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[holy-havoc]

Do you think yourself above the rules?

Yeah. Usually.

Or they just don’t apply to me.

Depends on the rules.

Not sure I’m breaking any here though.

Finders keepers!

[thebowlercapfairy]

I used to write profusely, & now I sit idly & wonder if I ever had a single thing worth saying.

[twiststreet]

They want us fellas to just stick to MUNA's Silk Chiffon, I guess?? Let's do this, bros!!! (X)

[preventthefuture]

Look, it's either this or the Victor Borge tape.

[eyes-blazing]

Updated Rules!

1: Anyone who wants wants to date a muse of mine can but it will be on an AU depending on verse. I do have main ships in some verses for certain muses but I am always willing to explore a ship.

2: Any Loki who wants to be treated as Emrys father can, but it will be treated as an AU. Just shoot me a message and we’ll figure something out. 

3: Any Hale children/family who want to rp with Raul can. Any relationships with someone other than Talia will be treated as an AU since he is still loyal to his wife. Any cousins/uncles/siblings ect. will be case by case in terms of AU or Main.

4: NO GOD MODDING. You get one chance, you godmod I don’t talk to you anymore. I don’t take it.

5: NO ANON HATE. Any hate will be deleted and you will be blocked don’t even try it. 

6:I will not be accepting any magic anon’s or plots that involve children. This also involves anyone my muses are in a relationship with. If you do get an magic anon that involves your character having an child with one of my characters I will not go along with it.

8. I do not roleplay MPREG at all. I’ve tried it in the past and my muse always runs away from it.

7. I will only post WELCOME posts for mutuals. This does not mean that I do not want to roleplay with you or your muse.

8. I will not always follow back. This does not mean that I wont roleplay with you it just means that during my initial look at your blog I didn’t think our muses would get along. If you want to roleplay with me just shoot me a message.

9. I reserve the right to say no to anyone. Just because I say that I will rp with anyone does not mean I will force my muses to interact with someone they hate. It’s really up to my muse who I rp with. 

11. If you do not specify which muse you want to rp with when sending an ask/meme/starter I will choose one myself.

12. Do not pressure me to reply. If it has been a while then shoot me a reminder but if I say I have your reply and am going to get to it then I will. If you push at me it’ll make it less likely for me to reply.

[fictionfordays]

˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚Rules˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚

BYF:

Firstly, and this is on my pinned, MINORS, AGELESS, and BLANK blogs will be BLOCKED ON SIGHT.

General Etiquette:

This blog is my safe space, and therefore I will not tolerate any hate of any kind.

BE NICE.

TO EVERYONE.

I don't mind pet names, but please don't use anything rude. I don't find it sexy or cute to be called "bitch" or "slut" by people that I don't know irl. Cutesy and platonic pet names are fine!

Please be polite when sending an Ask! I can be very patient and sweet, but please don't push my buttons!

I'm working on getting better at tagging things, but if there's something you find triggering that I need to tag as such (example: tw: blood) please let me know so that you can block that particular tag.

Request Rules:

you MUST be following me! If you unfollow once the request is done, then you will be blocked!

It should go without saying: I DON'T HAVE TO DO THE REQUEST IF I DON'T WANT TO.

Events and Collabs will generally have their own set of rules, so please read those when Requests are open.

I do NOT write angst. I just don't. Angst makes me cry and I hate crying lol, sometimes I can do hurt/comfort, but generally I stick to fluff and smut

Fandoms I write for: - Generally speaking, check the Main Masterlist for the fandoms. - If you see the fandom you desire but not the character, feel free to send an Ask (I don't bite unless you ask me to)

Fandoms I draw for: - I can pretty much draw for any fandom! I have a stash of things to be posted that I don't think are listed anywhere on my page ??? - When in doubt, check the Art Room or the WIPs, or send me an Ask!

[beatenxnotxbroken]

HI THERE AND HOWDY! :D

First off, welcome! I’m excited to meet you and get to know you and your lovely muse/muses! I’m even more excited to start plotting and writing together! I just have a few things I’d like to address and get out of the way first! 

If we start talking and or plotting and then you suddenly stop talking to me. I am going to assume you didn’t want to write and may abandon the entire thing, as I am shy and fear of bugging others tends to stop me from asking if they wanted to continue. So please, keep talking/interacting/plotting with me so I know we are okay!   Even if it's just to say hi the last thing I want is to miss out on a chance to make a new story with you. 

