I hate when I feel super tired and cannot write. Imma blame the rudeness of yesterday's anxiety for this.

Why jhavent we, as a community, called art credit as sauce

Thinking up of character endings is... way too hard when you haven't even been able to do arcs.

At this point I feel like I'll just stay quiet and let the site close without giving my characters anything. Ugh....

Yesterday my husband asked me if I'd ever gotten closure for an RP character, so I went and tracked down the play aids and synopses I made for my Pokemon trainer who saved the world a literal decade ago. Good times.

Do people still use emojis on forums or am I looking for a nice free set for no reason?

i absolutely still use them when available!

I have been kind of thinking about role-play red flags, and I think one of the biggest ones I have heard of and never had happen to me is the intentional ignoring of triggers. Especially since for some people, triggers are there because they cause severe emotional distress like panic attacks or even deep depressive episodes; not to mention, I myself use these to put a boundary between what I am and am not willing to write. Thus, it wilds me out that people actually don't care about someone's triggers and just ignore them to do what they want anyways. x.x

Some places that do texting or some form of communication will have emojis for the messaging or social media-esque types of posts. I think nowadays it depends on what their use would be. I like them! They're so much fun, especially if they sometimes get added to the discord too so you can use them in both places.

I hate it when one character hogs all the muse and refuses to share with the others.

Finally starting to write posts again, I missed it

Recently I had a dream about a reply to a thread that doesn’t exist, but I may make it exist. It also featured video game enemies from a game I have been playing lately and I didn’t even question their appearance until I thought more on it, I just sorta accepted those enemies as part of the site’s world.

lately feeling like maybe i've hit the end of the road with rp as a whole... don't know if it means i should branch out elsewhere, or simply step away, but i don't really want to do either of these things.

I feel the same way about talent requirements for original art. It just seems really arbitrary and mean-spirited.

I wanna write an automata that was abandoned and now wanders the land looking for a role to fulfil.



Eh, to some people, aesthetic is so important they might refuse to roleplay with someone whose avatar and stuff aren't up to snuff. I've seen sites that say you can only use "high-quality" fanart too, and no original art whatsoever...so even when you take someone else's work for your avatar, it still needs to look a certain way.

Like "word count requirements", which I think are asinine and borne from a mistaken belief that quantity implies quality, "quality requirements" for the art you use are just good indicators the site's run by people whose mindset don't jive with my worldview.

And that's fine. We don't need to get along with everyone, and sites don't have to attract crowds you as an admin don't want. I don't think that's particularly mean-spirited.