we celebrate small victories in this household

Never underestimate the power of incentives

jcink pls come back from the war, i'm eating your rations

I feel like I have an identity crisis every other month and keep swapping graphics ahigpoeahw

we win today

I need a W today :<

-cries-

I love the trend of having toggles for light and dark mode! Sometimes light mode just vibes better with me, or at least it has for the past couple sites that I'd been on for an extended amount of time. One thing that I'm learning is sometimes when I'm stuck and having a difficult time writing, if I swap to dark mode (or from dark to light mode), for some reason, I'm able to write??? Slight change in environment and quality of life.

Can't believe I forgot it was a Leap Day, panicked when I woke up late for work, showed up to work, and then realized that I wasn't scheduled to work when I got to work s m h

I am someone who writes directly in the box. Which, for the purposes of productivity and trying to complete a sweep, isn't very productive. I also want to be able to write at work on my phone sometimes, and I'm not really a phone poster in general.

So! I'm wondering where people write if they aren't writing in the box! I'd really prefer to get something that I could work on posts both on my phone and on my laptop, and something that's simple to use because I'm a grandma. I'll still probably fall into typing into the box, but I've let this queue pile up for far too long and have to do something about it.

Normalize staff taking breaks!

Normalize staff vacations! I know when I'd used to admin, I'd felt a little guilty when there were things to process piling up and questions that needed to be answered and I would just not publicly tag my thread partners because I didn't want to look like I was slacking on my job. But really, the people that should be writing the most are staff, who did the work because they wanted to RP!

Normalize not being scared to approach staff to plot! Yes there's something a little bit intimidating about messaging a staff member, but they're RPers too, looking to RP. No one staffs because they just want to staff, they do it because they want to help make the site run smoothly.

With this, at the end of the day, I hope that people at least learn to understand that staff doesn't make an RP because they want to be roleplay vending machines-- they want to share a world and write with others too. If it does not spark joy, it makes no sense to continue when you're doing so much work. It's good to learn to set boundaries! Everyone wants to be nice and wants to be helpful, but at the end of the day, if you fall into a pit of people pleasing, it's like becoming the Giving Tree, giving until there's nothing left at all.

I really hope that everyone who's a staff member remembers to take a step back and make sure that they themselves are writing things that they enjoy. If you're not, you're not doing what you've set out to do by staffing on the site. I also hope that anyone who's a normal citizen on a site remembers to take a step back and thank their admins for the work that they do and for letting them play in their space. If the local admins aren't writing, ask yourself if you've checked in on them as they've taken care of you. 

Does the rl rp community have another resource site? cttw was goated :<