the PENPALS meme

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THE PENPALS MEME



There's nothing like a little old-fashioned exchange to take your relationships to the next level! Sniff the paper, carry it with you, tuck it into the box under your bed... These are some precious memories you're about to make. Of course, snail mail isn't the only way to your penpal's heart.

→ HOW TO ←

1. Post character/preferences.
2. Use the handy-dandy RNG to pick your penpalling method.
3. Roll again to determine the relationship between penpals.
4. ???
5. Profit!

→ SCENARIOS ←

001. Regular Old-Fashioned Snail Mail. Perhaps you know whom you're writing to; perhaps it's only someone you've been assigned to write letters to for whatever reason, or you might even be sending your letter to the wrong place. Who knows what happens at the post office?

002. Unconventional Old-Fashioned Some-Kind-Of-Mail. You wake up one day and there's something strange in your mailbox. Maybe it's just sitting there by your bed where your family dropped it off. However you come upon it, you're the more inventive sort of penpal. Exchanges of pictures or presents, songs or sweets, or even dinner, even living creatures; you never know what's going to pop up next, or perhaps you have a system going.

003. Your Wall Is My Wall. And no, not the Facebook sort of wall. I guess we're still going old-school here, because there's a wall, a piece of floor, a ceiling, a desk, some sort of unconventional writing surface where you've found a note and decided to air your own thoughts on the matter. For some reason, the next day there's a reply waiting for you! What on earth have you gotten yourself into?

004. Let The Board Do The Talking. Words or tokens aren't good enough -- you're much more interested in skill. Board games, word games, logic puzzles, riddles, secret code, guessing games about each other's identity -- it's all about showmanship here. Of course, you've never seen your opponent, but you both know where the chess board is and when to check it.

005. Pass It Along. Passing notes is something you do in grade school, but why stop doing it when it's so fun? Besides, it lets you practice your origami. Just take care that your note doesn't meet with an aspiring editor somewhere along the way.


→ RELATIONSHIPS ←

01. Perfect Strangers

02. Old Friends

03. Wrong Address

04. Bitter Enemies/Rivals

05. Lovers

06. Family

07. Professional (Employer/Employee, Leader/Follower, Master/Servant)

08. Two Personalities In A Multiple Personality

09. Imaginary Friend

10. Pick Your Own

Comments

Matou Kariya (Fate/ZERO; OTA)

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[clansman]

[ for some reason or another, earlier today one (1) suoh mikoto received a package. for equally mysterious reasons, he's passing it on. just not, apparently, to the right address, because he'll be fucked if he's going to bother with things like research. shouldn't a courier know these things???

so, in a box delivered to the doorstep of one Matou Kariya, there are charred remnants of a dakimakura, face just barely visible.

also, a note. ]

no thanks.

Steve McGarrett >> Hawaii Five-0

[bookem]

2-1?

[maverratick]

[At some point in the day, a delivery person will stop by to drop off a package for you, Steve. Said package will be a cellphone, a capable little model sitting snugly in its niche, its blank screen clearly visible through the transparent box-cover. The delivery person will rush you through the release forms, as if a deadline loomed overhead, and leave you before you can inquire further about this mysterious delivery.

You will no doubt be suspicious of it. Maybe feel inclined to treat it as a dangerous object. All understandable reactions for a man of your occupation--reactions that someone might have predicted.

For the screen of the phone suddenly comes to life, vibrating through the box, claiming that you now have 1 message in your inbox.

Should you choose to read it, the message is simple:]

If this is Steve McGarrett, pls confirm by sending photo of backyard.

Furudo Erika \\ Umineko no Naku Koro ni

[intellectualrapist]

Kido Tsubomi | Kagerou Days

[concealingeyes]

4-7 ahaha what

[debugerror]

[This is quite possibly the strangest job interview ever. Instead of a person waiting in the designated room, there's simply a small coffee table with a lamp and what looks like a photo album on it.

If you open up the photo album, you'll be treated to extreme and colorful closeups of various insects. They get stranger and stranger, more and more disturbing. Finally the last page is simply what looks like a slightly blurred photo of a colorless mushroom colony. With teeth.

