#nerdaneliswa

✉: Someone you're afraid to approach/unsure of approaching 

hroooom I suppose in the similar way I'm unsure about crossovers, I'm usually fairly nervous about interacting with Third Age Middle-earth characters. Partly because it generally involves breaking canon to make it work, in ways that can verge on godmod (which isn't fun for another person to work off of!), but also because I don't want to be the intimidating one. I'm really chill about people who haven't read Silmarillion, or even if they haven't read LotR or The Hobbit--good writers can come from film-canon only. I just don't want to turn up and make anyone nervous because they haven't heard of my muse. D: 

☣: A pet peeve about roleplaying 

I suppose, since I mentioned godmoding--sometimes you're forced to make really awkward pauses for the sake of not taking over your partners' actions. Dialogue doesn't quite work realistically, and sometimes there'll be that thing where there are two distinct lines of conversation happening, seemingly back and forth, but it'd really make more sense for it to be two different discussions, one before the other. 

It's good writing practice, but only to an extent. Switching back to fanfic or other longer works is sometimes a bit jarring because the format is surprisingly different. 

✖: A plot you would never do/can't do with your character

[Thank you, dear. I haven't really taken it all in yet, I don't think? It's just. So shocking. So terrible. At this point I'm fairly speechless still. But all of us here are in the same place so I'm not alone in this by any means.

// as a matter of fact, I have a Celebrimbor account (sideblog to this one), so we should chat plots and headcanons sometime! :D

// Ahh yes! I was hoping I'd discover a Tyelpe by posting that! What's the url? 

nerdanel-iswa replied to your post:✔

your opening statement to this question alone has endeared you to me. collaborative fanfiction writing. very accurate description! love it

✔:What got me into roleplaying

Oh gosh. *dramatic sigh* I remember it well. It was a dark and stormy night…

♥: Most wanted AU 

The obvious one I guess is one where Fingon doesn't die in Nirnaeth Arnoediad--I'm working on a version of that with Maeglin, but it's got a ways to go. Thing is, I'm pretty sure my headcanon for how it ends is with a suicidal mission to retake Hithlum. So maybe just writing that one through to its conclusion? 

Also, for my Celebrimbor muse, I really want a Supernatural 'verse where he's running a jewellery shop and the Winchesters come to wreck his shit. 

✔: What got me into roleplaying

☠:A popular fanon headcanon about my character that bugs me

[Can I say “all of them?” No? Well, okay, the biggest one is Caranthir-the-greedy, Caranthir who sits in Thargelion assessing taxes and hoarding wealth like some kind of elven Ebeneezer Scrooge. Yeah, the text indicates he served as a control point for trade between the dwarves and Noldor, but I don’t like the fanon implications as to why.

There’s a line in HoME which actually is more specific and talks about the wealth of iron and weaponry he acquired from the dwarves through trade, and that…that I like better. The Noldor have always been miners and craftsmen, and now they’re warriors. So they let the dwarves do the mining and the forging and they trade for the weapons they need in their war.

✔:What got me into roleplaying

[Oh, ye gods, who the hell even remembers? I’ve been RPing for over a decade! I’m not even sure anymore how I found it. A forum RP for a now-defunct webcomic was my first, though.

❅:A character I'm tempted to play