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Post a Random Thought written Aug 29, 2024 17:38:53 GMT
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Aug 29, 2024 13:59:10 GMT said:
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Aug 29, 2024 13:19:29 GMT said:
Ace memes and even some ace folks themselves denied the entire existence of sex in the ace spectrum.
Hear hear. It's a bit annoying when people hear you're ace and assume that means you have zero interest in everything related to it. That may be true for some of us, but there are plenty who have varying degrees of interest.
yeah like i consider myself grey-ace because the idea of being touched by a stranger is repulsive to me, to the point where i feel sick thinking about it, but once i love and trust someone, I wouldn't mind it but I also wouldn't need it in a relationship. it took me a long idea to accept that i'm a real ace because i wasn't sex-repulsed all the time.

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Post a Random Thought written Aug 29, 2024 2:52:52 GMT
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Aug 29, 2024 0:51:46 GMT said:
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Aug 29, 2024 0:23:19 GMT said:
+1. there's an old adage about TTRPGs that I think we all need to apply to everything: No RP is better than Bad RP.

The more I apply it, the more I see its truth.
I really like that adage. It's not something I've come across before, as I've not done much TTRPG, but it's pretty legit. Definitely better to lose an rp partner or leave a site than keep suffering through a bad one

yeah like and if it seems discouraging, you gotta realize just how many people are out there that are into this hobby. you can always find another community or partner. you might have to try new formats, sure, animanga forum RP is a bit of a fishbowl, but if you step outside our little aquarium, you'll find there's a whole damn ocean out there. you are never stuck with anyone.
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Aug 28, 2024 23:43:19 GMT said:
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Aug 28, 2024 15:24:33 GMT said:
random theory but I think when some people can’t code or have a coder friend, but want a site to control they try to take over other people’s sites instead.
Seeing your last few posts, I can't help but note you seem to be vagueposting about someone or a group of someone's. Is it possible for you to take a simple step back? Your mental health seems to be on the decline ever since you opened your site.
+1. there's an old adage about TTRPGs that I think we all need to apply to everything: No RP is better than Bad RP.

The more I apply it, the more I see its truth.

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Aug 21, 2024 18:40:45 GMT said:
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Aug 21, 2024 17:26:39 GMT said:
no more adaptations of classical novels until we figure out how to treat the godamn source material

a dorain grey remake where the queerness is stripped from the story? oscar wilde did not go on trial for being a homosexual for this! it's like spitting on the man's grave. also wuthering heights adaptation by the woman who directed saltburn??? the film that just remade the talented mr ripley but without all the insights? ill kill you with my own two hands.
also how do you make a dorian gray adaptation not insufferably gay? like genuinely. 
you make one while the hayes code is still active tbh

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tbh knowing how much of an aesthetics arms race forum creation has become, i'm not really surprised discord RP is becoming more favored. i'm considering making the switch myself.

it's also not surprising, given how much work a skin for a RP these days involves, that no one wants to do it for free.

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Aug 3, 2024 14:37:29 GMT Anonymouse said:
I miss when roleplay sites were more like long-term passion projects rather than just whims of the week. It makes joining new sites feel pointless when you don't know if they'll even be there a few weeks from now.
anon this has always been a thing, arguably even worse back in the glory days of the animanga community because everyone had two or three whims.
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a song of ice and fire is like the reverse of most popular media where the women in the show (except dany we hate dany in this house) are A+++ but the men are kinda lame (unless they are lannisters, the lannister men are cool).

i would watch house of dragon but targaryens have been inherently ruined for me by existing in RP since the first episode was released so i'm hesitant. also tbh cersei should have won because i like her and no other reason.
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what's on your mind: RP Edition written Jul 25, 2024 14:17:48 GMT
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Jul 25, 2024 14:06:44 GMT said:
oh yeah i agree art is time consuming, i just occasionally see "original art is subject to admin approval" and it seems so shitty to me to tell beginners that their efforts aren't "good enough" for a stupid RP site. with the boom of AI as well, beginner artists are being treated even more and more unfairly because "why are you drawing when you can just use AI and it's so much better than ur bad art lol."

