Blog consiststs of general tips for the RPC as well as a few screenshots that make for good rp musings. Feel free to reblog whatever. May or may not be consistently active. offered by kirm. been writing on tumblr since 2014.
Hey, here’s a very simple tips & musings blog. Please go over the rules before sending asks and such. Before people ask, here’s the theme being used for this blog.
This blog is for spreading tips, musings, and generally good RP memes I stumble across for people to get easier access to this stuff without searching through tags, desperately. This blog will be generally SFW, with no smut memes being reblogged and such.
TAGS:
musing tag | psa tag | rp meme tag
MASTERPOSTS:
uquiz masterpost
This is NOT:
A resources blog (icons, themes, etc)
A confessions / salt / ‘burnbooking’ blog (don’t barge into my inbox and tell me how xxxnosc0perxxx sucks, or how you hate 30x30 icons in the rpc, I either don’t care or this isn’t the right platform for it)
A blog for you to whine / constantly vent
Under the cut is just a basic rundown on terms for people who might stumble onto this blog and have no idea what the RPC is. Or they’re just confused.
COMMON TERMS.
RPC = ‘roleplay community’. A basic acronym that is not specific to tumblr. Other sites such as twitter also have a RPC of their own.
RP = ‘roleplay’. It’s basically collaborative fanfic. One person makes a post with their character saying something, someone else reblogs with their own muses response.
SFW = ‘safe for work’. This refers to content that’s generally ‘tame’ and doesn’t involve stuff like intense violence or sex, basically.
NSFW = ‘not safe for work’. This refers to content that’s not exactly rated E for everyone. This can range from simply violent content or smut content. ‘NSFW RP’ does often broadly refer to ‘smut rp’, however.
TW = ‘trigger warning’. People often tag certain things, most commonly things like blood, bugs, or other things that may trigger episodes from people who are sensitive to it, even if it’s just in text form. these are often tagged as ‘trigger tw’ or ‘trigger //’ by the community.
Starter = A post of a character doing something. Can either be specifically made for someone, or be open for anyone to reply to.
IC = ‘in character’, often specifying that a muse is just doing their usual thing.
OOC = ‘out of character’. self explanatory.
Canon = Material that is seen in the ‘source material’ of a character. Can be as simple as someone ‘canonically having black hair’.
Canon divergency = Material that ‘diverts’ from canon.
Headcanon = Stems from canon divergency, but basically specific canon that a mun makes for their muse.
Mun = the person who’s behind the blog. Basically means ‘mod’.
Muse = the character(s) the mun depicts.
OC = ‘original character’. A character specifically made by the mun and has their own canon. Can be involved in canon material (example: Sonic OCs).
FC = face claims. several muses have face claims that may not fully reflect how they look like, but it’s often close enough for iconning purposes.
Mutuals = When one mun follows one mun and the mun follows back, creating a mutual following.
Musings = Text / images that often apply to muses in one way or another.
Crack RP = ooc / not canon interactions. Often made to ‘crack jokes’.
M!A = ‘Magic anon’. Anons that are sent to affect a muse for a short of prolonged amount of time. Not all blogs accept these, but some do request them from time to time.
RPC group = Closed groups that often involve submitting muse applications so you can interact with other people in the group with specific circumstances. Think of kind of a gated neighborhood in a sense.
Indie = Not affiliated with any RPC group, generally open to any interactions.
Drabble = Often very fanfic-esque posts that focus on developing / building upon specific muse(s).
Icon = an often 100x100 image of someone’s muse used to add a bit more to a reply.
Multimuse = A blog that consists of more than 1 muse, either from a variety of fandoms or just several muses from the same fandom.
AU = ‘Alternate universe’. Often involves putting characters from one series into another and adjusting their canon to fit into the different series. Can also be generally different scenarios (evil AUs, coffee shop AUs, etc)
Shipping = Creating romantic interactions between two characters. Common fandom term.
Multishipping = Shipping the same muse with several different other ones but only one at a time is ‘canon’. This means that a character can have as many relationships as they would like, as each one is in a different universe and none of the partners know of the others’ existence in anyway, shape, or form.
Mary Sue / Gary Stu = Outdated terms that should not be used to ‘critique’ OCs in 2021.
Personal blogs, please stop interacting with roleplay blogs' content.
Look, we know that you're often just scrolling the tags or scrolling the search function. But the reality is most of us roleplayers don't like it when you guys interact with our stuff, whether that be reblogging it, liking it, or the like. You might find a few blogs that don't mind, but for the most part, we really, really aren't fond of it. The simple answer is that it clogs up our notifications and we're forced to constantly block blogs that don't follow these rules.
