my loud screaming as i figure out just how many of my account images imgbb has deleted :/

guess i get to have the "fun" of trying to find a new image host this weekend and remaking a bunch of account images too since a lot of them weren't saved

i just finished watching helluva boss (november can't come soon enough, i want more of the goetia), so now i'm back alternating between bones and vampire knight, depending on how willing i am to take some psychic damage (the english dub is hilariously awful okay, i'd say don't @ me but please do cuz i want to talk about this garbage with someone okay-).

can't believe that the further i read in both books, the more canon my dumb crossover ship actually becomes

what do you mean jcink has a macro for default avatar and what do you mean i apparently knew this all the way back in 2020-

this is my callout post for pb specifically because the signature limit always feels way too short for me to actually do anything really cool with it (and always feels like it's somehow getting shorter and i have no idea how-)

i've never been more hyped and disappointed than i was to get an email asking me to review the ffxiv phone charm i've been waiting on only to refresh usps tracking and find it's still stuck in limbo

thancred please just come home

man i really am about to create the most unholy abomination in my quest for cursed things-

personally, i can kind of see both sides of the coin here.

as a staffer, i like having higher character creation and/or activity requirements since it's obviously going to minimize some of my workload (which is v important to me, as the staffer who typically takes the lion's share of the work on anything i'm staffing) by theoretically lowering the amount of apps i'm reviewing with at one time, the amount of accounts i'm having to sort through to do activity checks, and opportunities for potential stagnation from people being minimally active.

as a member, i like having lower character creation and/or activity requirements since it minimizes the potential penalty i'd have for making a character in a niche that's harder to plot with (especially if it's one that would likely otherwise just be npc'd) or whose thread partners might not consistently reply for me to make checks (insert the josh peck meme for "i do not control the speed at which other people reply to me") or the pressure to make threads just for the sake of hitting that arbitrary post count so i can do my next app.

honestly, i actually wish it was something admins did make more judgment calls about, since uh. it'd be nice to see requirements get lowered/waived for having want ads filled or during slower periods (since imo 5 posts is gonna be a heck of a lot harder if the site is in a slow period compared to when it be bopping) and for requirements to get raised/capped for staff busy periods (so no one has to wait around for a mega long time just to get their app reviewed) or mega active periods or to slow someone's roll.



but also re: faceclaim sharing, i actually really really wish more sites would do it. i mean. the community is so much smaller than it used to be, and at this point, it just feels so arbitrary to shrink that potential even more just because of a faceclaim being taken (since yeah, sure, there are lookalike fcs, but it's mega annoying to have to go dig through to find those alts sometimes and a lot of the time you won't be dealing with the same availability or quality to the art or the same vibe or details to the new face). plus like. it'd get rid of all the fc pettiness i've seen go on behind closed doors (since uh, yep, i've definitely seen groups ice out people or throw mini-tantrums in private simply because they both wanted to use the same fc + one person got there first) since imo it's not like you'd have to acknowledge it, just look away from someone else doing it.

though also, as someone who's been going back and using all those old popular fcs, it's been mega funny to just be able to casually fc, idk, izaya and kirito and ookurikawa and so on and have like no competition anymore because everyone's moved on to other series lol-

gotta be honest here folks, i thought i was starting to build up a tolerance to the psychic damage, then episode 3 hit me less than 3 minutes in with a sparkling vampire explaining why he's not ashamed of having a girl see his underwear on the floor, and nope, we're still just as weak as before, oh no-

in all seriousness though! i am still so very feral for wanting to get a group together to aggressively fix vampire knight the way the creators were too cowardly to do, so. uh. site owners, please search your hearts for if you think you can give it a home, and casual vampire romance enjoyers, may i interest you in an older series with mega cool world-building that gets largely neglected for us to steal to play out some really cool characters.

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okay, look, i understand that like no one knows what the heck vampire knight is in this the year of our lord 2024 (and/or that whatever knowledge the majority of people here have is simply from me periodically yelling about it whenever the brainrot takes over again), but listen, it's called i am finally going to go fully feral for this series and actually try to get a group together so we can all have a good time rolling around in this dumpster i call home.


for those of you who don't know what this series is - vampire knight's overarching premise revolves around a school where the day class are all humans, the night class are all vampire nobility/royalty, and the two prefects are trying to keep the night class' secret to help the two races live together in harmony while the actual series plot revolves around the story of yuuki cross being torn between the pureblood vampire prince kaname kuran (with all of his shady vampire politics) and former vampire hunter turning into a vampire zero kiryuu (with all of his traumas and prejudices). it's a twilight-esque series, so a lot of the world-building and character development gets thrown out in favor of ~young adult teen vampire romance novel~ shenanigans, which is a genuine shame because so much of the original premise, the overarching world-building, and individual characters have so much missed potential as a result, but i mean, hey, that's what rp is for.

it's an old series originally from like... the late 00s, early 10s, so you can definitely read the series online (there's an ongoing sequel series that's still being updated) and i think there's a couple seasons of anime for it that wraps up right where the problematic stuff gets revealed - but i would be remiss to not mention the gigantic content warning for canonical sibling incest. i don't approve of it (in fact, i want to aggressively pretend it never happened for rp purposes), but i don't control that it exists in canon, so if you aren't down for that, please don't engage with it.


that introduction out of the way - i'm genuinely feral for what this series could have been. i desperately wish we could have seen more of the world-building (like the vampire senate and how that interacted with pureblood society or the hunters association) and i constantly think the characters were done huge disservices (literally every single night class character deserved so much more exposition and depth and so did the headmaster and zero's teacher and even kaname + zero just got shafted for development if it furthered the love triangle). and that's before you get into that i think the a-plot romance of "kaname is in love with zero but zero thinks he's trying to hit on yuuki and kaname can't say a word about it since it would ruin every single thing he's done for the past decade" and b-plot romance of "takuma's grandfather is okay with him being gay if it's to vampire royalty but unfortunately he is gay for the wrong royal" is just much more fun than the twilight love triangle we get.

so. i want to write that. which is where this search gets messy.


to cut to the chase - i can't write vampire knight stuff without a group to write it with. but i also can't find a group to write it with if i don't have a place to write it with them on. but it's hard to pick a place to write it on if i don't know where the group would actually want to go write it on. so. i turn it over to you, pixel community, to help me with this brainrot that has me so terminally infected that i once literally turned in an entire two hour "remake" of romeo and juliet using re-voiced-over anime from it + that i accidentally wrote furry smut for at seventeen.

staffers, if you know your community can accommodate this and have a place for the majority of the vampire knight cast to exist and aggressively ignore the canon problematic stuff with as much power as we physically possibly can, pitch it to me. i'm most comfortable with jcink and discord as platforms, but i'm willing to go back to proboards or even try out a new platform for this.

casual pixelers, if you're still with me and either already on board with this chaotic ramble or interested enough to let me continue to ramble about this series to you while you work your way through it, hit me up. i've played kaname before and am most comfortable with him, but i've dabbled a lil bit with senri shiki as well and i'd honestly be willing to give most of the rest of the main cast a shot if everything else filled up. if we can't find a site, i'm not opposed to just throwing a private discord server together and going from there (seriously, the forum feature makes discord work nearly the same as a site, it's so nice), but i'm fully down to poll the room before we commit to anything.

i just. i really really really am craving rping vampire knight stuff and would literally be over the moon to just get a group together to do it with ;;;;;;;;

would anyone else actually be interested in a modern animanga multifandom site (aka sure it's allowed as long as including it wouldn't be majorly disruptive to everyone else) or is it still just me begging on my hands and knees for other people to rp vampire knight with me-