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How much do you edit your Avs/Hovers? written Jun 28, 2024 5:48:44 GMT
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I feel like the odd person out now because I edit the pictures I use, typically with color masks for eyes or adding little details as well as adding artistic bits. That's before cropping and resizing the images.
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re-playing/re-apping characters written Jun 16, 2024 4:03:03 GMT
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I usually always reapp my characters. Most of the time because I want to tell a different story but with the same characters or I want to follow certain story beats but then let the reigns go and see where they end up. It's fun, because by the end of it I can always count on having several characters with the same name, but the RP's they've been through have developed them all into completely different characters. And that's the fun of re-apping characters and why I do it all the time. (That and I'm unoriginal af and have like one or two new ideas every few half-decades if that.)
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what's on your mind: RP Edition written Jun 9, 2024 16:01:39 GMT
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Jun 9, 2024 14:32:11 GMT said:
genuine sentiment. if you think there's an RP draught right now, then think what role and contribution have you done to keep your previous sites (or current) alive. what i'm seeing is how people say they will support some site, but when it's time to show it, they're not around. member list is full, yet there's no attempt to build ooc/ic connections with each other. everyone's waiting to see what happens. all posts rely on the admin/staff, and when they slow, the entire activity screeches to a halt.

it's pitiful to see some admins try so hard to make things work, only for their effort to fall on deaf ears. meanwhile on pixel or on group chats, people bemoan how there's no sites. seriously? what gives. people say sites are closing too fast at the first sign of inactivity, but when people won't even give those sites a chance because they're dyinnn', how's the site supposed to 'pick it back up'?

meanwhile and ironically, people flock to already big sites with numbers so good that they feed into the admins' egos, that before you know it they're telling the entire server to go get laid because truth to be told, they hated all of you (except you of course. you're in our publicized nice list).

all this 'draught' feels deserved at this point. there won't ever be perfect sites with perfect admins, so maybe next time if something goes wrong, try to help in a positive way, maybe? the number of people automatically assuming bad faith is startling, and it's actually hurting your supply of sites. how many admins can genuinely say they enjoy building a community so easily explosive nowadays?

psst. no need to list out reasons on why you don't have time/effort/muse to engage. by now it's all been said. i've seen sites with a large staff team that is nothing more than a friend group. they thrive despite staff doing jack shit because the rest of the community actually bothers to make it their home. it takes two hands to clap, people. i'm looking at an admin burning themself out currently and it's really just sad.

p.s. generic 'you'.


Preach tho. Seriously, I <3 this message so much.




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Tonight Belongs to Us written Jun 9, 2024 15:43:51 GMT
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Louder than God's revolver and twice as shiny.

The future is bulletproof, the aftermath is secondary.
Secrets are things that we bury, in depths so shallow.





Concept/Premise: Welcome to Aurora Bay, Florida, a city with two completely different vibes between day and night. Known for it's historical architecture, it's bustling tourism, amazing festivals and parades by day, and it's wild night life, club scene by night. Aurora Bay may have outgrown it's roots as a shipping harbor but that hasn't stopped it from drawing in all manner of citizen. Creep and Creature alike.

Aurora is probably most well known as the main hub for becoming anyone and anything for anyone in the know of the secrets that lurk in the shadows. All manner of types blowing in from all over looking to stake a claim in the city's underworld and carve their name in to the bed rock of the city. From crime organizations to clans of creatures and even elder magical families, everyone is looking to seize power in the city through fame, fear, or money.



Genre(s): Mystery, Political, Slice of Life(Elements of it), Urban Fantasy, Modern Supernatural, Semi-Sand Box.



Setting: Aurora Bay is a fictionalized city based off of my home town of Tampa Florida. Specifically the main downtown area which consists of Downtown Tampa(Aurora), Channel Side(Riverside), Bayshore(Westbay), and Ybor City(Yorba City). With potential to expand to some of the more outer regions and across the bay into a secondary location that will be a fictionalized version of St. Pete, Clearwater, and Largo.



The Deets:







- Light Lore

So like, I just want to RP so it's going to be really light lore. In fact 90% of the lore is going to be revolving around the city's history and set pieces. Creature / Species lore is going to be like barebones to allow people to make their own variations of like say vampires, or humans with powers, or mage, or mystical creature, or whatever they decide to play.

- Easy/Minimalist Profiles

Profiles are going to be handled with a hybrid style of traditional and profile app. The profile will hold all the basic character deets, stuff like Age, birthday, relationship status, etc. While the traditional app that's posted on the site is going to be super barebones and is just to get the character's general information. Things like a simple summary, maybe vibes, aesthetics, that kind of stuff. Just something that can be knocked out super fast so you can start Roleplaying as soon as possible. For people who want to add more detail to their characters there will be Dev, shipping, and plotting boards available to use on the site.

- Playable Species

Pretty much anything is up for grabs, (Disclaimer)With the exception of Gods/elder gods Eldritch Horrors Cosmic entities/horrors

- Site plots / Events

So there's not really going to be an overarching site plot. Because A.) that never seems to work for me. And B.) I want to allow people the chance to come in and shape the direction of the site through their RP. However what I will have set up as an option in the site store where people can spend points to have their plot or event be featured for a few months or until it's concluded.

