I'm not sure I have the motivation to do an RPG - they're more work than I thought they were (even though I saw that ]you[ (reverse brackets! Aren't I clever! Anyway...) unfriended me. *Pouts a bit* But I know - it's hard to have people on your flist who aren't active and only comment in the ooc posts. MBP was my first, and I guess I just don't know that much about celebrities (nor where to find stuff about them, without feeling like a vouyer) to effectively play a modern pop person.
My question, and I mean this entirely from a non-judgemental point of view, and strictly as a curious about sexuality in online fantasy (RPG, fan fic, RPF, etc) way (yes, in fact I should have taken more cultural studies courses in school and worked this out of my system then). You encourage people to play their characters as bi (if they want to go the slash route), so that girls have something to do, too, except in the case where the celebrity is 'out' in real life (e.g. Elton John), per the community info. I've always wondered why in so many fan writings it's accepted among most groups to take decidely straight people and put them in slash, take decidely gay people and put them in slash (which raises the age old question, if they're already gay, is it really slash?), but it usually isn't okay to take someone who is gay, and put them in a straight relationship in a fan writing.
I don't mean it as a critical thing about your group, it's something I've noticed in many fan groupings, and I've always wondered why.
When we started this new community at GJ we had some members come from MBP who had played slash and wanted to continue. So we made sure we were able to allow them to do that there too.
The community is actually far more hetro than bi or gay, surprisingly. So very different than MBP.
If I disadded you I am so sorry, it's only because I was semi leaving mbp perhaps leaving all together, but unsure, that I disadded people I thought 69 was a pretty number and yeah. hahaha
Anyway I'm not really sure why people slash, considering most people who slash are women. It's the taboo I guess.
I hope you didn't get the impression that I was saying it was bad, or wrong, to be open to slash and all (I love me some slash with breakfast!)
And no hard feelings about the disadding. Let's face it, I left a long time ago. And 69 is a pretty number.
I have (an underdeveloped) theory about why women like slash so much. Based off like four cases mind you. It's very safe. When you've got boys with boys, they've rejected you indirectly, by the nature of who they are they won't be with you, and you know this, so you never get hurt, because you never have to wonder why they don't ask you out (yes, I know 'you' in the larger second person sense here doesn't work, the guys being fictional, and the 'you' being the writer, but I think it makes some sense).
As for why it's okay to slash straight people, but not the reverse, I've heard one theory that it's harder to come out and be gay in society today, so it is almost respectful to keep them gay in fan writings. It's also possible, I suppose, that people who really hate slash and just find it horrible and squicky that men might have sex with each other may not be drawn to characters/actors who are openly gay, leaving people who are slash-gay accepting to write about them, and will generally be posting in like minded communities (read, slash communities) where they shouldn't be posting het stuff.
It's strange, and not a question I've ever asked myself. I can say I have felt disappointment when someone has come along that I have been waiting a long while to see portrayed, only to find they are gay and chasing someone who they wouldn't even know. But then some of the best couples at mbp have been gay pairings of hetro males and I really don't have a problem with that.
Playing a male, it gives you a different look on life. It makes you wear the pants and try to think like a male. Often people have no clue and some just amaze me.
I feel really bad at not knowing who you play/played. Mostly because I hated OOC so much that I really avoided it and the few people who managed to get me to talk to them OOC and reveal my journal were so few and far between. I don't actually remember a time I didn't have you added, so I feel like a total ass for saying that.
The reason I role play, is that I love to write. I'm not heavy on research and yes that offends some people, because they expect you to follow the character around, knowing where, what etc that they are doing. I base my entries on feelings. I role play and then take the feelings and thoughts and translate them to words. Sometimes I do that successfully and sometimes not. But everyone is different, and it's their choice.
I think when someone comes out as being gay it's because it is far too obvious that they are gay. It would be hard to play them straight.
My question, and I mean this entirely from a non-judgemental point of view, and strictly as a curious about sexuality in online fantasy (RPG, fan fic, RPF, etc) way (yes, in fact I should have taken more cultural studies courses in school and worked this out of my system then). You encourage people to play their characters as bi (if they want to go the slash route), so that girls have something to do, too, except in the case where the celebrity is 'out' in real life (e.g. Elton John), per the community info. I've always wondered why in so many fan writings it's accepted among most groups to take decidely straight people and put them in slash, take decidely gay people and put them in slash (which raises the age old question, if they're already gay, is it really slash?), but it usually isn't okay to take someone who is gay, and put them in a straight relationship in a fan writing.
I don't mean it as a critical thing about your group, it's something I've noticed in many fan groupings, and I've always wondered why.
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When we started this new community at GJ we had some members come from MBP who had played slash and wanted to continue. So we made sure we were able to allow them to do that there too.
The community is actually far more hetro than bi or gay, surprisingly. So very different than MBP.
If I disadded you I am so sorry, it's only because I was semi leaving mbp perhaps leaving all together, but unsure, that I disadded people I thought 69 was a pretty number and yeah. hahaha
Anyway I'm not really sure why people slash, considering most people who slash are women. It's the taboo I guess.
I don't really know why.
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And no hard feelings about the disadding. Let's face it, I left a long time ago. And 69 is a pretty number.
I have (an underdeveloped) theory about why women like slash so much. Based off like four cases mind you. It's very safe. When you've got boys with boys, they've rejected you indirectly, by the nature of who they are they won't be with you, and you know this, so you never get hurt, because you never have to wonder why they don't ask you out (yes, I know 'you' in the larger second person sense here doesn't work, the guys being fictional, and the 'you' being the writer, but I think it makes some sense).
As for why it's okay to slash straight people, but not the reverse, I've heard one theory that it's harder to come out and be gay in society today, so it is almost respectful to keep them gay in fan writings. It's also possible, I suppose, that people who really hate slash and just find it horrible and squicky that men might have sex with each other may not be drawn to characters/actors who are openly gay, leaving people who are slash-gay accepting to write about them, and will generally be posting in like minded communities (read, slash communities) where they shouldn't be posting het stuff.
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Playing a male, it gives you a different look on life. It makes you wear the pants and try to think like a male. Often people have no clue and some just amaze me.
I feel really bad at not knowing who you play/played. Mostly because I hated OOC so much that I really avoided it and the few people who managed to get me to talk to them OOC and reveal my journal were so few and far between. I don't actually remember a time I didn't have you added, so I feel like a total ass for saying that.
The reason I role play, is that I love to write. I'm not heavy on research and yes that offends some people, because they expect you to follow the character around, knowing where, what etc that they are doing. I base my entries on feelings. I role play and then take the feelings and thoughts and translate them to words. Sometimes I do that successfully and sometimes not. But everyone is different, and it's their choice.
I think when someone comes out as being gay it's because it is far too obvious that they are gay. It would be hard to play them straight.
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