Kit the Human 757 Share Posted August 17, 2018 3 hours ago, Mord Proxy said: I love Discord for communicating with my friends/plotting with people, but when I admin'd before, having to constantly be present in the Discord server was a huge source of stress for me. This. The expectation to be social in that group situation is so very draining and I resent that expectation. 1 2 PSI: an Occult Investigations RP Roleplay Architects: Grab a friend (or many friends!) and just write. You can also find me at: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bishop 172 Popular Post Share Posted September 5, 2018 Someone else's fictional character is not yours. You are not entitled to them just because you have invested feelings into a story. I am seeing this on twitter right now with so many people upset over the way a TV show ended and like the hate....the hate is horrid, and it does remind me of the RP world in ways too. You are not entitled to anyone's fictional work. 4 1 1 "Everyone has been doing so much soul searching during all of this, and I'm just over here drawing pics of my character's dicks." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xexes 108 Share Posted September 6, 2018 I think that there are too many pretty people being used as face claims. 1 3 A relaxed, dark and gritty roleplay based on Disney's Zootopia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawman 88 Share Posted September 6, 2018 15 hours ago, Bishop said: Someone else's fictional character is not yours. You are not entitled to them just because you have invested feelings into a story. I am seeing this on twitter right now with so many people upset over the way a TV show ended and like the hate....the hate is horrid, and it does remind me of the RP world in ways too. You are not entitled to anyone's fictional work. 14 hours ago, SithLordOfSnark said: Not sure how unpopular this one is, but the opposite of the above - Hollywood, it is NOT OKAY to completely change the stories us fans know and love and totally destroy canon. I'm looking at you, Fantastic Four remake. It goes both ways really, suffice to say I've seen my share of creators and fans alike behaving badly. Whether it be toxic fans acting like they're entitled to getting content creators to do as they demand, as well as creators telling their critics to go fuck themselves. Though generally creators that lash out at critics tend to suffer disproportionately greater backlash from the public, compared to fans acting all pushy and self-entitled. Can't say it's something I agree with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post eleholly 118 Popular Post Share Posted September 6, 2018 My unpopular opinion: I like seeing mature threads on a forum. I like the smut. I like the gore. I like the triggering content. I feel like I get shamed in the community for wanting to write more "adult" stories a lot, and yeah, I'll admit it - I enjoy a good ship that's heavy in the smut department just as much as I love a good murder story with blood and guts. I feel like everywhere I look, people are like "I don't like to see smut" or "romance isn't the focus of my writing", and while it's not the focus of my writing either, give me a good spicy romance and I'm not afraid to say I dig it. Let me write it on my forum. Let me write it with my characters and my partners because it can be fun for us. Don't make us feel bad for writing what we want. 1 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rhindeer 217 Popular Post Share Posted September 6, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, eleholly said: My unpopular opinion: I like seeing mature threads on a forum. I like the smut. I like the gore. I like the triggering content. I feel like I get shamed in the community for wanting to write more "adult" stories a lot, and yeah, I'll admit it - I enjoy a good ship that's heavy in the smut department just as much as I love a good murder story with blood and guts. I feel like everywhere I look, people are like "I don't like to see smut" or "romance isn't the focus of my writing", and while it's not the focus of my writing either, give me a good spicy romance and I'm not afraid to say I dig it. Let me write it on my forum. Let me write it with my characters and my partners because it can be fun for us. Don't make us feel bad for writing what we want. God, all of this. I am not ashamed to admit I fucking LOVE romance, and while it's not THE focus of my writing, it is A focus of my writing, and something that is fun and important to me! Does that mean every plot I do is romance-based? Pshaw, no, I love writing other, platonic relationships too, and get super excited about a good BFFs dynamic! And when I write romance, I don't like to pre-plan it because it doesn't feel natural to me--I like it to unfold organically. But all that said, most of my personal stories include romance, and I love RPing romance, so a TON of my threads have romance in them. I'm also not ashamed to say I enjoy erotica, and like writing it, so if someone's down with that and I feel comfortable with them, then full steam ahead! Another unpopular opinion: I don't care if people DO get their jollies off to the smut I write. Do I want them to tell me they got their jollies off to it? Unless they're my husband, not particularly, though I don't mind someone mentioning that they think something's hot. That's a compliment! xD However, the idea that someone, somewhere, is reading my smut and getting turned on by it? Doesn't bother me. I've seen other people mention that as something that genuinely concerns them, but for me, as someone who is gonna be publishing erotic short stories soon, I kind of hope people DO find it hot? Because that's the point. xD When I write anything, my goal as a writer is to make people feel something. Laughter, humor, anger, upset, whatever! I hope the scenes I write, and the tones I write, and the characters I write, project something the reader can FEEL. If someone cries reading a sad scene, I've done my job! If someone feels genuine anger at my villain, props to me! If someone finds a sexy sex scene arousing, high five, me! So this is like, true of all things I write. I want people to feel things. If people