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His love was deceit, his every act of affection a new betrayal.

"Once upon a time I was a baker and everybody was impressed. But I didn’t need approval because I already knew I was the best. Everything I made was a masterpiece - it all taste like heaven! But then unfortunately I turned seven."
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still not used to having enough money that i can seriously debate running away to another country for a week to watch a concert. it has been just a little over a year since ive gotten out of broke uni student hell. it still hasnt sunk in.
I grew up in poverty and I still can't help but compare everything to the price of bread. It's like... I have enough money now, but I still look at like a pair of jeans and go, "Oh, I could buy bread for a year with that kind of money."

Shedding one's poverty ways is a journey of a thousand miles, and you're loathe to afford the money for proper shoes for it.
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I'd be happy to go multiple posts per day if the vibes are good and I'm not on a low spoon day.

Likewise, if I only get to post once a week or less, I quickly start losing interest. Especially when I see my thread partner post elsewhere; I know we're not supposed to judge people based on their activity elsewhere because of various reasons, but despite my logical mind saying there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for why I'm not getting posts to the thread, I still feel neglected and start telling myself it's because I suck.

Like, the last site I had fun at went tits up, and I've kinda drifted away from roleplay again as a result despite trying, so I've let thread partners down too by flaking.
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I feel that the advent of mobile gacha games have negatively impacted the animanga RP scene. Mind, there are some positives too, such as providing a wealth of aesthetically-pleasing and permission-free faceclaims in the form of their official art. But on the negative side of things, I feel that the storytelling of these games have influenced RP storytelling as well and not in a good way.

I don't know if I'm just overanalysing, or if this is even an official trope, but Gacha Game Subplot Syndrome is real on the sites I used to play on. This is referring to the tendency for gacha games to have character subplots whose stakes are on an equally large/grand scale as the main plot, if not sometimes more so.

Which goes against the more "traditional" (at least in the shonen action adventure sense) animanga narrative where character subplots tend to involve more personal scale stakes for the character, while the large scale stakes take place within the main plot.
I don’t think I’ve even encountered this. High-stakes stories make sense from a storytelling perspective, and most sites I see proudly boast character-drive narratives. In other words, the site is predominantly a setting. It makes sense that you have to forge your own high-stakes story.

Could you explain what you mean exactly? 
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just wanted to say that this was a very eloquent and well-worded explanation. and you posted it in mobile??
There's JP authors who literally write entire novels on mobile, it's nuts.
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Whenever I see art of the Vocaloid Kagamine twins, I can't help but look at their nails and think it looks like they had all ten digits infected with nail fungus.

I can't be the only one.
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No matter how old you think you are, there's always someone older crawling about.

Welcome.
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Dating my crush didn't work out because I couldn't remember their birthdate.



Get it? It's a joke that uses a pun based on the common expectation with "dating", being to engage in a romantic relationship with someone, then turns it around by instead using the definition of "deciding what time period they are from" by indicating you cannot remember the year they were born.

Which is a double-joke, because romantic pursuits often also do not work out if you cannot remember an important date such as your partner's birthday.



Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all day.


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Dating my crush didn't work out because I couldn't remember their birthdate.



Get it? It's a joke that uses a pun based on the common expectation with "dating", being to engage in a romantic relationship with someone, then turns it around by instead using the definition of "deciding what time period they are from" by indicating you cannot remember the year they were born.

Which is a double-joke, because romantic pursuits often also do not work out if you cannot remember an important date such as your partner's birthday.



Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all day.
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What did the skillet eat on it's birthday?

Pan-cakes!

Ahahahaha... ha.

I'm sorry. I have no idea what I'm doing.
Did you know there are bees that produce milk?

They're called 
boo-bees

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so I am newb in ffxiv
somebody comes to my character and is standing right in front of him
I realize they are chatting at me
they want me to join a free company and they need me to sign off on it
I know how to do this in wow
I don’t know how to do this in ffxiv lol!
I joined but I “left party” thinking it was like wow and I would leave the smaller party
I left the company somehow??
it’s not on my list???

I feel so bad. they even gave me gold.
so bad. I didn’t intend to leave.
crap :(((
if it makes you feel any better, they may just want you in the signing so that they can make their new fc and then give you some gil for the trouble of it. a lot of people end up doing it. i wouldn't worry, they might have chased you up if you accidentally left their fc and asked you to rejoin. there's plenty of fcs out there , you should be able to join one without much issue - they're always recruiting
Tacking on, they might also have kicked you (no hard feelings) but it just coincidentally happened when you left party. I know I did what safi describes: I paid some people gil to be in my FC so I could create it, then I kicked them out to spare them the few clicks to leave themselves, while I was setting everything up proper anyway.
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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.
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I feel this so hard.
When I was in my teens, I became abruptly aware that everyone else was having these thoughts, and because I didn’t learn about asexuality until I was eighteen, I used to try and force myself to develop crushes by identifying a person who I thought looked nice and forcing myself to think about them a lot. Because clearly that’s how it worked.

Obviously it did not work out and it was a major relief when I learnt there was a whole community that actually just… doesn’t feel these things. 

Do you guys find it hard to rp sexual attraction or do you find it easier when imagining feelings for your characters? 
All my characters are asexual. I will write a monster incarnate just to have a good reason to tell others, "Nope, my character is just not attracted, thank you very much!"

I have tried writing it in the past, because I felt like it was part of roleplaying (lolno), but it's like... Someone will write about how their character is totally into mine and I am sitting here with a book on my lap that describes how to write a character that is attracted to someone, LOL.

"Oh, the book suggests 'heart drumming in chest' signifies attraction." And bam, my character now has their heart drumming in their chest on five separate occasions in the same thread.


EDIT:
Like, guilty confession, I genuinely read certain BL manga for the plot, skimming the sex scenes to see if there's character development in them LOL
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I was going to say, whether it means something or not is something only you can decide. I'm not entirely comfortable in my own body either, but I've decided it's not something I'd want to change.
yeah! i guess i just don’t know if it was “normal” that’s why i wondered if it was a thing. Like how i thought my old hs classmates who got pregnant as soon as college hits just hate good decision. I didnt realize people were actually so horny it drives them to do those stuffs. I didnt know people feel tingles when they look at someone they are attracted to physically…. I thought you just turn that on!! And i waited for it… and it never happened and never will ☺️ tho who knows mebbe im demi tho thats still in the ace spectrum
Frankly, I've never understood it either. The very idea that you could just...look at someone and decide, "Oh yeah, I desire to enter into sexual relations with this person" just...



So I realised pretty early on I was just asexual. \o/
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chat… if i (afab) feel like i’d be sexier and more desirable if i were a man and i never liked my boobs and i think d*cks are nice, does that mean anything

Edit: nvm i continued to think and i think i got my answer (it means something) (cool cool) (time to put that at the back of my mind bc i have other priorities rn)
I was going to say, whether it means something or not is something only you can decide. I'm not entirely comfortable in my own body either, but I've decided it's not something I'd want to change.
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