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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[lodo_bear]

1 and 2 are common occurrences wherever you go. Everyone wants to be special, and everyone is screwed up with regards to sexuality. Your brain is not broken, but you haven't got the power to fix theirs.

Regarding 3: alas, cliques. They form wherever you go, too, in or out of RP. Be frank with them and inform them that it's nice to share.

As for 4... I have no idea.

[dramasock]

All I want, really, is a good game. A game where people are polite, where the players actually follow the rules and don't godmod, and where people play their characters with the same authenticity I try to give mine. Is that so much to ask?

[emberwing]

Pet peeve of mine: 1- sexuality is far more complex issue than that. It's not nailed down, nor is it that easy to define. Sometimes people live in perfectly heterosexual relationship all their lives, raise their kids and all, and then go "full on gay". Sometimes people can claim to be all three labels (gay, straight, bi) at different times of their lives. Sometimes they go back and forth. Sometimes people know from very young age what their sexuality is and they never change that. And yet, sometimes it works exactly like that.

(Whether or not a canon-based game should have characters stick to their canon-showed sexuality is a whole another matter, and up to the individual games as far as I'm concerned.)

The rest of it, canon character acting very much OOC, yeah, that's more bad RPing.

[dramasock]

1- I am in no way a homophobe, it just irritates the piss out of me when people take characters that, according to the source material, are strong, opinionated, young men who obviously prefer women and twist and bend them into becoming pissy little bitches who are more like insecure, pre-teen girls than like a young adult, and love the ween. In an on-going series, despite the game's canon-divergence, anything revealed about the character in the source material needs to be incorporated into your portrayal, and that isn't happening here. Not just in that one character, but in quite a few of them, just especially in that young male character and his "sugar daddy". I try not to hate on slashers. Hell, I used to play slash almost exclusively. But it's this tendency that makes me gnash my teeth and pull my hair, mostly because other than two or three cases, everyone else in the game is expected to keep their characters IC.

[emberwing]

There's two completely separate issues. One, changes of personality. From strong and opinionated to insecure and whiny. I'm not that much in (rp or fanfiction) fandoms, but I'd think the point of playing and writing about those characters is to keep them recognizable to their canon counterparts. Even if there are some changes (for AU) or developments, the character still should be easily identified as the original. So yeah, this is a big suck.

And second. Change of sexuality doesn't mean changes to personality. And saying "he's shown as straight in canon, it doesn't work that he'd become gay" is rather offensive and oblivious to the way sexuality does work. People, real people, have thought themselves to be straight, lived a straight life and later discovered themselves to be gay. Not bi, but gay. No suck here

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*

Re: Sorry for the rant

[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.

Re: Sorry for the rant

[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.

Re: Sorry for the rant

[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!