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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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Name: Ali!!
Who Are You Playing?: Armani Addams (Thorntrail Jr) and currently working on Jasper Jacobs (Deeplurk Senior)
Sort Yourself!: HW: Hufflepuff
IM: Thunderbird
PP: Mothgarden. Flighty, self-indulgent, and creative but struggles to get motivated is ME.
What Are Your Pets Names?: Kohana and Midnight.
Is Cereal Soup?: Yes.
Soda or Pop?: Coke.
How Long Have You Been RPing?: Almost 17 years now??? Jesus Christ. I started on Neopets, then Invisionfree, then GJ, then IJ, now DW and RPed in WoW, GW2, and FFXIV between then.
Other Genres and Settings: I did a lot of MMO rp in high school and college because I liked the social aspect and also the quick on-the-go RP style that made it perfect for RPing scenes for as short or long as I wanted. Buuuut despite that, it was also very time consuming and at some point it became tedious to log in and sit at my computer for hours with only the game to entertain me so I retired from that a few years ago. 😬

I'm usually drawn to OC PB games on IJ with some sort of magical/fantasy/supernatural setting, like werewolves vs vampires or mythical reincarnates or superheroes or WIZARDS. If I RP Harry Potter, it's usually post-grad Marauder's Era. I'm not really used to playing teenagers but I'm TRYING :(

Uhhh for fandoms, I usually wind up in a panfandom game once every few years and play Aerith from FFVII but inevitably flake because I don't know who 80% of the characters are.

RP Style:
I love comment banter on journals and I like threading in IC/OOCs or even just in an old school thread post. And if it doesn't get finished to a neat conclusion then it's whatever, at least we have something to show for it. My reply lengths and the formality of my writing varies in IC/OOC threads but I also like how casual it feels so I tend to get them written faster because I'm not sitting there and overthinking it.

For logs in gdocs, I do best with rapidfire logging and seamless threading. Short replies that flow together neatly and intertwine with my writing partner's so it's easier to read and react to each action. If the replies are longer, I'll add any edits to a writing partner's replies in a different font color so it's easy to see. I don't really like traditional blocky A/B/A/B style replies because I don't think they read well as a completed narrative.

I'll try to be upfront if I'm busy and I can't log! I prefer handwaving most things and discussing them behind the scenes instead of writing them out because IIIII don't have the time or energy to write a bunch of logs T B H. In the past, I've had a tendency to get excited and take on more than I can handle and then getting overwhelmed and flaking out so I've been trying to be better about realizing my limits.

Favorite Tropes/Lines:

FOUND FAMILY. I love playing caretaker types that just accumulate children (sometimes their own age or older) over the course of a game.

Unrequited feelings (Bonus for morons mutually pining and never acting on it, either from being clueless or from feelings of unworthiness. BONUS BONUS if it never comes to fruition and they only talk about it years later after they've both moved on 👀👀👀)

Angel/Demon-type pairings 👀 LOVE SOME OPPOSITES ATTRACT WITH THE ADDED SPICE OF CONFLICTING MORALS. Crowley and Aziraphale are extremely *chef kiss* Cecil/Levi ALSO COUNTS because the Headboy and the rule breaking shithead fell in love.

Slap-Slap-Kiss/Foeyay for SURE.

Ride or Die Dumbasses

Mean Girls

"We shouldn't be together but that only makes me want you more so let's toe this line until one of us crosses it and ruins everything."

I FOUND LOVE WHERE IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE: RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.

Favorite Faces: Sophie Turner, Hugh Dancy, Todrick Hall, Kentaro Sakaguchi, Dan Howell, Jameela Jamil, Taika Waititi, Jason Ralph, Evan Peters, Jake Hold, David Mazouz, Naomi Watanabe. UNFORTUNATELY, KJ Apa has grown on me. He is the perfect himbo and also my son.
Favorite Character Archetypes:

Dumbasses in general. All my characters are dumbasses. I do not play smart, well-adjusted characters

High INT, low WIS

Heart-Horny Himbo

Mean girls that might slap OR kiss you or maybe both

Unapologetically uncouth

Shy Yet Thirsty

Inspirations: I've been taking bits and pieces of old OCs and mashing them together to recycle aspects them since I was twelve. They always change with each new setting so even if I'm playing the same character/character type, they end up being a different character anyway. Sometimes I steal traits from characters in media that I like and duct tape them onto my own.
Anything Else?: Some of you already know, but I'm in the process of selling our house and looking for a new one and I hate it. 😎 Also I'm officially unavailable Fridays because I have a D&D game that runs every week.
Give Us A Cute Gif:

Edited (written @ 6am w/no sleep so SORRY FOR ANY ERRORS) 2019-08-13 10:51 (UTC)

Your commitment to real unrequited feelings that stay that way is amazing because I often end up 'but... just... kiss and be together...' pretty quickly (in my head, at least). You are a master

s l o w b u r n s

Yes!!! Finchwood was so slow burn-y initially jesus christ

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