#mod note: tumblr is being annoying and not letting me post the message from my inbox unfortunately : /

[catfindr]

[justine-the-guillotine]

Hey there! I saw your post (about Mystic Code) on LucyDream's tumblr. Love how you're in your 30's but still playing otome games! I'm the same, but I'm in this world just recently. Can you make a list with your favorite visual novels and otome games? I love those ones with a more mature MC. I mean your can be cute/fun and still be sassy/adult hehe I miss it sometimes...

Okay Anon first of all I’m trash because I told you I would have this out the day you asked it and I totally didn’t so I’m sorry I don’t even know if you’re going to see this. 😩 But you need to know that THIS IS MY MOST FAVORITE QUESTION I HAVE EVER BEEN ASKED AND I LOVE YOU A LOT. 

Anyway, I have a lot to say about this and here’s what I’m gonna say first - there’s a lot of layers to this question so let me just... write a novel. 

Important Note #1: I don’t know that you necessarily want to consider me some kind of expert on otoge with adult MCs. My favorite VN of all time is not an otome game and it is also not with a “mature MC”... you play as a 16-year old boy in Fate/Stay Night. But it’s such a good VN, if you can find it I totally recommend it. I will rave about it for DAYS so if you also want an essay about that please let me know. 

Important Note #2: Some little, technical things... - there is a difference between “mature MC” and “older MC” so I’m gonna kinda do a mix of both... but also going to include “older suitors” or “suitors with no canon age” in this criteria as well.  - I prefer PC games to mobile games but play mobile more often due to convenience... -I own a lot of games that I’m super interested in and have actually never gotten around to playing because I have both a time management problem and a shopping problem. So there are probably some even better choices than what I’m about to list from personal experience and maybe I’ll just come back and update this in a few months.  Moving on...  Here are my current top favorite VNs (otoge or not):  1. Fate/Stay Night (PC) 2. When the Night Comes (PC)   3. The Arcana (Mobile) 4. Amnesia (PC and Mobile) 5. Mystic Code (Mobile) My favorite mobile VNs:  I’m gonna tell you right now this list is gonna change on July 1st when Ikemen Vampire comes out... watch that immediately jump to the #2 spot but as of right now I haven’t played it so I can’t do that.  1. The Arcana 2. Ikemen Revolution 3. Mystic Code 4. Mystic Messenger (this is iffy to call this a VN in my opinion but VNDB lists it so I’m going go with it) 5.  Mysterious Forum and 7 Rumors  My favorite PC VNs (otoge or not): This list is a big oof to be honest because there are so many games I am really interested in but haven’t yet played. For example, I have 20+ unplayed games in my Steam library right now.  1. Fate/Stay Night 2. When the Night Comes 3. Amnesia: Memories  4. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni 5. Cinderella Phenomenon  Now those are my favorites, but here instead are my actual recommendations for you personally Anon:  Recommendations for VNs with a More Mature MC:  1. When the Night Comes (PC, Free to Play) I absolutely adore this VN. It is the best otoge/dating sim I have ever played (thus far). But that’s because it caters to a lot of my interests - it’s definitely not going to hit the mark for everyone! The MC has no canon age or gender. You can date a human, witches, a vampire, a Lycan, and a demon. There are even two route options for poly romance. THE WRITING IS PHENOMENAL. I mean the story is great, yes, but THE FUCKING LANGUAGE is totally everything I love. It is very snarky, witty, and British. Swearing in places one would swear in real life. Sarcastic, “roll my eyes at myself” jokes that one would make in real life. Things are dark but with a sliver of hope. MC is a fucking badass and very much a mature adult. It’s currently being updated monthly (chapter 8 comes out tomorrow - 6/29) so we only have two more months left and then we’re done :( 2. The Arcana (Mobile, Free to Play, with Premium Options)  Please be cautious when interacting with this fandom, especially right now. But besides that warning, The Arcana is amazing. It is also currently still updating. But the MC again has no canon age nor gender. And as a plus, as far as I am aware, the suitors do not have canon ages as well. I wish all games would have no canon suitor ages but I digress. The story sorta starts as a murder mystery but evolves into something much more. It is magical. It incorporates tarot so well. The art is absolutely gorgeous. The MC is not at all helpless and definitely holds their own. 

3. Cinderella Phenomenon (PC, Free to Play)   Okay so MC in this one is NOT an adult. She’s 17, I believe. But she’s a bitch and I love her. I genuinely love the plot of this VN. The art is very pretty - very art nouveau. If you like twists on fairy tails, some snark, and a story of... uh, learning how to be less of a bitch ... this one is a great play! 

