You sound fat

[rpanonmod]

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.

Rules:

Do not post pornographic or shocking images.
Do not share private entries, plurks, chat logs, etc.
Do not use this community as your social/political/hatespeech soapbox.
Do not be redundant. One page does not need three or more threads on one topic/theme. Your unfunny, forced memes also fall under this rule.
Do not treat this comm like your personal therapist. Threads about nonfictional suicide, self injury, rape, and abuse will be deleted. There are better resources out there for you.
Do not treat this comm like your personal Plurk or Twitter. Off-topic happens, but it should be open for discussion and not just a play-by-play of your life. No one cares.
Shut up about Tumblr. If it's not a discussion about Tumblr RP it will be deleted.

CONCERNS | RESOURCES

Navigate:

LATEST PAGE | GAME DISCUSSIONS | CANON DISCUSSIONS | HTML/GRAPHIC HELP

ATP/ENABLE ME | GAME ADVERTISEMENTS | PB SUGGESTIONS | USERNAME SUGGESTIONS

GAME IDEAS | CHARACTER ADVICE | RP WITH ME | TEST DRIVES

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

i am so tired of asexual discourse

[(Anonymous)]

but it's hard not being noticed enough to satisfy my fragile ego

[(Anonymous)]

Have you ever asked someone not to tag you for a reason other than them being a creep? What was the reason?

[(Anonymous)]

i've only ever asked two people not to tag me. one was selwyn, the other was this dr rando who sent me a random pm freaking out at me over my character being a dick to theirs (spoiler my character is a dick, i am not, these things happen) and then sent me another pm a few weeks later saying it was okay for me to play with them now if i wanted. didn't need that crazy in my life so i shut them down, never had cause to regret it.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm getting increasingly sure that this person I'm rping with has some kind of kink they may or may not be aware of. Somehow in every thread they find some excuse to get their character's hair or clothes wet. I've lost count of the time their character was just out of the shower, working out and sweating, tripped and fell into water... it's even weirder because I totally get that as a kink, but I don't know how I feel about it just kind of happening in the background all the time. I don't want to call them out because they may just not realize how it's coming off? But, huh. Weird.

Has anything like this ever happened to anyone?

[(Anonymous)]

you could bring it up without labeling it as a kink. that way if they're doing it on purpose you'll scare them into stopping and if it's on accident, they learned something.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel kinda stupid.

I've got my notif settings done up so that anyone who replies to my comments, I get an e-mail. But whenever I make a post, I don't get replies when people comment to it. Every time I set it up so that I get replies when people make top-level comments on my posts, I also get a notif whenever someone replies to them and not me.

I don't mind people commenting about in a post I made, but I don't want my inbox filled with thirty comments of people slingshotting posts back and forth between each other in one of my posts. I just want to get a notif when I have a response.

Is there a way to do it? Give me an e-mail when someone makes a top-level but not when a different person responds to it? Because the settings are just kind of weird.

[(Anonymous)]

as far as I can figure, you'd have to deselect getting notifs when anyone responds to your entry in a community, because if that's how you're doing it it doesn't specify top level and will grab lower level comments.

Then every time you create an entry, you'd have to manually click the bell for tracking, choose 'more options', deselect getting notifs for when anyone responds to that entry (because it seems to automatically select that every single time you click the bell to start with), and choose the option where you only want a notif for a new top-level. To get it by e-mail may be a paid account option only, I'm not sure. But it should work otherwise. I've never needed to turn off notifs for comments in my own entries, I don't get that much threadhopping, but it works when I want notifications for new threads in an event log.

[(Anonymous)]

is miitomo working okay for other anons?

i couldn't use it at all yesterday because it kept giving me an error when i tried to open it on my iphone.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, it was working for me. i have android though.

[(Anonymous)]

hey anons! what are the biggest, most active games right now? i've been out of rp for a long time, so everything is strange and foreign to me.

[(Anonymous)]

uh... ryslig? maybe?

[(Anonymous)]

So, let's pretend that, for whatever reason, you decide to play someone that uses a foreign language expression wrong when they're supposed to be fluent in that language (like Eli from Love Live), or has a medical condition that's written all wrong (like say, Nora Grey from Hush Hush's anemia).

Would you fix and portray those traits accurately in rp, or keep it the way it is in canon and just let everyone else that knows better wonder wtf is going on?

