estatica-tm answered your question: okay, guys, serious question here; if i set up an...
I’ve never tried it, so this would be new to me. How would it work? Create an additional tumblr blog and interact solely with yours?
First of all; comm'ere and let me love you!!
To answer your question(s): Essentially, although I'm thinking more like "indie style" than 1x1. [Long explanation under cut, heh].
For example, I had an indie account for the character Baelfire in Once Upon a Time. Through him, I interacted with other people of my fandom, but also with someone from Supernatural and one from Doctor Who. With smaller fandoms, like The Mentalist, there're few chances to do other things than crossovers. I, for example, RP as Lorelei, and she's interacting with Jim Moriarty form Sherlock. With an indie, you can interact with whomever you'd like (as long as they're indie accounts as well) and how many you'd like. If you've only got time to interact with, say, three characters, then you interact with three characters (and maybe state somewhere that you can't handle more threads). However, if you want to interact with ten instead, you go follow seven more.
I hope what I'm saying is making sense... Anyway;
1x1 is another way of RPing. It's usually two people, RPing a plot that one of them has previously posted and held auditions for, or maybe they have decided on one together. It's usually original work - so, not fandom related - and they're only "allowed" to interact with each other. It's a very strict way of RPing, I think, and usually "only" for the people with specific ideas in mind that they'd like to see played out.
So, what I was thinking is that we both make new accounts (yep, new e-mails, but I know a neat trick so it's not necessary to make a whole new e-mail; just put a period in there somewhere; Tumblr will think it's a new address, but it's actually not!), and then we RP with each other and with other indies. Well, unless you want to only RP with mine (I mean, do whatever you'd like), but let me tell you; it's very fun to see how two characters from different fandoms would interact, if they were put in a room together. I'm just sayin', lol.
In case you're completely new to the Tumblr RPing world (and in this case, I shall welcome you with open arms; I am fairly new myself, as I have only been here for less than a year), I dug up some helpful links;
How-to indie roleplay
Masterlist of Roleplaying Definitions
Guide to Tumblr RPing (Large list of things you should know as a beginner) Some of these are exclusively to RPGs, but most can be used for indie RPers as well. All very good to know/read.
Um, yeah, that's about it :3 Sorry for rambling, especially if you already knew some of this stuff! Only trying to help :]
okay, guys, serious question here; if i set up an rp account for patrick jane, would someone be my lisbon? not to sound like i only care about shipping and or sound like i'm desperate but man i love those guys, so yeah, maybe rp with me?
I drop characters out of no where and switch to a completely different fandoms so often I feel like a stranger all the time. But I’d rather be a real stranger than try to be a part of a family that doesn’t make me feel welcome.
for the curious; i just made a page for the characters i rp.
tell me again why i am the only one rping in the mentalist fandom? *cries* i might just drop lorelei since no one ever replies to my starters. maybe i could rp patrick jane instead. or even lisbon. idk, someone a bit more sane... although that is boring. *sadface* where are all the psychos at!?
OH MY GFUCKIGN GOD I FUCKING LOVE YOUR URL I HATE YOU IN AN ENVIOUS MANNER BECAUSE WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT IT IS PERFECT I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE I JUST SAW YOU REBLOG SOMETHING AND NOW I WANT TO UPTHROW THINGS BECAUSE I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT URL OH MY GOD.
THANK YOU I GUESS I MEAN I LOVE MY URL SO YES THANK AND LET ME LOVE YOU
This is not that much of a ‘bad RPer’ story, but more like ‘bad RP experience’ story.
My partner through several months had been emotionally abusive towards me. She made me feel bad if I hadn’t replied to all of our threads - regardless of how little time I had for RPs - and got insanely jealous when I plotted with other people (in our group). She made a point of telling me exactly how much I “loved everybody else more than her” and how I had “totally forgotten about our paras”. In the end, these accusations upon accusations made me feel so bad that I just needed to cut all ties to her. So I tried to explain that my mental health was more important to me than RPing (after trying to reason with her and listening to God knows how many insincere I’m sorrys), blocked her on Skype and the admins threw her out of the group (she had not only been acting weird towards me, but the admins had been afraid of losing me as well if they threw her out). Anyway, a day or two had passed, and curious as I was, I checked out her other blog. Sure enough, she was writing shit about me; put mental health in quotation marks as if it had been some bad excuse, and played the victim, even though I had been very understanding when she hadn’t replied to a certain thread for a week or something like that. Basically, she was the abusive one - and all of the people I have spoken with and told the story to have agreed with me; they’re actually the ones, who made me see her clearly, quite frankly - and yet she acts like she’s the victim. It just pisses me off.
The worst part? She’s twice my age. (She’s around 30 years old).
At least once a day this person asks if anyone wants to RP (while owing at least 2 replies to people). In that same post they guilt trip people, claiming they are ‘hated’ or simply saying ‘fuck you guys’, before even giving people a chance to offer to plot a story with them.
They also reblog plenty of those “Send me a number/letter/symbol and I’ll answer” always adding “I bet no one will do this sigh why do I even bother?”
Sorry, but whining, trying to guilt up and swearing at us to come to you for roleplay is really not the best way to convince us. This person has been told this before, too. They chose to ignore that advice. If you’re so desperate to plot stories, go to someone in your follow list. The rest of us are very open and make that clear. Rather that attempting to emotionally manipulate people, we’re just friendly and welcoming. Try it some time…
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