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.::INTRODUCTION::.
The Rp--yes, the word "RP" is, in this case, uncapitalized--is an ongoing online roleplay that its players have been doing for nearly five years. With a nearly neverending character list and an intimidatingly long event timeline, The Rp has been going for quite a long time, and doesn't intend on stopping. The players are Val Conklin, Kathleen Graham, and Crislyn Maybee. The three of them refer to themselves as "The Gods of The Rp" (sometimes even inserting themselves temporarily into the storyline to cause mayhem as the powerfully divine figures "God V, God R, and God T") and have gone so far as to draw, write, larp, and dedicate an entire Livejournal community to The Rp. And now a website, apparently. Pathetic? Perhaps. But hey, it's something that keeps them from being bored out of their mind, and is a fun way to channel creativity, so don't be hatin'.

Just in the same way that my formal, business-like introduction suddenly went batty, The Rp is prone to go from drama to comedy to tragedy to parody in a few seconds. But that's what makes it all so fun. It's the ability to apply whatever the mood of the day is to a wild new setting, to act out the imagination that spawns from the silly and sometimes twisted minds of the players, the capability to control your own world and make it breathe however you want it to breathe. It's a whole lot of fun, and though most online RPs contain these elements, The Rp never stops. If we get sick of a character, we kill them off. If we want someone new, we throw them in as if they've just been sucked into another world. That's possibly why the list of characters and settings is so long...our feelings about different people and places change as the months go by, and we replace our favorites with new favorites and those new favorites with even newer favorites and so on. In a way, it's kind of impossible to summarize The Rp, since some chapters are so irrelevant to the others yet all interconnected in some way but not enough to state a linear pattern and it gets to be SUCH a huge web that it's almost like the Bible.

Wow. Now that was blasphemous. Cool.

All in all, it's something to be proud of. Maybe we're not getting anything accomplished by doing it. Maybe we should be watching more anime and dedicating all of our artistic ability to drawing a real fandom. But maybe not. Maybe it's a bit too much awesomeness to NOT be considered its own fandom. After all, what makes your fandom amazing? We've got it. The Rp's got everything: action, romance, humor, angst, great characters, the occasional mix of pr0nz and a whole lot of XDs. And that's the way you love your fandom. That's the way we love our fandom.

--God V

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