| charles' favorites and stuff |
[May. 31st, 2008|03:14 am] |
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| | bedroom | ] |
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| | "Augustine," Patrick Wolf | ] |
FAVORITES
color: plum
song: right now? uhhh... "paris" by patrick wolf
drink: ginger ale - he has a thing for the bubbles
band: just one? franz ferdinand. He has a crush on nick mccarthy.
movie: any hitchcock really. psycho is really good, artistically. plus janet leigh got what was coming to her.
place: his window seat at home. in pierian? he's very fond of his dorm room.
body part: hands, eyes
book: he really likes the chronicles of narnia. never mind that he's in the same grade as c. s. lewis. it's all fantastical but so based in morality and religion. he finds that really interesting.
food: healthyish food? a good salmon steak. junk food? he really loves poutine. like, a lot.
eating utensil: this is a stupid question, he says.
LEAST FAVORITES
color: pink
song: "stacy's mom" by fountains of wayne. qu'est-ce que c'est le point?
drink: dr. pepper
band: fall out boy, etc. he likes good music.
movie: garden state. so pretentious. sooooo pretentious.
place: his old school.
body part: feet. they're too bony.
book: zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. who gives a fuck? i mean really.
food: mayonnaise. and sweet pickles.
eating utensil: hands |
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| Teenage!Scott and Teenage!Miller: Detention |
[May. 30th, 2008|04:07 am] |
Who: Miller Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald
Where: Tolstoy's classroom
When: After school one day, many moons ago
( Real men wear pink, Miller. ) |
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| lookit all the pretty colors! |
[May. 30th, 2008|03:06 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | palettes | ] |
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| | my bedroom | ] |
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| | busy | ] |
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| | "John, Let Me Go," Sondre Lerche | ] |
So, sometimes when I get bored or have to do my Wiki pages, I need to think up pretty colors to use for the text and stuff. So I thought I might share my palettes with you guys, since they're all designed based on the colors I associate with each character.
( sous le cut! )
Oh, also, because I felt like it, here's the poem that the Tolkien palette got its name from:
All that is gold does not glitter
Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither
Deep roots are not reached by the frost
From the ashes a fire shall be woken
A light from the shadows shall spring
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The crownless again shall be King.
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| meme thief part deux |
[May. 24th, 2008|09:35 pm] |
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| | living room | ] |
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| | lethargic | ] |
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| | "Augustine," Patrick Wolf | ] |
Comment here with any of your character(s) and I'll tell you what was my favourite journal entry, rp scene, ship, and/or characteristic about them! |
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| Sixteen Questions |
[May. 22nd, 2008|11:25 pm] |
Micha posted this survey, so I'd like for you guys to fill it out, too! Be totally honest. Seriously, if I'm doing something that sucks, let me know! I want to be the best writer and RPer I can possibly be, so every little comment helps! I mean, outright flaming will probably make me cry, but constructive criticism is always a good thing!
1. Who are you?
2. Yay! How long have we been RPing together?
3. What was your first impression about our RPs? (IE, were you nervous, intimidated, disappointed, impressed, amused, annoyed?)
4. First characters we played together?
5. Most amusing scene from one of our RPs?
6. Most depressing?
7. Sappiest/most romantic?
8. Cutest couple from our RPs?
9. Cutest friends?
10. What's your favorite character that I play/have played? Why?
11. Least favorite? Why?
12. Something you'd like to RP/see happen in an RP with me at some point (no matter how random!)?
13. Name a song that reminds you of one of our couples/one of my characters and why you chose it.
14. Anything in particular that makes my style of RPing stand out from others'?
15. Anything I could improve on?
16. Character of mine you'd like to see more of? |
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| no, really |
[May. 19th, 2008|09:35 pm] |
What were you thinking when you first met your current main squeeze (husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, significant other, sex partner, WHATEVER!)
