please. i am begging people. when new to a game, take a week to get a sense of the culture and if it’s a good fit for you before you do shit that sucks up everyone’s attention and energy, and make sure you even understand the basics of how the game runs and why before you make a thousand suggestions about how to change it.

I submitted my first short story to Amazon. It’s cheesy erotica, but… I already have my second ready to edit, I have my community pages built out, and the hard work of just doing the first one is done.

I’m really fucking excited for this.

After deciding to unblock Ghost and see what all he’s written since he’s been unbanned, I stand by what I said: the man’s a slimy piece of shit, more importantly, one who gets off on drama and tries to stir it up. More of his time is spent insulting people than anything else, and yeah, any community that wants him, I don’t want to be part of. His is the most obvious fucking weaseling I’ve ever seen, but WE’RE the bullies, clearly.

Yeah. Everything still stands. Hope he reads this!

It’s days like today I remember a lot of the community has social skills as their dump stats.

Honestly, the point of “let people come and see on their own if people are talking shit about them rather than jumping through hoops” is really solid to me, and fits with the motions for transparency. It will make it feel less like a secret club and more of an open part of the community.

i feel like trying to language police a hobby full of erotic writers and social outcasts is, uh, a choice.

i sure wish the type of character i like to play didn’t tend to attract so many creepers.

don’t page people about how excited you are for a TS scene that may have just been a false promise and my character keeping yours on the hook, ffs. even if there was a chance the moment you brought it ooc that went out the window.

generally just don’t page people you don’t know about TS.

Feeling like I get to flex a little with the kind of character I love to play, in my preferred genre, finally having the mental capacity to actually feel like I can both RP and be creative at the same time, and starting a storyline I’m getting really excited about.

I really missed RP. It feels so good to be back.

So we’re getting our first images from the James Webb Telescope, and they’re beyond stunning.

I know these are all over the internet right now, but in case anybody hadn’t seen them… well.

I just woke up (west coast shit) and I still have feelings I’m trying to process about this, so, sorry for bumping this again but I’m literally not sure where else to put it.

I was pretty emotionally fine through most of that. Legitimately trying to offer advice. Honestly, the bannings weren’t even my major concern – it’s accountability and improvement, the two points I listed, in whatever form they take. I think that’s what’s been missing, and seeing people falling right into the same toxic shit they’d been doing before was what prompted me to even post over there in the first place. I’d been good about keeping my distance. I wasn’t going to get into any kind of major debate, but then I was asked to give something.

I took it on good faith. What I posted yesterday on MSB amounted to hours of stress and thought, emotional labor that I really was putting out for the good of the board. I knew they wouldn’t be popular thoughts with the crowd there, but they were genuine ones. I kept my criticism laser-focused on staff actions, and the one time someone felt caught in the crossfire, I apologized.

And I was pretty okay, though I think my exhaustion was starting to show, when I was called a bully doing mean girl shit for that. I didn’t think I was going to change anything immediately, but maybe I could give them some things to think about and chew on.

The blatant attempt at manipulation and gaslighting (actual gaslighting, as in, trying to make me question my whole reality, not the colloquial way it’s been used as lying) at the end, though? That wounded me, I’m not going to lie. Partially because it was so clumsy and, honestly, how did they think that was going to work on me? But mostly because it was coming from the one person who looked like they were really trying to engage. That was some cold, evil shit.

@NotSanni Hi there! Yeah, it’s been a bit, but I had a pretty good time there. Just wish it had had more staying power. 🦠 was a good experience in so many ways, from the escalating pranks to playing someone who my god I hated so much about.

Updated. Will likely be scarce from the hobby for a while.

oh this is why i got a sense of mild dread when i saw the notification!

No wait that’s the anxiety.

HI @Clarion

@bear_necessities The Augbert episode was the best game of “Yes, and,” chicken I have ever seen and I was dying to talk about it with people.

A Dropout subscription is about the best per-dollar value I have ever spent. I’ve had one for about a year and a half and they just keep getting wildly better.

@ham I’M FROM THE WOODS.

real ones will know.

@Sage The existence of multigenerational households in a huge number of cultures in the world, as well as the fact that they really dwindled in the United States during the rise of suburbia, strongly implies that this is a cultural trend and not an evolutionary one. Be very, very careful of assuming that what you see as the norm around you exists that way for purely biological reasons, the implications aren’t great.

also, i’m not going to greet everyone, because i don’t like some people and it’s as simple as that.

I submitted my first short story to Amazon. It’s cheesy erotica, but… I already have my second ready to edit, I have my community pages built out, and the hard work of just doing the first one is done.

I’m really fucking excited for this.