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Another roleplay rant!
5 years ago
Something that's been bugging me for the past 20 someodd years (technically 23):
People who use character art as a watermark and acid test as to whether someone is worth playing with. But, in a really odd way
People that want you to either A.) have the money to buy yourself, and theoretically, THEM character art for playing with you, or, B.) "Why not play a canon, which has loads of character art already?"
So that's the expectation, then? You won't roleplay with someone that lacks character art, so my choices are fucking Edward Cullen or fork over $20-$100 for you to even consider roleplay with me?
Fuck you. From the bottom of my heart.
I got into chat roleplay because it was something that was in my budget. Which is perpetually near to nill. Words are free. Text is a dime a million. And I'm really fucking sick of the people that think they're slick trying to pigeon hole people into playing a fucking canon they like by saying if you aren't rocking personalized character art, then you aren't worth considering for play.
And then you get the people that act like because they have a gallery full of art for a character that isn't theirs, that makes their character, skills and profile so much better than yours. Uhm. Sorry, but you have an aesthetically good profile. That doesn't make someone a satisfying RP partner. It's a paper plate mask, at best.
Some of the most frustrating and worthless people I ever RPed with were people that had someone else ghost-write their profiles or they shamelessly cut&pasted wikipedia, and they exclusively roleplayed characters that already had lots of art. I cannot imagine that, "raided e621.net" is a very high watermark for quality among roleplayers, and I absolutely cannot fathom this ridiculous idea that those without character art are somehow, "telltale sign of bad roleplayers because they don't put effort into their characters."
Jenny you robbed a fucking art gallery. You put in no effort. That character isn't yours, you pilfered it from the public domain. You didn't put effort in unless you personally drew the god damned art.
So the only reason I can imagine why they are so adamant about this absolutely worthless, meaningless gesture of demanding you have a gallery full of personal art or maybe consider playing a canon, is because they believe they have the power and the clout to "convince" someone to do so. IE, they know they can hold out.
That forks playmates into one of two categories. Technically three.
A.) Simps that'll buy them character art. Since, clearly, the person is buying themselves art for their character, and "it'd be really nice if we could appear together in art. uwu"
B.) People they can sucker into roleplaying as whatever flavor of the month is on their minds.
Or option C.) Fuck off and go back to being irrelevant.
Folks have gotten much too comfortable thinking others are patsies.
People who use character art as a watermark and acid test as to whether someone is worth playing with. But, in a really odd way
People that want you to either A.) have the money to buy yourself, and theoretically, THEM character art for playing with you, or, B.) "Why not play a canon, which has loads of character art already?"
So that's the expectation, then? You won't roleplay with someone that lacks character art, so my choices are fucking Edward Cullen or fork over $20-$100 for you to even consider roleplay with me?
Fuck you. From the bottom of my heart.
I got into chat roleplay because it was something that was in my budget. Which is perpetually near to nill. Words are free. Text is a dime a million. And I'm really fucking sick of the people that think they're slick trying to pigeon hole people into playing a fucking canon they like by saying if you aren't rocking personalized character art, then you aren't worth considering for play.
And then you get the people that act like because they have a gallery full of art for a character that isn't theirs, that makes their character, skills and profile so much better than yours. Uhm. Sorry, but you have an aesthetically good profile. That doesn't make someone a satisfying RP partner. It's a paper plate mask, at best.
Some of the most frustrating and worthless people I ever RPed with were people that had someone else ghost-write their profiles or they shamelessly cut&pasted wikipedia, and they exclusively roleplayed characters that already had lots of art. I cannot imagine that, "raided e621.net" is a very high watermark for quality among roleplayers, and I absolutely cannot fathom this ridiculous idea that those without character art are somehow, "telltale sign of bad roleplayers because they don't put effort into their characters."
Jenny you robbed a fucking art gallery. You put in no effort. That character isn't yours, you pilfered it from the public domain. You didn't put effort in unless you personally drew the god damned art.
So the only reason I can imagine why they are so adamant about this absolutely worthless, meaningless gesture of demanding you have a gallery full of personal art or maybe consider playing a canon, is because they believe they have the power and the clout to "convince" someone to do so. IE, they know they can hold out.
That forks playmates into one of two categories. Technically three.
A.) Simps that'll buy them character art. Since, clearly, the person is buying themselves art for their character, and "it'd be really nice if we could appear together in art. uwu"
B.) People they can sucker into roleplaying as whatever flavor of the month is on their minds.
Or option C.) Fuck off and go back to being irrelevant.
Folks have gotten much too comfortable thinking others are patsies.
