one of my major turn offs is when people can't be bothered to be read my app- or even skim it. in a perfect world, everyone would match everyone's effort at all times, good or bad- but that's just not how it is and that's fine but i just raise a brow when someone i'm planning to do like, more than just a one off thread with can't be bothered to read my app. it definitely makes me less inclined to want to write with you if i feel like i am having to repeat things that are all written in the app that i wrote. and it's not like we're asking for you to write an essay or take a test about the character after either. it's one of those rp etiquette things that exists for a reason, imo.

For me, coding is the obvious one. I started coding bc I started roleplaying and had to learn how to do apps on my neopet’s pet pages so I could rp in my warriors rp guilds and I think for a lot of us coders, we have similar origin stories. You kinda have to have at least a baseline understanding of code in order to rp it feels like. I enjoy coding, but I do think it often detracts from what I originally started doing this all for; which was to rp lmao. 

aside from that, I love video games. I’m not the most confident when it comes to canon rp, but it’s no coincidence that most of the characters I feel comfortable writing as are video game characters. I think it being a slightly more interactive experience makes it easier for me to feel confident in knowing the character’s personality? I dunno. 

Spotify wrapped came out today and this was the first year Rammstein wasn’t on my top 5. Truly the end of an era.

Just to clarify, your site is called Bleach Roleplay? Would you want it written out as such or would you want it written as BRP?

Idk why but a (at least once) large band using art from an artist you recognize from artstation is so funny to me. Like good for anato finnstark. Get your bag girl

this is how i find out that cttw is closing? i'm so tired. i'm tired of people taking from the community and not contributing in anyway shape or form, but then talking about how toxic or bad it is. i hope something will pop up to take caution's place, but i...sincerely doubt that. no one wants to help anyone anymore, bc they end up as being targets for people's vitriol for some reason.

is disliking unjustified text my boomer opinion? probably

Having no money at this oddities expo is killing me bc I could easily spend thousands of dollars here 😭

Good luck man. I hope it goes well.

lmao this was for my character, i feel so special 

when a fic you’d otherwise be down to clown for is written in the second person 🥴

piggybacking off of what lua said, it's about your intent that actually matters. if it weren't for people like neko, thunderstruck and others, i never would have learned how to do squat. it really irritates me that people have conveniently seemed to have forgotten how they learned to code when it comes to the new generation of people wanting to learn and they go and gatekeep things like resources, or just pretend that they did not or don't right click inspect sites to see how someone did something. it's dishonest and frankly, lame to lie about it. it discourages people who are still learning and it just makes you look like an elitist. 

so ever since that discussion thread about people not reading apps, and how people write too much for their character's histories, i've been thinking about what constitutes as being too long. personally if a character has a long history, i don't care, i just skim it. i literally just finished writing a 1,750 word history, and i'm sure some people would say that's way too long, but for people like myself and my primary rp partner that's...pretty average? i'd say? lmao

i'm just curious bc not every character of mine has a winding and soap opera backstory! i even try to be brief, i just have a lot to say at all times, and i don't know why as a writer that that is necessarily a bad thing or would discourage people from reading what i wrote. but that's just for applications. i tend to put far more effort into my applications because they're apps, and to me, i consider them to be basically a resume for me and my character. i want to put my best foot forward, and while i do not really equate length with quality (at least not anymore lol), i find it interesting that people see a longer app and are discouraged by it. 

as for posts, i do try to match posting length if i didn't start the thread. sometimes that doesn't always happen bc i have a lot to say, but that is my intention. but nothing sucks more than when i write a lengthy starter for a thread and i get a response that is a quarter of the length. i always wonder if what i put out wasn't quality, or if people are just not putting as much effort into it. do people see long posts and roll their eyes? bc to me, i see long ass posts, and i get hype bc i equate that with the poster being excited about the topic and that in turn, makes me more eager to respond. 

it's not often that i get a response that i think to myself and say, "damn this is long", and when i do it's usually from my primary rp partner bc she writes like a madwoman (affectionate) but i'm excited by this bc it means i have more to respond to. i always thought this was a universal experience, but reading thru that thread awhile back was really eye opening for me.