Hello! 33 year old from the Midwest US here; first time looking at forum RP, but I have a long, long history with RP and writing. I've been making up stories since before I could read, and wrote my first full length novel at seven or eight years old (spoiler: it wasn't very good). Since then, I've written something like 25 more novels across different worlds and spent the last two decades resisting my sister's best attempts to get me to move from text based MUDs to a modern MMO. I enjoy programming, and learning new programming languages just for fun, I play D&D when I can (though I've been relegated to DMing for years now). I do data analytics and database management for work - weird, I know, I got both the logic and the writing genes.
I both write and play in fantasy settings, and especially enjoy truly character-driven media. I have always and still today believe that the whole point of fiction, and all art, is to explore the world and human nature in a safe setting, and any work that doesn't do that just... Falls flat somehow. The best stories are about people doing things, not things happening to people.
I've been having trouble scratching my roleplay itch recently. Many of my long time friends have wandered off the scene over the years, and the MUD community was never very big to begin with. I'm hoping that tiptoeing into a tangentially adjacent medium can fill the growing gap without losing the magic of communal story telling.
I both write and play in fantasy settings, and especially enjoy truly character-driven media. I have always and still today believe that the whole point of fiction, and all art, is to explore the world and human nature in a safe setting, and any work that doesn't do that just... Falls flat somehow. The best stories are about people doing things, not things happening to people.
I've been having trouble scratching my roleplay itch recently. Many of my long time friends have wandered off the scene over the years, and the MUD community was never very big to begin with. I'm hoping that tiptoeing into a tangentially adjacent medium can fill the growing gap without losing the magic of communal story telling.