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Hey everyone! Okay, so this is just a quick note that I was going to pop into the broadcast as a Bunny Slipper but as some people miss the broadcast or don't always read every section of it, I thought it best to put it into its own little announcement as, as announcements go, this is an important one.
Also, this is probably a little pre-mature to be a full Bunny Slipper given we have no issues at the moment. It is a pre-slipper, if you will!
The Cycle
Here's the deal guys:
There is a cycle to roleplaying that I have noticed. When you join a new site, you want to roleplay with everyone possible. You're desperate to get your character a big network, a big circle of contacts and a wide net of potential story-telling. And you go out there and you get it, and it's awesome.
Then, you learn your character, they become set in their ways (in a good way!) and start to build on their personality, making them a little harder to work into some stories but easier to work into others. They become their own sort of entity that has their workable means and their no-nos.
By this point, you've gotten to know members, you know the ones you like to write with and which ones you bounce off of well when it comes to drama, which ones are better at organic stuff, which ones you like to rp with as a part of a group and which ones you like to hide away in a corner with and rapidfire. These could all be different people but you know who they are.
Which means, when someone puts up a wanted ad and it's someone who you want to do that kind of plot with and you like that kind of character... you jump on it. You make the character, you get stuck into the plot, with the character already fairly well rounded. You don't need to do the reaching out network thing you did with your first character because you know everyone, you know how your new character might interact with them and so there's no need to do those kinds of threads - you can just get stuck into the main purpose for the character themselves. With the person who made the wanted ad.
Repeat process.
So, now you're sitting pretty with upwards of 2 characters and you have one who is already set in their ways and their threads and their stories thanks to that big ol' networking thing you did when you first joined, throwing them at anyone and everyone to make those connections. And since then your other characters have stepped in at that same point right off the bat because now you know the lay of the land and how to make it work...
The Issue
Anyone noticing an issue here?
Because in terms of character? There isn't one. In terms of OOC inclusion...? In the time it has taken you to get your first character up and away and your other characters made for the purposes of wanted ad fulfilment or ideas you have had with other members you know.... more people have joined the site.
I'm not for one second accusing anyone on Aeipathy of not being inclusive and friendly and welcoming to our newcomers - everyone is wonderful to all who come through our doors. And they are the same IC when the chances present themselves. No-one is doing anything wrong. That's why this is a pre-bunny slipper ^_^
But I would like people to be aware of something and take a moment when reading this to take stock...
Think about your first character on Aeipathy. How many people did you, upon creating them, reach out to? How game were you when someone came to you and suggested a thread that might have never worked without the effort of talking it through and writing it organically? How many connections with different members and different characters do they now have established on the site?
Now look at your.... say.... third character. Or your most recent. How many IC characters do they know? How many OOC Members do they have some kind of connection to? Okay, unlike Character Number One, they might not need those connections. You might not require those threads to work out your character and work out how they would react to things etc etc. BUT... there is someone on the site - a newcomer like you once were, with Character Number One, who does need those threads and who does need that help and those connections with both characters and members.
It's lovely and easy when a site first starts out because everyone is on Character Number One. And everyone needs to make those connections and everyone wants to dive straight in with literally everyone who walks through the door.
So, here are two little mental challenges that I would like to set everyone. Whether you do something reactionary after you've done them or not is up to you but here they are...
Challenge One
Go into the #announcements channel and look at the last, say, 10 characters to have been accepted. Whether they are characters from members who have been here a while or the first creation by a Newcomer, it doesn't matter. Make a little note of them. And consider, how many of your characters could - regardless of need rp with them. How many potential threads could one of your characters have with that newly accepted character if say, the world would end if you can't start up a thread with them in the next 24 hours? Now, ask yourself: why aren't you now DMing that person and suggesting those very thread ideas?
Challenge Two
Look at your second most recently accepted character. Not the most recent - that one is probably still in the finding it's feet stages... but the one that was accepted prior to that one. Your penultimate acceptance so to speak ^_^. What are they doing? Who are they talking to? And are they rping with any member that you hadn't rped with before? So, for example (because this one is a bit weird to word).... My penultimately accepted character was Hannah. Hannah is currently rping with Paradox, Berry, Mere, Urit and Fin. Across Perse, Vang, Fotios and Neena (all the characters before Hannah) I was already actively rping with Mere, Berry, Urit and Fin. Paradox is the only new member I am writing with for Hannah. How bad is that?? We have 60+ members with accepted characters on this site, and the addition of my fifth character has, so far, brought only one new member into my circle of rp. Thankfully, I am correcting this issue and will be reaching out to any and all within Judea. Rosie, I'm looking at you and Liahal too! But this is a good exercise and perhaps one you can do with each of your characters - how many new members has each new creation brought into your writing circle? Or are you revolving and orbiting certain people because they were the ones that you originally made your additional characters for?
