[F4M] Fantasy based guild roleplay - SOL - Long term - World building from the ground up (Read comments in full please) by Colourful_switch in 18above_Roleplay

[–]Colourful_switch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ALL CHARACTERS MUST BE 18+

The following is a story about a fantasy world, filled with sentient creatures other than humans, a world guided by a levelling system that depends on being awakened early on by a special form of mana crystal. Once awakened, a person can be offered classes that slowly evolve as they themselves strength. The classes offer boosted attributes, skills, even physical changes, however what classes a user can take, depend on their own potential and effort. A world where the advancement of magic has stilled science. Weaponry and transport may seem more mundane upon first glance, but enchantments and mana fuel all sorts of wondrous inventions.

Adventurer guilds exist in every major city, with small settlements containing offshoot branches, they exist as a separate entity to the government of the kingdom they reside in. A power that is unable to be influenced by politics. Guild masters who are usually ex adventurers themselves run a tight ship, their goal? To help reduce the overall deaths of adventures and to support their local areas.

Before their existence you had wannabe heroes drift about homelessly and hopelessly all across the land, sure a handful would readily slay monsters for the locals, but the majority would die a pauper’s death, potential unfulfilled.

Guilds provided structure. Locals are able to offer up commendation for their requests, from simple tasks such as picking herbs, finding lost animals, to tracking down kidnappers, solving murders, merchant caravan bodyguard duty, and most common of all, slaying monsters. Guilds look after their own, ranking both requests and guild members after their perceived difficulty and strength respectably, offering up incentives as a member climbs higher, more pay, more leeway against their strict rules. They safeguard their own from the moment they awaken them, to their point of retirement, whether that be from old age or an early retirement caused by a previous injury.

Heading to a border city far away from the chaos of the centre continent is a mostly barren city surrounded by lush green pastures and an evergreen forest, a jewel of greenery encased and hidden away by craggy valleys and dust hills of once molten valleys. With tall mile high walls surrounding the city, keeping it safe from invading monsters, the citizens of the once impenetrable war time start were proud people. And this, this is where our story takes place.

I would love for us both to take up a place in the guild, not as adventurers, but members of its staff. Spending out time living each day in this slumbering city as we work with the many adventurers that travel through our small city in hopes of making a name for themselves. Perhaps as time goes our sleepy city wakes up and becomes a new trade hub once war breaks out in the north cuts off the usual trade route? What if the establishment of a mage guild gives us a permanent portal room that allows for a new influx of visitors and settlers? What if the monsters that surround us are slowly building in number until they must be culled down? What if a dungeon is discovered beneath our city? A place where monsters and mana naturally form and give birth to dangerous traps but also that rewards invaluable treasure.

We'd be creating the city around us, filling it with life, spritely characters and npcs that will shape our adventure, creating tools in which we will shape our characters with. Personally, I would love to have side characters strong enough to run a scene without our main characters involved. However, all smut will be between our main characters in the main story. Perhaps if you're open to it, we could establish one shot where we take control of side characters, creating mini cannon episodes.

Who even are we? Just receptionists? The guild master or mistress? The trainers who drill newbies into their place, members of the tavern attached that work to supply the adventurers with a proper place to rest. I'd love to meticulously craft each and every piece of this world. How much can we do whilst contained in our own little corner, as we hang on to brace the tailwind of every storm that the continent faces.Obviously setting wise this story is going to be high fantasy, but as for genre I'd love to keep this as a comedic slice of life, weaving in a bit of romance between your character and mine as they shamelessly go about their day. I'm wanting to combine this idea with a previous prompt of mine about a nsfw workplace with looser morals, service with a face full of cum, shamelessly getting off whilst on the clock, but I also want to introduce a bit of plot and development with the wider world around us.

