@Pyrephox

This was exactly it!! If we had known she was going to be late (45 minutes late, I texted after 10 minutes to verify we didn’t have the wrong time and she replied she got the time weont and would be a “little late”) we might have gone out for lunch. >.>

People being late for appointments but not calling or texting ahead to let us know.

A long time. But Apos posted that Arx II is a thing and I’m suddenly wanting back in. Kiddo is a little older and not so needy. Maybe I could?

@Trashcan said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

@Babs said in Long or Short? Application Process!:

Just reuse the same description. Chances are no one will notice.

Chances are no one will say anything to you.

THIS IS WHY. I KNOW I WILL BE SILENTLY JUDGED BY ALL YOU ASSHOLES*.

(*I say affectionately.)

I don’t like having to make stats. I like writing a bit of backstrory.

Descriptions can kiss my ass.

I REALLY struggled not to my guy a lot. Two of my heart characters were older men (late 40s, 50s) who were generally conservative af and not generally open to new anything. To a lot of things my first thought was literally " X would NEVER…" Then I had to sit myself down and go, “But is the never fun for anyone?” Sometimes it was, but most of the time it wasn’t. Sometimes the conflict of new ideas vs old ideas was great. I had some excellent scenes with their children where they wanted to be wild and out there with a father behind them going “This isn’t right!!!” Other times that conflict was going to kill the vibe.

Over time both mellowed a lot. I would like to think they didn’t lose their core conservative root, but they saw a ton more gray when I stepped away. That was fun too.

Sometimes I feel bad having the Administrator title here when I haven’t RPed in 2+ years.

But then again ya’ll aren’t a very hard group.

Um, um, UM?!

I was generally a shorter poster. 1-6 lines. If I could get by with less, I did, because I wanted to keep things snappy.

As I drew closer to the end of my Mu* career the less I could cope with people who took a half-hour + to pose their three massive paragraphs I ended up only responding to a little of.

I think that was more me just having more on my plate than before though.

@sao

I’m literally obsessed.

Thred Necro!!

I’m reading Dungeon Crawler Carl and it is like a mash up of the most upsurd scenes where the GM is basically of the mindset, “Fuck it. Roll and let’s see what shit can happen.”

@Wuff

We still don’t fully understand why she said racist multiple times, but we were able to meet and talk about her kid and his progress so I’m going to call it a win?

One of my student’s parents called me racist multiple times last night in the conference.

It wasn’t even one of the crazy parents. It was a perfectly nice one. So it came out of left field.

We’re meeting tomorrow with the principal as interpreter, not a district one, or worse with apps because the translator didn’t show up, and I’m hoping we can figure things out, but I also just have this pit of dread in my stomach.

@RightMeow

I completely forgot about the books.

@hellfrog

See, Norwood had plenty of people interested! Fucking can happen at ANY age!

Edit: I feel slightly dirty writing this.

I love me some negativity consequences. I remeber a prp where Norwood was 100% sure he was doing the right thing by killing the bad guy. But since the fight had ended it ended up being viewed as straight up murder. I went “oh damn” to have my straight laced do-gooder suddenly having ‘murderer’ on his soul. It was awesome though because it spun a whole other prp where Norwood went on a redemption arc. It also made him more thoughtful of what was righteous. More gray, less black and white.

Or when K’vvan kept lipping off to leadership because he was an asshole and got eviserated. Led to massive RP chances and him slowly becoming an asshole that some people were okay with. He never did become someone people generally were chill with, but there was some growth.

My little sister has had 2 first trimester miscarriages, and it has been really difficult for her. She announced last night she made it through the 1st trimester last night with baby #3!!

And a special warm hug for me, she said they are planning on the name Juniper because she always loved my online tag. ️🧡

@bear_necessities

Aw, I feel so warm and fuzzy now.

And not completely because Tez is burning the place down.

Yeah, it went the way we were hoping. She has said goodbye to her parents until she is after 18 (or they can prove to us they are clean and stable and that relationship can be reopened therapudicly).

Now it is a long journey of waiting for them to decided any appeals and/or the judge closes the books completely and clears them for adoption.

It is a lot of mixed emotions. I’m so happy to have her away from the confusion of visits that don’t go well. I’m so sad she can’t go back to healthy parents though. That is the purpose of foster care and it wasn’t achieved this time.

We got a verdict.

Termination of parental rights.

We tell the child Friday, and goodbye visit is the 24th.

I’m slowly trying to build the girl up to it by dropping hints like “Caseworker doesn’t want to see us at home.”

“Caseworker wants me to come home for the visit this time so both of us are there.” (Often just one of us is home for them because the other is at work.)

“It feels like this visit is going to be different.”

“I can’t wait for you to come to my middle school!!”