no more adaptations of classical novels until we figure out how to treat the godamn source material

a dorain grey remake where the queerness is stripped from the story? oscar wilde did not go on trial for being a homosexual for this! it's like spitting on the man's grave. also wuthering heights adaptation by the woman who directed saltburn??? the film that just remade the talented mr ripley but without all the insights? ill kill you with my own two hands.

IT'S FINALLY HERE!!!


every day i try to get more of my site done and every day SE says no

it's all fun & games doing custom classes for a dnd site until you're knee deep in tables and spell lists and features. i am not gods strongest soldier i am a silly little dm

anima blair, complete with a crippling addiction to commissions of her, and also andras fekete, temulin borjigin, elizabeth delacroix...

in more specific:
> people who are motived by goals and want to achieve things
> people who are stubborn and deadset on their ideals
> masc women and femme men, the bisexual special
> people who are doomed by the narrative

Jul 26, 2024 15:19:50 GMT pancakehouse said:

Jul 25, 2024 10:54:15 GMT henry said:

The Brothers Karamazov is the 2nd most abused book on my bookshelf. All the highlighted quotes, all the dog-eared pages, all the everything. It is soooo good (and absolutely f'ckin metal). And to think, the only reason I picked it up in the first place is b/c of William Shatner (who played Alyosha in the 1958 film, which I absolutely cannot recommend). I tried reading a lot more Dostoevsky after it and nothing quite hit the same. Still chasing that high.

this but crime and punishment for me. i think about it always, i constantly reference it in my writing,,, russian classical lit is built different fr

ofc i would, this bitch knows everything that i like! plus sometimes i love reading my own writing and going "wow i cooked here" and it's the most self indulgent thing i've ever written.

Jul 24, 2024 0:09:16 GMT bc said:

Jul 23, 2024 19:21:30 GMT safi'jiiva said:

def the kind of thing i see being "you either go all in or don't" , and if you're going all in on plot, it can be a good system. i'd love to see it in practice; my general apprehension is that it breeds resentment and some people raise a ruckus about it and how to go about it to avoid that.

ofc, but anything can "breed resentment" in an rp community. i don't think we should be worried about people taking things in bad faith when you can simply block those who come to the site in bad faith. people who actively engage w/ and want to create plots for the rest of the site deserve to be rewarded in a way, plus it takes some of the pressure off of admins to plot everything themselves.


i dont think we really gain anything by going "well some people could be upset" when it would be completely unreasonable to be upset about something like this, especially when it was a system where everyone could apply for & get the same position but they had to earn the right to keep it? it's the same way you'd get fired if you did a bad job, or if you're playing a game and you suck at doing something, you will be told to do something else for the good of the group.

quick edit: honestly this comes off as very mean but i have seen rp drama come out of the smallest things like... not being included in a plot that they did not do any effort to be involved in,,, so honestly my whole attitude is that people like that can & should get filtered

Jul 23, 2024 18:01:30 GMT Jenesis said:

Jul 23, 2024 9:15:28 GMT bc said:

activity checks can’t be the end all be all of things though. since they only measure the amount of posts, not the quality. (by quality, i don’t mean writing-wise; on sites whose canons play a huge role in moving the plot of the site forward, what you care about is that they’re contributing to that plot, not whether they’ve posted once or twice for their inconsequential ship or their coffee shop meet in the last two days)

One thing I've see sites try to do to solve this is by requiring the canon in question to include a summary in their ac post of things their character is doing to move site plots forward. This feels kind of "off" to me (like... assigning homework?) but I don't really have a dog in the fight as I tend not to play site canons nor write plots that involve big sweeping changes to the site. (Not that I'm opposed on principle, but I've yet to play on a site where a site plot actually manifested past the pre-plotting stage, so I prefer to keep my expectations low.)

i played a canon (well, equivalent. there were no canons but there were "presets" which allowed you to make an important character for a role, was incredibly fun) and i found the fact that i had to justify what i'd done with the canon character was really good at driving me to contact staff and ask to do things/get my character involved with the site plots. admittedly, i had tailor made her with the intention of getting involved with the site plot, but i think something like that is actually a much better way to gauge activity for important characters

as i see it, if you take a position like that, you are taking on a role to help move the site forward and create new engagement for players. it's in your best interest to try and do that so that you can enjoy the power that you have with a character that is more important. honestly? i wish more sites had systems like this & embraced site plot wholeheartedly.

> ucob prog, for real this time 
> the weapon's refrain
> dragonsong's reprise
> the epic of alexander 

??
how did i end up in every ult but ucob.

sometimes i think about game of thrones and then i get mad all over again at the ending. and also everything after season 5.