So while I wait on the fractured story
parts of my FGA RP to get finished so I can line them all up (lol), I
figured yep. Blog time.
There were several things I could write
a whole blog on but I think I can capture the essence of what I'm
going for without all that so let's dig in, shall we?
Twitter – like it, love it, hate it,
nothing it... guess what, it's a pretty large part of eFedding and
it's not going away unless the company goes under.
The key points on this are simple,
really.
- If you don't want to use Twitter, don't.
- If your friend loves Twitter and uses it to build character arcs, heat for a feud, meet people from other feds, etc? Let them!
- No one can force you to interact with them on Twitter, especially ooc'ly.
- If someone tells you that their DM's are ooc only? Respect that. If you don't respect it and act like a jerk trying to force shady RP don't get mad if you get named and shamed.
- How someone else uses Twitter isn't your problem, if they want to be a big bag of dicks let them. MUTE is a beautiful thing.
- Which leads me to this: Don't BE A DICK. There needs to be less of that anyway.
COURTESY. If it's not yours, don't
take it. If you want to use someone's character in your RP (and they
aren't a partner that have given you standing permission to do so) …
ASK THEM. Most people will say yes and might even help you with your
idea to make it better. If they say no? RESPECT THAT.
This is something that you'd think I
wouldn't need to blog about. For the most part we're all adults,
right?
Right?
Now I don't know the details of what
happened, and I haven't asked. But on its face this should be the
most simple of things to remember. If it's not yours, don't take it.
This means – someone's creative work,
no matter what form it takes. You don't take someone else's
character and have them do things. I'm not talking about a parody
stand in for a promo, I'm talking full on actions that a character
wouldn't do presented as being from that character without
permission.
You don't do that. You don't take
someone else's promos, graphic works they did, or their character and
claim it as yours. That's theft, it's ass, and if I could stress
that more I would.
If you steal someone's stuff and claim
it's yours, you're a fucking scumbag. Especially if your attitude is
“so what?” or “chill out, it's a joke”.
It's not a joke when someone spends
time to develop their character the way they want it and someone else
waltzes in and fucks with it. It's one of the facets of why bad
match writing is so disappointing. When a match writer doesn't care
or goes completely against the build of your character when you've
taken time to leave notes to help out? Sure, they donated time to
write a match and that's great – still a dick.
Personally I've had losses that I could
have cared less about because the match write up was so spot on, so
perfectly in character that I was over the moon happy. The match
writers that can do that are worth their weight in gold and that's
just how I feel about it.
Also personally? Right now I am an
unbelievably lucky Mina. I have writing partners that I actually
totally TRUST with my characters. There isn't a person I work with
regularly that I would hesitate for even a second to let them go
ahead and use my character even if I didn't have time to spot check
the dialog or something. And that is cool.
