Hi. How are you. Name's Flynn Rider.

Oh hai there.

To explain why I chose the name for this blog, well - it's an ongoing struggle really.

You find what you think is the perfect picture base (or as close to as you can get to how you envision your character).  Yay!  Oh look, there's even a good selection of photos for match headers, fed graphics and some are even high def!  Whee!!

Then... uh oh.

She was in porn!  He posed nude in a bunch of "arty" gay smut!  OH SHIT!

Well ... should that matter?  I mean honestly, should it?

Obviously not, but here's where we have a problem, Houston.

Now I expect a lot of you are going to think that I'm going to use my character Claire Foxe as the only example because a) I've had this issue with people b) Dude.  Candice Michelle.  Playboy.  Soft core porn.

Yeah shoutout to all you lovely people that I have to deal with that aspect of a picture base.  Some of you it's definitely tongue in cheek, and those people I just either ignore outright or correct them IN CHARACTER because obviously Claire has never done porn, never posed for Playboy, never married a rich as fuck doctor and had ...five kids?  Is it four or five? (and the oldest rumored to be Jeff Hardy's kid because of course).  Right?

Then there are the ones who spanked their monkey to Candice when they were riffling through Daddy's porn stash and who honestly think that because it's Candice Michelle that I happen to use as the picture representation of my character she must also be a whooooore... you know, THE STALKERS.  The hands on their junk neckbeards who are lusting after your character not because you write a great promo and they don't care if it's a male or female handler because they can't separate the picture from the thing.

In a couple of cases?  I've been asked OOC if I look like Candice.  Uh.  No?  Other than I'm brunette rofl.

But really the only time I've been upset - like pissed off upset?  Was when someone said something disrespectful to me OOC over it.

Now time for the boys to represent.

Now I'm sure a lot of you know Al Envy.  HI AL!

I haven't asked him if he's had this problem, let me put this here as a DISCLAIMER:  I HAVE NOT ASKED THE HANDLER OF AL ENVY IF THIS HAS HAPPENED TO HIM.

If he reads this and it has though I would love to edit in an account of what happened.

Al Envy uses a very tasteful representation of Seth Rollins as his picture base - his Twitter DP is him in a suit with his hair slicked back, very professional looking even with the skunk stripe.  Is this Seth Rollins?  OF COURSE IT ISN'T.

It's Al Envy.  Al who is doing stuff.

He's not SETH ROLLINS, who had a couple nudes "accidentally" sent live out over social media in which he proudly displayed his penis to his mistress.  Glad he was proud of that, because apparently what a normal sized winkie gets you in eFedding is a sudden mass exodus of people that WERE using the picturebase as their guy.

Because a lot of them didn't want to deal with having someone trying to say "here's yer dick!" in the RPs against them.  Or worse?  "here's yer LITTLE DICK!"

What, exactly does the size of Seth Rollins dick have to do with whether or not Al Envy has a pipe that would make a porn star blush or nah?

Exactly.  Nothing.

Get it now?

Or the poor guys who use John Hannigan aka John Morrison - oh GOD.  Fairly recently his girlfriend Melina posted a picture of his Viagra pills with his name on the bottle.  She deleted it, but yeahhhh it's still floating around out there.  I wonder how many of those guys get hit with a "you need dick pills" during a promo?

If you've had issues with this I'd love to hear about it, might even do a whole other blog.

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Be good to each other.  Don't be an asshole.  Don't be a dick.  OOC for real.