#technically. the first four are from a roleplay..

[loadedchekhovsgun]

cwilbur posting idk idk idk people always say i should post on tumblr so here ?!?? you don't get context for these Lol idfk what im doing here i am half asleep

[spacehareart]

More designs for my MLP AU!!! Base by elementalbases on deviantart!!!

The first three is Celestia, with and without her Crown/jewelry, and the third one is after her return from Daybreaker ( though she wasn't Daybreaker as long as Luna was Nightmare Moon, so her scars and looks will return to normal after awhile ).

Next is Luna pre Nightmare Moon, with and without her Crown/jewelry.

And then Luna after Nightmare Moon, and her Jewelry/Crown/Armor post Celestia's banishment.

princess Cadence was granted Alicornship by Luna instead of Celestia, and already rules the Crystal Empire. Cadence's appearence changed slowly to symbolize Luna ( wings ) and Celestia ( mane + tail ).

Lily Lightly is a different type of Crystal ponies, there are four types ( Mirror ( like the toys , but not glass and the opposite of Umbras ), Reflective ( the 3D cutiemarks ), Cursed ( g1 crystal eyes ), and Blessed ( g4 crystal ponies ). Rarity and Cadence are half Blessed Unicorn/Pegasus, while Lily Lightly is a Reflective Crystal Pony. She is a Earth pony, but does have a crystal hidden under her mane , when the light reflects it , she can have temporary magic / horn.

She is the element of Hope.

Nightmare Moon is a Pony of shadows, an Umbra. She is technically just Luna's headmate, but at some point Luna learns a spell so the two can seperate at times. This oftens is to help Twilight when she needs to. While Nightmare and Luna work on their redemption, Nightmare selfishly doesn't trust Celestia.

Sunset is a bit complicated, still working on her lore but she is the element of forgiveness. Her and Lily Lightly show up later pre battle of Tirek. Lily to help the Mane 6 to fight Sombra, while Sunset starts off helping Tirek, instead of Discord. Discord is apart of the story still, but he doesn't betray The mane 6.

Height chart ( haha whattt did i forget sunset until too late? Noooo she just wanted to be at the end... )

And for fun i just put the mane 8 in rainbow order :3. Red, orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Purple and Pink.

I know Lily looks purple but she is 100% a soft indigo. Don't make this a fnaf bonnie situation 😭

Note: i Do NOT consent my art to being used for: NFTs/AI Art, Tracing/Stealing/Reposting, Youtube/Videos/Tiktok etc, a thumbnail for fanfiction, roleplay of any kind, etc.

I DO consent my art for: Being tagged as kin/me/IRL/F/O, etc, Used as an icon (as long as you credit/link back to me (you MUST reblog the art first so i know (unless we are close), Draw fanart in general / our designs interacting / oc interaction.

[thydungeongal]

I was thinking the other day about house rules that people don't realize are house rules. Like in Monopoly, where people play "land on Free Parking, get a pile of money," and don't even know that that's not in the rules anywhere.

But the one that's been circling around in my head is, in TTRPGs, rolling social skills exactly backwards from everything else. If you want to sneak past a guard, you roll the skill and then after you see the result you roleplay what happened based on the roll. I don't recall ever seeing a TTRPG rulebook that says for social skills, you should act out the result before rolling to see how well you did, but that's what every group I've ever played with does. And you end up with these really weird situations where a player makes an amazingly persuasive speech, then rolls like a 2, so the GM has to be like "your speech, which would bring even Satan to tears, has no effect."

There's one RPG I can immediately think of that does this: Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy by @anim-ttrpgs explicitly recommends rolling Interpersonal skills before narrating their results:

This is not a hard rule, but our recommendation is that Interpersonal skills be rolled before it is decided what the investigator actually says. With a Full Success, the player should come up with the words or tone (within the range of the investigator’s personality) that they think would get the most desired reaction. With a Failure, the player should come up with the words or tone that they think would get the least desired reaction—within reason, of course. However, we do not recommend letting this method constantly get in the way of a well-flowing dialogue, especially since an Interpersonal roll should only be called for when there is some risk, or the outcome is in question.

Also I think everyone should read The Shadow of Yesterday for like a really good thesis on what should go into a roll in a TTRPG.

Although the Ability Check seems very simple, there's more involved than it seems at first glance. Every time your character takes an action, there are four steps involved: Intention, Initiation, Execution, and Effect. Here's how these break down: Intention: The player announces the intended action for the character. No movement or action has happened yet, though. The intention and its consequences may be discussed among the GM and players and changed. Initiation: The player has committed his character to the task, and no changes can be made now. The dice hit the table. Execution: The character completes his action. The player looks to see how well the character did on the Success Level Chart. Effect: The players and GM decide what the effect of the task is, whether successfully completed or not. Now, that sounds like a lot to go through every time you roll the dice. Normally, this all happens without thinking too much about it, making it quick. A player states, "My character's going to do something," he rolls dice, everyone looks to see how the character did, and a decision about what happened occurs. The reason I bring up the four steps is because if you never think about them, you can cause tension among the players and GM. Imagine a player, Joe, stating, "Jack, my character, hits the priest right in the chest with a sword blow." Now, following the four steps, you realize this has not happened in the game, but is just Joe stating his intention. (While his statement was technically incorrect, in that he stated it happened, and it was an intention, this is a common way of stating intention in role-playing games.) Carrying on with this example, though, what if the GM is confused about the four steps? He may take this as initiation, for example, and when he says, "The priest grabs his black mace," Joe might want his character Jack to back off. If the GM thinks the above statement was initiation, though, Joe can't do this, and may get angry at the GM for withholding the information that the priest had this mace. And in the end, what if the group is confused about effect? If Joe's roll is successful, a confused group might think that Joe's stated intention for Jack is exactly what happens. This is not necessarily so: the outcome of the dice and disposition of the players might determine a different effect. The point is this: take your time to make sure everyone is on the same page when it comes to a character performing a task. While the first game or two might run a bit slower than normal because steps are being heavily delineated, the speed will pick up as everyone gets used to following them.

Anyway I don't adhere to the above guide as well as I should, but it's really good advice: description of actions should not be too long and specific simply because it can lead to incongruence and having to effectively rewind the clock to before the character made their cool speech.

