[M4F] So... I'm a teacher... and I haven't roleplayed in 15 years. Let's give this a go!
Long story short, I'm an English teacher, and I'm making a return to roleplaying.
But first, some context about what led me here...
So, over the past few years, grading essays has changed, and not in the usual “kids these days” sort of way. More and more often, kids are submitting A-I generated work (I need to put the dash. Apparently this subreddit won't let you put those two letters together?).
And honestly, it makes me really sad. Not because technology is bad or I’m anti-A-I or anything like that. It's that I feel like writing was always one of the most joyful things for me when I was younger. Like that moment when you realize you can build a character, a world, a story with nothing but words. When you realize the power of your imagination, you know?
Earlier this week, I ended up having that conversation with one of my classes. Somewhere in that discussion I mentioned how when I was younger, a huge amount of my writing happened online, in roleplaying communities. After class that day I started wondering what the roleplay world looks like now. So I did a bit of searching, stumbled across this subreddit, and thought… why not give it a whirl?
So here we go... a little bit about me (yes, as sentence fragments, come at me):
- 30+ teacher who still gets excited about a really good sentence.
- East coast US time zone.
- Drinks far too much coffee during grading season.
- Owns an alarming number of notebooks that are all “for different ideas.”
- Big fan of rainy afternoons, bookstores, and quiet writing time.
- Enjoys hiking, though mostly as an excuse to think about story ideas.
- Amateur history enthusiast who occasionally falls down Wikipedia rabbit holes for hours.
- Has a soft spot for character-driven stories where people change over time.
- Probably overthinks character motivations (occupational hazard).
- Once stayed up until 3 am finishing a collaborative RP thread because the scene was too good to leave unfinished.
What I enjoy writing:
It’s been a while since I last roleplayed, but the kinds of stories I’ve always gravitated toward tend to fall into modern / contemporary fiction, historical fiction, or science fiction. More than any specific genre, though, I really enjoy character growth arcs and slow-burning plot development.
But yeah, I'm drawn to the kind of stories where characters start in one place and through choices and consequences end up somewhere completely different months later. I miss that organic process where two writers build something together scene by scene. Where neither person knows exactly where things are going yet, but both are excited to find out.
I haven’t had that sort of collaboration in a long time. If you relate in some way, feel free to reach out!