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andre-the-axolotl · 1 year

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a rant on making atla headcannons/fics/literally anything else believable, even though translation convention is a thing (aka, a crash course on the chinese language + some background about how atla was modeled after the existing cultures)

we all know atla is set in east asia(ish) right?

if not, you know now. but it's set in east asia, the different nations more or less correspond to different nations/ethnic groups that exist today. loosely, the fire nation is similar to imperial japan, the earth kingdom is based off of imperial china, the water tribes are modeled after the inuit/aleut/yupik/other indigenous cultures in the arctic, and the air nomads emulate tibetan buddhists.

in the real world, obviously all of these places have different languages and writing systems.

however, atla has chosen (based on the comics; remember this letter?)

to use what is functionally written (traditional!) chinese. (hanzi, 汉字, kanji, chu nom, whatever you would like to call it is cool).

why the hell should you care? after all, they speak english in the show! (as a note, that's called "translation convention," though i've heard it called "tolkien brainrot" lmfao, but basically it means that even though it's acknowledged that characters/that world is operating in a language different from those of the audience, everything is described in the language of the audience, with the assumption that everything's just be translated on principle. (see article here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TranslationConvention))

well, guess what? in the show, we still see that all the writing is done in chinese. with chinese writing conventions and tools, and a big part of making your writing/headcannons/etc believable will be incorporating these. hence, the crash course about the chinese langauge. (fyi, i'm assuming that avatar takes place in loosey the 1850s... not sure if this is correct, but honestly, any time before the 1920's doesn't reaaaaally matter.)

a crash course on the chinese language

chinese is a pictographic language. as such, many of the characters actually resemble what they're supposed to mean. (eg: 馬 is a horse, and it kind of looks like one. 山 is a mountain, and it also kind of looks like one.)

each character (there are over fifty thousand, though only like twenty thousand are really used...) has a distinct meaning, and a nondistinct sound. there are a set number of sounds (google bopomofo) , and a four (kind of five??) different intonations (it's kind of like singing; sometimes the sound goes up, sometimes it goes down, sometimes it stays at the same pitch, sometimes it goes down and up, you can research this on your own time.) however, unlike english, the meaning is attached to the character; if you were to just give someone a sound, there would be at least like eight different things you could mean.

if you were like "gee, that sounds like a lot of characters?" yeah. you'd be right. unlike in places that use the roman alphabet, schools in places that use any form of chinese characters basically send kids home with 5-100 characters that they have to learn to read and write. it's an ongoing process, from when you begin school to when you leave. there's no such thing as "finishing learning to read + write" at the age of seven and moving on.

chinese has "radicals", or different symbols that have different meanings. for example, water is 水，but in it turns into three dots on the left side of a character. eg: 河 is a river. those dots mean water, and the right part of it is more or less just phonetic (so, some radicals do indicate phonetic pronounciation, but not like... reliably.) or for example, 火 is fire, and it turns into four little dots under something, so 煎 is to fry, where the top part is also kind of phonetic. other things are just symbolic though, like 安, which means safe/peaceful. 女 is a woman, and the top part is a roof, so a woman under a roof = safe. (yeah, there's def sexism embedded, eg: 女 (woman) + 子 (child) = 好 (good) but that's kind of a different problem...). in short, radicals tell you something about the character's meaning, or what it related to.

there are actually two types of chinese script! (or at least, presently in use. there's like ooooold chinese, but no one uses it...) one is traditional and another is simplified. here's a few versions for comparison: 舊金山 (traditional) vs 旧金山 (simplified); 愛 (traditional) vs 爱 (simplified)；美國 (traditional) vs 美国(simplified); 謝謝 (traditional) vs 谢谢 (simplified. as you can see, not all words have simplifications. in atla, people use traditional characters. this is pretty historically accurate, given that simplified characters are a product of the chinese cultural revolution, circa 1949, so if we're in the 1850's, everyone definitely still using traditional. (though, in the real world, china uses simplified, taiwan uses traditional, and japan mostly uses traditional, but some simplified.... (idk that's a mess but it's valid)) obviously, simplification happens like 100 years after when we assume atla will take place, but if anyone is a nerd and willing to fudge around with timelines, you could absolutely include simplification, or controversy over it in your fic/hc/work.

