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ANONS, WHAT MAKES A GOOD RP WRITER?

[(Anonymous)]

going through a bout of insecurity, nothing crippling, but wondering how others measure how good their rp partner is or isn't. is it all about speed and character voice only? do you care about the text in the brackets? what's the line between evocative writing and purple prose?

Re: ANONS, WHAT MAKES A GOOD RP WRITER?

[(Anonymous)]

tbh i don't give a single shit about voice. i probably don't know your canon anyway, so i couldn't care less about whether you're technically the most ic or not. what's important to me is this:

1. tag back frequently. at least a couple times a day.

2. don't write long tags. once in a while is fine, but long tags are a chore to read and respond to most of the time. put an action or two and a couple lines of dialogue, tops, because if you start adding too much then we get in to that weird circle where our characters are suddenly having 3 conversations going on at one time. keep it simple. give me a chance to respond to one thing before you throw three other things at me. don't try to impress me with flowery writing. just move the thread.

3. speaking of moving the thread, do things! give me things to respond to! give me some body language. ask my character some questions. get an attitude with my character. basically provide interesting things for me to respond to, because i promise you i'll do the same.

4. tying in to that, don't be afraid to pick up the hooks i set out for you. i put that shit in my tag for a reason. use it!

5. don't be afraid to bend your character a little bit for the sake of keeping a thread productive. i have this problem a lot with ~antisocial hardasses~... yeah, okay, sure, they're really rigid in their canon and are likely to walk away or shut down conversation at every turn, i get it. but this isn't their fucking canon. that's not fun to play against, and i'm not going to waste my time having my character chase yours for the next 7 months. either make shit happen or bye.

6. dork out with me about our threads and characters on plurk. just a little bit every now and then so i know you're as excited as i am.

these things will make me the happiest camper.

[(Anonymous)]

I have a hard time pinpointing it down into a bullet point list, but I would say being IC is important. My favorite people to play against all have/had such a good grasp of their character's personality it, idk, shone in every tag even if it's an incidental action or I'm canonblind. Also being good at keeping track and being aware of what emotions the character was going through, so no repeating a question to something answered earlier in the thread. It's such a mixed feeling to receive a long, elaborately written tag that makes the character come off as a redundant robot because the player forgot what was going on last week.

Not giving unreactable/hookless tags is a given but personally I give more of a pass if the thread is preplanned.

Also agreeing with the last item on above anon's list. Just a little comment about a thread being fun every so often goes a long way.

[(Anonymous)]

All of my favorite rp partners have been good at character voice and have given me tags that were rounded out with ic dialogue, actions, and thoughts.

I care about the text in the narrative or brackets in the sense that I like it better when it's all ic and not ooc commentary. My posts tend to be longer or shorter depending on my partner's style, but as a general rule I don't think anyone should feel pressure to match length. I do prefer to get posts that are consistently longer than a sentence or two, but I've seen people get carried away with introspection. It's a real problem when each little thing reminds a character of something that happened before and they have to think about that episode or chapter or whatever in depth every time.

I'd love to receive at least a tag a day on most of my threads. Right now I'm pretty close to that and it's a huge step up from November and December. For me speed's not usually a dealbreaker as long as there's variation and not a long lull between every post. A little ooc interest shown can help, even if it's just a quick pm.

Re: ANONS, WHAT MAKES A GOOD RP WRITER?

[(Anonymous)]

I love people that have such a solid grasp on their character that I can 'hear' the VAs/actor's voice when I read their reply. I love the writers that really plunge into the depth of their character. I love people that bring new twists or advances to a thread and don't just either expect me to carry it all or going through a routine. I do like descriptions, so tell me what they're thinking, how they're standing, what the area they're in is like in little bits and pieces woven through the action and dialogue. Put some flavor into the setting. Basically just make it interesting for me, give me things to work with, write like we're writing a story, not a scene. I love a writer that's so good I feel challenged to be put effort into answering but I'll honesty eat up anything that someone gives me that keeps me looking forward to the next reply by keeping things interesting.

tl;dr give me tags that are interactive/interesting and I'm there

Re: ANONS, WHAT MAKES A GOOD RP WRITER?

[(Anonymous)]

Other people have said really good stuff, so I'll just add: write thinking of the thread, not the tag. It's okay if not every tag is individually a work of art as long as they add to the thread. Try to keep a sense of continuity (like not forgetting what happened two tags ago).

Re: ANONS, WHAT MAKES A GOOD RP WRITER?

[(Anonymous)]

- clear character voice, which doesn't necessarily translate to 100% ic. if i know the canon, then ideally the character would be at least somewhat recognizable, but often times i don't know or really care, as long as the characterization is consistent, distinctive, and interesting.

