roleplaying on the internet...

Not sure what category this would go in, to be honest. Hope Web, HTML, Tech will suffice.

Anyways, I keep thinking. I grew up on a lot of old RP sites as a  kid. Mostly My Little Pony facebook-likes, rp forums, tumblr. A lot of MLP rp for some reason, haha.

I really miss those days, honestly. I enjoy doing TTRPGs a lot, and there are some MMO RP games I play online too, but text post-by-post RPs are what I grew up with.

I'm honestly surprised there seems to be a lack of Roleplayers here, but maybe I haven't found them yet! On one hand I can kinda understand why - growing up people used to get pretty mad I'd use facebook to rp, lol xD I can imagine people here might get annoyed if they had an influx of people playing pretend on here.

I just keep thinking. I know there have to be RP sites out there. There was a MLP one I found a while ago that felt like the ones I grew up with, and I occasionally wander its site sometimes (I can't forget it - shoutout to the one guy who comments happy birthday on my page every year, lol), but as much as I still think MLP is cute I'm 24 now not 11 and I don't think I can engage in it that way like I did back then.

But honestly, in general, RPing through text on the internet seems to be a lot less common. It makes me pretty sad! I still see it sometimes, but it feels so sparse and rare. A site like Cohost is perfect for text based RPs, like old tumblr styled blogs, but I don't think I've ever encountered anything like that. Is it because these communities are too small, I wonder?

ARPGs were also popular when I was growing up, but I was always too depressed as a teen to ever get into it. Now I'm an adult and I've dabbled in them a bit with closed species on lorekeeper websites, and I adore it!  But it makes me sad how even then, they feel so closed off. The death of Deviantart ARPG groups makes it hard to watch - a favourite past time of text based RPs for me, tbh. Lurking and reading other people's threads. In this case, art! But now it's all in private discords or closed off lorekeeper websites.

It all just makes me a bit sad, I guess. Playing pretend on the internet made the internet feel a little bit more special, especially as the weird autistic wolf girl growing up. It was a fun creative outlet to write with other people and make friends that way, and it's sad I don't really see kids engage in it much outside of like, roblox n' stuff (another thing I feel just a bit too old for).