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Hey, just so y’all know my ask box is open even though my muse page is still under construction. Feel free to send asks to my muses. Ask them about themselves, the world, pretty much anything! Or even send ask as other Discworld characters!
#discworld rp#fantasy rp#discworld#sam vimes#moist von lipwig#rufus drumknott#otto chriek#shine of the rainbow#cheery littlebottom#juliet stollop#discworld ocs#mushrooms and snails: shine of the rainbow#call me jewels!: juliet#living not in vein: otto#vetinari’s terrier: vimes#sweet as sugar and everything nice: ramona#the ol’ razzle dazzle: moist#this is me: cheery#the truth has it’s boots on: ooc
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#OFRISINGAPES. An independent & selective multimuse roleplay blog written by Feegle, with muses focused on Terry Pratchett’s novels. Highly AU, OC and crossover friendly. Featuring Tiffany Aching from the Discworld series, Kin Anrad from Strata, and Anathema Device & Aziraphale from Good Omens. Crossover verses include Bridgerton, Once Upon A Time, BBC Ghosts and Doctor Who
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take R.P. Tyler from Good Omens. okay now imagine he's a god. and everything he dislikes is now illegal. that's Nuggan in Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment
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Discworld ... sentence starters
“I'm your worst nightmare!“
“And if the truth is terrible?“
“I'm not a lady. I'm a witch.“
“Cake is not the issue here.”
“I assure you I will not kill you.”
“Good. No preconceived ideas.“
“I am so fed up with being young.”
“Is this a dagger I see before me?“
“The money should be on the inside.“
“It’s a sword! It’s not meant to be safe!”
“I hope you're not going to kill anyone.”
“History needs shepherds, not butchers.“
“I’ve heard of them. Bloody dangerous things.”
“Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.“
“When you break rules, break 'em good and hard.“
“People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.“
“The answer is that, terrible or not, it is still the truth.”
“It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.“
“I just think the world ought to be more sort of organized.“
“We walk out of here unharmed or the girl gets it, all right?“
“Don't put your faith in gods. But you can believe in turtles.“
“You’re saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable.“
“Oh, all true. Most of them. A bit of exaggeration, but mostly true.“
“It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever.”
“You've haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.“
“You cannot fool me anymore. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.”
“You had to find the truth for yourself. That is how we all find the truth.“
“I'm the one where this man comes out of nowhere and kills you, stone dead.“
“It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.”
“It's not gambling to play against someone who's no good. It's common sense.“
“You mean... the one with the giant cabbage and the sort of whirring knife thing?“
“I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.“
“She doesn't stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do that.”
“Ye mustn't be afraid to ask for help. Pride is a good thing, my girl, but it will kill you in time.“
“You can sort of tell the difference if you look closely. It doesn't have as many sharp edges.“
“You forced the world to give it to you, no matter the price, and the price is and always will be high...“
“Sometimes the moon is light and sometimes it's in shadow, but you should always remember it's the same moon.“
“What we're going to do is keep the peace. That's our job. We're not going to be heroes, we're just going to be... normal.”
“But you've found it, even if at the time you didn't know what it was you were finding, and you grabbed it by its scrawny neck and made it work for you.“
“No-one likes being told it's their lucky day. That sort of thing does not bode well. When someone tells you it's your lucky day, something bad is about to happen.“
“You think there are the good people and the bad people. You are wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.“
“Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls.”
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i saw you rb a death from discworld post a bit ago, are you a discworld fan? i looove how it portrays death
OOC
Yes I am oh my god!
I’ve only read Mort so far and I’ve started Going Postal but yeah I love it. I’ve adopted some of the stuff from Mort into my version of Death, like the hourglasses and that he loves cats. They’re both written by Terry Pratchett so it meshes really well with the Good Omens version of Death.
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A recurring feature that I like in Neil Gaiman's and Terry Pratchett's stories is the mundane and ordinary juxtaposed and blended with the extraordinary and fantastical.
