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[isolaradiale]

Hello everyone!

We'd like to take this time to talk about something that's fallen to the wayside in roleplay lately, but remains very important and key to the hobby: communication between players and group participation in general. In recent times, I'm sure we've noticed how while our group is still sizeable, it's definitely gotten smaller and with smaller communities, it becomes very important to help newcomers, returners, and even already existing members feel comfortable and welcomed. While we as moderators can absolutely help in this, and do, there's only so much we can do to facilitate communication between people and so we come to you today with a few helpful hints, tips, reminders, and otherwise general advice that may or may not help get your posts noticed or responded to or give you that push to respond to other people's posts as well!

Take care in making sure that your post is appropriately tagged and able to be responded to. A post in the "#isola mini" tag should be something that someone can easily respond to! While we know it can be hard to think of something interesting to start off with, it's important to ask yourself if what you're posting and tagging as a mini is actually able to be responded to. Some good examples of what would classify as a mini that could be responded to are:

Muse has a non-rhetorical question they're just asking anyone (non-descript setting usually, at least to start)

Muse asks for help with something (e.g. "how do I start the laundry machine?", "do you have an umbrella?")

Muse is having trouble/wants to do an activity (e.g. baking a cake, getting something out of a tree, lost a possession of theirs, playing a video game, etc.)

Take a look in the "#isola mini" or "#isola open" tag before you make your own mini to see if there's something you can respond to! A lot of the time, we find that the mini tag is often filled with minis that have yet to be responded to. We're sure it'd make someone's day if you took the time to give them a response!

Speaking of tags, we'd like to reiterate that the "#isola mini" and "#isola open" tags are not supposed to be interchangeable! While we understand that it's easy to gloss over or forget what either tag is supposed to be used for, we'd like to remind you that the "#isola mini" tag is for short, quick, open threads that are supposed to be under two paragraphs. The "#isola open" tag is used for longer open threads that are two paragraphs or longer. We'd really love to see the "#isola open" tag to get a bit more usage, but we also understand that taking the time to write something substantial can be exhausting when you put time and effort into something only for it not to get responded to. With that being said, we'd like to ask that you all check the open tag more often and if you see something that hasn't been responded to and you'd like to respond to it, please respond!

Get into the habit of liking other people's starter calls instead of making your own! Or if you see any empty ad, give it a like if you can see yourself being interested in the character! Like the mini tag, often we'll see that there are plenty of ads that have no notes. We know that this can be disheartening and make someone feel unwelcome. We understand that some may feel nervous to like an ad in fear of the person not wanting to write with you or that you may be forcing your character on them, but a large majority of the time this simply isn't true and you may be surprised at how thankful someone can and will be for you to give their character a chance! We also acknowledge that the more niche a character is, the less likely they are to get any notes on their ad. To this, we'd like for everyone to be open to giving them a chance. Some of the best sorts of characters end up being niche, after all!

Another point regarding starter calls, we often notice that someone will make a starter call and not do any of the starters but in fear of being "too late" they just make a new ad. We understand that feeling of having waited too long and that the people on your previous ad may not appreciate a late starter, but this is often not the case! Usually, most people appreciate receiving a starter even if it's late as we're all aware that life can get in the way of this hobby one way or another. So, we'd like for you to make an honest effort to write starters even if they're late. Additionally, it's never a bad idea to send a quick message to people whose starters you haven't written yet if you want to confirm if they're still interested or need a bit of help with an idea!

Regarding plotting, we know it's difficult to come up with solid ideas a lot of the time but we'd like to encourage people to plot more. Sometimes the smallest of ideas can turn into something substantial as long as there's a baseline. We take notice that more than a few permanent plotting ads get ignored in favor of general starter calls, and while we by no means want to control thread lengths, we want to encourage you to go outside of your comfort space when plotting with someone. Don't just let them do all the legwork, give an idea or two yourself! A lot of the time, having a general idea of how an interaction or character relationship will go can give people more motivation to reply. An idea can be as simple as giving a setting, time, and place! You could also stand to think outside of the box in what your character may be interested in doing with others. Ask yourself, what direction would you like to take your character? What relationships would you like for them to have with others? Gather some courage and approach characters you think you could collaboratively work with to achieve this!

