FantomeDeCiel
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- Posted: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:45:58 +0000
【 Between Me & You 】
Yup, it's another one of those one-on-one RP threads! Get ready, because my post is pretty tl;dr! There are a few specific storylines I would like to play out with someone and with this thread, I'm hoping to get lucky and find that someone. First of all, a little about me: I have been in various role plays for quite a few years now and I've done everything from RPs on MUSHs, egroups, forums and LJ groups as well as dabbled in different genres. The only type of RP I haven't done is LARPs. I'm Canadian, I write my colors as colours and my donuts are doughnuts. I'm also really nice and friendly! In the second post I have a bunch of storylines that I'm craving for in particular, if any of them resonant with you then do PM me! They are all for the long term. I would like these RPs to happen on Gaia over private threads for now, which means Gaia TOS will apply to us.
Other things that will apply to us or should be taken note of:
- ► long term means long term: I'm looking forward to spending a long time developing my characters and broadening the storylines, so I'm looking at RPs that would span over months. Not interested in quick fixes to satisfy current urges so if you're looking for short term or speedy posts, we aren't a match. Please don't ditch me or stand me up either. If we decide to start something together, I would like to play it out all the way to the end. This is probably what's most important to me.
► want to talk literacy? A lot of people define literacy by post length, which I find silly. Someone is literate to me if they know their grammar, catch most of their typos and string together sentences in a way that makes sense and conveys their message clearly. I'm not someone who stamps a minimum on post length, because posts should vary depending on the plot and situation at hand. I will say that your posts should be substantial enough to advance the storyline forward and in most cases that's at least 300 words. For the record, my posts are usually between 300 ~ 1k words, but I usually mirror my partner's posts. Oh yeah, I would like it if you started the thread too biggrin
► posting frequency: Due to real life, sometimes I may take 2-3 days before I can reply. Posting frequencies won't be all zoom-zoom with me, so I don't expect speedy posts from you. I'll always let you know if I might be gone for a longer period, so I hope you'll return the favour.
► Doesn't that look nice?: Decorated posts are nice and organized posts are sweet, but over decorated posts just look plain messy. The RP should be more important than the decorations, so the RP text should logically use more room in your post than all your pictures, quotes, etc combined. Please don't use fonts smaller than size 10. Please don't use hard to read colours.
► communicate is key: Talk to me! If there's something specific you'd like to see happen or anything you don't like or little details changed or whatever, just tell me. I'm nice; I would never bite your head off or give you attitude. I like keeping OOC discussions open all throughout an RP so we can discuss which direction to take the plot in among other things. As mentioned in the first bullet point, I want these RPs to be long term, so making a friend along the way wouldn't hurt either :3
► characters: The thing I enjoy the most out of a good, long RP is character development, so 3D characters mean a lot to me. I like depth. I like characters that are unique, unconventional or have a twist to them to keep things interesting.
► pet peeves: Are a bunch of little things that bug me and would ultimately detract from an RP for me or make me decline. I say no to the following:
- ✗provocative pictures in posts, the ones with boob or panty shots or the uber submissive 'take me now' faces.
✗if we do the slash storylines and you get fixated on uke, seme or seke roles. There's no such thing in real life and in either case those terms should never define your character. I hate the naive, shy, super submissive characters.
✗One storyline is set in Japan, if we do that one please don't use fangirl Japanese with me. Honorifics like "-senpai, -sensei and –san" are fine, but don't start using random Japanese lines to replace normal ones like "arigatou" instead of "thanks."
✗Also in addition to the point above, don't make up Japanese names with vowels that don't exist in the language. Google is your friend.
✗I'm not a fan of seeing emo or myspace type pictures or J-rockers as characters if the plot doesn't call for them and... I haven't listed any plot that includes them so, no please biggrin