Ray's Roleplay Hub

Independent RP Hub For Various Muses & Fandoms Written By Ray Avatar by @scarlet-pan

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psa;; If a roleplayer, for whatever reason, has decided not to roleplay with you, do not try to guilt them about it. Don’t say anything like ‘it was so hard for me to build up courage to ask you’ or ‘I wish you weren’t so selective’ or ‘it’s hard for me to gain rp partners because no one wants to roleplay with me’. This is emotionally manipulative behaviour, and it is wrong. Be graceful about it: say, “thank you for your time.” If you want to unfollow after they’ve said no to roleplaying with you, feel free, but do not try to cajole them or pressure them into roleplay with you after they’ve said no. 

[decdlycute]

❝ The deception you show is your own parasite  Just a word of advice you can heed if you like ❞

Ind. Sel. Fandomless. 18+ Faerie Original Character + Lore Sideblog / Follows From @theabandonedones

Read All Rules Before Interaction | Personals DNI 

                                       ⤷ Sculpted by Kerri

[rockinrpmemes]

Another rp hell tip I want to share that DOES help ( me at least ) from throwing a pissbaby fit on my own dash and upsetting the people I 99% of the time love? If you see something that angers you in fandom, on your dash, what your partners are doing with someone else, etc, type out your rant in drafts like you’re GOING to send it. Get everything out. Format it, make it pretty, grammar check and prepare it like you would if you were to formally post it.

Now delete it.

Trust me, going through ALL the motions like you’re GOING full out to post your anger/annoyance and then NOT? Is cathartic, and gets you over a chunk of that rage. It’s important to take the time and do the grammar checks and formatting ( if you format ). Because it’s programming your brain to slow down and think. You’re taking the time to look at what garbage you’re SO MAD about, and forces you to count down. Usually you see: “Why am I THIS mad? Geeze.” If you’re still THAT mad? Take a break. Or, talk to someone you know is a good, neutral sounding board. That should do it. 

Write it all out….BURN THE EVIDENCE. Just try it the next time you feel the urge to purge.

[harriet-spy]

Fandom as a whole is not “minor-friendly”

Nor should it be.

If you want to live in a “Children of the Corn”-style bubble of innocence and purity, well, to me, that’s a startling approach to adolescence, but every generation’s got to find its own way to reject the one before, so: do as you will.  But you can’t bring the bubble to the party, kids.  Fandom, established media-style fandom, was by and for adults before some of your parents were born now.  You don’t get to show up and demand that everyone suddenly change their ways because you’re a minor and you want to enjoy the benefits of adult creative activity without the bits that make you uncomfortable.  If you think you’re old enough to be roaming the Internet unsupervised, then you also think you’re old enough to be working out your limits by experience, like everybody else, like I did when I was underage and lying about it online.  If you’re not old enough to be roaming the Internet unsupervised and you’re doing it anyway, then that’s on your parents, not on fandom.

If you were only reading fic rated G on AO3, if you had the various safe modes on other media enabled, you would be encountering very little disturbing material, anyway (at least in the crude way people tend to define “disturbing” these days; some of the most frankly horrifying art I have ever engaged with would have been rated PG at most under present systems, but none of that kind of work ever seems to draw your protests).  In the end, what you really want is to be able to seek out the edges of your little world, but be able to blame other people when you don’t like what you find.  Sorry.  Adolescence is when you get to stop expecting others to pad your world for you and start experiencing the actual consequences of the risks you take, including feeling appalled and revolted at what other people think and feel.

Now, ironically, fandom’s actually a fairly good place for such risk-taking, as, for the most part, you control whether you engage and you can choose the level of your engagement.   You can leave a site, blacklist something, stop reading an author, walk away from your computer.  Are there actual people (as opposed to works of art, which cannot engage with you unless you engage with them) who will take advantage of you in fandom?  Of course there are.  Unfortunately, such people are everywhere.  They will be there however “innocent” and “wholesome” the environment appears to be, superficially.  That’s evil for you.  There are abusers in elementary school.  There are abusers in scout troops.  There are abusers in houses of worship.  Shutting down adult creative activity because you happen to be in the vicinity isn’t going to change any of that.  It may help you avoid some of those icky feelings that you get when you think about sex (and you live in a rape culture, those feelings are actually understandable, even if your coping techniques are terrible), but no one, except maybe your parents, has a moral imperative to help you avoid those.  

