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[(Anonymous)]

be honest. how many of you rp for fandom, how many of you rp because you like writing, and how many of you rp for the smut?

I was thinking about this because of different writing styles/complaints. like I'm here because I like writing, so I don't understand fandom wank or the obsession with memes or that kind of thing, but my jimmies are rustled if someone's characterization is inconsistent or they give me ecats tags that I can't respond to.

sa

[(Anonymous)]

...okay so maybe "like writing" is a weird way to put it. I like telling stories with people. rp is like a really elaborate game of d&d to me and that's what I enjoy about it.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

this is what i prefer too

but most people aren't good enough writers for my standards so we just write smut together instead

[(Anonymous)]

Writing and telling stories, though those do include smut.

Sometimes I will write smut for the sake of smut, as something purely self indulgent, but even it's all about the writing for me. So ecats style tags basically kill threads for me.

[(Anonymous)]

All three.

But if I had to rank order of importance, it'd be writing, then smut, then fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

all three, and fandom takes first place by a nose. i don't squee about trash waifus all day (most fandoms are a clusterfuck of second hand embarrassment for me), but i do get a warm fuzzy from imagining my fav characters doing all the cute and fun and funny stuff you guys write. that's still my fav part of this crap.

sa

[(Anonymous)]

ok, unless it's that [gun] vague shit style of rp. i don't want to write your tags for you in my head.

[(Anonymous)]

all three, but i guess fandom would win out in the end. i don't write or read fic and i don't spend much time on tumblr, so this is where i come to get my fill for writing urges, pairings, and dumb aus.

[(Anonymous)]

writing and fandom. it's a coin flip as to what's winning out on any given day.

[(Anonymous)]

i rp for the fandom/social aspect of it. my favorite thing is meeting new people, talking about our characters and fandoms, sharing other fandoms with each other, gaining friends, stuff like that

i do like actually rping most of the time. sometimes it feels like a chore, especially when it comes to keeping up with a fast game or even finding a fitting game in the first place, but i've had good times. i like psls and ground museboxes, but most people don't take those very seriously. they end up dropped quickly and it's a bummer

i am so fucking bored of smut that i drop smut threads. i know it's a bad habit but i can not get excited for them, and that's the only way i can get some people to play with me. i have to dangle a sex carrot in front of their face, because if we try to do a gen thread, they drop it. there can be fires, zombies, jello floods, bank robberies, money raining from the sky, rabid kittens with laser vision, and everything in between in a thread, and they're still not "hooked" because guys fucking is all they're here for. yeah, i a little mad

the shitty thing is, i love playing out ships. i like rping the buildup and ust, i like playing them getting comfortable with each other, having normal little couple spats, breaking up and then realizing how much they actually do care for and miss the other person, general lovey-dovey casual every day trash, after-sex hanging out. but that's the hardest fucking thing to find. all of my partners seem to be really smut-focused. fuck all other relationship development and interaction, it's all smut all the time. because of that, i'm 110% burned out. i dread smut threads to the point where now i only want ftb, and i won't consider joining any sex games

[(Anonymous)]

you sound burned out and like you're only in it for the social aspect and little else.

are you one of those players who promises to do a thread and then never delivers? honest question because i have some people on my plurk who obviously love the social side of rp but they rarely tag consistently and i wonder if they enjoy rping anymore and are just denying their level of burnout.

i feel you on the smut burnout though. more interested in exploring other aspects of a relationship. in the same boat, basically.

[(Anonymous)]

idgaf about rp for anything except smut anymore tbh

[(Anonymous)]

then maybe stop shitting up dw and go back to lj or something? also i'm sure you could log into wow and find plenty of cyber sluts waiting at the crossroads for you. it would be faster.

[(Anonymous)]

both?

i like to write and i like smut, idk. smut is most of what i rp anyway. although like you i'm not a big meme person and i get annoyed by inconsistent characterization, ecats tags, etc.

sa

[(Anonymous)]

i should add, the fandom aspects aren't important to me. i mostly play from obscure fandoms no one cares about anyway. i do like the social aspects but a lot of my social time in rp is when i connect with someone over something other than fandom.

so i would say it's a combination of liking to write and liking smut. although i do like to break up the smut with some non-smut things on occasion.

[(Anonymous)]

Its honestly a mix with each taking 1/3 regarding importance.

That's not an advantage. Fandom is basically the only thing I can "ignore" ... well, I mean I don't care so much about playing against canonmates or the medium divide. But I'd also consider being IC part of the fandom portion as well as the writing one.

op

[(Anonymous)]

I thought about this for a while, and I think it's possible to distinguish different "types" of IC-ness for different player priorities

for example: it seems common for people playing in smut games/memes to be more lax about characterization than in other venues, so long as the people they're playing with hit the right kinks on their list. ymmv, there are obviously other factors at play, but from what I've observed people are willing to be more flexible with being IC when they're focused on smut

in terms of the fandom/writing split, I've noticed that people who are typically fandom-focused are more concerned with IC interpretations, i.e. "what version of this character are you playing," or "is your headcanon acceptable," which can apply to long term character development but is mostly judged on an immediate, on-app basis. for me, I'm canonblind to half of DWRP. I don't give a shit about headcanons or continuities. what I pay attention to is if the character follows what the player has already established in their app or previous, in-game developments. you're right, they do definitely overlap, but I think there are some subtle differences that can be picked apart

idk don't ask me why I find this so fucking interesting

[(Anonymous)]

Fandom and writing for me. I love the writing exchange, but I hate writing solo. I have tons of solo writing projects that will never get finished because I lost the steam power to work on them. Having a partner fill in half the story helps keep me focused and not bored. I'm also a big fan for my pet fandom. Not quite trekkie level, but somewhere in that general area.

[(Anonymous)]

this is something i find as well. writing with someone is like a weird feedback loop that keeps me going. i lose steam without it but i've enjoyed ridiculously long threads as a result of rp.

go figure.

[(Anonymous)]

this is me too. i just get bored with solo writing after a while, but writing with other people is always fun. it's just more exciting - you don't know what's going to happen next because you don't know how they're going to respond to your tag.

[(Anonymous)]

somebody else said it too but i like all three. ranking in terms of importance would be writing, smut, then fandom.

i don't care about what fandom a character is from as long as they're engaging. i love writing though.

[(Anonymous)]

as long as i have a good smut psl going, i'm in it for the writing generally, but smut is still more important and my writing is usually better in said psl

i never interact with my fandom or canonmates with any character i play, i exist solely for crosscanon goodness

if i dont have a smut psl going, i become irritable and i dont care about anything but dicks in butts

[(Anonymous)]

uuuh i rp because it fun

[(Anonymous)]

no shit sherlock

[(Anonymous)]

I'd say writing first then fandom, but sometimes I want to throw fandom out of the window because I end up playing characters I really like from what people call fujoshibait canons but I hate all the canonmates I meet who are only in it for the buttsex and gaying everyone up.

I'd take crosscanon anytime if it means getting a decent thread that doesn't sound like they expect a sudden makeout session. Though when I do find canonmates that don't do that, I usually enjoy it.

I haven't played smut in years, so can't really comment on the third one.