Writer, Reader, Dreamer.

I am a writer. I love to write, which can include roleplaying. I have a great many likes, westerns, fantasy, some sci fi just to name a few. I read a great deal and enjoy talking about books I've read or plots/ideas for writing stories. DM me if you want to chat about writing, rps, books, even gaming. Yeah, I'm an avid gamer too. After all, is there a person in this wretched world who isn't? ;-) Seriously just DM me and ask, I won't bite. Promise. Also, I am a she that is over 21 in age, just to clear up any uncertainties.

[literarydragonpirate]

So, for those I roleplay with and those who would like to roleplay. I enjoy a good story. Anything from Westerns/Wild West, Medieval Fantasy and Magics, fairytale some sci-fi, some superhero genre, video games, even books... It really depends... But don’t hesitate to DM. I won’t bite. I promise.

My fandoms include but are not limited to:

* Red Dead Redemption 2 - absolute favorite and would love to play my female OC against Arthur. But I'm pretty much down for anything.

* Lord Of The Rings - never done it before, but it would be fun.

* Pirates of the Caribbean - Love me some Jack Sparrow

* Star Wars - Love Obi Wan. The newer movies aren't particularly my favorite, but I might be down with a good plot.

* X-Men - I really love X-Men Evolution

* Young Hercules - most people haven't ever seen it. That's so sad. Ryan Gosling is adorable as Young Hercules.

* Dragon Age - I’m down for any of them. Though, be warned, I would love to ship my OC with Fenris.

There are others I'm sure. Feel free to DM me and ask. I am a literate writer and can end up writing lengthy paragraphs. If that's not your thing let me know. Though, I refuse to do only one liners. I need enough to write off of.

I have a number of OC’s, but will play canon characters too, if needed. Most of the time I prefer to use an OC, but again, feel free to ask.

I do love a good romance, but I prefer to draw out a friendship to possible relationship and even then, it's not guaranteed. I like angst, but I also love when it turns happy. My characters tend to be bad ass and strong females.

Also, I only play MalexFemale if romance does happen. Just my preference. Let's see, what else, I also don't do smut or nsfw. I'm fine leading up to it. But the down and dirty is a no go.

I will double up. But again, I will still only do MalexFemale. I love a good story and love to discuss plots or scenes or whatever.

I do try an write as often as possible, but I do have a life, so please don’t harass me unless it has been more than a few days/week.

So, if that appeals to your interest, DM me. I'd be happy to write a wonderful story with you.

[sorryiliketoscreenshot]

[sorryiliketoscreenshot]

[itspapillonnoir]

RED DEAD REDEMPTION II ᨖ

[infinityuserboxes]

[simonghostrileys]

Incredibly fucking slow at it 🤧

[slagginbitch]

i fixed it

[robin-the-robo]

[kristalstarroutlaw]

Didn't realize Cripps was an artist too. Man must be dreaming of a younger Maggie Pike with that image he's drawing.

[ghoulishly-yours]

RDR2 U.S-scale traveling guide

or what i like to call getting your people across the country without handwavey game mechanic map sorcery

hi y'all. i constantly overthink things for fics and travel times is one of them. i have spent [REDACTED HOURS] on this beast so there is likely to be mistakes. if so, forgive me, and i'll make corrections, but to my eyes at this moment it looks about right.

so here is my public service announcement from the self-imposed trenches:

if you stop treating the rdr2 map like gameplay compression and start treating it like actual united states geography, these people are not popping from valentine to saint denis in an afternoon unless they have invented satan’s own horse.

so i made myself a working travel cheat sheet for fic, and i am posting the useful part here.

this is not meant as “exact canonical mileage.” rockstar’s map is stitched together out of multiple real-world regions and vibes. this is a fiction clock. the point is to make the road cost something again: time, money, weather, witnesses, horseflesh, and one’s increasingly shredded dignity.

the basic rule use the game map as your location directory. use this post as your timing logic.