In the end, you’re not my kid and you’re not my intended audience.  I’m under no obligation to imagine only healthy, wholesome relationships between people for your benefit.  Until you’re old enough to understand that the world is not exclusively made up of people whose responsibility it is to protect you from your own decisions, yes, you’re too young for established media fandom.  Fandom shouldn’t be “friendly” to you.  

[littlesystems]

So this whole minors-in-fandom seems to be the big hot button topic right now, and this post pretty much sums up everything I have to say about the issue. But after reading this post, I had an epiphany while cooking dinner. While I usually don’t jump into The Discourse myself, I needed to share my discovery. So a few years ago I read this excellent article “The Overprotected Kid” - if you haven’t read it, go do it. Now. Seriously. It’s ostensibly about “millennials” but it’s talking mostly about kids that were 5-15 at the time the article was written, i.e. kids who are 8-18ish now. So, basically, this entire white-knight age group of kid crusaders.

Basically, all of this boils down to a generational divide on how we were raised. Like, I could have told you that, but. Really. Basically every line in this article is solid gold, and completely explains the phenomenon we’re embroiled in right now. The article specifically talks about how playing in “dangerous” playgrounds helps children mature and learn how to safely take risks. Well, fandom has long been called a sandbox for a reason, and the parallels are so close it’s bizarre.

Like, navigating your way through fandom spaces that have explicit content or disturbing themes?

“The idea was that kids should face what to them seem like “really dangerous risks” and then conquer them alone. That, she said, is what builds self-confidence and courage.”

Or

“At the core of the safety obsession is a view of children that is the exact opposite of Lady Allen’s, “an idea that children are too fragile or unintelligent to assess the risk of any given situation,” argues Tim Gill, the author of No Fear, a critique of our risk-averse society. “Now our working assumption is that children cannot be trusted to find their way around tricky physical or social and emotional situations.”

Or

Even today, growing up is a process of managing fears and learning to arrive at sound decisions. By engaging in risky play, children are effectively subjecting themselves to a form of exposure therapy, in which they force themselves to do the thing they’re afraid of in order to overcome their fear. But if they never go through that process, the fear can turn into a phobia.

Basically, the problem is this: the 14 and 15 and 16 year-olds on this sight have been, largely, helicopter-parented for every moment of every day of their lives. Many of them have never had to take care of themselves, or navigate difficult emotional situations without parental guidance. When I was a kid, the internet was the wild west, and parents universally told us that everyone on the internet was a pedophile who wanted to kill you, so you had to keep yourself safe. Now, kids always expect there to be a parent there to take care of their emotional needs, and when they go onto online spaces, the just assume that the nearest adult will fill in that role for them, whether that adult is interested or not.

Now, kids are out here saying shit like “i dont know how you dont know that as an adult its your responsibility to maintain a safe environment for children, just as much as it is their parents. for ex not swearing around kids or letting teenagers drink alcohol like every adult knows that.. “

I am not your mother. It’s not my responsibility to ensure that there isn’t underaged drinking. If I walk past a couple of teenagers drinking beers on the street, do you know what I’m going to do about it? Nothing. Absolutely nothing, because I don’t care and I’m not their mother, and I’m not your mother either. I’ll watch my mouth if I notice that there’s a kid near me, but that doesn’t mean I don’t swear in public, even if there could be kids around me that I haven’t noticed.

This expectation, that every adult is there to monitor you and watch out for you, and if they aren’t willing to do that then they’re a bad person?

“in all my years as a parent, I’ve mostly met children who take it for granted that they are always being watched.”

