It felt incredibly petty, yeah. They wanted control of it but they didn't want the responsibility, it was wild. :/ Your deal sounds like it sucked too, though... being the subject of someone's projections is just..... yeesh. And forced romance is never good regardless.
The two biggest dumpster fires I was ever a part of were:
1) A pan-fandom livejournal RPG in an original fantasy setting. The time was basically 3 real-time days = 1 in-character day, but there would be periodic time-skips of a few weeks, and people could plot generally, or explicitly, things...
Hey there! I just thought I'd get a place going where we could talk about tattoos! Many of our characters have them, and I think it's fun to discuss how they got the tattoo, why, if it has any meaning, etc. Plus I thought this would be a great place for those who haven't gotten tattoos to ask...
I don't really have a concept of limit--characters will generally live in a world populated by others and interact with more people than just the immediate person in their sphere. I certainly don't require that other people pick up side-characters, but I generally will have a couple. Once I did...
I don't care for roleplaying young children, personally, since I have very little experience with them (nor do I really like them;; ) IRL. They do make for cute additions during family stuff, though, or, on the darker side, decent motivators for other characters. But since they literally don't...
I endorse the idea of commissions--you get what you're looking for, you get the little thrill of it really being YOUR character, not just art that you decided was close enough, and you support other creative persons!
Beyond that, doll creators are my secondary endorsement, and the sites...
Although I'm non-binary I'm AFAB, and while my earliest characters were girls because I was more inclined to make characters "like me," once I started getting into adult RP I actually only RP'd men. This was around the time I got into yaoi when I was like... 13 or 14, and I was more comfortable...
I think for many of us, the sign we've progressed in our writing and character creation means we don't fall into tired old tropes, play Sues/Stues, and come up with interesting, original content to surprise our partners and push our own limits.
But sometimes there are things you just really...
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Career : Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Case Manager
Experience: 2 (plus the 4 years undergrad, 3 years grad school)
Type Of Settings: A sex-offender treatment clinic, a csp (community service provider) working with a schizophrenia diagnosis
Fun Fact About My Job: There's so much more...
(in-training, technically I'm still working towards my license)
There's an amazing person in this forum answering medical questions as a nursing student, so I figured I'd make some of my knowledge about mental health and the related services available. It's actually decent review for me as...
Mental health, for my side, and I aim to make that clear when I make the topic. School counselors and mental health counselors share a lot of classes, but not all of them, and have different legal considerations. I'll also probably try to make clear the differences between counselors...
There are more ways to make characters diverse than gender and sexuality, definitely, and a diverse cast overall is always important. I guess the quick and dirty and personal comes down to that gender and sexuality diversity is important to me, and I’m so sick of cishet content in my role play...
Now that's something I think I would refuse to believe. XD
Building a character and being unsure of how to do so is a totally different beast than taking a pre-established character and trying to play them correctly. People can easily take a canon character and turn them into some sort of...
I think I would count that as 'growth.' But yeah, those writer need constructive feedback and time to digest and come to terms with it. It's not an easy process.
I think for new writers Marys and Garys are appropriate stepping stones. We ALL started with some awful, OP, quirky special unique characters and that's fine. So long as the writer grows, and expands their character making repertoire.
I agree. I think I personally have the inclination to be uninterested if the ONLY thing a person RPs is an avatar, even if it's just multiple facets of their own self. For me, no one person could possibly but that interesting.
I LOVE this thread! Just the idea of it is amazing and really, really useful, thank you for going out of your way!!! I think I want to comb through my own notes before I ask questions, though I'm definitely going to have one about intense burns/burn scars, to be sure.
Would you mind if I...