baseline 1899-ish travel logic for fic

on foot 15 to 20 miles a day on decent roads 10 to 15 if the ground is rough

horse, steady and sustainable 25 to 35 miles a day

horse, hard push 45 to 60 miles once, then the next day is worse

farm wagon / freight cart 12 to 18 miles a day rough 18 to 25 on better roads

stagecoach 50 to 80 miles a day best corridors can flirt with 100

rail 250 to 500 miles a day depending on line, transfer, delay, and how much the universe hates you personally

riverboat / steamer 80 to 150 miles a day upriver 120 to 250 on open water

the drafting rules that save lives

use hours only for local movement: town to nearby ranch, estate, station, camp, or outlying site

once a route clears 35 to 40 miles, treat it as a full day problem

once you are dealing with hundreds of miles, horse travel becomes a chain of feed stops, weather, nights, sore bodies, and ugly compromises

stagecoach is faster than private horse travel, but it is public, scheduled, and full of eyes

rail is the fastest lawful option, but it creates tickets, station records, porters, delays, crowds, and the deeply nineteenth-century problem of being perceived

in Lemoyne, add the social visibility factor

in Ambarino, factor in weather and elevation

in New Austin, add water and forage problems

in Roanoke, add road misery and topography

the big corridor cheat sheet

this is the part that kills half our accidental teleportation habits dead.

Colter ↔ Valentine steady horse: 10 to 14 days hard horse: 6 to 8 days coach mix: 5 to 7 days rail once you get on line: 2 to 3 days

Valentine ↔ Strawberry steady horse: 8 to 12 days hard horse: 5 to 7 days coach: 4 to 6 days rail transfer route: 2 to 3 days

Valentine ↔ Blackwater steady horse: 2 to 3 weeks hard horse: 8 to 12 days coach: 7 to 10 days rail: 2 to 3 days

Valentine ↔ Annesburg steady horse: 4 to 5 weeks hard horse: 2 to 3 weeks coach: 12 to 16 days rail: 3 to 4 days

Valentine ↔ Rhodes steady horse: 5 to 6 weeks hard horse: 3 to 4 weeks coach: 15 to 20 days rail: 3 to 5 days

Valentine ↔ Saint Denis steady horse: 5 to 7 weeks hard horse: 3 to 4 weeks coach: 18 to 24 days rail: 3 to 5 days

Strawberry ↔ Blackwater steady horse: 2 to 3 weeks hard horse: 8 to 11 days coach: 6 to 9 days rail: 2 to 3 days

Blackwater ↔ Rhodes steady horse: 4 to 5 weeks hard horse: 2 to 3 weeks coach: 11 to 15 days rail: 2 to 4 days

Blackwater ↔ Saint Denis steady horse: 4 to 6 weeks hard horse: about 3 weeks coach: 14 to 18 days rail: 3 to 4 days

Blackwater ↔ Armadillo steady horse: 2 to 3 weeks hard horse: 10 to 14 days coach: 8 to 11 days rail: 2 to 3 days if the line is behaving

Blackwater ↔ Tumbleweed steady horse: 4 to 6 weeks hard horse: 2 to 3 weeks coach: 13 to 18 days mixed rail and coach: 3 to 5 days

Rhodes ↔ Saint Denis steady horse: 7 to 10 days hard horse: 4 to 6 days coach: 3 to 5 days rail: same day to 1 day

Rhodes ↔ Annesburg / Van Horn steady horse: 2 to 3 weeks hard horse: 10 to 14 days coach: 8 to 11 days rail: 2 to 3 days

Saint Denis ↔ Annesburg steady horse: 3 to 4 weeks hard horse: about 2 weeks coach: 10 to 14 days rail: 2 to 3 days

Armadillo ↔ Tumbleweed steady horse: 10 to 14 days hard horse: 6 to 8 days coach: 5 to 7 days mixed rail and coach: 2 to 3 days

Saint Denis ↔ Guarma steamer only fair-weather read: 4 to 8 days longer if diverted, delayed, or cursed

regional local-orbit cheat sheet

this is the part for scenes where you need “how far is x from the nearest useful hub?”