Once you shut the album (you might not see this if you've elected to throw the album across the room or run away as fast as possible), you'll realize that there's a note tacked to the back cover.]

My apologies for whatever shock you received from this album. I simply wanted to test whether you'd be suited to the conditions you'd be working under.

Of course, I don't expect any knowledge of entomology.

Richter Belmont | Castlevania

[vampirekiller]

Orson | Record of Lodoss War

[berserked]

[Maybe he can express himself in writing. Maybe not.]

Isaac Lehay | Teen Wolf

[blueeyedbeta]

Hayley Stark | Hard Candy

[fillefatale]

Arthur | Inception

[bamf_pointman]

hermione granger | harry potter | post- deathly hallows, pre- epilogue

[charmandchant]

anna • spring awakening • ota

[junks]

Kang Joonhee | Answer me 1997 | OTA

[unended]

[ he comes as a 18 yo student or a 24 yo surgical intern, let me know if you prefer one over the other. ]

01 & 01 ~

[scienceinacan]

[ This got lost in the mail. It's from Japan and, maybe, has a Japanese address that somehow got smudged into Korea. Who knows! Magic. Watari probably tried to use one of his mechanical inventions to send it and the invention malfunctioned and flew all the way to Korea.

Either way, it's in your mailbox now. And is addressed to Tatsumi. ]

Happy New Year!

This is a test! If this arrived to you safely, you should increase the budget for my experiments! Aren't you in awe of my inventions now?

-- Your awesome colleague, Watari Yutaka!

PS, I didn't put the super-itch formula in the coffee last Tuesday! Tsuzuki probably got it from somewhere else!

PSS, If your sesame oil is gone, it's because I came by to borrow it for 002. Thanks!

mary morstan ( sherlock bbc au )

[mmorstan]

cosette ( les mis : modern au available )

[euphrasie]

Armaros | El Shaddai

[voicelost]

idk we can figure out the situation later

[warriorscribe]

*Someone has figured out how to fold paper into an airplane! ...and there is one landing on Armaros's lap, wherever he is.*

This would be a waste of paper normally, but it is rather interesting to see a page sailing through the air like a bird.

*It shows no indication of having been intentionally addressed to Armaros. Someone is just very bored, it seems.*

Abbie Jansen / OC / OTA

[thislastrequest]

Will Vaughn / OC / OTA

[nvrbelieveagain]

Maddie Graham / OC / OTA

[bestintention]

Matt Delaney / OC / Het

[asyoufindme]

Riley Madison / Annabelle (The Swan Princess) / OUAT OC / Het

[andtheswan]

[ooc: Fairy Tale Land or Storybrooke versions available to play.]

Alex Jansen / OC / OTA

[alonewillsing]

Bilbo Baggins | The Hobbit

[veiled_hero]

[breakofday]

Master Baggins,

I hope this letter finds you in good health. I am told you returned home as safe as can be expected.

Life is quiet without you. Fili and Kili send their 'love'.

Yours,

Thorin Oakenshield

barsad. ( the dark knight rises )

[credential]

2, 1

[brynkitten]

[Bryn's writing home. Well, specifically she's writing to her younger brother Gunn. It isn't often that he gets letters, she recalls, so she knows she has to hide the message so that their parents don't get specific.

This is why a package from Barnes and Noble arrives addressed to her brother. Inside is a very thick book about Wagner's Ring operas, and a look back in the index shows that the page number for the third reference to Brünnhilde is circled. On that page, Bryn's letter can be found written in the margins and any blank space available.]

G--

Am alive and well, and sorry it has taken me many years to let you know. You're eighteen now, and probably off to college this fall like Mother and Father always planned for you. I will visit if I'm able, if it's safe.

If it's safe to respond, send me a letter to the address listed below. I'm not there, but I'll get anything sent to that location.

Otherwise please don't worry about me, and please don't try to find me. I'll come to you when I can, I promise.

Much love,
--B

[It's a shame the book was dropped off at the wrong address.]

Rose Strider | Homestuck AU

[restitchtime]

Rose Lalonde | Homestuck

[thorny]