137 posts
bits
she/her
you are not just skin and bones
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Post by Clear on Jul 26, 2018 1:05:53 GMT
Also another confession, if one of my writing partners has a tendency to respond back instantly I sometimes hold the post until before bed so I can have a full night without feeling like I owe them xD fucking LOL
this one wins
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Post by mele on Jul 26, 2018 1:25:12 GMT
I am really bad at staying loyal to sites I don't staff on. I think it's because I'm a p socially awkward person that gets really tired out interacting with people? So on sites I don't staff on, I get lazy and I don't form any friendships with people. But then on sites I do staff on, I'm forced to talk to people and people are forced to interact with me, so then I really get that community thing going on if that makes sense? I want to get better at joining sites I don't staff on though. OTL I'm also one of those stickler for doing my posts in order and that really like??? Oh my God it kills my drive sometimes. Because sometimes my motivation for one character will be dead, but before another, it'll be alive and kicking? But my brain just, "NOOOO, YOU DO THINGS IN ORDER >8C" And then I just... procrastinate until everything melts away. /lays down While I personally code really complex templates (and never post them anywhere), I have this really bad habit of defaulting to the most simple of templates. Like give me blockquotes and a floating picture in the corner or above or below and that's good enough for me. Like I know I should try to make things more aesthetically pleasing when I post but.... Man I'm so lazy. Long posts are of the biggest things that tend to sap all of my motivation. Like I just??? Hate writing long posts???? I'm not the type of person that's good at being extremely descriptive and packing a post full of descriptions and actions. Then it turns into just... No offense like someone can be the most amazing writer with the most dynamic of characters, but I'll purposefully not plot with them because I know I won't be able to keep up and my motivation will die. 04 My main "RP gang" don't really actually RP that much, aside from me, and it's actually pretty lonely. I also feel like I keep dragging them around to sites, even if they insist that they don't mind, hoping I can rekindle the old days where we all actively RPed together and had a lot of fun as a group. Now I just feel... I dunno, isolated. Like everyone has a group of friends they can rely on to RP with, and I'm trying to force the people I care about to be something that we're just not anymore.
I am p much in the same situation as your friends. Like I have a friend that RPs regularly and they usually ask me to join different sites and we remake ships? But being busy with work and school makes it difficult for me to be on much and post as much as I'd like. I'm always too tired to post which leaves my friend hanging sometimes for weeks at a time. And like??? I feel really bad because I want to post with my friend and I want things to go back to how they were before, but it's like really difficult. But Idk man like... I hope you don't ever feel like you're a bother asking old friends to join sites with you because honestly nothing makes me happier when my friend asks me to join sites with them. Because even though they can make new friends and forget about me, it's so incredibly sweet to know they're always thinking about me. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 1:25:18 GMT
> i name all my threads song titles because i have no creativity
> i get obsessively attached to characters. it's like, no inari they aren't real people, u only have 3 friends remember? BUT THEY FEEL LIKE THEY ARE?
> i'm petty sometimes. if somebody skips my thread for a few weeks in favor of other charas i'm probs butthurt enough to leave and then regret it later. damn u self worth
> i can't play females to save my life but i have so many rad ideas for them? like i just want to play one believable girl before i die, is that 2 much to ask
> if i'm not careful i'll end up making 5 charas of the same archetype before realizing.... oh
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108 posts
bits
if you speak of me in certain tongues, you will be dethroned or detained
gutter rappin', anti-sleepin', no half-steppin'
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Post by ophiuchus on Jul 26, 2018 2:35:38 GMT
I thought the word "consensual" was spelled "consentual" up until yesterday. you're the most valid person in this whole ass thread |
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241 posts
bits
she/her
If you are reading this, I am beautiful.
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Post by Mizo ❅ on Jul 26, 2018 4:33:27 GMT
- I once joined a site and walked into two people hardcore hitting on each other and ignoring anyone else that tries to talk in the cbox. I noped out of there the moment I realized one of them is the admin of the site.
