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IC, I have played straight and bi male characters, straight and bi female characters. For some reason, never solely lesbian women or gay male characters. Roughly equal ratio of male to female.

OOC, I am asexual, cis female. I've had two kinds of responses to this on the few occasions this has come to light:

1. 'OMG why are you RPing someone sexy/having IC sex/being in a relationship??
2. You're clearly not really asexual if you're involved in online sexy times

The answer that I rarely get the opportunity to give? Because it's fun. Relationships, be they romantic or sexual or both or neither, are fun. They provide tension and give a space to play out interesting scenarios. But apparently, that's not allowed?

Needless to say, I don't talk about it often.

Edit: There was one time I mentioned it to the player of an IC lover, and he was cool with it (you know who you are!) So, one time out of about a dozen!

This is Jake. He's a 6 month old Border Collie pupper.

He would like you to throw the ball now, kthnxbai.

Also, he hasn't yet quite mastered how to work both ears at the same time.

Can't paste the images onto here because it keeps saying they're too big.. even though they're like 60-70kb each.

https://imgur.com/a/eUS88EQ

Here is Jake. Fully grown in size, still a puppy at heart.

So, I guess this is the thread to say that as of last week, I have a formal diagnosis for ADHD. I'm starting new medication tomorrow - Elvanse, the active ingredient of which is lisdexamfetamine dimesylate, an amfetamine. (Edit: I am told it is called Vyvanse in the US)

Does anyone else have experience with this drug or a similar one, for ADHD treatment? Any advice, anectodal evidence of how it helps, etc?

It's a few hours early, but I won't be on again before the day.

Merry Christmas to you all, I hope you have as wonderful a day as it is possible to have, that it is filled with the people and things you enjoy, and you have as much rest as you need.

Be safe, all.

Vix

So, like a whole lot of other people, I make no promise that this is a complete list, memory being what it is and all. But here we go.

Metro v1 & v2 (in no particular order because I don't really recall which were pre- and which were post-reboot)
Alyx (mage), Bethany (demon), Saiwa (vampire), Molly (demon), Melody (garou), Farah (mage), Tristan (ananasi), Kamali (wraith), Sugar (wraith), Tanya (Mortal / Consor), Leah/Bek (vampire).

Shadowed Isles:
Tiffany (corax)

Haunted Memories:
Sophie (changeling), Tian (changeling)

The Reach:
Cate (changeling - Kraken!), Gabe (changeling), Lakshmi (changing breed), Tom (wolfblood).

Darkwater:
Jade (changeling), Sam (wolfblood)

Reno:
Charlie (vampire), Cass (wolfblood)

More to come as I remember them.

I finally made a thing I'm happy enough with to post!

Somebody posted on Reddit/Imgur about some custom tokens they made for a board game called Spirit Island. Their post is here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/iafafd/i_handmade_some_spirits_for_spirit_island/

I was inspired by this! But wanted to do more elemental/primal sort of tokens, so here is my take on them:

@too-old-for-this said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I have absolutely been hanging out in public with a boyfriend and pointed to a woman and gone 'godDAMN that woman is hot'... much to their general confusion, because I haven't otherwise ever indicated a desire for women.
That usually spirals into a discussion on how I can find women very attractive without it being my normal proclivity.

My observations of this - there is a difference between finding somebody attractive and being attracted to them.

Speaking as someone who is asexual, I find a lot of people attractive, but I have zero desire to actually smush body parts with them.

@kestrel

Wow, just wow. Thank you SO MUCH for all of this, it's really interesting and helpful to read through.

I am also UK based, and yes I did have to go private to get anywhere as mental health coverage where I am (South West) is poor-to-nonexistant on the NHS. Fortunately my therapist is a specialist in adult ADHD and is female (as am I), so hopefully she'll be aware of some of the things you've mentioned. I certainly have a list of questions for our next session!

She did mention taking the meds with a good breakfast, presumably to help with that bell curve, though didn't specify beyond filling and healthy. I'll take into account the fat effect on absorption and see how it feels when I'm on a higher dose.

