ranger_i

I've actually done a lot of stuff lately, for someone who's supposed to be a college student, working on semester projects and whatnot. Mostly this is because I'm a procrastinator. And to be fair, I did a lot of it over spring break.

Arvin Sloane (crazyunclearvin) started us out with a six word story in eclectic_muse, locked from Nadia (thelostdaughter). Most of the others weren't too thrilled to see him out and about, but he did get some comisseration from Marilyn Stark (captain_stark). It transpires that they hang out, and have villains' movie night.

Jack Bristow (spydad) started the inevitible snarking on Sloane's post. He also dropped a bombshell on his former friend.

Raymond Reddington (theskyisred) continued the snarking at Sloane with some threats and another reality check. He and Ethan Blakely bonded over hats and the crazy mean things their mun does to them. Ethan comforted Reddington while the mun wrote angsty fanfic about him. He met Alec Lightwood and the two talked muns and the Hotel California game. He ranted about his mun's ideas and said hi to his favorite FBI agent. He spoke with Matthew Calahan about the worst thing he'd done. (Red is still working on his list.) Matthew was concerned he was the guy with the hat from "Indiana Jones." Red tried to convince Tauriel that love is more than pain. Later they discussed the things he's hiding. The muns decided I need a chart to keep track of all of it. :)

Pansy Parkinson (purelypansy) Not to be outdone, Pansy joined the Sloane-snarking bandwagon.

Nadia Santos (thelostdaughter) responded to Sloane's six word story with one of her own, locked from him.

Penelope Clearwater-Moody (ravenauor) replied to Nadia, offering to do some damage to Sloane if he bothered her.

Minerva McGonagall (gryffinknight) likewise told Nadia she'd have her back.

Ethan Blakely (aurorblakely) made his DW debut with some concerns about how active his mun has been.

Alastor Moody (constant_vigil) shared Ethan's concerns. They decided to invite Reddington (theskyisred) to join their "it's always Thursday somewhere" poker game.

Marilyn Stark (captain_stark) and Ethan shared some sarcastic banter. Clearly these two are not friends.

Irina Derevko (irina_derevko) also shared Ethan's concerns, to a point. She introduced Moody and Ethan to Reddington.

Severus Snape (alchemstical), along with apparently everyone else, was concerned about Ethan's concerns. Snape and Ethan discussed the 'Rebellion' universe. Neither like it much.

Lilith Adler (slytherinauror) checked in, and, yes, agreed with Ethan. She was also thinking about selling her house.

Gilad Pellaeon (thelastadmiral) told Ethan he'd be more worried if canon hadn't already done most everything imaginable to him.

Roberta Stanton Pierre (daughterofhaven) joined the headspace gang. She shared stories of her past with Jaina Solo (jaina_solo) and started off snarking at Marilyn Stark (captain_stark) before agreeing to go for drinks at Ryan's.

I think that's everybody... so far. :)

It's spring break, and I have school stuff I should be working on, but this is more fun.

So I have resurrected eclectic_muse on DW. I didn't send out invites because I don't want anybody to feel like they have to join, but if you're reading this and you have a character journal (or ten) that you'd like to be part of the comm, just request to join and I'll approve you. No pressure. I figure if anyone joins we can use it for very relaxed, no-pressure RP, random crack, parties, or whatever. Otherwise I'll just use it to talk to myself, which we all know I do really well. :)

Anyway. Just thought I'd toss that out there for you guys. :)

Sigh. I didn't charge my laptop last night why? 54% and falling. I need to find a place to plug in...where I'm not right next to ten strangers. That's not so easy a thing to find on campus, alas. And I just always feel like everybody is looking over my shoulder all the time. Even though they're probably not.