4. Mystic Code (Mobile, Free to Play, with Premium Options) I’m not gonna elaborate on this here since Anon already knows about it but I want to remind people reading this that I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS VN... I believe it is the best game to come out on mobile thus far this year.  5. Love Tangle in the Niflheim+ (Mobile, Free to Play with Premium Options, Abandoned)  So... normally I would never recommend a Shall We Date game as a top choice, however, this game is SWD’s only exception. It, of course, has the god awful mechanics that all SWD games have, which could make it a bit annoying to play. This game has also unfortunately been abandoned by SWD so there are NO updates to it. Luckily, all the routes (save for one, I’m pretty sure they were planning to release Sunny’s route prior to abandoning) are out and in full. MC has no canon age and it doesn’t matter because she’s fucking dead. Your suitors are also dead. This is the best premise of a fucking story I have ever seen. As with most SWD games, the writing is a hit or a miss depending on the route, but the MC is mature and strong-willed - never helpless. (One thing I will give SWD is they tend to write their MCs with a bit of *bite* in them.) The writing has some well-timed comedic moments so it definitely keeps you entertained!! I originally started playing just for the novelty of it but I actually genuinely love it. Plus MC has the best hair of all the MCs I have ever seen. 

Additionally, I recommend both Ikemen Sengoku and Ikemen Revolution (Mobile, FTP w/ Premium Options). The MC usually has her shit together although she does have her moments of “oh no baby what is you doing?” And in both games, she’s a young adult, not anywhere near 30 but I still find I have no problem self-inserting.  Other games:  -  Hustle Cat (PC, $) - I have yet to play, but it was recommended to me by two people I trust when it comes to these types of games. It seems to be geared toward adults and as far as I am aware, MC is customizable in not only pronouns but build as well.  - Mr. Love Queen’s Choice (Mobile, mostly FTP) - I do play this and I enjoy it. I wouldn’t really recommend it for a “mature” MC (even though she is a young adult who runs a company), but I mod a MLQC discord server and noticed a lot of our members are in the late 20s-30s. So obviously this game appeals to an “older” market (har har, I just mean “older” than 21). It’s a VN at its core, but it’s got so much extra shit going on that it can be overwhelming unless you like those sort of games. The story part of it is really, really good. And the MC gets equal time with all the suitors (instead of specifically just choosing one route to date).  - Food Fantasy (Mobile, mostly FTP) - this isn’t a VN and I don’t think it’s technically an otoge either- it’s a JRPG-  but oh my goodness the art is fucking gorgeous, and the backstory that sets up the game is WILD, dark, and deep. It blew my mind. It’s cute! So I had to throw it in here in case you were looking for something fun. :)  And finally, VNs on my “To-Play” List:  - Ikemen Vampire (Mobile) - this is coming out in just a few days and I have been waiting for 8 months, so I’m super stoked! - Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly (PC and Vita, $) - The House in Fata Morgana (PC, $) - Clannad (PC, $$)  - Tokyo Debunker (Mobile) - as far as I know there’s no official release date yet, unfortunately! :(  Anyway please message me more if you have any more questions or want to know anything else, I love this shit thank you!!! Depending on the question I’ll try not to write a thesis paper next time :[ 

[cherishedproperty]

Pillowfort Thoughts

So I’ve been on Pillowfort almost a week. I’ve started a community for D/s writers. I’ve written my own stuff there. I’ve worked to find friends, new and old. And for those of you who are interested, I thought I would collect some thoughts. (Btw, I know this is long, and I would use a “read more” cut but I’m not sure if anyone would be able to see the full post given that I’m marked explicit. So apologies.)

First let me say, Pillowfort is not (nor is it intended to be) a Tumblr substitute. It functions differently. It makes explicit choices about functionality that affect how people interact and the type of culture that develops as a result. It reminds me more of Livejournal than Tumblr, and there are pros and cons to that. So here’s my assessment:

Pillowfort does not allow users to comment when they reblog. You can comment on a post (like a Tumblr reply without a character limit), but it stays with the OP and does not appear on your blog. Pillowfort has made a conscious decision here and does not intend to add reblog comments. 

The pro of this is that you content creators don’t end up with disturbing/unwanted words being attached to their content. I know several people here who have struggled with that. But the flip side is that stolen images will be as prevalent as here (or more) because people will repost the image to be able to append their comment. Another pro is that you don’t end up with a bunch of different posts on the same thing clogging up your feed when a discussion gets active; it all stays in the threaded comments for the post. That part is really nice. Sometimes the same thing shows up on my Tumblr feed like 5 times in a row with different sets of comments and reblogs, and it can be a mess.  

The other cons of this are obvious. When someone scrolls through my blog, they don’t see the thoughtful commentary I’m providing all over the place. It also limits bloggers who primarily create when inspired by others’ posts (like you lovely erotica writers out there). Some people tag reblogs with “commented” or some such. Others will link the OP in a new post, but that fragments the discussion (especially without the ability to @ someone right now). There are other proposals on the table to allow OP to feature comments, but they are unlikely to ever switch to having reblog comments. 