( what were you thinking?! ) |
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| dot dot dot |
[May. 19th, 2008|02:42 pm] |
Amanda and Micha have done a couple in-depth discussions on their characters, so I thought I might follow suit. And the character I have chosen is...
Dorothy Parker.
Dot tends to masquerade as this... well, I wouldn't say anti-social, but she's very choosy about who she spends her time with. She prefers to watch and listen on the sidelines than be the center of action, I think. She's very critical of the actions of others, and it's so incredibly hypocritical of her because she hates when people judge her. She pretends not to care, brushes it off, bites right back. That's kind of how she was taught as a child, I think. I'm sure she got slapped in the face for mouthing off quite a bit, but at some point it became more abusive than corrective.
On the topic of abuse: Dot's father is an alcoholic, too. It started after her mother died. Dot's mom had her pretty late in life (later than is technically healthy to have kids-- she was 42), and when Dot was five, she had a massive heart attack and died. So Dot, an only child, was left in the care of her father, Jacob (Jack). He didn't take his wife's passing all that well and consoled himself with the contents of his liquor cabinet, a habit Dot later picked up as a way to deal with the mess of emotions in her head.
As a child, Dot spent every Sunday afternoon with her grandfather. She got one day a week to get away from her father's taunting and yelling and beatings. The one day a week she could be a little girl and be treated like a princess. Those afternoons, I think, were what kept her going for the rest of the week, especially as she got older. Small children are more resilient than teenagers in those kinds of cases, I think. By the time she was old enough to realize she didn't have to take this, she was putting on a façade for everyone. None of her acquaintances at school knew she got kicked around by her dad, and she would have told her grandfather, but she was worried that somehow the court would think he was too old to be her primary custodian and wouldn't grant him parental rights and she'd be forced to stay with her father. And that would just make everything so much worse.
She got into a bad crowd in middle school and started smoking for a little while and quit in favor of alcohol. Easier to hide, not as much of a noticeable smell... a bit more cosmopolitan (literally). Her grandfather began to catch on to her unhappiness and tried to spend more time with her. By that point she wasn't just drinking when she was depressed. She'd hide out in her room in the summertime and drink during the daytime and write sad little stories and bitter poetry. When things were good, she spent more time with her grandfather. When things were bad, she sucked it up and made it look like they were okay. If she didn't have her grandfather there to keep her sane, she probably would have run away.
Dot went over to her grandfather's after school one day and he showed her something interesting he got in the mail. It was a letter from a school called Lowood-- and they wanted Dot to be a student there. Her grandfather urged her to go and even offered to pay for their part of tuition, since he was pretty sure Jack wouldn't pony up. Dot agreed, primarily because it meant she didn't have to live with her father, and also because they were accepting her despite her bad grades. She vowed to try to do better for her grandfather's sake and pretty soon she was packed up and off to Lowood, on the condition that she would go back to live with her father in the summertime. She honored that commitment for the first two summers, but at the end of her junior year, she had saved up enough money to get her own apartment. It was a necessary evil; her grandfather died in April of her junior year and she absolutely refused to go home and live with her dad without her grandfather to act as a buffer.
So that's pretty much a basic outline of Dot's life. I'll probably add some minor details as this goes on, but I think this might be a good reference for me to use. I love to play Dot, so it's helpful to know what makes her tick so I can write her to the best of my ability. If you have any questions about her, feel free to ask! It helps so much, seriously. |
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| PEEBEEES |
[May. 19th, 2008|12:39 am] |
PB you use most: Considering I've only been hardcore RPing for like six months? All of mine are new and never used. Awesome, right?
PB you ruined for others: Uhhh. I'm not really sure. Although really, I think Gemma Arterton is THE Dorothy Parker and Eddie Redmayne is THE Evelyn Waugh and they're real life BFFLs so I really think Gemma = Dot and that's that.
PB someone else ruined for you (in a good way): When I see Milo Ventimiglia, I instantly think "OH NICO!" Like... yeah, Milo is over for me. It's all about the Machiavelli. Micha wins at the PBs.