There's a lot of humour derived from this, but it got me wondering if the concept also works as a theme under the surface of the humour, so I'll explore that idea a bit here with examples from Good Omens and Discworld.
First a look at the humour side, because it's fun, and so that people know what I'm referring to:
-In the opening sequence of Good Omens S1E1: an angel and a demon (fantastical beings) are conversing like ordinary people, using idioms like "Well that went down like a lead balloon", against a setting of biblical proportions.
-The Archangels' meeting in S2E6 discussing first the Second Coming ("Nah!"), and then next on the agenda is the cleaning roster.
-The visuals of heaven and hell in general - it's the subversion of expectations on what these places "should" look and function like - offices, clipboards, contracts, bureaucracy. This is humour and seems like theme/motif at the same time; the visual cues say a lot about heaven and hell and their role in this story.
-Death from the Discworld books owns an umbrella stand and a hairbrush, likes kitty cats, and rides a white horse named Binky.
-In Small Gods, the Great God Om is incarnated as a tortoise:
And it came to pass that in that time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One:
'Psst!'
Next, looking at the concept's thematic or metaphorical potential.
The following excerpt gets me thinking about how people put outsized importance on mundane things, and about normalcy bias kicking in when a narrow mind is confronted with extraordinary events.
From Good Omens book (about RP Tyler):
It is a high and lonely destiny to be Chairman of the Lower Tadfield Residents' Association.
[…]
Your car is on fire.
No. Tyler just couldn't bring himself to say it. I mean, the man had to know that, didn't he? He was sitting in the middle of it. Possibly it was some kind of practical joke.
Next, a scene that makes me think about retreating into the mundane to cope, after being confronted with an extraordinary event.
From Good Omens S2E6:
Nina: Oh, God, I should've been open half an hour ago.
Maggie: How can you think about that after all this??
Nina: People need coffee, I sell coffee, it's my coffee shop.
And next, thinking about how the minutiae of the everyday distracts us from paying enough attention to big world issues (a bit of normalcy bias again too).
From Good Omens book (when the horsepersons of the apocalypse arrive at the airbase):
No one stopped the four as they purposefully made their way into one of the long, low buildings under the forest of radio masts. No one paid any attention to them. Perhaps they saw nothing at all. Perhaps they saw what their minds were instructed to see, because the human brain is not equipped to see War, Famine, Pollution, and Death when they don't want to be seen, and has got so good at it that it often manages not to see them even when they abound on every side.
Next, two excerpts from Discworld books. At first I was thinking along the lines of needing to focus on the everyday because we can't spend all our time focusing on big existential stuff, or, how we take the wonders of nature for granted because of busy lives; but then I realized, I think it's actually a clever inversion of what we consider to be ordinary - that just being alive, against all odds, in the vast universe, is actually quite extraordinary.
From Small Gods:
And one of [the brain's] functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary and turn the unusual into the usual.
Because if this was not the case, then human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing big stupid grins […] And no one would do much work.
Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
Part of the brain exists to stop this happening. It is very efficient. It can make people experience boredom in the middle of marvels.
[more going on in the above than just the subject of the post, but I'm narrowing the focus here]
From Hogfather:
THERE IS A PLACE WHERE TWO GALAXIES HAVE BEEN COLLIDING FOR A MILLION YEARS, said Death, apropos of nothing. DON'T TRY TO TELL ME THAT'S RIGHT.
"Yes, but people don't think about that," said Susan. Somewhere there was a bed …
CORRECT. STARS EXPLODE, WORLDS COLLIDE, THERE'S HARDLY ANYWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE WHERE HUMANS CAN LIVE WITHOUT BEING FROZEN OR FRIED, AND YET YOU BELIEVE THAT A … A BED IS A NORMAL THING. IT IS THE MOST AMAZING TALENT.
