Roseboro, North Carolina. Now closed to the public. Thanks for turning our tiny little town into a well-loved home on Tumblr.
until next time and love always,
Sara & Trace
For future reference, any roleplay opened using the url @stonegaterp (or another potentially related url) is NOT affiliated with this group, and does NOT have permission to use our name, intellectual property, nor any of our content.
Thought we politely asked for ownership of the url stonegaterp so we could protect ourselves from plagiarism attempts in the future, we have been unable to claim it. If you are the current owner of the stonegaterp url, we request that you please release the url so that we may more carefully protect our copyright.
While we hope that we will never again be faced with someone stealing our intellectual property, we felt it was important to publicly inform our friends & the roleplay community at large of the current state of affairs.
If at any time in the future we decide to open a revamp/continuation of Stonegate (or start a new group entirely), we will post an announcement here to let you all know.
Hope 2016 has been treating you better than it’s been treating us!
I LOVE YOU GUYS AND I MISS YOU AND I HOPE YOUR LIVES ARE GREAT AND STUFF HMU ON SKYPE BECAUSE I WANT TO TALK TO YOU NERDS <3 -the smol mun behind my bby nerd ballet dancer
Miss you & love you too, my princess. I hope things are well! <3
PS I don’t think I have you on skype, but feel free to add me: neonpinkmoron
I use to be in this group :( I joined for a while, left, then came back and ended up leaving again, but gosh, I honestly loved this group and I was so surprised when I checked back and saw that it was closed. I enjoyed it so much in the short time I was here and I wish you and all of Stonegate's members the best <333
Thank you for such a sweet message, and thank you for spending time with us. Love you and miss you always. <3333
While I’m sure this doesn’t catch any of you by surprise, it’s time we officially announce – Stonegate is closing. In the next 24 hours we will be replacing the theme with one that removes access to our posts and pages.
We welcome you to continue playing your characters, either here on the dash or taking them elsewhere with you. We’ll probably check in from time to time just to say hi. If you plan to take a canon somewhere else, we just ask that you please rewrite their bio in your own words and link to the main as credit for the original idea.
Feel free to spend the next 24 hours talking to each other IC and OOC, making sure you’ve reblogged your characters’ bio onto your blog, and saving any other memorabilia you want from the main (like Prom King graphics, etc.).
In case you were wondering, nothing went wrong, it was nothing any of you did, and it most certainly is not because we stopped loving the group or all of you. The short version: Trace and I are both too busy to dedicate the time and energy to be the admins that Stonegate deserves, so that you can have events and activities and a thriving dash full of wonderful roleplayers. We don’t want to be the admins who just scrape by, because you deserve more than that. We used to give you more than that, and we want you all to find a home where you have that.
Both my and Trace’s long versions are below the read more. Before you jump down, I want to reiterate one more time just how much we love all of you, what a pleasure it has been to be your admins, and how glad we are to have shared this group with all of you. We would not have had a group without you, and we thank you for bringing so much to our small little town hidden in the middle of tumblr.
We wish you all the best of luck for the future, from the bottom of our hearts. And we know, we’ll see you again.
Until next time and love always,
Sara & Trace
The past two years of my life with this group have been intense. Yes, there were some bad times (rude anons are my least favorite thing in the world), but there were a million amazing moments. You all brought to life characters that I loved, and wrote OCs that were beyond anything I could have imagined myself. I am so, so, so thankful for that.
I had a ton of fun creating Homecoming and Winterfest and making microsites with lots of scheduled events and hashtags. I enjoyed having messy dramatic ships, and friendship/enemy plots with literally all of you. To those of you who came in as admins and mods, or those of you who stepped up to run really creative sideblogs or just make graphics to help keep the main up-to-date, thank you. Thank you for everything that you all have given to make this group as absolutely wonderful as it was.
I know every time we post an announcement I refer to you as my family, but I want you to know that is exactly how I see you. You are all my children and my siblings, and I love all of you so much I don’t have words to express it. From those of you who were only members for a few short weeks, to those of you who left and came back three times, current members and past members, you are all a part of my family, and I’m grateful that I had the opportunity to get to know all you.
Traci, where do I even begin? Thank you. For putting up with me when I was a raging bitch, for pulling me back down to Earth when I got too big for my britches, for going above and beyond to complete tasks that I started but didn’t have time to finish, for being my left hand sometimes my right hand too. Thank you for being so dependable and reliable, and the kind of admin I could put 100% of my trust into. Thank you for going on this journey with me, and thank you for sticking through it until the very end with me. We really made something awesome, didn’t we? I know our friendship isn’t going anywhere, and I can’t wait for the next adventure we take together.
If by some miracle you’re still reading my post, please keep in touch. I never go on my personal, but it’s here if you want it. Stalk me on Twitter, and please for the love of god send me Skype messages (my user is neonpinkmoron) so I don’t get bored at work. I have lots of other social media too, so wherever you’d like to talk to me, please ask me for that account.
Thank you. Really, truly, 600% thank you. Thank you to all of you for making Stonegate feel like a real place, full of real people and events. Thank you for being my family for the last two years. I love you, and I know I will see all of you again.
<3 Sara
It’s harder to write this than I thought.
I always knew there would be an end to Stonegate but it always seemed so distant and far away. The truth of the matter is that life doesn’t stop and some things have expiration dates. Whether it be for the fictional teens we created or ourselves, it sucks, really sucks, but it’s life.
I’ve immensely enjoyed getting to know all of you, playing with you, watching your creativity grow and flourish. You’re all so damn talented. I wish each and every one of you the absolute best in life and hope that at some point we meet again. You, just as much as Sara and I, made this place what it is. There was no game without you.
