Hear me out.

Chatterbox: Down to Earth

Hear me out.

Hear me out.

Okay. Are you? Good.

Listen, everybody. The same-gender romance promotion has affected everybody--for the better or worse.

The CB is a mess.

People are leaving.

Some people are hurting.

The CB is like a large group of close friends, or a huge second family. Each and every one of you means so much to me. It hurts whenever you leave.

The CB doesn't seem exactly the same now. I don't really know how to explain it, but...it feels the same, and at the same time it feels different. Like it's the same place, but something has changed...for the worse.

I've been really miserable lately. I bet a lot of other people have been, too.

Guess what? It's the holiday season. That's supposed to mean happiness, love, and caring.

Ya can't exactly say we have a lot of it here at the moment, can you?

My suggestion is to just stop talking about it, move on, bandage our wounds as much as we can...although I know they'll always be there, and will always hurt. 

It's the holiday season, guys. Can you find the courage to forgive, forget, and move on?  

I've been lashing out at people a lot lately, even if the Admins don't post it. When I get upset about something, I really get upset about something, and sometimes I lose my temper. Can you forgive me? 

Thank you for reading this.

I love you all.

~Leafpool 

submitted by Leafpool
(December 18, 2016 - 2:12 pm)
submitted by Applause
(December 18, 2016 - 4:07 pm)

Okay, this is good. Thank you Leafpool.

Everybody, please listen up.

Let's set a date, for when we set a deadline for closing the conversation. It's not strict, and it's not necessarily a deadlines, but I agree. Come on guys, Christmas Eve is Saturday! I want to be done with arguments by then. We have to start healing and moving on.

So tell me if you agree with this: how about we say...till around the end of tomorrow, or by Tuesday...We stop making threads about our opinions, and even lessen the peace threads, because it's still bringing up the issue. I say set a date because some people need a little more time to get their feelings and please out. I know I have a few things to say.

Then we stop. (I mean, no one gets in trouble if they bring it up a little, like I said this is lax, but we need to have some sort of date where we stop making threads.) So let's stop by that date.

What are your thoughts on this, everyone? Should we move the date back even further? i would say at the most, no later than by Wednesday, though I suggest Tuesday. We can vote if you want, or we can make a separate thread. Because plans like these are what truly end wars. That's what ended the last war (Second AE War): a diplomatic thread by St. Owl and a thread with suggested guideliens by Abi. We need a solid plan.

So what do you think?

submitted by Owlgirl
(December 18, 2016 - 9:18 pm)

Of course I forgive you Leafpool. Everyone loses their temper sometimes. Plus, the CB is pretty much one giant family. Everyone gets mad at someone else at some point, but the important ting is that almost everyone is willing to forgive and forget, or at least forgive. 

Please read through this whole thing:

I also agree with you that we should try to put this whole "issue" behind us. I get really sad and sometimes I almost start crying everytime I go on CaC and DtE because more than half the threads are either people leaving or people complaining about others leaving. It's going to be really hard getting used to the CB without Cho and Daisy and Joss, and all the others who are leaving, but we need to accept and respect their decisions. And we can overcome this. We don't have to spend the rest of our time on the CB being sad about the loss of our friends. Why don't we spend it making new friends, playing games, writing RPs and stories, and doing everything else that we love to do on here? The CB is going to be much different, but why does that have to be a bad thing? Don't get me wrong, I'm extremely sad that so may people are leaving, but it doesn't have to be a bad thing. We can make it good. We can continue doing the things we love, and be the "generation" of CBers that rebuilds this wonderful place.

I guess what I'm trying to say is: We're all sad about the loss of our friends, but this is only a bad thing if we let it be a bad thing. If choose not to be dragged down by it, but to rise up, then we can all be mostly, if not fully happy again, and have the CB that we love so much back. 

submitted by Dragonrider
(December 18, 2016 - 10:43 pm)

I agree with all of you. We may not all agree on 'The Issue' but 'The Issue doesn't need to be the main theme of the CB. Let's just put it behind us. It's just another rule now, something that the Admins decided. I want to get back to playing games, writing stories, RPing, drawing Picturings, all the things I love doing on here! NOT arguing about this issue, or reading through all the sad leaving threads. I don't have the time or emotional strength to say bye to everyone. Like Dragonrider, I almost start crying whenever I come on here! It's really depressing. So let's make it better. 

submitted by Leeli
(December 19, 2016 - 9:31 am)

I'm starting a Holiday Party.

submitted by Ronan
(December 19, 2016 - 12:04 pm)