Yeah, I don't post as much as I used to.
Something caught my eye today. Interesting enough subject line about tickling roleplay. I think, like anything, there was a very humorous tenor to what was posted, given on just how likely it is. Not to say I haven't received the same pms from vapid usernames from this forum since I signed up for an account, but I usually find the practice to be rather avoidable with a back button click and a check of the message followed by deletion. The why of it is simple, and fairly straight forward.
Leave it to me to champion something outside the box, but as the topic went along, people began chiming in about how the practice was ass, followed by commentary involving wizard hats and what not. I mean, it isn't necessarily harmful, just sort of out there. But I caught this weird sort of progression with people trying to demean the process as it went along, and as such responded to a poster basically saying that his stance is comical given his love of tickling drawings which, one would hazard to guess, involves masturbation on his/her end.
When we get to saying it's creepy as fuck, or to have people trying to make comments to provoke a personal reaction, that's where I begin to become perplexed.
Which is not to say that this philosophy is invalid. Personal choice is personal choice and all that. But considering how many people do it, this response towards the topic from those people has a snort of arrogant air. I think that, as it pertains to anything, the written word is perhaps the best way in which to relay information. Writing is a multifaceted tool, producing any number of emotional responses. I approach this topic of cyber tickling like an english degree having academic, and given my own personal approach, have to say that I do not distinguish one subset of writing from the other. If I am writing a tickling story, I take the same approach as I would if I was writing a novella involving Reconstruction era Britain.
Writing is writing, and with the roleplay aspect, there is an almost instantaneous response from another partner. Are these things tomes of literature? No. But Dan Brown and Stephenie Meyer have parlayed tripe into best selling novels.
Which means I must delineate myself from the group that is being discussed. I can't imagine the topic of conversation conveying the experience of Meangry. I've been in those chat rooms on lonely nights over the years, stuck with the systematic response lines from 'cyber lees' and feeling completely devoid of any enjoyment. Or being told that I take too long to respond, because I am writing much more than "tickles feet" or "tickles armpits". That is no fun, and I dislike that sort of play.
I think the line of what is creepy is actually very thin, almost to the point of transparency. Look at the side bar of this forum; to any other person, this material is flagrantly wrong. But like with anything, you do not bludgeon people to death with your thought process.
Maybe I am the exception to the rule, or maybe I am just a creepy fucker who hides behind a computer screen, stalking hot victims to cart away in my van.
Something caught my eye today. Interesting enough subject line about tickling roleplay. I think, like anything, there was a very humorous tenor to what was posted, given on just how likely it is. Not to say I haven't received the same pms from vapid usernames from this forum since I signed up for an account, but I usually find the practice to be rather avoidable with a back button click and a check of the message followed by deletion. The why of it is simple, and fairly straight forward.
Leave it to me to champion something outside the box, but as the topic went along, people began chiming in about how the practice was ass, followed by commentary involving wizard hats and what not. I mean, it isn't necessarily harmful, just sort of out there. But I caught this weird sort of progression with people trying to demean the process as it went along, and as such responded to a poster basically saying that his stance is comical given his love of tickling drawings which, one would hazard to guess, involves masturbation on his/her end.
When we get to saying it's creepy as fuck, or to have people trying to make comments to provoke a personal reaction, that's where I begin to become perplexed.
Which is not to say that this philosophy is invalid. Personal choice is personal choice and all that. But considering how many people do it, this response towards the topic from those people has a snort of arrogant air. I think that, as it pertains to anything, the written word is perhaps the best way in which to relay information. Writing is a multifaceted tool, producing any number of emotional responses. I approach this topic of cyber tickling like an english degree having academic, and given my own personal approach, have to say that I do not distinguish one subset of writing from the other. If I am writing a tickling story, I take the same approach as I would if I was writing a novella involving Reconstruction era Britain.
Writing is writing, and with the roleplay aspect, there is an almost instantaneous response from another partner. Are these things tomes of literature? No. But Dan Brown and Stephenie Meyer have parlayed tripe into best selling novels.
Which means I must delineate myself from the group that is being discussed. I can't imagine the topic of conversation conveying the experience of Meangry. I've been in those chat rooms on lonely nights over the years, stuck with the systematic response lines from 'cyber lees' and feeling completely devoid of any enjoyment. Or being told that I take too long to respond, because I am writing much more than "tickles feet" or "tickles armpits". That is no fun, and I dislike that sort of play.
I think the line of what is creepy is actually very thin, almost to the point of transparency. Look at the side bar of this forum; to any other person, this material is flagrantly wrong. But like with anything, you do not bludgeon people to death with your thought process.
Maybe I am the exception to the rule, or maybe I am just a creepy fucker who hides behind a computer screen, stalking hot victims to cart away in my van.
