JeniOctavia

Hey peeps on my f-list that like to RP!

If you lot are looking for a place to just kick around characters or don't want to join a serious structured game for whatever reason, I'm opening up a DressingRoom!

Today is shironomori 's grand opening! White Forest Tavern and Inn is a multifandom, OC and AU friendly Dressingroom with a unique setting. Taking place in a dimensional nexus set in a perpetual winter, people can come and go as they please from the location, but are urged to visit the local tavern sitting amongst the snowy scenery. Like any dressing room you can simply join and post, but in a slight twist there are NPC'd staff members. There will also likely be events in the future, if everything goes well and it gets a decent reception.

So join, play, have fun! You know I'm always good for encouraging this kind of thing. :3

Yes, I'm going to bitch about RP!Secrets now. Watch me fail.

I'm beginning to wonder if people who lurk games, or even lurk comms like Dear_Mun ever take in to account that playing in a game means that the character isn't going to stay the same forever. I mean, that would be boring, wouldn't it?

Obviously, there's a certain level of ICness that needs to remain. There are things a character wouldn't ever do, or always does, that likely won't change even over the course of life changing events. But that's just it! Character relations, plots, events, major incidents and accidents and whathaveyou. They HAPPEN. Just as in real life, things happen, they meet new people, they grow, they change. Sure some of the underlining characteristics of a person never just up and go away, but life adds on the many complex layers that make a person. Eventually the character you're playing isn't the one of the canon you pulled them from, but your own variation of them, because things that happen in RP games could never logically happen in their own canon.

Saying this now, I'm probably going to get called out at some point on Greg's OOCness as of late, but I suppose if anyone does I'll just ignore it. I mean, clearly if some one is complaining about a long running game that has characters that have been there upwards of two years and they're STILL complaining about OOCness then they really haven't been lurking all that well.

I suppose playing a canon character at all is... weirdly like being overweight. You don't own them. You never did, but in a sense even playing them you own them even less, because everyone has an opinion and they are completely entitled to it and heaven fucking forbid you actually try to justify yourself in any way because that's automatically 'causing wank. They're muses in your head, doing what muses want to do, and the rest of the RP community wants to get up in arms about what you do and how you do it.

This is one of those moments where I just want to take a megaphone ala Love is War, stand on a look out post and proclaim.

"HEY! RP WORLD! SHUT THE HELL UP AND PLAY!"

That is all.

PS

For the record, Dive rocks, no matter what anyone says. *hugs her wonderful RP buddies there*

PPS

The 'overweight' comment comes from a movie called Be Fat Like Me, where an overweight girl comments that being overweight is like not owning your body anymore, because everyone suddenly has the right to an opinion.

Come on guys, you know you want to. 8D

PICK ONE OF MY CHARACTERS AND I WILL TELL YOU:
→ why I decided to play this character
→ my favorite scene or bit of interaction concerning this character to date
→ my favorite original aspect about this character (world-building for ocs or head-canon for fcs)
→ the last thing they did "off screen"
→ what their last words would be if they died tomorrow
→ what the next thing I'm doing for them is (narrative, post, shelving, whatever)

BONUS ROUND:
» I will tell you what character of yours I'd like to play mine against
» you may ask me a free question if you so desire

(P.S. Finally replaced my old monitor. This new one is so awesome its down right SEXY. Pictures to come.)