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neil-neil-orange-peel · 17 days

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TYO Essay

A while back, I mentioned I wrote an essay for my previous uni course where I used TYO as a source to look at the early 1980s. @a-a-a-anon expressed an interest in reading it, so here ya go! The quality of it is seriously iffy (I was 18/19 when I wrote it and had no idea how to actually write or reference academic essays yet, and just the quality of the writing makes me cringe a bit). There was also more I wanted to say but couldn't due to the word limit (don't remember what these other things were now). Despite all that, the lecturer liked it, and it was cool I got to write about TYO for uni.

The Young Ones as a Cultural Source for Early 1980s Britain

Although today in Britain the future often feels uncertain – the global pandemic notwithstanding, Brexit is still looming on the horizon – the Britons of 40 years ago doubtlessly felt similarly, albeit for different reasons. In the early 1980s, the threat of nuclear war was palpable, as the existence of Protect and Survive[1] attests to. Nuclear war paranoia influenced British culture in the 1980s, with bleak examples such as the BBC film Threads (1984) and Raymond Briggs’ When the Wind Blows (1986) still remembered keenly today. Both fictionalisations of nuclear war featured material from Protect and Survive and highlighted the message of contemporary nuclear disarmament protestors: no one can win a nuclear war. Of the less apocalyptic issues, unemployment hit 3 million (about 11.7%[2]) in 1983 – for comparison, in 2019 it was estimated to be at 1.281 million (about 3.6%[3]). The Thatcher administrations’ efforts to break from the post-war consensus and embrace neo-liberalism created divisions in society. Yet, amidst threats of nuclear war, mass unemployment, the decline of British industry and the growth of individualism, a cultural revolution in comedy dubbed “alternative comedy” was fast taking hold in Britain – and in much the same way Thatcherism’s impacts can still be felt on society today, so too can alternative comedy’s.

Running for 2 series (12 episodes in total) on BBC2 between 1982-84, anarchic and slightly surreal sitcom The Young Ones epitomised the break between older styles of comedy and the new wave. Although The Young Ones has been called ground-breaking and classic, it is also now regarded as somewhat dated for its jokes pertaining to current events. Therefore, its scripts are an interesting source for an insight into the time in which it was produced and based: early 1980s Britain.

Firstly, it is important to understand what The Young Ones actually was. Written by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall and Lise Mayer[4] and with additional material provided by Alexei Sayle, it followed the misadventures of four vastly different university students at the fictional Scumbag College in North London. Whilst the four were never seen doing anything remotely akin to studying, it aimed at being representative of university life, students and the squalor they lived in. The show was not a conventional sitcom in that it did not pertain to a family and it featured a musical act in every episode so that it could be classified as “light entertainment”, as the BBC had no further budget available for sitcoms at the time. Because many of its principal actors came from the stand-up comedy circuit, there was an emphasis on excitement and unpredictability over discernible plots and many memorable scenes featured characters injuring themselves and others, destroying bits of the set and crashing through walls, as well as randomly interspersed and unrelated cutaway gag segments. There was a cartoonish level of slapstick violence, swearing and toilet humour, which appear milder to today’s palate than 40 years ago.

British audiences were divided by The Young Ones mostly along age lines, with younger viewers engaging readily with this new style of comedy and older viewers seeing it as unnecessarily vulgar and silly. Indeed, the characters that had been transplanted from their actors’ stand-up routines were deliberately disgusting, exaggerated caricatures and horrible to one another. Mayall himself played wannabe lefty anarchist Rick, who frequently came to rather explosive blows with the violent punk medical student, Vyvyan (played by Mayall’s comedy partner, Adrian Edmondson). Also featured was badly done to, depressed hippie Neil (played by Nigel Planer) and the mysterious leader and straight man of the group, Mike The Cool Person (played by Christopher Ryan, the only one of the core cast without a comedy background). Sayle too appeared in every episode as either their hated landlord Balowski or a member of his family, where he would deliver a short stand-up monologue to the camera. The show’s title (and opening theme) was derived from the Cliff Richard song of the same name, as Mayall’s character was a huge fan.

The Young Ones took on the issues of its day, perhaps none more so than the episode “Bomb”. “Bomb” uses dark humour to address fears over nuclear war by having an atom bomb land in the characters’ kitchen at the start of the episode. Even before the characters deal with the unexploded bomb, the script is already hinting at the theme of nuclear war in this cutaway gag sequence, featuring a family on a packet of cereal:

FATHER: Would you two shut up and keep smiling? We’re supposed to be the ideal nuclear family!

