ABOUT ME: 29, she/her (maybe they/them?), panromantic ace, EST. You can call me Jenna. I'm a legal assistant working to get my paralegal degree so that stupid English degree I earned isn't so useless, so I'm probably tired 3/4 of the time. I have a girlfriend and two fur children. One of them has a perpetual blep, and it's great. (It's not my girlfriend, for the record. It's my dog. Just to clarify.) I like videogames, books, and music, and I'll happily fawn over those things with you if OOC is your jam. I write third person, past tense.
ABOUT YOU: You're preferably 18+ because I'm old and roleplaying with minors is weird. It's not you, it's me. I'm old. Otherwise, I just want a decent grasp on spelling and grammar from you, and for you to contribute to the plot/story. I also prefer that you also write third person, past tense. That's it. Jazz hands.
PREFERRED WRITING MEDIUM: Private messages > threads > discord > anything else. I finally caved on discord; in the past, I refused to use it to rp at all, but it's nice for ooc and the servers are convenient. (Basically: I stopped being old and cranky about discord and have embraced change. Huzzah.) That said: I don't give it out until I am pretty sure you aren't a creep, so I'd rather chat/get through the plotting phase on site first. I'm one very anxious bean, okay, let me have this.
POSTING FREQUENCY: On my end, I can post once a week minimum, unless life happens. I'd promise more, but I work full time at a law office, I'm a student, and I also have anxiety/depression. I'm not going to promise more than I know I can actually give; it's not fair to either of us. As for you, a post is a post. I'm super patient-- if it takes you six+ months, we're good as long as I know you aren't dead in a ditch somewhere.
POSTING LENGTH: I like writing lengthier posts, and can easily go above 1,000 words if given enough to work with. I won't force myself, and some scenes require far less, but that's how I tend to write. Prefer shorter posts? Okay, just let me know. As long as I have enough to work with, we're golden. That said, I probably need more than a paragraph from you or I'll lose interest.
ROMANCE: It's not necessary to write with me. Platonic relationships are underrated. If there is romance, though, it has to develop slowly and naturally-- give me that slow burn romance, the kind where characters lay awake at night pining, and all the cute shit. As for orientation: gay/queer romance > hetero romance. I'm not straight and my gender is something I'm currently poking with a stick because I just love having an identity crisis in my late twenties, but my point stands. My characters tend to be some flavor of queer too. I can and will write cishet romance, but it has to be an excellent plot to get me to bite.
STAR CONTENT: I am open to it with people 18+ after the story's been going for a while, and the story would of course move accordingly to the Red Star section of the site. For whatever it's worth, I don't mind smut with characters who are 18+, but I am on the ace spectrum and so I don't... really feel the need to make a separate Red Star search thread. Is it fun to write sometimes for characterization purposes/for the heck of it? Sure! Do I have headcanons for characters and the dirty things they're into? Loads. Just because I'm ace doesn't mean my characters are. I'm not sex adverse, so hey, it's on the table with people who qualify/are interested. I sure as heck am not discussing it here though. I'll talk my limits on this front when/if it becomes relevant.
FANDOM: I only do canon x canon or oc x oc, with a huge preference for canon characters. Sorry, but I've been burned one too many times to mix the two. You cannot currently convince me otherwise: my free time is too limited right now for me to consider writing things that I know is a gamble. Sorry!
FACE CLAIMS: I literally couldn't care less about this. Want to use them? Cool. Have a preference for real people/anime? Cool, let's do that thing you prefer. Don't like to use them? Sweet, let me describe my character in text. I'll follow your lead because I couldn't care less. Honestly, I don't know why this is a hill people die on; until five minutes ago I didn't even know there was a hill. My lands are flat and relatively corpseless, apparently.
OOC: Optional, but a bonus. I like sharing headcanons, playlists, mood boards, memes, ect. Not your cup of tea? That's fine, I'll just hoard them like some weird meme gremlin. It's what the good lord would have wanted.
NOPE: I will never do anything involving the following: roleplaying celebrities, pregnancy of any kind, furries, incest, high school settings (at least not without a twist of some kind), pure "crack" plots, slave/master dynamics, and anything involving needles because I'm phobic. Unsure of something? Please ask!
CLOSING: PLEASE have something in mind when you contact me. It doesn't have to be something extremely concrete; an inkling of a plot or just a character you'd like to play is an excellent start. Let's just say it's a pet peeve of mine to be asked what I want to do when I've given someone a list. Literally. If you can't decide between a few things, that's fine! Just... don't be that roleplayer that asks, "You want to rp Umbrella Academy? Or these fifty other things on your list?" and we're good. Yes, I want to write that, that's why I listed it, you absolute chestnut. I'm old and cranky; don't make me come over there.
The obligatory rules post is complete. Onward to the actual interesting things, yeah?