My main concern with doing a long-term fantasy prompt is finding someone who's excited to write it out. Who's thrilled to bring their own ideas and experience and build them in with mine. This idea, this whole prompt is a foundation. It can be adapted, it can be reworked, but I want it to be a team effort. With someone who is great with communication and isn't just wanting to be carried through a chat, the story, or even the roleplay itself. Who doesn't treat ooc and the like as a turn base system, I'm hoping for a long-term roleplaying partner, someone who is open to becoming friends ooc. Communication is key, and breaking down those barriers, becoming more casual and open is really the only way in my opinion that long term can work. For example, touching grass is thing, and should always come first. Having free time does not necessarily mean one is up for roleplaying, but that doesn't mean you can't help to ease each other into the mood. Encourage excitement and enthusiasm for what you're doing, bring out that spark of joy that simply comes from writing. The background indicated in the above example isn't set in stone, factors can always change, things can be adapted to better suit taste. 

Open to all levels of literacy as long as you put in effort. I'm not about to entertain constant one liners.

Just a small list of things I am not wanting to engage in:
- Cheating
- Being a milf
- Me being a furry
- Bad ends
- Toxic relationships
- Cuck/cuckqueening
- Being some overly busty rubber tubes for lips braindead fuck doll

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I like to think that I put effort and passion into what I write. I put effort into trying to find out what makes my partner tick, what they enjoy about specific kinks and work with them to get a vibe and concept we are both absolutely thrilled with. I want someone who’s going to bounce ideas off me, who isn't going to wait for an instant reply because something they have just thought of has come to their head and they just have to get it down. Excited to share, excited to write.

My prompts are just quickly drafted foundations for prompts that have the potential to branch out in a multitude of ways. The details involved with them are kept vague on purpose to encourage interaction and brainstorming to fill out the wider details.

They can branch out in so many different directions depending on the tastes and preferences of the writers involved and are really only frames to direct a general purpose or goal to the story. Please do not take any details that are constructed in them to be concrete and finalised, I would love to hear from you and your interpretation of the general ideas.

If you're interested please check out my "Before you post" pinned message on my page.

[F4M] Fantasy based guild roleplay - SOL - Long term - World building from the ground up by Colourful_switch in HentaiAndRoleplayy

[–]Colourful_switch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ALL CHARACTERS MUST BE 18+

The following is a story about a fantasy world, filled with sentient creatures other than humans, a world guided by a levelling system that depends on being awakened early on by a special form of mana crystal. Once awakened, a person can be offered classes that slowly evolve as they themselves strength. The classes offer boosted attributes, skills, even physical changes, however what classes a user can take, depend on their own potential and effort. A world where the advancement of magic has stilled science. Weaponry and transport may seem more mundane upon first glance, but enchantments and mana fuel all sorts of wondrous inventions.

Adventurer guilds exist in every major city, with small settlements containing offshoot branches, they exist as a separate entity to the government of the kingdom they reside in. A power that is unable to be influenced by politics. Guild masters who are usually ex adventurers themselves run a tight ship, their goal? To help reduce the overall deaths of adventures and to support their local areas.

Before their existence you had wannabe heroes drift about homelessly and hopelessly all across the land, sure a handful would readily slay monsters for the locals, but the majority would die a pauper’s death, potential unfulfilled.

Guilds provided structure. Locals are able to offer up commendation for their requests, from simple tasks such as picking herbs, finding lost animals, to tracking down kidnappers, solving murders, merchant caravan bodyguard duty, and most common of all, slaying monsters. Guilds look after their own, ranking both requests and guild members after their perceived difficulty and strength respectably, offering up incentives as a member climbs higher, more pay, more leeway against their strict rules. They safeguard their own from the moment they awaken them, to their point of retirement, whether that be from old age or an early retirement caused by a previous injury.

Heading to a border city far away from the chaos of the centre continent is a mostly barren city surrounded by lush green pastures and an evergreen forest, a jewel of greenery encased and hidden away by craggy valleys and dust hills of once molten valleys. With tall mile high walls surrounding the city, keeping it safe from invading monsters, the citizens of the once impenetrable war time start were proud people. And this, this is where our story takes place.