Being Better, Doesn't Mean You Did Something Wrong
Once again, I would like to emphasise that NO-ONE is doing anything wrong and no-one needs a bunny slipper over the head. BUT the more and more members we have join us (and leave us) the more it is natural for people to fall into the cycle of creating characters for and writing with smaller and smaller groups of members that they already know. It's how cliches form and one of the reasons why I think it's so hard for new members to feel like they belong in long running sites. Because older members already have their characters and their stories and they sit contentedly. It's not that people are rude, or uninclusive. The members are nice and friendly, they are helpful etc. But when push comes to shove, there's not so much oomph and determination to make a thread with the new players because actually you don't need to.
But we at Aeipathy aren't like that. We don't rp for the joy it brings to ourselves. We rp because of the joy it creates collectively as a group and a community. And every new person who walks through the door is part of that community. So, I ask our lovely membership base to do the two mental tasks above... Just to see and self-assess and realise who they are writing with and (more specifically) who they are not writing with. Who they are not reaching out to.
And I encourage people, from this point onwards, to think the following... When a new character is accepted... think "what could I rp with this person?" not, "do I want to". Because we are all busy people and regardless of the character or member behind them the answer to that (unless there is already a connection between your characters) is going to be "no". But think - "could I?". If the answer is yes and you come up with a half dozen ideas for how to interact with that person and you still don't think you're in the right position to reach out to them about one of them, then fine. No problem. Not everyone has to rp with everyone. But at least give yourself that moment and that time to work out just exactly what it is you are choosing not to write and how you might be closing yourself off from amazing writing opportunities. Would love to see people reach out to members that they have never written with before and start taking their additional characters - made with one family or one purpose in mind - on a journey that actually turns them into something with more facets and angles and types of stories than we could imagine they might have.
I hope this rambling nonsense strikes some kind of chord with the world of Aeipathy. Perhaps you've read this and felt a sense of truth in it for your characters or for a particular member you rp with or other such things. I only seek to ensure that the welcoming and encouraging community that everyone has so far come into, with plots and threads offered in every direction, continues to exist for all the new members coming in from now onwards. <3 Saying hello and being friendly isn't enough. We need to give them our writing, our time and our talent too. <3
Hope you all have an awesome day, guys!
Incentive
Please note that, as an incentive, I am offering 5 member points for each person who creates a starter for a member they have never written with before (with any of their characters). You can use whichever character you like and you can do this for as many members as you like. But, every member that you have never written with outside of Events and Stories before, that you create a Starter for between now and the end of February, will get you 5 additional member points. You need to DM me directly to claim them.
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Hey everyone! Okay, so this is just a quick note that I was going to pop into the broadcast as a Bunny Slipper but as some people miss the broadcast or don't always read every section of it, I thought it best to put it into its own little announcement as, as announcements go, this is an important one.
Also, this is probably a little pre-mature to be a full Bunny Slipper given we have no issues at the moment. It is a pre-slipper, if you will!
The Cycle
Here's the deal guys:
There is a cycle to roleplaying that I have noticed. When you join a new site, you want to roleplay with everyone possible. You're desperate to get your character a big network, a big circle of contacts and a wide net of potential story-telling. And you go out there and you get it, and it's awesome.
Then, you learn your character, they become set in their ways (in a good way!) and start to build on their personality, making them a little harder to work into some stories but easier to work into others. They become their own sort of entity that has their workable means and their no-nos.
By this point, you've gotten to know members, you know the ones you like to write with and which ones you bounce off of well when it comes to drama, which ones are better at organic stuff, which ones you like to rp with as a part of a group and which ones you like to hide away in a corner with and rapidfire. These could all be different people but you know who they are.
Which means, when someone puts up a wanted ad and it's someone who you want to do that kind of plot with and you like that kind of character... you jump on it. You make the character, you get stuck into the plot, with the character already fairly well rounded. You don't need to do the reaching out network thing you did with your first character because you know everyone, you know how your new character might interact with them and so there's no need to do those kinds of threads - you can just get stuck into the main purpose for the character themselves. With the person who made the wanted ad.
