Eroge Collector
99 posts
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It all starts with this... a jewel containing the ultimate power!
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Post by Máscara de Tigre on Jul 25, 2018 8:27:14 GMT
Excuse my double post butNo you don't; you're just as good as anyone here. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2018 8:31:59 GMT
Excuse my double post butNo you don't; you're just as good as anyone here. d-don't be wholesome with me, b-baka!! |
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she/they
i'll take my chances on the curb here with you.
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Post by asi on Jul 25, 2018 15:10:50 GMT
-i tend to gravitate more towards making female characters for whatever reason. i think it might be a combination of me enjoying looking for female fcs more and sorta being able to connect with them easier.
-i try to do all my posts in order but i absolutely play favorites with certain threads and plots and will prioritize replying to those over others (unless i'm getting super backed up on posts because i'm only doing the ones i feel like doing).
-i really... dislike most templates.... kind of a lot..... not because i don't think they look nice because most are absolutely gorgeous, but i also find them distracting more often than not. if they use graphics bigger than an icon or its color scheme doesnt match the rest of the site, i find myself staring at those more than what i should be doing: reading the post. i'm on the blockquote train as well. love me something minimalist with just a tiny bit of styling to match the site theme.
-posting in plotters can be overwhelming for me and overall i kinda prefer plotting through dms, but i LOVE being validated when someone posts in my plotter whoops
-i struggle with threads that are primarily conversational without much action or other things going on. just because i'm really bad at embellishing smaller actions that would help bring my posts to my preferred minimum length.
-on the subject of post length, i really never try to push myself to match the other person's if it's not coming to me. mind you, i don't offer up two tiny paragraphs for the other person's beefy ten, and do my best to stay close to the other's range (if you tend towards shorter posts, i'll follow suit and stay short as well), but i'm not gonna stretch out a post if i don't have much to reply with.
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Post by foxtrott on Jul 25, 2018 19:55:17 GMT
here's my big rp confession:
I don't get the whole muse thing and I never will. I either want to write, or don't want to write. Muse has nothing to do with it, especially because I have no idea what the heckity muse even is.
It's funny that you bring this up actually because it's got me thinking; I'd say muse (or lack thereof) is just the feeling you described, but for rpers, like, our lexicon, somehow? It's a word I learned from rping, and a word I associate with the hobby so much that I don't ever use it outside of that context; I never say I don't have the "muse" to write an essay, for example. I suppose I also low-key associate it with musical accompaniment of one's post since the first I saw it being used regularly would be in people's post templates; if you see a hyperlink of the word "muse" in someone's post, you can safely bet your soul that you're going to be linked to some music on youtube that person liked. I appreciate this admission, fox; it's interesting to think about how certain aspects of, at least my own language, have been shaped by pretending to be animanga characters on the internet. Rping is great. Yeah, muse as an RP term is weird. Google defines it as "a person or personified force who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist" and, in the context of writing from the viewpoint of a fictional character with other fictional characters, it's loosely the same. What gets me is when it's used in regards to inspiration, like "I don't have the muse to write" as in "I don't have the inspiration to write". Inspiration is finicky. If all we did was RP off inspiration, threads would sit for months between replies, stories would never go anywhere, and communities would die. One could argue that inspiration leads to better posts and higher quality work--however, I doubt any of us want our animanga site to become the next Iliad, so I would take an okay post that took a week over a great post that took a month any day. (It's similar to how editors, copywriters, digital artists, etc do their craft commercially. If all they did was wait for inspiration, nothing would get done.) THAT SAID role play is still for fun, different strokes for different folks, etc etc. |
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bits
she / her
i'm running these streets, see? burning like gasoline.
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Post by pharaoh leap on Jul 25, 2018 21:03:16 GMT
01 This is absolutely anything but intentional, but I find that I tend to play more male canon characters - as in, panfandom canons, not canon roles - and more female OCs. This is especially true on sites that allow for both; on Cryptic, I believe all but one of my females were OCs, and every single male I played was a canon. This is what I get for adopting so many fictional sons. ToT
02 I actually don't intentionally census balance - at least, for gender ratios - very much, but my ratios do end up more or less balanced, with usually, like, slight favor toward females by one or two.
