Community Promo/Discussion: RP Comm

[ddk_mod]

This is a post for anyone who enjoys roleplaying/round robin fills, and anyone who has an opinion on them.

Firstly, I've been asked to see how much interest there is in a separate community for Daredevil roleplaying! Any nonnies who would take part in one please respond to this comment, just so it's easy to get a count. (Any round-robin fillers who see this, please free feel to nudge anyone taking part in your threads to come and show interest here!)
New comm has been made! Check out collaborative_daredevil :D

Secondly, for my curiosity, what is the general meme feeling about round robins and roleplay fills? Do you read but not take part? Would you prefer if they stayed or went somewhere else? Should there be a rule about collaborative fills?

Comments

Roleplaying comm?

[ddk_mod]

Reply here with interested noises if you want one!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't take part but I read some of them sometimes. I'd definitely prefer if the round robins/collaborative fills were taken to a new comm, though. Maybe writers could leave a link here (like we do for fills posted to AO3 and other platforms) if what they write is inspired by a prompt. That way, people who are interested will know that it exists, and others who aren't won't be overwhelmed by the large comment volume.

[(Anonymous)]

I enjoy the meta that arises from popular prompts, but when people clog up flatmeme with a "round robin" that never actually turns into a fill it gets a little annoying.

I feel the same way about roll-play fills, especially because the iterations that we've seen so far on this meme involve characters from other fandoms (Hamilton), or characters that have fallen so far down the AU rabbit hole as to be unrecognizable (all the slave!Matts).

[(Anonymous)]

As a non-roleplayer, I think the round robins read like minifills so I don't mind them here so long as they're titled separately for people to delete notifications for if they don't want them. But I also think a community specifically for roleplaying and round robins would be nice for those roleplayers to find each other.

[(Anonymous)]

I would definitely like one! I am a slavery AU filler and I love round robins, but I do understand people who might find them to be a bit much for the DD kinkmeme

[(Anonymous)]

Can anyone give me a link to one of these roll plays. I've seen people mentioning them but I have never actually stumbled upon one to form an opinion. Do they happen organically, someone posting a minifill and someone posing another? Because if that's the case I'm worried that moving it elsewhere will result in people telling others to repost mini fills in the other comm. it might stifle creativity. I've occasionally posted a few lines of dialogue in response to a comment. Would that still be okay?

[(Anonymous)]

I enjoy - and tookpart in and even organised - round-robin fanfiction. Or, to be more precise, I love fic relays. The format where the turns are alocated prior to the start of writing and at the end of each part a poll is created. The readers then vote in the poll and thusly determine the result of last part's cliffhanger (i.e. the part ends with someone pulling the trigger, the options are for it to misfire, for the gun to be a toy gun, and for someone getting shot to death; readers vote toy gun and that has to be the starting point of the new part of the fic). That's a lot of fun, it's interactive and a great challenge.

[(Anonymous)]

tbh, I'm not a huge fan of the round robins or the 'meta' posts, particularly when those posts carry on like, three different scenarios that never seem to end. Bouncing around ideas is great, but once it starts to chain it gets a little annoying. It's a flatmeme issue for me, honestly.

[(Anonymous)]

While I'm happy the fillers are having fun with the round robins/rp, I have to say it's annoying sometimes to see the flatmeme filled up with short additions to a RR that I don't particularly want to read. The other comments/fills/prompts are often lost in the volume of RR posts. I think a separate post (or separate community, if you want to go that way) would be fantastic. On the other hand, I don't think there should be a hard rule against organic collaborative fills - just that if it turns in to more of a rp/tossing ideas swiftly back and forth, it's encouraged to move it to a separate place.

I kind of feel like a separate community would be overkill, though - I don't want it to gain so few people that the ones who were doing RR/RP before end up having no one to write with.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a reader of those slaves interations and found them refreshing.
They are fun tor ead and the people that participate in them being the Pokemons AU or the Slaves AU. They are pretty investes in them and i like that.

There was just oen that i read where the separate RP took part ont he main prompt post and it was really long. Then someone started to prompt them separately and that was an even better idea cause it was only for that purpose.

I dont think a differen community is necessary, only post them in different prompts and they can have all the fun they want

[(Anonymous)]

I like the slave fics but honestly, I hate the roleplays. I like that people are having fun but I don't think they have a place here. I flatmeme and I've just plain stopped checking the posts they're on.

Big +1 to giving them their own space. They're having a good time and that way everyone wins.

New comm

[vvioletplottin]

Hi, I've set the comm up, here

I'm hoping people will be willing to volunteer as mods/organisers for the fic relay at least.