Things to think about, indeed.
May. 24th, 2005 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magedragonfireSo, I've finally bowed down to the masses, and joined an LJ community.
And what a community. XD
http://www.livejournal.com/community/bad_rpers_suck/1355857.html - Here's a particular topic being debated - on the subject of using actors and what-not to represent characters.
Personally, I don't see the point of it. Roleplaying is about writing, folks, not finding pictures and putting personalities to them. Pictures just can't often represent everything a character is, description-wise... I'd rather read a well-thought-out description than look at some actor's mugshot any day.
And besides, not everyone in the world is beautiful, dearies. Why should we remedy this in a roleplay environment? You don't see folks using people like... Oh, John Candy, or Barbara Streisand, as avatars for characters. Heavyweights, aging people, folk who have imperfections - why don't we ever see characters with such physical imperfections?
I, for one, am not pretty. Most of the time. There are times when I can be, admittedly, but it takes a bit of work. My weight is certainly 40 pounds heftier than society's present-day expectations, my nose is kinda funny looking, and my eyebrows have a tendency to get overgrown if I don't wax them once a month. I'm not pretty, but neither am I ugly.
Why don't we get more characters like that, for one? People who're just average?
Kinda sad, that folk have to be so unoriginal and shallow when designing their characters.
And what a community. XD
http://www.livejournal.com/community/bad_rpers_suck/1355857.html - Here's a particular topic being debated - on the subject of using actors and what-not to represent characters.
Personally, I don't see the point of it. Roleplaying is about writing, folks, not finding pictures and putting personalities to them. Pictures just can't often represent everything a character is, description-wise... I'd rather read a well-thought-out description than look at some actor's mugshot any day.
And besides, not everyone in the world is beautiful, dearies. Why should we remedy this in a roleplay environment? You don't see folks using people like... Oh, John Candy, or Barbara Streisand, as avatars for characters. Heavyweights, aging people, folk who have imperfections - why don't we ever see characters with such physical imperfections?
I, for one, am not pretty. Most of the time. There are times when I can be, admittedly, but it takes a bit of work. My weight is certainly 40 pounds heftier than society's present-day expectations, my nose is kinda funny looking, and my eyebrows have a tendency to get overgrown if I don't wax them once a month. I'm not pretty, but neither am I ugly.
Why don't we get more characters like that, for one? People who're just average?
Kinda sad, that folk have to be so unoriginal and shallow when designing their characters.