GIRL: Post-nuclear, more like!

Not only was this segment ridiculing the “ideal nuclear family” that was promoted by the Thatcher governments – none of the characters posing as a family get along at all and the “father” reveals himself to be gay, thus exposing the lie that there is truly an “ideal” family – it also managed to slip in a quick gag about nuclear war. This reflected a genuine belief by many at the time that nuclear war was coming, especially amongst the young.[5]

When the main characters finally become aware of the bomb in their kitchen, the script offers this response:

NEIL: I’m going upstairs to get the incredibly helpful and informative “Protect and Survive” manual! Nobody better touch this while I’m gone!

This reference to the Protect and Survive manual, which at the time and retrospectively has been regarded as useless in the event of an actual nuclear attack, appears for the purpose of ridiculing it. Having the character of Neil act as though the manual could help deal with something as serious as an atom bomb in the kitchen employs sarcasm as a critical tool. Protect and Survive featured suggestions such as painting the windows of the house white in order to deflect the heat from a blast, which The Young Ones also satirised:

RICK: Neil, can you lend me five- What are you doing?

[NEIL is reading his survival manual while painting himself white with a paintbrush]

NEIL: Oh, painting myself white to deflect the blast.

RICK: That’s great, isn’t it? Racial discrimination, even in death! What are these? [indicates a few lunchbags on the table]

NEIL: Sandbags!

The misinterpretation of the manual’s instructions, as well as the substitution of items deemed vital for items found in the house, reflects the feeling that most British households were simply unprepared for a nuclear attack and stood very little chance of survival. This is compounded later in the episode, when the four main characters resort to hiding underneath the kitchen table as a means of escaping the blast of the bomb – something many had resorted to in air raids during WWII but which was drastically inadequate protection against an atom bomb. This episode also portrayed the nihilism in British culture over nuclear war – a nihilism that can be found in other cultural sources, such as The Smiths song “Ask”[6] – through the character of Vyvyan, who spends much of the episode attempting to set the bomb off.

This show being the work of alternative comedians, The Young Ones also utilised its anarchic tone to critique the Thatcher administration of the time. This was usually done through the character of Rick, who blamed Margaret Thatcher for most problems faced by the group. Though his character existed to satirise upper-class closet conservatives as well as overzealous student activists, he was something of a mouthpiece for the left-wing writers. Some of his more memorable outbursts include:

RICK: We haven’t got any money! Vyvyan’s baby will be a pauper! Oliver Twist! Jeffrey Dickens! Back to Victorian values! [directly to camera, angrily] I hope you’re satisfied, Thatcher!

RICK: Neil! The bathroom’s free! Unlike the country under the Thatcherite junta!

Other characters were used to critique the government too:

RICK: School’s out forever! Yeah, come on everyone! Let all your hairs hang out! Do whatever you want!

MIKE: What’s all the excitement, Rick? Has education finally been cut altogether? That’s the only reason I voted Tory.

The first of these is a reference to the 1983 interview in which Thatcher endorsed a return to “Victorian values”. That is, a rolling back of the state to unburden the individual and set them free to prosper, should they put the effort in. This New Right attitude, combined with the high unemployment figures from that year, created the view that Thatcherism was about looking out for “number one”. This wasn’t aided by Employment Secretary Norman Tebbit’s “Get On Your Bike” speech at the Conservative Party Conference in 1981. The Young Ones captured the mood of particularly the youth in such a climate – one in which many felt misunderstood and patronised – in a cutaway segment featuring the fictional TV programme Nozin’ Aroun’:

BAZ: Rol! A lot of my mates say to me, “Oh Baz, what is the point?” What would you say to them?

ROLAND: Well surely, Baz, your mates must realise that there definitely is a point!

BAZ: So a real message of hope and good cheer there – from Roland, a really ace guy!

To summarise; just as is the case today, early 1980s Britons were facing uncertainty. This was especially the case for anyone working in manufacturing industries, as the unsuccess of the Miners’ Strike of 1984 signified a wider trend in British industry. The government’s overarching aim of turning society away from one in which a “nanny state” risked making people idle to one where everyone was free to accumulate wealth that would trickle down to the less well off was never going to be a smooth period to live through. The last tremors of the Cold War didn’t help make the period more bearable. Yet, it is often harder or uncertain times where laughter becomes more valuable to people and The Young Ones – though not to everyone’s political or cultural tastes – undeniably provided some release for younger generations. To call it an entirely accurate depiction of early 1980s Britain would be to forget that its primary purpose was amusement. Nevertheless, it does provide a colourful insight and one that is remembered with fondness by those who grew up watching it, even today.

