#worse rps

[s1x-foot-deep]

The "Rock Paper Scissors-verse": The main RPS, the Better RPS and the worst RPS. I'm not so sure if you can do them all.

havent watched this episode yet but i know when i do i KNOW im gonna get obsessed. i love round cartoon designs AND grimy ones

[mcflymemes]

please don't mistake silence for hatred. please don't mistake unanswered plotting messages as indifference, or a lack of enthusiasm towards you. considering the ages of most roleplayers, many of us have bills to pay, families to take care of, medical conditions to treat, appointments to make, classes to take, homes to clean, and lives to live away from the computer that are far, far more important than writing on tumblr — life has a tendency to get in the way of hobbies and fun things like this. be patient with your fellow writers. if it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. of course you can set your boundaries, keep your space comfortable, and softblock whoever you wish, but do so while recognizing it's probably not hatred or apathy that keeps them from leaping into your dms with message after message. they probably love this hobby just as much as you... but sometimes life gets in the way.

[timblrdrake]

my face when crime happens in crime alley

anyways i was stabbed

[nydescynt]

Thematic Analysis of Hades II: Why You Can Never Go Home

(At some point I might make a video on this, but for now sharing my thoughts via textpost. Spoilers ahead!)

So the text of the story of Hades and Hades 2 are Zagreus breaking out of the House, and Melinoë breaking in.

But the wild thing (and the reason Hades 2 is much more interesting to me) is that both games actually have almost inverted themes from that text. Zagreus is intent on uniting a household; Melinoë is discovering the home she's fought to return to is rotten to the core.

Zagreus, despite his entire textual goal being to leave his home and family, is narratively & thematically working to bring the family and household together. His mother comes back and is reunited not just with him but her husband, mother, and entire extended family. Achilles and Patrocles, Orpheus and Eurydice, Asterion and Theseus: Hades is a story of people metaphorically coming home and making peace with where they are (Sisyphus, Thanatos, Orpheus). Everyone basically gets a happy ending, credits roll, problems all resolved or en route to be solved. Everyone is home.

(Important to note: we never see a human in the first game. We see shades, and gods, and monsters, and the closest you get to a mortal living thing is the satyrs. This is a story concerned with the realm of the gods.)

In contrast, Melinoë has no home - besides being estranged from her childhood home, she literally lives in a tent. In case the theme was too subtle, presumably.

Now, she has been fighting her entire life to become powerful enough to return home and reclaim her family - that seems Zagreus-adjacent on its face. However, there isn't a home to return to- Hades is in shackles, the rest of her family trapped in time. At this point in Early Access, on both a metatextual & diegetic level she quite literally can neither make it to Mt Olympus or into Zagreus' room - she cannot go home, she cannot meet her family.

Consider the others: Odysseus' presence seems to tie into the idea of a long journey home, but this is an Odysseus who lived and died and now has other (inhuman) priorities. He loves them, but has no interest in reuniting with Penelope and Telemachus at this point. Nemesis dislikes her siblings, and is more concerned with the equal application of "justice" than whether it has any reforming effect. Narcissus and Echo eventually talk and part more amicably, but that's the best that can be said about their relationship.

Hecate refuses to be called Melinoë's mother: she will not distract from the "true" family that Melinoë has no memory of ever meeting.

Instead of Ares and Dionysus (enjoyers of chaos and least affected by the toxicity of the family in Hades 1) we have Hestia and Hephaestaus- a goddess who helped murder her father and a god constantly belittled by his own family. Their tense and frequently bitter interactions with the other Olympians are evocative of the central theme being explored: what if there isn't a home to go back to? What if your family is unforgivable? (What if you want to forgive them anyways? What if you need to?)

This theme is why Arachne is in the game, and Athena is not: likeable, first-helper-of-Zagreus Athena turned Arachne into a spider out of petty anger. How do you reconcile that?

Moros (lovely, kind Moros, who gushes at Odysseus like a fanboy) and his sisters the Fates did horrible things to mortals out of boredom. The same mortals whose bodies you can see stacked up like cordwood in Ephyra, who you repeatedly claim you are fighting to protect from Chronos. Moros can neither confirm nor deny that the current events could have been set in motion by the Fates. How do you reconcile that?

