Crossovers are the lifeblood of this industry

The 'Find a Crossover' Meme

It's crazy, but sometimes you just really want to ship with a character from another canon, but you don't have a castmate and feel awkward about asking or wanting to do that. Though there's a lot of desire and opportunities for crossover shipping in DWRP, actually finding people to do it with can be a bit overwhelming. So, will you have to do without your Samus Aran/Tony Stark OTP forever?

Not with this meme in hand, you won't! Here, you can find like-minded people who aren't too constrained by canons. You can make connections and decide if you'd like to take an idea and run with it in a meme or a musebox. Maybe, if you're lucky, someone may even have been looking for your character for...well, forever!

How To:
- There are two options for this meme: offering and looking. Offering is when you don't have anything specific in mind, but you want to put your characters out there to show people that you're interested. Looking, on the other hand, is when you're looking for a specific scenario/character.
- Comment to others if you can fill their requests.
- Connect!

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September Roll Call

the ROLL CALL meme

HERE @ fortanon

Guess I'll go eat worms

UNLOVEABLE

rules

01. Comment with your character. NO BLANK COMMENTS. Your top-level should include your character's IC reason that they think they're...well, unlovable!

02. See if they're an impartial judge.

kissr

In a world of micro-niche app startups, this one's not too complicated: Tinder...but for kissing. Swipe right (producing the 💋 symbol) on who you want to kiss, left (leaving 🤢) on who you don't.

RULES
○ See above! Your character "downloads the app" by leaving a top-level.
○ Others judge with a 💋 or 🤢.

O n e

ONE w o r d TO DESCRIBE YOURSELF

• top levels go here. your character must grab one word from their vocab to describe themselves.

• people who've never met them (or their friends/enemies, etc) decree if it's a good call out.

Code deploy happening shortly

Per the dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.

There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.

She'd fix me

I CAN FIX THEM
no, really, I can.

how to play
○ slap all your character's messiness up in that subject line.
○ people let u know if they'd fix them.
○ or make them worse?

Home in our heart.

unexpected domesticity meme.
you never thought you'd have a home, at least not one you can call completely yours, no strings attached and no one lording above you or controlling you. you may not have even known what a "home" truly is, or thought you wanted one. now, there is a touch of domesticity in your life, no matter what things are like otherwise, because you have a home, though you may not have a house proper.

most importantly, you now have someone to share this new facet of life with - a partner. similar to you or completely different, relationship unspoken or unrealized, heavily romantic or understated, they are slowly but surely becoming someone indispensable to you. you never could have seen this coming. and, of course, with domesticity comes a certain amount of intimacy, perhaps even the ultimate physical intimacy...you may be open to that already or you're working up to it when you'd hardly considered it before.

whether your situation is for the long term as it stands, could end at any moment, or a mere disguise you're using to lay low, you're getting comfortable. how does that make you feel? will you it accept a new lease on life - or will you sabotage yourself before someone else does?

— Comment with your character, preferences, what tone you want your thread to take, and whether or not your open to smut.
— Reply to others.

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Love you take is equal to the love you make

the gentle lovemaking for everyone meme

This may be the only way you know how to do it. But you could actually never do it this way; this is the first time you aren't ridiculously rough. Or it could be the first time, period. You're scared of hurting them. You're scared of them hurting you. You want to escape from the world falling down around you. You want to celebrate victory. You have to say hello. You need to say goodbye. You have to say "I love you" when you can't find words. You want to teach them that this is okay. You're broken and you need them to fix you.

What you want to do is take your partner - take them slowly, take them lovingly. Who you are, what you've done, and what you're like outside this moment doesn't matter. You want to love them and do so gently, with kisses and gazes and the release that brings you the closest together you've ever been.

You need this.

Comment - character and preferences.
Reply - others.

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Mississippi site block, plus a small restriction on Tennessee new accounts

A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.

The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.

In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.

The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.

Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.

Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.

