enablemeplz | October EMP Meme

ENABLEMEPLZ
meme goes up on the Second Saturday of every month
FOR GAME ADS:

➤ Put an ad up with the characters / crew / pairings / fetish you want for your game under the correct game header. This meme is primarily going to be focused on DWRP games but IJ and LJ games are allowed.

➤ PLEASE NOTE A RULE CHANGE HERE. ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding (no font size > size 4 or 3 "big" tags, no oversized banners (they must be 250px in height or less), no blinking text, no obnoxious table html that doesn't collapse easily, no sparklies, no large pictures). Use all the colors you like, but please remember 3 "big" tags is the limit and that's only for headers or title text rather than for all the text in an ad.

FOR GAME QUESTIONS:

➤ RPers interested in a game can create a header for the game and ask questions about that game that aren't easy to find on faqs, such as the actual pace vs. what's listed/what kind of plots are run/if the game leans more towards plotty or slice of life/if a game leans more towards network or logs, etc. Both anon questions and anon answers are welcome in this section just like in the rest of the meme.

➤ This thread is not for speaking about wank or drama in a game. There are anoncomms that exist for that. This thread is specifically for general questions about a game that rpers want to get perspective on from players already in the game. Answers can be slightly negative (such as saying app response is slow or that the plots are repetitive or similar things) but this should at least be worded politely. Unnecessary vitriol, any mention of personal drama or wank, or mod teams/individual mods/players being singled out, will be either frozen or screened (based on what seems right based on the content).

FOR CHARACTER ADS:

➤ Put up an ad about the characters you are offering. For PSL ads, there is a separate subthread but for character ads for games, post directly to the meme post. Others will comment to you with the games/casts they want you to join.

➤ There is a "Find a Castmate" section, where you can talk about a cast you play in at a game, and try to lure people to join it. Not all games post to the meme or have a "wanted" section, so players that want to tempt people to their cast on their own can use this section for it. Please format this the same as the PSL section, where you post your character's canons in your subject. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find a Castmate" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. When listing who's currently in a cast, please do this in sentence form (with commas) rather than in list form.

➤ There is a "Find Crosscanon" section, where you can talk about a character you play and and desired crosscanon for that character. Please make sure this is not too generalized a search, because just wanting general crosscanon can be accomplished with the other sections of the meme. This is for specific characters or character types you're looking for. In the subject, please list the "Looking for [canon you're looking for]" rather than your character's canon. If looking for a character type, list the character type in as few words as possible. Do not make the subject huge or I'll screen your comment. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find Crosscanon" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. This section is only for game crosscanon as in the psl section people can list their preferences.

➤ Examples of crosscanon you can search for: You play The Flash from DC Comics and your dream CR is fellow speedster Quicksilver from Marvel. Or you might play a witch and want cr with other witches in general. Or maybe you play a good character messed up by evil parents and want to play against a villain character you know has evil parents, because you know it'd lead to some interesting negative CR.

➤ ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding, with the same rules as the Game Ads Section above.

➤ If you're recommending a game to someone, try to match your suggestion to their needs. It's okay if part of your game rec is copy-pasted (such as what the game's about), but at least some part of the rec must be personalized to their ad. Try not to recommend the same game to every single ad, either. Ad spam that isn't individualized in some way will also be frozen or screened. Keep in mind this needs to be more specific than "this game has easy AC like you're asking for but meets none of your other requirements." Make sure you're advertising games that might click with that specific character, where a few elements fit what they're looking for. You should be thinking about the story reasons of how the character might click with the game.

IN GENERAL:

➤ Don't be a dick. This isn't one of the anoncomms, so any snide comments or unnecessary commentary on the RP plans of others will be frozen or screened.

➤ All mod responses regardless of whether they're rule breaks, correction requests (like someone posting in the wrong section), or thwapping someone for spamming copy-paste ads, have always been and will almost universally be public. If someone sends a PM and the conversation gets combative, this will also be made public and posted to the comments of the mod contact page. This is for the sake of transparency so people can judge the emp mod's communications for fairness themselves.

There are times where the player's post may be screened (such as if they posted to the wrong section) but the mod's response will be left unscreened.

➤ Players may sometimes be allowed more than one strike for copy-paste ads since this is often just enthusiasm behind it, but game mods should know better. They'll get one warning for copy-paste ads, and if they spam anymore copy-paste ads after the warning, they'll be banned from the meme.

MOD CONTACT:

If there's trouble, tell me HERE, please!

RESOURCES:

enablemeplz - The plurk for Enable Me Plz. Follow for monthly, replurkable EMP reminders
DWRP Masterlist - A regularly updated basic list of public DWRP games.

dedoralive - A more detailed listing of DWRP Games.

GAME/AD LINKS:

General Game/Dressing Room Ads Link
- New Games
- Small Games
- Medium/Large Games
- Museboxes/Memes/Dressing Rooms/Misc.
- Game Questions
- Game Start Discussions/Questions

PSL Offerings
Find a Castmate
Find Crosscanon

Latest Page

Textbox for Character Ads (Optional):

Textbox for "Find a Castmate" Ads (Required):

For "Find Crosscanon" Ads (Required):

➤ Important note: IP logging has turned on due to multiple instances past and present of problem players trying to return to the dwrp community via emp after being banned other places, so I'll be IP logging from now on, and will compare notes with the rpa and wg mods (as well as game mods) where appropriate if it seems like someone that has been mass banned. I will not pay attention to IPs otherwise. I don't care what people like playing or who's who. So please feel comfortable to keep doing your thing, anon or otherwise. The knowledge will only be used for really egregious problem cases.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

offering

happy to handwave language barriers or come up with reasons for my lads to know your character's primary language; similar goes for military settings where characters typically wouldn't have any reason to interact across nationalities.

