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i used to be really snobby about only playing with tl;dr junkies and would avoid threading with people who didn't write long tags.

lowering my stupid tag length standards was the best decision i ever made in this hobby and now i really regret spending so much rp time and energy chasing after glacial flakes when i could've been playing with people who don't write as much per tag but are really fun to play with and more reliable.

sorry to all the shorter taggers i snubbed in the past, i was a dumbass.

i used to be a glacial flake and then i started caring less and writing shorter tags

i'm having way much more fun now

playing chracters i didn't like because people wanted me to

playing certain noncanon ships. it was fun at the time but looking back, yeah, they're ooc and pretty stupid. i'm sure it'd reflect badly on me

the time i agreed to a hard to get-type of thread and the other player turned it really rapey and uncomfortable. i had to drop it. it's not in a game, but i hate that it's floating out there for the public to see

playing certain noncanon ships.

I don't think having fun is something you should be regretting, anon.

RP is supposed to be fun. Worrying about ooc-ness or what other people think really is not the point, IMO.

playing chracters i didn't like because people wanted me to

i've never played a character i DON'T like but i definitely regret playing characters i didn't really care about because my friends said i'd be SUCH A GOOD X or i linked my whole muselist and everyone wanted me to app a character i'd burnt out on/lost the voice for. doing tags is such a slog when you don't really care about the character, and sometimes it ruined the fun i had with a character i was really excited for because i always had tags for the other character hanging over my head.

i don't let anyone enable me or do enable memes anymore unless i have a character in mind but don't know which game to send them to.

i made this mistake and apped characters i wasn't interested in playing into games i didn't want to for the sake of playing with friends

it's never worth it

all of my worst rp experiences were in games and with characters i slogged along with to make my friends happy

i don't let myself get enabled anymore anywhere and just look for games i want to play even if it ends up making my friends butthurt when i say no

i think the worst part is that these friends always were flaky people that need an ac hanging over their heads to tag me consistently

i feel stupid for chasing after them when they don't have enough interest in rping together to keep up with playing with me outside of a game structure

this, goddamn

all of my worst rp failures involved bringing in characters i wasn't super invested in because i wanted to be in a certain cast or because someone enabled me. inevitably i end up dropping threads, getting burnt out and turning into a huge flake with everybody until i drop the character who's causing the problem.

my policy now is "only characters who i'm super excited about" and it's been working so much better.

playing characters according to fandom interpretation, not my interpretation. sometimes fandom is just fucking wrong

not starting tumblr rp sooner

god i have so many options now and some of them tag me faster than ljrpers/dwrpers ever have

i mean most people are shit but at least i don't have to obsess about being perfect there

apping to my castmate's game when i wasn't really into the premise, i just wanted to play with them. it would have saved us both a lot of grief if i'd just taken them up on their offer of a PSL to begin with

staying in a game i was no longer having fun in because of castmates and cr. it was not worth it and i ended up alienating said castmates.

I'm going through that exact thing right now in my current game 8(

playing popular characters and mistakenly thinking that the people who kissed my ass for doing it were actually interested in playing with me instead of my character. i only play from older, less popular canons these days, and most of the people who got really excited about playing with me and gushed about how great i was won't even give me the time of day now.

it is much nicer to play with people who are interested in playing with you the player.

not seeing the massive warning signs that led to not one but two toxic friendships starting in rp and letting myself be guilted into dragging things on much longer than i should have

i also regret that i ever commented logged in on rps one day. never do it.

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