no one write with pens. or quills. please. you lose all plausability the instant you put a quill dipped in ink in your story. (also like?? atla literally showed zuko writing??? and sokka with piandao doing calligraphy?? both with a 毛笔 (traditional brush) and the whole calligraphy setup? y'all??) but yeah the writing set-up is paper, something to stretch the paper out (it comes in like a roll/scroll form, so it tends to curl at the edges), plus a little rectangular ink well. (one end is kind of shallow, and the other one is deep, so you can get your brush in the ink, and then get some off, and get a pointy tip to be precise.) and also you sign your name with this neat little thing called a chop, which is basially a stamp.

this is more cultural, but generally having very neat writing is a sign that you're a very noble, organized, and virtuous (generally good) person.

punctuation was just. not a thing. for a hot second. until like the 1920s ish or like right after luxun published some of his stories…(if you really needed to denote a sentence end, you could use a "。" or "、" but usually you'd just move to a different line, or just... not. (so no question marks or exclamation points, unfortunately. (so that one fucking fantastic fic about question marks in sokka and zuko's relationship; unfortunately, not linguistically possible. (but also, the fic was really good, and the question marks were central to the plot point, so i'm willing to pretend it works (or that a question particle was used. what is that? next bullet point lol)

chinese uses particles to denote things! for example, 我 is "i." what is my? 我的。 the "的” is a particle that makes something posessive. in the same vein, 你 = you. 你的 = yours. 他 = he*, 他的 = his. another cool particle is 们, which pluralizes things. (我们 = we. 你们 = y'all. 他们 = they.) another cool thing is the question particle, 吗. it basically just... makes a thing a question. eg; "你喜欢蛋糕" = you like cake. “你喜欢蛋糕吗“ = you like cake? obvs there are other ways of making this a question "你喜不喜欢蛋糕” and "你是不是喜欢蛋糕的" so.... if u wanna write a fic like the question mark fic, maybe clarify that it's "吗“, which does work, linguistically?

*side note; in modern language, 他 = he/him, and 她 = she/her. there's work on developing something similar to they/them, there are a couple different versions, which i have *opinions* about, but that's for later. however 她 was actually created in the 1910s, as the result of westernization and a women's movement (in that order) in china. before the invention of 她, only 他 existed, and was therefore less gendered. although the 1910's is a bit late for atla's timeline, you could absolutely include it in your fics/hcs/work, and wreck havoc with the fact that referring to a third person in the singular is functionally gender neutral.

also, traditionally names are three characters. and the three characters are supposed to mean something cool. like people name kids stuff like 美琳 to mean "beautiful jade" or 俊德 to mean "handsome virtue." also names are written [last] [first first]. atla kinda said "fuck it" and although characters have two-character first names, (idk about katara???) they don't... mean anything... like iroh's is 艾洛—艾 is more or less meaningless, and just a sound (ai) and 洛 is also more or less meaningless except for the sound (luo).

also not really a chinese language thing but... i keep seeing fics try to reference actual asian lit, and then just... failing... so uh, here's a crash course; traditional chinese poetry from the tang dynasty uses something called 五言绝句, aka there are four lines, and each line contains five characters (syllables). there are four big important novels, called 红楼梦 (kinda about forbidden romance)，水浒传 (about a bunch of rebels sort of pursuing vigilante justice; each rebel has their own talent or skill), 三国演义 (...basically just a dramatic version of the warring states period?? lots of chinese idoms come from here, eg “说曹操他就到” which is basically "speak of the devil")，and 西游记(xuanzang the buddhist monk + his chaos gremlins (eg: monkey king) wreak havoc whilst xuanzang tries to find scriptures)。 another really famous romance is 梁山伯与祝英台, which is like forbidden love with a trans-ish twist. i'll make a post about these later, but please do your research, and don't just use characters from these in a shakespeare plot....

tl;dr

atla uses translation convention for speaking but not writing

atla script is basically traditional chinese, so no letters.

if we're assuming atla is in the 1850s, there are no punctuation or gendered third person pronouns. there are particles, which can kind of fill in gaps left by punctuation.

no one uses quills and everything is characters

learning to read/write takes up a substantial part of people's educations growing up, since its a pictorial language.

if you're gonna write about chinese classics, do it right.

