#there used to be roleplay groups members on the site could make and anyone could join them

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yeah!!! my hs is like... one of the best advanced programs in the nation, i'm pretty sure? like we partner with 4 community colleges and you can graduate with associates if you get enough credits (i'll be like 12 short)

i woke up at 6 am since elementary school-10th grade but now??? gl getting me up before noon consistently LMAO

xiao my king <333 i saved for him for 5 months when i was f2p. i spend money now but... yeah... he also has like.. 160-180 er i think? like he can fully ult bot and live on his own w/o a battery, just needs a healer or the nre. i want to min max and get rid of his elemental mastery rolls on his artifacts and get him above 200 crit dmg SO bad

omg that's so fun. i started writing (fanfic, at least, i wanted to be an author when i was eight and wrote really bad original works) on quotev and i used to roleplay 🗿🗿🗿make harry potter and pjo ocs in ~exclusive~ groups you had to pass a test to get in.

that sounds so fun!!!! i wanted to make like... a discord of my moots but then i remembered only like... 3 of them know each other and i'm too introverted to link a bunch of people together HELP

taeyong fr has such a DROUGHT on this site like. where is my boy?? where is he?? can anyone find my boy and write fics for him (other than brooke (shout out to her for carrying tyongf on her back))???

i'm excited for taeil's too!! "there's a son of apollo named after the moon" where reader is a child of hecate and you exhaust yourself using the mist and he heals you and you slowly fall for him <3

there r two child of hermes (mark and hyuck 4lyfers), child of thanatos, etc. and i'm trying to make it so the reader is related to one of the members in each fic, so every y/n is like a different person that could stand on their own and interact !!!

like in taeyong's (i fall for a man who talks to plants), you're a child of ares and doyoung is your brother, and he has a crush on a child of aphrodite (who will be y/n in doie's fic)

i think the most my long fics get is like.. 100? maybe 200 if i'm lucky HELPPPP

but i enjoy writing them so. sorry to my following u're getting long fics anyways <3

omg that’s so cool !! i’m sure that’s rlly useful for when you start college too 🤧 mine was partnered with the community college in our area but i only took like 3-4 classes, though i do have friends that got their associate degrees during their senior year !! :’) i believe it was 60 credits for an associate (18 credits of major classes i think)

i don’t even remember when i woke up during elementary 😵‍💫 i don’t think i even woke up on my own until high school tho bc i didn’t have a smart phone until then and i used to be such a heavy sleeper LOL i lowkey still am but i think i’m just considerably easier to wake up than my roommate 🥲🥲

HAHAH i was f2p until childe’s banner and then i whaled a little for him 🤧 and ofc getting welkin but i don’t rlly consider that whaling. omg yeah i usually keep xiao in a second team with jean :’)) but i wanna build yanfei ganyu zhongli and keqing better before i focus on him 💗💗

PASS A TEST HAHAHH is it like facts from the books or something 😭😭 i don’t remember how old i was when i started writing but i kept my writing to myself for a long time and then started posting on wattpad when i was like 11 ?? and then i went through fandom phases LOLL

HAHAHA you still should !! tbh i don’t think everyone in my friend group knew each other well when it was first made :o i was in a group with cat, nikki, and ace initially and then we expanded by adding ppl we talked with often in our server LOL but i still knew of them bc some of them were/are pretty big on wattpad :o

AHH RIGHT 🤧🤧 brooke does write so many of the taeyong fics :oo it’s hard to find sfw taeyong ☹️ tho my friend manx wrote a taeyong fic called sic semper tyrannis a while ago which is soooo good 🤩 probably one of the best taeyong fics i’ve read !! 💗💗 and then “flowers in your hair” by @/solarune was also so cute !! 🌸

AHHH TAEIL ANOTHER MEMBER I BARELY SEE FICS FOR ☹️💗 but that’s so cute !! son of apollo definitely suits him <33 and i get what you mean !! i did smthn similar for my nct series — mc for jaemin’s installment was jaehyun’s younger sister, and that was alluded to in other installments as well + many of the members appear in each other’s fics (ex. mark being in jaehyun and johnny’s installments as well as getting his own) 🤧

100 notes is still so much !! just thinking ab it like :oo that’s 100 individuals leaving their love on your fic 🥰 it’s crazy to think about tbh 😵‍💫

[fimflamfilosophy]

“Is DnD Still Popular?”

To some of you giant nerds, the question, “Is DnD still popular,” is probably one of the stranger things you’ll read today, but within a specific context it makes a lot of sense. Speaking of, the show “Stranger Things” presented a popular, physical look at what DnD beasties might feel like, even if it didn’t present an honest view of what DnD games really play like. Along with more online media referencing the game and sites like Roll20 making it easier to join a group, it makes sense. Is this a temporary boom or has the roleplaying community seen a lot of permanent additions to its nerdy hobby?

I wouldn’t have numbers to say, myself, but for what it’s worth, roleplaying is always a very personal experience. And for a few of us, the question isn’t, “Are people still playing DnD?” Of course they are - it’s all anyone plays! The question is, “Can you get anyone to play anything else?”

What Is DnD?

For some people, Dungeons & Dragons has become so intertwined with the concept of roleplaying that people think DnD and roleplaying are synonymous. If you roleplay, you play DnD. Originally, this had a kernel of truth. There are articles about the history of the system, and during its inception the game had a hard time taking off. Fundamentally it was asking people to play make-believe, but with a system of mathematical rules and designs. We know now that this type of thing is like catnip to massive dork-faced neckbeards, but at the time it wasn’t expected to have much appeal.

Eventually it did get off the ground, and it became the standard for the entire concept of a roleplaying game. And as with all “firsts to the market”, there have been many competitors and copycats, but it’s difficult to pry the audience away when you need everyone to use the same system. In economics they call this “network utility value” - that is, a fax machine is useless if only one person owns one. You can only send faxes to other people with fax machines, so if another company tries to invent their own offshoot of the fax machine, they’ll never get anyone to adopt it because everyone is already using the existing fax machine network. Everybody knows DnD, which means that if you go to a convention or look for games online, you know you’re going to find more players for that system than any other.

Why Does DnD Continue to Work?

In early editions of DnD, there were a lot more rules, and as a result more freedom to design your characters. When I first started roleplaying, it was during the 3rd edition of the system, where you could still allocate skill points to become better or worse at specific skills like lying, climbing, forgery, or crafting. This meant that with good planning, you could play a sub-optimal wizard and make up for it somewhat by investing a lot in your “persuasion” skills to rely on talk more than magic.

But being the system that everyone has to learn isn’t enough to stay on top forever. Other systems like GURPS have taken hold by now, and some types of popular nerd media have introduced their own completely unique systems designed to simulate their specific media universes. The owners of DnD had two choices: either make the game more open and try to eat the lunch of other companies, or make all of DnD easier to play in general to capture a broader audience.

So they released 4th edition! We don’t talk about 4th edition. And then they quickly released 5th edition (and a few mumbled apologies), which streamlined a lot of things about the game to the extent I’m not sure why they even let you control your character stats at all now. Skills became baked in with your level, and most of the game is about choosing abilities when you level up. It’s become very similar to playing an MMO, and I believe that’s the point.

One of the big things you always see in a complicated roleplaying system is players spending hours putting together a character. For your experienced player, this is a labor of love. You really care about the small details and want to make sure you get it right, or you’re a Win-At-All-Costs type who wants to make sure you’re rolling the biggest numbers. Either way you’re familiar and know what you’re doing, but it presents a hurdle to new players, and that hurdle has been largely done away with in 5th edition.

No matter how old you are, how experienced you are, how creative you are (or aren’t), or how much you know about any aspect of the game, you can play 5e DnD. I think you could play as young as seven years old and have minimal problems, because all you have to do is choose a job and virtually everything else is filled in for you, as if by a program, as if a video game. An experienced player can help a new one whip up a character within fifteen minutes, and that new guy will be rolling dice at the dragon about as well as everyone else.

DnD is the Worst System

But DnD’s accessibility is also its greatest downfall. Because everything is sort of programmed out, you find a lot of players eventually growing bored with the same-old, and they try to find ways to inject new life into the system. They invent new races, new classes, new abilities, and so on - they call this “homebrew”. yet many people are bad at creating balance and fairness for something they personally intend to play, and DnD recognizes this problem. It has a lot of supplemental books telling you all you need to know about other races and classes you might want to play, and in theory they are as fair and powerful as anything in the base system.

Yet no amount of homebrew or supplementary material will solve DnD’s core problem: it’s rigid. If you want to play, you need a battle mat, because every spell, every action, can travel or act within a certain number of squares and you always need to know exactly where you’re standing. Players are expected to be able to take a certain number of actions per turn based on their level, and do an expected amount of damage. Monster encounters are built loosely around the concept of “Challenge Rating”, which is meant to imply a group of four players will find a CR of 5 suitably challenging if they are all level five. Basically it plays like “X-Com”.

And as you lock people in these mechanical, video game-styled designs, you find people champing at the bit. Not everyone wants to choose their abilities at level up or have their skill proficiencies dictated by what level they are. Some people want to express truly outlandish concepts, or play something that isn’t specifically designed around the idea of walking room to room blasting monsters. You’ll see people in roleplaying communities often asking, “Does anyone have any good ideas to homebrew [this idea] and make it work?”

Fans of DnD argue the homebrew approach works. Yes, it’s complicated and frustrating to invent entirely new classes and races for a single game where you don’t know how long you’ll play or what level you’ll reach, but DnD’s strict rules and design philosophy is a perk to those people, not a drawback.

Yet a fact of note is that a quote from a game I run got into a popular “Out of Context DnD” blog. The quote was, “ Mecha-Jesus unleashes a barrage of flames from his palms, but the train-snake martially dodges out of the way!”

It received 337 notes, and I was a little surprised by that. The game is a post-apocalyptic Road Warrior setting where the team boss decided to kill God as revenge for one of the gang members dying. Also featured in that day’s session was a battle between two men operating bucket cranes in a duel to the death above a giant grain silo, among eight other equally implausible events based loosely on Dante’s Inferno. For me, Mecha-Jesus is not a 300 notes event - it’s literally every other Friday.

What Do You Want to Play?

In my view, DnD often poses the question, “Are you even roleplaying?” I mean really. A lot of players feel like they are because they do an accent and come up with a backstory, but if you set yourself next to another player who has the same character stats and you’re playing together in the same game, has the system really given you the tools to solve problems all that differently? And the answer is is broadly, no.

I understand the counter-argument. Every player is unique. But in their way each Paladin in “World of Warcraft” is unique too. They have different gear, different competencies of player, and may take different abilities, but fundamentally they’re expected to crash dungeons and use what they’re given to kill monsters. The only advantage DnD has is that the GM can allow his players to interact with scenery items or talk to things, and you’ll see debate on exactly how much leniency a GM should give his players to act outside DnD’s base mechanics.

That’s a mentality. Some people like the safety of the system. They like to know what all the monsters are, what the risks are, what the rewards are, and have it all neatly lined up where you can see it. They want to join an Adventuring Guild that will bureaucratically assign a dungeon for them to attack so they always have something to do and a sure reward for doing it. The GM went through the trouble of drawing that dungeon out, after all. DnD is extremely safe.

And then there’s the alternative. I actually learned to roleplay among theater nerds who were already big into the concept of improv and narrative. One of them used to joke, “If you think DnD is the best system for the game, you know it’s not character-driven,” because any time you’re fine with trying to build an actual human around a set of level-up choices, you’re probably not designing the strongest possible personality.

Going back to media making DnD more popular, the first televised introduction to DnD I can personally recall is an episode of “Dexter’s Lab” where they address exactly this conflict. In it, Dexter runs a game where he forces his friends to play by his rules, where he wins. When Dexter rolls poorly, he turns the dice over to a better number and declares his evil wizard “fried” the team of adventurers. Then his sister, Dee Dee, takes over, and with no knowledge of the game’s rules at all, embarks on an improvised session of pure roleplaying where the guys tell her what they do and she tells them what happens. The sheets are just guidelines for them, and if they say they can do something Dee Dee accepts it.

Dee Dee’s roleplaying is open. It’s a void, and for some people, when you look into the void it looks back. How do you control everyone when they can do anything? It requires a certain level of trust that some players have a difficult time not abusing, yet weirdly everyone I’ve ever known who would lie and cheat during a roleplaying game actually preferred DnD, and I think I know why.

Rules Can Be Broken, but the Suspension of Disbelief is Immutable

The grognards that break the rules in DnD do so because the rules are so strict that they ironically can be easily broken. If the system says people take a certain amount of damage when they fall, and you find a way to throw to them that elevation consistently, by gum they’ll damn well take that damage. It’s in the rules! A friend I know combats this by saying if his players exploit the rules, then the monsters will start exploiting them too, to discourage arms races of bullshit.

