RANT: Snobby roleplayers that play canons, or other's OCs...
5 years ago
You people ain't shit. Seriously.
Point of order: You ain't shit just because you A.) play a canon that has an entire internet full of character art for your gallery. B.) Play someone elses OC.
You want to act like you're a 7 out of 10, and how dare somebody that you view is a 1-5 even LOOK in your direction, much less cordially try and speak to you despite the, "vast differences," in your profiles?
You ain't shit.
Okay, here's where you rank.
At the top of this ridiculous vanity scale, we have:
Original Characters, whom have their own original art. They even drew it, perhaps even had it gifted to them because people liked their character or them as a player so much. They have filled out profiles that say exactly what they need to to paint a good picture of the character, what they're about and the stories they want to share with other people. They have custom kinks that describe and clarify, saving readers of the profile hours of conversation. They have inlines of their own art and graphics, they have dropdowns, they have their own EICONS and clean use of justification on the text in their bios.
Original Characters whom only have art they commissioned of their OC, and beautiful profiles. Maybe gifts and freebies. Still well written, still got icons. Still got graphics. etc. Only difference is their OC isn't self-drawn.
Canon characters, who wrote every piece of their profile, instead of copy&pasting it from elsewhere. They DREW THEIR OWN character art for their CANON character, like Lobo, or Superman, or etc. They have an engaging sense of the character and can play in both AUs for crossovers and straight canon as if they were writing an issue.
Original Characters, without art. They lack art that they've drawn, they lack art that other artists have gifted them, they lack art they've commissioned. They still have a great profile, just a lack of visuals. Because no art for their character exists in the universe, and won't, until they get commissions, gift art, or find an artist offering freebies.
Canon Characters and their players; Only have art from artists that drew the canon from across the internet.
Yes, you are down here. The best of you are still forth place. So you play Raven of Teen Titans, or Twilight Sparkle, or Superman. Your profile could be the equal of the first guy, and you will always be second banana to them.
Because it's not your character. By default, you are leaning on someone elses reputation and recognition and characterization and franchise.
You think your profile looks fuckin' swank, and that having all that art, available graphics, fodder for eicons, means you're somehow a better roleplayer? No. Haha, hell no.
You're nothing without your stolen art and eicons, and you know it. Which is why you play canons, you Limosine chasing hack. You depend on that name recognition and cultural penetration and free publicity of characters people are already familiar with, already have interpersonal relationships, already have franchise, in order to have what you make already endeared to people.
This means under no circumstances do you have the right to peacock or strut over someone that actually has a character they invented, put thought into and wrote. You don't have that. You're using a loaner. Without permission to use it.
You could have everything that the guy at the top has and you'd still be a wanna-be, poser, hack. Because divorced from your precious canons, you'd just be that which you despise. Someone with, "a lackluster profile. Not even any profile pics! Not even REFERENCE pictures!"
Original Characters with lackluster profiles come next.
Then Original Characters with minimalist profiles.
Then Canon Characters with lackluster profiles and few good pieces of character art.
Then Canon Characters with minimal profile information and no art. They couldn't even fulfill the bare minimum and they had a dearth of opportunity to do so.
That's right. When it comes to crumb spitting losers with telltale, no talent, no effort profiles that no one wants to play with, your 'im mewtwo lol' profile ranks beneath fucking Sonichu. A bare Sonichu profile with no art vs. a bare Red Ranger profile, the Sonichu is still gonna get it over you.
You want to pull 'rank,' and act cocky and entitled, as if someone is committing a big social faux pas by daring to contact you without character art, or animated .gifs, or that having these things somehow makes you a better roleplayer than a person without these things? Then know your place, bitch. Out of 8 places in the hierarchy, you can hope at best to rank 4th. That is the greatest height of, "great profile, great roleplayer," that you can achieve. And you have no rights copping attitude at anyone above you.
And for that matter, no one should be, "pulling rank" over anyone else. You claiming your profile is SooOOoO Much More Gooder, sO MuCh mOrE EfFoRt PuT iN, is defeated by the fact most of the work was done for you. Some of you dumb motherfuckers had the audacity to even cut&paste shit from wikis and quotes from existing properties, and you act like that stuff being good reflects on you as a roleplayer.
