On the internet, guys are guys, girls are guys, and kids are cops in disguise.
Jokes aside, I know a lot of guys who play women, and a lot of women who play guys, so I kind of do what Aaron said he does: assume they are that gender until told otherwise, though I know internet arpees is dominated by women (I did a lot of LJ/DWRP and that hobby is like 94% women, 6% men, at least when I was active in it.) Not sure about the stats on FFXIV, so I won't comment there.
On topic: I like lore. Love it. I love worldbuilding (one of my favourite series, Ar tonelico and in part Ar nosurge/Ciel nosurge, is HUGE on worldbuilding, lore, and even have their own full constructed languages for the game universe - MULTIPLE constructed languages, in fact!) but... I'm not a huge lore stickler. It might not gel with others well, but if you can make it believable, run with it. I do it. I know others do it. Just make it work in some way and I'm cool with whatever you throw at me.
...I'm also shiptrash but that was probably a given.
I'm horrendously shy generally, and there are plenty of people I've seen here and others I follow on tumblr and I go ":O I KNOW THEM! They're (whoever) on the rpc/tumblr!" and then when I think to wave or something I chicken out. So I'll forever be the creeper who knows people and will internally be excited I saw you but probably never say anything (probably. Maybe some day I will!)
And while it's not really a confession because I think most are like this: I love fluff. Sappy cute stuff. But I wholly enjoy hurting my characters just as much as I love the cute shoujo sparkles doki doki stuff. I don't think I've had enough of that yet in game, it'll have to happen eventually.
Jokes aside, I know a lot of guys who play women, and a lot of women who play guys, so I kind of do what Aaron said he does: assume they are that gender until told otherwise, though I know internet arpees is dominated by women (I did a lot of LJ/DWRP and that hobby is like 94% women, 6% men, at least when I was active in it.) Not sure about the stats on FFXIV, so I won't comment there.
On topic: I like lore. Love it. I love worldbuilding (one of my favourite series, Ar tonelico and in part Ar nosurge/Ciel nosurge, is HUGE on worldbuilding, lore, and even have their own full constructed languages for the game universe - MULTIPLE constructed languages, in fact!) but... I'm not a huge lore stickler. It might not gel with others well, but if you can make it believable, run with it. I do it. I know others do it. Just make it work in some way and I'm cool with whatever you throw at me.
...I'm also shiptrash but that was probably a given.
I'm horrendously shy generally, and there are plenty of people I've seen here and others I follow on tumblr and I go ":O I KNOW THEM! They're (whoever) on the rpc/tumblr!" and then when I think to wave or something I chicken out. So I'll forever be the creeper who knows people and will internally be excited I saw you but probably never say anything (probably. Maybe some day I will!)
And while it's not really a confession because I think most are like this: I love fluff. Sappy cute stuff. But I wholly enjoy hurting my characters just as much as I love the cute shoujo sparkles doki doki stuff. I don't think I've had enough of that yet in game, it'll have to happen eventually.
