Hi! I’m relatively new to your blog and have to say I’m a huge fan already! Can you tell me a bit about your RP process? I’ve always been interested in it.

sirussly:

(( OOC: Y’all ready for this?

1. has the urge to write but doesn’t know what
2. writes. despairs. deletes everything
3. has the urge to rp but doesn’t know who
4. spends an hour on makeup. despairs. washes it all off
5. spends six minutes on makeup. goes online. the world rejoices, requests that character every day for three months
6. paces flat for two weeks attempting to plot out a script… nothing
7. drives car for five minutes in the rain, fifteen part series is plotted before you even get to sainsbury’s
8. gets home and sits down to write it. everything is gone. what is memory
9. spends three days fact-checking full moon dates in 1976 because everyone will absolutely call you out on it if it’s wrong
10. re-reads harry potter chapter for contextual reference. accidentally spends all night reading entire book
11. script is finally finished two years later
12. is horribly intimidated by own script and puts off filming for another year
13. finally gets round to filming. spends four hours looking for gryffindor tie
14. has left gryffindor tie in utah
15. begins filming but changes half of the lines you spent two years refining
16. what are pants
17. realises curtains have been open the whole time and the entire street can see a strange bearded girl prancing round in a shirt and knickers
18. “your storage disk is full”
19. laptop crashes fifteen times
20. unearths up repressed childhood trauma in order to fake cry
21. doesn’t work, stares at a light bulb without blinking instead
22. films three characters in one night because the lighting has to be the same in each gif, dammit
23. does thirty takes for each line because hair keeps moving out of place
24. gets uncomfortably intimate with a pillow wearing a wig
25. cat knocks over lamp. the lighting is ruined. start over
26. has forgotten coloured contact lenses. start over
27. has forgotten the bloody SCARS. start over
28. has an existential crisis at 3 in the morning whilst dressed in wizard robes
29. passes out still in full cosplay and makeup
30. wakes up, reviews footage from night before
31. spends hours comparing two identical clips deciding which one to gif
32. drags everything into imovie. imovie crashes twenty four times
33. begins to really, really hate the sight of own face by now
34. starts giffing process. imgflip crashes eighty two times
35. must……be under…….3MB
36. changes FPS thirteen times. gif is still 3.1MB
37. starts constructing thread post. tumblr crashes eight hundred and sixty seven times.
38. posts. waits.
39. weeps at nice comments
40. someone always wants to fuck the evil character
41. notices glaring spelling mistake. throws laptop across room
42. makes shit post about the moon. gains 26k notes in a day
43. has another urge to write
44. repeat

The End. ))