Polyphemus raises sheep. He genuinely loves and cares for them, is protective of them. He also eats them, and is confused when Melinoë implies a contradiction.

How can you love someone and be willing to kill them? For survival? For fleeting satisfaction? For vengeance?

Is Chronos' willingness to eat his children so morally heinous that it makes him worse than every cruelty the gods have wrought? Worse for who?

[maryhadalittlemaggic]

Guess whose losing horribly to the wonderful @cas0meadows

How is she so good!? 😭

(@the-one-and-only-lily-evans we have to do a showdown. She's too good...)

[fromtheberrybush]

mmm,,, the feeling if being hungry <3

[pokemonranch]

Y'all won't BELIEVE the three months I've had

[shecarnionmyval]

i wonder how many people thought “i can fix her” when looking at me

[zeroistic]

these damn new gen ls pvpers and their anti-yap stances and resorting to pvp at every given moment

[omglescubes]

tubbo is so stressed and panicked, trying anything to fight against the federation , and meets the wall of hopelessness of the older islanders saying "no. we cant DO anything. that gets you kidnapped, frozen or killed." it's just so fucking sad, because they are right, but he doesnt know yet, he's been here for a WEEK

[the-child-of-terror]

Markie. We need to talk.

Karter's arms were crossed, and he looked pissy and upset.

“About what?” Markie had a cigarette between his lips. Normally, when Karter came near him, he would put it out. But he was stressed, and still scrubbing blood out of his brass knuckles.

[cat-mentality]

I will NOT accept hot takes about Team Bolas killing some damn half assed statue as if they killed the eggs themselves when y'all mfs have been defending the creation of a new appendix at the Geneva Convention by all the war crimes committed against them.

I would be more sympathetic IF they were actually alive, like Barriguinha Mole and her weird siblings, but it was a damn statue carved to resemble a Frankstein monster of their children. Ain't no fucking way anyone in any team got attached to anything but the idea that those rocks symbolize.

And I would too be more sympathetic IF Green Team didn't kick start the whole thing by attacking Blue, you can't cry "they stopped before killing it!!!!" after the fact because honestly? It doesn't matter. Because sure they stopped, but at the same time they began it didn't they? How was Blue supposed to trust they would stop, how was Red? The higher powers were the ones to take the egg statue out for good but they wouldn't have done it if Green had not attacked it and left it so damaged.

No moral high ground to be found in Purgatory only fucked up people trying to survive and have their children back while also stabbing and plotting to fuck over everyone they know.

[timblrdrake]

Am I?

🤺🤺GET OUTTA MY INBOX! 🤺🤺 THIS IS CRUEL AND UNUSUAL

[ask-elland-n-will]

[OOC rant about HL rp space here on tumblr: Wanted to mention this for a while but engagement requires... engagement. The more rp blogs exchange asks, the more pathways there are to communicate, to create a net of connections, make characters and the world around them come to life. Over the past year and a half I sent hundreds of asks, in anon/as me/as my characters. I understand being shy. I've been there, and it took some great people in this community to get me out of my shell.

But it is just what it is: unfortunately, if there is no reciprocity, there is no dialogue.

You don't have to wait for a green light/talk in DMs first with creating an rp scenario to send anyone an ask or to initiate rp by tagging someone. You can if it makes you more comfortable but don't have to. Most of us have Rules of Engagement but that's all the pre-requisites.

Before I burned out, I sent people asks just to make them happy, give some interactions for their characters. I wanted to find out more about MCs/OCs. But at this point (and I am not alone in this) whenever this turns into a one-sided communication, I am bothered by it, and I stop sending asks after a while.

I get that if I do it with anons, people won't know who to reply to. But even starting small, sending an ask or two for at least some rp people, so that we know you want to engage — it means a lot. It makes us want to continue playing in this HL sandbox.]

[benetnvsch]

knkdz zombie apocalypse au,,,

[rocknbolan]

I mean what is going on in this video.

And that's just one example. Here's another.

jfc just the title alone.