[1] Protect and Survive was a series of government issued pamphlets, public information films and radio broadcasts produced in the late 1970s/early 1980s, to be distributed 72 hours before a nuclear attack was expected. Public interest meant they were released in 1980.

[2] https://countryeconomy.com/unemployment/uk?dr=1983-12, December 1983

[3] Office for National Statistics, December 2019

[4] All of whom are alumni of the University of Manchester.

[5] After speaking to some adults who were young during this period, Mr Smith revealed how (aged 11 in 1983) he told his class: “I want to be there when the bomb drops. I want to be right next to it so I’m disintegrated and don’t know anything about it.” Additionally, he was under the impression that a bomb would likely be dropped on Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester.

[6] “If it’s not love / Then it’s the bomb / Then it’s the bomb that will bring us together” – S. Morrissey & J. Marr, “Ask”, The World Won’t Listen, 1987

Bibliography:

Sources:

B. Elton, R. Mayall & L. Mayer, “Demolition”, The Young Ones, BBC2, 1982

B. Elton, R. Mayall & L. Mayer, “Bomb”, The Young Ones, BBC2, 1982

B. Elton, R. Mayall & L. Mayer, “Cash”, The Young Ones, BBC2, 1984

B. Elton, R. Mayall & L. Mayer, “Nasty”, The Young Ones, BBC2, 1984

B. Elton, R. Mayall & L. Mayer, “Summer Holiday”, The Young Ones, BBC2, 1984

Central Office of Information, Protect and Survive, Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1980 Transcript of Brian Walden interview with Margaret Thatcher for BBC, 1983: https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105087

#the young ones #tyo #essays #1980s #cold war #thatcherism

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postpunkpontypandyphantomthief · 7 months

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Happy Anniversary to The Young Ones!

The sitcom that changed British comedy (and my gender) where the fan community resulted in me meeting most of you

resulting in numerous fanfics, fanart and a fan-zine.

To British Comedy, this show paved the way for the themes to be more alternative and anti-establishment, to skyrocket the careers of Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson and Nigel Planer.

Some characters can be read as queer-coded, becoming one of the big queer fan communities tied to British pop culture alongside Doctor Who and Sherlock.

Yet compared to them, tyo was niche, just like how it was in the realm of British television, there was no nuclear family unless you see the lads as the "found family" trope, just a bunch of chaotic unlikeable uni students causing havoc while having musicians play, the variety show style layout resulting in later shows like Family Guy using cutaway gags.

To Me, The Young Ones made me rediscover and re-evaluate myself, as I mocked characters like Rick for their weird behaviour I noticed some of those traits in myself, making the character help in making me adjust better socially while accepting the "good traits" I still share with him like our interest for 80s pop music and lefty activism.

Rick was what changed the trajectory of my gender, my vibe and my belief system, having been centrist in my teens, watching this show encouraged me to learn the historical context of 1980s Britain to see the horrible situations Thatcher put people through and noticing the parallels in my own generation with Teresa May and Liz Truss.

Vyvyan was also an awakening, I ended up befriending my pal @thrillbroswaggins due to this series and we connected over it

then via them, I found an amazing discord community of britcom fans all across the world, @scumbaganarchy , @shotsofnovacaine, @1863-project @st4r-sh1ne amongst many many others.

Through this series, I started learning more about Rik Mayall as an actor and his other work, I resonated a lot with some of his characters, resulting in loads of poetry and headcanons.

and on the Twitter side of the Britcom fandom sphere I met one of my best mates Holly, both being Performing Arts students at the time and still buddies 5 years later.

British Comedy is still something I'm incredibly passionate about and while I try to balance it with my other fixations, it holds a special place in my heart and continues to influence my creative projects

(such as my Rick Bratt drag routine for Cait's Laughathon for Eric Idle last year)

heres to TYO, for making comedy cool and punk, for making me figure out gender and for resulting in me meeting some of my best pals from around the world

you're all ruddy amazing!

#the young ones #tyo #happy 41st

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ohfallingdisco · 1 year

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Mike and Phoebe Cates parallels in Drop Dead Fred

I was looking into actors name-dropped in Stranger Things, as one does, and I came across one name mentioned over and over again. You have your Season 1 Farrah Fawcetts, your Season 4 Weird Al’s, and then Phoebe Cates—who gets named so much throughout Season 3 that an incredible amount of sites did full reviews on the “80’s It Girl” in the wake of its release.

