It's really nice when old communities come together to do role-play again. Even if it is a more slow and casual style. c:

Feb 25, 2024 22:07:28 GMT illidan main said:

i think the only time i've ever felt really "possessive" of a partner is when i was RP'ing a trans woman character getting with my partner's at-the-time cis male character, and some random person I didn't know in the guild started talking about how cute it would be if the male character that my character was having a very obvious will-they-won't-they thing going down with would be better getting with another cis male character, tbh. it felt kinda like a slap in the face, like??? my partner's character didn't even like that guy, and this stranger is talking about how much better it would be if they got together instead. it felt. weirdly rude, especially given my history of experiencing misogyny in RP, and transmisogyny on top of that.

it was less "possessiveness" i guess and more "oh, so I guess I'm chopped liver, huh. I guess this dynamic I'm writing with this character isn't good enough because she's not a cis man, huh."

What makes me sad is I have heard of this happening a lot. Not enough to make it 24/7, but enough where I hear about it happening to my friends. :/ I feel there could be a massive commentary on how people need to be more accepting in how people need to be more respectful about these matters. I will say, I hope you and your partner don't have to go through that again and overall, these biases cease since they can be extremely damaging.

— Adding to the shipping commentary, I just don’t wanna quote so I don’t have to snip.

I feel shipping really depends on person and attachment levels at times. I have higher attachment and usually if that person is close to me and their character is very important to mine, I won’t ship the character multiple times. I know that might be a little odd, but my characters live in my brain and are not against whining, threatening or getting increasingly upset while telling me who they’re one and only is. ^^’ Not that I mind since a lot of the time, I struggle to see that character with anyone else— and usually mark their ship/relationship sections as ‘no’, ‘off-site’ and ‘n/a’.

However, because of this I have not shipped with new people in a long time. This being said, I do try to communicate who is an ‘easy ship’ and who is a ‘hard ship’. There are times my characters lack hard preferences, so I communicate ‘these traits probably would make turn aways’ and leave it at that; mostly cause this character and myself am not picky about the romantic partner. Alternatively, my harder to ship characters or potential slow-burning ships I always say something. My character decides the mood, thoughts and feelings toward the other after all, so I don’t want to lock in if this particular and probably aloof character may pull a full 180.

I think in general there needs to be an understanding that sometimes ships will not work out. Sometimes the RP partner is not ideal for your caliber of ships (for example, I usually avoid writing nsfw content with random people) and other times the character decided to pull an abrupt ‘nope’ and change there mind. Nowadays, only lock out ins for ships I do are usually with my close friends and my girlfriend since I trust them to hear me out when things are not going well. Or additionally listen to my characters wants, needs, etc. I also find them willing to do ‘chemistry tests’ if we are not sure about the characters getting along. Whether it is due to mind being in a complicated situation or there’s.

So yeah, I think shipping can be a communication fiasco of people not realizing what they want from the shipping partner or alternatively tunnel visioning on what they want as the only ideal. It is why communicating wants, habits, character reactions, etc are important off the bat to establish a good basis. I also think there is no shame in just shipping with friends if you are worried about miscommunications or had bad experiences. People are people after all and at times with communicative hobbies there can be a lot of difficulties in finding people considered ‘right for your vibe’ or struggles depending on the scale of misunderstandings.

I hate the difficulty that involves building any baby furniture. It is a pain.

That awkward moment when you realize you can tweak some staff.

I hate when I decide to write and my brain pulls a 'sike you are tired now'.

I hope that my overhype doesn't startle people sometimes or sometimes my quietness. I sometimes fluctuate from really hyper to quiet since text poorly displays tone and I sometimes worry about messaging too much. I like sending tidbits and brain thoughts about my character's thoughts and actions toward another character. It gets my gears going.

I need a finishing or touching up characters day. While most of my RP stuff is private, given something public is on the horizon, I want to have stuff ready so I can primarily be role-playing.

I sometimes worry I write too much lore when I make sites, since sadly, I have heard for some it can be a turnoff. However, that won't stop me from writing it all since... well... it is a part of the world and I want to provide whatever I can to give a world depth. Just means my sites are not for people who wanna read a bunch... cause I refuse to spoon-feed people since there is too much for me to remember 100% of what I wrote, but small enough that I can get an inkling and know when to reference my materials.

Ah, yes, casually making an angel based around the apocalypse who is a pretentious martyr who acts confident, but is lonely and exhausted from that. Gotta love it.

I just got Shamane on Reverse:1999 and I am hyped to lvl and build him. I thought his art looked cool. :3