And a quote from Terry Pratchett himself, inverting ordinary/extraordinary (the whole video is great, by the way):
Within the story of evolution is a story far more interesting than any in the Bible. It teaches us amazing things: that stars are not important - there is nothing interesting about stars. Street lamps are very important, because they're so rare. As far as we know there's only a few million of them in the universe. And they were built by monkeys! Who came up with philosophy, and gods.
He also mentioned here that his impression after reading the Old Testament was: "If this is all true, then we are in the hands of a madman!" Off topic again, but relevant to some of what went into Good Omens I think.
Not sure if I've proved anything here, and that wasn't the goal, but it was fun to find some quotes for my brain to play around with!
#long post#good omens#good omens meta#good omens 2#good omens book#Discworld meta#Discworld#neil gaiman#terry pratchett#gnu terry pratchett#hogfather#small gods#p
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The main advantage to following a bunch of wizard and witch gimmick blogs is that it makes tumblr more like discworld.
Which makes me think that we should push this concept further. Where are the guards RP blogs? Where are the thieves' and assassins' guilds? We all know what happened to the sex workers, but why not make a comeback as the seamstresses' guild? Very little going on in that tag. Fuck it -- lawyers' guild. Aging user base and all. I know some of y'all have law degrees.
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Another slow day with just one doc, but this time it's not an encounter. Rather, it is a class option.
Druid: Circle of Witchcraft
Now I know I'm not the first person to homebrew a druid themed like a witch. It isn't a particularly common combination of ideas, but it has been done before. But I have not found such a subclass (or really even a class option at all) that makes a witch for 5e that feels like a witch from Discworld. This is what that is. A subclass that can genuinely make a Granny Weatherwax.
A Discworld witch; complete with headology, borrowing, and "the look". A relatively "low magic" option, this subclass is perfect for players that want to lean into their Wisdom stat and do more RP than combat. Druids are good at combat, no subclass required, but they do fall short when it comes to social encounters (IMO)—this definitely patches that.
This short doc is only 0.75 of DMsGuild, which is how I think I'll be pricing all standalone subclasses. And I plan to make quite a few subclasses.
#d&d#dnd#homebrew#dungeons and dragons#5e#ttrpg#fantasy#writing#subclass#druid#witch#discworld#witches#headology
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20 Questions For Fic Writers
Tagged by @girlwithakiwi
1. How many works do you have on AO3?
5. I had a very long break between my FFN and AO3 days.
2. What's your total AO3 word count?
34,086
3. What fandoms do you write for?
Currently, it's all Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, because that's what the brainworms want. My only non-Rise AO3 fic is Voltron, and my FFN has a good amount of Kingdom Hearts on it.
4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
This is going to just be a list of everything on my AO3, so in order:
1. Making the Rounds
2. Lay Me Down
3. Lethal Measures
4. Siblingquest 202X
5. Site 39
5. Do you respond to comments?
For the most part, yes!
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
The first and third fics I wrote for the Cass Apocalyptic Series are very much downer endings, because there was a lot of downer stuff happening in the series at the time!
7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
...would it surprise you to learn that that's also a Cass Apocalyptic fic?
8. Do you get hate on fics?
Nope! I'm sure I will eventually, but I honestly could not care less. That's what the block button is for.
9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
Also Nope! Turns out I'm the wrong flavor of ace for that.
10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?
Look. Listen. Kingdom Hearts is a crossover canon by design. It's very easy to go nuts with it.
That said, my most consistent crossover well is Discworld, because it's very easy to have Death just roll up when someone passes, or gets very close to it. (So far it's been Red vs Blue, Kingdom Hearts, and RWBY, that I can remember off the top of my head.)
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
If I have, I'm not aware of it.
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
Again, not that I know of. I'm open to it - just let me know!
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
Kinda? It's mostly been RP or post/counterpost that gets published as a fic. I dunno, does tumblr collaborative writing count?
14. What’s your all time favourite ship?
I hit this question and forgot every ship ever
I will probably never let Terra/Aqua from KH:BBS go, though.
15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
I have a handful of unpublished ones that probably just aren't going anywhere - I haven't worked on them for too long, and the drive is elsewhere.
