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

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not mature enough* oops

I'd roll my eyes at you for the entire performative 'I know I'm playing from something ableist as all hell but I'm gonna do better than canon, promise!' bullshit, because if you're that aware of the ableist shit in their backstory, and if it bothers you that much, why did you pick up the ableist trope in the first place?

but I'd also probably forget you exist in .5 seconds after I'm done rolling my eyes

that is a strange and convoluted approach to memes for sure. i would have dodged too

Looking at this whole thread, I'm kind of glad now that I've had a few successful monogamous ships in BS over the years. I don't particularly find poly appealing but I get why people want to do it, but it's just not as satisfying for me to play with my hands in several cookie jars when I only really like one.

That said, I have never had anyone expect poly from me, and while I know it's a bigger thing in ecats or wuxia circles, I'm surprised to see it's more common than I thought.

eh, i don't think it's unheard of for people to consume canons where they enjoy some aspects of them but remain aware of the other, shittier aspects. in rp there's also the appeal of the fixer-upper route, where you can flesh out characters that have interesting concepts/potential but are bogged down by piss poor canon execution

but yeah there's giving a nod to the shittiness of canon handling in the form of a note in info or an opt-out post, and then there's wringing your hands and repeatedly apologizing for playing this character every other tag/all over your journal

the latter is def excessive and will look performative. gotta remember nobody's exactly forcing you to climb on this rp cross, so there's no need to go acting like doing it is agonizing you 24-7

lmfao

"eh I don't think it's [situation that I didn't describe at all and is just you missing the point for an entire paragraph so you can feel smart and special]"

after having them drop a PSL I was really enjoying on me at the part i'd been most excited about, start other threads with me only to drop them after a tag or two, and jerk me around with assurances that they'll get to my tag "soon" or "tomorrow", seeing this person post about RP at all just turns me into a pillar of salt

we still talk about non-RP stuff sometimes so i don't want to unfriend them entirely but maybe i need to unfollow them for a while

> player I miss tagging with: "I'm gonna cherry pick tags today"
> never tags me back, despite having said shortly beforehand that they planned to get to mine that day

thanks for the confirmation that I'm on the backburner if I'm even on the stove at all. guess it serves me right for trying to start a thread with you again

"Online harassment, which is literally the most common form of harassment in the modern era, doesn't count"

90% of pushy men you'll never see again either, does that make it okay?

if the men are so pushy why didnt you just call the cops huh

> "if you're that aware of the ableist shit in their backstory, and if it bothers you that much, why did you pick up the ableist trope in the first place?"
> anon offers some reasons why somebody might pick up a character even if canon gives them an ableist backstory that they think is shitty
> "lol that wasn't what i said and i bet you feel so smart"

???

+1 op i dont think ayrt is the one feeling undeservedly smart right now

please get therapy

seeing people talk about how big their apps are and how they have to split it over multiple comments when i didn't have that issue, and like. damn did i not put enough oomph in mind or are they falling victim to not understanding that sometimes quantity does not equal quality.

guess i'll find out when apps start getting approved.

report them

log off

this problem can be solved so easily

did you reply to the wrong comment or did it just not matter whatever ayrt said

classy comment

i am really starting to feel awful about this hobby. all i do is tag out. i get ignored on interest checks. i get ignored after writing starters. i get ignored in spammy memes. i get ignored in dms. am i invisible? is all of dwrp shit talking me behind my back? what gives?

call your mom and ask her for attention instead of whatever you're doing here

w o w

Most of the time, it's perfectly fine to ask someone to review your app for you. The only time it wouldn't be would be if you were asking one of the mods of the game you're apping into to effectively pre-screen your app for you.

One thing to keep in mind, though, is that different games have different expectations for an app, and may want specific information from you. If you're getting your app beta read by someone who isn't in the game you want to join, they can tell you if your flow's ok and your app makes sense, or - if they're familiar with your character - if the samples are IC, but they won't necessarily be able to spot any game-specific problems. It'll be on you to make sure your app matches the requirements laid out for the game.

i see you, nonny. one day we'll find each other.

I wouldn't, regardless of whether or not you had that disclaimer. I know we do have shitty people in DWRP but unless I have reason to believe otherwise I assume the best from everyone I'm tagging with. There's a lot of reasons someone might want to RP from a canon that isn't great about that, and I really don't like going down the slippery slope of only rping from "morally pure" canons. It is generally assumed if you're using anything from from Lovecraft you probably hate Lovecraft as a person and that's the rule I run under.

But for example, Xavin from the Runaways comic was uh not handled great as far as genderfluid/nonbinary rep, especially with how it tackled them dating Karolina. Doesn't change that I still loved the character back when I was still in the closet about being nonbinary because something in it appealed to me, and while I haven't RPd them for a while I did play them in PSLs for a while.

Instead I'd focus on making sure there's a trigger warning somewhere very easy to find on your journal about the canon having a lot of ableism in it and an opt-out post for anyone who doesn't want to deal with that themselves.

you know if us talking about it bothers you so much you could just close your eyes and not look at rpa

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