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"I am not here to have a long conversation with anyone right off, I'm not here to make friends"
At the risk of sounding like I just stepped out of the 4Kids recording booth, has somebody failed to learn about the power of friendship?
Some say it's wrong for a man to love a snippet of writing meant to serve as a starting point for a roleplay
But I say I'm gonna kiss that Tokyo Ghoul prompt up in the crossover section
Gonna kiss it good
Discussion about serious problems that arise can in fact exist in harmony with positive things, so long as they're actually discussions and not passive-aggressive posts (or just plain aggressive posts) meant to make somebody feel bad where everybody is shouting over each other in an effort to get their stance on the subject heard. There's a difference between the heated fights and name calling and general unproductiveness that goes on in this tag and actual calm debates that present an argument in a way that isn't designed to rile people up. Anger is understandable, anger is justified, but it has no place in a debate online over roleplay.
If somebody takes comfort in the fact that not everything is people constantly stepping on other people's toes and wants to spread a little positivity, if you take an issue with it, how about just keeping it to yourself if it doesn't actively harm anyone? Let people have their happy joy campfire songs and continue bringing up points you think are important if you have to. Just try not to shit on the good time of somebody else.
nO COME BACK
PLEASE COME BACK I WAS TRYING TO IMPRESS YOU B/C OF YOUR AMAZING KARKAT IT TAKES ME TWO HOURS OF CRASH BANDICOOT WITH A FAULTY MEMORY CARD TO GET TO YOUR LEVEL OF KARKAT I SWEAR OH NO PLEASE I DON’T CARE IF IT DOESN’T ‘LIVE UP’ I WANT TO RP WITH YOOOOOUUUU
(and now i just sound creepy)
Title of Objectively Terrible Person goes to the utter asshole who disconnects on somebody for responding to their own prompt because they're intimidated
●: ((Bluuuuuuh I'm not trying to break the rules but I just really want to rp this and I've waited an hour in the crossover section because nobody looks there
I've been kicking around a couple of suggestions for possible improvement, and something I think might be nice is the option to toggle whether one receives an (unanswered) notification for an OOC message or an IC message. (Maybe a preferences page???? Though that might be in the far-flung future.) Another smaller addition would be to have a small bit of accompanied text when one posts a prompt, to something like "Your prompt has been posted to the _____ section. Please wait for an answer." There's already an option to post a prompt to the different categories Cherubplay offers, but in the event that a mistake is made, it might be easier to tell immediately if one has gone wrong rather than waiting for somebody to pop in and inform them.
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There’s literally no fucking reason to guess the names for fem Johns.
They’re all fucking Joan.
Every once in a while, you get REALLY exotic and find a June.
Dear diary, today somebody asked me whether a 20 year old character would be alright for an adoption plot.
I think I might take a bit of a break from roleplaying anyway
Stuff in my neck of the woods hasn't been kind recently and I think that it's better if I just put all my roleplays on hold or just end them because I might have to take a sudden and long time off and I don't want to have disappointed disconnects when I come back
I was that HB you ditched, haha. While I don't deny I'm a bit disappointed it didn't go anywhere, I do appreciate that you ended it when you did rather than letting it drag on, better to shoot an RP in the head than let it bleed out. I guess that's the choice people have to make when dropping partners, but regardless, thanks. It was still an awesome prompt and I wish you luck in your future ventures!
[LONG, DRAWN OUT SNIFF] You were wonderful and I am so sorry it didn't go anywhere, but it was definitely not because your response was unsatisfactory in any way, I can promise this
Life has gotten so much easier for me now that I've slowly been learning to just disconnect whenever I get a reply I'm disappointed with. Before then I was so hung up on the potential conflict of letting my partner know that my standards are too high or that they weren't what I was hoping for that I just went offline and avoided them until they were the ones to disconnect. I am actually legitimately terrible at anything I feel might lead to conflict because I tend to be such a people-pleaser and it breaks my heart whenever my feeling of not wanting to upset them conflicts with my feeling of wanting a roleplay I'm actually interested in. The fact that there are a few partners who take rejection badly only makes the issue worse, but more often I get a lot of roleplayers who just plain want to know when I'm not interested instead of hanging around waiting. I've been trying to get better on that front and it's solved a lot (if not all) of the guilt. To the probably large number of people that I've just plain abandoned before I started working on this: I'm sorry. It wasn't your fault. You didn't do anything wrong and you have every right to feel upset. I'm working on it. I'm trying to get better.
Talk about overposting in a tag, christ, I'm feeling really talkative for some reason.
Something I've started noticing recently is that a lot of roleplayers (myself included) tend to enjoy prompts and responses that contain a good deal of a respective character's voice or personality. I'm not really sure if this is an accurate term to apply, but that's the best way I can think to describe it. Rather than one's writing for, say, Dave being overly technical or just containing the bare minimum of facts for one to convey the setting and what's going on, I personally find it a lot more appealing if that writing had descriptions and little additions that felt uniquely Dave. (Or whichever character you happen to be using.)
Why write "He walked into the kitchen" when you could chuck in something like "Oh, God. The kitchen. The sweetest of holy refuges for a starving man on a mission. The sacred sanctuary that bringeth forth noble tools to serve humanity on its endless quest for truth, for justice, for knowledge, and for Cheetos probably. It didn't matter that glancing at the worn table for too long brought back traumatic childhood memories of his mother sprawled out over its surface with the milkman bearing down upon her while his father was at work like he was living in some hellish porno, or that he'd once caught Daddy dearest sticking his Sword of Courage into the hole of a bagel at three in the morning when he thought nobody was looking. None of that mattered. The fact that he didn't even actually have a conventional mother or father didn't matter. All that mattered to him was that he finally got the Dudebro Aproved snackfood he'd been craving."?
Not only does it beef up your word count (if you've got a character that enjoys many a ramble, at least) but it gives your post a lot more personality than it had before. I feel that in roleplay, when you've got a cast of characters that each have their own distinctive voice and traits that you could display in everything, especially your writing, why wouldn't people try and go for something that sets them apart from writers who are a lot more bland and act like they're writing an essay rather than crafting what might as well be an entire universe?
I dunno, this post got rambly and self-indulgent and I hope that my frequent posts aren't bothering anyone, but I thought that this might be a nice way to start spicing up your prompts or replies and make it that much more interesting.
Single parent Bro, if you're out there, just know that I'm here and I'm crying because our love is never meant to be. Here's hoping you get a reply that blows your expectations out of the water. I need to go dab my eyes a little bit.
This reminds me (not really) of some questions I wanted to ask to the prompt writers around Cherubplay.
How many prompts do you have? Do you use a good majority of them often or are there one or a few you favour above others? Do you ever retire or delete prompts that are no longer working for you, or do you keep them around on the off chance that you'll want them later? How do you even organise your prompts, say just tossing them in a text document or is there some kind of system?
So sometimes I put notes on my in-progress chats