- I code new templates for every new character I have, end up not replying to any threads, and my roleplay partners that tries to look for me will find me slumped over my desk, sound asleep after 8 solid hours of coding, 4/5 of it spent crying about how I can't feel my face.
- I'm still a shy roll sometimes so if I put up a plotting thread and no one replies, I 100% don't know how to continue living on the site like a normal person
- I once wanted to test out a font and went to a thread that needs my reply. I ended up writing "GOAT" in a really fancy font, clicked enter, and realized my mistake 6 and the half hours later when my very confused roleplay partner asked why I responded to the thread with nothing but "GOAT."
- Of course, instead of admitting to the truth like any other normal person, I made up an elaborate story about the spiritual nature of goats and how my character feels very much like a goat only to realize that the other character said that their dad died, and my only response was "GOAT." in a fancy font and now i dug myself into a grave that i can never extricate myself from.
- Then the exact same thing happened when I'm on my phone trying to type out a reply but I was talking to my friend at the same time so I ended up giggling and typing "egg." and posting it as a reply, so you see one huge ass notification from me with nothing but "egg." in the entire sorry excuse of an otherwise blank post.
- I once tried making my character speak a different language, and instead of saying "sweet pea" she ended up saying "shit face" to the guy she likes and i never rped romance again for 3 months.
- I once argued with my friend over the tastefulness of earl grey tea ( news flash i don't like it ) and I was so offended that she likes it that I told my roleplay partner that our characters are going to have earl grey tea and puke it out so I may submit it as solid evidence as to why no one likes earl grey tea
- One time the girlfriend of my character was checking her temperature but she never said that she was using a thermometer so when she goes "my head is really hot" my dumb ass of a writer and my sorry excuse of an existence called her a narcissistic cat toothbrush because I though she was commenting on her attractiveness.
- 100% of the time the dumbest shit that my characters do have been done by me in real life, and all my posts of them doing stupid things are just subtle shameful confessions to my dumb life. Some of things that they have done includes, but are not limited to; getting really offended because a dog wouldn't let them pet it more than 17 times, wearing a laundry basket on their heads and then making duck noises because it's cold in the lecture hall, trying to use a file to block out the cold AC blast only to look like a dumbass waving it around because the blast is coming from everywhere and their file is only so big.
- I'm sorry that you have to read this.
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amorphous blob
912 posts
bits
they/them
crush me til i die
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Post by ulla on Jul 26, 2018 4:52:07 GMT
- my motivations for certain characters (even characters i seriously love) can sometimes depend on my love for the face i'm using for them. if i'm feeling really low on muse for a certain character, watching/reading whatever series their face is from can get me out of rut 8/10 time assuming my muse overall is feeling relatively healthy and it's actually kind of great
- double edged sword though, because sometimes i see a face and am struck with a sudden Need to use them causing me to hop skip and jump through the order of characters i've lined up and make them Immediately (even when their anime just came out not even a month ago and they have a total of four (4) pieces of decent art to their name - kill me)
- i really love writing apps? like, long apps. i'm pretty sure that often times people don't join my sites because i require a pretty in depth application process, and frankly i don't blame any of you. but i'm literally a freak who loves writing applications because they 100% help me develop a character and really fall in love with the concept i'd lined up for them before hand.
- i write my app histories in bulleted 2nd person present tense (gross, i know), and since i started doing it that way i've felt 1000000% more satisfied with my character applications
- once, over four years ago, i accidentally deleted the monetary plugin on proboards instead of updating it. the site i was running at the time had been open for literal months before then. thinking about trying to recover that information gives me nightmares
- i used to make characters disgustingly edgy. like, i think i have a tendency to play edgelords now, but i also like to think (or at least hope) that they're not ridiculous. but god when i look back at some of the characters that baby me made i cringe so hard that my soul leaves my body
- i'm that fucker that gets stupidly proud of my thread titles when they're literally just song titles or lyrics and 0% creative at all
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137 posts
bits
she/her
you are not just skin and bones
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Post by Clear on Jul 26, 2018 5:08:18 GMT
oooh.
i once had a character whose whole schtick was that she was a sort of mind-slave, so to add to the gimmick i would write her entirely in second person, almost as though she was being commanded even in writing.
most people were fine with it, even complimented it, but when one guy new to the site threaded with me and complained about it being obnoxious to read and intentionally confusing (our characters sparred), i told him to not be dumb or else just drop the thread. he didn't do that straight away, but he did leave the site soon after.
