My health has been so bad lately but what a relief it is to get some writing done. Feels like I'm finally shaking off the RP-rust, though I always want to rewrite everything I ever post, what a curse

I'm so glad I got back into RP. I have only had positive experiences so far. I do feel like I'm a lot more shy than I used to be somehow, like oohhh my nerves, when engaging in RP communities used to be a lot more natural to me. Wish I had more energy.

Also, I can't wait for fall also! Because the summer heat has been melting me...but I also just love fall.

I need a vacation so bad. Of maybe 1000000 years.

• Magic (High/Low)
• Fantasy (High/Dark/Low)
• Original art allowed
• Shapeshifters
  
• Original
• Medieval/Other Historical
• Horror

• Modern IRL
  
• Strict activity requirements
• Mandatory Discord*
  

Pillars of Eternity, a friend introduced me to Etrian Odyssey recently, Nioh, Dark Cloud, Pentiment and so much more in regard to video games.

Blanking on other types of media but I know there are quite a few. I get hooked on niche things all the time!

I almost always go battlemage -- Mystic Knight from Dragon's Dogma being one of my favourite implementations of this, only soured by how stats work in that game.

But if a game allows me to be a necromancer or lich, I'm going for it, especially if I can also combine melee.

I really enjoy summoner classes as well. Beasts upon ye!

Preferred weapon? Polearms...or floating tomes.

I want Dark Cloud 3 still.

Love how my cat has all these toys but only plays with two most of the time

A lot like me with my backlog of games; I could play something new or replay something I adore...

I have been working off-and-on on a RP forum for years and a part of me wants it to be semi-private or private—but I lack the connections I used to have and I really do also want to meet new people. I’m currently going Solo Admin on this, I would probably be open for more staff as it would make the idea of opening the place easier, but I don't know about that still. Ultimately I’m still lingering on whether or not I’ll ever actually open this...admittedly getting rather large passion project.

There are ways to deal with this yet I am really at a stalemate here mentally. But I have enjoyed working on the forum, even if it never actually sees the light, or only sees the presence of a few. I do quite adore what I have made so far, has the beloved skeleton of my “Dream RP” home. But maybe I will let it rest, alongside the other skeletons. Rotating them in my mind...the "what ifs", y'know?

I really love this one RP forum I'm on right now, I want to see if my best friend will join it. Admittedly the only "issues" I have with it so far stems from me being an anxious and stubborn fool: I still haven't joined the Discord.

I feel this way looking at some of my art. It's hard to look at some of my old art but some pieces in particular make me go..YEAH how did I do that? It can sometimes be frustrating to feel like I'm somehow getting worse than my older self but at the same time, it's motivating. I think of it like this: even if I don't feel good about what I'm creating now, maybe a future me will look back and admire it for what it is, so I have no reason to stop doing something I ultimately love.

I think I could go on for a while in this thread mainly due to how awful my memory is. Someone can compliment me on writing in a post and I've forgotten it entirely, even if I recently worked on it. It's an ordeal but at least with RP, I can just read everything all over again and I am luckily a fast reader...if I can wrangle my brain into doing it.

For general avatars and such, I lean towards woodblock-like illustrations and, as you can see here right now, mangacaps. On the other hand, I will sometimes use my own art, which can be very similar to what I first mentioned but I also use some of my painted works. Now, to get into what my art looks like would be a whole different can of artistic worms, so I won't go into detail here. And then there's the classic animal pictures, especially of cats or of cute little rats.

For character images, I lean towards long-haired characters of any gender who are sometimes sturdy in appearance, and I love..I mean I love giving characters pointed ears, be them elf-like ears, more realistic pointed ears, or animal ears. I also like giving characters detailed horns, despite how painful they can be to consistently get right. Armour and fancy robes. I like giving characters visible face scars and such as well, partly because I also have some facial scarring but also because they always tell a bit of a story on their own. There was a period of time where I kept making characters with eye-patches as well.

I have an overall fondness for limited colour palettes that make certain features pop (eyes as an easy example here). I like both neutral colours and vibrant colours, though regardless I tend to go towards more sombre and tense expressions for any faces.