[ SECRET POST #2688 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2688 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Frozen]


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03.
[Criminal Minds, Elle Greenaway]


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04.
[Utopia]


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05.
[Prison Architect]


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06.
[One Piece]


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07.
[Orphan Black]


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08.
[Craig Ferguson]


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09.
[Sarah Rees Brennan]


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10.
[Knights of Sidonia]


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11.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 037 secrets from Secret Submission Post #384.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Don't worry, OP, I have yet to see a single actual good RPer on Tumblr from any fandom I'm familiar with. Everything I've encountered seems to be on par with the horribly OOC, self-inserty garbage I wrote back in high school and yet you get people praising it to the heavens.

Basically, you're looking for some slightly less fetid turds in a pile of shit. It's hardly exclusive to Frozen.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen some decent rp but I guess you're right; most of it's really bad. Not that most rp anywhere is amazing and perfect and wonderful (because it's def. not) but ooc garbage being praised is kind of sad.

Especially when it's by older fandom members. I learned years ago that most people are idiots, and that age =/= maturity or intelligence but it's hard to see people who should know better praising shit writing. Especially the english teachers. Ouch.

Thanks for the sympathies fellow anon. ;)

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen plenty of good RP around, but all of the good players I know stick to forums and journal sites like DW, LJ and IJ and won't touch Tumblr with a ten-foot pole. For one thing, the format is terrible for RPing, and for another, well... it's just bad.

A couple of my friends gave it a shot for a little while and I honestly didn't believe how bad it was until they showed me some of the messages they got from people looking for RP. Shiny Sparklesues who wanted to hook up with their canons, people who wanted to play out the most stereotypical of yaoi relationships, a ton of modern high school AUs, grammar that would put third graders to shame... sure, you'll find a certain amount of that anywhere, like you said, but on Tumblr that seems to be the majority rather than an unsavory minority.

Re: OP

[shadowwolf75]

Basically on tumblr you won't even get bites unless you play in one of the fandom darling series. And if you do, generally it'll be limited to the sorts of responses listed above.

I tried it, found it boring as hell, closed the tumblr in question and continued RPing on my forum. Another way you can see it, a lot of those on tumblr are going to be the ones BANNED from most forums because they couldn't behave/follow the rules.

[beverlykatz]

There's some good stuff (I follow a Hannibal Lecter blog that could almost fit with canon), but it's absolutely overwhelmed by shit, you're right. In my experience, most of the good players tend to start off solo and either stay that way or form pairs/bitty groups, rather than having a "game" or a more traditional format.

Honestly, tumblr is just a terrible format for most RPing. The Lecter blog I mentioned works because the mun uses the style appropriately; it's mainly a blog, with lots of recipes and classical music and a fair amount of advice-giving. Their replies/threads aren't absurdly long, and are always under cuts to prevent that annoying chopped-off thing you get with too many block quotes. Sadly, most people don't use it as well as that mun, and so it is a clusterfuck. Hell, I tried to get into it and it was such a mess that I ended up retiring the character to a calmer life of dog blogging. (Since it was Will Graham, I feel I understand the core of his character even better now. :P)