PB someone else ruined for you (in a bad way): I agree with Micha, JRM makes me want to punch a baby. Uhm. No one else really comes to mind right now.
List 5 PBs that are now permanently associated with a character:
1. Milo Ventimiglia as Niccolo Machiavelli
2. Jay Brannan as Tennessee Williams
3. Ed Westwick as Jacob Grimm (considering I nearly yelled "JACOB!!!" when I saw a picture of Ed in People a few weeks ago...)
4. Patrick Wolf as Hans Christian Andersen
5. Keira Knightley as Jane Austen
List at least (5) PBs you hate seeing and why:
1. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, because everyone uses him and really he's not even that good looking and he just always looks like such a snob.
2. People who are like, ridiculously well known. It's just sort of annoying. Like anyone from the cast of Gossip Girls or whatever. (Sorry Lenaaaaaaa. Chace doesn't do it for me. I only like Ed. xD)
Name a few trends you notice among your PB choices: For my Pierian characters, I really like them to have some sort of resemblance to the original author. For the others, I like them to generally look very sweet. I tend to play the adorable "OMG CAN I PUT HIM/HER IN MY POCKET FOREVER?!?!?" characters, so I figure they shold probably look the part as well.
Name a PB you would like to use but just haven't: Cintia Dicker. God, I love her. She's my girlcrush x10000000. |
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| i'm in ur journal, stealin' ur memez |
[May. 18th, 2008|10:35 pm] |
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| | cold | ] |
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| | "A Little Respect," Erasure | ] |
Here's what you give me:
1) one of my characters
2) one of your characters
Here's what I'll give you:
1) a letter of some sort written to that character
You can choose a love letter, an advice with how to deal with another person, a venting letter about another character, whatever!
This is going to be challenging for me, I think, but that's why it's important. Go for it, guys! |
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| character meme from lena! |
[May. 17th, 2008|10:32 pm] |
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| | NC/223 | ] |
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| | "Meet Virginia," Train | ] |
Lena (![[info]](https://www.scribbld.com/img/userinfo.gif) derkins - like Susie Derkins from Calvin & Hobbes, AKA the best comic ever) just posted this meme so I thought I might try it out!
Name 12 characters you have played in RPGs, before looking at the questions that follow. List your characters numbered 1 to 12, with the name of the RPG you played them in. Once you've picked your 12 characters, look at the questions and answer accordingly. No peeking until you've picked your characters! Put your answers behind a cut.
1. Ernest Hemingway (Pierian Springs)
2. Viola Messaline (Viola from Twelfth Night, Stage Left)
3. John Keats (Pierian Springs)
4. Victoria Kensington (Queen Victoria, A Royal Pain)
5. Laura Ingalls Wilder (Pierian Springs)
6. Peter Pan (Stage Left)
7. Dorothy Parker (Pierian Springs)
8. Spencer Hughes (Hugh le Despenser, A Royal Pain)
9. J.R.R. Tolkien (Pierian Springs)
10. Cori Lawrence (Cordelia from King Lear, Stage Left)
11. Clive Staples (C.S. Lewis, Pierian Springs)
12. Marie Romanov (Grand Duchess Maria Romanov, A Royal Pain)
( les questions ) |
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| interview with a... character |
[May. 17th, 2008|01:05 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | interviews | ] |
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| | NC/223 | ] |
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| | content | ] |
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| | "Love Song," Sara Bareilles | ] |
So a while ago I did these interview things that Cristal posted and I thought I might repost them here, edit them a bit. My characters at Pierian, especially, have grown quite a lot since these were posted. There are a few characters I haven't done them for (Hemingway, my ARP characters) so I thought I might add those as well. Feel free to grab for yourself, it's a really helpful starter for introducing a new character.
( Pierian Springs )
( Stage Left )
( A Royal Pain ) |
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