snrk SNRK @roach have i mentioned lately that i love your writing EDIT: in other news *heart breaks at Jethro* noooooooooooo friend don't be sad
since i noticed the discussion of erskin's disability in the ooc thread, i've decided to mention that i really like that disability is a thing in boat trolls. a thing that some of the main characters have, and that is treated in a way that feels human. (well, not exactly human, of course, since they're trolls most of the time, but it's the best word i could think of.) 'cause, though i'm not disabled in all the exact same ways the characters are, i am disabled and it's nice to see people like me in stories. when i was younger, 'cause of the lack of disability representation, i was convinced that being a Really Good Person, successful, or both would be impossible for me, that my limitations would mean i'd never be good enough. and yeah, having representation now, that makes me feel like i am good enough and can be a hero. like, even if i never do anything heroic, it's nice to know that it's a possibility.
part of me very much wants Erskin to wear Bel's gift while in full dress uniform as a massive up yours to admiral whatever-his-name-was. (that may be inadvisable of course, but, hey)
lecherousHurricane - can't decide if this is Bel's porn blog or a hilarious mock account Galley set up. ... or both!
"Little bitty goth boy" pretty much sums up the guy I had this wicked blackcrush on in high school. *facepillow* My buttons, how do you keep finding them.
I never really understood the trope of having heroes who are fit and perfect and everything is easy for them. Like, I can't imagine myself in that position, I'll never be anything like that. It's a lot more impressive and heroic and inspiring, to me, to read about people who find so much to be difficult, but also find out how to keep going and get it done anyway. Disabled heroes are pretty important to me, not... I don't think because I want inspiration porn. But like... because real people are broken? And finding out how to be heroic and accomplished within hard and painful limitations, is a real story. There's shit you just can't do. But there's still shit you can do, and you can figure out how to leverage it. Like, if you balance it right, you can be enough. Terezi Pyrope is an incredibly interesting character— off the bat she's a supercrip stereotype, with magic powers to compensate for her blindness. But then she's also got this intense, shame-related depression and anxiety, and that does disable her, significantly. Fatally. It's pretty brilliant. I think pretty much all my troll characters are significantly broken/disabled in some way, come to think of it. It's automatic to build in limitations, it shapes the personality of the character as much as their interests and strengths. Lainey's dyslexic. Arguus has paralyzing social anxiety. They cover for each other. Erskin's got a whole laundry list of problems, most of which can be traced back to (how he has no idea he has) ADHD. Twitch has like a Convenient Fantasy Amnesia that doesn't show up in humans, but working out how it fucks with her, in practical and emotional terms, has been pretty neat. And like all of these dudes also have legit, x-men level superpowers. But the powers aren't the interesting things to play with, usually... Come to think of it, a superhero AU would be pretty funny. Bel would be all like 'yes hello I have super strength that is why i look like two rhinos fucking a tank' and Erskin would show up, like 5'8'' and pretty trim, and actually benchpress two rhinos and a tank.
I just realized something about the Boat Trolls Planning thread: it reminds me of musical theater. ...Let me explain. So, obviously those of us who aren't actually in the roleplay don't comment in there, because it's for working out what the players want to happen and it would be rude to barge in. But, of course, lots of us still read it because even when they're just going "dude, do the thing, it'll be awesome I swear" these guys are really fun to read, so you wind up with only the same three or four people (at most) posting in it, but tons of likes from a bunch of different people under a lot of the posts. I was trying to pin down what that kept reminding me of, and then I realized that the image I kept getting was basically a musical lead dropping a witty line and the chorus backing them up. Like, Roach goes "And then they fucked~!" into the microphone up front, and there's the rest of us in the back dressed as random students or ordinary villagers or whatever, solemnly intoning "fuuuucked" while we wait for Jacktrash's response and the key change.
I adore everything about this. Bel waxing poetic. The epithets. Murfey's reaction. This is beautiful.
*fans self* Spoiler: also *coughcoughchastitybeltcough* ...troll anatomy defeats me. ... chastity ... flap? oh god.
haha chastityflap, that's the worst phrase. but i always did like the idea of, with tentabulge trolls, some kind of clip to prevent the bulge from unsheathing. it'd probably be painful and messy, which... is not really a deterrent for some kinds of porn, haha.
probably the Lite(tm) versions would be, like, ironclad undies. there's just nowhere for it to go. and on the Extreme end, well, corset piercings...
