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As someone who is married to a speech and language pathologist, The King's Speech is pretty great
After WBS tanked, my interest in RP'ing waned. I remember tracking down the person who was "in charge" of Elahrair and finding that many people had petitioned them to recreate the chatroom elsewhere, but they wanted to retire it and just let people cherish the memories. Then a couple of my old RP buddies found me via e-mail or myspace or something and let me know they were creating a new standalone chatroom. Fairplane I think it was called. I hung out for a while, but the person who set it up wanted to run extremely specific storylines and scenarios that you had to apply for and get a rules-set to follow and everything else. It just seemed like a lot of work and overhead, and I enjoyed making my own plotlines or having more creative freedom.
After that, I turned it into a pen-and-paper love with some of my buddies. After having spent the better part of 8 years doing online RP'ing, story lines and world building, I had developed a love for it. I helped my buddy create his own RPG; flesh out the world, the lore, the npc's, etc. Shit. Now I want to call him and get him to set up a campaign or one off or something.
Ah nostolgia.
i was wondering why I got @'ed in here.
It's true, my cock skills are second to none.
Cock just really rolls well off your tongue
Wait for your turn before posing.
Don't be the RPer who never poses anything other than one word of dialogue! Other players want to know more about what your character is doing than "Yup."
But then, don't write poses that are too long or flowery--others are waiting for their turn and could be posing themselves while you're writing your two extra paragraphs of description! Also, don't pose a stupid amount of monologue all at once. It's unfair to assume other characters would just sit there and let your character talk without having anything of their own to say!
And never "pose for others"! "Bill takes Anna by the hand and walks her over to the table, where they both sit down" is a total no-no, where "Bill offers his hand to Anna and nods toward the table" is 100% the way to go! It's Anna's choice whether she takes Bill's hand and sits down!
There was so much to remember about how to do it right, and yet when everybody was on the same page, online RP was super fun.
The last few months I've been thinking of giving up IRC. Yet when I don't have other distractions, I always find myself in front of the program, staring at an empty room, hoping for someone to show up. It's mostly because I don't know what to do with my time - or, more specifically, I'm running from doing things with my time. Like exercising, or cleaning, or getting things in order.
This thread's been amazingly cathartic, as I've said. I don't think I can ever leave storytelling behind.. but I don't know of other ways to do it. Maybe... maybe I'll actually work up the courage to write solo.
Edit: Of course, yesterday I realized I was just incessantly hitting refresh on the SE++ forums hoping to see what new stuff had been said in the threads I was following. So replacing one type of inaction with another... God, I wonder what my life would be like sometimes if I actually.. did stuff.
I posted on a few Prodigy boards long before I established a more regular internet ID. The first of them was called "Rage". Nope..not what you're thinking. It was actually named after the Dylan Thomas poem of similar name. Went by the name Time Keeper and had some weird half-cocked pre-teenage theory about how time is simply a creation of our own minds and doesn't exist and blah blah blah.
Rage was really just about writing and telling stories and interacting. It helped in my general sense of story telling and writing. Was a supportive group of folks who just blathered about whatever. Not entirely unlike the place we find ourselves now.
Also on Prodigy was another board called Camelot. Yep, you guessed it...this one was medieval style RP. There was a cast of characters and regulars and we'd just RP our way through board based stories. Lordy help me I went by the handle Gandalf because I thought I might have been the only one to ever have read the fucking Hobbit. This Gandalf was a wizard (duh) but he lived alone in the woods outside the boundaries of the city of Camelot. He also wore two rings. One was a simple grey tarnished piece that was the source of his power and magic. The other was gifted by Guinevere (who was..I think...a woman who was also RPing). That one was a silver dragon that could....wait for it...TURN INTO A REAL FUCKING DRAGON. So I got to ride that thing around. And then she and I got "married" and blah blah blah.
Cybered here and there cause well hell...girls and words and why are things tingling and oh my.
I played WoW for 3.5 years or so, but played on a PvE server. Started an alt on an RP server but it never stuck. Met someone from the guild I was in on the PvE server, that became a thing, got engaged, uhh..ended poorly 6+ years down the line.
Started talking with you all back in '06...I think. Lurked for a good long while before that and had even created another account long long ago under a different name (one that I more commonly used around the internet) but couldn't remember which email I linked it up to and stand no chance of remembering the password.
And that...is that.
13/f/cali.
