#// DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY HOURS I'VE SPENT PERUSING BLOGS SIMPLY TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THEIR LINKS ARE??

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// there's a balance that i think people should try to strike between style and substance when it comes to this whole roleplay shebang we've got going on in the rpc. themes, icons, graphics, the writing itself-- i fear we reached a point of critical mass years ago where we've traded a genuine love for storytelling and character development for beauty pageantry... and we never came back. that isn't to say that any of those aforementioned things are bad (they're fantastic when done well, honestly) but i don't think they should come at the cost of legibility or writing quality like i've seen happen in many cases.

if i can't read your theme or your writing, i'm out. yes this ties into the first one but it's separate because fuck me if i haven't passed up on a lot of muses because they focused on gussying things up rather than making it user friendly. please... please just... just use times new roman, man. use colors that don't blend! i'm just a humble man scratching his head and squinting eyes that probably need glasses at a jumble of cursive-ish font and links hidden in stars and other millions of shiny things. have mercy on me.

don't be afraid to write villains just because people can't distinguish the bad guy from the writer. don't let people talk down to them either, or act all billy badass to them without reprisal, especially when you drink nails and eat milk for breakfast. whether you're a canonical destroyer of worlds or a homebrewed sunnovabitch with a grudge against sunshine and rainbows, you're allowed to portray a bad guy as a bad guy and kick the stuffing out of muses that dare to hee-hee and hardy-har-harr at you because they think they can get away with it. go blow up a city, subjugate thousands with dark wizardry, set up a pyramid scheme or six, be evil and don't let anyone tell you not to be.