a psa;;
If I post an open starter, and you want to respond to it,
DO THE THING!
❝ But the starter has already been replied too by someone else! ❞
I don’t care, do the thing.
❝ But you posted it hours/days/weeks months ago! ❞
Do. The. Thing.
❝ But I don’t know if I can… ❞
This is your permission. Do the thing.
❝ But you’re so quality, and I’m not! ❞
I don’t care, do the thing.
Look, there’s nothing more depressing than making a starter, big or small, and having no one reply to it. It just sits there, empty, unused, unloved. If it happens enough the role player will stop posting open starters all together, defaulting instead to people who they know will answer them for sure. Or in some extreme cases leave the community.
Open starters are open for a reason. Any one of my followers can answer them hours, days, weeks, heck even months after they’ve been posted. That’s why they’re tagged open.
So please, if you ever, ever, see a starter post tagged open that looks interesting to you RESPOND TO IT!
You’re not going to annoy me, in fact you will make my day. You’re not going to see it but I’m probably going to do a little happy dance in my seat, or grin like an idiot, or make high pitched squeaky noises, or all of the above, because you, yes you, responded to the starter I posted.