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biandblerdy · 5 years ago

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PSA & Heads Up...

Cool, so one of my rps is being slandered by someone who was just removed from the group for being unnecessarily rude and disrespectful. I’m sick of ooc RP drama/bullshit. I feel fortunate enough that in the near-6 months that my group, Matched has been open, that this is the only instance of ooc drama that has occurred. Which I am hopeful will speak louder volumes on the vibe and members of my group than what 1 or 2 people who might think otherwise.

Here’s what happened though (receipts below the cut):

2 ex-members were added in my rp 5 days ago. For briefness, I’ll refer to them as A & E here.

The 2 sent their blogs just under the 24 hr window. I sent a link to our ooc Discord immediately after (as I always do; we keep ooc content off the dash).

2 days later, no response about the Discord link but the ex-members had posted on the dash. E had made an ooc post on our dash which isn’t allowed (per the RP rules). When I IM’d her about it, and the Discord link, she deleted the ooc post but made no response about the Discord.

I reached out again to A, to see if she needed another link to the Discord since those links have a short shelf life. No response.

The same evening, E was sent an ask message relating to our group’s task for this month (a game of Truth or Dare). While E initially responded to the ask “Fuck off.” and “so stupid” in the tag, I messaged E to let them know that the ask was for our July task. E changed her response to the message but still gave no response to anything.

Yesterday, I sent an identical message to both A & E--my last attempt at hopefully hearing back about the Discord. If neither were interested in joining the Discord, that would be fine. Say that. But nothing at all was said.

I was prepared to leave the matter alone. Despite finding the situation very odd, particularly when it came to E (I have been RPing for nearly 15 years; I’ve admined/co-admined several groups and I have never had nor heard of anybody just blatantly ignoring messages from a main/an admin), there was no point in me continuing to make efforts to communicate with 0 response.

Coming home from work today, I had a response from A, however, which was what prompted my deciding to remove them. They responded as though they did not care, but proceeded to tag my group in a post saying that the rp is terrible and ‘warning’ people not to join it.

Folks, just a little PSA because again, I’m sick of RPC drama, petty bullshit, and folks who can’t/won’t talk reasonably to each other.

But if you are honestly too busy, to tell an admin of any group you just joined of your own volition, something as simple as, “No, thank you.” or “I actually don’t have Discord” or “Hey I’ve been pretty busy lately. I’ll let you know soon.” Or if you decide not to mention in an application where it asks about your activity, that you’ve got a busy life or might not actually be on as much as you’re claiming that you will be as soon as you’ve joined, it might be a good idea to self-regulate and not join an RP group. In my experience (as an admin and as a member of RPGs) admins are generally pretty understanding. We know that RP’s not anyone’s whole life, but from an admin’s standpoint if you’re applying to a group, it’s implied that you’re good with the content on the RP’s main (rules, app, plot, setting, etc.). Indies are great. 1x1s are great. Groups that don’t use Discord as an additional source/resousrce are great. One of the beauties about roleplaying is that there are several options out there. But please be respectful of whatever option you’re choosing to take part in!

Again, receipts are below the cut. These are primarily related to the ex-member trying to slander my group:

[app’s ooc portion and why I referenced activity in my above PSA]

[accepted Sun. evening 7/12]

[Message 2 about the Discord]

[response earlier this afternoon, Fri. 7/17]

[and after some thought, I made the decision to remove her]

[and after removing them from the RP...]

So yeah. There you have it. I left out my receipts from E (Emilia) because they weren’t really as relevant here to the slander. But I’ve had others who have been rpg admins and members of rpgs who have unanimously agreed with how rude and uncalled for the responses had been from Alexa.

Again, I’m sick of ooc RP drama/bullshit. I feel fortunate enough that in the near-6 months that Matched has been open this is the only instance of ooc drama that has occurred. Which I am hopeful will speak louder volumes on the vibe and members of my group than what 1 or 2 people who might think otherwise.

Thanks to any and everyone who might show my RP and by extension, the current members of this group support. It’s truly appreciated.

#rpt #rp slander

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ryder616 · 5 years ago

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Rewatching Watchdogs

Gather ‘round, folks, hear the Legend of the Shotgun-Axe.😁

A truly fearsome weapon that will fight aliens and robots, travel through time, stand for peace (ahem) and justice, defend the weak and punish the wicked.

Portents of Its coming were already present in the Season 2 finale, when Alphonso The Righteous carried a bright red emergency axe as his trusty companion.

Its advent was foretold in 3x01 when our Virtous Hero, undoubtly struck by divine inspiration, wished for “a shotgun-axe combination of some kind” to face the Inhuman Menace yet to be known as Lash.

“Really got to commit to that shotgun-axe idea”, the Stalwart Champion then vowed to the Gods in 3x07.

And now comes a makeshift avatar, only a shadow of Its Holy Form that will be unleashed upon the unsightly Primitives in 3x22, yet already mighty.

Seriously, this thing has had more episodes than many regular guest stars and a longer arc and more development than some (humanoid) characters get. I bet the writers were joking about what weapons the AoS characters would use in a Zombie Apocalypse, couldn’t decide whether Mack was the shotgun or axe guy, then someone went “Both. Both is good”.

And a legend was born.

The Big Sister?

*climbs on the Daisy-shaped soapbox that’s been collecting dust in a corner since 1x05*

So, this episode suddenly introduces a concern about sidestepping civil liberties because Daisy has been tracking the Watchdogs online, matching the louder keyboard warriors’ IPs to their meeker offline selves, not caring at all for their freedom of speech to hate.

I could point out that Daisy’s been doing this kind of stuff since her name was Skye, with Coulson’s blessing.

Or that the sidestepping of civil liberties has been occurring since the Pilot, when a certain wayward hacker was abducted out of her van, with a hood over her head, and interrogated with no access to legal counsel.

Instead, I’ll just list a few highlights from this season so far:

Mack put a tracker on Lincoln without his knowledge or consent.

S.H.I.E.L.D. conducted illegal surveillance of a government agency and government personnel (the ATCU, Rosalind, Banks).

Coulson, Bobbi and Hunter kidnapped Thomas Ward, threatening his personal safety.

Coulson ordered FitzSimmons to subject Von Strucker Jr., a gravely injured patient, to a torturous experimental procedure to extract intel and then Lincoln to perform an unorthodox, non-consensual medical treatment to facilitate it.

S.H.I.E.L.D. infiltrated a diplomatic conference and conducted illegal surveillance of several international delegates.

Yet, tracking a hate group that advocates ethnic cleansing is what prompts a lecture on the abuse of power, and breaking a car window to obtain intel is what warrants the Face of Dismayed Disapproval.

🤨😒🙄

I would love a storyline exploring how much Daisy needs to hold herself back with the kind of power she has (all of it: the hacking, the quaking and the belonging to a secret agency with no accountability) and what happens when she doesn’t.

But this isn’t it.

*steps off the soapbox, tucks it in for future use*

Stuff that crossed my mind:

PSA: the Watchdogs are scumbags.

I thought you were gonna finally ride it when we drove to Baja. -- [...] Look, I told you, I got buried in work. Big Mack was thinking to go with Mack Mini on this Baja trip back in the S2 finale. So it’s really Jiaying’s fault he didn’t get the chance.

Yeah, honestly job hasn't been great lately. Management's out of control, new people keep coming in every day, no experience. And the two friends I was closest to, they just got, uh, transferred for good. So, Mack’s not a fan of Coulson’s command decisions this season anymore than he was last season, is wary of Joey and Lincoln (I suspect he has no objections to Elena’s involvement 😉). And he’s not as close to his partner Tremors or his friend Turbo as he was to Bobbi and Hunter.

[The Watchdogs on TV imploding the ATCU building] This is awesome. Right? Wrong. Although that imploding trick is cool.

Nitramene is another nod to Agent Carter’s season 1.

Thank you, Nerd Herd. Daisy watched Chuck.

Do we take this debris back with us, study it? -- Uh, yeah, sure. If if you've been working out. 'Cause it weighs like 100,000 tons. It's a building. 🤣🤣

I’m quite comfortable blaming myself, actually, for the lot of it. You guys should have t-shirts made.

What happened to those Inhumans, not your fault. It isn’t your fault either, May.

We should go pick one [of the Watchdogs sympathizers she’s been tracking] up and see what he knows. -- And what? Shake him down? Without even knowing if the guy we picked was actually involved? [...] it's kind of Gestapo, don't you think? Indeed, nazis were notorious for recruiting mixed-heritage young women who wanted to stop violent, racist bigots set to exterminate her and her people. 😒😁

It's not about how they act. It's about how we respond. I agree with this sentiment (no snark) but are you familiar with the Paradox of Tolerance, Mack?

Ok, Fitz, you’re with me. -- Uh, am I? The chain of command in these field missions remains very confusing. Neither Mack nor Fitz want to go along with Daisy’s plan but Mack refuses, Fitz grumbles and Daisy just does what she wants.🤔

I get that Lincoln’s powers make him a potentially invaluable field asset but maybe, given his reluctance, a position in the science department should have been considered instead, as he’s also probably the best expert on all things Inhuman still alive.

I can’t afford the house. I can’t afford to leave. This is how they get you. System’s rigged. They want to keep you down and in the dark, man. -- You sound like those Watchdogs nuts. -- Well, they got the right idea. Someone’s got to fight back. Target a vulnerable (Inhumans are individually powerful but are very few and scattered) minority and channel against it the anger people are legitimately feeling about the state of things, so that anger isn’t used to foster real change. That’s what the Watchdogs (rather, the puppet masters behind them, Malick at this point in time) are really doing, isn’t it? Depressingly mirroring real life.😩

I just feel guilty all the time. How do you make it stop? -- You don't. You use it, channel it. The Hate Fu Master has another Padawan. 😎

Don’t interrupt me! You got it? You haven’t earned that right yet. I don’t know you. I vetted every member of this team except you. Well, I believe Daisy vetted him quite extensively and, frankly, I am offended on her behalf that you apparently don’t trust her totally professional judgement on the matter. 😂

Don't give me hope, Jemma. I don't want hope. And I was fine without angst for once. 😔

We’re done. Go to black. [...] -- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! What are you doing? She’s going after the violent mob that wants her dead and currently outnumbers her several tens to 1 with no plan, no backup and no thought to the possible consequences. Why? Is that a problem?😁

Maybe we slowed it down, but..must be the modifications that Blake made. -- What does that mean? -- That sooner or later, this bomb is gonna go off. And then I'll implode. Which is gonna be messy. Fitz’s weary, matter-of-fact delivery both amuses me and saddens me. He’s already seen so much that imploding is just another day at the office. Daisy’s reaction is much more frantic, with good reason: nitramene is weird and her friend is now in deadly danger because she was too caught up with going after the Watchdogs.

I searched for you. I wanted to make you part of the new S.H.I.E.L.D. Add Blake to the list of people Coulson wanted to involve but couldn’t find and, all things considered, nuS.H.I.E.L.D. is probably better off without.

I’ll quake it off. -- No, no, no! It’s too unstable. One single line of dialogue and the question “why can’t Daisy quake it” is dealt with and out of the way, without undermining her (and other characters’) intelligence nor well established abilities. See, S6? How is this difficult?

What you're doing's not about truth. It's about hate. -- And you're above that? You've never just killed someone because you hate them, Phil? Hate's a good motivator. This is the line that made me permanently dislike Blake. Because, yeah, Phil just killed someone for revenge. It’s bad but he had plenty of good reasons to hate Ward and Ward was a terrible human being. Blake is targeting an entire group of people, none of which have done anything to him personally (and the majority of them have done nothing to anybody at all), just to rile his idiots up. 😠

Is liquid nitrogen safe with all that exposed skin? 🥶 I mean, yeah, safer than imploding but... 🥶🥶

You did it right. Offered a dissenting opinion, but when the time came, you did what I asked. Well, a slightly less lethal version. Which is good, yes? Not shooting to kill? Sometimes I can’t tell with you this season.

He wanted one, an Inhuman, someone for his men to go after. We brought him Daisy. Well, Daisy kinda brought herself.

So, this is what you do at S.H.I.E.L.D.? This kind of stuff? -- Ruben, I'm a mechanic. I hate this stuff. Mack is really missing that espresso machine... 😁

What the hell are you doing? -- Shotgun-axe. A moment of reverent silence, please.

If everything goes as planned, we'll all get what we want, Mr. Blake. Our common enemies will be dead, and you'll have troops, armed to the teeth, at your command. -- Yeah. Sounds right. Sounds wrong. Because Blake will disappear from the face of the Earth and the following season the Watchdogs will be run by Senator Evil and the Superior Scumbag.

#aosrewatch #aosrewatchs3 #agents of s.h.i.e.l.d.#aos 3x14 #alphonso mackenzie #shotgun-axe #daisy johnson #felix blake #phil coulson #melinda may #watchdogs #jemma simmons #leopold fitz #lincoln campbell #text post #rewatchingaos #rewatchingaos3

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verpissdiiich · 6 years ago

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psa ; ships

there 👏 is 👏 more 👏 to 👏 roleplay 👏 than 👏 just 👏 romance 👏 ships !!

I’mma say it louder for you folks in the back ;

THERE 👏 IS 👏 MORE 👏 TO 👏 ROLEPLAY 👏 THAN 👏 JUST 👏 ROMANCE 👏 SHIPS !!

NOTHING IRKS ME MORE in the rpc is to be BACKSEATED && thought of last just because I’m not writing a romance ship with someone. it’s ridiculous�� how UNPOPULAR the rest of the ships seem to be.

some of my MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS over the years were the rivals, the enemies, the brothers && sisters AUs. twin AUs ! platonic or hatred ships have BUILT my muses so much more than any romance ship has ever done && I feel bad some of you are missing out on this.

