http://www.dreamwidth.org/
It looks a little weird at first but it’s like....a journal community that has a really, really, REALLY, really huge roleplay community. In fact I’m pretty sure it caters primarily to roleplayers.
It’s a near carbon copy of what used to be a website called livejournal, but then livejournal started making super shitty changes just like tumblr except WORSE since they would openly mock people who came to them about issues. Roleplayers made up most of the revenue for livejournal and when LJ continued to be asshats everyone pretty much migrated to dreamwidth.
They made all sorts of new implementations to help roleplayers transfer all their entries, icons, and what not to dreamwidth easily and are always speaking with people to find out what’s working and what isn’t.
So essentially the way thing works is that you make a journal for your character.
http://justsomeshrimp.dreamwidth.org/
Like so. The nice thing about DW is that you only need one email account and you can make as many journals as you want. Then there is a chrome add on called LJ login that lets you easily change between them.
DW also has a place where you can store icons so you can use a drop down menu (or a browse menu if you have a paid account) so you can pick them out whenever you make a reply.
As I mentioned before most roleplaying goes on in games which have an application process and activity check, but there are meme communities for goofing off and sometimes people just do roleplaying right in their journal. There are also things called museboxes which can be where people do elongated roleplays, or they can be communities dedicated to specific fandoms. For example I’m part of a Mogeko one here
http://mogekocastle.dreamwidth.org/
which unfortunately has been dead for a very long time since there are like. 3 Mogeko roleplayers left in DW.
http://mogekocastle.dreamwidth.org/264.html
There you can check out some of the roleplaying----that’s mostly a crack post but as you can see since replies appear directly below posts it’s so much easier to go back and read and makes group roleplaying so much easier. When someone replies to a post you make you get an email so you know exactly when someone does. You can turn this off if you don’t want your email getting cluttered though.
THAT’S A SUPER QUICK RUN DOWN. If you or anyone else has questions let me know and I’ll be happy to answer.