*joshofalltrades has signed off of chat*
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anyway, uh...man shit from back in the day, even further into my childhood kinda solidified why i fuckin cut off and get so angry at some people and how deep this shit was buried in my subconscious
the first "RP" involving women involved dolls with a cousin we'll call Shithead
Shithead and I would play as barbie/her token black girl friend and kickin it in the giant pink RV/cookin in the giant house and watching sweet valley high
until Aunt Shitface caught us, and i had to hang with other cousin Shitass
Shitass introduced me to the wide world of the sega console, but every so often i would sneak off and hang in Shithead's room and emulate her
when we moved to the trailer park some time later and i had enough toys, id think up paternal situations so like megera from hercules would be married to boba fett and she'd have a few fisher price babies by him. a lot of the time, i had weird approximations of what a child thought sex was play out between them, and theyd have more babies ten minutes later, and go to their jobs at the bank made out of styrofoam packaging or the batcave which is actually city hall. a brother caught me doing this, and i stopped, and some time later dropped toys altogether as the n64 came out
now, on their own your kids can do this shit and totally not be gay as fuck or have gender issues and just be really imaginative but i feel you should keep your big fuckin nose out of their tastes and what is expected of them and like all kids you should help inform them and their worldview instead of guide it by hand
And at the height of my hormonal years, where sex was pretty much what I thought about 24/7, I was really confused about why I would want to do this thing on a computer.
Sometimes if you see somebody on, it's actually my son
Typically any time you see Plants vs. Zombies, Don't Starve, that kind of thing, it's not me
Meddling kids!
Because I started rp'ing at 14 or so, I was always in fear of some police officer coming in, busting down my door, and accusing me of being a pedophile.
Yeah, I started at 14, too and sometimes would worry about that.
He also lives in St Pete so I actually see him relatively often now!
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Oh also I met him for the first time on a trip to Disney world with my mom. He and I were both, like, 14 or 15. My mom is pretty cool like that.
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I don't quite understand how "pedophile" came to mean what it does, is it just from common colloquial use?
I mean, my etymological understanding is that "pedo-" means child and "-phile" means lover or attracted to or likes, so where does the dictionary definition of, "an adult who is attracted to children" come from? Can't you be a child who is attracted to other children your same age (two 17 year-olds) and still be a pedophile?
I prefer the good old fashioned "pervert" for old people who are attracted to kids, myself.
Man you seriously lucked out on that guy
One time, when I was younger and dumber, I joined an internet dating site as a "woman" just to see what they had to deal with and yeah I stopped and took a shower after about 10 minutes
And for the record, just to make it clear - junior high and high school flirting and personal exploration are fine. When I think of pedophiles, that is NOT what I'm thinking about. There's some straight-up fucked up shit down that road that I want absolutely nothing to do with. I have very, VERY hard rules when it comes to my roleplay for that subject.
Same with rape, actually, I steadfastly refuse to roleplay rape scenarios.
Oh and none of you can beat my Livejournal. Because it was on Livejournal that I told my husband, publically, that I had retained the services of a lawyer and that I was leaving him forever.
But I will always treasure the friends I made roleplaying, because without them I likely would never have left the afore mentioned abusive husband nor met the guy that I'm married to now (he's super awesome!)
At first all I could get to as far as porn went was hentai and ecchi (basically softcore hentai) because my parents had installed a filter that made getting to the real thing damn near impossible
Essentially, that started a hentai habit that took almost 8 years to kick.
I bring this up now because, well, there are a lot of underage characters in that shit, and when I was 10 and looking at characters that were supposed to be 13, it was a weird realization that I could get off to that healthily because I was younger than the fictional characters being depicted, but also that the target audience for this was grown-ass dudes whose interest was less than healthy.
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I still remember it.
Sigh I also remember before easy porn I had cable so I'd watch e! Late at night to see bikini girls...
E! was a bleedthrough from our landlord's cable, so it would sporadically colorswitch to negative
Yeah I've never had a bad dating site experience
Not like I was on a LOT, but I didn't get hundreds of messages a day or tons of psycho dudes or anything like people say
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I can see that being bad if it happened to me for many reasons. 1 it was usually late and that would be spooky.
2 once I got used to it negative photos might give me an election....
You know, I think it was about the time I was 15 when I saw a video of a woman doing unspeakable things to a dick as big as her torso, in black and white. I still don't know what is up with that video, if it was real, or what not. I've never really hunted to find out, but I will say that such really, REALLY colored my perceptions of reality as a teenager.
Years later I helped a few friends Moderatre and Admin different RP forums that they built. They were never very big, maybe around 100 people or so. But it was weird being the only girl (at least regular account holder) on a RP forum.
Nope, and I have no interest in doing a GIS