The Unpopular Opinion Meme

[idkmybffmeme]

THE UNPOPULAR [RP] OPINION MEME
You ever feel like you're the only one? Maybe you're not. You can always commiserate with someone else!

≈ Comment logged in or anon.
≈ Spill your unpopular opinion or confession, as long as it's rp-related. That means stuff about canons, plots, etc.
≈ Rant, vent, and all that good stuff.
≈ Be cool. Being a dick for no good reason is not the point.

Comments

Shipping two male heterosexual characters together.

[(Anonymous)]

In media fandom, heterosexual characters and couples aren’t typically reduced to only their sexuality or only issues of their sexuality, like gay people are. Again, the problem is not in finding it hot or not about being able to ship what you want, it’s about reducing things down to being solely about their homosexuality and automatically forcing queer perceptions onto things (even without any basis) because you find queerness hot and have decided they should NOW KISS. And forgetting that characters are characters beyond their sexuality.

Re: Shipping two male heterosexual characters together.

[(Anonymous)]

IA with this, but I'd include female characters as well.

MEME RANTS

[(Anonymous)]

Re: MEME RANTS

[(Anonymous)]

People who complain about getting tagged by characters whose character info isn't on their journal.

Guess what, your characters are strangers, it doesn't fucking matter who you're tagging!

the sexy

[(Anonymous)]

I know it's silly, but... Not all muses can be sex Gods, guys. Really now. I know we all want our muses to be "awesome" during sex, buuuut what about being realistic? There has to be at least some awkward times.

Especially when people are writing an anal scene and they don't use lube. Do you realize how much it would hurt if there was none? I mean unless your muse was THAT loose and if they were I would feel sorry for them -_-

+1

[(Anonymous)]

It's sometimes painful to read always perfect sex - no lube, no condom, no personality I guess. I like the awkward stuff! It makes the characters more endearing to me, idk.

But I guess it all comes down to people's preferences for writing. I like the build up, the relationship, and etc. The fumbling times, the 'oh god where's the condom' times, the times when something random happens and there's a pause in the middle of sex and both people laugh.

You know, like real sex! :D

[(Anonymous)]

Obligatory medium divide complaint.

HONEST OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

If you have the guts, post your name and who you play, and some anon will give you the non-sugarcoated truth.

Re: HONEST OPINIONS

[(Anonymous)]

Or they'll ignore us entirely.

Shipping

[(Anonymous)]

I'll ship anything. I mean it. Straight characters as homosexual. Homosexual as heterosexual. I don't ship it for the sex or whatever. I ship because I find the personality dynamics in that specific relationship interesting. It doesn't matter who, if I think they can have an interesting--although not necessarily healthy--dynamic, I'll ship it. /Shrugs

Re: Shipping

[(Anonymous)]

I disagree. And I'll explain why:

It’s not about deciding to ship two characters just because they have dynamic, it’s about shipping two people without regards to their sexuality, and therefore without regards to a strong portion of their personality.

Sexuality is not fickle, even for characters. It's like a name. It can't be changed, esp. in the long run.

Again, the problem is that I (and others) have seen people go from shipping things to seeing any two characters near each other and deciding to ship them because the person who sees them finds insert-sexuality-here more attractive/hotter/cuter/romantic than the canon sexuality, and taking the new ”sexuality” for their own entertainment. Rather than seeing sexuality as a part of the whole they’re making it the majority of a person. Sexuality is not for people’s entertainment. Characters shouldn’t be reduced to just their sexuality, and they shouldn't be subject to changing sexuality because the person finds it entertaining/dynamic/sexy/etc.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like the only person who wants to play out a bad relationship in a game. Like, it starts out good and then it just deteriorates into fighting and then eventually they break up.

I'm in a developing relationship in a panfandom RP now but I'm putting off asking her if we can develop it into something that won't turn out to be perfect. :/

[fangyunoerba]

That's tough and while it may be a hard thing to write to some degree I honestly believe it's all a part of character development and, in many instances, plot movement. The possibility of break up's, bad relationships and so on is actually why I pretty much outright refuse straight up ships with any character I play. I will make some exceptions but those are generally very few and far between. Another thing that can be fun is breaking up and then the characters slowly working their way back together but I don't think I've ever seen that done in my time RPing. I tried doing it once with a character I played a long time ago but it just never worked even though both the characters crazy loved each other and honestly? That was cool with me.

I really hope you can get that relationship though, it sounds like it would be amazing for some fantastic character development and emotional growth. <3

[(Anonymous)]

I hate when you drop out of a game and everyone cuts contact with you, even if you spoke to them every other day. It just goes to show how people value your friendship in this hobby.

[(Anonymous)]

I went through that in the only game I was ever involved in and will probably ever be involved in. I thought the friendships that I thought I'd developed would last, even when I had to leave the games we were all involved in. Turns out perhaps they hadn't liked me as much as I'd like them, and they immediately defriended both my muse and myself. I've barely played that muse since, and I really loved her. :0/

[(Anonymous)]

When I play an animated/manga character, I don't like interacting with LA characters. Same with when I play a LA character.