Reblogs always show that you reblogged from the OP. So this doesn’t get content curators or communities any visibility to get followers. A friend just reblogged something from me about Twitter harassment. I only know she reblogged from me because it was right after I posted, and she only follows a few people (there’s no ability to see who likes or reblogs your posts right now). Her reblog shows that she reblogged from OP. So no one is going to know that I was involved at all unless they look at the notes on the post itself. 

There are no asks. And as far as I know, no plans to add that. People say the communities are a good avenue to ask those questions, but I have found asks to be a valuable part of the D/s community. You can direct message and the blogger could choose to put that question and response in a post. But those are really the options. 

When you change the original post, all of the reblogs change. If you delete a post, all the reblogs disappear. As someone who is horrified by typos sometimes after I post, this is super awesome. It has the potential for abuse, if someone changes a post you’ve reblogged and writes some Nazi shit on it that is now on your blog when you never meant it to be. So that’s something to know. 

Pillowfort has communities, and they are great. Communities have discussions and posts. So in my community, I’m putting writing prompts in discussions. People can respond by commenting on the discussion, or they can make a new post and reblog it to the community. Sometimes I got annoyed by the shorter sccwriting prompts that then led to like 75 reblogs of one-sentence comments clogging up my feed. Now that stuff can all go in discussions. Also, any member of the community can reblog their post to the community, rather than mods having to do it like with sccwriting. 

You can toggle off NSFW posts in your feed. As long as people tag posts appropriately. So if you don’t want to see buttholes in your feed at 7am, you can go butthole free for a while. I really, really like this. As long as people actually tag their shit appropriately. Which they don’t. But the community seems good about policing it now. 

There are other features people might like. You can choose who you share posts with—followers, mutuals, or everyone. You can decide whether a post is rebloggable or commentable. It generally gives much more control to content creators, which is nice. 

There are other features people might miss. There’s no overall activity feed right now. I don’t know who reblogs from me or likes my posts. I can see this on each individual post for my original posts, but it’s not gathered in one place, and I have zero visibility into who reblogs something I reblogged. 

Pillowfort is in closed beta right now, meaning they allow joining by registration key only, which in the past has happened with a $5 donation. They’ve currently suspended that process so the platform can catch up and absorb all the new users. But if you are interested, you can log in as a demo user and go through the full site (and even find me and the new community). You can also get on a waiting list to be notified when they open it up again. 

For now, I’m sticking around there and trying to see if the platform can work for me. But I’m also still open to new options and will keep you all posted on those as they arise. Feel free to reach out with questions about the platform if you have any. Happy to answer them.

[kincringeemporium]

The Promised Party Cat Callout (Long Post!)

Here we go, y’all. I’m not gonna go all-out with the salt and vitriol typical of my longer posts, because... this isn’t about me being salty. This is about highlighting the issues with Mod Party Cat of the fictionkinfessions blog. 

Nor is it intended to bully or chase Party Cat off of Tumblr. Yes, this is a callout post; no, it’s not an invitation to attack the blog with hate or stalk their sideblogs. And no, it’s not just my personal opinion, which we will get to. 

This is intended to show Party Cat exactly what is wrong with how they’re running the blog and how they’re behaving. If they learn from it, good. If they don’t... then, they don’t. 

Last of all, we did gather opinions from both kin and non-kin in a survey. This isn’t meant to antagonize the entire kin community. In fact, the information from kin really helped to support this argument. Thank you to the kin people who did respond to the survey. 

(Btw, survey is still open: https://goo.gl/forms/lDoffQVVmELDo2EZ2 ) 

Obvious content warnings for dark shit apply. (Abuse, depression/suicide, etc.)

With that being said... let’s begin. 

The main reasons for the callout are these: 

Passive aggressiveness to or about other mods

Passive aggressiveness to anons/senders 

“Cutesy” or overly positive typing/behavior in serious situations 

Material that is generally improper for this kind of confession blog 

Hypocrisy

Majority of survey takers agreed with each other and with the points made in this callout

We’ll go one by one. 

Passive-aggressiveness to/about mods

(The bottom half of the mod page was linking to Party Cat’s other blogs and crediting some theme elements. Not relevant to callout.)

There isn’t a lot of information about the other mods or why they left; the general consensus on Maude is that they left because of school, but nothing about Kuroocrow. Now, why is this passive aggressive? 

There was no need to publicly say that there’d been a “catfight” (ha ha, funny) with Maude. We don’t know if Maude even gave Cat permission to say this. If not, it’s disrespectful. (Nothing wrong with saying they’ll be okay.)

What Cat is saying about Kuro is even more aggressive than that. “They refuse to do anything to help!” Okay. That could be true. There’s still no need to rant about it. 

