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

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Above anon is correct, linking to pirated material is against Dreamwidth TOS. Sorry, anon.

shrugs

people might not be overly eager to tag you but that goes for just about anybody you could pick up

if you veer into either getting too sanctimonious or too offensive with it then more people might side eye you but again, extremes will get you side eyed wherever

-1 people get harassed over barbie smashing all the damn time lmao have you guys been sleepwalking in this hobby

Might be, I know some people have done it for that (with all parties on board). I think it's also because so many otherwise gen games are sex-friendly or sex-adjacent, and in a sex game your character is probably banging most of their CR anyway so there's less angst if they're all in on it. Combined with increased acceptance of IRL polyamory in the fringe nerd communities much of DWRP is involved with or at least adjacent to, and the fact that we've lost game-specific memes and crack events, which were once the leading ways to explore a ship with different CR in a game setting when your character was already taken, it's no surprise.

it’s not that serious you can log off

"harassment is ok and even permissible when i say so actually"

lol

acknowledging unfortunate aspects of canon is nice but like, just own it and then play as normal, no need to get too self-flagellating about it

everybody's playing a barbie that might not appeal to somebody's tastes

if your character is monogamously dating someone but the other player drops/flakes out, you have no one to ship with. if your character is dating two people, flirting with a third person, and casually sleeping with a fourth, you still have plenty of opportunities for shipping even if someone bails.

there's probably also something to be said for the meme+psl vs game divide, and how "monogamy" isn't a thing on memes because every thread is assumed to be taking place in a different continuity. if that's what you're used to and then you join a game, monogamous shipping is going to be an adjustment.

casual dating isnt what poly is though lmao

have a snickers guy

lol

i prefer to assume monogamy in the scenes in memes because my character wouldn't date someone who was sleeping with five other people but recently i keep running into people who have their character happily tell mine about all the other people they're sleeping with. one was confused when my character went cool, anyway, and proceeded to just want to be friends instead of dating.

idk more power to people who feel like doing the poly thing but i am not a fan of it becoming so normalized to the point of being randomly sprung on me without discussion

a casual thing often leads to shipping later though, if one or both characters catch feelings.

ok

casual dating and a polycule are still separate situations though

someone who was incredibly toxic to me, down to explicitly telling me to rp less well so she'd stop having anxiety that her version of the character we both played is inferior, has returned to rp. i know the best revenge is living well, and i don't own bakerstreet, but i'm so uncomfortable seeing her accounts around memes again. i need to go bask in grassy brilliance.

imo this is a separate situation from polyship, since its all their own cr theyre managing vs me suddenly being tugged toward a four-person ship and their interlocking web of adjacent cr i now feel pressured to keep up with

but yeah, people shouldnt be shocked that some wont want to share like that icly, or will consider it a breach of trust. or that even that will be too much to keep up with ooc

lol I've had the exact opposite experience. Every time I've declined a polyship I get treated like some poor abused waif that's so brainwashed by the patriarchy I don't even realize there's an option besides monogamy. Then they (thankfully) avoid me.

One person even made a plurk a while later crying about how some characters are 'too full of love' to ever make sense as monogamous, and cited the character I declined to polyship with as an example.

Omg I ran into the they have so much love to give whining too, they kept going on about how their character deserved all the happiness and multiple partners

poly people have treated me like this irl when i decline their invitation to their polycules so i cant say im surprised it also extends to rpers crowing about ic/ooc divide issues in everybody else but themselves lmao

but you definitely don't have ic/ooc divide issues nope

ic/ooc divide issues is when patterns of behaviour

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i feel like i've seen the exact pa plurk you're talking about

that or there are multiple people on this site who think this is an acceptable way to behave when rejected for a polyship, which is terrifying to consider

the correlation im seeing here between people who practice poly and people who pretend to practice poly is that most of them are not mature to do either of those things

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