#i'm glad ppl are having fun but i'm increasingly convinced the rpc here is gonna just straight up die so long as ppl just don't like

[eclypsd]

actually, on that note, does anybody else here (and by anybody else, i mean oc writers specifically) ever feel like their ocs have like......expiration dates? idk maybe it’s just me but i have felt, in all my years of writing dumb little ocs on this site, that people are mostly interested in your oc when they’re new and they’re something of a novelty. even if you, as the writer, feel like your oc is actually a better character later on and you have more interesting things to say about them, it doesn’t matter bc other people have already moved on and stopped caring? obviously, you can’t demand that anybody cares about your writing or your muse, and i would never care to dictate what anybody else wastes their time in the rpc doing. it’s a hobby, it’s never that deep, do whatever you want, etc. however, it’s pretty frustrating as a writer that you’re kind of just expected to...constantly start over?

i think it does speak to this community-wide habit of trends and starting over from scratch every few months and just a general short attention span? i know people jump from canon muse to canon muse as their interest fluctuates but i personally think it’s weird ocs are also held to that standard? i’ve seen people repeatedly making new ocs and leaving old ones behind every month & often it’s not even bc they’re done with the oc but because they feel like they HAVE to move onto something new. because the old thing isn’t novel anymore. there’s obviously nothing wrong with dropping an oc early on bc they’re not working or whatever but i also feel like ocs...DO require more time than canon muses. it makes sense that people jump from canon to canon bc you don’t have to build shit from scratch! and yet...i feel like people can get much further writing the same canon for years than you can with ocs. bc this whole idea of novelty just doesn’t seem to apply with canon muses????

idk if anything i’m saying makes sense but this is just something that i’ve thought about a lot. i also do want to be clear that i don’t care if people prefer to write canons. i’m not saying canons aren’t work. i don’t write canon muses bc i find it more difficult and bc i prefer writing ocs. that’s it. but i really wish that people, oc writers respectfully included, didn’t just give up on ocs after they’ve been around more than a few months. and, obviously, there are exceptions to this rule and some ppl keep ocs going for ages. i’ve done it myself, largely by focusing on my own desire to keep the character going longer than people care. but i also feel like it’s harder to do that now bc people are even less ready to engage than in the past.