You didn't write that shit. You didn't draw that shit.
Media that already pre-existed says absolutely nothing about your skills as a typist, roleplayer, or profile constructor. You were literally handed premium grade building materials that refresh and update every year. It's not hard to attract roleplayers when you can just browse and get ten different obscure niche fetish pictures. It doesn't give you the right to disparage artless OCs as thoughtless or uninspired.
So. What brought all this on?
Some bitch with a pretty profile and a completely asinine sense of self-worth took me messaging them with a polite greeting as, "entitlement." Informed me they weren't interested, which I said, "Alright," to. That was fine. Saying hello and getting shot down because they didn't like the contents of your profile is fine. Perfectly natural, nothing to fret about.
However, this person wasn't content at just going our separate ways, they made a snide comment about how I, "clearly didn't bother to READ their profile, else they'd know I committed a faux pas just saying hello."
So I read their profile (Again, cannot link it, would not like it either. Terms of Service. No shaming and naming individuals, etc.) And the only faux pas I could've possibly committed was violating their, "Don't even bother messaging me unless you're making a roleplay pitch and possibly contacting me IC."
So I explained: "Yes, people that play characters designed to be approached would say that such a thing is preferable, because they don't spend all their time looking for roleplay approaching other people. They rely on people coming to them and asking. And naturally, they don't want to interact with or acknowledge some people, because being approached and talking about propositioned RP that doesn't pan out feels like a waste of their time. But those people that just sit there and let the RP come to them tend to also be blind as to how frustrating it is to approach people for roleplay, only to have them judge your profile as insufficient due to being an OC, disregard your worth as a typist or roleplayer because of it, and then simply ghost you.
What is, "Ghosting?" Ghosting is when you adopt Schroedinger's Presence At the Keyboard. Many enterprising women use Schroedinger's Presence At the Keyboard to both be there and capable of reading the proposition or greeting and/or the persons profile. If they like it, they're there, they can respond, they MIGHT do you the 'honor' of bothering to click your profile and read about your character before politely telling you yes or no, that you're compatible, lets discuss possible RP.
If they don't like you, they reserve the right to, "not be at the keyboard," or, "just didn't want to talk to you." With the added bonus of making prospective partners waste their time on the approach. You being forced to sit there in limbo, waiting, hoping that they bother to grace you with a definitive yes or no for 10 minutes, 30 minutes, maybe 6 hours to never, just waiting to see if they'll respond. Since god forbid they apologize for missing your messages and getting back to you.
Ghosting is the option you use when you're a spoiled, privileged brat with an abundance of options and you wouldn't feel bad losing a few of them.
So I explained, "I like to message prospective partners with an informal greeting first, rather than just drop down an IC post or put big effort into a roleplay proposition before I even know the persons at the keyboard or conveniently missing." Because, y'see, I know many people like to sit there and sift through propositions based by how much effort the other person is willing to put into it to "stand out" from their peers.
However, if you respected me, you'd understand giving you the power to make me exert extrenuous effort AS WELL as potential to waste my time waiting for a response you may or may not feel obliged to even give me, is giving you too much power. It is YOU that are entitled for thinking someone is supposed to do a mating dance outside of your duckblinded cave and let you choose whether or not you will even give the in-process dance an audience, whether or not you're even there. Like we're just supposed to dance for you without even knowing if you can see it, or whether we have to repeat it. Like you're entitled to leave us hanging with no resolution.
So she called me an entitled shit and hit ignore.
Not gonna lie. Had half a mind to contact the artist, inform them someone was using art of their art OC and see if that'd get them to buzz F-list and get them to DNP art by the artist. See how that asshole likes their profile gallery and their character icons becoming Do Not Post. But, I didn't. Because I'm not a complete dick.
But, for real: You phony asses that think you're hot because all your characters were made by someone else, and all your art came from e621, deviantart or fandom sites? You ain't shit. Thinking you can judge the worth of a roleplay partner by the organization of their profile and the number of pieces of character art they have.
Entitled. Fuck you. I expect a minimum of civility and etiquette. And if you expect attention and proposition, I expect you to be courteous enough to know the difference between a, "hi," that is simply begging you to respond, and a "Hello there. You busy?" I'm not going to propose to the wind and hope a ghost is listening, and if you respected people propositioning you, you'd respect that.
