Hello, everyone! It’s that time again! If you’ve gone onto the main, I’m sure you’ve noticed a completely new look for the spring season! With that revamp we’ve also made a few other changes around here. This post is lengthy, but please read it all. Many of the changes are to the rules and we want to make sure everyone is on the same page!
Each acceptance round will be limited to a maximum of five apps. Why? We’ve decided in order to accommodate to new members being introduced, we’d rather have a cap and be able to adjust and give our focus to those new characters and members. If we get more than five apps, we will put the apps on hold for next acceptance date!
We’ve decided to cap FC changes at one per character.
We’re opening up secondary characters again! So, if you only have one or two, you’re more than welcome to apply for another. However, we are still asking you come to us first and present the idea to us beforehand. If you submit an app without coming to us, it will automatically be denied and you will not be accepted.
We are doing activity checks twice a week, checking for activity in the past 72 hours. If you end up on activity, you have 24 hours to become active again or check back in with the admins or your FC will be opened up. Keep in mind, we post activity checks at noon EST, which means noon is the cutoff. Monday activity checks go back to Friday. If you made a post on Friday before noon EST, you will end up on activity check. If you made it after noon EST, you are fine. Same goes for activity checks for Thursday, which check back to activity by noon EST Monday. Once again, photos, muse quotes, and other miscellaneous muse inspo will not count for activity. If you have a queue of muse related post, we will notice and we will put you on activity check if no other IC interactions have taken place.
If we noticed that you haven't been as active as we hoped you to be or if we noticed that you've been bubbling / clique-ing with only few people, we will come to you and give you a warning. If even after a warning you still haven't improve your activity or break out of your bubble, there will be penalties. You won't be allowed to take up on a new character until you can pick up your activity and we can deny your plot request or wanted connection request based on your activity. All the activities rules apply to all of your characters in this group, you must be consistently active across all of your characters, if you fail to do so, we might ask you to drop at least one of your character.
One word replies are not allowed. Gif replies are not allowed. Starters with only gif are not allowed. We’ve never explicitly stated it, but we are a literary roleplay. This means the focus lies in writing. We’ve always been flexible with how you choose to roleplay-- whether you prefer gif convos or paras or writing out dialogue or combining gif convos with paras. It doesn’t matter, but please, please remember the focus lies in writing. This is why we ask for a para sample and a biography that is at least two, good paragraphs. In this same vein, we ask that you are also wary of grammar. We know not everyone has English as a first language (some of your admins speak it as a second), and that’s totally cool! We know mistakes get made. Typos are inevitable. Autocorrect is a bitch. That all being said, we hope that you do make an effort when you type your replies as far as grammar and spelling are concerned. Again, we don’t expect perfection or even an exceptional piece of literature, but we are a literary roleplay and we can tell when you make the effort vs. when your replies are littered with errors and there was no effort at all. It discourages those of us who do put in the time (especially those of us working doubly hard who speak English as a second language). You give what you get!
Female character ban is still in place, though will see a lift in the near future.
Please visit our rule page again to refresh your memory here. We know there are a lot of new rules and while we hate policing everyone, but the circumstances around the roleplay as of late calls for these new rules, and we hope these new rules will help this group to be better in the future.
Plot request form. Here you can find a form so that it makes it easier to request a plot and you don’t have to worry if you forgot to include something or not and we have all the information on hand for admins to review! Please do this for all plots you have in mind especially the big plot / major development you want for your characters, because we don’t want to ask you to terminate the ongoing plot because maybe it’s not something we can approve, and you didn’t came to us before doing the plot to check with us.
Name masterlist. Because we do not allow for the same names to repeat, we’ve included a name masterlist, this way it makes it easier to figure out if the name you want is taken. Please be aware we also ask that similar names also be avoided (i.e. Sophie and Sophia are extremely similar), and we do not take spelling into account (i.e. Sofia is the same as Sophia). The same goes for last names, unless you are taking up the relative of a character. We also take nicknames into account.
Please, please remember our three starter rule. If you’d like to post a starter, reply to three other starters. If there are no new starters (i.e. immediately following an event or a lull), go ahead and post a starter, but we will be making sure you answer starters later. If we see that you repeatedly post starters without responding to three, we will gently nudge you.
TRACK TAGS. We have a few tags that we ask you guys to track, please keep track of them and regularly check those tags. Too often we put out an unfollow and people seem to be unaware that this character has been unfollowed or has left. Other times we put out announcements and people come with questions that could have been found in a post that is located right at the top of the main. Keep track of these tags and read our posts. They often contain important information. If we didn’t think it wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be posting it.
Please keep us updated! Whether it’s a new relationship or a change in job or if your character is moving in with someone else. We like to make sure our pages are up-to-date for the convenience of us but also, you guys! We can only do that if you guys let us know, though! We have no problems either updating old bios or other miscellaneous information. Just drop a message and let us know!
OOC blog is not the place to air negativity or throw shade towards other players or about the roleplay whether it’s on purpose or not, directly or not, as it might turned into a bigger mess and an unnecessary mayhem, instead if you have any concerns or grievance, please come to us instead off-anon because we most likely won’t respond if it’s an anon. Try to practice some restrain before we said anything we might regret later.
We know, that while many people are trying to be helpful, we are no longer going to responding to anons or messages which ask for us to ‘remind’ people of certain rules or try to call people out. These messages often make people uncomfortable, regardless of whether or not it pertains to them. Please allow the admins to worry about enforcing the rules, that is what we are here for and our primary job. If something is of huge concern to you, you are always free to message us off-anon and privately and we will gladly publish reminders (we do these often when we begin to notice people slacking on certain things, namely the starter rule, and we can slip other reminders in those posts for you).
So, we used to do tasks around here. They’re all available here, too, for you to revisit. And while they’ve always been optional, people don’t seem too keen on them, perhaps due to their length. So, lieu of that, we’ve decided to try putting out monthly moodboard tasks instead. Again, it’ll be totally optional and you’re always more than welcome to go back and to them. Starting April, we’ll have a new moodboard task available during the first week of the month.
We normally try to do a dash event and a chat event each month, however, we’ve decided to take a backseat with these events and instead we’re going to try something different. We know sometimes events can be disruptive to your current threads (especially dash events) and we figure this is a good time of year to chill and let you guys play out plots in full and have conversations without you needing to feel rushed because of events or having time constraints put on you, especially if you’re not as active as others. However, you’re more than welcome to submit events still by going here and we will gladly advertise and help you run and put them together. Other than that, what we will be doing is occasionally having, what we’re going to call, a news drop. It’ll be the form of a newspaper article and will involve some kind of event or happening that your character can choose to react to. This way you guys still have something to plot around if you need to, but you are in no way obligated to react if you think your character would not care or keep up with the news. Most of the news will probably be made up by the admins, unless we find any real world news pieces we find interesting enough to use.
More details about these additions will be posted in the event blog!
And that about covers things! As usual please like this post if you have read it so we know who has read this and who hasn’t. Again, thank you guys so much for putting up with the massive amount of changes we’ve gone through recently. We hope that with these new changes, new rules, and new season, we’ll have a good year! If you have any other questions, comments, or concerns, please shoot us a message!
