#OOC // WAITING FOR QUEUE.

[pursued-by-a-memory]

Outlaw vs Criminal

When I write Arthur I write him as truly wanting to go clean, get out. He wanted to get to California like Dutch promised buy some land go peacefully into the night if you will, even if it meant struggling to get his footing at first.

Because Arthur was tired of being a criminal.

See with Arthur, I feel there is a big difference, in his eyes, between an outlaw, which when he was younger he truly believed he was and by his and John's accounts, they were. Men living outside the law, helping those who suffered from it's corruption. While keeping a little something to help them keep going.

But at some point, it's not clear when this stopped and they became criminals. No longer helping those just trying to live, and now even preying on those same people they once helped.

Arthur always makes it clear he doesn't like it, and only does it because Dutch kind of guilts him into it by explaining the gang needs it to survive. Basically Arthur acts on the idea, his family needs him to provide.

So I'm not saying Arthur was tired of being an outlaw. He was tired of being a criminal. And I think he knew before the game started, he could never go back to it and it work. The goodwill the gang burned with communities, and the pure changing of times. He couldn't go back and be Robin Hood. And he wasn't happy with the man he became. So the best option, not for him, but for the young people in the gang who had a life to still live? They needed out, and he just didn't want to always be skirting the line that was getting thinner each day that separated him from other gangs like The O'Driscolls.

Arthur didn't want to be a criminal anymore.

#✎ don’t try to be two people at once || ooc #✎ some jobs aren't for saving and some legacies are for pissing on || headcanon #waiting for queue

[grcveyacd]

/ i only have a handful of drafts left, but hit the heart for a small starter? possibly just a one-liner, maybe longer.

#/ please specify a muse or i will just randomize :) #/ also if you are waiting on a reply and you would like it posted outside of my queue just let me know. i dont mind at all! #/ and i do owe 3 starters and i will get to those today as well! :) #ooc post / starter call. #indie rp

[vuulpecula]

✖ alright alright alright. just popping in to say i miss y'all & i'm sorry for going radio silent. i received some new responsibilities and work and it's been draining me. hoping to be on this weekend to tackle some drafts, starters, and the inbox ! until then, i love y'all & i hope you're okay out there ! xo.

#x | alright alright alright ( OOC. ) #[ there are soooo many threads i'm excited for ] #[ & i'm going to fill the queue back up <3 ] #[ sorry for being slower than molasses ] #[ also messages omfg i will get to those too! sorry for the wait everyone ! ]

[ode-of-odr-archive]

// I just fucking love how both Gale and Astarion are having to look up at him. Man is like a tired mother duck leading her ducklings around.

#baldur's gate 3 #gale of waterdeep #astarion #waiting for queue #◾ I blinked and the world was gone — ooc #◾ How the song twisted you — visage

[ode-of-odr]

Since someone else asked, and I've updated Ras' game look to better fit his canon appearance, here is the updated slider and mod config I am using:

Horns Mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/1226 Head Mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/287?tab=description

Skine Tone: Smoke 4 Scar 2 Maturity level: 34 Eyes: Right (Though shows up as the left? Which Is what I want): Demonic blue 3. Left: Solid black

Hair: Brown Red 5 Red 3 (Highkught at 100) Red 5 (Greying at 100) Facial hair: Jawclinger

Horns: Now called Nessus Pillars in the mod Horn colour: Ash 1 Horn tip: Grey Warm 1

#◾ i blinked and the world was gone — ooc #◾ how the song twisted you — visage #waiting for queue

[sylvctica]

"April fools ... wonder what shenanigans—"

"Sup, fuckers!" A bag of chips was tucked under her arm as she kicked the nearby chair close to Sylvie, with a body aptly being dragged behind (the poor sucker who got the chips stolen from by her, and presumably one of her soul-sucking contract victims).

The god hissed audibly and jolted at the sudden kick, grumbling as they turn to stare at Namatee, expression deadpan as hell and green eyes flickering towards the unconscious person. "Why are you here?"

"Eating? Food? I'm visiting, and this is how you greet me?" Said chips were audibly crunched between sharp teeth, her eyes barely visible behind dark sunglasses.

"... yeah, you kicked a chair and scared the shit out of me. Isn't Nameless gonna yell at you for being here?"

"Nope!"