Point of order: You ain't shit just because you A.) play a canon that has an entire internet full of character art for your gallery. B.) Play someone elses OC.
You want to act like you're a 7 out of 10, and how dare somebody that you view is a 1-5 even LOOK in your direction, much less cordially try and speak to you despite the, "vast differences," in your profiles?
You ain't shit.
Okay, here's where you rank.
At the top of this ridiculous vanity scale, we have:
Original Characters, whom have their own original art. They even drew it, perhaps even had it gifted to them because people liked their character or them as a player so much. They have filled out profiles that say exactly what they need to to paint a good picture of the character, what they're about and the stories they want to share with other people. They have custom kinks that describe and clarify, saving readers of the profile hours of conversation. They have inlines of their own art and graphics, they have dropdowns, they have their own EICONS and clean use of justification on the text in their bios.
Original Characters whom only have art they commissioned of their OC, and beautiful profiles. Maybe gifts and freebies. Still well written, still got icons. Still got graphics. etc. Only difference is their OC isn't self-drawn.
Canon characters, who wrote every piece of their profile, instead of copy&pasting it from elsewhere. They DREW THEIR OWN character art for their CANON character, like Lobo, or Superman, or etc. They have an engaging sense of the character and can play in both AUs for crossovers and straight canon as if they were writing an issue.
Original Characters, without art. They lack art that they've drawn, they lack art that other artists have gifted them, they lack art they've commissioned. They still have a great profile, just a lack of visuals. Because no art for their character exists in the universe, and won't, until they get commissions, gift art, or find an artist offering freebies.
Canon Characters and their players; Only have art from artists that drew the canon from across the internet.
Yes, you are down here. The best of you are still forth place. So you play Raven of Teen Titans, or Twilight Sparkle, or Superman. Your profile could be the equal of the first guy, and you will always be second banana to them.
Because it's not your character. By default, you are leaning on someone elses reputation and recognition and characterization and franchise.
You think your profile looks fuckin' swank, and that having all that art, available graphics, fodder for eicons, means you're somehow a better roleplayer? No. Haha, hell no.
You're nothing without your stolen art and eicons, and you know it. Which is why you play canons, you Limosine chasing hack. You depend on that name recognition and cultural penetration and free publicity of characters people are already familiar with, already have interpersonal relationships, already have franchise, in order to have what you make already endeared to people.
This means under no circumstances do you have the right to peacock or strut over someone that actually has a character they invented, put thought into and wrote. You don't have that. You're using a loaner. Without permission to use it.
You could have everything that the guy at the top has and you'd still be a wanna-be, poser, hack. Because divorced from your precious canons, you'd just be that which you despise. Someone with, "a lackluster profile. Not even any profile pics! Not even REFERENCE pictures!"
Original Characters with lackluster profiles come next.
Then Original Characters with minimalist profiles.
Then Canon Characters with lackluster profiles and few good pieces of character art.
Then Canon Characters with minimal profile information and no art. They couldn't even fulfill the bare minimum and they had a dearth of opportunity to do so.
That's right. When it comes to crumb spitting losers with telltale, no talent, no effort profiles that no one wants to play with, your 'im mewtwo lol' profile ranks beneath fucking Sonichu. A bare Sonichu profile with no art vs. a bare Red Ranger profile, the Sonichu is still gonna get it over you.
You want to pull 'rank,' and act cocky and entitled, as if someone is committing a big social faux pas by daring to contact you without character art, or animated .gifs, or that having these things somehow makes you a better roleplayer than a person without these things? Then know your place, bitch. Out of 8 places in the hierarchy, you can hope at best to rank 4th. That is the greatest height of, "great profile, great roleplayer," that you can achieve. And you have no rights copping attitude at anyone above you.
And for that matter, no one should be, "pulling rank" over anyone else. You claiming your profile is SooOOoO Much More Gooder, sO MuCh mOrE EfFoRt PuT iN, is defeated by the fact most of the work was done for you. Some of you dumb motherfuckers had the audacity to even cut&paste shit from wikis and quotes from existing properties, and you act like that stuff being good reflects on you as a roleplayer.
You didn't write that shit. You didn't draw that shit.