like. i personally would rather foster a community that encourages even "bad" artists to keep trying. b/c 10 times out of 10, the "bad" artist is just a beginner and just needs to draw more, and if you tell them to keep going, they'll blossom.
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Jul 23, 2024 20:00:57 GMT said:
So tired of getting random messages with people asking for "emergency commissions." Whether it's a scam or not, I feel for you if you're hurting for money, but I am too! Even if I straight up tell them "No I have no money either lol" they still persist. Baaaahhh.
it's tacky even if it's not a scam.

and tbh if you're an artist that's supposedly that good, y are u randomly messaging me on discord instead of posting to ur socials where u surely have a following 🤔

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personally i thought the best way to encourage people to use non-stolen art is to stop treating beginner artists like shit and having rules for what level of skill you're allowed to have to use original art on a site.

i know i would not be at my current level of art if people in my rp circles did not encourage me as a beginner.

we'd probably see more artists in rp circles if we fostered a culture of encouragement and acceptance for people who aren't perfect at it. i started drawing b/c i couldn't afford commissions.

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i find it weird that people are willing to be so possessive and attached to designs but aren't willing to pay an artist any money to design their characters for them so they can own those designs and have a right to be possessive and attached.

like idk dimitri (whose avatar i need to fix) is my own character, i own his design, i own the art made for him. i didn't make him myself, but i know the person who did, and she gave him to me for keeps. i feel like i'm allowed to go "hey don't use my character's design" because i actually own it. (i'm not allowed to sell him or give him to anyone else, as per the terms of having the OC, but i can use him on any site i want for basically any reason. so if my wolf site shuts down, i'm allowed to keep him.)

is it a little elitist to say that you should own the design in question if you're gonna be so upset about being told that being possessive over it is weird? yeah. am i gonna say it? yes. if sharing is such a problem for you, there are hundreds of thousands of artists out there selling adoptables. just saying. there's a reason i personally no longer do exclusive FCs, and part of it is that i do design or buy my own.

plus idk i think it's sexy to have a piece of art where you can genuinely go "this is my OC" and it's actually your OC and not zhongli from genshin impact or smth.
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I've never had much competition for my FCs because I've always hated the aesthetic of the popular FCs*. But I definitely support anarchy in this regard, or even just. idk. moving away from FCs in general. I don't really see the point of being possessive over a character design I did not make or purchase.


* = Animanga only tbh. I have had some mild competition in RL spaces for Dev Patel. It can also get a little difficult with black male FCs because directories notoriously do not have a lot of black men on them. It's part of why I've started moving towards rappers. Andre 3000, I will use him some day.
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Jul 21, 2024 0:10:54 GMT said:
"Well I want people to put in what they're taking out of my time to review their 56th cat boy" sounds more appropriate.
at the end of the day this is mostly the only reason.

like no offense, staff members are not here for your convenience and I don't really care to spend a bunch of time out of my day doing something for someone who has no respect for my time. i pay for the site, not the other way around, and i don't think it's nannying to put in my rules that you should post with your already accepted characters before asking me to review more.

my next site will also have "canon slots" and while it's technically OCs, it's personified public domain characters and I'm only allowing one interpretation per character. It does not feel fair to allow one person to take 20 different canon roles if they don't even post all that often. It's nothing personal, but it's more out of courtesy to everyone else and to give new members a chance.

if you post often enough, you won't even feel the restrictions anyway.
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what's on your mind: RP Edition written Jul 20, 2024 18:54:14 GMT
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Jul 20, 2024 18:34:21 GMT said:
Is people making characters a problem to be solved, though?
i mean, if you're submitting a lot of apps in a short time period, yes. staff has limited time to do stuff, makes sense you'd want the people to idk go out and write a bit before making a new character that needs to be reviewed.

also good for people that sit on plot roles.

i also personally like it b/c it helps me pace myself and not make 30000 characters i'm not going to use.
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what's on your mind: RP Edition written Jul 19, 2024 23:43:26 GMT
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Jul 19, 2024 22:50:37 GMT said:
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tbh the more i exist around sites, the more i think activity requirements for making new characters feels fair.

To control for app-n-dashers?
Also just to moderate the speed at which people can put in new apps. I think it's also a system that regulates itself without needing hard limits; if you're reasonably good at juggling that many characters, you won't have many issues at all. What can be handled is different for everyone, and the easiest way to see is to just keep track of how often you're posting. Some people can keep 20 characters active. Some people can only keep 2 or 3 active.
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