Or how about this chilling factoid?

“When my daughter was about 10, my husband suddenly realized that in her whole life, she had probably not spent more than 10 minutes unsupervised by an adult. Not 10 minutes in 10 years.”

These are the kids on here shouting “I need an adult!” and then getting offended when no adult rushes in to take care. It’s baffling to me, honestly, but. I didn’t grow up this way. My parents taught me how to make good decisions, take care of myself, and navigate difficult situations, both in the “real” world AND online. I… don’t really know what to say to kids whose parents didn’t.

I’m not your mom. If I want kids, I’ll have my own. And I won’t raise them the way your parents raised you.

[kingxjareth]

                                ——  ♔  ——

       ❝ Just let me rule you.                  Fear me. Love me. Do as I say,                                     And I will be your slave. ❞

Indie & Selective Jareth (Labyrinth) Roleplay

♔  Wished by Ray            Follows from @cracked-roleplay​  ♔

[joas-test-blog]

roleplayers have the right to be upset when someone doesn’t read their rules and having to deal with questions that could easily be answered in their rules.

if you can’t find a rules page then an ask could fix that. 

you do not get to be insulted if you didn’t read rules and get a negative response. you didn’t read the rules, you get what you deserve.

we don’t have rules to sit there and look pretty. we have rules because we like to log on with peace and have fun in our own way. some of us choose not to have them, but that doesn’t mean you get to ignore and shit on those that do.

it’s 2015 why are people still not reading pages before following.

[twifairy]

Rules often have triggers and other things people are uncomfortable with listed in them. If you ignore rules you might be ignoring someone’s privacy and safety

[publicservicememes]

It’s now 2020 and people STILL are not reading pages before following. 

This includes any rules pages, muse bio pages, verses pages, etc. Anything relevant to interacting with that blog should ALWAYS be read!

[decdlycute]

❝ The deception you show is your own parasite  Just a word of advice you can heed if you like ❞

Ind. Sel. Fandomless. 18+ Faerie Original Character + Lore Sideblog / Follows From @theabandonedones

Read All Rules Before Interaction | Personals DNI 

                                       ⤷ Sculpted by Kerri

[snazzycookies-blog]

How to write a kiss

Rebloggable version, as requested by davrosbro. :)

Oooh!  Yes!  I love kisses.  Kisses are where it all starts ;).

Okay, first, remember that a kiss is much, much more than just lips.  It is lips, but also tongues, teeth, eyes, faces, hands, noses, bodies, heartbeats,  breath, voice- and most importantly, a kiss is emotions.  A kiss without emotion is just wet mushy lips stuck together.  Ew.  Gross.  The most important part of a kiss isn’t the how, but the who- because of the emotions between the two people.

Okay so:

lips- Lips can slide, glide over each other smoothly, or they can be chapped and rough and dry and get stuck on each other.  They can match, top-to-top and bottom-to-bottom, or they can overlap, with one person’s top or bottom lip captured between the other person’s lips (yummy).  If there is lipstick or chapstick there is lipstick or chapstick flavor, otherwise, lips don’t have a taste (can you taste yours?).  Lips also can smack- the sound of two of them coming together or pulling apart, because they’re wet and warm and soft. 

tongue- Tongues are always wet, and always warm.  They’re very versatile.  They can trace over lips, teeth, or another tongue.  They can be smooth and graceful or teasing and flicking.  When tongues are involved, there is drool.  It’s only sexy when you like the person you’re kissing, or else it’s kinda gross. :P

teeth- teeth can clack together awkwardly, or teeth can bite down sensually.  A person biting their own lip is cute, a person biting another’s lips is sexy.  A person biting gently is sensual, a person biting roughly is sexual. 

eyes- Eyes can be wide open with surprise, half-lidded with desire, fully closed with pleasure.  Eyes can gaze lovingly, lustfully, wistfully, hungrily, seductively- it all depends upon the emotions of your characters.  Have them do whatever you like, but don’t leave them out- give them at least a mention!