Our work is not fanfiction.
Our work is intended to be shared only with our mutuals, or other roleplay blogs.
For some of us, it makes us really, REALLY uncomfortable when personal blogs interact.
So please, do everyone a favour, and RESPECT OUR BOUNDARIES, AND RESPECT OUR WISHES.
If you want to appreciate our work, read our rules, and see if we're okay with anonymous asks saying you like reading our stuff. In most cases, that's probably fine. But please, respect that while our work resembles fanfiction, it is not in fact fanfiction, and refrain from interacting unless our rules say it's okay. It's called respecting boundaries.
Hey so like, i think there’s an issue that really needs addressed in the entire tumblr rpc right now. Not any specific fandom – this honestly applies to every fandom, so rb if you’d like. And this isn’t targeting anyone to be clear, but its something that NEEDS to be addressed because I’ve been seeing this kind of thing go on for YEARS.
So here’s my PSA: LET PEOPLE WRITE VILLAINOUS, VIOLENT, LOW EMPATHY, POWERFUL, AND/OR EGOTISTICAL AND CELEBRITY MUSES WITHOUT TRYING TO BRING THEM DOWN A PEG. the amount of people who try to humble literal god muses, muses with incredible strength, or even egotistical celebrities really astounds me. Especially when to do this, some will weaponize character traumas their muse shouldnt even know about to try and knock them down a peg. Don’t do that shit.
That’s really disrespectful to muns and muses alike – pulling out trauma or making them relive debilitating fears is not the gotcha! moment some folks think it is. That is what we pro gamers call a dick move – and totally unreasonable unless you and that mun agree you can do that. Buut thats not really the case for what i see most of the time – or have experienced in the past with other muses who fell under this umbrella.
Oftentimes, this is not a mutual feeling or agreed upon dynamic. Especially with celebrity, villainous, or deity muses who are supposed to be well known within their canons. Even if you dont know about them ooc, if a mun says your character would likely know them ic bc of their fame and or influence or status as a deity, a villain, or a celeb, then please listen to them. Work with them on this and see if there’s any ic way your muse knowing abt them makes sense.
Its NOT fun when you immediately plot with someone and go “it would be hilarious if my muse absolutely despises/undermines yours for no clear reason and also doesn’t know about them or pretends to not know them!” if both muns dont agree to that. Treating them like that tends to cause a chain reaction; everyone ELSE starts to continue dragging said muse down or treat them like dirt. I’ve seen it happen time and time again – and it upsets me every time i see it happen to another folk in the rpc. Now im NOT saying that you should expect all muses or w/e to know or even like those kinds of muses – in fact i encourage more complicated or even negative dynamics AS LONG AS ITS MUTUALLY AGREED UPON.
However … When all your interactions are nothing but negative and you are playing a character who in their canon fitd the criteria above, its really discouraging. The hatred piles on and on, and it may not be anything personal from others’ ends, but it comes off as pretty excessive. Especially when more headstrong or snobby muses dont really care about what your muse says or does, so to counter, they bring up trauma they AGAIN shouldn’t even know about. Or if someone posts a hc abt a muses trauma? DON’T immediately flee to the ask box to try and intimidate them with the trauma the mun specifically just posted about. That’s seriously not cool, unless both muns agree to or have talked out plotting that.
Dont downplay these kinds of muses. Dont downplay their power, their behavior, their status, or anything else in such a rude way unless you get the ok from the mun writing said character. Don’t forcefully humble them. You can’t bring them down or try to force them to be nicer.
Recently, a lot of rpers who have multiple blogs have been getting hit by Sessionbox’s new TOS or whatever, and are being locked out of their account for ‘commercial usage’. If you were signed in as a guest, it’s hard to put in a support ticket (it’s suggested you uninstall sessionbox, clear your cookies, and then reinstall it to make an account before it locks you out again) and put in a ticket here by logging in and saying you were unfairly banned and were not using it for commercial usage but rather literal tumblr blogs.
If you don’t want to go through that, though;
This is the best Sessionbox replacement that I can see, at least on the Chrome store. It can’t store sessions, but essentially it just opens up a fresh tab logged out of everything so you can log into your other accounts. Other extensions either fail to log in and out of accounts through testing, so this is the best thing if you don’t want to go through a support ticket hassle.
fuck it. be creative even if you never really *make* anything. write out plot synopses of stories and then move on. design OCs you'll never use. make mood boards and concept art and don't do anything with them. life's too short to forget everything that inspired you and creation doesn't have to be "complete" to be worth the time you put into it.
