Soul Sucking Devils

My blog post today is about several things but firstly it's the men and women who think that they're their characters. Yes. People on the other end of computers do form friendships and even relationships. But for fuck's sake, just because your character is playing with someone, it doesn't mean that you own that person irl. It's ROLE play for a fucking reason. If you cry because your character got rejected, you have a problem. It's called Self-Insert Sue and you need to see a writing doctor about it immediately. The prescription will be "Remove head from ass and then write." I'm the doctor and that's the doctor's orders. Now, however, some people do bitch play and it has nothing to do with what's going on with the character. I just find those rare, thankfully.

What the fuck is with all of these people who play themselves and not characters? I am not Secret, She is not me and I am not her. She likes stuff I do not and hates things that I do. She's her own being. Granted she's a lot like me in some ways, and I tend to play with the same people over and over, and yes… I'm good friends and 'play' partners with quite a few of them… but I have no hold over them. I do not own them. I do not have a say in what they do. And vice versa. They have no say over who I play with, when I play with them and, etc.

It irritates me to no end watching people chase others around the fun forums that I so love and enjoy as if those people are their property. The site that I have fallen completely in love with has rules about possessiveness and pulling bitch play - as I call it. Bitch Play is where you take OOC shit and put it in IC situations. Fuck that noise. If you have a problem with someone, man up, balls up and go talk to that person like an adult. Don't hide behind a character and then blame the character for an action. Hell, I spend half my time apologizing for what my characters do, not hiding behind them. My characters take a keen delight in insulting my friends and those I love. >.<

Group Games *drools*

Mmmphfffff! Group games. Lately I've come to love group games so much even though I swore that I'd never, ever get into them. I find myself cleaning out my bookmarks and letting threads slip, stopping with the 'waiting' on people to post. Twenty days hits now and it's buh-bye. See ya. Hopefully I can pick a few of those up later but if not, I just feel special to have gotten to write with those amazing people. There's only been a few bad apples in my roleplay experience, to be honest, and I hold my departed games very near and dear.

IPBfree.

Fuck you. Bastards. I've been waiting over this one because I've been so upset and furiously angry over it. I owned a site for three years and then two spin offs of that site. One was because of an admin split and we let the main site stand as a monument to many nights gone by of marathon posting, romance, debauchery, evil, and murder. Yes. So many fun characters. I clicked my link one day to go grab a character bio… only to find Godaddy.com. What? No. Wrong link, right?

…Nope. Clicked it again and back to the domain site. Why? So I talk to my friends from then and all of our sites are gone. *cries* Even the board where I was tutoring a friend is gone. All his hard work in trying to become a better writer and his progress and the lessons I prepared… destroyed in the middle of the night by liars that claim 'legal issues' and 'immediate shut down'. Even child porn rings don't get shut down that quickly. To this I say… FUCK YOU, VIPUL! Don't even say that you gave me a free forum because I know that all those annoying ads that sat at the top of the page paid for that. As did my site with it's almost quarter million spider hits. Promotion. You gave me borrowed time and a lot of promises about Phalanx that never came. This bit coming might be ignorant but… If you had backups of the boards, why suddenly can they never come back? Why is all of that data lost? That doesn't make sense to me.