Set it right after Korra's death (or after an Avatar's death) so it's baked into the theme that no one is ever going to play the Avatar during the game's timeline, not even Staff.
Be careful how you manage accessibility to bending by PCs and the importance of bending when it comes to being included in RP and plot.
You're the reason shampoo comes with instructions.
@auspice said in How to: make your poses less repetitive:
You can also always run your poses through this tool: http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
It'll help identify things like legibility, passive voice, how many adverbs you've used (don't abuse those too much).
That APP is the best thing ever. I remember discovering it yeeeeeaaarrrrsssss ago and more than one character has had pretty much every word I type for them go through it.
Important: if you are a writer or fancy yourself a would-be writer and you are also RPing--do not treat RP like you treat your craft. I'm not talking about tricks and styles like what @Ganymede posted above--that's great and it'll help tons. I'm talking about rhythm, the dynamism of the scene, and otherwise treating RP like you are writing and wanting to use the same voice you use for writing as you do for RP. So many people I know have told me "I RP all the time and then when I wanna write something just feels off and I do it the same way I don't understand" and I am like--welllllllllllllllllllllllllllll that's because they're different.
Guys, I finally made it to Silver IV on League of Legends on my own.
God damn, I am not good at these games so this is pretty neat for me.
Man, even if the hobby were dying, what exactly are we supposed to do different?
We're all putting as much of ourselves into the hobby as we can and want. Nobody's going to redouble their efforts because the hobby might be slowing down or whatever.
Maybe we'll be playing in twenty years.
Maybe we won't.
Just fucking enjoy the good bits and pieces amidst all the dumb fucking drama while you can.
You know what's really sad?
Most people won't pay actual, real attention until it is a white dude behind a keyboard typing: I AM A WHITE, MALE GAMER AND I ALSO AGREE WITH ALL THESE THINGS THESE WOMEN ARE SAYING.
And then everyone will be like, "Oh, man, maybe it's true."
And the few of us who've been like, "No shit it's true!" for years will go: ARRRRRRRRRRGH.
I mean, I support Randall Bills's message--I am just so sick of it having to be white dudes posting support to get a message across. Same way I'm sick of it having to be white politicians who talk about racial issues before the world fucking acknowledges them.
Now I really want downvotes to be visible so I can see who the fucking jackass is who would downvote something like this. Holy shit, what kind of petty fucking soul does it take? Yikes.
@Ganymede said:
If you're one of the marginalized, it's okay to be tired and frustrated at being asked to explain your motivations and beliefs for the umpteenth time. There are people who genuinely want to help, who, by way of privilege, known or unknown, may not entirely understand or connect with what you're saying. Being frustrated with meeting an otherwise-intelligent person with this ignorance is reasonable.
@Kanye_Qwest said:
If you want me to listen to your thoughts and consider them seriously, you should take some time and respond when you aren't so hysterical. It's impossible to have a logical discussion with you when you are telling me to grow dicks and fuck myself.
For me, this is the entire discussion, right here. These two statements.
At the end of the day, as shitty as this may sound, if you are in a group that you feel deserves equal attention and recognition? The way you get that is by getting the people in the majority (or, you know, the ones with the proverbial boot on your neck, or whatever) on your side, so that they can help to enact the changes you wish to see. Not by pissing them off and asserting you don't need them to understand, or agree. Because that will get you a kneejerk response that is basically the opposite of the goal you are seeking.
Except this is exactly the problem: the people in the majority expecting the minority and the oppressed to be nice and civil about it because they are a minority and they should behave better if they want our help. Uh, no. Absolutely not.
More flies with honey. Etc. If someone is trying to help you, accept their help, give them your story calmly and reasonably. You damage no one but yourself when you react with vitriole. It may be reasonable from, like, a philosophical standpoint, but it's not reasonable as far as 'what are the best logical ways to try and enact the changes I want to see, if the problem is me vs. the rest of the world'.
Actually, historically, socialc hange comes from the oppressed being angry enough to act beyond the constraints and acceptance of the oppressors. Martin Luther King may have been non-violent, but the white people who decided to follow him and help him didn't do it because he was polite--they did it because they recognized a struggle and joined in without demanding he sit down with them and tell them about it in terms they can understand and don't you raise your voice to me while you do it.
Social upheavels don't happen when you tell the subjugated to behave and be nice. And every time I see someone saying "this is why you're not getting anywhere, because you're rude to people trying to help", I get even angrier, because if those people were really trying to help they would be angry too.
I still remember the time my cousin and I convinced our other cousin that if you googled "Google" the internet broke.
He did it. We disconnected the internet just as he did it.
I have never seen someone freak out so much in my life. It probably didn't help that we had spent like an hour explaining to him the ramifications of the internet suddenly collapsing and how he should not under any circumstance google "Google".
