News & Events Edition #7

[moondoggie]

Happy fourth month anniversary, everyone~!

Thankfully this news post isn't as big as the last one, so let's get right into it!


Iksay Harvest Festival
We were going to do this at the end of the month, but I decided it's better to push it out fast since we don't got much else going on and we already have something planned for after the festival, which hopefully will create more buzz. The event post will be made around 15-16th May, so make sure you don't miss out and let's gun for another 1000 comments!


Longevity
As a follow-up to my comment about lack of things happening, I'm wondering what we can do as mods to make it more active? Right now we don't have anyone on active hiatus, so I start to worry that maybe we're not making it as good as you guys would like it to be! Remember, the survival of this game depends heavily on your participation, not just ours as mods, or it will fold just like the last one. We're doing everything we can to maintain a mod presence as well as generate activity/material to make posts about, but there's only so many we can do. So please keep up the effort - we need youuuuu! :)


Starry Nights Banner
How would you guys like to submit some fanart specifically about this rp? Julie and I are going to revamp the starry_nights layout and we would like to use everyone's fanart submissions on a monthly rotation for the banner/header. It can be anything relating to the game, whether it's your favourite moments (like setting a library on fire) or just a group of the current characters doing stuff! Unfortunately, I make a terrible artist, but I had a go at it anyway. I actually used a base originally made by Piku-Seru (check out their work), but here we go!

Comments

[oh_bluebelle]

It's so weird! I actually can't figure out how to RP on Tumblr, since it seems a bit one-sided and unnatural to me with the chunk of text ;;;;

ARE WE A DYING BREED

[blumelon]

Yeah, tumblr isn't really ideal for discussion/commenting to me. I follow some rpers in another fandom and I can see how they do it. If you're watching from the outside, it's a bit harder to follow their "threads" (it's more like individual posts every single time you want to reply back lol) though sometimes.

I think our game in particular would be more welcoming to those who don't like to or aren't comfortable in writing much though. Tumblr rpers normally write a lot and descriptive so that might be the jarring hurdle for them?

[saintdork]

Same here, I'm not used to Tumblr RP because the quoting format seems too crowded for me ;;

I've seen comments about majority DW/LJ rpers being too uptight with grammar and characterization, too. Which isn't the case with this comm, but the image is too strong.

[moondoggie]

I'm not surprised if DW/LJ rpers have that reputation. That anon meme back in the day was vicious. ;;

I think that people are just reluctant to join something new, out of fear that it will get given up on and they've wasted their time. Which is a conundrum, because ideas generally get given up on when there aren't enough people to support it in the first place. XD;

NOT THAT WE'VE GIVEN UP~ If this is as big as the community's ever going to get, then that makes me happy enough. You guys rule!