hey it's been a while! i hope things are going well for you
...My ask box is still broken and not giving me notifications.I only knew to look cuz I saw the dash banner notification thingy. ::(There’s a couple other messages in my inbox, but I’d like to keep them cuz they’re just sweet words and I dunno how to respond right now.
Things are going really great, though, and thank you for the sentiment!Everything has settled down a lot since the whole A51 thing, but I’m still working a lot.Not going to bore you with business, though.Emmett’s moved in, and he’s still doing landscaping but he’s also started selling things he’s carved.I’ve been working on myself?I’m doing a lot better, and I feel a lot safer... It’s gotten easier to talk about myself and be open, and remember that it’s okay to do that and I’m not overstepping or anything.Been a long time since I last dissociated - or tried to sugarcoat it by calling it “autopiloting”.There’s really no need for me to be afraid of that anymore, and it’s really relieving for things to be that way.I’ve seen doctors a few times, without panicking, and I’m physically healthy.Like, for real, not my old “if you glaze over all these glaring issues, I’m fine!”I even cut back on smoking, down to three a day (nobody was injured and no property was destroyed in the process, either).
I feel like I gotta complain about something, but all I’m coming up with is how busted this website is.I get sick in the morning sometimes, but that’s to be expected and not a real cause for concern, so. We’re all alright.
I hope things are going well for all of you guys, too.
Holy shit, I was only gone for a few months and this website seems to have been bought out and remodeled by a very disgruntled former Fisher Price employee.
HAPPY TRAILS YOU STUPEDOUS FASCINATINGLY MARVELOUS BREATHTAKING AND REMARKABLE QUEEN OF EVERYTHING EPIC AND AWESOME. I WISH YOU THE BEST IN TRAILBLAZING TO YOUR NEW WEBSITE HOME. I'M SO GLAD I COULD TALK TO YOU A BIT WHILE YOU WERE HERE, AND I WILL MISS YOU, BUT PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE MAJESTIC AND IMPRESSIVE AND AN OVERALL MAGNIFICENT PERSON, EVEN WHEN TIMES ARE CRAPPY. AND, AS ALWAYS, HAVE A ROCKING WEEKEND!!! <3<3 -Fridayanon
Thank you, so much.You’ve been an absolute delight the past years (years, holy shit) and I always looked forward to your messages.There were a lot of times where they were the highlight of my day, and knocked bad days on their asses.I’m definitely gonna miss you, too.
I hope your weekend is a boss one, too. ::)Always remember you’re a great person, a positive presence, and an amazing friend.I was very lucky to have you around.
to be blunt, i think this is it for bran (and mason) on tumblr. we may return at a later date, but i can’t promise if or when that would happen. i’ll be periodically checking up on this blog for a while, and bran might post every now and then, but i think it’s time to make like a tree and get the fuck out of here.
i’m not going to stop roleplaying these characters, and i won’t be deleting the accounts, although i may be blacking out/taking down some information.
we’re just moving to toyhou.se in lieu of tumblr. if you’re interested in joining toyhou.se, feel free to contact me and i’ll get you an invite code as soon as i can. however, i can only generate a certain amount of invite codes per week, so there may be a wait. sorry! :’v
here’s some contact information:
personal blog - neqora (i don’t actually post much here, i just reblog comic book stuff and cat pictures. i am also not too big on following people back, unless i know them :’v so be prepared i guess)
toyhou.se - walrider
flight rising - walrider
guild wars 2 - walrider.8693
steam - sardonicpuppeteer
i (still) don’t have a skype + won’t be getting one though
i’m gonna stick a readmore here, but below the cut i talk about the reasons behind the move. don’t worry though, nothing happened, i’m okay. the short version is that 50% of the problem is that this website doesn’t work, and 50% because i want to do things it wasn’t really designed for.
the technical difficulties bran has been posting about IC for a while have been extremely frustrating on an OOC level. my personal dash is usually somewhat functional, but i can’t consistently/reliably use my RP blogs, which means i cannot keep them decently active. the only things that function consistently are my queue and theme editor, and that =/= a roleplay blog. my confidence in this issue being corrected or finding a fix for it is, uh, nonexistent.
