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Welcome one, welcome all, to a blog dedicated to reviewing, critiquing, and analyzing role players! Whether you do it on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, or Myspace (wait, somethings off here...) we'd love to see it. So submit your stuff, don't be shy! We examine good role players, bad role players, and everything in between. So send us your pictures, status's, posts, updates, and profiles from the good, the great, the bad and the horrid! We're also here to answer questions and give advice. Whether it be about RPing or anything else, feel free to talk to us about it. Just let us know if you want the response to remain private. Oh, and one last thing, if you would like a specific Admin to talk to you or review your stuff, makes sure to request them or send it to their personal blog.

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I'm sorry

Blogs like these are obnoxious, and they don't really serve much of a purpose. RP'ing is a hobby, it's something people do for fun, why should they be judged for that? 

To be honest, this blog started out as a stupid vendetta, and regardless of whether or not some of you may find us helpful or whatever, in the end all of this is ridiculous. 

I just want to apologize to anyone that we may have hurt or that we may have discouraged from RP'ing, it was wrong of us and I can't express how bad I feel about it. 

As for this blog, I'm not going to end it. That's not my decision, it is a decision that must be made among the other admins, but my time on here (as many of you have already figured out) is long past done. 

You will not see me again, I am so sorry, 

~Sir Spatula

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Thank you, certain Arthur I cannot name, for posting your blocked list. 

You're fabulous. 

Seriously, stop, because that's really immature and just plain ol' stupid.

~Ladle

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Are you guys back? c: I've missed you!

Are we? I dunno.

~Ladle

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First Official Post Of Tumblr No-Swearing Club

Hey! This is the creator of the OFFICIAL no swearing on tumblr club. Our main goal is to end all curse words on tumblr. We mainly reblog popular posts with bad words in them and edit them out. Please do not use inappropriate words in your posts and make it easier for us to do our jobs :)

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What the fuck

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Someone really needs to google what the hell a troll is. 

Submitted by someone who wanted to stay anonymous. 

~Ladle

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Reblog if you are so unpopular that you don't even get an anon's hate.

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..... >_>

(This may not be true, but we haven't gotten hate mail in a while. Actually, we haven't gotten any mail in a while...) 

~R.P.

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Slave Roleplays, Seriously?

So, I admit it, I have a serious thing for Trolling events. Especially ones that I think are stupid. Which, if I'm being honest, is almost all of them. (But if you want to me to be specific, send me a message and I'll post a nice long rant about every type of event I have ever heard of. . .and Trolled.)

Now, the ones I have a real issue with are the ones that involve sex- Wait. That implies that there are some that don't have sex! Silly me. This is the internet, every roleplay event has sex.  Maybe I should clarify this a bit more? I take offense to events that seem to glorify or endorse sex that demeans humans. (Or animals. *shudder*) Events such as 'Slave Market' are truly disturbing to me.

 I mean, seriously? Slavery is a real world issue right now. There are people around the world, OVER 27 MILLION, who are slaves right now. Children, elderly, men, women, black, white, brown, yellow, purple, WHATEVER, are being forced into slavery EVERY DAY and there are people who think it's fun to pretend to be an abused slave?  An abused sex slave to be more exact, but that just makes it worse.

Right now the going rate for a teenage girl (disease free, of course) seems to be around $1,500 USD. A young boy? About $40. The price for a generic slave around the world? Roughly $90. Yeah, human life is seen as being that cheap. (So those twits on the RPs who are asking for a million, HA! I laugh at thee!)  

Now, that's not to say that people shouldn't enjoy whatever sexually (and possibly morally) deviant activity they enjoy in private with their significant other. So you want to play 'Master and Slave' with your Honey, okay, whatever, have fun.  Just be classy.

On a slightly less serious note, why am I seeing so many 'Vampire-nekos'? Do any of these kids even bother to research the origins of the characters they RP? OMG, don't even get me started on the spelling/grammar/language of any of these kids. I just want to hit them with a dictionary! (And a therapist. A lot of these kids seem to have been sexually abused at some point. . .)

~Rolling Pin rolling out! (And hoping to stay away from sad topics next time.)

OH! One last thing, I saw this in one of the events. Isn't this a nice person? So sweet and considerate. 

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No.

NO.

No.

~Ladle

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How to get around a Facebook block

I've been blocked for about a month and a half now, and in that time I've found some ways to get around that block.

Messaging: Messaging is one of the main ways people communicate for private RP's and for OOC conversation, and Facebook loves to take that feature away. Lucky for you there's a way around it. You will get a blocked message:

if you try to go to the main message page and send a message of any kind there. Now to get around this all you have to do is pull up the little pop-up message box and send from there, it might give you that same message a few times but keep trying to send the message and it should work out.

