"There's Something Wrong With The Body Politic"

IJ is officially on notice. EVERY TIME I tried to do anything yesterday, it was down. It would come up for a minute, and then be down again. And I'd think it was just me, but downforeveryone said it wasn't, so it was just full of fail. Damnit.

Despite that, I did manage to upload icons for Datura, Blight, Drift, and Lalla, and fix up their journals/bios etc. and get them crossposted so that my inner sense of organization does not weep. Still must keyword, but progress. It has been made. Also after having stared at all their faces a lot while trying to upload icons multiple times because of IJ's refusal to work, I feel like I can safely say Gillian Jacobs makes the most adorable faces ever.

And I'm mostly caught up on The Odds and Reaped, too, and my googledocs that were waiting on me. Here is my list to do:( Cut for list nonsense. )

If anyone at gamemaker or the_reaped want to thread anything I missed, I'm all for it, just poke me!

I have achieved Tribute completion! I may still edit, because I am having a brain dumb, I hate my meds day so might have missed stuff. But mostly done. Thank you to everyone who was helping me PB!

Having done two non-Careers/unimpressive-to-the-Capitol Districts last time, I'm excited for the chance to play someone Trained for the games. I fully expect him to die still, but it will be a much different approach. I read the apps that came in already, so I don't THINK he's retreading too much ground the others cover so far. His app is ridiculously long, now that I look at it.

Anyone in 1 who wants to plot or tweak anything, just let me know!

I probably should repost Ash's drabbles to the history comm, since I forgot about it and I think a few others are putting theirs there.

And I need to finish Percy, now that I spent a million hours badly reddening his hair in icons in an online editor. (Or like an hour or two, probably, but who's counting?)

Guys. 10 seconds until Tributes were all held. Like literally. I was lurking on the page, hit refresh, and BOOM TAKEN.

That is kind of astonishing. The power of our pimping and enthusiasm is surreal.

I did not get a Tribute. (Well, I got a cannon fodder, but since he had a concept with his district partner, and she didn't get her hold, I released him back into the wild to give someone who hadn't had a Tribute at all yet a chance.) But I still have Ash and Dray! And I am waiting to see how it shakes out with the hold frenzy, and then might pick up another support character. And I will save my Tributes ideas for the next round, or for one of the other HG games opening. I did really love the tension of the Arena and playing a Tribute, so I was a bit disappointed, but I'm also just really excited to see how things go this round, with such a full roster and so much enthusiasm.

(Also if one of the icon-making people on my flist wants to PB Jaden Smith in Karate Kid for me, so I can murder him in the future, I would love you a lot.)

( Cut for nattering about The Odds, spoilers for the finale. )

Why are Weasleys so damn hard to find PB's for? I am just going to start finding pictures of orange cats and saying that's their PB, Percy is a cat now.

I am on the edge of my seat waiting for the final logs of The Odds to go up. THE TENSION, OMG!!

Part of what's fun about gamemaker, is how the Games really just hit each of the Mentors differently. I wrote Ash as very detached and very deliberately showy - a mimic of emotion who didn't actually understand it. Which is what he is, most of the time, though not quite as much as I thought he would be. But Achilles came in, and there were just the right buttons that he pushed, and Ash doesn't know why, but he invested, and it's really, really new for him.

But since it's the first time I've played him (in public, he's a very slim relation to a former PSL character who had a similar personality and skill set, but it's a pretty tentative connection), it seemed to me that it probably didn't read as unusual as it was in my head. So I wanted to write some of his history, to show the progression for myself, and also to sketch out a little more of HIS Games. I've been picking at it pretty steadily for a while, but wasn't sure if I was going to post it anywhere, but since I'm all CDJ using lately, I figured why not.

So this is scenes from Ash's history. And thus of interest to. . . me, pretty much. Maia and Floriana, and any other characters from gamemaker who are mentioned are not mine, and belong to their respective players! Details I make up might not be game-canon compliant, and I didn't double check some of the ages. The Amber mentioned here is Ash's sister, not the PC of the same name.

Also very rough and not edited, because I'm lame.

( Age 11 )

( Age 13 )

( Age 13 )

( Age 13, the Arena )

( Age 16 )

( Age 18 )

( Age 21 )

( Age 23 )

Even with killing off BOTH my Tributes, I remain bingo-less. I am adopting Julie's philosophy that LAST to bingo wins. So I AM WINNING.



I have been useless for tagging since the death. Though I think we did a pretty nice job with the lead up and then the actual scene turned out nice . . . for, you know. Murder.

gamemaker is doing another round. livelovehump, adozenpapercuts, this is relevant to your interests. For reasons that involve me yakking at you about it for the last monthish. (I HAVE BUNNIES ALREADY.)

( Cut for death related blather )

I need to finish stuff. I need food, and to do stuff.

R.I.P., Bran.

I really didn't get that choked up about it until I read Thyme and Lark's reactions, and then I was sniffling like crazy. Morgan's death also got to me. Paisley was guaranteed to be sad, but Dornick's reaction BROKE me.

I seriously don't know who to root for in the Games, because I love everyone. I play Ash, who wants to root for Achilles. Dray, who wants to root for Dornick. Deela, who wants to, you know, LIVE. And then I think about why Blue should win, and how awesome Satine is, and Lark, and how badass Ellis was, offing Bron, and Madoc's mini-me Orr andandand. . . . it's just really hard to pick ANYONE to root for when you love them all.

Also this game made me start using my CDJ again. So there's that.

( Bio: Ash Convoy )