(Dear everyone looking at this question and going "but Lethal Measures though," I promise you I am trying)
16. What are your writing strengths?
Characterization and voice, dialogue, and I'm told my comedy hits fairly well, which is a good thing when you're mostly writing in a comedic canon.
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
Description, of both settings and people! What do they look like? How is the living room arranged? Hell if I know! It's not aphantasia so much as it is inconvenient.
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
I generally don't - my French is too far out of practice, and I'm not going to pretend I know any other languages well enough to go for dialogue.
19. First fandom you wrote for?
Earthworm Jim, in third grade. Read it in front of the class. Core memory.
20. Favourite fic you’ve written?
It's currently Siblingquest 202X, because that's what I've been working on consistently and I cannot wait for y'all to see what I have in store with this behemoth.
No pressure tags: @dandywonderous @talldecafcappuccino @trashquisitor-shirozora @tangledinink @rbtlvr @remedyturtles
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I rambled about my fondness for old speculative fiction book covers on the rp blog yesterday and it has given me a Hankering to read some older scifi 👀
But. Gotta finish my current library holds first. In the mean time... there are decisions to be made.
Reblogs and additional recommendations are welcome! (With a bonus if they have fun covers. :P)
1. A Fire Upon the Deep
I know very little about this and have tried to avoid spoilers, but I've heard the worldbuilding & aliens are interesting!
2. Orphan Star
I read this series when I was very young and barely remember anything from it except Bran & Truzenzuzex (whom I love), and Abalamahalamatandra (whose name just. stuck.). So! I reread the Tar-Aiym Krang semi-recently, and have been intending to reread the rest for a while now
3. Up the Walls of the World
Another one I know very little about! Did a search for scifi books featuring telepathy a while back and this was one of the results. In the process of putting this list together I learned that the author was a woman (who used a penname), which has increased my interest a bit.
4. Contact
I've gotten the impression that this one is something of a classic?? And I adore first-contact stories. I've read the first page or two and it did catch my interest.
5. Harbourmaster
Okay so this one isn't actually old. And it isn't a novel. BUT! Its themes and delivery are very much of the flavor I'm craving (with the bonus of being queer), it is explicitly inspired by works by Theodore Sturgeon, and I've fallen behind and keep meaning to catch back up (and very much need a refresher on the story so far).
5. Vorkosigan Saga
Not quite the flavor I'm craving just now (except maybe Falling Free would hit that mark?), but. It's on par with Discworld among my lifetime favorite series, and it seems a shame to leave parts of it unread! Now might be a good excuse.
6. Foundational Classics
I've read some. Frankenstein, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, 1984. But, uh... those are very nearly it, and there's so much more out there! And I've specifically been trying to get a better understanding of literary genres for the past year or two, which includes reading things that have been influential to said genres.
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If you've read this far... have the two specific book covers that I rambled about yesterday, because they're fun. ^_^
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#classic scifi#scifi#book rec request#it is entirely likely that the results of this poll (assuming anyone votes to begin with) will have 0 impact on what I actually read first#at least in part because. again. library. and whatever other limitations control what I get my hands on first xD#but it seemed like fun and provided an easy format/excuse for further rambling so I made it :P#life flails#my reading#my stuff#polls
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TOA Anniversary Munday!
Celebrating TOA and the people who contribute to make our group what it is.
Repost, don't reblog. Only fill in what you feel comfortable sharing!
Happy anniversary, TOA! Here's to many more years spent together.
tagging whoever wants to do this!
Name: Pat Gem! Patrick is the full name but Pat is what I go by most often in this group.
Pronouns: he/they
Birthday (no year): September 15! Same as my beloved kitty Cassie.
Where are you from? What is your time zone?: I'm from California, PST! I was born in the Bay Area, moved to Alabama where I spent ten years as a kid, and moved back to California. That's the truncated version.