Repeat process.
So, now you're sitting pretty with upwards of 2 characters and you have one who is already set in their ways and their threads and their stories thanks to that big ol' networking thing you did when you first joined, throwing them at anyone and everyone to make those connections. And since then your other characters have stepped in at that same point right off the bat because now you know the lay of the land and how to make it work...
The Issue
Anyone noticing an issue here?
Because in terms of character? There isn't one. In terms of OOC inclusion...? In the time it has taken you to get your first character up and away and your other characters made for the purposes of wanted ad fulfilment or ideas you have had with other members you know.... more people have joined the site.
I'm not for one second accusing anyone on Aeipathy of not being inclusive and friendly and welcoming to our newcomers - everyone is wonderful to all who come through our doors. And they are the same IC when the chances present themselves. No-one is doing anything wrong. That's why this is a pre-bunny slipper ^_^
But I would like people to be aware of something and take a moment when reading this to take stock...
Think about your first character on Aeipathy. How many people did you, upon creating them, reach out to? How game were you when someone came to you and suggested a thread that might have never worked without the effort of talking it through and writing it organically? How many connections with different members and different characters do they now have established on the site?
Now look at your.... say.... third character. Or your most recent. How many IC characters do they know? How many OOC Members do they have some kind of connection to? Okay, unlike Character Number One, they might not need those connections. You might not require those threads to work out your character and work out how they would react to things etc etc. BUT... there is someone on the site - a newcomer like you once were, with Character Number One, who does need those threads and who does need that help and those connections with both characters and members.
It's lovely and easy when a site first starts out because everyone is on Character Number One. And everyone needs to make those connections and everyone wants to dive straight in with literally everyone who walks through the door.
So, here are two little mental challenges that I would like to set everyone. Whether you do something reactionary after you've done them or not is up to you but here they are...
Challenge One
Go into the #announcements channel and look at the last, say, 10 characters to have been accepted. Whether they are characters from members who have been here a while or the first creation by a Newcomer, it doesn't matter. Make a little note of them. And consider, how many of your characters could - regardless of need rp with them. How many potential threads could one of your characters have with that newly accepted character if say, the world would end if you can't start up a thread with them in the next 24 hours? Now, ask yourself: why aren't you now DMing that person and suggesting those very thread ideas?
Challenge Two
Look at your second most recently accepted character. Not the most recent - that one is probably still in the finding it's feet stages... but the one that was accepted prior to that one. Your penultimate acceptance so to speak ^_^. What are they doing? Who are they talking to? And are they rping with any member that you hadn't rped with before? So, for example (because this one is a bit weird to word).... My penultimately accepted character was Hannah. Hannah is currently rping with Paradox, Berry, Mere, Urit and Fin. Across Perse, Vang, Fotios and Neena (all the characters before Hannah) I was already actively rping with Mere, Berry, Urit and Fin. Paradox is the only new member I am writing with for Hannah. How bad is that?? We have 60+ members with accepted characters on this site, and the addition of my fifth character has, so far, brought only one new member into my circle of rp. Thankfully, I am correcting this issue and will be reaching out to any and all within Judea. Rosie, I'm looking at you and Liahal too! But this is a good exercise and perhaps one you can do with each of your characters - how many new members has each new creation brought into your writing circle? Or are you revolving and orbiting certain people because they were the ones that you originally made your additional characters for?
Being Better, Doesn't Mean You Did Something Wrong
Once again, I would like to emphasise that NO-ONE is doing anything wrong and no-one needs a bunny slipper over the head. BUT the more and more members we have join us (and leave us) the more it is natural for people to fall into the cycle of creating characters for and writing with smaller and smaller groups of members that they already know. It's how cliches form and one of the reasons why I think it's so hard for new members to feel like they belong in long running sites. Because older members already have their characters and their stories and they sit contentedly. It's not that people are rude, or uninclusive. The members are nice and friendly, they are helpful etc. But when push comes to shove, there's not so much oomph and determination to make a thread with the new players because actually you don't need to.
But we at Aeipathy aren't like that. We don't rp for the joy it brings to ourselves. We rp because of the joy it creates collectively as a group and a community. And every new person who walks through the door is part of that community. So, I ask our lovely membership base to do the two mental tasks above... Just to see and self-assess and realise who they are writing with and (more specifically) who they are not writing with. Who they are not reaching out to.
