How did you discover/start role playing? What do you like/dislike about roleplaying?
Ahh, these are the big questions aren't they?
I've always written, I often jump from hobby to hobby because I've always been incredibly indecisive as to what I want to do with myself. XD But, I've always written. Since I first learned to write I'd always jot little notes and random silly stories down. Good times and bad come and go, but writing is always something that stays the same... while at the same time being a tool with the potential to change and reflect anything in that self same state.
I loved writing, but I never really felt like I could use it to interact with other people. It's hard to not be looked at as weird when you're making stories while the other kids are playing sports. ^^'' But it was also around this time that I started using the internet and when I started loving pokémon again. Eventually, I found my way here. I act like a scrub, but I was actually a member here a very long time ago and it was this place that introduced me to RP as a whole. To be honest I've, technically speaking, been a member of this site for longer than everyone on my friends list currently, bar two.
I vanished a long time ago for personal reasons and recently came back to start anew. I have RP'd in many other placessince then... and I feel that I have become a much better writer over time. But this place was always the most fun place for me to RP, so I came back. To put it bluntly, when I entered the RP corner here years ago that was when I discovered and first started RPing.
Why do I like RP? Well how could I not LOVE RP? It, to this day, is the only truly effective medium I've found to share what is my greatest passion in life with others. It allows multiple people to pour their hearts and minds into beings that exists within a story, when this effort combines and sustains itself based on dedication by multiple parties, then a wonderful experience is created. An intertwining tale of many characters weaved into one, fashioned by the hands of many creators.
In the intellectual sense, it is a gathering of people to create and populate an entire World of stories... and this happens with multiple people, in multiple places, all at the same time across multiple RPs. Writing is a means by which people can describe that which exists only in their minds, while also allowing us to present it in a way that can be read, understood and interpreted by others. Writing in its essence is the culmination and expression of human imagination in a way that allows it to perceived and incorporated into the imagination of others.
An RP? An RP is a means in which multiple minds can all input their own creations and imaginations into a single whole. To me that is something very worthwhile, perhaps even incredible, to some even awe-inspiring. Perhaps I think too deeply and perhaps these are all just silly little games we play. But it is the simplest and the silliest things we do that often contain the most meaning. That is something that you all should consider worth remembering. *Sagenod*
The only dislike I have is that feeling that dwells in oneself when, for whatever reason, these creations of many fail.
tl;dr
This site introduced me to RP a long time ago.
I love RP because it is an incredibly fulfilling and socially engaging activity! ^^