#cleverest-admin

[tenebres-champ-moved]

cleverest-admin replied to your post: it’s time to talk about communication in the RPC....

I agree w fracturedhues there, and also have sone point of my own: 

1) There’s a prevalent defensiveness of MANY folks in the rpc that’s actively encouraged, which makes it difficult TO bring up issues in the first place 

2) Somewhat in line with 1, people talk all the time about “not policing my content” and “moderating your own experiences” and label folks who are “too sensitive” in trying to discuss issues as “antis”, shutting down concerns before they ever get the chance to arise. 

3) IN LINE WITH 1+2, and what fracturedhues said, you cannot create an environment where open, honest communication is discouraged and seen as stirring the pot, and then get surprised when people would rather spare themselves the frustration and anguish altogether. 

4) You touched upon this slightly, and Im going to go deeper in it in a way that might seem kind of harsh, but i dont mean in an ugly way: RPs are not a substiture for interpersonal relationships.

That is to say: its easy to say, about an RP partner that, "well we have good chemistry writing together, we have similar opinions on this media and they're fun to talk to" and assume that must mean you are friends but overwhelmingly that just isnt the case nor is it realistic to assume such. This is all to say: people seriously put far more stock in what RP connectivity and mutual follows than what such ACTUALLY means and take breaking off either way too harshly where neither necessarily actually MEANT any deeper relationship, and thats okay! (And, inversely, the fact that people automatically take such to heart AS indicators for a lack of goodwill/friendship should itself speak to the nature of their relationship anyway.) Basically: people REALLY dont owe you, an effective stranger their time, energy, or explainations for unfollowing and as long as they arent being a dick (and no, unfollowing is not an inherently mean/rude thing to do), then you shouldnt feel attacked for such.

aight this is long so i’m gonna try to make it simple and quick. i would also like to point out that my post was referred to cases where you did roleplay a whole bunch with the person, hell, communicated with them even ooc. but let’s get to it.

i think your first point is 100% right. bringing stuff up is hard because people tend to be defensive, so, because of that, communication is ... scarce, and even discouraged, i feel.  but doing that, along with your second point, makes it so issues are NEVER brought up and people would rather talk smack on someone’s back, which is fucking stupid at the same time.

as for the rest ... well, i don’t know about you, but i’m not just here to write, i want to make friends too. and i’ve met an incredible bunch of people through roleplay, even met them IRL, hang out with them and shit. some i’ve known for years. i’m spending so much time on here, why would i not want to connect with the people who write with me, to who i give parts of my character to and they do it back. this isn’t a business, and that is another problem of the community -- roleplay seems more and more like a business. roleplay is having fun with other people. in any game, there are rules and communication between the players.

i’m not just a character, i’m a person too. and the whole process of non-communication makes it seem like people are ... disposable of. like, hey, you’re past a screen, so i won’t give you the time of the day nor any sort of respect, because, what can you do about it anyway.

once again, it’s by being good to each other and by saying shit out loud that things change in the rpc, like anywhere else.

[kibanafuji]

ARE YOU TALLER THAN A DRAGON TAMER? ↪ 12 people approached!

... and none of them were. not a single one. the closest anyone came was still a full 7 inches away.

@lxngfxrgxtten

@cleverest-admin

@polarbound

@cosmiicson

@idealistichero

@rivalbede

@oliver-frost

@prcmisedstar

@dcsidcrium

@cacturnefortheworse

(the generator was like “you can pick male or female and that’s It” so i decided based entirely on harley’s long luscious hair)

@lionfanged​

@pacifidive

so. only one person got up past raihan’s shoulders and still just BARELY.

in conclusion:

THIS MAN IS A FUCKING GIANT?!?!?

[windscattered]

cleverest-admin replied to your post: I just want to find some samples about the accent...