What I’m describing is often called “rules lawyering”. So named because it involves finding a rules passage, interpreting the rule so the wording sounds like it favors an exploit, and then leveraging that into a powerful ability players were not meant to have. Because DnD requires you to know absolutely everything about your relative locations and words like “Attack” can have important diverging meanings depending on context, it’s a system extremely vulnerable to lawyering.

But with a more open system based on narrative and characters, it becomes harder to lawyer something you shouldn’t. In an open system, you build what the game calls for without consulting a bunch of charts and level guides. If you’re super heroes, you build super heroes. Cyborgs are cyborgs, Orcs are orcs - it’s whatever, and if you try to do anything outside the believability of the game, the GM tells you no. He has more authority in a more narrative game because the GM leads the narrative.

I’m personally fond of the Hero System, which ascribes massive ranges to all forms of weapons (a gun or eye laser can reach you down a long hallway) so the only general questions that need to be asked are, “Are you close enough to punch a guy?” and “Are you bunched up close enough to all be hit by this grenade?” You don’t need battle mats and the games play a lot more intuitively. There are two books of rules in Hero and they can be specific, but most of the rules revolve around character design rather than how to play, and fiddly things like physics or bursting through walls are meant to be decided depending on the type of game, at the GM’s discretion. There are guidelines, but they’re only that.

So if someone tells you they can punch through a wall in your noir investigator game, you tell them no, because the rules are just guidelines and in this game you can’t just drive your fist through a concrete brick even if you can find figures in the book that say maybe you can, because the book also says maybe you can’t - you’re expected to play the narrative, not the game. You can punch through walls in the super hero game where that’s typical, but not in this one.

From DnD to Anything Else

Of course, the open systems also present an opportunity for players to be very different in skill sets and abilities. You could imagine DnD is like “Power Rangers”, where everyone’s a different color and has different weapons but they’re basically all pretty much on the same level. An open system will wind up more like “Avatar the Last Airbender”, where one player is going to be Toph and someone else is going to be playing Sokka. 

It’s important in DnD that everyone be the same, because a lot of the game is spent in a 20ft x 20ft room full of skeletons (or Putties) - Toph would single-handedly dominate every challenge. Whereas in a narrative-driven game the ability to crush everything with a rock doesn’t actually solve half your problems and whoever’s playing Sokka probably winds up more active than the person playing Toph.

At the end of it all, that’s why the question for me is whether you can take the players out of DnD and take DnD out of the players. Everyone plays DnD, but can you get people to play Sokka and have a good time if Toph is in the party? Personally I think it helps to start people on systems other than DnD, and then they can go into DnD if they like being in small rooms full of skeletons.

Of course, trying to start people on anything but DnD is usually defeated by the network utility! Everyone knows DnD! It’s THE system synonymous with the hobby! A few too many times I’ve seen people play a DnD game and say roleplaying just isn’t for them because it’s boring. All you do is wait for your turn and then roll dice at goblins.

But all I can say to that is, you never roleplayed, man. You joined a pen-and-paper video game. I agree, throwing dice at goblins sucks. I used to have a friend who would compulsively roll dice when he got bored waiting for turns in games like that, and when asked what he was rolling for, he’d joke, “I’m killing the dragon! I’m killing the dragon!” Him, enjoying the experience of DnD combat in between other people’s turns.

In many groups that’s all DnD is, silly accents and go-nowhere backstories aside. Acting is hard. But if you’re very lucky, and you know just the right people, it’s possible to land in a game that is pure story and character, and those things are a rare treasure and a real blast.

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LUDO (MARS, PETER, ARNOLD, DAMIEN, WHATEVER ELSE ALT YOU’VE WHIPPED UP LATELY), THE OWNER OF ONE OF US:

it’s been a long time coming, and you know why it’s all come down to this. you’ve manipulated enough people during your time on roleplayer.me that i’m sure you thought you’d get away with it forever. well, it doesn’t work that way. you get what you give, and you’ve given enough grief to last a lifetime.

you’ve put people who once called you friend through hell, and now you get a taste of it. and i want to make this point very clear: i do not care about your sob story. i do not care about how much you’ve been hurt. i do not care about how you got to where you are today. none of what you can say excuses the absolute hell you’ve put others through. take accountability. apologize. do what you can to right your wrongs. the pain you’ve caused is YOUR responsibility. you can’t put this on anyone but yourself. you can’t expect to hurt so many people and not be held accountable for it.

this case was rather personal to me because ludo likes to use his personality disorder as a crutch and an excuse to get away with his nasty abuse. i have the same disorder. by using your personality disorder as an excuse, ludo, you are glorifying it because you are making it your escape route. this disorder is NOT to be used as a crutch. no disorder is. you use it as a crutch as if you aren’t in crutches because of this debilitating disorder. you’re the reason our disorder is looked upon with suspicion instead of understanding. you cannot use your disorder as any type of “please forgive me” card unless you are actively trying to get better. and you aren’t. because you think therapy is a farce.

before i go into the evidence i wanted to ask for testimonies from those who were hurt. i was given this:

“There are a few things that should be said before you take your time reading all this. This is a place of roleplay and to escape. Unfortunately, some people use the hobby incorrectly. You ruin and sabotage the experience for others. A good amount of the users on this site may have a lot going on away from the screen, some don’t. Those who struggle are the victims of these narcissistic tendencies. Their emotions get involved without their control. They try to be there for someone despite their own issues. Sometimes they even try to put that other person first, which causes them to break. Then, there are some of us that cannot be emotionally manipulated and that is when these mind games go wrong. That is when the manipulator becomes so little and they try to blame other issues in life for their shit behaviour.

This place does not, and I repeat - it does not give anyone the permission to attack and belittle others because you have difficulty having a voice in your real life. It does not give you the right to attack someone's real life, because you said it yourself that you feel like you have not done anything great in yours. Your real life problems, your conditions, there are no excuse for those who have been degraded by you. There are a lot of them, by the way. Those people you still accuse of having abandoned you despite you being convinced that you were good to them? None of these people have abandoned you. They cared. They had to leave because you tried to show some sort of superiority and belittled them as a person. You tried to control them in and out of roleplay. They got tired of your negativity and your toxic attitude towards life.

A penny for your thought - have a muse, be honest, but don’t ruin it for others. You cannot attack people and  then expect them to be there for you. This place does not give you the right to manipulate others into a friendship that it is not wanted nor needed either. You cannot and should not hurt people's experiences by deceiving them. Something you still actively still do with the active alt in your own group who you introduced as your real life friend.  Think about it - if you punch a stranger in the middle of the street would you expect them to reciprocate with an embrace or punch you right back?

You cannot excuse behaviour you have radiated off yourself for months, targeted people with disturbing words, with lies, deceived multiple people that would have stuck up for you, all because of what you may be going through in real life. All you did was show who you really are. There is roleplay, and there is real life. If that line between those two worlds are so thin and so blurry for you - then perhaps this is something for you to reconsider.”

now for the evidence.

i made an imgur album of all the evidence as well as my commentary, so if you want to read it on imgur, there it is. i’m going to post the evidence directly onto here as well, however, just in case.

to start out we have an e-mail sent to roleplayer.me admins (basic rundown of ludo's offenses:

(roleplayer.me admins have done nothing so if that doesn't tell you they don't give a single shit idk what would)

here is the member who was reportedly “kicked” from one of us peacefully pulling their role:

the other member reportedly “kicked” peacefully pulling their role:

and here is ludo manipulating the situation to make it sound non-peaceful:

and ludo lying in a bulletin saying said members were “kicked out”:

now we have ludo speaking about his alts. here he is admitting to having a freelance (non-affiliated account):

ludo admitting to being another “member” of one of us, mars:

ludo admitting to using mars just to lure another member into shipping with them:

one of ludo's alts:

ludo posting one of us promos on his alt:

proof of one of us promo:

another one of ludo’s alts:

now lets get into his harassment and toxic behavior. here we have him harassing another member (18 YEARS OLD) through instagram dms:

(his instagram is rather well known with many members and he likes to post his music to make his members listen to which is connected to his instagram)

this shows ludo mixing ooc with ic and straight up lying about another member:

here one of his targets of harassment expresses their fear of him possibly stalking them:

the group owner from another group ludo was in countering ludo’s claims to peacefully leaving said group (reminder, ludo is damien):

a conversation between the owner of said group above and ludo about his harassment and stalking, as well as him shittalking to manipulate other people into believing his narrative:

here ludo tries to act like the victim and gaslight the owner:

here is proof ludo makes his “enemies” into villains for one of us and portrays them in a negative light (the name he used is their real name, making this 10x worse):

explanation from an rp ex of ludo’s about the harassment they suffered:

the screenshot shown above:

ludo harassing an rp ex over instagram dms and displaying classic abusive behavior (reminder, he has his instagram rather public to his members):

"i can genuinely admit when i am wrong" implying their ex cannot. also gaslighting because he can't admit when he's wrong. this will be further highlighted through these instagram messages.  "this does not mean that i take back anything i've said before, about how you've hurt me" contradicting himself when he said he can genuinely admit when he is wrong. "i thought our friendship was real... but evidently it wasn't the same for you" guilt trips. the rest i'm sure you can pick out on your own. it's all very obvious. 

"we're no good for one another. you hurt me a lot and i hurt you a lot." not taking responsibility and instead pulling the "we are the same, you and i" trope to minimize his responsibility. also further guilting them by writing a song about how they "abused" them. description: "Emotional abuse is just as bad as physical. Ask for help." (fun fact, i discovered this song before my birthday and related to it so much. it brought me to tears. fucked up it was used against someone in a moment of manipulation to make his target feel bad. peep the suicidal ideations in the lyrics)

ludo using an incident in their life against them:

"i miss you. also not like that matters" passive aggression and guilt trips.

gaslighting about spies.  guilt trips. also admitting to using exes' names in his storylines.

more guilt trips. more gaslighting. more excuses for exhausting his partner.

projection: "you just have this mentality where you constantly deny that you've hurt people so you can feel better about yourself." gaslighting by trying to make their ex's friend sound like they would "throw [them] under the bus in a heart beat")

here ludo is guilting their ex friend from above on line for not spending enough time with them:

self deprecation used to manipulate them.

here is a diagram shown to me by one of ludo’s ex friends:

they further detail their testimony in this google doc   and the text messages (between ludo and one of the members who pulled their role peacefully while ludo tried to say they were kicked) below will show you exactly what they mean:

using other peoples’ feelings to manipulate them:

dismissing the stress they are under with real life, gaslighting by saying they haven't done the effort when they are clearly burnt out. aggression:

guilt trips:

pushing them away. guilt trips. using others feelings to manipulate them. gaslighting by asking a clearly passive aggressive question and saying it's "genuine":

"i'm just relaying my personal frustrations" when he already has time and time again. let it go, damn. give them a break. stop being overbearing.

passive aggression. implying he means less to them when they are saying their friend put it into words they could understand.

blaming them coping with his abuse on them. that's like telling someone shouldn't retaliate to abuse because their retaliation is "hurtful" YOU DON'T GET TO TELL THE PEOPLE YOU ABUSE TO NOT RETALIATE AGAINST YOUR ABUSE.

twisting words. not taking responsibility for his lack of understanding and instead saying "what you said came off the wrong way". not their fault that you didn't get it.

this. THIS is what sent me. how DARE you use your mutual disorder as a way to guilt and manipulate. i have the same exact disorder as well and guess what? all THREE of us are different people. and don't say "change who i am" as if it's a BAD THING. YOU are the reason everyone leaves you. YOU are the reason no one wants to be around you. YOU are the reason you can't keep stable friendships. YOU DON'T GET TO FUCKING PULL THAT BULLSHIT. if you care for someone you will work on your goddamn self. you expect everyone else to change for you, but you can't do the same goddamn thing? IF YOU GAVE A SHIT YOU'D STOP THE BEHAVIOR THAT IS HURTING THE PEOPLE YOU CLAIM TO CARE ABOUT. FULL. FUCKING. STOP.

guilt trips. pity.

condescension. lose lose situation.

"IT WAS A JOOOOOOOOOKE" excuse. "but whatever. i hope whatever has you in a bad mood gets better and you feel better" passive aggression. pretending to care. fake comradery.

"you gaslight me" is a form of gaslighting, especially when there IS NO GASLIGHTING. this is also an example of projection. making them walk on eggshells.

"i'm willing to sort it out of you stop being defensive" punishment and reward. "i'm sorry IF..." not taking responsibility. "this was my response" ie: this is your fault i'm acting this way, when he is the abusive one. "you constantly use my natural reaction as your excuse for not being around..." YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR REACTIONS WHEN YOU ARE THE ABUSER. STOP HAVING THIS "this is me take it or leave it" ATTITUDE AND THEN WONDER WHY EVERYONE FUCKING LEAVES YOU.

gaslighting. trying to say they were not coming around BEFORE he started calling them a shit friend.