“Ask them on my behalf what the fuck is going on with them!” Adding ‘on my behalf’ comes across as incredibly self-centered. And saying ‘what the fuck’ adds to the aggressiveness. Even if not intentional, that is how it looks, and it needs to be changed.  

All that needs to be said is something like this: “It’s just me, Party Cat! Maude is on hiatus, and Kuro is absent. If anyone knows what’s going on with them, please DM me!” There. That’s respectful and to the point. 

Passive-aggressiveness to Anons/Senders 

This section will be... long. 

So.. there’s a lot of overlap here with the ‘cutesy typing’ issue, but I’ll get to that later. I had to crop the screenshot to just this because there was so much that wasn’t 100% relevant to the callout. (Context for this post: Cat promo’d a kin server, an anon found some unsavory things happening in the server, anon warned Cat, and Cat said this.)

“...Seriously there’s like a few thousand people following this blog” is an unnecessarily rude way to say this. The point itself is legitimate and understandable. It really just need to be reworded so as not to come off as salty. 

Alright, I’d understand this one if there was anything in the blog description or about pages to warn people that the blog can get dark. Confessions about death, suicide, rape, incest, murder, violence, high emotional distress, etc are jarring to see when this blog tends to be lighthearted.  

While this anon does look a little bit defensive or offended, that’s so slight compared to the defensiveness of the response. Personally, I read the question as confused. (Y’all, who agrees with me? Who disagrees?)  

Cat... people don’t tend to expect very dark content on a blog like this, especially when there’s no warning, and they might not even bother to blacklist the tags you use because they don’t expect it. (That’s a guess. If I’m wrong, then smeone should explain it. ) There isn’t much of an answer here - you just answer their question with another question. 

So, okay, I agree with Cat saying that this ask is vague. And it’s not good to add “but” after something like ‘No disrespect...’ -- because “but” does negate whatever precedes it. 

Those are the only things in this screenshot that make sense. Now we’ll get to the things that are passive-aggressive. 

“Maybe it’s because...” Vague in itself. ‘Maybe’ gives you wiggle room to get out of this perfectly legitimate critique, instead of saying “Hey, I seem this way because...” 

“People keep asking me things without providing the barest amount of information...” People actually do provide information. Sometimes it isn’t enough. That doesn’t mean they aren’t trying, and they could be dropping the subject because of how you respond (nobody really wants to interact with someone being rude). 

“I just fill up the dead air with jokes!” Plenty of people do. And it’s fine... just not in this situation. When something serious comes up, you shouldn’t simply make a joke and move on. This reads like an excuse, and even a way to shame people. (”Oh... it was only a joke? Now I feel bad! :(” ) 

“And then people get more mad because... I don’t know!” This looks like you are blaming people for their feelings. People are allowed to feel mad. It’s never okay for them to send hate or be dicks -- which they’re not doing. 

“Nobody reads that page, lollerskates!!” This could easily be solved by a regular, repeated post linking to the FAQ. Or a regular, repeated post explaining why confessions sometimes aren’t answered. Or something like that. Just a bit more effort. 

Okay: “This blog is only for kin. We want to keep it within our community. If you have questions, check out this FAQ!” 

Not okay: “You have no business interacting! You don’t know anything!” 

That ‘sincerely’ isn’t very sincere at all. Most antikin will respect kin not wanting anti interaction on their blogs. Those that don’t are being dicks. And non-kin people who don’t have anything against kin are not at all likely to be hostile toward you, so being this hostile to them is unwarranted. 

It’s confusing that this community, in general, would like non-kin and antis to become educated about what kin is/means... then such an influential blog sends a message like this. Regardless of how people feel about Cat, she does have pretty decent influence and a huge following; it’s very easy for impressionable kids to pick up on this weird double standard. 

There’s nothing wrong with preferring to let someone else educate non-kin. There’s nothing wrong with pointing non-kin in a different direction. 

There’s a lot wrong with blatantly pushing them away like this. It’s rude. 

Inappropriate Cutesy/Overly Positive Typing 

Cat isn’t stupid and knows full well what this anon (same one from before) meant. There was no need whatsoever to make such a giant joke of the question. 

(Not to mention... why the hell would she tell everybody that she has so much medical debt and can’t afford electricity? I don’t know her situation so I can’t say it is/isn’t a joke too. It is something that could genuinely upset people, and some would even believe it. It’s a terrible thing to say.)

“:3c” Not harmful in itself. Just doesn’t belong in a serious ask. 

This anon meant a post in which they were venting about abuse... they were angry that a character had abused their kintype. Cat knew that, considering their abuse content/trigger warning tags. This response looks sugarcoated and mentions some random anecdote about a thing Cat does, which is not appropriate in a situation regarding child abuse. 

This was in response to something that was legitimately annoying Cat and breaking a blog rule. It does not look like an appropriate or effective way to address the issue - even looks immature. Did people take this seriously? 

