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MEME: ICEBREAKER!

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.

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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!

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Name: Meggie!
Who Are You Playing?: Laszlo Pataki and Valkyrie Horvat (

sugarnspite)
Sort Yourself!: Gonna go with my gut, Mothgarden and Ravenclaw. Also, fuck Ilvermorny.
What Are Your Pets Names?: Felix Felicis the Trash Prince and Sir Artemis, and then a betta named Arsenic + an assortment of tetra, a snail named Speedy Jack, and two shrimp.
Is Cereal Soup?: Oatmeal is chowder.
Soda or Pop?: Soda!

How Long Have You Been RPing?: I officially started when I was about 14, soooo... 19 years ago (grimace emoji). The first game I applied to was a message board Ranma 1/2 game of all things. They rejected me for my bad spelling.

Other Genres and Settings: IN THE EARLY DAYS I was mostly in Digimon and Sailor Moon games, with a small foray into Sonic the Hedgehog. Eventually I went panfandom, where I played Kaworu from NGE, Balthier from FFXII, Howl from Howl's Moving Castle, etc. etc. etc. AND OF COURSE, Harry Potter games. I never played any canon characters of note and instead just made a bunch of OCs. I also got into tabletop RP in college, and played mostly D&D 3.5 and GURPS.

RP Style: I really like IC/OOC scenes, because for some reason they're easier for me to keep on top of??? I like logs but I KNOW I'm a big flake sometimes. Still, I'm hoping to do more of them in PP than I did in FW. :c I don't have the energy for massive shitposting but when do get pulled into it, it can be fun. I love some journal comment back and forth, and intimate warded convos about FEELINGS that branch out from a good shitpost. I'm admittedly not great about backtagging because I'm forgetful, but will happily do it if reminded!!! My tags tend to be long-medium-length but I'm working on embracing shorter tags!!!!

Favorite Tropes/Lines:

Slap slap kiss, but gay.

Partners in crime. I love a scheming ship!

Scheming in general. When a group of friends comes together to execute a "clever" plan, like saving Cole from Coralee, illegal seances, saving Todd from Molly, etc.

Mean Girl clique

Pining. slow burn.

Little siblings annoying older siblings who love them anyway.

Rivalries, both affectionate and not-so-much.

Friends who are always yelling at one another or bickering.

Excessive protective friends.

Favorite Faces: I'm VERY attached to Rami Malek, Chris Colfer, Laura Berlin, Alberto Rosende and Diego Luna, and would love to use some of them again buuuut I think I'd just end up playing the exact same characters lol. It's impossible for me to not look at them and be like that's Calvin, that's Rafael, etc. I have a lot of PBs on my waiting list and I'm not even going to bother listing them.

Favorite Character Archetypes: I like........ messes. I really enjoy making my characters make bad decisions and look really unfavorable. I think it's fun to RP the fallout of some of the bad ideas my characters have, and really commit to the consequences. So all of my characters come with at least SOME potential to fuck up their lives via their own stupidity/arrogance/etc. THAT SAID, my types are...

Creepy Nerd

Ambitious Mean Girl With Issues

Unapproachable Sharp-tongued Jerk

Messy Trash Fire Flirt Boy

Mr. Self-Destructive Intense Overachiever

Loud Bossy Girl Yells A Lot

Sneaky Schemer (can and WILL be added to any of the above archetypes)

Inspirations: Usually I'll get an idea first of like... something I want to do. A moment that sounds really fun to me. Like Val, I wanted to play a really sore loser captain who thought she was sweet, based on imagining her saying "All that matters is that we have fun!" while not meaning any of it. Laszlo is a port from Gooseberry, and was initially a big of a necessity based on past pcal plots. BUT this time I just remember how much FUN it was to fuck with people via potions, and to have a character who was very amoral about it without being totally sympathetic. So I guess I get my initial ideas based on what I want to be able to do in the game, and build a person who would allow me to do it.

Anything Else?: I can't believe it's almost time!!!!!

Give Us A Cute Gif: Hey, remember when we all watched Hereditary together? Good times.

Edited 2019-08-12 17:37 (UTC)

I love all of your unapproachable sharp tongued jerks and I miss them all.

THANK YOU for my third I also miss my messy flirt boys so I'm like...... unapproachable sharp tongued flirt boy??????

Edited (which is to say i'm gonna make someone UNIQUELY insufferable ) 2019-08-12 18:21 (UTC)

Ohhh smells like a tire fire 😎

Re: MEGGIE

notpoison - 2019-08-12 23:17 (UTC) - Expand

Forever so grateful for getting to play an obnoxious younger sibling to you and Marin. Also Felix and Artemis are just so damn handsome.

I love the Morales-Trans so muuuuuuuch :C

My boys need some fashion tips from Moose, though.

MEEEEEEEEEE TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. They were an absolute treasure and made me cry on more than one occasion.

Walmart sells extremely well tailored shirts for like 8 bucks, which is a steal compared to what people charge for Actual Dog/Cat clothes. The selection is just quite limited since ??apparently?? people think onesies are like MORE CONVENIENT or something for babies omg smh.

1) I forgot about saving Cole from Coralee ichdksixnsm
2) I cherished every interaction I ever had with Calvin
3) IC/OOCs really are good

Cole did not deserve them but he desperately needed them.

IT WAS AN EMERGENCY INTERVENTION

You guys are making me miss Calvin???

Edited 2019-08-12 23:18 (UTC)

I'M SORRY. But also Calvin is a good boy who deserves to be missed.

IT WAS!!!!

Sorry :( But I also miss him so :((( I HOPE we can sort out another good dynamic at some point with some of our kids because I miss what we had with Ramon and Calvin a lot!!!

Let's SCHEME!

CAN'T WAIT TO SCHEME WITH YOU, I feel like we could come up with something really special.

I have so much faith in us. I'm super interested in what the Lazlo-Zadie-Lionel dynamic will be like. And, I have to get Felicity done because I think we'll have a blast with her and Val.

Re: MEGGIE

zadielovelace - 2019-08-12 23:28 (UTC) - Expand

The quotations around clever seem so harsh. :') THEY'RE DOING THEIR BEST.

I love your kids and their bad decisions and their schemes~

Some plans were better than others!!! Calvin had a pretty good track record but.... Archie on the other hand.....

Can't wait to make your babies' lives difficult. :')

Re: MEGGIE

merlinpletcher - 2019-08-12 23:58 (UTC) - Expand

can "Slap slap kiss, but gay." be the name for the genre of games we keep playing?

It's really fitting.

YOURS ARE THE ONES WHO ARE STUCK!!!!
We crossed reply streams so I have to reply here instead but I really am excited ahhhhh :(

i have an entire section of my curio cabinet dedicated to illegal seances now. solely due to those Bad Children

Scheming and "clever" plans are so much fun omfg.

I'd never come across an IC/OOC until GB and quite honestly it was Life Changing

god "slap slap kiss, but gay" is like a really accurate group drag tbh

Love Laszlo but oh my god y'all watched Hereditary together? Trauma is the great unifier i guess...

THANK YOU and yes, yes we did. We went into it blind, too, because we heard it was best to watch it knowing nothing. SURE WAS AN... EXPERIENCE!!!

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