stepstomarrow
When granddaughter, Jada, was born with leukemia, a donor-match was located and Jada made a miraculous recovery. In honor of her grandaughter's health, Jeanna has decided to walk across the country (in the dead of winter) to raise awareness and build support for the bone marrow registry (all that's required is a cheek swab). Follow Jeanna's remarkable journey as she travels the United States by foot.

vetinari is a cool guy and yes he almost certainly could sweep my character off her feet within moments of meeting her. i'm not disputing that.

but when vetinari himself is randomly wandering into the (quite down-market) workplace of an eighteen year old seamstress who is as of right now completely unremarkable, you kind of have to step back and look at what you're doing. my pb might be pretty, but surely he could do better!

on an unrelated note and to an unrelated person, STOP BEING SO FUCKING BATSHIT CRAZY. i seriously regret bringing you to this game and introducing you to my other rp friends. i don't know what told me you'd be LESS dramatic, controlling and downright ridiculous to other people than you are to me, but clearly it was a lying bastard.

I really don't know what is worse about this application - the fact you all but copied Edward Cullen's personality and description from a Twilight Wikipedia, the fact you have no concept of grammar, the fact you apped him at a Harry Potter game...

Or the fact you did the entire app in sparkle text.

Let me say this again :

SPARKLE TEXT


My soul gently weeps for the future.

edited for sparkle

I don't know... it may just me, but the point of RPing is to interact with other characters... not just obsess and talk about your own. It's like my character is just some disembodied voice that she replies to out of obligation. Never mind that my character has more personality than her and her undead consorts have in their entire wordy paragraphs all about themselves. I try to make an effort to connect with her or get her character to notice or even interact in a semi-conscience way with mine, but I guess her's is too superior.

No. When you are pursuing a plotline that could (and most likely will) have dire consequences for your character and possibly other people's, you cannot just post an open thread and wait for someone to reply. Here's a hint: nobody's going to. You did not discuss this with anybody. Nobody agreed to this. Nobody is interested because, frankly, it's obvious that the only thought you've put into this is "OH SQUEEEEEE LOOK WHAT MY CHARACTER GETS TO DO IT'S SO COOL~~~," while completely ignoring the fact there's no way he'd walk away from this alive.

Furthermore, your character's actions make no sense. He's supposed to be clever and crafty, no? Then why is he walking straight into a situation where he will, no doubt, be killed, when there are much safer and much easier ways to go about things?

Don't be surprised when everyone ignores your post.

For a moment, let's disregard the fact that your character is an eighteen year old college student, and mine is a twenty six year old police officer. Let's disregard the fact that my application clearly states that I'm straight. Let's disregard the fact that your character and mine have known eachother for all of two days.

Putting that all aside, you do understand that as of right now our party is kinda focused on finding a way out of the mall that we're trapped in, right? You know, before the FUCKING ZOMBIE HORDE outside gets in and eats us all?

Is now REALLY the best time to be asking me for gay sex?

Isn't it great that after your opening post to a new RP, you have a random rat-anthro godmod tear off your character's clothes and godmod rape her?

...No?

Oh, good because apparently the player of this character finds this to be perfectly acceptable. I was unhappy to know I wasn't the first. Enjoy your ban, dude.

Dear RPers I don’t know:

It is very cool that you want to play with my character! I am totally all for this, I love playing with new people and said character is fairly friendly, meaning that he’ll converse with just about anyone who comes his way.

Really, all you have to do to start an interaction with him is have your character approach him and start talking. He’s a bit of a jerk sometimes but he loves a good conversation, and I love it when he meets new people. If you want the interaction to go on from there, either invite my guy to do something additional or drop me a PM, and we can plot a bit.

It is absolutely not necessary for you to look at his boyfriend’s PB, profile, and name and immediately create a duplicate account, then comment to him hoping I won’t notice you’re not the same player. Not only does this look desperate and pathetic, it also makes me think that you believe I’m really, really stupid. I don’t appreciate it. I definitely don’t appreciate it being pulled on me twice in the same comm.

Seriously, what the shit is this? Is impersonating a character’s significant others the new RP meme, or what?

It's no secret that I take issue with your characterization.

But even with characterization aside.