Yes, this really is a tag on a venting ask about a real life abusive stepfather. A joke. In a venting ask... about an abusive home life. There is a tag saying ‘Your stepdad sucks’, which is good. A joke, though, is too far. 

(Apologies for a repeat screenshot - I saved this one for right now, for the sake of organization.) 

There is, as I’ve been saying, no need for this. It’s very strange to ‘roleplay’ and act cute when there’s possibly a toxic Discord server going around.  

When asked if any of Party Cat’s mannerisms were bothersome, one person said this: 

Others said these things: 

Inappropriate Material 

Shoutout to @queen-dragon-slut (damn Tumblr won’t link you) for getting me this screenshot. 

What the hell, Cat? This is serious -- this is even more serious than people sending confessions saying things like “Ugh, I hate this kintype!” or “Ugh! I hate that character!” This person actually endangered their own health and safety to force themselves into a ‘kin shift’. And it’s in no way Cat’s fault. 

However. 

To not even provide the anon with links to help blogs or any kind of resources, list some tags, and move on, shows an incredible lack of effort. Not only that, but I feel bad for this person. One note. That’s it. Nobody seemed to care that someone was suffering this badly, Cat included, which is, quite frankly, disgusting. 

Again, something this dark doesn’t belong on a casual confession blog (which is what your blog looks like it’s supposed to be). And again, it genuinely fucking worried me. Is this person okay? 

And it’s not even tagged. Not as ‘suicide’, not as ‘depression’, not as ‘suicidal ideation’, nothing. Which is what this is. This person feels like they’re not needed, like they’re pointless, which exactly what suicidal ideation does to you. 

You can’t DM an anon saying, “Hey, you alright?” You can, however, at the very least, link them to the help blog page. 

Mod Ryan, who is also part of the fictionkin community whether we like it or not, has seen: 

Confessions about incest 

Confessions about being abused otherwise 

Confessions about stalking and being stalked

People saying they liked to kill 

People saying they weren’t at all sorry for violent things their kintypes did

Asks saying characters or people should’ve killed themselves 

@queen-dragon-slut said about some of the suicide-ish confessions:  “ Tbh when somebody sends in a confession saying “I killed myself in my canon” it just sounds like they have some fantasies of wanting to kill themselves but cover it up by saying that their kin kill themselves and try to play it off. That’s not healthy.”

Hypocrisy: 

Alright. That looks reasonable -- but wait. 

The asks and other screenshots I just posted do strongly come off as suicide wishes, if not actual notes. 

Here’s what people had to say when asked if they’d seen Party Cat acting hypocritical. I did not even mention suicide asks or dark asks in the survey question: 

____  I wish I had time to say more but class starts in twenty minutes. When I’m back, I will add onto the callout with one more thing: that people feel Cat isn’t doing enough to help distressed anons.

Huge thank you to everyone who helped out with this! 

It’s something that people have wanted to say for quite a while, and something that should’ve been said a long time ago. 

Nobody should be demonizing Party Cat; there is a real person behind the screen. This should be a learning experience for her. Not an attack. 

-K 

[fyrapartnersearch]

[Insert Clever Title Here]

Hello there! I'm back on the interwebs once more, looking for new long-term RP partners.

Before I get into the fun stuff, I unfortunately need to establish the boring, but still important stuff. I'm currently a college student in a sped up program that lasts 15 months. That means that I can get pretty busy some days and I might not have all the time or energy to post, even if I want nothing more to do so. I have to make my school work a priority.

Of course, that being said, I will let my partners know if I'm busy or won't be able to post. That's an important thing to me. I like to communicate and inform, something I hope to receive in return from my RP partner.

Now that that is out of the way, I'm Seathina, or Azarak. Both are two of the nicknames I go by on the interwebs and well, here's more about me.

I'm a 21 year old female.

I'm an avid OC role-player, who loves fantasy themed role-plays.

Despite school, I am still an active role-player, who uses role-playing to relax and get away from the real world. It's important to me and like to do it every day if I can.

I have my phone with me pretty much all the time, though I'm unavailable for several hours on certain school days.

Speaking of time, I live on the East Coast of the USA, so I'm in the Eastern Standard Time Zone. I tend to wake up rather early and when I don't have school, I often stay up later than I should.

I'm a bit of a stickler when it comes to grammar since role-playing is so important to me. Please at least make an effort to spell things right and use correct punctuation in your posts.

OOC chatting is fine with me, as I enjoy discussing the future of the RP, talking about mutual interests, etc.

I enjoy adding in little subtle hints for my role-playing partners to notice and more or less zone in on, adding in some surprises and helping to build up deep characters.

Now, here's what I'm looking for in my partners.

Someone who can play more than one character, which are deep and not boring. I will not play against just one character. I like variety.

Someone at least 17 years old or older. Any younger just seems weird to me, sorry.