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125 posts
bits
she / her
wait a minute my head's a mess
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Post by apple on Jul 26, 2018 5:10:27 GMT
thot i would jump on this train bc y the heck not??
x i love making templates for any site i'm on but it takes me about 5 million years to finish them
x i am also incredibly fussy when it comes making SAID TEMPLATES so maybe that's why i can't finish them
x i usually play female characters because i too would like to fall in love w some prince of a man. when i do make a male character his becomes best son who is also absolute trash.
x as soon as if feel left out in a community i stop talking LOL it's really hard for me to accept that fact that i can even have friends so when i feel rejected i cri evri tim ;v;
x i full on love rapid fire & communication threads.
x i get very attached to face claims and i want to see their shining, shimmering, splendid faces all the time.
x i take an abnormal amount of time choosing names for my characters. it's an INVESTMENT.
x i use paramore lyrics in everything that i can??? bc they're my favorite band and i love them forever
x i live for representing as many different cultures in rp as i can. as someone who is multi-cultural, i live for learning about customs, traditions, and languages.
x i'm shy & i'm awkward
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Eroge Collector
99 posts
bits
he/him
It all starts with this... a jewel containing the ultimate power!
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Post by Máscara de Tigre on Jul 26, 2018 5:36:16 GMT
I rarely put up work-in-progress apps; I prefer to write every aspect of an app off-site, on google drive or something, and then post it all at once out of vanity.
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bits
Open for Art Commissions
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Post by 「イオタ」 on Jul 26, 2018 6:50:42 GMT
- i think my low motivation for posting is because i’m in far too many threads, but i don’t want to drop any, which means i need to finish threads, but i don’t have motivation to post, which is because i’m in too many threads, so i need to finish threads, but … [cries @ vicious cycle]
Sorry if I shouldn't double post but... ^ This so much. Why didn't I think to include this? XD I find that if I have too many threads, I procrastinate endlessly. The fewer threads I have, the faster and more consistent I post. I don't get people who are opposite: procrastinate until they're swamped. Sounds stressful! xD What you could do is ask to put X amount on hold, and when you finish up those threads, you can then move back to the other threads, and so on. I doubt people will mind if you're overloaded.  And if they do mind, then TOO BAD. |: xD |
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Post by anubis on Jul 26, 2018 7:45:17 GMT
cough
uh, i actually really, really hate writing character applications. i feel like it's too constricting. people are complicated creatures and i really don't want to put my character inside these brackets and say 'okay now this is how i wrote you' and then any deviation from that, aside from character building purposes (i.e. life changing event), is seen as a bad thing. maybe my character is a bleeding heart and loves to help others, but maybe he also really thinks this really messed up vine/meme/picture is hilarious.
idk, it's tricky.
with all that said, i really enjoy writing hints/mysteries/secrets in my writings. a characters thought, a sentence that ends hanging, a question he wants to avoid, etc. things i want to reveal later but gives the casual reader a reaction like "wait what does he mean here???" only for this slow buildup that ends in a bang. and its not the kind of things you can leave out of a characters history. really creates that immersion for me when i get to tell it ICly instead of the other RPer knowing it from the getgo. |
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bits
any
rp is supposed to be fun, remember
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Post by flare on Jul 26, 2018 10:51:16 GMT
- i hate how much of a "lonely" activity role play has become and how much we try to pursue that by adding solo missions and such. remember when plotters used to be much more active, we didn't have to bring someone with us every time we joined a board and there were more creative ideas floating around in general. it just looks like people have these weird cliques that are hard to penetrate into lately. in addition, if you look at patterns of discord conversations, people often talk about themselves for needless amount of lengths where others can't say much but only "nice" or sth.