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lovelylogans · 4 years

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,,,,can I get some opinions on lorelai, specifically Lorelai's Love Interests?

*cracks knuckles*

i just answered an ask about rory’s main love interests but now i’m gonna go into lorelai’s

quick disclaimer: i have seen s1-s5, read scripts of key episodes of s6/s7. so. let’s get into it.

jason:

jason is literally trash lmao and i Dislike Him. least favorite of lorelai’s love interests. garbage man. if men have one thing it’s the Audacity.

okay first of all his whole introduction to canon was that he wanted to leave the business his dad groomed him for..... to piss off his dad. like. that’s his reasoning. that’s why he wants to go into business with richard. literally just to piss off his dad. Sir You Are Nearly Forty.

and then. and THEN. like his FIRST scene!!!! with lorelai!!!!! is when lorelai is like “hey you shouldn’t have gone behind my mom’s back and planned this business trip when she was planning a party! that’s kinda shitty of you!” and his response was to REMINISCE about their time at summer camp and he’s like “you still hold a grudge” because. BE. CAUSE. he stood up and tipped over the canoe when lorelai was fully clothed, and when lorelai pointed this out, this man. has the AUDACITY. to say. “i remember. green t-shirt, no bra. trust me, i was the hero of cabin five for the rest of the summer.”

GROSS. GROSS GROSS GROSS GROSS GROSS. FUCK MEN. as if THAT isn’t gross enough he came up with the nickname “umlauts” because her nipples were showing through her shirt!!! diSGUSTIN!! men! are! nasty! and literally less than TEN one-sentence lines later he ASKS HER OUT.

and then literally the rest of his character is basically just “business.” like. that’s it. when he takes the day off to come to stars hollow literally almost the Entire Time he’s focused on business calls and not on lorelai, his girlfriend who he came to spend time with. and then when richard, being a Shady Bitch, double-crossed him and went back into business with his dad, jason wanted to SUE HIM??? BRO???????? YOU STILL EXPECTED LORELAI TO STICK WITH YOU WHEN YOU ARE SUING HER FATHER?????????

this doesn’t even go INTO all the other stuff about hidden relationship and they’re literally dating just bc it pisses off their parents, it’s just. jason sucks. dude sucks. don’t like him. not one bit.

christopher:

i have..... complicated feelings toward christopher. to steal a quote i saw from twitter when someone was like “he knows lorelai so deeply!” they said “he knows her past, it doesn’t mean he knows her.”

so, like, on one level. i think that christopher was a bad dad to rory. right. like, he isn’t a good dad. i come from a home with split up parents, so, like, i understand the complexities there, but. he wasn’t a good dad. he just wasn’t.

that episode in season one? it’s the first time he comes to stars hollow. the. first. time. in sixteen years he has never gone to see where his daughter (and friend/romantic interest) lived, which follows: he hasn’t been to any of her parent/teacher nights, he’s never gone to any of the performances she was in as a child, he’s never participated with her when it comes to town events that she’s so passionate about (being a pilgrim, all the things taylor lists when she turns down being ice cream queen, etc) he wasn’t there. he wasn’t there for all the small moments that make up being a dad. no helping with homework, no sitting with her and listening after a long day, no actual parenting—no being there when she’s sick, no disciplining her if she does something wrong, no being there to celebrate her victories. he isn’t a good dad to rory. he has his occasional moments (he starts calling her more often post that visit, but it drops off again post-sherry) but all in all? not a good dad. i would go far as to say “deadbeat dad” as the first significant financial help he offers, that we see in canon, is him paying for yale. not helping with chilton, or any other childcare costs.

