Mori's Minions
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 12:05 pm
by Moriwen
Part 1: Introduction
Hi! I'm Moriwen, a.k.a. Glowfic Beelzebub, a.k.a. Bringer Of Ominence, etc. etc.
My moiety is lotus; my characters are lotuses, when they are not too busy being trashfires instead. I write the Literal Antichrist, the Actor/Revolutionary/Maker-Of-Terrible-Plans, and miscellaneous others, where by "write" I mean "do horrible things to."
I enjoy math, pointy things, suffering, chocolate, worldbuilding, and being from the Objectively Best State.
Other places I can be found include tumblr, AO3, and the Constellation.`
Part 2: My Glowfic
[Coming soon! For now, go check it out on the Constellation.]
Part 3: Get In Touch
I welcome people getting in touch with me! For purposes of proposing glowfic, or otherwise -- chatting is nice, and I actively enjoy asking people questions/providing suggestions about worlds they're building.
I am however in the general case terrible at responding to messages, Because Brain. This is absolutely no reflection on you or the content of the message or anything at all besides who I am as a person. I apologize for the inevitable inconvenience.
That disclaimer being established, here's options for how to contact me, in rough order of preference/reliability:
Appendix 1: My Templates
[Under construction!]
Appendix 3: Cowriting
Some miscellaneous notes on threading-with-me, in case people find such things useful.
Hi! I'm Moriwen, a.k.a. Glowfic Beelzebub, a.k.a. Bringer Of Ominence, etc. etc.
My moiety is lotus; my characters are lotuses, when they are not too busy being trashfires instead. I write the Literal Antichrist, the Actor/Revolutionary/Maker-Of-Terrible-Plans, and miscellaneous others, where by "write" I mean "do horrible things to."
I enjoy math, pointy things, suffering, chocolate, worldbuilding, and being from the Objectively Best State.
Other places I can be found include tumblr, AO3, and the Constellation.`
Part 2: My Glowfic
[Coming soon! For now, go check it out on the Constellation.]
Part 3: Get In Touch
I welcome people getting in touch with me! For purposes of proposing glowfic, or otherwise -- chatting is nice, and I actively enjoy asking people questions/providing suggestions about worlds they're building.
I am however in the general case terrible at responding to messages, Because Brain. This is absolutely no reflection on you or the content of the message or anything at all besides who I am as a person. I apologize for the inevitable inconvenience.
That disclaimer being established, here's options for how to contact me, in rough order of preference/reliability:
- Constellation message
- Forum message
- Tumblr message
- Catch me on IRC
- Mention my name on IRC, wait for me to see it in the logs
- Gchat me (aainaril)
- Carrier pigeon
Appendix 1: My Templates
[Under construction!]
Zari
I have characters! They would like to create chaos and suffering with your characters! Names and blurbs below, conveniently broken into categories for easy perusal.Name:
Most frequently "Zari" or "Zahara." (The former is most frequently Muslim instances, the latter most frequently Jewish. Not 100% consistent because I am Super Competent at remembering that sort of thing.)
The name attractor in the generic case is <sibilant or voiceless th><a or i><rhotic or voiced th><a or i>; occasionally (miscellaneous sounds) are added after the first or second vowel. Thus, <Z><a>(ha)<r><a>; <S><i>(va)<r><i>; <Sh><i><r><i>.
Zari's given-name attractor is for the name she uses primarily at the time of threading, not for her birth or legal name; in cases where she and Jean have had to change their names repeatedly to avoid pursuit, she may have gone by any number of names which don't fit the attractor. She just mysteriously happens to be going by one that does whenever she appears in a thread.
She has a weak attractor to "Salomon" or something similar for her birth surname, which manifests only when there's no other criteria to decide it by. She typically starts using Jean's surname socially within a few years after reaching adulthood; she doesn't generally change her legal surname.
Facecasts:
Zari has several facecasts; any given instance has a facecast chosen primarily for demographic reasons.
Zari has an adult height of 5'6" (the same as Jean's); she's thin, not very muscular, with long dark hair. She has angular, expressive features, with a face that crinkles up when she grins, glares, or otherwise emotes broadly (which she does a lot of); less pretty than emotionally legible.
By preference, Zari wears long, loose dresses, often made of fabric she wove herself. In some cases, religious motivations contribute to this; but she also generally just finds them more comfortable, in a straightforwardly physical sense (she's sensitive to itchy fabrics, tags, seams, and so forth). She likes patterned fabrics and embroidery, bright rich colors, and bold geometric designs. Muslim instances wear a head covering, also usually hand-woven.