faces- Faces are what the lips are attached to.  Noses bump, cheeks flush, ears turn red, foreheads either wrinkle or relax.  Kisses can leave lips, quite easily, and become kisses on chins, cheeks, noses, foreheads, ears, necks, throats.  Kisses on noses or foreheads are cute and adorable, kisses on cheeks are sweet, kisses on chins, ears, and throats are very sexual.  And a kiss on the lips can be all of those! <3

hands- Hands are super-important.  In order to describe a kiss, usually you want to also describe the hands.  Where are they?  Does one character have their hand behind the other’s head or back, holding them close?  Are they on someone’s shoulders pulling them near, or pushing them away?  Fingers brushing someone’s cheek or palms grabbing someone’s ass convey two very different kinds of situations, even if the kiss itself is exactly the same.

noses- Noses are annoying.  They easily get in the way, especially for first kisses!  People have to tilt their head to one side or the other, and if they don’t, noses bump.  I’d only mention noses if a kiss is supposed to be awkward or uncertain or nervous.

bodies- bodies are either close together, or far away.  Someone can be surrounded comfortingly by someone’s arms, or terrifyingly trapped by them.  Bodies are warm or hot, they are calm or nervous, relaxed or tense.  Body language says a lot.  Is your character pulling away, or moving closer?

heartbeat- Hearts can beat fast or slow, and that’s about all they can do- but there are lots of reasons why they do!  A heart can beat fast with fear or excitement or nervousness; a heart can pound with lust or race with terror or sing with joy.  Hearts can glow, cower, or shatter.  When you really want to drive the emotions of a character home, mention the heart.

breath- To me, the most consuming part of a kiss is the breath.  The air that someone else has just breathed going deep into your lungs is very intimate.  Lips and tongues don’t have a taste, but breath does.  Each person’s breath tastes different, smells different, and surrounds a person differently than anyone else’s breath.  Breath can be warm and sweet, breath can be hot and sexy, breath can be hot and frightening.  It is something that is very present and should not be left out.  A lot of writers leave breath out.  And it’s so important; it’s the most intimate part of a kiss.  Someone else is breathing into your lungs, and it’s either heaven or it’s hell.

voice- Voice conveys much, even without words.  A voice can groan, whimper, gasp, moan, catch, whine, scream, sigh.  Voice can convey emotion powerfully, and while some kisses are silent, usually they’re not. 

emotion-  Emotion is the most important- and the thing you try not to say.  You want to describe it, through all of the things above, so that it’s perfectly clear what your characters are feeling, without you ever using the “feelings words”.  If they’re in love, their bodies will lean close, their eyes will smile, their voices will giggle softly.  If they’re nervous, their palms will sweat, their noses will bump, their voices will shudder.  If they’re afraid, their muscles will be tense, their faces will grimace, their lips will not open.  Emotion is the color that you keep inside your mind as you write; it’s the base line that drives the description behind everything else you say.

Wow, that was a lot!  Gosh I hope it wasn’t too much!  Keep in mind not every kiss has all these things- this is just a list of things to consider when writing a kiss, and based on how long of a kiss you want to make.  Keep in mind that typing “they kissed for a long time”…that’s six words, it takes half a second to read, so that’s a short kiss!  If you want a long kiss, you need long sentences that make the reader linger. 

So maybe to start off, pick three things on the list to describe in your first kiss.  Don’t try to do it all- that would be too much for even the most epic kiss.  Just pick what’s most important to this particular scene, to these particular characters, and describe those parts along with the lips, and you’ve got yourself an awesome, emotional kiss. <3

[theabandonedones]

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Oh shit! Okay! POSITIVITY TIME!

@frcmshadcws / @pridexjoy / @pierced-morals / @dominicrenfield / @spitecremated / @mesmeriisms and aaaaalllll his other fucking blogs too, Ray is one of my #1 favorite rp partners of all time, and he always will be. He puts a ton of depth, thought, and development into every muse. 