"we both act some type of way when we're hurt and you know it" gaslighting, using their mutual disorder against them. AGAIN. YOU (ludo), ME AND THEM ARE THREE DIFFERENT PEOPLE WITH THE SAME DISORDER. stop acting like y'all the same goddamn PERSON. stop PROJECTING YOUR SHITTY ACTIONS ONTO OTHERS. "not even saying this to be a bitch" the "NO OFFENSE, BUUUUT" tactic to "lessen the blow" of the shitty thing he's about to say. USING OTHER PEOPLE AGAINST THEM, AGAIN.

"it's the only way i know how to be" THEN CHANGE IT. GET HELP. STOP USING YOUR DISORDER AS A WAY TO GET AWAY WITH SHIT. therapy isn't a con, you are.

and then, after he knows he has no control over people, he pesters. 

an ex friend requested this be used at the end. i feel it sums up the feelings of everyone ludo has wronged quite well.

[secretgamergirl]

Abuse I’ve just had to sit with forever

Right now I can’t look anywhere without seeing people speaking up about abusive monsters in various positions of power and it’s really triggering a lot of PTSD for me about all the times I’ve been in positions like that where nobody has ever listened or tried to help so... I’m just going to rattle off all the ones that come to my head, anonymously, and I don’t know, if anyone who knows me wants to ask me about any of these and/or try to really do something to help, maybe come talk to me about it through whatever private channel we talk in sometimes.

Family stuff. There’s a lot, and there’s no real way to talk about any of it anonymously because I mean being members of my family it’s already narrowed down way too much.

Someone once put me in the temporary care of a woman who savagely beat me because her own children were making too much noise when they should have been asleep. Bad enough that when I went back to school I was almost ripped out of my home by child protective services on the assumption that’s where it happened. Oh and she also force-fed me rotten food with maggots in it. I ended up pretty sick as a result, lost a whole lot of weight, and ended up with a serious eating disorder that’s plagued me since. I did eventually get out of there but I don’t know that I’ve ever really conveyed the full extend of it.

One of that woman’s children had some sort of torture kink, very nearly killed me, did put me in the hospital from injuries, and might have raped me. Hard to say because I was like... 7? Hard to translate those memories now that I have the context and vocabulary. I tried to explain that to anyone who’d listen at the time but, again, I didn’t have the vocabulary and I don’t think it came across that like... ropes and tools were involved, not just fists. Never got into that with therapists, because the first one I had really loved playing gatekeeper with trans stuff and liked the “maybe you just think you’re a girl because of abuse as a child” line of thinking too much already. I think I heard he eventually landed in prison though, so that’s something?

The first job I ever had. Games website. I was too young to be working but nobody ever thought to ask about it, and my family needed the extra income to avoid homelessness besides. The owner of the site... was really into open sexual roleplay in workplace text chats. I was so young and weirdly sheltered that I didn’t even process that that was even a thing, and 90% of it went straight over my head, plus I was in a weird state at the time with the whole trans thing where oh yeah, if anyone’s doing any roleplaying stuff on the internet, I’ll be in the character of me-but-a-girl but everything is pretend here right? So... there was a whole lot of mounting and thrusting being described and it took a few years to sink in that that was not in fact about him pretending to be a knight with me as a horse or something. And there was also a lot of... failing to pay me for years of backbreaking work, outright stealing from me, and I mean, I was up until like 4 AM every night working while still in high school. So, yeah. that was a lot. Never told anybody about any of this. So far as I know he still runs the site and nobody’s ever confronted him about anything.

Used to try to play various RPGs with some people in this extra niche-y game space. Sort of the first place I was ever read as a woman without offering anyone “corrections.” And... there was just this one guy who whenever he was GMing had some weird creative excuse for my character (usually the only woman in the party) to... be raped and/or impregnated just all of the sudden and totally out of left field. Which everyone was OK with somehow. And when he wasn’t GMing he was all over my character of course. Never really spoke up to anyone. I just left one day.

Ended up... in the inner circle of someone very famous. Mostly famous for being a victim of abuse. Which is why I ignored... every single red flag there is that someone is an abusive person and taking advantage of everyone around them. They controlled every aspect of my life for years. Had me do a whole lot of work for them, place myself in real physical and psychological danger, regularly. Directly asked me to severe ties with most people in my life. Install kill-switch sortware on my laptop for their piece of mind that none of our conversations would ever be seen by anyone, while also making me talk only in privately managed chat services where they logged everything and my screen wiped at regular intervals, and insisting I use an untraceable alias in it. All of this I was constantly assured was for my own safety as much as theirs, somehow, and that I was their most valued friend who they would keep safe, start paying a huge salary to soon, as well as help secure me a safe place to live and get properly started on medical transition stuff that I was unable to do in the increasingly unsafe place I was living at the time. I could keep going with this, but again, I don’t want anyone playing guessing games. Eventually, as serial abusers do, this person got sick of me, cast me out, and said presumably unspeakable things about me to everyone in that social circle, because everyone quite promptly cut all ties to me without a word. I once mentioned some small fraction of this publicly in defense of... multiple people attempting suicide as a result of this person’s abuse, and it was made very, very clear to me that this is not someone I will ever be able to safely speak about in public.

Another person who is very famous, with ties to abuse prevention stuff, added me to a blacklist to kill my career prospects and then kinda put a hit out on me on a neo-nazi website, but I’ve written about that incident. Nothing happened as a result of speaking out aside from the violence I was already being subjected to ramping up and more people cutting ties with me. Oh and those who didn’t are still quite friendly with her.

Several women with ties to... dangerous people randomly got it into their heads several years ago that I posed some sort of threat to someone I am told they “feel very protective towards” and... unleashed a hell on me unlike anything I have ever seen. I have spent the past 6 years now dealing with death threats from far right terrorist organizations who in some cases have very sizeable body counts, and those groups don’t scare me anywhere near as much as these people. Anyone else I have seen them paint a target on completely withdrew from the internet their careers and any sort of public life to try and stay off their radar. I have had multiple people privately confide in me that they had been threatened never to speak to me again before proceeding to make good on that. I have individually thrown myself at the mercy of every single one of them, explained that I have absolutely no ill will towards any of them, and had never even heard of this person they’re “protecting” before they started coming after me. Nothing has worked. They’ve never stopped. I’m legitimately afraid someone connected to them is going to murder me some day, and I don’t know what to do. I’ve confided in all of maybe 3 people about this. One might be dead, one is a total hermit, the third briefly tried supporting me, received threats, and promptly retracted everything, replacing it with a fire and brimstone speech about how I am an evil monster who tricked them. I have regular nightmares about this, and collapse into a shivering heap just seeing any of their names mentioned.

I... spent a good deal of time in social contact with a person I have been told I need to be friends with to advance in a career I would like to pursue. While doing so, he sabotaged a project that was fairly important to me, and I saw some him mistreat someone else in ways I find quite disturbing, but that’s her story to tell and not mine. I don’t feel comfortable around him, and have no real choice but to give up on those dreams. Haven’t really discussed this anywhere. The sort of work I can get would definitely vanish completely if I did.

The sort of work I can get also involves working for a variety of companies with people very high up the ranks who have seriously harmed a number of people I consider to be very good friends, in ways that in some cases include sexual abuse, and I... really would prefer not to ever work for anyone employing such people now that I am aware of this.

Yet another famous person, but one who I feel perfectly comfortable naming, Graham Linehan, used to follow me on social media with a level of enthusiasm that could arguably be better referred to as stalking. Then later he joined some extremist anti-trans hate group and rose to the top pretty quickly. And some years after that, it finally sank in that worshiping a trans woman while also leading a group of people bent on killing us all, so he has been very loudly and very publicly rambling about his hatred for me specifically. I don’t really have to speak up about this one because he’s doing plenty of that on his end, but I do have to note that while this famous person terrorizing me hasn’t really earned me any sort of public defense or sympathy, it has encouraged a whole lot of people to invent an alternate timeline of events where I am directly responsible for him being a bigot, leading to me getting dangerous threats from both horrible bigots and people who claim to hate horrible bigots but have suspiciously poor aim.

Hey speaking of celebrities, one of the stars of Firefly used to regularly send me photos of violently distended testicles. One of the stars of Star Trek once posted something encouraging millions of social media followers to attack me and left it up for a weekend. One of the producers of World of WarCraft once threatened to sue me for libel and went on a big PR tour about it, speaking on podcasts and such, and so many fascists pretending to be journalists have dumped so much crap on me...

And not to long ago in something of a wacky mixup, someone ELSE rather famous, who does diversity consulting no less, confused me for someone else and cut loose with a horrific bit of hate and gossip and throwing me under the bus, and misgendering me, saying random harassers baselessly calling me a pedophile were probably onto something. Privately told a handful of people about that, because I thought she was a friend and that was so heartbreaking, but anyone I told is just pretending not to have seen it.

Someone was once offering me help because I was in a dangerous situation, financially. I explained that things had been extra hard since coming out as trans. Suddenly he goes from helpful and concerned to just... violent. Screaming a me, openly trying to chase me out of the space we were both in. I reported this to the proper people. They tried talking, he left. The whole community mourned the loss and wondered who could have driven him off. Still doesn’t feel like a safe place for me.

I don’t really know why I’m bothering with all of this. Nobody is actually going to help. I’d say nobody is actually going to read this, but I’m sure plenty of people who hate me will to see if I’m talking about them and use it as justification to make things worse. Plus some people I’m not talking about I’m sure. I get plenty of that all the time.

Nothing ever helps and you can’t ever win. If you try to keep the abusers appeased by not outing them, the abuse never stops. If you try to speak up, their fans and friends treat it like declarations of war and pile on. If you just try to be there for other people when they’re being abused, you get singled out as a “troublemaker” and added to hit lists and black lists and... nothing works.

I don’t want a lot out of life. I want to know I have enough food, and have a place to live where I’m not at risk of dying from either temperature extreme, a bathroom, enough room for my book shelves, a bed, a couch, a dinner table, and a yoga mat. Maybe a space where my cats can run around a little enclosed semi-outdoor area for the fresh air and sun. I want to be able to deal with my medical problems. I want to see and talk to friends sometimes. If I’m really greedy, I’d like to have all that for a particular friend too who I’m constantly worrying about dying of poverty. And I’d like to be able to work on games. Maybe play them sometimes. Maybe watch things.

And that’s the really messed up part. Because abusive people and people supporting the structures of abuse always say they just want to focus on getting work done, or having fun, and it’s a lie. What’s most important for them is perpetuating abuse. They could just stop, or get rid of the people doing it, and the rest of us could live our lives and everything would be fine. But no instead we have to drop everything and make sure no woman anywhere feels safe enough to even breath.

[lesserlovedlovelies]

Sasakibe--Meta and Headcanons

So, since I link to the Wikis, essentially the source of truth, for the canon characters, rather than making full pages for them, I’ve decided to just release little tidbits like this for those characters that provide insight to how I’ve plan to play them.  

I had a fascination with Sasakibe from early on in Bleach--if you haven’t noticed by the types of characters I have on this blog, I tend to be easily fascinated by the older, mysterious characters that have so much to their past that just hasn’t been revealed yet.  In the years between me starting Bleach and the TYBW arc, my friend and I explored many, many different storylines for him--some plausible, some less so, like the Quincy verse I have for him.  

Anyways.  To get to the point, if you actually know who Sasakibe is, then you’ll know that canon has very little to say on him.  Unlike most captains and lieutenants that got at least a small arc, Sasakibe was reduced to a few background appearances and one flashback chapter after his death.  

(Read:  I was bitter af about his death xD)

Despite his rather minimal appearances, I do try to stick to what we know about him.  Most of my headcanons are extrapolations of what we saw in canon--admittedly, stretching canon but it’s a necessary issue when it comes to such minor characters.  

With that lengthy introduction aside, allow me to speak a little more about his personality and the various verses I have for him.

Personality/History

When Sasakibe was younger, he was an excitable and energetic youth, and his origins and history are mostly unknown.  Indeed, he doesn’t appear to be a part of any noble family, major or minor, he wasn’t trained by Genryusai, he merely... appeared.  What actually happened is something I honestly have no headcanons on, as it tended to vary from roleplay to roleplay.  Simply put, most roleplays default to him simply being an incredibly eager youth who taught himself.  

As he matured, though, that excess energy was harnessed into power, and he grew into a mostly silent, but strong individual who certainly deserves his place by Genryusai.  

He generally doesn’t talk much, reserving his words for when they are needed and while he commonly appears as the stoic, unfriendly lieutenant of the First Division, he’s a rather friendly, peaceful man who can be quite passionate about the world and emotive about what he’s feeling.  While it’s not exactly uncommon to see this side of him, most people overlook him as nothing more than a paperwork lackey--and he’s content being a force in reserve.  