(Comedy option: the cool speech is what the character thought they sounded in their head, everyone else just heard the most disjointed monologue.)

[elite-four-grimsley]

((Important OOC Note: This blog was previously located @grimsley-official. A good majority of the lore from that blog has carried over to this one, meaning that this Grimsley is the EXACT same Grimsley as before. Please read the pinned in it's entirety for details regarding my specific interpretation of Grimsley.))

Hello there~✨

My name’s Grimsley, though you likely already know that. Hm, I've been here for quite some time now. In fact, I've come to find such a place to be thoroughly entertaining ahaha~!

You may find some details below the cut to be useful to you~

Hmm… I’ll include some basic information. My pronouns are he/him, but I'm certainly more than comfortable in expressing myself beyond gender norms.

I’m 25 years old at the moment… But some people here insist I may be centuries old, ahaha~✨

I stand at six foot exactly… A bit tall, but not amazingly so~

As for my Pokémon, I’ll list them all below:

Liepard ♀ - Violeta

Scrafty ♂ - Cyril

Krookodile ♀ - Nyx

Bisharp ♀ - Celeste

Sharpedo ♂ - Haven

Absol ♀ - Ezra

Drapion ♂ - Juno

Houndoom ♂ - Ferryn

Tyranitar ♀ - Odette

Honchkrow ♀ - Lucie

Clefairy ♀ - Sonata

Torracat ♂ - Samson

Purugly ♀ - Silvia

Luxray ♀ - Ellie

Poochyena ♀ - Chimney

Impidimp ♂ - Merri

Shiny Nickit ♀ - Spade

Eevee ♂ - Rosemary

Nymble ♀ - (TBD)

((OOC NOTE: Please read before interacting!!

ICON CREDIT!!

Hey hey! Welcome to my Pokémon rp blog. On this blog I will be pretending as if the world of Pokémon is 100% real. This being said, I will be including pkmn irl/pkmn rp tags in each post that fits that description as a warning.

Friendly reminder that if you try to engage a plot with me or any kind of offscreen rp experience without at least discussing it with me first, then I will likely not respond. Even if you do approach me with something in mind, there is no guarantee I will engage. Also I tend not to interact or engage in any big events. They tend to become overwhelming for me and you’ll most likely never find me becoming a part of them. Please don’t send in asks regarding big events.

If you are looking to interact with my muse, and your muse is tied to some potentially triggering topics, I would prefer if you discussed potential interactions with me first. This is for my own comfort, so please keep this in mind.

Admin is an adult! If this makes you uncomfortable then move along.

This is an RP blog. This means I will be trying my best to roleplay as Elite Four member Grimsley with the [very] limited information we have on him. I will be including several headcanons* of mine regarding this character, though none of them are too drastic.

Please be aware that when I am talking as Grimsley, I will use casual teasing, sarcasm, and occasional flirting. If you are uncomfortable with this, it may be in your best interest to move along. If something ever comes off as rude/mean, it does not reflect how I actually feel and is just how I believe Grimsley would react.

Topics of gambling and addiction to gambling will be a reoccuring theme on this blog. You have been warned.

This blog is SFW, save for vaguely suggestive topics. Anything that is deemed as explicitly NSFW will be deleted on sight.

Another warning. This blog may often be involved in long RP threads. I won’t be using any programs to cut my long posts short. If this bothers you, I would recommend skipping this blog or blocking the tag “long post” or “rp thread”.

I also want to acknowledge the version of Grimsley we see in Pokémon Sun and Moon. Grimsley as we see him in SM is technically retired as a member of the Elite Four, so I will NOT be roleplaying as this specific version of Grimsley (for now). This is to not complicate things timeline-wise.

This version of Grimsley I’m roleplaying is set after the events of Pokémon Black2 and White2.

*As stated before this blog was previous @grimsley-official. Because of this, several blog specific headcanons and lore details have carried over.

Here is a list of things I find important to take note of:

-Grimsley is bisexual and identifies as cis/gender non-conforming.

-He is in a relationship with Gym Leader Burgh. This relationship had played out with a previous Burgh blog that I am no longer in contact with. Because of this, assume his relationship with Burgh developed offscreen. Grimsley is currently engaged to Burgh. Questions about their relationship are welcome!

-Grimsley has several already established friendships with people such as @/castelia-pidove and @/darkpunkrocker. He is also the Uncle of Piers and Marnie @/piers-official.

-He has several Pokémon that are not canon to ingame Grimsley. Many of them were gifts or obtained via small plotlines. If you have any questions about where he got a Pokémon feel free to ask!

Find a deep dive I made on my Grimsley muse here.

Also! I follow and like from @ripoff-robbie-rotten.

DNI: Proshippers, TERFS, and NSFW blogs))

[thirdofdxcember]

This is a long post but not a vent its the opposite of a vent ykwim like a long happy rant

I love you all so much.

Maybe I’m just all dramatic and emotional because I’m on my period, maybe because I’m writing this late at night and I’m gonna think it’s really cringe in the morning, but I love you guys so much. Tumblr has brought me so much joy. I’ve been here for maybe three or four months now? And I can’t really think of a time in my life where I was happier. 

I first made an account after scrolling aimlessly. I would go onto the tumblr website and it would let me search a bit until it was like “you need to make an account to keep going!!” And then I’d just close it and move on. But then one day I decided  hey what the heck just do it. So I made an account, and I didn’t really know what I was doing. I came up with this username because I liked conan gray, I gave myself  a daphne blake profile picture because she has red hair, and just kinda explored. 

I looked through tags of fandoms I love like the inheritance games and pjo and shatter me and even scythe (which was when i was then brought to the realization that the aoas fandom really is dead everywhere even here😔). But I just kinda explored.

Then I found all you guys, the cute aesthetic tumblrinas! And omg I thought everyone was so cool. Pretty much everyone I’m mutuals with now is someone who i found their blog and was like OMG I WANNA BE ONE OF THEM!! I loved the friendships and the connection and just seeing everyone interact made me so happy. I think one of the first people to follow me back was Belle and I remember I legit freaked out because omg!! Shes so cool!! 

