Fuck, I weep for society. And yeah, this is a really lame thing to be all 'wow this bitch is dumb' about, but this woman habitually posts the most idiotic things, and it's the same people who always comment on those posts. If there's ever an apocalypse, I'm going to round them up and use them as bait.
So, onto some ACTUAL updates, shall we?
Senia: The usual. Even though I've stayed consistent on RP with her all these years, I've finally given her a backseat to everyone else, mostly because my focus is on the next chapter(s) of her memoir, dedicated specifically to meeting, dating, and marrying Richard, and because of that, I have to live in her past, which makes it hard to play her present. She is, however still doing her noob mentoring, and just took on not one, not two, but five new NY citizens. One of them is already thriving.
Nat and Chelsea are pretty much done for me, as far as RP goes. Chelsea has calmed down a lot from the teenager and 20-something she used to be, and she just stays under the radar. The same goes for Nati, but then again, she was always pretty low-key. They're in process of this farewell tour, and then... I don't really know what I'll do with them.
Troy is still feeling like a happy newlywed. Still working like the successful business man he was always groomed to be. Currently has his eye on taking over the company some day, so he's really trying to stay on top of things.
Parker is loving fatherhood. He's temporarily a stay at home dad - being part owner of the company for which you work has its perks - and helping Chloe out as much as she can while they start their next business venture.
Maddi is out touring again, dancing again. Was thrown back onto a stage without warning, and didn't die, which is good, because now she's about to do her first competition in over two years, and the stress is both killing and exhilarating her. But she's recovering from the past few months of her life, which is what's really important. Every so often she wonders if she did the right thing, if there were things she should/could have done differently, but someone (more than) once told her she worries too much, and she's working her way back to that confident person that she once was.
Olivia is just... having a good time being Olivia. She was accepted into Columbia Law School, and will start in the spring, which will really put a damper on all of her fun times. She's got a nice Christmas ahead of her then she's gonna make the most of the ending of winter, then she's gotta hit the books.
Logan's growing up! (Remind me I have to change his character pic.) He's reconnecting with some old playgroup friends, in particular the lovely Star, next to whom he spent the first day of his life in the nursery in a Rio hospital.
Amelia isn't quite growing up yet. And frankly, I'm dreading it for OOC reasons. The diary entries are going to make me craaazy until she's sixteen and I can do something about it.
Random internal reflection: I'm fully aware that I'm way too connected to one or more of my characters, and I probably take things a lot more personally than I should or than they were intended. I don't like that I feel that way, but I also have no way to remedy it, short of leaving the game completely. And let's face it, that is never going to happen unless it's something out of my control. We all come here to get away from the stress of life, and for the most part, this game provides that for me. The times that it doesn't, luckily, are now fleeting, and when they do happen, I just retreat, reset, and start over. I will probably always be way too attached to that/those character(s), for so many reasons, some of which probably don't even make sense, but here's the important thing: I can keep my hurt feelings out of their RP. Trust me when I say my characters would be very different people if I lashed out through them the way other people do.
On an semi-related note, it really sucks to watch as someone is clearly more invested in an RP with someone else than they ever were with you. When all the things that you brought up to them, all the little things that made you feel like you were just an afterthought, for which they had eloquent excuses to explain why it just seemed like they weren't making an effort... and now they're totally on point with all those things, going well beyond what they gave you, it's hard not to feel like they were never into it in the first place.