RNG

the random scenario meme

comment with your character.
respond to others
lbr — no one uses rng. just go wild, and maybe kinda sorta pick from the scenarios below?
post picture prompts OR write starters OR whatever!
have a grand ol' time

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Insomnia

the i n s o m n i a meme

It happens to everyone - sometimes, you have nights where you just can't fall asleep, no matter what you do. It could be for a number of reasons, or no reason at all. And this is what's happened now: you've been laying in bed for what feels like hours, just tossing and turning, and nothing seems to help. So what's left to do? Get out of bed and go wake someone else up, of course. If you're not getting any sleep, then why should they?

i n s t r u c t i o n s

• Post with your character (note the name and fandom in the subject).
• Other people reply to you by generating a number from 1 to 10.
• Have fun!

o p t i o n s

01 • FEAR. Maybe you're hearing strange, indeterminable noises; maybe there's a severe storm happening outside; maybe you watched a scary movie before bed? Whatever the reason, you're terrified and it's keeping you awake. You just want to wake someone else up so they can protect you from the monster in your closet.
02 • HUNGER. Your stomach is growling and it just won't stop. Or perhaps your throat is so dry you could cough up a tumbleweed? Well, you've gone to the kitchen to remedy this and hey, that was a pan that just dropped on the floor. It was loud enough to wake the dead! Oops.
03 • PAIN. Your body is completely worn out, be it from exercise, battle, sickness, or what have you. Either way you're in enough pain to keep you from sleeping, so maybe someone else has a home remedy or something, or can at least help you take your mind off of it.
04 • SOLITUDE. For some reason, your bed just feels so empty at the moment. You're feeling terribly lonely and really just want someone to keep you company for a while. Maybe it'd be easier to fall asleep if you're with them...
05 • DISCOMFORT. Your room is an oven. Either that or a freezer. Or maybe this bed is just really uncomfortable? Who knows why you can't get to sleep, it feels like it could be anything. Why even bother trying? Maybe someone else can preoccupy you until you feel tired enough to ignore your discomfort.
06 • PENSIVE. Something's on your mind, and no matter how hard you try to focus elsewhere, it's just not going to work. Your body may be tired, but your mind is incredibly busy and it's virtually impossible to get to sleep. Surely, talking it out with someone else will help?
07 • SADNESS. Something terrible has happened that day, perhaps; or you could just be severely depressed. Either way you're trying your hardest not to cry yourself to sleep, and it's not working at all. Better find a way to get it out of your system somehow; you need a shoulder to cry on.
08 • ANGER. You are just... fuming. Who knows why - that annoying dog is barking again, or maybe the people next door are getting busy and keeping you awake. Whatever the reason for your ire is, you'd better put an end to it so you can get some damn rest already! Go wake up a friend so you can complain to them.
09 • RESTLESS. You're far too energetic to sleep right now. Maybe you're just trying to do so out of necessity - you have to be up early tomorrow! But you just don't think you'll be able to fall asleep for a while now, so why waste the time trying to sleep when you could be doing something else? Namely bothering someone else - you're totally jealous because they're getting more sleep than you.
10 • WILDCARD. Choose one of the options above, or make up your own scenario.

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[meme] texting

texty text

The General Texting Meme

Sometimes, you just want to text somebody. No reason, no sexy stuff, no special time of the day. You just text that sucker. Sometimes it's even a wrong number! The world is your oyster, if your oyster has unlimited texting. Which, presumably, it does. You know what to do! Leave a top level and text people! Live free! Get weird!

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! meme round up

Weekly meme round-up: Aug 24 - 30

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roasty toasty

bonfire meme
because it's that time of year

It's a bonfire! No special rules, just come get toasty!

how to play

1. Create a top-level!

2. Chat with others around the fire. Play games, share stories, get cozy.

🔥 stay warm

autumn drinks Hot cocoa, warm apple cider... Delicious!

roasts Pass the marshmallows, please!

scary stories What was on the back of her car? Was it... a hook?!

alcoholic drinks Who's daring you to chug that Oktoberfest beer?

comfort Soft, cozy clothes are that much better near the fire.

guitar solo There's always that one... anyway, here's Wonderwall.

partied too hard The one stumbling over logs and slurring their words.

truth or dare The best thing about this game is that it can happen anywhere.

wood The fire's getting a little low.. you wouldn't mind scouting for more wood, would you?

chubby bunny How many marshmallows can you fit in your mouth?

deep chats Fires have a way of getting the truth out of people...

horror movie What was that noise? Someone should go investigate.

wildcard What happens at the fire, stays at the fire.

Bakerstreet's First Family

the "Starting a Family" meme

Nature is no respecter of persons, my friends. Whether it be childhood friends, newlyweds, or one-night stands, a single decision or accident can change everything, and there will be three people instead of just two.

Congratulations! The characters in these threads and those who reply to them are now expecting babies, no matter what their unique situation may be. Of course, depending on the characters, this might go over like a lead balloon. But wait! Even if the decision to have a baby was made and was consensual, the process is no walk in the park. There is lots to do...and only nine months to do it. Nine potentially drama-filled months.

