Mod:
Hey folks! This isn't aimed at anyone in particular, and it's come up after multiple asks and conversations from several different parties over months, so please don't think of this as a callout! I'm solely establishing the norms for this blog to make sure that newer folks are aware of how things work here.
Pumpkin's crew, from his ship, consists of the following people, exclusively and definitively:
He does not currently have a Daisuke, which isn't really a big deal the way things are currently being written; if one is added to the crew, it will only be by the consensus of said crew's mods.
The only OC directly affiliated with this crew at present is Jon/June, the janitor, which was decided mutually after ooc discussion based on what made narrative sense to us based on what we had been writing together. Jon was not an original part of his crew before the anomaly and his acceptance as part of the crew now does not mean that we have retconned that.
All of our blogs are written with a serious tone, grounded in a hefty dose of realism both in terms of science when and where we can, and also in the human interactions. We hold ourselves to a high standard in this regard, and most of us very rarely allow magic anons, and only circumstantially do when we find it helpful to the blog in some way.
Because of that, while we may have plenty of humorous moments, the overall tone of our writing tends to be darker and full of conflict between the crew due to the circumstances they find themselves in. This is by design. We all met because of our desire to tell a serious story and coalesced because of our shared values about this and other matters.
You are more than welcome to send asks and starters and interact with Pumpkin, but here's a handy list of what to do or not do:
Have a well-fleshed out character with an actual backstory
Give your character genuine struggles to overcome
Make them behave like a professional in a workplace
Interact with Curly in a professional capacity
Keep personal interactions appropriate to talking with a stranger
Give your character hobbies and interests
Make sure they behave like a reasonable adult
Start hitting on Curly immediately
Provide nothing but surface-level interactions
Write with the primary intention of pursuing a relationship with Curly
Claim to be a member of his ship's crew
Try to retcon your character into his prior interactions
Godmode (try to take control of someone else's character, in this case Curly)
Pressure me into writing my character differently
Have a minor (under 18yo) character
Write your character as being constantly immature or childish
If you're unsure and need clarification about any of these, feel free to send an ask about it. :) Once again, this isn't meant to discourage anyone from interaction. This is solely about establishing what this blog is intended for, and what both Curly's standards for the people he'll voluntarily talk to, and my standards as mod for what I'm willing to write, involve. If you find that what you prefer to write is on my list of no's, that doesn't mean I hate you. All it means is that our writing wouldn't be a fit together, and that you're better off finding another Curly to interact with who does enjoy those things.
As long as you're writing a realistic and mature adult in their workplace and behaving accordingly, it's likely that they'll get along with Pumpkin just fine.
