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I'm ethnically honky, but have found myself being complimented on how I've played POCs in the past. It's always kind of blown my mind, because in my mind all I've been doing is "playing a character who fits into the IC situation." But like, when I played a Sabbat vampire who was a 6'3" very dark skinned African-American man, what people seemed to be saying was "thanks for not playing a gangsta rap BlackedRaw.com stunt cock from The Hood." (Then again, this was a game with a low bar, where there was another vampire whose character concept was "angry black woman" whose channel title or alias or something was 'Black Lady.')

For a while, I had the above character while also playing a petite irony-poisoned milk-white-skinned California-girl vampire, and the ways that the same players would seek out interaction on that character over the black male character were a trip.

"MUSHing is dying" seems to be another way to say "I no longer am young or free enough to obsess about it for every waking moment, and thus the hobby must be in terminal decline because my friends and I all have adult responsibilities now."

Gen is a 22-year-old woman with tan skin and long brown (with blonde highlights) hair whose natural waviness is given heft and frizz by the humid climate. She has a long face with high cheekbones, a wide and expressive mouth, a gentle hawkishness to her nose, and large eyes ringed with an extra dose of dark make-up as an effective way to cover up the constant raccoon-eyes of sleep deprivation. She has a bad habit of holding the top end of her tongue barbell between her teeth. She smokes Camel Regulars.

Gen dresses like the postmodern dream-girl of every wannabe music journalist: low-rise hip-huggers in denim or pleather, scuffy Doc Martens, animal-print fake-fur coats with collars and lapels big enough to alter the silhouette of her shoulders, and a range of tops (spaghetti-strap tanks, long-sleevers that go sheer in the right light, band shirts for hip muso picks, and fitted baby tees printed with possibly-ironic logos for stuff like Japanese steakhouses or Tibetan independence) that universally bare a flat-but-soft midriff and a pierced navel.

It was like a license to unleash my inner SPIN Magazine.

@Groth said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:

Out of sheer nostalgia I'd like to see a 1990's setting. I want to see trench-coats, brick-phones and Usenet.

A friend was doing an online tabletop thing set in 1997-ish and I was so excited to be like "MY CHARACTER WORKS AT THE USED CD STORE"

Talk about a dishonorable discharge.

When something shitty happens on a game and you find out your friends are really your friends.