BEST WRITTEN SHIP OF SOMEONE ELSE - PRUDY & REAGAN

✨  #TBEWEEK20 ✨  PROMPT 5:

Hey TBE! It’s time to kick off the countdown to our six year anniverary, we’re bringing back #tberp week, the aim being to get people seeing other characters, other plots and everything really. This is, obviously not mandatory, but if you do all seven prompts you’ll get a lovely member profile award. Make sure to have your first tags (it won’t show up otherwise) in each post as #tberp and #tbeweek20 so that we can find your posts to reblog them. (we want them to show up in our site tag, but it makes more sense to have tbeweek20 as well).

To continue our tradition of making TBEWEEK more accessible to those who do not have rp tumblrs, if you so choose to do, you may post this in a thread in your development forum and you will still get the award. We do wish that this is done on tumblr, if you have it though!

PLEASE IF YOU ARE GOING TO JOIN IN, REBLOG THIS POST TO YOUR RP TUMBLR OR START A THREAD TITLED TBERPWEEK2020 IN YOUR DEVELOPMENT BY MAY 22ND AND INCLUDE YOUR INTRODUCTION!

#TBERP WEEK will take place from June 1st to June 14th, ending one day before our celebration. Each prompt will span two days to give you enough time to post. Do not post it before the specified date (save it in your drafts etc)! Posting after the date is fine but we’re hoping it can be posted when asked! Below are the lists of prompts if you want to get a head start.

Prompt 1 - june 1st & 2nd: Best written character (yours)

Prompt 2 - june 3rd & 4th: Best written character (someone else’s)

Prompt 3- june 5th & 6th: Best written ship (yours)

Prompt 4- june 7th & 8th: Best written ship (someone else’s)

Prompt 5- june 9th & 10th: Best written thread (yours)

Prompt 6- june 11th & 12th: Best written thread (someone else’s)

Prompt 7- june 13th & 14th: Best writer to your taste*

You can do this in any way that you like! It’s really not supposed to take more than ten to fifteen minutes a day, just something fun, a blurb about why it’s your favourite or something. If you have any questions, PM Elle!

*Disclaimer: We just named it “best” to keep with the theme. This is your favourite writer because what appeals to one person varies.

for the introductions (post when you reblog)

Name: Gender: Timezone:

THE BIG EASY RP WEEK 2020 [day three] ↳ best written ship (yours) → vincent armstrong and cesar cortez

I have a lot of well written ships, lbr here, I don’t ship with someone unless they write well. I had a ship still dealing with the aftermath of the bridge bombing, a ship that went from enemies to lovers, one that got married after my eight years of playing her, and one where her husband ditched and I have such great friends they keep him alive by playing him for me. They’re all quality so when all your ships are quality, I looked to quantity.

Kae is right, I had been trying to get a mxm ship on the site long before anyone else had one. Natalie and I had got some feedback on the makeup of our site, diversity wise and I remember thinking - I don’t like this, let’s change it. It took me about two years before Kae and I connected with Tez and Vince and that opened the floodgates to everyone else. I think that is why I think they’re the best written, even ignoring the number of threads they have to develop in. They set trends, they build the path others walk on. I’ve seen the ideas Kae and I come up with be used by other ships both on and off TBE by our members. Imitation is the best form of flattery and damn am I glad that we have set precedent like that, it makes me feel like we are doing something right.

Vince and Cesar are also best written because of their entire plot with Carlos late last year. It was a plot that Kae and I had been setting the seeds for, for months. We worked the man into their lives, we built on it, we planned the fall out and I believe that’s what good writing is, telling one unified overarching story which is what we remain committed to after all this time. But best writing does not only come from writing with your ship partner. I firmly stand by the idea that I cannot rp a ship with someone who does not rp outside of me because development and good story telling comes from those other interactions. Vince and Tez have so many other connections and plots that extend past each other. Tez has Zoe, Ria, Tony. Vince has Tom, Sana, Noah, and most recently Devon. These characters are threaded consistently individually, building character. They also thread with others together such as Hudson, Lena, Penny and soon to be Tariq. The scope of Vince and Cesar is not small or limited and good writing reaches out to others acknowledging that everyone has something beautiful to add to your story and I thank each of the contributors to this story.

TBE Week 2020: Someone Else’s Best Written Male Character ↳ James McKnight (Written by Haley)

first let me preface this by saying that there are WAY TOO MANY amazingly written characters of both genders on this site. it was incredibly difficult to choose my best written male. like i kept looking at the list and changing my mind a thousand times, but in the end, it had to be james.

haley writes james in such an amazing way. he’s a good lawyer dedicated to justice and his family. he’s a good friend. he’s just a good person in general. which made his development in year five very interesting, because in year five, district attorney james mcknight helped dispose of a body.

just that one scene would’ve made him a contender, but how haley played him afterward, his reaction to finding out what his then-fiance did, his guilt at obstructing the law, all of that - it was just amazing. that entire arc earned james his place on the list and its where my mind kept going back as i went to make the decision for best written male for 2020.

