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ayrt, in good faith

[(Anonymous)]

It's really surprising to hear that you feel OCs have become more of a norm. To me, DWRP definitely feels like the home of fandom crossover RP still. OCs are tolerated, but OC players on anoncomms are very much told the onus is on them to do outreach with their character because no one's looking for them. Restoria is the only OC-only game I could name.

Meanwhile, I remember ~8 years ago on Livejournal, at least in the pockets I frequented, OC cliques and games were a common thing, with groups starting up from MMW inspiration posts or people jumping on the fandom OC bandwagon. Example: the Harry Potter next-gen group that was around SWS, Grimm Units, House of Cards. (Yeah, I know each of those were disasters in one way or another.) I don't think any of those would get the same buy-in and traction here and now that they did back then. The death of SWS (and perhaps of musemostwanted) sort of led to the death of those groups.

However, I didn't participate in many actual games in that era, so I'm aware my own perceptions may be non-standard on this matter.

stupid joke anon, also in good faith

[(Anonymous)]

You know, I honestly completely forgot about SWS and MMW because they always felt kinda separate from the rest of LJRP at the time. From what I remember, though, a lot of that group splintered off to IJ. There's always been a higher concentration of OC games there, even if some are thinly veiled RPF.

And you're right, I don't think 'OCs become the norm' is really that correct? It's probably more that there's an expectation now that they *will* be tolerated, compared to what I remember from back in 05ish to just before the migration where they did not mix with canon rp, at least when it came to larger established games. Those OC's (from what I remember of SWS and MMW) also tended to be based not only within a popular canon, but also directly involved in canon events/related to popular canon characters. What I've seen of OCs now is that they're from a player's original worldbuilding or a game's setting.

That seemed to be the defining feature of LJRP as a kind of culture, compared to other booming rp sites at the time. All the other platforms I remember playing on were excluding canon characters in favor of OCs. And compared to places like forums or chatrooms, LJRP and then DWRP is the only place I've seen that has a community both as large as this is and -- idk how to phrase this exactly? Coherent, I guess? There's a community across the individual games that interacts regularly and formed a kind of super-community.

Somebody way smarter than me could probably write a really cool paper about this.

Also as a fun note: there are members of the cosplay community on TikTok that consider that to be rp, and that's super interesting to me in terms of the shift away from narrative storytelling to putting the emphasis on aesthetic mimicry.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

I'll add it to the list after the paper I keep promising myself about the different terminology used for similar concepts across roleplaying communities. (Example: "TPO [Character]" vs. "[Character]-mun")

ayrt too

[(Anonymous)]

Fuck yeah, papers!