Nabbed Ororon. \o/ I know Kinich and Ororon aren't exactly a BFF team since Kinich wants Burning and Ororon messes that up with Overloads, but I'm still having fun watching them hotswap around in Natlan.

Going for Ororon was a bit cheeky since I lost 50/50 and am locked in for Mavuika, but had to do it for our batboy.

Granted, your milk is no longer "a lil' spoiled", it is now completely and thoroughly spoiled and your domicile has become a health hazard.

I wish winter would stay away, I don't like the cold.

In another stunning show of "Traveller is an impostor and doesn't belong here": I don't even know what 3-3-3 means lmao ;-;

Saw a homophobic acquaintance I hadn’t seen in months sporting a pride flag.

Apparently they had a run-in with a hate preacher and decided they didn’t want to be on that side.

what a time to be alive

I think ratings are nice to help guide potential members as to expectations, but if you have specific things you'd rather not see, it's fine to be specific and open about that. Just because you've rated your site such that someone could write something that raises your hackles, doesn't mean you have to accept it.

"BuT ThiS RatINg MeaNS"
No need to even discuss it. Simply let the member know you don't want that on your site, end of. If they try to argue, ban them. It's your site, you don't owe them an opportunity to write there.

I quite agree (shock!). I didn't feel comfortable being the only one to talk in favour when everyone else seems so overwhelmingly against, but I don't really get the false equivalence of saying, "It's fine to have a childish character, they don't have to be a child!"

No, of course. But there's a difference in how you come across if you are a 15-year-old acting childishly, an 18-year-old acting childishly, and a 35-year-old acting childishly. A 15-year-old character experiencing their first love will come across different from a 35-year-old experiencing first love. You don't look down on a 15-year-old for crying his eyes out because he missed the release date for a new game that came out and now he has to *GASP* play it a day later! But if an adult did that, well, that certainly comes across different!

It just feels like a shame to limit characters because you prefer to wield the base assumption that people are bad-faith actors over trusting other roleplayers to be mature people. Someone pointed out we're all getting up there in age, and plenty are now in the 30+ range. So it just seems a bit...disappointing to me that we then say, "Okay, everyone might be older now, but we can't trust you to understand what is and is not appropriate to write about."

tbh the sooner X dies the better

I'm actually quite curious there, if you'll indulge me. Can you articulate what's uncomfortable about it for you? I don't think there's anything wrong with people writing younger characters--after all, many books featuring young characters are written by adults. So on this case, I have some trouble understanding why it's an issue or concern.

I like writing teenage characters, as I enjoy the more emotional volatility that comes with being young, and I enjoy the bildungsroman genre, so most of the stories I want to tell are like that too.

All the sites denying me that have always made me wonder if I'm unwittingly running afoul of some understanding shared by others but sadly not me.

I'd be happy to learn why this is a concern in the roleplay community.

Pokémon franchise that's about 12-year-old kids travelling the world with monsters in tow: totally fine.
Pokémon-inspired RP sites: hol' up, adult characters only.

:'D

Like, I'm fine with site owners exercising their right to dictate what they don't want to see on their site, but likewise I just don't join if site rules contain instructions on what characters to write, what perspective to use, or how many words I need at minimum. Even if I wanted to write a 21-year-old college student in a third-person past-tense omniscient narrator perspective with 1200-word missives, sorry, I'm out.

I like feeling free to write what I want within the confines of the setting, in the way I want. It's not like anyone'll put a gun to someone's head and force them to write with characters, writing styles, or post lengths they don't like.

It's disappointing that some people do not know this.

Colour me interested like a rainbow.

It's kinda wild that some reviewers praise the combat system and others hate it. It's either the best combat system in recent ages, 10/10, amazing...or it's some dreadful mediocre experience, best consigned to the easy difficulty rating, 2/10 just give me story.

What up, reviewers.