Family:
Zari's parents are well-off and respected members of the community: usually bankers, lawyers, or other similarly prestigious professions. As a teenager, Zari finds them frustratingly strict and overprotective; as an adult, she's on good terms with them (though she's often been separated from them by circumstances).
In addition to Jean, Zari usually has one or more biological siblings. These are a subset of her full potential complement: {oldest sister, older brother, older sister, Zari, younger sister, younger brother.} She's on friendly and affectionate terms with them throughout her life, although she's not as close to any of them as she is to Jean.
There's generally an extended family around, which varies in its composition but is moderately close-knit, with regular reunions and such. Zari does not consider her adoptive relationship with Jean to extend to his parents (whom she does not care for) or other extended family.
In Conversation:
Friendly, but not particularly diplomatic or subtle; generally takes a casual tone. A bit snarky, a bit blunt.
A definite tendency to infodump, or interrogate people about something that catches her interest, or get sidetracked by an intriguing topic, or forget to moderate technical discussion to her audience; all of these increase the more she likes the person she's talking to.
Tends to avoid strong language, either by trailing off ("they can go and...") or using moderated versions ("for the love of all that is holy"); uses longer phrases ("what in heaven's name were they thinking?") more often than short interjections ("darn!")
Outlook:
"This is a problem; how can I solve it?"
Zari feels essentially the same way about "what's the most efficient search function to use on this dataset?" and "how do I work with this disagreeable person?" and "how can we solve world hunger?"; they're all Problems To Be Solved, and if they're the right sort to grab her interest, they'll bug her until she's found a way to solve them, so she'll poke at them until she figures out a solution. (She also just doesn't like people suffering, but her day-to-day motivation on a big ongoing project is usually more "this problem is bugging me"; the actual process of solving most problems is too far removed from the immediate emotional impact of people suffering for that to work as a primary motivator for her.)
Together with her tendency to being nerdsniped, this outlook helps her avoid the pitfalls of scope sensitivity: she doesn't freeze up and panic with the sheer scale of Bad Things, because she readily focuses on a particular Problem to be solved. (Of course, this also has the obvious pitfalls, where she then proceeds to overlook some other problem which has become more urgent.) This combines with Jean's tendency to have a Cause, so that the two of them usually converge on one particularly pressing social problem and build an organization dedicated to addressing that.
This also contributes to Zari's ability to work well with people who are kind of a mess, morally speaking (Jean being the prime example of this). Once she's in problem-solving mode, she doesn't have the inclination to get judgey about them anymore; they're just the problem parameters now, it would be as silly as complaining that the people in a logic problem are too picky about who they'll sit next to.
Zari also has a tendency to look at situations in mathematical terms, which can produce some odd (and some very useful) results. Usually she remembers not to go around talking about interpersonal cooperation in terms of n-dimensional vector spaces.
Unlike many lotuses, Zari also has the ability to take a step back from a problem and apply common sense, or come up with a solution and then think about it for a moment and go "okay, but that's clearly a terrible idea." She spends a lot of time exercising this ability on Jean's behalf.
Looking Inward:
Zari is one of the more luminous lotuses. She's fairly self-aware, and has good (but slow) emotional control.
Most frequently "Zari" or "Zahara." (The former is most frequently Muslim instances, the latter most frequently Jewish. Not 100% consistent because I am Super Competent at remembering that sort of thing.)
The name attractor in the generic case is <sibilant or voiceless th><a or i><rhotic or voiced th><a or i>; occasionally (miscellaneous sounds) are added after the first or second vowel. Thus, <Z><a>(ha)<r><a>; <S><i>(va)<r><i>; <Sh><i><r><i>.
Zari's given-name attractor is for the name she uses primarily at the time of threading, not for her birth or legal name; in cases where she and Jean have had to change their names repeatedly to avoid pursuit, she may have gone by any number of names which don't fit the attractor. She just mysteriously happens to be going by one that does whenever she appears in a thread.
She has a weak attractor to "Salomon" or something similar for her birth surname, which manifests only when there's no other criteria to decide it by. She typically starts using Jean's surname socially within a few years after reaching adulthood; she doesn't generally change her legal surname.
Facecasts:
Zari has several facecasts; any given instance has a facecast chosen primarily for demographic reasons.
