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Rundown: rpanons is an anonymous community for role-play related topics. This place serves as a forum for game discussions, canon discussions, RP solicitations (ATP, game ads, open memes), and advice. The occasional off topic comment is inevitable, but please keep heated social and political topics to their respective communities. Posting them here will only get them frozen. Subsequent threads made to bypass a freeze will then be deleted.

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RP WOES

[(Anonymous)]

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[(Anonymous)]

fucking up the header comment for rp wins

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[(Anonymous)]

😭 it's the holiday busy season and there's two amazing games starting soon!

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[(Anonymous)]

found out a character i've been tagging with is actually a player i don't like, who i have blocked on plurk for being creepy and annoying. :( my own fault for tagging with someone with 0 info in their journal. never taking that chance again!

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[(Anonymous)]

my bed has stolen rp from me

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[(Anonymous)]

giving up on a character i already bought 6 months paid time for

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[(Anonymous)]

i can't tell if i'm being too paranoid after past bad experiences or if my thread partner is really upset every time i play with other people or just don't prioritize boomeranging our psl as my number one activity every single day. i set clear boundaries but minor occurrences and passing comments are making me feel like resentment is building up and they're obsessing over my attention. i don't think they rp with anybody else, either. i would rather just end everything now if it's going that way but what if i'm wrong and just seeing patterns that aren't there?

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[(Anonymous)]

one day people who post to 'kinks you want to play' will actually play the kinks instead of disappearing under 10 tags. i'm starting to think the build up and planning excites people more than the actual play.

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[(Anonymous)]

dropped from my game, but i have no ongoing psls or meme threads to tide me over until i get new things going or app somewhere again. feelsbad

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[(Anonymous)]

got a prose-y smut starter on a meme sitting in my inbox for the past few days but i hadn't really had time/mindset to sit down to get back to it until now. wrote it out and found out that the person had deleted the tag when i posted it.

they probably saw me bouncing around other memes with quicker tags and assumed i wasn't interested. i was! and now i feel bad that i didn't prioritize the thread.

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[(Anonymous)]

gotta make my own icons like a peasant

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[(Anonymous)]

feeling boring and uninspired recently

idk how to get my spark back

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[(Anonymous)]

new game i was excited for already full of people i wanted to avoid from another game

sadness

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[(Anonymous)]

Every time I sit down to do tags, my cat, after a few minutes, will go behind my bookshelf (there's a little gap they can go from one end to the other now) and y O W L all kinds of ways sounding distressed and upset. Then when I get up and run to see what's wrong, she dashes out from the other side and claims the chair, complete with sprawling, purring and putting me out of a seat for 20 minutes.

I think it's a game to her. I'd be mad, but... she's adorable.

... it's not really that big of a woe because I DO get to do tags eventually, but I figured nonnies might get a kick out of it and laugh.

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[(Anonymous)]

rpers who have their character reply to every line of dialogue so there's multiple conversations happening and it's confusing

why

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[(Anonymous)]

ecatser keeps misreading my tags in extremely minor but hook destroying ways. like, my character orders a burger without cheese because their character is also lactose intolerant*, but their reply describes my character's cheeseburger and then immediately changes the subject

this has happened like three times lol

(*this is a hypothetical example)

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[(Anonymous)]

i miss being someone's favorite person to tag. and i miss having a favorite person to tag!

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[(Anonymous)]

painful friendship breakup with a ship i love attached to it

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[(Anonymous)]

once again i have ended up turning what was supposed to be a quick back and forth texting thread into a full on scene with background and actions

auuuugh

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[(Anonymous)]

I need to rip off the bandaid and drop this game. But I feel bad and idk why.

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[(Anonymous)]

I have a big squick for a specific flavor (har har) of cannibalism* but I can play around it when it's incidental or easily avoided. The game I just joined seemed like it was in that vein. Cannibalism really wasn't brought up in the FAQ or the TDMs I looked over but if I read between the lines I could see how it might be a thing sometimes and I was like yeah alright I can work around that.

Apparently it's actually a big part of that game because it and its cousin, a specific style (see?) of crafting materials out of people, are a crucial factor of like every player event this month. When I look at or think about this I get a sinking feeling. I like a lot of the rest of what's going on! but man I'm bummed out. I guess I should've looked closer or just asked players before going in, I just didn't since it's not the type of game where I'd expect that.

*here defined as "eating people", not "eating someone of your species"

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[(Anonymous)]

some of my partner's tags feel like they've been phoning it in lately

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[(Anonymous)]

want to join a new game, but i have a "rep" (which is probably from wg) of being a flake due to disability having made me inconsistent. i am actively a lot better than i have been the past few years, but suspect mods would reject me due to gossip even though it has been literal years since i have tried to join a game.

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[(Anonymous)]

i wish there were more fantasy games open!

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[(Anonymous)]

tfw the thread the other person is most excited about is the one that's least engaging for you. I guess I just hope that I can keep up enough of the energy in the writing that they're still having fun, but when my inbox is otherwise a wasteland of things that I'm eager to tag, it feels like a slog. I'm sad that I'm not on the same level of hype as my partner, but I feel so burned out by threads where my character is the driving force.

It's usually less of an issue when I have multiple threads going that I'm stoked to tag, but now it just feels like it's haunting me in my notifs.

Yadda yadda, just talk to them, but I'm pretty sure they'd take it personally or it would definitely hurt their feelings to say it directly, no matter how I frame it.