She’s also the actress whose cutout appears in Family Video in Season 4, and the actress featured in at 53 minutes, 5 seconds of Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

This isn’t a full analysis, but it’s some stuff I thought was interesting about a different movie of hers.

And that’s my point: Phoebe Cates also stars in another cult-classic movie. One with a particularly significant title, I’d say.

It’s called Drop Dead Fred. Ha…

The movie’s synopsis, according to Wikipedia, goes like this: An unhappy housewife (Phoebe Cates) gets a lift from the return of her imaginary childhood friend, Drop Dead Fred (Rik Mayall).

None of these are my gifs (I couldn’t find sources, please message me and I’ll credit or remove if they’re yours), but aren’t these lines interesting:

You see it, right?

There’s also some interesting visual parallels:

But, the most damning evidence of all…

It’s also funny/worth mentioning how disgusted Mike looks when Dustin calls her “hot”:

There’s also this cute parallel between Phoebe Cates and Suzie in the ST3 finale:

Factor in that Mike literally went to her house in Season 4, and, well…

Leaving that here, I’m signing off lol. Season 5 is going to be interesting.

#stranger things analysis #stranger things parallels #mike wheeler #phoebe cates #mike gets vecna'd #drop dead fred #stranger things 4 #stranger things 5 #st analysis

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brookstonalmanac · 3 months

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Birthdays 3.7

Beer Birthdays

Conrad Pfeiffer (1854)

Sean Burke (Commons Brewery)

Chad Kennedy (Laurelwood; Worthy Brewing)

Christian Weber (Common Roots Brewing; 1986)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Luther Burbank; botanist (1849)

Rik Mayall; actor, comedian (1958)

Piet Mondrian; artist (1872)

Henry Purcell; composer (1659)

Townes Van Zandt; singer, songwriter (1944)

Famous Birthdays

Kōbō Abe; Japanese poet, writer (1924)

Milton Avery; artist (1893)

Tammy Faye Bakker; televangelist (1942)

Mahlon Clark; clarinetist (1923)

Bryan Cranston; actor (1956)

Henry Draper; astronomer (1837)

Jenna Fischer; actor (1974)

Janet Guthrie; auto racer (1938)

Franco Harris; Pittsburgh Steelers RB (1950)

John Heard; actor (1945)

John Herschel; mathematician (1792)

Stephen Hopkins; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1707)

Brandon T. Jackson; actor (1984)

Edwin Landseer; artist (1802)

Ivan Lendl; tennis player (1960)

Rob Roy MacGregor; Scottish folk hero (1671)

Laura Prepon; actor (1980)

Paul Preuss; sci-fi writer (1942)

Maurice Ravel; composer (1875)

Peter Sarsgaard; actor (1971)

Willard Scott; television weatherman (1934)

Lynn Swann; Pittsburgh Steelers WR (1952)

Wanda Sykes; comedian (1964)

Daniel J. Travanti; actor (1940)

Rachel Weisz; actor (1970)

Chris White; rock bassist (1943)

Peter Wolf; rock singer (1946)

Lee Young; jazz drummer (1917)

#Birthdays

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greenbirdtrash · 9 months

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I was wondering if you were aware of British comedy actor Rik Mayall’s audio performance of The Lorax.

I wasn't, but i had to google that and it's actually very good!

Thanks!

#kers ramblings

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captainfreelance1 · 8 months

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DeviantArt Description- Alan B'Stard

'Alan Beresford B'Stard MP was created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, but He was brought to live by actor and comedian Rik Mayall in the British ITV sitcom The New Statesman. He was a mainly satire of several Tory Politicians of the time, B'Stard served as both a member of British Parliament and later European Parliament.

Alan's list of crimes include no particular order but are not limit too.

Maiming and Murdering his opponents.

Blackmailing and Bribing several Colleagues

Dumping Radioactive Waste under a primary school.

Various lewd and immoral sexual escapades.

Also the brutal torture of an innocent Teddy Bear.

Just name a few his crimes it's safe to say B'Stard was far more evil then several politicians at that time ever thought of being, Marks, Gran and Mayall would revisit their creations years later in a 2007 Stage play. We would find that Alan had crossed the floor joining the Labour Party and had been secretly pulling the strings of the then current cabinet. Alan B'Stard would finally pass away in 2014 a fate that would coincide with the death of his actor Rik Mayall. Sadly both Comedically and somewhat Chillingly the character is more relevant now then when he was first created, as many politicians across world can calm to be the real life B'Stard.'