There’s little he fears in this existence and he’s not afraid to stand up when he believes it needs to be done, even if the one on the other side is his captain.  Though rare, the few times Sasakibe felt the need to say firm words of disagreement to his captain generally forced the aged man to reconsider his stance.  

Perhaps there was a time in his youth that Sasakibe felt the burning desire to fight, but that time has long passed.  Sasakibe in general is not much of a fighter anymore, liable to be easily taken off guard and defeated even despite his numerous spiritual achievements.  He generally avoids conflict when possible, preferring to celebrate peace and life and the various cultures across the world.

Verses  

Sasakibe officially only has two verses--the time when he’s alive, and his strange Quincy verse.

There isn’t much to say about the First Verse.  Sasakibe didn’t change much throughout the entirety of Bleach.

However--the theoretical AU where he survives the initial attack by the Quincy can be interesting.  Did Genryusai still perish?  Did Sasakibe contribute anything to the remaining war effort?  Does he remain the First Division’s lieutenant or does he transfer divisions?  Or does he retire entirely?

These are a lot of questions that rely on a lot of different details, so if anyone would like to interact with this verse, I ask that we discuss these ideas together so we can build a universe to both of our liking :)

Now...

The second verse, which probably makes absolutely no sense to anyone but myself and the close group of friends that wrote in it years ago.

The Quincy verse is admittedly entirely self-indulgent, but I’ve reached a level of wisdom on this site where I’m going to do it anyways, entirely unabashedly.  

Honestly, the idea of hybrids has been a common theme in Bleach--you could even argue that the idea of standing at the crossroads of two different universes has been the overarching theme of Bleach from the very beginning--so much so that in hindsight, it’s entirely mindboggling to me that Quincy-Soul Reaper hybrids have never even been mentioned. 

Essentially, as soon as the Vandenreich made their first appearance, I was expecting and awaiting the revelation of these hybrids.  I honestly can’t tell you what prompted me to make this verse--I have files talking about this since at least 2014--but, honestly, who would have been a better candidate for this than the West loving Lieutenant that we knew nothing about?

Of course, that’s all dead in the water now, but it lives on very passionately in my heart.  LOL.

I’m not going to bore you with the technical details of Quincy-Soul Reaper hybrids, because I’ve already covered that in this post here.

Essentially, this story goes that before Sasakibe met Genyrusai, before he was even a Soul Reaper, he was a Quincy.  And he was tired of this war--he was tired of the fighting, and he felt that there had to be another way.  So, he departed from his Clan.  He learned the art of the Soul Reaper.  He searched, and searched for any potential to end this war.

...

And then thousands of years went by and he never even told his captain who he was before.  

It weighs heavily on him, but he’s never told any Soul Reaper and is unlikely to do so. He could only hope that the war had passed--that the Vandenreich was only a myth and that nothing further would happen.  

This verse is tied heavily into my Bleach Extended Universe, and there’s a running gag that despite his unassuming nature, Sasakibe knows everyone--from members of the Royal Guard, to Futsuku, to Geoferd, other Quincies, other people across the Soul Society.  

Although this verse doesn’t necessarily have to be during or after the TYBW, there is a concept that he escaped Driscoll using a Quincy art that created a duplicate out of spiritual particles to fool both the Vandenreich and the Soul Society into believing he was dead while he tried to figure out a way to handle this war.  Of course, in this timeline, Genryusai didn’t get the warning about the Bankai.  In fact, Sasakibe didn’t say anything, since it was merely a duplicate who’s only purpose was to die.  

--

Now, I’m not going to claim this is everything I have about him.  I invested a lot of time into this background character, but it’s hot, I’m sweating, and I think this is enough or now.

[sabotajuu-a]

                    Out of respect for my fellow roleplayers here, I didn’t want to reblog the original post with all of this so that the images didn’t stretch everyone’s dashboards, and I could put this under a read more.   The posts I’m referring to are @savagedesign‘s HERE, my response HERE, as well as THESE SCREENSHOTS of @discandi‘s post ( since I can’t link the post from the blog itself, nor force it to appear as a dashboard link ).   Apologies for the long post.

                    Regardless, here’s the tea:

                    First and foremost, I want to get the legalities out of the way.   The original poster states that the game’s box rating is M for MATURE, or 17+.   For the sake of posting my own information AS LINKED HERE for collateral’s sake, we can see from GameStop’s official website that the rating is the same where I live, which is in the UNITED STATES.   Other countries have mixed ratings, because other countries have their own laws regarding the proper age group to view said content.   So, while there are countries who say a game is rated 18+, and others state the ratings are 15+, so on and so forth, there are still laws that need to be discussed and taken into account.

                    The problem lies in the complications of differing laws across borders.   Just because you live in a country where the maturity age is considered 15+ to view and participate within certain types of media, doesn’t mean that you aren’t endangering other users across borders by writing the content within said media, where their country’s maturity age is 17+ or 18+.   To put it simply, A 15 YEAR OLD WRITING DEAD BY DAYLIGHT’S CONTENTS WITH SOMEONE IN THE UNITED STATES WHERE THE LAW IS 17+, PUTS THE OLDER INDIVIDUAL IN A POSITION WHERE THEY CAN BE HELD LEGALLY ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOUR DISREGARD TO THEIR COUNTRY’S LAWS.   And that, my friends, is called CORRUPTION OF A MINOR, because as far as the United States is concerned, you, as a person under 17 playing this game and partaking in its contents, are still a minor, regardless of the laws in your country.

                    And want to know why that’s a problem?   Because it can completely and utterly ruin that 17 year old’s life.   NSFW content is an umbrella term for all things considered within gore, smut / sexual themes, intense violence, blood, strong language, and things of the like.   Writing ANY NSFW content with a minor, regardless of any legalities determining age of consent for any and all media, is still illegal.   Allow me to source things that are applicable to this situation from my perspective, meaning me as a writer having to abide by the United States’ laws regarding content that is RATED M FOR MATURE.

                    ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE RATING BOARD ( ESRB )   :                                         MATURE RATING DEFINITION

Content is generally suitable for ages 17 and up. May contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content and/or strong language.

                    CONTENT DESCRIPTIONS   :

INTENSE VIOLENCE: Graphic and realistic-looking depictions of physical conflict. May involve extreme and/or realistic blood, gore, weapons and depictions of human injury and death.

BLOOD AND GORE: Depictions of blood or the mutilation of body parts.

SEXUAL CONTENT: Non-explicit depictions of sexual behavior, possibly including partial nudity.

STRONG LANGUAGE: Explicit and/or frequent use of profanity.

                    These ratings and descriptions are put in place to protect individuals from exposure to darker and more adult themes.   This is why employees are LEGALLY REQUIRED to ask for identification when a person is purchasing age-restricted media, and why employees are further required to seek consent from a legal adult while mapping out the media’s contents when applicable.

                    The content ratings are meant to protect age groups from content that they are deemed too young to view as mapped out by a chosen government.   This is meant to ensure a person is old enough to handle seeing intense violence, blood and gore, while also hearing strong language or viewing implied sexual themes, and knowing that what’s going on in said media is NOT to blur the lines of real life’s morality.   So in Dead by Daylight’s case, the maturity rating is put in place because we have serial killers running around slaughtering survivors, cannibalizing them, snagging them in bear traps, chainsawing them, poisoning them, and then slapping them onto hooks.   Not to mention that Hag literally has one of her nipples out, which is still considered sexual in some definitions of the law.   We need to ensure that people under the given age aren’t going to go around tossing hatchets at pedestrians on the street, or electrocuting people with tasers or live wires, just because they’ve seen it in a video game.

                    While studies show that video games don’t make people violent, it’s very clear that there are situations where others may commit crimes inspired by the media they’ve digested before the recommended age, with or without parental consent or guidance.   Let’s move on to the legalities.

                    CORRUPTION OF MINORS                                         DEFINITION

Although it’s a pretty loose definition, the Pennsylvania Superior Court defines the phrase as “corrupting the morals of a minor” by explaining that it includes actions that would offend the common sense, sense of decency, propriety, and morality.

                    TITLE 18   SECTION 6301 ( a ) ( 1 ) ( i )   :                                         NON-SEXUAL CORRUPTION OF MINORS

Corruption of Minors is graded as a 1st Degree Misdemeanor punishable by up to 5 years in jail and a $10,000 fine. Since the offense is non-sexual in nature, an offense under Subsection (a)(1)(i) does not trigger sexual offender registration requirements under the Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).

A person commits an offense under the subsection if he or she is 18 years of age or older, and commits one of the following acts: - The offender commits an act that corrupts or tends to corrupt the morals of any minor less than 18 years of age; OR ( cutting it here since the first one is all that applies here )

                    This literally maps it out right there.   To simplify it, a person who is 18+ engaging in media that is considered mature with someone who is below that age is committing a crime, whether they know it or not.   Because it isn’t SEXUAL CORRUPTION OF MINORS, the older party isn’t being put on the sexual offenders registry, but they do serve jail time, FIVE YEARS OF IT, which may make it difficult for them to find a job in the future, or assimilate within society when they’re out.   It is still damaging to a person’s life.

                    Now yes, a 2011 ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court found that video games are a constitutionally-protected form of expression, and that laws restricting their SALE OR RENTAL based upon violent content are unconstitutional.   However, this is restricted to just that, the sale or rental of violent video games.   If, say, a parent were to find the content you were writing with another person, and they disagreed with it and contacted authorities, the other person could still be charged if their country’s laws differ from your own, and they could serve some serious jail time while paying serious fines to the government, as well as paying for a lawyer to try and fight these accusations placed upon them from your negligence.

                    Therefore, @discandi, your statement     In fact here is the games rating in MY country     holds no validity to the argument because it doesn’t matter when you’re possibly endangering others.   The fandom is so up in arms about individuals under 18 writing in the community because of the content as advertised, because that potential about endangering another’s life in legal terms is a genuine threat.   We’re not completely saying minors can’t write mature content, we’re just asking minors to respect a writer’s individual boundaries without getting pissy about it.

                    Let’s get into the other portions of the debate, shall we?   @discandi‘s post   ( as linked in the first little introduction )   features some points that I have to disagree with, and that I find appalling.   Firstly, calling the community a bunch of freaks is a big assumption, and pinning the whole ra.pe fetishization argument on the entire community is an even bigger assumption.   Not all Dead by Daylight roleplayers are entirely into writing the super dark content, and in truth the community is EXTREMELY against portraying ra.pe, or writing du.bcon.   Take into account the community’s DISTASTE for the Freddy / Quentin ship.   People shipping killers and survivors together is not ra.pe since both parties are ABLE TO CONSENT considering all survivors are confirmed to be 21+, and all killers are confirmed to be 21+ with the exception of Legion’s members.   Frank and Joey are 18 - 19, while Julie and Susie are still in that unconfirmed area of being under, on, or over 18.

                    And now I just have to map out the tags in @discandi‘s post, as screencapped by me:

                    Your logic of equating people who write darker themes to enjoying and justifying ra.pe fetishization is extremely flawed, because generalizing the fandom into this umbrella assumption without any real solid evidence to back it up is quite unfair to those of us who just want to write out the gore, or the murder, or the potential verses and character dynamics to be explored.   Are there people in the Dead by Daylight community who fetishize ra.pe?   Sure, but you will always find people like that in ANY FANDOM.   MLP, League of Legends, Steven Universe, Supernatural, Soulsborne, Red Dead Redemption, Disney, the list could go on and you’ll still find some no.ncon fetishization in the media as produced.   None of us ever said it was okay or valid of them to do that, and we in fact tend to voice our distaste for it.

                    In my time roleplaying on this site, which has been seven, almost eight years now, I have never seen anyone write out ra.pe or no.ncon or du.bcon in roleplay.   Even in a fandom that features a game as horrid as OUTLAST did I never see someone write out or fetishize these aspects in roleplay, even when you have those featured and implied in the actual game itself.

                    So saying that people who write darker themes and are uncomfortable with minors writing with them in similar media are just ra.pe fetishist freaks is a HUGE STRETCH to make.

                    In addition, bringing up @starlyht‘s reply to me, as screencapped HERE:

                    I never said a minors have never played a mature game, nor did I say minors haven’t engaged in material marked as mature.   Hell, I’m sure everyone’s done it.   What I’m saying is that SOME people, not all, are uncomfortable with minors writing mature content because it puts them at risk.   It opens up the possibility of legal troubles, or just doesn’t sit right with their personal morals because they’re 18+ and just writing with minors is uncomfortable.

                    And just when I thought I was done, here we have @hallowkills with their VERY UNINSIGHTFUL POST which I’m so glad to have seen before hitting post.   You’re going to come on here and get involved in this discussion, when you’ve made one of the most hilariously hypocritical posts that counteracts the comment you’ve made pertaining to the argument at hand.

