Gosh, okay, I wasn’t gonna post this, but the more issues that crop up on my dash and the more I think about it, these are things that I think need saying:
You don’t owe any stranger on the internet anything, especially personal information. Knowledge of your race, gender, sexuality, religion, location, background, etc. is not some random stranger’s “right”. You’re not obligated to tell anyone anything about yourself if you don’t want to. Just the same, you’re not obligated to anyone else’s personal information either.
You don’t have to justify writing for your muse. You don’t have to be part of a community to write a character from that community. Doing research and being respectful is what matters, not who you are.
If you see something you don’t agree with or like on someone else’s blog, just unfollow and / or block them. Life is too short for internet drama and call out posts. I realize there are some grey areas and exceptions, but generally the best thing is just to leave that person alone and move on. Whatever it is probably isn’t worth it. If you need to let out steam, do so in a healthy way that isn’t going to cause needless drama or stress. It’s better for you and for everyone else.
Mun =/= muse. If someone writes a serial killer or an abuser, that doesn’t necessarily mean the writer is also a serial killer or abuser, it just means they write one. There isn’t anything wrong with that. If they’re leaving their sensitive content untagged, politely ask them to tag it so you can blacklist it, or, again, just unfollow and / or block them.
If you wouldn’t harass a best-selling author for it, don’t harass a roleplayer for it. Don’t like a book? Don’t read it. Don’t like an RP blog? Again, unfollow and / or block.
Realize that there are more important things to tackle in life than someone else’s RP blog. The RPC is just a teeny portion of tumblr and an even teenier portion of the world as a whole. What someone else does on their blog, how they write, or how they portray a character probably doesn’t actually matter as much as you think it does. Whether or not you choose to send hate to someone, however, does matter. Don’t do it.
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