And I encourage people, from this point onwards, to think the following... When a new character is accepted... think "what could I rp with this person?" not, "do I want to". Because we are all busy people and regardless of the character or member behind them the answer to that (unless there is already a connection between your characters) is going to be "no". But think - "could I?". If the answer is yes and you come up with a half dozen ideas for how to interact with that person and you still don't think you're in the right position to reach out to them about one of them, then fine. No problem. Not everyone has to rp with everyone. But at least give yourself that moment and that time to work out just exactly what it is you are choosing not to write and how you might be closing yourself off from amazing writing opportunities. Would love to see people reach out to members that they have never written with before and start taking their additional characters - made with one family or one purpose in mind - on a journey that actually turns them into something with more facets and angles and types of stories than we could imagine they might have.
I hope this rambling nonsense strikes some kind of chord with the world of Aeipathy. Perhaps you've read this and felt a sense of truth in it for your characters or for a particular member you rp with or other such things. I only seek to ensure that the welcoming and encouraging community that everyone has so far come into, with plots and threads offered in every direction, continues to exist for all the new members coming in from now onwards. <3 Saying hello and being friendly isn't enough. We need to give them our writing, our time and our talent too. <3
Hope you all have an awesome day, guys!
Incentive
Please note that, as an incentive, I am offering 5 member points for each person who creates a starter for a member they have never written with before (with any of their characters). You can use whichever character you like and you can do this for as many members as you like. But, every member that you have never written with outside of Events and Stories before, that you create a Starter for between now and the end of February, will get you 5 additional member points. You need to DM me directly to claim them.
Roleplaying With New Members
Hey everyone! Okay, so this is just a quick note that I was going to pop into the broadcast as a Bunny Slipper but as some people miss the broadcast or don't always read every section of it, I thought it best to put it into its own little announcement as, as announcements go, this is an important one.
Also, this is probably a little pre-mature to be a full Bunny Slipper given we have no issues at the moment. It is a pre-slipper, if you will!
The Cycle
Here's the deal guys:
There is a cycle to roleplaying that I have noticed. When you join a new site, you want to roleplay with everyone possible. You're desperate to get your character a big network, a big circle of contacts and a wide net of potential story-telling. And you go out there and you get it, and it's awesome.
Then, you learn your character, they become set in their ways (in a good way!) and start to build on their personality, making them a little harder to work into some stories but easier to work into others. They become their own sort of entity that has their workable means and their no-nos.
By this point, you've gotten to know members, you know the ones you like to write with and which ones you bounce off of well when it comes to drama, which ones are better at organic stuff, which ones you like to rp with as a part of a group and which ones you like to hide away in a corner with and rapidfire. These could all be different people but you know who they are.
Which means, when someone puts up a wanted ad and it's someone who you want to do that kind of plot with and you like that kind of character... you jump on it. You make the character, you get stuck into the plot, with the character already fairly well rounded. You don't need to do the reaching out network thing you did with your first character because you know everyone, you know how your new character might interact with them and so there's no need to do those kinds of threads - you can just get stuck into the main purpose for the character themselves. With the person who made the wanted ad.
Repeat process.
So, now you're sitting pretty with upwards of 2 characters and you have one who is already set in their ways and their threads and their stories thanks to that big ol' networking thing you did when you first joined, throwing them at anyone and everyone to make those connections. And since then your other characters have stepped in at that same point right off the bat because now you know the lay of the land and how to make it work...
The Issue
Anyone noticing an issue here?
Because in terms of character? There isn't one. In terms of OOC inclusion...? In the time it has taken you to get your first character up and away and your other characters made for the purposes of wanted ad fulfilment or ideas you have had with other members you know.... more people have joined the site.
I'm not for one second accusing anyone on Aeipathy of not being inclusive and friendly and welcoming to our newcomers - everyone is wonderful to all who come through our doors. And they are the same IC when the chances present themselves. No-one is doing anything wrong. That's why this is a pre-bunny slipper ^_^
But I would like people to be aware of something and take a moment when reading this to take stock...
Think about your first character on Aeipathy. How many people did you, upon creating them, reach out to? How game were you when someone came to you and suggested a thread that might have never worked without the effort of talking it through and writing it organically? How many connections with different members and different characters do they now have established on the site?
Now look at your.... say.... third character. Or your most recent. How many IC characters do they know? How many OOC Members do they have some kind of connection to? Okay, unlike Character Number One, they might not need those connections. You might not require those threads to work out your character and work out how they would react to things etc etc. BUT... there is someone on the site - a newcomer like you once were, with Character Number One, who does need those threads and who does need that help and those connections with both characters and members.
