Alright folks. Listen up.Â
Thereâs something that the roleplaying side of Tumblr needs to be reminded of, it seems, and this thing that needs to be said is an extremely simple little thing of no real consequence that should be common knowledge and common sense.
We, the muns, are not here to please you. We are here to please ourselves.
We are under no obligation to write something in the way that our followers want. We are under no obligation to listen to their suggestions, take their magic anons, fulfill their ships or anything else. The blog is ours and we are free to fill it with whatever we want to fill it with, be it smut or crack or any other number of things.
It is perfectly alright to enjoy something that a person writes. Itâs also perfectly alright to not enjoy something that a person writes. Hell, itâs even alright to not like the way that a person writes this or that character. Itâs even alright to say that you donât like how that person writes that character. Just donât be a dick about it. You are under no obligation to like someoneâs character or their writing. Just keep in mind that there is a huge difference between not liking something and being a dick about it.
Being a dick about it involves telling the person that their writing sucks. If youâre offering constructive criticism, thatâs one thing. Constructive criticism is something along the lines of âYouâre a great writer, but I think that if you made the character a bit cooler towards so and so, youâll really hit what the relationship between characters A and X is about.â Constructive criticism is not âOh, youâre writing too much smut/crack/insert other reason here and that sucks and you really should stop.â
We roleplayers are free to write whatever we want. If what weâre writing bothers you so much as a follower, there are a few options available to you. One, ignore that thread whenever it pops up on your dash. I promise that, should you follow at least fifty people, if you wait no more than five minutes (and surely you can go find something else to do for five minutes), by the time you refresh your dashboard, itâll have moved down the feed. Two, you can download Tumblr Savior and, should the thread have a title, you can blacklist the thread title and voila! Youâll never see it again! The third option is the easiest one of all: you just unfollow that person. If youâre really getting irritated by what theyâre doing? Then unfollow them. Thatâs about as easy a solution as you can get.
Keep in mind too that weâre all hypocrites around here. We talk about accepting other roleplayers and being open minded, but weâre all going to have our own way of doing things. If we find someone that we work well with, then all the better for us. But weâre not going to always like roleplayers we see on our dash. And thatâs fine. The difference between being a hypocrite and a dick is recognizing that youâre a hypocrite. Itâll happen from time to time, that hypocrisy, no matter what. But just remember â youâre here to make yourself happy. No one else. The important thing is to have fun; bottom line, donât let anyone else influence how youâre writing or what youâre doing to make yourself happy. Yes, let them influence you to improve your own writing. Thatâs highly encouraged around here. Whatâs not acceptable is letting another mundane tell you how you should be writing your character and what youâre doing wrong with them. If theyâre doing that, well then, tell them to stuff it. If they want to see this character written in a certain way? They can go make their own blog of said character and try their hand at it.Â
Donât let anyone try dictating what you do in your own roleplays. As long as you keep your character consistent, who cares! Just smile, laugh and have fun with what youâre doing. Trust me, the people who really want to write with you wonât care what you do.
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