Lahndahn

I bet you thought we weren't writing here anymore, imaginary readers. Well you were wrong in this assumption. Kind of.

Right now, I am sat on my boyfriend's bed in the London home he shares with his mother (who fortunately is not here), thinking to myself "oh well I logged into the wrong account, may as well post on Ruebies". Rue by the way, is also not dead. It's just hibernating. A really, really deep hibernation brought about by the fact that I am not in control of my personal life in any way, shape or form at the present moment. And what control I do have, has been used to escape to the capitol for some r and r and s and k and a whole mess of other letters, each standing for things that gay men do to each other when they fancy each others pants off.

My plan for Rue is still to bring it to life with various purposes all meshing together in a sort of creative hashmegandy. The guild side (mainly focused on gaming) will hopefully bring in new membership and start a little modding community of people who can turn a written paragraph of descriptive text into a 3d environment where you can run around and frolic (within the confines of the game's code). Also playing games with other people is fun, and Rue has a strange power of bringing out the awesome in people, and thereby increasing that fun by a bajillion and two.

The comics side was a bit of a self-indulgent side, but a side that I still genuinely want to bring to life. I am crap when it comes to making sure that i have things done on time, but I really enjoy making comics and stuff and was hoping to recruit some artists and writers, and maybe even some fans to make this little section of the site come to life and be all awesome and stuff. I still want to bring this part of the forum into heaving, breathing life in the way that I had originally intended. I know that it is entirely possible but I am not sure how to go about it anymore, other than being terribly gaudy about it and just pestering the crap out of everyone I know with any semblance of all of the above.

It's worked for recruitment in the past.

Finally the Roleplay section. Here I will admit, I failed to take as much of a back seat as I might have liked. It is the bane of any roleplay site with an original setting that the admin or main creative input (either or) needs to take a heavy role in establishing the plot and fountaining out lore, which can also lead to the second downfall that I am totally aware that my characters suffer from: they know everything. I am not a big fan of "fountain" characters and try my level utmost not to write them or to kill them off, but with Rue I always found myself drifting back into the role no matter how many characters I made. There is probably some profound and clever way for me to avoid this somehow (short of making a wikia site), but I have yet to figure it, and so I keep getting burnout over one of my favourite things that I have ever made ever. This I was hoping would become easier as the other two sections came to life, bosom heaving and eyes all a sparkle.

Although honestly I am sorry that Rue has once again gone to sleep.

This post is rapidly filling with excuses, and I am not totally thrilled about that. But! I shall post it. Even though I just not only used "but" to start a sentence, but also ended with it too.

Rue remains one of my favourite things in the whole wide world. I just hope that now that I am getting close to being all qualified and out in the wider world and shiz, that I can do her justice.

- SR