every time i get back into forum rp i'm like "wow i forgot how much i enjoyed forum rp"

getting salty about something that happened almost a decade ago, with people you barely knew, that you barely even remember the details of has got to be one of the worst features a brain has. like, man i don't care anymore, but my neurons sure do

we stan a death in the family on christmas day

i was looking forward to use holiday time off to get back into the swing of things, but ran into some pretty devastating irl shit. we love to see it

Seconding what Aerie said, but also part of the move for me is that as time goes on I don't really find apps to be a clear indicator of a character or player's fit on a site and no amount of getting into the nitty gritty details is going to change that.

If you're worried about power levels, having an abilities section or power mechanics in play is all you need. If you're worried about "taking a dump on lore" they can do that even with the most lore compliant app humanly possible. Mostly because things can change pretty drastically after an app is submitted. Especially on sites with original characters. There have plenty of times where I've gone into an app with an idea of what the character's going to be, but found that they've been better suited for a different direction.

Apps for me serve two purposes: 1. prove the player knows something about their character and has a general idea of how they want to play them or what goal they want to work towards and 2. shows me how they write and if they're able to string a few sentences together.

I've also found that the people who are going to be a problem can make it pretty obvious from even the shortest of apps, because the sorts of people who want to min-max or whatever tend to not be very quiet about it.

that's the problem it IS a minimalist app. it's just a freeform section & abilities section, and i have everything except the freeform writen. i'm just... lazy. whycome the freeform section can't just write itself

finding a sick new manga only to realize half the available chapters are untranslated and there's no TL team actively working on it.... maybe one day i'll finish learning japanese. at least it's getting an eng release next year...

sitting on a completed panfan site but i can't open bc i don't wanna work on writing apps

Started T today. 🥳

holidays got me fucked up and unable to string words together

I like the concept of plot pages, but ultimately I find them to be incredibly tedious at best and pointless at worst. I definitely agree with the idea that I like wanted ads more than plot pages and that I don't really ever expect responses to them.

The application system I've come to prefer is a freeform, and then a "plot hooks" section. Just a few bullet points of what sort of relationships you want, or where your character might be found, or what interests they might have that could encourage interactions. I prefer this, because a lot of the times when I have a new muse I don't feel like I have enough "meat" for a plot page? I have a handful of ideas I think might be fun in broad strokes but until I've actually used them it feels like plot pages are kind of useless starting out.