Roleplay experience: I started roleplaying on the Warrior Cats Forums in like...2010, I think? I also did private Skype rps with my best friend at the time. This lasted for 3-4 years until both fizzled out around the same time. I have some experience doing group nuzlocke rp on the nuzforums, but that also didn't last as long as I'd like. Other than some ttrpgs, I had a dry spell, and in 2019 I joined a Friends at the Table tumblr RP that would change my life. There I met Maddie and some other friends, and while the rp wasn't super active after I joined it, Maddie and I started doing rp ourselves! Finally, in late 2021, Lucius invited Maddie to TOA and I also got the invite and tagged along.
Got any pets?: Yep! Cassie and Oreo, my beloveds! Both cats, Cassie is the one with a hairdo and she's almost 4, Oreo's a year and a half and a tuxy baby.
Favorite time of year: I love when it is nice and cool but not too cold. Fall is my favorite season, personally, but really I especially enjoy not sweating to death.
Some interests and things you like: I'm a huge Pokemon fan, which I'll elaborate on later. Here though I'll say that I have a huge interest in competitive Pokemon, both singles and the official VGC circuit.
I'm a big TTRPG guy! I have a lot of systems and games I like but I'll single out Fall of Magic, Jenna Moran games, the Forged in the Dark system, the Belonging Outside Belonging system, and It's Been A Long Long Time!
I have an interest in speedrunning, I watch a lot of videos about it and it's fun.
I love Discworld, the Terry Pratchett series.
Tales of Vesperia is a game of all time. Yuri Lowell your problems disorders.
Ace Attorney helped mold me as a person.
Warrior cats will forever live in my heart.
Bionicle also helped make me the guy I am today.
999 is a visual novel of all time. Play it and do not look it up.
I actually have a huge interest in media analysis, it's something I really really enjoy talking about and researching.
Splatoon my beloved.
Octopath Traveler 1 and 2!
I love birds and bats and lots of animals!
Okay I'm running out of steam and also this is very long so I'll just stop here but there's definitely things I am forgetting.
Some funfacts & trivia about you:
- I'm a library and women's and gender studies student, and hope to some day work as a librarian! For now, I'm an afterschool program associate, and I love working with the kids.
- I have met Nancy Pelosi while wearing a Pokemon button up.
- I've survived a tornado that started above my house.
- I have finished 34 nuzlockes.
- Marth was one of my first smash mains but I didn't get into Fire Emblem for years.
- I have the cilantro soap gene but I like the taste of soap.
- I'm physically disabled and use a cane irl!
- My girlfriend used to have me blocked on Twitter.
- I've made it to playoffs every single Pokemon draft league I've been in but never made it past semifinals
- I was very isolated as a kid and rarely left the house. As a result, I learned my vocabulary mostly from books, as well as how I talk and emote from books and shows. I've been told I talk and act like a cartoon character, which I suppose is fair!
What non-Fire Emblem games do you play?: I play a bunch of Splatoon, probably one of the main games I play! It's very fun, and I'm a Sploosh/Custom Jr/Tentatek triple threat main who constantly hovers around S. Octopath Traveler 1 and 2 have me grabbed so hard. I am hopelessly a Pokemon guy. I play nuzlockes, casually, and competitively, and I have almost every single Pokemon and its learnset and viable competitive learnsets memorized. I am very normal about it. I also really love the Zero Escape series. I've been playing the warrior cats procgen sim ClanGen recently. I used to play a bunch of No Man's Sky, want to get back into that soon. Honestly I struggle to consistently play and finish games, and I've been trying to work on that.
Favorite Pokemon type & Pokemon: Bug; Flygon. Yes, you can combine these two to get the logical conclusion: Flygon should have been a Bug/Dragon type! It's based off the life cycle of a lacewing!!
How did you get into Fire Emblem?: I've got two stories here, one of how I almost got into Fire Emblem and how it got on my radar, and the other being how I finally got into it for real. So, in 9th grade, I had a crush on a boy who played Awakening at lunch every day. I'd talk with him and he actually offered to buy me Awakening, but I, one of the only poor kids in a rich school, was flabbergasted he would spent 40 dollars on me and felt guilty and was like are you sure? And he was like well okay if you don't want me to. I kind of wish I'd taken him up on the offer because he sucked as a person and his family was super rich but oh well. I then played the hell out of the demo.