AMBARINO / northern edge

hub logic: Colter is not “near the snow.” Colter is already the snow problem.

Adler Ranch from Colter: 20 to 35 min by horse, 1 to 1.5 hours on foot

Cairn Lodge from Colter: 1 to 1.5 hours by horse, 3 to 4 hours on foot

Lake Isabella from Colter: 2 to 3 hours by horse, about half a day on foot

Mount Hagen corridor from Colter: 3 to 5 hours by horse, full day on foot

Spider Gorge / Barrow Lagoon belt from Colter: 2 to 4 hours by horse, half to full day on foot

Wapiti from Bacchus / Fort Wallace side: 3 to 5 hours by horse, about 1 long day on foot

Bacchus Bridge / Calumet Ravine from Bacchus Station: 1 to 1.5 hours by horse, 3 to 4 hours on foot

Cotorra Springs / Donner Falls from Bacchus Station: 1.5 to 2.5 hours by horse, 4 to 6 hours on foot

consider: cold, grade, ice, bad footing, and exposure waste time faster than raw mileage.

NEW HANOVER WEST / HEARTLANDS / CUMBERLAND

hub logic: Valentine is still the cleanest anchor here, but “cleanest” is not “tiny.”

Horseshoe Overlook from Valentine: 30 to 45 min by horse, 1.5 to 2 hours on foot

Cumberland Forest belt from Valentine: 2 to 4 hours by horse, half day or more on foot

Emerald Ranch from Valentine: 3 to 4 hours by horse, 1 long day on foot

Emerald Station from Emerald: 20 to 30 min by horse, 1 to 1.5 hours on foot

Flatneck Station from Valentine: 3 to 4.5 hours by horse, 1 long day on foot

Heartland Oil Fields from Valentine: 2.5 to 3.5 hours by horse, 6 to 8 hours on foot

Cornwall Kerosene & Tar from Valentine / Flatneck: 4 to 5 hours by horse

Fort Wallace from Valentine: 5 to 7 hours by horse, 1 long day or more on foot

Bacchus Station from Valentine: 7 to 9 hours by horse, 2 days on foot

Limpany / Bards Crossing edge from Valentine or Flatneck: 3 to 5 hours by horse

consider: broad country, decent horse ground, but the miles still stack. Errands are possible. Casual nonsense is less so.

NEW HANOVER EAST / ROANOKE

hub logic: Annesburg and Van Horn are your ugly little anchors.

Annesburg ↔ Van Horn: 1 to 1.5 days by horse, 4 to 6 days on foot, about 1 day by coach

Butcher Creek from Annesburg: 3 to 4 hours by horse, 1 long day on foot

Beaver Hollow from Annesburg / Van Horn: 5 to 7 hours by horse, 2 days on foot

Doverhill from Annesburg: 4 to 5 hours by horse

Willard’s Rest from Annesburg: 2.5 to 3.5 hours by horse, 6 to 8 hours on foot

Brandywine Drop / Roanoke Valley from Annesburg: 4 to 6 hours by horse

Elysian Pool / cave belt from Annesburg or Van Horn: 4 to 6 hours by horse

consider: roads exist, yes. the land still hates you. ridges, hollows, mud, river bends, and industrial filth keep stealing daylight.

LEMOYNE

hub logic: Rhodes is the inland anchor, Saint Denis is the high-speed lawful anchor, and the marsh punishes optimism.

