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avalaughs2021-02-25 12:27 am
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Wow, that's amazing your folks met cuz of rp!! My friend met her husband through an rp forum, too. I've been role-playing off and on since I was like 13 (I'm 29 now), I was pretty steady from that age until like 20... Then I fell out of it for eight years. I had a BRIEF stint in 2017 where I tried to get back into it with another random muse that surprised me out of nowhere after years away, Ickis from Aah!! Real Monsters lmao (
although my coworker pointed out to me the other day that i too have been role-playing in some form since i was bitty when i revealed to him me and my cousin used to center our Barbie games around the '80s Boston pub sitcom Cheers...... like normal kids, you know.
we ran out of Kens so Norm turned into Norma lol.We stayed IC and replicated plots that might happen in the show, so I mean... it was technically rp in hindsight lmao.Looking forward to Zuko and Donovan!! Sounds like Zuko could find Donovan super easily cuz Zuko hangs out at teashops and such. That's his one fancy indulgence he allows himself to spend too much money on, his treat in his new life as a commoner... ; ω ; nice quality tea leaves and sitting down to a special cup of tea alone a couple times a week. that's what he does. totally in memory of Iroh like the secretly schmaltzy sap he is. his uncle would be proud.
he also became defensive of real tea because of Tamaki's Arizona teas but that's another storyVery excited to plot for these threads!! ♥ All sound fun~
If we get a Haruhi, 100% apping Ranka the next app round after her. She can have a month of freedom without Daddy lol. Maybe two. But that's a for certain character that will be revived. I still have access to old icons from when I played Ranka in high school so I'm already set. Just waiting on fate lol.
If I decide to pick up Dorothy on a whim, I'll let you know, that'd be so sweet of you to help with icons, yeah! A good excuse to rewatch eheheh... I love Golden Girls, one of my all-time fav shows. My gran and I also watch it together. When I was a kid my late mother and I watched it, too, she was a nurse in nursing homes so she had a special fondness for the elderly, so it was one of her fav shows, too. Just a classic all around. Touches people in all walks of life. I don't understand people who don't like it. What's not to like?! Also yeah lol Frasier is... not great. The Nanny is fantastic. I could probs play Fran. Or Yetti LMAO. I'm Jewish so honestly those characters would be a blast. Break out all my Yiddish IC ehehe~
Highly recommend What We Do in the Shadows (a hilarious LA Hulu series about mundane vampires who live in Staten Island) and Over the Garden Wall (a stunning Nickelodeon miniseries, 90 min long total, beautiful beautiful piece of art, and very cute) tho btw.
I've got Miwako on an extended hiatus now while I get caught up with Zuko, but once she's back on the scene, I'll lyk and we'll see what happens~! ☆
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I love RP and realized once I was diagnosed that I had been subconsciously using RP as a tool to fight my Aspergers. It forced me to accept on a daily basis that other people think differently than I do. Since I discovered that I've been actively seeking out as many different "types" of characters as I could to learn all sorts of different view points. Somethings I may never understand, like why someone would ever choose to be racist and stay racist against all logic, but at least I know how to think about what it would be like to breathe fire but be on a clothing budget? LOL.
I love lots of forms of RP and writing. I am a serial novelist who seems to only get published for short stories, sadly. But I think at least half of my published stories were in worlds that came out of writing with my co-author, through Roleplay. (You should seriously see the chest I use for notes and manuscripts. Turned on its end it is my current TV stand.) There are fun live versions that can be enjoyable, but you'll like them or you wont. One of the things RP constantly reminds me is that if we all liked and disliked the same things and agreed all the time, the world would be a very boring place.
That said RP is a wonderful method of escapism, as is reading. I fall into both as often as I can. Always have. I can't worry about too much escapism, myself, but that's mostly been because it has been my main coping mechanism for basically ever.
I love stuff like that! One of my two best friends and I became friends when she said "We're going to play Pirates of Dark Water".
I could specifically have Donovan playing one of his softer, more sentimental songs, if that would help? Blue Angel is a good one for sad sentiment and could echo leaves from the vine?
I would love a Hahuri, Kyoko and she could bond over ugh, rich people, if nothing else. LOL.
I will have to check those out. I didn't have cable until I was in college and then the only Nick that was put on was mum watching stupid Spongebob, so it took me aaages to get into Nickelodeon. Catching up has been a more recent development, lol. Finished Victorious, started Sam and Cat, but then Icarly came on so watching that. I can look for those two also!
Lemme know when she comes back and we can plot!
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and ty for the zuko gifs!!! send me in a new private plurk the images you want colored of kyoko. like i said it's gonna be a while til i have the spoons to get to it, i don't return home until the 16th... so bear with me.
