I'm going to ramble a bit, and it may or may not be on topic or relevant.
I want to discuss the perception of the cool kids' club. I realize this is going to come across or sound biased due to what may or may not be my own membership in that club, but I don't think I'm a part of any clubs either. Aya was accused of being a member of that, but I don't think that's quite accurate. Popularity has nothing to do with why Aya's successful in contacting new people or having RP thrown at her:
Accessibility is the keyword here. The people who I tend to think of as the "cool kids" are all playing open, there-to-be-spoken-with character types. The myriad Sultansworn stand ICly in armor in public places. Aya plays a friendly face in a bar in a subservient position. The various Immortal Flames and Brass Blades roleplayers linger about. These people are not playing reclusive spymasters or hardened veterans who look like they don't want to be bothered, and they're also not playing bright-eyed bushy-tailed fledgling adventurers waiting to find new successes and leads.
I, too, was once new here. I made my introduction post, made my directory post, and then began writing an extremely brooding solo thread. It was half-adverstisement, really. "This is what Warren is like. Here are the things he's inclined to do." This might come as a non-surprise to a lot of people here but it turns out I'm pretty prone to clashing with personalities in large groups. More often than not I tended to find myself playing solo or in my own little cliques. There's something like a half-dozen of you on this forum who've ever actually interacted with Warren at any meaningful length, and several of those are people I know in real life.
My rambling nonpoint is that anything perceived as having been given freely or lucked into is not. It's a result of having a wide-appeal character, or perhaps having just written an interesting one people wanted to see more of. It's the process of having sought out connections instead of asking for them, it's the result of having talked to several dozen strangers before finding a couple you really mesh with and want to spin yarns with.
This isn't meant to lecture anyone on it being their fault, but it is hopefully a call to awareness that nobody starts off with an advantage here. This will probably be taken the wrong way, but it also helps to consider that in the past week there have been a seemingly-endless call for connections from what appears on the surface to be several copies of the same character.
When the thread titles themselves are poking fun at the fact that there's a whole litter of similarly-seeking individuals, you have to do something, anything, to differentiate yourself. I know not everyone is into longer-form writing or solo threads detailing their characters, but it's a great place to get started. It gives strangers a peek into your life and character, and makes it easier to arrange wanting to bump into them in the meta sense.
Rargh, feel free to tear apart my poorly-considered side of the discussion now.
I want to discuss the perception of the cool kids' club. I realize this is going to come across or sound biased due to what may or may not be my own membership in that club, but I don't think I'm a part of any clubs either. Aya was accused of being a member of that, but I don't think that's quite accurate. Popularity has nothing to do with why Aya's successful in contacting new people or having RP thrown at her:
Accessibility is the keyword here. The people who I tend to think of as the "cool kids" are all playing open, there-to-be-spoken-with character types. The myriad Sultansworn stand ICly in armor in public places. Aya plays a friendly face in a bar in a subservient position. The various Immortal Flames and Brass Blades roleplayers linger about. These people are not playing reclusive spymasters or hardened veterans who look like they don't want to be bothered, and they're also not playing bright-eyed bushy-tailed fledgling adventurers waiting to find new successes and leads.
I, too, was once new here. I made my introduction post, made my directory post, and then began writing an extremely brooding solo thread. It was half-adverstisement, really. "This is what Warren is like. Here are the things he's inclined to do." This might come as a non-surprise to a lot of people here but it turns out I'm pretty prone to clashing with personalities in large groups. More often than not I tended to find myself playing solo or in my own little cliques. There's something like a half-dozen of you on this forum who've ever actually interacted with Warren at any meaningful length, and several of those are people I know in real life.
My rambling nonpoint is that anything perceived as having been given freely or lucked into is not. It's a result of having a wide-appeal character, or perhaps having just written an interesting one people wanted to see more of. It's the process of having sought out connections instead of asking for them, it's the result of having talked to several dozen strangers before finding a couple you really mesh with and want to spin yarns with.
This isn't meant to lecture anyone on it being their fault, but it is hopefully a call to awareness that nobody starts off with an advantage here. This will probably be taken the wrong way, but it also helps to consider that in the past week there have been a seemingly-endless call for connections from what appears on the surface to be several copies of the same character.
When the thread titles themselves are poking fun at the fact that there's a whole litter of similarly-seeking individuals, you have to do something, anything, to differentiate yourself. I know not everyone is into longer-form writing or solo threads detailing their characters, but it's a great place to get started. It gives strangers a peek into your life and character, and makes it easier to arrange wanting to bump into them in the meta sense.
Rargh, feel free to tear apart my poorly-considered side of the discussion now.
![[Image: yEROfKO.png]](http://i.imgur.com/yEROfKO.png)