SPEAKING OF A TON OF DEPTH, THOUGHT, AND DEVELOPMENT, if those things appeal to you, you should also go check out Soda’s blogs! @magatsv / @coldbloodedfeud / @thermobarbaric / @bigbadbara are a few of his masterpieces, but my personal favorite will always be @austempered. 

IN A SIMILAR VEIN @musetory, @quirkaddled, & @narrationis have all the development and awesome writing, all in one convenient multi! 

Additionally, @domina-gladiis is an AMAZING ANGEL FROM A DIFFERENT WORLD and I love her. @vampirege is a fantastic writer who you should DEF be following if you’re interested in Hellsing, and @mcuntainbcrn is the development QUEEN with how much she’s put into her character. 

[pierced-morals]

   ❝ I want you to breathe. Just a flesh wound, baby. ❞

Ind. Donald Pierce  |  XMCU Based RP Strictly 18+  |  Private & Selective

Personals Do Not RB

Enhanced  By  RAY.

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psa | formatting + fancy bloggo things.

[cracked-roleplay]

rp-ask-memes‌:

——— I’ve noticed a TREND ascending slowly into ‘I see this more often than not’ category, and I’d like to make a PSA on it before it goes any further.

Guys – if someone is asking you a question about CODING or GRAPHICS, please answer it. Please don’t encourage the trope that only ‘QUALITY’ people should be able to know about these things. Link people to posts if you don’t know how to explain things. Help people out where we know how to help. If the people asking aren’t being rude or trying to steal and are genuinely curious about how to do the things others know how to do, HELP THEM.

The whole point of a roleplay community is that it is a community – we are supposed to help each other and guide each other through this wonderful experience of creativity and creating small families that have special places in all of our hearts. We are supposed to promote this in the community, not ‘save’ it for only those who deem themselves as holier than thou.

let’s help to create a fun n creative experience for everyone!

[0ctaviab1ake]

For writers!

[cracked-roleplay]

0ctaviab1ake‌:

Instead of said, consider:

For normal responses:

stated

spoke

remarked

reported

For question responses:

added

asked

required 

requested

begged

For answered responses:

answered

replied

retorted

explained

acknowledged

responded

For happy responses:

rejoiced

laughed

giggled

sang

cheered

smirked

marvelled 

smirked

chimed

For loud responses:

shouted

belted

yelled

shrieked 

screamed

boomed

exclaimed

called

For quiet responses:

murmered

mumbled

muttered

breathed

sighed

hissed

mouthed

uttered

intoned

susurrated

purred

gasped

hinted

spoke softly

spoke in a hushed tone

insinuated

For worried/nervous responses: 

quaked

trembled

stammered

stuttered

gulped

For angry responses:

demanded

hissed

fumed

thundered

snapped

sneered

barked

ranted

grunted

roared

bellowed

For bossy responses:

commanded

ordered

dictated

insisted

For crying responses:

cried

sobbed

groaned

bawled

whined

For silent responses:

thought

pondered

wondered

[theabandonedones]

Ind. Priv. Sel. Multi Muse Fandomless OC

RL & Anime FCs 

Human & Inhuman Muses

Multi Verse / Multi Ship 

Various In-Fandom Verses

Moved from Old Blog on 11/24 

Penned By Kerri | Please Read My Rules 

      Non RP Blogs Don’t Interact    !! 

[scarletpan-moved]

lil psa reminder

taking away a character’s disability for an au is inherently ablest 

yeah, maybe a disability isn’t the most convenient thing for every au, but disabled people exist, in the real world, and deserve representation of the unique struggles they face. plus, in my experience as a writer and an artist? cutting out disabilities, stems from laziness, not from necessity. 

if your character can magically be healed - how about instead, use that magic to create something cool to help them in their journey as a disabled character. End this asinine narrative that disabled people have to be fixed to enjoy their stories. They struggle enough as is, without society telling them they’re doomed. 

this goes for invisible disabilities, just as much as visible ones. Breathing issues, nerve damage, fatigue - don’t erase these aspects from characters. 

and a semi-related sidebar? 

don’t erase scars either. far too many people in this world, have scars from an experience they’d love to forget. scars that society has told them are ugly, and need to be faded or removed. when you create au’s that turn scars into something else, you’re reinforcing this idea that scars are something to be hidden, when that should be the person’s choice alone. 

