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Favorite Aesthetic written Jun 18, 2021 0:18:00 GMT
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Masculine - Lots of jewelry or piercings, two-tone hair, athletic, EYEBAGS
Feminine - Elegant or long-sleeved clothing / dresses, facial scars
Universal - Dark or blue hair, preferably not smiling, narrowed eyes, NEED MORE EYEBAGS FCS
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Favorite Line from your Last Post written Jun 12, 2021 3:29:45 GMT
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Not my last post but the last one I had up while rereading my old things.

He wasn’t the gentle schoolteacher anymore. He had become someone who abjured emotional ties, someone who headed out into the wilderness and took upon their own broad shoulders the moral conscience of the tribe. Someone who had always lived in the wrong era, who had with his own hands let enough blood to raise landmasses and enjoyed it. Was good at it. This time he had built the machine he used to revere from afar, greased its wheels and set it in motion. And he had always kept the possibility that he might die in his back pocket, just in case he needed it. To remind him how afraid he was of being gone, of leaving this thing he’d created. He had a monster that lived in his head that looked like him and sounded like him but only wanted to destroy himself, and if he didn’t teach anyone that, they’d never know.
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Post a Random Thought written May 27, 2021 16:48:52 GMT
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May 27, 2021 13:24:56 GMT said:
That is understandable. It's easy for threads to get derailed and that certainly isn't OP's fault. The opinions people have stated is also valid and there are indeed toxic or unsavory people in the community.

However, if **all** of these people are indeed toxic, then they also lack self-awareness and will remain clueless about their actions even when vaguely called out through these posts. These sort of posts on a resource site (where people can identify names and sites) affects the admins who ran the site more than the cliques they're talking about.

To say the entire RP experience or site was toxic based on a few members is more likely to hurt the confidence of someone who took the risk to create a site for your entertainment, rather than the rotten few who ruined the experience for some. They're accomplishing nothing positive or bettering the community by doing this. Simply put, it just ain't nice, man.


Unfortunately any thread that invites criticism will hurt someone's feelings somewhere.

A site isn't just the physical site though. It's the community that lives in it. A site and its community have control over each other and it is limited sometimes but staffing is about nurturing and pruning the community too. And based on the comments in this thread it seems like a large amount of the time someone leaves is because they don't connect with that community. And that is extremely valuable information for anyone who plans to run a site, so I think the thread is serving its purpose.

So long as people try to be respectful here I think it is worthwhile for them to be honest and worthwhile for anyone who had been in a position to do something about it to contemplate, did I enable this? What could I have done better?

tl;dr it may not be nice but as long as it's not treated as an absolute and instead as people's opinions, it is valid.