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Yes, you ARE playing a girl. I promise.
There are LJ communities where they have, like, personals advertisements for roleplaying and all. I was enchanted by this, and bored with my current sets of RP, so I posted there, and I was pretty proud of my post -- I know I would've loved to read a post like that from someone else on the community.
I've spoken to at least a dozen people from this community. They're all good people, but there is an...
90% of them insist that they don't play femmeslash, which I understand completely. Okay, maybe it's a bit weird when some people add, "It's too much like cybersex" -- are you, or are you not, roleplaying characters (who are not you) in a relationship? is it any less like cybersex to be roleplaying characters who are of a different gender having sex? -- but I do understand why these roleplayers, who are by and large heterosexual females, would think it strange to play two females in a relationship. I personally don't mind, and would rather like trying it, if only other people would stop being so lame, but to each his own.
But then, bizarrely, 90% of them go on to tell me that they don't play heterosexual relationships: it's "weird" or "squicks me". What? I know that watching a-nee-may has convinced you that the shrill female heroines are much less cool than having the hot sexy men doing each other, but does that mean that all females are inherently unworthy of males? Do you remember that you, yourself, are female?
And, to make matters more interesting, 90% of them claim that they "can switch" but they "prefer to play the bottom" in their "NO GURLZ ALLOWED" IM windows.
I have news for you: if you play the uke, especially a lame helpless uke who lies there and does nothing during sex and makes the other character do everything, you ARE essentially playing heterosexual sex.
These bizarre prejudices really bewilder me. I'm tempted to start telling people "No girls? No tops? No game. I'm not looking for the same RP over and over again with different faces." If I want to play with you, I want to play all my characters with you, not -- let's see, we'll say 5% for potential lesbians, 55% for heterosexuals male and female, 25% for bottoms; I won't bother to make adjustments for bisexuals because neither will the other player -- 15% of my characters. If I had to play with a different person for every pairing arrangement I'd like to try, I would need a minimum of six different roleplaying partners, and I would never see the light of day again, because my hands would be glued to my keyboard, and it would be up to three hours in between each response for each person.
I am very grateful to the community, though, because some of the people I've met seem to have interesting characters (although, what, 75% of them were roleplaying the same anime- or J-rock-derivative lonely needy uke) and Lindsey-san is really, really good from what I've seen so far.
Someday she will stay awake past midnight, too. :D High school is hard.
I've spoken to at least a dozen people from this community. They're all good people, but there is an...
90% of them insist that they don't play femmeslash, which I understand completely. Okay, maybe it's a bit weird when some people add, "It's too much like cybersex" -- are you, or are you not, roleplaying characters (who are not you) in a relationship? is it any less like cybersex to be roleplaying characters who are of a different gender having sex? -- but I do understand why these roleplayers, who are by and large heterosexual females, would think it strange to play two females in a relationship. I personally don't mind, and would rather like trying it, if only other people would stop being so lame, but to each his own.
But then, bizarrely, 90% of them go on to tell me that they don't play heterosexual relationships: it's "weird" or "squicks me". What? I know that watching a-nee-may has convinced you that the shrill female heroines are much less cool than having the hot sexy men doing each other, but does that mean that all females are inherently unworthy of males? Do you remember that you, yourself, are female?
And, to make matters more interesting, 90% of them claim that they "can switch" but they "prefer to play the bottom" in their "NO GURLZ ALLOWED" IM windows.
I have news for you: if you play the uke, especially a lame helpless uke who lies there and does nothing during sex and makes the other character do everything, you ARE essentially playing heterosexual sex.
These bizarre prejudices really bewilder me. I'm tempted to start telling people "No girls? No tops? No game. I'm not looking for the same RP over and over again with different faces." If I want to play with you, I want to play all my characters with you, not -- let's see, we'll say 5% for potential lesbians, 55% for heterosexuals male and female, 25% for bottoms; I won't bother to make adjustments for bisexuals because neither will the other player -- 15% of my characters. If I had to play with a different person for every pairing arrangement I'd like to try, I would need a minimum of six different roleplaying partners, and I would never see the light of day again, because my hands would be glued to my keyboard, and it would be up to three hours in between each response for each person.
I am very grateful to the community, though, because some of the people I've met seem to have interesting characters (although, what, 75% of them were roleplaying the same anime- or J-rock-derivative lonely needy uke) and Lindsey-san is really, really good from what I've seen so far.
Someday she will stay awake past midnight, too. :D High school is hard.
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The problem, sheesh, is wading through the oceans of people who always want to be femmeboi with their so-called "original" characters (because a vampire/angel/catboy named Kei who is lonely and untrusting is original? sounds more like a conglomerate of cliches) and don't play anything else. ^^;;
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Good luck in scratching the itch if it hits you again. ^_^
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