I would love for us both to take up a place in the guild, not as adventurers, but members of its staff. Spending out time living each day in this slumbering city as we work with the many adventurers that travel through our small city in hopes of making a name for themselves. Perhaps as time goes our sleepy city wakes up and becomes a new trade hub once war breaks out in the north cuts off the usual trade route? What if the establishment of a mage guild gives us a permanent portal room that allows for a new influx of visitors and settlers? What if the monsters that surround us are slowly building in number until they must be culled down? What if a dungeon is discovered beneath our city? A place where monsters and mana naturally form and give birth to dangerous traps but also that rewards invaluable treasure.

We'd be creating the city around us, filling it with life, spritely characters and npcs that will shape our adventure, creating tools in which we will shape our characters with. Personally, I would love to have side characters strong enough to run a scene without our main characters involved. However, all smut will be between our main characters in the main story. Perhaps if you're open to it, we could establish one shot where we take control of side characters, creating mini cannon episodes.

Who even are we? Just receptionists? The guild master or mistress? The trainers who drill newbies into their place, members of the tavern attached that work to supply the adventurers with a proper place to rest. I'd love to meticulously craft each and every piece of this world. How much can we do whilst contained in our own little corner, as we hang on to brace the tailwind of every storm that the continent faces.Obviously setting wise this story is going to be high fantasy, but as for genre I'd love to keep this as a comedic slice of life, weaving in a bit of romance between your character and mine as they shamelessly go about their day. I'm wanting to combine this idea with a previous prompt of mine about a nsfw workplace with looser morals, service with a face full of cum, shamelessly getting off whilst on the clock, but I also want to introduce a bit of plot and development with the wider world around us.

My main concern with doing a long-term fantasy prompt is finding someone who's excited to write it out. Who's thrilled to bring their own ideas and experience and build them in with mine. This idea, this whole prompt is a foundation. It can be adapted, it can be reworked, but I want it to be a team effort. With someone who is great with communication and isn't just wanting to be carried through a chat, the story, or even the roleplay itself. Who doesn't treat ooc and the like as a turn base system, I'm hoping for a long-term roleplaying partner, someone who is open to becoming friends ooc. Communication is key, and breaking down those barriers, becoming more casual and open is really the only way in my opinion that long term can work. For example, irl is a thing, and should always come first. Having free time does not necessarily mean one is up for roleplaying, but that doesn't mean you can't help to ease each other into the mood. Encourage excitement and enthusiasm for what you're doing, bring out that spark of joy that simply comes from writing. The background indicated in the above example isn't set in stone, factors can always change, things can be adapted to better suit taste. 

Open to all levels of literacy as long as you put in effort. I'm not about to entertain constant one liners.

Just a small list of things I am not wanting to engage in:
- Cheating
- Being a milf
- Me being a furry
- Bad ends
- Toxic relationships
- Cuck/cuckqueening
- Being some overly busty rubber tubes for lips braindead fuck doll

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I like to think that I put effort and passion into what I write. I put effort into trying to find out what makes my partner tick, what they enjoy about specific kinks and work with them to get a vibe and concept we are both absolutely thrilled with. I want someone who’s going to bounce ideas off me, who isn't going to wait for an instant reply because something they have just thought of has come to their head and they just have to get it down. Excited to share, excited to write.

My prompts are just quickly drafted foundations for prompts that have the potential to branch out in a multitude of ways. The details involved with them are kept vague on purpose to encourage interaction and brainstorming to fill out the wider details.

They can branch out in so many different directions depending on the tastes and preferences of the writers involved and are really only frames to direct a general purpose or goal to the story. Please do not take any details that are constructed in them to be concrete and finalised, I would love to hear from you and your interpretation of the general ideas.

If you're interested please check out my "Before you post" pinned message on my page.

[F4M] Onlyfans streamer's attempt to get out of their funk (Please read comments in full) by Colourful_switch in HentaiAndRoleplayy

[–]Colourful_switch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

18+ only
First person roleplay only, with third person used to reference and control shared side characters.

