i don't think well-written women are all that rare in works that are actually well-written.

sometimes i wonder if bad female characters are more a symptom of bad writing, period, because i can't think of a single series with badly written women that i would consider well-written otherwise.

i'm playing radical red and it turns out Kingambit is still cheap and broken without tera. How many matches have I won just by having Gambit on my team? The answer will not surprise you.

so we're gonna try to start working on the novel built thru RP (we're gonna make the first draft by RP'ing out scenes, and then add/edit things later). i am determined to finish this. like. i can't be one of two people obsessed with these two anymore.

i need this. i NEED THIS.

me: i main illidan
me in reality: 30 games of nova this season

i should really just be Ghost Protocol and embrace it.

While I don't necessarily disagree, when it comes to the 18+ rule, I think RL wins out because as you said, it's arbitrary. Miku is whatever age the song says she is; this is expressly a view of Crypton. Then you have a case like Taliyah from League of Legends who is 16 in game and 23 in a cinematic and looks the exact same in both-- so is she a minor or an adult? And then you have Jotaro Kujo, who looks YOUNGER as an adult due to style changes. Then you have Wrathion, who is mentally and physically an adult but chronologically very young. And then there's localization. Lyndis is 14 in Japanese releases of FE7 but 18 in the English releases. Which is it, admins? While I agree that loli- and shota-coded characters are CREEPY, it's just too many steps and grey areas for me.

With RL, the 18+ rule is easily solved by googling "Hey, how old is Mahesh Jadu?" Google says he was born in October of 1982, so he's objectively 41 years old, meaning I can use him and I don't have to think about hoops or grey areas. There are also plenty of directories that will give you a lot of the information you need, making it relatively easy to find FCs that are 18+. RL has its own bags of cats, but that, imo is not one of them.

I'm ok with minors not being allowed in m-rated threads, but FC rules related to age WRT Animanga are too much of a headache for me to personally bother with them. So they're a hard dealbreaker for me.

i need to work on the novel about evil lesbians doing supervillain shit, and kill the voice in my head that goes "but people are gonna say it's bad representation for trans women because they're evil!" yeah ok then don't read a book that advertises itself as a villain romance, IDIOT.

yeah Wraith, i understand why FCs are used. my preference for original art doesn't come from a place of hating FCs, but moreso because I'm exhausted of the drama around them. I'm tired of being told whether I'm a good or bad RP'er depending on what FC I use. The reason you'll never see me use a popular FC isn't because I hate them, but because I don't want anyone on the site praying that I leave or miss an AC so they can use the png that neither of us own. I don't want someone randomly hating me because they wanted to use some Genshin boy and they didn't get there first. I don't want to have to hunt for a replacement in the event the site dies because the FC is taken everywhere else. I hate someone going "well you're just hoarding all the good FCs" when they see that I have a lot of characters.

Having original art means that no one's going to try to find a way to kick me off the site to snipe my character's appearance. No one's going to join the discord and publicly and loudly complain that I've taken something from them, and no one's going to the admins to complain that my character isn't active enough to warrant their appearance. I own the design, it's mine, and no one else can use it unless I sell it to them. It's effort, but it's effort that imo is worth it because then everything about the character is 100% mine. I can also have minor characters without worrying someone's going to try to make me drop the characters b/c they want the FC for themselves.

honestly given how people already judge over fcs, I always roll my eyes when someone says that encouraging original art over FCs will foster elitism. As if there aren't people that don't already refuse to RP with characters whose FCs you hate. as if there's not already drama over who's png is prettier. as if your choice in FC isn't already putting down your chances of being RP'd with and being seen as a good RP'er in some circles.

look me in the eye and tell me that you won't get side-eyed for using Justin Bieber or Goku or Zhongli by at least one person on a site. tell me you haven't seen someone on a directory saying they won't RP with someone who uses a face they don't like. tell me you've never felt judged for a png you don't even own.

If FC users can have aesthetic preferences that exclude people, then I don't see how my preference for original art and designs is any more exclusionary.

ppl will see over-active fandom tags and go "why can't you care about actual people like this" like that level of support and adoration would amount to just a few trendy hashtags and literally nothing else

reminder that tumblr and twitter are Not Activism.

I mostly get issues with tera raids. never overworld glitches, but tera raids with multiple players love to fuck up on me.