[@The Harbinger of Ferocity]
Nicely worded. You've gone into the points I was making in more detail than I wanted to due to believing people will outright ignore my posts if they reach a certain length. I appreciate you taking the time out to emphasize what I mean when I say that I want people to be thorough and detailed so I can write a realistic reaction to their character.

[quote=The Harbinger of Ferocity]
Unless I own the art, which for my characters I always do when I use pictures because of my philosophy and interest in the matter, I do not want to see them. Many issues I take with them is the raw differences in genre. Not to be too aggressive but I [i]loathe[/i] anime pictures in non-anime topics, as an example. Can I always hit the mark and theme? No, but I try to get close or use none at all - I can settle with sketches. But for real people? Almost every photograph of a character feels phony, fake or stock - because most are. Most are too beautiful, stylized or worse, celebrity.
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This is pretty much the only place we don't completely agree on. With regards to using artwork itself, I've already pointed out that I only use my own artwork with my main project's characters due to not wanting to feel the desire to put the designs of my role-play characters into my main project (I'm a perfectionist with this story, it must contain my entire soul - as much as possible at least - or I won't be satisfied), so that little bit of detachment helps me when I'm role-playing outside of my main setting.

On the other detail, I don't disagree with you on the whole idea of disliking it when people bring one genre of art into a role-play that focuses on a different genre, since I'm entirely the same as you with regards to this. The only way we differ is in the personal tastes (assuming I'm meant to interpret this example as illustrating your tastes) -- I pretty much only like working with stories that use anime-inspired/manga-inspired artwork and have no real taste for other forms of art, but there's nothing wrong with each of us feeling this way since it's all a subjective preference.