Braithwaite Manor from Rhodes: 45 to 75 min by horse, 2.5 to 3.5 hours on foot

Caliga Hall from Rhodes: 45 to 75 min by horse, 2.5 to 3.5 hours on foot

Clemens Point from Rhodes: 35 to 50 min by horse, about 2 hours on foot

Bolger Glade from Rhodes: 1 to 1.5 hours by horse, 3 to 4 hours on foot

Scarlett Meadows interior / Hill Haven side from Rhodes: 1.5 to 2.5 hours by horse

Shady Belle from Rhodes: 4 to 6 hours by horse, over 1 long day on foot

Lagras from Saint Denis: 2 to 3 hours by horse, 6 to 8 hours on foot

Lakay from Saint Denis: 3 to 4 hours by horse, 1 long day on foot

Sisika from Saint Denis: 2 to 4 hours by boat, plus paperwork and prison logic

Bluewater Marsh belt from Saint Denis / Lagras: 3 to 5 hours by horse

consider: the South is fast only on paper. roads help, but swamp, heat, visibility, and social scrutiny all tax the scene.

WEST ELIZABETH

hub logic: Strawberry is mountain-west travel, Blackwater is open-country modern travel, and Tall Trees slows both.

Wallace Station from Strawberry: 1.5 to 2.5 hours by horse, 4 to 6 hours on foot

Hanging Dog Ranch from Strawberry: 1.5 to 2 hours by horse

Pronghorn Ranch from Strawberry: 2 to 3 hours by horse, 6 to 8 hours on foot

Owanjila / west lake road from Strawberry: 1.5 to 2.5 hours by horse

Big Valley interior from Strawberry / Wallace: 3 to 5 hours by horse, 1 long day on foot

Riggs Station from Blackwater / Strawberry split: about 4 to 5 hours from Blackwater

Beecher’s Hope from Blackwater: 1 to 1.5 hours by horse, 3 to 4 hours on foot

Manzanita Post from Blackwater: 3 to 4 hours by horse, 1 long day on foot

Aurora Basin / Tall Trees interior from Manzanita or Blackwater: 4 to 6 hours by horse

consider: Strawberry country is timber, slope, and stubborn road. Blackwater country is easier moving, but much more watched.

NEW AUSTIN

hub logic: Armadillo anchors the east side, Tumbleweed anchors the west side, and the desert lies about what “not far” means.

MacFarlane’s Ranch from Armadillo: 4 to 6 hours by horse, 1 long day on foot

Benedict Point from Armadillo: 3 to 4 hours by horse, 6 to 8 hours on foot

Mercer Station from Armadillo: 4 to 5 hours by horse, 1 long day on foot

Twin Rocks from Armadillo: 2 to 3 hours by horse

Ridgewood Farm from Armadillo: 2.5 to 3 hours by horse

Thieves’ Landing from MacFarlane’s / Blackwater route: 5 to 7 hours by horse from MacFarlane’s, roughly 2 days on foot

Hennigan’s Stead interior: 1 long day by horse, 2 to 3 days on foot

Fort Mercer from Tumbleweed or Armadillo side: 4 to 6 hours by horse from Tumbleweed

Rathskeller Fork from Tumbleweed: 3 to 4 hours by horse

Plainview / Rio Bravo interior from Tumbleweed: 4 to 6 hours by horse

Gaptooth Ridge belt from Tumbleweed: 3 to 5 hours by horse

consider: heat, water, forage, and exposure matter as much as miles. desert travel is a logistics scene wearing a cowboy hat.

GUARMA

hub logic: once you hit Guarma, mainland travel logic gets thrown into the sea.

Aguasdulces is your landing point

Sugar mill / Fussar compound from Aguasdulces: 20 to 45 min on foot

Cinco Torres from Aguasdulces: 1 to 2 hours on foot

Manicato from Aguasdulces: 2 to 4 hours on foot

plantation / jungle interior: half day to full day depending route, weather, guards, and how badly everyone wishes to die

return to mainland: multiple days by steamer, no privacy, no stealth, no fun

consider: Guarma is not a road system. it is a dock, a patrol pattern, jungle, and terrible luck.

camp quick read

Colter frozen crisis camp. even “short” exits can turn into overnight disasters.

Horseshoe Overlook still the easiest errand camp, but town runs now take planning.

Clemens Point near enough to Rhodes for pressure scenes, far enough that every visit leaves tracks.

