aphanon_meme | part 367 bears and wolves oh my

part 367 bears and wolves oh my

YOU DID IT, I'M SO PROUD OF YOU. Well, it's been a year. I hope it was a good one for you--and that 2018 is even better! And maybe we'll finally get that fansub of even one of the musicals... just maybe.

Enjoy part 367!

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/hugs!

I feel the same about these being some of my favorite RP moments ever. I can't wait for the history logs, especially for their final moments..! they went by so fast. But I enjoyed very bit of it, especially with you! this was just a really bright spot this month, ignoring that the tragic factor makes it sad all the same.

Yep I saw them before I saw your name! The initials were a coincidence. I just googled "1910 last name" then picked Lillian's birth year and looked up the popular baby names for that year and found one I liked. There are so many strange coincidences with these two!

i thought you had, because i saw you'd said you'd signed up before i'd even gotten back to you to tell you who i was! that's crazy. just the sheer coincidence of choosing both first and last the same. LS+LS were really meant to be a thing; too bad they didn't get a chance to capitalize on that ;A; lotte realized during the last church service that the church was not meant for her as a vocation, LOL

also, i'd meant to ask, you'd mentioned something like your emotional attachment to the titanic had you feeling like your character was meant for the tragic fate of going down with the ship; do you care to go into that a little more? just another one of those dear coincidences of ours?

Oh gosh, so, and honestly I probably don't know how to explain this without sounding weird, but here I go.

I got really into the Titanic when the James Cameron movie came out. I was 8 but something about it struck a chord with me like nothing ever had, or really ever has in the same exact way, since.

A few of my friends got into the history too and somehow we ended up developing this habit of spending hours at slumber parties, on the playground, or just pacing our neighborhood, going over the idea of being on the Titanic. How would we survive? Would we survive? Just 8-9 year old me and friends, endlessly poring over stories of how we might give up a spot on a crowded boat for a woman who says she has children at home; or how we might lose our friend or husband or child and spend so long trying to find them that the boats are all gone; or how we would beg the officer for our older brothers to be considered children, or cling to them so fiercely that they would not be able to put us on a boat, and so on. "I" would almost always die die, often only agreeing to live when a friend would create a scenario where they wanted us to get on a boat together.

Eventually we moved on from being obsessed, as kids do, but that Titanic hook was in me and (pardon the pun) never let go. Somehow in the... jeez, 20 years now, of Titanic being a part of my life in some way, I just felt like going down with the ship would be... a type of gesture that I needed to do, the "natural" choice. Out of some kind of guilt or maybe a type of catharsis. A "this has been a part of my life for so long, and now that it's here, now that "I'm" experiencing it, I need to go down with it." A very (very) mild version of what one of the survivors felt when he snuck himself onto the set of A Night to Remember during the sinking scene, and tried to go down with the ship, maybe? Especially with Lotte there.

I think, and again this sounds weird, that may be why I kept hesitating when the lifeboats turned red. Unlikely as it was in the end because of how fast the spots were taken, I thought--I can't possibly get into a lifeboat and leave Lotte behind on this ship and find myself safe on the Carpathia. That's not how it ends, that's not how it was ever supposed to end. After all these years of Titanic, I have to go down with her.

not weird at all. i understand you quite well, those meant-to-be's that we can't quite explain, just knowing; thank you for sharing. i'd kind of hoped at the beginning that maybe another memer or two would've been interested as well, so we could've had some kind of group--and though i'm sure that would've been fun too, i'm glad it ended up this way instead. it was very much a meant-to-be partnership, especially now knowing that feeling you've had all this time, and i'm glad i got to be part of you experiencing, in some way, that feeling of a connection which held so much meaning to you all this time.

"I" would almost always die die, often only agreeing to live when a friend would create a scenario where they wanted us to get on a boat together.

you got me crying again right here. doesn't help that i was listening to this

Too soon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77O6cuIiG24

for sunrise

Honestly, with all the coincidences and almost fateful things that happened, I'm very glad that it worked out the way it did. And thank you for letting me share that and experiencing it with me!

for sunrise

oh, ohh my heart. that song is very fitting. ow.

I was listening to this a bit ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPCXiwTf_w0

"I saw you leaving/I saw the light go out" and "And so they say, lord, for everything a reason" in particular....

man, that is perfect too, ahh the lyric punch!

also, i just remembered we spent two sunrises together, actually! the first we spent watching it out on deck with the intent of looking at it, while lotte was still holding back in the friendship, and then the next time broke through just as we'd had a breakthrough in friendship...

i wish we could've saved our PMs, too. i forget when it was you said you had that feeling i was going to talk about spiritualism when we were sharing late night tea that night. and we had a lot of funny moments in the PMs, too!

i wonder if anyone else will be curious to find out what happened between lotte and lillian when they're looking at the logs...

