ANNIVERSARY LOVE MEME

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NINTH ANNIVERSARY LOVE MEME

It's FR's birthday! Ish.

We're doing this on a weekend because holy shit, we're old.

Anyway: Let's say some nice stuff.

1. Post your name & characters in a comment.
2. Reply to other players.
3. Check back! No one's late.

Whether you're new or old, I promise that somebody loves you.

( Participation isn't mandatory, don't do it if you feel weird, etc. )

 

Comments

GENERAL GAME LOVE

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What plots have you enjoyed? Why do you ❤ playing here? Any hopes and dreams?

[reparo]

I'm so grateful for the warm reception and for the way people roll with plot! All your patience is appreciated.

Sidebar, Fuck Rift forever in my heart

Side side bar, one day I will figure out customisations and then it's over for you all

Side side bar bar, gotta award Fade Rift for Most Amount Of Sad 40+ Year Old Men In A Game

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i cannot believe this game is still going & still trying new, interesting things. extremely fortunate to have mods who have run the fucking marathon, i don't know how you guys keep coming up with plots and mechanics that push the world along, and i'm hopeful that veilguard gives you both a nice vidya break and a bunch of new ideas.

also continually thrilled by the ideas that players put forth, whether in mini plots or leadership or etc. love how willing everyone is to take a ball and run with it. i've seen a lot of different versions and eras of FR, but consistently, i think what i value most about it is how engaged everyone is with everyone else. they're not just your barbies, they're our barbies. neat! please take that one out of your mouth!

[cozen]

I love all of you so much and I'm so glad you're here and playing with us all these years later. ♥ ♥ ♥ On the mod side the game would never have lasted this long without so many creative, invested people pushing it forward—plus being so kind and so chill when we're late with things or have an experiment fail. And on the player side you're all delights to write with, so talented and funny across the board. And I'm in particular very grateful for how welcoming the game is to OCs, even players who don't typically play OCs themselves.

Cami recently pointed out to me that by the 10 year anniversary some of us will have been in FR for over a fourth of our lives, and on the one hand that's horrifying, but on the other, what a cool group of people to have spent 25% of my days being a geek with.

[wearyallalone]

First and foremost, so much love to the mods. Not only for the many years of plot (truly, bless you), but also because you're always so willing to iterate and adjust and see what's working for the game as it is now. You've always had a door open if I was struggling with something OOCly or if I had an idea, and I appreciate that so, so much.

And to the game as a whole, I just love spending time and creative energy with this group. Everyone's OCs live in my head rent-free, as the kids say, and I appreciate how much everyone is enthusiastic about discovering what's fun to do together. The collaboration is really where it's at.

Special shout-outs off the top of my head for some plots, too: Granitefell, let's let the whole game deal with grief and also give your character a cinematic death but make it temporary; I'll Be Home for Riftmas, aka "Thedas characters learn to use firearms in TLOU and abuse emojis in several worlds that have texting"; The Darkest Realm of Dream, in which I got attached to both the dark future and the alternate timeline in different ways, whoops; the blood plague caused by lyriophages blood sharks; and truly too may others to list.

[armd]

OK WELL, I ❤ playing here because the playerbase is the perfect combination of 1) creative, fun, interesting, insanely talented (you guys have been making me actively push myself to write better for checks date on Abby's app three years now), and 2) chillax adults that are tired, have lives and will continue to come back and pick at threads after I backtag them all at -4am American time. I ended up here bc I was doggedly following Charlie after the game we were in before died in a fiery explosion two weeks after I joined it. No offense to that game but I'M SO GLAD IT DIDDDDD

Idk. You guys are great, you do a really solid (and impressively long-lasting) job modding this place and all of us, you're receptive to crazy suggestions and willing to help flesh them out. I'm so grateful for your energy and ideas and for you not closing this game two weeks after I joined it (thank you)

Plots that have stuck with me: Granitefell (what a RUSH), the event where Charlie and I got to take 3/4 of the game on a TLOU zombie apocalypse bender and the demon event starring Gela, which was crazy and fun and way harder to keep secret than I thought it was going to be, I've never done something like that before in a dwrp game and it was so thrilling!

