Rowan Amore

Being strong doesn't always mean fighting the battle. True strength is being adult enough to walk away with your head held high ~ Anonymous Off to another thread with less animosity.

Yes, I forgot about Mia's lashes. Love love love those.

Glad to see you poke with a ten foot pole. Safety first, as they say.

That's pretty much how I've always thought of SL, too. I was just curious how others here approached SL. I know a lot of people are purely here for the RP and it's always fascinated me how one can totally immerse themselves. A few people have mentioned it's a lot like acting. Putting on a character with mannerisms, speech, the whole nine yards. Their replies have me contemplating trying it again.

If you have the newer Evo head or even if you don't, I like the makeup at LePunk. The newer stuff is mostly BOM. Purple Beauty also but those are mostly lipstick applies. There's literally tons.of stuff out there. Usually some at the events also. Check seraphimsl.com.

Luckily, I haven't had to but this "gentleman..." was tossing a few racial things and I guess he didnt want backlash I public. Although he did get some in private.

I'm more likely to ignore/block someone whos annoying me inworld rather than here. I can easily skip over their post or just choose not to respond. Now if I got a pesky little PING everytime they posted, that might be a different story. Edited to add...I did block someone from personally messaging me here the other day but I can still see his posts.

Ummm...thanks for that visual?

I swear I saw someone like this at Uber the other day.

Thank you for the link. I hope if I do decide to venture into RP, that I'll be able to find people both generous and patient.

/me sighs.....fine fine

I think I'd prefer his face on my pillowcase but that's just me.

no no no

Does the zipper on a sleeping bag in the dryer count as listening to something....you know, as far as this thread is concerned?

It would still have to be something where my character would mostly be me. It's the thinking like someone else that has always been the sticking point. Yes, Janet. I'd probably be that person making that vein pop out. I've actually stood in the shadow with my observer tag on watching/listening to some great RP. Again, it goes back to not being comfortable as the center of attention. It actually gives me the shivers and heart palpitations the few times I've tried. I envy people who can do it easily.

Were they red socks? Cute pic.

I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for their replies. Although RP has never been a integral part of my SL, I've often wondered about the appeal. I've envied people who were able to completely immerse themselves in a character. I'm just not able to think outside myself fast enough for it to be enjoyable. Give.me a good chat, witty comebacks, sarcasm and I'm happy. But it's always me and I wish at times, I could "be" someone else.

I understand what you mean about both Gor and parts of bdsm objectify women and with bdsm, men also. My experience seems to be that it's a lot about the difference between being a submissive and being a slave. That whole "slaves have no rights or limits" just sets off all kinds of alarms to me and not something I can even wrap my head around.

Yes, I'm getting the idea that a lot of people into RP think of it as acting which I'll be the first to admit, has never appealed to me. I didn't join SL with any expectations other than meeting and chatting with people and as I mentioned earlier, RP always seemed like too much work.

Gor was actually the first rp community I observed when I joined and where I saw the profile from some dimwit who said he was Gor in rl. Could be what put me off any RP. Since I'm always me regardless of where I am, there was no way I'd be able to tolerate the abuse and not say something. I've never understood how any woman could actually enjoy that but apparently many do. I've seen more recently though that a lot of people just do battles/raids so maybe it's turned more into a combat rp? I, personally, have no problem with the shaming of any kink that treats any person as less than human.

Scylla was right. You'd have me laughing my butt off in gor. When I first heard about it, I trudged my way through the first book, shaking my head the entire time. I will say I've met a few men who play or have played (yes play not RP but that's a whole other subject) in gor and outside of that setting, they seemed fairly normal. Perhaps this is how I'd describe immersive RP where you'd have to play someone totally different something I just can't wrap my head around. I'd be spending all my time not bit** slapping someone.

Frankly, it scares the dickens out of me. A perfect example of how some people fail to separate their SL persona and RL.

But really, was it all that unexpected? It was only a matter of time.

I actually saw someone years ago with something in his profile about living Gor in SL for such and such years and in RL such and such years. I was like WTF is wrong with you dude? Misogyny at it's finest?