OOC: Writer meme
Jul. 7th, 2010 03:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
just2handsWhat's your real name?: Leslie, call me Lee
Age?: Older than a bread box, younger than the Eiffel Tower?
Where do you live?: Somewhere on the East Coast
Do you have a job?: Oh yes. *ahum* Former active-duty military, former bouncer, former bodyguard for exotic dancers, former OC-Spray instructor, former volunteer FD member, current security officer at a large inner-city hospital in a smallish state.
How much RP experience do you have?: Role play? Well, if you count the old D&D games I played in the army and the role play I did in the SCA? (Society of Medieval Recreation) It would be about 20+ years. Seriously. Role play on the internet? Roughly 6+ years. And I am very lucky and very blessed to still have some of the friends I made 5 and 6 years ago.
What are your feelings about shipping?: They have their good and bad points. It takes work to build relationships and it takes work to keep them, and some rare ones do last. Would that be good for all of my characters? Oh hell no. It wouldn't be good for most of my characters in fact. But just as in real life, sometimes people just make it work together. And I don't think that's a facet of reality that should be ignored. In this case, I'm greatly amused because one of my most evil, underhanded characters has been in the longest loving relationship. And it hasn't been EASY for her at all. However, real life is real life; there are temptations, and frustrations, and break ups and reconciliations - and sometimes there just aren't. If you're going to have a relationship, you need to portray all sides of it, the good and the bad, the insecurities, the questions unasked and unanswered; the screw ups and blow ups. It's not peaches and cream, gang.
What are your feelings about smut?: I don't mind it. In fact there are times I enjoy writing it. My first few times were failures I have to admit. I had to learn how to do it right. And by doing it right I mean including NOT letting the other person godmod me into places and positions with my character. I still remember one of my first failures with a mix of shame and growly-ness as what my partner wrote in for my character to react to and have done. And I was too new at the whole thing to tell them I didn't like it, didn't want it, didn't want it to happen that way. In retrospect, 5 years later? I learned up close and personal what NOT to do to another's character.
And I want to state that there is a difference to me between smut and erotica. I can do both, I prefer erotica - when I write with those few people that I trust to write sex scenes with me. Just as you can slam-bang-do the nasty with a hot and heavy one-night stand; sex can be just as passionate and far more erotic when you throw up a curtain and have your characters perform behind it, casting shadows for the imagination. AND YES, I need to trust the person and have some experience rp'ing with them in general before I go there with my characters.
Are there things you won't RP?: I haven't written incest so far. Oh wait, myself and another person did write a scene using alternate universe versions of the same character - is that incest, or just an advanced form of masturbation?
I won't write child-rape. That's pretty much the line for me. I will write child-death, and torture, kill, mangle of people-places-things for the furtherance of the story, and I have written (RARE) rape scenes before when it advanced the storyline or rounded out a characters' actions, attitude, history. Which means um, twice in all my time writing. With two different characters. I've written the 'torturer' and the 'torturee,' and I have no problems throwing my characters into the most horrific of circumstances (again if it happens to come up in the storyline) just to see how they would react and get through to the other side. I'm pretty much an equal opportunity sadist to my characters. Good guys, bad guys, no one gets out scott-free. I.E. If one of my characters takes a short cut down a dark alley that JUST HAPPENS to be filled with evil, horrific monsters? My character had damned sure better have the intelligence, the strength or speed or what have you to get out of there or suffer the consequences.
What are your favorite things to RP?: Party posts, because I get to have my character interact with any number of other player's characters in very social positive or negative ways. I get to role play with characters I've never even met before. And I love it. What else? I very much like playing my characters out of their element, throwing them into another situation, dealing with things or people that they wouldn't normally come up against in their lives. What I actually like rp'ing? Isn't to create my own plots (because sometimes I'm just a lazy git). I like helping out other people with their plots, to enhance everyone's enjoyment of the game.