My hopes and dreams are that Veilguard is a cool video game holiday for everybody and we all come back charged up and ready for more 💪💪💪

[doneisdone]

Mj already mentioned my bullying in her post, but also I have spent more time in Fade Rift than I spent earning post-secondary degrees (I have two of them) and am a little bit frightened of how intertwined it has become with my life, mostly regarding the irl friends I've made and the media I've been inspired to look into as I get curious about different canons.

Like it's difficult to express how insane and cool it is to me that I moved across the country one year into this game's existence and, in the resulting eight years, have put down roots with a whole-ass irl community of friends that I met through Fade Rift. And I got to meet (and see again) so many of the non-WA ones this year! It's really special! You guys have made a special thing and I will always be grateful for it!

Also just, yknow, fucking around in Thedas always fun, but it's bigger than that for me and has been for a long time. Love you motherfuckers

[grindset]

[brennvin]

I started low-key stalking this game in 2019, literal years before I would work up the nerve to join, and I’m so so glad that I finally did because I love this place with all my heart.

Absolute props to MJ & Cass for carving out this sweet spot which feels like such an oasis in dwrp; I’m constantly telling friends about how great these mods are, and how fun and funny and stinking talented this playerbase is. I love that we operate on a mellow chill backtagging timeframe that works for us as tired adults, but that players are still so engaged and run so many player plots; it feels like a much more sustainable ebb-and-flow pacing and it’s kind of spoiled me forever.

For fave plots, I could name basically every major one since I joined, but I have an obvious soft spot for Granitefell, Riftsmas, the Gallows destruction to shake things up, and the Envy demon plot. idk if I can describe this well, but the latter really underscored what I love most here: IC Riftwatch feels like an actual population of real people whose plots all organically ripple outward and affect each other in an interwoven tapestry, which isn’t something I’ve really experienced in bigger games where characters can get lost in the background. It’s just special, ok.

The April fools/Christmas apps have also had me howling laughing. Why are you all so clever and funny. I love everyone in this bar.

[elegiaque]

NINE MORE YEARS NINE MORE YEARS NINE MORE YEARS

fade rift has spoiled me. it is everything i want in a game! the way that this setting and the way we engage with it allows for characters to have real, meaningful stake and investment in what's happening - the choices that they make have meaning, the opinions that they hold have consequences, and the ripple effects of that are so interwoven. you can pluck a string and vibrate three others. the decisions and priorities of these characters have real influence and impact on the world around them! the structure of the game and its story and the way that we all work within it gives a depth that has been a rare gift to find in game spaces, and i love a lot the way past characters linger meaningfully in the narrative. that's so special.

i also love that it's not just the story that is impacted by the cast, but the way that our mods have pivoted and experimented and kept tabs on what works and what doesn't and when things need to shift; i think it's easy to view fade rift as old and set in its ways from the outside, but i think a huge element of our longevity is the way that the game has been constantly evolving for as long as its existed to reflect the needs and interests of the mods and the player base. it's one of the things i cite whenever i'm hyping us to new folks, and it's part of what i think makes it easier to feel that there's space for new folks. we didn't decide nine years ago what's what and fuck you if you weren't here for that. it is a living breathing game that grows!

i am grateful every day to everyone involved and mj and cass's leadership, cuz this is game was made for me drrrr drrr drrrr

[pathlit]

There's definitely something special here! Everyone's been super chill and welcoming. The collaboration and excitement for each other's characters and plots is just plain nice. The mod plots and player plots are well thought out and inclusive-- getting to jump right into the game with some wacky elf temple bullshit was incredible. Overall, I'm really grateful to be a part of Fade Rift!

[laruetheday]

Congrats to Fade Rift for being the coolest game for nine years running B) But seriously, I'm sooo happy that I gave FR another shot after Cadence joined because it turns out that I love it here. This is the only game I've ever been in where it feels like what happens to one character affects everybody somehow and it's not just a bunch of separate groups of characters pretending to coexist, and like what's going on in the game world actually makes a difference to what the characters are experiencing longterm. It's so cool to see. Best mods, best players, hands down.

