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Post a Random Thought written Sept 25, 2023 8:00:50 GMT
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i don't get angry when i'm pissed; i'm the eternal optimist.
the turn i went from being unhappy with this specific character for months to being way too enthused and invested in making his narrative satisfying and worth it genuinely needs to be studied. like wtf.



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Explain Characters Badly written Sept 25, 2023 7:57:33 GMT
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- you know diane nguyen from bojack horseman? okay, make her fc marshall lee from fionna and cake
- angry golden retriever with black cat tendencies is too dangerous to be left unattended. also he's the quasi-hero portrayal to the above's quasi-villain portrayal.



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out of context written Sept 25, 2023 1:36:55 GMT
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spoiler warning theres a lot, but a bunch of personal favorites from my gc with my closest rp/tabletop friends, most are recent

















not recent, but an old one and still a good one



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what is/are your irl character development/s? written Sept 24, 2023 13:28:27 GMT
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i don't get angry when i'm pissed; i'm the eternal optimist.
tragically, i went from being extremely critical of and anti-capitalism (ask anyone who knows me) to… working in an accelerated training program for a large international media advertising agency that intends to equip me with the skills to become a business executive in two years time. rlly screams “you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain” tbh

on the flip side, though, i’ve gone from sleeping at 6-10am regularly to sleeping at 1am at latest and that’s, like, wild to me.
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Sites You Want To See written Sept 22, 2023 5:51:58 GMT
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urban fantasy but, like, for mythology instead of the supernatural. stray gods, the wicked + the divine, american gods, that kind of stuff. gods in the modern age, reincarnating spirits of immortals, so on and so forth. 



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Survey for Modern Superpowers written Sept 20, 2023 23:45:33 GMT
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What specifically do you really want to see in a superpowers site?
Echoing a lot of what other people said: it being integrated in every day life, semi-grounded in realism. Street rat level heroes and vigilantes, corporate heroes, that kind of deal. Superheroes being common enough that people know the big ones and idolize them, but being one is a lot more complicated. The Boys would be so good.

What specifically do you want to see avoided?
Intensive stat systems mainly. Also boosting what everyone else said of abilities that are too over-the-top and powerful without sense or drawbacks; nothing present day MCU. Keep it semi-grounded.

What media makes you interested in the super heroes/villains genre? (e.g. Marvel)
I consumed far too much superhero media growing up, from Marvel and DC, up to The Boys. Planning on getting into Invincible soon too.

What are your thoughts on power-scaling in modern-day role play? (i.e. "I want a structured system," "I want ample room for creative powers," etc.)
Definitely would want a compromise / middle ground between the two extremes. I think some structure would be leagues helpful in maintaining things like powerbalancing, while also giving people enoigh limitations to really come up with creative workarounds for ideas they want. But keep it flexible! Leave some room for openness and creativity. 



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Favorite Line from your Last Post written Sept 20, 2023 16:59:24 GMT
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its that season again yall (annual pjo au brainrot season)

A lifetime ago is an incline of enough months to nearly make up a year, and Laura Prince's mark in Camp Half-Blood's legacy is best known as the daughter of war who'd bled for the son of Zeus' victory. A quest is a quest, and prophecy is prophecy, and when a goddess herself offers you her hand with a promise—
Her last quest's prophecy said the daughter of war's life would end. In a sense, Laura supposes it had. The Greeks always had an ironic taste for determinism.

Be nice to the divas, Cas says, and Thian thinks he'd sooner prefer getting stabbed by Celestial Bronze.


editing so as not to double post, but i do miss saying stupid shit in prose. the direction of this thread is so dumb in the best kind of way

He does not, in fact, know how to drive a pegasus. But Thian's used skateboards before landing on the doorstep of Camp Half-Blood so, theoretically, it can't be that bad.


edit again to not double post, but whew it's been awhile since i've written anything like this:

"You change like the seasons though." Dionysius has seen many lifetimes from many idols and, as is his nature, been to all the parties he could of the goddess before him. He's seen her in her different forms: all beautiful, all tragic. And then there's this one, and it's been awhile since he'd noticed there were no parties he'd have to visit for years. "You come and you go, and everyone still accepts all your invitations, as if the ending would be any different. You'll shine like starlight then disappear in the morning, and the last thing the rest of us can say about it is what a goddamn sight that was."
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Post a Random Thought written Sept 19, 2023 13:42:13 GMT
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can men who give terminally online, manchild, or incel energy please stop trying to ask me out or get me to fix them i swear this is the nth time this has happened, my ghosting skills are tired



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Post a Random Thought written Sept 18, 2023 12:10:36 GMT
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started using a habit tracker, workout calendar, budgeting app, a mental health tracker, and sleeping before 1am. and damn, adults were right. these do help exponentially with my personal well-being. smh.



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Favorite Line from your Last Post written Sept 18, 2023 1:33:27 GMT
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Colette Watanabe has learned many things in the span of a single year.

How monsters exist in the most literal of definitions, how to shoot a crossbow straight ahead and never miss the mark, how to make a man scream for mercy when you wrap your fingers around his throat, how to flee a crime scene and wear a mask right before you’d ever get caught, how a vampire begs for a quicker kind of death when you leave him to burn at the rise of heaven’s dawn—

That last part is the relevant lesson for last night, all until this morning. At the crack of 6am, the corpse of a vampire whose name she no longer remembers, melts until its last speck of sludge. Her only complaint is that some of the black’s buried under her fingernails.




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Post a Random Thought written Sept 16, 2023 13:30:03 GMT
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the mom of one of my closest rl friends just told me about how much my rl friend loves and cares for me and the small amount of people in our mutual friend group, so much so that my rl friend told her "if i died today, these are the people i want to be with". and idk, maybe i'm just tipsy, but hearing that after a particularly rough emotional day for me just... rlly made me feel a certain kind of way. warm and full of love, in the kind of way poets only write about. dang.

update: rl friend did her going away speech and said that she firmly believes the quote “friends are the family you find for yourself” applies to her relationship with us, and if a bitch wasn’t already crying after her talk w the mom, she certainly is now. genuinely still in awe about how lucky i am with the friend groups i have.
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Favorite Line from your Last Post written Sept 16, 2023 12:49:15 GMT
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perpetually in a love-hate relationship with my writing, but i did like these passages from my past posts


In truth, Thian thinks he's just wading through life and doesn't have the heart to take the step out of a beaten down path. And it's quieter this way, it's a hell of a lot lonelier, but where else do matters like relationships, people, history, lifetimes go for people who don't have much of a good track record in the department? It's dying slow. Grief is ugly, and bitter, and it tastes like tequila left on the rack for too damn long. People come, people go. Things don't last. ( Thian is always fucking grieving and he's never gotten proof that he'll find a reason to stop. )

Christ, he hates growing older.

At least Kai is trying to make him feel better. He thinks.


She follows.

She follows because she's a good damn cop, and she's a fuck up who needs someone to hold the map forward, and Lukas Adelstierna — tin man with a quiet disposition, takes his orders seriously, lives and breathes work ( Ryl doesn't think she's ever seen him crack a lip twitch of a smile ) — is the kind of navigator that never strays from the charted course. She follows because, end of the day, someone needs help, and who better to answer that call than people whose line of duty involves putting yourself forward in any firefight?



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Roleplaying Quirks written Sept 16, 2023 9:07:44 GMT
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+ em-dashes — so many em-dashes
+ repetition, repetition, repetition. it's something i think i picked up from writing a lot of poetry for a few years
+ googling synonyms of longer words i've used in the same post. searching for variety, baby
+ italics oh my god i use so much italics
+ sometimes i pre-write quotes, dialogue, or sentences i'd want my characters to say / think / act out later down the line, even if there's no tthread, interaction, scene, etc. that can lead to it yet. i keep it pocketed for the Right Time(TM)
+ spaces between the parenthesis, with italics ( like so )
+ just a,,,, hilarious lot of directing language / tricks translated into writing LOL. i blame dm-ing and scriptwriting



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