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time to play the "is this a cool web design moment or is it graphic design is my passion" game

You’re so real for this 💀

question: What’s the strangest fact you know? Or the most recent one, if you cannot decide

tough question, when your brain is a cesspool of negativity and half garbled wikipedia articles. uhhh did you know that stalin used to sign official documents often in red colored crayon?
 
my question is: if you could fight any fictional character, who would it be and why?

I took Friday off for a mental health day and I’m so excited.

Being a metalhead is always embarrassing bc how are you supposed to say, “oh yeah I like this band named scalp” and have it be one of the most normal names on your playlist

There are a lot of things that make a good rp character, imo. Personally if I’m reading an app, I’m always going to read the freeform section and/or history section. I think it’s very easy to spot a character that has had time and effort put into it by how well written those sections are. I always read the apps of whomever I’m writing with, and I assume everyone does the same? I dunno.

but you can always tell when someone didn’t spend a lot of time writing an app. I’m not saying every character app you write needs to be an essay by any means; but i should be able to understand your character at least half as well as you do from the app. If I walk away from reading an application with little idea of what a character is like, I feel like you’ve objectively failed the point of the app.

A good rp character should be dynamic, and have notable flaws and strengths. I should be able to tell you what those flaws and strengths are, and not come up empty. As someone who writes almost exclusively “bad guys” or morally dubious at best, I find the balance of strengths and weaknesses to be even more important. Writing evil characters or characters with few positive traits is hard, but that is the sign of a competent writer. The same can be said for “good” characters as well, just in reverse. I think “good” characters often get the short end of the stick, as it can be really challenging to write someone with few instantly recognizably “bad” traits without coming off as being a Mary Sue. 

Neko always bullies me bc I have a habit of using all of the notable characters from the same animanga, dogs: bullets and carnage. I just think the art is stunning. So I use dogs: bullets and carnage faces a lot. But in general I definitely lean more towards older characters, and I wish we had more options for middle aged characters who actually look middle aged. 

i also used to be one of those rpers who couldn’t write women to save my life; and I think you’re on to something steam users born in jan. I struggled a lot with internalized misogyny, and it definitely bled over into my writing. While I have no problems with writing women now, I definitely tend to lean towards male characters; as I have a habit of adopting people’s shitty dads for plots. But for fcs I tend to go for overall, I have this unfortunate habit of picking obscure/less popular fcs largely bc I tend to skew towards older, male characters over all. some of my favorites are Mihai Mihaeroff, Angelika Einsturzen, Badou Nails, Magato Fuyumine and Giovanni Rammsteiner from Dogs: Bullets and Carnage, Reaper/Gabriel Reyes from Overwatch, Coyote Starrk from Bleach, Kishibe from CSM, Hohenheim from FMA, Nicolas Brown from Gangsta and so on.

I firmly believe a lot of it has to do with their age and the lack of art for some of them- especially for fcs like Kishibe. Personally I can’t understand how a popular character from a popular anime series has such limited art (especially with him being depicted as older. I see a lot more art for him when he was a younger man and I want to scream). If they were younger I can almost guarantee that they would have more art. And I understand that they’re not always the main character, but I feel like that isn’t as much of a problem as it is that they’re just physically older. 

people want me to always play their shitty dads but do we have art for them? Not nearly enough as I’d like tbh. 

I’m literally never going to be done with college

classic zombie apocalypse

so they arrested someone for the murder of tupac shakur this weekend

I changed my mind again about my academic future. I think it should be required that people work for awhile before college, bc I feel like I’ve wasted so much time and money trying to figure out what I want to do for realsies, it would at least save money lmao