( Happy April Fools! This is a duo-writing event between my friend and I with her writing Namatee, a demon who Sylvie tussles with ... and wouldn't call a friend, technically. Any of her writing will be in blockquotes and people are free to interact / send asks to her!! It'll just be for the duration of April 1st. :] )

#OOC // WAITING FOR QUEUE. #SYLVIE // COMMENTARY. #GUEST // NAMATEE. #april fools 2k24

[lonetala]

Starter call?

#;; waiting for the moon ; queue #;; just stardust ; ooc

[handfulofmuses]

I was watching their fight frame by frame and Ed was actually winning that one. Ed reacted quickly when Banzai threw himself at him and turned it around. Banzai has not gotten a single bite in (the times he tried Ed once again reacted quickly) yet during all of this Ed managed to bite Banzai more than once.

Conclusion: Ed is stronger than Banzai. He dragged Banzai so hard here.

#ooc #;the waiting game (queue) #ed picks on banzai so much #i love it #he even bites his face #seriously though ed got so many bites in

[ghostwritcr]

sooo i don't celebrate thanksgiving , but seems like the perfect opportunity to say some things i've been wanting to these past few days ... i just wanted to thank my mutuals for giving me threads that give me all the feels and the serotonin boost i need ! i truly appreciate every one of you , even if i'm not always the best at giving quick replies ... so i wanna thank all of you guys for being a part of my happy space here !! 💖 ( and yes this is also another promise to eventually get through my 90+ drafts ... 🫣 so thank you for being so kind and patient with me too !! )

#❥ speak of the devil ⸻ ooc . #also i'm going to t swizzle's concert this weekend (after waiting 11 y for it lmao) in another city #so this blog will probs run on queue until monday or tuesday

[someotherdog]

The intense jealously I feel when all my friends are online writing and I gotta wait until this weekend to post mine

#an american werewolf in traffic ( ooc. ) #I’m chipping away at my drafts but I have over 30 so I’m waiting to do them all and queue them just to keep a handle on them! #I need to control myself sometimes!!! Not all the time. Just sometimes.

[wickedlehane]

//ooc; okay, I'm about to be REAL slow for at least a week here -- work is on full time again, plus im starting sports after work again on tues/thurs nights. I have a podcast to record this week and a DND game to prep/run. I'll queue anything I can but thank you all for your patience!!! unfortunately, life gets in the way of writing sometimes LOL

#ooc; copacabana? #//this also applies to my willow and fred and yellowjackets blogs #//i'll try to queue what i can but thank u for waiting!!

[balladetto]

haven't been feeling as bold with this blog, so i figure what better way to get things straight with anxieties than making a checking in to make sure it's cool for me to send unprompted things your way post. in interacting with this, you're confirming that i can:

drop into your inbox, unprecedented ( ♡ )

drop into your ims, unprecedented ( ♡ )

potentially other casual interactions like tagging you in reblogged posts and so on!

#* intermission / ooc. #definitely been feeling shyer/more awkward here lately and that's on me for letting what-ifs get to the brain. but hopefully this will help #maybe? i would like to be able to send in ic ask memes and shit again without feeling like i've somehow overstepped at least sdlkfjd #building up to checking the dash more often and for longer again too. we'll be back to normal in a moment ♡ #once again. i'm liking all your posts in spirit even when i'm not here. have a lovely day folks!! #queuing this because i think i've figured out The Timezones now. also i'm dead tired aslfkdj be seeing you folks when i wake! #(thank u for ur patience @ people waiting on dms i am blowing friendly kithes ur way) #* intermission / queue.

[voxiiferous]

**| Interesting revelations of the evening!

I’m not certain Vox has ever actually fired a gun. He’s certainly never owned one. Most of the time if he needs to cause pain his just sort of… goes zappy on them. Flesh doesn’t take kindly to massive amounts of electricity!

Hah! Now that I have drawn you in with fun hc there’s the more serious examination of themes. A consequence of when I started writing Vox is the fact that I could not turn off the university part of my brain that’s just like “if you were to write an essay for him what are the themes you would focus on? What DEFINES him???” And the answer was performance, because clearly right? He’s TV man.

And this had the unintentional side effect of earning him the “not as bad a person as you could have been” award because if he was a really bad boss, and I leaned more into the corrupt businessman aspects of him, then that core theme would have been less performance and more consumerism and capitalism. Which I decided was not thematically relevant and would have just detracted from the overall character I wanted to write.

