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I've actually decided to get off my lazy butt and create a roleplay for a change rather than just mindlessly joining as many as I can.
Aroun twenty or so pages back I suggested the idea of a roleplay set up in chapters, and influenced by the apparant want for less demanding, more fun roleplays with more flawed characters I have created this...
weirdos and co.
It's a club only roleplay and the form is extremely relaxed (i think it requires you to write less than thirty words) so all is well. It's basically a really weird best friends roleplay that is centred around seven students at High School and how they eahc live their lives within the confines of teenage society. It's only semi-lit, basically a paragraph per post'll do just fine. We'll start when we've got all seven character slots filled. If you've got any questions after reading the thread then PM me about it, or if you have chapter suggestions, because my brain ran out of ideas after a while.

I hope you like it, and I hope to see you there c:

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I've actually decided to get off my lazy butt and create a roleplay for a change rather than just mindlessly joining as many as I can.
Aroun twenty or so pages back I suggested the idea of a roleplay set up in chapters, and influenced by the apparant want for less demanding, more fun roleplays with more flawed characters I have created this...
weirdos and co.
It's a club only roleplay and the form is extremely relaxed (i think it requires you to write less than thirty words) so all is well. It's basically a really weird best friends roleplay that is centred around seven students at High School and how they eahc live their lives within the confines of teenage society. It's only semi-lit, basically a paragraph per post'll do just fine. We'll start when we've got all seven character slots filled. If you've got any questions after reading the thread then PM me about it, or if you have chapter suggestions, because my brain ran out of ideas after a while.

I hope you like it, and I hope to see you there c:

Do we post directly onto the thread? /shootme

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okay that's too good to resists, especially because it's going to be relaxed. this is the last roleplay i'm joining. this is it. i swear.

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Trifle - Oh, yeah, I completely forgot to mention that *facepalm*. Yeah, you can post directly onto the thread, I know the people who are members of the club, so there is no need to PM before hand :)
Iri - Thanks so much c:

[Pandle]

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Pleasure meeting you Trifle! So glad you decided to join, let all insanity rip lose as they say! teehee.
Naw take your time Burning, Solomon knows i take half a century to reply sometimes, take all the time you need. Hell i'll join in a forbidden love with you any day! lol saucy sounding much. But seriously i'd love to, it's hard to find a quality warriors rp that is fun, worth replying in and lasts. I'd help you if you need it too. You know where to find me =p

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everyone should come and join magique's intriguing's roleplay. it's awesome. come. we have cookies. and fit boys. and sexy girls. and benedict cumberbatch. and loki. and the tenth doctor. and me. and trifle. the trifle comes in every flavour as well. and we have lestrade. and just come and join us! intriguing, can i please call you riggy? or something that is shorter than intriguing? i haven't actually typed it out. i'm just copying and pasting xD

someone want to come and join me on the spam thread?

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Pleasure meeting you Trifle! So glad you decided to join, let all insanity rip lose as they say! teehee.
Naw take your time Burning, Solomon knows i take half a century to reply sometimes, take all the time you need. Hell i'll join in a forbidden love with you any day! lol saucy sounding much. But seriously i'd love to, it's hard to find a quality warriors rp that is fun, worth replying in and lasts. I'd help you if you need it too. You know where to find me =p

When you say late, you mean about two years late c: Been a member since June 2010 (yes I just looked at my posts /shot) so yep. :3 From the original thread~

Anyway~ I got a reservation and will be working on my form soon!

And wth iri? D : But please join. None of us bite. At least, not very hard.

[Pandle]

Shup dude, i am the infamous Pandle the slow. Besides, i know you now =p
I joined ;D I couldn't resist, not when sherlock and anderson and all them lovely folk who i wuve were offered out to me. Anyway, i must poof for a moment to wash up. /curses
But, if anyone has skype just search Pandle, i'll reply asap to people.

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i know, i thought someone would have to give in if i offered up those wonderful people.

it's so hard writing forms so you get the slot quickly...ack.

[Midnight Tails]

@ glittermousebb - you took the words right out of my mouth. There is no middle ground, which sucks, but I miss the days where I would stay up until two a.m. on a school night, just to wait for my friends to post. Some of my favorite role plays were [and still are] illiterates! [Tals knows this. ;}] Another one -- realistic high school -- has been going since the beginning of the summer. I still love it! But I really just stopped caring what people saw in my posts.
I've never been denied. I don't plan on being denied any time soon. But yeah; I miss those days.

I want a program or something that posts literate replies as soon as we think them. There would be a lot better boards, a lot more non-cliched ideas, and so many more literate people everywhere. Our role plays would never die. Our posts would probably get longer if anything. But alas, it doesn't exist. -_- Bleh.

Erm..I still do that, like every day, I stay up, either writing stuff, or if I know someone is online, hoping they'll reply(which lately they don't, but there is a reason for that), usually later than 2 am too...
Oh my gosh yes, illiterates are often my favourite sort of roleplay. Wait, correction...Illiterate roleplays done by people I know(*cough*wildfire6*cough*) are my favourites. I definitely know that! Dream Thief may be technically 'illiterate', but all the people there are so awesome and are such great people to roleplay with, you forget it isn't semi-lit. That particular one is still my favourite roleplay, it was one of the first I ever joined on this site, and I am still so glad I did.