that’s an important factor when it comes to evaluating him and lorelai. because, quite honestly? i think that if rory didn’t exist, christopher and lorelai would have been firmly in the realm of “we dated in high school.” maybe a former flame that gets a fling when there’s a high school reunion. but since rory exists, they’re tied together forever, and therefore those feelings keep cropping up and flourishing (esp in situations when they shouldn’t) and they’re so stuck in the past.

i think that teenage christopher and teenage lorelai are well suited. i don’t think adult christopher and adult lorelai are well suited. lorelai had to grow up very quickly when she had rory, so she got a job, settled down in stars hollow, and put in the work of being a responsible parent who provides for her child. christopher doesn’t start keeping a job until s2/s3, he’s still very much stuck in the past. his pursuit of her is almost entirely rooted in nostalgia, as is her returning interest. they keep coming back to each other because it’s comfortable, it’s what they know. but once they look past that lens of nostalgia, their compatibility kind of falls apart. christopher is still immature in general (getting angry over the character reference she writes for luke, getting drunk at emily and richard’s vow renewal and basically shoving himself in the middle of their relationship like “but THE OOOOOLD DAAAAYYYS” and that WHOLE storyline of where he turned off his phone and ignored lorelai’s calls when richard had a heart attack, do NOT get me started) and lorelai is very independent and she likes her life where it is and how it is.

so to sum up: christopher and lorelai’s relationship is almost entirely doomed to fail because they can’t remove their rose-colored glasses when it comes to their (mutually romanticized) past together, and when the glasses are knocked off, they aren’t compatible. they just aren’t. what ties them together is that nostalgia, where they’re most natural is when they’re joking and being friendly (like the old times!) and when it turns into a romantic relationship, reality is too much for that tenuous connection to handle.

luke:

OBVIOUSLY i am team luke. this is the ship i’m most dedicated to within the gilmore girls fandom. he’s there for her, they push each other to become better (lorelai keeping his father’s boat, for example, and him encouraging her throughout the opening of the dragonfly) they have that Longing and Yearning. they have amazing chemistry, they’ve been crushing on each other since SEASON! ONE! and honestly they are fantastic when they work together.

i will say that they have their issues, and it almost entirely boils down to lack of communication.

if lorelai had communicated the occasions in which she had seen chris, luke wouldn’t have been so caught off-guard at the vow renewal and cut off their relationship. if luke had communicated about april’s existence with the full honesty that he didn’t know about her existence, lorelai, as a mother, as someone whose child’s default father figure is luke, would probably take some time but ultimately understand the importance of a child. they should have communicated about the wedding being too soon, and all their other issues. that bickering that makes their flirting and crushing so great also gets in their way sometimes; it’s hard for them to have a serious conversation without lorelai deflecting or luke shutting down. honestly i think it would have been great if they’d gone to couples therapy (okay, look, almost everyone in gilmore girls needs therapy, including emily and lorelai, so i’m glad that at least that one got tackled somewhere in canon) and it would have really helped fix that main problem.

frankly, i think a lot of their problems are bc ASP and the other writers wanted “drama.” which fair, it’s a tv show, but frankly leave the drama to rory and there are other ways to manufacture drama other than breaking up your main couple: dragonfly drama, for instance, or liz and tj and jess, or dealing with rory’s dramas, or something like the emily and richard and luke drama but sustained to a point where it causes a similar family fight that might have even paralleled lorelai leaving the gilmore household for someone she loves, and seeing that relationship knit up. like i get this show was in the 2000s but honestly let the couples actually Be Together!!! let them explore those dynamics!!! the whole “break them up, put them back together, break them up, put them back together” thing is tired and it seems unrealistic. like!!!! luke says “i’m all in” to lorelai and less than like TEN episodes later he’s like “it’s too much. this relationship is too much.” LET THEM WORK THROUGH THEIR STRUGGLES AS A COUPLE AND LET THEM C O M M U N I C A T E. LET THEM!!!!!

