MEME: ICEBREAKER!

[peckishmods]

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!<b>Name:</b> <b>Who Are You Playing?:</b> <b>Sort Yourself!:</b> Into Peckenpaugh, Hogwarts and, if you understand that shit at all, Ilvermorny houses! <b>What Are Your Pets Names?:</b> We love talking about our furry friends as much as we love talking about our fake children. <b>Is Cereal Soup?:</b> We need to know where you fall. This will affect whether your characters live or die in end game. (It won’t.) <b>Soda or Pop?:</b> Which one is it? <b>How Long Have You Been RPing?:</b> 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? <b>Other Genres and Settings:</b> Aside from Harry Potter journal RP, what other settings and styles have you played in? Which ones did you enjoy most? <b>RP Style:</b> 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? <b>Favorite Tropes/Lines:</b> 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? <b>Favorite Faces:</b> 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? <b>Favorite Character Archetypes:</b> What sorts of characters do you love to play? What sorts of character archetypes do you love to see, in general? <b>Inspirations:</b> 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)? <b>Anything Else?:</b> Do you have anything you want to say? <b>Give Us A Cute Gif:</b> 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!

Comments

Cheryl

[quodpotted]

Name: Cheryl
Who Are You Playing?: Wyatt Webberley and Gertrude McGilliguddy
Sort Yourself!: Hogwarts: Slytherin, Peckenpaugh: Deeplurk, Gooseberry: Ebonhide, Ilvermorny is weird and no one understands it? But? I'm going to say Horned Serpent because it sounds like Slytherclaw.
What Are Your Pets Names?: My little shithead asshole is named Petie/Petey (he can't spell so I'm not fussed about it either). His full name is Petie Pippin Piggy Pie.
Is Cereal Soup?: I'm not saying it IS, I'm just saying no one has presented me with an irrefutable argument to the contrary. Cold soups exist.
Soda or Pop?: It's SODA.
How Long Have You Been RPing?: UH depends on how you define it?? I stumbled into forum rp when I was like 12, but it was very loosey goosey. Someone held my hand and walked me over to journal rp (on DEADJOURNAL of all things) from there. I started off in X-Men, and I think my very first ever journal still exists somewhere, and I would rather die than let it be seen. :) I eventually found Harry Potter journal games, and more or less stuck there. I think I was briefly out of the RP world, for a year or less, but I don't remember anything unless Alex helps me.
Other Genres and Settings: Online, I've only ever really done journal RP. I've dabbled outside of Harry Potter. I've done panfandom, Final Fantasy, Hunger Games, Dragon Age, and original setting games. I like fantasy elements. Gimme magic, super powers, crazy shit! I don't care as much for real world stuff. I also did Pathfinder once and wasn't super enthused about it, but it also may have been the min maxing group I was in? Plus, I don't like to do a lot of math in my pretendy fun times.
RP Style: I think all these things have their place and time? I like how quick and casual journal commenting is, and it's a great way to be silly and throw characters together that don't usually interact. Plus, one minute, you're talking about your favorite ice cream, then ten comments later you're having an emotional heart to heart. I REALLY like doing logs in gdocs because you can edit them and splice stuff together and you end up with something that sounds so much more natural than the a/b/a/b journal scenes. But I also think IC/OOCs are much easier and chill to jump into when you don't have a plan and you just want to see where things go.

I try to keep my tags shorter, because otherwise I'll waffle forever on how to say this or that, and then it'll be so late I won't submit the comment?? I'm willing to backtag forever, but a week late is where I slink off in shame. If you want to keep going after that, I'm happy to, you just have to poke me and tell me you're not judging me for my tardiness. I will say, though, that I always love getting back tags? BACK TAG ME FOREVER? Tag me from two games ago, idgaf. Literally go tag me in that thing from three years ago right now.
Favorite Tropes/Lines: I guess we all just love Found Family because I REALLY LOVE THAT. I love assholes begrudgingly finding friendship. I like Ride Or Die friendships. I also like characters forming unexpected relationships.
Favorite Faces: I don't often reuse PBs because they are so linked to that character, and I rarely ever plan a pb ahead of time. Bo Burnham does hold a special place in my heart tho
Favorite Character Archetypes: At this point, I gotta admit I love me some Loud Boys, boysterous attention seekers with hidden depths (maybe). I also love the acerbic cynic. I have a tendency to play the mom friend, particularly to just really terrible shitheads.
Inspirations: I usually start off with a vague idea of what personality I'd like to play. I like to kick off a game with an outgoing character of some sort. Then I just pick like a random nugget of a concept and roll with it. I pick a pb last, which makes it very hard to find the Right face.

