Curio1579 Curio1579 is offline

Contrary to what I said in the PM, I cannot check it out yet as a result of your post being held over for mod review. -_-‘ I’ll see it when I can I suppose.

EDIT: Quick edit before my phone dies. I hope you don’t mind the short length of the special stuff that happened or the implications (essentially making it so) that Tristin wet overnight but if you disagree with it then feel free to write how you want and tell me so I can edit. Also, again the machine stuff that can happen here should be checking only but feel free to make it fun and embarrassing - You can even have their onesie’s opened up and left open if you like. Of course what happens after is up to you, but I assume it’d be the ladies coming in for a changing and such.

See you later Curio!

Heh, you know it’s been like that and I’m afraid that may keep happening such as now, but there’s also the chance that you’re not getting offline right away, anything’s possible. I’ll wait and see.

Hey Curio.

So, if you don’t come back today that’s fine. We’ll get back into a more stable routine with time so I’m not worried. :3

I did want to make sure though that you knew you can have the characters say what they need to do long as you kept them believable to their characteristics.

I’m sure it’s obvious that one of them is better with patience and soothing while the other is better with the proficiencies of knowing where things are and knowing about the physiology of humans. They’re both sweet and loving (at least for what we see of them) and they both care for the abductees but they are very much so individuals with faults, strengths, proficiencies and differing means of handling situations.

You don’t have to leave your posts super vague if you don’t wish - I try not to talk for Tristin for example because he’s yours but he still does stuff in my posts occasionally, and I’ve been trying to make the two caretaker characters their own things for this time we’ll have with them and I think they’re well established enough now that you should be able to pick up on what they do and how they behave should you wish. Of course, that surprise we talked about earlier is still something I’ll be doing in time but for now just know that’s one of the only things I have to have reserved for me - Keep then true to themselves and they’re yours to write for, just like the machines will be shared should you wish (and it keeps it interesting for both of us, especially when machines treat the characters very differently or even slightly altering the care from one to another).

Have a good one!

So, I’ve been keeping up with you and you’ve hit Junior Member status! Which should mean we’re out of the woods on this now, thank goodness. Just when I’d contacted a mod about trying to get the approvals sorted. ^_^’ Kinda feel silly now, but what’s done is done.

This should ease our responses as your posts should now be visible right away. Now if you check after posting your posts should e there to read in the public space of our thread.

Okay, so unfortunately I’m unable to fully finish the post right now as I work soon, so we’re going to have to wait a little bit to get my response in but it will happen today. : s

So we’re a day behind schedule, but there’s still stuff you can do in the meantime. Find things to post on in the forums and do so, max out your limit for today so that we’ll be out of this sooner rather than later. I apologize, it’s just my work schedule has made today very difficult for me. : /

Hope you get to read everything I have and more here later, and that you love it.

-Mingle

Ah, you’re around. Wonderful.

EDIT: Even if it seems like I’m vanishing, I’m still popping back in every so often to check up on stuff in here. I was sort of thinking that it was a situation like you still weren’t able to post but it may be just that you’re doing your best to make the best of everything.

EDIT: It finally got approved! I’ll go give it a look as soon as I can, but I can guarantee that you’ll have a reply if I can’t find the time to respond right away. Bare with me, and f you can’t respond before you have to go do whatever you can to try and help your probationary status.

Hey Curio.

Silly, you’ve been posting VM messages into your own VMs. XD As of the time of this writing your posts are indeed being monitored and moderated away from public view until some random time that they get checked on. I’ll keep watching and waiting for it to pop up and I’ll respond when I can.

For now as a probationary member, you’ll want to try and send a couple of messages a day publicly to eventually get up over I think the 10 messages requirement in which case the system should verify you as a proper member and the restrictions go away. There are little game threads and comment threads in the forums you can use to make those public posts but if you’re down to three a day and think you might be able to get more than one in (like say in a reply that gets approved fast enough for me to respond to it) then perhaps just at the end of your day before you log for good use the remainder in a way that, post approval, you can get credit for it until it blows over.

So, about VM’s. You’d either have to go to my page to post at me or you can click ‘View Conversation’ at the bottom of a post between the two of us to bring up just our back and forth VMs. From there you can safely type a response that will get to me that I don’t have to go to the page to view - It also doesn’t notify me when you post on your VM wall so keep that in mind when trying to contact me through this method.

So, I hope I’ve covered everything. I’ll check back later tonight for me and see if your post(s) we’re approved. Lookin forward to seeing them. -Mingle

PS: (I’ve been doing a lot of post sending lately. ) I went back and looked into the RP, and yeah... You actually already have a duplicate post from when this happened before. There are a few options there, but I’d say the best one with that is to take how I reacted in the following post (it was to the second message) and anything you really liked from the first one and just sort of condense those bits into the second one if you fancy or completely forgo their first one and just sort of delete the text out of it with a small bracketed [Site mistake, see following post] sort of thing. We’ll need to do that with the most recent couple of posts as well (I’ll make sure there’s two before posting to them) but I’d wait off since I wanna’ read both of them and see the differences, maybe provide my feedback on something that I really like out of the first one into the second.

