tbh the more i exist around sites, the more i think activity requirements for making new characters feels fair.

Jcink also has labeled images and documents of every variable and PHP element that you can use. I recommend having this as well because you can tell what you're editing and how to add HTML templates to your site.

It's very apparent that you've never been on sites that are Really shitty about apps. I've gotten rejected from a site before because my doctor character was cynical and mean, and thus it was "unrealistic." Literally anything can be used as gatekeeping in RP. I have seen it. Like I'm ok with denying apps that feel like the user is trolling (you'll know it when you see it), but when admins are picking apart every aspect of a character for "realism" and "avoiding mary sues," it's made me a bit cynical on the process in general.

On the pent-up anger: I'm tired of spending hours on an app for a place I might not even vibe with or stay on, or a character I might end up dropping, so yeah, I hate apps that require too much effort. I specifically look for sites with easy processes, and to me, writing a small RP sample is so much easier than writing a dossier. I don't care if it's more convenient for other people. When I first join a site, I don't know if I'm going to stay there-- maybe no one wants to play with my character concepts, or maybe the players aren't looking for new players, or maybe the site's gonna die in a week, or maybe I will stay but my first character isn't really a good fit and my second character will be. So if the app process takes too long or requires too much detail, I don't join.

I personally require neither a writing sample nor a long, detailed app for sites I run. I require plotters and basic character "interest" blurbs. I like plotters. They're great. I was also recently allowed to keep an older character I made on a site more open in her history so I can let other players retcon their characters into her history, and I've been on sites that would have demanded that older characters need way more detailed histories from the get-go. So I'm pretty grateful to those admins, since that's the level of flexibility I look for.

you'd be surprised. I had a guy apply to a discord RP using an AI post as his writing sample (we only require a writing sample for canons, not an app). I don't think I would have given him a second chance, and I haven't offered to RP with him.

decided that AI images are a warning with a "remove the image" request, but using AI writing is an immediate permaban without warning.

the former can be excused as simply not being able to tell an image is AI. the latter is intentional, and I don't really want anyone who AI generates their RP content in my hobby.

the worst part about being accused of favoring men when u talk about ur current favorite blorbo is that while the book refers to her as he/him and a man, you can also objectively point at the mspec lesbian being called she/her and a woman, and the author stating that the book is about gender, and the setting not being overly friendly to trans characters (but they're present despite it), and that it's absolutely fair to view this character as a trans woman or transfemme nonbinary.

i know no one else in the fandom does. i know this fandom is full of yaoi favoritism, as usual. the character's popularity is because people prefer to read her as a feminine cis man. but hear me out: estrogen would have saved her.

thinks about systems for a pmd site i will never make

my feet hurt from running around on concrete all day

reminds me that i was going to make Bella Swan as a Blank, Warhammer 40k style-- AU where Edward never came back, Bella grew up and realized she didn't need him, and also now she's on a world where being immune to psychics is uniquely useful.