On that note, we feel like it'd be beneficial to fully fill out your character's stats page to include locations they may be found and little tidbits of information that may make for interesting things to include in starters! It doesn't have to be expansive information, but the more detailed you are, the easier it may be for someone to craft a starter that can be beneficial for your interaction! Winging it always acceptable, of course, but this may improve your experience! We'd also like for people to check out other people's stat pages when writing starters! If you're having trouble writing an starter, taking a quick look at someone's stat page could be immensely helpful! There is a basic stats page available on the masterlist for you to fill out at your leisure if interested.

We'd also like to soft promote putting out advertisements for pre-established relationships between characters! If you're a little tired of doing the same random encounter starters, which are still fine and good, you may want to consider establishing a bit of a relationship between characters so they can avoid that! It can be as simple as they've met before in the city for whatever reason or as expansive as having been friends for a few months beforehand. It helps in really deciding the dynamic between characters and helps explore what kind of relationship they'll be able to have with one another, all decided by you!

Tying into above, we acknowledge that it's very hard to take the first step and message someone, but we'd like for people to start doing exactly that! A lot of the time you may see a capped starter call or may have an idea of your own that isn't present on someone's plotting ad. You may think to yourself that you're nervous to message this person and that they won't want to thread with you, which is very often not the case. Most (if not all) of our members are open to being messaged regarding threads, in fact it can make their day! So that character you want to thread with? Send them a message! Talk about your ideas! We love seeing creative minds collaborate to bring interesting threads to read on the dash and we're sure other people would agree!

With the above being said, we'd also like people to respect other's boundaries and we'd also like for people to be succinct in communicating said boundaries. If you message someone with a thread idea in mind and they politely decline, then you'll have to accept that. If you message someone asking if they'd like to thread in general and they decline, don't push it further. It can be disappointing, of course, but ultimately we must respect people's personal space and needs.

If someone doesn't write your character a starter, we'd like to ask that you not dwell on it. For one reason or another, sometimes people just aren't able to get to writing some starters for an ad. Additionally, there's also some characters who just don't mesh well together and people may not be interested in writing! Again, while disappointing, it happens! And you shouldn't hold a grudge over it. Writing is supposed to be a collaborative hobby, after all, and if you're both not getting enjoyment out of an interaction then who is it really for?

On the opposite end, if someone messages you with a thread idea and you're not particularly fond of it: don't be afraid to say no! We can often feel like we have to say yes in order to keep others satisfied at the expense of our comfort, which shouldn't be the case. All in all, please respect each other and respect that no means no in any circumstance.

As a final note, we know that communication is not always easy but we'd like for everyone to make an honest effort to reach out more. It can be easy to stick to your own private circles, but the purpose that we created this group in the first place was because we enjoyed seeing so many different people and characters write together and we'd like to continue to foster that sort of environment, hopeful that we'll come out with new writing partners and perhaps even friends at the end of it all. But we can't force everyone to interact with each other, nor are we expecting anything close to that. We simply ask that you respect one another and, again, make an effort! Take that first step in writing or responding to someone today if you have to. A group can't be a group if it's members aren't interacting with one another, after all.

We also plan to make some changes to our discord! Joining the discord is entirely optional and we have no intentions to make it mandatory or push it further, as we believe that all extensive plotting shouldn't be in a space that not everyone wants to join. Nothing is set in stone yet regarding this, but we'll have more updates for you in the next few coming months! Again, we thank you for reading, we know this was a bit of a long one but we feel that it was much needed to be open and transparent with you guys!

-- the island stars.

[nyanris-pocket-dimension]

Sorry everyone for the lack of update on my pony fashion blog or this blog. I just lost my grandpa and still processing it while doing everything else, so I'm mentally and emotionally drained... but I'll be back soon I promise. And thank you for hanging around still

[fuckyeahguiltygearmusic]

can u post storyteller

Already did over here.

