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Dear SWRP Community,
It is with lament that I will be tendering my resignation as an admin of this wondrous site. Real life has finally caught up with me and chained me up to adult responsibilities. For a while real life had eaten up my time, but I was managing for the most part. However, with the introduction of matriculated education, any semblance of free-time to persist in the duties of admin have been severed in the real-world responsibilities marriage (when I divorce, I'm taking the dog!). It has been a long time coming, and that time, sadly, is now.
I do not know how much activity I will have for the site, if at all. I doubt I will be too active in the overall storyline, as any posting will be infrequent (suicide for PvPing and detrimental for story progression for anyone in threads with me). I will miss working alongside each and everyone of you, building marvelous stories and inspiring the imagination. This site has done wonders to improve my writing and story development (character development I can still use work in). I have even tamed my tendencies for particular naming conventions... ish.
But most importantly, I have made boundless friends and colleagues over the course of the years on this site since I joined in November 2010. I have been on many writing forums, but never have I become so immersed with its community as I have on SWRP. As I write these final words as admin, I find tears forming in my tears, because it's hitting me so hard in how much SWRP has had an impact on my life and I wouldn't have it any other way. I will miss each and every one of you. When I first started SWRP, I prized my identity as unknown, rarely ever sharing it with anyone. Yet now I find myself Facebook friends with multiple SWRPers.
This may not be good-bye, but it will be farewell of a semblance of constant presence, at least for the foreseeable future. Which is a shame, as I did have so many plans. That seems to be a common thread. So many plans, yet never enough time to materialize them. Whether they be plots or character development or things for kicks and giggles, there never is enough time to do them all, the motivation to get all accomplished. For a while I had wanted to instigate a Space Jurassic Park plot on the site, focusing on the Sith secretly experimenting on coalesced monstrosities using Republic funding but during an inspection of this "reserve" by some Senators and their military entourage; the Jedi, wishing to expose the secret abomination research, accidentally disable the safeguards and the creatures get loose. A second would be the return of the real Sidhell from his exile, resulting in some shenanigans as the Sith try to figure out which "Sidhell" is the real one, and figure out the fake Sidhell's machinations. Another involved a single thread in which I planned to title Truth, and would serve as a murder mystery; ultimately, it was Tolkeinian in intent, to see how long I could make the thread last, either posting solely by myself or with someone else. Maybe I can get the latter, who knows. Anyone is free to claim the Space Jurassic Park as their own. If someone wants Eldfrit, they're free to him.
Don't give the staff too much trouble. They do so much to this site, sacrificing their time and more to keep this site functioning and running smoothly. You may not always like their rulings, but that's reality. You want the admins that won't always do the nice thing, but the right thing, to be fair. Justice is blind, but don't be blind to reality. They are people too, and we all want is for a wonderful community. Toxicity and badmouthing, be it admin or other members, serves nothing but to darken the site. Keep the light burning bright.
It has been a blast, and I look forward to seeing the marvelous stories that will abound in this timeline and future. So long, and thanks for all the stories.
Dmitri Valentine, signing out.
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