Tumblr Roleplay Etiquette Do’s and Don’t’s
Hello! I wanted to compile a quick guide on the general unwritten rules for behavior and etiquette expected to be followed by roleplayers on tumblr. Making a roleplay blog and joining the community, “RPC”, can be very daunting, and roleplayers can get upset when these basics are not followed! So I wanted to take out some of the guesswork and anxiety about how to act on tumblr when you’re trying to roleplay here.
DO have a blog specifically dedicated to roleplaying, and clearly link to it on your main blog if it is a sideblog. Most roleplay blogs on tumblr are not comfortable roleplaying with personal, a.k.a. non-roleplay, blogs.
DO have a page or post that lists your own boundaries, roleplaying preferences, no-no’s, and so on. This is called a “Rules Page” or “Guidelines Page”.
DO have a page or post that gives information about the character(s) you are playing on your roleplay blog. This is called a “About Page”, “Dossier”, or “Bio”.
DO read the rules page of a roleplay blog before you interact with them. Rules pages are not optional reading! They contain extremely important boundaries and distinctions.
DO read the about, bio, or dossier of a roleplay blog before you interact with them. Abouts are not optional reading! They often contain very important information, even for characters from existing media, and will tell you how the roleplay blog will be playing the character, such as if they are based on headcanons, only certain storylines, et cetera.
DO send an ask or an IM to roleplay blogs you’re interested in interacting with if and only if their rules allow it. See clarification on this in the DON’T section.
DO follow characters from genres, series, and tropes you’re interested in.
DO warn about any triggering topics on your pinned post, rules page, or about page, and tag them accordingly. EX: this character is a murderer, so there will be death and graphic violence on this blog.
DON’T send things to blogs that say in their rules page are “mutuals only”, sometimes called “private”, unless you are mutuals with that blog. Being mutuals with a blog means you follow them and they follow you.
DON’T force people to roleplay with you. Just because you are interested in roleplaying with someone does not mean they are interested in roleplaying with you in return. No means no!
DON’T reblog roleplays you are not involved in.
DON’T involve a roleplayer’s headcanons unless they say that it is ok to do so in their rules.
DON’T reblog posts that are not marked “Ok to reblog”.
DON’T send anything in-character or out-of-character to a roleplay blog without reading and following their rules.
These are general etiquette tips; for more specific tips. kindly refer to the Rules page of the roleplayer you would like to interact with.
Please reblog if you found this helpful! If there is anything obvious that I missed, then please do not hesitate to add it in the reblogs!
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