7, 12, 25 for the mun rp meme!
7. what is one overrated roleplay trend?
Okay but hear me out the ultimate overrated part of tumblr roleplay is not so much a trend as it is . . . threads themselves!! which is partially to say I want to push back on every time we say to ourselves “I need to do this thread; I need to do this draft” because it’s not a job, as we all know but I’m using this to lead into my whole ass belief that
threads can be a wild sometimes in that the trend says “I must reply to this thread because it is in my drafts” but sometimes !! Threads !! Are allowed to end! Or jump to three days later, & I’m really bad about this so it’s something i’m trying to do better about.
A thread that has literally 2 replies each ways is just as valid as something that has 5000 replies
doing oneline threads is just as valuable to the creative process as is actually writing out some polished reply. the rp process can be mixed media!
normalize the mess & the interactions that last 5 seconds that you remember 3 years down the road!
also like on a more real level too lmao i’ve definitely written starters that are basically “character a falls on their face & character b sees them & ohoh here’s a brief conversation about ____!” & if i fell on my face & someone saw me & then we proceeded to try and converse for 3 days about everything in life i’d explode sdfg
12. do you prefer writing main or minor canon characters?
so I wrote a response to this here, but i want to sorta expand a little on this & talk about something i literally just noticed. i think i don’t care so much about whether a character is a main or minor character so much as i care about what kind of conflicts that character has. i think get more excited by conflicts that show up in the sideplots of characters? & maybe those little sideplots feel exciting to me in that they feel more approachable to me as scenarios that i can write & work with.
very very interesting to consider because obvs it’s not as though main characters are excluded from having those same lil sideplots. either way, we love to see them &
i’ll write whoever i need to explore a whole world with the writers i trust & adore.
25. one thing you’d like new roleplayers to know?
ssdfgfds rp is about blending friends & art. i want new roleplayers & old to hear that tumblr rp is not the healthiest rp environment for some people — & i don’t mean the drama that can arise or toxicity (though that can be a part of it), but sometimes the posts & formatting & blogging format of tumblr takes away from the friends & art. for that reason!!! totally okay to make blogs & test things out & meet people so that you can rp in a place that’s safe for you!!
aka it’s okay to try new things out when rping (new spaces, new dynamics, potential friendships) & then
if it works! cool! if not, people still got you!
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