Me: Hey, bro, is there like … FF14 marriage markets? Cause it would be like weird, cause we're siblings.
My brother, without a beat: it's about the gear isn't it (1).
My name is Mai and I figured if I was going to get married for the gear, I’d aught to have some fun! I’d RPed before, so some experience but not with FFRP specifically.
TL;DR: POC/Black, She/They, Queer/Poly Allowed, Smut/NSFW (No non-con.) Semi-literate to literate (2). Mostly like Freeform-ish (3).
My lead player character, who I’m starting to develop into an OC is a Rava Viera. I’m say starting because the closest I’ve gotten is “giving a valley girl a knife” (think the Elle Woods’ “so it’s like hard” but is still clearly a “weird girl”) (4).
Some other general notes that might sway or slay:
I don't have any mods right now, so I know my character will look rather dusty. (I'm playing on PS4 for now.)
I personally am non-binary but like experimenting with womanhood/queer gender performances - which might matter.
I'm fine with writing Smut/NSFW between characters, and personally think of it like a charter-building exercise/a chess game where I really have to focus.
Polyamory is fine - but I do need to know.
This totally isn't necessary, but I think it would be fun if there was extra crafting going on. I, personally, could write one-shots for sure, but other things like letter-sharing, drawing, or something else seemed fun to trade! (AGAIN! TOTALLY not necessary lol.)
Action Items:
DM Me! I'd like to hear more about your character!
I think we should do some back and forth first to see if our styles and characters actually work together.
"Footnotes":
It was absolutely about the gear.
I specify semi-/literate because until I know the character, I might want to leave more space for your OC to respond.
I don't mind cursing and fights (this is a game where you fight), but I have some hard nos (racism, non-con) and reserve the right to make a new boundary I missed.
It's either that or the driest, saltiest nior protagonist - a short, anti-authoritarian, scrappy survivor. (Yes, she has big feelings on the inside, that is a part of noirs.)
I was in Mormon brain jail concurrently to when Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped and held, as it turned out, like 20 miles away from us. We would see billboards when we were driving past in our big white institution van, and we would see magazines in the checkout aisle, on the rare occasions we were allowed to enter shops accompanied, about Elizabeth Smart being held somewhere by some guy. This teenage girl who had been kidnapped and brainwashed and held basically in the next valley over. I don't remember how long she was with him, but this was when everyone was freshly looking for her and panicking about how she had been abducted and was being held against her will and brainwashed. Her picture was EVERYWHERE.
So. Imagine dozens of other teenage girls, being held against their will and brainwashed in Utah, seeing these billboards and going, "huh. I'm having a complicated emotional reaction to all of this. It's possible that I might unpack that in two to three decades."
Both of these situations arise from the same societal attitudes. This guy wanted a teenage girl to be trapped with him and unable to leave, regardless of her feelings on the matter, and for her to act a certain way and comply with his desires. He took her from her home and forced her to be somewhere she did not want to be and would not let her go, and he tried to turn her into a different thing. The difference in societal reactions to when one specific, unauthorized guy does this, compared to when someone's parents pay a fancy sounding institution to do it for them, tells you a lot about how we think about the autonomy of teenage girls.
In Utah, the reason these types of institutions are allowed is because their youth rights laws are abysmal even compared to the rest of the US. Children aren't people, they're the property of their parents. Elizabeth Smart's parents didn't want her to be kidnapped, so it was bad. Our parents did want us to be kidnapped, so it was fine.
Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapper’s crime was that he didn’t go through the established system for kidnapping and brainwashing teenage girls. This is not even a little bit hyperbolic.
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hey jsyk while hellofresh is dummy expensive and i wouldn’t reccomend it if you already know how to cook (if you’re a beginner like i was when i had it for 3 months, then it’s worth it), you should know that ALL OF THEIR RECIPES are free on their website and they all fuck hard
i will say that all the cooking instructions for veggies are pretty much the same (season with salt + pepper and roast on the top oven rack at 425F), but if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
that being said, it also introduced me to methods i wasn’t at all expecting. i would have never thought to use cream cheese in my meat sauce, and now all my friends are constantly asking me to make my special rigatoni.
I am a person who uses Hello Fresh for realsies because it is a bit cheaper than groceries here and definitely cheaper than takeout, but we also remake the recipes when we want a specific one and don't want to wait for it to come around in the rotation again, and therefore I know The Secret Translations of Proprietary Ingredients:
"Cream sauce base" = make a roux, add milk according to how much cream sauce base you're supposed to have (ex: 4 oz cream sauce base = 4 oz milk)
"1 packet stock concentrate" = either one tablespoon Better than Bullion or, if you want to be really accurate, Savory Choice Broth Concentrate packets are available on Amazon and allegedly that's what they use
"Italian Heat Spice"/"Blackening Spice"/"Fry Seasoning"/etc.: I promise you someone on Reddit has figured out what spices they use and in what proportions for each mix, if it's not just a straight up branded mix (like McCormick Grill Mates Brown Sugar Bourbon spice mix)
"Roasted Garlic Herb Butter" (and other compound butters, like truffle butter) = they're literally Epicurean branded butters, they do not hide this, you can buy them online
"Sweet Soy Glaze"/"Ponzu sauce"/"Hoisin sauce" = literally Kikkoman brand condiments: they don't hide that, either
"Sweet Thai chili sauce" = any sweet Thai chili sauce from the grocery store will do. We use Blue Dragon or Taste of Thai because that's what we can get in our grocery store.
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