A partner who will work with me so that together we can plan events, trouble, and basically all the other drama or whatever will happen to our characters. Twists are fine every now and then to add surprise, though I would like to be informed of character deaths before they happen. Thank you! But basically, I'm looking for people capable of creativity.

Someone who can type in complete sentences and give me something to work with in our role-play and not leave me cringing from all the mistakes or confused.

People who will let me know of changes in their availability and won't just disappear off of the face of the Earth without warning, leaving me wondering about what happened, whether you've become too busy to role-play or just decided to ditch me. I don't want to be annoying and have to ask all the time if you are alright or busy often, but it is something I do sometimes. I can't read minds. Just let me know, please.

An active role-player who can respond multiple times a day, or at least once or twice a day even. I love having active back and forth sessions, with responses going on for hours. Those are awesome.

My Likes and Dislikes

Likes -

Fantasy, action, adventure, romance, and some drama themes in my role-plays.

Quick responses.

Correct Grammar.

Planning with my partners.

Communication!

Mythical creatures.

Active partners.

M/F Romance (Nothing against M/M or F/F, just not my thing.)

Dislikes -

Furries

Bathroom fetishes

Mpreg

Constant disappearances without explanations

Lack of Communication!

Perverts who keep trying to hit on me

People who won't play more than one character.

One-sided doubling. (Do not expect me to play the guy character to your girl in a couple if you won't play the guy to my girl. I'm tired of it. I won't do it. I want it to be equal or it won't happen.)

God-modding/People who take over the role-play

One-liner responses

Text Talk

Slice of Life

People who try to force me to do things I don't want to do.

Other information:

I role-play in paragraph style, third person, and past tense. I can do long or short posts, depending on what I'm given to work with and the number of characters I have.

I can do smut in my role-plays, given that you are legally able to do so. I can also fade to black and may occasionally request to do so. I usually do not want my role-plays to be purely smut based.

Please have a decent grasp of grammar, especially in your posts. I can understand mistakes come from occasional slips (I often have them if I'm tired!), but please remember to punctuate to the best of your ability too. Proofreading quickly through a post can be helpful. That's what I do.

I tend to lean more towards M/F romantic pairings because that is what I'm most comfortable with. I can and will double so long as it is kept fair, with both (or more) couples being focused on fairly equal.

When contacting me, please don't just say something along the lines of “Wanna role-play?” to me. I would like you to include some stuff about yourself, like what name you'd like me to call you (not vulgar), your age, availability, years of role-playing experience, time-zone, dislikes/likes when it comes to role-playing, and role-playing style (number of characters you usually play, posting style, if you play males and females, themes/genres you like, etc.)

Also be warned that if you do contact me vaguely like I asked you not to, I will not answer or acknowledge that you messaged me. If contacting me on Skype, because of the text limit, just inform me that you are contacting me for role-playing so that I can add you. That way you can post your information and not have it get lost or ignored for the wrong reasons.

Now, for my contact information. Thank you all who read through my post completely! You are awesome.

Note: I prefer Skype over all else and this is my first time using Discord to role-play. I have no idea how it works yet. Also, KIK does not always work for me and I sometimes forget to check it to see if I have messages. Just so you know.

Contact information:

Skype: Azarak Om (seathina56 AT yahoo DOT com)

Kik messenger username: Seathina

Discord: Azarak#7931

(I think that's how it works. If this doesn't work, feel free to send me a message over tumblr and we can figure it out together!)

Hope to hear from you soon!

As always, I probably forgot something, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask them upon contact. Thanks!

[desperatelyseekingroleplay]

[Insert Clever Title Here]

Hello there! I'm back on the interwebs once more, looking for new long-term RP partners.

Before I get into the fun stuff, I unfortunately need to establish the boring, but still important stuff. I'm currently a college student in a sped up program that lasts 15 months. That means that I can get pretty busy some days and I might not have all the time or energy to post, even if I want nothing more to do so. I have to make my school work a priority.

Of course, that being said, I will let my partners know if I'm busy or won't be able to post. That's an important thing to me. I like to communicate and inform, something I hope to receive in return from my RP partner.

Now that that is out of the way, I'm Seathina, or Azarak. Both are two of the nicknames I go by on the interwebs and well, here's more about me.

I'm a 21 year old female.

I'm an avid OC role-player, who loves fantasy themed role-plays.

Despite school, I am still an active role-player, who uses role-playing to relax and get away from the real world. It's important to me and like to do it every day if I can.

I have my phone with me pretty much all the time, though I'm unavailable for several hours on certain school days.

Speaking of time, I live on the East Coast of the USA, so I'm in the Eastern Standard Time Zone. I tend to wake up rather early and when I don't have school, I often stay up later than I should.

I'm a bit of a stickler when it comes to grammar since role-playing is so important to me. Please at least make an effort to spell things right and use correct punctuation in your posts.