To those I’ve worked with we’ve had our differences. There have been tears and laughter, arguments and times where we could get nothing done because we were goofing off too much. I thank you so much for helping Stonegate become what it has. Seriously, you all rock.
To Sara…Sara, Sara, Sara
Did you think we’d get here? Twenty-three months? Well, two years for us since we were working for about a month beforehand but whatever…
I’m so proud of us.
We’ve been through a lot together here and at Sux and I couldn’t have picked a better person to go on this journey with. You’re so talented that it blows my mind and so tech savvy that I’m pretty sure I should pay you for all of the troubleshooting you’ve done for me. We’ve been skyping all morning and I know in my bones this isn’t the end for us. We’ll play again when life slows down a bit. It’s inevitable. Thank you for everything. Everything.
So…if you want to keep in touch, I’m always somewhere not too far away. You can catch me here or here, and some of you have my Skype and Kik. I’m truly only a click away.
are you still doing the send in the pictures for the yearbook thing. or are you guys going to try something new?
Our yearbook blog is no longer active, but if you’d like to run one we’d be down! We do still have a radio blog that Lane could probably hook you up with, and a confessions blog you can send stuff in for. We’re always open to new ideas too!
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it "
- Alan “AJ” Tham Jr., 17, Junior
Loud from the moment he entered the world, it was never a shock to Alan's parents the kind of person he'd become. He's opinionated, educated, always the one to have the last word in an argument. He's always been this way. His older brother actually hates arguing or debating recent events and hot button issues when the two of them are home, because Alan is a pitbull. Once he puts his belief into something, sinks his teeth into it, he's not letting it go until he's forced. It's how he got the big bedroom, how he got his English grade bumped to a 90 from an 89. It's also how his freshman year English teacher got the idea to suggest debate team to him, opening up a whole new world for Alan.
Where it wasn't acceptable to argue politics or foreign affairs with his soccer teammates, it was perfectly okay to stand up from his seat and defend his points at club meetings. Where even his fellow student government officials rolled their eyes when he proposed a new topic, the debate team welcomed it. Having the personality he has, it had always been harder for him to keep friends, to be accepted. Not that it bothered him, but it had made him certain that the relationships he did keep did matter. And while he differs from his friends on many topics (namely religion and his fairly conservative Republican views), there are lines he will never cross and things he will not stand for. But like with every good debate,there are defined sides, and the more arguments it has the better the debate is. That, to Alan, is the best thing. Your right to speak your mind, to argue, to have a voice - that’s one thing he’ll defend to the grave.
That's not always the easiest to explain to others, though. Whereas Alan thrived off of debate, it seemed others closed off at the mere thought that someone disagreed with them. Whenever he tried to people that he didn't care if he personally thought they were wrong as long as they had their voice, all anyone seemed to hear was "I think you're wrong" and pulled away almost instantly. His eyes were just open to the fact that in this world there are so many who are oppressed, unable to even have an opinion. It’s the alienation, the people who perceive him to be something he isn’t, that bothered him almost as much as the social issues he argues about. You can be a good person and be socially conscious. You can be opinionated and still accept your opponent having an opinion - the one thing his classmates seem to not be able to do.
When Mason Greggs moved to Roseboro from Charleston in the eighth grade, he found it to be quite a shock. Not only was it quieter and smaller, but it was so much harder for him to make friends and that was saying something. Having only had a handful of friends back in Charleston, Mason hoped that things would be different with the move, but he was sorely mistaken. He ate lunch alone in the library, didn’t join any teams or clubs out of fear of being judged, and sat silent in most of his classes. It was as if he was invisible though he put in very little effort to have himself be seen. A rather sweet kid, he was eventually befriended by the “misfits” of Roseboro. The kids who shopped at Hot Topic, listened to bands that most people hadn’t heard of, and didn’t care what anyone thought of them. Feeling the need to fit in or be forever alone, Mason slowly changed his way of being to match his new found friends. His jeans became tighter, his shirts represented bands he barely tolerated, and his attitude did a 180. His parents were confused but as psychologists, they chalked it up to a rebellious phase that he would soon grow out of.
It only grew worse as he entered high school, his new persona somehow making him popular, something he had always dreamed of being. Only now Mason is over it. He wants to be his old charming, goofy, still sarcastic self. He wants to join the baseball team and put those years of Little League in South Carolina to good use. Most of all, he doesn’t want to finish high school pretending to be someone that he isn’t. He doesn’t want to be callous and sometimes cruel, his words bypassing any filter he once had. He doesn’t want to be so easily influenced. He wants to be a leader and not a follower. It isn’t that he hates his friends, he accepts full responsibility for his getting in this deep, but that he resents himself and his decision to become this person. The thing that scares him the most is the thought that if he does change himself, will he revert back to the friendless kid he was when he first moved? Will it still happen even if he knows deep down that the friends who found him in the library have an idea of who he once was and really is? After all, high school is a popularity contest and being accepted is everything.
All messages for tonight’s acceptance have been sent out! If you don’t have one in your inbox, message us ASAP so we can let you know the results! On that note, I’m taking my tired self to bed, and will see your lovely faces on the dash in the morning.
Nope, I’m a little more than halfway through. Got stuck on a couple of apps that I needed some additional discussion for. I’ll post a message on the main when I’m done with everyone!
Acceptance time tonight is being pushed back one hour! Applications will be accepted at 9:45pm EST with messages going out after 10pm. This is only for tonight so to any stragglers...it's your lucky night!