Media that already pre-existed says absolutely nothing about your skills as a typist, roleplayer, or profile constructor. You were literally handed premium grade building materials that refresh and update every year. It's not hard to attract roleplayers when you can just browse and get ten different obscure niche fetish pictures. It doesn't give you the right to disparage artless OCs as thoughtless or uninspired.
So. What brought all this on?
Some bitch with a pretty profile and a completely asinine sense of self-worth took me messaging them with a polite greeting as, "entitlement." Informed me they weren't interested, which I said, "Alright," to. That was fine. Saying hello and getting shot down because they didn't like the contents of your profile is fine. Perfectly natural, nothing to fret about.
However, this person wasn't content at just going our separate ways, they made a snide comment about how I, "clearly didn't bother to READ their profile, else they'd know I committed a faux pas just saying hello."
So I read their profile (Again, cannot link it, would not like it either. Terms of Service. No shaming and naming individuals, etc.) And the only faux pas I could've possibly committed was violating their, "Don't even bother messaging me unless you're making a roleplay pitch and possibly contacting me IC."
So I explained: "Yes, people that play characters designed to be approached would say that such a thing is preferable, because they don't spend all their time looking for roleplay approaching other people. They rely on people coming to them and asking. And naturally, they don't want to interact with or acknowledge some people, because being approached and talking about propositioned RP that doesn't pan out feels like a waste of their time. But those people that just sit there and let the RP come to them tend to also be blind as to how frustrating it is to approach people for roleplay, only to have them judge your profile as insufficient due to being an OC, disregard your worth as a typist or roleplayer because of it, and then simply ghost you.
What is, "Ghosting?" Ghosting is when you adopt Schroedinger's Presence At the Keyboard. Many enterprising women use Schroedinger's Presence At the Keyboard to both be there and capable of reading the proposition or greeting and/or the persons profile. If they like it, they're there, they can respond, they MIGHT do you the 'honor' of bothering to click your profile and read about your character before politely telling you yes or no, that you're compatible, lets discuss possible RP.
If they don't like you, they reserve the right to, "not be at the keyboard," or, "just didn't want to talk to you." With the added bonus of making prospective partners waste their time on the approach. You being forced to sit there in limbo, waiting, hoping that they bother to grace you with a definitive yes or no for 10 minutes, 30 minutes, maybe 6 hours to never, just waiting to see if they'll respond. Since god forbid they apologize for missing your messages and getting back to you.
Ghosting is the option you use when you're a spoiled, privileged brat with an abundance of options and you wouldn't feel bad losing a few of them.
So I explained, "I like to message prospective partners with an informal greeting first, rather than just drop down an IC post or put big effort into a roleplay proposition before I even know the persons at the keyboard or conveniently missing." Because, y'see, I know many people like to sit there and sift through propositions based by how much effort the other person is willing to put into it to "stand out" from their peers.
However, if you respected me, you'd understand giving you the power to make me exert extrenuous effort AS WELL as potential to waste my time waiting for a response you may or may not feel obliged to even give me, is giving you too much power. It is YOU that are entitled for thinking someone is supposed to do a mating dance outside of your duckblinded cave and let you choose whether or not you will even give the in-process dance an audience, whether or not you're even there. Like we're just supposed to dance for you without even knowing if you can see it, or whether we have to repeat it. Like you're entitled to leave us hanging with no resolution.
So she called me an entitled shit and hit ignore.
Not gonna lie. Had half a mind to contact the artist, inform them someone was using art of their art OC and see if that'd get them to buzz F-list and get them to DNP art by the artist. See how that asshole likes their profile gallery and their character icons becoming Do Not Post. But, I didn't. Because I'm not a complete dick.
But, for real: You phony asses that think you're hot because all your characters were made by someone else, and all your art came from e621, deviantart or fandom sites? You ain't shit. Thinking you can judge the worth of a roleplay partner by the organization of their profile and the number of pieces of character art they have.
Entitled. Fuck you. I expect a minimum of civility and etiquette. And if you expect attention and proposition, I expect you to be courteous enough to know the difference between a, "hi," that is simply begging you to respond, and a "Hello there. You busy?" I'm not going to propose to the wind and hope a ghost is listening, and if you respected people propositioning you, you'd respect that.
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