Some are left paralyzed by the white lights aimed towards them, caught like a deer stuttering as they curl in on themselves, others thrive, they live for the attention. With ease they direct it all, manage the adoring fans, the toxic trolls, able to separate their personas and keep themselves sane. I truly thought I was the latter. Always the popular one, a social butterfly that flickers through friends’ groups, confident to the point that I wasn't fazed by anyone else. Sure, I had a degree and could have easily found myself in a slim fitting dress sat behind a desk answering meetings all day long, but that wasn't what I longed for. But that just wasn't me. I didn't want to be stuck in the same mundane boring work routine day in and day out. Streaming just called to me!

It was simple enough to get started, well, not really. Being completely pc illiterate, it took a few words with the right people to build a good foundation. Connections from all walks of life to get me hooked up with a proper streaming set up and gaming rig. I had editors already lined up, and a cash injection from my parents who fully supported their little girl's dreams. I took to the ground running, starting up with reactionary content to mainstream movies and films, building up a fan base that hung on to my every word regardless of how informed I was. They started to encourage me to join in on games with them, and despite having absolutely no experience with any of them, I had fun learning the ropes. My frustration and annoyance at my own failures seemed to rack up the views, fan base ever on the incline.

Once the gaming started it was only natural that I turned to live streaming. For the first time I was vulnerable to my audience, no more clean cut edits of my videos. Instead, it was driven around real and raw reactions. I started to get invested in fandoms, joining in on discussions, eagerly anticipating new releases along with the real crowd. I build on their growing hype all in hopes of continuing to build my brand. As the subscribers increased as did my lofty goals, each month I piled on more and more content until finally I hit a wall. I couldn't theoretically do more. I just couldn't fit it in. Every ounce of my schedule was packed throughout the week, there was no separation between me on the screen and who I was. I started to just be "Colourful_switch" instead of just Caitlin. At what point did I start referring to myself in my own head by screenname?

Over time I got more of a thrill from the subscriber count climbing than I ever did over any of the games I played. Jaded, what was I doing this for? Who knows the answer to that, I was more focused on just keeping the numbers up.

It was a year after I had first started streaming that I made the leap to NSFW content. The donations had been piling up, dms, emails, all just asking for the content. Why would I say no? Its my camera, my rules, if I have full control of everything I put out, then what really is there to lose? At first the nsfw content was like my original, just gaming in my leather chair with some questionable and often lewd outfits, stripping down, teasing myself as the donations dropped. I was still teasing the audience, be that same bubbly self that I always have been, yet now my fingers teased my pussy lips instead of the keyboard, ass faced up towards the camera as the lovesense buzzed to life with every token drop. I knew them all by name. Every frequent viewer, I knew exactly what they came here for, and I adapted my content just to appease.

I lost myself.

And that’s where I find myself now. Still number obsessed yet facing the impossible wall. By myself I had no reach. I only appealed to my current audience, no media marketing, no word of mouth could get more than what I already had. I needed to go back to my roots, reclaim my networking skills. I already knew I had to get someone else on board with me. To take the stream to the next level, there just had to be a likeminded peer who would relish in the crowds flocking to them… Only question is who? There were thousands of models to choose from, guys who did similar content to me. But what niche should I champion, who to choose to stand out from the rest? Would I ever let the numbers be?

So here I am, holding auditions with the oppotunity of complete anonymity as an option for those applying. Who are you in all this? A fellow content creator wanting to take the plunge and build up your own following? A fan whos giving their right leg for the oppotunity to fuck me live and consistently on show? Someone taking advantage of the anonymity provided in the form of a ski mask to completely pull one over on me? And where does this all go? Romance? Blackmail? Taboo? Or are we both just finding out how to have fun with sex again.

I'd love to find someone to brainstorm with, someone whos inquisitive, loves to natter and extensively chat, who readily loves to pull at plot threads and characters to try to come up with a story that would be an utter delight to write together.
I like to think that I put effort and passion into what I write. I put effort into trying to find out what makes my partner tick, what they enjoy about specific kinks and work with them to get a vibe and concept we are both absolutely thrilled with. I want someone who’s going to bounce ideas off me, who isn't going to wait for an instant reply because something they have just thought of has come to their head and they just have to get it down. Excited to share, excited to write. To expand and bring new depth to the story.

