HOW I RUN MY BLOG.

SPEED: It varies. For short quick responses I might take as little as a few minutes depending on if I have enough time to sit and RP and I’m not too tired. Other times I’m slow as fuck and can take several weeks. So I’d say average response time is a few days.

REPLIES: I have been such a lazy writer lately. I typically shoot for a paragraph or two just to keep things moving along. Sometimes I way overshoot and wall-of-text people when I get overly excited. If you receive a long response from me and want me to break it down a bit so your character can get a word in, let me know. Lately I’ve been playing more ‘quick and dirty’ with a line of dialogue and a bit of prose. These threads tend to move a lot faster especially when the other player and I are both around at the same time. More often than not, I try to match the length of whomever I’m playing with.

STARTERS: I don’t post many open starters. I’ve learned the hard way that I either get too many responses or no responses at all and neither of those are a happy medium for me. Usually if I post a starter, it’s for a specific blog after we’ve discussed a specific idea that we agreed to play. Sometimes I’ll make starters out of a reply or an ask or even a follow notif if I like and know the character well enough.

_{INBOX: Always open! Feel free to torment the boi. I can be kinda slow about responding to these if I get stuck on a response. Sorry about that! I love seeing asks in my inbox though.}

SELECTIVITY: I’ll play with anyone if I think the characters will have interesting interactions and if your writing gives me something to respond to. It kinda depends on how lazy I am and how well I know your character.

Important note: I don’t often follow back. But just because I don’t follow you back doesn’t mean I’m not interested or won’t play with you. This blog is not mutually exclusive. I don’t often follow back because of how easy it is for me to get overwhelmed by a fast-moving dash. I’ve unfollowed people I like and regularly play with because they’re so active on my dash and I can’t keep up with it on top of everything else. So you might see me follow, un-follow and re-follow your blog in the course of a month. It doesn’t mean anything bad. I’m just slow. When I have the time, I’ll probably check out your blog the old-fashioned way to keep myself up to date. Also, don’t be afraid to ping me with the @ thing if you want my attention for something.

WISHLIST: Cute and funny things with the boi. Some diabolical shit. Maybe a ship sometime? I dunno. I can’t even pin down a more specific idea right now. … Well except one: I’ve had this AU idea on my mind where Aku is someone’s evil daemon or familiar who is forced to feel that person’s emotions as some sort of punishment (and to forcibly develop empathy.) Hi, I’m weird.

HONEST NOTE: My job is slowly destroying my soul. Sometimes I’m scheduled at ridiculous hours one week and completely opposite hours the following week. As a result I’m often really tired 24/7 with short bursts of wakefulness here and there. It has made me feel so goddamn lazy and just bleh. This might be why Aku is my spirit animal… Though playing him can sometimes make me feel so much better, especially when I get to play him being funny.

So if I’m taking forever to reply to you, it’s probably because my lazy ass is too lazy to write a better response and I don’t want to stiff you with a shitty response. Also, action-heavy threads will often take the longest. Basically, the more I have to think or write, the longer I take. I fully confess that I suck.

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SHIPPING INFO // answer the following for your muse(s) so people know how shipping works on your blog.

( Repost, don’t reblog )

WHAT’S YOUR OTP FOR YOUR MUSE?:

☆║║ Mainly crossover ships. Aku likes tall, powerful ladies! I’d love to play Aku x Blue Diamond, Yellow Diamond or (potentially) White Diamond (depending on what the show reveals about her.)

Aku also likes tall, powerful and witchy! Aku x Maleficent (animated version.) Aku x Yuuko Ichihara from xxxHolic — I’m currently playing this one with a partner on dreamwidth and I love it!

Of course, I also like Aku x Aku but I think everyone knew that.

WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO RP WHEN IT COMES TO SHIPPING?:

☆║║ Romance, fluff, smut, evil pacts, enemies to lovers. I mean pretty much anything but non-con or underage? So long as there’s chemistry between our characters. ~~I can show you my kink list for him if you want but you’ll have to ask privately~~.

I’m not really into m/m ships though (aside from selfcest). Also not interested in furry characters or self-insert characters, sorry. Gore and gross stuff are on my Hard No list.

HOW LARGE DOES THE AGE GAP HAVE TO BE TO MAKE IT UNCOMFORTABLE?:

☆║║ I’ve made this pretty clear in my rules page. No shipping or smut with characters who are under 18. Definitely no shipping or smut with players who are under 18. I will not ship with characters who appear underage even if they are older-than-they-look or immortal and I don’t ship with characters who seem childlike in the way they speak or act.

