The IM Meme

[sanctuarysoul]

⇥ THE IM MEME ⇤



✔ Post your character.

✔ For this, you can either leave your comment blank or post with "[screen name here] has signed on". Feel free to make your screen names as ridiculous or as serious as you'd like.

✔ Either choose one of the options below or roll the RNG to choose for you.

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1 ↻ Under the Influence
Whether it's drugs, alcohol or just delirium from sleeplessness, you're out of sorts. What better time to talk to people?

2 ↻ Rant
Something completely pissed you off today. Open up your messenger and vent about it to a friend!

3 ↻ Confession
Have something to say to someone but can't quite work up the courage to tell them face-to-face? This is your prompt.

4 ↻ Secret
Some secrets are easier to type than speak out loud. Maybe you just typed it in the IM window and sent it accidentally, or maybe you've finally worked up the nerve to tell someone something that you've kept to yourself for too long. Either way, there's no time like the present!

5 ↻ BEST. IDEA. EVER.
Whether it was a genuine EUREKA! moment or the product of too much sugar/alcohol/caffeine/what-have-you, you're convinced you just had the GREATEST IDEA IN THE HISTORY OF EVER. Time to share your brilliance with those on your friends list!

6 ↻ Long-distance Smut
Maybe it's one of those nights and you're missing your significant other, but aren't able to communicate with them any other way. Maybe you just hit the "random" button, hoping whoever is on the other end is just as riled up as you are. Or maybe you got the screen name of a willing partner from a "casual encounters" website. Either way, this is your smut prompt!

7 ↻ Argument
Did someone do something so unbelievable that you can't wait until you see them in person to let them have it? Here's your chance!

8 ↻ Gossip
Did you see what Alice was wearing yesterday? Those shoes with that top? What about who Danny brought to the party? Oh, and did you hear the rumor about that girl from the thing? Talk about it all in the relative privacy of your IM window.

9 ↻ I LOLed and Thought of You
You just found something hilarious that reminded you of a particular person. Share and laugh until morning about something only the two of you get.

10 ↻ Free space
Do whatever you want, man! It's a free chat service!

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✘ Different fonts and color changes are encouraged. Learn how to do that over here! Rainbow text generator is here and a custom color faded text generator is here (Yahoo IM used to let you do that).

✘ As far as screen names, you can format them to be all one word, give them spaces and proper caps, or even all caps if you want. If it's something like Skype, you can even change your display name at will, so have fun with that!

✘ Both voice and video chat are available for anyone that wants to use them.

✘ There is a possibility that your character is so riled up from rage/nervousness/excitement that they type in the wrong screen name and get a complete stranger.

✘ This IM service also has a random feature, so feel free to try your luck with it.

✘ Be excellent to each other.

Comments

[hypnotic_patter]

PowerChords: You got trained by Batman. That's like cheating.

[hackingyoursensors]

feelingasterous: No it's not.
feelingasterous: ...okay maybe a little.

[hypnotic_patter]

PowerChords: It's like getting into a guitar competition after being raised by Jimi Hendrix. Cheating.
PowerChords: I, on the other hand, am a self-starter who had to battle harsh adversity to become a renowned criminal artist.

[hackingyoursensors]

feelingasterous: Yeah but you have superpowers.
feelingasterous: That's kinda unfair too.

[hypnotic_patter]

PowerChords: So do a lot of people. Not the point.
PowerChords: Batman > Superpowers.

[hackingyoursensors]

feelingasterous: I'll let him know you said that.
feelingasterous: Though he's not big on fanboys.

[hypnotic_patter]

PowerChords: At least he doesn't sit around for an hour playing World of Warcraft when he's supposed to be rescuing people.

[hackingyoursensors]

feelingasterous: Excuse you, I was playing Left 4 Dead.

[hypnotic_patter]

PowerCords: Glad to know that fake zombies are more important to you than human lives.
PowerCords: I should publish this.

[hackingyoursensors]

feelingasterous: Sure, as long as you publish the fact that you're a creepy Batman fanboy too.

[hypnotic_patter]

PowerChords: I'm not a fanboy of Batman!
PowerChords: I /am/ a fanboy of many things musical and criminal. He's neither.

[hackingyoursensors]

feelingasterous: So staging criminal acts just to get his attention and saying that he's so good that he doesn't need superpowers isn't fanboying?
feelingasterous: And his partner is named after a songbird. Therefore, it fits your profile.

[hypnotic_patter]

PowerChords: I stage criminal acts to get the world's attention, he's just part of the act. Can't have the villain shine without a hero to pit him against.
PowerChords: Which you'd know.
PowerChords: If you had a single culturally educated bone in your body.

[hackingyoursensors]

feelingasterous: Is your culture bone next to your funny bone?
feelingasterous: I'm terrible at fake anatomy.

[hypnotic_patter]

PowerChords: You're terrible at everything good.
PowerChords: You are why we can't have nice things.

[hackingyoursensors]

feelingasterous: No, we can't have nice things because you and the other third-tier-and-up villains destroy them.

[hypnotic_patter]

PowerChords: Second-tier, thank you. I have a fanbase. That puts me at second-tier.
PowerChords: And only because I don't feel like being first-tier.

[hackingyoursensors]

feelingasterous: Right, because nobody ever *wants* to be first-tier.

[hypnotic_patter]

PowerChords: Nobody with sense.
PowerChords: I don't want to start challenging the current first-tier performers on basis of they might kill me.
PowerChords: And there's lengths I am just not willing to go to for my art.

[hackingyoursensors]

feelingasterous: True artists are supposed to be willing to die for their art, right?
feelingasterous: Not kill other people for it.
feelingasterous: So you have it way backwards there, Symphony Shepard.

[hypnotic_patter]

PowerChords: Says who? You?
PowerChords: You wouldn't know art if it bought you flowers and took you out to dinner.
PowerChords: Besides, killing's not my style, but don't think I'm too wimpy to not do it if I have to.

[hackingyoursensors]

feelingasterous: Says a lot of people. It's a saying.
feelingasterous: You were totally trying to kill civilians earlier today.
feelingasterous: Or do I have to remind you about the woman whose skull you were trying to crush with a gear?

[hypnotic_patter]

PowerChords: It was part of the performance!
PowerChords: If you'd showed up on time she wouldn't have even had time to pass out.
PowerChords: A performance can't work if everyone doesn't pull their weight, bird-brain.

[hackingyoursensors]

feelingasterous: If your performance hadn't been so dull, maybe I would've noticed and been on time.