otherwise? iconique. the Flavor. the taste. the vibes are immaculate. chef’s kiss. luke/lorelai is So Good. their chemistry is unparalleled. their support of each other unmatched.

i can’t really remember any other love interests lmao OH SHOOT

max medina:

lol forgettable uh, i think that he and lorelai had an interesting partnership, but it clearly wouldn’t have worked out to the point of a wedding, which i feel like lorelai knew because she kept holding back on actually answering him for the proposal after the s1 finale. i think that his dynamic could have also really been utilized to play with the dynamic of lorelai re-entering her parents’ world and the different expectations that that maintains; i don’t think it should have gone so far to, like, proposal, i think it could have been maintained then max wanted to get serious and lorelai hesitates and pulls something similar to the show. anyway, interesting first love interest for lorelai, also helps ground the world of chilton, so nice little twofold purpose for max there

i will say his proposal was super cute tho the thousand yellow daisies thing was Excellent

#i LITERALLY didn't remember max until i was about to hit post lol #that's why he's down at the bottom #annalise talks gilmore girls #Anonymous #ask

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goodold-captainjack · 5 years

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All the odd numbers

I love youuuuuuuuu 💙💙💙

1. The meaning behind your url?

My name is jack?

3. How many tattoos I have and why

((Jjsjdjdjd can I pass this one? I don’t know how many tattoos Elliot Fletcher has and I’m too tired to count. Jack has tattoos because he likes art))

5. Piercings I have?

Just the ears lol I’m basic

7. Biggest turn offs?

General meanness?

9. Tattoos I want?

THE SANTA FE SUN

THIS GUY

11. Age?

I’m 19 but I’m ooooold for my age I’m just boRN TO BE BAD

13. Life goal?

Be happy with my Crutchie?

15. Relationship status?

Super duper taken 🤠💙

17. A fact about my life?

I’m waiting to become a fantasy/sci-fi protag Bc I fit all the criteria (orphan, depressed, tragic backstory, in love, definitely not qualified to be a protag and yet)

19. Middle name?

Sullivan

21. Are you a virgin?

((I don’t do NSFW questions sorry!))

23. Sexual orientation?

Bi bi biiiii

25. Someone you miss?

My mom, a lot lately

27. First celebrity you think of when someone says attractive?

Crutchie is gonna be a Broadway star someday so he counts

29. One insecurity?

Aww just one?? We could be here all night. Hmm...let’s go with feeling like a burden 😎

31.

((NSFW))

33. Have you ever kissed a member of the same sex?

Whaaaaaaat?? Neverrrrrrrr, totally straight right here

35. Have you ever danced in front of your mirror?

The only place I dance

37. Have you ever been dumped?

Not really? I’ve been in situations where like, I thought something was going somewhere with someone but they didn’t feel the same way which I didn’t find out til they went on a date with someone who wasn’t me? Awkward but not exactly dumped

39. Have you ever gotten in a car with people you’ve just met?

Yes, I was a foster kid

41. Have you ever snuck out of your house?

My social worker would always warn new parents that I had “flighty tendencies” 😎

43. Have you ever been arrested?

Ehhh close calls have been made

45. Have you ever met up with a member of the opposite sex somewhere?

Yes?? I have friends who happen to be girls? I’ve also been on dates with girls? Women - I know them

47. Have you ever had a crush on your neighbor?

Does kid you’re in the same group home with count @crutchosaurus

49. Have you ever slept in a bed with a member of the same sex?

Yes

51. Have you ever been on a plane?

YEAH once when I was really little but I don’t remember that and then once a few months ago when Medda surprised me and took me to LA!

