#viciousgrace

[stormbrained]

Is there one trope you can’t stand?

Who is an author that inspires you?

What is one thing you’d wish to see more in the rp community?

MUN QUESTIONS !

Is there one trope you can’t stand?

already answered!

Who is an author that inspires you?

AUGH FUCK. so many. tamsyn muir has me in a chokehold currently! her writing style is both evocative but very irreverent. i've been rotating the words "you can't take loved away" ever since i read them and it hurts worse every time

What is one thing you’d wish to see more in the rp community?

more spy aus. thank you.

[laperlina]

uno reversing u: 14-16!!!

let aqssa yap !!! ♡ @viciousgrace

14. What is your opinion on writing smut?

i think i can honestly be misunderstood as maybeee a prude lskds because i just ... don't happen to really write it much. BUT IM HERE TO CLEAR MY NAME. cuz it's noooot cuz i don't like it. i love it !!! bc it can be suuuuch a perfect opportunity to explore deeply and beautifully one character's feeling towards another, reveal who they are in their most primal and vulnerable states, the how / why of the decisions they make during all of it, and so on and so forth. it's more that i'm kinda selective about how it's done because without a really, good, plotted ship that you've discussed ooc to dig into the psychology and emotions of it just ... feels so empty and uninspiring to me otherwise. in that i don't think i'm particularly unique in this opinion here.

you, yue, actually put it really well in that ... smut is a balance between how much of the technical details you wanna get into, against the other aspects playing into it like psychology, emotions, that really up the whole sensuality of it. everyone has their own idea of what that balance looks like. i tend to care more about kneading out the latter parts in really thick and lush and sensory overload kinda ways, and say juuuust enough abt the mechanics to keep it still indulgent and action-driven and moving. idk if i'm making ANY sense here.

like ... my style of smut is, maybe it'll sound strange, but i like to put a hazy feeling over it. like there's a film between you and them. maybe you're behind a wall and you accidentally heard it, instead of being so vividly mechanical that it puts you right there and able to see and understanding everything that's going on. that foggy feeling you get when you're drunk almost and don't know exactly what's going on but can still feeling everything so intensely (sex and love are often described through alcoholic intoxication in islamic sufi poetry and that's always had a big influence on me). i like what human imagination can do when you tell them enough but go too far. denying that feeling a little because to me it feels like. moreee romantic and sensual that way ?? i like to keep some elements subjective for the reader to theater-of-the-mind themself bc this stuff is so personal to all of us, and to me that's more impactful.

maybe it's my taurus venus that's so laser focused on the sensuality beyond intimacy but that's what i like !! like. i don't shy away from explicit, but i just perfume it all a lot with a lotta sensory detail more than anything else. that's where i live when i do get to write it !! i think i'm starting to ramble here but it's hard to describe.

tl;dr it's fun to write, i just really prefer experiences where the sensory and emotional and psychological details take dominance over just moving from one technical detail to another. and i wouldn't ever write it for the sake itself. it's only even fun if it's a good ship !!! smut should be Art. annnnnd i don't think im particularly unique in this opinion by any means, just yapping about it in my own way i guess !!!!

15. What is your opinion on tagging triggers?

is it normal to have particular opinions heresdkmsm. idk i just tag what i think is appropriate. i try my best but i'm sure mistakes can happen same as with anything cuz i'm juuuust a human being. if you expect grace and understanding as a person trying your best, you should be able to give it back to others. nothing controversial here.

16. Do you prefer long or short replies and why?

i honestly don't care oneeee way or another as long as i'm inspired. sometimes i try to answer shorter for the sake of getting through 30+ drafts at a time purely to keep myself from burn out. and that has nothing to do with the thread or the person, just more to do with the fact that rp isn't our full-time jobs and we don't have all the time in the world for it. i do think i'm lucky tho in that once i get the first thoughts or words out of my head, esp when i'm inspired, i'm pretty fast. and i'm proud of that bc it helps me show to others that i'm active and engaged and enthusiastic and like !! present for you !! to the best of my ability, ofc. again i'm only human !!

rly what matters more to me is momentum and/or mutual enthusiasm and energy for threads and/or plots !! it's just the same thing as compatibility in any other aspect of a rp partnership, i think. the more compatible you are across rp aspects (style, energy, pace, themes you both like, etc.) the more exciting and inspiring the rp partnership is. that mutual feeling and energy is rly all i care abt wayyyy more that reply length. i have never thought, like, oh this reply is short they hate me. oh this reply is long i'm dreading it. like. that's so weird to me lol.

[blacknighted]

@viciousgrace asked: no one can be independent of other people completely. (from miss lyanna stark.) / PROMPTS FROM NORMAL PEOPLE: still accepting.

"Aye, ma'am. I believe you." He says it and means it. And of course he does, doesn't he? He's Henry of Skalitz, and his heart's not his own.