- Gal Gadot: White, Jewish or non-religious, female, mid-teens to adult
- Leila Hatami: White, Muslim, female, adult
- Elodie Yung: Asian, non-religious, female, adult
- Vanessa Redgrave: White, Jewish or non-religious, female, elderly
- Goapele: Black, Jewish or non-religious, female, adult
- Odeya Rush: White, Jewish or non-religious, female, child to early teens
Zari has an adult height of 5'6" (the same as Jean's); she's thin, not very muscular, with long dark hair. She has angular, expressive features, with a face that crinkles up when she grins, glares, or otherwise emotes broadly (which she does a lot of); less pretty than emotionally legible.
By preference, Zari wears long, loose dresses, often made of fabric she wove herself. In some cases, religious motivations contribute to this; but she also generally just finds them more comfortable, in a straightforwardly physical sense (she's sensitive to itchy fabrics, tags, seams, and so forth). She likes patterned fabrics and embroidery, bright rich colors, and bold geometric designs. Muslim instances wear a head covering, also usually hand-woven.
Family:
Zari's parents are well-off and respected members of the community: usually bankers, lawyers, or other similarly prestigious professions. As a teenager, Zari finds them frustratingly strict and overprotective; as an adult, she's on good terms with them (though she's often been separated from them by circumstances).
In addition to Jean, Zari usually has one or more biological siblings. These are a subset of her full potential complement: {oldest sister, older brother, older sister, Zari, younger sister, younger brother.} She's on friendly and affectionate terms with them throughout her life, although she's not as close to any of them as she is to Jean.
There's generally an extended family around, which varies in its composition but is moderately close-knit, with regular reunions and such. Zari does not consider her adoptive relationship with Jean to extend to his parents (whom she does not care for) or other extended family.
In Conversation:
Friendly, but not particularly diplomatic or subtle; generally takes a casual tone. A bit snarky, a bit blunt.
A definite tendency to infodump, or interrogate people about something that catches her interest, or get sidetracked by an intriguing topic, or forget to moderate technical discussion to her audience; all of these increase the more she likes the person she's talking to.
Tends to avoid strong language, either by trailing off ("they can go and...") or using moderated versions ("for the love of all that is holy"); uses longer phrases ("what in heaven's name were they thinking?") more often than short interjections ("darn!")
Outlook:
"This is a problem; how can I solve it?"
Zari feels essentially the same way about "what's the most efficient search function to use on this dataset?" and "how do I work with this disagreeable person?" and "how can we solve world hunger?"; they're all Problems To Be Solved, and if they're the right sort to grab her interest, they'll bug her until she's found a way to solve them, so she'll poke at them until she figures out a solution. (She also just doesn't like people suffering, but her day-to-day motivation on a big ongoing project is usually more "this problem is bugging me"; the actual process of solving most problems is too far removed from the immediate emotional impact of people suffering for that to work as a primary motivator for her.)
Together with her tendency to being nerdsniped, this outlook helps her avoid the pitfalls of scope sensitivity: she doesn't freeze up and panic with the sheer scale of Bad Things, because she readily focuses on a particular Problem to be solved. (Of course, this also has the obvious pitfalls, where she then proceeds to overlook some other problem which has become more urgent.) This combines with Jean's tendency to have a Cause, so that the two of them usually converge on one particularly pressing social problem and build an organization dedicated to addressing that.
This also contributes to Zari's ability to work well with people who are kind of a mess, morally speaking (Jean being the prime example of this). Once she's in problem-solving mode, she doesn't have the inclination to get judgey about them anymore; they're just the problem parameters now, it would be as silly as complaining that the people in a logic problem are too picky about who they'll sit next to.
Zari also has a tendency to look at situations in mathematical terms, which can produce some odd (and some very useful) results. Usually she remembers not to go around talking about interpersonal cooperation in terms of n-dimensional vector spaces.
Unlike many lotuses, Zari also has the ability to take a step back from a problem and apply common sense, or come up with a solution and then think about it for a moment and go "okay, but that's clearly a terrible idea." She spends a lot of time exercising this ability on Jean's behalf.
Looking Inward:
Zari is one of the more luminous lotuses. She's fairly self-aware, and has good (but slow) emotional control.
Templates
The Apocalypse Quartet
A quartet of awesome who generally manifest as a trio of RAPIDLY IMPENDING DISASTER.
Faith: teenage antichrist with impulse control issues. Prone to attempting benevolent world domination via ethically questionable mind control. Catchphrase: "It seemed like a good idea at the time."
