CW: Referenced Vehicular Manslaughter(?) and DUI
I'm so fucking tired of people disrespecting my damn boundaries, in and out of character.
Thankfully, this only applies to one blog: My main officalverse blog. I intentionally don't do like mass pings and stuff that I've seen others do bc 1: I don't like bothering ppl for no good reason other than to advertise and 2: I don't wanna be like big famous. I just wanna be a niche little creator that maybe 2 ppl look at. Ik it's more than that now, but my point is I don't wanna get constantly hounded by like 300 followers iykwim
The main issue rn for me is just the fact that nobody seems to respect when I say "Sorry, I don't have the time for this rn" or "Sorry, I don't wanna pursue this". This is mostly bc I'm in a group where a buncho ppl are doing ARG's. Don't get me wrong, I think that's cool as hell! I'm really glad that they're able to make these kinds of mazes w unique storylines, and as long as they're happy and it's not hurting ppl OOC, then I'm glad for them
The problem arises when they constantly ping me or dm me asking if I worked on smth or to give an in-depth review of their characters. I understand that yeah, feedback is great and is really helpful as a writer, but I don't really have the time nor energy for that all the time. ESPECIALLY when these kinds of conversations happen seemingly every day and several times a day. I'm happy to support the ppl I write with, but I can't just drop my entire life just to analyze a character. That's not fair to me.
The other issue is that some of them have a very specific idea of what they want their RP's to look like. I don't mind working around a few plot points, but when it gets to the point of forcing a specific event on someone that clearly doesn't want it, that's where I have issues. Specifically, we had an incident not too long ago where we were gonna "driving in my car right after a beer" a character for a bit.
Now, I'll admit. This was somewhat of my idea after we fleshed out some details, but to me, this kind of bit is only funny when it happens ONCE and if all parties are cool w it. When writing stuff like this or any kinda of attack, we generally give a little space so that the mod of the opposing character will always have the time to dodge or deflext, just in case they don't want to. In this case, yeah, the mod had their character dodge. Ok! No big deal, we just continue the RP as usual, right?
And then the other ppl in the RP began godmodding not only my character while I was AFK, but also doing everything in their writing ability to make sure this character got hit. Many attempts of this. That made me super super uncomfortable. I was the first to say "hey, this isn't funny anymore. If Mod doesn't want the character to get hit, the character doesn't get hit, it's not that hard."
The mod would rb, agreeing with me abt the this is getting too far. I don't like that I had to be the one to stop it.
Now, I've put that blog on HIATUS. However, despite 3 posts saying otherwise, seemingly nobody's respecting it. I continue to get pinged and attempts to drag me into RP's w them, and it just annoys me.
This is difficult and I donāt have any advice other than just keep enforcing your boundaries if they donāt respect them then ignore them