- also, i think animanga needs to leave some of the older trends behind in my opinion. why do we still write 5 positive and 5 negative traits in application, why is optional shipper not in your application but a complete separate section where you need to find another template, create another topic and so on. it's like we want engagement but we don't really make it easy to actually get started.
- i absolutely think a good application is a must for developed characters, motivations, plotting and rping purposes as well as getting rid of inconsistencies. i just think that a lot of the apps in animanga are far too shallow to mean so much.
- please stop saying "go make your own site if you don't like it" when someone has a criticism, people. if someone offers insight on something, it's likely that they care enough to see your site grow/improve. animanga has an absolutely small population anyway, why the hell do we need god-knows-how-many more sites on the same concept and split the player base even further.
- to add to one above, if you are so easily offended by criticisms, maybe don't take on a role where you have to cater to other people. sometimes, you spend a lot of effort into something and it's just not good, you don't need to use a sunk cost fallacy to convince yourself it's the best thing to come out since sliced bread.
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Post by worldiezilla on Jul 26, 2018 12:40:42 GMT
I love writing applications. I usually play canons and it's so fun and satisfying to pick them apart and play fill-in-the-blanks with what the author hasn't addressed or made explicit. It's fun taking minor characters we don't have much backstory for and figuring why they're doing this when their personality seems like it would contradict what they're doing, how they got to be like that, what their thought processes are, etc. And I love laying it all out in one place like HERE IS MY INTERPRETATION THAT I PUT A LOT OF THOUGHT INTO THAT I'M NOW FORCING YOU TO READ.
Okay, but on the flip side... I'm possessive about my canons. I don't make it anyone else's problem by any means, except for my friends who are okay with listening to me be petty and vent lol. There are just a couple characters in my repertoire that are my precious and I don't really want to interact with different interpretations, whether it's other fanworks or RPers (to be clear, the writers are totally fine, I just try to avoid interacting with that specific character). It's 100% a me problem, that's just how it is in my bitch of a brain.
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Post by panorama on Jul 26, 2018 18:55:41 GMT
i made a fart joke and i regretted it.
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papa edgelord
152 posts
bits
she/her
I feel so alone Gonna wind up a big ole pile a them bones
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Post by bex on Jul 26, 2018 20:19:17 GMT
1. when i was younger, i used to go back and add fluff into my posts because there was an unspoken rule on the site that i was on that you should at least have 500 words per post. it wasn't a rule or anything, but we all did it and that has followed me since. even now, close to a decade later, i still feel obligated to make my posts stupidly long because i feel like they're not long enough to be considered enough to respond to. 2. every single one of my serious characters (ones that i've had long enough to develop over time and actually like lmao) kind of have like, a patron band that i like that gives me a feel for their vibe. if they don't have that, i sometimes have a difficulty writing them. for example, my character connor will always have something related to alice in chains in the thread or whatever if i can help it. 3. every single thread that i have ever started is either a line or song title because i have no imagination, and like i said, it usually pertains to the 'patron band' of the character i'm writing as. 4. i have literally thousands of icons i've never used and it's likely that i never will, because i use the same 15 face claims everywhere i go because i get stupidly attached to writing the same characters. 5. my ocs either have really bland names or they're really fucking stupid- there's absolutely no in between. i've had characters on the same site named isaiah harding and ringo amidala and coyote hoon. half of the time they're also references to their patron band, because again, i'm very unoriginal. 6. i've never had a completed and current shipper in my entire rp career. 7. i mentioned this previously, but i get stupidly attached to certain characters. some of which i've had since i started out on proboards as a wee 13 year old over 8 years ago. they may be entirely different characters now, but some of you old folks like Neko might recognize me immediately on any site if you see certain names 8. i used to be all for the making unique banners/signatures for all of your ocs trend, i was really good at it- can we please bring them back? especially the icon ones like this gem i made in like, i wanna say 2011 lmao |
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