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Well, it seems that it's that time of the year again. Anyways... Happy 30th birthday to our site admin, Maurice! \o/ Kindly post your birthday wishes for him, everyone.

So! This is a thread of, basically, letters. Kind of like Dear Blank Please Blank, but you don't have to wait for DBPB to publish it. Can be thanks, but I'm guessing it'll mostly be to annoying people. No, you don't have to use "Anonymous". Something to start us off... Dear Anonymous, Last time I checked, my job wasn't to watch your locker for you. Cough up the money or your dear locker's Secret Service will have disappeared. Signed, Unpaid-Secret-Service-Agent :V

Currently the only RP is DCW IRL. Yes? That is a start and end affair. The only purpose it would serve is to act as an archive for past plays. But you know what? Site search does the same. Since searching for "DCW IRL" will serve as essentially the same thing, if you really need to look up old threads of the RP. As for everything else, that doesn't actually change my point, whether it is DC related or not. There need to be general rules, because it would branch out (in other words universal RPing rules that won't be breached, which would maintain fairness). There would need to be special moderation. There would be constant moving. The needs of RP forums are totally different from most other forums. There is a reason why most forums don't have RP even though the fandoms clamor for them (and those that really want them, tend to create their own forums specifically for RPing purposes). Because of the work and the drama they bring. Most forums keep it to communal discussion, and all others specify that they are an RPing forum. DCW IRL is fairly contained as far as I can tell, so asking, for perhaps a log area for past RPs I understand more. But a whole other RP subforum? Not so much. However, it would be specific to DCW IRL. The second it expands past that problems occur again. There are things to consider if they are long spanning or spread across many threads. First is how to keep track of everyone's character. Character creation is one of the core essences of RPing. Character logs: how to keep track of what each character has done. Further subforums if it does take off. Unless you want the new RP subforum to become clogged and confusing with multiple RPs going on at once. Constant moving of threads, taking out old ones and moving them to inactive (unless of course you have sufficient subforums created). Clearly you are only thinking short term, which is ease of use of DCW IRL. Which can easily be remedied by methods previously stated. Long term RP forums take a lot of upkeep. I'm not sure you realize that. If it grows, like you hope it will, it will only become exponentially more trouble as time goes on and it gets more popular. As it stands the RPing community here isn't big enough to warrant a separate subforum. This why Carpet Crawler brought up DCTP (or so I assume). DCTP has just as large, if not a larger RPing community than DCW, yet does fine without an RP subforum. Why? Because it is simply not needed for the amount of RPing that actually occurs, and would only bring more complications. The RPs are self-contained and searchable if you want to go back and read. Leave it at that. This is simply not needed. In essence, you are asking for the admin and mods to take on additional responsibility and work, just so you can find a few threads a bit easier, Use the search function. It is rather simple. tl;dr: It isn't like there are many different RPs here. There is only one. Use the search to find old threads, and problem is solved without the creation of a new subforum, which can potentially bring more problems.

Dear Anonymous, Remember when we were friends? I remember. I remember how you were when I first met you...so bitter...going nowhere in life. Depressed, melancholy. I tried to help, I really did. And for a while, everything seemed okay. You seemed more cheerful. Happier. Ready to do something...anything. But then things started to go wrong again. I don't know you well enough but you know the specifics. And then when things settled down again, life got busy. I got busy. We drifted apart. But you stayed my friend and I stayed yours. I'd occasionally wonder how you were and I never forgot. And then that day... I hated how you had begun to sink into a depression again, how you threw yourself down for the sake of others, how you based your life around others' opinions. I probably shouldn't have cared that much--after all, in a way I barely knew you--but I did care. Maybe I shouldn't have, but I did. Maybe it was because in my mind, you were my friend. Maybe it's because I'd been there before...I'd tried to please everyone and in the end, when everyone left, I was just there...feeling empty. Maybe I didn't want you to go through that as well, to become the girl who did everything and felt like nothing. So I got angry. I was desperate. I tried so hard to tell you that I cared about what happened to you and that I wanted you to be happy. I tried so hard to tell you that you needed to get a grip and stop molding yourself to fit other people. Because I don't want you to be someone I like, I want you to be you. That would've been enough. But you took my anger the wrong way. Our friendship ended that way. Yet, I don't regret what I said. I don't take those words back because I meant them and I would still say them again if I got to choose again. I don't want you to feel empty, like what you're doing is meaningless. Maybe once, I was good at giving advice. Maybe once, I was good at making people feel better about themselves. Maybe I still could be. But inside, I feel that those days are gone. I never did give good advice. Someone once told me never to say I was good at advising others. For a while, I thought he was scoffing at the idea that someone my age could be "wise" or give "advice" and was offended. But I've come to realize that what he says is true. When you advise others, you become responsible for what happens to them because of your advice. Yet still... Maybe it would've been better if we never met. Maybe... I don't want to mend our friendship. Not because I'm angry or bitter or sad or mad. I don't want to mend our friendship because in the end, I can't do anything but hurt you. I don't usually get into arguments with friends. Is that because I'm not close enough to them? Because I push them away? All I want is for you to be happy and to live a life worth remembering. To not be constrained by what others think of you. Because you could be so much greater and better and more amazing. You could do so much. This isn't my apology. This is my goodbye. My farewell to our friendship and my trust that somehow you'll find a way to be amazing. ~ A friend "If I lay here. If I just lay here. Would you lie with me and just forget the world?"

So you're saying that the meat dress lady is NOT weird?