Look at Netflix and watch something (I'm watching 30 Rock and Clone Wars currently), browse tumblr ad nauseam, draw stuff, play video games like Nuclear Throne, etc. There's a whole bunch of things to do when you're bored, the sky's the limit, friend.
i happen to live where gays are the ones in control. hetereos are actually few here. you get shamed at school for not even dating the same sex at least once, and online it's even worse. as soon as everyone figures out your cis, BOOM, right away they want massacre you.
when you're playing a kind, compassionate, warm character and you start being able to tell that someone is just using them as a disposable crying shoulder.
can't wait to develop this character to the point where they'll realize when other characters are using them this way and draw away from the cr.
Obviously it's bad form to app into the same cast as someone that dislikes you and vice versa, but what about in the case of a character that would make you semi-castmates? I'm thinking about instances like one person playing from MCU and the other playing from the X-Men films. Or one person playing from FF7 and the other playing from FF13. You're not actually castmates and your characters can completely ignore each other without causing IC issues but there's an OOC expectation/'tradition' of these casts having interlocking CR circles.
In this particular case we'd be the only characters from either cast but what do you think? Worth the potential headache and drama or not?
I caught a later-deleted plurk where OP was not only whining about his "amazing" top-level was being ignored, but also taking note of his CR doing their tags for him later than others or last and whining about that.
so some people invited me to join their psl, and i did. it seemed like they had a lot of stuff already planned so i tried to work my character around theirs rather than insert them into the plots that were already running and let them know that if they felt my character should sit out or that i was messing up previously agreed upon plots that they could tell me and i'd sit out or play around the plot rather than trying to be a part of it. everything seemed cool to me, and they knew i was good for my word, because they asked me to sit one out because it was supposed to be a plot just for the characters originally involved in the psl, as there were two or three characters that weren't the 'main' characters of the psl. i was fine with it and didn't show my ass or anything (i'd understand what eventually happened if i had.) and just went about playing in personal plots with each of the characters.
eventually they all just decided to drop the whole thing without really telling anybody. it sucked, but whatever. i fell off of the rp bandwagon at that point but most of us were still on speaking terms. talking every day speaking terms.
so it kind of sucked to find them rping in a new space with new accounts, the same psl, just without me.
and it kind of crosses my mind that i have had things like this happen before? so i'm really wondering if i'm the shit caliber person in all of these situations rather than everyone else, but the fact that i try so hard not to be annoying, pushy, or even overbearing to the point where i let them dictate the depth of my interactions in the psl makes me wonder what more people could want. it isn't like i wasn't having fun even though i was walking on eggshells to make sure they were okay with my inclusion, and they were always saying how much fun they had playing with me (without me prompting it, i never asked for reassurance and never felt like i needed it because they were always talking about how much fun we had together on their own).
mostly i'm sore that they don't seem to think i'm adult enough to handle being told that they don't want me involved anymore.
That was really shitty of them, I'm sorry anon. Tbh based on what you've described and not knowing their side of it, you sound like the only adult in this situation. They should have been honest about not wanting to play with you, especially if they knew you could find out how they continued the PSL while just excluding you. Personally, lying (or lying by omission) always hurts me more than being told someone doesn't want to tag me anymore.
On the other hand, it may be possible that they lost interest in including you because you were so cautious about your involvement. Maybe they took it as a lack of enthusiasm on your part when you didn't try and jump into their plots.
"the creepy f/f players who keep trying to smut or drop ships on me without warning
i even put down m/f only but that proved futile when i was still getting pms from them going 'i know you said m/f only BUT MAYBEEEEE YOU COULD DO THIS ONE TIME AS A EXCEPTIONNNN I HAVE AN IDEAAAAAAA'"
not that op, but i've put f/m as a female character on a meme and had a female char tag me. i just didn't reply and didn't get a pm from them, but i have seen a few of what op described as well as just asking to play and not even mentioning preferences and the other party going 'well, i put m/f, but...'
so yeah, it does. it's not all over the place and not all the time, but since i myself have experienced it and i've seen it happening on bs, yeah, it happens.
being told in countless plurks and being generally harassed to tag a thread when you've set the expectation that you'll be busy... and then when you actually tag it, they disappear as if they weren't begging only a few days ago ???
Maybe I'm just a tittybaby or something, but I wish people would stop just slapping PTSD on characters they play without actually looking into PTSD and seeing if they match at least a portion of the symptoms. I play characters that don't have it and some that do, even if they all have trauma. Or if they do slap PTSD on their character journal, at least give it more than "they have a bad dream sometimes", or whatever little thing they decide to do with it that they rarely ever do. Trauma in life =/= PTSD. PTSD is a result of trauma, but it's not guaranteed with horrible shit in life. And it really fucks people up. I've been in a lot of car accidents. I don't have PTSD from it. I know someone who does from their own. I know I'm not some PTSD EXPERT and I don't think people have to be, it just chafes my booty a little bit to throw it around like a casual description instead of an actual disorder.
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