I actually looked it up to try and figure out what Gordie’s accent was supposed to be and i realized partway through that localization of the games themselves does NOT REMOTELY reflect whatever that is supposed to be zfhzhrzdzh)]

I didn't play Sword so I have no idea about Gordie ahsdhkdfhkdf

[rarestones-a]

@cleverest-admin liked your post: who wants a tm-51 steel wing? it is my favorite...

sorry, i suddenly ran out of this tm. please try again tomorrow ( ten years from now ).

[intcrpol]

🔥

I don’t like ‘Sinday’ as a concept.

If it’s that way because people on mobile don’t have to worry about seeing dicks on the dash, then I can certainly understand- But what’s with the policing of content otherwise? I’m tired of people saying “Oh, maybe if you focused less on smut/shipping, people would be more interested” on anon to certain muns.

I even had one blog in a previous RPC praise me excessively because I only focused on meta and headcanons, but barely had any interactions- All because I wasn’t writing smut or shipping. When I finally started getting regular interactions and had even one ship I was vocally having fun with, the mun of that blog unfollowed me and vagued about how “it’s so annoying when you follow a good writer and then all they do is ship/smut”. Like, what the hell???

Let people have fun, geez. Why does writing smut or having muse for shippy threads automatically mean your writing is of lower quality? Roleplaying is supposed to be enjoyable for the writer, so just let people enjoy themselves without feeling the urge to judge their content.

Probably not the best example, but Twilight is ridiculously successful and popular as a series despite the content being stuff I personally find to be weird and hilariously wrong (like the whole vampire baby romance-imprinting on a grown man thing), but if someone was like “I love Twilight, I’m having so much fun losing myself in a world where vampires are sexy and sparkle like a 70′s disco ball in sunlight”, I wouldn’t leap down their throat and be like “UGH, MAYBE IF YOU DIDN’T READ ROMANCE NOVELS, I’D ACTUALLY BE INTERESTED IN THIS CONVERSATION”.

[balsamina]

"Lusamine is PISSED hes still alive" I NEED context what tf did Ramos even do tsitjzjtz

https://balsamina.tumblr.com/tagged/vinewhippersnapper/chrono (this thread is incomplete and also like 3 years old now but i still think it’s legitimately funny so i’m linking it…Kris let me know if you’re not cool with that)

not really anything tbh…Ramos teased her and she snapped and they went back and forth insulting each other for like no reason. old people fights

Ramos: haha you look like a Kakuna kind of with that hairdo!Lusamine: hahaha that’s so funny….you look DEAD

[holds-the-universe]

@cleverest-admin replied to your post: icb cyrus has bird bat rat dog fish He has all the...

fake pet owner, where’s chicken and snake? :/ )]

he is also the reptile and Crobat fills the miscellaneous category if Honchkrow can't just be the bird

[oliver-frost]

cleverest-admin replied to your post: [Me: i think im gonna play the cowboy game today!...

Getting bullied…

One Would Think if I , yknow, PRESSED PLAY THE GAME WOULD LAUNCH??? but nooooooooooo, it SAYS it’s running, it shows up in my running programs list, but the game never even launches.

I JUST WANNA PLAY MY GAME I SPENT $60 ON, MAN]

[pkmnsdarkqueen]

Drabble-So calls my heart to bad decisions. (Hoenn)

Based on this , cause I can’t get it out of my head and I think it’d be funny to give mini versions of the crack ideas I said. The keep reading thing is broken so I’mma have to keep it long sorry.

Hoenn: (using some interactions with @cleverest-admin and @psychic-master-will for this.)

“It still hurts.” “Really I wonder why that might be. It’s not like you just decided to put your hand on a glass tube filled with lava or anything.” “Shut up it’s not my fault I want to touch glowing things that look like the most incredible lava lamps I’ve ever seen!” “No of course it’s not! It’s called genetics, and you getting the stupid gene.”

Karen snapped tilting her head back slightly as she made her jab. Catching the glare from Will she smirked returning to messing with the wires. They had run around the Magma base for awhile now having their fun dropping paper on the lava tubes to see how long it’d take them to catch on fire, snooping through drawers, and at one point finding some old uniforms and trying them on. Karen still had on the hoodie for the girl’s uniform. What? It was a comfy hoodie. 