[(Anonymous)]

tbh your best bet is to do it as it's done in canon. people can wonder all they want, but i doubt they'd bring it up icly (and if they do, it could be entertaining). for a character like eli you could probably cut down on the foreign language if it drives you nuts, since it's more like a catchphrase than anything else, though.

WHAT PRODUCTS DO YOU USE FOR YOUR PERIODS?

[(Anonymous)]

pads, tampons, cups, nothing (freebleeding), something else?

Re: WHAT PRODUCTS DO YOU USE FOR YOUR PERIODS?

[(Anonymous)]

pads and tampons both. i hate pads because they feel like a giant diaper but i need them for overnight.

[(Anonymous)]

have you ever made plot plans with a small group, then they went ahead and did the plot without you?

tell me your stories because i mad

[(Anonymous)]

yes. i came up with a small plot idea that we agreed to do as a group but then a few days later, i found out they had already started playing it and never told me. i called them out on it in private and then jumped into the thread they were already 40 comments into. surprise surprise, they dropped it after 1 or 2 turns (which is what i figured they'd do.) never plotted with them again.

i hope you called them out, anon. don't put up with that shit.

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.thepennyhoarder.com/bored-at-work-lawsuit/

this is the most privileged thing that i've ever read in my life

"i'm suing for distress because i was too bored at work earning $4k/month for doing nothing"

[(Anonymous)]

there is merit in the case, based on the fact that he was essentially unable to do anything for about seven months, since they could have called him back at any time. take that time to travel? but what if you're called in tomorrow? take another job to pass the time? oops, you don't know your availability. etc etc, it's still first world as fuq, but there's legitimate "distress" there, aka basically being held hostage by your job because you have no idea if/when they'll want you back.

the whole "bore-out" thing is bullshit tho and they should have left it out of the case.

[(Anonymous)]

a while back, someone taught me how to adblock images on twitter since I can't seem to get it to work. seemed to involve typing it as a different kind of custom filter? idr

can someone help me do that again, I never thought I'd need to use it a second time but my friend keeps picking really bad fanart for their icon, it's all uncanny valley

[(Anonymous)]

step 1: delete your twitter
step 2: live a much more fulfilling life.

I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE FOR MY WANGST

[(Anonymous)]

i'll be obvious to my plurk but i need advice because i'm burnt out as fuck on rl.

i have to study something extremely boring for work --- it's literally the most boring thing that i've studied in my entire life --- and the pressure of being expected to study non-stop is really worsening my depression. i'm not kidding, my manager expects me to do at least 4 online practice tests a day, and they take 1.5-2 hours each (in total: 6-8 hours/day), even on my days off and the weekend. i don't do that because 2 practice tests a day is mind-numbingly boring enough, but just the expectation of doing that? yikes, i feel exhausted just thinking about it.

the only thing that's keeping me remotely sane is the fact that i watch youtube videos/tv shows on the other half of the screen while i work on this garbage. i'm nowhere near finished, i won't be done for another month, and i feel kind of hopeless. not suicidal hopeless and depressed, just the kind of depressed where i want a complete break from anything responsible for at least a week, maybe a month. if i wasn't taking medication to help me sleep, my sleep would probably be fucked up too. and to make things worse, i'm on disability because of mental illness and chronic pain and all of this stress is worsening that too. i legitimately feel like i need to call my psychiatrist to make an early appointment to up my antidepressants, that's how shitty that i feel right now.

do anons have any advice on destressing or at least cheering myself up? i can't count the times that i've sighed today and no amount of baby animal pictures or playing with my own pet is working. i haven't tried to keep fucking that chicken yet but i will keep that in mind.

Re: I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE FOR MY WANGST

[(Anonymous)]

watch monster factory

ITT: Weirdest thing that's happened to you this week so far

[(Anonymous)]

Re: ITT: Weirdest thing that's happened to you this week so far

[(Anonymous)]

Getting an e-mail from the affiliate program customer service rep of a well-known shopping site telling me I've been banned from their program because of the application that I never sent them.

[(Anonymous)]

somehow i seem to have uncracked my copy of adobe photoshop, and it's been like two years since i last acquired a copy and finding it for myself is an aspect of the internet i am historically bad at.

anyone have somewhere i can snag a copy by chance? i don't need the newest versions, going back a few is totally fine.

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs2-product-downloads.html

[(Anonymous)]

free cs2 if you make an adobe id

doesn't work on newer versions of os x tho

[(Anonymous)]

I'm worried that the crowd my character has fallen in with is affecting other people wanting to play with me. It's not a group that's been dragged on the regular, but I've seen some of their names pop up on anon memes. Any advice? I like the interactions a lot but I don't want to be limited because of who I associate with.

[(Anonymous)]

>I've seen some of their names pop up on anon memes.

are you like, new to dwrp? genuine question. unless someone gets namedropped on an anonmeme very consistently with actual proof of terrible behavior, namedrops tend to be done by people with grudges for whatever reason.

i don't know why this is affecting your decision. you should play with them because it's fun, or don't play with them because it's not fun. wankgate is useless 99% of the time.

[(Anonymous)]

your cat has been missing for days because you let it outside

amazing

[(Anonymous)]

people who purposely let their cats outside don't deserve them.

i hope that their cat was adopted "off the street" and not fucking killed by their irresponsibility.

[(Anonymous)]

i wonder how many anons would be interested in non-english rp

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen people talk about it here once or twice before (French rp, at least) but 'non-english rp' is a broad concept. I might be best to ask for a specific language right off the bat.

I'm ESL but I don't think I could make my character speak my language instead of English.

[(Anonymous)]

What are some games where a goofy cartoon character would fit in, or where I could app a setting-based AU that makes them a little more appropriate? Obviously not going for a horror angle.

[(Anonymous)]

I think Forest Covered is good, if mostly slice of life is okay for you.

[(Anonymous)]

so how about that broke lj/dm login

[(Anonymous)]

switch to chrome, use the previous version of waterfox, or use pale moon

not that hard

[(Anonymous)]

Are there any games out there right now that have a medium to large Star Wars cast? I've been thinking of wanting to put my Kylo somewhere. I usually am a LCW when it comes to games because I play from such obscure stuff and it'd be nice to have a cast already around to play with for once.

[(Anonymous)]

i would think most games have a star wars cast these days

App Advice

[(Anonymous)]

How would you go about writing an application for a character that's based on myths or folktales? Specifically, should I approach it like any other canon, or more like an OC?

Re: App Advice

[(Anonymous)]

definitely an OC, unless you're playing a specific depiction of them, because myths and folktales by nature have a lot of variation and conflicting info about them

[sockaroo]

hey! looking to get some possible commissions done of characters/ships. not sure if this is the right place, but it's sort of rp related? if anyone has open commissions, i'd like it if they dropped a comment or pm me.

thanks!

http://dray.dreamwidth.org/9440.html

[(Anonymous)]

dunno who all's open but there's a list of dwrp artists who take commissions here and a lot of them do full size commissions too

[(Anonymous)]

i know we all have our opinions on icons, so what are your thoughts on people who use animated ones in rp?

[(Anonymous)]

i only like them if they loop perfectly, which ime tends to be animated series rather than live action/vidya because the 'camera' is more fixed (eg. rainbow dash flying), but i shrug at other people using them

[(Anonymous)]

your chicken has been fucking for days because you let it outside

amazing

[(Anonymous)]

I had to! Have you seen the mess chickens make when they shit?

[(Anonymous)]

what do you guys do to deal with rp insecurity?

do you take a hiatus? do you reread your threads to see what's making you feel anxious? do you ignore it and tag on? im facing this right now because i opened my email this morning, saw my tags and suddenly thought "crap im doing SOMETHING wrong with x. idk what it is but its terrible and shame on you anon for being terrible."

[(Anonymous)]

I reassure myself that every single tag doesn't have to be perfect. This isn't professional writing. It's for fun and to contribute to other's fun. I'll read it over before I post it and do my best but if I get doubts after its posted I tell myself its best to go with your first gut response. Then I remind myself that if people weren't enjoying my tags they wouldn't be tagging me back. Really. No matter what excuse my mind would like to tell me. I DON'T stop writing. Because then it goes from 'not good enough writing' to 'left it to long and now I can't go back because its been too long' and that's worse to fight through.

What my mind thinks isn't always right or accurate of a situation. I recognize that and try to pay attention to when it's being a baby on me. Often, it has nothing to do with my tags and there's something else entirely bothering me but tags are easier to worry over.