This is kind of how I feel about online RP. Because every group I've attempted to play with recently has fallen apart, or ignored me/my character, or both; or otherwise gone toxic and died. When it was my life, almost literally, some years ago - getting through the day so I could go home and read and write. If smart phones had been a thing, you'd never have pried me off the RP boards.
Tumblr, for all its shiny cool things, is NOT a substitute. For one thing, threading is a PITA and pulling in more than one-on-one is basically not done. *sigh*
So, I hear you. I wish it could be again what it was - wish we could have crunchy fandom-specific meta side by side with bubblegum fluff, wish we could have it all in one easily-accessible place.
I've found some replacement in convention panels, which can at least provide an hour-long deep dive into the good stuff, but those are few and far between by necessity, and not all of them are even good.
I don't have a solution, but you aren't alone in mourning the change.
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Date: 2017-03-19 01:32 am (UTC)This is kind of how I feel about online RP. Because every group I've attempted to play with recently has fallen apart, or ignored me/my character, or both; or otherwise gone toxic and died. When it was my life, almost literally, some years ago - getting through the day so I could go home and read and write. If smart phones had been a thing, you'd never have pried me off the RP boards.
Tumblr, for all its shiny cool things, is NOT a substitute. For one thing, threading is a PITA and pulling in more than one-on-one is basically not done. *sigh*
So, I hear you. I wish it could be again what it was - wish we could have crunchy fandom-specific meta side by side with bubblegum fluff, wish we could have it all in one easily-accessible place.
I've found some replacement in convention panels, which can at least provide an hour-long deep dive into the good stuff, but those are few and far between by necessity, and not all of them are even good.
I don't have a solution, but you aren't alone in mourning the change.