i don't even follow vtubers, but man, this is something. i hope doki does well.

i normally have nothing against oc x canon if it's organic in a group setting, but the minute i look at a want ad for a 1x1 partner and i see a bunch of "play this male canon against my OCs, no I don't play a single canon," I back right tf out of there. it feels like shit but my 1x1 ads say "either we're both canons or we're both ocs unless I know you" for a reason.

new challenge: make a skin with your dogs. this gorgeous picture of black leaves can wait.

yeah personally I won't RP with someone with AI profile pics but i want to make this extremely clear: I am in the animal RP space, and it is customary there to own every piece of art you use. our staff team paid hundreds of dollars, donated by members, to ensure that every graphic on the site is specific to the site. you can get banned for using art or photos that aren't yours or aren't free-to-use. most of my commission income comes from other RP'ers in the space.

i would likely care less if i were on a real animanga site.

tangentially related: i've remembered seeing animal RP sites with face claims, and I always giggle a bit at that. i'm gonna fc pangur.

Sure. I'll photoshop your dogs into the perfect feral dog rp skin.

today in current RP life:

"we have arranged a marriage for you"
"gee aunt harper, that sounds like it lacks a lot of consent. i'm going to sleep with her brother and sister-in-law instead."

tbh i've kinda gone to using concept art, images from Magic the Gathering, high quality screen caps, and League of Legends skins rather than fanart drawn by fans when i can't commission art myself.

i need to root out the rest of the images i'm using that aren't just Official Work, but using fanart has kinda made me uncomfortable for a while. Personally, I don't mind if people use my art for role play or discord pfps so long as it's credited back to me (UNLESS it was commissioned; then it belongs to someone else, don't do that). one of my pieces actually made it onto a smogon discord as a sticker. but not all artists feel the same.

my avatars here on PP are art i personally own, of an OC that was custom designed not necessarily for me but given to me all the same (his creator made him before she knew me, and then contacted me asking if I wanted to play him; I named him and here we are, two years later, and i'm still playing him). i've personally found it to be a LOT cooler existing in a space where people draw or commission their own OCs, or make them in dollmakers/heroforge/the sims, than in spaces where people use face claims. ai art takes a massive dump on the concept of making a space friendly for artists, and that's kinda why I'm against it.

as an artist who does commissions, if you're not writing smut of the ppl i'm drawing, i'm actually disappointed.

yugioh rp but we're the monsters, not the characters in the tv show

lemme play Shuraig

i think there's something poetic about beating my first battle in radical red with my sprigatito, and beating the champion, who has since abandoned his starter, with only Meowscarada still standing.

this is what you get for thinking fuecoco is uglier than charmander. Get Meow'd, Idiot.

writes 2k words of original writing

immediately goes "what if i quit public rp and just wrote original stuff for the rest of my life?"

seriously ponders it because like hmmmmm