nothing but backseat drivers in this clown car

[socksuke_uchiha]

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GAME DISCUSSIONS

[socksuke_uchiha]

MEADOWLARK

[(Anonymous)]

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CANON DISCUSSIONS

[socksuke_uchiha]

SK8 (SPOILERS)

[(Anonymous)]

man i'm really excited to see what adam's downfall is going to be like

HTML/GRAPHIC HELP

[socksuke_uchiha]

ICON COMMISSIONS. + ICON REQUESTS.

[onetouchdonnie]

ICON SAMPLES



ICON REQUESTS FOUND HERE.
ICON COMMISSIONS FOUND HERE.

ATP/ENABLE ME

[socksuke_uchiha]

Mina Ashido / My Hero Academia

[pinkxeno]

I'm looking for a calm game for this girl! She is from the end of season 4, but I'm familiar with the recent chapters of the manga too.

[preferences]:
- Slow to Medium Pace
- Backtag friendly
- Easy AC
- Power loss is fine
- No memory loss or AU
- Castmates are not a requirement.

[already in]:
- hugtopia (with Mina herself)
- databurst (with another character, but I'd rather not app to the same game)

GAME ADVERTISEMENTS

[socksuke_uchiha]

SLUMSCAPE ● a panfandom horror game

[slumgods]

SLUMSCAPE is a panfandom roleplay game set in the banished city of Hakagemachi, a place that exists on a mystic plane. Inspired by Japanese lore, this game draws on elements of bittersweet horror and urban fantasy to inspire its themes of morality, time, and survival. Characters are possessed by one of several youkai, or spirits, and then charged with unraveling the circumstances of their arrival. The game has a set time frame and a reactive overarching plotline players can engage with to help shape the fate of the story.

We currently have 10 player slots! Applications are open all the time.

NAVIGATION ● PREMISE ● FAQ ● TAKEN ● APPS

PB SUGGESTIONS

[socksuke_uchiha]

Re: PB SUGGESTIONS

[(Anonymous)]

Male, late teens/early 20's, clean-shaven, dark hair, all formal dress all the time because I'm playing a character a novel set in the 1940's and while I don't expect to be able to find anything 100% period accurate, people in DWRP are chill enough that if it's formal wear that's all that's needed.

USERNAME SUGGESTIONS

[socksuke_uchiha]

People are known to snipe suggestions from this thread just to squat on them. Provide a sock to PM or a screened post to comment to if you don't want to risk it.

Jean Tannen - The Gentleman Bastard Series

[(Anonymous)]

tbh, this canon is so old, I doubt anyone will steal the username if you post it here, but I'll also accept PMs at sockhopsolly if you prefer.

Three words or fewer preferred, I don't mind underscores. Will likely be playing him from a canon point between books 1 and 2.

GAME IDEAS

[socksuke_uchiha]

cloud-atlas-esque reincarnation game over multiple lifetimes

[(Anonymous)]

as the title says.

i have a fairly well fleshed-out idea for a smallish game in the vein of Cloud Atlas, involving serial reincarnation of the characters over multiple lifetimes. there'll be a connecting plot throughout the reincarnations (there's an objective outcome to shoot for) but it'll generally be submerged within episodic play around pivotal events, much as the book itself is.

i have Ambitions for how the game'll work that take advantage of heavy backtagging and timey-wimey ambiguity to allow people to keep playing in whatever episode they enjoy the most, building CR with characters across multiple lifetimes and using forgetting/"multiple timestream" dynamics to keep exactly as much of it as they want going forward. characters will have significant effects on the setting--i have in mind multiple different versions of each setting based on events that do/don't happen in the prior one--though there will be a point in each setting when player characters' ability to affect subsequent settings is frozen, and all activity in the setting after that point turns into alternate universe memories vs mainline memories.