Now that I’m telling the story it’s a little embarrassing, but it’s fine. I just know I was slowly growing my blog and meeting new people but I still didn’t feel like I had real friends, it hadn’t been that long. But I think it all kinda happened after I accidentally deleted my account, and I sent panic asks to everyone. And you guys were so nice and so sweet and for a lot of people it was some of the first interactions we had. 

I have the world’s worst memory, but it just kinda took off from there. 

And now I am friends with all you guys!! I’m so incredibly glad I decided to make this blog that day because omg. I’d seen people talk about online friends but I’d never had any. But now?? OMGG I UNDERSTAND!!! I finally have people who are just as obsessed with the books/tv/movies/music/everything that I am!! 

My friends IRL are nice, they’ve read the books I read, but I cant talk to them the way I do you guys, yknow? Tumblr is literally just such a safe space for me. I have a bad day, come online, and my mood is lifted. It makes me so happy and it also makes me feel so validated for whatever weird interests or feelings I have! I have a weird thought? Post it to tumblr! It’s just so amazing, how there’s people all over the world who care about me even a little, even just enough to like my shitposts. 

I’ve even infiltrated both the shatter me and tig roleplays, and I’ve really just done everything I could’ve hoped for when I joined tumblr. I used to be the one watching everyone interact, and now I am the one interacting! I don't think you guys understand how much you all mean to me. Especially as someone with bad social anxiety, who struggles with making friends irl. I also don’t believe in popularity in schools, thats stupid, but technically i’m not a “popular kid.” So I have friends, but not a billion. But here? Everyone is friends on tumblr!! It’s so amazing. I love you all so much. 

That’s long and honestly pretty sappy, also yall probably don't care about my whole tumblr history and how i got here (plus no one asked), but I felt like i wanted to share. There’s so much more I wanna say, but surprisingly enough as a writer, I’m not always the best at expressing my feelings over writing. My love language is physical touch, not words of affirmation. Which suckss cause i cant give you guys that. But this is as good as i can get. 

So thank you to everyone, my mutuals and followers and whatever. Thank you for being so loving. Thank you for being stupid with me. Thank you for listening to me rant about nonsense. Thank you for liking my posts. thank you for being here. Thank you for making me feel safe.

Cause every time I get a notification, I smile. It’s hard not to, when I know everyone is so amazing. I hope you think of me when you listen to heather, because I always think of you when i listen to online love. Anyway, I love you all. I hope we meet one day. Actually, scratch that. We will  meet one day. That is a threat :)

LOVE YOU ALL MUAH MUAH MUAH IM BREAKING INTO YOUR HOUSE RIGHT NOW BTW WERE GONNA WATCH HALLOWEEN MOVIES AND HAVE HOT CHOCOLATE AND GO TO THE PUMPKIN PATCH AND DO A BIG GROUP COSTUME AND GO TRICK OR TREATING TOGETHER GET READY 😋😋

[ofthepantheon]

Would someone be allowed to make a new submission to join if their first was rejected? And if you've had characters/ideas change since your submission, would you recommend making a new submission?

you are allowed to, but as the person who manages all applications i'm going to be honest: i don't really tend to accept them. we've gotten to a point where we have so many players that i have to be EXTREMELY selective in who i accept! there's a LOT of people for our little project!! our goal is to have players that want to be a part of the Pantheon, not people who are just here to play minecraft or want to be part of any roleplay-based SMP. this project is four years old now, five in December, we've sunk so much time and care and love into crafting the world! we want people that are invested in being a part of that, contributing to it!! we really, really appreciate everyone that applies. it's nice to know there's so many people out there in the minecraft roleplay scene. but this server is entirely centered on the lore and worldbuilding, and we've got applications for people to ADD to that. to create something WITHIN that space. my advice if you are super invested in the Pantheon itself, and i somehow didn't realize that in your first application: wait awhile! we're not technically open yet, applications were open as more of a preorder situation. i won't be the first to admit it but our resources for reading up on lore are INSANELY lacking, something we're currently working on! when it's finished we'll be publicly posting a WorldAnvil for you to know more about the lore, so you can see if you can work within it/show us that you'll engage with it sorry, i talk a lot!! you can send a new application or i BELIEVE you should be able to edit your old ones- please just make it clear where the edit begins! also applications are currently closed because i burnt myself the fuck out and am technically on break from the pantheon. whoops, sorry, thank you for your patience...... - Galaxy

[poguesprincess]

hii ! just a little introductory post to get this account started. i go by mercy, i'm 21+, and my pronouns are she / her ! i've been roleplaying since 2013 (🫣) on a few different platforms over the years. though i have over ten years of writing experience (four of which have been spent portraying sarah!), this is my first time joining the tumblr community. i ask for your patience as i learn my way around. i'm sure i will probably make plenty of technical mistakes as i'm getting started, so thank you for bearing with me.

that being said, if anybody is willing to share and / or point me towards any tips for a first - timer learning to use tumblr, i would really, sincerely appreciate it. i'm slightly stumped by how things work here, (specifically, how to format my writing), so that's unfortunately preventing me from being active at the moment. my messages are open if anyone wants to reach out!! thank you so much in advance <33

lastly, i just want to say how intensely excited i am to continue sharing my ideas for sarah on this new platform. i'm so impressed by the high caliber of the writing on here and very excited to interact with you all as soon as possible !! if you read all of this, thank you, and i hope you have a wonderful day / night !

[threeclans]

I have a question about the litter naming process for the tribe you mentioned before- So say a litter of three kits were born in autumn, all three kits would be named autumn related names or would it be the first kit is autumn, then next born is winter, and the third born is spring? I adore the season related naming scheme so I really want to understand it :D

Regarding Trove naming, the only time that litters are split seasonally (as in, an entire litter would not belong to one season) is when there are four kits. A litter of one kit born in the season of Winter is considered Winter born. A litter of two kits are both Winter born. A litter of three are all Winter borns as well. However, if four kits were to be born in Winter, the first and eldest kit of the litter would be determined a Winter born cat. The next oldest after the firstborn would be a Spring born (the ensuing season), then the next a Summer born, then after that, the youngest and final kitten a Fall born. This can occur during any season, so long as four kits are present in a litter, and will always follow the descending pattern of the seasons that follows the currently "active" one (so say it was Summer; the first born kit is a Summer kit, the next is a Fall one, then Winter, then Spring for the youngest.)

