Finicky-dealios with ness
Activity IssuesI have a lot of draws on my time and the attention span of a fish. My list of priorities puts drawing and artwork up near the top (it is my major/intended career), right alongside school and mental/social/physical. It's really time consuming.
Also, being in college means that as school places more and more demands on my time, I have less and less time for RP. I have no doubt that other RL situations- grad school, if I'm lucky enough to go, work, unforseen family stuff- will pop up from time to time. Throw in a naturally low energy and some health problems and you've got a perfect storm of occasional blagh.
This does mean I tend to go inactive, sometimes for long periods of time and sometimes without warning. That's part of why I give out my contact information, but yeah. This is fair warning. I really wish I could be here all the time and be active all the time, but years of experience have taught me that I can make no promises.
When I'm here, I'll be here, and when I've got the energy to play, I'll do my best and donate as much time an attention as I can reasonably spare! That's the promise I CAN make. :3
If I owe you a post, feel free to poke me about it. I may not be able to get to it at riiight that second, but I will do my best! I do sometimes forget about threads, so reminders are occasionally helpful. XP
RoleplayI'll play with just about anybody, anywhere. TEll me what you want and I'm usually happy to fill the request.
I do tend to juggle large casts, though typically there will be some internal hierarchy of Focus characters and less focus characters.
I am something of a slow poster, so keep that in mind. This is especially true during the semester.
I'm fine planning things out ahead of time (or trying to), and i'm also fine with social shooting-the-shit RP. I'm somewhat bad at generating plots, but I do like being involved with plots.
Romance, Babies, EtcI'm happy to pair up my characters.
Just PM me or IM me or post in the relevant plotting thread, and we'll play them together and see how they go!~ I'm fine arranging things OOC, or just throwing them in a thread and seeing how they go together. Some characters are more prone to fall in love and have relationships or not.
We can make arrangements for babies to be had outside of relationships also, or for temporary short-relationships or flings.
Re: activity issues that sometimes crop up. I don't want to lock anyone's characters to mine permanently and then get eaten by school, so. IF I disappear for two or more weeks, you can feel free to break up our characters without consulting me. :3 I'd like a PM to let me know, when i come back, that they're no longer an item-- but please don't hesitate to do this. I really don't want to lock people's characters down.
Also, if I created a character instead of that character being born on the game, I'm happy to have IC family members. Just poke me about that too! If the historys' vague, there's usually room for a sibling or two. :3
SwamplightsI keep track of the brunt of my character's profiles offsite, on my personal character site,
Swamplights. The character index lists all of my characters, with a brief overview. The pages have their profile information, links to their current threads, and artworks.
Here, I will probably only post site-specific post-boxes and the like.
Character designs, Art, and Character ownershipI have a shop in here! It's in the studios section.
Drop requests there if you ever want anything! You can also contact me through email or DA if I'm having an offsite period.
I am willing to trade for character designs or artwork in addition to actual currencies.
Please note, especially regarding trades, that I have some eccentricities about characters. They come from my long history of RPing and some bad experiences I've had. I do not mean to offend or be rude with the following statements-- but I've found that it's best to get this out so as not to cause any kind of potential miscommunication.
Character ownership is something I feel strongly about; if I play a character, I really want it to be mine forever.
As such, I am not interested in characters that have activity requirements or can be reclaimed. This is especially true with my RL situations drawing me away from the internet without warning/for variable times. I avoid adoptables for this reason.
I'm only interested in characters that I can keep off this site as well as on this site; I develop my characters in personal storylines as much as I play them on sites like this.
I would greatly prefer my characters not to have breeding restrictions of any kind (at least for the design; if a horse has a deformity that limits thet imes it can breed, that's fine, but if I ever take it off this game I want to be able to breed it freely.)
If you're not okay with this, that's okay. Those are all matters of opinion and they're kind of finicky little fiddlies that I have developed over time. I promise, I will not be offended if you prefer not to trade with me/prefer not to give designs to me/prefer not to breed with me! After all, I'd rather we both know this deal ahead of time and not accidentally step on each other's toes, causing a lot of heartache later!
I will still happily play with anyone.