“Oh my genetics are bad miss ‘I learned how to square dance cause I enjoy country music so much, and you also confused the wires again. You sure you aren’t colorblind?”

Will snot right back at her. Karen felt the wires in either of her hands start to be tugged away by an invisible force, and knew exactly who was causing that. Giving him a dramatic sigh she stood up arms crossed to let him finish what she started. In all honesty she was thankful for the help, but the tone of mushy emotions were to be left out of these adventures. 

“Alright now you’re done showing off let’s check out where this one goes. We have yet to get to Maxie’s room, or any admin, and the offices are always the most fun.”

She chimed refitting the cover on the teleportation pad. A part of her really did hope it was an office of some kind. These were usually where secrets could be found, and where they would spend the most time cracking jokes about the place. Sure it might be a bit mean spirited, but they ripped into their own actions as well. It kept things fun.

“Ladies first as they say.” “What? Afraid you got the wires wrong and are going to end up a mangled mesh of person on the other end?” “First of all, that is gross. Secondly, I never doubt myself-” “Yes you never doubt yourself when it involves something stupid.” “You are just as guilty of that hypocrite, but fine I’ll go first if you’re so scared.” “Real original!”

Karen had to yell the last line since he was already stepping on the pad and off to who knows where. As per with the other pads the person to go first would tell the other the coast was clear, so she waited. Then waited a bit more. Ok so far they had heard from the other within a few seconds of zipping off. Why was this taking longer?

‘Will, hey whatcha seeing over there?’

The woman thought to herself hoping he was tuned into her head. I mean he ought to be if he was going through. Silence. Ok this was getting concerning. Without a second thought Karen stepped on the pad herself feeling her feet quickly lift, and then land again now in a completely different room. Except it wasn’t a smooth entrance seeing as how Will hadn’t fully cleared the next platform and she crashed into him the two having to catch each other. 

“Will! The hell?! You went radio silent you know this isn’t the place to-”

In the middle of her lecture she let her eyes look over the room seeing nothing of note. More red walls, a desk, Tabitha, a bed, wait Tabitha. Her head went from scanning the room to looking at the admin who was currently also staring at them mid way between wrapping a mug in some bubble wrap. Ok she was caught up now. 

“So Karen this is Tabitha, nice fellow, we’ve chatted a few times actually before I found out he was with team Magma, but we’re still friendly with each other right?” “Uh....sure, I would like to know what you guys are doing here though. Hi again Will, Karen.”

Tabitha answered starting to break his frozen state and set the half wrapped mug down. He was clearly confused honestly having every right to be. I mean they were trespassing. Sure the place was in the process of being abandoned but still it was weird to see two elites from a different region just stomping around, one wearing a magma hoodie?

“Wait before we answer that I just want to ask why you said ‘again’, to us both. You two have also met before?”

Will addressed pointing between Karen and Tabitha. 

“I mean yeah, a bit. Just casual stuff sorta.” “We went on a blind date with each other like a year ago. A good time, uh didn’t work out though.”

Tabitha answered filling in the gaps Karen wasn’t filling out. Behind the mask eyes went wide as the dark type user’s went down. Oh here we go. 

“Wait a blind date!? I have been trying to get you to go on one for ages and you never will do them! Also a year ago! I knew you were sad about getting rejected by that other guy, don’t tell me that’s what drove you to finally go on a blind date!? Karen when things like this happed you gotta tell me so we can go get ice cream and rant about how awful boys are. I can’t believe this betrayal. My own best friend, a lying hoe.”

The psychic ranted crossing his arms in a huff as he glared at her. He wasn’t really as hurt by this as he was making it sound which is why Karen rolled her eyes to it. Tabitha though had no idea what was happening and just kept shifting his gaze between the two feeling rather out of place. In his own home too! 