Even though their ages will reflect their technical arrival to the world in the season of Winter they will be considered completely a part of the seasons assigned to them by virtue of being a part of a four kit litter. The Trove reveres these kinds of litters as a reflection of the four seasons and in a way sees them as a tie in to the original four leaders who founded the Trove as although they were not siblings, they shared a unified bond between the four seasons that branched strongly across each of them.

As such, each kit from a four kitten litter would also take on a suffix appropriate for their season. If they were to be a part of a three kit litter they would all bear Winter suffixes, but within a four kit one they'd be taking from unique lists to signify their unique seasonal assignments.

Although four kit litters aren't incredibly common (as in-roleplay, larger litters coming into the group means we must accommodate for an influx of characters and cats that may make it harder to fulfil as many litter requests as possible) we've definitely had them occur in the Trove to spice things up! Some examples are the litters of Soaring Jay, Robin Song, Ash, and Peach; and Blizzard, Rainbow, Hurricane, and Drizzle. There was also an instance in which a loner litter of four joined the Trove and was thus established to be of separate seasons even though they were not born there.

Mod Maya

[vergess]

CHARACTER ASK MEME: AURELIA COX-KENNEDY

I can't believe you literally read my screen and sent this before I posted the meme. How did you like your 30 minutes in the Molly Carpenter Timeout Cube!!!!!!

My Favourite Ship

The problem with this meme is that I have so few Aurelia ships at all, because she's a roleplay character and people find her too acerbic and cool tempered (and also not mainstream attractive enough) to build relationships with her.

So like, it goes to her literally first successful ship ever, Debbie from Desert Bluffs, an Welcome to Night Vale and Fandomstuck OC played by @its-seyton. They hold a special place in my heart as the first time I ever successfully wrote what is technically speaking a sex scene. Do not go looking for it. It is bad.

My Most Hated Ship

My most hated ship is Aurelia/Everyone Who Refuses To Identify Her As A Love Interest She's Maybe My Only Alloromantic OC Come On People Let Her Have This.

I also do hate one specific past roleplay partner's OC ship for this exact reason; it was very fucking annoying. But I shan't be naming names, it would be cruel to draw their attention to something this petty from a good 12 years ago.

My Unusual Ship

Did you know that because Aurelia's original canonical concept was for an Alloromantic Character In Fandomstuck, she experiences all four quadrants, even when played as a human? This does little to alleviate people's refusal to engage in emotional exchanges with her.

Anyway this also means her second of 3 canonical ships over more than a decade is!!!!!!

Her tragically widowed moirail, played by my real life moirail @kithmeansfriend. Kith I'm a bad person I forgot his name what was his name Kith he was such a sweet little baby boy tell me the name of the boy I must find him in my file archives to gaze upon his wee little face again

My Crossover Ship

Mya, a The Secret World MMORPG character played by @arionwind. I consider them tobe a crossover ship because neither were in their original setting in the setting where they met. They met in a Pokemon Ask Blog roleplay setting, and later met again in a Dragonriders of Pern forum. In both cases they were Romantic political rivals (note the capital) who never successfully sealed the deal because, and this is so funny: Aurelia is flushed for M'ye and M'ye is pitch for Aurelia.

My Favourite Headcanon

SHE IS VERY HOT PLEASE BE NICE TO HER

Also, I like the idea of her telling everyone the blonde streak is meticulously bleached with luxury products and that's why it's like that, but actually she just has a blonde streak; it's not even the same curl texture as her brown (or, in some settings, dark violet) hair. It's just Like That. But she tells people it's because she can afford better stuff than them.

A gif that reflects how I feel about the character!

[Ask Meme] [My Inbox]

[storyspinner91]

Twenty Fanfic Writer Questions

Tagged by @littleblackraincloudofcourse

Tagging @lowkeyed1 @evodevo-geekmonkey @dianels @bisexualshakespeare @spybrarian @blackdalek

1. How many works do you have on Ao3? 

7 (3 are WiP)

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count? 

186,452

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Willow! ...Technically other things too but really it's just Willow with playful skins.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Red Embers: dark alternate future AU, resistance fighters against the Wyrm's tyranny, grim & gritty

Like Constellations, a Million Years Away: sprawling mecha sci-fi AU set in the world of the Lancer tabletop roleplaying game. The Questies all pilot giant mechs; four books (2 done), one focused on each of Jade, Kit, Graydon, and Elora (in that order). Posthumanism, anticolonial to the extent a fanfic can be, utopian, dramatic.

Soft Blazing Crowns: Tanthamoretober one-shot. Modern AU. Elora helps Jade with a sexy photoshoot for a gift for Kit.

Full: (E-rated) Tanthamoretober one-shot. Modern AU. Straight-up smut drabble, 100 words on the dot. Extremely funny to me that this is in the top 5. :P

The Loving Hurt: Canon-set one-shot digging into the violence implied by the canon against the Bone Reavers, Scorpia's backstory, how Jade got her name. Dark, grim, not pleasant to write and in some ways probably not to read TBH. I was in A Mood!

5. Do you respond to comments?

Religiously! Sometimes it takes me a while, but I do.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? 

Hmmm. I mean I think it's gotta be The Loving Hurt. Like I said. Dark. Blame the show's writers, I do. :P

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? 

Gonna resist the temptation to say Full and instead say I think that it'll probably be Flawless Five vol. 1 when it's finished in a few weeks!

8. Do you get hate on fics? 

Not so far!

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? 

The only thing I'd consider smut is Full. Otherwise, not anywhere that you can see. ;)

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? 

No true crossovers, though Like Constellations is set (loosely) in the Lancer Universe.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don't think so! They're too weird!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? 

No but I'd be so honored.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? 

Nope!

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

I am a Tanthamore diehard, what can I say.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? 

If you'd asked me recently I'd probably have said "all of them." Fortunately I'm feeling a little better lately! I hope to finish all of the current ones; Constellations is a slow, weighty project, F5 I hope to have done very shortly, Embers...we'll figure that out after F5.