I know it's silly of me, but I like to visualize scenes in my head and I just... can't see it most of the time.

[(Anonymous)]

I just seriously don't get this. In my head, everyone is "real." I'm starting to think I'm in the minority with this, tho.

MEME CUTS

[(Anonymous)]

If you're posting a meme, for god's sake, please put the options behind a cut!

Re: MEME CUTS

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, but also please post more than just a picture above the cut, especially if it's a new meme no one's ever seen before. Some indication of what the picture is leading into would be really nice.

[(Anonymous)]

I want to make a meme where everyone is Lion King-style lions, but I don't want anyone to think I'm a furry, especially since I would want to add a ~~Can You Feel the Love Tonight?~~ option.

[(Anonymous)]

omfg

this made me laugh

[(Anonymous)]

I think if you have a medium bias or you ~can't see live action characters interacting with animated ones~, you're a bad rper. Either direction.

It's a hobby that centers around imagination. You clearly don't have one.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah. small or large biases only please.


srsly though, I agree with you anon.

[(Anonymous)]

Above comments inspired me.

Can we have a "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" style meme? I would give my left tit for this.

[(Anonymous)]

I made that comment and I think this would be a great meme. <3

[(Anonymous)]

I have more fun in dressing rooms/memes than I ever have in games.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't. No room for development in most dressing rooms.

My two cents

[(Anonymous)]

I really hate it when obsure characters don't get love on Meme's, it's almost like you have to work twice as hard to get the character out there. Meanwhile, I character from a popular series will ALWAYS get replies.

I also don't really get some people's arkwardness with cross-fandom interaction, especially with RL pb's and Cartoon/Comic/Anime pb's. One of the reason why I RP is for the opportunity to crossover. So I really don't get it.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

I have to agree with this, it saddens me when I see obscure characters not getting any tags when it comes to memes while the more popular ones get so swarmed with tags, so much that in some occassions they end not answering or dropping threads.

From my part I love having crossover CR and finding about new and interesting characters.

Castmates?

[(Anonymous)]

I never want them. RPers from my fandoms are annoying and rarely, if ever, have a passable grasp of the canon they're playing from or their characters.

And no, I'm not a Homestuck.

Re: Castmates?

[(Anonymous)]

I play from Supernatural and I feel pretty much the same.

Question...

[(Anonymous)]

Could you play in a game where one of your character's major castmates was in a relationship that squicked you out?

[(Anonymous)]

Depends on how that castmate is related to my character honestly.

let's all say it together, now:

[(Anonymous)]

sexuality is a spectrum that has the potential to be fluid depending on the individual.

Re: let's all say it together, now:

[anthologia]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in it for the smut, and I don't feel bad.

Of course, I still try to be very IC. I hate that people think that IC and smut can't be mutually exclusive.

[(Anonymous)]

I love to RP smut. Sometimes I feel bad about it, but if both players are having fun and nobody else is getting their nose rubbed in it, what's the harm?

since it was brought to mind...

[anthologia]

If your real problem is with people abandoning characterization for the sake of shipping but you're still going on about how ~*~gay couples gay couples HETEROSEXUAL!!! gay couples~*~, you might want to take a step back and consider why you're focusing on gay couples specifically.

And if your real problem is with the problematic way slash can treat gay couples (which is totally valid), then you might want to cut out the "GETTING GAY IN MY STRAIGHT STRAIGHT STRAIGHT" undertones.

Re: since it was brought to mind...

[anthologia]

Also, since I have to leave, let's get this party started.

I HATE YOU

SOCIAL JUSTICE

PC GONE MAD

ARE YOU WEARING A TIE?

IT SUCKS

I'M NOT HOMOPHOBIC BECAUSE ______

YOU'RE SO ANNOYING

UNLIMITED RICE PUDDING!

[(Anonymous)]

no more sexuality wank.

fun wank only.

[anthologia]

ZUCCHINI SUCKS AND ANYONE WHO LIKES ZUCCHINI SUCKS >|

[(Anonymous)]

Is this meme dying already?

HEADCOUNT. Who's here? Just +1 it.

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder how many people I've tagged didn't want to tag me back because I was playing an anime character. :(

[(Anonymous)]

*hug for sad anon*

I wonder how many people I've tagged chose not to tag me back because I was playing an AU. :(

[wastedink]

So, I'm really thinking about making that Roger Rabbit-esque meme (now that I've slipped into the proper account and all). Does anyone have ideas for options for RNG? I think a Romeo/Juliet option for the "toons" and "noids" would be cool, but otherwise I'm coming up with zilch.

Or should I skip the RNGs all together and just go with an open premise?

[(Anonymous)]

Comment here if you want anthologia to go away.

[anthologia]

Huh. I figured that'd be popular at this point.