( aka: I saw PP talking about twilight & thinking about the one supermassive black hole scene made me want to rp baseball talk... so here we are )

'Capsella' is the scientific name for the shepherd's-purse, my favorite flower! I'm pretty simple.

My current icon & hover are from an old mobile game called SINOALICE... not that old, in the grand scheme of things, but it shut down earlier this year, so it feels older to me than it should. I played it all the way up until EOS... and then realized that I probably shouldn't have sunk that much time into a mobile gacha game anyways.

11 & What Remains of Edith Finch

Directly into the box, but I'm starting to think that I shouldn't... I totally lost a wip post for the writing relay because my internet crapped out T.T It's time to break out google docs again...

- woman who performed surgery on a grape
- woman who is a grape
- congratulations on the top surgery, frederic chopin
- real housewives lorekeeper

Honestly, I've been thinking about this a lot while I've been looking around for a forum to set up shop on... I think I do enjoy making new characters tailored to a story's setting, but I do have a couple OCs in my pocket that I like to use first, to help me get my footing; I often replay/re-app a particularly neurotic one whose nonsense makes for good thread starters and tends to shepherd along plotlines, to help me feel like I've got a foot in the door re: getting to know everyone else's characters.

I think there are some characters I'd like to play again sometime, but they're so setting-specific that it really depends on the site and the plot to fit them in... I have one whose character imagery (caspian tiger!) revolves really heavily around her relationship with Persian culture & being a member of the diaspora, and I'd feel like playing her in a world involving fantasy nations/countries wouldn't be honoring that part of her character and identity— and, similarly, some more fantastical characters that I couldn't really bring to a SOL small-town-in-the-midwest-us type of setting (unfortunately, I can't really drop harengons in the middle of nowhere, Wisconsin). But sometimes, when the shoe fits perfectly, I'm delighted. It's like a little treat...!

(Can you tell I was thinking a little too hard about portrait of a woman on fire while writing this)

Hehe... medical eyepatch means that I'm a pirate...

Just watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for the first time yesterday... I still feel like laying down on the floor and staring into space for a long time. That hits hard. I think the importance of memory is aaaaalways gonna get me.

Oh! This is also re: the what's on your mind thread (sorry it's a little unrelated) (truly am just bouncing between one thread and the other), but there's something I've seen on RL sites before, where admins/staff members set certain 'admin/office hours'; usually I think around one to two hrs or so a few days a week/sometimes on the weekend, after the work day? Where moderation requests, admin tickets, profile approvals, etc, are all handled, so it's not seeping into too much of their free time, and I've definitely been keeping that tabbed in my notes as something that might help me stave off burnout.

Obviously, depending on the level of work or the size of the site, it might not be entirely feasible, but it's a really interesting concept, and it's something I was definitely looking at like 'if I have a specific time I can turn the Admin Hat on, it might help me take it off so I can enjoy what I'm working on, too'. The last place I heavily moderated for was chatbox-based w/ a younger/less mature ('please dear god stop spamming someone else's ip address in the cbox') memberbase, and I felt like I had to be available 24/7 to look out for bad actors... but I do think forum rp being a bit slower lends itself a little well to being able to resist the urge to be available at all times.

Now you're making me hungry... you definitely should, though! I was in Japan a couple years ago, and the food I had in Kyoto was some of the best I had over my entire trip.