16. What are your writing strengths? 

I think I'm pretty good at dialogue, and I'm decent though not incredible at humor (especially character-based humor). I'm also a decent mimic - though this can feel a little clunky sometimes, I think I'm able to adjust my voice pretty easily to suit a situation, genre, or style. My unhinged and unpopular fic Excerpts from a new translation... is a pretty good example of that, lol. And on that note: I have a lot of fun with wacky metatextual stuff.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Taking the wacky meta stuff too far; not being bold enough in straying from the established character arcs/plots in canon; I don't think I'm great at writing really juicy interiority. Starting very large projects that will take forever to finish. ':)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? 

I'm comfortable enough in Spanish to write simple dialogue in that language. I've done one line in Latin (which I'm comfortable with since it's functionally a dead language) and made up some words in a conlang for Constellations. Wouldn't try anything via Google Translate though.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Willow! At least if we count conscious fanfiction. If we're going back to the Days of Yore probably Animorphs when I was a wee one.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written? 

Difficult to pick...but Like Constellations is the baby, the one I'll finish come hell or high water (I hope). On the other hand, Flawless Five is probably the most fun (to write, and maybe to read if you like that sort of thing) and Red Embers is the one that in many ways I find most exciting. Like I said - hard to choose!

[c00kietin]

@imytheone WHOO

I HAVE COMPLETED THE DRAWING!!

I shall also tag @allmightyscroll-swag as well cuz I like tagging em in oc related stuff :3

While I have drawn the siblings profiles, and Brittany making some appearances, Imma tell you MORE information about them!! >:D

One quick thing: These four are my oldest ocs (along with two others but you don't know em eheheh) from 2020 and at the time of making them I had just found out what Helluva Boss is. These characters were very much inspired off of them, especially Cici and Brittany.

Let's start off with the youngest:

CICI

Like I said, she is the youngest being around 6-7 years old

Pronouns are she/her, I'll just say aroace since I don't picture her being in a relationship at her age-

Cici is part demon thanks to her mother, but hasn't developed horns or a tail yet.

However, she has some powers, that being super strength and flight!

She can't fly very high, although she is the strongest in the family; being able to lift around the same weight as a van full of people. The older you get, the weaker your powers would become; so their mother would have the weakest powers.

Cici swears more than Onika and Zeke, mainly because of her mother. She gets in trouble at school regularly for this. That and for throwing chairs around. And for biting teachers' ankles. She gets in trouble for a lot of things.

Like all children, she has tantrums at times. But, of course, hers tend to get more...violent. Usually ending up with someone breaking a bone or two.

For hobbies, Cici enjoys drawing, roleplaying with toys and making things (whether that's with Lego or metal scraps-)

She doesn't listen to music as much as her siblings do, but her favourite artists are Pharrel Williams and Five Finger Death Punch.

She has insomnia and has a lot of difficulty sleeping.

Her and Onika love watching TMNT together, and are currently on Rise.

Cici's original design was heavily based off the girl with the large bow and brown curly hair that appeared in the first episode of HB. I was quite unoriginal at the time lol.

ONIKA

Onika is the middle child, being 15 years old.

Her pronouns are she/they, and they are also aroace.

Onika's powers aren't as strong as Cici's, but she can fly better and can piggy-back the weight of two adults.

Onika technically has a tail, but it's now a stub because a group of bullies cut it off.

Yeah. She was bullied when she was younger. She was jeered for being both demon and human, and neither species wanted to be friends with her.

This was also mainly because she had anger issues which caused her to have violent episodes if provoked enough, one time being she almost killed a teenager younger than her.

Luckily, she's gotten better now and is practically never violent. Except in Mariokart.

Onika is usually either hyperactive and energetic, or utterly lazy and unmotivated.

She desperately wants to get Maori tattoos like Zeke but her parents don't allow her.

She hates wearing skirts and having her hair down.

Onika doesn't have a lot of hobbies, but she enjoys trying new foods, skateboarding and playing the guitar.

Her favourite artists are AC/DC, Metallica, Twisted Sister and Iron Maiden.

I'm pretty sure I based the hair off of another character I saw online once, but I can't remember her name- all I know is that the hair isn't original:'D

ZEKE

Zeke is the oldest at 19 years old.

His pronouns are he/him and he's gay.

Zeke uses his powers the least and only really uses them for miniscule tasks around the house like moving a bed or fighting his sister.

Yeah. Zeke and Onika fight a lot, more physically than verbally, and it's usually for stupid reasons, like who rightfully had the bag of pretzels first.

Zeke has both a tail and horns (which are still growing).

He also has difficulty with keeping his body temperature warm, so he wears a lot of layers and a lot of black to keep in as much heat as possible.

He has Maori tattoos along the back of his left shoulder as well as part of the left arm, but rarely shows these to people.

Zeke has been teased by many to have a "baby face", which annoys him greatly.

He can be mostly found in his bedroom gaming, listening to music or curled up in a ball in bed.

He likes sleeping. A lot.

His favourite games to play are mainly action/shooter games (I'm not an expert in this department so feel free to decide which ones he likes playing) and occasionally likes to play RPGs.

His favourite artists are Green Day, Linkin Park and The Offspring.

BRITTANY

Brittany is also 19 years old and is best friends with Zeke.

Her pronouns are she/her and is an asexual lesbian.

She practically has no powers. She can float a little, but not much else.

Brittany is a very affectionate person and adores hugging, cuddling, complimenting and kissing people (non-romantically).

She also adores fizzy drinks and cats. She ADORES cats. And animals in general.

If she was to encounter a cat, whether that be an anthropomorphic one or not, she will give them double the amount of affection.

When Brittany's happy, she wags her tail about, shakes her hands and squeals. She does this quite often.

She can be extremely chatty and talkative and could go on for hours on end talking about almost anything.

However, Brittany is extremely clumsy and is prone to falling down the stairs, tripping, running into windows and/or getting her horns stuck in things.

Her hobbies are shopping, going to cafés and watching romcoms.

Her favourite movie is Love, Actually and her favourite artists are Ariana Grande and Twice.

