creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.

IJ is fail. If you tag can you let me know? I don't think I'm getting all of them... or they take forever if I do get them.

I really want to do a game on the Dark Heaven's Trilogy by Kylie Chan

Anyone know of them and would be interested?

MISFITS
24 » MISCELLANEOUS



( “I’m pretty sure this breaches the terms of my Asbo.” )

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If I'm missing any can you let me know? Thanks! :)

These are the threads I am currently involved in in all games. I previously had the list only posted in Harmony but since I have threads elsewhere...

They are in chronological order by game.

Strike outs are ones I don't owe, plain text I still owe. Italics are on hold for one reason or another.

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MAGGIE Q
96 » PHOTOSHOOTS



( “I’m just totally into being strong. There’s something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog’s bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There’s comfort in that.” )

JAMES CALLIS
96 » BATTLESTAR GALACTICA » “HEAD GAIUS”



( “Start with the elephants.” )

MICHELLE MCCOOL
83 » MISCELLANEOUS



( “It’s not easy to filter out all the negative things people say and/or write about you. It’s not easy to go down the road less travelled. It’s not easy to always be yourself.” )

For the health and sanity of Nrys/Iriock/Second Chance systems and relationships, I think we need to set some ground rules and expectations for when we all are face to face next time.

Things I need for my own sanity (and this is for BOTH other systems):

1. Time to myself at least once a day, for at least 2 hours. I realize now that I really do need it. It helps my mood and it makes me HAPPY to see the people around me, instead of resentful that I didn't get any time to myself.

2. For everyone to just pick up after themselves, so we don't feel like we're spending all of our time taking care of the house. We want to have fun too. Picking up after yourself doesn't mean putting things in piles, but putting things AWAY where they are meant to go. I try to keep the house up as much as possible, but when no one is doing their part, it gets utterly ridiculous really fast.

3. Dishes done by people who are NOT ME when I cook. And in a timely manner. This means either you all can do them together, or you can take turns. I don't care HOW they get done, just get them done, and get over it. We're all adults. Let's act like it.

4. Not eating out every meal. Or even every other meal. It's unhealthy, and we gain weight every time, and it makes this body VERY ill.

5. No pets bought on a whim. Every time, we then spend the rest of the year figuring out how to take care of said pets and feeling bad that they aren't getting as much attention as our own pets. I love animals, and we get caught up in the moment. Please let's keep Iriock sane by not making this an issue anymore.

6. Not spending $300-500 per week during the time Second Chance is here. It throws our budget off for 2-4 months and causes stress and panic. I'd like to NOT have that be a problem.

7. A pre-determined plan for at least 30% of the time. And not just "I want to get out of the house" but things like "On the weekend of the ______th, I would like to go to St. Louis, because I hear there's a great art show/game/festival/etc." MY trying to plan things out for everyone doesn't work, because I just don't care enough to plan it all out. It's not my tourist vacation. I'm more than willing to go wherever people want, even to drive all over hell and back, but I REALLY don't want to plan it. Nor do I want it to be expected that I'll pay for plans. If you find a really cool plan, and it's going to cost $10-$20 bucks a person, either expect to pay for everyone to go, or to at least run it by everyone to verify we have that kind of money. We are po' folks. Let's keep it in mind.

8. I REALLY don't want to hear whinging about how little money there is for things. I stress and panic about money. Tell me your budget and either let me keep track of it (and I WILL make you stick to it) or don't tell me the budget and simply say "there's not money for that". Trust me, it will save us ALL a lot of stress.

9. I hate being told who can be out when. Let's knock that off. Multiplicity in Iriock is an organic thing. People will come and go and sometimes you won't know them, or like them, and you're just going to have to DEAL with it. That means sometimes people won't get time they want. It means sometimes in the middle of a "scheduled time", you may get kids/animals/walk-ins/frienamies/etc you aren't expecting. Roll with it. It'll make everyone happier if they feel they aren't being BANNED from being out.

10. Each relationship between the bodies is important. Nyrs doesn't disappear from Iriock's life just because Second Chance is in the house. This is really to remind US. Because we SUCK at figuring out how to balance our life. We are going to try to do a LOT better at this, by taking time to spend JUST with Nyrs sometimes when Second Chance is here. That isn't a "I don't want to spend time with SecC", it's "I want to have a marriage left when SecC goes back to the UK". Because... um, I almost didn't this last time. Or the time before. Or the time before that. And I'd like to NOT spend 6 months trying to get my relationship back to some semblance of normalcy.



Okay, that's it for now. Now it's you all's turns. Post the things you need. And I assure you that this will get longer as I think of more. Discuss it in the comments, bitch, rant, growl.. whatever. Feel free to say "you're being really harsh" or "amen" or even "Fuck off, Iriock people" if you want to. I'm cool with it. I'm just wanting to open a dialog the three of us haven't had yet.

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Ummm. . . to those few in games with me who read this, I apologize for falling off the face of the planet. I've been sick to death and bouncing in and out of the hospital for like a month and a half I think.

Am home now, and will be trying to catch up in coming days. I think one of my two games is dead. Which makes me feel both more guilty for being M.I.A. and less. Weird.

So. How's everyone?

