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I AM GETTING A BABY HAMSTER FROM THE SHELTER! HER NAME IS OATMEAL AND I AM BRINGING HER HOME TOMORROW!

In other news I haven't been able to make a new spork this week, I'm busy and not feeling well, but since I've had this character-post ready to go for a few days, please enjoy it until I get a new spork up, which should be by Friday or the weekend. Presenting...the star of Sue vs Sue herself, Lucille van Pelt!

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I only have two werecat characters, Cleo Wilson the werelion and Klaus Weber the weretiger. You've met Klaus in SvS as one of the visitors from New York, and Cleo, while she's not appeared yet in person, has been mentioned in passing in it as well, and I plan for her to show up later to help save the St.Louis werelions and take them back to her Pride, though I'll need to work to make a situation where she thinks that risk is worth taking (since doing so would draw the attention of Anita & Co to her Pride, which she quite understandably doesn't want!)

They're both very majestic, powerful people, both in personality and in terms of physical strength/supernatural power, and thus they're not the main characters in my novel but instead are people who the protagonists (all teenage humans) encounter as they learn more about the supernatural communities. Cleo is an ally, but one that they have to earn, since while she's a hero to her people who will do anything for them, she's not going to go out of her way to aid anyone else when it could mean anything bad might come back to her Pride's doorstep as a result. If she can help a bunch of clueless kids out and not have it interfere with Pride business, she'll do it though, but it probably won't end up as simple as that when I write it. Klaus will end up as a reluctant guide/mentor regarding the therian communities due to accidentally ending up responsible for them, possibly because he infects one or something like that. They're both good people, they just also need reason to get involved with strangers, especially when they might have to risk their life or the lives of the people they're already responsible for, because, shocking as this may seem, they have lives and motivations and stories of their own and don't know they are characters in a story and thus are not immediately aware they're supposed to drop everything for Our Heroes. Crazy, right? The fourth wall is actually there!

....sorry, I'm just fed up with that aspect of Anita, among many many MANY others. Anyway, Klaus Cleo, everybody!

The Werecats )
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All three of them are human teenagers in my original urban (well, suburban) fantasy story, but for the purposes of AB roleplay I made them wererats who are in their early twenties, since that's in the age range most roleplay characters are (in my experience) and it lets them be independent from their parents, stay out late, go to bars, and generally have more opportunities to interact with others, as well as gives them time to have gotten their therianthropy under control (each of them contracted it at the same age that they are in my stories, which lets me remember it easily).

Max and Eva are easily among the nicest, most moral, and least flawed people of my cast, plus most of their problems are not their fault, but I think they're interesting and well-executed enough to not be Mary Sues so much as average protagonists, even with Max's above-average ass-kicking skills. Plus not everyone can be dark and gritty and fucked-up and gothitty, right? They also are really stereotypical for the respective spots on the LGBT spectrum they represent--butch lesbian who is good at mechanic and home repair, super-girly heterosexual transgender woman--but the problem with those particuliar stereotypes (not *all* stereotypes, mind you) isn't anything in themselves, but that they're used in a negative way, as a joke, or as all there is to the characters with those traits, and that's not the case with how I write Eva and Max

In my original stories, Max and Eva and MJ, along with another girl named Abigail, are the protagonists in one of my would-be novels (the one I'm working on right now) and they're basically kinda the Scooby Gang from Buffy---kids protecting their hometown from monsters. Not the most original setting, I grant, but I maintain that it isn't always the idea sometimes so much as what you do with it! Hell, LKH is proof of that *eyeroll* Anyway...my wererats, everybody!

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This is not a story about bad roleplay, it's just, well, a story, and, like all the others, took place the AB RP board where I developed many of my characters and met some of my best buddies. Unlike the other stories, I didn't write it down immediately back when it happened, so this is pieced together from memory. To those reading it who were there, my apologies if I got anything wrong, just tell me and I will fix it!
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(NOTE: If you read nothing else in this post, read the ROLEPLAY section, that's where the lulz is, the rest is kinda sad fyi)

You've met the weresnake Sati in Sue vs Sue, and I plan to one day have her be the protagonist it one of my novels. See, I hope to write many books all about the same 'verse, with a series of different protagonists and casts that all eventually intersect. Big goals, I know. I picked Sati to be one of these protagonists because of how much she has to grow from, to improve upon, and in a way that I specifically can understand and empathize with really well (and thus can probably write well/accurately, at least I hope). Her character was inspired by (and created during) the early stage of my recovery from depression when I was still really vulnerable, lost, struggling with my identity because I'd become so engulfed in my mental illness that I didn't know who was without it, when I had just gotten on my feet but was not guaranteed to stay there. Sati's in a similar place, plus she's a supernatural living in a world full of shifters, vampires, and other creatures, whether it's the Anitaverse or my original storyverse, and she'll have to find her internal strength--which she does have, and a great deal more than she realizes--to navigate the external adventures she'll be having in this fantastic world of hers! That's the idea, anyway. And this is the girl:

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One night I was playing around with this dollmaker
http://www.dolldivine.com/vampire-maker.php
And I came out with a dark-skinned fellow who had yellow eyes and white dreadlocks. I really liked this look, so I decided to draw him. In drawing him, I couldn't help thinking up a thing or two about him. That led to me giving him a name, Cornelius, and drawing him again, which led to more thinking about him. Eventually, he started fleshing out more, and I made plans to make him a character in roleplay and writing. Since most of the vampires in roleplay (and the vampires in my own writing) start as humans and don't undergo pigment change (beyond, uh, turning white in Twilight and VC 0_o) he got normal human-type pigmentation of black hair and brown eyes, and then I started on a background for him, and, well, here he is!

Cornelius "Adze" Locke, everyone!

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When one of our two admins (sadly not the one that That Guy was pals with and who let him get away with his bullshittery) and one of our mods had to step down and leave the board because of IRL issues, two worthy members were promoted to mod status in order to avoid an understaffed board. I for one was quite pleased for them. They're both very smart people who also had the time to be on the board enough to do their jobs, which the other current mod really didn't seem to...I can't recall the last time I saw her, anyway. Not that I'm saying whatever was keeping her might not be valid or that IRL comes before RP, but that if you can't be around, don't take the position.

We had a real problem at the board with inaccurate history coming from vampires, and the admins generally never cared, or even seemed to notice, and just accepted them regardless. But the fact is, olden days weren't just like modern times only with pretty clothes, and that's going to affect a character in so many ways as their beginning, and one of the new mods not only knew this, but is a bit of a history buff. So she makes the offer to the admin of, if applicants would like, helping them with the histories of their vampire characters if needed. Admin says that would be terrific, and admits she knows absolutely nothing about the subject herself. Color me surprised.

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After Ruthven, Delilah, and Gaspard, these are the biggest players in the Ruthven/Swans/Delilah plotline. And they are at a mostly reasonable length instead of the books I posted for the aforementioned previous three, haha!

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Delilah has a tumblr!
http://dead-little-girl.tumblr.com/

Delilah has art I drew!
http://i669.photobucket.com/albums/vv59/Lilabella/2013%20Art/Delilah_zpsb1323536.jpg
http://i669.photobucket.com/albums/vv59/Lilabella/2012%20Art/DelJams.jpg
first is how she normally is, second is jammies she'd only have after being taken in by Maureen (see below)

And I got this FUCKING AWESOME AND PERFECT PICTURE OF HER in an art trade with the superb VikingCarrot!
http://dead-little-girl.tumblr.com/post/57562213300/vikingcarrot-6-months-of-avoiding-half-a-dozen

So, uh, this is another doozy, with lots of bullet points and a big copy-pasted profile, and I am so sorry. One day I'll learn how to crunch these things. In the meantime...

One day you see a strange little girl look at you...One day you see a strange little girl feeling blue... )
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Ok, so, back at the one and only AB RP board, the same that gave us That Guy and Finite Deus but also brought me together with the awesome people who formed the Flock and built swanmanes as we interpret them and who I still hang with online to this day. The player I'm about to talk about, who I shall call Derpia, is sadly in the former category. Derpia wasn't an asshole like That Guy, but she was pretty annoying. The type to complain about how bored she was in chat and to do things like "*licks*" at the other members...I know it's just chat but that makes loads of folks uncomfy, myself included. She seemed to have an undue need for attention, as evident by things like a tendency to suddenly spam photos of herself on flimsiest of excuses, fishing for compliments, etc. It was pretty awkward for everyone. We were a nice lot and everything, but the frequent unspoken demand to pander at random to someone's vanity is enough to wear on anyone's nerves. None of us were really sure what to do. I mean, she wasn't being mean to anyone or breaking any rules, she was just kinda needy and obnoxious.

