latremoille

[latremoille]

hey.... how y'all doing....

HSHQTASK059:

when did you join ? what made you join ? what do you remember from the plotlines that were current at the time ? where were you in life when you joined and where are you now ?

dec 2015 if my blog's archive is to be believed akjsdbgksjdgb CRAZY ABSOLUTELY CRAZY almost a full decade. jesus christ. the plotlines weren't big or that remarkable ( sry ). petty drama... THAT I LIVED FOR. i was in high school!!!! that's so crazy. now i've graduated (duh), worked, worked, worked, studied, studied, studied... my life's been really busy these past few years and it has definitely showed in my activity. i've wanted NOTHING as much as to enjoy these last moments of hshq ( bc lbr we all could feel the end coming ) but i just couldn't find the energy and i kept pushing it and now ! now hshq has closed and i have to accept that :(

which characters have you written over the years ?

gaia <3 my first baby. lykke / nike, bastiaan, gahye, iéna, sasha, calix, riku... i think someone else but i just cannot remember tbh i wouldn't have remembered riku if the blog didn't exist lmao

what is your favourite plotline that you've been part of ?

i think vivi x lykke ? writing them taught me a lot. martha FORCED me to give my best with her amazing replies and i think i really improved a lot in a short amount of time. lykke, who was such a caricature, evolved into something slightly deeper. martha ily and you are so dear to me. i've written so much with you and you've always inspired me and helped to keep my muse up <3 there's a reason why i wanted to bring iéna and that reason was u, puss och kram but that's the nostalgia speaking. i have to mention joce and ani. the friendships gaia and lykke had with ani were so important to me. i don't think i ever wrote a friendship that compared to the ones i had written with you <3 but jo................. JO JO JO getting to write with you was such a privilege !!!!!!!!!!!!! i think i could have written lisaia forever and i still regret not getting to see where niray would have gone. you always had a little spark and i hope you recognize it in yourself <3 and evy.... bitch did you think i wouldn't put you and our crazy surprise pregnancy plot here. it was wild. especially at the time because i swear it was one of the first pregnancy plots i had ever seen in a rp. and i couldn't BELIEVE it when we actually got to write it from start to finish ??? retrospectively, 9 months is nothing at hshq but at the time ??? it ???? felt ??? like ??? an ??? accomplishment ????? my teen-almost-an-adult self was shocked E!!!!!!! something about your writing always made it sooooo easy to keep things organic. i think if i had to pick just ONE thread, olykke's first outing might be it. it started a huge mess and i enjoyed their adventure from start to finish. it stands out to me <3 jude, you and i were the flaky bitches, me more than you. but where the hell would lykke be if it wasn't for johanne ? where the hell would i be if it wasn't for your exciting little replies ??? i was sooo sad when you retired anton. he was the first piece to be lost. and now we're here. and i'm sad. and i'm glad we got to meet and write together. #teamwonderbrows i'm not ending this section without thanking XEE !!!! just thinking about layla makes me emo. i feel like i know you because i know layla. idk if that sounds weird and if my opinion is so wrong. but you were always so kind and helpful and i loved throwing lykke at layla <3333

what about other people's plotlines ?

sol maturing. i think it broke me a bit when i read a reply and i realized this character isn't a girl anymore. which naturally meant that none of us were girls anymore. i also loved frelucien. i don't know why they had me so hooked but i feel like i have to mention them since they were the first to pop into my mind.

if you could relive a plotline, which would it be ?

the 6 way thread joce mentioned skjdgbdskjgbs it was SO DUMB but i loved every second of it. a big group thread was a new concept back then so that added to the excitement. we were SOOO active, otherwise it wouldn't have worked. everyone wrote their reply in a matter of 4 hours or something. also i found it.

is there a plotline that you'd edit now if you could ?

i'd add to everything. i'd spend even more time on tumblr dot com and i'd make sure i would have zero regrets!!!!!

what's a plotline you wish you would have been able to finish before closing or just write more of ?

hmm ? maybe some sort of an ending for bash and ariel ? idk where they would have ended up and i think i would have liked to know. but bc i hate planning and i love organic shit, i don't think i ever will skgbsdjkgb one last thread with vivi and lykke, the og lykke not the nike version. i think it would be a full circle and i would be able to get over hshq ending. or maybe i'd love to write a happy ending for lisaia. idk if it was only me but they were endgame and i would have liked to see it.

what is your favourite ooc memory ?