I also reserve the right to choose who I roleplay with. I am a mom of three, and I don’t want to feel overwhelmed or ruin any potential good rps between us by taking on too many partners! 

I won’t force myself if I don’t feel a connection/don’t have muse/am uncomfortable with the content of your blog. Please respect my right to take care of myself and make RPing a fun experience. 

I tend to be ship shy especially when it comes to my ocs, and have a hard time asking for a ship/rp, please bare with me for the time being as I gain the courage to ask you to RP. However, I am open to any ship as long as asked and it is plotted. I am 29 years old and will not ship or do NFSW stuff with you unless you’re well over 18. 

I am comfortable with almost anything but child-related offenses, rape, incest, self-harm, and suicide all of these things are extremely triggering for me due to some intense things in my childhood. Absolutely no pedophilia rp or anything to do with harming children on my blog, I will not reply whatsoever. Absolutely ZERO talk about self-harm to me ooc please, I am a recovering self-harmer, and that kind of chatter triggers me severely. However rping it as long as it is not c***ing/burning/hitting oneself (like locking themselves in their room type, doing it for rituals or distractions in battle is different.), then I am usually okay.

When it comes to venting: I completely understand that you might be feeling overwhelmed and in need of someone to talk to. However, as a mother of three, I also have other responsibilities that require my attention. While I am always here to lend an ear and offer support, it can be challenging to constantly handle emotional dumping without any breaks. I truly value any and all conversations and enjoy being a listener, but I also need to take care of myself and my family. I hope one can understand where I'm coming from and know that I'm always here to help in any way I can.

When it comes to my aesthetics: Now normally I don't see this in a lot of rules but I feel the need to add it in mine. If I post an OC aesthetic, PLEASE DO NOT REBLOG IT FOR YOUR OWN OC. Especially if we're not mutuals, and you do not plan on crediting me. I cater my work specifically toward my muses and spend hours on said aesthetic. Please, I work hard on them to promote my ocs the last thing I want is to feel like they're just resources. However, if I happen to post an aesthetic related to a CANON CHARACTER, one is more than fine to reblog and reuse all I ask for is credit. :)

Please refrain from reblogging memes and such from me, as I am not a resource blog and would love the actual person who made the memes to get the credit!

No god-modding my characters, canon or otherwise, I will refuse to respond to the post. I respond best with basic roleplay etiquette.

I WILL NOT respond to any form of AI generated replies/rps.

I have over 15+ years of roleplay experience under my belt, and I am open for plotting. I am a huge plotter and love to make friends, I’ll even spoil you rotten with ship songs and blurbs of said ship! As much as I love to plot, I am open to winging it too! 

I do double/triple up in characters during roleplay, but that’s only because my muses generally tie into one another at some point.

I am extremely oc friendly, and am just plain friendly in general, I also roleplay on discord too.

[ao3cassandraic]

Angels, demons, language, and culture: part 3

(Part 1 and Part 2 for those interested.)

"I play an ineffable game of my own devising. For everyone else, it’s like playing poker in a pitch dark room with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won’t tell you the rules and who smiles all the time." --God, Good Omens

This is just. Creepy and awful and so, so wrong for a quasi-omnipotent being. Ugh. Good Omens!God is an abject horror.

But if you're one of the poker players at that table, what do you do? You try to figure out the rules and mark the cards, naturally. Especially if leaving the table only happens via swan dives into burning sulphur, or getting kicked out of the only home you've known into a hostile desert with lions in it. While pregnant, yet.

So, I did a Bat Mitzvah back in the day, as it happens, and my Torah portion was from Deuteronomy. Which is, as I am hardly the first to notice, chockablock full of rules. Good Omens definitely leveraged (rather than inventing) the idea of trying to figure out Her rules and codify them in writing! Note, however, that the Bible per Word of Gaiman is a human thing. Codifying divine rules? Therefore also a human thing, minus I suppose the Ten Commandments -- though I can certainly envision a Good Omens in which Moses was, um, not exactly telling the truth about the source of the tablets; we only really have his word for it.

Angels and demons, who have a low opinion of literacy and just generally don't seem to be very good at it, never did this. We see that Aziraphale, Before the Beginning, has intuitively figured a few rules out: don't question Her, don't comment on (much less critique) Her decisions or designs, don't ever ever piss Her off. The Starmaker hasn't gotten this far, tragically, and our Crowley remains confused throughout the show as to what rule he can possibly have broken that earned him the identity-changing torture She inflicted on him.