What's something you wished would get RPed more?: I think that there are CHARACTERS I Wish I would rp more, but I can't always jump start them into acting/reacting. but nah, I can't think of anything at the moment.
Are you plot driven?: Depends on the character and what's going on. Sometimes things happen for a reason, and sometimes things just happen. I'm good with both, and I really just try to roll with whatever comes my way.
Slow or fast tagger: Fast and slow. Depends on real life, which is - I must say - insane at times.
Who are your active muses?: Pepper![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sinful_minx, Anika-Amadi just2hands Amarante sunnotshadows, Kacee Hedinn apathsolitaire and her son Brandon kodiac_cub. And finally, I'm TRYING to get back into the habit of writing Rochefort all_forme again after losing his voice for almost a year. And yes, I also occasionally write Leela leela1 on another site. She was my original, my unrepentant, beaten all to hell and back, trouble child and Mary Sue.
Your favorite muses to write?: It used to be Rochefort, SERIOUSLY. Evil, conniving bastard. God, he was fun to rp and interact with! And then it just... I don't know. Right now? It's Pepper, Anika, and a toss up between Amarante and Brandon.
Pepper is human, and an OC. Ok, she's got an enzyme in her blood that has addictive properties to vampires. That is NOT necessarily a good thing, gang. But still, no special powers, no super stuff. She is however, AWESOME with computers. She is one of my longest running characters, and she's just a blast to play. She pushes her brain and her body, and uses both as tools (or wields them as weapons?) to get what she wants. She has very few scruples, and has been my only evil female character. The only one. And she revels in the power she can obtain and the destruction and chaos she can cause. Especially when she has a goal in mind. I love playing her, she's evil and devious and conniving and... so much fun!! She's even fun when she's getting her ass kicked, literally and figuratively, because she's a vengeful little bitch.
Anika-Amadi another original character and is about as opposite to Pepper as you can get. Struggling med-student and humanitarian, just getting her head out of books (and the clouds) and into real life. She's making mistakes with her very first relationship, and that relationship may not last the mistakes made; and is prone to making the presumption that everyone she meets are basically decent people like she is, and is a good conversationalist when you can get her out of her books and out of her shell. She hides her body most of the time, wanting to be taken seriously and to be known for her brains. Most 'real world' things are out of her element; her element being the lab, the library, the classroom, and her work area or her bedroom. She is starting to learn however, the fun that can be had in a short dress line and a high pair of shoes. Who knows, maybe someday she'll even learn to *gasp* actively flirt.
Amarante (OC) is just fun. She's wise and innocent, passionate and conservative, hedonistic and unpretentious. So many things wrapped up in that package. It's fun to write her history as a child during WW2 (although I will bitch and complain about doing the research, research, RESEARCH for her) and it's fun to slowly unwrap her and find out what she's like now as an adult.
And Brandon (also OC) is my first childish muse. I'm struggling with him and I watch my friends' children (and remember my own) as inspiration to what it was like to be 12 and wanting to be so much older. I think I'm starting to get the hang of him, but it's like tap-dancing through a field of clover and time bombs. I am really very cautious about getting him too involved and screwing him up. So many people cannot write children that I really had second thoughts about creating him. Wish me luck?
My AIM: taarakian b. On gchat: mischiefgrins at gmail dot com
Age?: Older than a bread box, younger than the Eiffel Tower?
Where do you live?: Somewhere on the East Coast
Do you have a job?: Oh yes. *ahum* Former active-duty military, former bouncer, former bodyguard for exotic dancers, former OC-Spray instructor, former volunteer FD member, current security officer at a large inner-city hospital in a smallish state.
How much RP experience do you have?: Role play? Well, if you count the old D&D games I played in the army and the role play I did in the SCA? (Society of Medieval Recreation) It would be about 20+ years. Seriously. Role play on the internet? Roughly 6+ years. And I am very lucky and very blessed to still have some of the friends I made 5 and 6 years ago.