Now I should throw in my opinion/confessions/something.
I seriously can't write less than two-three good, long sentences per post, I'm a writer, I just can't write so little, never have been able to for a roleplay, even when I first started roleplaying, I never could, fortunately people put up with me being like that.
For me, there is really no difference between how I felt when I first started roleplaying on CS, to now.
I didn't even know that there is a difference between writer and roleplayer...Is there a difference?
About the only thing I miss is all my friends having the time to come on every day, and post, or just chat, noone has the time any more, I don't like that, mostly because I am afraid we'll all just one day not be in contact with each other, and just not roleplay anymore. Since CS (*ahem* The roleplaying and my friends) is my safety net, I don't know how I'd handle it if that was gone, or if I could handle it at all.

When I explain CS to someone I say;

"Well it's an awesome place where lots of people from around the world, like a plot for a story, then they all have fun together, writing the story together, all contributing to the story. It's like a book, but where there are around four to ten different people, each with at least one character in their own personal possession, then all the characters in the 'book' interact, and that's what makes the story."

That is how I describe it to someone who has no clue on what roleplaying is, but they're curious about that part of the site, and that is truly how I feel, I've never thought any different.
No matter the level, no matter who's involved, I still think it's like that, and I'm quite suprised a lot of you don't really have fun anymore.
To me, my opinion is "If you can write; then you must be having fun!" Now I can see that is a very naive opinion, but still, I thought that people that write a lot, like we all usually do, certainly must have lots of fun. I have never thought otherwise, but now I see that is a silly way to think.
It seriously never occurred to me that someone that could write more than a few sentences, could possibly not be having fun.
The notion just seems so crazy to me, that there are people out there not having fun when they're writing so well.
I seem to have it in my head, when I see people write one sentence per post, I automatically think; "Oh, they must hate writing, they can't be having any fun at all." simply because they have written so little(unless I know otherwise/know the person already).
Then when I see someone post several paragraphs, or around that or a lot more than that; I automatically think; "They must be enjoying the character/roleplay/plot!" (whether I know them or not, I always think that)
Honestly I think that all semi-lit+ people always have fun when they write...Otherwise why would they spend their time doing so?
Reading the latest posts here(the past several pages, gosh this moves fast) though, I can see that people have stopped having fun when writing, or at least they think they're stopped enjoying/having fun when roleplaying.
That really breaks my heart, though I don't know any of you(or very few of you so far), just knowing that people can not like writing...I just feel so depressed simply knowing that.
Call me naive/stupid for not realising beforehand that people might not like writing/roleplaying when they're semi-lit+; I still can't really wrap my head around the possibility of people writing so much, and actually not enjoying roleplaying.
I'm not saying that everything about roleplaying is fun/enjoyable, but the writing part of it, at least to me, is always fun, even when I worry about how my spelling is, if my grammar is good, or if my posts are good enough....Getting worried about if people like me or not, if my forms are nice enough and all that stuff...I am always having fun, and it never occurred to me there is a possibility that you cannot have fun when you're writing.
Even forms which I don't like at all, when I start to write it all down, even that I really enjoy.
Simply because for everything, no matter what it is for, I've always just loved writing, I can't not have fun.

And forms? Hate 'em. I also don't think they're a good judge of literacy AT ALL so I typically just avoid them. If someone is so centered around a pretty form that they wouldn't take a writing sample, then I don't want to be in their role-play anyway, really.
I do stress out about replies sometimes, but mostly because I can't do it in a timely manner, not for what's actually in the post. But, most my partners are quite patient.
And for me, role-playing at a literate level is way more fun than anything else I did. I do not want to go back to writing only a few sentences, even if it did mean I could reply faster.

For semi-lit+ forms, THIS all the way, my opinion exactly.
That's mostly why I stress about replies too! Then I start not wanting to post because I think they expect some fantastic post from me because of the wait, and I know I can't do absolutely wonderful posts, particularly if my partner is patient, I feel worse, wanting to give them something better than I can do to reward their patience...It gets worse and worse over time....
If the roleplay is moving, then it's not so bad, I feel I can jump in again, which is why I prefer group roleplays, when it's a 1x1, I just feel so horrible for not replying almost everyday I want to curl up in a ball and cry for not being able to post frequently.
When I'm in that state, that's when I get pedantic about my grammar and everything because I want to give an almost perfect post.
Usually though, if there hasn't been too much time that has passed, I only mildly worry about grammar, spelling I do sort of naturally without effort, and the content, I just post what I feel I should post, usually not re-reading it.
Yes and no to the last bit, while I love roleplaying at a high level, I've really always roleplayed that level (ask city, she knew me early on when I first started roleplaying, she'll say this is true). It's more that I don't want to go back to normal illiterate roleplays, where while everyone replies fast, the plot never moves, and it takes three hundred pages for one day to happen.-.-
(Seriously, that has happened to me a couple of times)
So I definitely prefer higher levels, simply because a plot that is at an almost complete standstill is no plot at all. If you can't move the plot along even slightly every ten pages, the roleplay isn't really anything at all.
It's more that I enjoy the quality you get with more literate roleplayers, rather than the quantity you usually have to write for semi-lit+ roleplays; the joy that you get from someone other than yourself coming up with an awesome plot twist, the tingles you get when the suspense is high in a roleplay, or the slight trembling you get from the high adrenalin you get from being involved in a particularly epic scene of usually fighting. You don't get that in a normal illiterate roleplay, that is why I like the more literate people; it is just so much fun.


Now if any of this made sense, then yay! I'm tired, sick, and I can't think straight, it's well past 12:00am in the morning, and I certainly haven't had a wink of sleep yet, so I hope this makes sense, you all get a bag of cookies each and a puppy if you manage to read through all of that big block of letters.
I hope I wasn't too late jumping in on this conversation.o.O