these are just some things you should know about me before we rp together, or before you get to know me on scratch in general. don't you dare read this and think 'is she talking about me', cause i can not stress it enough when i say that is /not the purpose of this project/. alright, i'm done with my introduction- here we go :> 1- i try my best to be as nice as i can to everyone, so if you do anything that makes me annoyed or angry at all, i'll try to tell you in the nicest way i can. this does not mean thati a] h8 you, b] will never forgive you, or c] don't value you as a person. if anything, me telling you that something you're doing isn't making me feel awesome is a sign that i do care about you, because i value our scratch friendship enough to address the things that could get in the way of it. 2- most of the time my replies will be long, sometimes my replies will be short and boring. this should not be a judge of how much i care about the thread. if i give you a short reply, it's probably because i'm either on mobile (enough said there), or i came up with something to say that just doesn't require a paragraph to write. or i'm having writer's block. i promise i won't do more than two in a row. hold me to that. 3- kind of a continuation of the last one, i get writer's block a lot. like sometimes i just have a really hard time responding to certain threads. so if i reply to someone else's thread and not yours, don't take it personally, i will get back to you. i have a bookmark folder of threads i need to reply to, but if you think that i've somehow forgotten about your thread (which happens sometimes when i'm on mobile and don't have bookmarks and check my messages and then yours gets buried), feel free to ping me after a reasonable amount of time, and i'll let you know what's going on :D 5- if you write me a short reply, i get where you're coming from. two in a row, i still get where you're coming from. three-five in a row, i start wondering if you care about the thread. even if you do care about the thread, consistently writing short replies or writing out of rp ettiquite (past tense, third person) makes me feel like you don't care, so i start to also not care. i'm less likely to be engaged in rps that feel one-sided. it's not anything i have against you, it's just me not having much to work with. 6- please please PLEASE ask permission before doing anything that involves one of my characters. because chances are that if you ask i'll say yes. and if i say no, you have to respect that, because they're not your characters. no, my characters can't be best friends with everyone. if our characters don't work in a ship together, they /don't work in a ship together/. and if they do work out and the ship becomes a thing, no, you can't back out on ships without telling me first. 7- be a decent human being, not just to me, but to everybody. alright? this should be common sense, but i've noticed in my time here on scratch that some people tend to put less thought into how what they say will affect others. this in my opinion is not okay. just because you can't actually see the people you're sending messages to doesn't mean they don't exist. you not putting thought into what you write doesn't mean that others won't put thought into what you write and won't be affected by what you're typing. try to think about not just yourself, but everyone. will what you're saying cause a positive or a negative impact on others? this all probably sounds like some cringy ted talk- sorry- i'll simplify it in a sentence in case i'm being too hard to understand. when you type something, imagine you're saying it to that person /in person/, and spend some time thinking about how that person would react, and how it would make you feel. and finally 8- [[the most important by far ]] - i have a life outside of scratch, and that life will forever and always have first priority. not that i don't love y'all, but this website is just that, a website. and i'm not letting it become more important than real life. if something comes up and i need to take a break, or i suddenly become incredibly inactive, i see it as frankly pretty rud3 to be mad at me for it, or to remove my characters from plot lines or ships, or act like they don't exist. luckily this has never happened before, and i hope it never will. i just wanted to address it because school's about to start back up and this year might be a crazy one. if i ever need to go on a drastic break, i promise i'll do my best to let y'all know that's about it, if you have any questions or anything, let me know! i love when people ask me questions that i can answer
