what's on your mind: RP Edition

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what's on your mind: RP Edition written Apr 9, 2024 19:56:18 GMT
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i've been having some pretty dark thoughts.
I tend to look at my RP history with rose-tinted glasses. As someone who's perpetually disappointed with my activity in the RP scene and remembers times when I wasn't disappointed in myself, I naturally tend to think that I used to be a much more proactive writer. But that thread about post counts made me realize - the highest post count I've hit on a single character was definitely within the last five years, not during the 'way back when' when I supposedly was at my RP peak.

I'm now forced to grapple with the fact that I've always been a bad RPer, sdkjfldhsjkfdhkjfdsh.
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what's on your mind: RP Edition written Apr 11, 2024 1:40:56 GMT
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i don't get angry when i'm pissed; i'm the eternal optimist.
i have a problem. the problem is that i can't stop accidentally making goro akechi persona 5.

i make a character. he ends up a goro akechi. i make another character who is meant to be his opposite. he ends up a goro akechi. i make a girlboss. she ends up a goro akechi. i make a test character for a new tabletop game system my dm found. they end up a goro akechi. i make an npc for a boss fight in an event. he STILL ends up a goro akechi.

if this was just in my head i could pretend its fine but i don't notice it until someone mentions it and at this point maybe i'm gonna go goro akechi.

please set me free.

update my gf is sending me to my grave, goodbye everyone


last edit on Apr 11, 2024 1:45:08 GMT by CEL



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what's on your mind: RP Edition written Apr 11, 2024 8:55:43 GMT
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Apr 11, 2024 0:43:55 GMT said:
Why do I always have trouble coming up with a good starter?
What's your process like?
"Once upon a time I was a baker and everybody was impressed. But I didn’t need approval because I already knew I was the best. Everything I made was a masterpiece - it all taste like heaven! But then unfortunately I turned seven."
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what's on your mind: RP Edition written Apr 11, 2024 10:16:52 GMT
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i bit the tongue behind my teeth (it was never good enough for me)
i realize i have several flavors of one character: dumb sunshine, sincere sunshine, evil sunshine, angry sunshine, fake sunshine.
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what's on your mind: RP Edition written Apr 11, 2024 18:44:01 GMT
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Apr 11, 2024 8:55:43 GMT said:
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Apr 11, 2024 0:43:55 GMT said:
Why do I always have trouble coming up with a good starter?
What's your process like?

I generally have ideas of what I want to happen and how to go about putting it into words. Sometimes the idea is better in my head than it is when I finally have written.  Naming the thread is a whole other story.
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what's on your mind: RP Edition written Apr 11, 2024 20:18:19 GMT
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Apr 11, 2024 18:44:01 GMT said:
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Apr 11, 2024 8:55:43 GMT said:
What's your process like?
I generally have ideas of what I want to happen and how to go about putting it into words. Sometimes the idea is better in my head than it is when I finally have written.  Naming the thread is a whole other story.
Ah, yeah, sounds like you're doing just fine coming up with the good starters, it just doesn't feel like they're as good as you thought when written down, huh? I think you can cut yourself some slack: ideas cavorting in the mind often seem better than those committed to paper, but only one of those two is tangible. We're often our own biggest critics.

For naming threads, I often see people use song lyrics, but I think quotes (either from the opener or otherwise) could work, or just a brief one-line synopsis of the thread, e.g. "Annette's Worst Day", "Coming Out to the In-Laws", "Breaking My Boyfriend's Heart by Confessing I Am In Love With His Sister", "My Happily Ever After".

last edit on Apr 11, 2024 20:22:37 GMT by traveller
"Once upon a time I was a baker and everybody was impressed. But I didn’t need approval because I already knew I was the best. Everything I made was a masterpiece - it all taste like heaven! But then unfortunately I turned seven."