structurally, i want apps to be as minimal as possible because players are going to have to reinvent their characters for every setting. the initial app will be more around establishing character themes and the identifying "mark" that will follow them across reincarnations. subsequent apps--which are only required to play in new settings, and you can app in at any time after a setting drops, and you can skip settings entirely if you don't like them--will mostly be concise history and personality sections (<1000 words) + any resources/powers/whatever the character's got in the setting. you CAN retroactively app into a setting that's no longer affecting the main timeline; you can also submit an official short description of who your character was in that setting if you want to be able to handwave past memories without actively playing in it. (obviously the roles one can do with that will be limited in scope and reach, but.) (i could go on for a while on app mechanics because i have a lot of this thought out in excruciating detail; i will spare anon unless someone really wants to hear me ramble.)

ac will be deliberately light and agnostic to what setting people are playing in (and even when they started threads; if you want to keep making ac off an epic thread that goes back six months, that's fine by me). there will be rewards for better-than-minimal ac, but rather than being on a point system they'll be more structured around plot engagement and completion of (self-selected) character arcs. obviously durable object rewards will be tricky to use in this particular game, but i'm considering the possibility of things like pets/properties/etcetera that reincarnate alongside a character, or keep finding their way to a character, or a permanent upgrade in the power of roles someone can reincarnate into.

there will be exactly one (1) persistent mod-controlled npc in the game; contact with it will be based on character development and specific scenarios characters can get into, and it is there to be a lore-and-direction dispenser vs a buddy people can squabble over getting cr with. there may be other setting-specific npcs who show up, but one thing i'd love to do is have player characters fill out a lot of the otherwise-npc roles needed to make settings run. my thought on how to do this is to post a list of roles, both necessary ones and simply desired ones, that people can flesh their characters out for in apps. example: setting is a sea journey to an island for first contact with the natives; we need a native chief, her son, a ship's captain, a missionary, and the leader of the mercenaries the captain hired on for the voyage.

overarching plot themes will be exploration of how cultures grow/evolve over time and how memory can influence someone's development if it goes beyond a single lifespan. probably there will be other things. i don't want to talk about the actual plot objective here because i'd kinda like it to be a surprise players discover versus something the game says on the tin.

TL;DR: high-concept episodic game involving reincarnation and AU elements, backtag friendly in the extreme.

now, questions: is this anything that would--
1. interest you as a PLAYER?
2. interest you as a MOD? because while i'm happy to write up all the documents, wrangle plot, do apps and answer questions about the setting, i do not have time for active moderation (i.e. making sure no one's being naughty and slapping wrists if they are) or building the community/maintaining docs. (i do keep a mean google spreadsheet, tho.)

CHARACTER ADVICE

[socksuke_uchiha]

Mean characters and witty characters

[(Anonymous)]

There’s a lot of overlap between these personality types and the character I’m thinking of has both, but I think they’re important enough to discuss separately. Don’t feel like you have to address both of them if you only have advice for one!

For witty characters, the biggest problem I have is actually being witty and coming up with funny observations and comebacks on the fly. For mean characters, it’s being mean that gives me trouble. I either have a hard time finding a good balance between likably mean and complete and utter douchebag, and I’m always worried about going too far so I wind up pulling my punches; worse case scenario, I stop playing that part of their personality completely.

What’s the best way to handle this and improve? While some of it’s definitely just anxiety about toeing the IC/OOC divide and accidentally offending the person I’m playing with, I also feel like I’m just missing something and nothing is clicking.

RP WITH ME

[socksuke_uchiha]

GENSHIN IMPACT

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, I'd love to do a Genshin Impact PSL with someone! In particular I'd love to play against a Venti for some m/m stuff! Especially a Venti who might be open to some AU ideas!

TEST DRIVES

[socksuke_uchiha]

SLUMSCAPE ● a panfandom horror game

[slumgods]

SLUMSCAPE ● a panfandom horror game ● current test drive

KINKS YOU WANT TO PLAY

[socksuke_uchiha]

M/M - D/s world, enemies-to-lovers

[132412]

looking to play some good ol fashioned D/s-world nonsense!

A has terribly wronged B in some way–he's killed someone close to him, framed him for a crime, etc. in this world, as it's common practice, A is given into B's care as a sub for some significant amount of time (or indefinitely), whether A likes it or not.

kinks that might be fun to play around with (but are not necessary): public/ritualized sex, the dynamic occasionally flipping behind closed doors/a power bottom-y A, hatesex, discipline/reinforcement, age gaps, codependency, A corrupting B (or B making A behave, or both), anything you'd like to include!

i'd prefer to play A and i'm pretty open beyond that–i kind of like the idea of A having been obsessed with B for some time in an archnemesis-y way for some time, but it's just a thought! B can be eager to get his revenge on A or he can resent the position he's been put into, it's up to you. i have an iconless oc and a LA character from a historical canon but am pretty flexible on "era" as well.

shoot me a pm or leave a sock if you'd like to talk!