Commenting:

Unfortunately, Facebook is really hardcore about this. More often than not the only time I can sneak a comment or two past the block is up to a day and a half after I've sent feedback. And again if it blocks you right away after you sent feedback keep posting, this may or may not work seeing as this is the main function that Facebook keeps tabs on.

Liking: There's not really a solid way around this, you just have to try the same way as Commenting and pray that it works, though many times it doesn't. 

Facebook bans last for 30 days, but as some of my friends and myself have figured out, they will constantly blast you with bans.

One of my friends is on his 3rd consecutive ban, and he's just resulting to making another account at this point. 

Something of note: Facebook's consecutive bans suck. You will be on day 31 and get another blocked message, but don't give up hope, just keep messing with the system and you should make it through. 

Either that or just make a separate account.

Godspeed Roleplayers, godspeed.

~Spatty

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With that last post you did, I personally know Jojo and Courtney, and I know that, for the most part, they can't be taken seriously in public. We also tend to drop brackets after a while of talking OOC because hey, we know it's us and that we won't suddenly start a roleplay in the conversation. Perhaps you could... delete the post or something, please?

Not a problem, and I think that was something that was neglected in the last post. 

Bracket dropping kind of fall under the category of: personal pet peeves. I know many wonderful RP'ers who do the same thing, drop brackets after a while of OOC conversation, because brackets are tedious and at that point people will already understand that it's OOC. 

That said there are some people who hate bracket dropping, and thusly both areas need to be explored and explained before one can make a good critique on them. Ladle's not wrong though, there are people who won't want to RP with you if you don't have brackets on OOC posts. 

~Spatty

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Just a quick question. . .

Does anyone really pay attention to this blog anymore? I know we've been really inactive lately so I thought I'd ask since I'm thinking about do a multi-fandom project and it might take a while to complete.

So here's my idea - A guide to creating and RPing a character from a number of fandoms. 

I'm not talking about doing individual characters (Well, maybe...it depends.), rather I would cover the rules, and basics of roleplaying, of the fandoms themselves. Fandoms such as Hetalia, Homestuck, MLP, etc. You get the point. 

I just thought ya'll could be interested since we've never really done fandom specific guides like this. (Okay, we might have done it for Hetalia OCs. I can't remember.)

Soooo, let us know if there's a fandom you want us to work with or if you've had any experiences with a bad roleplayer or if you just need someone to take a look at your bio. Pretty much just give us something to work with, please. ~Rolling Pin (P.S. Has anyone been watching the Homestuck Kickstarter? IT'S INSANE!!! Oh my cod.) 

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An example of how to get out of a bad RP

First off, do we even follow the calander anymore? Yes? No? Oh who cares! Moving on, now. So, my sister made a Dave Strider account today and not more THIRTY MINUTES after she set it up a Bro Strider RPer sent her a random starter. Now, normally I would recommend such a daring action buuuuut, since this guy was so OOC. . . yeah. Let me show you the RP. (I just copied it from her page and removed parts of the names, I didn't feel like taking a screen cap.)

Broderick Hey. Dave Sup? Broderick  *clings to his older brother* Daaveee... I dont feel good... Dave  -He made a disgruntled face, and pulled away slightly from the other- what am I supposed to do about it? Broderick Make it better. *his face is flushed with a fever* Dave I don't even know what's wrong, how the hell am I supposed to make it better? Broderick  I-i dont know... You can fix anything though...

Any self respecting Bro roleplayer should never act so, so, so, "desu desu kawaii" in a roleplay. Especially when RPing with another Strider. The Striders are tough manly men, not stuttering whiny babies. I am so, so proud of my sister for her reaction.

Dave  Damn straight I can. -He sighed and looked the other up and down, finally pressing the backside of his hand to the other's forehead- . . . damn. Broderick  *he looked up at him with wide eyes* Hm? w-what is it? Dave   -He frowned, and then pointed in the other direction- Bed, now, I guess I'll get you some blankets, or some shit like that. Broderick  *he let go of his brother, and stumbled to his bedroom, curling up on the bed Dave -Dave, still frowning tried to remember where things even were. This was going to be tough. He searched the cabinents in the various rooms, until finally finding some blankets in the closet of his own room.- This is juuuust great. -He remarked to himself before taking several of them to where his brother lay, placing them on top of him, from head-to-toe- Broderick *He was shivering even under the blankets, and grabbed his brothers hand* S'too cold *he mumbled. it was warm that day... even for texas* Dave Sh, it'll take a while for your body temperature to rise, it'll be fine in a few minutes. -He pulled his hand away- You hungry?

It was about this time that she called me over and said, "SISSY!!! This Bro is so OOC. I just want to get out of this." with which I replied, "Have your character say he has to go to work. Or some shit like that. . ."  Yeah, I'm classy like that. 