That's... all super insightful and kind of mind-blowing what you say?? I can really relate to this and had never quite framed it like that? It's definitely a lesson in empathy and something that requires one to be psychologically analytical. I developed it as a coping mechanism in times when I was isolated, so it provided social avenues that weren't available in my real life, and that taught me social skills in a practicable, erasable way, which was very useful to me growing up, I think. Escapism has always been my main coping mechanism too, one way or another. Playing a character like Miwako consistently for years was impactful on my personality for sure, too, I think in a very healthy way. It's interesting what draws us to each character we're drawn to, but like you, I think it's a good practice to have a variety of personalities in our repertoire as writers, shows we can relate to many experiences unlike our own, even if we... made them up lol...
but really, thank you for that insight, that's a nice bit of wisdom to chew on. already hitting me with those iroh feels, c'mon...
Softer sentimental song sounds good to me! Zuko just... goes to brood lol. His friend Gokudera I told you about is a pianist and showed Zuko what a piano is online, so he has a dorky like "oh, hey, I know what that is" smittenness about pianos now because of that association lol... but he's never actually seen a piano. idk if Donovan plays this?? but throwing it out there as a fun fact jic!
Zuko is a rich people and wants to bond over ugh, rich people with them lol, help, let him in your club, girls
how's he richer than the hosts and literal royalty but they act richer and more royal than him rofl
I don't have cable and haven't since like... 200...7. lol. I just randomly cherry pick media, lol curated. here's a link to Over the Garden Wall on my fav website lol, anything animated you could ever want is there to stream for free, it's rather reliable. What We Do in the Shadows unfortunately afaik is only on Hulu, idk how to find real/current TV shows for free online.... :\ i'm not that tech savvy lol.
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You're welcome. I think email would work best, or posting them to a paid account so we can download. Plurk likes to really mess up compressed images. >.< And it'll also take me a while to chose and crop the icons. How many images should I send you?
I have had a lot of bleed between RL and RP. I try to keep that separate most of the time, but sometimes I specifically channel a character IRL when I am in a tight spot. One time at my first job, one of my coworkers, a bartender who loved to harass anyone smaller than him (and I was smaller than everyone there) Decided that because I'm Wiccan I clearly do all sorts of stuff I should CW for if I was going to say it, that just... turned my stomach. And he never let up. He used to call me Ray because I was "such a ray of sunshine" on morning parties. (I very much was not. If I am working a wedding till 2 am and am back at 7 am for a bat mitzvah And you had the whole week off, yes, you are going to be more cheerful and I am going to growl at anyone who tells me to smile because it is a beautiful day. Just. No.) But one week her just ramped it up. He brought in a giant rubber rat and started waving it in my face and making all these horrible suggestions. And I should have just reported him, I should have. But I kind of just... picked a character who was the sort bullies were afraid to harass even though she wasn't herself violent and asked what would she do and just... let her take over. It was kind of like I was Kyoko years before I ever heard of Skip Beat. Everything changed. Posture, demeanor, confidence, bearing. I stood tall, shoulders back, chin lifted, and in another (fictional) language, told him off in a clear and strong voice. Quiet but not soft. He went pale, made one more half hearted attempt. I continued. (I tapped the goblin tongue from Ashes Of The Sun by Hanovi Braddokk. So while what I said sounded like nonsense to him, I not only had the confidence of knowing what I was saying, but also of having a consistency of sound that made it clear I wasn't just spouting gibberish. It was wonderful.) Unfortunately I couldn't get her back out of my head and was crying silently at the father daughter dance at the wedding that night, because while I have a father who loves me, the character I picked... did not. I also channeled an LJS vampire once when I was going on a roller coaster (hate those things) and apparently freaked my grandfather out because I went dead pale, my eyes were weird, and my whole demeanor changed. I also used to bowl IC.
And I was babbling. Sorry >.< TL;DNR - I fully support RP as a coping mechanism.
Donovan probably could, but his primary instrument is the guitar. Electric or otherwise. Of course as he is also from a low tech world, electric guitars are regular guitars hit with lightning magic.... >.>
And the song he'll play, Blue Angel, is about a blue skinned man from another world who gave his own life to save the life of Donovan's son. So a very sentimental and touching tribute. The audience in canon was filled with torches swaying gently as he sang.
Kyoko, stealing info from my mind says that he wore the same clothes enough times and had to have an actual job, so yes, he can join their club. So long as he doesn't call her a plain and boring woman with no appeal. Because if he does that she might just have to kill him.
Oh! That art looks familiar! I think I rped with someone from that show! And I have Hulu so no worries there. I split costs, so I have access to Hulu, D+, Netflix, Crunchy Roll (Or I will again soon), and Amazon Prime. Add a VPN to that mix and I have more to watch than I have time or spoons to watch new stuff.