Her original design was heavily based off of Verosika from Helluva, and I still can't let go of the long white hair + pink skin combo :') Fortunately, I think I've managed to differentiate Brittany from her, or I hope-

OKAY I AM NOW DONE I should be sleeping-

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for snapping at my (18f) friend (19f) and then not talking to her again?

In middle school I met this girl who was in the same grade as me. We met because we were both friends with the same person, and slowly became friends as well. I wouldn't have called her my best friend though, she was just one of the people I hung out with at school (one of the few people, I struggled with having friends back then)

Flash forward to high school. The mutual friend moves away and just leaves us two. We're also in some of the same classes together, namely a digital media class we were in all four years of hs (we even sat beside each other all four years)

And well. her company was nice, but I wouldn't have called her a close friend. I never really told her many secrets, but I would be there for her in emotional support over her family being pretty shitty to her over and over again.

During our last two years, we both worked on the school yearbook (which was what you did in the last two years of that digital media class). I thought it was very enjoyable to work on it, and was extremely proud of the first one we produced, especially because the staff complimented it.

The second year (our senior year), however, was a little different. My friend started missing a lot of school because she was having stomach issues, and when she was at school she either spent more time roleplaying with her long-distance boyfriend (technically fiancé??? I didn't really understand their relationship, I was honestly very weary over it) over discord or half-assing the work she was supposed to be doing. In the end, she kinda stopped showing up to school, and I ended up taking over all the pages she meant to be doing, and changing the ones she did do because we changed up the scheming and her work was now very out of place.

Anyways, I'm wrapping up my senior year and the yearbook staff (which was me, two other students, my friend, and the digital media teacher) took a staff picture for the end of the yearbook. As usual, the friend isn't there. When we put the photo in and write down the yearbook credits, I ask my teacher if we should put the friend's name down since she was technically part of the group, and the teacher reveals to me that since she missed so many days she ended up being removed from the digital media class, which meant she wasn't on the yearbook staff anymore. I felt that was a bit of a rude move, but I also understood, so I left that decision alone.

Yearbooks then come out, and it took a while, but I guess my friend finally got her copy somehow, because she suddenly texts me in a fit of anger about not being in the yearbook staff section. She accuses me of not talking to my teacher about it (even tho I did) and going off on me about how I should have stuck up for her. She said a lot of other things too, but I long since deleted her contact, so I don't exactly remember.

What I do remember tho, was that I was pissed at her for making an assumption like that. I was also stressed as hell because at the time, my grandfather had just gotten diagnosed with lung cancer. The same cancer that killed my grandmother, his wife, when I was young. I remember that I replied to her telling that unlike her assumption, I tried to stick up for her, but I had to do what the teacher said. (She had been removed from the class anyways!) I also remember that I told her about my grandfather and being stressed about it, and that "now is not the time to do this". I wanted us to talk more about it later, after she calmed down and I got my head on straight.

It was the first time I snapped at her. She never replied to me. Eventually, I just decided to move on and deleted her contact. If she wants to get back in touch, she'll be able to. I know I probably should've checked in on her at some point, especially with her rocky home life, but I was honestly getting sick of her. Sure, we were there for each other emotionally, but I was starting to feel like all I was there for was to help her with her schoolwork and listen to her vent 24/7, which was slowly starting to make me more and more stressed.

It's been a little over a year since that happened, and I still hope she's doing alright and was able to move out at the very least. I was wondering if me snapping and choosing not to check in was an asshole move, considering the context.

What are these acronyms?

[rat-rosemary]

C!SHADOUNE LORE (actually, he doesn't technically have lore because he only roleplays once every 30 years, so this is actually curious things from various series in which he participated)

Shadoune participated in PermaDeath (created by RichMC) where you only have one life and the difficulty will increase with each death because each person who dies can put their difficulty suggestion Shadoune died along with Crisgreen (which I find quite cute, which is why those two have several videos from years ago, such as "I teach Spanish to a Frenchman", etc.) because when passing through a nether portal it exploded, Crisgreen died almost immediately, Shadoune survived because he had a totem in his hand but ended up in the sea and drowned

now, this man, was ENSLAVED (clearly roleplay/in-game)

Now, RichMC created a series called Elitecraft and in the second installment of the series, due to a kind of challenge that I didn't quite understand, Shadoune ended up being forced to do EVERYTHING RichMC says for something like four months, clearly Shadoune came to a point that he couldn't take it anymore (RichMC was definitely not the best master so to speak) and RichMc offered him that if he gave a level 5 Prank to Farfadox he would take away 1000 hours of slavery (which is what he had left to Shaduone)

Shadoune was hesitant at first and only accepted it if RichMC promised to fix the damage later, which he accepted. At first his plan was to steal Farfadox's netherite Beacon but because he had hidden it very well he ended up stealing the dog (Walter) of Farfadox and burning his house to the ground (this doesn't sound like much without knowing all the C!Farfadox lore lmao)

At the end in a very epic fight it is revealed that Shadoune was the traitor of the 51 empire (I didn't mention this before but Farfadox, Shadoune, Amilcar, Crisgreen, Hasvik, Silithur, Conter, etc. were in a team called the 51 Empire from the first installment of Elitecraft, it was dissolved in the third installment) and after dying at the hands of farfadox, Shadoune reveals why he had done all that and that the only thing he wanted was to have time back to spend with his friends, in the end he is taken to trial by Empire 51 where IRONACLY he gets to do favors for the entire team 51 and Farfadox blew up their base (although that was more because of RichMC)

I will tell you the lore of C!farfadox, but I warn you what it is, but a LOT of text :)

No I'm writing all this down, keep talking anon, I'm having a great time listening to your Ted talk

I know destroying builds and bases can be a pretty big deal for Hispanic cc's compared to the English ones as well :0

[dailycharacteroption]

Roleplay Ramblings: New Elements part 5

(art by bachzim on DeviantArt)

Outro

And so now we come to the end of this little dive into the new elements of Pathfinder, two new entries into the lore that help differentiate it from D&D and even real-world elementalism, creating something with it’s own unique identity, which isn’t to say it was boring before, just more derivative.

But before we end things off, let’s talk about some final thoughts.