There are ways to write UST, and ways to write pervstalkerness. You are writing the latter, and trying to call it the former, claiming the other mun wants it that way.

Your character going "WHY HELLO THERE, BOB, ARE YOU READY TO HAVE SEX WITH ME YET?" "I CARE ABOUT BOB. HE'S THE ONLY PERSON IN MY LIFE I FEEL ATTACHED TO. I WANNA HAVE SEX WITH HIM." "BOB! I AM GOING TO FOLLOW YOU AND BUG YOU UNTIL YOU HANG OUT WITH ME!" * is not UST. (And also not IC.)

And I know our canon is huge and sprawling and complex and full of mythology gags, but the corner of it that we're in is tiny, contained, and DOES NOT HAVE THAT DEITY YOU RANDOMLY MENTIONED FOR NO APPARENT REASON. Nor does it have any real implication of sex for the aliens we're playing-- romantic attraction, yeah, but SEX! gets a O_o face, in canon. Why, in this fairly serious and "try and keep as close to canon as possible!" game, does your character know what sex is, desire it, and execute it without fumbling about wondering what the hell all these bits are supposed to do. >8| Srsly.

*Hyperbole. Barely.



anyway my ust-between-nonsexual-aliens is much more interesting and your characters are always flat and uninteresting and lifeless, no matter how cool they were in canon gdi sorry. D:

So uh. *rubs eyes* You ignored some of the site rules in your section? That...could be simple ignorance, I suppose, even when it turns out you were ignoring them full knowing it could have been an accident that one stat cheater slipped by you. But yeah, that's enough to get you booted off admin on at least probation.

The 'calling out' post toward every other section on the site that you posted (fortunately) in mod area, after you got removed from mod of your main section for metagaming, however, was definitely unwarranted. So were the three (count 'em!) on-board hissy-fits in varying degree of public places. (Hello, two-week ban!) And then my current development lieutenant private messages me and asks me to please come take a look because you deleted all your work when you made that whiny post there. (Fortunately, it was nothing I'm super-bothered about losing.)

And you're demanding we give you mod powers back?

Head, meet desk.

You metagamed information based off your vendetta of someone who most of admin has no love for but who happens to be a friend of mine. Strike one. You godmodded the NPCs of your fellow section mod. Strike two. You coerced other people to godmod, pitched fits all over the board, flounced out of all your remaining positions, started whining in public...

You know, I don't even know how many strikes you're on now. Just go. Please. And don't come back.

P.S. This is not even counting him siccing his on-site girlfriend on another admin who has been away for much of this and has no clue what is going on, and is just attempting to sort things out. And then siccing other people on his replacement admin, who he was mad at because the guy kept uncovering evidence for his bullshit. Yeah.

I know, there's a good chance I deserve this for where I RP, but I must ask... Why?

What makes you think that despite it being totally uncharacteristic of my character, that you can lure her into a seedy business relationship? I know the play we RP is a mishmash of characters of varying time points. But really, she's a aristocratic victorian woman. She has standards. It even says on her character website that it's a demand that she must be courted. What makes you so special that you think you can buy pass that? And even worse, what makes you think I will allow you to force her into 'submitting' to you. Non-consensual scares me. Hell, Rping sexual encounters in general makes me super uncomfortable. I've expressly told you this several times, that I'm often a 'Fade-To-Black' type person unless I am in a 'Lets try writing erotica' mood. And what's even worse, is you whisper me every day trying to force me into this. I don't care how sexy your character is. She doesn't find you appealing. I do love Rping with you, but I honestly am not going to put up with this much longer. In this place, there are hundreds of girls, and men, playing easy whores of every race, gender, fetish, and type. I bet you could get several of them at once for a mass RP in a jiff. Why do you insist on bothering me?

Dear you, who I have been rping with a year now.

You go the whole day without talking to me only to jump on me. You didn't say hi, or ask how I was or anything. I didn't IM you because you never talk to me anymore when all your other friends are on, nor do you want to rp with me when these vastly superior beings are around to rp with you. But I don't care, honestly, it's the way you acted when you finally did talk to me about the rp we've been working on before I was your lonely day role play partner. You know, when you actually liked me.

