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The OOC RP Discussion Meme

[How To]

1. Discuss anything to do with RP-ing - Plots you want to try out, characters, characterization, head canon/fan theories, game ideas, meme ideas, fic and fanart ideas, AU and crossover ideas, Verse/PSL ideas, etc, etc. Game and comm promotions are fine, too.

2. Comments can be anon or non-anon, it's up to you.

3. Please do not bash, flame or name drop any mun or game in a negative fashion. No wanking, please!

4. Have fun!

Comments

Re: Meme Ideas

[(Anonymous)]

There was an OC only meme last week. It got a few handfuls of people to tag in, but not many people tagged around. I think I'd be more open to an OC friendly meme as opposed to a strictly OC only meme. People seem to feel uncomfortable bringing attention to their OCs in a meme like that, but I think maybe if there was a meme that had a 'Get to know (x)' and you had to have your top comment be a little blurb about the character, canon or OC, that might be something that gave people a hint of writing styles and if the person had a good grasp on their character.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

People seem to feel uncomfortable bringing attention to their OCs in a meme like that

Especially given the general negative attitude toward OCs in DWRP. I think I even saw a comment somewhere like "Aren't people embarrassed to be on an OC meme?" and "OCs don't belong on DWRP, go to forums." (Though, I've heard that before the LJ migration OC RPs were quite common on DW, but...not the point.)

A "Get to Know You" meme would be really cool. I wonder if it would be necessary to list canon in the cast of a meme like that...

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

I think it could be an option. Like, for canon chars, list a fandom or for fandom ocs, list your fandom, but other than that, try to give a sense of your character as though people don't have a clue about the canon. It would give people that don't know anything about certain canons a better glimpse into them and it wouldn't make any ocs stand out so blatantly because 'OMG OCS ARE DUMB OK'.

I don't see why ocs would be embarrassed to be in an OC MEME. I could see if someone threw a canon character in there because they weren't reading the rules, but this whole mentality of ocs being shit is unfair to the people who actually put a decent amount of work into their backstory for an oc instead of grabbing the newest pretty face and slapping it onto a generic 'average girl/guy' for smut purposes.