Flash forward to 2019. I'm scrolling twitter and see a friend of mine is streaming Fire Emblem Three Houses. I've seen it before, and it seems pretty fun. A lot of my friends like Fire Emblem. I watch the stream and fall in love with the characters and style of the game, and I impulse buy Three Houses. I then tell Maddie and sell them on Three Houses. Thus, it begun...
What Fire Emblem games have you played?: This is a fun and complicated question for me to answer because if you count me backseating Maddie, it's some of fe4, most of fe7, fe8, fe9, fe10, over half of fe13, some fe14, fe15, and fe16. If it's just me, that shrinks down to some fe7 and fe8, some fe9, over half of fe13, some fe15, and some fe16. I was an active participant in watching the games so it feels like a smidgen of playing them but not quite?
First Fire Emblem game: Either the Awakening demo or Three Houses.
Favorite Fire Emblem game: Shadows of Valentia, Sacred Stones, and the Tellius duology. Hard to specify a single favorite, especially depending on what we are defining favorite as.
Any Fire Emblem crushes? 😳 : Where do I begin. I mean Lukas is like, perhaps one of my strongest ones. Though I'm also smitten with Forsyth and attracted to Python despite him being terrible boyfriend material. Recently I have been making eyes at Legault in Blazing Blade, and also playing Fates for the first time had me really surprised at how much Setsuna charmed me. Uhhh lemme think also. Christ Kent your problems disorders bewitch me. Claude you are my everything I will do anything for you. Shamir also if we are talking 3h, what a gal. Ranulf my beloved, he's got things together and he's playful and teasing and just has a great personality. Also Titania...pretty and strong and cool and just a fantastic character who I would not object to kissing on the mouth. I think i might stop here because if I keep going I am going to just take you on a tour of my numerous Fire Emblem crush tastes.
If you’ve played the following games, who was your first S support? Who would you S support nowadays?
- Awakening: Panne; I'd also S support Libra or Say'ri. I need to mention that my first awakening playthrough was in 2020 though so if I'd gotten it in 2013 like I almost did I'd probably have gotten married to like...Libra if I waited that long, Chrom if I messed up and got automarried, or like. Stahl or something bc he's really nice and a knight.
- Fates: I have not S supported anyone in Fates yet but Setsuna and Silas I am Looking.
- Three Houses: I actually never have S supported anyone in Three Houses, as I never actually finished my personal playthrough! However, my big choices are Shamir and Claude, though w the latter I just pretend that's me bc I don't do teacher/student.
- Engage: Not enough experience to say who I might S support. Will get back to you.
Favorite Fire Emblem class: Do laguz/taguel/manakete count. I'm also weak for archers I shan't lie.
If you were a Fire Emblem character, what would be your class?: Oh I know I'd be one of those frail little mages who has explosive firepower and waning physical ability. Honestly being that but on a wyvern would be fun. My good friend my mobility wyvern.
If you were a Three Houses character, what would be your affiliation?: Golden Deer 4ever baybee not even close.
If you were an Engage character, which Emblem would you Engage with?: I'll get back to this, I'm not sure if I have the info I need to make an informed choice. My first thought is that I would love to have Ike chilling with me though, Ike my good friend Ike.
How did you find TOA?: Lucius invited Maddie, and Maddie invited me! I was roleplaying Forsyth with Maddie's Python 1on1 at the time and the idea of a group RP was very appealing to me, despite me being swamped with work and school and health issues at the time. I'm so glad I made the leap!
Current TOA muses: Forsyth and Leanne!
Who was your first TOA muse? If you don’t have them anymore, could you see yourself picking them up again?: Forsyth! I don't see myself dropping him unless his narrative here is done, really.
