Viewpoint What makes you nope out of a search thread?

[peritwinkle]

My biggest red flag is when there's any semblance of political correctness or SJW mentality. "oH, I hEaDcAnOn DeKu As An FtM tRaNs" or "[some character] iS a Nb LeSbIaN". Sorry to get a bit political, but fuck off. I don't mind headcanons; hell, they can be fun, but they have to make sense. I simply cannot begin to fathom what kind of mental gymnastics one has to go through to be able to imagine (for example) that a character who has no reason or likelihood of being trans, is trans. It simply baffles me, as a person who operates on a mindset of logic. I don't like people who project their identity and sexuality onto characters, especially if it's bullshit like "I'm trans so therefore this character I like is, too". The most problematic fandom when it comes to stuff like this is MHA, which is kind of infuriating to someone who enjoys the show for what it is rather than being a politically correct moron using the show as a soapbox to push their liberal insanity. Drives me up a damn wall.

To add to this - characters whose only personality trait is being queer. I have seriously seen this more times than wholesome queer characters with personalities that don’t evolve around their gender/sexuality.

 

[BackSet]

To add to this - characters whose only personality trait is being queer. I have seriously seen this more times than wholesome queer characters with personalities that don’t evolve around their gender/sexuality.

This is a huge annoyance for me because I've gone on whole tangents on how to make good characters who are LGBT+ and I narely have experience with that in real life.

 

[Jannah]

To add to this - characters whose only personality trait is being queer. I have seriously seen this more times than wholesome queer characters with personalities that don’t evolve around their gender/sexuality.

Same. It's usually SJW's trying to make some sort of statement. RP is not the place to do that.

 

[BackSet]

Same. It's usually SJW's trying to make some sort of statement. RP is not the place to do that.

"I'm gong to make a statement by making a one dimensional terrible character who sucks and is a terrible representation of lgbt+ people in media."

 

[Jannah]

"I'm gong to make a statement by making a one dimensional terrible character who sucks and is a terrible representation of lgbt+ people in media."

Basically.

 

[Tove]

The whole looking for a character, a male preferably, to be obsessed and possessive over my female character.

 

[BackSet]

Anything involving Harry Potter or Percy Jackosn. I don't hate the fandoms but I know that the rp is gonna die almost immediately. It akways does, trust me on that.

 

[Shotagonist]

Anyone who complains about SJWs or Political Correctness. I stay clear of these people as much as I can.

 

[BackSet]

Here comes the arguments.

 

[BackSet]

Oh that reminds me!

Rolepkays where the interest check has a lot of replies. It's intimidating.

 

[Caligula]

Anyone who complains about SJWs or Political Correctness. I stay clear of these people as much as I can.

Gotta agree with this. Being justly critical of social justice sometimes is cool, but you can tell by how someone chooses to express their criticism what type of person they might be. Both those terms are usually unironically used by people that I can't deal with so I save myself the headache lol. In general, I don't like overly argumentative people and feeling like I'm walking on eggshells.

On another topic, and I hope I'm not repeating this, I'm definitely not RP compatible with people who strictly do hetero romance where they always have to be the female. I won't knock them because I have a slight preference for it too, but in general, if there's no room for compromise other than doubling then I'm usually not into it. And for fandom related posts, I can't do ones looking for specific canon ships since the majority are ships I don't really care about.

I don't know if this has been mentioned (and I don't see it here often anyway so probably not) but the tone of a search thread can be really offputting. I've seen a couple of people try to pull off the "lovable asshole" schtick without realizing that doesn't work in real life and isn't always great in fiction either.

 

[BackSet]

And people wonder why I don't like 1x1s.

 

[rae2nerdy]

Gotta agree with this. Being justly critical of social justice sometimes is cool, but you can tell by how someone chooses to express their criticism what type of person they might be. Both those terms are usually unironically used by people that I can't deal with so I save myself the headache lol. In general, I don't like overly argumentative people and feeling like I'm walking on eggshells.

On another topic, and I hope I'm not repeating this, I'm definitely not RP compatible with people who strictly do hetero romance where they always have to be the female. I won't knock them because I have a slight preference for it too, but in general, if there's no room for compromise other than doubling then I'm usually not into it. And for fandom related posts, I can't do ones looking for specific canon ships since the majority are ships I don't really care about.

I don't know if this has been mentioned (and I don't see it here often anyway so probably not) but the tone of a search thread can be really offputting. I've seen a couple of people try to pull off the "lovable asshole" schtick without realizing that doesn't work in real life and isn't always great in fiction either.

I hate it when people act like pairing doubling is a compromise. As in my experience it’s just the person assuming that you want the same pairing as them.

And it always get super obnoxious on my end when I have to repeat over and over that I don’t want the same pairing. I’m either fine doing one character OR I want a different kind of pairing entirely.

So to me compromise isn’t just telling me to play two characters for you so we have identical pairings. It’s actually asking me - Hey since your playing X for me is there anything you want me to play for you?

 

[Caligula]

I hate it when people act like pairing doubling is a compromise. As in my experience it’s just the person assuming that you want the same pairing as them.