I hope whomever is approving your posts gets to it since I really want to be able to do this with you unabated. ^_^’ I also hope they’re enjoying what they’re seeing, unless they’re just approving whatever systematically at the end of their day... I hope they check daily. : s

PS (curse of the post send...) We’ve finally hit page 2! XD As expected your posts double posted but this is good! I borrowed some elements from the first post but as you suggested stayed very true to the second one, feeling I have the best of both worlds. When you finish writing your no doubt amazing post later please visit back on those two double posts and delete the text out of the first one of each of them after you’ve cross reviewed them to make sure you have all the elements you want in both of their second ones. This will be much easier on our readers.

I will wait for the review to pass before heckling you about not posting since we now know what’s up. Don’t sweat the length of the response since I think we’re doing great with these lengths, but we’ll need to tone it down later, okay? They’ll still be comfortably long posts with plenty of character interactions and fun stuff packed into each.

On the subject of your next post, here’s a few small suggestions - The full suite of products such as oil, powder and the like need to be applied in a specific order. Feel free to be as... Generous as you’d like. You can also come up with an outfit for both characters should you wish but you may also wish otherwise, it’s up to you. IDing at this stage I feel should just be an ID photo and information registry but there’s still a way to make that fun, which I’m sure you’ll do just fine. :3

These are only guidelines, do whatever makes it the most fun for you, me and the readers. Looking forward to your post tomorrow! Bye for now, for real this time. -Mingle

Also, I apparently can't sent more than three messages a day. I got a warning about it when I tried to PM you.

I found the answer to my delayed posts, when I posted a slightly revised version of my latest reply, a message came up saying it would appear once approved by a moderator.

Thats why we havn't been seeing them, they have to be approved first. You'll likely get the original post then the revised version shortly after. I'll send this on DA as soon as I can post another message but please treat the second version of my post as the correct one. I had a little idea afterwards and wanted to include it.

Oh wait! There’s nothing in the RP. : s

Please, before you leave or if you’re still writing please address this.

-Mingle

EDIT: Okay... You’re gone, likely for the day too. : / Let’s try and nip this post nonsense in the bud while we can so this -never- happens again because you want replies and I also assume you don’t want to have your hard work entirely dismantled. It may be a result of you being a probationary member, maybe you’re doing everything right and it just takes a little longer for your posts to fully submit or something but this is unlikely in my head. I’ll set some guidelines for you so maybe this will cease.

1. Make sure you’re submitting your replies to the thread. - If you’re writing these anywhere else than the reply box at the bottom of the threads then you may be submitting them in the wrong place or something. I’d recommend you do that if you’re using a different method but I assume this is already what you do.

2. If you go advanced, please remember to fully submit the work afterwards. - Going advanced on a post (or in post format it’s called ‘Previewing’) will let you see and possibly fix mistakes you make before it ever truly gets submitted, but at this stage it’s still not fully posted. If you do not submit your work then I can’t see it and you have the potential of losing a ton of effort... And your redo post will suffer because you don’t want to rewrite it all, making for subpar posts. I recommend until you fully fix this issue with yourself that you save a backup of any posts you make to a word file or notepad document on your computer or if you only have a phone save it to a notepad there. Losing work is the bane of any writer, I know.

3. Double check if your post submitted. - Okay, so you’ve saved a copy of your work and you believe that you followed the steps to fully submit your work. Now double check yourself and make sure that I and others will be able to see that hard work. In the thread, scroll to the bottom of the last page of our thread and make sure what you just wrote is the most recent reply. If it’s not there it’s not sent - Take all of that submitted writing and copy paste it back in, preview it to make sure it’s formatted correctly having gone from a Word document or a Notepad and afterwards submit it and then check again. It’s so, so important that we make sure we can see each other’s work, as a result of this you won’t get a reply until tomorrow and it puts us a day back, not to mention if you don’t have this saved then it will have to be redone... If that’s the case, I hope you can find the same excitement or enjoyment out of redoing it as I really did want to see your best work, not the angry rushed work you might be tempted to do to recover it quickly. Another way to check and make sure so long as you’ve subscribed to the thread as I suggested is to go back to that page where your subscriptions are and check who posted in it last - It will be you or me since it’s a private thread based on the rules of the site so if it says ‘Last Posted in by MingleMonster’ then your post didn’t fully submit. Always always check, double check if you must.

We’re on a once-a-day method here, and I really don’t want this to keep happening, especially if it’s just a fluke and costs you far more time and patience. I will come back later today and see if your post finally submitted, which would mean that your posts are being held over due to your probationary status. If so though, that’s idiotic of the system to be like that and further it makes stuff like becoming a proper member by posting every day that much harder when I can’t even see the posts in question for several hours after their post time. I believe that this was a mistake rather than a terrible system but if it was then still consider following the above guidelines and we’ll just have to wait until you make more than ten posts or so for it to fully realize.

Goodbye for now Curio, I hope we can get this sorted out soon. : /

PS EDIT: I can see your logged in status but depending on how you log out (or if you don’t and let yourself time out) then you appear logged in for several minutes more, something like fifteen minutes. This is fine, I assumed you were fully gone when your last activity was eleven minutes before I posted a VM at you, but still. : /