                    On July 24, 2019, you posted:

ok little psa but if you rp a muse that’s like... from disney or any media that’s primarily directed at children (like cartoons, etc) i’m probably going to block you because this is a slasher blog and michael is not compatible with those sort of muses

                                        (   PROOF HERE   )     (   TAG PROOF   )

                    Okay, that’s respectable and understandable.   Personal preference, I get that, but then one of your tags proceeded to state:

                    Which can essentially be taken as your refusal to write with adults who write characters from children’s cartoons because you don’t trust them.   The same can be said about adults who don’t want to write with minors who write adult characters or adult media.   It makes some of us uncomfortable, and in some ways, it’s illegal.   So why are WE being called gatekeepers, or ra.pe fetishists, or harassers when we could just as easily pin the same thing on minors who write adult characters and media?

                    And then you continued to make a post today shown HERE, screencapped just in case you decide to delete it.   How hypocritical do you have to be?   Imagine being a minor and getting mad about adults writing characters that carry nostalgia from their childhood.   God forbid someone enjoys something when it’s harming nobody.   However, minors writing adult content with certain people CAN harm them, punishable by law, and that’s the tea.

                    Checkmate, thank you.   Hope the free educating helps.   Have a wonderful day / evening, I think I’ve made my point and earned my rest before work.   You’re more than welcome to continue the conversation in IMs, as I won’t be clogging my dash up any more than I already have.

                    And before you ask for sources, I’m a criminal justice major.   I will happily post a picture of my degree on request, with personal information blocked out of course, and post proof of my education completion.   Sources regarding the law are from online, some textbooks, and my own knowledge of how the law works.

[elaianna]

Now Hiring!

Mission Statement

With recent expansion and new holdings, the Anchor Trading Company is in need of fresh and capable individuals to fill the existing and newfound contracts of trade. It is the mission statement of the Anchor Trading Company to operate from a position of lawful standing, impeccable integrity, and close-knit relations. Whilst a business, there is no small measure of family within the ranks. Those seeking mere salary of gold may find more than they bargained for, with loyalty and hospitality being returned in thrice-kind. As a primarily naval trading group, the Anchor Trading Company puts great value on seamanship, ethic of work, and determination to brave the unpredictability of our world. Avenues of employment are available both at home and abroad. Those taking interest may make swift and easy contact with any postal messenger that operates within the avenues of the Eastern Kingdoms and its Northern territories, care of Lady Elaianna Nesbitt-Stalsworth, Lord Thomas Stalsworth, or Miss Sabine Hadley. Titles of standing do not affect regular postal marked rates. For expedited responses to queries of interest and employ, please contact a Boralus stationed Anchor Trading Company representative at 12 Unity Square.

Our Out of Character Mission

Our guild was made with the original concept of being a safe environment for guild members, before all. We are like a family, close knit and always looking out for one another. To this day, we will always work to be sure our members are safe and comfortable, before we push any roleplay plot or interactions. When it comes to roleplay, we view it as an organic and leisure task. A hobby. We do not want anyone to feel stressed, and as if the guild and roleplay opportunities within it are a job OOC. We are a Company employing characters IC, but you are not our employees OOC. OOC you are our friends and co-writers.

What We Are Looking For

Our Alignment: Lawful Neutral We are a law abiding guild IC and expect any character that joins us to follow the laws. If they break a law, remember that IC actions have IC consequences. Where to find us: Unity Square, Boralus Harbour (the nifty building with the flag poles outside)

Anchor Trading Company is looking for individuals who share a passion for driving plot forward. People who make opportunities for themselves, and take opportunities provided to them. We will not hold anyone’s hand and drag them through roleplay. You get what you put into it. Character wise, we are looking for a plethora of characters ranging from sailors to merchants to security to medical personnel to house staff. Individuals must find themselves able to take jokes (and no when the jokes should end) and understand that this is a no drama area. Anyone that is seen looking for, and causing OOC drama repeatedly is not the type of person that will thrive in this atmosphere.

How We Recruit

We do not require an OOC interview, as our way of recruiting is more organic. We encourage you to interact with members, roleplay and get to know us. Write to us, let us know you are looking to apply for work as your character with the Company and we will organize an in character interview with one of our in character officers. With that being said, we realize that many guilds have an age restriction due to the nature of guild chat. While we like to cut up and have fun, we tend to keep things less on the mature side (in more ways than one as we are a bunch of hooligans). We allow players aged 16 and over in our guild. We do expect a certain level of maturity and respect in all our members. If you are interested in joining us and are below the age of eighteen, we ask that you notify us for your protection and ours. Failure to do so could result in removal.

Our tumblr website is still under construction, but many things from ranks, to member expectations and member blogs are up and running. We encourage perusing the site to get an even better idea about us!

Thank you for considering us!

@atc-wra @thomasstalsworth @tirasiansails @the-royal-courier

[saturatedcoffee]

How to put Roleplaying on your resume

And other skills you’ve picked up along the way.

I’ve gotten so many discord messages since my last post, both from other rpers who include roleplaying on their resume and others who are hesitant to. So, for those of you who want to be able to use this as a marketable skill, or want to know how you can improve your current resume roleplay listing, I’m here to help.

Please note - I am not a professional resume writer, just a broke ass twenty-something who was written too many resumes. The examples used below are generalizations taken from my personal resumes that have resulted in me getting the job. Use your best judgement, but, if in doubt, feel free to shoot me a message!

Also, I am primarily a forum roleplayer. While this can be used for other forms of roleplaying, you may have to change more of these examples to better fit your experiences.

Tips for your basic roleplay writer

As your basic roleplay writer, you excel at mostly one thing - writing. Perhaps you’ve picked up other skills along the way, like graphics or coding, or you’ve become familiar with software like Google Docs. These are all important skills you use professionally, so be sure to include them in the Skills section of your resume. Employers often refer to these as “soft skills” and it’s extremely difficult to find employees that have those skills and actually demonstrate them, so these can really help you stand out.

But the most important thing is to be able to include some examples. Find your favorite roleplay post and include it in your portfolio. Gather together your best moodboards, signature graphics, or avatars. Link to your resource site galleries or your rp tumblr tag. Demonstrate that you actually have these skills and that they’re more than just words on paper.

Here’s an example of some of the things I list in the skills section of my resume.

Skills

Writing: website content, blog articles, social media, coding markup, collaborative articles, 

Software & Languages: Google Drive, Microsoft Office, WordPress, Invision Power Board, Tumblr, Photoshop, Gimp, Pinterest. CSS, Javascript, HTML, JQuery

I also include three of my favorite roleplay posts I’ve written, and I’m building up a coding tumblr to showcase the things I’ve coded for rp, which I will include on future resumes. While hobbies sections of a resume are very outdated, this is a subtle way you can include this particular hobby. And employers generally like you more for it!

Tips for your roleplay staffer

Staffing a roleplay is, or rather should be, a whole different ballgame from being just a roleplay writer. Because, if you’ve staffed your roleplay the right way, it has now become a well of marketable content you can actually show to your potential employer. You have actual proof of your management skills and abilities you can link a live version to, even if the site has since closed. Don’t take that for granted! That kind of content is very valuable to a potential employer.

And now, aside from listing your abilities in the skills section of your resume, you have the opportunity to list your staffing experience in the list of jobs you’ve had experience with. Because your web forum is, essentially, a brand, and staffing is your job.

Aside from listing basic rp duties, if you do social media for your rp, or even advertise for it, those are marketable skills. If you use particular software to make things for your rp, like maps or timelines, ads or trailers, include that. Each rp is different, and there are many different forms of roleplaying. So tailor the below example to your experiences and include achievements that are relevant to you.

Web Community Administrator - Site Name and link, 2017-Present

Wrote, edited, and maintained all web manuals across web pages

Moderated community engagement & content across platforms to enforce community rules and regulations

Consistently maintained brand voice across publications by creating style guidelines and consistent posting rules

Collaborated with community members on site content to create engaging SEO statistics

Built a successful user and readership base by building advertising strategies across multiple web platforms.

Tips for your roleplay coder

I am partial to the rp coder, specifically of forums, because I am one! Being able to code anything is such a skill these days, and employers like it a lot more if you tell them you do it for fun. Even if you’re not applying for a coding job, it’s another fun fact about you that makes you stand out.

If you’re a coder, I would suggest having a portfolio of your work somewhere. Either on a resource site they can access as a guest (codepen is great for this) or a blog, forum, or website they can see your work on. 

Here are some generic examples of things you can put on your resume, but tailor them to your specialties!

Web Forum Designer - Site or Portfolio name/link, Date-Present

Designed interactive web templates and mobile-first layouts to increase web accessibility

Maintained multiple web forums via back end control panel of Invision Power Board

Increased user engagement by ##% by designing intuitive interfaces

Built brand style guidelines to improve brand recognition, increasing website hits by ##%

Tips - and disclaimers - for everyone

The best tip I can give to anyone about writing a resume is to tailor each resume to the job you are applying for. Use keywords used in the job listing. Use terms like KPI or ROI where necessary. Use specific examples of the things you’ve done in concise sentences. Where you can, avoid being vague. Show your worth. Link examples!

The examples I used above are very generic and are meant to be used as a place to start from for everybody. I cannot stress it enough that you still need to tailor these examples to your experience and skills. For example, if you designed interactive web templates, link to your coding tumblr tag or resource gallery. If you wrote and maintained web manuals (see site rules, plot, member groups, etc.), link to that forum or those pages or put a (see below) and include them in the examples you send along with your resume. Use percentages where appropriate and include trackable data where you can to help illustrate your positive impact on that site.

However, when putting your resume into website instead of uploading it as a .pdf or .doc, this can be difficult. So use your best judgement.

How to tell a potential employer you roleplay while in an interview

So now that you’ve gotten through writing your resume, let’s assume you got the interview! Congratulations! You used your skills to stand out a little bit from the 800 other applicants that put in for the job. But you still have to make an impression out of the 20 other suits coming in for the interview. *Gulp*

I’ve found that the easiest way is to mention it when they ask you the infamous “Tell me about yourself” question. This question is your elevator pitch, so work it in in a way that’s quick and will make them want to ask you more about it later. Don’t make it the focus, just drop in a line and move on. For example:

“I’ve been working in media for the last five years, but I would like to focus on web media in particular. I’ve been writing for websites in my free time for the last decade, and found this is the area I’m most passionate about...” I’ll let you imagine how the rest of that elevator pitch goes.

Now my interviewer will probably ask me about all this experience I have writing for web that’s not exactly spelled out on my resume. But I’ll have those experiences, either listed in my skills section or as a job listing, to refer them back to.

So now you’re probably wondering, when they do ask you about it, how to not be weird about it. Because rp is...actually really weird I mean the amount of sex I write about is unreal, yo. But you really only need get into the basics. Tell them you enjoy writing, and that you enjoy writing collaboratively. And through that passion, you’ve learned how to effectively manage web communities or taught yourself CSS. When you talk about your passions in an interview and how they’ve lead you to pursue professional advancement, you really stand out. You become “that girl who loved writing so much she became this dope ass graphic designer” or “that guy who loved writing so much he became this insane web developer.” It shows not just passion, but a breadth of skills and curiosities and gives you much more potential to grow within a position than other candidates.

While talking about your roleplay experience, offer to send them examples of your work when you get home. The amount of times I’ve mentioned my creative passions in an interview and had the non-creative interviewer want to know more is too damn high. But not only does that give you the opportunity to send a thank you email, but gives them something to click on and remember you by. Which is a make it or break it part of most interviews.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk

That’s all the advice I’ve got for you, kids. I apologize for it being so vague, but I wanted this to be usable by the largest amount of roleplayers it could be. If you have questions, or want to know how it could be used to highlight your own skills more, feel free to drop me an ask or friend me on discord and shoot me a message! I’m always happy to offer some suggestions to you.

And if you’re already doing all of this, why don’t you share your own experiences? How has using rp on a resume helped you? What other tips do you have? And how can others make the most of their experiences to help them?

[clans-of-the-sea]

Mating Rules and Guidelines

When it comes to the mating rules, the only reason you ask first is we actually like to keep an eye on the family tree, and entwine plots.

But for the sake of it let’s lay down some ground rules.

-Apprentices cannot take on a mate. They’re the equivalent of 12-18 years old in maturity growth. Can apprentices have crushes? On Warriors and other Apprentices? Sure. Why not? When I was in high school, I knew people with crushes on older schoolmates or even college kids as we got older, tv stars, the basketball guys, etc. Some chick I knew had a crush on a professor in college. Crushes are one thing. Can the apprentices ‘date’ among themselves? Sure. Apprentices however are “not allowed” (frowned upon by clan culture) to have kits. Their responsibility is to learn, train, and focus. See an apprentice as getting their warrior name as graduating high school.