Broderick *he shook his head* n-no... Dave Thirsty? -He pulled out his cellphone, to check the time- Broderick He shook his head again* Dave Well, if you need anything, better ask now, 'cause I gotta go soon, really soon. Broderick Huh? W-what? Why?! Dave  Whoa, hold your horses, I got a fuckin' job I gotta keep. Broderick  *he shook his head frantically* Please dont go! you can take one day off, right? Dave  Hey, listen here, No job equals no money, equals no apartment. Got it? Good. Broderick  ... Dave -He checked his phone once again- Good, 'cause I gotta go, li'l dude, don't die, or fuck up like that while I'm gone, got it? Broderick  *he nodded, hiding under his blankets again* Dave  Cool, now I'mma be goin' now. -He patted where he assumed his brother's head was, and then was off, closing the door behind himself- Broderick  *he curled up, starting to cry*

Yes, he started crying. This is so OOC it's not even funny. Or maybe it is. Anyway, the lesson here is:

1) When you in a RP you don't like, find a way to reasonably end the RP. Things such as going off screen, sleeping, dying, etc. are all reasonable ways of leaving. After all it's better than just not responding.

2) Don't be OOC. Just, don't. That only works if you're RPing crack or something like that, in which case you should tell your RP partner(s).

3) For heavens sake, most people don't like RPing illness or anything like that, check to see if it's okay with your RP partner before trying it. 

4) Do. Not. Cry. EVER. That is just so....ERGHRRRRRR!!!! I can't stand it when someone pulls that move in a RP! Okay, I understand if your character is REALLY sad or upset. But someone leaving the room? Really?! I don't care if your sick, don't do it.

5) After escaping from a roleplay that you can't stand, you might want to block the RPer so that you never have to go through that madness again. It's better than having them randomly sending you starters for awful RPs. Especially if they won't listen to you when you tell them that.

I think that's it folks, ~Rollin Pin (No GIFs, I might add some later though.)

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WHERE ARE YOU GUYS.

HAVE PLUSHENKO SO YOU GUYS COULD ACTIVE AGAIN.

  "Active Again" you say? What is this "active" that you speak of? Does this count? *cough cough* A WILD ROLLING PIN APPEARS!  Anyway, I'm back from a very long hiatus and ready to start posting stuff and giving advice and whatever else we do on here. (I can barely remember...) Sooooo, send us stuff, please and thank you~! ~Rolling Pin rolling out! (As for where I've been, let me give you three hints. Summer classes, boss quit, and Homestuck. Yep, it's been a busy summer.)

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Why-

~Ladle, who severely wants to hurt this person

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Ways to Get an RP

Been a bit bored?

Need an RP?

But don't know how?

Well here's a little guide!

When you want to get an RP, this is NOT what you do:

Constantly complain about no RPs.

Constantly bitch to those you have RPs with.

Constantly whine about the absence of RPs.

Bother the crap out of new RP partners who haven't replied yet.

Do these, and you're assured no one will message you anymore.

What TO do:

Join a Roleplay group. If the numbers are small enough, there might be group roleplays.

Roleplay events. Great places to meet new partners, get inspired, or grab an RP.

Make a status addressing your friends list that you want to RP. But don't over do this. "A status every day will make every RPer run away."

And that's really it, my lovelies. Happy RPing~

~Ladle

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Fandom Hate

So, Ladle made an off schedule post and I figured I might as well too. Something I'm not really understanding is the amount of fandom hate that's been going around right now, let alone how it seems to be biggering. It seems like one person in a fandom makes a remark about how they don't personally enjoy another fandom and then everyone jumps in about just how horrid that fandom is, for completely bonkers reasons!

You have every reason from "It's a kid's ______!" to "They're just stupid." and all that hate is really unnecessary. So you don't like a fandom, big whoop. Couldn't you just try staying out of it, ignoring it, avoiding it, etc. instead of making a hateful post that's mostly based off of assumptions and non-truths?

Besides don't you know what happens when you assume? You make an ass out of you and me.

What I'm trying to get at is that not only is it annoying to read fandom hate, if you're in that fandom, it hurts a lot. I remember seeing a status about the fandom that I am proudest to be in, and all the comments were about how stupid and childish we are for liking a character for this random reason that isn't actually in the movie. When I saw that status, I felt really hurt. We were minding our own business, not bugging anyone, and yet people felt the need to let everyone know just how horrible we are for no good reason.

Another issue: tagging you hate. If you hate something, don't tag it, or tag people in that fandom, or go to that fandoms group and let them know about it, because honestly, your just making yourself look like a twat. Plus then you end up starting a fandom war and we all know what happens then (If you don't read Ladle's post.) 

Guys, fandom hate hurts and nobody likes to feel like they're being condemned for liking something. I'm sure the majority of us knows what it feels like to be condemned for a stupid reason, and it's not pleasant, so guys would you try to stick to the Golden Rule?

"Treat others the way you'd want to be treated."

~Spatty the incredibly busy