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he who folds bikes

@foldybikes / foldybikes.tumblr.com

thorn, she/her, tired adult.
whatever stuff I find entertaining or intriguing, plus a bunch of critical role, succession, dark souls, disco elysium, tma.
avatar by me, header as well (it's the archivist).
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foldybikes

sup, these are the tags I use most often

Critical Role

(I got proper cr/actual play brain rot atm, it's a good distraction for current shitty life stuff)

general: #critical role

campaign one: #cr1 #vox machina

campaign two: #cr2 #m9

campaign three: #cr3

the legend of vox machina: #tlovm

spoilers: #critical role spoilers plus (when I can remember) the episode number like #c2e45. if you wanna filter for ALL spoilers your best bet is to filter #cr1 and #cr2.

I don't tag for characters except when it's avantika cause that bitch has my heart.

all my own posts about me watching critical role for the first time are tagged #foldycr

Dimension 20

general: #d20

ravening war: #trw

Art

all art, original and fanart, is tagged #art

misc

Hades (by Supergiant) tags are a mess, it's #hades #hades (game) #hades game #hades games

disco elysium is #disco elysium

the magnus archives is #tma

succession is #succession

fighting your own brain is #brain stuff

#critical role#cr1#cr2#hades#hades game#tma#art
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wisteria-lodge

So my problem with most ‘get to know your character’ questioneers is that they’re full of questions that just aren’t that important (what color eyes do they have) too hard to answer right away (what is their greatest fear) or are just impossible to answer (what is their favorite movie.)  Like no one has one single favorite movie. And even if they do the answer changes.

If I’m doing this exercise, I want 7-10 questions to get the character feeling real in my head. So I thought I’d share the ones that get me (and my students) good results: 

  1. What is the character’s go-to drink order? (this one gets into how do they like to be publicly perceived, because there is always some level of theatricality to ordering drinks at a bar/resturant)
  2. What is their grooming routine? (how do they treat themselves in private)
  3. What was their most expensive purchase/where does their disposable income go? (Gets you thinking about socio-economic class, values, and how they spend their leisure time)
  4. Do they have any scars or tattoos? (good way to get into literal backstory) 
  5. What was the last time they cried, and under what circumstances? (Good way to get some *emotional* backstory in.) 
  6. Are they an oldest, middle, youngest or only child? (This one might be a me thing, because I LOVE writing/reading about family dynamics, but knowing what kinds of things were ‘normal’ for them growing up is important.)
  7. Describe the shoes they’re wearing. (This is a big catch all, gets into money, taste, practicality, level of wear, level of repair, literally what kind of shoes they require to live their life.)
  8. Describe the place where they sleep. (ie what does their safe space look like. How much (or how little) care / decoration / personal touch goes into it.)
  9. What is their favorite holiday? (How do they relate to their culture/outside world. Also fun is least favorite holiday.) 
  10. What objects do they always carry around with them? (What do they need for their normal, day-to-day routine? What does ‘normal’ even look like for them.) 
#writing
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ladyshivs
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maxknightley

They should make a medieval town building type game where wars happen but you aren't really actively involved. If "your side" loses the only thing that changes is that your churches look different now and you pay the same taxes to a different liege lord.

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prokopetz

Sometimes a bunch of knights come and trample your crops while fighting each other, but it's just a randomly generated agricultural disaster, like bad weather, and has no further-reaching effects.

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queenwhiskey

Twitter users will not survive the winter

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what-even-is-thiss

What do they mean it’s impossible to have conversations there’s at least three different ways to do so here

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phantomrose96

"It's impossible to have conversations there" -person coming from a website where DM'ing is now paywalled behind Twitter Blue.

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deadreckon

blood is basically the most normal thing for a sword to hunger for. if a sword gained sentience and started asking me for blood i'd be like yeah i thought you might say that

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because-im-freaking-greed
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pissvortex

twitter is going to be shut down. half of reddit is locked or completely unmoderated. the entire first page of google search results are ads. tumblr does not and will never have a functioning search system and their content moderation is 100% automated. youtube only shares ad revenue with people who make snuff films for Youtube Kids. facebook is selling your grandma’s social security number under the table for like $5. web 2.0 is completely dead right

#back to 1.0
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citrinekay

he's forty years old. he's babygirl. he's unhinged. he's creating problems for himself and everyone else. he's god's favorite punching bag. he's a whore. he's pathetic. he's my poor little meow meow

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jamjoob

H̻̩͈͇͍AR̫̬͍Ļ̘ͅE̲̱͕Y̨̮̩̘͎̮̝ ͎͚͙̬̬̙!̺̞̯̩̬̕!̝!̬͚̻͇̀ͅ!҉̳͙̤ ̢̯͈ Q͚̪ ̯͓͚̯̰̜͈U͙̲ͅ ̣I͓̞̪ ̰̦N͔̰ N͓̽ ͓̽ ̆̈!̷!̷!̷!̷

#art#yes ssss