( that aside, from a characterization / writer perspective, scars have reasons behind them. frequently if you remove scarring, you remove something traumatic or tragic that happened to that character - and removal of trauma and experience is a whole different form of ableism )

[cracked-roleplay]

15 questions, 15 mutuals.

⭑ Are you named after anyone? Negative.

⭑ When was the last time you cried? Little over an hour ago! I’m having a time lately, fam.

⭑ Do you have kids? No, but I’ve been helping raise my cousin’s kids (I took on the role of uncle so, my ‘nieces’ by title) since I was a minor myself.

⭑ Do you use sarcasm a lot? Yes! I try to keep it limited over text though, ‘cause it’s pretty hard for tone to transfer right.

⭑ What’s the first thing you notice about people? Typing Patterns! Or speaking patterns in person - tone of voice, too. Their smile, or lack there of.

⭑ What’s your eye color? Blue, baby.

⭑ Scary movie or happy ending? Happy endings. I like scary movies too, but I can’t watch them constantly.

⭑ Any special talents? Good question?? Hm. I’ve been told that I’m pretty good at finding songs for themed playlists, if that counts, and my brain is 70% song lyrics. I like to think I’m decent at writing, of course.

⭑ Where were you born? A super small area in the Northern US.

⭑ What are your hobbies? Writing, music, reading, Photoshop, anime.

⭑ Do you have any pets? The household / family, has a lot of pets. Five cats (Joker, Oreo, Mama Kitty, CryBaby, Bandit). Several dogs - a husky named Dakota, and my mom’s Maltese pups (Mia, Sugar, and their puppies; though we’re planning to adopt the puppies out). A turtle named Fred. Two rabbits, Sable and Cookie. And a whole bunch of goddamn chickens! (Some of those have names that myself and my uncle casually call them, but they’re really not official names as 40+ chickens are hard to tell apart.)

Personally? Joker and Oreo are basically ‘my cats’, and Mama Kitty adopted all of us. Fred is my little brother and I’s turtle, as we found him together as kids during a fishing trip. Dakota technically belongs to my eldest brother, but I claim him too. And the bunnies technically belong to both my mother and I, as my uncle bought them for both of us.

And then there’s Midnight and Psy! They’re my partner’s cats and obviously live down south with Kerri, but they’re my babies too.

⭑ What tattoos / piercings / body mods do you have? I have a tattoo of a rainbow infinity heart, on my right arm. My ears are pierced once, but I haven’t worn jewelry in them in years so they’re pretty closed up anymore. There’s a lot of other tattoos that I want, and a couple piercings that I’ve thought about.

⭑ How tall are you? 5ft even.

⭑ Dream job? Poet & Author, 100%. Outside of that? Typist, secretary-esque work, is something I’ve been seriously considering in recent years.

⭑ Favorite subject at school? English / Literature!

Tagged by: @theabandonedones Tagging: @maggiestein / anyone else that wants to steal it.

[winterskim]

[cracked-roleplay]

redjamies‌:

bridges by ally

features —

custom page theme

single muse/about page

3 top links & 2 titles

dimensions —

polaroids are 180x220

photo strips are 120x340

photo templates from this pack

info box is vertical scroll

terms of use —

edit all you like, but DON’T remove the credit

DON’T copy & paste pieces of this code into another

this is NOT a base code, so don’t use it as one

a like/reblog would be great!

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[bunniesmemes-deactivated2020063]

Please reblog this if you feel like you’re bad at OOC communication!

You don’t mean to be but a lot of times people feel like they’re annoying others so they just stop messaging all together. It’s not that they don’t want to talk you, because they probably do, but they feel like they are bothering you.