As a personal/non-rp account, please be mindful of how you interact with RP blogs. Our writings are not meant to be reblogged on your own, personal blog, alongside other rp-related posts. By you reblogging promos, art, etc etc from rp blogs that often explicitly state ‘do not reblog posts if you are a personal blog’ (personal blog means non-rp blog btw), you bring a lot of unwanted attention to our blogs and ruin our activity feed. We do function differently from your own, and we do not want our posts to gain ‘traction’ in the conventional way.
A lot of people who run rp blogs don’t mind you liking posts, but if you are not in the RPC, please keep your distance, and actually read people’s pages to understand individual boundaries. Thank you.
Have you noticed that sometimes, when you post something with a fandoms name or a characters name, you suddenly get several personal blogs who clearly haven’t read your rules page following you / reblogging your posts? This is because your posts will always appear in the tumblr search function. So if I make a post like ‘Mario Mario is very cool’, then it will appear in the ‘Mario’ tumblr search. It’s a lot like twitter. There is a way to turn this off, though.
Turn this on. This is in your blog settings. This will make you not pop up in the tumblr search. The main downside to this is that your posts will not appear in tags, even if you’re just tagging someone’s url. It would simply be best to @ people in posts / answered asks as a remedy for it.
GENTLE PSA. people are allowed to have different preferences on how they run their blogs without one or the other necessarily having to be more “in the right”. take reblog karma, for example. a lot of people might enjoy seeing their mutuals in their activity feed and prefer you reblog memes etc. straight from them, whereas others may feel like it takes up unnecessary space in their feed and prefer you reblog from the source, and others again may be neutral on the matter and don’t care either which way. none of these preferences are more right or wrong than the other, so we should at least do our best to try to remember and respect each other’s preferences, even if they don’t always align with our own. and if you don’t find yourself able to do that, then just don’t follow / interact with those blogs whose preferences are too different from your own if they bother you, instead of shitting on their preferences.
FRIENDLY PSA; you don’t “owe” anyone fast replies. you are not disappointing people or letting people down or being unfair to people if you don’t do your drafts within a certain amount of time. whether we’re talking new writing partners or your closest rp partners, no one worth their two cents is ever going to put pressure on you to reply fast to them or be disappointed in you if you don’t have the time / energy / mood, etc to write for a while, or if you only feel like replying to certain things. so don’t put that pressure onto yourselves when no one else is doing so. love yourself and allow yourself to take the time you need. you’re not a machine. you’re a human being, with a life outside the screen, with feelings and emotions and responsibilities and probably your own struggles. we all have these moments of not feeling or being able to write from time to time. so be kind to yourself like you would be to anyone else. ♥
Normalize deleting asks role players no longer feel.
Normalize authors needing to clear their space.
Normalize a role player’s fluctuating interest in topics.
If you send me an ask, and I don’t respond to it/delete it, please don’t take it personal. Sometimes I reblog ask memes, feeling them right in that very moment, and I lose track of time and lose interest. It’s not me saying that I’m losing interest in you, but the topic I wanted in that exact moment. Some asks I might hoard for months, others might get deleted. And this needs to be normalized.
I don’t know why this blog suddenly got a spark in notes, but I’m flat out not going to read a 2-3 paragraph rant about how people ‘don’t need to follow people’s rules’ or whatever point you were trying to claim.
You’re right, you don’t. But if you can’t follow someone’s rules, don’t follow or interact with them. You can say you hate DNIs and shit all you want, good for you, don’t follow people with DNIs / whine when people have DNIs. It’s just like I shouldn’t whine about media I don’t like. If I don’t like a TV show, I’m allowed to not like that TV show, but I don’t go around getting mad that I can’t follow someone’s rp blog for that TV show.
send me “#” for cell phone headcanons about our muses including:
- what your muse’s name is in mine’s phone
- what your muse’s picture is in mine’s phone
- what your muse’s ringtone is in mine’s phone
- my muse’s last text to your muse
This is the internet, not some writing club where we all meet in person at the same time and day. Some people live in places where their time-zones are over five hours behind or ahead of yours. Even if that isn’t the case... Some of us have sudden responsibilities that pop up, scheduled or not.
If you put deadlines on people to reply, you’re just inconsiderate. Even saying stuff like ‘I expect you to be active at least once a week’ is ridiculous. You don’t know every detail of someone’s life, not everyone shares what they do every day on here. This is a hobby, It doesn’t matter how open YOUR schedule is, it suddenly doesn’t mean that everyone is going to be active every day for a certain amount with time.
If you can’t be patient in regards to the real life people you’re writing with, don’t rp.