What are your feelings about shipping?: They have their good and bad points. It takes work to build relationships and it takes work to keep them, and some rare ones do last. Would that be good for all of my characters? Oh hell no. It wouldn't be good for most of my characters in fact. But just as in real life, sometimes people just make it work together. And I don't think that's a facet of reality that should be ignored. In this case, I'm greatly amused because one of my most evil, underhanded characters has been in the longest loving relationship. And it hasn't been EASY for her at all. However, real life is real life; there are temptations, and frustrations, and break ups and reconciliations - and sometimes there just aren't. If you're going to have a relationship, you need to portray all sides of it, the good and the bad, the insecurities, the questions unasked and unanswered; the screw ups and blow ups. It's not peaches and cream, gang.
What are your feelings about smut?: I don't mind it. In fact there are times I enjoy writing it. My first few times were failures I have to admit. I had to learn how to do it right. And by doing it right I mean including NOT letting the other person godmod me into places and positions with my character. I still remember one of my first failures with a mix of shame and growly-ness as what my partner wrote in for my character to react to and have done. And I was too new at the whole thing to tell them I didn't like it, didn't want it, didn't want it to happen that way. In retrospect, 5 years later? I learned up close and personal what NOT to do to another's character.
And I want to state that there is a difference to me between smut and erotica. I can do both, I prefer erotica - when I write with those few people that I trust to write sex scenes with me. Just as you can slam-bang-do the nasty with a hot and heavy one-night stand; sex can be just as passionate and far more erotic when you throw up a curtain and have your characters perform behind it, casting shadows for the imagination. AND YES, I need to trust the person and have some experience rp'ing with them in general before I go there with my characters.
Are there things you won't RP?: I haven't written incest so far. Oh wait, myself and another person did write a scene using alternate universe versions of the same character - is that incest, or just an advanced form of masturbation?
I won't write child-rape. That's pretty much the line for me. I will write child-death, and torture, kill, mangle of people-places-things for the furtherance of the story, and I have written (RARE) rape scenes before when it advanced the storyline or rounded out a characters' actions, attitude, history. Which means um, twice in all my time writing. With two different characters. I've written the 'torturer' and the 'torturee,' and I have no problems throwing my characters into the most horrific of circumstances (again if it happens to come up in the storyline) just to see how they would react and get through to the other side. I'm pretty much an equal opportunity sadist to my characters. Good guys, bad guys, no one gets out scott-free. I.E. If one of my characters takes a short cut down a dark alley that JUST HAPPENS to be filled with evil, horrific monsters? My character had damned sure better have the intelligence, the strength or speed or what have you to get out of there or suffer the consequences.
What are your favorite things to RP?: Party posts, because I get to have my character interact with any number of other player's characters in very social positive or negative ways. I get to role play with characters I've never even met before. And I love it. What else? I very much like playing my characters out of their element, throwing them into another situation, dealing with things or people that they wouldn't normally come up against in their lives. What I actually like rp'ing? Isn't to create my own plots (because sometimes I'm just a lazy git). I like helping out other people with their plots, to enhance everyone's enjoyment of the game.
What's something you wished would get RPed more?: I think that there are CHARACTERS I Wish I would rp more, but I can't always jump start them into acting/reacting. but nah, I can't think of anything at the moment.
Are you plot driven?: Depends on the character and what's going on. Sometimes things happen for a reason, and sometimes things just happen. I'm good with both, and I really just try to roll with whatever comes my way.
Slow or fast tagger: Fast and slow. Depends on real life, which is - I must say - insane at times.
Who are your active muses?: Pepper
sinful_minx, Anika-Amadi just2hands Amarante sunnotshadows, Kacee Hedinn apathsolitaire and her son Brandon kodiac_cub. And finally, I'm TRYING to get back into the habit of writing Rochefort all_forme again after losing his voice for almost a year. And yes, I also occasionally write Leela leela1 on another site. She was my original, my unrepentant, beaten all to hell and back, trouble child and Mary Sue. Your favorite muses to write?: It used to be Rochefort, SERIOUSLY. Evil, conniving bastard. God, he was fun to rp and interact with! And then it just... I don't know. Right now? It's Pepper, Anika, and a toss up between Amarante and Brandon.