“Ugh, we’ll talk about this later. Sorry for bothering you Tabitha, we’re just...like....huh there isn’t a good way to put this. We’re trespassing for fun cause it’s a bad tradition we’ve developed, but if you want maybe we can help you pack up?”

Karen offered awkwardly not knowing what to do with her hands and giving him a double thumbs up of all things combed with a guilt filled smile. The pause wasn’t long, but the atmosphere had a way of making it feel so much longer. Tabitha sort of just shook his head and sighed. 

“I’m good. I’ll be done in another hour or two I guess come back then to have you’re run of the place just promise me the most you’ll take is two partial uniforms. I’m not the only one who needs to come back and get stuff.” “Actually we’ll just only take the one I’m more team aq-oof! Magma, but I know better than to steal things.”

He answered cut off before he could finish his original statement by a jab in the side by Karen’s elbow. 

“As he said we hear you loud and clear, bye Tabs!”

She called pulling her partner in crime back on the teleport pad leaving the baffled admin behind.

[destinycaught]

cleverest-admin replied to your post: she just lookin’ 

Ma'am.

Does that little fingery wave thing, you know, where you wiggle your fingers more than wave your hand. 

[elitexfourxlucian]

cleverest-admin replied to your post: ((Things I need: PokeSpe! Lucian coming for...

Pokespe!Lucian personally trapping Pokespe!Pryce in the time stream)]

((To be fair my Lucian doesn’t know what Pryce did to Will, but when he learns, it’s over for the old man.

Also PokeSpe! Lucian and Will aren’t related in canon; it’s my hc between my muses only.))

[tenebres-champ-moved]

cleverest-admin replied to your post “midas-muses replied to your post I’d also like to add that unless...”

As a lesbian who would /like/ to RP lesbian muses Iiii kinda disagree w the notion that ppl are definitely wanting or looking for that and i dont say that as a jab towards bi muses bc biphobia is deffo rampant but even with wlw muses i tend to see more of a skew towards male partners for various reasons (many of which i almost certainly contribute to! Like try as i might most of my muses are still men lmao!??).)]

what i can totally agree with is that wlw is very down in the ship chain. it’s something that i don’t see very much ? or almost at all. 

as for my own experience ,,, what i have seen the most are mlm ships and a lot of jabs towards female muses. lots and lots and lots of ‘em. be it shipping-wise or just ??? because they’re girls, and i have experienced that myself.

[noiretabby]

cleverest-admin replied to your post “grassgrown replied to your post “Hey it’s extremely disrespectful to...”

Yeah i mean if it were like. You EXCLUSIVELY referring to lgbt+ nsfw content as "sin" I'd understand the concern but uh. Yeah if it's your catch-all tag for nsfw content i would think it's clear that you're not using it in a "my sinful gaybies uwuwuw" kind of way (&for w/e it's worth, I'm a lesbian))]

yeah i always thought sin/sinday was an all encompassing thing, whether it be gay or straight porn. i think the anon might not know how the rpc goes about using that word. i guess it just so happens my nanu is gay that they think i’m using it with a bad connotation. idk it sounds like one big misunderstanding. 

but i get what they’re getting at.

nsfw content should be seen as something that should be normalized when it comes to social media and whatnot. which i agree! but again -- sin is just jargen we use as a community to talk about these things. slang if you will. 

[windscattered]

cleverest-admin replied to your post: cleverest-admin replied to your post: ...

I love how Bede’s location/affiliation is just “never heard of him”

I mean he's on always on the move when he's a psychic expert.

[rarestones-a]

i would never stoop to the level of magma, especially magma admin tabitha.  that said, if someone snuck into the magma hideout and poured water over the magma pools they were so fond of, you can be sure i was definitely not responsible.

[psychic-master-will]

cleverest-admin replied to your photoset:  ((My one complaint: Shouldn’t Karen be taller...

“There’s better places to nap than the ground, you know?”-shot)]

“Silence, Bottom.”