face reality. I understand but at the same time it wasn't as if Joop was deteriorating and dying. Ofc he is old and has problems here or there, but he hasn't given up on living yet.

After the vet visit we talked it over and came to a conclusion. Although we also don't like the idea of a huge pet bill, it isn't time to let Joop go. Why would we want to lose a sweet dog who isn't showing any signs of his willingness to live. So we all agreed to find a nearby pet hospital to ask information on how to proceed with Joops abscess.

As the pet clinic informed us, the ultra sound was inconclusive. They have no idea if it's an abscess or if it's cancerous. The veterinarian told us that we should find a pet surgeon to remove the abscess and take it in for testing. That way Joop feels a whole lot better and we can figure out what is going on.

Now we're in the process of looking for a nearby pet hospital. The pet clinic gave us pet hospital options but we would rather find one closer by. That way trips back and forth aren't as long. So as of now I'm hoping and praying for the best.

I'm still worried but more at ease. At this point I think we're doing what's best. Joop isn't suffering, he is only in pain. I know he'll feel better when all is done and he is recovering.