03 I run... a lot of sites... and I don't usually join RPs that I don't run. This is 95% credit to anxiety, honestly. I usually feel really left out on new sites that I join, and I don't tend to enjoy my characters as much because I'm afraid to explore some zanier ideas I have/would probably enjoy more out of fear the staff will think it's terrible and shoot it down/call me names where I can't see. As an admin, you don't have to worry about being left out. People have to talk to you - you're the admin. That's a pretty trash reason to want to staff, but sometimes, it honestly really feels like, if I don't put myself in a position where people have to want me around, they'll all want me gone instead.
Also, who the heck is going to make RPs for all of my stupidly niche interest. Where's that Robotech RP, guys.
04 My main "RP gang" don't really actually RP that much, aside from me, and it's actually pretty lonely. I also feel like I keep dragging them around to sites, even if they insist that they don't mind, hoping I can rekindle the old days where we all actively RPed together and had a lot of fun as a group. Now I just feel... I dunno, isolated. Like everyone has a group of friends they can rely on to RP with, and I'm trying to force the people I care about to be something that we're just not anymore.
05 I ship my own RP characters sometimes. Fite me.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2018 21:11:43 GMT
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313 posts
bits
any
i'm not for male consumption.
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Post by selkie on Jul 25, 2018 22:38:41 GMT
- i have 0 attachments to specific faceclaims and my characters don't have set appearances in my head apart from key traits (like height, tattoos/scars, and rarely hair/eye color)
- i have trouble writing attraction to male characters, i'm just too flaming ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- i stalk the threads of sites i've left and am invested in certain plots
- i prefer a nice blockquote over a fancy code any day of the week
- i never understand why people choose to plot with me tbh
- i've honestly never had a huge problem with site hoppers because in my experience they never stay long enough to make a big impact on the site & plots
- i'm a raging perfectionist and overedit my work faaaar too much
- i am absolutely awful at writing fluff threads
- im smelly
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603 posts
bits
no preference
even if the morrow is barren of promises, nothing shall forestall my return.
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Post by valka on Jul 25, 2018 22:53:58 GMT
- for a long while now, i’ve wanted to go back to using post templates in posts - nothing super fancy, just something minimalist. but at the same time, the thought of using a template for every post kills me on the inside, so it’s just a big - what do ;__; i’m just so spoiled by the ease of a styled blockquote.
- i’d love to be able to get to the point where i do at least one post per month per character, but… my motivation for posting is just at an all time low.
- i think my low motivation for posting is because i’m in far too many threads, but i don’t want to drop any, which means i need to finish threads, but i don’t have motivation to post, which is because i’m in too many threads, so i need to finish threads, but … [cries @ vicious cycle]
- 99% of the time i only want to post for murk bc i love writing with her the most
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108 posts
bits
if you speak of me in certain tongues, you will be dethroned or detained
gutter rappin', anti-sleepin', no half-steppin'
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Post by ophiuchus on Jul 25, 2018 23:13:19 GMT
- I like doing this thing where I avoid fetishizers and just people that I know I will not have kind conversation with. As of late, many of my RP partners have either started out as good friends or have moved on to being good friends; RPing has become a vessel in which I create fun and intricate plotlines with people who click with me; forcing myself to do that with those whose ideologies I find shiddy kills the muse.
you can say "it's not that deep" until someone's openly [redacted] towards you
- I oftentimes have sudden, jarring realizations that--once again--I've filled up my plate past its limits. I did so in HS and in most of my time in med school and it just didn't end well. At one point, I was active on four sites, but am now just active on one and try to pull in my friends outside of that either there or PMs/IWYS if they're interested in one of my characters.
- I lie like the devil when I say "yeah I'll do this in order"; usually what happens is that I sit down with fully pure intentions and somewhere in the middle of that, a thread that I've been psyched out my mind will update and I'll drop my carefully planned list.
- All my male characters are ace because I've dealt with too many fujos and I am very much this far, no further about it.
- Most of my female characters are lesbians b/c.....look at me. Look me right in my eye. Look at me right this second. Look at me. Look.
- All my posts are either 300 words or 1.5k in length, but I try to match my thread partner. Had a friend who was nervous about doing the starter give me 275 inspiring words, so inspiring, in fact, that I gave him 2k words back. I'm just....the best.
