knowing your writing partner can potentially make writing together a lot easier!
★ pronouns: ae/aem/aer (usage example: 'this is Crow. ae are seemingly always distracted. some of aer muses include the Duolingo owl. I hear boss music when I see an ask from aem.')
★ taken or single: single.
1. I'm gonna start with the one I always use for the 'tell me one thing about yourself!' ask memes. one time, I was writing Bucky and Jameson with a partner on Skype because they wrote Jameson's boyfriend, Harley, and Steve. while staring directly at the thing I was meant to be replying to as Jameson, I completely forgot and only replied with Bucky and then wondered why there wasn't a Harley reply for a bit after that. my memory is fuckin terrible.
2. my on-blog pages are coded by me and I had to look up how to gradient opacity again for Ultron's page. I started learning HTML coding to make post templates for forum sites in around 2015 and I can't code a lot, but I know how to read the coding well enough to edit themes and write my own (very simple) templates or page layouts. the old templates were just to keep things neat and very similar aesthetically to the verses pages on my blog. different methods, though; the verses pages are tables and the templates were just basic [div style=""] tags. tables probably would've been easier to use for templates, actually, but I didn't think about it.
3. I also taught myself how to do picture editing, sometimes trying to use tutorials on CAUTION to the Wind 2.0 (when that forum was up) but inevitably returning to just experimenting. started when I was about 13 using Pixlr because I'm picky and wanted to do all my own signatures and avatars. I improved significantly when I started writing Bam and Hope-turned-Harley-turned-Dylan, because I wanted specific hair colours from specific eras or years so I had to learn how to use what I could find or I'd just not have graphics. I switched to GIMP because I wanted to do GIF edits and Pixlr can't do GIFs, but I actually hate editing and making GIFs, which is also why I don't use GIFs for this blog.
☆experience.how long (months/years?):
18 years and some amount of months. started roleplaying when I was 13, playing Judy Lewis with the face claim Anna Kendrick. it was 2008 and the Twilight movie had just come out.
★ female or male: honestly? nonbinary. I much prefer writing nonbinary or gender fucky characters. this is why Bucky and Bam are my faves to write, because Bam is generally fucky and Bucky's gender and identity is inevitably influenced by the dehumanisation he experienced.
Bucky is still a cis man while Bam's just... Bam. her gender is Bam. Bam exists beyond both her understanding and your understanding of human gender.
out of the two choices given, I am significantly more comfortable writing men and I feel like I have a better grasp on writing men even though I lived as a woman for 20-something years and have been treated as a girl and woman since birth. most of my favourite muses that I've written have been men (at some point; looking at Bam) and while I don't dislike writing women, I feel like they always read as a character instead of how my man and nonbinary muses read which is as a person. I could be wrong, but the vibes are just off.
★ fluff, angst, or smut: comfortable with angst, willing to do fluff, have a sideblog for smut. I actually have written more smut than fluff, especially in 2016/2017 because of the aforementioned Skype roleplaying with Bucky and Steve but I won't say I'm good at writing smut. the experience is why I can confidently say that boy is a bottom.
★ plots or memes: memes. I'm more experienced with improvisation in threads--because forums sites had an entire like five year period where people didn't plot the vast majority of the time--and I'm also so used to characters like Bam, who will look at your carefully constructed plot based on previous experience and decide, 'nah, I don't wanna act like that,' and I either have to write him in a way that doesn't work for him or abandon the plot and apologise profusely because Bam's gender is, primarily, Bastard.
★ long or short replies: here's the thing; I like both, but I struggle with short replies. sometimes, you just need a quick and easy little thing to write, and I love those times. I do, however, lack the ability to shut the fuck up at any given moment, which truly should not be a surprise because, I mean, look at the evidence above. have I shown a hint of brevity in this entire thing? I can and will yap and that is a problem.
★ best time to write: I typically write post-midnight. anything before then, I can't focus. (also I learned brevity for a single answer. holy shit.)
★ are you like your muse(s)?: I would say I'm somewhat similar to Bam, Dylan, Bucky, the Scavenger, and Jessie? online, I'm more Bam/the goose/Duo/Jessie leaning, I think. offline, I'm more Dylan/Bucky/the Scavenger, and I fear I have to yap to explain 'the Scavenger' as an answer in a way that isn't borderline terrifying.
so, offline, I tend to be... selectively mute? I think that's the right wording. like, I don't start conversations with people, I'm not particularly outwardly friendly, and the Scavenger isn't, either. we are both more likely to cast a glance over someone than say 'hi'. that kind of thing is what I mean by 'somewhat similar', because I'm not running any kind of criminal enterprise but neither of us will speak to strangers or talk at length about ourselves. this is also why I'm a little bit like Bucky along with both him and Bam having memory issues.
tbh Bam has memory issues so that if I forgot anything while writing him, it could be chalked up to him forgetting things. if I'm going down, she's going down with me. (/jk)
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