HOW TO PLAY

Comment with your character, preferences, etc.
Not all options here are fluffy and happy. Some are potentially angsty or possibly triggering. Tread lightly. Be sure to mention what you want and what you don't want.
Reply to others.
For this, male characters can get pregnant because why not.

PROMPTS
( Prompts and such behind here. )

Rain

the rain meme

Ah, rain—the precipitation that the whole world has a love/hate affair with. It waters the garden for free and ruins baseball games. It cools you off in the summer and it causes more ice and sleet to appear in the winter. Sometimes it is lovely and falls at a decent pace for a few hours, other times, it blasts the whole eastern seaboard away.

Poems and songs have been written about it, people have danced in it, others have cursed its entire existence, and still more refuse to go out and drive in it.

Now it’s time to roll some dice and see what the weather will have in store for you today.

directions

1. Comment with your character, series, preferences, etc in the subject.
2. Roll a number between 1-5 with the RNG for an intensity.
3. Roll 1-15 with the RNG for a situation.
4. Reply to other comments and play the scenario out!
5. Don’t catch a cold!
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Hit it

You've seen her across the room a hundred times - oh, maybe it's him? - and for some reason you've always been too shy to say it... Well, tonight's your chance to admit it: you'd hit it. You would so hit that.

♥ The Rules ♥

ONE ➔ post a blank comment with your character
TWO ➔ respond to others character comments ic'ly saying whether or not your character would
➔ TAP THAT
➔ HIT THAT
➔ TAP AND HIT THAT
➔ ...ETC!
THREE ➔ play out reactions
FOUR ➔ If you reply, try to tag a few people too so it's more fun!

Are you ready?

Ready For Love?

It's a simple question, really.

1. No blank comments!

2. Is your character ready for love/romance/a relationship, settling down and that ball of wax?

3. Why or why not? You need to answer in that top level! Then, in rolls the adoring public. Tag around. Thread.

First

Firsts to Share

HOW TO PLAY

• Nothing novel here. Drop them muses, get some tags.
• Respect preferences. Be as chill as the frost our rooftops.

PROMPTS

ANGRY: ( a ) is angry at ( b ) for the first time
BED: ( a ) and ( b ) share a bed for the first time
CAR: ( a ) shares a ride with ( b ) for the first time
COOKING: ( a ) cooks for ( b ) for the first time
CRYING: ( a ) sees ( b ) crying for the first time
DATE: ( a ) asks ( b ) out on a date for the first time
DRUNK: ( a ) drunk calls/texts ( b ) for the first time
FLOWERS: ( a ) gives ( b ) flowers for the first time
HAND: ( a ) touches/holds ( b )’s hand for the first time
HEARTFELT: ( a ) sends ( b ) a heartfelt text/audio for the first time
HUG: ( a ) hugs ( b ) for the first time
HURT: ( a ) sees ( b ) hurt for the first time
HOME: ( a ) goes to ( b )’s home for the first time MESS ( a ) sees ( b ) in a messy state for the first time
JOURNAL: ( a ) writes about ( b ) in their journal for the first time
SAFE: ( a ) feels safe around ( b ) for the first time
SEEN: ( a ) sees ( b ) for the first time
SICK: ( a ) sees ( b ) sick for the first time
SNOOZE: ( a ) falls asleep on ( b ) for the first time
SUN: ( a ) and ( b ) watch the sunrise together for the first time
TEXT: ( a ) texts ( b ) first after a long silence for the first time
UPSET: ( a ) sends ( b ) an upset text/audio for the first time

+ MIX IT UP. SEND A SYMBOL IN RESPONSE TO MY TOP-LEVEL FOR MY CHARACTER TO:

😘 kiss your character for the first time
🤗 hug your character for the first time
😢 cry in front of your character for the first time
👫 hold your character’s hand for the first time
👊 hit your character for the first time
🍔 cook for your character for the first time
🍻 get drunk with/in front of your character for the first time
🎤 sing in front of your character for the first time
🎨 show your character a special talent for the first time
🏡 go to your character’s house for the first time
✈️ travel with your character for the first time
🛌 sleep with your character for the first time
❤️ tell your character "I love you" for the first time
🖤 tell your character "I hate you" for the first time
🩹 be injured in front of your character for the first time
🚑 go to the hospital with/for your character for the first time
🎁 give your character a gift for the first time