- If you thread with me, you have to deal with my occasionally PMing you cat pictures on Discord b/c Hemingway is Very Important And Good (even when she sits on my chest and won't let me type)
- Sometimes I make Stupid Sad Playlists for my threading partners because I'm a sadist and I like to make them cry (◕ᴗ◕✿)
- If you read this whole thing, then CONGRATULATIONS YOU WON
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313 posts
bits
any
i'm not for male consumption.
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Post by selkie on Jul 25, 2018 23:23:26 GMT
Most of my female characters are lesbians b/c.....look at me. Look me right in my eye. Look at me right this second. Look at me. Look.  TO KEEP THINGS ON TOPIC UM i immediately paste any replies i get into the notes part of google docs b/c 1) i am basically blind and 2) if i don't have it right there while i'm writing i will forget everything immediately |
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no preference /o/
perhaps i am faint glimmer —
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Post by k̾u̾r̾a̾ 💩 on Jul 25, 2018 23:49:51 GMT
- Sometimes I make Stupid Sad Playlists for my threading partners because I'm a sadist and I like to make them cry (◕ᴗ◕✿)
can confirm, am dead and typing this from beyond the grave. |
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Post by Kitten4u on Jul 25, 2018 23:51:03 GMT
I type my posts directly into the reply box and don't save them offsite because I like to live dangerously
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428 posts
bits
she / her
you're a world away, somewhere in the crowd. in a foreign place, are you happy now?
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Post by 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚒 on Jul 26, 2018 0:13:26 GMT
- i am totally gross abt doing threads in order. i try, i really do, but my muse is just so fussy. i want to take to things fairly, but i will get to the actual writing and then it's like... oh... what are words again? i feel awful, and i don't want anyone to think i hate their threads, but like... the heart wants what it wants. and atm, sometimes this ain't it, fam.
- i am sometimes... very petty about face claims. like, i hold some of them in such esteem because of their canon that i just. refuse to acknowledge certain characters over it. like you're ruining my perfect child. pls stop.
- i get hella sad over my female characters getting ignored. i often play more males since they come easier to me, but when it gets to the female, there are crickets chirping in the bg, while my males are swimming in plots. it makes me sadder that a lot of the time, more effort goes into said females, and they end up feeling super underappreciated.
- sometimes, i just don't understand why certain characters are so well liked, and it bothers me. like, i know we are all entitled to our opinion and no one's writing is better than anyone elses. but i've come across some that, to me, just make no goddamn sense. and yet, they are totally adored. i never know if it is legit, or if people are just in it for the memes.
- apps are... the bane of my existence. often, i have a fully fleshed out character in mind, but when it gets to writing the actual app... i got nothing. there are seemingly no words that sound good strung together. they feel so mediocre that, even after redoing them two or three or even four times, i'm still dissatisfied. it really brings down my mood.
- i have a hard time reaching out to people for plotting. like, i can totally be in love with your character and your writing style, but i will still sit here like... how do i even begin. if i tell you that i love your char and i'm not bombarding your plotter with ideas, just know this is why. i am admiring from afar cos ya girl is chicken shit.
- i am super selfish with my rp partners. i know that isn't fair, and might even be kinda weird, but when i really click with someone... i don't want to share them. like give all of ur ideas to me. love me. i will give you all the ships in the world. just stick with me forever and a day.
- i'm a slut for conversation threads. like i enjoy writing longer ones, but give me all of your cellphone threads. the emails. the owls. the instant messages. rapid fire those with me for 8+ pages. i am a chatterbox and my characters will be, too. i promise u.
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Post by Sharp Dressed Man on Jul 26, 2018 0:31:22 GMT
Eeeeey so this is the kind of thread I remember on either WW or GS (Don't remember which one) that cause A LOT of problems, so just wanted to reiterate that don't specifically target someone, and think about what your saying and make sure it doesn't seem like it'd attack someone. I made the opening post disclaimer more biggly ^_^. Also another confession, if one of my writing partners has a tendency to respond back instantly I sometimes hold the post until before bed so I can have a full night without feeling like I owe them xD |
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268 posts
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any pronouns
baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo...
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Post by forte on Jul 26, 2018 0:41:14 GMT
I thought the word "consensual" was spelled "consentual" up until yesterday. |
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