Except for Wyatt? This character literally came to me in a dream, I stg. My brain said, what if you took your favorite Loud Boys and mushed them together?

Trudy was like, what if you put Liberty and Fern into a blender, AKA Mason But an Asshole, and then kinda sorta became her own thing.
Anything Else?: A ten year old made me spend an hour filming tiktok videos tonight so I guess I'm hip now
Give Us A Cute Gif: Let's kick this trash off right

Re: Cheryl

[quidditched]

oh my god

Re: Cheryl

[quodpotted]

regrets yet?

Re: Cheryl

[wildchild]

That GIF?!

Ohhh unexpected things are one of my FAVORITES in games, they're always so satisfying??? Not that less random things aren't great too, of course

Re: Cheryl

[quodpotted]

he's lip syncing about how his milk shake brings all the boys to the yard in case you couldn't guess

Re: Cheryl

[quidditched]

also this just reminded me that i completely flaked on the chloe and ursula celebratory cake log and i feel deeply guilty about that

Re: Cheryl

[quodpotted]

there's no need to feel guilty

but also

we could still finish it I wasn't jokin fam

Re: Cheryl

[quidditched]

also this isn't the plotting meme but just saying i'm really stupidly excited to get to play siblings with you again ESPECIALLY ones who aren't trying to murder each other

Re: Cheryl

[quodpotted]

Siblings Who Like Each Other will be a fun experiment

Re: Cheryl

[goodglyph]

Jesus Christ Deadjournal. I feel...like...I had some usernames there or played some games there but god only knows what they were at all.

Also afdjhdfahfl grabby hands @ your trash

Re: Cheryl

[quodpotted]

I hope we crossed paths but never knew it because we're too ashamed to go digging

Re: Cheryl

[suflex]

i totoally forgot about dj

Re: Cheryl

[filigreed]

you've Made It. your celebrity star is on the rise.

Re: Cheryl

[quodpotted]

I cannot dance to save my life but we did film a stranger things tiktok with the phone upside down so we were IN THE UPSIDE DOWN and it was one of the more inspired choices I've made recently

Re: Cheryl

[crowhop]

oh jesus christ, i'm pretty sure you showed me one of your deadjournals once??? or was that sunni???

either way you're safe, the only way i'd dig that up was if i had access to our old msn chat logs and those better be dead and fuckin buried

Re: Cheryl

[quodpotted]

It was possibly me. Did it involve me BADLY trying to photoshop my pbs into mutants

good because if you dredged up those urls I'd have to kill you and then myself

Re: Cheryl

[quodpotted]

I panicked and checked to see if those journals still exist and they DON'T they're all purged.

Re: Cheryl

[lionellovelace]

brb gonna tag london-webster

Re: Cheryl

[quodpotted]

do it you coward

Re: Cheryl

[freyanorris]

idk what it says about me that i'd never heard of deadjournal until now

Re: Cheryl

[picqueme]

Now I wanna find some stupid old lily James something and tag it just because.

BUT HI CHURL I AM SO EXCITED TO WRITE WITH YOU AGAIN

Re: Cheryl

[andpoke]

God I love your blender smoothie children
And that’s such a good base for people!!! They will always expand!!

Re: Cheryl

[suflex]

who are you

Re: Cheryl

[notpoison]

I'm so impressed by how good you are at backtagging??? It's inspirational.

I am SO JAZZED for quodpot and all of Val's children she is definitely not responsible enough to raise.

Re: Cheryl

[merlinpletcher]

Same houses and same years but we still don't have roommates. HOW DID WE MANAGE THIS? I'm still gonna bother you, though. :)))

Let's go back to an EJB/ESB drinking game thread just because we can.