I came up with a solution. I started responding by posting pics of myself whenever she did...or rather, pictures of rats and saying they were pics of me and how sexy I am and what a babe I am, etc. everyone else would chime in about what a hottie and a cutie I was. Clearly they enjoyed the rat pic technique. I mean, they got rat pics, how could they not? It never actually made her stop, but it meant that if we had to get spammed by her, we at least got spammed by cute rat pictures too. She actually even once wanted to use HERSELF as the PB (play-by, a celebrity or model who you choose to portray your character...which can make things hard for those of us who don't necessarily want to play people who look like models) for a character, but I talked her out of it. See, I had a very shallow character there, and if he had run into her, he would have made fun of her looks. I had no wish to RP out that cruelty when a real person would be hurt by it, regardless of if it would just be the character and not me. He also was not the only character like that at the board, so it wouldn't have been solved if I had just decided to never put them together; there'd still be a chance that the scenario would happen, and I did not want that shitstorm come to pass without at least trying to steer her away from it. And, knowing Derpia's pretty fragile temperament and tendency towards pouting and passive-aggression if things didn't go her way on something, I expect she'd throw a fit if another character so much as turned down the advances of the character who looked like her because WHAT DOESN'T HE THINK I'M PRETTY HUH and put the other player in a pretty awkward spot. Luckily she took my advice.

I tried to RP with her a few times, per her request, but she never responded to almost any threads that I started for us, despite always bugging other people for replies (and she'd bug me for instant replies even though hers took forever and I never said a word), and the one thread she did reply to was basically her copy-pasting my posts back to me of everything my char had just done and said and only actually typing a few lines or less of her char's response, which seldom gave me much to work with. Not an enjoyable time. Her main character was an alpha weresnake who was a bundle of fail and annoying in her own way, but honestly was the least bad of what she churned out and not really worth talking about unless you were there, in which case it's pretty funny to recall. This swan she submitted, on the other hand? Yeah, he's something else.

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Hello all! The viewing was yesterday and that went just fine. The funeral will be today. For now though, we're about to go out to lunch. We visited a park earlier and watched some people go white-water rafting...Dad said Boo could hang by his tail from the bridge like a possum and snatch people up from the rafts as they went under! "Nobody would notice the kid in the back was missing until they got to shore...and then they'd see a little life jacket come floating down and the guide would tell them there's no refunds if a rat eats somebody."

Speaking of rats, I loved the suggestions you all had about wererats and buck grease!

I am doing well and so is my family, thanks to everybody for the well-wishes they sent! You're all great =D

I don't have a new spork just yet and probably won't until Monday or later, but in the meantime here is another post about one of my characters, Gaspard Glass! If you like what you see, Gaspard has a tumblr! Mostly swords, suits, and swans. And lots and lots of Tilda Swinton and David Bowie
http://swandrogyny.tumblr.com/
Odette and Odile also have tumblrs!
http://prettiestballerina.tumblr.com/
http://balletandbattleaxe.tumblr.com/
As does Sig, and the new swans Columbia and Falkner!
http://cygnusregulus.tumblr.com/
http://cygnussynchronised.tumblr.com/


WARNING: AS WITH RUTHVEN, THIS GOT WAY, WAY OUT OF HAND IN TERMS OF LENGTH

I JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU EVERYTHING

ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE FLOCK

I LOVE THE FLOCK

GASPARD'S FLOCK IS BEST FLOCK!

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Here's another one from the same board as That Guy. I still wonder to this day if this wasn't a very elaborate troll of some type, but I feel like a troll would be more blatantly over-the-top, and not this long. This is from someone who put very loving detail into it and actually does seem to have tried to make SOME attempt to justify their assault on canon, which trolls don't try but real Sues sometimes do. Anyway, he never really played much after apping, namely because, well, no one wanted to go near this, for which I kind of feel pity for him, but, well...see for yourself.
http://bad-rpers-suck.livejournal.com/8326374.html#comments
a_sporking_rat: rat (blue mouse)
I've mentioned that up until recently I used to roleplay online in the Anitaverse, and had some tales of fail from it. I thought I would share a few with you, specifically the ones that make up what is now known as The That Guy Saga.

http://bad-rpers-suck.livejournal.com/8294474.html
http://bad-rpers-suck.livejournal.com/8363425.html
http://bad-rpers-suck.livejournal.com/8379354.html

For those wondering how it all eventually turned out, I left the board because of other drama. On the way out though, I told the admin he was pals with that she should have banned his ass long ago. She told me that he had been her pal since middle school and that she valued their friendship over some silly game.

I feel for her on that. I certainly value my friendships over roleplay games too. Sure, an admin shouldn’t let in someone like that just because they’re their friend, but maybe she had no idea he was going to be such an ass. However, if she thinks their friendship would really be at risk if she banned him, I have to wonder if *he* also valued their relationship over a silly game or not.

Last I heard, the place got taken down anyway because a minor was cybering there.

There's actually even more lulzfail to That Guy's antics involving another character of his, but that's all I ever posted there about him.

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