Macabre

What are your measurements. [No Longer Looking.]

Haberdashery noun 1. an old-fashioned word for the store you visit when you want to buy a suit or a shirt and tie.

Premise:
It's your senior year of high school, and you need a job. H&M isn't hiring and all the fast-food places are only offering stingy hours. You pass by an upscale boutique on your way to and from school, and while you're not any sort of fashion critic, it strikes you that you only ever see well-dressed men going in and out of this shop. Passing by one day, you see a 'Help Wanted' ad being put in the window by the enigmatic gentleman that runs the boutique. Intrigued, you step inside. Selling pants and ties; how hard could it be?

Looking For:
High-school aged boy with dubious fashion/retail experience
Kind-hearted (naive)
Headstrong (idealistic)
*Emotional (prone to tears, easily embarrassed, etc.)

I'll be playing the owner of the boutique, naturally. Interested? PM me.

*_{Very important.}

| Mature | MxM | PMs Only | 18+ | Romance | Insert other sketchy warnings here |

Exes are X'd for a Reason [No longer seeking partners]

Looking for something dramatic:

Premise:
Our characters had been dating for several months, but recently broke up. My character, older and more experienced, had grown distant, spending all of his time working and just being too busy for you at all. Dismissive of your character's concerns and too busy to even talk about the problems, your character has finally gotten fed up and broken up with him. A few days have passed, he's now texted to say he's on his way to drop off some of some of your character's things that were left at his apartment.

Looking For:
Casual length and advanced writing. Quantity =/= quality, and too many writers take the purple prose approach to storytelling. Being descriptive is good and I've encountered many people lately that are quite good at conveying emotion and setting, but I've encountered just as many that pad their poses with irrelevant fluff and speculation and rambling narrative that is jarring and not at all conducive to immersion. Do you; just know that if you think 5 paragraphs of nothing is better than 3 paragraphs of substance because of length, I'm not interested.

Ideally:
Your character would be just-graduated from High School, I have a thing for naive/impressionable characters. I'm looking for a scene that is largely a long, drawn-out argument; if you've ever had a seriously bad breakup with someone you still love but cannot tolerate any longer - that's what I'm looking for. Don't judge me, just PM me.

| 18+ | Mature | PMs Only | MxM | Romance | Insert other dodgy warnings here |

No longer seeking partners, thank you!

Looking for a Damsel to Distress [No longer looking, thanks!]

In a rude mood, so:

Your father recently got a promotion at his job, and at the celebration party you, his loving & dutiful daughter, catch the eye of the company president's son. Now, you've heard all about what a spoiled, egotistical, misogynistic jerk he is - but when the company president contacts your father to arrange a date between the two of you, it's not really like you can say no, is it.

Looking for: A female victim, obviously. PM me if you're up for the role; 18+, Mature content, PMs only, etc.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

Don't PM me IC if I haven't agreed to RP with you. It's creepy.
Yes, I am passive-aggressively avoiding confrontation by grousing about it here instead of being direct.
So the eff what.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Here's the thing with criticism:

If you don't want it, don't read it. It's not hurting you for someone to waste their time typing it for you, and you might learn something - or you might not. Some people never learn, no matter how often or nicely you say it. Ignorance is bliss.

Sure, some people don't come here or anywhere else for criticism, or to make an effort to improve their writing. But when you inject yourself for good or ill into a community of writers, you're opening yourself up to the opinions of others, whether they voice them or secretly judge you. I personally spend a lot of time judging people in my head because if your writing is bad, it's not my job to fix it - I didn't come here for that. How many people have bailed on RP because the other person(s) were just terrible beyond repair? The answer is quite a few, even if none of them are around to speak up in this thread at the moment.

No one offers genuinely constructive criticism with the intention of being rude, so getting your scummy panties in a twist over the perceived 'tone' of their words is a waste of your time, which is fine, I'm certainly not here to police how anyone wastes their free time. But maybe trading in those 20 minutes of fuming indignantly for 5 minutes of actually absorbing the content of the criticism and deciding if it's worth making an effort to change something about your writing style could be beneficial for your future forays into escapism.

Sum up your week in roleplaying in just 3 words

Strange happenings afoot.

MxM (Mature 18+)

Still looking.

MxM (Mature 18+)

This idea isn't particularly complex. I'm in the mood to play a relatively young (28-32) college professor whose sister-in-law has a son that's interested in enrolling at his college next year. To that end, the boy (17-18) comes to stay with him for a few weeks after he graduates high-school to get a feel for the university.

If you're interested in playing the younger of the pair, PM me and let me know what sorts of themes or specifics you'd be looking for in this sort of RP and we can see if we're looking for the same sort of roleplay. PMs only, let's keep the forums clean, thanks.

Homegrown (Mature, 18+, M seeking F)

Long version:
A pseudo-historical setting, based on nowhere and yet strangely reminiscent of Victorian London, with a dash of Byzantine decadence, middle eastern intrigue, and far-east mysticism. Not that your character has any experience with any of that, being what is colloquially known as a pauper. Street-rat, if you will. Trash. A chimney-sweep's ill-begotten get. And so on. But you're pretty - and perhaps you have other strengths and talents that will be discovered but it's important to note that for the purposes of this story's beginning, the only thing special about you is that you're pretty, and the growing revolutionary movement that your father is involved with wants YOU. Specifically, they want you to be their pawn as they bring about the destruction of society to make room for a new era. Are you ready? Probably not. No one is ever ready for the revolution, even when it's grown right beneath their feet.

Short version:
Looking for a poor, uneducated girl to turn into a pretty-princess tool of a revolution/terrorist movement in a historical-esque setting. Interested? PM me. Mature/18+ only/rhymes-with-'scut', I'm in a black mood and it's not for the faint of heart.

Looking for partner! (18+ please, some mature content.)

Definitely interested in something either sci-fi or post-apocalyptic, I'm open to playing either gender though I prefer female for the most part, unless I'm playing a dominant role, then I prefer male.