-Clan cats are “forbidden” (taboo by clan culture) to have a mate within the opposing clan. Can they? For plot reasons, it’s possible. Whether it be a one time thing or taking an actual mate depends on plot as well but not impossible for either.

-Clan cats are NOT forbidden to have a ‘fling’ with a loner. See, this helps from creating the 50-500 interbreeding issue; queens are allowed to sort of ‘take up’ with a loner if they do not have/want a mate. Monarchs-to-be can have a litter sired by an outsider under the conditions they not be from an enemy Clan, they aren’t (that specific clan) personally at ‘war’ with the group they belong to and it’s a litter being SIRED. Go figure but it’s actually kind of ‘socially taboo’ for a tom to go outside the clan to sire kits for some reason unless the monarch is going to join the clan (whereas sires aren’t expected to). In fact according to the family tree many members have former/current rogues as sires. This is usually due to a romantic/sexuality interest (no one your attracted to in the clan but ya still wanna have Dem babies). And a reason monarchs aren’t forced to disclose the father to anyone but the Medicine Cat (who keeps a mental note so a possible monarch won’t get knocked up by their own sire).

-Queens do not need to announce the father to the whole clan; HOWEVER, they do have a system among themselves to prevent more interbreeding. If there is a rough loner that could cause potential harm, they’ll share among the young kit-bear-able warriors who to avoid, or a mother may whisper to her newly made warrior child whom to avoid (their sire). For the clans, the Medicine Cat also is told whom the sire of the kits are (or who they could potentially be) in confidence, and these secrets are passed on to their apprentice in time. In a way, you could say it’s almost as much Medicine Cats duty to help keep genetics getting too scrambled up as well, and to help guide young cats from interbreeding.

- It does not matter if the apprentice is now a warrior, but the former apprentice and their former mentor are (in clan culture) not allowed to become mates due to a power inbalance.

- Playing your own mate is case-by-case! While we have not had this situation occur before we are willing to let you run this as a test under certain circumstances! If it goes well you may play two characters as mates; and if it seems like it is not working out we may ask you to dissolve the relationship.- You cannot jump into the rp as mates. This is a rule of thumb we have for everyone with the exception of pre-made adoptables - so it is best to keep it the same. You can start your characters as good friends but will need to develop their relationship from there into becoming mates.- You will need to balance roleplaying with yourself. You would need to be able to handle “talking to yourself” with the two characters, as well as balancing interacting with others. We wouldn’t want you JUST roleplaying with yourself, and doing only paragraphs of these characters talking with each other and no one else. If you can balance interactions between them and others that’s good!- Also their relationships with others as well as information is non-transferable. Say Blacktail is best friends with Ivyheart - this does not mean that Blacktails mate Doefoot is also best friends with Ivyheart. Also, the second part is for all rpers playing multiple cats in one group - just because Ivyheart told Blacktail something does not mean that Doefoot knows what was shared as well - not unless/until it is seen that Blacktail shares that information with them.- The characters should not agree 100% on everything; they should have separate characteristics, quick’s, personalities, and opinions.- You cannot gang up against others. If one character is in an argument, the other should not come immediately to their aid/hop into the argument to back them up. There are some moments that can be allowed, but it cannot be a constant thing.If you think these can be followed then feel free - but if at any point a mod sees these are hard to follow or are broken on multiple occasion we will ask the relationship be dissolved back into a friendship.

- Age Gaps are case-by-case! An age Gap can be referred to 5 moons, 10 moons, 2 moons, etc where as things like this are more case-by-case and frankly when it comes to roleplaying, it’s better to see what works out in character.

Last year on an rpg sites I was apart of, one of the couple’s that won “Best OTP” we’re like 2 years apart. They never trained together, weren’t mentor-apprentice and in fact one didn’t even join the clan until he was already technically warrior age but trained as an apprentice for a moon due to him behind new to the clan. They were older though, the chemestry between them was solid from what I remember.

This is just an example, but it’s very much like with people; the younger you are, the more weird it is to think about age gaps. Your newly named 12 moon old warrior with a 20 moon old warrior may feel a little weird at least; after all the older warrior was training as an 8 moon apprentice when the younger was born.

However, maybe the younger warrior isn’t interested. They were just made a warrior! Their life is newly interesting, their training is over! They’re probably celebrating with litter mates and doing patrols and having fun!

Then the young warrior is say… 20 moons old. They’re closer with an slightly older warrior who is 28 moons. They get along great, they talk a lot and they actually care about each other.

See, sort of different now.

Age gaps are case by case, and honestly dealt with depending on the comfort level of the individual roleplayers. Maybe some do not wish to venture past 2 moons, maybe two cats fall for each other and find 10 moons between them. It’s really not fair to stop that when things progress.

Basically; outside of the guidelines already stated, you play to your comfort. You don’t have to have your young cat be with anyone they don’t want to, if they decide to be with anyone. They/You get to make the decision! If an age gap is too big then you don’t have to do that. 

Also here ‘mate’ is used rather loosely. If your characters just have a one time fling because a young warrior wants to have kits, would they stop and ask the loner their age? Would they care? Maybe they don’t stray to any age gap and become life long partners with someone they trained alongside! Your plot, how you play, is all up to you and your comfort! The only cost is you don’t get a say on someone else’s. (Within the guidelines). If there are any concerns you are always free to bring it up of course but we do our best to make a place safe and fun for everyone!

[idolizerp]

Hello Idols!

We come to you today with a post in four parts. Rest easy, there are no changes to the operations of the site, just a few observations and reminders. First is a little list of the things we’d like to address today. We’ll put content below the cut.

Scope of the Roleplay

Brand & Development

The Point Shop

Skills and Development

On the subject of the scope and focus of the roleplay, we want to reiterate once and for all that it is and always has been a (somewhat) realistic portrayal (or attempt at) of the lives, hardships, and tribulations of idols. We don’t just say that as a fun tag for our ads or something. We really mean it. What we want more than anything is to explore fundamentally flawed and nuanced muses operating under extreme pressure, trapped together with others in a similarly miserable situation, in a sort of microcosm of suffering and stress. Our goal is not to explore what it would feel like to be hugely popular or to create muses that can list resumes full of all the things we wish we could do or be as idols. We want to encourage everyone to think thoughtfully, creatively, and carefully about their muse and their trajectory over time.

On the point of development, there is one hugely important point we want to make:

there is no single trajectory towards the top.

Not sure what we mean? Basically, not all idols are aiming for the same spot. There is not one singular format for the perfect idol, the end goal. Each muse should be aiming towards their own personal best. The path to success is very different depending on each idol. When you choose your starting position for your idol, you inherently choose their innate skills, the talents they were born with and worked for. This isn’t to say they can’t develop other skills within reason, but you are, by choosing that initial role, signaling their strongest points. This does, by necessity, somewhat limit them in terms of what is feasible and what is believable to claim in the future (if an Atlas rapper tried to claim a successful vocal performance on a music show, we’d turn it down, sorry guys). But that isn’t a bad thing. It doesn’t mean that they can’t develop their abilities. But those abilities don’t exist in a vacuum. 

If a girl walks into Midas and she has the potential to be a vocalist on the level of Taeyeon or Ailee. She’s not polished yet but she has potential, because that level of talent involved comes, to a certain extent, from basic biology. Either you have the potential to sound like that, or you just don’t. And Midas (or any company’s) vocal trainers will know how to spot that. They wouldn’t then look at that girl and go “Actually, lets train her up in dance or rap instead, maybe one day she can release a solo.”  Similarly, demonstrating the skills of your idol doesn’t mean you need to aim for the highest possible position (like a rapper trying to take on a major vocal claim). Rather, find something that demonstrates their ability believably and go from there. Taemin is an amazing performer and has had huge praise for improving his vocal skills. However, is he an exceptionally strong vocalist? No, not really. But he knows his strengths and operates within them. Similarly Chungha has found great success, not because she is a formidable vocal talent, but because she knows how to use her voice to the best of its ability, which is in and of itself commendable. 

Similarly, on the point of branding; that first paragraph or two  we have you write (and often ask you to re-write, or edit slightly, or clarify, or tweak) for your interview? It’s one of the most important things you’ve done on this site. That’s why we’re always, always going on and on about it when we bring in applications. That image is what will govern your idol and guide them, whether they like it or not (and many of them hate it, isn’t being an idol fun?). A girl in Jawbreaker with a chic image is never going to snag Nation’s Little Sister. Just as scandals can affect your character and group, they can affect your image too. Say an idol picks up a title like Nation’s Little Brother, and then has a Seungri style sex scandal - you can bet there’s a big “Former” stamped in front of that title now. A muse from a newer generation will have a different experience, trajectory, and set of opportunities than one from an older and more established group. Some things may come easier to the established - like a solo debut, but other’s they’ll struggle with, like viral notoriety. A national title might get picked up more easily by someone who’s been around long enough to build up that reputation, but could still be obtained with thoughtful planning and development by newer group members - it just takes more effort in character, since we doubt you want to wait around out of character for them to “catch up” to the level of exposure longer term idols might have had.

The way you construct that initial image, alongside the position you choose, govern the course of your idols future. Pair that with a carefully chosen secondary skill and you’ve got yourself the path to success- if you keep that in sight.

That brings us to our final point. The point shop. It’s fun, we know. It’s exciting to earn points and buy up neat things. But buying up things for the sake of it isn’t what we want to encourage. We realize perhaps our limited choices at the moment are to blame, and intend to add more and varied items in the coming week or two to differentiate things. The point shop is a way to demonstrate your muse marching down their path. An It Girl like Seolhyun might pick up a few big brand endorsements, some variety, a low tier drama, a bunch of commercials. A Nation’s Little Sister will want to cultivate that cute and sweet image with something approachable, with roles that suggest sweetness and bubbliness and aegyo, maybe some viral aegyo moments or a few variety guestings, and so on. Someone aiming for recognition on the level Kyungsoo has for acting would, conversely, swing their attention into working their way up steadily in serious and carefully curated acting roles -  if he’d taken on something like Dream High, people wouldn’t have been taking him quite so seriously. The point shop should be demonstrating the way your idol is progressing towards a goal, not just exist for the sake of picking up fun trophies.

On the topic of skills and development; this is the most important thing. We tied the points to the development prompts because we want to encourage development. We WANT you to delve into your muses deeply and we want to encourage that development through interaction, so we tied it to various prompt settings. That doesn’t mean a music show prompt should be about performing on stage only, necessarily. It can take on backstage aspects, psychological aspects, reminiscences on past performances. This is also why we require you to finish all of them first and then offer the chance to repeat them. One’s greatest strength or setback likely don’t change all too quickly, after all. The skill points don’t exist just to be racked up into nothing. They exist to show the progress of your muse. They shouldn’t be directly compared to one another, but should be considered as a metric by which you can demonstrate how your muse has grown since their debut, so to speak. It doesn’t mean that everyone with 80 points in vocals is amazing. It means that a muse that started with 10 points and got to 80 points in vocals has made impressive and important strides in their own skills. Thus, the skill points are truly invaluable, even if you aren’t able to “buy” anything with them.

We’ve become a little concerned by the desire to buy up things just for the sake of perceived popularity or success tied to that. We want to stress that the focus of this roleplay is not on popularity but on development, on hardship, and on constructing a muse carefully and creatively. We love all of our members dearly and never want anyone to feel discouraged. We know we have a tough application process. Many (most? possibly all?) of you were asked to tweak at least one little thing here or there, because we know how important those elements will be going forward in the roleplay, and how important their brand, vision, and skill set will be. We’re always, always happy to answer questions or give suggestions as time permits. That doesn’t mean we’ll always let anyone buy anything, or that buying something will come without consequences - we’ve had muses drop scandals with full knowledge beforehand that it would have them removed from group promotions upcoming, and so on, and we love that! Because that’s the kind of thing we want to explore. 

Not what it feels like to be the top of the heap and well beloved. While that can be fun to explore, that isn’t our vision for this site. We hope that you guys can understand, and that you look forward to some additions to the point shop in upcoming days. Hopefully these more varied options will encourage some more diversity in our muses and hopefully this little note will help put the importance planning your muse’s future based on their brand, image, and skill set into perspective. We’re a little worried that perhaps having the point shop has given the wrong impression of where we place importance and focus in this roleplay, and are considering potentially just removing that element. However, we hope laying out our vision to an extent here will help postpone that possibility and swing focus back where it belongs: muse and development. Please like this to show to us that you’ve read it. Thanks so much!

[cawfulwriting]

Heel, Step, Turncoat

[This is a bit different from my usual fare, and was written for an assignment where we were supposed to write a one-act play. I adapted this from a short piece I wrote for a roleplaying site, using the characters I ran on that site. Plays don’t format very well for Tumblr, and a lot of edits had to be made so I could post this, so apologies for any awkward formatting.

