Rules (under cut)
(This is a revamp of my old blog - the muses haven't changed at all. I just needed a major overhaul to de-clutter.)
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You can call me "Lovely" or the name I used on my old blog.
I'm an adult with lots of stressors and priorities that limit my time for roleplaying. I will rarely get on here, but when I do, I will try my best to give you long and thoughtful thread replies. I am here to write what I find compelling, and that's longer things.
This blog is private (mutuals from my old blog only - at least for now), has dark/taboo/horror themes, might have some NSFW present. Also: Multiverse, Limited Ships, 18+.
Note: Some rules will only apply when I'm accepting new partners!
As For “Rules”
About the Blog, Me, My Style, Etc.
Private: I write with people I know from my old blog (this might change, but it's how it currently is), but anyone can send asks. Personal blogs need to message me to tell me their roleplay sideblog URL or I will block.
Smut: I don’t often write smut threads (I will reply to smut/NSFW asks, make headcanons, etc. but threads won’t be common). I don’t judge if you write smut, but if it’s all you write, we are not a good match. I check people’s recent threads and writing style to decide if we’re compatible. To me, your recent threads are just as important as your rules in my decision to follow back. So, if your most recent threads are all ships/romance/smut, I likely won’t consider us compatible. But, you’re welcome to send me a private message after following me and explain how you see us interacting that is not shippy/romantic/smut. I am willing to give you a chance if you can offer some interaction ideas.
Shipping: I’m wary of it, but not against it. I don’t like going into interactions trying to see which of my muses your muse would like to date. My muses are gonna act how they act, if you want a ship, you can tell me and I will be honest if I see it working or not. I’m willing to entertain that a ship might come out of two seemingly compatible muses interacting, but this is not a guarantee. I want us both to have fun, and it’s hard for me to have fun when I think you expect a ship from me. When a ship evolves naturally though, I will obsess over it - I will send songs, aesthetics, pictures, musings, etc. that reminds me of the ship. But, fair warning, muses can break up, and I don’t think the muns should stop interacting because of that. I have a few muses who are still friends with muses they have dated in that same timeline/universe and are now exes with. Relationships change and grow and not always in good ways, that’s what I find interesting and compelling.
Dark Themes: I’m fine with villains, evil characters, morally gray characters, writing toxic/bad relationships, etc. Some of my muses cheat. Some of them murder. Some of them are cannibals. Some beat their kids. One of my muses would have sex with a minor. They aren’t good people, but they are complicated/complex. Call them morally gray or villains, I don’t really label them that directly. But don’t expect saints here.
Following Back: I read rules several times before following. I also look at recent threads, and your muse pages. Lots of muse pages that I have to click through are a heavy deterrent for me - I don’t have the mental bandwidth to read more than 9 or so full and word heavy muse pages. My own muse page is a list with a short paragraph summary of each muses. This gives you enough information to decide whether you want to ask further - and I will post any question people asked about my muses and respond in detail, and that will then be in that muse’s tag, for future reference. Muses change a lot through interactions and I usually can’t unlearn what I know about that muse now, so whenever I used to make detailed muse pages, they were outdated within a month.
Open Starters/Memes: I will never make a random starter for you and I don’t reblog memes much. I don’t usually post open starters either. You are welcome to give me random starters and I will reply to those, if they pique my interest (I prefer them to be long-ish and give me something to work with).
Crack: I will post crack and you may use those as open starters. My crack will usually have icons unlike all other threads. But these icons are ‘placeholders’ at best and aren’t ‘canon appearance’. Crack threads will be dropped easily and likely without warning.
Icons: I don’t use them outside of crack. I can’t easily find icons that match my muses and I’d prefer to just describe them in writing. What they look like is what I describe, not what icons or aesthetics I associate with them.
Plotting: I will plot with you pretty heavily before any thread to make sure lore and worldbuilding basics align. Multiverse and dimension hopping is a thing I use frequently, but I need to know whose world our muses are in and a bit of background on how the interaction came to be. I prefer minor pre-established as well - so skipping over the ‘first meeting’ and giving the first actual thread between our muses more to work with. The muses will still be strangers, but they will already have a reason and motive for interacting. I find this makes threads easier to write and my muses less difficult - many of them would walk away from an awkward or boring situation and most first meetings threads lead to that or I’m forced to make my muse act out of character to avoid a dead end thread. I want writing to be fun for me and you! I don’t want to compromise my muses personalities and neither should you have to do that for the sake of a thread that is going nowhere. Our muses should act like themselves, and for that to not lead to a dead end thread, usually they need some stakes or goals for the interaction.
