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Munday Questions

✒️ - What sort of hobbies do you have outside of writing?

I have several hobbies that I pay attention to from time to time. I enjoy sewing and crafting for cosplay purposes. Other times I'm reading, watching movies or playing games. I also like to listen to podcasts about history, folklore or horror. I often tend to watch youtube videos with deep dives about cults, crimes, history, movie reviews, book reviews and comic books. I'm not much of a comic book reader but I tend to pick up what interests me from the library, X-Men, Ms Marvel with Kamala Kahn, Batman or The scarlet witch. Other things I read is folklore, fantasy/urban fantasy, dystopia, young adults novels, historical fiction and litterary classics such as Les Miserables, Carmilla and the portrait of Dorian Gray.

😏 - What's something you want people to know about you?

Hmmm. I'm not sure what would be interesting to share. Okay. I can talk a bit about why I rarely roleplay canon characters anymore.

I have a hard time being fully devoted to one hobby or one subject and I keep bouncing between several ideas instead of getting deeper knowledge about one thing. It's probably why I have a hard time with entering fandoms. I just can't devote my whole being to one thing and I'm not good at learning everything to know about that one special thing. It becomes especially hard if it's a fandom that is very large with extensive lore. As an example, I like to watch Jurrasic Park but I don't have the energy to fully read everything to know about the franchise or about palenthology. As soon I begun dipping my toes into learning I suddenly have the urge to watch a five hours video about how gay Barbie is. I get very overwhelmed and it's also a reason why I'm getting terrified about roleplaying canon characters within a fandom. In roleplay spaces there's been so much discourse about canon characters and following canon versus canon divergent roleplayers. I'm not sure how much it's talked about anymore but I used to hear a bit about it and began to doubting my own writing abilities as well as how well I followed canon or not.

At times I feel this urge to roleplay specific characters from a fandom I like but then I avoid it in favor of my OC's. I always feel trapped to follow canon and it takes a lot of time and energy if I constantly need to do research about what kind of world the characters live in, what powers they have, the lore of their powers, power scaling and so much more. I feel like it stumps my creativity and my writing feels very stilted. When I do step info a fandom centric roleplay I tend to wing it and use characters without powers to see how they would live in that world. Other times, with leniant roleplayers I just make things up as I go with some guidelines to keep my character make sense in some capacity. If I'm roleplaying One Piece I would simply make up some unknown places and species because the wast lore welcomes creativity within it's world building, the same with Star Wars.

This became a bit like a ramble about fandoms but I hope it felt somewhat interesting to read about.

The call pulls his head to turn and feet to stop. His surprise at the call is only enhanced after taking in his appearance. His.. eyes, being the first thing noticed under the light. Perhaps he isn’t close enough to notice just how off they truly are. But, nevertheless, it’s enough to send a chill down his spine.

“What..?”

Don’t take notes on their lives you’re here to teach theodore and that’s it

Conetinued from here: https://www.tumblr.com/mxgnolium/745900405928706048/a-certain-cult-member-called-clarimonde-has-snuck?source=share

A rather nice day out, isn’t it? 

Last night wasn’t dreadful and the morning that followed was calm all the same. A pleasant pattern that doesn’t show itself often. Now, of course, the stillness of the house does bring about those twinges of paranoia of what’s to come. But, the morning is welcomed all the same. 

His studies are finished with the windows in his room pulled open. A nice cup of tea and a plate of treats to go along with it. Perhaps a moment where the wind blows in and brushes his hair back and forth. Ah, what a nice feeling... Hm. He’ll finish the tea and stand. Surely this can wait just a moment, hm? He’d like to go in the garden while the breeze is still this nice. 

Yes, he’ll pull on his coat and change out of his indoor shoes. Out of his room and down the stairs. Ah, perhaps he brought a book along with him from the library. Hm, that will be nice... Well, as long as the wind doesn’t blow the pages-

Good, good. You’ll find him putting away what remains of any papers laying about, leaving only those to do with the charity they’re to speak of– An extra chair pulled up in front of his desk, pages containing information on the organization are left in front of it. The invitation itself is left on his side for now– Hm. He’ll wave you in and finish tucking something in the file cabinet.

     ... A quick glance will be thrown around the office as he makes his way over to the chair. Not often he’s in here, now is it? Perhaps.. a brief memory of a time long past will come to him. But, ack, it’s but a flash and gone just as quick...