Another aside about trading: I'm also willing to trade designs for characters that aren't for specific use on this site. This could include ARPG animals (if you play the DA ARPG's), random animal designs, pern dragon designs to be paired with existing characters (I can give you the information about those if you're interested but you don't know anything about pern dragons), etc etc etc. I'm open to things! But I would like them to follow the same restrictions as above.
If you want character designs from me, I'm usually happy to do this! Especially if I can get colorful. I work best if you give me a theme or some phrase that I can pull abstract inspriation from-- like "oceans" or something. Or, if you have personality ideas for the characters, I would be happy to design based on what sorts of colors/shapes/associations the character makes me think of.
I really only know how to use my own lines, but I'm happy to use existing lines that I've created if that's okay with you! I'll give you a list of templates I have access to if that strikes your fancy. I can also do a set of lines from scratch/a unique reference, but that would be a little more expensive because they take more time. ^^
A note about Force-XingJust a little finicky detail-- consent issues are kind of a big deal for me.
and this is one of the biggest areas where I REALLY care about the difference between OOC and IC.
IC? I'm fine playing most of these things. However, I want to make sure that OOC, I've consented to it.
I am really not okay with my characters being killed/raped/claimed without my input in the matter.
You want to plot something like this? Talk to me.
we can arrange stuff. However, and even if it's technically allowed in the rules, I'm not really okay with things like this happening without me being consulted or at least informed.
Where it's allowed in the rules means I will quietly gnash my teeth and complain OOC, rather then report you.
I consider it a GREAT PERSONAL FAVOR if you plan these events with me before you do them. even if the rules would technically allow you just to do them.
Style/etcI do deliberately write fairly focused on purpose-- especially if there's supposed to be much in the way of reactions. I don't do the purple prose that often. It's not BAD, and I like purple prose to read just fine-- I just don't like to write it, and thus I am deliberately choosing not ti write it. :3 Which is fine. Just be aware of that and please don't ask me to participate in things where purple is what we're aiming for.
It's not a lack of ability-- I can purple things up just fine. It's more that when I start, i find it hard to stop, and I can't afford to get terribly purple in the academic writing I do for school. :. I will stay firmly couched in the mauve zone.
This does mean that I'm not terribly into battling, because in fighting and other posts where the other players have to react to my actions, I tend to focus almost exclusively on actions and would hope the other player does the same, for the sake of clarity. That is not what is favored by the horse RPG's, which is absolutely fine. :3
OOC=/=ICI could not underline this enough. I am not going to be offended by IC Events! Loosing IC, stillborn babies-- all of that just means Character Development which is awesome! The only time i would be offended by IC actions is if my characters were killed or maimed without my own permission.
IT also means that I will state my opinion. I won't be nasty about it, but please don't think I'm offended or angry or anything just because I don't have an agreeing opinion.
I disagree with my friends quite often, and I'm still very friendly with them! So yes. If I AM offended, I will simply log off and cool down away from the computer.
I am GenderqueerI am not your average horse RPG player in a lot of ways, and this is one of those ways. My world is not one of binary genders, and I don't do gender stereotypes. I'm not going to explain what genderqueer is, but I do ask for it to be taken into consideration. Please respect my identity.
it also means that my relationship to gender and how i see gender in my characters is not entirely normative to this genre, and sexist or excessively gendered themes do make me a little uncomfortable. Bearing in mind, of course, OOC=/=IC-- so sexist characters, whatever, but when gender stereotypes start informing the rules, i get very uncomfortable.
I am seriously dyscalculaicIt's similar to dyslexia but with numbers. basically, I lack the ability to intuitively quantify things that other people just have. Not actually a big deal on this game for anything other than time; I literally will not notice time passing.
What does this mean? This means that my aging my characters is going to be... interesting. IF anyone asks me to go through and calculate age, i can do that (since i record when they're born IC and OOC). but I am simply not going to notice to age characters outside of that.
also this means you should double check my math! I will not be offended if any number i generate is wrong, because I am raelly really really really bad at math, and i know that. XP
I don't do drama.I know a lot of people say this, but in my case, it manifests like this: If I'm not being treated well, I disconnect from the stimuli that is mistreating me. On games, if they make me uncomfortable, I leave. If someone is being unfriendly towards me, I don't really interact with them. If interacting with them is inevitable on that game, I'm more likely to leave the game. I don't want to cause discomfort for anyone and I want to continue playing these games casually, as a form of stress relief.