Posts made by Joyeuse

Good golly. Some people have been at this longer than I've been alive

@Vixanic Oh! I'm totally blind. Thank you! Time to catch up...!

@Ghost Followed your advice and went ahead and snipped that. Figured it might have been handy, but if there's stuff like that going on it may just be best not to put myself out there like that!

I suppose all that I really can do is persevere and see how things turn out! I have decent hopes, though. Once I get over these initial feelings.

@Auspice I joined Fallcoast for maybe a week in 2016 at the request of the friend. (Didn't quite stick around, but ended up coming back 3 years later to give it another shot anyways.) And - despite what I've seen in the Hog Pit - most people here seem decent enough! I actually forgot I had an account here until I tried to sign up again last night and my email was taken.

@Coin Hey! I'm an adult. I chop my own vegetables and pay someone else to do my taxes.

I get what you're saying, though! This medium has been around for a long time and I guess most folks in it have had a long time to make themselves a part of it. Just that feeling of being the new kid trying to wiggle their way in.

The one thing that's made me feel any sort of directly unwelcome or pushed away is mostly just the overly-thirsty TS hounds on non-sex MUSH's that only seem interested in doing exactly that. The rest of it, I suppose, is just being self-conscious and anxious in a new space!

@Ganymede @Admiral Maybe it's more my own self-conscious worries than anything else that's got me thinking about it! It's wonderful to know all of that, though, I don't think I'd have worked that out just at a glance. It's all been very welcoming so far and I'm happy to have found it overall!

Hello! There's quite a lot there in the title to unpack so I'll try and keep it relatively brief.

I'm a young person (23 and some change) who has just recently found their way into the MU* hobby. I'm sure it isn't a secret to anyone that the majority of players and the community are older than that. (Or at least it seems that way!) Generally it hardly ever comes up, though, except when it comes to things like memes or whatever, but there's still this strange feeling of /not quite/ fitting in in some spaces. Is it a matter of age? I see lots of mention of clique and the like around here, so I wonder if this might be a symptom of that as well.

And further on that, without going into my own personal RL identity, I largely play characters that fall somewhere in the LGBT+ spectrum, though generally in the L and T side of things, with a smattering of non-binary or ace sexuality in there as well. When I'm playing a trans or non-binary character, though, I can't help but wonder - am I having the same experience as what a cisgendered character might? Am I missing out on certain opportunities and roleplaying because of it? I'm not looking at this through the lens of victimhood or anything, mostly a curiosity, as I've only just stumbled on MU and I'm still acclimating myself to the kind of community it has.

Thank you all in advance and I'm sorry if this comes off as rambly or poorly focused!

Quick Edit: I'm not saying I've experienced any direct discrimination when playing a non-gender-conforming character -- some people have even expressed that they're happy to see them around -- but just wondering about how different the experience might be from otherwise.