Anyway. I've been dusting off old muses lately and doing random things with them. I forgot to move some of them over to DW, so I did that. thelastadmiral (Gilad Pellaeon, Star Wars EU/Legends) and captain_stark (Marilyn Stark, seaQuest DSV) are now with us. I wrote a tenspot intro for Pellaeon yesterday. I'm really liking the ten list format for writing lately, so I'm going to keep using it even though the comm hasn't been updated in ages and I can't actually join. I'm silly that way.

Okay, this is kind of inexcusable, how long it's been since I've done an update. It's not that I haven't been doing anything with my pups...

Oh wait.

Okay. So real life has gotten ahold of me the last couple of years. And as always, I'm picking one of the busiest times of the semester to try and pick things back up, but what the heck? Why not, right?

I signed irina_derevko up for a holiday themed bingo card because I've been in kind of an Alias phase. I tell you, though, it's becoming more difficult to find prompt communities these days. Seems like all the ones I used to count on aren't updating anymore.

Over on LJ, I signed my seaQuest DSV muse, Marilyn Stark (link to her journal later) up for a challenge in dead_fandoms even though they seem kind of defunct. I was desperate. Of course, I signed up last summer and have yet to finish any of the fic I started back then, but... I'm trying.

And because I'm not crazy enough, everybody say hello to the newest muse, theskyisred, aka Raymond Reddington from "The Blacklist." Red has decided to take up residence in my head, and has also informed me that he's one of Irina's contacts. Be afraid, guys. I am.

I haven't signed Red up for anything yet, but I'm thinking thetenspot looks cool. We'll see. I'm not sure I can think of ten facts about my version of him yet, but that's why they call it a challenge, right?

Note: I started writing this Wednesday afternoon, March 24th, and ended up having to finish it later. Wednesday I ended up with a migraine, and Thursday... well, Thursday was a long day. I worked on it some more Friday, got distracted over the weekend, and am now hoping to actually get this done today, the 29th. In case anyone, y'know, actually cares when I wrote this thing.

I have a killer headache coming on, which makes writing this now maybe not the best idea I've ever had, but whatever. I've dusted off this mun journal and have started trying to clean up the profile and update the icons and whatnot, because I'm actually *gasp* going to be trying to use it again.

Why, you ask? Because I'm going to start roleplaying again, if I can remember how. It's been a long time, but I think it'll come back to me. I'm going to be playing purelypansy in teamarchangel.

I love Pansy. In a lot of ways she's the most fun and unexpected character of mine to have come out of our old Harry Potter game. I remember taking her on kind of as a lark, after her old player- well, it's water under the bridge now. I told Star that I'd change things up a bit, maybe a lot, that I'd take the character in my own direction. As I recall she said something to the tune of, "Good", or "Fine, whatever, have fun." 'Cause she's cool like that. So I did. I went my own way, I had fun.

It's funny, because sometimes Pansy's the one I feel myself having to reach with the most, because we're pretty different. And then once I settle into her voice, it kind of just flows.

Back in the days of the HP game, I'd have told anybody who asked (not that you needed to, back then) that Penny was my favorite of the characters I played. I'm not sure that's true anymore. I love Penny, will always love writing Penny, but sometimes, sometimes she just makes my teeth hurt. And I don't mean that in a bad way, it's just- I gave Penny a lot of shit to cope with from her childhood, and when the HP game started, she was at a point where she was starting to overcome that stuff. Starting to grow up, figure out who she was, what she wanted. I kind of knew where I wanted her to end up- knew exactly where I wanted her to end up ship-wise. I always wanted her to end up happy, because she deserved it, and because writing that stuff, playing it out with my friends back then, was somehow what I needed. It was soothing. When I needed to chill out, calm down, de-stress, there was Penny, falling in love, making a family with her friends, fighting for the things she believed in, helping save the world.

I still go back to that stuff sometimes, to the old game posts and the fic I wrote back then, but it's- I don't want to say that I'm done with Penny, because I'll probably go back to her at some point, but I think she needs to spend, as she has been, some time on the shelf.

I want to do something new, anyway. And while I've played Pansy before, she was always second string to Penny. After a while, everybody was.