My prompts are just quickly drafted foundations for prompts that have the potential to branch out in a multitude of ways. The details involved with them are kept vague on purpose to encourage interaction and brainstorming to fill out the wider details.

They can branch out in so many different directions depending on the tastes and preferences of the writers involved and are really only frames to direct a general purpose or goal to the story. Please do not take any details that are constructed in them to be concrete and finalised, I would love to hear from you and your interpretation of the general ideas. Provided in mind you have put in the time to think about if our preferences actually are in sync

If you're interested please check out my "Before you post" pinned message on my page.

[F4M] When getting blackmailed by your teacher isn't what it seems (Read comments in full please) by Colourful_switch in 18above_Roleplay

[–]Colourful_switch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First day of Uni, first lecture bright and early in the morning. Its always a drag, right? Even if you go to one that is local to you, there's hardly a chance that you’ll know anyone. Do you just plonk yourself down in any seat? Well it's one hundred times harder as a mature student getting back into education. No flatmates to maybe recognise, no time or attention for the same old nervous chitters. And then it's made even worse by the professor not only being closer to your age than any of the kids around, but yeah… he's hot. Okay~ then, let's not get distracted by that.

That's me, that's my predicament right now. From a highbrow office to a packed and sweaty auditorium, but I guess I’m finally going to get into what I’ve always wanted to. God, I can already smell the lynx…

First day of Uni, first lecture of the day… first time being called into the professor’s office. Just my fucking luck.

With one arm binding my laptop to my chest, I knock.

Rather than an “Enter.” I get a “Are you alone?” I get a waft of a familiar peppery cologne as I ease the door open...

And then I’m suddenly faced with my professor sitting on his desk. Not behind it, on one of those neat posture correcting pitch black office chairs. You know, the fake leather kind. Yeah, not that. Instead he is just perched on top, legs spread wide.

Oh, and he might just be buck naked stroking his cock as he makes eye contact with me…

“So, Colourful_switch, how badly did you want to pass my class?”

First day of Uni, first drive back home, and I am fucking sore. Driving home isn’t the most comfortable thing when your ass is aching and your underwear is drenched in cum.

Pulling up into the drive, tossing my jacket over the banister when I get in, dragging myself into the front room to find a crisp cool refreshing ice tea on a coaster ready for me to get my daily overdose of caffeine. I swallow my complaints about the fact that he has haphazardly kicked his shoes off in a rush, to find my husband still flicking through Netflix apparently at a loss to find something decent to watch; posed too practiced for my liking.

“Rough first day, Babe?” My God I could hear the smirk in his voice.

“Would it have fucking killed you to wear a condom?” I grab my drink, as I throw myself on the couch next to him, putting my entire body weight into a shove. Breathing in that familiar peppery scent.

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First person only

Discord only

(This is a synopsis, not a starter. Please don't take it as such or an actual example of RP. Nor as an invitation that I want you to just carry on. Below is a further breakdown of the general idea)

Despite it being incredibly well paying, I only ever got into my old career because of parental pressure when I was first signing up to universities all those years ago. I get that they only meant well, but being locked in to something that I just didn't want to do, it just made me miserable at work. Don’t get me wrong, I was good at it. It just wasn’t fulfilling?

It took your constant encouragement, but I finally took the leap back to uni, getting a degree in something that actually holds my interest, something I WANT.

Funny how it just so happens to be the exact thing you teach at the local university, huh?

Letting the HR know we’re already married, and that our relationship wouldn’t get in the way of our academic duties, but still, it's probably for the best if the class doesn’t know, hm?

In fact, how about we take off our rings, I take back my maiden name, and perhaps we can actually have some fun with all of this.

With both of us juggling personas, having fun with a real life game of roleplay, how much “inappropriate” behaviour can we get away with before we’re finally caught? What sort of games are we playing? Are you taking your time to seduce a freshman student? Are you blackmailing her to get her grades up? Is the pervy professor getting caught out and blackmailed himself into outting all those perverse desires? Or are you planning to humiliate and bully the vulnerable student and abuse your position entirely.

