#when vee talks

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i wish admins would stop creating channels in the roleplay’s server such as ‘fc appreciation’, ‘dash comments’ and such, because it’s bound to become cliquey as people will usually comment and share compliments about the same characters and muns over and over again 

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you all need to learn how to name your brazilian characters 

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We need to talk about how deeply rooted it is, the issue of the lack of diversity in roleplay groups, and how most of the community has no intentions of making efforts about this. It was already something that seemed so transparent for me in the past, but it only grew far more clear the moment I decided to admin a roleplay that is solely meant for diverse faceclaims, and while promoting it and creating messages, it was clear how other roleplays with the same theme were showered by applications with, guess what? white faceclaims. I mean, honestly, I’m seeing roleplays that were created after ours, already getting so many white applications.

And I think it’s important for me to state this: this is, by no means, a post to drive attention to the roleplay I’m part of the admin team. This is me, as a woman of color, saying how it pains me to see that we’re only interesting when we’re part of an absurd rule that if you have a white faceclaim for your first character, your second or third character should be a role of color. I mean, it does help, but it seems like we’re just a good plan b. After all, there’s always the chance those roleplayers will never get a second role, or if they do, they’ll only develop and focus more on connections for their white faceclaim, because that second one was just forced into them to have a faceclaim of color. 

We need to talk about, how some people assume that by playing a white passing faceclaim they are doing something to help roleplay groups have diverse roles, but forgets about dark-skinned and brown-skinned faceclaims. How some people hide under white diverse faceclaims and completely ignore dark-skinned trans and body diverse faceclaim choices, for an example.

If you are an admin of a roleplay and 70% of your masterlist is white, that should be worrying. If you’re an admin promoting diversity but none of your characters are dark-skinned or brown-skinned, you’re not really being a good example. If you take a look at all the characters you’re playing and 70% of them are white or white passing, it should make you feel ashamed. I know that we can’t force anyone to play diverse faceclaims, to tell others to give a chance to bi-poc options when thinking of characters they want to portray. But, I’m tired of seeing how the racism in this community is showing, and if not that, the laziness. And I wonder white?

While navigating through tags, I should say that a few roleplays, mostly skeletons are the most beautiful thing to see for how diverse their masterlist is. Not only by always offering faceclaims of color in the options for the skeletons but also by making most part of their skeletons with a rule that the faceclaim should be bi-poc/diverse/non-binary. But, oh how some other tags are a shame when going through the masterlist of taken faceclaims.

And I know most people won’t read this because it’s long, but this is just me just being freaking tired of this still being a thing in the rpc.

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creator content tag

└ tagged by @tonkinwrites

First of all I should say that it was a challenge to find those gifs to share here because I hardly save psds from past gif packs. But, sometimes I do save some test gifs with the original coloring to share with bru or to share with myself over discord (it really helps me to check my coloring over my phone aside from my laptop), so that was my life saver to be able to create this gifset!

I wish I had this really amazing step by step process when it comes to giffing but unlike my virgo rising, I’m actually quite chaotic while trying to reach a nice coloring. I’d mostly say that practice makes perfect and having some sort of base psd has helped me a lot to know where I should start whenever I’m creating a new gif pack for a new faceclaim. Also, to always check the person’s skin color through images and check if by trying to keep their skin tone you’re not actually far from doing so and making their tone red/orange/pink/yellow (friends are also a great help, because sometimes you won’t be able to notice something about your gif that another perspective could notice, so share your gifs with someone to have their pov). 

I thought it’d be interesting to share some works that were quite easy to get a nice color and some that were a nightmare ( -stares at oscuro deseo as i have war flashbacks- ). But still I love giffing, creating resources and offering more gifs to all players out there who, like me, adores to use underused faceclaims. All the love for all the dark-skinned faceclaims I’ve already giffed and shall gif in the future!

tagging: @justgifs, @mclissabarrcra, @baharsahin, @wifeymakesgifs, @katherinegmcnamara, @saibennetts, @osvaldrps and whoever would like to participate!!

[merrittrps]

do you have any rp recs?

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We often complain about lack of diversity in roleplays, especially city roleplays where a great percentage of faceclaims are cis white faceclaims or just white passing faceclaims to pretend there’s diversity. SOOOO if you’re searching for a roleplay focused on diversity, give a chance to Brisbane, me and Bru are just two silly (not to say adorable, but yes we are that too) people wanting to give a safe environment for players to develop their roles and be welcoming to 30+ diverse faceclaims. We love everyone already in it, and we’d love more people to join us!

[merrittrps]

why are there still sl*ve rps???? what kind of fucked up mind you have in order to think that this should be played out in any way?

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being reminded of my idea of a twisted total drama island rp, fhwuifhiwuhfu