Maybe I am bias cause of the power of friendship, but your posts are good, friendo. <3 I enjoy them.

Sometimes I remember the compliments people have kindly given my writing and it acts as a serious confidence boost. ^-^ It is good to know my efforts were worth it.

I think if I have time and spoons before date night, I’m going to work on writing up the wanted ads. I ideally want them prepared before opening day so people have options the day of.

I need to learn when to stop listening to an audio drama series, but I get far enough in that I wanna see if it redeems itself. This one definitely didn’t. I think I was supposed to be upset or distraught at the end when the main character was going to die… and because she was a horrible person instead just went “Can we speed up this final scene so I can say I finished it?”

Hmm, I need to figure out how to incentivize my brain to write. Mostly because I really want to finish this character so he can cease randomly giving application muse splurts when I am in the middle of doing something else... He is having way too much fun calling shots.

Finished the final site-thread which is exciting. ^-^

I have stunned myself with how much I wrote for abilities for one character. However, at the same time, I am very happy about it. How the abilities work really satisfied me and makes me happy. I just love adding little intricacies or flourishes. It gives me a ton of satisfaction.

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Both the above is where my brain goes. I try to remember to put trigger warnings on my histories that are more sketch and may trigger someone. So I thought extending it to a general “This character may trigger x.” Would maybe be a nice addition to give people an idea of whether or not they should interact or to open the door to conversation about potentially censoring if interaction is required for plotting due to wanted as groups existing.

What I mean by it is triggers associated with the character. I will use the character I mentioned above as an example. He does have some theming around depression and dark thoughts (these persist with being a balancer for his empathic abilities with worsening his depression). So he is heavily associated with what I would consider a common trigger in role-play. So having a place to say “Hey, this character is heavily associated with these heavy topics.” would probably be a good idea given I communicate this with people ahead of time.

So I guess the proper word is a discretion? Like what you would at the beginning of video games or shows that feature heavy topics.

Ooooh, I have not thought of it to this specification. The character I am thinking of, for the sake of keeping things more safe with language, has severe depression and thoughts associated with that. So it is a very heavy topic and since his ability theming is based around The Crooked Man poem, I have actually described him as a “walking trigger”. So he primarily makes me think about adding stuff like that since it is so prominent on account of his dark themings and inner workings. So overall, I really wanted to consider adding it since sometimes characters have those traits.

Though I can definitely get the weird mix of guilt and pride. If it helps, I can see how oversights happen easily; especially if you don’t have or have a lot amount of triggers. But I am glad they came to you politely. I love seeing that since there is a point of helping others learn from actions so they can take action to avoid it in the future.

Sometimes I have seriously considered adding an ‘Associated Triggers’ section to the applications of characters whose themes, histories, etc revolve around heavy topics. I just feel it may help communicate for people who need it if a character is worth interacting with or so we can work together to figure something out so they can avoid the trigger if the thread is considered a ‘need’ for plot development purposes.

Gotta say, I am glad to hear! New role-players are a rare commodity, so it is great seeing some come into the fray. <3 I hope you keep enjoying it and have a lot of fun!