Lou's RP Hub

Hello! Welcome to the OOC hub for my myriad RP accounts. Rules, memes, muses, and updates on my activity level can all be found here.

[sheriffofthesecretpolice]

To the anon who wants to rp with Sheila: 1. you sent that to the wrong blog, fam, this one’s just my ooc hub. i don’t answer in character asks here.  2. i’m in the process of leaving tumblr rp, so if you want to write with me, should probably shoot me a message first and see if it’s something doable while i’m on my way out! 

[sheriffofthesecretpolice]

Howdy folks. 

So I’ve been here doing wtnv rp since about 2012, which is a long time! And it’s always been nothing but fun! But over the last year or two, activity’s been drying up. Almost no one remains of the once-large community I spent so many years writing with, and while I see there are many new people joining us, I’ve been repeatedly running into the problem of plotting with new people and starting threads only to be left hanging for months at a time. 

There are a handful of folk still around who I also write with elsewhere, but it’s because I write with them elsewhere that I’m considering archiving and deactivating all my rp blogs. I’m putting in more effort than I’m getting back, and it’s losing its fun. More and more I’m considering taking my OCs who I write here and giving them their own longform projects. I might set up a writeblr to keep y’all updated on what I’m working on, and if that’s the case, I’ll give you a chance to follow it before I disappear into the ether.  That said: I’m still willing to finish threads in progress, but I need to know you’re going to commit to doing that! Shoot me a message here, discord, anywhere we talk, and we’ll figure out what we want to wrap up and try to make that happen! 

[tblrthreadtracker]

RPThreadTracker Is No Longer Shutting Down - But It Needs Your Support! <3

Hello, everyone of the Tumblr RP community!

As I mentioned in my previous post…I’ve been really floored and touched by the response to my original intention to shut down RPThreadTracker. I’ve gotten plenty of extremely kind messages from so many of you saying that it’s been a critical part of your roleplay experience, and I’d be lying if I said that enthusiasm hasn’t helped rekindle my own for the project (and programming in general, really; 2020 has been a tough year…)

However, a number of the things I said in the original shutdown post do still stand. I have other projects which are becoming a conflict for my development time, and hosting the tracker is (sadly) not free. With that in mind:

RPThreadTracker is not shutting down! But it could really use your support in the following areas.

Patreon Support

I have a Patreon for my web app development now! With Patreon, you can contribute a monthly amount of your choice to help support the site’s hosting fees and development time. If you can contribute, you will really add to the likelihood that I can keep supporting RPThreadTracker, and other applications, long-term.

You can sign up to be a Patreon patron here:

https://www.patreon.com/blackjacksoftware

Every bit of support definitely helps - and I have some perks offered in return! Definitely open to suggestions on other perks as well. (I don’t know if people, for instance, would be interested in merch with “RPThreadTracker” or my business logo on it. :D But I can make that happen.)

Even if you can’t contribute, I would very much appreciate anyone sharing this to get more eyes on it.

Development Support

RPThreadTracker is fully open-source, located in three projects on GitHub:

https://github.com/blackjackkent/RPThreadTrackerV3.FrontEnd https://github.com/blackjackkent/RPThreadTrackerV3.BackEnd https://github.com/blackjackkent/RPThreadTracker.BackEnd.TumblrClient I welcome anyone with development interest or experience to contribute to fixes or feature development on any of these projects. They are all furnished with documentation regarding how to set up a local development environment (ReactJS for the frontend, C# and SQL Server for the backend) and should hopefully be accessible to new developers interested in getting involved.

I will over the next few days/weeks be using the Issues tab on these projects to start collecting a list of outstanding issues and feature ideas that I have for the site, so that should be a source of ideas going forward for anyone who wants to contribute coding time. I will also be phasing out the contact form in the application in favor of redirecting users to log bug reports on GitHub as well to make it easier for contributors to address them as well as me.

Please feel free to get in touch with me if you are interested in contributing but don’t know where to start or have questions. You can also join the Discord server linked in my GitHub bio - it’s primarily oriented towards my Twitch gaming community but I also discuss programming stuff there and would love for it to be more of a forum for web development chat.

Again, Thank You

I really did not expect the support and response that came out of my previous announcement, and I hope that I can keep counting on your support in the future. Please contact me with any questions or suggestions, and best of luck in your writing adventures!

- Roz (Trackermun)

[sheriffofthesecretpolice]

Hey y’all! This lovely human made the most helpful thread tracker for Tumblr RP, and I’d love it if you could contribute to keeping it going! As soon as I have income again, I’m jumping on that Patreon! Please take advantage of this amazing resource and if you’re able, throw some dollars or coding time at it! 

[sheriffofthesecretpolice]

So RP Thread Tracker is shutting down. This is extremely sad.  First of all, if any of you use a different thread tracker, please please link me to it, I’m desperate. 

Secondly, I have over 40 active threads across all my blogs. There is no possible way for me to keep track of them all on my own, so this is what’s happening: any thread that hasn’t moved in a year or more will be archived and dropped at the end of this week. 

I know we’ve all been having a rough time of things and I’ve typically been happy to resurrect old threads, but there’s just too much y’all. If you want to keep such an old thread alive, either respond to it this week or send me a message about it! 

[sheriffofthesecretpolice]

I’m sorry y’all, my brain is consumed with the same sort of adrenaline fueled attention as attending a NASCAR race instills within me, but this time it’s about presidential election stuff. I may not be functional for fiction until it’s called one way or the other and I can get off this Uncertainty Train. 

[sheriffofthesecretpolice]

Don’t expect anything from me tonight y’all. Election anxiety’s got me down. 

[sheriffofthesecretpolice]

Hello new followers! I’d love to rp with you. Feel free to message me and we can plot!  I am in the process of shutting down some of my hoard of rp blogs, but if you want to rp with a character whose blog is closed, that’s okay! I’m transitioning them to the multiverse blog because they don’t get a lot of love, is all. <3

I probably won’t follow you back unless we have started doing rp together, because I’m a fan of the low traffic dashboard--lack of a follow is not lack of interest! I just don’t have a ton of time to scroll tumblr! 

[oldmemesandhelpandthings-gone]

Autumn Prompts 🍂

Starter scenarios for the autumn season! Requested by anonymous. When sending to or from a multimuse, don’t forget to specify who the meme is for! Send a symbol for:

🍠 Our muses making a warm, hearty meal

🎃 Our muses carving Jack-O-Lanterns

🥧 Our muses baking pie

🍎 Our muses going apple picking

🥤 Our muses enjoying fresh apple cider

🥮 Our muses making Mooncake

🌰 Our muses gathering chestnuts to roast

👻 Our muses tell ghost stories around a campfire

🧶 Our muses doing needlework together

🦇 Our muses decorating for Halloween

🥣 Our muses making soup

🍆 Our muses exploring a farmer’s market

🌽 Our muses navigating a corn maze

🎞️ Our muses having a movie night

🏈 Our muses playing an autumn sport

🌳 Our muses wondering at the foliage

🍺 Our muses celebrating Oktoberfest (or just having drinks)

🍃 Our muses raking (and maybe planning to jump into a pile of leaves)

💐 Our muses making an autumn wreath

🍫 Our muses making s’mores

☕ Our muses drinking something warm on a cool evening

[sheriffofthesecretpolice]

Idea: a standard setting D&D campaign, but all the player characters are WTNV characters adapted for the D&D setting. 

[sheriffofthesecretpolice]

Sorry for the slow replies y’all. Pandemic brain ate me and then we fixed that by adopting a puppy and now I’ve been eaten by puppy brain. I’ve started a new writing program though that’s getting me back into the habit, slowly but surely, and I promise I’m not gone!  Feel free to prod me if there’s anything in particular you want to write on any given day: a good brief plotting session can usually be used to hijack my brain’s hyperfocus onto an rp thread for a while. =)

[sheriffofthesecretpolice]

Heck it, we’re living in the middle of a pandemic and so that’s all I can think about. And I want to write. So. Send ☎️ to any of my muses for a starter about keeping in touch during lockdowns. 

[oakenshieldthorin-deactivated20]

A sort of PSA for the RP community

《 Reblog if it’s okay for my character to respond to your open’s or send you stuff even if we’re not mutuals or from the same fandom. 》

Because I’m an anxious little loser and would like to be sure I’m not intruding.

[natxsharomanova]

When your RP partner finally replies

[kinthulou]

In case anyone has Things we need or wants to purchase us such Things.

We’re all settled into the new apartment, and by settled I mean we’re sleeping on an air mattress, surrounded by boxes of things that need to be cleaned of soot, trying to pretend we’re normal people while we rebuild. Boz is loving the full carpeting in the whole apartment, and has had some truly fantastic zoomies. 

To everyone who donated to our GoFundMe, you have have our sincerest gratitude. We’re able to afford to replace our mattress and Freak’s computer and purchase immediate necessities with the help everyone gave us. But I know some people prefer to help more directly, so here’s our list of things we need to get or replace. 

It’s going to be getting updated pretty frequently, because it’s doubling as a shopping list for ourselves. If you want to gift us something on the list, it can be at any time that the list still exists, and it doesn’t even have to be through the list. If you have a spare of something you’d just like to mail us, or you want to get us a different type of the same thing, that’s okay, just poke me for our mailing address and tell me what it is so I can remove it from the list. (Substituting things for the bunny is pickier, please consult with me first. He’s got special needs.)

And if you can’t help us out with this, that’s okay! I’m sharing it because letting people help is important and lots of folk have asked about specific things we need. 

[sheriffofthesecretpolice]

Can’t figure out how to put this under a read more cut, so trigger warnings for fire and animal death.

Just wanna let y’all know that I will be scarce online for a while. We had an apartment fire yesterday and lost two of our pets, and just need to figure things out bow. If you could keep us in your thoughts, it would be greatly appreciated. Especially by our bunny, who may need ongoing medical care for a little while.

My partner and I are okay. It could have been worse. We have a strong safety net. We will be okay, but it will be rough for a while.

[sheriffofthesecretpolice]

GUYS a SUPER SURREAL THING HAS HAPPENED

I was looking up a book on Amazon to assess if it was available in physical copy, like you do. And the book below it caught my eye:

Do you see that lovely little Sheriff badge? Does it look familiar? I WONDER WHY:

We used the same stock image and did basically the same thing to it, except I think I upped the contrast on mine for Drama. It’s even oriented to that horizontal line almost the same as mine. This is so harking surreal, y’all. I’m dying over here oh my gods. 

[occasionalrpmemes]

PSA: It’s ok if your muse doesn’t like my muse.

It’s ok if your muse gets angry at my muse. It’s ok if your muse doesn’t want to stay friends with my muse (or doesn’t want to make friends in the first place, or doesn’t want to keep up whatever relationship they have). You don’t need to force your muse out-of-character to keep them on friendly terms with mine. Conflict happens, and it’s ok if our muses run into conflict.