Em: The nerdy one of the quartet, with a tendency to overlook personal safety in favor of SCIENCE!! Has a certain soft spot for explosions and siege weaponry.
Reuben: Em's older brother, alignment lawful-lawful. Soft-hearted caretaker type who thrives on Rules and Traditions and Ceremonies.
Jay: The sole repository of common sense for the quartet. Has an unfortunate tendency to be dead before the start of the story.
Jean and Zari
Jean: Revolutionary, spy, underground Resistance member, and perfect actor. Also a deeply messed up and manipulative person who compensates imperfectly for the lack of an inherent moral sense.
Zari: Jean's much saner adoptive sister. Works with him in the Resistance, doing communications, coordinations, code and coding.
Elements
Sapphire: Brilliantly competent, intensely professional, saves the world with a casual disregard for human life, and REALLY likes the color blue.
Steel: Sapphire's working partner. Stern, impersonal, intensely devoted to Sapphire. Like her, saves the world with a casual disregard for human life.
Silver: Sapphire & Steel's occasional partner. Gleeful, gifted tinkerer, casually flirtatious, incapable of taking anything but his work seriously.
A quartet of awesome who generally manifest as a trio of RAPIDLY IMPENDING DISASTER.
Faith: teenage antichrist with impulse control issues. Prone to attempting benevolent world domination via ethically questionable mind control. Catchphrase: "It seemed like a good idea at the time."
Em: The nerdy one of the quartet, with a tendency to overlook personal safety in favor of SCIENCE!! Has a certain soft spot for explosions and siege weaponry.
Reuben: Em's older brother, alignment lawful-lawful. Soft-hearted caretaker type who thrives on Rules and Traditions and Ceremonies.
Jay: The sole repository of common sense for the quartet. Has an unfortunate tendency to be dead before the start of the story.
Jean and Zari
Jean: Revolutionary, spy, underground Resistance member, and perfect actor. Also a deeply messed up and manipulative person who compensates imperfectly for the lack of an inherent moral sense.
Zari: Jean's much saner adoptive sister. Works with him in the Resistance, doing communications, coordinations, code and coding.
Elements
Sapphire: Brilliantly competent, intensely professional, saves the world with a casual disregard for human life, and REALLY likes the color blue.
Steel: Sapphire's working partner. Stern, impersonal, intensely devoted to Sapphire. Like her, saves the world with a casual disregard for human life.
Silver: Sapphire & Steel's occasional partner. Gleeful, gifted tinkerer, casually flirtatious, incapable of taking anything but his work seriously.
NPCs
Epsilon: Curt, competent police officer. Devoted to her wife (Isolde) and children. Has no time for Jean's bullshit; nevertheless works for him.
Isolde: Epsilon's wife. Plump, motherly, affectionate.
McClellan: Tends to be a space general if female and vampire if male. Good-natured but cowardly and easily terrified.
Olivia: Preteen Knight of the Round Table. Tiny but honorable, dressed in pink.
Sally: Calm and collected EMT by day, makes ends meet stripping by night, occasional dragon-slayer when given the opportunity.
Adrien: Jean's terrible dad. Washed-up actor, extremely French, makes poor parenting choices.
Janice: Jean's mom. Career woman, surgeon, uninterested in children, mostly absentee parent.
Appendix 2: Things I Have MadeEpsilon: Curt, competent police officer. Devoted to her wife (Isolde) and children. Has no time for Jean's bullshit; nevertheless works for him.
Isolde: Epsilon's wife. Plump, motherly, affectionate.
McClellan: Tends to be a space general if female and vampire if male. Good-natured but cowardly and easily terrified.
Olivia: Preteen Knight of the Round Table. Tiny but honorable, dressed in pink.
Sally: Calm and collected EMT by day, makes ends meet stripping by night, occasional dragon-slayer when given the opportunity.
Adrien: Jean's terrible dad. Washed-up actor, extremely French, makes poor parenting choices.
Janice: Jean's mom. Career woman, surgeon, uninterested in children, mostly absentee parent.
My Worlds
I worldbuild compulsively. I therefore have a whole bunch of worlds, which vary from "I write in this all the time and can start a new thread at a moment's notice" to "still under construction." I always enjoy people asking questions about my worlds; if nothing else it means I get to steal your ideas for them.
Below are a list of my worlds, very brief descriptions, and links to longer discussions thereof.