I've been uploading icons all day. I have at least some icons uploaded for all accounts, I believe. Yesterday I did Chuck, Lorelai and Elena for Harmony and today I did Marlene for Busillis, all of my accounts for the PSLs with Kassi (save for Dominic because I haven't gotten around to finding his account and all that and Logan because I still need to make his icons) and all accounts for the PSL with Kassi and Megan (Cordelia has very few because I can't find enough icons for her... I'll have to make them)

This is going to be my plotting thread for the Next Gen Kids Kids PSL since I'm not around much and hard to reach.

I'm going to list my characters, a little blurb about their personality and beneath that list each of their love interests, siblings, cousins etc and if I have anything to start us off on plotting their relationships I'll add that, if not I'll leave it blank and we can come up with something. This is only what I knew, so I know some relationships might be missing. Also, none of mine have specified best friends yet, so if you think any specific characters of yours would get along with them really well, let me know.

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Let me know what you think <3

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Happy Thanksgiving!

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Basically starting over again sucks. I am now in only one game that I was also in yesterday, yet five games total. Blech. NO MORE. Nobody ask me to join more. I shouldn't have been suckered into most of these.

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The events of the last few weeks have really left me uninterested in HP RP, to be honest. And it's not down to just one person or game, so don't anyone be getting any ideas; it's basically EVERY person in EVERY game I'm in, being dramatic and bitchy and unfair. I'm sick of the gossip, I'm sick of the backstabbing, I'm sick of OOC being more important than IC, and I'm sick of how every time I start to develop a really interesting story, something goes wrong and the game implodes or dies.

You know, whenever a game starts to get slow, people always want to justify it with "It's just that time of year." I, for one, am not buying it anymore. Barring this OOC drama, BW was ALWAYS active, and therefore the people in other games have NO excuse. It's not that time of year. It's that this fandom is full of immature, bitchy brats who let OOC politics come before playing the game, and that includes every one of us, especially myself.

There IS no such thing as a drama-free game, and there never will be, because we're all dramatic. Comes of being writers. Nothing wrong with that. What IS wrong with it is that people seem incapable nowadays of obeying the IC/OOC line, not overidentifying with their characters, and allowing IC to come first. With the number of games I've seen killed this year through miscommunication, you'd think the fandom would've learned, but no. Everyone flocks to the next best thing and does the same thing all over again, retreating further and further into their little cliques, until there's nothing left.

I've been RPing since I was twelve, but I've only been doing HP for almost three years, much less than most of the people on my flist. And in those three years, I've never seen a game die a peaceful death. I've heard about those mythical games that close when the plot runs its course, but every one I've been in has collapsed due to lack of activity, or OOC drama. You try to get people to be active (and again, not just talking about BW), and that CAUSES OOC drama, because at this point most of the fandom is bored as fuck but doesn't know how to quit.

I really wish I knew how to quit. I can count on one hand the number of people I still actively want to play with, and some of them hate each other, and of course we can't ever get past that for the sake of a game, can we? Because we are our characters, and our characters are us, and I don't mean in a Mary Sue way. We all take everything SO fucking personally. And I'm tired of it. I'm tired of the stress, and I'm tired of not being sure what people really think of me. I'm tired of always being able to find something to complain about, and rarely being able to find something to cheer. And every time I tell myself "For God's sake, just quit," I also tell myself "But you're too upset right now, you won't make a rational decision."

I don't know what to do, really. I love my characters, and there are many games I have loved, and many, many players I have loved and still do love. But here is my current conundrum, and now I really will address the BW situation directly (I'm sure you're all thrilled): I need a game with relatively high activity requirements. Not along the lines of "post every day" or anything ridiculous like that, but I always liked what we had at WR. A journal every week, a thread every two weeks. Any game I have EVER been in that required less than that was too slow, and that includes BW, where I am the activity keeper and where a shocking amount of characters had posted only one or two things in two weeks, journals and threads both. It was just easier to miss the signs, there, because so many characters were VERY active, but it's not so at most games.

I need activity, and I need requirements, and for people to be held to those requirements, and please don't bitch to me about what specifically happened at BW, which has no requirements. And I worry that, with apparently the whole fandom up in arms, suddenly people are going to go "LOL JUST POST ONCE A MONTH, YOU'LL BE FINE" everywhere. I've already seen it at at least one game, though admittedly that was a PSL.

You know what that leads to? A hint: NOT PEOPLE BEING ACTIVE.

And I can't stand that. There is nothing that drives me away from a game faster than it being slow, and characters posting next to nothing, and the mods doing NOTHING about it, and I'm not calling anyone out in particular, but I'm pretty sure that the end result of the BW clusterfuck is going to be the whole fandom turning around and acting like actually playing the game doesn't matter as much as not hurting people's feelings by telling them they're not good enough with the activity. And that is what matters to me, and I have spent the last week not feeling able to play my characters because of worrying about OOC bullshit, and I am sick to death of it. And if I'm right, and this explosion is going to turn EVERY game into the kind of lazy-ass game I loathe, maybe I am better off just finding a new hobby.

CLAUDIA BLACK
386 » FARSCAPE: THE PEACEKEEPER WARS



( “You don’t just protect me, we protect each other.” )