#you might call my salty #and you'd be absolutely correct #I think I have the right to be salty #this mini rant is a long time coming #you're welcome to reblog if you like #we can be salty together #rp psa #PSA▐ ♞▐ ᵗʰᵉ ᵇᵒᵗᵗᵒᵐ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ᵇᵒᵗᵗˡᵉ ᶤˢ ᵐʸ ᵒᶰˡʸ ᶠʳᶤᵉᶰᵈ ▐

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arctic-hands · 7 years ago

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PSA to all neurotypicals: Unless you are willing to pay for my therapy and medications , SHUT THE FUCK UP about how "lazy", "mopey" "anti-social", "anxious", and "weird" I am. -signed an aspie with anxiety and depression

Say it louder for the folks in the back

#Anonymous

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femmesafacettes-rparchive · 5 years ago

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Why Allo

I have an influx of new followers! A bunch of you are Dragon Age RP blogs, so SQUEE. This isn’t a starter post so much as a HEY if you’re a Dragon Age peep, Imma tag you, and point you at Elizabetta, aka, my DA Muse. On request, other muses can be adapted, though Seiran and Margaery would probably be the easiest.

I’ve got an appointment this afternoon, which is why I’m just getting this out here in my excitement, and will individually look over each of you closer this evening and reach out!

So, @amellwardened , @echoes-of-eluvia @quiprava @fereldensgoldenking @decimus-umbra (Though I think several of you may be the same writer as I recall reading similar abouts and rules, that does not matter, I don’t want to miss anyone)

Fair warning I vaguely know about later titles but due to my inability to stick with one Warden (I’m working on it now, gotta get that world state ready), I’ve not yet made it to inquisition. That said, TOTALLY willing to RP with Inquisition characters and based characters. Just know I might be less quick to the take.

Elizabetta is my new Dragon Age Muse! She is not a Warden, more an NPC or potential companion I suppose.

I do have other muses! So if anyone else catches your eye, tell me, I’ll see what I can do! Thanks for the follow!

#Louder For the Folks in the Back || PSA

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femmesafacettes-rparchive · 5 years ago

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So I’m not dropping any muses. But I am going to mainstream my main girls, they’re the ones who will get proper tags and stuff

#Out of Facets || Out of Characters #Louder For the Folks in the Back || PSA

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femmesafacettes-rparchive · 5 years ago

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ATTENTION my absolute favorite Tywin Lannister writer has re-appeared! So you should all follow @paterxleonum ASAP!

#Louder For the Folks in the Back || PSA #Out of Facets || Out of Characters

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femmesafacettes-rparchive · 6 years ago

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ROLEPLAYING HISTORY.

The rules are simple! Post ten characters you’d like to roleplay as, have roleplayed as, and might bring back. Then tag ten people to do the same (if you can’t think of ten, just write down however many you can and tag that number of people). Please repost, don’t reblog!

CURRENTLY PLAYING.

Margaery Tyrell (Game of Thrones & A Song of Ice and Fire)

Beatrix “Boomer” Blast (Original Character)

Deianira (Original Character)

Eve (Lucifer)

Cinder Fall (RWBY)

Seiran Hadley (Original Character)

Alexiel Kadamon (Angel Sanctuary)

Jenova (Final Fantasy VII)

Malora Hightower (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Aeris Gainsborough (Final Fantasy VII)

Trevor Belmont (Castlevania: The Animation)

John Wick (John Wick)

James Bond (Personal Interpretation of James Bond)

Daario Naharis (Game of Thrones)

WANT TO PLAY

Jean Grey (Post Dark Phoenix)

Dr Ilene Chen and her twin sister Dr Ling (Godzilla: King of Monsters)

Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)

E. (Cherry 2000)

Sadie Grant (An EMT Original Character Originally Created for Zombie AUs. In non Zombie AUs, may, unknown to her, be super human)

Westley Grant (Sadie’s Older Brother, a Military Man, who in non Zombie AUs does know they’re super human and still hopes to shield her from that fact)

Lera of Troy (Greek Myth based original character)

Aphrodite (Personal interpretation of the Greek Goddess)

Persephone (Personal interpretation of the Greek Goddess)

Winter Rune (Original Draculina)

HAVE PLAYED

Harley Quinn (Suicide Squad & Batman the Animated Series)

Alanna Trebond (The Lioness Quartet)

Rey (The Force Awakens & The Last Jedi)

Jazmine Beckett (Pacific Rim, The Novelization)

Donna Noble (Doctor Who)

Rumpelstiltskin (Once Upon a Time)

Tony Stark (Westeros AU)