- a good balance between description, introspection, action, and hooks. i want to know what their character is thinking and doing and why, i want them to be moving around in a world that's not just blank white space, and i want something to react to (and i'll put in all of those things in turn in my tags.) i don't want purple prose-y description just for the sake of description

- consistentcy. i'm not a fast tagger by any stretch of the imagination, so i'd be happy with a tag a day or every few days.

- MOVES THE THREAD ALONG. this is honestly my number one thing. i don't care how great and IC a writer you are, how often you tag, whether your prose could make angels weep, if you aren't making the thread progress and ideally tossing in some twists and turns of your own.

Re: ANONS, WHAT MAKES A GOOD RP WRITER?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't care about ICness, writing quality, or any of that.

Just move the thread.

Like improv, or a storytelling game. You answer the question posed to you, and then you ask a question of your own.

It doesn't have to be a literal question the character is asking, but just - 'how will you react to this? what does this say to you?'

Think about writing a thread where two characters are fighting. Naruto throws a punch. Sasuke blocks the punch, and...

Because if you just have Sasuke block the punch, things haven't really progressed. You're back where you were at the start. He needs to do something besides block. Punch back, create some distance and throw a kunai, even just go "Nice try, Naruto!" or whatever. It's something to move the thread.

Re: ANONS, WHAT MAKES A GOOD RP WRITER?

[(Anonymous)]

Do your tags. Frequently.

Formatting doesn't matter much, you can find some kind of agreement pretty easily. Characterization doesn't matter much, so long as you're close enough to IC that your character is recognizable from the tags. Tag length doesn't matter much, so long as it's enough to keep a thread going. Everyone has different tolerances for these things, but in general most people are pretty flexible on them.

But tag speed is the number one thing that with absolutely, positively, without a doubt kill a thread. You could be the most IC player ever, with the most amazing tags ever, and it won't mean jack shit if you don't actually do your tags. Most players will just end up dropping threads with you and moving on to something else.

You should be replying to threads at least once a day, if not more. I don't set an amount for myself beyond at least 'once a day', but it is not uncommon for me to tag back in a thread 5 or more times in a day if the person I am playing with is on and tagging me back. Ideally, if you are following this plan, you should be meeting your AC requirements within the first week of the month. And you don't stop there. Keep threading, keep doing your tags.

I find that keeping a small number of threads going at once (5-10 total at one time across 2 characters) and finishing them as quickly as possible keeps me active in my game. Are there slow periods? Yes, sometimes. But if I'm personally on top of my tags and get them done as soon as I get them, then the threads go faster and I accomplish more in a game, which in turn makes people tag me because they know I am active and will thread with them.

TL;DR the absolute best thing you can do to make yourself a good RPer is to do your tags.

(frozen comment)

[(Anonymous)]

i recently realized after setting some boundaries forced a little distance in our friendship that my closest rp friend is manipulative and emotionally abusive and is never going to change.

a lot of my old friends have been really supportive and welcomed me back after a couple of years of being steadily isolated but i feel really ashamed and embarrassed and the worst part is even though i'm relieved my former friend isn't paying attention to me anymore i also have this tangled snarl of guilt for making them angry at me and worried about wank/drama and worst of all i sometimes think maybe i could just put up with it to keep rping with them.

and then i feel stupid because it's an rp partner and not a marriage, it's not like i'm a battered housewife.

i know this isn't a confessions comm or r/relationships but i was hoping that if anyone else has come out the other side of a friendship like this, maybe you have some advice? especially if it was a fellow rper with whom you had mutual canons/plurk friends/etc.

(frozen comment)

[(Anonymous)]

every time one of you goes on about your rp partner being ~emotionally abusive, i have to roll my eyes

it's a fucking rp partner. stop with the dramatics and just drop them. either fade out or do a hard drop and move the fuck on

IF YOUR CHARACTERS/OTP WERE PARENTS, HOW WOULD THEY MESS WITH THEIR KIDS?

[(Anonymous)]

examples:
* DAD JOKES
* telling their kid that their ears turn red when they lie, so they'll cover their ears when they lie and be super obvious.
* telling their kid that the ice cream truck only plays music when they're out of ice cream

Re: IF YOUR CHARACTERS/OTP WERE PARENTS, HOW WOULD THEY MESS WITH THEIR KIDS?

