Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2022-05-09 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Nobody cares about your character's pet.

Literally no one.

We don't want to petsit for your character. We don't want to plot around meet cutes at the dog park.

You are the only one who cares about your character's pets. Shut up about them.

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2022-05-09 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
i have, inexplicably, been live witness to some people caring about someone else's character's pet

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2022-05-09 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
i care. sorry your characters have no pets
you animal hater

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2022-05-09 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
correction: people will care about this character's pet very much when they need a quick and easy way to pass ac

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2022-05-09 09:46 am (UTC)(link)
I care. Dogs are actually a good CR hook! Sorry you hate it

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2022-05-09 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
dogs suck actually

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2022-05-09 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
do you like cat?

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2022-05-09 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
are you literally satan

asking for a friend

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2022-05-10 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
a cat wrote this

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2022-05-09 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
in real life too
OP clearly has never walked a pretty dog in a public space

+1

(Anonymous) 2022-05-09 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
it's canon that my character loves dogs, walking a dog is a great way to have my character want to talk to yours

+1

(Anonymous) 2022-05-09 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
i love pet threads tbh. i think as long as the player is astute enough and avoids them taking over the entire thread, it's fine, and is indeed a good CR hook. the trick is that it leads to a hook with the character, not the pet, which again is a nuance some people tend to miss.

Re: +1

(Anonymous) 2022-05-10 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
the trick is that it leads to a hook with the character, not the pet,

unfortunately this describes way too many animal threads i've seen. so many bad rpers use cute animals as a crutch that i avoid them unless i already have cr with a character.

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2022-05-09 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
You sound like so much fun to be in a game with

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2022-05-09 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
If you're the kind of person who wants to rp slice of life bullshit with your character's pet, I guarantee we have never finished a thread.

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2022-05-09 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
good bc i bet your tags suck

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2022-05-09 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I can get not wanting to play a whole thread cooing over dogs, but it really is a convenient cr starter. Some characters who wouldn't bother approaching others out of the blue might be more inclined if they want to pet the dog or if the dog steals something of theirs or even if they're there to tell the owner to piss off because nobody cares about their pets.

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2022-05-10 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a great way for CR good or bad! "Hey! Your dog pissed on my rose bush! Stop letting it do that!"