OOC chatting is fine with me, as I enjoy discussing the future of the RP, talking about mutual interests, etc.

I enjoy adding in little subtle hints for my role-playing partners to notice and more or less zone in on, adding in some surprises and helping to build up deep characters.

Now, here's what I'm looking for in my partners.

Someone who can play more than one character, which are deep and not boring. I will not play against just one character. I like variety.

Someone at least 17 years old or older. Any younger just seems weird to me, sorry.

A partner who will work with me so that together we can plan events, trouble, and basically all the other drama or whatever will happen to our characters. Twists are fine every now and then to add surprise, though I would like to be informed of character deaths before they happen. Thank you! But basically, I'm looking for people capable of creativity.

Someone who can type in complete sentences and give me something to work with in our role-play and not leave me cringing from all the mistakes or confused.

People who will let me know of changes in their availability and won't just disappear off of the face of the Earth without warning, leaving me wondering about what happened, whether you've become too busy to role-play or just decided to ditch me. I don't want to be annoying and have to ask all the time if you are alright or busy often, but it is something I do sometimes. I can't read minds. Just let me know, please.

An active role-player who can respond multiple times a day, or at least once or twice a day even. I love having active back and forth sessions, with responses going on for hours. Those are awesome.

My Likes and Dislikes

Likes -

Fantasy, action, adventure, romance, and some drama themes in my role-plays.

Quick responses.

Correct Grammar.

Planning with my partners.

Communication!

Mythical creatures.

Active partners.

M/F Romance (Nothing against M/M or F/F, just not my thing.)

Dislikes -

Furries

Bathroom fetishes

Mpreg

Constant disappearances without explanations

Lack of Communication!

Perverts who keep trying to hit on me

People who won't play more than one character.

One-sided doubling. (Do not expect me to play the guy character to your girl in a couple if you won't play the guy to my girl. I'm tired of it. I won't do it. I want it to be equal or it won't happen.)

God-modding/People who take over the role-play

One-liner responses

Text Talk

Slice of Life

People who try to force me to do things I don't want to do.

Other information:

I role-play in paragraph style, third person, and past tense. I can do long or short posts, depending on what I'm given to work with and the number of characters I have.

I can do smut in my role-plays, given that you are legally able to do so. I can also fade to black and may occasionally request to do so. I usually do not want my role-plays to be purely smut based.

Please have a decent grasp of grammar, especially in your posts. I can understand mistakes come from occasional slips (I often have them if I'm tired!), but please remember to punctuate to the best of your ability too. Proofreading quickly through a post can be helpful. That's what I do.

I tend to lean more towards M/F romantic pairings because that is what I'm most comfortable with. I can and will double so long as it is kept fair, with both (or more) couples being focused on fairly equal.

When contacting me, please don't just say something along the lines of “Wanna role-play?” to me. I would like you to include some stuff about yourself, like what name you'd like me to call you (not vulgar), your age, availability, years of role-playing experience, time-zone, dislikes/likes when it comes to role-playing, and role-playing style (number of characters you usually play, posting style, if you play males and females, themes/genres you like, etc.)

Also be warned that if you do contact me vaguely like I asked you not to, I will not answer or acknowledge that you messaged me. If contacting me on Skype, because of the text limit, just inform me that you are contacting me for role-playing so that I can add you. That way you can post your information and not have it get lost or ignored for the wrong reasons.

Now, for my contact information. Thank you all who read through my post completely! You are awesome.

Note: I prefer Skype over all else and this is my first time using Discord to role-play. I have no idea how it works yet. Also, KIK does not always work for me and I sometimes forget to check it to see if I have messages. Just so you know.

Contact information:

Skype: Azarak Om (seathina56 AT yahoo DOT com)

Kik messenger username: Seathina

Discord: Azarak#7931

(I think that's how it works. If this doesn't work, feel free to send me a message over tumblr and we can figure it out together!)

Hope to hear from you soon!

As always, I probably forgot something, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask them upon contact. Thanks!

[bearcalledred]

Buyer Beware: Anna Chandler/Elise, Czechmix, Taleybone, Annaelisedraw, ect..

The one of many names of which many are already familiar. Tumblr isn’t a good place for me to post all the screen caps, but they are all posted on instagram and facebook in warning groups. Here is a link to one of the groups it’s posted to (Bjd World Market) https://www.facebook.com/groups/280417182022846/?ref=br_rs

and (BJD Addicts Feedback/Community Alert) 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/974023212693715/permalink/1443803612382337/?notif_t=group_post_approved¬if_id=1506401287542825

It’s also fully on my instagram page. I’m posting here because I know how Anna is. She’s spreading her twisted version of the story around wherever she can, and she has confessed about me before on the blog TrueBJDConfessions. I do expect to see more from her. 

I’ll post the verbal content of the warning, as there are 42 screenshots and they really can’t be posted effectively here.  View beneath the “read more.”