Have you had any other TOA muses?: Oh Ranulf...I had a very fun time with him, but I just was not in the state to handle three muses and having two muses has been much more manageable, so he's probably not coming back for a while.
Do you think you have a type of character you gravitate towards?: I tend to write very earnest characters, especially in a group RP setting. I've pushed my comfort zone before, but characters who express themselves very openly and intensely are my bread and butter. Characters who wear their hearts on their sleeves, for better or worse.
What do you believe you enjoy writing the most?: Hard to say, but honestly I really enjoy writing relationships, and the ways in which they shift and change over time. I really like character-focused writing the most, emotions and thoughts and such, and exploring the connections between characters! This feels like a silly answer, but it's what I'm feeling!
Favorite TOA-related memory: Oh man this is a hard one. Hard to choose so I'll just pick one that came to mind which is Leanne and Vaida's bizarre adventure in Queen's Compass. What a good event that was, blows a kiss to the sky for Zyra. I'm also a huge fan of everything involving Forsyth's Jugdral meddling and the narrative impact of his deaths in KKE. There are so many funny little experiences and memories that stick with me forever, really.
How do you pronounce TOA? 🤔: Tee-oh-ay! Pronouncing it as a word is the same as Toa from Bionicle and to keep them distinct in my mind I sound it out.
Got any delusions that didn’t see the light of day that you’d like to share? 😉: The world if I could handle three muses...Legault scratching at my door. Ranulf also scratching at my door. Blows a kiss to the guys I would enjoy playing but don't have the time and energy for.
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Hello! I wanted to ask if you could share another snippet of the Shadow Realm from Paper Slips (if you want to) please? I honest to god love your writing, and would love to see some more of it.
Also another question regarding writing, what inspired your style of writing? Or inspired in general.
Aaaah that's a tough question to answer because at this point I don't really know what inspired my 'style'. It's all pretty mashed together from a bunch of different sources.
Probably most of it comes from the fact I've roleplayed p much since I got on the internet, and the past 10 years pretty consistently. There's a lot I've learned and accumulated from my past partners as we've built off one another, and RP is a constant system of getting responses and feedback on what's working, how to take a narrative in a certain way, and how to get a specific response. Nothing really beats writing a reply that you know is going to have your partner going "AAAAAAAAAAAAA" at you.
I can still offer some authors, I think? Richard Adams (Watership Down) has some very, very good metaphorical and descriptive language, particularly in describing memory and senses other than sight. Terry Pratchett (the Discworld novels) has a good, opinionated narrator and a dry sense of humor. Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide) kind of meets in the middle, with a strong narrator and vivid metaphor.
And sure, I'd love to share another snippet! This section was originally from Chapter 8 when Gregory went to the Security Office, but it ended up getting cut in favor of the arcade machine.
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Considering for a moment, he leaves the security office (the door opens, this time), making a beeline for the worktable next to the gutted arcade machine.
The scuffed and dented metal toolbox is heavier than he thought, and it takes some effort to drag it to the edge of the shoulder-high table. Grabbing it by the corners as best he can, he starts easing it off the table and into his arms.
...make that easing it off of the table and directly onto the floor.
Dropping his hands from his ears, he stares at the scattering of tools and parts with resignation. Hopefully no one was close enough to have heard that. At least with most of its contents all over the floor the toolbox is a lot easier to pick up, and he carries it away from the carnage and over to the security door. Once the door opens Gregory sets the toolbox down on its end, right in the threshold. He squints up at the door, adjusting the position of the toolbox a little, then takes a few steps back.
The metal security door comes down on the toolbox with a loud clang! that has Gregory covering his ears again. Something up above the doorframe squeals, gears crunching, and the toolbox scrapes against the black and white tile of the office floor when it twists a little, but ultimately everything stays in place. Satisfied with his solution for a secure escape, Gregory finally enters the security office to start searching for something that can get him to the fire escape.
