#roleplay talk

[87fm-ringo]

A compilation of some of my favorite @the-cowboy-yellow moments. I have others but i wanted to keep this post relativity small.

whosmonkeyy you're so funny dude im being serious, thank you for bring us justice.

Edit: last minute update.

[fea-resources]

I Am A Chronological Roleplayer

I largely prefer and feel more comfortable with interactions and threads that happen on a fairly consistent timeline. Some people like to just do a billion little self-contained one-shot RPs, but I prefer to build actual lasting dynamics between characters that evolve over time. Part of that is limiting threads and making those threads actually carry meaning, but part of that is also not doing a lot of interactions "out of order" or starting a lot of "dead-end" threads that lead to nowhere or fizzle out halfway through, just to drop and start new things without seeing any prior developments through to some kind of conclusion.

So many times I've had multiple interactions with people that felt disjointed from one another and clumsy, where a development of character or relationship would happen in one thread that's supposed to be earlier in time than events in another, but the events of that "past" timeline thread would have drastically shifted the way my muse responded and behaved in a "future" timeline thread. Or alternatively, another "past" thread was heading towards certain developments, but the conclusion of those developments was never reached, left hanging in limbo.

And listen, I get it. Inspiration fluctuates sometimes where you just have muse for one interaction and not another. Some people don't care about building an ongoing storyline with certain muses and are fine with a million little threads that all feel like little self-contained AUs of each other. There's nothing wrong with that, and this isn't about guilting people when they'd like to continue a certain interaction but the inspiration just ran dry. To each their own style of play.

Its just not for me.

I like my threads to be building blocks of each other, where what happens in them actually matters and can be referenced back to in future interactions in some way.

I like to be able to write interactions where I can point and say "due to developments that happened with this specific version of that particular interpretation of a muse, this is how things would uniquely play out in this thread, these are the unique doors that are opened up because of those past interactions", because that's how actual organic interactions between people work. Different events that happen between people shapes how they interact.

It feels awkward and immersion-breaking having a bunch of disjointed timelines where the events happening in each thread have no impact on each other, or I'm suddenly having to scramble to shoehorn in an important and behavior-altering event that only recently happened in one thread, but is supposed to be in the "past" of another thread, where my muse is acting differently as if they have total amnesia of these events.

This doesn't mean never doing threads out of a particular order, or never dropping threads if they're just not really vibing, or never retconning certain things when they don't feel comfortable or meaningful, or that you can't ever discuss or play out certain "past" interactions that would change things after it should have been important.

It just means being a little more selective and thoughtful about the interactions that do happen, not just starting a million-and-one threads that never get finished, and using those interactions as a spring-board to build off of each other as you keep throwing specific characters together.

Each writer has a specific style of writing and interactions they thrive with. My style is to have unique and meaningful, long-lasting developments between characters that actually stick and mean something farther than the boundaries of one self-contained thread. For that to actually happen and feel rewarding to me, there needs to be some sort of timeline coherency where each interaction holds actual impact, and for that to realistically happen, its always preferred that interactions happen in at least some vague semblance of "in order" of each other.

[indierptea]

when is it my turn to meet someone who matches my energy and is as obsessed w me as I am them?

[knightcastiel]

Prythian: World of Enchantment Callout This is the discord in question, if anyone wants to look for themselves. https://discord.gg/thzr55Gka4 This is just a collection of screenshots of this server that are really concerning. Obviously no one can stop children from entering spaces they shouldn’t be in, but this discord RP is actively allowing minors a place to interact in a NSFW world with others much older than them. This server is a predator’s playground. If you wouldn’t talk about things in front of a minor IRL, then it isn’t okay to do so in discord! They tried to claim the talk of orgies and other NSFW material was okay because it was in the books but the books in general are for Mature Audiences. The fact that Minors are actively allowed in this discord is just mind boggling. For those interested about the books as well: At the time A Court of Thorns and Roses was published, the New Adult categorization had not caught on the way publishers hoped it would. Maas agreed to publish the book as YA so long as her editor did not censor any of the sexual content. The A Court of Thorns and Roses series is now firmly classified as New Adult. Screenshots in case anything is deleted is under the cut, scribbled out minors names for privacy.

OR can be found on the google doc here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cwLS2gXO6Tf8OkttHDZsP43cSM_bR-EHFs-6yAC2HK8/edit?usp=sharing

Obviously this person commenting is a troll but Honestly they were the only other one seeming concerned about the direction it was going.

[magical-muse101]

Is Sophia still hated by Yuraih?

No, not really. He still has a snarky, or mean hearted comment for her every now and then, but, that isn't anything special, really. He's on fine terms with Sophia.

[ohlookitsnormannn]

I FEEL SO FUCKING BAD IM SO SORRY EVERYONE

[kaaramel]

maybe i’ll take a spin through a rp inbox game repository blog i know they’re out there