If no boom yesterday, boom today. - Or: THAT was the next explosion.

[oloriel]

Fine. I deleted yesterday's rant, but today, it's going on air. Let there be Drama.

"It really sucks when a canon character, particularly a major one, is OOC."

Which totally doesn't apply to at least half the characters, even the major ones in their respective canons, on DF. Oh, no. Of course not. Especially not those your puppets like to interact with. Or those of your clique. Never.

"And the way she treats people that she should respect-"

Whom, please?

"The worst example was the dog-petting thing, really"

And that is necessarily OOC? Because someone who tries to convert people's way of treating house-elves would never ever tell them how to treat animals? Sorry, I don't get it.

"If we're thinking of the same person, then she hadn't even read the bloody books when she joined."

Has our dearly beloved Eöl- and Saeros-typist ever read the Silm? Just asking. Or did she just need every possible reminder about the character because it's so far in the past and she can't remember anything?
Would you swear that all of our LesMis muns have actually read the book/s, or don't you think one or two might just be running on the musical and/or one of the many movies?

By the way: She had.

"...especially about her trying to break the magical rules of the universe."

PROVE. IT.

Seriously? The last thing one needs are immature, inane, selfish teenagers, who stick only to the rules they like or made up themselves, who're incapable of getting their own lives sorted out and wine about not being respected when they've done nothing to deserve respect, telling them what to do.

And let me just add something entirely for myself, because I've been swallowing it for far too long:
YOUR. PRESETS. ARE. NOT. FUNNY. ANYMORE. They were never really funny, and now that the amusement has worn off, they're really just annoying.
The same goes for the Eruawful "your mom" joke, which wasn't even funny when I was in kindergarten and CERTAINLY shouldn't be funny amongst people who have been out of kindergarten for a while.
Also for "O RLY", but that's not your fault alone, so I'll let that pass.
Anyway, rule of thumb - and listen up now, because this might be important:
Passing fads are only funny as long as they gracefully pass when their time to die has come at last.

You know what? Excuse my Middle English, but FUCK YOU.

Comments

[coppertone.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Maybe you're right on that. I just have trouble controlling my optimism.

--But yes, that's the point. Fangirling immaturely is generally harmless fun (which is why I don't have a real problem with the presets, really. Also because I've just never paid enough attention to them to register how funny they are or aren't). And I do love OOC chat, and I love all our typists, crack and silliness and all. But this wasn't silly: it was malicious and unneccesarily hurtful and completely uncalled-for.

Of course bringing it up doesn't always work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try it. Starting it with something like BRPS means that you aren't even bothering to try to be reasonable. If the other person isn't going to reciprocate, you still try to be reasonable. If they go batshit on you, no, sorry, that's still not your cue to lower yourself to their level.
And that one does work both ways.

(Of course, to be very honest, I hardly ever voice my problems with anyone. I don't bring it outside, sure, but I don't bring it anywhere else, either, figuring that if I have a problem with someone, that's my problem, not theirs. Which just makes me spineless and only proves that I don't really practice what I've just been preaching.)

Yes, I know. I didn't phrase that the way I meant to, and now you've done it for me. What's irritating is when you have one concept of of a character (which of course you'll think is right-- you wouldn't have the opinion if you didn't) and its typist has another. But the fact remains that we're all varying degrees of OOC (seeing as how we aren't the authors), and yet this is ignored until someone decides they don't like how one character is played. It isn't really strange, but it is unfair.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Damn right. (Though I might want to point out that something similar occured on BRPS a while back already, and though it wasn't quite as hurtful, it was rather unnecessary, too - and turned worse by all the comments...)
Yes, I know, I certainly shouldn't have posted like this. Hey, blame my puppet. He's good at assimilating my brain, I swea-- see?

(Hey, we're all human. I usually keep my problems to myself, too. Which, in my feeble opinion, is still a lot better than wanking. I'm aware this post was not - better than wanking, that is - but I did explode just then.)

Yes. And I understand that; there are characters my pups interact with who aren't quite as I imagine them, and I'm aware to bet that the way I play my character/s isn't everyone's cuppa tea either. But - yes. We both said it, really, so I won't repeat it again...

[coppertone.livejournal.com]

(If you mean the one I commented on... yes. I've felt horribly guilty about it ever since, which is one reason I stay out of bitch-fests: if I do join in, I beat myself up for it ever afterwards. And why I feel unforgivably hypocritical writing all this, even if I do believe it.)

Maybe not. But if it brings the bitching back into our own group, instead running around in public places, then it's already serving one good purpose.

(Most things are better than wanking. As for the good of this post; see above.)

And that's why we're RPing, not writing fic. I enjoy looking at everyone else's takes on the characters: they often think of things I'd never have, and makes it all that much more interesting. It's too bad that we can so easily resent it.