(gets the employee badge)
There's nothing else in the security office that he needs, so he heads out the door, dragging the toolbox with him and pretending he doesn't notice how the security door doesn't actually close all the way now. He'd had some vague idea of maybe cleaning up all the tools spilled on the floor, but after staring at the scattering of metal and plastic, he just leaves the toolbox sitting next to the workbench instead. That was a problem for someone else to handle.
#fanfic:permissionslip#WIP#The Shadow Realm#thank u for ask!#idk how helpful my answer was 8'D#just read and write a lot and absorb from other people
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Name: Felix
Age: 25
Pronouns: He/Him/It
Languages: English, German
Personal blog: @felixcosm
Other fandoms: WOE.BEGONE, The Magnus Archives, WTNV, Percy Jackson, The Penumbra Podcast, Supernatural, Lucifer, Good Omens, Discworld, Homestuck, etc.
The genius behind the blog, the person who holds all the cards and the leashes on these horrible little fuckers— just kidding, I barely know what’s going on half of the time.
I’ve been roleplaying since ca 2011 and roleplaying on Tumblr since 2015. On the side I write fanfiction, run @incorrectstanleyparablequotes, @fuckyeahthestanleyparable and @the-stanley-parable-roleplay blogs, and the TSP RP Community on Discord.
Feel free to ask for my discord if we're mutuals! I am not very good at messaging back via DMs, but if you have an immediate concern, you can reach me here or on discord
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uncle death. important question. im almost 200 and i dont think ive ever glimpsed you before. why??? shouldnt i be dead by now?????
HELLO, EDDIE.
HAD YOU BEEN HUMAN, PERHAPS. IN HONESTY, I AM NOT SURE WHAT YOU ARE. BUT YOUR HOURGLASS HAS MANY GRAINS LEFT, AND SO YOUR TIME HAS NOT YET COME.
#the fourth horsemen#good omens rp#//yes i am taking things from discworld and applying them to good omens death#//don't worry about it terry wrote both of them shhh
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3, 10, 13 for the mun meme
Mun Questions | Accepting! (Though may not answer quickly)
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3. whose writing has impacted your writing style the most? (you can choose anyone! famous writer or not.)
Honestly I have no idea what has influenced my writing style, and how much of it might be a ‘style’ vs. literally just trying to get down whatever words my brain throws at me in a way that makes sense to me, hah. (Including blatant crutches like focusing on logistics when I don’t have anything more meaningful to say fffff.)
BUT. More seriously — you do! I’ve noticed that my writing style definitely shifts at least a bit depending on who I’m writing with, and what their own style is like. :)
And at least as far as what topics I explore and the kinds of characters I write, I think that Terry Pratchett, Lois McMaster Bujold, and WaywardMartian’s Harbourmaster have all definitely had an impact. Even if my actual writing style isn’t like theirs. 😂
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10. what genre do you most enjoy, whether in roleplay, or fiction as a whole? (fantasy, period, superhero, etc.)
Speculative fiction is what I most enjoy! Both fantasy and sci-fi. Discworld, the Broken Earth, the Vorkosigan Saga, the Humanx Commonwealth, the Murderbot Diaries, and the Mercy Thompson series are a few favorites.
For RP, well, needless to say most of my characters are inherently fantasy or scifi in some way. And even with the ones that aren’t, I’m still happiest to put them in that type of setting. 😂
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13. what themes/motifs do you hope other people notice most about your character?
I’m not sure how much I hope that people notice it, but I do know that one theme that I wind up exploring with the vast majority of my characters is that… none of them are ever Entirely who they intend to be, let alone who they want to be.
But that doesn’t mean that who they ARE doesn’t deserve to find some peace, and it doesn’t mean that who they are isn’t still valued by the people around them (despite the rough edges), and it doesn’t mean that the striving doesn’t make an important difference.
…and on the flip side, it ALSO doesn’t necessarily mean that who they want to be is even reasonable or something that anyone who cared about their wellbeing would ever expect of them, or that the striving taken to extremes can’t also be harmful. As with Ithadel. :’)
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