The first sunrise was also rather silly--Mr. Clay and his dazzling smile, the peacock--and then by the second, they had grown close enough to be more serious and as you said, it was a breakthrough...! I still can't believe that timing, I wasn't even paying attention to the sunrise on its way.

I know. Somehow I thought we'd be able to access the PMs until the 18th based on someone saying that the Carpathia story continued until then, but sadly not. At least we enjoyed them in the moment! So many of our PMs had me cackling. Although what was it you said tonight--"Maybe we didn't actually have a choice in our fate after all" that was like a punch.

Re: the spiritualism, when you mentioned something about the room seeming creepy as if it was waiting for something (or something similar) I was typing up a response about spiritualism and how she'd encountered it still active in Paris. And it's so strange, because the Cafe being creepy doesn't really conjure up ideas of "oh hey spiritualism!" AND YET that's the first thing that jumped in my head... again, fate!

Maybe...! I really want to see the other goings-on of the various people we met! ~~Mr. Clay!!~~ And to see what happened in some of the crew-only areas when I spotted a few people inside them but didn't go in because I was worried about what I might catch people doing..... if you know what I mean. Wink, wink.

it's strange too because it came in a blinding of light before the picture changed from the dark windows to the room with the sun beaming in. i still don't think i could say any room looked creepier than the cafe at night, from all the rooms i went in. though tbf, i didn't go in all of them or read all the info blurbs from all of them, and i do regret it, but at the same time i think of all the scenes i spent my time involved with instead, and i could've been deprived of those. i'm glad i thought to check the map and followed along with everything as it was flooding in real time, too, it added something to the gravity of it all. just like those details in the settings of the production you saw--the actors/actresses (in our case, the passenger roleplayers) are important but we have as much credit credit to give to those who implemented those little details which amounted to much altogether. all the events going on just as they had at the time, even before the sinking with church services or the balls.

i wonder where clay got to, too! him and chase are my only unknowns, now, (besides not knowing if sir william smith took the opportunity to add to the orchestra with his rap skills.) and that peacock...i don't think it's a coincidence he and clay were on the deck together, haha. it's fitting in my mind if they were played by the same person; they BOTH love to plume themselves so! and i don't buy that a guy that good at RPing would only lend his skills to just one character. him not being around much of the time implies, to me, that he was giving time to other characters.

It was a really beautiful effect. And the cafe did look creepy, very dead and lifeless, with the dark windows and silence. I didn't go in during the day when it was open that I can remember, I wonder how different it was.

I'm glad you told me about the flooding on the map, I never would have though. I'm still adjfs;; over those water effects, the water creeping up the screen if you were in an area that was flooding. What if we had waited too long to move away from the collapsible boats..? it's easy to see how people end up drowned in random rooms.

Yes, there were so many details! I am so impressed with this project. I had a completely different picture of what it was when I signed up, I didn't imagine anything so detailed.

Oo check below for Chase, Mr. Clay and the peacock updates! Well, updates for who played them, not all of their fates are known yet.

ALSO TO BED NOW FOR ME IT'S VERY LATE WHAT AM I DOING AWAKE

i tried to go in a lot. it seemed other places didn't have as much to eat; i wonder if that was a bug? 'cause at one point i was able to have meals in the 1st Class Lounge or whatever and then a little bit later while i was still in the room, i went to get some more food and drink--all that was there was water and rice. and that's how the dining saloons and a la carte restaurant had been for me from the start.

and i figured all my money was going to go to waste otherwise anyway, so why not spend it on expensive french cuisine and beverages, 2nd class be damned? it was quite different in the daytime; i meant it when i said i felt it was one of the most beautiful rooms, besides maybe the 1st class smoking room and the grand staircase

i didn't even think about how we would've been caught under water while waiting for the lifeboats...!

NAUGHTY LOTTE ALWAYS ENTICING HER BFF TO STAY UP ALL NIGHT INTO EARLY MORNING i'm sorry, get sleep! good night!!!

(also i'm really flattered that these were some of your favorite RP moments because i've honestly never RPed before, ever. so >//>)

ah i just saw this!

really?? but you did so well! I assumed you were seasoned with the way you were interacting with so many people and directing actions.

no no, haha, nooope. thank you, though, ahh! >~< i was kinda intimidated when you wanted to meet because i hadn't done anything like this before. if you hadn't contacted me, i probably wouldn't gone the whole event just observing.

though i was talking to people as lotte when you weren't around, too...i guess you gave me confidence not to be a loner just like lillian did for lotte!

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