Hello… again… again… how many times have I done this?

[😺QuietStar😺]

Yeah, music can be great for focus too, I've found. Sometimes I like to listen to it loudly so I can feel it. I also love any songs with good harmonies in them.

If you don't have any interest, you can disregard of course, but I like Marianas Trench. They're a Canadian band that does multiple different fun things with their albums. They have one that each song leads into each other(Ever After), one that has some awesome mash ups of songs on the album in between the individual type songs(Masterpiece Theater), and one that is based off the Goonies, so it's music from that era(Astoria). Who Do You Love has a really satisfying harmony(since choir is like that sometimes) oh, and their most recent album references all the previous albums' song titles in a song called Dearly Departed. Also, in Ever After, the end is like a story book, where it summarizes the album by referencing all the songs one more time

I've also found a guy called Lee DeWyze who has a really nice growly raspy tone to his voice. My favorites of his are Stone, Sweet Serendipity, and Victims of the Night

Then if you like electronic futuristic metal type sound, I also like STARSET. All their albums have fun themes to them, like a lab, aliens and outer space, that type stuff. They also have a song called Icarus since I remember doing a Roman/Greek mythology roleplay on here at one point

[AetherRaven]

Oooo, those sound interesting! I’ll be sure to check them out soon.

I think I remember that RP; wasn’t it based on the Rick Riordan book universe?

[😺QuietStar😺]

Right, yes. That's what they were based on. Remember now, thank you

[AetherRaven]

Going off the topic of RP, I accidentally started a whole universe with a few friends where we made a pantheon, magic system, and a LOT of characters. It’s been going on for like almost 2 years. It’s scary.

[😺QuietStar😺]

Oh wow. Sounds awesome.

I also started a universe with my best friend XD that's where Hagon came from if you remember him

[AetherRaven]

I remember Hagon lol. Definitely one of the characters I liked to see when off-topic rp was popular.

Speaking of my characters, I made them less r/i’m14andthisisdeep material and now they feel much more alive. For example, Hrafn is nonbinary, has a queerplatonic throuple relationship with two newer characters, and is a tad more morally ambiguous now, but still retains the secretive nature I originally planned for them.

I could give more examples, but that would take an essay lol

[😺QuietStar😺]

XD glad to hear he was well received XD

Sounds interesting! Never would have expected Hrafn to be nonbinary. And glad to hear that as well. Always loved their secretiveness in roleplays

[AetherRaven]

I suck with creating new characters honestly, so reworking and tweaking older ones consistently so they truly develop into actually decent characters is one of my favorite activities.

I also didn’t expect Hrafn to be nonbinary either; the idea came to me and I played with it. I really like them though, and they definitely rubbed off more on Arya than previously lol. She’s actually pangender now(any/all) and definitely developed certain things from their sibling lol. They have a more found family dynamic now, which may have been influenced by my ‘yikes’ inducing parents and close relations with my own sisters(the one I used to complain about turned out to be trans lol)

[😺QuietStar😺]

I'm the opposite. I make an excessive amount of characters that are all kinda similar(bad habit of mine, but working on it for the most part) and they all connect to each other in some way, like one guy's Hagon's cousin's ex's boyfriend, etc XD

Oh wow XD very cool, minus the yikes of course, but yikes is kinda what creates more perspective sometimes I've found as about the only positive

[AetherRaven]

I’m wheezing cousin’s ex’s boyfriend-
Honestly though, that’s kind of what I’ve done for the sake of story writing. Let me give an example:

Hrafn is siblings with Arya and another character who goes by Star.
Arya’s friends with a character called Cian.
Cian’s sister is named Caoilfhionn.

Caoilfhionn’s best friend/partner is Squid.

And that’s how Squid, Caoilfhionn, and Star decided to be poly.

I wish I was joking that was an actual plotline I used. I’m a disaster lol

[😺QuietStar😺]

Yeah, it's very strange. Then that guy has three brothers who all have SOs as well XD

XD sounds complicated, but love when everything connects, so I ain't judging XD

[AetherRaven]

Star and Cian, as the obligatory hopeless romantics, find it funny. I remember a key point being a genuine conversation between Hrafn and Star about relationships, and Hrafn basically ended up telling Star that it’s okay to love or not to love romantically, queerplatonically, or platonically as well. It’s definitely something I’ve come to terms with as a hopeless romantic who currently hasn’t had a crush.

I love when things connect as well! Of course, some relationships aren’t relevant for a while or need to grow, so I often switch circumstances up to see what comes of it. One of my favorite current stories has Caoilfhionn and Arya having not met while Star and Caoilfhionn have, which leads to a humorous moment where all four are shooketh at the fact that they know each other.

[😺QuietStar😺]

Yeah, I have yet to have an actual crush myself as well, I think

Oh my goodness XD

[AetherRaven]

Story writing is chaotic sometimes. How about you?

[😺QuietStar😺]

Yes. We discuss our writing in texts, kinda similar to the way we used to roleplay on here, like:

One idea with certain characters

Two idea

Three idea

Then turn them into actual writing later