53. Have you ever slept in until 3?

...shaddup

55. Have you ever laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by?

Oh yeah

57. Have you ever played dress up?

Y e a h I was always a cowboy 🤠

59. Have you ever been lonely?

See the answer to 39

61. Have you ever been to a club?

No but I’ve been to parties that desperately try to mimick them

63. Have you ever touched a snake?

No! That’s on the bucket list though!

65. Have you ever been suspended at school?

BAHAHA HAVE I

67. Have you ever been in a car accident?

Just fender benders

69. Have you ever witnessed a crime?

I live in New York, what do you think

71. Have you ever been lost?

See the answer to 65

73. Have you ever felt like dying?

See the answer to 65

75. Have you ever sang karaoke?

Sadly many times but I hope there’s no video evidence

77. Have you ever laughed until something you were drinking came out of your nose?

Oh yeah, my friends are ridiculous and I love them

79. Have you ever kissed in the rain?

Only in the safety of the indoors bc kissing while having a panic attack isn’t peak romance

81. Have you ever made out in a park?

Not made out, but kissed for sure

83. Have you ever glued your hand to something?

I plead the fifth

85. Have you ever gone to school partially naked?

No??????

87. Have you ever sat on a rooftop?

Duh. That’s like,,,,my thing

89. Have you ever been to scared to watch scary movies alone?

I pleAD THE FIFTH

91. Have you ever been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on?

Nope

93. Have you ever broken a bone?

Those of you here in like February/March-ish,,,,,u already kno

95. Have you ever laughed so hard you’ve cried?

Yeah!

97. Have you ever cheated on a test?

I’m applying to colleges this year so I plead the fifth once more teehee

99. Have you ever met someone who didn’t seem real?

Like too good to be true? Absolutely

#// suicide tw #((very briefly implied but just to be safe!!))

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cesium-sheep · 4 years

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heyyy dad remembered to call after all! (he said he still wanted to when I texted him last weekend, but we’re gonna be there in two days so my expectations were low)

he told me all about the ballad of hoss and why they’re taking him to the shelter and what a good dog he is he just needs an environment they can’t provide and he wanted hoss to be a therapy dog and all this. apparently he was the one that campaigned to keep hoss, because he texted me they were taking him to the shelter, then a few days later said they weren’t, then a few days after that said they were after all. I can’t remember what the initial decision was, but the re-decision was because they were cleaning up all his trash in the yard and he started giving patty trouble, dad grabbed him and he wheeled around and bit him. now I’m just thinking about that meme of the mandalorian cradling baby yoda, and the mandalorian is labeled “my dad” and baby yoda is labeled “the dog he said he didn’t want” lol, that’s literally what happened. he really fell in love with that poor dog.

he also rambled about boats for a bit, and then we were talking about sean and I mentioned that living at mom’s probably isn’t helping and dad started to say something and then was like “ah, nope. nevermind.” and I laughed and said “you didn’t like living there much either” so we got to actually talk about it a bit. he’d told me before that he’d been pushing for her to get therapy basically the whole time they were married, but she refused because she was worried about losing her security clearance (even though that’s not how that works). this time he told me she went so far as to blame him for her not being able to risk that, because he was staying home taking care of us instead of working a breadwinning job. I got to tell him that he did the best he could in the circumstances, that even though he probably could’ve gotten custody that would’ve put him in an even tighter financial spot and made it harder for him to straighten his own shit out after living with that for so long. he also said he wants to take a more active role in sean’s life, which is probably a good thing for him to kind of re-up on, although I hope he won’t overdo it. I don’t think he’s as prone to that as the rest of the nuclear family though.

early in the conversation I mentioned that mom has gotten better since she (finally) got therapy, and she’s actually been really good about arin’s name and pronouns and I wanted to acknowledge that. and dad said that he and patty are gonna try (and that he’ll probably try more than her). which makes me feel a lot better about it, because as long as they’re trying that’s something to work with instead of something to fight about. I mentioned I made a note in grandma’s card but if she’s gonna repeatedly pull the “but I’m ooooold” trick we may not be able to stay for all of dinner and he just kinda sighed and accepted that. so we have implicit permission to not tolerate that shit.