You IM me after being online for the whole entire day (IM'ing me at 1am.) and you tell me what you're going to do with fic we've been working on. A fic we've been writing as RP for over a year now. You don't even ask me about my opinion. You just tell me what you're going to do with it. Anything I mention gets met with basically a, "Yeah, well I'm doing this." Why did you even ask me where we were starting when you told me right after where YOU were going to start?

Why did you ask me anything when you discarded my thoughts right off the bat?

I'm also tired of the way you act about how everything is your idea on everything. Probably the reason that seems like such is that most of my ideas are tossed right out. But you know, I've written half of this two and I'm tired of being belittled.

Honestly, I'd rather it not be posted at all at this point of time if ever. I gave up on it. I've asked you for MONTHS to post something and quite frankly, I've entirely given up on the whole thing. We'll post one, maybe two, or three chapters at the most until you got bored with it.

I'd offer to edit it myself, in case you shove that in my face and tell me I never edit, but I know any editing I did would not be to your satisfaction because you want control over it all!

Then when I go quiet, you get all snarky and run off. Why didn't I respond? Well, easy, there was nothing for me to say. You already have your mind made up on this, so why ask me? I mean, I only wrote half of this, it's not like my opinion matters.

I'm done fighting with you. I'd very much like to have some input on this myself, but if you can't even afford me a little I really don't want our fic to be posted. It's not right and it's not fair. We had talked about these things before, it's not right for you to change YOUR mind and decide that's the way it's going to be.

What's really ironic is that I'm only the helper and sometimes coauthor on another person's rp fic, but she certainly gives me a whole heckuva lot more credit than you do. She also asks my opinion on things and takes my opinion into account.

I'm also tired of how jealous you get. You ignore me entirely, you don't want to rp anything with me anymore unless it's your idea. All of my ideas get tossed out. When I mention I'm writing a fic for a friend, you get all bent out of shape, telling me how when you wanted to rp that, I wasn't interested. When I say I don't remember this, you basically call me a liar and say that it happened before I broke up with my ex. I broke up with my ex in June. Seriously? You throw out my ideas for rp all the time, but yet if I dare say no to you, you act like I kicked your dog and you harbor it until infinity.

I honestly don't know what to do about you. If I say anything, it'll just be a huge fight, but I really don't want our RP posted at this point, not when we can't even talk to each other. I feel like if I say no, you'll post it anyways, and what will come of it will be something that'll end up on fandom wank.

Look. The point at which to question my character's ability to pick up and run off with your big heavy thing is before - or even during - the theft. Not after you have already ICly given up on trying to stop me. And certainly not after you've ICly left the area.

At that point, it just looks like you're trying to whine at me to give it back. Which...if it's so important to you, why did you give up on trying to stop me in favor of providing support for the guy who's already escaping safely?
Did you just realize that maybe handing over your shiny, heavy piece of tech to me - and, as a result, my boss - wasn't such a bright idea? 'Cause it's a little late to do anything about it now.

Oh, and by the way? My character can control air and gravity, in addition to the whole bit where he's a large robot. He's totally capable of picking up your two-ton whatsit and running off with it, even if he is seriously injured.

Okay, wow. First post, but covers a lot. Mostly covers a bunch of random things I see around that piss me off to no end.


( Rants... )

EDIT: Whoopsie, fixed spelling mistakes.

"bah, sacred bond stuff is like cheating :P good for a fic maybe, but rp it's like giving your charrie an auto happy ending xD that's why most of my characters know eachother as friends lol it's more drama posibilities. :P In case you haven't noticed, I'm a fan of certain stereo types. :D"

Is it just me, or does it sound more like a drama killer to have a bunch of characters from one person standing around, backing each other up, and telling each other how great they are?

ETA this little gem from a recent post by this player:

"Alan chuckled. 'I'm not one for gambling...' he teased her a little. 'how about I buy you a drink if I loose, and you buy mine if I win. that way we both get something out of it either way.' he smiled and chuckled as he said it. 'I'm still watching you though, can't be too careful.' he teased some more.

"Chris facepalmed. 'man he's smooth...jeeze, he may as well be made of porcelain!' He almost doubled over thinking about it."

Characters' names have been replaced with those of My Little Pony dolls. If you don't think it's ghastly enough for me, then go ahead and pretend they're named after serial killers or something.