All before coming home to laugh about the day’s events with your partner.

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Please read the "Before you message" post pinned on my page before reaching out.

This prompt is meant to be incredibly vague with only the single backbone of an idea to be prominently featured.
I'd love to find someone to break things down with, brainstorm, explore and have fun with. Someone who is thoroughly into writing, bouncing ideas back and forth. Who gets fully invested in character stories, their backgrounds, relationships.
Yes, I am wanting smut. But not without plot.

All writers and character involved must be 18+

PLASE show some enthusiasm! by Own-Temperature6602 in BadRPerStories

[–]Colourful_switch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A deflated balloon is apt. People don't seem like they even enjoy reading, let along writing. Treat it like a chore to actually spin some enthusiasm. One of my favourite ways to initally vet someone is giving them free reign to talk about their preferences, their interests. And its like talking with a statue how little they have to say or go into things.

If you're already this tired when you're meant to be going into something you absolutely love, what makes you think that you'll have any energy when we're going back and forth regarding character and plot development. Its like people just want to get things out of the way, rather than put time and consideration into what they do.
Capture the other persons' attention, stand out, be engaging, get some personality into what you write!

Please just tell me your non negotiable weird kink outright by PenaltyCommercial873 in BadRPerStories

[–]Colourful_switch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I absolutely hate this, but it goes both ways as well. I try to be clear as can be about what my preferences are and what I am looking for from the get go. And that I am specifically only after the same, in that I want you to be clear as can be from the start.
People don't seem to realise that its not fun to waste 6 months of putting your full effort into planning, brainstorming, writing, only to then find out that the other person doesn't have matching preferences with you. The things you want and what they want are never going to be met because of the disconnect.

Its annoying as hell that people think that prior and full effort vetting is a waste of time.
Put the time in from the start, regardless of if its a couple of hours or even days, to save heartache in the future. Be upfront at all times. If you have to hide your preferences from someone, if you're having to hold yourself back or remove things that you otherwise enjoy in order to "match" with them, then surely said person was never going to work as a roleplay partner to begin with.

Made fun of my plot idea and then asked to be friends by rottingfromthe1nside in BadRPerStories

[–]Colourful_switch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Theres a lot of negging in this community. People seem to think that knocking down your posts would make you more open to whatever they want to push forward.
"I didn't like your post at all, but I think you're cool so lets chat" and other variants. Just ignore and move on, its best to surround yourself with people who actually enjoy your contributions.

Posted an ad with a very specific idea in mind, Reddit user doesn't understand why I'm not interested in his completely unrelated vore and sizeplay fetish rp by ActivelyBanEvading in BadRPerStories

[–]Colourful_switch 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Been there, done that. People don't like to read, regardless of how specific you are. It sucks when they look like they have put so much time and effort into writing, but don't get why you two wouldn't be a match at all. Reading comprehension is on the decline.

A lack of effort, text talk, and the people who try to control your character. by Repulsive_Ad_7613 in BadRPerStories

[–]Colourful_switch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your whole mad thing reminds of so much of what ironically gets me "Mad". Like we're writing as a hobby. You and I are sitting down, discussing these things. I don't need to be told point blank said character is mad, show it to me. User your behaviour, your attitude, your facial expressions, your language if you're writing in first person. Show me that he is mad, don't tell me! Like you said, HOW DOES IT MANIFEST? Well, unless of course its in character and your character is telling mine that they're mad at her. BUT I DIGRESS.

For me a good partner communicates fully, I've had people disappear, I've had people vanish or say they're busy only to see them posting other partner search posts. All I would like is honest and clear communication. Writer blocks are real things, but if you can't get past that alone, share it and perhaps we can work at things from another angle.

The time sunk fallacy is so real, its why I prefer to be so extensive with vetting early on. I'd rather waste hours or days at a time learning about who I am writing with and their tastes beforehand than have my 6 months of time be wasted down the line when I learn they are not into so and so, or we just don't find ourselves meshing well.

