I just like trying new things.

Also, funny story, there’s one game that I’d like to try, but its canon contains real-world events that I was a part of IRL. Which means I’m technically canon in that game. So I think I’m a little too close to the source material to play there, haha.

HELLO I AM SAO AND I AM HERE TO DRAMA THE FUCK OUT OF THIS RP

While the nice things that @Roz and @crawfish said make me ecstatically happy, I really did mean my confession as a confession. I go hard 100% of the time in RP even when I think the players in question might prefer a more chill scene or something more laid back, but I’m still there making subtle references to a lengthy backstory that only I know or dropping hints about character secrets and creating dramatic tension when my scene partners just want to have a family dinner and talk about what plots we are involved in.

“This dinner scene is boring.”
“We should invite @Herja .”
“Everyone MIGHT DIE, Craw.”
“…and?”
“…okay. Is she on Discord?”
“I can call her.”

Oh. My other confession is that I’m not sorry for what I page one of @tsar’s Arx characters (and only that character) when she logs in that char.

@bear_necessities Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

lmao I want to be this Alan Rickman

Also, if we’re giving ourselves titles, I desire to be the Jeff Bridges of the mush community.

@bear_necessities It’s when an actor goes hard, especially when they didn’t need to. It is DRAMA. It is TENSION. It is 200% COMMITMENT in every choice. There will be nothing generic, nothing half-assed. It is the WHOLE ASS. It’s not entirely synonymous with overacting, although there can be overlap. Chewing the scenery can be an absolute positive, and you can see plenty of hugely well-regarded actors indulging in it over countless films.

From a RPer, I would say it’s people with a sense of DRAMA in the best sense of the word. For Herja, it’s probably because there is something that feels a bit Shakespearean, or maybe Greek drama, about how she always whole-asses it. Not DRAMA like people who just cause superficial drama, but drama like THE ANCIENT GREEKS IN THE AMPITHEATRE.

I actually explained that @Herja does this to my husband the other night, because he was explaining to me what kind of tv show writing he likes and I was like ‘That’s Herja GMing. You are describing how Herja GMs.’

And

@bear_necessities ‘Chewing scenery’ usually to me suggests extreme over-acting. Like anything that Jeremy Irons or Willem Dafoe is in.

Depending on how schlocky the movie is, this has always been a compliment to me, as I’ve always assumed that the actor is having a great time with the role.

Thanks to you and @Roz and honestly I agree, I’m definitely the Willem Dafoe of Rp.

No, but seriously. I love when people are vibing on what’s happening in and around their characters and stories because it draws me in for the ride. I tend to subscribe to the philosophy that we’re seeing the most meaningful moments of a person’s life in RP. So the times things went really great, went really wrong, the times they fucked up, the times they were most elated, the times they felt most accomplished.

I guess my related confession would be that my characters cry a lot and I’m not sorry about it.

Depending on how schlocky the movie is, this has always been a compliment to me, as I’ve always assumed that the actor is having a great time with the role.

From a RPer, I would say it’s people with a sense of DRAMA in the best sense of the word. For Herja, it’s probably because there is something that feels a bit Shakespearean, or maybe Greek drama, about how she always whole-asses it. Not DRAMA like people who just cause superficial drama, but drama like THE ANCIENT GREEKS IN THE AMPITHEATRE.

Yeah, that’s me, but in roleplayer form.

Chibi FTBs are a bonus I didn’t know about until today.