Shady Belle good for Saint Denis adjacency only if you respect the swamp and the roads.

Lakay hiding distance, not comfort distance.

Beaver Hollow isolated, grim, and annoying to extract people from on purpose.

the shortest possible version

if your fic is using actual U.S.-scale travel (like mine because clearly i enjoy pain), then:

Valentine to Rhodes is not a ride, it is a journey

Valentine to Saint Denis is not romantic horseback wandering, it is weeks

Blackwater to Saint Denis is a major corridor, not a quick hop

Rhodes to Saint Denis is one of the fastest horse corridors in the whole setting and it is still about a week at a sustainable pace

New Austin should always cost more water, time, and patience than people think

rail is the cheat code, but it is a public cheat code

stagecoach is respectable and faster than private riding, but it comes with schedules and witnesses

hours belong to local orbit

days and weeks belong to actual interregional travel

this covers the main towns, camps, stations, estates, and story-relevant destinations. i did not list every abandoned shack and hostile cave in the map because i do, despite appearances, still believe in mercy.

[itspapillonnoir]

RED DEAD REDEMPTION II ᨖ

[this-should-do]

I'm not tryna go against you Actually, I'm going with you

[blossomberriess]

you know sometimes i think about dutch questioning arthurs loyalty far back in horseshoe overlook and wondering where it had come from,

because to us, and to the gang, arthur is the most loyal of soldiers, someone who will follow dutch's order and whim and walk through hell and back to achieve it,

because being in the van der linde gang gives arthur a purpose, something so many will spend the rest of their life searching for, that even questioning arthurs loyalty just seems rather... foolish.

but dutch questions it, and he does so throughout the van der lindes journey, and he does so constantly, that it can't just come from nowhere.

and to dutch, and to me, i don't think it does. i think to dutch, however ridiculous it may seem, arthur has always had one foot in the van der linde gang, and one foot out in society, this coming from who arthur is, and who arthur tends to be attracted to.

you see arthur wanders, and he wanders a lot, he does so during their journey and he very clearly had done so before that, given the fact there seems to be a set system for when arthurs been gone too long, and dutch never seems to mind this, as whenever arthur returns, he always brings back to impossible, be it gold bars, large wads of camp, or enough food to feed the camp on weeks on end.

but then arthur brings back a women, a society women nonetheless, a society women arthur loves so dearly, and dutch's trust in arthur starts to crack, as while dutch never cared what arthur was up to on his wanders, now he knows that there's a chance that arthurs with that women and it bothers him, that arthur might have loyalties to someone outside the gang.

even so, that relationship between mary and arthur reaches it inevitable end, both wanting something from one another that the other cannot give them, and dutch ultimately feels relief, that while arthur is devastated, he stays in the gang for longer, his wandering less frequent, and dutch thinks he can forgive him for that one mistake.

but it happens again, sure, eliza's not a society lady like mary was, however, this time, arthur and eliza have a son, something else arthur can give his loyalty to, something, that gives arthur a purpose, and one much more precious than the one dutch had given him.

and arthurs gone for longer, to help eliza to prepare, to help raise his son, and with each time arthur leaves, dutch's trust in arthurs loyalty fractures, yes, arthur always returns with his pockets full to give to dutch, to the gang, however, there will always, always be a chance that arthur decides that the purpose his family gives him means more to him than the purpose dutch and hosea gave him isn't enough for him anymore.

although, arthur never gets that chance, and arthur stays within the gang for good, as anytime arthur seeks something meaningful outside of the gang, his heart just becomes battered and broken, and on the outside he becomes the perfect soldier, cruel and unfeeling,

yet the fact that arthur never got the chance to chose the gang, to set in stone that arthur will always choose the gang above anything else, means that dutch will never truly know where arthur's loyalty lies, despite it all, despite all arthur has done for him, to dutch, that question will always be there.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

side note, while we know the reason arthur and john don't get along so well in the beginning is because john not only left something precious that arthur had forcefully taken from him, and that he had left the gang, people who had rescued and raised john, i do think dutch had a large part in in their relationship shattering, because to dutch, john did it right. sure, john had left for a year, but his family hadn't, and his family were loyal to him, to the gang, and rejected society.

which is why it hadn't bothered him as much, why he doesn't get on john's case a lot in the beginning and why he had seemingly welcomed john back to the gang with open arms, something he likely had never done so with arthur.