#The New Statesman #Alan B'Stard #Rik Mayall #Laurence Marks #Maurice Gran #ITV #Yorkshire Television #British Comedies #British TV #1980s #1990s #Traiditional Art #Colour Pencils #Color Pencils #Colored Penciled Drawing #Britbox

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thealmightyemprex · 1 year

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Good Vibes Challange :The Wind in the Willows

@ariel-seagull-wings @amalthea9 @princesssarisa @angelixgutz @the-blue-fairie @themousefromfantasyland @goodanswerfoxmonster @filmcityworld1

Recommended by @the-blue-fairie ,I knew I had to watch this

So I never read the book,but I have seen several adaptations of the story .My first exposure was the 1949 Disney film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad ,which has a short Toad centric tellling of the tale , but what hooked me on the story is the 2017 Musical version ,which is probabbly a contender for my favorite,and I quite enjoyed the 1985 Rankin/Bass version (EVen if I found Charles Nelson Reiley to be an odd choice for Toad ).I have grown very fond of this story (I'll go into why later ) and am always up to see a diffrent adaptation(I actually was going to watch this adaptation before but stuff got in the way and I forgot to finish it )

This 1995 film, isnt REALLLY a story its basically a bunch of scenerios connected by the characters .There is somewhat of a plot of Mole (Alan Benett),Ratty (Michael Palin ) and Badger (Michael Gambon ) trying to deal with the thrill seeking and egocentric Toad ( Rik Mayall ) who is obsessed with motor cars which gets him into a lot of trouble

I think the reason I love this movie and this story in general is it is just so CHILL ,your just hanging out with these lovable characters . The heart of the film really is the relationship between Ratty and Mole ,they have a very lovely relationship even when they bicker ,you can tell the care deeply for eachother ,my favorite scene being when Mole convinces Ratty to satay when he has the urge to travel and when they find Moles old home he abandoned to live with Ratty ,and Ratty is just complimenting the place the entire time when Mole is somewhat embarrassed ....I also dug the scene where Ratty and Mole met the God Pan,that was wild

Of course the comedic highlight is Toad ,I'll go into the voice work later ,but everything from the writing ,to the performance to the expressive animation make him such a funny character.He is the one character with NO chill and this might be my favorite take on Toad

The Animatiojn is beautiful,for a TV movie ,the production values are gorgeous,this is one of the prettiest animated films I think I have seen

This also hasthe best cast I have seen for this property I think these might be the definitive voices for me,being mostly comprised of great British talent .Of the main cast the one I am least familiar with is Alan Bennett as Mole (He seems to mostly be a writer ) but he gave a nice cheeryness to Mole.Michael Gambon is PERFECT as the grumpy Badger,and I actually had a tough ime recognizing him as he seemed to be putting on a gruffer voice but it so worked for the character .Michael Palin did such a fabulous job as Ratty ,you feel his love for his River ,his frustration with Toad ,and his friendship with Mole.Vanessa Redgrave does a marvelous job narrating ,and I like the wraparounds of her being a grandmother reading to her grandkids,just added to the cozy feel.Then we have Rik Mayall as Toad.Now Rik Mayall is a hit and miss performer for me ,sometimes I love him sometimes he annoys me ,and thankfully,,,,,This is one of his BEST performances,cause his abrasive style and obnoxiousness is PERFECT for Toad,like this is a perfect melding of actor and character akin to Gilbert Gottfried as Iago in Aladdin ,and Mayall is hilarious,sounds like he is having fun and is by far the BEST TOAD IVE SEEN .Honestly with these performances I forgot there were actors and just accepted them as these characters

I only have one gripe,and its I wish the finale where the gang fight off Weasals was longer and set up better (I like when the Weasals play a bigger role like in the musical )

Overalll.....Man this was good vibes.Just an enjoyable relaxing watch

#wind in the willows

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spinda-draws · 10 months

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Do you have voice-related heacanons?

Er… I’m not sure how to answer since everyone on the show already has a voice but I’ll give it a shot and you can tell me if you meant something else.

Motherboard

Originally sounded like Ada Lovelace since it was the first voice she ever heard, but has since collected more voices and created one of her own.

Has a trans-Atlantic accent like old American movie stars.

A lot of weird stuff happens when she has the virus. She has a huge bank of voices inside her and sometimes she’ll accidentally open their files when she tries to speak and sounds completely different. When her language servers completely break she’ll just make the most horrendous 90s computer sound effects in protest.

