I only act like I know what I'm doing.

I've been trying to make 1 skin/theme the past year... Staying at my bf's house away from main family.... Finished half of one in 2 days... Like damn getting interrupted a lot... makes a huge difference.

I love when I review apps and the mistakes they made put their characters on the weaker end.

I find that coming back with a review with like 10 buff suggestions is taken a lot better than one with nerfs.

Sometimes I'll introduce a system to my site because I'm really excited for it, so I'll get some people to beta-test it in a closed event for me. I don't always have a full system when I do this, I just make it up as the event goes.

I do a singular @everyone ping on Discord about once every two weeks for announcements, and without fail every time I do it a lurker leaves the Discord.

I like to think that they just have a bajillion servers and wait for pings in order to figure out which ones to leave. The mental image is just funny to me. It's always instantaneous too, which makes it even more peculiar.

honestly, it's probably that they just. have forgotten that they're in the server or that they meant to leave it until they get the notification. i've done that more than a couple of times with servers.

I LOVE LISTS! And I never save my lists just so I can remake them.

When someone starts openly complaining about how their shit hasn't been sorted yet, like dude you just joined like 30 minutes ago. I'm sorry the staff team has lives? So when people start to complain in the Discord harrying staff, guess what asshole, I'm going to take that much longer to get around it because you made it a point to complain about, when it doesn't need to be. DM me or something when it's been more than 48 hours; then we'll talk.

it's called a sandbox site. they exist, just. not really on the animanga side since iwys died. honestly i'm not a huge fan of how they're usually organized, but i'm not responsible for it, so #notmyproblem

i've actually been kind of enjoying my time on the one i'm on now, but i'm also just using it as a way to drag myself off tumblr, so. yeah.

also i'm so sad there's not a pic of the old cat in the hat movie for "it's called a contract" so i could have made a terrible photoshop for it, don't @ me

i was never part of iwys, but i assume it functioned far more similarly to an actual "sandbox site" than like a "sandbox" site. which the confusion is that sandbox seems to be used for two different things - there's "sandbox" sites (aka sites that are still set in a given verse, setting, fandom, or whathaveyou but just don't really have an overarching plot, ie, a "sandbox" hp site) and then there's "sandbox sites" (aka a site where it's set up as a resource site might be but is actually geared towards rping and just letting people sort it out for themselves, which is closer to what iwys was supposed to be i think).

i actually really like it since it's... no less overwhelming than tumblr is (and in some ways, is less so, since the organization is much better), and in a sense, i can focus more on finding partners to rp with instead of finding a site that fits what i want to do. which is nice for me for picking up things that just aren't super big (ie, me sitting in the corner, playing with tua) or doing large-scale things i don't want to be responsible for the whole kit-and-kaboodle (aka if i did a second "site" on the boards). plus i mean. it actually hands a lot more control over to players since imo if you want to only do one ship partner, that's fine, but if you want to try out more ships, that's fine too. (or, in my case, i can recruit all the robins into the batcave, the way batman does best.) or just. work out what's compatible ahead of time rather than finding it out 5 posts down the road.

my one regret is just that like. 1) i wish it was organized a little better (since both the ones i've seen aren't really organized well in my opinion, at least, not if you're doing anything other than normal "real life" rps) and 2) there was a stronger animanga presence on them. other than that, i don't really have any complaints.

Just a quick rant.

I really, really dislike people who ask for line by line application reviews on Discord. I'm talking like people who will post random sections of their app in chat and expect it to be reviewed instantly, and then ask again once it's reviewed because it got buried after a day.

I've spent about 20-30 hours the past month and a half or so doing them, and they have been pointless every single time. I'm stopping them entirely, because two out of four of those reviews resulted in any sort of WIP post -- and of those two, both of them had the exact issues that I pointed out earlier or warned against.

I have no idea what the mindset is of 'hey can you review this' and then not showing me or any other staff what you are working on. Can you have a sword? Yeah, sure. Me saying you can have a sword, because come on everyone likes swords does not make me a liar when you app a meteor shooting world ending rapier with 18 points that can all rip your soul out of your body when it touches you. You asked if you could have a sword, and I said yes. There were parts left out, though.

It's been a long time since I've adminned a site, so having to relearn all of these things that I could get away with as a normal staffer but not as an admin is really annoying because I should know better. The hours I spent doing that could have been spent posting or running classes or DMing or any number of things and I just got robbed. From now on I'm just reviewing concepts and the actual profiles. A month and a half and being yanked around is more than enough for me to learn my lesson again.