And I’m always happy to send you the screencaps if you can’t see them elsewhere. Just be aware that there...are 42 of them lol. But I’m all too happy to supply them. 

!!!!Negative feedback for Anna Elise/Anna Chandler!!!!

*Note: This incident occurred on instagram. My username there is Bearcalledred. Anna Chandler/Elise has gone by numerous names, including Taleybone, Czechmix, Bunnyflavor, Ruddyrainbowdolls, annaelisedraw, ghostchildiv, bjdfairygiveaways, ninjaswordsparkle, and ninjakelpie.

I had really hoped I would never have to post one of these! But up until now, my transaction with @annaelisedraw was ordinary. She has been known by many things and was @ruddyrainbowdolls at the time of commission. I actually received numerous warnings about working with this individual, but I took the commission because I thought we were friends and that she wouldn't do anything shifty to me. I decided to give her the benefit of the doubt and look past her bad history. I was commissioned to make a pair of eyes, and then paint a doll of hers. I finished the eyes in a month, I believe. I can't check the exact date because the ruddyrainbowdolls account has been deactivated. So the eyes are done, and I'm waiting to hear back about the doll that she's finishing. She wanted to finish the mods on it before sending it. To this day I have gotten no communication regarding the doll, or any thing besides accepting the way the eyes look. I wasn't really impatient about the doll, so I didn't pester. All was fine! No indication that anything was wrong. In the meantime, someone submits to TrueBJDConfessions, which Anna seems to miraculously not know about?  Criticising me for that time my cat knocked a head off of a box into my lap. The buyer of the head knew about this and had no issue. Didn't know who it was, so I went on. Via her messages to me here, after we get into a disagreement on a photo of mine, she lets it slip. It was she who submitted a confession about me on the confession blog on tumblr. Nice! So profesh. "pets playing with customers items?" So that's never happened. I wonder what she could be focusing on? Our disagreement was about people who had been rude to me about one of my dolls' face. I posted the photo later saying "Idk that she really cares who dislikes her face." Because I was tired of people commenting that she looked like a blow up doll or that she was high. Naturally, I'm annoyed. I didn't notice that she had posted a comment later also on my box opening photo of her expressing her dislike of the sculpt. The comment itself wasn't rude, I would have had no issue with it. But what became rude was her comment on the picture of her afterwards. She then proceeded to assume entirely that I was talking about her, and began an argument. I didn't even know who she was, I have never heard of this account of hers. I won't go into detail about the argument. It's still up on the photo of Keeley mentioned before, you can read it. (for Facebook, I've included  a screenshots) I come to find out that this person, who I thought was some random person, is Anna. I feel betrayed and infuriated. I was going to initiate the refund to her myself after discovering this, because I could forsee many problems that I didn't want to deal with before I got this doll of hers. The eyes were a relatively small commission, but dealing with something complex like a doll was now something I did NOT want to risk. She has especially bad history in trading and shipping dolls in poor condition. I can actually vouch for that one. I traded for 2 minifee heads from her years ago, and they arrived unprotected with grocery sacks being the only thing to pad them. I didn't complain, they weren't damaged. I was going to sleep on the decision to refund her and end the commission, but I was awoken by messages from her, shown, asking for eyes or refund. I chose refund. I don't need someone like this posting a spiteful hate-review because we had an argument. This should have been the end of it, but she proceeded to be very nasty. I included the frequent "third picture of Negi" for reference. She apparently takes very high offense to my use of jointed hands. So in conclusion, this transaction and experience with Anna went from nice, ok, ordinary, to flaming dumpster fire so quickly. She is a very volatile client and I've heard this from many commissionable artist friends. Since posting the original warning, numerous people have come forth with their own stories about Anna. I have permission to post them. The fact that she had been banned and has numerous problem transactions on DoA should have been enough, but it was my mistake. She claims to have very little bad feedback, but that truly is not the case. She had a long history of bad transactions, including one now from me. She has been spreading the lie that I'm warning people about her because I "lost her sale." I actually had the choice to send the eyes. I terminated the commission and refunded out of choice. Btw, it was $40. I'm not slandering someone for a loss of $40, nor would I slander a client to begin with for wanting to end a transaction on reasonable terms. I may not have even posted a buyer beware, if she hadn't proceeded to be so vile to me. The thing that crossed the line for me was making fun of my illness. Saying that I "whine about my physical illnesses" and she doesn't, so I'm wrong. And also, gasp! I take sick days. How evil of me. So no, this isn't a simple matter of a lost sale. She's a terrible, abusive client, and I want people to be aware before they accept a commission from her. I'll answer any questions if someone should have them. I have screenshots of everything, and Anna may possibly be deleting her comments to make it seem like I have been. She mentioned one of her comments being deleted, but I was unable to find what she was talking about, and I'd been taking screen shots as the event progressed.