↳ best written otp ship (yours)  → KAE + ELLE (#VISAR & #JOMAS)

so maybe i cheated a little bit but idk how i’m suppose to choose between these two ships.  they’re best written because they’re my most written ships.  and i think that’s pretty impressive because they’re pretty even thread wise throughout the year and they’re both a mix of fun and angst, big plots and little filler moments of cute. which means that i get to delve into these characters, (mine and elle’s) so much more then my others.  its so nice writing the two ships side by side they’re so different yet we’ve found parallels between them as well.  its even more fun because of the connection between vince and tom so there has been a little cross over which i always find amusing.

VINCENT armstrong x CESAR cortez

i really don’t know where to start with these two.  but i’m certain they’re going to be the cause of my death.  see mlm is kind of my kryptonite and has been since before it was mainstream. so i’ve always wanted a ship like this, but i didn’t think i’d get one quite like this.  and its such a pleasure to write even when i hate them.  if you were on tbe prior to visar you might have noticed the difficulty getting a writing partner for a m/m (or even f/f) ship to stick.  i watched elle try it multiple times with a couple different characters, i had an ad up a couple times for a male love interest.  nothing stuck.  i almost took the ad for terry but it was bad timing for me. but i will never regret holding out for vincent.  because oh my god vince.  i absolutely adore this literal beam of sunshine.  but if you think that’s all he is you need to take a closer look at him.  he’s multidimensional, he’s got real feelings and hurts deeply but loves fiercely. he’s got such a big heart, he gives more then he should but he is learning to value himself and his feelings more.  and for some reason the man fell in love with cesar. tez is the polar opposite. he’s storm clouds and trauma, guarded, he’s harsh and selfish.  he doesn’t know how to sugar coat anything. but tez is also learning.  he’s learning from past mistakes.  he’s slowly coming to realize what it is he wants and knows what its going to take to get that.  tez may never learn how to love conventionally or traditionally but he will figure out how it works for him.  that is one of their tragic components the way they experience and show love and how it does not match up.

i laugh every time i remember they weren’t suppose to be this. they were suppose to be a stepping stone to the next chapter in their lives, apart.  but god am i glad it didn’t play out that way.

the thing with visar currently is they are either really good for one another or really bad for each other. they have not figured out how to find that middle ground, that balance.  i like writing the two of them because they are complex.  together, in their own right and both elle and i stay true to that, we don’t come up with easy fixes, often we make things worse. i love to hate the fact that they’re built on miscommunication and bad timing.  that would be the second tragic thing between them, tez does not realize what vince is preparing himself for and vince doesn’t realize what tez is preparing himself to do.  they’ve gone through so much this past year. from redefining their relationship to one another a couple of times, to committing murder.  tez has been more open with vince in the last year then he’s been in six.  their whole thread series of their tarot cards threads were some of my favorite stuff to write last year.  i know where they’re going and i can’t wait to get there, because i can’t think of two people that deserve to be happy more.

tez may be the worst thing to happen to vince, but vince is the best thing that’s happened to tez

JOSEPHINE jayakumar x TOMAS pelletier

SIGH jomas. i love jomas.  i adore jo.  i stalked jo when the her big friend group was still around on the board and interaction with one another frequently and i just really adored her from the start.  for the longest time i didn’t really know how to interact with her, lbr because i didn’t know how to branch out.  but i have never been happier that i did not have romantic plans for tom when elle brought it up.  i wasn’t sure what to expect because i’d never shipped with elle before and visar was still only a month old, but i’ve stalked a lot of elle’s ships on tbe so i knew shipping with her would be a great experience.  i have regrets on the daily like one does when there are emotional connections with plots and characters.

i stalked jo but i never really truly knew her and it has been quite the trip getting to know her and i love every inch of her.  she is such a good fit for tom and i like to think that he’s a very good fit for her.  they’re similar to one another, with their experiences in abandonment, their mothers having been big influences in their lives. but when you look at them you can see how their similarities affected them differently.  it hardened jo a bit while tom still allowed himself to be open and vulnerable.  they’ve gone from hating one another to dating and one of my favourite things has been the fact that tom had no idea they were dating until just before may.  one of the funnest things to write with them is the fact that they roast one another constantly though jo usually gets the best zingers in there, it doesn’t bother tom because he brings up the mark consuelos comment.  i appreciate that they have not lost that part of who they are nor the fact that even though they’re dating they don’t always say the right thing with one another.

i feel for jo every time i read that she thinks that she’s not good enough, that she thinks she’s always someone’s second choice. i hurt for her whenever she picks apart her appearance and those insecurities come across her mind.  i think this is where one of the most authentic things about them comes into play.  tom does not see her like that, which should not be confused with tom thinking she’s perfect.  because he doesn’t think that. but he does not care about all those things that make her normal and keep her from looking like a victoria secret model.  tom sees those flaws and he’s still all heart eyes over her because he does not need perfect, he just needs her to be jo.  she centres tom, calms him down but she also encourages him and you have no idea how happy i am about the fact that jo will encourage tom’s rough play on the ice and then turn right around and mother him the moment the game is over.

TBE Week 2020 - BEST WRITTEN SHIP (SOMEONE ELSE’S)

MITRA (MITCH X DIMI)

BY HALEY & ELLE

THE BIG EASY RP WEEK 2020 ↳ best written character of yours