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Reblog if you’re alright with creating new verses or AU’s to interact with other RPer’s!
While your muses might not be from the same universe or be able to interact easily, things can always be worked out if the muns collaborate and talk with each other!
Reblog this if you’re interested in developing and planning epic plots that intertwine our muses’ stories across many threads and further their growth as individuals.
If I don’t reply or I take ages to:
It’s drafted
My mood doesn’t fit
I’m trying to equal your perfection
I’m brain-dead
I lost the reply
I’m easily distracted by something else
All/some of the above
my dumb ass is making another blog / adding new muses
Or my dumb ass forgot to reply (in that case, just message me and I’ll reply when I can, I’m so bad at keeping up with replies)
⚔️Shout Out To The Muses That Are UNAPOLOGETIC About Being Assholes, Antagonistic Pricks, and Generally Bad People™ ⚔️
Stories need conflict to thrive. The Roleplay Community benefits from having muns that play antagonistic characters. Characters that not all others muses will like and get along with. Muses who do fucked up shit and love it. It can be lonely playing a character that everyone wants to treat like a punching bag, or wants to walk over, or ignore.
Reblog if your blog APPRECIATES, SUPPORTS, and RESPECTS Villains and antagonistic muses!!
PSA // I AM A LOW-MAINTENANCE RP PARTNER
what exactly does a low-maintenance rp partner mean? well… it means that I will never rush you for a reply ( ic or ooc ), meme or ask answer, or pretty much anything! take all the time you need, it really doesn’t matter to me. this isn’t a race, this is something that is done for fun! so, don’t feel obligated to do something or even be online, if you don’t want to. it doesn’t matter how long or fast it takes you to respond to me, if you’re my person, you’re my person. and if you go on hiatus, i’ll stick with you through it so when you come back it’s like nothing ever happened. never feel obligated to explain to me why it takes so long, i get it we all have other things we’re doing. some of us work full-time, some of us are in school full-time, some of us run multiple blogs and some of us just can’t find the will or motivation to write for a couple days on end… I never want you to feel pressured to interact/talk/associate with me. so, do what you need for yourself and just know i’ll be here in the background rooting for you!
friendly reminder that even if i take ages to reply, i still want to roleplay with you
Please reblog this if it is okay to send you memes a few hours after you reblogged them. So timezones/work do not lock out some people of meme fun
Can you guys reblog this post if you’re alright with other roleplayers politely declining the offer to rp? And if you would prefer this over being ignored?
I generally prefer this so I know for sure that my message was received. Tumblr is moody sometimes
@sassydeathangel liked for a starter from Kindra
Kindra walked up to Haylie at her locker, a friendly smile crossing her features. “Hey. So, how are you adjusting to Auradon?” she asked, legitimately curious.
“I still didn’t get the sudden urge to run away on a motorcycle,so I guess I’m doing fine”,Haylie joked.Then she paused to look at the girl sitting in front of her,’Wait, you remember me?Were you part of my welcoming commitee?”,she asked,intrigued.Although she appreciated the girl’s friendly approach (which was much more than she expected when she left to Auradon),she wanted to know her better.
“Well, I’d consider that a good thing,” Kindra chuckled with a smile. “Oh. Right. Yes. I’m KIndra. Kindra Thatch,” she said, holding out her hand for Haylie to shake. “I uh, remember how difficult it was for Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay to adjust and I want to help make it easier for the other Isle kids,” she commented.
After a few long seconds of confusion,Haylie shook the other girl’s hand in response,”Haylie Hades”,she answered.Upon hearing the girl’s last name,she recalled hearing about a land called Atlantis,hidden under the waters the same way that her father’s land was hidden under the ground and the linguist who helped them recover their lost glory.”So you’re from Atlantis,right?Do you have a glowing necklace as well?.She heard the next comment and couldn’t help but let a small grimace at the thought of the core four,even thouugh it was unintentional.She was a newbie,after all, and not any kind of newbie,”And how’s it going so far?’,she asked.
At the mention of her home, Kindra’s face lit up and she nodded excitedly. “Yep. Princess of Atlantis. Which, isn’t quite like the other princesses here,” she chuckled. “Except maybe Lonnie,” she mused. At the inquiry about the crystal necklace, she nodded again. “I do,” she said, lifting her necklace up by the string that held it. “A part of the Heart, we call it,” Kindra explained. She took notice of the grimace and came to the conclusion that they must not have gotten along very well. “They’ve adjusted quite well now. And paved the way for the others. Evie particularly has had a direct hand in that with Ben,”
Haylie took a close look at the pendant,eager to learn about a new land that seemed to have much in common with her own home,”And what can you do with the pendant?”,she asked.
“Yeah,I heard Evie was responsible for the list that the names of the new VK batch were written on”,she said,”But I never belived it,since they never seemed to care much about the others.But enough about them”,she cleared her throat,”How did you get here?”
(sassydeathangel)"You wanna be a hero?Is that it?"
“A hero? Hardly. I just think we should all get an opportunity like Mal & the others. It’s not our faults that our parents did what they did,”
“Don’t even get me started on that”,Haylie agreed with her sister.”Lately,I’ve been feeling like the only way left for us to get off this Isle is to do it ourselves.It’s been gods know how many months since mal and her gang left “
Harper gave a bitter laugh. “Only way to get outta here is to do it ourselves. Yeah. And how in the Underworld are we supposed to do that? Damned place is a prison that keeps us from using magic. There is no way out by ourselves,”
“Ok,this is gonna sound crazy.But what if we crossed through the Underworld?”
REBLOG IF YOU’RE COMPLETELY OPEN TO ROLEPLAYING WITH A MUSE WHO DOES NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO SPEAK AS A REGULAR CHARACTER WOULD BUT RATHER COMMUNICATES VIA SCRIBBLING/WRITING OR SIGN LANGUAGE.
Q&A: Violence in Sloppy Writing
I’ve seen you two use this term before, and often pretty negatively, so could you explain what you mean by ‘Feel Good Violence’ and why you dislike it so?
Usually, Michi writes these up, so this time, I’ll take a swipe at it. Feel Good Violence involves situations where a writer has their character engaging unnecessary violence, without any consequence, and, often with unrealistic resolutions.
In good writing, everything that’s there has to serve a legitimate purpose. A lot of FGV is unnecessary. These are establishing sequences where a character will engage in unneeded violence in order to establish a violent reputation. To be clear, there are situations where a scene like this may be necessary to explain who the character is.
In the real world, violence has consequences. There’s some variant of a cliche to, “win or lose, they’ll know they were in a fight.” It is true. Violence has many consequences. Physically, you will feel it in the morning, with aches and pains from everything you over-stressed. There are also legal and social consequences to consider. Again, there are legitimate cases where someone can dodge some consequences. For example: an assassin may be able to escape a job undetected, avoiding the legal consequences of killing someone. That said, there’s still social consequences for being an assassin. Even if they’re being careful about their real profession, the people around them will still have to deal with the fact that sometimes they’re just not available, and that can affect their relationships.
Something we’ve said before is that violence is a tool. It’s an option your characters have to achieve their goals. However, because we’re talking about (an approximation of) people, the changes you can actually force at gunpoint are somewhat limited. FGV often has unrealistic resolutions. One of the specific examples we’ve cited before were situations where characters chase after the whole, “cut off the head to kill the snake,” routine of simply killing the villain, and having their entire organization instantly crumble. Granted, there are situations where that would make sense, for example a necromancer or a vampire who keeps minions under his thrall, but it makes far less sense when you’re talking about a corrupt corporate CEO, or an organized crime boss.
So, let me give you an example that fails at every point: You have a teenage protagonist, early in the story they see a bully going off on another kid, they step in and beat the bully into submission, forcing them to give up their ways.
I cannot tell you how many times I’ve seen variations of this.
So, is this necessary? No. To that scenario’s credit, it is a reasonable impulse, but unless this scene is setting the entire story in motion, it’s not necessary. Very often, scenes like this are used to say, “hey, look, my character’s a good person,” and, “look how badass they are.” That’s Feel Good Violence.
Are there consequences? Often times, no. In the real world, engaging in unrestrained violence would alienate the character from their friends, especially the love interest, get them in trouble with their school’s administration, and probably leave them with injuries. But, often times, when a scenario like this is presented, the scene could be cut with only minor edits. If the violence is only there to feed the power fantasy. It makes you feel good about the violence presented.
Are the resolutions realistic? This is a little different from consequences, because I’m talking about the specific goals that the character is trying to achieve. Most of the time when you have a scene like this, the goal is to get the bully to stop. Now, any of you who’ve interacted with bullies on a more than casual basis should understand the flaw here. The bully will retaliate against their original target, in more vicious ways, because their incapable of getting retribution against the kid who humiliated them. Bullies aren’t territorial alpha predators, they’re opportunists looking for a chance to work out their frustrations out on targets that can’t fight back. Interceding does not work, it just gives the bully more material to pass down the chain.
There’s also, often, an element of cognitive dissonance in all of this. The protagonist’s behavior is never fully analyzed by the author (or some members of the audience), because they’re the hero, and therefore, whatever they’re doing is inherently different from another character doing the exact same thing. The example I just pulled apart can easily result in situations where the protagonist is as much, or more, of a bully in that situation because they’re picking a fight against someone who has no hope of defeating them, due to superpowers or implausible levels of training. However, thanks to the marvels of cognitive dissonance, they’re the good guy.
Finally, it’s worth talking about tension briefly. As a writer, tension is one of the currencies you have complete control over. You can decide how much pressure your characters are under, and you, alone, can add and remove it as you see fit. The more that’s on the line, the more threats they face, the more problems that threaten to trip them up, the more tension you have. The harder you press your characters, the stronger they’ll become (or the more they’ll start to fray at the edges), and the more your audience will be invested in their struggles.
Violence vents tension at an incredible rate. You can spend 50k words torquing up your characters, and accidentally vent it all in a 500 word fight scene. In abstract terms, fictional violence is expensive as a writer. This is a large part of why I will continue saying you need to be careful, and surgical, with your fight scenes. Particularly when they involve your protagonists. Carelessly used, violence can cause your audience to tune out and wander off.
Feel Good Violence is violence as cheap catharsis. It vents tension, and throws your story’s credibility under the bus for a brief moment of, “didn’t that feel good?” It’s sloppy, and it devalues your work as a writer. It encourages you to rob your future for a brief rush in the present.
Write a character who endures, a character who is creative, a character who is persuasive, or even viciously analytical, and your readers will remember them long after they’ve forgotten about that power fantasy “badasshole” who started their story getting into a bar brawl against werewolves in order to prove they were “awesome.”
Write characters that don’t need to resort to violence at every opportunity. Let your reader always worry that, “no, this time, it won’t work out,” and make sure that occasionally, once in awhile, they’re right.
-Starke
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Q&A: Violence in Sloppy Writing was originally published on How to Fight Write.
So guys, I gotta say something–
I have seen an increase of muns making ooc posts about wanting to delete their blogs, comparing themselves to other portrayals, feeling anxious or insecure about their writing and dealing with general depression and anxieties and… It really hurts to see that.
It hurts me because I don’t see crappy portrayals or a distinct difference in what is perceived as Quality™. What I see are writers coming together to build and create stories and expand on these muses we write for. I see the passion for writing that is weighed down so heavily by our own selves because we do not allow ourselves to see what others see within us.
I’m not the best with my words. How I write my muse is very cut and dry at times. He doesn’t write with a floral, pretty style that I’ve seen my writing partners have and at times I do get a little jealous of the fact they’re so goddamn talented and then here’s me all ‘he went forward and got there.’
Truth is, if our writing partners didn’t get fulfillment and joy out of our work, they wouldn’t write with us. I’ve had 96 active threads at a time and I’ve had 2. Our quality isn’t based on our popularity or how well we write, it’s how we tell our muses story.
We are simply too hard on ourselves. And no, it’s not something you can just shut off, it takes practice and it takes effort. Real, genuine effort. Stop getting wrapped up in comparison because at the end of the day, even if you could write as well as this other muse, it’s not your writing but an attempt to replicate something that is not signature to you.
Ya’ll are talented af. I have friends on my Facebook feed who can’t write three words without misspelling something and it’s not because they’re impaired it’s because they just simple don’t want to improve. And that’s the amazing thing about writing is that you can absolutely improve upon it. Read tips and lessons. Look up some apps on your phone or the computer to better your talents and skill. Switch from past tense to present tense for a while. I can tell you that my writing drastically changes when I shift from one to the other.
We waste valuable writing time letting anxiety beat ourselves up about not writing anything special and eventually that leads to us not ever writing at all. Be kind to yourself and give yourself permission to write badly.
We have to stop this whole letting comparison beat ourselves down. Embrace your strengths and develop your weak points. RP is supposed to be fun, yes, but it’s only fun if you allow yourself the chance to write what you perceive as garbage now, so you can learn and grow from it.
As I said earlier, ya’ll are talented af. I hope this helps all of you who are struggling see that. 💙
Reblog if you run an OC RP Blog.
I need more of them in my life.
It is perfectly acceptable to just write a starter for me at any time.
me: sees other rp blogs where all of their posts are quality interactions and shippy gifs and actual meme responses and photoshop edits
me: looks at my blog
me: …
@sassydeathangel liked for a starter from Kindra
Kindra walked up to Haylie at her locker, a friendly smile crossing her features. “Hey. So, how are you adjusting to Auradon?” she asked, legitimately curious.
“I still didn’t get the sudden urge to run away on a motorcycle,so I guess I’m doing fine”,Haylie joked.Then she paused to look at the girl sitting in front of her,’Wait, you remember me?Were you part of my welcoming commitee?”,she asked,intrigued.Although she appreciated the girl’s friendly approach (which was much more than she expected when she left to Auradon),she wanted to know her better.
“Well, I’d consider that a good thing,” Kindra chuckled with a smile. “Oh. Right. Yes. I’m KIndra. Kindra Thatch,” she said, holding out her hand for Haylie to shake. “I uh, remember how difficult it was for Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay to adjust and I want to help make it easier for the other Isle kids,” she commented.
After a few long seconds of confusion,Haylie shook the other girl’s hand in response,”Haylie Hades”,she answered.Upon hearing the girl’s last name,she recalled hearing about a land called Atlantis,hidden under the waters the same way that her father’s land was hidden under the ground and the linguist who helped them recover their lost glory.”So you’re from Atlantis,right?Do you have a glowing necklace as well?.She heard the next comment and couldn’t help but let a small grimace at the thought of the core four,even thouugh it was unintentional.She was a newbie,after all, and not any kind of newbie,”And how’s it going so far?’,she asked.
