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[(Anonymous)]

any advice for someone playing from a rare fandom??

i really love the structure of meme communities like bakerstreet, but struggle to maintain interest in crosscanon threads because i’m so hyperfocused on my specific fandom. i have some PSLs going on with a close friend so i’m not exactly starving for content, but memes with canonmates are very snackable to me, for lack of a better term. they’re like chips!!!

i’ve posted my characters to bakerstreet before, told myself i was gonna engage with crosscanon should it come, only to immediately lose interest once i’m met with it. but i always come back thinking this time will be different, or that i should post my characters so people know there’s someone interested in that fandom bopping around.

what should i do?? simply wait for EMP and post my characters there? specify i only want canonmates despite the lack of them? lurk endlessly, hoping someone will toplevel with a character i recognize? or simply accept i need to get more onboard with crosscanon or dreamwidth isn’t for me?

[(Anonymous)]

posting something will always get more results than posting nothing and hoping other people somehow psychically pick up on what you want. post to emp and keep posting on memes saying you want canonmates. i've seen whole rare fandom casts appear on memes when they see someone posting regularly and decide to pick up old accounts or rare characters.

[(Anonymous)]

it's perfectly fine to say you prefer canonmates

you probably do need to get more onboard with crosscanon if you want to get the most out of dwrp, but just give it time. it took me a few years to develop the interest, but you'll kill your motivation by forcing it imo

[(Anonymous)]

Try and try again when it comes to post on bakerstreet and continue to keep an eye out for your canon. Do not force yourself to tag the cross canon but you do need to accept that your preference is going to limit your chances of rp.

[(Anonymous)]

You probably need to figure out what it is that makes you lose interest. I might actually suggest trying to tag out, if you want to get crosscanon that interests you? That way you can control whether it's a canon you know and like, and spend some time matching the vibes to whatever interests you about your canon in your starter. But if what you like is just the dynamics between the specific characters and their established relationships, then no amount of vibes matching will get you there.

[(Anonymous)]

+1 to think through what does and doesn't appeal.

I tend to favor castmates in memes and I realized it's because the threads are usually deeper and more unique to the characters/show off their voices. I'm not against cross-canon, but too many of the cross-canon threads I've had end up feeling really generic and very SOL, which I'm not into. I can be into memes where people get into morals or vulnerabilities really quickly (and not just of the 'I'm unlovable tell me how hot I am' type of vulnerable) or where I can AU into someone else's canon and we can use that as a shared jumping off point to explore what's unique about that character combination. I've pulled back from meme play now that my canon is less popular, though, because I a.) don't know a lot of other canons and b.) have had people clearly not vibe with the AUing and just want to do a generic jamjar thread and not involve setting or history at all.

It can also be helpful to think out what kind of cross-canon might appeal and what might not. I don't have much interest in modern and realistic characters/fandoms, for example, whereas I can vibe with SFF, historical canons, etc.

I also find I vibe with cross-canon way more in a game where relationships can develop organically and both characters have some impetus/reason for interacting. Some kind of common ground.

[(Anonymous)]

you should probably also do other things, but definitely put an ad on emp/next month's rpa post in the "pairings you want to play" thread. i did that, figuring nobody would bite for this rare canon but i might as well, and i got a response that turned into a few memes together and then a delicious psl that's still going strong. you never know who out there might be into this canon but not actively tagging around with a muse from it; it's definitely worth putting up an ad