Content Warnings: None]

Cast of Characters

Emi Kashiwara: Leader of a local girl gang. Infamous due to the methods that put her in power to begin with. Prissy and self-centered, and has a strong interest in fashion. Best friends with Kanon. Speaks with a valley girl accent.

Kanon Watanabe: Member of Emi's gang. The strong, silent type. Dated the previous gang leader, but betrayed her for Emi's sake. She's easily picked out of a crowd by her red raincoat.

Chiyo: A member of Emi's gang.

Haruna: A member of Emi's gang.

Nana Murakami: “Miss Not-Appearing-In-This-Play”. The previous gang leader, who Emi forced out when she started to have doubts.

Scene:

Behind a Japanese high school in an unnamed city, in an area where the faculty rarely ventures.

Time:

After school, close to sunset. Present day.

ACT 1

SETTING: EMI KASHIWARA stands in front of a brick wall, leaning against it slightly. The exterior wall around the school grounds can be seen from her location. The sound of cicadas chirping is faintly audible in the distance, and there is a slight orange light over the stage.

AT RISE: EMI looks around the stage casually, apparently not seeing what she's looking for. After a few seconds, she pulls a sheet of paper from the collar of her shirt, looks it over, and crumples it up and tosses it away, giving an irritated sigh. She reaches into her skirt's pocket and pulls out a package of cigarettes, thumbing the top open before shaking her head and returning it to her pocket. She then pulls out a package of gum and pops a single piece into her mouth.

As she does this, CHIYO, HARUNA, and KANON WATANABE approach the stage, with CHIYO leading the group. They're carrying a mix of pipes and bats. Emi straightens up as they approach and crosses her arms.

EMI: 

It's about time! Ugh, seriously, if you're gonna call me out, can you at least, like, try to be on time?

(Neither of the three confronting EMI respond. EMI shifts her position again, before staring over the group and making eye contact with Kanon. Kanon's gaze slides toward the ground.)

EMI:

Kanon, what do you even think you're doing here, anyways?

CHIYO:

What, you're going to play dumb about it, Kashiwara? She's here because of you.

HARUNA:

Actually, we're all kinda here because of you, technically. You hadn't been around much lately. The girls were getting worried.

CHIYO:

Imagine how surprised we were when Watanabe said you'd gotten called up by a modeling agency. And that you were thinking of ditching us so you could go dress up in bikinis all day.

(There is a pause before she continues.)

We were kind of surprised, you know. Considering you beat the life out of Murakami for even thinking about doing the same thing.

EMI:

(uncomfortably) Yeah, well, things changed?

CHIYO:

(with a sneer) Apparently they did, 'cause you were real serious about that back then. Serious enough that even though you and Murakami were friends, you still took the first chance she gave you to kick her out. Serious enough that you talked Murakami's own girlfriend into helping you beat the snot out of her! Ain't that right, Kanon?

(KANON does not respond when she's addressed.)

CHIYO:

(her voice returns to normal levels) But now you're getting cold feet on us. What did you think was going to happen if we found out you wanted to leave? We'd have to do to you what you did to Murakami. Even Kanon agrees with us.

HARUNA:

Come on, boss. There's no reason it has to be this way. If you give up on this whole thing, we can forget this ever happened. Why don't we meet up with the girls and go mess up the guys on the south side of town just for kicks? You always did hate them.

(EMI scowls at the two, but she takes a step back toward the wall, putting her back against it. KANON's head rises from the floor, and she makes eye contact with EMI.

EMI lowers her head, and then her body begins to shake with a chuckle, before breaking into a full on cackle.)

EMI:

(with a lilt of amusement in her voice) Are you actually serious?! Of course I'm leaving! What, do you think we could keep doing all of this forever? Beating up anyone who looks at us funny, ducking around police cars all the time, getting high every night we get the chance?

(HARUNA takes a step forward, only for CHIYO to hold a hand out and stop her.)

EMI:

(She slaps her chest with her hand.)

Maybe you girls can do this forever, but I'm growing up! I'm not gonna stay here and run away from my problems forever. I have a life now! Murakami was right when she ditched, and we're all stupid for not listening to her to begin with. You all can have fun all you want getting high and getting picked up by the cops, but I'm done.

CHIYO:

(coldly) I'm sorry to hear that. Guess we're going to have to do this the hard way.

EMI:

(with a sneer) Yeah, I guess we are.

(CHIYO, HARUNA, and KANON raise their weapons. The second HARUNA moves toward EMI, KANON swings her bat at HARUNA's head, and HARUNA drops to the ground. CHIYO swings her head around, and EMI redirects her bat before swinging her knee into CHIYO'S stomach, and then kicking her to the ground too.

EMI crouches beside CHIYO and grabs her by the hair, tugging her face up to look at EMI's. KANON steps around the fallen to stand by EMI's side.)

EMI:

(with a satisfied, antagonistic grin) Are you a bunch of idiots? Did you really think I didn't know what you were up to when you called me out here? I wrote the fucking book! And you fell for it, just like Murakami did! Why did you think Kanon even agreed to help you? I mean, God, we've been friends forever!

CHIYO:

You...

EMI:

Hey, I want you and Haruna to give all the girls back home a message for me, okay? Me and Kanon, we're never coming back. We're done. And if you all know what's good for you, you'll leave us alone. Okay? Okay.

(EMI drops CHIYO's head and straightens up. She gives her a well aimed kick into her ribcage before stepping away, KANON following.)

EMI:

Come on, Kanon, let's blow this joint.

(CHIYO suddenly raises her head and points her finger at KANON.)

CHIYO:

You think you can get away with this, Watanabe?! You and Kashiwara can't run away from us forever! The next time we see you, you're dead meat!

(KANON suddenly whirls toward CHIYO and swings her pipe at her. CHIYO recoils, pulling her hand back.)

KANON:

If you come anywhere near us, I'll kill you.

(She walks away from the fallen girls, catching back up with EMI.)

EMI:

Come on, let's go. I've got a photoshoot tonight, and the last thing I want to do is mess my makeup up any worse than it already is.

KANON:

Coming.

EMI:

(as they leave) Oh, right, do you, like, want the last of my cigarettes? My agent says I'm not allowed to smoke anymore...

(EMI and KANON exit. The lights on the stage begin to dim to a cool red, and then get darker. As the lights dim, the sound of CHIYO sobbing can be heard faintly from the stage.)

(BLACKOUT)

(END OF SCENE)

[fan-clan-fun]

Thoughts on a Human Warriors AU?

This is mostly me just having no life and no ability to channel my ideas into art sooo now Im thinking of random AU and RP possibilities.

At one point I roleplayed on a site and they did an AU which ended up getting its own site, where each clan became a gang in a postapocalyptic city.

My favorite possibility, is rival Noble houses, or clans of the same family, with outsiders who are married, adopted, or brought in. They basically fight for power in a city state where there is a monarch who has just enough power to play them off each other.

So if we go with the canon clans you have the Clan of the River (or the Sea if I made it the way I want to), the Clan of Thunder, the Clan of Shadows, and the Clan of the Wind. Or I could go with giving them names like Clan Umbra (shadow), Clan Fulmen (Lightning, light, flash), Clan Mare (Sea), and Clan Ventus. Potentially the monarch could be the head of Clan Caelum (Sky).

I spent way too long thinking about this so umm, maybe have a read more? So people who only want warrior cats wont hate me XD But hey if you’re interested keep reading!

Anyway, each clan is known for their “thing.” 

Mare controls the docks and sea around the city state, and are the masters of the navy (and also pirates to any ship which doesnt have a shipping agreement with them, which drives other clans nuts when they dont want to pay tariffs for shipments and try to get around them). Mare is known for shrewd and clever dealing with others, but also underhanded methods. Their youth are encouraged to run wild and get rid of their energy and resentment to better serve the family as adults. They specialize in the navy and ships.

Umbra supposedly controls the information flow for the city, but ultimately Umbra basically is the criminal underground, and you cant really be a criminal without Umbra’s approval, or without working directly with them. Umbra has its fingers in every pie, but very few overt resources to make power plays. Their youth is spent hidden in plain sight, as spies for their elders. After all who pays attention to a child or a teenager. They specialize in assassinations, covert operations.

Clan Fulmen is the science area, and are known for messing around with things they REALLY SHOULDNT. They are the only Clan that uses gunpowder weaponry, and their youth are known for being arrogant and daredevil, because they believe that they are superior to the other clans intellectually. They specialize in big flashy powerful displays of weaponry.

Clan Ventus is known for their carefree nature, and their defense of the outer areas of the city. They have hot air balloons which watch over the city, and much of the borders of the city are manned by their people. Their young people are encouraged to go on journeys of self discovery, to learn through personal experience. They specialize in adapting to new situations, and pick up new skills well, and among their skill sets include survival in the wild, and interaction with animals such as horses, dogs, and other animals used in farming and husbandry.

Clan Caelum protects the Monarch. They are made up of original clan members, usually those closely related to the monarch, and any people from other clans who have married into the clan. This clan is the most likely to recruit from outside its ranks through merit and trust to build and protect the city in a form of police force and secret service for the Monarch. Their youth spend their apprentice years working hard to prove themselves worthy of the respect of their elders and become officers in the corp of troops. They specialize in martial arts and weapons and are formidable fighters.

Why the heck am I still doing this I need to get a life.

They have their own form of a warrior code, and there are still parts of it that remain, particularly the rule about children. A lot of it is adapted of course but its still a code of honor.

Another thing which unites them is their religious beliefs. There is a temple which has a groups of priests? Oracles? Some form of religious people. And they teach that the clans were chosen from the beginning of time, and that those who live extraordinary lives, or something I dont know, will one day move on to the Starry Halls. Yeah this section is still sketchy.

Anyway, I dont know, I love working with fun possibilities and I love human warrior Aus.

Anyone want to plot with me? Maybe an rp? 

[irongate-rpg]

RULES

CLIQUES: “a small group of people with shared interests or other features in common, who spend time together and do not readily allow others to join them.” Cliqueness has appeared more in roleplay in the past year than most have ever seen. We feel as if “Activity” no longer belongs at the top of the rules, but this does. If you for any reason refuse to acknowledge other members of the group (leaving messages unread for a large amount of time but posting in the stream), this will resolve with a warning. There is no room in Iron Gate for anyone to be left out. If this continues to be a problem after the first warning, you will be removed from the group. We cannot have an active group when members only want to talk to their friends and no one else. If you feel like you don’t belong, re-evaluate and double check to make sure you’re including yourself in the blast or group activities. If people are ignoring you or leaving you on “read” for more than a week please reach out to the owners and we will resolve it. 

DRAMA/BULLYING:  “seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce (someone perceived as vulnerable).” There is a zero tolerance for out of character drama or bullying. If you are having issues with another member, work it out between the two of you. There is no need to take it beyond your conversation. We have seen many friendships die over friend A arguing with friend B, but ultimately friend B won your heart with a sob story. If you can’t resolve the issue, then feel free to bring it to The Cult Council on Discord or send a message to the page(you can bring it there anyway, they will help) and it will be resolved. If the issue isn’t resolved and it begins to spread around the group, the two original parties will be removed from the group with potential chances to regain membership. If at any point you plan to do something to intentionally make someone else feel uncomfortable, you will be gone and you will not be able to come back to the group. The Cult Council will screen very carefully. We are all just here to have fun, let’s not be children. [NOTE: If there is someone you do not get along with, and you cannot move on from past experiences, it will NOT be required that you speak to each other. We do ask that you are civil in the blast and that you do not spread drama because of it!] 

ACTIVITY: “the condition in which things are happening or being done.” So the group does not get slow, we have to keep up activity and keep interest going. You are free to use any of the resources that will be presented to you in any way you’d like. We do ask that you post on the stream ON THE SITE at least three times a week. We understand that people have jobs, school, and lives out of roleplay. However, we opted to use three days a week instead of four or five because we feel it would be easiest. You do NOT have to include a photo in all of your stream posts but you are more than welcome to! Posting on the DISCORD stream channel is also welcomed as much as your heart desires. We know that DISCORD stream is also a lot easier for other people. Just don’t forget to do site posts! We are also asking that members have at least 4 storylines at all times. If one of your storylines leaves or gets cut, we will give you two weeks to refill that spot without consequences. While we will not force you, we also ask that anyone you may not be able to build a solid storyline with, you have a connection with. You have three weeks to reply to any writing you are doing with another person. However, you are required to write with at least TWO of your storylines on the site. Writing MUST be at least 3 paragraphs. 

LAYOUTS: A complicated layout is not required. However, you do need one with at least your biography accessible. We also ask that you have a link to an owes list on your page. You have three weeks from the day you are accepted to have a layout up with your owes list, links completed and biography. If you need any assistance, please feel free to reach out to The Cult Council and they will help you! 

