// I’ve figured out why I hate those “if you don’t put in the same effort (i.e. length) I do to a post I won’t rp with you!” rules/posts.
I am a superb writer. I can break your heart in four lines. I don’t need four half-page paragraphs to do it. I refuse to be a less skilled writer to prop your ass up.
Meanwhile, I leave Thursday to go down to the Keys for girls’ birthday weekend with my mom and sister, so I don’t expect to be available at all from Thursday night to Monday night.
Tag Archives: re:roleplay
so tired of the obsession with monogamous homosexuality around here
I wish some OC roleplayers would realise that canon characters don’t have it as ridiculously easy as they seem to think. I am not belittling the issues OCs face, but someone once said that canon writers ‘have everything handed to them on a plate’ and it really isn’t true. We do face our own problems; being ignored in favor of another version of our character, being accused of writing them wrong etc. So while yes, OCs face many hurdles, please don’t think that canon writers have none.
And to put an emphasis on things that can go wrong: The resources and history a canon character has is usually years worth of accumulation. It’s not information that is handed to a roleplayer on a plate. It’s a vast and specific set of rules rpers have to sort through in order to play their version of a character accordingly. While there are many answers provided canonically, the ability to get something right also leaves room to get something wrong. The other post this OP is referring to has a great deal of issues I have a problem with concerning Canon vs. Original. While it’s all a matter of opinion, original characters have the blessing of full and absolute control. Resources and reference can be used to make them, but the end result is up to the roleplayer. To say one is harder than the other depends on the writer, but saying canon writers have it all served to them on a silver platter is overlooking the very obstacles that make it difficult.
They’re both difficult in equal ways. A canon roleplayer has a great deal of information available to them at the outset, which they must absorb and can then shape slightly with headcanon and their play. A original character must create much of that information from ‘scratch’, but has correspondingly greater freedom to shape.
On the other hand, while it’s risky to make assumptions for canon characters when you begin to interact with them, there are certain assumptions that tend to be fairly safe to make — and this is /never/ true of original characters, but it happens to them equally as much. (See ‘Mary Sue’.) It’s possible, but rude as hell, to interact with canon characters without reading their information; you’re likely to draw their ire and make stupid mistakes. It’s not possible to properly interact with original characters without reading their info — yet people do it, AND make assumptions about the character to boot.
Either way, someone is going to dislike the way you handle the character — either because they think you aren’t sticking to canon, or because they think you’re a Mary Sue.
[[Discovered that no matter how many blogs claim to be OC friendly? The truth is very few are…No one wants to give an OC a chance.]]
If you can’t come to me and be honest when our relationship needs changing, GO AWAY.
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I have 165 followers.
Are you guys LOST or something? There’s plenty of koala here, but no tea. NO tea. I don’t do tea.
Here, have a cat expressing my confusion.
I honestly find it hard to run an OC blog when all these great canon characters keep ignoring me. At least it seems that way. I don’t mean to pat myself on the back or anything but I think I created a really good OC and I want her to interact with other characters. But when those other characters don’t give you the time of day. It’s hard to keep writing when there’s no one to write with.
Just because my muse is flirting with, hitting on, or hoping to get yours into bed doesn’t mean your muse has to reciprocate – or that I want to write smut with you.
It’s so annoying when someone is super selective about who they’ll do an askbox meme with, but then whines about how their followers don’t love them and never send them any asks.