Federation: dystopian Star Trek AU
Elementverse: time-traveling rocks
Deck: tarot #aesthetic magic
Bubble: floating spell bubbles
Path: the path to perfection
Shrimpverse: there are no shrimp
Bland: genericifying magic
Unbelief: clap your hands if you don't believe
And four partly-developed worlds at the same location:
Joust: space King Arthur
Meteor: face-eating tribbles
Arch: archetype magic
Dance: communal dance magic
Below are a list of my worlds, very brief descriptions, and links to longer discussions thereof.
Federation: dystopian Star Trek AU
Elementverse: time-traveling rocks
Deck: tarot #aesthetic magic
Bubble: floating spell bubbles
Path: the path to perfection
Shrimpverse: there are no shrimp
Bland: genericifying magic
Unbelief: clap your hands if you don't believe
And four partly-developed worlds at the same location:
Joust: space King Arthur
Meteor: face-eating tribbles
Arch: archetype magic
Dance: communal dance magic
Settings I can be
I can comfortably run threads in some worlds (original and otherwise)! If you would like to drop a character into one of these, I am happy to be (my take on) the world. (There are lots of other worlds I am happy to thread in, but these I'm sufficiently comfortable in to do all of the setting/background/NPC things if you would like, including for people with no familiarity with the setting.)
Warp: semi-dystopian pre-canon Star Trek. "Save a planet in < 10 minutes" is a popular scenario.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: None of my characters Slayer, so if you'd like to Slayer one of your characters, this is your chance!
Eclipse: The world is Alicorn's, but I'm happy to provide the discount knock-off off-brand version.
Ender's Game: I've read (basically) the entire series (okay, not a few of the very latest books), and am happy to do Battle School, Earthside politics, meeting various aliens, or any combination of the above.
Path to Perfection: One of my most popular settings. Be terrible to your characters, develop their ""virtues,"" meet characters from other worlds.
Warp: semi-dystopian pre-canon Star Trek. "Save a planet in < 10 minutes" is a popular scenario.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: None of my characters Slayer, so if you'd like to Slayer one of your characters, this is your chance!
Eclipse: The world is Alicorn's, but I'm happy to provide the discount knock-off off-brand version.
Ender's Game: I've read (basically) the entire series (okay, not a few of the very latest books), and am happy to do Battle School, Earthside politics, meeting various aliens, or any combination of the above.
Path to Perfection: One of my most popular settings. Be terrible to your characters, develop their ""virtues,"" meet characters from other worlds.
Template Instances
I already have instances of my templates worked out for some worlds, either for pre-existing threads or for sheer self-indulgence. These are good choices if you'd like a thread that can get started up promptly.
Arda: Maia!Faith up to no good with Sauron, Maia!Em likes exploding things and runs an Academy of Kidnapped Elves, Maia!Reuben works with Nienna and needs a hug, Maia!Jay likes his rock; Maia!Jean works with Sauron and has trouble with concepts like "torture is bad," elf!Zari runs afoul of this fact.
Buffy: Out-of-control magic addict Faith and self-destructive Em fight vampires, traumatized Reuben in denial; Jean and Zari network with magic users.
Coffee shop AU: For pure fluff. Girl!Reuben and Em run a coffee shop, teeny!Faith hangs about and gets into teeny trouble.
Earth, 1944: Traumatized ex-French-Resistance Jean cultivates alcoholism in England, Zari in a concentration camp.
Eclipse: Sub!psion!Faith attempts world takeover via mind control, dom!Em and dom!Reuben in the dark; sub-in-denial!psion!Jean and sub!mage!Zari run a network for the protection of young eclipsed.
Federation: Jean and Zari run an underground resistance against the dystopian government, are currently 10 minutes from having all life on their planet destroyed.
Goldmage: Bluemage!Zari is assigned to the king, nonmage!Jean is the perfect caretaker and also organizing a revolution.
Hamilton: Jean dislikes monarchies, disapproves of the Continental Congress banning plays, plans the Boston Teaparty, and joins the Culper Ring; Zari writes coded messages, convinces her father to fund the Revolution, and joins the Daughters of Liberty.
Momentum: Nonmagic!Faith holds specialist!Em hostage in her dungeons, makes sorcerer!Reuben keep control of the country she's semi-evil queen of.
Revelation: Em, Faith, and Jay die in a tragic summoning accident; traumatized!Reuben summons fairy!Em, angel!Jay, and demon!Faith without bindings; this is exactly as bad an idea as it sounds like.
