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oh, dreamwidth park is lonely in the dark/all the horny memes have no tag-outs

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i prefer monogamous ships, but i got tired of putting a lot of effort into a ship and then having the other player lose interest once they became established. so now everyone is just open because that way there's always another active player around for ship stuff. two hands better than no hands.

i'm the opposite, i wish sobad i were just alone in my apartment eating ramen by myself and tagging with my own dog on my lap instead of this hallmark stuff and nonstop company

truly the grass is always greener

proud of you for taking the step in looking for a therapist, happy holidays anon

there you go! cheers to you too

hey, happy holidays! i would love some points to this account, you're so awesome ❤❤❤

tysm. happy holidays to you too!

there you go! happy holidays to you too

you and me both, nonny. i'm hiding in the bathroom rn just to catch a break...i wish i could give somebody else my family for the holidays lol

mostly talking about meme settings, but in reading this thread i'm now being enlightened about how popular poly ships are? which i didn't know, and i'm a little confused as to why that's happening so much in games. and why it happens so frequently to people who want to or are trying to do slow burn ships. is it because one of the players is getting impatient and decides to try to have both a quicker burn along with their slow burn?

has anyone ever had a positive experience with a poly ship in a game?

in my one experience of trying a poly ship it was a complicated mess to try to coordinate and we were all friends ooc, so fortunately there was no weird boundary pushing or ooc/ic jealousy. we mutually decided to scrap it because it was a headache.

the idea of a poly ship can be fun to think about, but the actual writing and execution of it is a different thing. it doesn't really appeal to me personally and most of the characters i play now would never be up for it anyway.

in the times i've had it sprung on me once it was by a player who was pretty obsessed with attention and how much people liked them to the point of tracking their plurk friend count like a hawk. i think it happened because they wanted as much attention centered on them icly as possible.

in another the player agreed to a monogamous slow burn but seemed to think that not playing out other ships would be "controlling them". similarly another person basically had their character cheat after agreeing to a ship because their character "deserved to be happy".

sometimes it's genuinely just down to people agreeing to a ship and then apparently finding something they prefer, i guess? this is normally more of an issue in games for me since memes people are better at doing a focus on that thread. though on memes i have run into people who have their characters suddenly announce they've slept with half the cast or more in some open poly thing it has been more rare (though weirdly happens on tfln a lot).

idk man it's hard to figure out why people do things like that when it wouldn't occur to me to spring it on someone. if i no longer wanted to do a ship i would discuss it with my partner like an adult, not spring a new ship on them suddenly.

i think you're looking at this from the perspective of x number of people are planning a mutual and equal relationship between their characters OT3 style. in my experience "poly" ships in games are more like open relationships with no real strings attached. a is with b and c who is with d and e who are both with y or z. they might have a partner or two that's serious but it's mostly casual sleeping around. this is, of course, super common in sex games, with many people feeling as if they're going to miss out on certain prompts by restricting their characters to purely monogamous relationships.

unfortunately, in my case, every single experience i've had of someone trying to push a poly ship on me was as a result of my character already being in a ship and them deciding they didn't care and wanted to ship with me too.

friends have reported similar experiences, so i really do wonder if a lot of it isn't just that it's an easy way to get around characters already being "taken," so to speak.

i've played an ot3 and had an amazing time with it, but it was something that developed completely organically rather than us going into it with plans for an ot3. my friend and i had planned for our characters to get together eventually and were building towards that, and at the same time the two characters independently started building close cr with a third character so the two of them would often invite character 3 over to hang out since they were all friends. the three of us players kept making ooc ot3 jokes for a while until finally we all said "why don't we just go for it?" and since the characters were all already close it really wasn't much of a leap to go from close friendship to ship because they were already so involved in each other's lives.

hey, this is so sweet of you! hope you're having excellent holidays <3
if you still have any points left to spare i would love some!

i’ve been in 3 and all of them have been good, but i also tend to play characters who are in relationship limbo and wouldn’t care that much about being taken or not. it helps that i always had a genuinely good rapport with the players.

Polyanon's post is really really bad but I think they meant "projecting".

in what world does "projecting" slot in sensibly in the statement "weird parasocial obsession"

are you dumb

what is a "weird projecting obsession"

As in, they're accusing the player of the jealous character of projecting onto ship like it's a real relationship, because they're accusing them of blurring IC/OOC feelings.

I can't explain the grammar though you got me there.

ok well given that the entire post is about overinvestment and taking fake feelings too seriously, plus the fact that "weird projecting obsession" makes no god damn sense, im gonna use my critical thinking skills and assume you're wrong

i dont celebrate christmas but i got some news that has really stressed me out right before the long weekend so it's been hard to relax at all. tell your bf he can make his own meal if he doesn't like yours tbh

if you had critical thinking skills you'd have understood hth

If he doesn't like your food he can make his own!

For what it's worth, social media and especially social media during the holidays? The highlights reel. Which is not to say they AREN'T having good times, but dollars to donuts they are very carefully showing only the best times. They're having crappy times, too, they're just not showing them.

"erm actually if you were a real Critical Thinker you would arbitrarily assume anon meant this other word that makes no sense in the sentence instead of the one they used that makes sense and means functionally the same thing i said it does"

r u posting drunk from the family get together or are you just actually this dumb

Sometimes that is the ic reason for that specific character. Cope.

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