ICEBREAKER MEME! LET'S TALK WRITING.

Hey y’all. We’re just under three weeks from game start and that means it’s time to get rolling on memes. We’re starting out pretty simple with an OOC icebreaker. Whether you’re totally new to journal RP or have been playing with the same people for years, it’s never a bad idea to pause for a chat about this hobby of ours!

With this meme, we want to hear about you: what your RP style is, what sort of plots you enjoy and what tropes you love to see in play. For now, please hold off on seeking specific lines. We’ll be doing a game-wide intro post/wanted lines meme next week! This one is all about the (wo)man behind the curtain.

Copy the form from the text field below and post it as a comment to the RESPONSES section. Feel free to chatter in either the OOC CHATTER subheader or on individual responses. :) All questions are optional! Fill out what you feel like. Don’t worry about sharing your Ilvermorny house if that’s personal.

Name:
Who Are You Playing?:
Sort Yourself!: Into Peckenpaugh, Hogwarts and, if you understand that shit at all, Ilvermorny houses!
What Are Your Pets Names?: We love talking about our furry friends as much as we love talking about our fake children.
Is Cereal Soup?: We need to know where you fall. This will affect whether your characters live or die in end game. (It won’t.)
Soda or Pop?: Which one is it?
How Long Have You Been RPing?: Were you a wee child when you fell into this rabbit hole? Did you retire and come back, or have you always had your finger on the pulse of the local journal RP community?
Other Genres and Settings: Aside from Harry Potter journal RP, what other settings and styles have you played in? Which ones did you enjoy most?
RP Style: Tell us a little bit about what styles of RP you prefer. Do you like logs? IC/OOC threads? Comment RP most? Are you prone to long tags, or do you like to keep them short? How far back are you willing to backtag a thread?
Favorite Tropes/Lines: What sort of tropes and lines do you LOVE to play out in games? Got any old favorites? New ones you can’t wait to sink your teeth into?
Favorite Faces: Do you have any PBs you’re unreasonably attached to? Someone you’ve used multiple times, or someone you’ve only ever dreamed of using?
Favorite Character Archetypes: What sorts of characters do you love to play? What sorts of character archetypes do you love to see, in general?
Inspirations: How do characters usually pop into your head? Are you inspired by faces, names, dreams? How did you come up with the ideas for your current character(s)?
Anything Else?: Do you have anything you want to say?
Give Us A Cute Gif: Of a face you love, a face you’re using, or just how you’re feeling right now.

Grab Some Code!

Name: 
Who Are You Playing?:
Sort Yourself!: Into Peckenpaugh, Hogwarts and, if you understand that shit at all, Ilvermorny houses!
What Are Your Pets Names?: We love talking about our furry friends as much as we love talking about our fake children.
Is Cereal Soup?: We need to know where you fall. This will affect whether your characters live or die in end game. (It won’t.)
Soda or Pop?: Which one is it?
How Long Have You Been RPing?: Were you a wee child when you fell into this rabbit hole? Did you retire and come back, or have you always had your finger on the pulse of the local journal RP community?
Other Genres and Settings: Aside from Harry Potter journal RP, what other settings and styles have you played in? Which ones did you enjoy most?
RP Style: Tell us a little bit about what styles of RP you prefer. Do you like logs? IC/OOC threads? Comment RP most? Are you prone to long tags, or do you like to keep them short? How far back are you willing to backtag a thread?
Favorite Tropes/Lines: What sort of tropes and lines do you LOVE to play out in games? Got any old favorites? New ones you can’t wait to sink your teeth into?
Favorite Faces: Do you have any PBs you’re unreasonably attached to? Someone you’ve used multiple times, or someone you’ve only ever dreamed of using?
Favorite Character Archetypes: What sorts of characters do you love to play? What sorts of character archetypes do you love to see, in general?
Inspirations: How do characters usually pop into your head? Are you inspired by faces, names, dreams? How did you come up with the ideas for your current character(s)?
Anything Else?: Do you have anything you want to say?
Give Us A Cute Gif: Of a face you love, a face you’re using, or just how you’re feeling right now.

➡️ RESPONSES: Post your responses to the meme here!

➡️ OOC DISCUSSION: A place to chatter about the meme or in general!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Name: Alex

Who Are You Playing?: Mary Grace O'Malley (

crowhop), Kermit Creekmore (

maledictorian), a creature that should probably go back where they came from once October hits, and too many assorted NPCs.

Sort Yourself!:
Hogwarts - Hufflepuff. I might be an "and the rest…" sort.
Peckenpaugh - Deeplurk. I'm too stubborn to take a lick of advice.
Ilvermorny - I took the test and it told me Thunderbird so??? I guess that's what I am

What Are Your Pets Names?: Ziggy Stardust and Sergeant Pepper are two VERY EXCELLENT GENTLEMEN. Ziggy is beautiful and he's also a stubborn fucking asshole, and Sarge has a great personality

Is Cereal Soup?: Only if milk is Lucky the Leprechaun's bone broth.