[crimsonicons]

Closing commissions for now until I finish this batch!

[random-imagines-blog]

Should I do kinktober this year? 😏😏

[ask-no-significant-harassnent]

You are so bug looking (positive). You are also my favorite iterator! How is your relationship with the others in your group? Likes and dislikes about them too?

>Well, thank you much for that! I'm pretty fond of bugs so it's real nice to hear it.

>The others?

>Well, there's Looks to the Moon of course... the senior, lost contact, blah blah blah.

>Always been close to her. She helped me out of that starting stage of my life so, yknow. I owe a lot to her. I've always liked her simpleness. In comparison to most of the folks I know, it was quite a breather!

>Then there's good ol' Chasing Wind~ Despite them technically being younger than me they've always acted like they're so much higher and mightier than me. I don't mind though. They still have a sense of humor so they're good in my book.

>'Course, we can't forget Unparalleled Innocence. Youngest over here. I don't think she ever really got to meet our creators. Lucky her. But it also made her a bit... insensitive. He used to be nice to talk to, but ever since all the... incidents... he's been pretty snappy. I've heard in some public channels that others have been bugging them a lot, but they don't talk about it.

>Then there's... Five Pebbles.

>Yeah, uh, I don't feel like talking about him right now. Can we change topics?

[swap-hlvrai]

[ i feel so bad for keeping you all waiting so much--  but im stuck with trying to figure out what days i should post, should i keep it strictly weekends? or do days on the weekdays? and for how long should sessions be.. i am a mess </3]

[mari--official]

Hello there!

Don't mind me, I just found a way onto the afterlife's internet services and now I can have fun :3

My name's Mari, and I'm dead. I haven't been able to figure out much with this device I found, but I did get this all set up, so feel free to ask me questions!

... Maybe not about just anything, though..

(Mod note: Rules are gonna be very vague here, just be nice, don't spam, and have fun! Mari goes by she/her, mod does too but also goes by dae/daen neos so :P)

[Timeline of Post: Before Game Events]

[spellsunderthestars]

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lantern and sun went crazy help

not even 10 minutes in

[askmelpancrew]

||Modnote;; Considering making a sideblog for VoidPorg so y'all can interact with him (also some of you are asking if Porg knows he's an alternate universe, in which VoidPorg knows but the Porg in this blog doesn't). I'm willing to take any ideas, and chances are I'm gonna make the sideblog for fun (will probably be a lot more random than this blog).||

[thetoxicgamer]

Minecraft meets Stardew Valley in awesome camera mod

This Minecraft and Stardew Valley crossover is a treat for the eyes, as one dedicated modder and content creator is bringing the iconic farming sim to the sandbox game, and it looks pretty amazing so far. With so many great Minecraft creations already out there, this one is already shaping up to be one of the coolest. We’ve already seen the Stardew Valley town square remade in Minecraft, but this is a little different, and something definitely worth checking out ahead of the Minecraft 1.20 release date. Developed by Hirxs, you can see Minecraft from an entirely new perspective as they’ve been developing a way for the world and camera to look like that of Stardew Valley – and it has come pretty far in the last month or so. Minecraft meets Stardew Valley in awesome camera modNot only has the camera been moved above the player, but there are also Stardew Valley-like transitions between areas too. The most interesting part comes from how Minecraft looks in its regular first-person perspective though, as I always forget that to get this isometric look in a 3D space, the entire world has to often be built at an angle. You can even see the bus arrival area from when you start Stardew Valley as well, presumably with the rest of Pelican Town to follow. Hirxs said recently that it should release in a “few days” as well, so be sure to follow them on Twitter for even more updates. It’ll likely be coming to Bedrock first, and Java afterward. Minecraft meets Stardew Valley in awesome camera modStardew Valley isn’t the only blocky crossover here, as this colossal Minecraft Bloodborne map (that’s still well underway) brings FromSoftware’s Yharnam to Mjoang’s creation game, and it looks absolutely stunning. If you want to spice up your Minecraft servers ahead of the 1.20 release, we’ve got a collection of incredible Minecraft mods and Minecraft seeds for you to check out, both of which will enhance your time in-game. Read the full article

[isolaradiale]

POLICY UPDATE (04/27/24)

Hello everyone!

