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8 days ago
Current A roleplay not for the timid: "The quest to restore the abandoned Waffle House"
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1 mo ago
I do agree with Yandere's sentiment that words not wording workingly do be a problem this time of year.
1 mo ago
Scratch that, place your bets on polymarket.
1 mo ago
Looks like I'll be working on memorial day weekend. And no, this does not mean place any bets on polymarket.
2 mos ago
due to a typo on my part I was nearly convinced I owed the IRS nearly $3000 in excess taxes this year.
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Bio

-There will be delays in replies. Largely due to working overtime, voluntary obligations; other RPs and online-things may compete for my attention.

'Bout me:
Started RPing (badly) back in '05, mostly doing nation-RPs with an emphasis on technology and strategy, later edging out to character-espionage and military-tactics before doing "less serious" character roleplays that were outside of the 2005-2008 continuity.

That's when I went to Dead-Frontier, and found the RP community there, joined a clan, did some pretty good roleplays and pretty much loosened-up my online-personality. When the clan-leader decided to move her RPs here, most of the clan followed.

Took a course in technical-writing back in '08, so now I may sometimes use the semicolon correctly.

In 2010 I dusted off the old nation-RP continuity I had, doing a few hetelia-esque RP-shenanigans there..

RP-Habbits: I tend to geek-out on little technical-details, and sometimes infer how those details would impact the background of the roleplay. Great for world-building, not so great when you had a perfectly good plotline and I just MacGyver it off the rails (though I usually er to the side of amusement, sometimes it creates very grim side-stories).

Most Recent Posts

Banned for banning a pun! (I'm the princess of cat puns so banning puns is like banning a part of me)


Banned for nyat making a cat-pun.
Banned because I'm rather fond of sticking to a single unified account.
Banned for not catching the Warframe reference in the sig.
Banned for not making that ban ironic enough to succeed.
Another is try and describe something for the first time to a hyper-inquisitive five year old. Employ all five senses and all six thought-processes and how that effects all motives independently.
-Then figure out how to write that as concisely as possible without any loss in detail.

Second and third time around you can trim those details.

When introducing a character, it is often necessary to figure out how that character ended up where they are. Depending on the sort of story, you may feel the need to omit explaining their entire life's story, but generally it's better to have more detail than less. At least until you get a feel for what sort of overly-long lengths of prose are tiresome to your readers. Spoiler-tabs are a nice way to compromise, but are only a crutch for good writing.

Anything "average" should generally be left up to the reader whenever possible. Just keep in mind, "average" is as defined by your partner's ideals and expectations, not yours.

-One case of this nearly breaking-down in an RP was a misunderstanding on the relative sizes of dragons and giants.

-Or mechs and dismounted footsoldiers (infinite Stratos has a wierd scale, and are comparable to Archwings)
Banned for bringing irony to a meme-war.
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Banned for not inconstructively turning your ban into a compliment.
Banned because you have demonstrated you cannot self-ban yourself enough to go to sleep.
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