(Anonymous) 2024-06-10 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
it's the only valid logic i can use, because i've come across a lot of people that will plurk and discord and giggle over what X and Y will do and tee hee, they'll do this and X'll be so mad and Y will have to do this to make it up and (extensive scenario that needs to be played to the letter otherwise conniptions happen) and yet when it comes time to playing it, i'm either nudging them asking for a starter and being told soon soon soon, or i take the initiative, write a starter, and get the same soon soon soon on a reply until a new brain worm hits them and omg you know what would be amazing? if Y did this and X lost their shit. cue another scenario they're probably going to sleep thinking about until it loses all appeal to them to play out.

i want these people to get off the site designed for roleplaying and to go to ao3 or open up a word document and write out their dream to their heart's content. post it. get all the serotonin hits from people loving how you played X and Y and how cute/angry/angsty/hot they are together. do that. please. but for the love of all that's holy, stop dangling ideas in front of me that you have zero intention of playing, either through lack of time to follow through with because you have rl obligations that i understand, but you're still dangling at me, or because it HAS to be a certain way in your head and when i, your rp partner, play it the way i read the characters, it's like my rp dick slipped and went in the wrong hole and now it's over for you. you're turned off. you're done. you're no longer in the mood.

until a new idea tickles you and you dangle that.

i'm too old to keep playing that game. i would rather put up with mediocre tags that allow me to have a thread follow along with someone than to have the best idea put before me that i know, without fail, i'm not going to get to play. i've stopped playing with those people, because they fail to recognize that they aren't playing. they're plot whores. they get hot and wet for a good idea and they will go all in on talking about it, but as soon as it's time to play, they have a headache.

you are not my significant other. it's not cheating if i go get my rp nut somewhere else. go away.