this art by Ryōko Kui is now occupying my thoughts

pineapple + mango juice is so good...

...I was quite exhausted when I posted that, I had forgotten entirely about MyBB, which is funny since I think I've even mentioned it somewhere on PP before? it is the closest to what I'm talking about, huh
I've used it before, one time when Icyboards still existed, and I've played on sites hosted on MyBB for a while, since I started forum RP with mostly Animal RP

Animal RP is and was something so entirely different in terms of general feel, I do miss it
I'm reminiscing now but way back when, I remember all of the people who would offer hosting services for the Animal RP community. One of my early RP sites even had someone show up and offer to host the site for me, which I declined for various reasons but it was so kind of that person :sob: ...the Animal RP sphere is such a different beast, honestly. I check on some active sites sometimes and feel like I may one day return to it. It's great seeing people I used to write with still active and making sites, and wow, those sites look lovely too!!

But yeah, the overhead costs and the learning curve is intimidating and less accessible, in trade for the customization and freedom. But I'd love to see more anime-manga art or general art or artless humanoid-based sites built on MyBB, as I only really think I know of two? right now. I'm thinking about it now but I don't have the time etc. justifiable for it at the moment 

there's been attempts before (that I haven’t heard updates on for a long time, but maybe they’re in good states), and while jcink is pretty tailored to RP because of how John has listened to the RP community over the years, but I really do wish there was a forum software designed with RP in mind first, like how people who do voice RP wish for a game designed for voice RP first etc..

the skin of Forum I Will Never Open makes use of my art + public domain art and photos, which works with the overall theme of the site and such. It's old now and I want to redo most of it (a big reason why I haven't even shown any friends is because if they use Inspect Element I will lose a bit of what remains of my soul). but wow! Bless the public domain (and other licenses too that allow for modification etc.)

I think it's good to have an on-going coding project, even if it will never see the light of day. I have an idea for the IC boards map that really makes me excited to get back to working on it, whenever I have more time for it again

so glad I learned to stop putting the poison in my mouth in the way of no longer entertaining discussion with people who operate in bad faith, or paying too much heed to communities that thrive on gossip and accusations, and just stopping myself from doomscrolling by simply barely using social media anymore, and so on. This all gives me more time for what’s truly important: drawing characters in cute outfits and playing roguelikes

Dragon's Dogma 2 waiting room. I gotta finish my latest playthrough of DD /soon/ because I wanna see if they do anything fun with cross-saves

Unhappy that there doesn't seem to be physical versions for PC up yet. Likely never, huh

infinite craft is now a part of my daily routine

Talked to a friend about the age-old discussion regarding stories set in places that are not Earth and how there’s so many ENG words that are very specific to Earth and it’s hard to eliminate them all. I learnt a few new things also, as he pointed out that even a word like “copper” has very specific origins, and that cologne is named after a city, and so on!

This ended up leading to said friend making an observation about my writing — not even a directed compliment, though it wasn’t negative, and talking about writing + that observation + talking to a different friend about one of my RP characters pulled me out of a slump I have been tumbling towards for my RP writing. I thought I could get away with writing less as new video games have a lot of RPers’ attention, and breaks are fine, but it really was more of a slump than an intentional break, unfortunately

Recognition goes a long way, huh!! I gotta remember that, especially for the sake of people I write with.

The honest answer: I don't remember. This is partly due to bad memory and partly apathy, maybe?

The first internet forum I have ever been on I had a ton of posts, we're speaking six digits here, and I used to RP there too, but I'm not about to comb through that post history to figure out which were in the RP forums or not. @.@ every day I'm pleasantly surprised that the forum is still up !