AMA - The Cognitohazard Catgirl

[JHarp]

Hey, I'm Jaz, or I suppose 'JHarp' because I'm unimaginative with screen names.

I've been around for like, 5+ years on this site lurking for the most part, and I realised my next post is my 100th message, I figure people have put up with my strange isolation and formal way of being a pain, so why not force myself to answer (what I expect are going to be silly) questions.

I'm pretty sure this isn't against the rules, so hopefully I see a few of the common suspects poke around since I know I can be a bit cold unintentionally.


A little about me to start off, I live on the internet; don't we all at this point. I studied etymology in the past and back before I had a bunch of chronic pain stuff I was going into psychology to be a therapist.
My favourite animes would probably be between a few like Log Horizon, ID:Invaded and recently Gnosia for how well they improved on the game series.
I grew up watching murder mystery shows and discovery channel with all the different science stuff and 'how it's made' and all that.

I started writing back when I was a kid in school, I found a lot of the early exams on creative writing difficult, so I decided I'd come up with a consistent world and characters to reduce decision paralysis, as a result that lead into me running a few World of Darkness tabletop campaigns, leading into the 15+ years I've run D&D across multiple campaigns while in Uni years ago and online.


Ask a cat about quantum mechanics and that same cat will tell you it was a misappropriation of what was an absurdist example to disprove the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.
I can't promise to know everything, just most things besides everything I'm asked.

Ask me anything

 

[PaperCup]

What happened before the Big Bang that formed and created our current universe?

 

[JHarp]

What happened before the Big Bang that formed and created our current universe?

That sort of question is peering into the void, and as a cat which makes me part of that entity in the void, I don't recommend letting me stare back.

 

[Alski]

That sort of question is peering into the void, and as a cat which makes me part of that entity in the void, I don't recommend letting me stare back.

You need to specify only black cats are part of the void.

 

[L1aei]

Ask me anything

Heading to bed here soon, but thought I'd leave a serious question: you have ADHD, so how does a bouncy kitty keep writing her novels without being distracted?

 

[JHarp]

You need to specify only black cats are part of the void.

True my bad, I forget what is common knowledge since half the big bangs around here are things being knocked off shelves.

Heading to bed here soon, but thought I'd leave a serious question: you have ADHD, so how does a bouncy kitty keep writing her novels without being distracted?

I also have really bad memory, so I've forgotten that I mentioned I have autism and ADHD to this place.
Honestly I leave myself enough open tasks that when I want to engage with something I have a large list of things on the dartboard to hit.

I keep entire spreadsheets on types of fish in my worldbuilding, I'll develop poisons, plants, animals for the setting, I'll craft magical items for my D&D campaigns and setting, I might write small stories or concepts including an ARG I technically tried to start a few years ago to no real success.

When I get bored I work on the different conlangs for the different nations, and the varieties in the cultures, expectations and even my magic systems keeps me active and distracted.

 

[Maya_Dere]

Your first thought when looking at the Scribble homepage full of depraved smut?

 

[akif313]

Hey, I'm Jaz, or I suppose 'JHarp' because I'm unimaginative with screen names.

I've been around for like, 5+ years on this site lurking for the most part, and I realised my next post is my 100th message, I figure people have put up with my strange isolation and formal way of being a pain, so why not force myself to answer (what I expect are going to be silly) questions.

I'm pretty sure this isn't against the rules, so hopefully I see a few of the common suspects poke around since I know I can be a bit cold unintentionally.


A little about me to start off, I live on the internet; don't we all at this point. I studied etymology in the past and back before I had a bunch of chronic pain stuff I was going into psychology to be a therapist.
My favourite animes would probably be between a few like Log Horizon, ID:Invaded and recently Gnosia for how well they improved on the game series.
I grew up watching murder mystery shows and discovery channel with all the different science stuff and 'how it's made' and all that.

I started writing back when I was a kid in school, I found a lot of the early exams on creative writing difficult, so I decided I'd come up with a consistent world and characters to reduce decision paralysis, as a result that lead into me running a few World of Darkness tabletop campaigns, leading into the 15+ years I've run D&D across multiple campaigns while in Uni years ago and online.


Ask a cat about quantum mechanics and that same cat will tell you it was a misappropriation of what was an absurdist example to disprove the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.
I can't promise to know everything, just most things besides everything I'm asked.

Ask me anything

Wow, 100 posts already? That’s a pretty solid milestone! I’d love to hear how you keep track of all your D&D campaigns over the years, sounds like a ton of creativity and planning.

 

[Corty]

Who was your favorite NPC(s) you introduced in any of your campaings?

 

[JHarp]

Your first thought when looking at the Scribble homepage full of depraved smut?

Categorically I'd probably argue that there isn't really a moral quandary with smut. There's always going to be preferences for people and that doesn't suddenly make everyone involved morally bankrupt.

At worst I might just sigh and then move on.

As for me personally, the only thing I take straight is my coffee, so it isn't like I take offense to most of the novels here.

Wow, 100 posts already? That’s a pretty solid milestone! I’d love to hear how you keep track of all your D&D campaigns over the years, sounds like a ton of creativity and planning.

Yeah, 100 posts spread out for technically for the 5.8 years I've been here.
2,126 days means I've messaged pretty much every new moon with a few extra on the side.

Originally I used Campfire which had a desktop app for everything, once that was discontinued I kept using it for a few years before swapping into Obsidian and Scrivener, while using my discord server I run my online D&D in, as a search tool. I also made a WorldAnvil page in the past for keeping notes but I got caught up with a lot including depression, so that kind of fell on the backburner.

Who was your favorite NPC(s) you introduced in any of your campaings?

My favourite NPC would probably be Ethis Irienel Arien, a character I made to play in a D&D group, but I was unable to show up past the first session, so they got used in my campaigns, similar to Katrise and a few others. I'm pretty sure giving the names will make it easy to find the public-facing side of my WorldAnvil page but oh well.
Ethis was a fun character because I had made a warlock who refused to use damage spells, basically de/buff character, who later went into diplomacy as an NPC to build up some relations between nations since she was a noble in one country before choosing to flee and then pick up a new title in another country through effort.

 

[Envylope]

I have noticed you react to my posts sometimes for years at this point. My question to you is what would be the perfect story to read? Is there a kind of story you would like to read, but you find the ones that attempt it miss the mark?

 

[JHarp]

I have noticed you react to my posts sometimes for years at this point. My question to you is what would be the perfect story to read? Is there a kind of story you would like to read, but you find the ones that attempt it miss the mark?

I am a very skilled lurker like that, I've seen a variety of the name memes and other stuff that have gone on. I've also dropped by some of your novels as you've been making them to say Hi in the past I believe it was.


Honestly I don't think I'd have a 'perfect' story I'd look for because I'm happy with a bunch of things that I don't think would mesh too well.

I like my fantasy novels, sometimes I like romance in them sometimes I don't, I like the apocalypse stuff at times, even if I find a lot of it repeated and constant numbers game. I can enjoy a faceslapping novel now and again, I used to read a lot of MTL on different websites before I decided to hang around here more long-term for novels.

Half of the reason I made my apocalypse novel was because I felt they were missing the mark on the psychology behind characters and the struggles, but I can't expect people to actually have experience or detail a mental breakdown in that sense, so it isn't usually something I require, but maybe that, too many people in horror and psychological books don't react as anything more than 'main cast' and we overestimate how stupid most people will be in those settings, when it comes down to true survival the brain can switch gears but you rarely see that.

But I've said before in the past, maybe not here that often, that I have a long list of ideas and topics to pull from, just no time or energy to focus on even the ones I've started at times.