FACE CHANGES/CHARACTER CHANGES: It is important to pick a character that you love. We know that sometimes a character’s story dies out a little, but this group is focused on character driven activity to further dive into your character. We ask that you pick a face and a background that you think you could use for a lengthy amount of time. In the event that you would like a face change or character change request, we will direct you to the form where you can submit to The Cult Council’s page in a message. You get ONE free face change and ONE free character change. At either request after your free changes, we will then send you a survey to fill out for your character. If you need help with ideas, etc. you can also ask The Cult Council. If you can’t come up with anything, they will work with you from there! This is a character development type group. If that sounds like a hassle this group may not be for you. 

MARRIAGES/KIDS: Can you have these? Of course. We ask that if you are newly engaged, that you wait one month real time before your characters get married. Instead of complaining about the wait, you and your significant other could plan your wedding, and create a vision board for the group page to share! This is optional, however it’s just a suggested option. With pregnancies, we ask that you also wait a month in real time for your character to actually have the baby. Just because your character is pregnant does not mean your character has to HAVE the baby. Take that as you will. If you are entering with children already attached to your character, there will be a special welcoming prompt for you! 

SOCIAL MEDIA: Our preferred method is DISCORD, therefore, this is the social media that will be required for the group. You are allowed to have a multi-muse account, but if it all possible, we’d like your icon to be a picture of the character you have within Iron Gate. Your stream posts can be whatever social media you desire, however, real social media pages are not necessary unless it’s something you decide to do on your own. 

ACTIVITY CHECKS: There will be activity checks mostly related to furthering character development. Though they do get tiring, they’re a great way to dig deep. If you can get past that, you’ll be thoroughly excited when we mix in some activity checks that showcase your writing and creativity! These will most likely only be done twice a month, just because we understand that real life comes first. 

HIATUS: THERE WILL BE A HIATUS LIST TO LET EVERY MEMBER KNOW WHO IS NOT ACTIVE AT THE MOMENT. Hiatuses are given for up to 3 weeks with good reason. If you need anytime after that, it will be discussed with The Cult Council! 

BLAST: Last but not least, we will have a blast channel for the members to interact in. This channel is to be IN CHARACTER at ALL TIMES. No emojis or text talk, however, you are allowed to action. In fact, it is strongly encouraged! This is where we’re counting on you to include everyone who is in the blast. If you are purposely not including someone, we will personally reach out to you to see if there is an issue. 

THE CULT COUNCIL: If you’ve read this far, you have seen The Cult Council mentioned. The Cult Council are your owners. We have decided to try something new, and give the owners an unbiased MEMBER council so that you as members will feel more comfortable bringing any issues to The Cult Council. It will also help to know if the owner is doing something that people do not like, so they can re-evaluate how they do things. This is also an effort at deterring drama. The Cult Council will have not only a site page (the member’s page), but a Discord as well that a member can message at any time with any issues you may have. Iron Gate has a strict retaliation rule for the owner. Anything that you bring to the council about the owner, the owner cannot use against you.

[fyrapartnersearch]

Hi there! My name is Noam. I’m 22, use they/them pronouns, and I’m looking for a partner for an RP in the Star Wars, Animorphs, Naruto, or Marvel fandoms.

 A little bit more about me: I’m a big science fiction fan, and I love world-building, banter, and platonic relationships between characters (though I’m certainly not anti-shipping by any means). I have a fairly time-consuming job, so my free time is limited, but I will be able to reply at least twice a week if we’re doing longer posts, or every other day for shorter ones. My post lengths can vary—sometimes it’s appropriate to write only a few sentences, sometimes multiple paragraphs. I RP via e-mail at noam.ersatz@gmail.com

 I’ll happily write relationships between characters of any and all genders, but in general, romance isn’t my biggest priority while writing. I’m not opposed to smut, but I’m also not sure how good I am at writing it! If it happens, it happens, but I don’t want it to be the main focus of the story, and I’m totally fine with having a fade-to-black or just no sex at all. I will not write smut with anyone under 18, nor will I write smut that involves an underage character.

 I’m trans & gay myself, so if you want to have an LGBT OC, or an LGBT interpretation of a canon character, I’m totally down for that. (Or more colloquially: everyone in Star Wars is trans, fucking fight me)

If you’re interested, you can e-mail me at noam.ersatz@gmail.com!

The Fun Stuff (i.e., what I actually write):

Note that I have plot ideas for all these fandoms, and we can also come up with something together! 

 I’m very OC-friendly, please introduce me to your characters! I also enjoy doubling, mostly because I like group dynamics rather than for shipping reasons, but it’s definitely not required. I’ll ship pretty much anything, with a few exceptions that I’ll note as they come up.  I seriously love any kind of AU—modern, high fantasy, Victorian, role-swap AUs, lay it on me.

 ***Star Wars: I’ve always been a Star Wars fan, and with the new movies coming out, I’ve gotten back into the fandom in a major way. I’m mostly looking for something set during the original trilogy/Rogue One or the sequel trilogy years, because those are what I have plot ideas for. If you’ve got an interesting idea for the prequel years, though, I’m game!

Playing: Finn, Poe Dameron, Rey, Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, Bodhi Rook, Cassian Andor, Jyn Erso, Chirrut Imwe, Rose Tico, OCs.

Plots: 

-Two Stormtroopers plot to escape from the First Order together. One of them wants to join the Resistance, while the other wants to escape and start an ordinary life somewhere far away from the war, but they can’t bear to be separated.

 -[Vague TLJ spoilers] In the wake of the events of The Last Jedi, Rey and Finn are sent out to recruit allies for the Resistance—after all, a budding Jedi and an escaped Stormtrooper make for one hell of an advertisement. As their legend spreads, they’re contacted by someone who believes that they may know the truth about one (or both) of their families.

 -[Rogue One AU] The mission to Eadu never happens, and Galen Erso lives to see his weapon destroy Scarif. The crew of the Rogue One survive, but only because they’re captured by the Empire before the whole planet explodes. Bodhi Rook is immediately imprisoned in the Death Star’s brig, pending interrogation and what will undoubtedly be a very public execution. Jyn Erso is imprisoned on the Death Star as well, because the Empire believes that she may be used as leverage against her father. And Cassian Andor, unconscious and dressed in an Imperial Officer’s uniform, is assumed to be a loyal agent of the Empire and taken to the medical wing. The three friends must find each other and escape, before the secret of Cassian’s identity is uncovered or Bodhi breaks under torture—and before the Rebels destroy the Death Star, with them still on it.

(Note: we can absolutely change who and how many people survive, this is just the first idea I had.) 

-A member of the Resistance is contacted by a First Order officer looking to defect. The First Order officer is their sibling, who they haven’t seen since their own defection years ago. Their comrades had no idea that they were descended from a family of extremely wealthy and high-ranking First Order and Imperial officers, and their sibling had no idea that they were still alive.

**Animorphs: On the off-chance that anyone in this tiny fandom is active on this site, I’d love to do an Animorphs RP!

 Playing: Any of the six Animorphs, Tom Berenson, Aftran 942, Eva, OCs

Plots: 

 -Instead of becoming trapped as a nothlit, Aftran gains the morphing power instead, becoming the seventh Animorph. It goes better than David, but that’s still not saying much.

 -The Animorphs are contacted by the Yeerk Peace Movement, who want to work with the “Andalite bandits” to bring down the Empire once and for all. With the intelligence that the YPM have gathered, and their access to Yeerk bases and ships, the war for Earth could be over inside of a month. However, the YPM know of the Animorphs’ brutal reputation, and demand a show of trust to ensure that they’re not all slaughtered. If the Animorphs want to work alongside the Yeerks, one of them will have to become a Controller… 

-Instead of the canon Animorphs, our OCs find the morphing cube and a dying Elfangor instead! Listen, I never said that I was above wildly self-indulgent plots, that’s like the entire point of RPs.

*Marvel: I’m not as interested in Marvel these days, so this would have to be a really good plot. Mostly interested in X-Men (movies or comics). Mutant worldbuilding outside of the X-Men is always welcome.

Playing: Clint Barton, Sam Wilson, Matt Murdock, Scott Summers, Ororo Munroe, Bobby Drake, Kitty Pryde, Logan, Laura Kinney, Kurt Wagner, Erik Lehnsherr, OCs

Plots:  -[spoilers for Logan movie] Logan survives the border crossing, and makes it to the Canadian safe house with the kids, only to discover that it’s run by his old student, Kitty Pryde. The two friends reunite and settle in to a quiet life protecting the last mutant children—only to be immediately caught up in a mystery when one of them goes missing, along with a human child from a nearby town. The mutants are blamed for the missing child, and Kitty and Logan set out to find the kids before mob mentality can threaten their tiny community.

 -Somebody in New York City is killing mutants, and the NYPD’s only mutant homicide detectives are on the case.

*Naruto: Pretty much only looking for OCs, as I’m not that confident with any of the canon characters’ personalities. However, I still have a soft spot for the Naruto universe, so I’d love to do a roleplay set there!

-A genin team are saddled with an incredibly boring D-rank mission—delivering medicinal herbs to a small monastery in the mountains. Trouble arises when they discover that the monks are harboring a wounded enemy shinobi—and, being devout pacifists, they’re unwilling to surrender him.

 -Shinobi A is wounded in battle, presumed dead by their comrades, and left behind in a harsh environment (snowstorm, desert, whatever). As they struggle to find shelter, they come across Shinobi B, who has also been wounded and abandoned—and is from an enemy country. The two quickly realize that the only way for them to survive their injuries and their environments is to work together, at least temporarily.

[elaianna]

Now Hiring

Mission Statement

With recent expansion and new holdings, the Anchor Trading Company is in need of fresh and capable individuals to fill the existing and newfound contracts of trade. It is the mission statement of the Anchor Trading Company to operate from a position of lawful standing, impeccable integrity, and close-knit relations. Whilst a business, there is no small measure of family within the ranks. Those seeking mere salary of gold may find more than they bargained for, with loyalty and hospitality being returned in thrice-kind. As a primarily naval trading group, the Anchor Trading Company puts great value on seamanship, ethic of work, and determination to brave the unpredictability of our world. Avenues of employment are available both at home and abroad. Those taking interest may make swift and easy contact with any postal messenger that operates within the avenues of the Eastern Kingdoms and its Northern territories, care of Lady Elaianna Nesbitt-Stalsworth, Lord Thomas Stalsworth, or Miss Sabine Hadley. Titles of standing do not affect regular postal marked rates. For expedited responses to queries of interest and employ, please contact a Boralus stationed Anchor Trading Company representative at 312 Anchordrop Lane.

Our Out of Character Mission

Our guild was made with the original concept of being a safe environment for guild members, before all. We are like a family, close knit and always looking out for one another. To this day, we will always work to be sure our members are safe and comfortable, before we push any roleplay plot or interactions. When it comes to roleplay, we view it as an organic and leisure task. A hobby. We do not want anyone to feel stressed, and as if the guild and roleplay opportunities within it are a job OOC. We are a Company employing characters IC, but you are not our employees OOC. OOC you are our friends and co-writers.

What We Are Looking For

Our Alignment: Lawful Neutral We are a law abiding guild IC and expect any character that joins us to follow the laws. If they break a law, remember that IC actions have IC consequences. Where to find us: Office outside of the amphitheater of Unity Square, Boralus (look for the flag posts) Anchor Trading Company is looking for individuals who share a passion for driving plot forward. People who make opportunities for themselves, and take opportunities provided to them. We will not hold anyone’s hand and drag them through roleplay. You get what you put into it. Character wise, we are looking for a plethora of characters ranging from sailors to merchants to security to house staff (more information on these roles/ranks on our Guild Ranks page). Individuals must find themselves able to take jokes (and no when the jokes should end) and understand that this is a no drama area. Anyone that is seen looking for, and causing OOC drama repeatedly is not the type of person that will thrive in this atmosphere.

How We Recruit

We do not require an OOC interview, as our way of recruiting is more organic. We encourage you to interact with members, roleplay and get to know us. Write to us, let us know you are looking to apply for work as your character with the Company and we will organize an in character interview with one of our in character officers. With that being said, we realize that many guilds have an age restriction due to the nature of guild chat. While we like to cut up and have fun, we tend to keep things less on the mature side (in more ways than one as we are a bunch of hooligans). We allow players aged 16 and over in our guild. We do expect a certain level of maturity and respect in all our members. If you are interested in joining us and are below the age of eighteen, we ask that you notify us for your protection and ours. Failure to do so could result in removal.

Our tumblr website is still under construction, but many things from ranks, to member expectations and member blogs are up and running. We encourage perusing the site to get an even better idea about us!

Thank you for considering us!

@atc-wra