...dare I ask how

I genuinely don't understand how I get people to write heartwarming messages to this problem child but damn if it doesn't feel good

It feels nice to be cooking again

people: editing your pfps in photoshop is just as much art stealing as ai is

me, who just crops and sometimes resizes in ms paint:

(ime, rehosting with credit, i.e. a direct link to where the artist is hosting the art, is no different than sharing a link to the artist's page on discord saying "hey, friends, check out this cool art." it's just more steps to display the art in the proper template size or w/e)

The drive to dev out dead people from my character's backstory, who will never be relevant

The hard part of this imo is
50% managing to stick with a site (or having the site live long enough) to undergo multi-thread arcs with other people's characters
50% finding a template that looks nice, isn't a pain in the ass to update, and doesn't break

Playlists and moodboards never did much for me honestly, probably because I'm not a very "aesthetic" person irl.

I love answering short headcanon prompts, including the meta ones like "how did you come up with your character's name?"

Drabbles can be fun when I'm in a headspace to write them.

Organizational charts, relationship webs, and timelines are also fun, and help me keep very involved backstories straight.

If I could get away with making Tvtropes pages for my OCs...

am craving social interaction but only on my specific terms

basic windows notepad only. I write the post and then c+p it to forum and edit in all the formatting there

rping on pb in a site that cared about word counts but also allowed fancy templates killed my desire to ever post on-site again. too much clutter & inaccurate wc meant I had to transfer over to a third party window anyway, so why take the risk of site hiccups / accidentally hitting the back button to begin with

I've discovered that one weird trick for getting plots, and it's scary

it's that time again for the old "hm, might just quit" song and dance

I started on pb but now prefer jc for a variety of reasons, some of which have been stated, but some of which haven't:

-tagging is so much more convenient on jc because you just @[the display name], no need to remember what username they signed up as
-also easier to change your mind about a character name mid wip instead of being shackled to a username on sign up
-easier to switch between linked accounts
-the feature to switch account poster, or post as any account linked to your parent, saves a lot of hassle on rps that require account-per-character
-webpage maker for a site guidebook is much more convenient than having to flip through a ton of individual threads
-I don't even like [m] threads but I curse and do the violence a lot, I'm sorry
-more customizable with unlimited plugins
-pb preview mode breaks so many codes that it might as well not even be there, and I have to manually switch from preview to code default for every new account I make

The one pb feature I honestly prefer is recent posts/recent threads that isn't default limited to the past 2 days.

after consultation with a few friends, my submission is "Remembrance of Earth's Past" by Cixin Liu