#ok im done with this sorry im a hater at heart and a ranter at soul

[no-design-derby]

so are dnd/actual-play podcast characters not allowed either if sanders sides characters count as real people? what about minecraft youtube series characters? where are you drawing the line between “real person” and “character invented and played by a real person”?

Oh boy, here we go. I'm hoping there's no negativity behind this ask, I don't wanna cause problems. If a character is based off of the person playing it, to the point of the same exact name and appearance (for mcyt, their minecraft skin) I would count that as real people. I don't really want to get into the Discourse™️ of what DSMP fans specifically have done to acting weird about real life people... Say though, they maybe share a few characteristics, but thats it? More like a self insert? Personally I think it's a bit better. But I wouldn't say let one random person decide how you view things. Do whatever. Some people will agree, some people wont. Y'know? Just for me, and my tournament, I'd rather not have 'characters' that are That close to the actual person playing them. Again, don't take my word as something you need to follow. I think a lot of people who use social media see what someone else says and thinks "welp, if i dont agree, im gonna get cancelled" or something. Bad mentality. Believe what you want to. Live your truth. If people disagree, they disagree. If they agree, they agree. If what you want to think is bad to everyone else, like, say, being a terf or something, then you deserve all the disagreement and hate you're getting. Just saying that so no one thinks I'm in the "let people enjoy things" crowd, I'm definitely not lol. If anon is gonna fight about dsmp 'characters' being different from the people playing them I'm gonna think they're annoying and disagree. Sorry for the rant. It's Tumblr, shit like this is always bound to come up and people LOVE to misunderstand shit and twist people's words to make them seem like the bad guy. Just wanna clear some shit up.