That said, there will almost always be an age gap when shipping with Aku because he’s as old as time.

ARE YOU SELECTIVE WHEN SHIPPING?:

☆║║ Yes. I go by chemistry in our threads and what Aku would find attractive.

HOW FAR DO STEAMY MOMENTS HAVE TO GO BEFORE THEY’RE CONSIDERED NSFW?:

☆║║ Inappropriate touching and wild make-outs. But I would start putting stuff under a cut before it ever reached that point out of shame and tact.

WHO ARE OTHER MUSES YOU SHIP YOUR MUSE WITH?:

☆║║ @domestic-dictator

DOES ONE HAVE TO ASK TO SHIP WITH YOU?:

☆║║ Not necessarily but it would be nice if you let me know?

HOW OFTEN DO YOU LIKE TO SHIP?:

☆║║ Whenever it happens.

ARE YOU SHIP OBSESSED OR SHIP MORE-OR-LESS?:

☆║║ It kinda depends. I can get pretty obsessed sometimes.

ARE YOU MULTISHIP?:

☆║║Yes! But I would keep all ships to separate verses (unless the players involved agree on a poly arrangement.) My character is not the type to share so if your character is poly, I’ll consider the other ships as part of a separate verse.

WHAT IS ( ARE ) YOUR FAVORITE SHIP(S) IN YOUR CURRENT FANDOM?:

☆║║ In Samurai Jack? None really.

FINALLY, HOW DOES ONE SHIP WITH YOU?:

☆║║ You can just ask. I prefer that our characters interact first and see how things go from there.

Has anyone else noticed this?

teacupballerina:

stalker-among-the-stars:

anderz-zombieslayer:

rjdrawsstuff:

I was watching the Birth of Evil and I noticed a few but very important things

That’s the evil cosmic entity which Aku came from before it was destroyed by the ancient gods Odin, Ra, and Vishnu. Its fragment that fell as debris on earth took the form of Aku. Aku is in essence an offspring of a much powerful cosmic force. On the other hand…

This is an artist’s interpretation of Azathoth from H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos, and has an earthbound offspring called Nyarlathotep who often takes the shape of a humanoid figure in black, just like Aku, and is described to have many other inhuman forms. Nyarlathotep also deceives people by disguising as a person, much like Aku deceived Jack by pretending to be a woman.

Just let all of that sink in for a moment.

@stalker-among-the-stars

@teacupballerina thoughts?

Sounds about right, let’s look at what Lovecraft wrote

“He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilization came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences – of electricity and psychology –and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered. And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished; for the small hours were rent with the screams of a nightmare.”

oH SHITTTw?????

psa

If we’re ever doing an rp and you’re having trouble replying to my response or my starter, please let me know! I have no problem fixing something to make it easier to respond to (even if the rp/starter is weeks or months old.)

Also, if you have a specific idea you’d like to rp with my character, feel free to tell me about it. I know I’ve had specific ideas I wanted to play with people but was too shy to bring it up (and later regretted it.)

Verses

Though Aku does have a concept of the ‘multiverse’ and ‘duplicates’, I will always play encounters with each character as existing within its own verse.

That said, Aku may make “meta” IC commentary on things he sees on his dash. These aren’t necessarily tied to any specific verse and are mostly just for fun.

Default verse: My Aku’s canon point falls somewhere between Seasons 4 and 5 of the series and is somewhat canon divergent. He has destroyed the time portals and is familiar with characters from Season 5, such as Scaramouche.

But while the events of Season 5 have not technically occurred yet, he is aware of them thanks to a premonition of his death and is actively seeking ways to avoid his death in the future.

‘Dadku’ verse: An AU verse with @defiantdaughter in which Aku has discovered his young daughters and is raising them as their father.

Unhinged verse: An AU verse in which Aku finally loses his shit and becomes infinitely more dangerous in his attempts to destroy anything that threatens him.

Imprisoned verse: An AU verse with @deep-black-dreaming in which Aku is still imprisoned in the tree where Jack’s father sealed him in the earth.

Other: Is there a verse idea you’d like to play with? Let me know! As a rule though, I do not play Aku in verses where he’s human or where his powers are completely nerfed.

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