Otherwise, a lot of events are going to be based on events, festivals, or block parties that take place in Tampa typically. So things like A fictionalized Gasparilla Parade (Think Pirate Mardigras), Block parties in Yorba(Ybor) like Pride and Guavaween(Happens during Halloween huge costume block party in Ybor). As well as small things.





Other Things to know

So I haven't figured out whether all the fun stuff (supernatural creatures, mystical beings, aberrant, etc.) are hidden or out in the open yet. Probably not going to go the out in the open route right from the start and let that be a decision that's determined through the players roleplaying in the setting.

The platform is going to be Jcink Site rating is going to start off 3L / 2S / 3V with hopes that once we get more of an active member base and I get a job or some form of steady income I can get premium for the site and we can up the rating to 3L / 3S / 3V. Regardless of the site rating though the site is going to be rated for 18+ though. (I mean, does anyone under the age of 25 even still use forums to RP on?)



Release Date

So I don't really have a fully solidified release date planned? I'm using a premade skin so most of it is just a few front end things(Setting up a site store, connecting links on the site, etc) writing up the guidebook, plugging in templates, and writing up other things. I'll try and give updates here as I go but I'm nearly finished with the cosmetic / front end side of things for the most part.





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Tonight Belongs to Us written Jun 9, 2024 6:17:14 GMT
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Sunset approaches, tonight will be ours
At the moment this is a place holder post. I'm tired and need sleeps. But there will be something here tomorrow. Promise. <3

Uuuuuh coming soon....ish....tm
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what's on your mind: RP Edition written May 31, 2024 1:50:05 GMT
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May 31, 2024 1:27:55 GMT said:
How does one go about silencing their inner critic? That's a secret technique I wanna know. Because I think more so than time constraints, this is what's keeping me from writing (including for RPs) as much as I would like to.

Just stop giving a shit. That's how I did, I literally just took a step back and told myself it wasn't that serious. If people liked what I wrote then cool. If not then meh. As long as my RP partners are enjoying it and replying that's all that matters.
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Sites You Want To See written May 24, 2024 3:42:44 GMT
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May 21, 2024 18:53:01 GMT said:
Tournament fighter RP ala Tekken (no, this doesn't explain the YYH avatar).

Doesn't even have to focus PvP: training through wacky regimens with friends, have silly contests with bitter rivals, go on journeys to fight shadow organizations lead by a talking cat, a ballet dancer, and an evil pilot who for some reason have the most ancient evil ever under their thumb, have dumb calling cards like "Tatsumaki Senpukyaku"  or inaudible screaming like Mortal Kombat's Raiden, wrestle a bear that then goes home to his bear wife and his three bear kids to express his disappointment; I just feel like the setting breeds consistent creativity and interaction.



Have someone take a wanted ad for a father / son and get locked into a repeated cycle of wining / losing and tossing the other off the side of a mountain / volcano?
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Post a Random Thought written May 23, 2024 0:16:03 GMT
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May 21, 2024 3:29:17 GMT said:
Randomly wondering where all the canine rpg's went suddenly lol I remember before when I used to look around rpg sites that there was always oodles.



I ask this all the time but in regards to zombie/post apocalypse sites.
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So I made a thing... Would like opinions written May 21, 2024 5:15:06 GMT
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So I did a thing; A backstory.
So I got really bored one night and decided to make a custom species write up. Mostly because I was kind of tired of not having a simple reference sheet for this one custom "species" I typically play for my characters.

I then got a wild hair up my bum and decided. What if I just coded it? This way I had a way of making it look ⋆｡°✩Aesthetic⋆｡°✩ and not just a giant wall of text with a few headers.

Long story short, made a layout that looked really but forgot my screens are massive so on smaller screens it looked awful and it wasn't responsive. Longer story short, I restarted, watched some videos and came up with this:


Link to write up

Would like some opinions, but also just kind of wanted to show off a bit. <3
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what's on your mind: RP Edition written Apr 17, 2024 7:02:52 GMT
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Apr 17, 2024 0:04:59 GMT said:
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Apr 16, 2024 23:28:27 GMT said:
Genuine question: if you're treating a "get to know you thread" as equivalent to starting a conversation with a random stranger at a bus stop, how can you be sure that you'll enjoy writing the thread with the other character? (Or rper, for that matter, assuming they're not a preexisting rp friend?)

(of course, it's entirely possible that we lie at opposite ends of the "willing to talk to a random stranger" scale!)
Can't. There are absolutely no guarantees in ANYTHING.



This, again lol. Also not every thread / interaction with other characters has to end up spanning into a full on plotting thing. It could easily be a one off thread where two characters interact once and then maybe never interact again or not interact until some other random point where they've probably forgotten about one another. Which to me the latter merits a chance for a reset between the characters because they might be at developmental points that they can mesh together better.

Also if I don't mesh with a roleplayer or their character after a thread then it's water off of my back because now I've invested zero time in learning about this other character. If me and the RP'er vibe and the characters have somewhere to go then 100% I'm investing time into reading the bio now.

Also also and this is just a me thing. But I don't enjoy random meet and greet threads in general(I still do them because I hate myself). I warn people all the time that if the thread doesn't go anywhere I will randomly throw ninjas/monsters/soldiers/muggers/something into the thread to spice it up. lol