And it always get super obnoxious on my end when I have to repeat over and over that I don’t want the same pairing. I’m either fine doing one character OR I want a different kind of pairing entirely.

So to me compromise isn’t just telling me to play two characters for you so we have identical pairings. It’s actually asking me - Hey since your playing X for me is there anything you want me to play for you?

This would definitely be an ideal approach, especially since I don't always have romantic pairings in mind. Sometimes I just need a specific canon for a certain type of platonic relationship or banter.

This is slightly off-topic since it's not a search thread thing, but I really wish more people would give me some direction with these OC and canon ships they want. I guess some people just like to wing it, but when it comes to romance that's awkward for me lol. Like I know you guys have imagined what the characters are like together so please let me in, tell me what dynamic they have, random scene/dialogue exchanges you've thought about, meet-cutes, etc. As long as it's not ridiculously OOC or love at first sight (played completely seriously and not for comedic reasons) then it would be really helpful. It also gives me the green light to dump all my ideas on the table to see what works.

 

[Jannah]

Anyone who complains about SJWs or Political Correctness. I stay clear of these people as much as I can.

*makes note to self to stay away from Shotagonist*

 

[BackSet]

Here it comes...

 

[rae2nerdy]

This would definitely be an ideal approach, especially since I don't always have romantic pairings in mind. Sometimes I just need a specific canon for a certain type of platonic relationship or banter.

This is slightly off-topic since it's not a search thread thing, but I really wish more people would give me some direction with these OC and canon ships they want. I guess some people just like to wing it, but when it comes to romance that's awkward for me lol. Like I know you guys have imagined what the characters are like together so please let me in, tell me what dynamic they have, random scene/dialogue exchanges you've thought about, meet-cutes, etc. As long as it's not ridiculously OOC or love at first sight (played completely seriously and not for comedic reasons) then it would be really helpful. It also gives me the green light to dump all my ideas on the table to see what works.

OMG yes exactly! I hate it when people are all vague like - idk we'll just see how it goes. It's like I know damn good in well you have a specific idea, and trying to play guessing games just stresses me out and makes me not want to write the romance at all. So either you give me some concrete ideas of what you have in mind or you get use to the fact that our characters are in a platonic relationships.

 

[Natural Flavour]

If the interest check right from the beginning is like "here's a bunch of people, now let the romance start!" If the RP is primarily about romance, you won't find me there. I'm a tiny kid who's thoroughly intimidated by that, but if I find myself in it, I'll go way the heck too far.

I don't mind if romance develops along the way, but if the rp is set up around romance I'm not interested.

I'm not here to get my pants tight, I'm here to write stories?

 

[rae2nerdy]

If the interest check right from the beginning is like "here's a bunch of people, now let the romance start!" If the RP is primarily about romance, you won't find me there. I'm a tiny kid who's thoroughly intimidated by that, but if I find myself in it, I'll go way the heck too far.

I don't mind if romance develops along the way, but if the rp is set up around romance I'm not interested.

I'm not here to get my pants tight, I'm here to write stories?

I don't think it's about getting off so much as a romantic fantasy. It's like rom-coms, you don't watch a rom com to get off. Or at least most people don't. You watch them to see the protagonist get her happily ever after (usually after some kind of drama or shenanigans)

Now that said, I am not particularly fond of those kinds of stories either. I just find them kind of boring. But that's because my happily ever after isn't really romantic in nature. It's more - magical powers and independent wealth let you spend your days working on hobbies. I'll write the shit out of that fantasy.

 

[BackSet]

If the interest check right from the beginning is like "here's a bunch of people, now let the romance start!" If the RP is primarily about romance, you won't find me there. I'm a tiny kid who's thoroughly intimidated by that, but if I find myself in it, I'll go way the heck too far.

I don't mind if romance develops along the way, but if the rp is set up around romance I'm not interested.

I'm not here to get my pants tight, I'm here to write stories?

Kindred spirit!

 

[Jannah]

If the interest check right from the beginning is like "here's a bunch of people, now let the romance start!" If the RP is primarily about romance, you won't find me there. I'm a tiny kid who's thoroughly intimidated by that, but if I find myself in it, I'll go way the heck too far.

I don't mind if romance develops along the way, but if the rp is set up around romance I'm not interested.

I'm not here to get my pants tight, I'm here to write stories?

Basically this. I'm not opposed to romance in my stories, but I just don't want it to be the focus. If it develops naturally then okay, cool.

 

[t s u k i]

I say..... well for me its someone who limits based on your age or your writing ability.... it just.... MMM Irritates the heck out of me.

 

[rae2nerdy]

I say..... well for me its someone who limits based on your age or your writing ability.... it just.... MMM Irritates the heck out of me.

For writing ability do you mean length or grammar? Because with grammar it could be a readability issue.

If I can’t read your response it’s going to be hard to reply.

 

[t s u k i]

Length, people drop you sometimes because of it....

 

[Delinquent]

I say..... well for me its someone who limits based on your age or your writing ability.... it just.... MMM Irritates the heck out of me.

I don't really get why "limiting" based on your writing ability is so bad.

Surely, it's only reasonable to want to play with those of similar skill.