Back when the kineticist was first introduced in First Edition, it was decidedly categorized as an occult class. Sure, there were lots of vibes of benders from Avatar, but also they were leaning into elemental psychokinesis: your firestarters, telekinesis-focused psychics, and so on. While most may not have actually used their mental stats for their powers (barring archetypes), they were categorized as a type of psychic.

However, the kineticist in Second Edition focuses more heavily on the elemental gate within, making their powers seem more primal than occult in nature. Because of this, I feel it’s very unlikely we’ll see the aether or void elements return to the kineticist, since they’re not true elements. However, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. After all, a planar portal that lets one draw energies from another plane doesn’t have to draw specifically from an elemental plane.

Now, I’m sure that somewhere out there are some purists that decries these new elemental additions for any number of reasons, some with more legitimacy than others, but their arguments might consist of things like “metal is just a part of earth” or “plants can’t be their own element” or “the four elements are how things were intended to be by D&D’s creators”.

To the first and second argument I say that All classical elements break down conceptually in a setting where atomic chemistry ostensibly works similar to our own. Heck, Fire isn’t even technically a form of matter, it’s just energy (or perhaps plasma at best), and these elements no matter which model or culture they are drawn from is based on the limited understanding of the time. Heck, the dichotomy of earth/air and fire/water itself is just as artificial. Just because water can snuff out most oxygen-based combustion doesn’t make it a polar opposite to all combustion. Anything that is non-reactive and can displace the oxygen can do that.

Meanwhile, in the case of the third, Gygax and Arneson were not gods, nor were they the final arbiters on what you should have in a game about creativity and storytelling. They threw the elemental planes and elementals into the game because the two of them basically grabbed every concept from fantasy, sci-fi, and real-world mysticism and threw them in without regard for how it would all fit together until much later. (Not to mention some of their decisions are not something one would wish to emulate.) The point being is that elemental planes and magic are in the game for fun, not some rigid thing set by writers who maybe didn’t always handle certain ideas well.

On a slightly different tack, I do enjoy that the Rage of the Elements book has made efforts to re-build the association that certain elements have with different types of energy damage, something that the Core Rulebook of pre-Remastered Second Edition and other prior products worked hard to eliminate despite being a thing in 1st edition. While acid is still firmly outside of the purview of earth for now, cold and electricity have returned to water and air respectively, though still with the flexibility so that novel uses of those energies can still be found in other elements.

I think that’s all I can come up with for this week but thanks for reading, and I hope I gave you inspiration for adding these new elements to your first edition games, as well as some food for thought with the systems no matter which you use. Tune in next week for more archetypes and options!

[suzukiblu]

Do you have any Cassie or Bart centric aus?

Lemme see . . . well, the poly Pockets AU cycles through Tim, Cassie, and Bart's POVs, though it's not technically either Cassie or Bart-centric, it's a Core Four fic in three points of view. I've also got a few Kon/Cassie WIPs but they're mostly from his perspective and I wouldn't call them particularly Cassie-centric, and same for most of my YJ polyam WIPs, though let's see what we've got otherwise!

I recently wrote this fic about Cassie grieving Kon after he's come back from being dead, which is from her POV and is about her feelings and thoughts on it.

Not-Kon/Not-Match is a WIP from Cassie's POV about Tim accidentally actually cloning Kon in his grief-spiral era and her being the first person to meet said clone.

Circe makes everything worse is also from Cassie's POV and is about her breaking up with Kon because she realizes she's a closeted lesbian, WITHOUT realizing Kon is a closested trans girl and how those facts might or might not align, and the fallout and self-discovery and angst coming from that.

My the Core Four meets Kon's objectification kink WIP is from Cassie's POV and features Bart running a D/s roleplay scene for the Core Four while they try out a new kink together.

I think that's about it, currently? And there's a couple of Bart-centric AUs I've considered taking a poke at, but I haven't yet taken the plunge on actually starting any of them so I don't think I have anything particularly focused on him right now.

. . . also this probably doesn't count as Cassie-centric, but there IS a WIP I haven't developed quiiiiite enough to start posting from yet that's from the POV of a clone of Cassie produced by the Agenda and what her showing up post-Sins of Youth does, specifically to Kon and Cassie's friendship but also to a few other bits and pieces of the superhero community and like, clone-related things in general.

[that-darn-clown]

so, i now have a third Fnaf related thing. until i come up with a proper name for it, i like to call it "This Is The Closest Y'all Are Gonna Get To Me Doing Canon Fnaf"

this is mostly the result of me seeing some Fnaf designs and concepts and realizing "oh i can just. do what i want. with canon at this point."

so have some fun facts!

half because i think it's a cool concept, half because i want to make the designs different between this au and the Rewrite, Mike and Cassidy are both biracial. why is Liz the only completely white kid in the Afton family? well...we'll get there in a bit.

y'know Andrew from the books? Vengeful Spirit of the books? yeah he's here. he was one of Mike's friends prior to Getting Murdered. also close to Cassidy, but y'know.

i'm making Charlie more transmasc. specifically, she figured it out pre-Murder, but didn't get to explore gender stuff as much as he wanted :/ (still transmasc bigender, though. just more transmasc)

MCI kids are a bit different. Fritz is still here, though!

it's basically like a fusion of some of my own ideas and Dual Process Theory's timeline (Mike is (one of) the Vengeful Spirit(s), Cassidy is CC + got springlocked, stuff like that).

Cassidy, mayhaps, witnessed Andrew's murder. maybe. and Mayhaps William did some gaslighting. maybe.

Cassidy knew all of the MCI kids, especially Andrew.

Michael Definitely Took Charlie's Death And Andrew's "Disappearance" Very Well And Didn't Start Lashing Out By Bullying His Brother. Definitely Not.

the other Fnaf 4 bullies were some other kids who were "in the wrong crowd," as some might say.

Liz Gets To Live Because I Said So.

so...Willry happens in this universe. William had a Technically Affair ("technically" because Claire didn't care. if her husband wants to [REDACTED] his business partner, that's none of her business. she just wants to raise her children. similar situation to Anna; she's a lesbian and hadn't figured it out yet so she just went "huh. i'm weirdly more chill with this than i thought i'd be"). one day, William just. shows up with Elizabeth claiming "Oh I found this poor baby abandoned on my way home from work :( Guess I better take her in :(( Please ignore the fact that she's a redhead with freckles like my business partner that's just a coincidence"

then Liz got older...and it was kinda obvious that she inherited some traits from William (Bunny Teeth and the Bunny Ear Hair Things). so now it's a lot harder to just claim that it was a coincidence. the fact that Liz also had Henry's green eyes just made it ten times worse.

