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239: how does one become popular on dreamwidth rp?

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But by design OCs don't have canonmates. So asking if other iterations of greek gods is okay makes sense to me, especially when there would be medium divide. Xena and Hercules are both media canons, so it would be more clear. The confusion starts with the OC saying canonmates preferred.

Honestly I'd probably laugh if it happened to me and do that thread, it sounds like fun cr

yeah

but theyre their own canons. they are not castmates with random lapb ocs any more than those canons are affiliated with each other

id just assume an oc asking for "castmates only" would be looking for other ocs

you could ask them, sure, and thats probably more productive than dragging it here. but i think its pretty dumb to just assume every single "inspired by greek mythology" or whatever series is the same canon and theyre all castmates with each other. you wouldnt do it with canon characters, so i dont understand why you would do it with ocs when the simplest explanation is just that they mean "other lapb mythology ocs" and the canon is the mythology itself, rather than other established properties

Then two say, Hades greek myth pb OCs would be from separate "canons"? How do the OCs traverse these waters? What if the original "canonmates only" Hades OC doesn't like your Persephone OC? Is she suddenly no longer his "canonmate" because she's not the Persephone OC they imagine in their "canon"? Where does it end?

"Then two say, Hades greek myth pb OCs would be from separate "canons"?"

what the fuck is this take? are two mcu iron mans from separate canons? no? then no, theyre not

"What if the original "canonmates only" Hades OC doesn't like your Persephone OC?"

so then they dont tag me back

maybe even ask me to not tag them anymore because its not fun for them

just like with canon players

what is it with you idiots treating oc players like theyre a separate subspecies of human lmfao. the canon is playing straight from myths instead of an adaptation, its really not hard to understand

idk it makes sense to me when you're playing from a mythology rather than just rando OC from your super special world in your brain. maybe "canonmates" is not the best word but I don't know if we really have a concise alternative for this. I mean I would even argue that playing a greek god based on mythology isn't even technically an OC, but we also don't really have a word for "legendary character not tied to a specific canon interpretation."

*also noting I don't know if the person being talked about here is playing a greek god but the talk of hercules up thread influenced me haha

One person might write their Hades completely differently than another Hades, because they have no true canon backing to follow besides some vague stories about some dudes. To me two Hades OCs would be from ""different canons"" because they can be played that much differently. If you're both playing Iron Man you have to follow what Iron Man does and keep him IC, the OC players don't have guidelines like that. So yeah, they would be separate "canons" to me.

yeah, and this also happens with canon characters

it doesnt mean youre suddenly not playing from the same canon

it just means you dont like how one person writes a character

did you guys forget that mythology is its own canon with a baked-in setting and stories and rules or something? that people arent just making hercules up in their heads just because they dont use icons from disney? that thats basically where we got the term canon in the first fucking place?

Everyone in this thread is either being deliberately obtuse or they need help

this just in, there's no true canon backing unless you're writing something from pop culture made in 1990 or later, everything else is some vague shit.

Pretty much. Hades Hades and Disney Hades are wildly different from each other and let's say, DC Hades. Iron Man is usually fairly consistent outside of some really wild outliers nobody plays from or likes.

ya'll really taking this bait lmao

i still dont care lmao

what if you just fucking asked if they were interested in a Disney Hades

Why do we keep dragging people here for stating preferences in a way that we don't like

that was always allowed, debbie

im just stating that the way the player communicated this was fine because we dont have language to convey "legendary mythological character with no preexisting canon affiliation" and anons are being idiots about not understand that when they say "castmates only" they mean "other legendary mythological characters from this mythology with no preexisting canon affiliation"

"myth ocs preferred"

Who the fuck cares stop shitting up flat flatview with this inane garbage. We get it you're desperate to argue. Go do your tags or something ffs

sure

its still not difficult to understand what they wanted, though

"nO sTOp NoT My fLAtViEW" shut the fuck up whiner lmfao

better idea, stop flatviewing and rolling in all of wankgate's shit. why the fuck would anyone want to, the only thing youre missing on average is that magpie in kytantu, a game that's going to be closed by september, dropped tags a few times and is a ~*~flake~*~ in terms of wank.

Discuss something worthwhile and learn new memes, boomer.

Maybe I'm just old, but this doesn't feel like shitting up flatview since it's not an all consuming maw that renders flatview unusable for pages upon pages

still boring tho

if this bothers you just block their journal so you don't have to see their comments, mythology ocs are all shit anyway

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