I’m glad I got to talk to dad, I was a little worried because I feel like I’ve been kind of aggressive on arin’s behalf and I don’t have a great system for reading when I should step back (especially without a lot of info to go on), but it sounds like we’re all good.

#long post #ask to tag #abuse ment #also it occurred to me when I was summarizing for twitter that like #I'm used to ''love'' looking a lot more conditional?#cuz mom was Bad #and was prone to throwing tantrums as soon as she was faced with the slightest resistance #so I think I was a little worried that I was gonna push too hard and get lashed out at in return #but I also think like. dad's not actually like that?#it's just kinda easy for me to forget because he's very quiet about it.

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aparoxysm · 7 years

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♥ + ♚ + ☯ + ✉

♥ What’s the absolute best experience you’ve had in RP?

oml there are literally so many, i have whored myself among so many rps that i can take so many good experiences away from all of them. i think though, i really loved lanford back in the old days when i was an admin with rach and before everything became a big rp politics game and i had so many connections through different character types, i was able to really cover a lot of rp member ground and get to know a huge amount of awesome people which i find is rare in groups as human instinct is kind of to stick with your squad, ja feel? but i really pushed myself to meet new members and to sus everybody and anybody out just to see what they/their characters were all about so that when it came to doing group activities and events, i honestly could reach out to just about anyone and be like HEY we have this connection so we can do this! or if there was a party, i always had characters that mine could do things with. it eventually just got to the point that each of my characters were kind of infamously known for something, whether it was good or bad, and because i’d been around a long time (not as long as some of you tho *side eyes*) so it really did feel like a town community where they’d be name dropped or talked about and even remembered and mentioned AFTER i’d dropped the characters for a while. it was just like. a nice, wholesome community. i’ll always mourne the loss of that tbh.

♚ Have you ever made any lasting friends through RP?

straight up, a lot of my rp fam on indie are people ive stolen and/or bullied into coming to indie from group. then there’s others who have found their way into indie on their own and, once discovered, ive harrassed them until they rp’d with me again. >:) so basically paraphrasing my other answers, yeah, i tend not to let go of my rp friendships if you dont make me. loyal 4 lyfe.

☯ Tell us all about your favorite muse you’ve ever written and why they meant so much to you.

after Liz as mentioned in another ask, Emily definitely is in what i call my “top tier” of rp characters. basically not only is she one of MY favourites, but she tends to be pretty popular among my partners too and i like to think this is a reflection of how much i’ve invested in developing her. she, like a lot of my ooooold original lanford characters, has lived a life before indie and honestly she has changed so much from the wreck she was when i made her. she was the first australian character i’d ever made because i was always like :(((( y are there never any aussies around in the rpc?? theres so many aussie players, y nobody write aussie characters? so it was really fun to have a character i could actually relate to culturally, even if nobody else ever knew what i/she were talking about, and it was just a really cool thing to have. not a lot of people really cared for her or even liked her to begin with i dont think, which is funny to think about because she was a very troubled character, a whole lot of lost. then as she grew and matured and through the connections she very slowly made, it was just like watching a flower bloom. like its lame to be proud of a fake person but i am proud of my little gentle wallflower :’) she has come so far and there is just so much to her that i can tap into her literally at any time of day. i love her so much.

✉ Say something nice about someone you follow!

i mean sierra like u ok i guess idk

~im actually so in awe of u and i absolutely love having you on my dash every second that you’re active, i get SO excited when you tag me in things or send me messages, i am literally always so happy to her from you but also dont mind at all when youre a busy bee and disppear for a while bc i think ur so chill and i love that. i also love how much of a balanced rp relationship we have, like there’s ample types of connections, genders, everything. i dont feel like either of us are gyping each other out or that we need to try really hard to impress or satisfy the other, bc youre super genuine and i appreciate that about you a lot basically :))))))) also u made me like shelley hennig again after rp fc trauma so like 10 points for u.

#psa; ooc #meme answers #sierrasrps #q's

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