If I had to pick his main three vibes it’s: performance in big bold letters (more on that in a sec), modernization (not capitalism or consumerism, but specifically that transition of technology and opinion), and a very sci-fi concern of what is a human? Is he still?

but but but going back to the performance. It’s so key to how I write him. Like there’s the literal performance aspect on screen, but it’s more than that. As Vincent he performs a veneer of, if not heterosexuality, than at least… not queerness. But otherwise he’s still very much him. Sure his charm was taught, but he made it a part of himself, it’s not a performance anymore, he has things he enjoys and doesn’t, and is, more or less, honest in that. Vox is… not that. It’s why in the 1946!Vincent content, the fun is forcing Vox to acknowledge himself. He has to step beyond the performance, he has to see backstage essentially. He has to be vulnerable.

And vulnerability is something that cannot exist in the Overlord Vox persona, which he is constantly inhabiting. But at the same time that’s not who he actually is, but it’s who he’s performing as, even to himself. He’s always on this knife’s edge of self reflection and juuust missing the point, because if he goes to close to the truth, the masquerade falls apart.

There’s this line from the song All for Believing by Missy Higgins that’s great here, and it’s “But I see you painted your soul into your guard”, and it’s super true for Vox. Overlord Vox is the face of every new product, he derides the old as outdated, he’s ruthless, and powerful and confident. Nothing gets under the skin of Overlord Vox, not even a broken screen, see him laughing in Voxtagram? Laugh with him. It keeps him safe, it’s the image that’s given him power and control and the successful end result to all the ambition that is still a core part of him.

Vox however??? Vox is a bit of romantic, and he loves swing music, and black and white game shows, he’s an insomniac and a bit of nerd. It’s not that Overlord Vox isn’t him, because like the lyrics says, it’s been painted into. Overlord Vox is the strongest parts of himself people take seriously and made into a living, breathing part of himself. It’s a shield and a half truth.

Money does play a role, but it’s a tertiary one at best. He has more money than God, he owns everything under the sun, great, great, it plays the role it needs to and is otherwise vague. What is he doing with his money??? Uhh, I don’t know, who cares?

The modernization works in with the performance, though that’s another post of its own. So please enjoy this somewhat rambling roundabout examination of why my Vox is, all things considered, not that bad a dude. It’s about the pretentious English major themes, and that being the least interesting thing to explore for me. (Just see his playlist, it’s basically all “look at me, look at me, look at what I’m showing you, don’t look over there behind the scenes).

#*personnel file (hc) #*no signal (ooc) #*cathode rays and rock and roll (vincent price) #I barley even know that this is #is it a hc? A meta??? Incoherent??? #shoutout to my class this morning and the direct thought process of: #that would be a fun theme for him! Wait no #that would require breaking the he’s a fine boss hc #well why would that be an issue? #because it’s not Right^tm it’s about the performance #Queue the lightbulb moment of THEMATIC RELEVANCE! #I love Vox he’s a perfect disaster #the embodiment of the performance goes off without a hitch #but if you look behind the curtain the costume closet is in shambles #the props are scattered all around #there’s an actor frantically reading lines in the corner #the moment you look at him for more than 5 minutes the whole illusion falls apart #Expect more in this vein to come! #probably a giant tag ramble in a post for the Gladiator by Jann song #which is GREAT for him #And sort of touches on a lot of the themes mentioned here

[minarcana]

auregh i am full of the spirit i want to write romænce and ship content. send me prompts.... or just a vision u have in ur heart... i will write some Content(tm) for uyo

#as a gay person if i dont write feelings once a month i turn to dust #im waiting for various queues to pop. i learned in order to do mentor i have to actually finish guildhests. theres so many fucking hests. #ooc

[sunfollows]

consider this a plotting call !

#« the most normal person in the world. » ooc. #« waiting for queue. » queued stuff. #would Love to get some things going

[ode-of-odr]

// It is terrifying how easy this was for Ras. Also lowkey might want a thread where it's after this and Ras is fucking sloshed and slightly ill from the stuff, but is being a stubborn mule.

#◾ i blinked and the world was gone — ooc #◾ how the song twisted you — visage #waiting for queue