#q !

I know we still have roughly three weeks until @chromosome23hq officially closes shop, but I wanted to make sure I made this and posted it when: 1) I had the time, and 2) people are still lurking around.

The longest RP I ran was for eleven months in 2016. At the end of its run, a member posted a video they had planned on posting on our one year anniversary (but, by then, I was the only mod and I wanted to die). This has stuck with me and, even now, I still go back to watch it every now and again. 

Mind you, her editing skills were far superior to my own and her formatting of the video was very different (but gotta keep it organized, right?). In any case, credit to her for inspiring this.

Now, into the spiel:

C23 has truly been the best roleplay experience of my entire career. Every character was so unique, every mun was such a brilliant writer, it felt like a family, and the admins genuinely cared. Be it because of member inactivity or admins losing motivation, it’s so easy for RPs to die within a week nowadays, but this one truly thrived! And I thank the admins so much for that. Every plot-drop was just as exciting as the last, every narrative point was just as fun to explore.

I don’t know if I’ll ever find another open RP that is even slightly akin to this one. Like... I literally had a thread with Gray where Vera and Ezra were vivisecting each other and loving it... I just don’t think things like that, and FCs like Abe Sapien and King Shark, happen very often in the RPC! And I am so grateful that we got to branch into the strange and outlandish here. 

Izzy, Kashia, Tin -- thank you for making this such a wonderful experience. And Tibby, wherever you are, thank you for the months you spent refining, too! Every time I get dressed for my ‘Jason’s victim’ role, I think of you. This admin team is absolutely beautiful and I’m so glad I got to know each and every one of y’all. Care about the RP, care about the members! I hope you all enjoyed it just as much as we did.

the influx of new recruits had set mark on edge. trust was something to be earned -- trust couldn’t just be given in exchange for something that could be considered a heinous crime... or, in the case of the new recruits, all three of them, just breaking a guy out of prison. if he already had difficulty trusting new folks joining the team ( team... ) for a year at least, three people of roughly the same age with the same degree of... a nice look ? 

but he would humor it. after all, everyone had been new once. many had even had that nice look -- hell, some still did. he’d had it -- or as close to it as he could have... still, similarities would never build that bridge. acts of terrorism, cruelty, unruliness -- never build that bridge. all that ever could was time and observation.

and what else did he have ? “ you take bourbon ? ” he asked one of the new recruits ( name ? ), still staring straight ahead. “ on me. ”

'it’s okay to eat fish ‘cause they don’t have any feelings.’ anatomically ? ...okay, maybe when it came to fish caught in a sea or a lake. emotionally ? seven was right there ! -- and it had seemed far too long since the two had spoken ( may says because seven is the only long-term escapee jess hasn’t had a thread yet -- in fact, barring august, the only character of cola’s that may hasn’t written against in general ! ) but two hours before her routine ? during such time she had found herself in a man’s home ? well... the man had sushi, and that was just a sign ! reverse birthday present ! it looked high-quality !

it was easy enough to track seven down ( namely because may doesn’t know where the hell he would be in the early evening and cola isn’t awake to offer some insight, but may assumes jess would know. cola, god-mod this setting so hard ) ! and that’s all i’ll say about that -- refer to the parenthetical ! “ seven, look at this spread ! if it doesn’t scream high-quality, i don’t know what does. ”

I am only in a few video game franchises, and none of them have good LGBTQIA+ moments, if any...so I guess my favourite LGBTQIA+ moments would be when I ship my sims with each other 😂😂.

Day 18 - Tag someone cute or nice!

Everyone around here is nice 🤧💕, so I'll tag who I think is cute 😏 in a platonic way:

@pompompurin1028 @requiem626k @ranposlover @sirenascales @starglow-xx @moon-mars-ikemen @bsdparadise

Triggers: drugs, withdrawal symptoms, straight-up addiction yo!, reference to Lux’s suicide & briefly implied suicidal ideation, relapse obviously because... current threads...

CLICK ANYWHERE IN THIS SENTENCE TO READ THE FULL THING. ( only the beginning snippet is beneath the cut. like wattpad <3 )