Post by Buffy Summers on May 2, 2010 12:33:43 GMT -5
Hey, guys. I know we adminly types have been less than active lately… Okay, so I’ve been less than active. Faith’s been around, but neither of us are really posting. That’s mostly my fault because I haven’t been able to post or do much of anything due to overwhelming end-of-college-career stuff. Right now a few of our characters are wrapped up in threads with… well, each other, and we’re dependant on each other to post to move our characters into a place where they can post freely. So, we have to wrap up those threads before those characters are freed up to do other things.
The next few days are going to be busy for me, and I still have things I have to do for school, but the workload has lightened considerably so I’m hoping I’ll be able to do more around here, and me and Faith can straighten out some stuff we’ve been meaning to straighten up.
See what I did there? That’s a segue! Speaking of straightening stuff, that happens to be the main topic of this announcement dealie. When I originally built this board it was entirely different than it is now – a whole different concept, timeline, etc. Originally, this was a Buffy/Lost Boys crossover that took place in 1997, wasn’t multi-fandom, and the setting was strictly Sunnydale and Santa Carla. A lot of things like the Traveler’s Guide and Canon List were written with this concept in mind. We’ve decided they don’t really serve the board as it is now the way they served the old board. So, we’re going to be making some changes.
We’re going to update the Traveler’s Guide to include information about all our locations, and that list will expand as the RP progresses and Glory’s universe includes more towns and cities and states. We figure as characters from those areas pop up, some higher up (Glory, the Powers That Be, the Elders, the Senior Partners – whoever) will magically poof those areas into existence for those people. With the exception of Gallo because he’s just a total wrench, not to be confused with a tool, though he can be one of those too sometimes.
But, I digress. We’re also going to change the way the canon list is. Right now we have it listed by cities, which, again, was designed for the original layout of the site. We’re going to end up listing the characters according to canonical universe rather than city. We’re going to keep the “Nomadic” section for characters that don’t belong in any of the listed universes and who are currently the only canon present form their universe, that way we don’t have a bunch of sections with only one person listed. It’ll just be more orderly and functional that way.
Let’s see, what else? We might tweak how the faceclaim list is laid out, but if we do that we won’t make you re-submit anything if you’ve already claimed your face. It might just look a little different. We’re also going to change the Species Guide in a few ways. Right now it only has a few species types listed and they’re not sectioned off as well as they could be, in my opinion. We’re also going to use that to identify what character types are currently banned, when necessary. Also, there’s some mythology wrapped up in there too, so we’ll probably make a different post somewhere for that stuff.
We also have several Sister Sites we want to showcase in the sidetables so we’ll be making a section for those. A Sister Site is a board that isn’t this one that one or both of us administrate, some (if not all) of which are already showcasing us on their sites. For now, I’m going to list our sister sites here if you guys want to check them out:
The Ultimate Buffy RP
Supernatural: Unforgiven
Supernatural: Unforgiven 2 (under construction)
Buffy & Angel: Aftermath (under construction)
Basically, it’s a bunch of streamlining stuff we’ve been meaning to do. But, I got pretty busy for a bit (and still am kind of busy, but I’m working on it) and it’s just silly to prod Faith into doing all that crap by herself. So, we’re going to be trying to do some of this stuff to make the board more organized. We’re also going to try to post more, but if we seem to be M.I.A. or less-than-posty sometimes, it’s because we’re doing this stuff.
If anyone has any questions, concerns, or suggestions for the board or anything, let us know. You can either reply to this if you want to have an open discussion with other members, or send one or both of us a PM if you’d like to keep your thoughts private.
Thanks for reading, and being patient with us. We hope you stick around!
-The Buffster
P.S.: Faith, if you have anything to add, object to, or poke with a stick, feel free to reply!
The next few days are going to be busy for me, and I still have things I have to do for school, but the workload has lightened considerably so I’m hoping I’ll be able to do more around here, and me and Faith can straighten out some stuff we’ve been meaning to straighten up.
See what I did there? That’s a segue! Speaking of straightening stuff, that happens to be the main topic of this announcement dealie. When I originally built this board it was entirely different than it is now – a whole different concept, timeline, etc. Originally, this was a Buffy/Lost Boys crossover that took place in 1997, wasn’t multi-fandom, and the setting was strictly Sunnydale and Santa Carla. A lot of things like the Traveler’s Guide and Canon List were written with this concept in mind. We’ve decided they don’t really serve the board as it is now the way they served the old board. So, we’re going to be making some changes.
We’re going to update the Traveler’s Guide to include information about all our locations, and that list will expand as the RP progresses and Glory’s universe includes more towns and cities and states. We figure as characters from those areas pop up, some higher up (Glory, the Powers That Be, the Elders, the Senior Partners – whoever) will magically poof those areas into existence for those people. With the exception of Gallo because he’s just a total wrench, not to be confused with a tool, though he can be one of those too sometimes.
But, I digress. We’re also going to change the way the canon list is. Right now we have it listed by cities, which, again, was designed for the original layout of the site. We’re going to end up listing the characters according to canonical universe rather than city. We’re going to keep the “Nomadic” section for characters that don’t belong in any of the listed universes and who are currently the only canon present form their universe, that way we don’t have a bunch of sections with only one person listed. It’ll just be more orderly and functional that way.
Let’s see, what else? We might tweak how the faceclaim list is laid out, but if we do that we won’t make you re-submit anything if you’ve already claimed your face. It might just look a little different. We’re also going to change the Species Guide in a few ways. Right now it only has a few species types listed and they’re not sectioned off as well as they could be, in my opinion. We’re also going to use that to identify what character types are currently banned, when necessary. Also, there’s some mythology wrapped up in there too, so we’ll probably make a different post somewhere for that stuff.
We also have several Sister Sites we want to showcase in the sidetables so we’ll be making a section for those. A Sister Site is a board that isn’t this one that one or both of us administrate, some (if not all) of which are already showcasing us on their sites. For now, I’m going to list our sister sites here if you guys want to check them out:
The Ultimate Buffy RP
Supernatural: Unforgiven
Supernatural: Unforgiven 2 (under construction)
Buffy & Angel: Aftermath (under construction)
Basically, it’s a bunch of streamlining stuff we’ve been meaning to do. But, I got pretty busy for a bit (and still am kind of busy, but I’m working on it) and it’s just silly to prod Faith into doing all that crap by herself. So, we’re going to be trying to do some of this stuff to make the board more organized. We’re also going to try to post more, but if we seem to be M.I.A. or less-than-posty sometimes, it’s because we’re doing this stuff.
If anyone has any questions, concerns, or suggestions for the board or anything, let us know. You can either reply to this if you want to have an open discussion with other members, or send one or both of us a PM if you’d like to keep your thoughts private.
Thanks for reading, and being patient with us. We hope you stick around!
-The Buffster
P.S.: Faith, if you have anything to add, object to, or poke with a stick, feel free to reply!