i cannot pinpoint one single time but i think what made hshq an absolute joy to be part of, was the rapid ims. i loved that plotting was so easy and that everyone was always so excited when there was a new idea or a new character or a new anything. i think it's exceptional that within hshq we could have INNER JOKES like loads of them. we could reference memorable one liners!!! that's brilliant and special!!!!! i rly loved chatting with you <3 i will miss it <3

where can others find you if they want to get in touch ?

i'm already a stranger !

what else would you like to say ?

when i think of hshq, i think of the end of my teenage life and the beginning of my adult life. i've been here longer than i've been in any school. that's insane. i've had time to process this but it still feels very hard to just let hshq rest. i came and went. i was flaky towards the end ( sorry about that ), but it was so nice to know that whenever i'd get my shit together, i could just login, send a little message to the main and i'd be back to writing in a matter of hours. no one ever shamed me or made me feel bad about my poor activity and i am so thankful for that. we really grew up together and we spent so many years together crafting these amazing plotlines and touching stories. i hope all you continue writing because you all have a knack for it and the world deserves to read your writing <3 i really think my life would have been more boring without this silly little hobby. hshq was the CREAM CREAMMMM of rping. hshq helped me through a few lonely periods of my life as well when everything else but this corner of internet was changing and i wasn't keeping up with the times. hshq <3 anne 4ever thank you, and bye for now, i find it too hard to believe that we wouldn't talk again !!! i'll be checking my messages for a while so pls don't hesitate to message me <3 i'm still down to write something short if someone feels very inspired !!

#hshqtask059

[latremoille]

what’s the timeline for fanni’s molly trip @fannicroy + @svljc

[latremoille]

kaspar is like the first grade teacher and aurel his struggling student

[latremoille]

icb tekla still hasn’t told the croys the bad news smh

[latremoille]

hello friends i think i’m gonna drop gahye for the time being bc idk what to write on her 🤧🤧🤧 i’m gonna consider my options and bring someone else at some point !! feel free to naomi into things, i am curious to know my options

[latremoille]

“ i’m sure someone has fixed something but since people kept invading, wars keep happening. maybe this place is just a huge place for terrible people to exchange terrible ideas ? don’t you wonder what happens behind closed doors ? ”

( * / @hshqstarters​ )

“ i thought the whole POINT of this thing was for it to be like a big peace summit. “ xiuying is thinking out loud. “ negotiating, finding solutions, all that. but – some people have been here for YEARS ! has anyone fixed … anything ?? “

#jinxiuying

[latremoille]

The First Time with Zoë Kravitz | Rolling Stone

#face

[latremoille]

iéna stopped walking so quickly that she struggled to keep her balance. the additional step she took to keep herself from falling forward was clumsy. " hmm... " she turned around, in a much more stylish manner than she had halted, and quirked a brow at the woman. " i don't think it is. i only have an amex. " and even that lay at the bottom of some drawer back in alsace. " snap it in half and throw it away, " iéna offered. " otherwise you'll be looking for the person for a whole week. "

“Excuse me,” Noemí addressed the person several paces ahead of her, inclining her head towards what looked to be a credit card on the ground between them. “Is that yours?”

𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 for @hshqstarters​

#noemioriol

[latremoille]

icb this event turned into an episode of grey’s

[latremoille]

“ while i love how people are healthier and make good life decisions... i hate it when i feel the need to stand 10 feet away from everyone just because i want to take a smoke. ” ( camping group 2 / @hshqstarters​ )

#hshqstarter

[latremoille]

“ inappropriate ? ” iéna repeated loudly before letting out a loud and ugly snort. “ i think everyone needs to be at least a little bit tipsy before they try socializing. the fancier your title is, the drunker you should be. the social hierarchy is also a hierarchy of uptight-ness. ” iéna grinned widely at the woman. “ which means i should get a refill ! ” she gestured for the bartender to give her his attention.

— open ! ( @hshqstarters​ )

“ is it inappropriate to want to be drunk out of my mind before i have to try and be social? ” it’s a rhetorical question more than anything– delivered alongside a crooked smile that might be considered more lopsided than anything. she’ll blame it on whatever it is she’s talked the bartender into providing her with; she’s never been one for official meetings and she’s half-prepared to burn any bridges her parents have constructed for her whether by accident or choice but katye’s content to hide from the rest of the royal population at the bar ; even if she’s convinced her isolation won’t last forever – at least she’ll be drunk when old friends and passing acquaintances come calling.

#kvtyes #welcome to the group !!!!

[latremoille]

no one asked for my two cents but i feel like i need to say this about plotting / interacting etc.

