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dreamwidth rp Q&A
First of all, welcome to Dreamwidth-based roleplay!
I'm opening up this posts to general questions about roleplaying on this site because after seeing some newer players come into this format, I realized that there are a lot of things I take for granted and just assume everyone knows even though that's not always the case! We're a very unique format with our own standards, lingo, and what have you, and it's often difficult to jump into unless you have someone holding your hand along the way. There are a lot of resources out there to get you started, but at the same time, there's always something better about asking a person directly when you have a question instead of hunting for an answer in something that's already been written and may not even apply!
Just to give you a little background about me, since I'll be answering the questions, my name is Christy! I actually started out on journal-based roleplaying on Livejournal in 2006 more or less on a whim, and I've been continuously playing ever since. I've played a wide variety of characters in an even wider variety of games, and I've both created games from scratch and run them and helped mod ones that other people have made. So as such, you can ask questions about RP from the perspective of a player, but also from the perspective of a mod.
And of course, as a disclaimer, all answers I give are purely from my experience and my opinions! You might find that other people have different opinions or answers to questions, and I of course encourage people to jump in and answer questions as they see fit. This post is open to any kinds of questions at all, and if I don't have an answer for you off the top of my head, I'll do my best to try and find one for you. There's no such thing as a stupid question, so ask whatever you want! Even if it seems like the most basic, inane thing, I'm still happy to answer.
So go ahead! Ask any questions you'd like, and I'll answer them as quickly as I can. ♥
I'm opening up this posts to general questions about roleplaying on this site because after seeing some newer players come into this format, I realized that there are a lot of things I take for granted and just assume everyone knows even though that's not always the case! We're a very unique format with our own standards, lingo, and what have you, and it's often difficult to jump into unless you have someone holding your hand along the way. There are a lot of resources out there to get you started, but at the same time, there's always something better about asking a person directly when you have a question instead of hunting for an answer in something that's already been written and may not even apply!
Just to give you a little background about me, since I'll be answering the questions, my name is Christy! I actually started out on journal-based roleplaying on Livejournal in 2006 more or less on a whim, and I've been continuously playing ever since. I've played a wide variety of characters in an even wider variety of games, and I've both created games from scratch and run them and helped mod ones that other people have made. So as such, you can ask questions about RP from the perspective of a player, but also from the perspective of a mod.
And of course, as a disclaimer, all answers I give are purely from my experience and my opinions! You might find that other people have different opinions or answers to questions, and I of course encourage people to jump in and answer questions as they see fit. This post is open to any kinds of questions at all, and if I don't have an answer for you off the top of my head, I'll do my best to try and find one for you. There's no such thing as a stupid question, so ask whatever you want! Even if it seems like the most basic, inane thing, I'm still happy to answer.
So go ahead! Ask any questions you'd like, and I'll answer them as quickly as I can. ♥
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Because to answer your question, yes, absolutely! It's a feeling that probably won't ever go away either, but I am the number one advocate that this isn't a bad thing, and it's not something you should worry about too much if you can. Easier said than done, I know, but here's why and how I personally combat my shyness—
The most important thing to help kick shyness in the face for me is to kind of just realize that feeling shy in this way is 1) perfectly fine, 2) perfectly normal, and 3) the other person is probably also feeling a little shy too! Like for example, think about how excited you are when someone tags you. It's the idea of woah!! woah, someone wants to RP with me, and I'm really excited about it. And I can guarantee that in most cases, that's how the other person is going to feel when you tag them. We're all nerds here, and we're all a little shy too, since it's definitely a little intimidating to blindly tag people you don't know. It's easy to fall into the loop of beating yourself up over tags, characterization, all kinds of things, but really, I think one of the most valuable things I realized with regards to RP (and life in general, honestly...) is just how true the saying "you're your own harshest critic" is.
It's easy to feel self-concious, and it's not a bad thing either! After all, this means that you're being thoughtful about your RP, and you want people to enjoy playing with you as much as you play with them. Or at least, that's how I feel when I get really self-concious. But the biggest and best way to overcome this hurdle is basically to just go for it. Nine times out of ten, it'll go great, and you'll get new threads and even new CR you may have never expected or known that you wanted as badly as you do. And that one time that it doesn't quite mesh? That's fine too! The absolute worst that's going to come from it is that you and the person you tag just don't mesh for whatever reason, which is totally normal too. In my experience, people are generally super understanding of this, because that also happens to everyone. And after all, nine out of ten isn't bad odds at all.
I can't find the actual comic that comes to mind, but I think this post gets to the point of what I mean. It's easy to be harsh on ourselves because we tend to view things from a different lens. I find that the best way to get over self-consciousness is to be aware of that lens because it helps me get over my shyness.