Pepper is human, and an OC. Ok, she's got an enzyme in her blood that has addictive properties to vampires. That is NOT necessarily a good thing, gang. But still, no special powers, no super stuff. She is however, AWESOME with computers. She is one of my longest running characters, and she's just a blast to play. She pushes her brain and her body, and uses both as tools (or wields them as weapons?) to get what she wants. She has very few scruples, and has been my only evil female character. The only one. And she revels in the power she can obtain and the destruction and chaos she can cause. Especially when she has a goal in mind. I love playing her, she's evil and devious and conniving and... so much fun!! She's even fun when she's getting her ass kicked, literally and figuratively, because she's a vengeful little bitch.
Anika-Amadi another original character and is about as opposite to Pepper as you can get. Struggling med-student and humanitarian, just getting her head out of books (and the clouds) and into real life. She's making mistakes with her very first relationship, and that relationship may not last the mistakes made; and is prone to making the presumption that everyone she meets are basically decent people like she is, and is a good conversationalist when you can get her out of her books and out of her shell. She hides her body most of the time, wanting to be taken seriously and to be known for her brains. Most 'real world' things are out of her element; her element being the lab, the library, the classroom, and her work area or her bedroom. She is starting to learn however, the fun that can be had in a short dress line and a high pair of shoes. Who knows, maybe someday she'll even learn to *gasp* actively flirt.
Amarante (OC) is just fun. She's wise and innocent, passionate and conservative, hedonistic and unpretentious. So many things wrapped up in that package. It's fun to write her history as a child during WW2 (although I will bitch and complain about doing the research, research, RESEARCH for her) and it's fun to slowly unwrap her and find out what she's like now as an adult.
And Brandon (also OC) is my first childish muse. I'm struggling with him and I watch my friends' children (and remember my own) as inspiration to what it was like to be 12 and wanting to be so much older. I think I'm starting to get the hang of him, but it's like tap-dancing through a field of clover and time bombs. I am really very cautious about getting him too involved and screwing him up. So many people cannot write children that I really had second thoughts about creating him. Wish me luck?
My AIM: taarakian b. On gchat: mischiefgrins at gmail dot com
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Date: 2010-07-07 10:41 pm (UTC)Thank you for expanding on my one-line thought about the work and complications of long-term relationship RP, and why I can find it to be so rewarded ^_^ Those are the very same reasons I wouldn't go into it with anyone I didn't trust because, as with a real relationship, going through all that crap can be touchy. It has to be communicated well if you're going to have fun behind the scenes, and not secretly be hurt every time your characters butt heads.
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Date: 2010-07-08 06:14 pm (UTC)It can be. And short term or long, you are hitching your trust to the other person and your character to their character. It opens the way for neglect, abuse, unforeseen repercussions. You really have to trust who you're with. I'm very very lucky in that, actually. I have some fantastic friends that I've managed to hold on to and we've worked through our characters issues, and the different challenges that come up in our real lives and our friendship is stronger because of it.
And if our characters butt heads, it just makes for better reading! No sense being hurt over it, its just good rp fun.
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Date: 2010-07-07 11:27 pm (UTC)Also, I've wondered who played Rochefort for a while...though I probably should have put two and two together with Amanrante.
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Date: 2010-07-08 06:19 pm (UTC)And yes, I rp Roch. I used to love writing him, he was - for the most part - unrepentantly evil, with a smile. Then some things happened and I guess I just lost him. I'm trying to be able to write him again but the voice comes and goes.
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Date: 2010-07-08 09:58 pm (UTC)It happens sometimes, unfortunately. Any extreme makes it a little more difficult to sustain. But I'm hoping for the best for you and him. Evil that enjoys itself is far too much fun.