Worm: Cape!Jay ("Cheesemaker," Shaker, flattens circles around him) has out-of-control powers and hangs out in the desert on drugs, cape!Reuben ("Domino," Thinker, Rube Goldberg machines) is a Ward dealing with constant sensory overload, cape!Faith ("Glaurung," Trump/Striker, controls other capes powers) is out of control of herself, cape!Em ("Chernobyl," Tinker 0, no actual powers) isn't deterred by not being a parahuman; AI!Jean is AU!Dragon, Zari isn't even a cape and "Arachne" is just her blog name okay.
Arda: Maia!Faith up to no good with Sauron, Maia!Em likes exploding things and runs an Academy of Kidnapped Elves, Maia!Reuben works with Nienna and needs a hug, Maia!Jay likes his rock; Maia!Jean works with Sauron and has trouble with concepts like "torture is bad," elf!Zari runs afoul of this fact.
Buffy: Out-of-control magic addict Faith and self-destructive Em fight vampires, traumatized Reuben in denial; Jean and Zari network with magic users.
Coffee shop AU: For pure fluff. Girl!Reuben and Em run a coffee shop, teeny!Faith hangs about and gets into teeny trouble.
Earth, 1944: Traumatized ex-French-Resistance Jean cultivates alcoholism in England, Zari in a concentration camp.
Eclipse: Sub!psion!Faith attempts world takeover via mind control, dom!Em and dom!Reuben in the dark; sub-in-denial!psion!Jean and sub!mage!Zari run a network for the protection of young eclipsed.
Federation: Jean and Zari run an underground resistance against the dystopian government, are currently 10 minutes from having all life on their planet destroyed.
Goldmage: Bluemage!Zari is assigned to the king, nonmage!Jean is the perfect caretaker and also organizing a revolution.
Hamilton: Jean dislikes monarchies, disapproves of the Continental Congress banning plays, plans the Boston Teaparty, and joins the Culper Ring; Zari writes coded messages, convinces her father to fund the Revolution, and joins the Daughters of Liberty.
Momentum: Nonmagic!Faith holds specialist!Em hostage in her dungeons, makes sorcerer!Reuben keep control of the country she's semi-evil queen of.
Revelation: Em, Faith, and Jay die in a tragic summoning accident; traumatized!Reuben summons fairy!Em, angel!Jay, and demon!Faith without bindings; this is exactly as bad an idea as it sounds like.
Worm: Cape!Jay ("Cheesemaker," Shaker, flattens circles around him) has out-of-control powers and hangs out in the desert on drugs, cape!Reuben ("Domino," Thinker, Rube Goldberg machines) is a Ward dealing with constant sensory overload, cape!Faith ("Glaurung," Trump/Striker, controls other capes powers) is out of control of herself, cape!Em ("Chernobyl," Tinker 0, no actual powers) isn't deterred by not being a parahuman; AI!Jean is AU!Dragon, Zari isn't even a cape and "Arachne" is just her blog name okay.
Appendix 3: Cowriting
Some miscellaneous notes on threading-with-me, in case people find such things useful.
Cowriting
- I like doing terrible things to characters! If you have a suggestion for something terrible and a character (mine or yours) to do it to, I am very likely to be intrigued.
- I have a terrible habit of taking on more threads than I can possibly keep up with. I end up hiatusing threads pretty regularly (and sometimes resurrecting them later). If this is something that will bug you terribly -- mention it up front, and maybe we can plan something very small in scope?
- Pretty frequently my brain will allow me to tag on one or a few threads but not on others. I do not like your thread less, my brain is just dumb. Again, I can understand how this might bother people, so here is fair warning.
- By default I don't tend to message people for tags unless I happen to be on IRC; if you'd like to be poked with your tags, let me know and we can set something up. (Most frequently used option is a Constellation message naming the thread.)
- I have been known to disappear for a couple of weeks once in a while, when School and Brain gang up on me. I am not dead but (not) sleeping.
- I do not mind these and similar behaviors from other people even a little. Very slow tags, dropping threads, and so forth are all fine.
- I am quite happy to run worlds! Appendix 1 includes a list of worlds which I feel comfortable running entirely on my own, if you dislike being the world (or would just like to explore one you're not very familiar with).
- As earlier mentions of suffering have probably implied, I am perfectly comfortable writing all sorts of horrifying things, if that sounds like fun; very little is distressing to me in written narrative format. (Alternatively, if that sounds awful, feel very free to say so and I will keep the horror down to monster-movie-with-the-zippers-in-the-costumes-showing levels.)