When she’s bored and everyone forgets to put her in sleep mode she’ll just sing oldies from the early 20th century and keep everyone up.

Marbles

Has a proper British accent (the canon accent sounds fake but we’ll pretend it doesn’t).

Doesn’t mind Motherboard’s singing and will let her sing all night. Sometimes sings with her while falling asleep.

If this show had more room for celebrity actors, I would ask to consider Douglas Chamberlain (who is also Canadian btw). His performance as "a Modern Major-General" is the best out of all the versions I've seen.

Hacker

Was created with a voice that had a trans-Atlantic accent. Eventually intentionally dropped this in favor of a more flexible way of speaking with colloquial terms.

Has a kind of wheezy evil laugh like a dolphin but his genuine laugh is much lighter and giddy. He subconsciously puts a hand near his mouth when he does this to block it out.

Always goes an octave deeper when trying to sing because he’s imitating Elvis.

Judge Trudy finds his mock western drawl offense but he doesn’t care.

Can’t stand Motherboard’s singing and wants to die at night. Why won't anyone turn her off?!

Digit

Loves singing with Motherboard. Really everyone does except Hacker.

Learned to imitate action movie stars to entertain Hacker. Hacker's favorites were Clint Eastwood, John Wayne and Harrison Ford. Also sometimes did Christopher Walken as a curve ball.

Motherboard sometimes asks him to do Humphrey Bogart.

OCs

The Wiz sounds like an evil Gopher from Winnie the Pooh (this clip made me realize that Owl would also be a great Dr. Marbles).

Isosceles Jones sounds like Rik Mayall on Blackadder (video is kind of inappropriate, lol).

The Conductor sounds like... the best I can come up with right now is Alastor from Hazbin Hotel, but that's honestly just because of the radio filter over his voice. Not sure how I picture the voice itself yet.

Rory is John Wayne.

#ask replies #cyberchase #//please feed spinda more asks #//she is hungry and has so much to share

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cfgcdsandmcnsters · 11 months

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𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐍.

== BASICS

NAME : Lila

PRONOUNS : I’m a girl

ZODIAC SIGN : Leo

TAKEN OR SINGLE : Unfortunately married

== THREE FACTS

I've done musical theater for half of my life.

I attended Full Sail University, and during my enrollment I was a part of Spark and was able to intern for NXT and a bunch of other projects.

I’m indigenous and don't celebrate the holiday that took place yesterday. I do however celebrate my niece's birthday that was yesterday, and got really badly sunburnt.

== EXPERIENCE

PLATFORMS USED : tumblr. I dabbled in discord for a little bit, but I don't care for it as much, and I'm massively picky with who I actually give my discord to. (I also keep forgetting that I HAVE discord and keep forgetting to check it.)

PLOTTING / WINGING IT / MEMES : Memes are a really great way to start something for me, unless its a plot. I feel like I'm not too good at plotting without a dynamic set up to start. I like starting things off naturally and just seeing how muses react, and I tend to "plot as we go".

== MUSE PREFERENCE

GENDER : I definitely have a tendency to write more female characters over male (just look at this blog), but I do write male characters too.

MULTI OR SINGLE : It genuinely doesn't matter. I have multiple blogs, this one and a bunch of single muse blogs.

LEAST FAVOURITE FACECLAIM(S) : People that are known to be massively problematic and abusive. I get kinda uncomfy with dead FCs, though if its a specific character that they've played (like David Bowie as Jareth, Rik Mayall as Drop Dead Fred, Brandon Lee as Eric Draven, etc) I tend to overlook it because it can be hard to recast such iconic roles for the sake of a hobby. I myself have been wanting to add The Warlock all year, but have held off out of respect to the loss of Julian Sands (one of my favorite actors, to the point I almost named my son after him.) But using someone deceased on an OC feels weird to me.

== FLUFF / ANGST / SMUT

FLUFF: Fluff is fantastic! Sometimes its definitely NEEDED. If I've been feeling bad, or if I've been writing A LOT of angst, fluff can help ground my emotions again.

ANGST: I enjoy angst so much.

SMUT: I only write smut with people I absolutely trust and talk to OOC. I don't care if someone says "I'm 50, let's write smut!" if I don't feel comfortable with you, or we've barely talked/interacted, it's not going to happen.

tagged by: my darling @lettherebemonsters <3 tagging: anyone that wants to do it

#ooc #dash games

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