part 353 whalers on the moon

[aphanon_meme]

We've been here over a year now! I can hardly believe it! Dreamwidth's been pretty good, I'd say, with almost no downtime to speak of and all that! Anyway... how is your spring going? Or I guess it's almost summer, isn't it? Hopefully it's been well! I've been catching up on work and new movies, all very exciting stuff, I'm sure.

Enjoy part 353!

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[iceandheather]

'Course you only meant my face.


...The answer's still no.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

For one hour since then, I managed to fix a face and hair
The rest was spent on tumblr and zoning out because wow I'm tired

Anon did you do something

Re: ITT: What are you doing?

[(Anonymous)]

Looking for pics of Iceland
Waiting for Ferguson to come on
Deciding if I want to drink or not

[(Anonymous)]

Why am I still awake?

[(Anonymous)]

Dear diary,

I don’t understand why other nations want England and I to hook up! I could never date someone who took the people I loved away from me! First Joan of Arc and Scotland, then my children Canada and Seychelles. It’s unforgivable.

[(Anonymous)]

This is how Spain lost his ear once.

[(Anonymous)]

Stop being a 13 year old girl France

[(Anonymous)]

"I used to be a conquerer

but then I took a knife to the ear..."

[mari]

"once"

[mari]

/tucks in

\(;3;)/

[lux_n_burg]

[Applauds and hands her some mugs for filling so the party can get started.]

Alright, just let me get a chair... and [grabs one of the mugs] Prost!
cheers
[After a couple of beers he'll probably end up on her lap or something.]

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't know Australians drive on the left...

Aussie!Anon reporting.

[(Anonymous)]

We do.

It doesn't make the process any less terrifying.

Shy!Anon would like some help.

[(Anonymous)]

Hello there.

So. Um. I like it here on the anon meme. And I just so happen to be a roleplayer. Who notices there's no Egypt.

Long story short, I would like to be an Egypt but I'm concerned I don't have many icons (especially from the manga) and just I don't know if I'd be a good enough Egypt especially because I'm new-ish to Dreamwidth.

Yeah. Advice? Please?

Re: Shy!Anon would like some help.

[(Anonymous)]

Know your basic history about Egypt and get a feel for his personality in Hetalia. Then either find some icons on an icon community or make them yourself if need be (you can always get a free trial of photoshop if you don't want to deal with the hassle of paint). Then dive in. dreamwidth's barely any different from how livejournal used to be.

[(Anonymous)]

wtf?

when did imageshack change to premium-only uploads?

why was I not informed before my 'free trial'(read: previously free account) was up?

not that I've used it in ages but goddamn a little warning would've been fucking swell

Don't mind little old Guppy.

[silent_sandman]

((Why is there only a 15 icon limit oh gosh))

Re: Shy!Anon would like some help.

[(Anonymous)]

oh anon if you wanna rp it helps if you give something for anons and rpers to reply to in your tag

like you can just have him think [this place is weird] in brackets but even better is if you have him say or do something because other rpers can't read your characters mind and so they can't respond to thoughts

/posting this here so you can edit your comment below if you wanna

Re: rp situation

[americascaptain]

I wouldn't mind a coffee.

Re: Shy!Anon would like some help.

[(Anonymous)]

I could probably put together some icons if you're willing to wait a few days. Though he doesn't have all that much canon art from what I remember! Which is too bad, really.

Speaking of canon, one thing that I found has helped me out a lot for doing canon review is to put together an index of my character's canon appearances. That makes it easy to look up things when I need to. Obviously for someone like Italy this would be really hard, but for Egypt it'd probably be relatively easy.

Researching the basic history/culture is important too of course... Don't worry about being an expert on it though. But for characters who don't have a lot of canon appearances, it can be a helpful way to figure out what their personalities, interests, and thought processes might be. (Especially the cultural stuff - I find that's very helpful).

Another thing I feel is important is, at least when you start threading, have dialogue and/or actions in addition to internal monologue in your tags. It's hard to respond to someone if they're only thinking, and not saying or doing something for other characters to respond to.

Anyway. Also: Meme is very slow at times, so don't worry if you don't get a lot of responses right away. It can be discouraging, but it's important to keep that in mind. (And also that meme is silly.)

Re: Shy!Anon would like some help.

[silent_sandman]

((Thank you! I'm working on it [as you can see. I appreciate the advice))

Re: Shy!Anon would like some help.

[silent_sandman]

((Actually, that would be super, super helpful. I could only find fanart [as you can see]. But that would be amazing if you don't mind. I need all the help I can get. Egypt is so under-appreciated.))

Re: Shy!Anon would like some help.

[(Anonymous)]

An Egypt! :D I'm glad we're getting an Egypt~

[1/2]

[1amkeit]

Ah, Egypt. You're here, too...

[Germany sounds rather disappointed as he says it, but that's just because he doesn't wish having to deal with this place on any nation]

[2/2]

[1amkeit]

[Shoves a large book with the title "Meme Manual" at his chest]

Read this book thoroughly and be careful during your stay here.