seconding this statement. imma be real - i'm a micromanaging control freak at the helm of things. i trust my staff to be able to manage while i'm not around, or to at least get themselves in gear the second i designate some duty/responsibility to them and don't expect me to hold their hand. at the same time, i think that the moment you accept ppl into the staff team - you're opening the possibility of ppl having different ideas on how to run things or how to problem solve. so there's a degree of adaptability to be done on both sides. half the responsibility requires working together cohesively, and knowing when to compromise for the sake of the bigger community. if a staff member is being problematic or difficult, though, then buddy, we're gonna Talk(TM). i've been in more than enough sites that imploded due to drama among the team. this ain't gonna be that.

staffing is a difficult and oftentimes exhaustive task, so best be sure the people you have on your corner are able to step up to the position. if you can't trust your staff, then you're giving yourself, your staff team, and your community more grief in the long run imho.

still on the dm high of "dropping a major plot twist in your campaign session that makes everyone in the party scream in the discord call the second you said only three words"

i have a,,,, huge soft spot for these settings tbh since some of my favorite past rps had been set in such so someone please do it i'd join in a heartbeat

the only thing keeping me sane while uni has my head is relearning how to make fancams and trying to force clotted cream cookie to come home in cookie run kingdom

he's still not home and i need 3 more crests so maybe that's making me insane too

update nvm i just need 2 crests

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as an update on this i got some feedback re: my thesis proposal and the first thing i get told is "it is evident you put a lot of effort into your thesis proposal!"

here's the thing tho

i changed my proposal's main idea and key concept a few hours before the deadline and had to re-write my entire research section in said hours before the deadline

i think i've perfected the art of being a con artist ngl

it is very characteristic of me that the one thing that fully puts everything into place re: my tentative thesis proposal i've been struggling on for the past 3 months is "religious heresy"

the answer was heresy all along

from my site cast:
— local child soldier fucks around and finds out: a thrilling saga of religious crises and ethical debates. (hint: the answer to them is "technically yes, but technically no.")
— i wasn't blind to the red flags. i saw them and thought "yeah that's pretty sexy."
— your local wattpad bad boy trope. except he's 5'4 and a vietnamese bitch.
— what if sherlock holmes was a small asian werewolf addicted to gacha games
— pretty lady dies twice, decides she's god now
— javert but hot lady who should probably be diagnosed for something by this point

from some of my ttrpg campaigns:
— stingy gay sociopathic bomb maker is, in fact, the medic and the Dad(TM)
— batman but he's a journalist with 3 seasons worth of anime villains (or as my friend called him: venti is a bruce wayne ass philanderer)
— your local fallen angel blessed by the gods says "fuck the system, embrace anarchy"

from some of my old casts:
— surprise! the edgy masked gamer dude kicking your ass is, in fact, a socially awkward megane lesbian!
— your dead brother is a ghost. he's also an assassin for vengeance now.

can i just suplex my prof who thought it'd be a good idea to announce an entire "record a defense of your pseudo thesis with visual aids and submit it on the 27th to prepare for your final paper that's two weeks from now" less than a week from the deadline, at nearly midnight.

when it wasn't even in the syllabus.

i did not think i could hate this man with every fiber of my being even more until now.

lissen. while i can do my uni work seeing as i have deadlines every day this week, will i do that?

haha funny thought i just started rereading the lightning thief and im going to binge-reread all the percy jackson and heroes of olympus books instead

spent most of this week stressing and preparing to dm my first live dnd session (i've only dm-ed play-by-post dnd bc i could never trust myself to improv it live) via voice

in the last hour before the session started, panicked over the possibility that i was underprepared and could not improv narration

cut to now, 4 hours later, and we only got halfway through my outline of events. my group didn't even hit their combat encounter yet, but everyone had a goddamn blast and all of them want to make this a recurring campaign. so h e c k, i'm both tired and on a high atm

gotta love when your loyal child soldier has a religious crisis in front of the leaders of his holy organization

update from last post bc this line slaps imho

mitigating my stress levels over this paper by world building a self-indulgent concept for the #Selfcare

i now have a doc of cyberpunk lore spanning several pages and show no signs of stopping.