Soda or Pop?: S O D A

How Long Have You Been RPing?: It’s been about 15 years now?? I remember very clearly apping my first character five days before my sixteenth birthday, because it was 4th of July and that’s what I chose to do with my night. I played Eloise Midgen and Zacharias Smith, starting a long legacy of me hoarding Hufflepuffs. There’s about three or four years there where I kind of got away from this blasted hobby and tried to live in the real world, but I was definitely always waiting for a chance to come back and make everyone’s lives hell again.

Other Genres and Settings: I’ve almost always stayed kind of Harry Potter-adjacent, because it was safe. For a brief span of time I tried slice-of-life no-powers, no-metaplot RP, like where kids just go to college or get regular jobs. It was such a different world, though, I was almost immediately like “this is not my beautiful house” and skedaddled. Cheryl and I also very very briefly did a Hunger Games PSL, which was probably the closest I got to straying outside my comfort zone pre-semi-retirement.

RP Style: I’m a master shitposter. I love long, dumb conversations via journal comments that go so incredibly off-the-rails, especially when two characters have really good chemistry and it’s just dumb/witty banter. Then I’ll be the asshole not paying attention in line at Starbucks or walking down the street because I’m glued to my phone and I need to fire off this quick comment before someone else comes along and makes that same comment!!!!
I do love a good, short scene, either in a log or an IC/OOC. I’m a big fan of scenes that feel more like an excerpt from the day or an event, instead of feeling like they have to encompass a full scene. So maybe it’s the aftermath of a disastrous dinner, or two people sitting on a roof and drinking and the scene starts in the middle of an incredibly stupid argument. If you do a scene with me, I’ll usually propose we wrap it up at about the 3 or 4 page mark because it’ll usually feel like we can just imply that the rest of the night went about as well as the last 3-4 pages went. Also because sometimes it took us a month to get to that point and I can’t let you let me drag it out any longer.

Favorite Tropes/Lines:

Siblings who squabble constantly but will absolutely kill for each other in the moment. I have a codependent sibling problem.

Extremely platonic, male/female best friends. I’m into any extremely platonic best friendship, but because books and movies and TV have trained me to expect any boy and girl with some level of chemistry or understanding of each other will want to smooch at some point, I fuckin’ love tossing that trope by the wayside for the sake of some super close friends.

Squabble squabble squabble smooch. Even better if the smooch doesn’t solve anything.

Nontraditional families. Fuck me up fam.

Favorite Faces: I do have some PBs that I’m attached to from my recent history (Amanda Arcuri, Nicole Muñoz, Tyler Alvarez, Ysa Penarejo), but I think the PB I’m most stuck with, for better or worse, is Norman Reedus. I PBed the greasiest man on earth too many times. I tried many times to find an alternate PB that occasionally showered, but he was the only person who fit that character, who I’ve now gone and made a teacher.

Favorite Character Archetypes:

SENSITIVE BOYS. Especially sensitive privileged boys. This started way back when with my Zacharias Smith and I will never stop creating my emotionally maladjusted sons of wealth.

OVERACHIEVERS ON THE VERGE OF A MELTDOWN. I’m going to push them over that edge.

LOOK AT THIS PRETTY GIRL THAT’S GONNA PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE. Sometimes combined with the above.

R/IAMVERYSMART. Have you met my favorite son, Percy Weasley?

Inspirations: Usually it’s the face, and usually I have to make the icons myself. Or at least some of the icons. I bond with a character over making hundreds of tiny faces of them, because then I can imagine how I would use each and every one of these godforsaken icons.

Anything Else?: Hope y’all’re ready to get weird this year.

Give Us A Cute Gif: I’ve been watching a lot of Venture Bros lately

Edited (I'll stop editing when you have the balls to stop me) 2019-08-12 16:50 (UTC)

oh yes squabble siblings big time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

your boys are so handsome

Edited (you're locked in) 2019-08-12 16:51 (UTC)

Thank you Manx for saving me and, by extension, the entire game.

Re: ALEX

ohwormhole - 2019-08-12 17:04 (UTC) - Expand

Nobody shit posts like you do

Put that on my headstone

Re: ALEX

lionellovelace - 2019-08-12 19:36 (UTC) - Expand

God...............I love that we are both unrepentant hufflepuff hoarders

Bad Hufflepuffs form a line behind us

Every time I see PSL I'm like: ah yes, Pumpkin Spice Latte so I hope your Hunger Games Pumpkin Spice Latte was good

Squabble squabble squabble smooch is VERY good I support you

i mean if you went to a starbucks on oct 1 and they were like "we had a delivery problem and only have 1 psl to go around" it would be as close to the hunger games as you can possibly get

I just noticed that you added r/iamverysmart as a character type and......please.

I once played Percy Weasley at like 9 years old and I've been very tempted to bring him back as a Super Serious Sophomore for my... fuckin fourth character lol

i'm on that excerpts train with you. they're so good.

Our new challenge is to write 300 word logs. That's a real excerpt.

Re: ALEX

suflex - 2019-08-13 16:12 (UTC) - Expand

no lie i've missed shitposts with you.

i'm suddenly reminded of that great big multiverse/multigame shitpost way back in the day on gj where we had like six versions of the weird sisters SO CONFUSED at their au counterparts