It's that time again! Time for a P O L I C Y U P D A T E or "MFRP PATCH NOTES" if you'd prefer! We have a few things to touch on this time including some policy changes, reminders, and even a new tag!

CHANGES

Starting on a positive note: we've recently made some changes to our Discord server to reduce the clutter and take advantage of the recently added forum channels. If you haven't dropped in yet now might be a good time! You can find a link to it here!

Going forward there will no longer be a rank requirement for a character to have internet access! This was a carryover system from the previous group but we have decided this stipulation is pretty unnecessary so every character will have proper internet access upon acceptance.

We've moved links to past policy updates onto their own page instead of listing all of them on the "important links" page. Only the most recent policy update will be featured alongside a link to this page on important links going forward!

REMINDERS

At the end of last month we made a post about communicating within the group. If you haven't read it yet please make sure you do! You can find it here!

If you are writing a muse that is under 18 years of age please do not engage with any dash commentary or replies on these characters that are adult in nature! While we understand that all of our members are adults we still expect that characters that are canonically minors to steer clear from these subjects because engaging in them may make others uncomfortable. Minor characters are explicitly forbidden from engaging with any form of sexual or suggestive content in any form, whether it be as simple as commenting on it.

For those that wish to reserve newly released gacha characters we'd like to reiterate the policy we've had for some time now. These characters cannot be reserved or applied until a full week has passed since their release! So if they were released at any time between 12:00am and 11:59:59pm EST on the 1st of the month they cannot be reserved or applied until 12:00am EST on the 9th! We do this so that there is a one time fits all policy, as different games release characters at different times. There was an inconsistency with this on the rules page but we've gone and corrected it!

When ranking up your character to Subgiant or Giant we request a certain number of interactions with "individuals". We'd like to clarify that these individuals refer to different characters and not different muns. However when submitting your rank up requests please keep in mind that we won't be accepting using more than three characters from the same mun going forward.

NEW

Going forward you must have your character's canon age listed either on the application itself or your stats page to be accepted. We understand that in many cases canon ages aren't given for characters but we ask that you make your best guess. If we feel that you may be over or underrepresenting their age we may ask you to change it! In the case of immortal or unaging characters please list their physical age (ie how old they look) along with their chronological age.

We also ask that all existing members make sure to include their character's ages on their blogs somewhere to coincide with the change above! There's no rush to do this immediately but we may start reaching out if we notice accounts without it in a few months!

To keep things a little more organized we'd like to add a new tag! Going forward if you'd like to post a permanent plotter call, or if you'd like to search for one to like, please use the "#isola perm call" tag! We hope this makes it easier to find these posts so that they're easier to utilize!

-- the island stars.

[nyanris-pocket-dimension]

What happen to you for two years?

Hm well I'm not even sure where to start so I'll just say anything that comes to my mind about the past two years. My parents divorced, I moved to denmark to live with my boyfriend/future husband, I applied to art university and got rejected, now I'm applying to fashion but still waiting for reply, I'm going to a really bad language school to learn danish, still struggling to find a job, I started to write a book, I noticed I have ADHD, I started to play DnD, I'm also quite stressed about our life/income/future and uncertainties in my life but surviving!... ahm in short this is all I think haha.

[fuckyeahguiltygearmusic]

Regular updates might stop for a minute. Working on a way to get more Strive tracks into an uploadable format.

Drop requests in the meantime if you have 'em. I'll do my best.

-- The Mod

[crimsonicons]

!! URL CHANGE !!

new look and new url!

from popsicons to crimsonicons 💖✌

[random-imagines-blog]

Mod Note!

Just so that things don’t get stale, I’m going to ask that you only send in one request per character/celebrity! I’m finding that a lot of the requests are about the same person over and over again and I’m trying to get more variety in what I post. Thanks!