Fundamentally, Crowley doesn't want to -- perhaps can't -- believe that She is capricious and cruel. He thinks there are rules, "don't test to destruction" being a major one. We know he's wrong, however. She straight-up told us so, in the quote at the top of this post! Aziraphale, too, knows, though he buries this knowledge as deep under the words "ineffable" and "Great Plan" (there is no Great Plan, She told us so, it's all a game to Her) as he possibly can -- I think as a coping mechanism -- and does his best to avoid drawing Her attention again after the Sword Incident.

But we see angelic and demonic confusion about the rules of Her game again and again. It's at the root of Aziraphale's successful Great Plan/Ineffable Plan hairsplitting at the airbase. It's why Aziraphale has to (with Muriel's help) dig through the contract for Job, and why Gabriel and Michael can't even be arsed to, even revising Job's reward on the fly. They're guessing! They're guessing about the rules based on what they've seen of Her caprices! She likes sevens!

It's how Crowley rules-lawyers the demons into letting the Whickber Street tradespeople go. If there are actual rules of Heaven-Hell engagement -- and there may not be! Crowley's pulled plausible-sounding lies out of his arse before! -- I'll bet you anything you like practically nobody in Heaven or Hell has actually read them. (My top picks for rules-of-engagement authors, if those rules actually do exist, would be Satan and the Metatron.)

And it's why Uriel has to ask the Metatron, as unsure and afraid as Uriel has ever looked in the entire series, whether the remaining archangels have done something wrong. The Metatron's response refuses to clarify what's at issue -- he, like Her, won't tell anybody the rules. If I'm feeling extremely cynical, I think She and he refuse to explain the rules because they're more powerful if there's no rulebook that rank-and-file angels can use to contest them with.

It makes me so sad. The legions of Heaven would assuredly have followed Her rules, if they only knew what those rules were! Fanart of the just-fallen Starmaker routinely breaks my susceptible heart, not least because the commonest expressions on his face are agony, sorrow -- and confusion. It's just all so damn unfair.

Same with Job, and Peter Davison sells it beautifully. Poor Job assumes he must have broken Her rules somehow, and blames himself for not even knowing how. That's totally on Her, though! If Her rules aren't clear enough for righteous Job to be able to trust his own righteousness under a horrible test, that's Her fault, not his!

The closest that Heaven and Hell -- and humanity, for that matter -- have to Her rules is prophecy. I probably don't need to spill many pixels on how vague and confusing prophecy is, how often it's counterfeited, and how pointless it is to try to live your life by (or trying to avoid) true prophecies; prophecies will invariably gotcha you. Good Omens is hardly the first work of literature to point this out. (Try the story of Oedipus. That's a good one. Yeesh. Or, if we want to be all Biblical about it, Moses again.) Agnes Nutter may well be the only genuinely well-meaning prophet in the entire history of prophets! Even so, her book is incredibly bewildering! Generations of her descendants try to figure it out, and mostly they fail -- look at the annotations we see on Anathema's index cards.

So when @thundercrackfic asks me what Aziraphale gets out of books, my first (though not only) answer is "rules for living." Not just rules for living as safely as possible around Her, though -- rules for living among humans, too. I headcanon (and posited in "Endgame") that Aziraphale has been collecting human etiquette manuals as long as humans have been writing etiquette manuals. Codified rules, like the ones in Deuteronomy, likely help him feel more secure.

I think this is also why Muriel characterizes books as portable people. Muriel is trying their sweet adorable best to figure out the Earth rules on the fly, since nobody Upstairs told them (or indeed knows, the Metatron aside) what those rules are. They do have Aziraphale to help them along -- Aziraphale is so much better than Upstairs! he doesn't condescend or insult, he just gently instructs -- but Aziraphale can't teach full-time, he has other things on his plate. So Muriel the scrivener, one of the few angels who would have a clue about literacy due to the nature of their job, gravitates to books and discovers that they too can be gentle and compassionate teachers.

The final question outstanding is how well Aziraphale understands and assimilates human books, especially fiction, especially especially non-literal figures of speech. It's an excellent and complicated question, and I don't think I have The Answer to it, but I'll see what I can do.