( and i know i’ve been in this group for ages so i am very biased and definitely don’t give my 100% always when it comes to plotting but hear me out )

but this group is fucking big. we have over 120 characters. it’s a fact that you cannot have plots with everyone on one character, you can barely have plots with a quarter of the characters on one character. 

this is a very harsh view but: if the connection won’t “do” anything for my muse’s character development, what’s the point ? there’s 118 other characters to interact with. plotting for the sake of plotting is not only exhausting but unfruitful. some characters just. don’t. make. sense. together. like i personally am not going to contact elisa and ask if i can have plot between bash and alexei because there’s absolutely nothing there, and it’s unfair to ask elisa to sacrifice the characterization of alexei for the sake of a dynamic that doesn’t work. plotting is hard when it’s like building a ten story building on top of clay.

and plotting becomes easy when you know who you’re plotting with. it just requires you to be aware of the characters in the group. when i go about deciding who could be my character’s ex or who could be their rival or their childhood friend, i think about the web of connections that will stretch out from the other characters. look at jelani and olimpia — you have that whole croys-jelani-aurel-sylvia-ariel chain there, and the threads just happen naturally because the domino effect is that effective.  people take the baits others set for them and run just with it. 

cliques rarely exist solely because the muns are just good friends, it’s usually that the players think alike and can see what the other is aiming at. the only way you can really write those baits ( idk if i’m coining this term right here but i hope u get me akfbdjsgb ), is to be aware of the other characters and their drama. if i had to write a thread between bash and san right now, i’d just have him namedrop yihwa because it will take the thread somewhere. if i had to write a thread between iéna and aleks ( a v random combo ), i’d try to steer the conversation towards engagements or parents because i know aleks could talk about that whole meixu thing or king magnus. but without those baits you’re just stuck writing about the weather.

and i mean, sometimes it’s okay to just plot something vague and go with the flow. if you don’t know what the dynamic could be but have a feeling there’s potential, going with the flow is superb!! but in order for that approach to work, the threads need to flow. i’ve been rping for almost a decade and if i had a dollar for every time someone gave me a reply where they couldn’t even follow the basic rule of “yes and...” or “no but...”, i’d be a millionaire. i’m not saying every reply needs to be something exceptional and unique but if there’s barely anything to respond to, not a single statement, not a single opinion, not a single question... the thread will die, and organic development of that dynamic won’t happen. because a reply that kills the conversation just makes me, as a writer, think that the other person doesn’t give a damn so why would i bother writing a reply when the other person doesn’t even want it lol.

every time i see the main gets a complaint about this topic it frustrates me unreasonably. i’ve had e tell me multiple times that she’s a bit stumped with anneli bc “she’s not a very friendly character and she’s not related to people so it’s difficult to come up with plots that work” and every time the conversation ends with her saying “i’ll just have to think and figure this thing out.” not even once have i had her complain about the lack of plots, just about her inability to create them. that’s putting in effort and taking responsibility for plotting.

thanks for coming to my ted talk, let’s write better together skgbsdgjb

#hshqooc

[latremoille]

“ if it weakens germany, we’re pleased. ” she hadn’t explicitly asked what d’orléans thought about the situation but so far she hadn’t heard a single frenchman complain about prussia’s latest move.  people seemed to be rather happy about it. “ do you think this is a stunt to lull us into a false sense of safety ? ” iéna asked with a frown.

&&. @latremoille​

exchanging niceties with the french isn’t her usual cup of kvass – but the two warmongering nations have one pimple-sized duchy which required unnecessary attention in common: prussia. “ is your king pleased with the duchess’ actions? benefits aside, i suppose he’ll want to remain vigilant after the latest german tactics. ”

#aromancva

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“    not  worried,    ”    the  words  leave  his  lips  too  fast.    “    just  surprised.    at  you,  really.    ”

YES YES YES YES SOMEONE HAD THE BALLS TO SAY IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT HURTS SO GOOD

#hshqooc

[latremoille]

“ who are you having lunch with ? ” iéna asked as she stopped in front of his table. now this was humiliating, she wouldn’t deny that, but if sitting opposite from him meant that she got his undivided attention for thirty minutes, so be it. “ i have things to discuss. ” ( @ziclovs​ )

#ziclovs

[latremoille]

she should have not showed up early to the meeting: because of course no one else would be there except for the host. she had managed to pretend to be busy with her phone for two minutes but after that she had begun to feel like staring at a screen wasn’t as good a shield as she had originally thought it was. she placed the phone on the table and directed her attention towards him. “ so you’re down one political prisoner. ” ( @vrnvuld​ )

#vrnvuld

[latremoille]

baby girl is just out here… taking what belongs to her.

#face