Thread Counts: I limit my threads with people since I care about quality over quantity. I want to write crafted and plotted things with people, and I just don’t have the mental energy for tons of those threads, I wouldn’t be able to give them all the attention and dedication my roleplay partners deserve.
Length: Kinda already been stated but: I mainly write long stuff (whatever people are calling that now: novella? multi-para? that sorta thing). I don’t care if people match length, I really just care if you give me something to work with. This ‘something to work with’ doesn’t have to be dialogue and/or action, I’m not here to micromanage anyone’s writing style (and don’t micromanage mine, I will avoid OOC talk if this happens) but at least give me something - have your muse react in some way to mine that I can work off of.
OOC Talk/Discord: If I unfriend you on discord, it doesn’t mean I don’t want to write with you. It just means I didn’t see us clicking on a ‘frequent talking’ level, and discord is for people I message regularly. Because I’m very very introverted, this means I keep my friends list very minimal (I have anxiety around going months without messaging people on my friends list due to past experiences, so people I always message first tend to get removed after awhile). You can still message me on Tumblr IMs and I will reply. Another note, I will also not take it personally if you unfriend me on discord - if you don’t unfollow me on Tumblr, I’ll continue to write with you and keep our messages in Tumblr IMs to roleplay related OOC talk only.
Grammar and spelling: I don’t care. I have fairly good grammar and spelling, but everyone makes mistakes and I’m not going to excessively comb my replies for every little error. And I don’t expect the same of you, just make me able to understand it, and we’re good.
OCs: I prefer them. I usually avoid interacting with canon characters and I’m hesitant of fandom OCs (if I know the fandom, I’m more inclined to write with them, but I’m not in many fandoms at all). This doesn’t mean I will never follow back a fandom OC or canon character blog, but you are less likely to get a follow back, and you may have to message me privately and bring some interaction ideas to the table first for me to decide if I’m interested. [Note: When I get around to posting abouts for my fandom OCs, characters from their fandom can interact with them, but I will still have slight preference for OCs from their fandom over canon characters]).
Self-Inserts: I don’t really care, but I won’t write ships or anything smut related with one. Your self insert can interact with my muses, but keep in mind no romance or smut will happen. If your character falls a little too close to self insert, this same rule applies.
Censorship: Firmly against it. I don’t care what you write, so don’t assume evil intent based on what I write. Mun doesn’t equal muse. Let people write whatever they want.
Triggers: I have only one: Strangulation. This doesn’t mean you need to tag it, but when writing threads with me, avoid graphic descriptions of it, but it can be mentioned.
My Hard No’s
Basics: Godmoding (definition: controlling my characters. Doesn’t apply to certain minor characters that can be mutually controlled, but I will put in the tags if they are one of my actual OCs or a throw away character for the thread).
Basics: Meta (definition: muses knowing things they couldn’t possibly know. Doesn’t apply in some cases - I prefer plotting, so our characters will likely have some minor pre-established interactions. So if one character, for example, looked into the other after a weird first meeting, stalked the other, has access to specific intel through their abilities or skills, etc. - that’s fine, as long as we’ve discussed it)
Don’t tell me how to write. This comes from past experiences. It absolutely kills my motivation to write with you if you micromanage my writing. Usually I take a break from the thread for a few months in cases where people do this, because it gives me writing anxiety and I need the space to get past it. Doesn’t apply to situations where it’s a clarification of a thread (ex: “I don’t remember us plotting this”) or I got something wrong about your muse in my reply (ex: “My character uses a cane”). This specifically refers to telling me how to write my own muses or my writing style.
I have muses of all across the LGBT spectrum, and if you aren’t okay with genderqueer/trans muses, bi and gay muses, ace and aro muses, etc. This is not the blog for you.
If you read all this, thank you! I don’t do passwords.
