Feral Heart

The only problem I find with this is that hardly anyone I know actually uses the site's message system. Chances are, they won't see my message for days, weeks, maybe never if they don't tend to go on the forum as I didn't for so long. If only the game itself popped up a notification on the login page when someone sends you a site message...O_O wait, that's a good plan. If it wouldn't take a massive amount of reprogramming(which it probably would, knowing my luck), the people in charge of all that jazz should get on it.

Oh lawdy, dem TLKers never fail to amuse.
My good friend spends a lot of time on her Simba character, one which she made purely for fun and OOC purposes. She made a clear bio explaining the character's purpose, though I told her it was a somewhat futile gesture considering that many Bonfire regulars don't bother with them at all.

So a couple of days ago, we were sitting in Bonfire together when a whole cast of characters came up to her clamouring for attention of one form or another.
"Oh Simba, the outlanders are attacking!"
"Oh Simba, I missed you honey where have you been?"
"Oh Simba, I'm your long-lost brother, did you know?"
She tried to explain that the character wasn't for RPing, but either they didn't see because the chat was too fast or they willfully ignored it. Also, these people had very little consideration for personal space(you know, they were the kind of people who aren't content with sitting next to you, they have to sit in you or it's not good enough). After a while we decided to shift away, since they just weren't getting the message.

Lo and behold, every single one followed us. This went on for quite some time, until they were all convinced that Simba was a grouchy old meanie and he wasn't fit to be king. Naturally, we were in stitches. This would have kept being fun, if a Scar character hadn't then also come up. When we moved away this time, he began screaming at us in caps because Simba hadn't been terrified of his presence. We politely gave the explanation again, and directed him to the bio. This did nothing to console him, in fact it sent him into a rage because supposedly you have to constantly be IC on Feralheart or it's against the rules and you should be brutally tortured.

Not sure if this is still entirely on-topic, but it seemed like an amusing example of how crazy those guys can be.

I love it so much when any player tries to claim a famous character that they didn't invent XD I particularly love the TLK people in Bonfire, with their "Official" this, and "I'm the real one" that. I sometimes bring my old Simba character along there just to see what will happen, but if anyone tries to argue that they're real and I'm not, I always say:
"The real Simba exists only as an animation. Nobody on FH is the real one, we all just happen to like RPing as him."
Of course, the type of people who start such arguments generally aren't in the mood to listen to reason, so they either walk away because the words I used were too big for them, or keep insisting that I change my character.
It's not so fun when someone clones a character of yours that you spent ages designing, though. But for pre-existing characters from games, books, TV or movies I find the whole situation hilarious.

Being an artist and a character designer, I do tend to obsess over which colours look nice and subtle with each other, which markings make sense for the character, etc.
I'm afraid I do have a terrible habit of instantly judging a character if it has two colours that don't go together/markings that don't compliment each other/too many items... D: of course if the character is in my group or is a friend of my friend and we happen to be hanging out, I might change my opinion of them if their personality is well thought out and has a little depth to it. The tiniest things throw me off liking a character design however, it could be something as small as having the slightly "wrong" shade as an above-eye colour which doesn't quite fit with the pelt.
I dunno. I realise that I do pay a ridiculous amount of attention to tiny details like that, whereas a lot of other people might not give it a second(or maybe even a first) thought. While designing a character, I always spend the most time on colours, making sure they're just right because I know if I got that wrong I would go mad over it.

Wait a sec...that whole thing was just me calling myself out as a bit of a judgemental ho...this is awkward. I shall go back to my hidey-hole and draw now. Don't mind me. O3O
OH! Last teeny thing that always gets me: any character with a bright red/pink nose that doesn't match the rest of their pelt. *shudders*

Ok I'm done. Please don't hate me.

OOC, any old level of grammar and spelling is fine with me. I definitely prefer to RP with more "literate" people though, and I must confess the tiny mistakes like "your"/"you're" do get to me a lot XD I try my best not to comment on it however, and honestly most of the time I just think to myself "They'll get better, they're probably doing their best to learn" or "It's a typo, ignore it".

It's funny, when I started playing FH I was squarely in the semi-literate bracket. I looked up to the literate players, but at times they did seem a tad...not snobbish, but perhaps just intimidating because of the amount of attention they put into their typing.
After I moved into a more literate style, I'm afraid to say I did become a teeny bit high-and-mighty for a while >.< I would love to say "I can understand it if you're using a phone and you only have one thumb to work with. On a keyboard you have all ten digits, so why doesn't anybody seem to use them?" (which I guess is still valid if English is the person's first language and they genuinely are just being lazy when they have the ability to spell things fully)
At this point I figure it would take far too long for me to correct every spelling/grammar mistake or typo someone says, and it won't really get me or them anywhere.

Someone mentioned the idea of a FH school(which is awesome, provided that there are enough pro-active users who want to join in), and it reminded me of a particular experience I had with an older group I lead. This group was mapped, and I happened to get three or four people joining at once, all of whom had never installed a map before. That was fine, I didn't mind teaching them, but they just wouldn't listen half the time and got confused even though I might have explained the same step three times. I dunno. That's less of a literacy thing, but they were evidently all new players. Not entirely sure what point I was trying to make with that, actually...probably something like "Most of the people on here are lovely, but it sucks when they're too hyperactive to pay attention to important things they asked about".

Uhh...I appear to have lost my train of thought to an extent...muffins for everypony, I suppose. *throws*