But then, it is in his chest, isn't it?, fluttering as though a magpie's enchanted by a diamond. It's not all his own, he knows that, just as his laughter can be loved on by the maidens next door, but it's got to mean something that it's yet in his body. Something grand. Something bigger and mighty and fiercer than him. To Henry, he feels them all like phantoms, those whispers of his loved ones cradled past his ribs. He feels as though a very big loom, a loom wrapped in flesh and the glint of a cuirass, and quietly, those threads of those folk who have known and loved him... They're spinning. He looks at her. Mercifully, he finds eyes more tender than fraught with pity. But it's not the same, is it? he wonders, with them festering inside than breathing being out here? —she'll get it. After all, what is a girl if not the will of her family? Henry frowns. Quit moping, Henry. About them, the roaring fête goes as the rich sherry's poured. "Sorry. I didn't mean to worry you, my lady. Promise. I hear you're fond of flowers, aye? I mean no disrespect, but I didn't think that included them wallflower ones." Oh! Funny!

[s1dew4ys]

taran wants to annoy @viciousgrace 's emily wilde

THINGS HAD BECOME AWFULLY BORING. really he didn't understand why his nephew couldn't humor him with a war or two. he could practically feel his bones become dust due to not being used. without war what was he supposed to do? listen to the court? dabble in politics? he shudders at his own line of thinking. he couldn't remember if he had sat down before emily or after. the fact didn't matter. she wasn't paying him any attention as she scribbled in one of those notebooks again. he'd save her with his conversation. ❝ you know, it's not too late to throw a ball to celebrate your marriage. ❞ he gives a lazy wave of his hand. ❝ don't humans adore anniversaries? we could cover you in an onyx gem gown. i'm sure my nephew would adore it. ❞

[archaeval]

@viciousgrace gets a surprise starter ;;

HOURS HAD PASSED IN SILENCE with nothing more than the whisper of a turning page to break it. Ruby had been reading this particular tome for years, trying to make sense of the madman's ramblings that hid arcane truths, though she couldn't guess at what Zisa had chosen to read -- only that it seemed to displease the woman. Ruby's curiosity burned, an eternal flame that drove her to break the peace that had lasted for so long. "What eats at you, my dear? You turn the pages as if they themselves have caused offense."

[recitedemise]

He would say that life isn't fair; however, were he to do that, he may as well go for the whole nine yards. See, life isn't fair, dear Warden, and the sky up above them shivers endless and blue -- except! Well, it isn't blue, is it?, trembling as it is with the blustering of a storm? He looks. It's ugly and throbbing and monochromatic. Grey. Summer's warm, he would tell her, but that's clearly wrong, too.

Between them, their meager candle crackles near gutturally on its pathetic last fumes. It's unseasonably chilly, he grouses, nipping enough already to waltz, waltz, slither like some viper past his robes. Still, Gale figures that's the normal in this baffling wasteland, and as it were, novelty, he's realizing, only comes in droves. Together, they sit blighted, one sick for duty and another for a love. Before, perhaps these reasons would've struck them noble, but reckoning with his body as it aches to the bone? To be honest, there's a hardly a way to deal with it.

Nonetheless, Gale busies with his cup, his paltry, watered vintage that tiptoes on borderline swill. The mood should be somber, gussied like a widow at her late love's wake, but the smile he wears bears no hurt at all. He even laughs. From his chest, it rumbles like a river as he knits his brow. "This isn't exactly a game I've indulged in much since my more notorious youth, but I imagine," he jokes, "that there are fewer times better suited for rebellion than ours." The storeroom's so cold. "Right then. Perhaps we should get a little more serious. Beatrize." Will she sip? "Never have I ever regretted those choices that led here." / @viciousgrace, ♡ liked for a starter.

[zagubionywilk]

@viciousgrace​  --   ❛  i  did  a  lot  wrong  that  i  can’t  make  right .  ❜ from lyanna stark    //     𝑫𝑬𝑨𝑻𝑯 𝑶𝑭 𝑨𝑵 𝑶𝑷𝑻𝑰𝑴𝑰𝑺𝑻

       >> ⚔️ <<           THE LEAST ONE CAN DO IS BE    self aware of ones transgressions.    the witcher has lived long enough to know that to be true    ;    or at least useful to continue forth and not do the    same    TRANSGRESSIONS    again.

          ❝           I SEE.    IN TRUTH   you’re doing better than most if you know what you did cannot be fixed.    what do you plan to do going forward.    if anything.         ❞        he gives glance over to lyanna as the wolf of non stark blood continued to    BRUSH HIS HORSE’S COAT.

[sorrowmarked-a]

starter for @viciousgrace ( colleen & sharon )

colleen clapped both hands together pressing them to her chin as she thought about what this could possibly be about. she was so low on the hero food chain she might as well be a civilian these days. (she was not misty’s sidekick, but as soon as the daughters of the dragon split, she certainly started to feel like that’s how everyone saw her.) for a big wig from SHIELD to be knocking on her door, well that was just ... weird. it was weird. 

“is misty okay?” she asked, maybe that was it. she was dating sam wilson, she guessed it would put her within the circles of communication that might drive sharon carter to her door now that her once-friends was part of team cap.