So you think I'm really good at playing Lickety-Split, and want me to join your game? Wow, that's really neat, I'd love a chance to play with you. Despite being one of the cursed undead, I am an easily-flattered soul, and you seem like a really creative and entertaining player. Even though Sundance is a minor character and never met Lickey-Split or Cherries Jubilee canonly, you've fleshed her out and made her interesting. I like people who can do that.

Waaaait a second, you seem to really dislike Lickety-Split. After two seconds of skimming your posts, I discover that you think of her as a shallow, manipulative shrew, and are convinced that her potential love interest who she cares deeply for, Cherries Jubilee, hates her and is way too good for her.

It's a little off-putting, but I don't think much of it (particularly since I have no interest in pursuing pairings in this game) and continue playing with you guys. I mean, I am having fun. It seems dumb to get offended over differing opinions. Turns out you're also obsessed with the crack pairing of Sundance/Cherries Jubilee. It is kinda weird, due to the fact that Sundance is still a young child and Cherries Jubilee, uh, isn't, but whatever, each to their own, man.

Waitasecond, why is it that every time we play you intentionally try to twist the situation into a way Sundance can compete with Lickety-Split? Additionally, you seem 100% convinced that Sundance would always win, despite the fact that Lickety-Split is an incredibly experienced in their canon skill while Sundance is a young and childish novice. It's weird, because this sense of competition extends to absolutely everything I RP with you. If Lickety-Split wants to go out for ice cream with their friends, Sundance already bought them all the ice cream in the world. If Lickety-Split has a cat, Sundance has a pet golden tiger named Princess Sparkledust who can grant wishes and fly. If Lickety-Split decides to help grandma carry her groceries, Sundance can teleport the groceries with her mind, and has also made grandma a new tea cosy. If Lickety-Split makes an impactful statement during a tense moment, Sundance immediately drops to her knees screaming and sobbing the exact same sentiment Lickety-Split just said but in an overblown way, to ensure that absolutely no one reacts to Lickety-Split. It's not even like you're acknowledging it in a "Sundance is protective of the guy she likes and wants to outdo Lickety-Split" way, you seem to genuinely want to portray to the rest of the game that Sundance is just a superior person. I literally cannot do a scene with you without you trying to twist the scenario into a new opportunity for Sundance to show off and, notably, you don't do this with ANY other players besides me, all of which are your good friends who play characters you adore to pieces. It doesn't help that all the great plots you told me you wanted to get Lickety-Split involved in are turning out to be "Lickety-Split gets to react to Sundance's epic quests of amazing".

Okay, now it is really difficult for me to pretend this is all just a coinci-
OH COME ON. Now you want us to play a "just for fun, future alternate universe oneshot" where Lickety-Split finds out that Cherries Jubilee and the now-drop-dead-sexy-and-totally-grown-up-sex-kitten Sundance are sleeping together, and Lickety-Split gets totes heartbroken and Sundance uses her outstanding wit and kung-fu to pwn her just 'cause she can? Seriously?

I don't even know what to say. Did you seriously invite me to your game and pretend you want to RP with me just to fulfill some elaborate fantasy where your pet character gets to pwn your least favorite and steal the object of their affection? WTF.

Even now this is difficult for me to comprehend. It just seems too bizarre and petty. For the evil dead, I apparently have a disproportionately large faith in humanity. A pox on you, and all your houses! I will be taking my ponies elsewhere.

Yes I do Erotic Roleplay with this friend.
Yes, I plan on having him come out and hang out at our place for a week.
No I am not going to sleep with him. No, my boyfriend does not suspect I plan on sleeping with him. Yes, my boyfriend does know that I've been writing erotica with him.

RP=/=RL and I have better morals than that. *fume*

Protip! When trying to convince me to do a certain idea with you that I find rather stereotypical and stupid, the argument "But I did it with someone else and it was GREAT!" doesn't help much. Nor does starting any of your sentences with "I'll be the bigger person."
Just sayin'.



Edited for weird HTML.

Uh, mods. Ever go to a sandwich shop in the hope that you'll be sold on some used car parts?

... No?

Cuz I don't think people looking for the advertised "advanced" play opps are gonna be pumped about a legion of RP n00bz on the roster.

Is it an unwritten rule that once "advanced" RP gets slapped on any game, it's a time bomb?