✖: A plot you would never do/can’t do with your character
Rape. Really, I would not do any sort of abuse story beyond what’s in books because I think it’s gross and at this point it would not make a difference in terms of Sansa’s storyline, it’s why I have no clue what are D&D hoping to achieve with her storyline for s05 but rape is just really not. That’s the one thing I will refuse to write regardless of the account because it makes me sick and I do not see why you’d want that. Honestly, people straight out wanting abusive storyline for their characters confuses the hell out of me cause that’s something so heavy and so complicated and so draining to write that offers little character development imo. So I tend not to understand why do it.
☣: A pet peeve about roleplaying
Reblog karma. Send this if you’ve read my rules. Sometimes exclusivity. Basically anything that tries to dictate how other people rp. Reblog karma is unfair, sometimes memes don’t make sense to send to that person and you don’t want be held to the idea that you can ONLY reblog something if you find the obscure proper meme to send back. Passwords in rules are just unfair and if I do send them I feel like I’m forcing the other people to follow just because I went through the rules when I may or may not forget it later on because I can’t be expected to know by heart the rules of EVERYONE I follow. Someone forcing you to be exclusive with them or they won’t rp with you is unfair to me…
♫: An argument that you’re sick of hearing
GRRM vs D&D. First I suppose I need to point out that I did come into the whole thing through the show. And it was the show that won me. Nothing about this is my style, I like my fantasy to be about fantasy and to have grown women in charge who maybe don’t quite know what they’re doing but do have something to fight for. Annoying men fighting for an iron chair is the opposite of my style. So the show did manage to interest me what is kind of amazing cause I only gave it a shot because of the awards it won. That said, when we got to s03, the amount of gratuitous gore and nudity was at extreme levels and the season generally dragged and had a weird pacing because of pushing the RW to ep09 and that all made D&D feel the need for fillers that to them or the network means violence against women and naked ladies. That’s why I felt the need to go read the books, because I did not like their direction. Partly that and partly cause I love a good mystery and I thought that reading the books was the best part to try and figure out Jon’s parentage. Except that when reading the books, quite a lot of the issues are still there. The shitty attitude towards women and POC is still there. Women are POV because they hold no power and GRRM is always very unwilling to give it to them (it’s quite amusing that the ONE constant male POV who doesn’t have a disability is Jon). The most blatant example of that is when Cersei does come into power after Tywin’s death and she basically stumbles through it accomplishing only to give others the power to take her down. Honestly, I’m a bigger fan of show!Cersei than book!Cersei, there’s more nuances to there, if anything cause of Lena’s acting. So the show has good things and the books have good things and they both are generally guilty of being shitty to everyone who’s not a non disabled white male. And the whole ‘the books are better’ argument 90% of time boils down to the fact that people see the books’ flaws more easily in the show.