[(Anonymous)]

i don't play any of the characters in this comic, but i have a feeling this would be a fairly consistent thing if my character had a kid in any of their ships: http://68.media.tumblr.com/70b83b61f6c026878edaab91c3e0f2b4/tumblr_oabv1wjA8o1ruwv3go1_1280.png

[(Anonymous)]

no offense but if you play nothing but characters who are ridiculously full of themselves, and your tags are constantly celebrating how great they are even in a tongue in cheek manner, i'm going to assume you have some serious self esteem issues going on

[(Anonymous)]

no offense but if you play nothing but characters who eat a lot, and your tags are constantly referencing food even in a tongue in cheek manner, i'm going to assume you suffer from anorexia

[(Anonymous)]

love ur lack of an ic/ooc divide

[(Anonymous)]

no offence but if you play nothing but characters who are immature, and your tags are constantly about toilet humour even in a tongue in cheek manner, i'm going to assume you have some weird scat fetish

[(Anonymous)]

one of my straight male co-workers says he is sexually attracted to Jim Carrey, but only in photos of his girlfriends funeral

[(Anonymous)]

http://murkavenue.tumblr.com/post/16553509655/i-found-ice-cubes-good-day

national good day is on the 20th

idk why but i suddenly remembered this while listening to music and decided to look it up. what weird timing.

HONEST DATING ADS

[(Anonymous)]

describe yourself and who/what you want... honestly

ex: i'm a 29 year old shut in gal who only goes outside to my job at kohls and likes it that way. i sing off key, am great at snuggling, cook a mean lasagna and can't bake worth a damn. looking for cute girl with black hair and a dog i can steal

ex. one of those dirty tumblr aroaces who works as an accountant and is tremendously boring with no hobbies except eating. has kind of an inflated ego, can't stand to be wrong, but willing to pay for dinner for two with someone interested in eating at all the fancy local restaurants and put up with my presence for a few hours every week.

and so on

Re: HONEST DATING ADS

[(Anonymous)]

im rich

you can live with me for free if we get along, you help clean my house, and i dont have to have sex with you

[(Anonymous)]

do you ever notice your plurk profile views suddenly spike for no apparent reason and wonder where everyone came from

[(Anonymous)]

probably someone talking shit about you in a private plurk

POST QUESTIONS RELATED TO DWRP, ANONS WILL ANSWER WITH THEIR CHARACTERS' OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

just post your own subthread with your questions! i'll post mine in a sec.

Re: POST QUESTIONS RELATED TO DWRP, ANONS WILL ANSWER WITH THEIR CHARACTERS' OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

1. what do your characters think about jamjar worlds? if they've been in a game with an official explanation they're told about (like "you were chosen by the gods to save the world from a trump presidency"), do they believe what they were told or do they have other theories? for characters who don't get a fancy explanation, what do they think about the whole situation?

1b. if any of your characters have had a "jamjar"-like experience in canon, does that affect their beliefs at all? for example, any characters from "trapped in a video game/warped to another world or time period" canons, or characters who were icly chosen by gods/leaders to be a hero. if any of your characters are those "screw destiny" types like seto kaiba, does that affect their beliefs?

2. same as 1 but with character drops. how does your game explain drops and what does your character truly think happens to their friends after they're dropped?

3. what ic reasons do your characters come up with to explain the fact that most human rp characters are predominantly japanese (anime/manga) or caucasian (live action)? do any of your characters ever wonder where the fuck the rest of the world's at? for example, if you play a white character from a white majority country in a game filled with animus, are they really confused by all the asians?

4. same question as 3, but with age. i have a feeling that a lot of games are full of teens and young adults unless they're sex games with an age minimum. what do your characters think about it?

5. for your characters who don't deal with aliens, monsters, or talking animals in canon, what do they think about the aliens, monsters, and talking animals in their game? they can probably figure out "we're all from different universes" easily, but do they feel awkward as fuck talking to a tiny pastel-colored pony? does your character secretly want to fuck that cute slime girl?

6. how do your characters rationalize castmates acting ooc? for example, your canon's version of dice_dice_baby apps in. or their castmate is a little shy in canon, but an anxious wreck in the game for some reason because the player isn't very good.

7. if you play any characters that wouldn't understand crazy and/or brightly-colored anime hair, how do they rationalize it? "fucking goths and emos these days"?

[(Anonymous)]

anon's got a few questions. hope someone can answer one or the other, or both. both is good too.

question the first: not sure if anyone's already asked this, but aside from dwrp what platforms for rp are popular these days?

question the second: how do you stop being a passive-aggressive shitbag? because anon is slowly dealing with the knowledge that they have been one. they do not like this knowledge and wish to change.

[(Anonymous)]

1. tumblr, f-list and jcink

2. stop being a wuss and confront people when you have issues

[(Anonymous)]

EAT AT JOE'S

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