OOC CHATTER POST: PRE-GAME #2

[finchmods]

Because we Captcha'd in 4 pages wtf.

Please put a subject on your posts so it's easier for everyone to figure out what's going on.

Comments

Re: MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: Common Concepts

[weewilywilkie]

I don’t understand the question

Re: MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: Common Concepts

[adamho]

We're not saying that including any of these things in your history will automatically get your application rejected, we're just saying that these things have come up a handful of times for different characters already and we (a) want people to be aware as they work on their characters now and (b) want people to know that we might scrutinize these concepts more now than we would've before.

♥ If you want to run your concept for Lillian by us, we'd be happy to discuss with you.

Re: MINI MEME: would your character sacrifice themselves for the cause?

[star_boy]

Care about human life!!!!

Re: letting go of likenesses

[weewilywilkie]

Ahhh yeah!! I tend to do it this way too, except when a face just demands me to use it. But it’s virtually impossible to cast my imagination all the time. Jeez.
I find myself describing the physicality of people rather than their appearance a lot kind of to compromise, because sure you know what their face is, but NOW I WILL SPECIFY EXACTLY HOW THEY MOVE :///

Re: letting go of likenesses

[harmreduction]

i'm extremely bad at physical description and i use my pbs as a clutch lmao

Re: MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: Common Concepts

[empereurs]

wow wtf i didn't either... look in that way it's pretty reasonable that we all went for dead parents now. for two years we were restrained

Re: letting go of likenesses

[unironickylorenfan]

Oh my god me three to all of this.

Re: MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: Common Concepts

[empereurs]

please dont do this to me

Re: MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: Common Concepts

[survivalof]

the only possible response

Re: MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: Common Concepts

[survivalof]

jhgkfdjg

Actually, as a non deep dark answer on my part, someone pointed out once that I almost always give my characters siblings, which I had never noticed before. I think it's because I can barely fathom a childhood without a sibling to bother/be bothered by.

Re: letting go of likenesses

[empereurs]

YES i love this. it's hard once you commit to a pb bc it's like "Well now everyone is going to assume they look exactly like their icons even though in my head they differ from their icons in xyz ways" so i just... have to keep saying it in my writing and hope that people pay attention enough to remember :(

a lot of the time i get ppl describing them as they are in their icons anyway and i'm just like sigh. what can you do

Re: MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: Common Concepts

[survivalof]

I'm just kidding, you know I don't have anything written lol

Re: letting go of likenesses

[survivalof]

the unicorn ate iliya's hat!!

Re: MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: Common Concepts

[adamho]

asdfihasd'fasd f

Cheryl.

Re: MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: Common Concepts

[survivalof]

you love me :)

there is a 30% chance she was born at disney world because my fwa strategy is just to take every joke alex makes and actually incorporate it into my characters

Re: letting go of likenesses

[empereurs]

LMFAOOOO YES THANK YOU

i like to think that bluebell learned a few things from newt and just started a little hoard of things from ppl she liked. i avoided iliya wearing a hat for almost AN ENTIRE YEAR but by endgame i just got sick of ppl saying that iliya wears a hat that i put him in a hat and accepted the inescapability of fate

Re: MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: Common Concepts

[adamho]

:') It's true.

OMG. Please??

Re: letting go of likenesses

[survivalof]

OH NO now I'm picturing Newt and Bluebell comparing hoards :')

Bluebell or Anon or some other supernatural being put his hat on him while he was unconscious so he could face horrors with warm ears. It was a morale thing.

Re: letting go of likenesses

[adamho]

I definitely did this via Nell and I'm sorry~ ♥

Re: MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: Common Concepts

[empereurs]

awww that's cute ;3;

i'm trying to find a non-dark answer to this and i think mine is that i always define sexuality for my characters when i app them, because i was one of those people who knew from an EXTREMELY early age that i wasn't straight and that changed a lot about how i saw myself as i was growing up

almost all of my characters change from their initial sexual orientation write-up, but that's because i like playing out "i thought i was this and it turns out maybe i'm more like this but idk" when it comes to teens and their confusing conception of attraction and identity. bc that's all really relatable to me i guess.

Re: letting go of likenesses

[weewilywilkie]

GOD I KNOW :( This time I’m pretty scared of that bc Kyra dresses absolutely not the same as these icons but her faces are so good that i had to :/

Re: letting go of likenesses

[weewilywilkie]

YOU ARE VERY GOOD and I def see your kids as slightly different than their pbs :(
but yyy they are useful sometimes and I guess that’s their Point.

Re: letting go of likenesses

[unironickylorenfan]

I will try to pay better attention bc I know I specifically change my characters appearances away from their PBs all the time.

Re: letting go of likenesses

[star_boy]

Clothing is the worst part for me... I ended up just changing how Haze dressed some because it was easier

Re: MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: Common Concepts

[highercalling]

BIG lmao