[literarydragonpirate]

This is a very interesting point of view and well thought out. I definitely think there is something to this for sure. I really think that Dutch likely twisted things how HE wanted to see them too. I think he had a lot of expectations for Arthur and when he saw Arthur fall for Mary, I honestly wouldn't doubt that Dutch probably placed ideas in Arthur's head, especially when she refused to leave her sheltered little life for gang life.

I have a lot of thoughts on this actually, but this is my end take. I think Dutch was scared to lose the one who was most loyal, the one who helped take care of the gang and keep it afloat. So, Arthur having any sort of relationship outside the gang. That was probably pretty upsetting to old Dutch.

Arthur really didn't NEED the gang because he was a survivalist. I think he could have been just fine on his own. However, he wanted to be a part of something, wanted a family and the gang WAS that family, which was why he kept coming back even when Dutch's ideals started to turn rotten.

Dutch honestly had no idea how loyal Arthur truly was... until the very end. 😭

Arthur really did give him all he had.

[itspapillonnoir]

RED DEAD REDEMPTION II ∞

"Come on, Arthur. That's not how you are."

[occasionalrpmemes]

PSA: It’s ok if your muse doesn’t like my muse.

It’s ok if your muse gets angry at my muse. It’s ok if your muse doesn’t want to stay friends with my muse (or doesn’t want to make friends in the first place, or doesn’t want to keep up whatever relationship they have). You don’t need to force your muse out-of-character to keep them on friendly terms with mine. Conflict happens, and it’s ok if our muses run into conflict.

[itspapillonnoir-deactivated2023]

[shotgunaxecombo]

PSA // I AM A LOW-MAINTENANCE RP PARTNER

what exactly does a low-maintenance rp partner mean? well… it means that I will never rush you for a reply ( ic or ooc ), meme or ask answer, or pretty much anything! take all the time you need, it really doesn’t matter to me. this isn’t a race, this is something that is done for fun! so, don’t feel obligated to do something or even be online, if you don’t want to. it doesn’t matter how long or fast it takes you to respond to me, if you’re my person, you’re my person. and if you go on hiatus, i’ll stick with you through it so when you come back it’s like nothing ever happened. never feel obligated to explain to me why it takes so long, i get it we all have other things we’re doing. some of us work full-time, some of us are in school full-time, some of us run multiple blogs and some of us just can’t find the will or motivation to write for a couple days on end… I never want you to feel pressured to interact/talk/associate with me. so, do what you need for yourself and just know i’ll be here in the background rooting for you!

[wajjs]

if you guys really like a fic you should, like, actually engage with it & leave kudos & comments btw. recently on reddit someone talked about their experience in fandom after they deleted all their fics bc they felt ostracized & lonely (no one talked to them, no one commented on the fics). right after doing that, the person started getting messages on their social media profiles from different users telling them the fics meant so much, they raved about them in discord servers, etc etc.

like that guts me, you know? because writing IS kind of a lonely experience and when you share your writing you want to CONNECT with others. but if no one comments, if no one talks to you, if they make you feel like you're screaming into an empty room, of course you're gonna delete everything & leave. of course you're gonna be pissed off when suddenly out of "nowhere" others start popping up talking about how much them & their discord server loved your fic.

HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS OFF DISCORD. HAVE THEM WITH THE WRITER. we are fans too! like damn. can we not make people feel extra lonely or something. leave kudos. leave comments. talk to writers!!

[chewtsuri]

arthur doodle while I lose my mind over herbalist challenges

[zordanna]

black shire supremacy, I just know he’s the best boy