As seen on Twitter:
who run the world
GIRLS
who sit on thrones
GIRLS
who make the speeches
GIRLS
how bout the library
NO WOMEN NO CHILDREN
Just the friggin' worst, really. How fuckin' dare.
Fffffffffffuck people who bathe in perfume.
I have to literally take a huge breath and hold it for like thirty seconds when this one woman in my office comes over to say hi because otherwise I gag.
@gamerngeek said in New OC Star Wars MUSH Set in Satellite galaxy -- Come RP With Us!:
@medela So...you have a Star Wars Mush. Except it isn't set in the Galaxy, doesn't have Sith, Jedi, the Empire, the Alliance/Republic, or any of the familiar races.
So you don't really have a Star Wars Mush. You have an original concept Sci-Fi Mush.
FYI, this comes off super salty and snobby.
Fillory was interesting but on a MU you would have a ton of created worlds the characters can go to.
I found Brakebills to be plenty interesting, too, and would serve as a much better RP hub than just setting it in some random neverland.
Too many long-winded replies to read.
My answer is pretty straightforward: whatever I, the player, decide the character is going to do, is what is IC for the character.
Source: MY REAL LIFE FUCKING EXPERIENCE.
I am a fully fleshed out real life person who makes real life decisions on a daily basis and those decisions do not, under any criteria ever posited by any roleplayer (or critic of television or literature), follow any sort of consistency.
Yesterday, I had trouble texting the girl I like. Today, I am texting three. My mood, the amount of sun in the sky, your mom's underwear choice half-way around the world, and how much coffee my work budy has had before 10 am might OR MIGHT NOT subtly change what I decide.
We pigeonhole characters into "is this IC or OOC for them" because we're mostly uncomfortable realizing that people vary A LOT MORE THAN CHARACTERS DO, because characters are constructs that we define and limit to show them to people in identifiable ways.
I have had characters who were terminal horn dogs just... turn down sex. For no reason. "But Devlin ALWAYS WANTS TO FUCK, what's wrong, Coin? Are you okay? Is Devlin okay? THIS IS SO OOC."
No, it's not OOC. He just doesn't want to fuck. Sometimes Devlin doesn't want to. Sometimes he does. The latter is more common.
Now, NARRATIVELY speaking, when we're talking about television and literature and movies and what not, yes, consistency of action is important because it keeps the story flowing (though I still absolutely roll my eyes whenever people go 'that character would never doooooo thaaaat' MAN STFU, PEOPLE ACT CRAZY ALL THE FUCKING TIME), but while roleplaying?
Fuggedaboutit.
Also, this extends even further. "Coin, why did your character do that, it's going to lead to a bad place!" "It's what he would do." <--- perfectly reasonable response, EVEN when taking the above into account.
'Cuz I am my character's puppetmaster. I decide what he does.
Usually it's consistent. But sometimes it's not. Deeeeeal with it.
Bring on the complaints. I haven't heard many on this directed at me, though, sooooooo...
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This post ended up way more aggressive than intended, but I'm totally committed now, so fuck all of you. 
After 20 years of following Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, I am finally going to go see them towards the end of April.
@Auspice said in The 100: The Mush:
I'm also seeing a lot of 'Well, in the show, it's common for people to behave this way...' Maybe this is just a bad setting for a MU. Maybe folks should write fanfic instead and play games that encourage being cooperative (you can still be a dick, while being totally inclusive; there's a PC that does that extremely well on a game I'm on right now).
Or maybe it's not a setting or a game for everyone.
I don't even play there, for the record, but I see this with a lot of games, where people just don't fit in with a game's culture decide it is the worst game or a bad game. It may be--for them.
Sometimes all you can do is accept it's not a good fit.
Being engaged enough in a character that it inspires IC creativity.
My country's Congress just passed the law to depenalize abortions--they are currently voting article by article. after that, it swings to the senate and we see if they disappoint or not. Huge step forward.
I put yes, but there is a caveat:
I enjoy it more now, when I alot less time to it, than I did in the past, when it was a focus.
It's something I touched on with my therapist the other day when she asked if I was back to playing and I said yes, but in a diminished capacity (from when she met me years and years ago), and that I was enjoying it more when I got to play. It comes down to, we concluded, saturation and expectation.
I used to play a lot, and immersed myself in it, and it was my focus. That meant that if things were going badly in my RP, it would affect everything else in my life, and my hobby wouldn't be fulfilling or even enjoyable because it made me miserable not even just while playing, but outside it, too. Now, in a point in my life where I give it not minimal, but definitely much less, attention (I don't play on weekends [with rare exceptions], mostly, and especially not on Saturdays when I hardly even chat with RP folks at all if I even do), I find that I am not as saturated with the hobby and that I am expectant of even the simplest scenes, which makes for a much more gratifying experience.
TL;DR I enjoy it now because I don't do it as much or with as much focus.