Favorite plots: Riftmas, Granitefell, the memshare thing, the envy demons...
Hopes and Dreams: an opportunity to use icons of this kid from an episode of Grey's Anatomy that I randomly saw on tiktok because she looks exactly like Clarisse's PB. I'm not asking for a deaging event I'm just showing you this perfect PB for a deaged Clarisse. that's it.
Also someday I'll app a native I stg

[wearyallalone]

Coming back for this properly later, but in the meantime:

Ammmy

Cosima Niehaus
Julius Selwyn
Vanya Orlov
Siegfried Farnon

and formerly

Romain de Coucy
Ket Perrino

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ammmy, i so deeply admire your chill ooc. you are so easy and amenable to plotting and chatting, and it was a delight to get to hang out with you a little in person this year. those bastards in nyc don't know how lucky they are.

i'm glad we have an excuse to rp more now, but i hope you know that i've enjoyed reading your threads more or less the entire time we've overlapped. i appreciate how many layers you give your characters, and how patient you can be in unveiling them, while still letting them inform all their background choices. i'm sure that a lot of that comes of having written them for so long, but it makes them feel like realer and well-rounded people.

also ket lives on in my heart

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Meat so fresh it's still semi-rare, but...

Cella

→ Hermione Granger

That's it.

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cella you are so funny and fun to play with. i've been dropping the ball a bit on ooc communication lately, so i hope that you know how easy you are to talk to and that i intend to do more of it!! that's a threat.

i've really enjoyed seeing you throw hermione into things, it feels like she already is establishing a place in the game and i look forward to carving into it further with more CR.

Charlie

[notathreat]

I was told to post here and I love Cadence so --

Formerly:
- Ellie Williams | notathreat
- Jude Adjei | foolsmakeitcolder
- Karlach Cliffgate | axetrovert

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charlie!! i'm sorry that we didn't overlap longer, but i'm so glad to have seen a bit of ellie, both before and after my long FR pause. it was genuinely very neat to come back and see how fully she'd integrated into the game and developed past her entry point. i've also very much enjoyed going back and reading jude threads. i think you have a real knack for writing tags that are easy for other people to bounce off, and characters that are charismatic in a way that invites CR.

hope life is treating you and the kiddos well!

libby in the sky w diamonds

[elegiaque]

i will be back to comment around—

gwenaëlle baudin vauquelin elegiaque
petrana de cedoux ipseite

previously, martel leblanc, benevenuta thevenet, seoraj allaway, margaux, gervais vauquelin and tsenka abendroth.

special guest le comte eméric vauquelin de vauquelin. crazy how many of my past characters are dead.

trippy

[reparo]

I've only had Captain Baudin for two months now, but if anything were to happen to her Hermione would set someone or something on fire. For sure.

Thank you for holding my hand encouragingly for these two months, you're the best

And for all of the most poetic, fullsome, hilarious tags - which are about 95% of your tags! (the 5% is for margin for error, because Science)

mj

[cozen]

Currently: Bastien, Kostos Averesch, Redvers Keen, Xiomara Novoa, Siorus, Vaclav Lutak. (Too many. Someone's gotta die soon.)

Posting this specifically because I want K2 to give me a GIF. No one has to say anything except K2 who must give me a GIF.

[wearyallalone]

I need you to know that I'm a parody of myself because I paused like "wait is it bad form to pay my friend a compliment," lol the midwest never leaves you

THAT SAID I'm so glad we've become friends! I realize I stalk more of your threads than I directly participate in, which is maybe something to correct in the future, but in the meantime, they're great? (Already dreading Redvers getting the ax, tbh, he's terrible and I love him.) All your characters are so different and I enjoy them all so much. I also loved getting the chance to confirm you're personally as much of a delight offline as you are online this year, which was not surprising, but was rad all the same.

julie

[portalling]

with ye smol set of:
→ Stephen Strange portalling
→ Astrid Runasdotten brennvin

[wearyallalone]

JULIE it is wild to me that you're relatively new (at least by this game's timeline, lol) because it feels like we've already developed so much terrific CR. I can't wait to see where else it goes. You were immediately so personable that it made it really easy to reach out to you as our characters overlapped, and I am so relieved that you were down for me to pitch "what if all of my characters became Stephen's friends, actually?" And Astrid and Siegfried's burgeoning broship (nongendered) is equally a delight to me. I'm so glad you jumped into the game with both feet, and I hope you stick around a good long time.

nina

[aberratic]

tbh i cannot say for certain that i will be back to comment around because thinking up heartfelt compliments on the spot is difficult, but i do very much want a k2 gif.

ennaris tavane aberratic
talin shira'nehn vir_assan

previously, adalia.