William ignored the rumors...and then a woman who worked at the Diner (Tammy Schmidt), who had ginger hair, green eyes, and freckles, claimed that she was the mother of Liz. so...Henry doesn't get outed as transmasc! yippee!

Claire divorced William (in 1981) because she did NOT like him roleplaying Icarus so hard and wasn't going to stick around to watch him inevitably fly too close to the sun. she was going to get her life together before deciding to take the kids (not Liz because. well, Liz isn't her biological daughter. this isn't to say that she doesn't consider Liz as effectively being her own child, but like. y'know. Not Her Kid Biologically Speaking), but uh. she ended up getting into a car accident only a few months later. RIP Claire 😔

William, being the "very reasonable" man he is, got drunk one night (because this man took the divorce Really well (sarcasm)), and because he internally blamed Henry for this mess (like he wasn't the guy who decided an affair was the greatest idea), and murdered Charlie. (which is partially why she's so pissed at him in this au; because he had the gall to take his anger towards Henry out on her. not that she would've liked it any better if he did take it out on Henry, but y'know).

the first four MCI kids (Bea, Fritz Jr., "Gabriel"/Gabi, and Isaac) were a mix of "William's on a minor power trip of sorts," "William unfortunately discovered the fact that he finds murder fun and now everyone's suffering," and "William isn't done hurting Henry. This time he's hurting Henry's business." Andrew's death was due to a minor argument that started between him and William over how Michael was doing that kinda. Escalated. William knocked Andrew out on accident, and then he went "okay guess i'll murder him now." so he springlocked Andrew. and Cassidy kinda witnessed it.

the Fredbear plush was a gift from Charlie and Andrew. Andrew partially possessed the plush to keep an eye on Cass and Mike (and it then led to him witnessing Mike being a dumbass for the next two years).

so...Mike, Andrew, Charlie, and Sammy were all around the same age (12-13) when the Murders happened in '81. so uh. Mike maybe had a crush on Andy that he never got to tell them about. he definitely doesn't have any regrets about that!! no siree!!

by the time Fnaf 2 was going on, Mike was kind of. spiraling. he recognized Jeremy as one of the few people who was nice to him after Things Went To Shit, so they started talking at work, crushes developed...and then almost half a year later, when Jeremy had started healing somewhat, they kinda went "hey we're adults. let's go to Nebraska." and then they did that. Mike had that sort of Mini Crisis that some traumatized young adults have where it's like. he has agency. he can do whatever. so he cut his hair a bit, dyed it bright red, got a tattoo on his chest, all that stuff. didn't call his dad at all during this. sort of started realizing how fucked up his childhood was. also met Tammy again, and she helped the two of them. Mike kinda changed his last name to hers, both because he viewed her as a mother figure and also because he did Not want to risk people finding out who he was.

Phone Guy survives. fuck it. he did kinda get maimed, though. unfortunately.

Mike found out about MCI stuff around the time of Fnaf 1. he was Not happy.

you now get: Charlie fun facts!

decided to give her both "weird girl" and "tomboy, but there's transness there" energy.

style vibes are sort of like. a mix of punk, "this looks like it's vaguely steampunk," and flannels. mostly because that's the kind of clothes he had readily available to him.

feral. extroverted introvert. she's even autistic. does the wildest shit and pulls Mike, Andrew, and Sammy along with him. sometimes even Cassidy (even though Cassidy was like a toddler at this point; three years old).

also just. really fucking petty and sassy. responded to a bully who was being homophobic and transphobic with, what effectively amounted to, the early '80s middle school equivalent of "You wanna kiss me so bad it makes you look stupid. 🙂"

still very protective over people, and a sweetheart. if it isn't obvious, i love this au version of Charlie. my beloved.

one time got some weed from a high schooler and went "hey guys wanna smoke this in the backroom at Freddy's on Friday night?" and then Mike and Andrew went "Fuck Yes." Sammy acted as the guard to the room. Henry and William were busy at Fredbear's, so they left one of the more reliable teen employees in charge for the evening. he walked in on those three smoking weed, was told "please don't tell our dads," shrugged, and just left. didn't say a word to Henry or William about it. Cassidy also walked in on it, but he wasn't going to snitch on them regardless. mostly 'cause he was three and didn't even know what they were doing to begin with. in Charlie's words, "8/10 experience, would do again."

just the most chaotic child imaginable. i've seen enough 80s movies to think that Charlie, a 6th grader, probably would've been believably this chaotic. like. you don't know how many movies where "kid in the age range of middle school to high school discovers weed and then proceeds to smoke some out of curiosity" was like. at least a minor plot point or scene. i also included this because I Can And It's Funny.

this song fits him perfectly. i'll let you listen to it to understand why, but. That's Just Her In This Au.

also, as for who the Vengeful Spirits/Ones William Should Not Have Killed are, here they are from Least Vengeful to Most Vengeful.

Charlie: doesn't hate William; just in UCN to do the ghost equivalent of kicking William in the balls repeatedly before leaving, hopefully with everyone else in tow.

Cassidy: Got Springlocked. also angry on behalf of his friends.

Andrew: also Got Springlocked. just pissed at William in general.

Mike: William killed him in the fire (neither he nor Henry planned for Mike to die this time. he tried to leave, but William didn't let him), William technically got him killed by sending him into the now-abandoned Freddy's, where the spirits (minus Andy, Cass, and Charlie, aka The Spirits Who Would've Recognized Him), confused, basically mauled Michael to death, where he then crawled out onto the streets and died. Charlie found him and brought him back, though. Mike's just pissed in general from where William basically ruined his fucking life. he'll probably be the last soul to leave.

also...if you're curious, i can tell you why the souls would see Mike and think he'd be William, when William would already be dead and springlocked at this point (something that they all witnessed, mind you). :]

Ough... like George I am a curious little monkey. Please tell me more ehehehe