— jang hanseok, vincenzo, devilspirit : the violently psychopathic CEO of babel, a shady pharmaceuticals company. he masks well, presenting a friendly, charismatic air when he needs to, but has severe issues with emotional dysregulation: his anger is explosive; his joy is euphoric. he seeks out approval, admiration, and closeness, but lacks the emotional skills necessary to really maintain the relationships that would meet those needs. prone to deep obsessions; enjoys harming others.
— captain lim ji-seop, DP, tennisgrip : a product of the military establishment, a captain who in many ways embodies the classic stereotype of an upper-class officer: affluent, sometimes quite snotty to his NCOs (though he improves over the course of the second season), rather clueless. he does, however, have an intuitive understanding of the politics and bureaucracy at play in the military, and knows how to navigate and even leverage them to his advantage. stuck choosing between his desire to advance a career in the military and to listen to the growing voice of his own morality.
— judge advocate general gu jawoon, DP, jag_off : the JAG himself for the south korean army during the PR uproar following a mass shooting by an abused soldier in army barracks. he's benefited from the military as it is and his job description is to protect it from press attention and legal cases involving its negligence and abuse. expertly projects a warm, fair, father-to-the-men image, but in reality he's callous, absolutely ruthless in the measures he takes to prevent reform or scrutiny, and incredibly conniving. he'll do anything to preserve the institution that gives him his power and career, and he knows exactly how to appeal to the press and the public.
— yakov yurovsky, the last czars, medik : a war-weary, embittered medic conscripted to serve on the front lines in WWI. principled, a firm believer in bolshevism, and the de facto leader of his platoon. confident, softspoken; compassionate but firm. he eventually leads a mutiny and desertion, and in sharp contrast to his role in the military finds himself leading the execution of the tsar.
— mmmmmmaybe ron speirs, band of brothers, zigaretten : an american captain in a unit of paratroopers in WWII. introverted, aloof, serious, and confident, respected for his sometimes absurd courage but intimidating and offputting to his subordinates. to some degree the intimidating, commanding exterior hides a lack of social skills. a kleptomaniac who may or may not have gunned down more than a dozen german POWs who had already surrendered.

seeking
for hanseok: interactions with castmates, especially vincenzo or chayoung. i'm down for gen too but am really itching to ship him against either of them - with vincenzo, probably a mutual violent psychosexual fixation; maybe an 'i can make her worse' situation in which chayoung never meets vincenzo and never becomes a better person, or maybe she actually does take up "joonwoo" on his offers, they end up dating, and now at some point he has to introduce the real him. i particularly enjoy writing him against neurotypical partners who are able to experience emotions that he cannot - compassion, remorse, empathy. smut's also an option with him.
for ji-seop: anything with castmates/in his setting, also interested in AUing him into the setting of sweet home. would love to ship him against a park beom-gu - i have tons of ideas for this but in the interest of keeping this ad brief-ish i'll leave that to plotting convos!
for jawoon: stuff with him in his element as JAG, generally being a slippery bastard - either interacting with other parties in the ROKA, or maybe with foreign liaisons? also potentially interested in playing him against women who are attracted to him for his power, or in smut threads with male partners he treats more like objects.
for yakov: ww1 threads during his time as a medic or stuff during the russian revolution!! i love playing him out in his element, and tending to another character's injuries is always fun to write out. i also enjoy writing him interacting with "enemy" characters taken prisoner, because he has no vested interest in the outcome of the war and very much does not see enlisted men from other countries as the enemy simply because the tsar tells him to.
for ron: interactions with castmates/other characters at the warfront. i'd love to see him shoehorned into situations in which his limited social skills become an issue for him - situations in which a gentle, compassionate touch is needed and he finds himself unable to really provide. mostly interested in gen for him, but crosscanon ships (m/m) could be a possibility for him.

historical or oc-based crosscanon
in a general sense - i'm itching to play out threads in which setting is at the forefront of the thread instead of being more interchangeable/SOL. though i love comedy i really enjoy grim, psychological, gritty threads in which characters are pushed to their absolute limits and in untenable situations. i'm really interested in the intense psychological and moral strain of being in a war zone and being in a situation where a character could in theory die at any moment, and how that shapes CR. not to say that every thread has to be at 100 all the time, or that i'm looking for constant high stakes drama - more that i like a backdrop to threads that is already putting strain on characters.

i have a whole roster of OCs to use for a WWII setting depending on what front/timeline/army you'd prefer to set the thread in; i'm down for most things but i'm not interested in playing against nazi characters. i'm fine with them being a background element (kind of unavoidable). i'm looking for character focused threads - I don't care about weapon specifics or character stats and am not looking for threads that put the majority of the focus on what gun a character is carrying or what tank they're in.

for soviet russian settings i have vasiliy, an NKVD interrogator from the late 30s who played the "good cop" and emotionally manipulated prisoners into signing false confessions, yakov (whom i'd deffo be down to play during the civil war), and lyudmila, a female factory floor supervisor from the 60s.

general info/prefs
— EST
— i have a horse who's recovering from major surgery which means spending an hour+ at the barn every day on both ends of the workday, so most of my tagging happens on the weekend, but i do enjoy boomeranging when i have the time.
— i have a very strong preference for writing in present tense. action only, no prose.
— i prefer to plot over discord followed by private plurk.

if any of this sounds like your thing shoot me a pm!

October EMP Meme

DP, vincenzo, last czars, BOB, xc (or OC-based) military/WWII/soviet russian settings