PAIRINGS YOU WANT TO PLAY

[socksuke_uchiha]

mahoyaku (cain/owen)

[(Anonymous)]

i have cain and am looking for an owen to psl or meme with!

open to a variety of scenarios, both canon and au, and i'm willing to test the waters with shorter scenes first before we commit to more if you want. these two work with almost any flavor for me so i'm not picky! i just really want more of them rn, we can throw our prefs together and see what shakes out.

RECOMMEND A CANON/CHARACTER

[socksuke_uchiha]

Re: RECOMMEND A CANON/CHARACTER

[(Anonymous)]

anons, tell me about your favorite adult women. 25+ preferable, but I'm ok with 23/24 as well, I'm not picky.

-no villains (nothing against them I just personally don't do well with them)
-if it's a fantasy/sci-fi canon the better but not obligatory
-finished canon (or something we know for sure is finishing with the next book/season/game)
-I like all mediums, but I ask for something easy to consume. for example, Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel are right up my alley, but I don't wanna play from those universes that are kinda messy and hard to keep up with, same with SW. no MMOs either. you get the idea. book series of 4-5 books, series of around five seasons. not super huge franchises or games that require 100 hours. (for the record I don't have anything against those canons, I've enjoyed them in the past, I simply want something easy to pick up for my rp)
-no canon love interest is a bonus but again, not obligatory

GENERAL DWRP QUESTIONS

[socksuke_uchiha]

Re: GENERAL DWRP QUESTIONS

[(Anonymous)]

so, this may be an Extremely Basic question, but.

how do PSLs work, exactly? especially ones started via socks. do you both just make a separate musebox? does it happen in PMs? I've been curious about this for a while but since everyone seemed to just know I've been slightly too embarrassed to ask up until now.

[(Anonymous)]

so fresh... so clean!! time to spill bubble tea

[(Anonymous)]

Oh... Did you say tea? I thought you said pee.


Oops.

MEMES YOU WANT TO SEE

[(Anonymous)]

List them.

Re: MEMES YOU WANT TO SEE

[(Anonymous)]

Exploration meme with an actual open world setting to play around in with optional objectives that's detailed enough to give players some structure and a goal, but also open enough to give them flexibility to make up their own objectives or details about the world to fit their needs.

Canon mastery champ!!

[(Anonymous)]

if you were to dominate at a trivia competition about ONE particular canon, what canon would that be?

Re: Canon mastery champ!!

[(Anonymous)]

jjba, but only phantom blood

GENERAL WOES

[(Anonymous)]

Re: GENERAL WOES

[(Anonymous)]

im missing mangadex

RP Woes

[(Anonymous)]

Re: RP Woes

[(Anonymous)]

most of my character's cr has dropped from my game, which is more than understandable because rl over rp, i just feel bummed out

RP Joys

[(Anonymous)]

[(Anonymous)]

Started threading with a castmate who plays the other half of my OTP and they're wonderful!

[(Anonymous)]

where is emp

[(Anonymous)]

I've been hoping maybe emp-mod just lives in a place with no daylight saving time :(

[(Anonymous)]

Plurk seems to load slower and slower as time goes on... is it just me?

[(Anonymous)]

it's down for me right now, so nope. not just you.

Log in and

[(Anonymous)]

give us a reason to love the character you're most into right now.

[kirins]

this video where he is simply taking the man he loves out for a shopping trip around town and nothing is weird at all.


ok so it's not canon but it COULD be.

MISSED CONNECTIONS

[(Anonymous)]

tell me about the thread/plot/rp partner that got away

Re: MISSED CONNECTIONS

[(Anonymous)]

literally any of the small handful of people who offered to play my otp with me and then promptly flaked out after i got excited. in most cases, it wasn't even me that suggested it/posted the ad.