(i’ve always said that i’d move if i ever found a platform better than tumblr, but i never figured that i’d be essentially forced to move. thanks, tumblr, you big blue piece of shit.)
beyond that, i’ve just kinda figured out that tumblr is not a suitable platform for LV’s story.
for one thing, tumblr RP relies very heavily on real-time posting. there’s always writing things and saying they already happened/will happen, but when it comes to keeping a blog active, you run into a lot of potholes; namely feeling bad for posting IC while a plot is happening... but also feeling bad for not posting.
for another, tumblr also makes it difficult to run multiple characters; you have to have multiple accounts, switching between them is a pain, and i always feel guilty if i’m not equally active across all of them. the site we’re moving to fixes this problem smoothly because toyhou.se allows you to have multiple characters on one account and switch between them easily.
real-time RP also places a certain amount of pressure on other roleplayers to stay tuned in and up to date on their dashes. the load needed to be eased up a little, and again, the site we’re moving to provided a great solution.
beyond that, i feel that i’ve kind of grown out of this? bran has, too. we’ve been here for four years now, and at this point there’s not a lot that bran hasn’t done. but bran hasn’t stagnated as a character, and there’s still a lot that i feel i can do with them, just... maybe not here, you know? we need a bit of a blank slate. the kind that just remaking a blog can’t provide; especially since an audience isn’t always especially receptive to rewrites / redacting info / etc.
(there’s also the fact that i’ve wanted to really write something with bran and aim towards getting it published. i’m concerned that i wouldn’t be able to do that, or do it as easily, if i’m actively roleplaying them on such a public platform at the same time.)
i do feel pretty guilty about this. there’s been a lot of people who have told me that bran has helped them in some way, and that’s what has kept me going for so long. i have always kept a folder of screenshots of the nice things people have said to me or to bran, and all the messages people have sent saying that bran has given them advice that helped, or just that bran’s blog has helped cheer them up or make them feel confident. i worry that i’m taking a positive influence or resource away from people, which i don’t want to do. but i don’t know what else to do, really. i hope that i’m not letting anyone down by doing this.
i’ve met a lot of people and i greatly appreciate the support everyone has given, and i’m gonna be keeping that folder of nice messages for a long, long time. you’ve all helped me improve as a person and a writer, and i feel bad that i couldn’t return the favor in any way other than just roleplaying a demonic wine mom. thank you all. i really mean that.
“Oh, how that Old Testament demon must have howled and shrieked at the sight of young David’s harp, seeing at work a form of ancient magic that can pierce any darkness. The walking meat horror knew what was coming, that the same power was about to be tapped.
John nodded, as if to say, “Checkmate.”
He pushed the “play” button.
Sound filled the room, a crystal melody that could lift any human heart and turn away any devil.
It was “Here I Go Again” by Whitesnake.
HAPPY FRIDAY YOU STUPENDOUS INCREDIBLE AWESOME INVENTIVE CREATIVE INDIVIDUAL YOU. YOU'VE BEAT ANOTHER WEEK INTO THE GROUND AND NOW IT'S TIME FOR WEEKEND VICTORY DANCES. I HOPE YOURS INVOLVES YOUR FAVORITE FOOD AND MOVIES AND UNEXPECTED BUT VERY PLEASANT NAPS.
Thank you!
I’m not sure what my plans for this weekend are specifically but I do know I’m gonna get up to something for Mother’s Day thanks to my favorite adopted tin can.I’m really looking forward to whatever it is.
I hope your weekend is great and restful and entertaining and devoid of stress!
John and I had looked into the case of a Wisconsin guy who spontaneously combusted while driving his green Oldsmobile last year. We had one witness who claimed the flames formed a huge, satanic hand at the moment of explosion. We went up there, talked to a few people, came up with nothing. Eventually we get a call from a goth kid up there who was heavily into Satan worship. The kid said he had made a pact with Satan to kill both of his parents, then backed out of it when his mom unexpectedly bought him a video game console. The kid, as it turned out, also drove an olive-green Oldsmobile.
The avenging demon—or whatever it was—got the wrong car, barbecued the wrong guy. So they can make mistakes. They can confuse identities. The kid felt terrible about it and from then on spent every night on his knees, praying to God for another chance. For my own safety I pray that Brad Pitt doesn’t do anything to piss off the dark realms.
