This isn't an attempt to pressure or guilt anyone, more like an acknowledgement that I do notice things and have the feeling that there isn't really interest so I'm not sure if there's a reason to spend the next week working out a TDM post for Friday

If there isn't interest in it being a Thing, at least I can say that I put in the work and gave it a try. Sometimes we try things that don't work out and that's fine.

I would tag another TDM

I haven't seen anyone else even plot about the current event post so NGL it's a little like "o h who is this for"

"is this just for me"

SaroSaron: I appreciate you, friend

i have done approximately 0 rp recently, but i want to do the thing :<

Take me with a grain of salt since I'm pretty much out of the hobby as a whole, but I was definitely !!! WHOA Jessie's idea is a whole entire working game already?! which is to say it sounds too soon to throw in the towel, give it a little more of a chance to take off?

even if I highkey get the frustration of nobody engaging with something you've put the thought and work into.

but I def think you should try another one for anyone who hasn't had the chance to engage with or maybe even hear about the opportunity yet

I mean! that's the thing, right? I started working on it last year, I started talking about it in early January, and I thought I was updating everyone all along the process? And then it took someone outside my friend list replurking it to see any kind of "omg this exists"

I’ve been very busy right now but I’m planning to look on the event post today!

which makes it sound like it would do better as a public game, but I decidedly do not want to run a public game

I’m still very interested in just slow af

i was surprised there were only the five (?) of us who apped out of your whole timeline, but the upside of doing another tdm (tho i have been nonexistent, i'm sorry) is we could offer invites this time

the question is more if you think our slow but enthusiastic butts are worth the effort tbh

I definitely didn't want to make anyone feel shamed or called out!

I love your cast and it means a lot to me that you came to hang out

I can only speak for myself but I hate anticipation? I'm a big baby who needs instant gratification so if I caught wind of somebody working on a cool thing I'd be like WHOA THIS IS AMAZING I WILL IGNORE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IMMEDIATELY until it's ready for me to engange with................ which. runs the risk of forgetting something/missing out on it

case in point it's.... nearly 2pm and all i've done is have an hour long argument with my father lol

also unrelated-ish but holy shit so many BB/BCS fellas this is a dream game

i do not feel shamed!!! just frustrated i have not had an iota of free time where my brain is functioning to tag shit bc i swear i am hype ;o;

i have done... three tags so far this month. which is only a few days young, true, but STILL. my late feb tracker was not looking much better.

so if the question is interest in game in general, Y def, if it's the tdm specifically i think that's how much effort you want to expend? idk who else on your timeline might poke by but i would nudge it at more folks since this time i have an invite.

if it's a timing/availability thing, does it work to retool the current naked event into a broader TDM? idk I thought my stupid "take care of a rich teenager and her shitty friends" event sounded fun, but maybe I just enjoy boring things

Since the game is very small right now, it might be good to turn it into a new tdm. That way more people can engage and jump on and it’s not a wasted plot

if you guys don't mind!

Especially since players can invite people now, too, that might pick up more interest

i still think it's hilarious!!

if there WAS plotting happening and I just didn't see it

does retooling it mean reposting as a TDM and we can jump in there?

yeah, that's what I meant

that sounds like a good compromise effort-wise! same diff to us where we tag in

and i didn't plot on plurk just with amber so far lol i can make an actual plotting plurk once you move it... i have really not been on that timeline lately either bc it's not like i'm tagging but can perhaps stir some interest

yeah it's hard and complicated

(health stuff c/w) but next week is a chemo weekend for me so if anything's going to happen THEN I need to figure it out NOW so I don't have to do anything more complicated than mash copy/paste on Friday

hello i am over here now-- that is my vote tbh.

retool as tdm, we can plot a bit to drop stuff on it asar (as soon as reposted) and you don't have to do much extra work?

^i agree

I was planning on apping someone at some point this month once I decided who so if you retool it for a tdm I would probably toss one of my gremlins on there again

I have just been exhausted by rl but I'm still excited to play! I should be back on my game this week I had oral surgery on the 1st. I know a couple people interested.

I really am interested in the event, but making it into the tdm means we can all still play sooooo. Yes.

also maybe a discord server would help idk

Sounds like all of us are swamped irl haha

oh man I used to have a discord server for the PSL-shaped version of this

I deleted it after the PSL went dormant but it was like. primarily thirst trap images because the smut was the goal

..........we should still have a thirst trap channel so jordan has to come up with thirst trap saul

I'm iffy about game discords. I think it depends on the players involved? I did my best to boost activity with the Penance discord so I guess you all have a blueprint of how I would try to run things if I did one?

probably not a DIRECT 1:1 because I could not have been removed harder from that discord so I don't have the convenience of being able to copy/paste anything But I would probably shoot for the same bots/vibe

I was TRYING to leave without setting anything on fire specifically so I could just be like "holds on to my work and doesn't have to reinvent anything that doesn't need to be reinvented" but LOL that isn't how things went

I'm planning on apping at some point! I even know who! (The dude I threw on the original TDM.) My problem at the moment is I literally haven't slept in 3 months.

knightinqs: YOU NEED TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEALTH

So, as soon as medical shit gets fixed, and I have the energy to RP, I'm coming for you!!

I'M TRYING!!!

knightinqs: ...hello stranger, i think we might have similar issues going on what the hell are they doing about it for you, might i ask?

cuddlebug: Turns out I have really bad sleep apnea, so a CPAP eventually. They just keep stringing me along. >_<

Have you had a sleep study done?

oh. no, i can't get it approved because i definitely don't have apnea or anything like that. just lifelong chronic insomnia and no drug can be taken for long or it'll stop working/make matters worse, and no amount of adherence to sleep hygiene bullshit has ever improved it. getting on ptsd meds has improved sleep quality when i do sleep at least...

basically they will pay for a study if it's suspected you have apnea or narcolepsy, anything else is 'nah, good luck, it must be your fault somehow' even though i have tracked it enough to prove i don't hit deep sleep let alone REM most of the time without aids.

(which is a massive derailment, sorry jessie. but. bleh. good luck getting your cpap, stranger.)

I am just afraid of one on one conversation so I do well with game discords, lol. But if it's just me that's ok!

cuddlebug: Ohh, jeeze, yeah. I'm not hitting deep or REM sleep, either, so I definitely feel you. I'm sorry they can't or won't help.

(But yes. Sorry, Jessie. x_x )

don't apologize! I am a believer in my friends being friends with my other friends

bond over your collective insomnia! Help each other heal T_T

ty, i'll live but i'm in a very bad stretch of "no sleep for you" and my current meds have started causing paradoxical agitation so i'm just. on a lil drug vacation and going insane from sleep deprivation. it's not great for writing!!

cuddlebug: LMAOOOO

But yes I’d love a game discord, I think everyone in the game is chill enough for one

WHERE'S THE SAUL THIRST TRAPS, HUH JORDAN?

Him in his boxers and stupid little sock garters

here u go

meanwhile

Nacho has no right being that hot

i was on tumblr earlier (i did not find anything useful for what i needed, but there were still some gems)

also idk what universe some of these lalcho shippers live in but it's not reality

the art is def mostly fluffycute schmoop, yeah

wait I didn't know this was your game!!!

im alive. and still very much want this game to happen so! yeah, tdm sounds good. agree with the event not necessarily matching up with my character however I'd totally be willing to use that awkwardness for some good starters, so I'll keep an eye out for whenever the new thing is up.

yeah, I went to Ana to ask about what you guys liked to play and she was like "make them uncomfortable" and I was like "PIÑATA OUTFITS" because idk that's where my brain went

I thought about illicit contraband stuff also