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send as many images as you need, i'll lyk when my schedule frees up for stuff like that!! a slow burn project if that's ok hehe
I relate to that!! it can really help channeling a distinct sort of feeling and personality like that when we embody these mental spaces. I do this with Miwako's muse when I need to force myself to be upbeat, social, positive, inspired creatively, something like this. I can't always grab it or I'm not always drawn to it but it definitely helps to change the lens like that sometimes in a moment of stress needing another pilot so to speak. I can understand this. There are traits in all my characters I deeply respect and would want to emulate and apply to my own life. I want to challenge myself with like a "Zuko week" of being dumbass diligent cuz it's something I personally struggle with, meantime he's so structured and self-disciplined, which is an area in my life I desperately need to develop. This freak is waking up at like 4 or 5am and probs goes to bed by 11 at the latest lol so uh idk if I'm gonna hop on board with him there lol but exercising, meditating, determination through each moment of the day and keeping focus... I wanna see if I can inhabit that kind of mind space just for a week sometime and see what happens. lol also considering looking into kung fu lessons as a means of studying about firebending cuz i also desperately need an exercise cuz I'm 0% athletic and need the boost in physicality, and I've never tried martial arts, so maybe that's my jam and I never knew it. so i'm gonna see what's up with shaolin shit i guess lol
woah lightning guitars wild
nah I was just throwing it out there c: Zuko's just learning a lot about modern Earth world so he's like "hey i know about that" lol, met two Chinese people recently and was like I'VE HEARD ABOUT CHINA like. K...? >_> lol
lol yes if that's the criteria then he can join the commoner club now just by virtue of having zero interest in his fashion sense lol, yay! Zuko wears the same clothes til he can't anymore. Zuko had like a tiny wardrobe by choice in Prisma until two different friends on two separate occasions were like "Zuko, this is a fashion intervention, okay. You own three whole shirts and there's holes in the soles of your only boots, stop this." Titus Alexius (idr/idk his series but maybe you recognize the name) insisted on buying Zuko a whole new wardrobe cuz he was rich with Chroma from being a super friendly affectionate person, meantime Zuko was a waif of a pauper withering away alone in his room lol... Titus bought him pullovers and dress shirts and slacks and oxfords, somewhat by Zuko's instruction or else he'd have been in neons lol, feeding off how formal Zuko acted (he was so cold to Titus at first lol). Then months later when Hikaru from Ouran demanded to cut Zuko's hair cuz he looked like a hippie sheepdog lol, he took him shopping (lol also rich in Chroma from just hanging all over Kaoru constantly) and added in fun colors and designs and layers to help Zuko be a bit more stylish and bold, and Zuko just. let him take the wheel cuz he trusts him. Can't coordinate shit on his own or make his own clothing investments, needs a helping hand to choose his outfits for him lol. He's slowly gaining a sense of style even if he doesn't like modern clothes so much still. He was this close to falling deep into a sales rack of Hot Topic in 2003 rofl cuz Gokudera from KHR wears all this punky jewelry and skulls and skater shirts and shit, tacky lol. Zuko's never seen a man wear so much jewelry. But he like idolized him, y'know, first best friend ever plus a crush, and Zuko tends to emulate people close to him and mimic those he admires, easily influenced... He's still not out of the line of fire of Gokudera's style influence, just took him off the pedestal a little... He'll eventually get his wardrobe back up to snuff here and probably just replace what he remembers having in Prisma because it's easier than trying to get all creative again. He's so much better off left in the aesthetic care of others lol. Even when Iroh did his hair. Better off lol.
I get into this deep level of background detail and visuals in rp (I play Miwako from Paradise Kiss, I can't not Fashion, even with Zuko lol) and if you like imagining that illustrative stuff too, I do also have many examples of Zuko's clothes in-game under his appearance section, since this is how he'll dress in Avalon most the time, too, for future reference.
and lol I know the feeling of more stuff to watch than spoons or time, soml, yet somehow I have time to just watch Bob's Burgers and Golden Girls on repeat, lol oops
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Kyoko never used to be a clothes horse, but has become one recently just because she needs costumes for her roles. As herself she usually just wears her hot pink work uniform with a plain tee shirt under it, a bag she made herself, and beat up old sneakers. But... as Natsu, for example... CLOTHES. I swear Natsu and Mio spend more of Kyoko's money than Kyoko does. And Mio only buys books. LOL.
Well mum and I just caught up on Mandolorian and Wandavision which does free up some new stuff spoons for me after next week's overly social anxiety mess. (RP today, rp and meeting Sunday, mum has an appointment Tues, I have a LARP class Wednesday, I have a new doctor Thursday, then gaming Friday again. All virtual, but social in any form takes a LOT of spoons for me >.< Online in text is easiest. But yeah, after next week, can start working on my to watch backlog.
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Miwako spends all her money on clothes and fabrics. Zuko spends so little money BUT he has no idea what things should cost so he overspends on things without knowing it, so stays broke that way even though he's so frugal lol...
Yeah, I feel you, my social spoons are in a deficit, even for online socializing. woof. we'll get there haha
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Kyoko knows someone like that with money back home. She wound up food shopping with Mr. Tsuruga once. The man hates eating and almost never cooks, and pretty much has never really had to do his own shopping. So he picked a supermarket so expensive she felt she could hardly afford to even breathe in there, and whenever he couldn't tell which was better of two things, he decided the more expensive one was probably better, because that was why it was more expensive. She had to try to teach him how to shop. >.<
Hopefully we will!
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Yeaaaahhhh that's how Zuko shops too rn lol
he's bad at being poor
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Kyoko might forget herself and yell at him. LOL.