does anyone else remember the ridiculously long apps you had to submit for Landel's Damned?

the rape joke memes about Damon Gant being everywhere?

did someone whose name you forgot make an incredibly bad post that has been winding you up for twenty years???? SPILL

I think I've repressed just about everything

don't you remember? Select all -> selection -> contract -> 1px -> invert -> fill with black

ohhh don't remind me of the damon gant thing god

i hate how every now and then i remember in general how much more acceptable rape jokes were in the 00s

remember fitting miniaturised animated GIFs into icons?

the rape jokes weren't even funny, it was just saying "rape" and then giggling hysterically

once in awhile someone would have a portrait icon that would blink every minute and not move otherwise

is any rape joke ever funny

I'm not anti rape joke by any means but if you're going to do it, make a fucking effort imo

yeah I am not comfortable saying any subject can absolutely never have good jokes made about them. memes are by definition not good jokes because they get funnier the more they are repeated, since they are used for social cohesion

there are funny jokes about rape. there are no funny rape memes.

we'll just have to disagree on that one then bc thats a yikes from me

I'm not going to get into rape joke discourse here but it seems obvious that people can write jokes satirising the pathetic nature of rape culture. that's all.

lord the rape jokes. the girl in the community who was constantly like "NOPE THAT'S NOT FUNNY. CUT IT THE FUCK OUT." had the patience of a saint and the strength of Godzilla and the rightness of someone extremely right

anyway we can all agree that the Damon Gant thing was just actual garbage

anyway I blew off a college essay to write my Landel's Damned app and I still got rejected and that made me realize how much I wanted to quit college

hahahahaha

was Damned that kind of hospital set RP? I thiiiiink I apped in... and then never actually played in it

I might have talked you into apping

the fucking ridiculous era where journalrps expected every app to be like fucking tighter than a goddamned resume

I was trying to app MGS2 Ocelot with the whole Liquid's ghost thing, then they said I was accepted but they denied me on the Liquid part, and I thought that wasn't fun so I never played

the most deranged person i have ever met got kicked out of a game (somarium, i think?) for getting mad at people making rape jokes. which... okay yes she did technically ruin my life for many years but god damn,

the fucking culture in 2009 was so evil

DamageBooster I REMEMBER THAT

This isn't strictly RP related except that it's about RP-partners dating each other and one time a girl I was sleeping with informed me that I was the other woman by telling me, quote, "I accidentally a girlfriend who isn't you '-'a"

somarysueme I feel like some organ inside me just physically cringed

somarysueme 😐😐😐😐😐😐

traumatic. agony. torture

IT WAS VERY UPSETTING AT THE TIME BUT NOW IT'S PRETTY FUNNY

sometimes the bullet dodges you

when my girlfriend broke up with me I removed her from my friendslist for my own sanity, but later when I tried to rekindle friendship with her and added again I saw in the comments like one journal entry back, a bunch of our mutual friends were trying to scrub my presence from her "top commented" stats by spamming memes for her. I just removed again.

I mean, just a little bit "oof" feeling there, and also very very LiveJournal

oh my god im sure i have something

but i once meet someone at LJ because she was the only person who wrote MGS fanfic in spanish, we became friends and she ended going to the same uniersity and career than me.............. it ended bad

also her LJ girlfriend hated me because my friend kinned otacon and i rped solid snake so obviously we had something

the "I am playing a ship with this person on the internet so I love them irl" stuff was very unhealthy

There was the time when a frenemy started an RP that had a handful of people at first but quickly dwindled down to five, and then four, and then three… “Hah,” I thought, “they werent tough and cool enough to stick around.”

Turns out in retrospect they were smart

That was…not a good friendship

I vaguely remember this one

some wild personalities in that thing. "frenemy" is right.

one of the more normal people in that game later turned up in Disco Elysium fandom, she's doing fine writing Harry/Kim fic now

aw, that's good

the main one, the one who wrote one of those long unfinished fics back in the day, is now a big transphobe

the world needs a lot less of that and a lot more Harry/Kim fic

oh dear. somehow an unexpected and completely expected outcome at the same time for that individual

she was like the first properly rich person I ever knew online

in those days, I couldn't understand why someone with money would be posting on LiveJournal with us fucking losers. now every A list celebrity is getting into beefs on twitter and I fully understand it

at least when celebrities have LJs or Tumblrs it involves admitting they're a weirdo for it

I think GRRM still has an LJ