It's lovely and easy when a site first starts out because everyone is on Character Number One. And everyone needs to make those connections and everyone wants to dive straight in with literally everyone who walks through the door.
So, here are two little mental challenges that I would like to set everyone. Whether you do something reactionary after you've done them or not is up to you but here they are...
Challenge One
Go into the #announcements channel and look at the last, say, 10 characters to have been accepted. Whether they are characters from members who have been here a while or the first creation by a Newcomer, it doesn't matter. Make a little note of them. And consider, how many of your characters could - regardless of need rp with them. How many potential threads could one of your characters have with that newly accepted character if say, the world would end if you can't start up a thread with them in the next 24 hours? Now, ask yourself: why aren't you now DMing that person and suggesting those very thread ideas?
Challenge Two
Look at your second most recently accepted character. Not the most recent - that one is probably still in the finding it's feet stages... but the one that was accepted prior to that one. Your penultimate acceptance so to speak ^_^. What are they doing? Who are they talking to? And are they rping with any member that you hadn't rped with before? So, for example (because this one is a bit weird to word).... My penultimately accepted character was Hannah. Hannah is currently rping with Paradox, Berry, Mere, Urit and Fin. Across Perse, Vang, Fotios and Neena (all the characters before Hannah) I was already actively rping with Mere, Berry, Urit and Fin. Paradox is the only new member I am writing with for Hannah. How bad is that?? We have 60+ members with accepted characters on this site, and the addition of my fifth character has, so far, brought only one new member into my circle of rp. Thankfully, I am correcting this issue and will be reaching out to any and all within Judea. Rosie, I'm looking at you and Liahal too! But this is a good exercise and perhaps one you can do with each of your characters - how many new members has each new creation brought into your writing circle? Or are you revolving and orbiting certain people because they were the ones that you originally made your additional characters for?
Being Better, Doesn't Mean You Did Something Wrong
Once again, I would like to emphasise that NO-ONE is doing anything wrong and no-one needs a bunny slipper over the head. BUT the more and more members we have join us (and leave us) the more it is natural for people to fall into the cycle of creating characters for and writing with smaller and smaller groups of members that they already know. It's how cliches form and one of the reasons why I think it's so hard for new members to feel like they belong in long running sites. Because older members already have their characters and their stories and they sit contentedly. It's not that people are rude, or uninclusive. The members are nice and friendly, they are helpful etc. But when push comes to shove, there's not so much oomph and determination to make a thread with the new players because actually you don't need to.
But we at Aeipathy aren't like that. We don't rp for the joy it brings to ourselves. We rp because of the joy it creates collectively as a group and a community. And every new person who walks through the door is part of that community. So, I ask our lovely membership base to do the two mental tasks above... Just to see and self-assess and realise who they are writing with and (more specifically) who they are not writing with. Who they are not reaching out to.
And I encourage people, from this point onwards, to think the following... When a new character is accepted... think "what could I rp with this person?" not, "do I want to". Because we are all busy people and regardless of the character or member behind them the answer to that (unless there is already a connection between your characters) is going to be "no". But think - "could I?". If the answer is yes and you come up with a half dozen ideas for how to interact with that person and you still don't think you're in the right position to reach out to them about one of them, then fine. No problem. Not everyone has to rp with everyone. But at least give yourself that moment and that time to work out just exactly what it is you are choosing not to write and how you might be closing yourself off from amazing writing opportunities. Would love to see people reach out to members that they have never written with before and start taking their additional characters - made with one family or one purpose in mind - on a journey that actually turns them into something with more facets and angles and types of stories than we could imagine they might have.
I hope this rambling nonsense strikes some kind of chord with the world of Aeipathy. Perhaps you've read this and felt a sense of truth in it for your characters or for a particular member you rp with or other such things. I only seek to ensure that the welcoming and encouraging community that everyone has so far come into, with plots and threads offered in every direction, continues to exist for all the new members coming in from now onwards. <3 Saying hello and being friendly isn't enough. We need to give them our writing, our time and our talent too. <3
Hope you all have an awesome day, guys!
Incentive
Please note that, as an incentive, I am offering 5 member points for each person who creates a starter for a member they have never written with before (with any of their characters). You can use whichever character you like and you can do this for as many members as you like. But, every member that you have never written with outside of Events and Stories before, that you create a Starter for between now and the end of February, will get you 5 additional member points. You need to DM me directly to claim them.