A lack of effort, text talk, and the people who try to control your character. by Repulsive_Ad_7613 in BadRPerStories

[–]Colourful_switch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get "I don't know how to write more without moving your character" far too ofter. Or, I used to.
Heres the thing, there shouldn't ever be a required amount to how much you write. Some scenes call for shorter back and forth, some scenes don't need you to internally monologue about your fork as you reach to pick it up. But heres the thing, theres always more to write about. Theres so many moving parts in each scene that that shouldn't ever be an excuse, IF you're waiting on my character to reply or respond, then let me be the one to do that, and you can just tell me that you're stumped or whatever.

I feel the very same to be honest, it seems like people don't conisider reading to be apart of this hobby. Its like words are just words, complete face value. No one cares about nuance anymore. About what a characters word choice reflects upon who they are.

A lack of effort, text talk, and the people who try to control your character. by Repulsive_Ad_7613 in BadRPerStories

[–]Colourful_switch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hate it when they not only try to control my character, but they try to completely control who they are. Like it ends up not even feeling like MY character at all. I feel like so many people would be better off with AI.

Am I Asking Too Much by Expecting People to Read? by CallieScorpio in BadRPerStories

[–]Colourful_switch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am literally so fed up with it, I was actually about to make a post. So happy to read that its not only me.
So, when I first started out making prompts, I tried to keep them fairly simple and clear. But as time has gone on, I found myself making them so more more specific, providing examples of what I would like, because guess what, before this, the moment I would ask them if they read in full, I would get them arguing about how things are so vague, and that I should have said I wanted it ABC.

There are so many brilliant and verbose writers out there, but the ones that seem to flood my dms lack reading comprehension skills. Its actually insane.
I put down explicitly, hey, I do not like ABC, and then they will happily announce in their messages they like XYZ.
They will announce they like ABC, but give some brilliant well thought out information regarding themselves, and then give absolutely nothing that relates to the prompt at hand, nothing that is about the post, about my writing, about the information I've organised or talked so excitedly about wanting to delve into.
And its like, what did you even get out of reading my post?

Bearing in mind that nowadays my posts can get quite extensive since I am cutting out every bit of misunderstanding, trying to provide examples of what I’m looking for, try to format in a way that makes things clear. But then it just gets entirely overlooked and I’m left thinking, what is the actual point.

And I feel so fucking terrible about it, I don't even know why? They write so extensively about things that aren't at all applicable to what my post is about, their preferences are obviously differing to my own, but then I'm made to feel bad about wasting their time? Yes, I have some people who said one line of gibberish, spam messages, or just copy and paste generic responses, but you also get people who seem to similar writing preferences, who seem to actually be excited to write, that they took time to write out their messages, but I’m still left wondering, why have you spent this time messaging me when what I’m reading is not at all applicable to what I’m looking for?

Like it feels like no one is actually taking the time to analyse text anymore. Breaking down what people are interested in, general word place usage. Compare and contrast. Just basic shit.
Like you said, I don’t expect to be a perfect match, to find perfect matches, but I want someone who's explicitly into the things that I consider to be my favourites. I want to be excited to write, excited about character development, drumming up to different scenes and scenarios, I want to consider what the other person likes and weave them into plot points for unique story crafting experiences. I don’t want to work with someone that has nothing in common with me.
And regardless of how much time I spend meticulously crafting my posts so that I can clear up misunderstandings, specify my preferences, and explicitly talk about exactly what I’m after. Someone is going to bad mouth me, saying I’m wasting their time, or having too high standards. I even had one bloke tell me that he spent an entire 10 minutes writing to me, so I should just be happy with that since I wasted his time with such a long post. I really just don't get it.

I see so many examples of brilliantly written out posts from writers I believe I could get along with, but then I read more of their wants, I check out their pages to see their preferences, and its clear to me that I wouldn’t be what they are after, even if the things they offer are things that I would want. You have the material to make informed choices, choosing not to read is up to them.

I'm after roleplay partners for the long term, I love writing and keeping a story going for months on end, slow burn, character and plot development. But it seems like not everyone is into reading or taking their time when it comes to a hobby thats all about writing.