And Pansy is... I'm trying to think of how best to describe her, trying to decide what to write for her character information bio for teamarchangel and it's difficult. I always feel so self-conscious writing the personality stuff, like it's somehow not going to be good enough. I feel the same way about the backstory sometimes. Of course, I have a complex and someday I might even learn to get over it. Today? Not that day.

So, Pans. She started off, of course, the typical almost one-dimensional cardboard cutout in the Harry Potter books, the snobby Slytherin girl who hangs around/hangs all over Draco Malfoy. Boring. As usual I've taken the canon, what little of it there is, and run with it. I think I'll work on the backstory first, even though personality is listed first in the form, because I really think her personality comes from that, from where she's been. Her past doesn't define her, but it's a part of her.

( More than anyone, including me, ever wanted to know about Pansy's past )

Okay, so I was right. That helped a lot with figuring out who Pansy is, where she comes from. Now onto the character info. Later, when LJ isn't lagging so damned bad.

Okay, so I haven't updated this thing in an obscenely long time, even by my standards. And I don't have a ton to say right now, but watch this space, because I'm working on stuff.

Really.

I swear.

Not that I do a lot of roleplaying in TM these days, but this week I'm going to be doing a bit less. Studying for my final on Friday. Whee.

Also, LJ seems to still hate me as far as the comment emails are concerned. I know Moody has one he needs to answer from Viktor Krum, but I think I'm clear other than that.

If I've got something else I need to answer, let me know. No promises on how soon I'll get to it, but at least I'll know it's out there. :)

So I just retired masterwindu, who was my newest pup in TM. I've kinda been thinking about this for a while, because Mace is a lot harder to write than I thought he'd be. He's actually a pup I picked up in part because a lot of others I might have wanted instead were taken. And then when he didn't get any easier to write...

I saw Revenge of the Sith last weekend. I liked it, but usually when new canon appears for my pups I'm jumping up and down and squeeing madly. (Last week's Alias eps, with Irina's return, would be a prefect example of this.) Instead I was sitting in the theater going "oh, gee, there's Mace... I think I'll eat some more candy now." It didn't really do anything else for me.

I was re-reading "Shatterpoint", the Star Wars novel I pulled a lot of my characterization of Mace from. It's a good book, and I still like it, but I was all "eh" when I put it down.

With another pup in another fandom I might have hung in there a few more weeks, tried to write a few more challenges, and see how things play out. With Mace, being a prequel character, and this being so soon after RotS came out, I figure there must be, somewhere out there, a fan who would really like to try their hand at writing Mace in TM, and would probably enjoy having him as a pup a lot more than I do right now.

So, it's retirement time for the Jedi. I emailed the SW mod, did the usual posts to t_fen and adopt_a_muse, and it wasn't half as sad a moment as when I've retired any other pup- and I've retired quite a few since TM got started.

I missed Anna when she stopped talking to me. Missed Jaina, missed Pellaeon, missed Galen, even kinda missed Bella. Mace? I'm still very much with the "eh, whatever". So, yeah. Here's hoping the next mun has slightly better luck.

In an effort to cut down my pups to the ones I might actually stand some chance of writing these days, I've retired Bellatrix (darkest_magic).

I'm almost thinking of narrowing things down so that I only have one pup, and just focusing on that one. But right now I dont have any idea which pup that might be.

I've retired Anna, and will be removing her from the comms and unfriending folks via her journal in a second here. I've run out of ideas for her, hit this point where there's only so much that can be done and I think I've done it all, and on the off chance anyone else might have better luck, I thought I'd toss her back into the pool.

Apologies to everyone who was involved in RP with her (which isn't very many of you, since I've been slacking a lot lately). But on the plus side I'm keeping Galen, who might be convinced to chat now and then if you ask nicely. And don't mock him too much.

I may or may not pick up another pup to replace Anna, but I'm not sure just now.