[reparo]

i've gently put the ball down on the ground for a bit this month but i will very much like to pick it back up and continue building upon this wonderful cr - ness is the best, how lucky for hermione to bump into a fellow research-enthusiast at the very start of her tenure here !

here's some further love:

you write beautifully, you came up with a spooky and AMAZING and complex player plot that has left me in fucking awe, and your characters are both complex and unfairly gorgeous - you know what you're doing there.

talin watch out, i'm coming at you (as soon as reasonably possible)

[armd]

I will come back later outside of work hours to distribute love to you all :–)

Cadence

• Abby Anderson
• Gela Baynrac
• Lady Vega Arany of Vyrantium

(am I an old player now???? WHATTTT)

[reparo]

hey
did you know
we've known each other for over 10 years now???

think about that.

/GRIPS SHOULDERS
listen i like your characters and will been haunting you until i get more of them. craftwatch is going to happen. i'm just excited to be in your inbox again ok

[laruetheday]

woop woop

Lor
- Clarisse La Rue

[reparo]

Thank you for giving me the chance to peak early in the game with punch me right now. Hermione might not, but that thread will definitely go down - as one of the greatest moments in rp.

Sidebar, because I've been a PJO girlie before, I love Clarisse so much and you do more than do her justice, you let her shine, and we love to see it.

ok now go design Hermione that training schedule

Cami

[doneisdone]

currently playing: Barrow, Benedict Artemaeus, Teren von Skraedder, Fifi Mariette

formerly played: Sina Dahlasanor, Cade Harimann, Evrion Thatch, Mado Souvera, the estimable Brother Gideon

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hey dork. i can't believe we've known each other for like EIGHT YEARS, most of that in person. that's bonkers. moving back from canada right when you moved up here still feels a bit like serendipity - you've been such a big part of establishing an adult community for myself and i'm very grateful for your friendship all this time. i know that even when the going gets rough you'll be there to talk stuff out, bounce ideas, and shoot the shit, and try to put together a puzzle in the fucking dark. it's been a real treasure to get to see you grow professionally and personally. also to see your cute baby.

rp-wise, man, what a long tenure in game. it's been exciting to see barrow & benedict in particular grow from the places where they started, and acquire like. responsibilities (ew). always appreciate how down you are to do stupid shit and write unpleasant people with me, as you well know. i'm going to throw your dolls out the window when you're not looking. bye

k2

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due to toxic cancel culture i now exist here

lazar

cedric

isaac

& like 900 previous characters

[elegiaque]

k2 from your very first appearance in fade rift i was like "im gonna be friends with that bitch" and guess what, i am. i think you're so talented and the way you approach your characters is so deliberate even when they move in directions you didn't anticipate or plan. also gervais/coupe ship-that-entangles-you-in-in-law-drama-forever-and-ever-amen of all time. coupe and gwen's cr is still foundational to everything that i'm doing with gwen now and maybe always will be! actually! you're so funny and smart and you write tags that make me reexamine characters and concepts in new ways and i'm always trying to be better to keep up. you're a great friend as well as a rp partner and if i had to pick just one i'd take the friendship, but i'm stoked to death i get both.

pants unicorn lives on my wallet and i think of you every time i look at him :)

shawna

[favoriteanalyst]

currently: Mobius Onlyonename

previously: Leonard "pain lasers" Church, Malcolm "the middle seeker" Reed, Rachette "who?" Dakal

[wythersake]

it's hard to believe that we still have so many people from the game's early, early days. it's been neat to watch character rosters evolve over that time, and to see what themes persist. is mobius sort of church and malcolm's weird baby? i think you could make that argument.

obviously, church made an impact as a rifter, but your continuing focus in the ways that characters can be adapted to the native setting definitely adds an interesting lens to all their interactions. i think one of my favourite things about playing with AU'd characters is seeing how and what people decide to keep, and the way that those changes propel them in new directions. some day i'll have to go back and read what all thedas mobius made of the mcu riftmas.

[tadpoled]

Dha

—> that fucking weird elf Tav

[wythersake]

i'm glad you got to play out tav's de-urging in game, and i'm looking forward to seeing where a bhaal-less (ha) life takes him