everyone: dawntrail!!!

me: but... i'm not done with shadow of the erdtree. //cry

fr is the worst release dates to ever happen to me one after the other. but i think i'll manage.

house of the dragon has me in a chokehold for yet another season. i can't wait to see how they adapt the rest of the lore.

this

learning real quick that trying to put together a site by yourself is really difficult. :weary:

anyone have any tips for doing it alone?

agree...

watching it felt like they took away what made me love the series and packaged it into something more generic.
my first thought was 'bioware should have packaged this under another title' instead of making it the next installment after one of the better dragon age games (inquisition).

cb is still poppin i swear
love these ppl

ive been shitposting on (gaiaonline) forums all day and i rly forget how much fun it is
but it's 7pm now its prob time to stop

been playing around with (lake kindred) gaiaonline again and i'm addicted again.

not sure if it's a crazy revelation or just mindless drabble seeping out my fingers but...

i think a lot of the issues we face in roleplay at this point in time boils down to an overall lack of respect. something i am guilty of, too. ( big props and eternal apologies to all the people i've given a hard time. )

just thinking about how staff are expected to fill all these roles. it reminds me of how people describe corporate jobs. you have a limited hour work week but are expected to be on the company's beck-and-call 24/7. they continue to pile work on you that is impossible to complete within the allocated time. something falling apart becomes inevitable. the difference is, they're getting paid and these staff are not.

even on the member side, people can get real entitled over how the site their own should be run. how problems should be dealt with. some will feel the need to manifest entire witch hunts just to prove their point. the idea of good communication becomes a meme because we forget how to treat each other. it's a virtual space so, it's like, who is caring if someone hurts your feelings and makes you cry? no one. we can't see it, thus it makes empathy a lot harder to harness. making it easier to throw down instead of lift up.

i realize a lot of this shines light on negative aspects. and i might be speaking whack-o mode right now. i'm a pessimist at heart so pointing fingers at negatives i see comes easier for me. regardless, i do know there are a lot of positives that have the power to truly outweigh all the negatives.

on a more positive note, roleplaying with ai is so healthy for my literary self confidence. i can write without fear of not giving enough or being good enough. cus it's a robot... :tears:

idk what kind of nerve my car has to not let me shift it into park

on the topic of ghosting: as someone who became a serial ghost, i can get it a lot more as to why people do it. for me, i found that it is because of my overall life schedule. i just didn't have a lot of time. but i didn't want to be left out of participating in the sites that interested me.

the crowd i followed around sites was super hard to keep up with. a lot of people had more time to dedicate to the roleplay than me. if you didn't post within a week (sometimes even a few days), interest in the thread would begin to wane. events and plots went by quicker than i could manage. it was so stressful. thus, i had a harder time posting and decided to dip soon after.

so,,, uh,,, when is the slow-paced roleplay trend coming? :sweats:

itching to try and run a site again...

i take a full step back from what i'm burnt out from because i don't bounce back as quick as other people. if the burnout is from work, i'll take a few days off. i spend that time away to focus on other things. whether that is self care or revisiting old interests/hobbies.

if it's just an acute case of burnout... i find bathing to be a good way to wind down. spending time outside of the house too. i love to kayak and swim in the nearby springs. even walking through my local wildlife preserve.

to get back into what i want to, it's a long process of figuring out what i like about it but what burnt me out in the first place and how to avoid that happening again. :thumbs_up: