rpanons | All the pretty little anons

All the pretty little anons

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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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Hey again! Do you wanna do something sometime with these two?

I'm always up for psls and such, though lately I've been on the slowside. I have your bs tag sitting in a tab right now, for example.

Excellent! We can just keep that going, pick up a new meme if you're into any up rn, or I can just whip something up on this account and we can go from there.

we'll go wherever the road takes us, lil rabbit

Even if those pastures aren't so green?

bless her bunny heart

at least she's trying

are you updated on lolk?

the amount of sass she has reaches critical levels it's p great

I... READ THE PROLOGUE

i've been lapse forgive me. i mostly just read what i needed to have eirin up to date when i updated her app going into tanagura

forgiven because that's totally understandable

tanagura?

the game i play her in, currently.

tanagura

omg i love ai no kusabi i'm surprised other people know it exists aha

I'll have to check it out whenever the next app round is

hi5 for classic yaoi knowledge.

and yeah, it's a fun game. the plot is pretty damn engaging, so there's plenty more to it besides "cyberpunk dystopia with sex"

^5 one element that hasn't disappeared from my younger days is shamelessly enjoying all sorts of yaoi/shounen-ai

how long has it been running? it looks like there's been a lot of player-driven changes (worldbuilding technically? idk) over the days/weeks/months/years/centuries

I think? a little over a year and a half. don't quote me on that.

the biggest player driven changes are a) the caste swap and b) Tanagura itself basically becoming a chaotic mess while the Black Market controls the outer cities/districts.

I'm sad that I've gone this long not knowing what dreamwidth was (thank heavens for discord friends) because that sounds like a lot of fun

only a year and a half? granted that's a long time but I was expecting longer

believe it or not, that's a pretty impressive length by some standards in DWRP. game turnaround rate has largely shrank alongside the size of the playerbase on DW.

not that this is particularly a bad thing. some games successfully run their course and you will only find rare cases of people leaving a closed game unsatisfied. (and when it does happen, boy will you definitely hear about it here)

where do you suppose everyone went if the playerbase has shrunk? tumblr, f-list, forums?

I probably shouldn't ask about this but are you implying there are no skeletons in closets/those skeletons are laid bare? (I've been in a fair bit of rp communities and drama has always kept itself behind closed doors which has actually caused a lot of problems)

a big thing is that back when this was all on LJ, most social media platforms were still in their infancy (except myspace, but no one used myspace) and the major fandom communities were pretty much all on LJ.

long story short; LJ made a lot of decisions that made it difficult to maintain fandom OR RP communities on there, so RP all immigrated over to DWRP, but since that was 2012 and by this time tumblr, facebook, etc were all now very much A Thing, the fandom communities didn't come with is.

so we basically got caught off from the fuel system that kept players coming in. now, we are by no means a tiny playerbase, a recent survey of players suggests we're anywhere in a range from 1,500-4,000 (large margin, yeah, but hey, that's statistics for ya), but that's still pretty small to spread among all the games on DWRP plus players that only play memes/PSLs

as far as how our drama is handled, that's basically the reason these anoncomms exist, ostensibly. that being said, you can go your entire time here and not need to worry a wink about it because they're not nearly as influential on the general player climate as they used to be

I remember following hiimdaisy on livejournal and when I decided to peruse an old post on LJ I noticed it's all very... russian now.

that's a pretty big number and I wasn't expecting giant ones but that's bigger than I was expecting. it's actually pretty impressive when you compare it to the amount of forum members on longer lasting forum roleplay sites.

honestly just off browsing around out of curiosity all I've ended up seeing is stuff you might see on a more personal imageboard (Greater Anon Dickwad Theory or whatever) and the person who recommended dreamwidth to me told me to avoid a community named wankgate (that same person turned out to actually be pretty hated in this rp community and while it hasn't ruined our friendship entirely it's made me lose all the trust I had in them) so I should be good I guess?

I MEAN i'll be legit with you, i do browse and sometimes even post to wankgate, but never anything i wouldn't also say logged in, or anything tremendously hateful. usually just petty venting, or providing facts on a matter, or participating in those occasional "what would you do if you were the mod" kind of threads. that kind of stuff.

and rpanons, while not having the same reputation of drama as wankgate, is a lot more loosely moderated and tends to be beset by shitposting on the occasion. honestly both comms are kind of shined turds, but the advice to just avoid wg is not unfounded, especially since all of the utility threads (username suggestions, character advice, pb suggestions, etc) are here.

I think the worst kind of people to deal with on places like 4chan are the ones who act self-righteous and go "oh I don't browse/post to 4chan and anyone who does are terrible people" while they're checking out rekt threads or shitposting on /b/ so I completely support sticking to your guns both on and off anon

but this wankgate place doesn't seem to hold a candle to 4chan (/pol/ alone is of worse quality) and even if I ignore everything else it's at least opened my eyes to the kind of person I might not want to get much closer to (having known them as long as I have it's hard to believe they'd do a lot of this stuff and when someone tries to say "i only did it because of (x) & (y) reason" you're more inclined to believe them if it sounds in line with what they've done in the past)

BASICALLY you sound like you've got the right idea, you'll do alright kid

Will I go far, Master Eirin?

I'll keep that in mind, thanks for the heads up

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