Does anyone have a spare brain? Mine is broked.

[dramasock]

Ok, so I know RP is all in fun. I have fun with it too. However, I have a few issues with these games I'm in...

1- Making your straight (or, at absolute most, bisexual) character full on gay. Yes, I know we've diverged from canon and, yes, I get that's what you're most comfortable playing, but it doesn't work. Especially when you basically

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Sorry for the rant

[wanderingoddity]

1. Defintely. I see this in fanfiction too, especially in my usual fandom. See icon. In canon we have five strong young men who are independant and kinda badass. In faaaar too many cases, I see them (Duo, Quatre, and Wufei especially) turned into whiny little uke fluff balls who can't do anything without their seme. And it's only in these occasions that I even use those words, because when I slash my pretty boys, I try to keep them in character, which means that they don't go belly up even when they're on their backs. When I want to read/play slash, I want to read/play romance with two men, not a man and a little girl with boy parts.

2. Don't you know that they're a special snowflake that we all must bow down to so they can see how special they are?

3. Makes you want to tell them to just start their own one-on-one game, doesn't it? I see that with castmate floods aaaall the time.

4. My only response is this: *headdesk*

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[dramasock]

I really, really want to blame all of these issues on the fact that the players in question are younger and less experienced than I am, but I think we're all about the same age and they claim to have at least a few years of experience. Maybe they were never taught the right way to do things? I don't know. I'm grasping at straws here.

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[wanderingoddity]

It's probably because they grew up with the idea that couples are man/woman (and dominant/submissive at that). So when they're experimenting writing man/man, they somehow warp one into the role of a submissive woman, even when they're male.

Whee, psychology.

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[dramasock]

It's not even the slash that bothers me. I'm fine with it. It's not my cup of tea, but whatever, ya know? It's the godmodding that irks me. And the general non-communication happening. In most games I've been in (whether I was a mod or not) the mods at least TRY to get players to talk together. Getting these people into more than a one-on-one convo is like pulling teeth!

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[wanderingoddity]

Does your game have a chat?

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[dramasock]

Nope. And when I suggest one, it's met with a lot of "meh" responses. I've given up.

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[wanderingoddity]

Bleh. Might be time to find a new game.

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[dramasock]

I'm actively looking. It's hard to find something that would be a good fit, though. My other alternative is to START a game, but I don't have the time or patience for that these days.

C'est la vie.

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[emberwing]

Personally, I'd be perhaps even more offended/annoyed if someone turns a strong female character into a whiny insecure uke.

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[wanderingoddity]

I think seme/uke are exclusively yaoi terms (could be wrong though), but I get what you're saying. And frankly, I've seen plenty of that too. Saw it all the time when I was still into Inuyasha (manga, not the anime, biiiig differences). Canon Kagome: little wussy in the beginning, but that's excusable. She learns. And if someone was trying to abuse her, she's purify their ass. 'Uke' fandom Kagome: *cry cry run away from the battle against Naraku and the fox child she's raising because Inuyasha's being a meany, and directly into some other guy's arms because she needs a Man to guide her. But in this particular rant, I wasn't even looking to be offended, though there's plenty of room for that too.

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[emberwing]

I've first run into seme/uke in martial arts years and years ago (judo, I think, although it's been used in various karate branches and aikido as well), where they refer to the one performing the maneuver and the one receiving it. A throw, kick, punch, etc.

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[wanderingoddity]

Oh, that part I know. But I've never seen it presented as coupling terms other than with yaoi. Because by that definition, every straight woman is an uke because of the mechanics of hetero sex.

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[emberwing]

I know very little of yaoi, but I've thought uke is more than just a sexual position, more like the submissive partner. And no, every straight woman doesn't have to be uke even by that definition ^^.