bump!

please understand that mental health comes before any hobby.
please just understand that.

so i rp on wow with close friends and family!
other than that i've tried all kinds of other places/platforms.
i was on roleplay.me for a while (it's just a rp based myspace and i once rped over myspace) but i'm not fond of the type of players there so i ended up dropping it.
if tabletop counts, i did that a LOT in my late teens/early 20s. unfortunately, the people i played with back then disbanded and even though i've tried to get us all back together online, so far, it hasn't worked out.

pls wake me up when the heatwave is over
i had so many plans but i spent all of today dozing on and off (heat and meds) 
i just want to function again!

I haven’t rejected any character so far on my site and it’s full of stuff like an eldritch horror and a person basically made of bugs. My own ideas aren’t so creative and out there but I actually enjoy seeing it. The site concept itself is open to that kind of thing so why not just let it happen? We’ve had people ask about combat too since our current event is a tournament.

For me, characters and narration come first. So if it can make sense then sure, let’s have it on board. And the battles should be narratively fun for the writers, too. The whole point of the site is to be creative and have fun. I’m not there to micromanage or nitpick every small detail. I have been there as a player and it sucked the fun right out of me. I came back to rp to just chill and have fun.

So for me, the only thing I really ask for in the freeform bio is “how did you get here?” Everything else can come in later. Add it to your bio or not. I just need to know how your character got here.

And I’m not knocking other people’s styles. I truly think there is a place for different admin styles. We all offer different things. That’s the fun of it!

World of Warcraft

i would like to purchase the following: 



custom font ($100) // Macondo Swash Caps


custom profile gradient ($100) // color 1: #9983ab & color 2: #72c7d8

thank you! 

I'm another "crop and resize" one. I used to be huuuge on making graphics but now I've gotten way too lazy. plus, I don't have photoshop anymore and the thing I do have is... not ideal for it. lol

it can't just be me right? sometimes it feels like I have "do staff stuff" days and I have "do writing stuff" days. and it can be hard to focus on either/or when my brain is wired that day for one or the other. I def don't want to leave people waiting on my writerly days so I still do staff stuff but then on staffly days, I just want to advert or do admin stuff. please cooperate, brain. please.

I can't say for sure yet what will be successful today but in the past, I feel people really responded more to ooc events more than ic ones. for my current forum, I'm doing my best to mix it up a little. opening "event" was more of a welcome gift to anybody who joined. next month we have several events we're working on (regular missions and then an event).

I've seen people doing bingo like they are doing here on pp, and I think that could be fun. I want to do it on my site, too, but trying to decide what to put in the squares is stumping me atm.

people always like holiday events but holidays are so short and they're hard to finish in a timely manner. also not sure how people format those anymore bc I've seen forums made for events, one big thread (seems chaotic lol) or just tagging the threads with the event (my favorite).

also, just want to say what Asu said above is helpful and I'm going to mull it over for myself, too!

At this point the hobby is so riddled with AI that it’s starting to give me a mental breakdown. I can’t even tell some of them apart anymore and it’s like you need a full time staff member just to police the AI stuff. I hate it so much and wish it would disappear already. But since it’s not I guess it’s time to actually find somebody to police it bc I don’t have the time for it plus everything else on my plate (rp and rl!!!)

I feel this in my dehydrated bones.

since I'm in the same place, here is what really helped me:

I didn't have any friends or old rp partners to help so when I posted a link to the site's discord and a couple of people signed up early (they were very nice and politely asked if it was ok), it seemed like a good time to let them ask all the big questions that people would have. I also was given advice from a member here on pixel that helped me to open my eyes to the disconnect in how my site was presented and how it actually was. 

between those two things, I was able to edit a lot of things and answer a lot of great questions, which opened up a dialogue for how things could be. the best part is, I've never once felt bullied or pushed into doing anything I didn't want for my site and I also seem to have found some talented and creative people with so many ideas. they took something that was pretty bare bones and they've been helping flesh it out into something more. 

so I did get lucky, but I would say that if you want that kind of help, it's not a terrible thing to post an interest check or have a "beta." I know some people don't like that or think it's not useful, but I personally think it's the way I'd do it moving forward (if I ever had it in me to run anything else - but I'm giving this my all). 

if not any of that, at least some kind of site review stage where people can look it over/make suggestions, or ask any questions. for me, the questions really did it. there are SO many things you need another couple of heads for, whether they want to be staff with you or just to help build a community they want to be a part of too.

anyway all this to say I wish you so much luck!