don't, then I've fallen short. Edited September 6, 2018 by Viscount Rhi-Rhi 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eleholly 118 Share Posted September 6, 2018 29 minutes ago, Viscount Rhi-Rhi said: God, all of this. I am not ashamed to admit I fucking LOVE romance, and while it's not THE focus of my writing, it is A focus of my writing, and something that is fun and important to me! Does that mean every plot I do is romance-based? Pshaw, no, I love writing other, platonic relationships too, and get super excited about a good BFFs dynamic! And when I write romance, I don't like to pre-plan it because it doesn't feel natural to me--I like it to unfold organically. But all that said, most of my personal stories include romance, and I love RPing romance, so a TON of my threads have romance in them. I'm also not ashamed to say I enjoy erotica, and like writing it, so if someone's down with that and I feel comfortable with them, then full steam ahead! Another unpopular opinion: I don't care if people DO get their jollies off to the smut I write. Do I want them to tell me they got their jollies off to it? Unless they're my husband, not particularly, though I don't mind someone mentioning that they think something's hot. That's a compliment! xD However, the idea that someone, somewhere, is reading my smut and getting turned on by it? Doesn't bother me. I've seen other people mention that as something that genuinely concerns them, but for me, as someone who is gonna be publishing erotic short stories soon, I kind of hope people DO find it hot? Because that's the point. xD When I write anything, my goal as a writer is to make people feel something. Laughter, humor, anger, upset, whatever! I hope the scenes I write, and the tones I write, and the characters I write, project something the reader can FEEL. If someone cries reading a sad scene, I've done my job! If someone feels genuine anger at my villain, props to me! If someone finds a sexy sex scene arousing, high five, me! So this is like, true of all things I write. I want people to feel things. If people don't, then I've fallen short. ^^^^ ALL OF IT. THANK YOU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Anonymous 234 Popular Post Share Posted September 16, 2018 I do my research, but at the end of the day I write people, not embodied DSM manuals. Anonymous poster hash: c078e...db7 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawman 88 Share Posted September 16, 2018 (edited) 9 hours ago, Anonymous said: I do my research, but at the end of the day I write people, not embodied DSM manuals. Anonymous poster hash: c078e...db7 And on a similar token, research is good and all but ultimately I am more concerned about making an honest effort to not come off as objectifying/demeaning/othering rather than 100% accuracy. I mean, it's not as if sci-fi was written by scientists for scientists, no? Edited September 16, 2018 by Lawman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Garmr 106 Popular Post Share Posted September 17, 2018 I -hate- angel characters or half-angel characters. Doesn't matter what they're called... angels, celestials, etc. Every time I see it I just roll my eyes and go "here we go again, someone wants to play 'Fucked by an Angel'" 2 5 Respice Finem Can be found causing mayhem and intrugue at Dawnbreak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Huskerdust 625 Popular Post Share Posted September 17, 2018 23 hours ago, Lawman said: And on a similar token, research is good and all but ultimately I am more concerned about making an honest effort to not come off as objectifying/demeaning/othering rather than 100% accuracy. I mean, it's not as if sci-fi was written by scientists for scientists, no? Same, although I have come to find that characters fit eerily into diagnoses I didn't know existed when I first started writing my characters. When I started taking psychology classes, I remember reading some of the criteria for disorders and going "Wow... my character actually slots right in there pretty well." At the same time, though... I don't think I have ever outright diagnosed any of my characters with anything. I play a character and some aren't neurotypical but I don't run through a list of symptoms and go "voila, here's Character X." I'm not being disrespectful, it's just how I write. I myself am not "typical" and tbh, neither are a lot of my family. We all have issues. Some are the same but present differently. So I hate when people go around peeving or "laughing behind people's backs" about how "wrong" they are when they're presenting a character with challenges. For all you know, they are writing exactly what they know to be true from real, honest experience. 1 1 4 Reality is an illusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenneral_jennson 154 Share Posted September 18, 2018 1 hour ago, Zozma said: At the same time, though... I don't think I have ever outright diagnosed any of my characters with anything. I have, do and will, especially if it fits with the theme of the character personality, history etc. I have two if they were sitting right in front of me during a clinical interview and assessment would be diagnosed, one with PTSD and the other with severe anxiety. Unpopular opinion: Starbucks is disgusting and not real coffee. I hate overly excited members. They wear me out after working with overly excited children all day. http://www.witchlightrp.com/index.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rune 1,099 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2018 If all you are going to do is emote in the chat don't bother posting in it at all. Fuck, the amount of hate I have towards *rolls* *flops into corner* and the like is only growing. 5 1 2 8 Heart of the Community 2018 Cry Wolf - 18+ AU Mercy Thompson (Urban Fantasy) RP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Svenne 1 Share Posted October 20, 2018 I think erp'ing is nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deep Sea 326 Share Posted October 20, 2018 I love Discord, and yet, chats kills forums by taking posting activity away from the OOC. 1 Glub glub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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