looking so respectfully

Honestly I prefer a mix of both fast and slow posters.

Someone who posts once or twice a month = fine.
The entire site only gets a new post once or twice a month = I think people have lost interest, and can't stay invested in my own plots.

I've been on a kick with both taking and making want ads lately

"be the change you want to see" etc etc

feels bad feeling like the most active person in a discord that's not my own

(is that a call to get a life? probably. will I get a life? probably not)

Three copies of 6 and my fourth(!) copy of Eternity. On the very first 10-pull following a pity reset, no less.

I have the devil's own luck, it would seem.

Submitting the voice of dissent that I don't really like playing canons, for reasons:

1) I don't generally like leadership or "spotlight" roles IRL, so I'm less comfortable playing characters who have them.

2) I like to be fed pre-packaged site plots by staff instead of coming up with major plots on my own.

3) Oftentimes it's not clear from the lore what a faction would actually want to do to shake up the site in a major way.

4) Playing a canon puts more pressure on you to thread with people/characters (especially within your faction) whom you'd otherwise never in a million years, because if you don't, you might be icing them out of a major plot (and the desire to not want to be a Mean Exclusionist is already present in a lot of rpers, even when they don't have canon roles).

I have never been dxed with anything ND but I have had 3 hour long conversations with people about their ocs so (shrug emoji)

imposter syndrome is feeling called out by a thread even though you know no one in it is talking about you and no one who has talked to you has been telling you you're doing it wrong

the ceiling is patched 😌

my brain likes to zoomie out entire apps in a day after staring at a blank wall for weeks. it's maddening

Me but Google docs

I think forum rp provides a unique challenge to the murderhobo playstyle versus D&D-style tabletop, namely the lack of a GM. Everyone wants to be the murderhobo, but no one wants their oc to get murderhobo'd. So if murderhobo'ing is to be done, you need disposable NPCs to kill, but you also need an excuse for another player to be threading with you (because otherwise you're just writing a solo fic).

You can potentially get around this... if you have a site where staff are expected to GM the NPCs (so you don't need another oc to participate), or you have a very robust stat system / trust in other players to "play fair" when controlling the NPCs so that everyone gets an equal chance at the kill-scoring.

In related news--
figuring out how to play around the narrative limitations of an oc with overpowered abilities is fun as hell

Disco Elysium's Metric has a grip on my brain

I'm playing it with my husband and I'm the one who has to remind him not to do masochistic things