The plan so far is to start on 30mg for the first week (where I am now) and increase to 50mg from there, and to catch up with her in a few weeks to see how it's going (though to call in if I experience any bad side effects or other issues).

Again, thank you so much for this, and to @thhppbbbt for those comments also. You're both awesome.

I interpreted that slightly differently!

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When you see that there are unread posts in Crafting Thread Part ?

And you hope for more @Crawfish cats

And there ARE NEW ONES

I've recently started playing on Arx.

I've been there a couple weeks now and, even in my GMT-cursed RP time, I've never had a problem finding play. Plus, the people are generally very helpful with things like game lore and commands.

I'm sure it has it's problems (there is indeed a whole thread dedicated to them) but from an always-on-for-RP view, it's been good for me so far.

Hi folks.

I'm looking for the opportunity to run Demon: The Descent on a fully 2e MU*.

Anyone out there have a game/building a game that might have room for this?

Wasn't sure if this is the right place for it, but Advertisements is for actual games, and this is a pretty catch-all forum

Hit me up on Discord if you're interested in talking - my username is Snaik#4858

Cheers,

Vixanic

@cupcake - I read your initial post and basically felt like you had read my mind. I've been getting that feeling a lot lately.

OTOH, assuming that is also your ares handle, we both play on Chontio and Spirit Lake (my ares handle is @Snaik)- our times are not the most compatible, but if you see me on and you want to play, hit me up, and I'll do the same. Maybe we can be a bit of support network for each other.

@macha

Preface: I'm not taking adderall, I'm prescribed a different stimulant (called Vyvanse in the US I believe), but I'm assuming the effects should be broadly similar.

I've been taking this for just over two months now. I've had my dosage increased twice, and each time I've noticed small improvements. More quality-of-life things rather than major changes, but as we haven't settled on a steady dosage, this may change in the future.

The kind of improvements I have noticed so far:

• My thinking is more joined up. Example: I cleared all the crap out of my car so it would be empty for helping a friend move furniture. And as I finished doing it, I thought, "Why don't I vacuum the interior while it's empty?" That kind of natural next step just wouldn't have occurred to me before, and then I did it, rather than just thinking about doing it. (thus far the 'actually doing' has only been for minor things, but still!)
• I have more patience with music. I am known amongst my circle of friends as someone who is constantly skipping songs on Spotify playlists - songs I have added as favourites, sometimes 15-20 before settling on one, then skipping that once halfway through. I'm no longer doing this anywhere near as much, and it's really nice to just be able to listen without getting impatient.
• When I'm doing work, I can ignore little distractions. Things like an arriving email, or a Teams message - previously I could not ignore the little flashing notification, I would have to go and read it, then likely get further distracted, only returning to my work maybe 5-10 minutes later and then being distracted again by the next one. Now, I feel able to wait until I reach a natural pause in what I'm doing, the notification isn't as urgent-seeming.

As said, none of these are individually life-changing, but they are definite improvements for me, things that I didn't notice until I'd been taking the meds for a few weeks and was thinking back about whether anything had changed.

I hope this helps with some suggestions of the kind of improvements that you might see as you work towards finding the right dosage, even if they're not the big 'I have a working executive function!!!' kind of changes, every little helps.

@derp I had that exact same reflex. HOW DARE CHANGE HAPPEN!

So, I encountered a little gem of a game on Steam: Growing Up.

It's about a kid growing up from baby to adult, ending at high school graduation. It's a mix of choose-your-own-adventure with random events and people being introduced into your life, balancing your mental health vs making your parents proud, choosing which attributes you want to develop and which subjects - both academic and not - you want to focus on.

I've played through four "lives" now and it really does haul me in. Starting to see a little bit of repetition, but not enough to ruin it for me.

It has a nice range of characters across the various spectrums of ethnicity and sexuality, and stories to match.

Linky here if anyone finds this interesting: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1191120/Growing_Up/

@dontpanda said in Who are you?:

• The last 3.5 seasons of DS9 are the best in sci-fi, and I'll fite you with teeth and fists.

A-fucking-men!